Shamanic Vision: Living Life through the Eyes of the Heart Issue #1, Fall 2016 | Page 14

We may also be here to bring enlightenment to the matter, our karma, the earth, or how we choose to see it. But to stay with that elusive presence of the moment, to be in the flow, to let things happen as they are 'supposed' to happen, while 'celebrating' every moment, there is only one, that's IT. This is what Shamanism is all about: Listening to life, seeing what is around us as symbols, signs and synchronicities. Adapting and using what is there to make our lives better and more enjoyable. Right before our lunch, I saw two boys on a motorbike with green coconuts between them. They were laughing and smiling. Perhaps they were heading home to share their refreshing coconut-water with their family. Perhaps they will raise a toast in coconut-water, celebrating that the boys have been enrolled as the first ones, ever, in the family, at an engineering course, bringing prosperity to the family. There is always something to enjoy In The Now. If not anything else, the wellbeing in some part of my body or while I am shoveling cow shit or working on my shadow-self at a Shamanic workshop. The Work: What will stop me from permanently holding this state ? – My acquired self. – Negative feelings: Fear, anger, pride, rigidity, an endless list ... – Lack of experience, a whole lot of things. When can it be done: It can be done now ! It only takes that I have reached a certain stage. That I have come to the point where I say: “I want a beautiful life, free of all these emotions.” I have become open, embracing and accepting - an open heart. 14