Let your mind be still, your heart calm, your body loose and easy. Remind yourself often to “relax your body, relax your mind,” as you make your way through the day. In stillness, calmness, and ease of body, mind, and heart breathe and acknowledge that in this moment you are fine, and let that be enough. “In this moment I am fine.” Let this moment be good enough. With kindness and compassion for yourself let this moment be good enough. Eventually all of those good enough moments will string together into a fine day indeed!
Don Juan comments to Carlos Castaneda in The Art of Dreaming: “Your unbiased reaction is that you can’t stand chains, and you would forfeit your life to break them.”
Watch out for those spirit entities, you never know where they’ll lead you! – Photo by Jan Ketchel
Carlos had been tricked in his dreaming, as he explored a world of spirit entities. Those entities have much to teach a journeyer, but they exact a huge price for sharing their knowledge. In this case, they sought to entice Carlos to stay in their world, as his high frequency energy provided much entertainment to the more stationary beings of that realm. He survived their obvious attempts to cater to his curiosity but hadn’t bargained for their trickery, which targeted his unbiased reaction that Don Juan spoke of.
What Carlos hadn’t anticipated was an encounter these spirit entities set up for him in their world, contact with a trapped being presenting as a seven-year-old girl, with powerful blue eyes, seeking his help. Spontaneously, he shouted his intent to merge his energy with that prisoner child and set her free. With this impulsive move he became the prisoner, nothing more than a limp figure lying at the bottom of an empty pit, his vital energy completely exhausted.
Carlos was rescued by his warrior cohorts, but his journey marked a turning point for the future of his shamanic line. Carlos and his warrior party ultimately decided to end the shaman’s code of silence and anonymity, launching Tensegrity, freely giving away the technology and knowledge of the Ancient Shamans of Mexico, and formally ending their shamanic line. These actions formatted ancient knowledge to gain footing and have utility in our changing times.
Shamans have always been the spirit journeyers who healed others through soul retrievals, finding lost parts and returning them to the victim, effecting the cure of restored wholeness. Thus, those afflicted with illness depended upon the shaman to provide their cure. In our time it has become clear that healing effected by the hands of another does not hold up if the individual has not inwardly solved the challenge presented by the illness.
The evolutionary shift Carlos and his cohorts made was to offer the tools of empowerment and healing to all to heal themselves. In my psychotherapy practice the tool of recapitulation that I learned in the shaman’s world has proven most effective in the total cure of PTSD. That tool offers every individual the opportunity to completely restore their own lost wholeness as they encounter and integrate split off parts of themselves that were previously lost to traumatic experience.
Through this method, rescue is transformed into self-empowerment. The role of helper becomes one of teaching and supporting this healing practice. The role of healer is transferred to the seeker who is empowered to truly know and reconcile the whole truth of their lives. This is healing through self-empowerment versus the tentativeness and dependence upon the actions of another.
Thus, Carlos transformed his proclivity to rescue into giving away his knowledge that all who truly seek to heal be empowered to heal themselves. In this time of great instability we are empowered to find stability in the consolidation of our wholeness through our personal practice of recapitulation. Thank you, Carlos, for this evolutionary gift.
Stay connected to nature. Begin by feeling your feet upon the ground, by raising your eyes to the sky, by breathing the air around you, by listening to the sounds that surround you. Nature, in these ways, is always with you. You are nature too, physical and spiritual matter. All that you feel and sense around you is in you. When you experience the beauty and boldness and vastness of nature, know that you too are beautiful, bold, and vast, a creature of all that is. Let this knowing sit well within you and bring you comfort and groundedness today and every day. For this knowing and this connectedness to all that is truly matters. And it’s perfectly natural!
Watch what you think about yourself and others. Remember that a thought can manifest as truth and cause a lifetime of difficulties and problems when in actuality it’s just a thought, a mere fabrication, an idea. Don’t let negative thoughts manifest. Keep turning them on their heads. Reject them as lies, as falsities, as untrue. Turn instead to positive thoughts that will lead you out of your problems and away from your miseries and into a new realm. What thoughts have you planted in your own body and mind? What thoughts have you planted in others? Thoughts are limiting; life is unlimiting if you allow it to be so. Make the switch from a limited reality to an unlimited one. Unthink a few things and see what happens!
We see the beauty in nature, but can we see it in ourselves? – Photo by Jan Ketchel
No one is perfect. We are all human. But there is another part of us that is perfect in all ways. What might that be? Take a listen to this week’s audio channeling and see if you don’t agree.
