The Everyday Shaman

Opportunities in life appear to us in every moment. Dr. Susan Gregg, author of The Toltec Way, suggests those occurrences show up in our lives by invitation. This idea supports that a belief held by a person, as well as actions, thoughts, conscious and unconscious, as well as reactions “invite” the situation into a person's life.

Think about it. When you drop something breakable and it shatters in bits and pieces as it hits the ground, most of the time, some reaction springs forth. It could be screaming, muttering, or cursing. It could be an inner voice that says, "oh, you fumbling idiot". It may be an inner voice exclaiming, "I must slow down; things like this can happen when I'm in a hurry". What's your experience with reaction? What is a pattern you have held onto when you're in reaction?

What if you just observed something drop, shatter, and break. Would there be the same reaction? Even if you were the one dropping that breakable? Could your discernment and conscious awareness change the situation? The breakable is still broken. If it's a simple glass jar or a treasured family heirloom, any way you look at it, it's broken, plain and simple.

You can choose is your reaction to the experience. With practice, you can shift your perception, and the breakable will be the breakable, and you will be you. Yes, it would be very sad to break a precious family heirloom. These things happen. You create your story, and you can recreate your story, especially when your story is not serving you in your life experience. So why would you want to hold on to your story if it doesn't serve you or bring you joy?

Every day is a new opportunity to remake and reclaim one's self. When we bring awareness to not just what we do, but how we approach what we do, and bring our good feelings into the equation, a wholeness and lightness in our energy field takes place. We are all energy, as is all that surrounds us. Some things are more dense energetically than others, and have a different vibrational resonance, but we all are the stuff of the stars. How you live in the energetic world has a mirroring effect on your experience externally. When you think in a negative way, tell yourself a negative story, and focus on the external "stuff" being "done" to you, instead of focusing internally on allowing your light shine brightly, and your gifts to the world to come through, you surrender your personal power and freedom to the external world around you.

Every single day, YOU are the shaman. You have power, or you give up your power. You make the choice to greet the day with openness and take pleasure in how you view your life, or you can focus on what's lacking in your life, and in that focus, you bring more of what you're lacking. Limited thinking creates a limited life.

When you go through life thinking, "if only I had… (and you can fill in the blank for anything you lack or don't have)", your belief system is holding you back from what you truly desire. Being a conscious "everyday shaman" takes a shift in belief, focusing on what you want, and asking to clearly see what obstacles stand in your way.

Those obstacles may be "real" to you, at least in the external world. Obstacles drop away when true intention links up with passion and action. When intention, awareness, and conscious positive emotion intersect, amazing things happen. The everyday shaman knows this and knows how to co-create with the Universe in every moment.

So, just for today, create one life situation with intention, openness, and joy. No manipulation is needed. See this situation as it is already done. Feel the gratitude that it is so, that this situation is. The situation could be something as small as intending a parking space close to a building where you need to do business, or thinking about a friend you haven't heard from in a while and with a feeling of love, send a blessing, knowing that friend feels your total support and love, and surprise, you hear from that very friend.

If your chosen life situation doesn't pan out today, make the decision and choose to be happy in the moment. Faith works best when you allow for expansion. If you focus on "this isn't working", you have your first obstacle to work through… your limiting focus and belief.

Miracles do happen for the everyday shaman.
May you share the miracle that you are with the world,
Love, Lori