Discover the shaman inside yourself

Notice when you feel alienated or 'out-of-place.' Your emotions are a gauge. They tell you when you are listening to soul, being true to self or not. Like a shaman, do you allow intuition and Nature to guide your choices? If you cling to the opinions of others, you allow yourself to live on borrowed knowledge. Ignorance and fear may block your access to timeless wisdom. You may ask, what can I do about it?

Be aware when you focus on stories and dreams of other people. This may result from conditioning. You can also view everything as an invitation to discover the shaman inside yourself. Access innersight that enables you to see deeper into the here and now. What behaviour allows soul secrets to reveal themselves?

1) Watch your thinking process.  Choose to live in such a way as you know life is as easy as you make it.   Be present and focused on a matter at hand rather than lose your focus in multi-tasking.  Change the way you think about thought.  Know thoughts are powerful enegy.  Sense all you do evolves naturally. 

2) Be open to shift focus. Stop believing you need what you don't have or that you must control what is uncontrollable.  Review the personas or facades you put on and let go of the person the world thinks you are. See from the vantage point of equality.  Flow into states of abundance and heed the impulse of generosity.

3) Break down your largest challenges.  Become a master anticipator. Sense that you can manage anything step-by-step.  Set an example by thinking of others and serving them rather than being blinded by self-interests.  Change the way you perceive darkness and fear.  Sense they help you see the love that exists. Discern you are an instrument to something greater that empowers you.

4) Be willing to admit you don't know.  This reflects strength.  Watch the ego impulse.  Admit you never really know what is best for other people.  Trust instincts about self yet, remain humble.  The energy of humility is magnetic.  Release your urge to impose ideas.  Sense immeasurable capacities exist within that are unleashed from the moment you believe in the unseen.

Flying rollerblader on a mission

Analysis of the week on dream submitted by Anonymous in South Melbourne.

Dream- I wore black, men’s roller-blades. The leather boots had great ankle support. As I skated though a vast grocery store, I saw a person standing beside a tall stack of cereal boxes in a colorful display. I moved instinctively, heading for this obstacle in my path. I gracefully skated and found myself jumping, then soaring over it with wings on my boots. The person beside the boxes smiled at me and then continued reading instructions. I landed effortlessly in another aisle and continued to skate smoothly forward.   Much to my pleasant surprise, I suddenly carried a Toblerone dark chocolate bar in aluminum foil.

Predominant Emotions-  determination, eagerness, faith, delight, and gratitude.

Interpretation- You value spontaneity and listen to a voice within which represents your ‘truth detector.’ To favor different experiences means you consciously decide not to limit yourself. You aren’t distracted by superficial choices, but you may be overly-preoccupied with speed.  Make sacrifices to distance yourself from ego-driven behavior.

Thinking 'out-of-the-box' will enable you to get-in-touch with the real you.  Skating represents your innate agility and apparent balance. You draw from boundless energy, a sense of direction and the will to progress.  Recognize what you gain and leave behind.

Leather is tough and rugged material that shows you have “thick emotional skin.” Careful you don't become too hardened or insensitive to people around you who make different choices.  As you move past certain mind blocks, you can learn to overcome other fears. 

Aisles symbolize divisions or walls you create to hold yourself back, even temporarily. When you choose what makes you feel good, you move ahead with confidence. Your positive attitude fills your heart with love, and in turn, propels you to far-away places.

To see aluminum signifies your ability to retain what is important. It indicates you value what you have, regardless how much or how little. Quality matters more than quantity.  Chocolate is a sweet indulgence to be savored like unexpected rewards.  You savor intensity and moderation and receive recognition for talents that flow quite naturally.

Rediscover 4 components of inner harmony

We each live with hidden virtue.  Life experience enables us to learn to move beyond our conditioned expectations.  We can expand our self-impressions, change the way we perceive ourselves.  You have no history to live up to, but ingrained ideas to understand and also transcend.  Choose to rediscover these 4 components of inner harmony:

1) Substitute judging with observing.  Whenever you see others in a negative light, imagine yourself in their place.  Recognize you have opportunities to reduce your criticism.  Choose to watch and listen.  Give without expecting and connect  to the world without aiming to control or possess superficial things.

2) Experience life by "decreasing."  From birth, you are urged to learn more, to amass diplomas and credentials as a measure of self-worth and success.  What if instead, you based your sense of success on "decreasing?"  Rather than seek to increase and quantify what you have and know, you move to filter superficial knowledge.   Honor yourself by using fewer words and giving less advice.

3) Move beyond divisions and loyalties.  Exclusions and allegiances are limiting.  Avoid sticking to one position or, supporting one group at expense of others.  This bolsters inflexibility.  Abandon rigidity.  Choose impartiality.  Evolve to become conscious of what its like to be other people and creatures. Discover the meaning of inter-connectedness.

4) Die while you're alive.  Imagine yourself as immune to harm.  Your soul is eternal.  The choices you make can enable you to feel more alive. If you feel lifeless, or lack energy and enthusisam, reframe death as an ending which triggers a new beginning. A vision of immortality will assist you to open your senses in ways that enable you to move beyond the limits of your perceived physical body.  Shatter senseless myths you have created. 

Dannion Brinkley & 3 tips to dispel your fear of life & death

On two occasions, Dannion Brinkley died after being struck by lightening.  He returned to this world to encourage us to face our own mortality.  We tend to be our harshest critics and the source of our greatest fears.  It is up to each of us to redefine a meaningful life. 

Dannion's near-death experiences (NDEs) prompted him to review his priorities and focus.  Trial and error led him to apply his heightened sensitivities.  He developed techniques to bond wth people and open their minds to his experience of  life and death.  He finds if people don't learn to recapture their spirits, they struggle to cope with the future.   In his way, he urges us to discern we have choices about how we think:

1)  Realize you don't know nearly as much as you think you do.  Move beyond a theoretical understanding.  What you have been taught on life and death  and  about 'worthwhile' choices, is often grounded in values and principles imposed by individuals and institutions.  Have you learned to separate your beliefs from external influence? How do you distinguish among reasons for fears and your ability to be spiritually perceptive?

2)  Grasp you need not wait until you have passed over to do a 'life review.' An overview of your life involves reflection about your hopes and dreams, what you feel is 'good' and 'bad.'  You can do this anytime.  To glimpse your spiritual nature enables you to overcome fear.  Choose to develop strength.  Everything is actually valuable experience.

3) Focus on how you make life better.  Evolve to treat others as you would have them treat you.  This is part of your learning process.  You can feel the way you make others feel when you help them.  You can rebuild or reframe the time you have.  How you react to people and conditions influences how your life unfolds.  Consider your self-view.  On what level do you empathize with others?  Its never too late to create peace within.

Create positive coincidences

To learn to step back and view your life from a third person perspective is to see parts of yourself in every encounter and relationship.  Why would you wish to do do this? 

Part of your life mission is to learn to review aspects of your life without having your ego involved.  Such a conscious move toward greater objectivity will enable you to experience increased empathy.  It will also empower you to make a more honest assessment of where you are, how you view yourself, and where you wish to be.

What would it take for you to come to grips with the idea your mind shapes the reality you choose outside yourself? When have you sensed your thoughts and beliefs determine where you are?  Imagine the nature of your positive transformation as you realize you have the power to make significant changes in how you behave and what you value.

Events are in a process of unfolding.  Nothing is unconnected.  Many things are within your control.  From the moment you realize you can get excited about sources of meaning in your life, you are already redefining your own version of success.   You exist by choice.  Your decisions to perceive, interpret and learn are part of your mission.