Written: by Anita Merrick/Crystal Wind
I want to share some insights I’ve collected that I hope will provide you some inspiration or perhaps get you thinking more about some topics that abound nowadays, needing our positive input, thought and most importantly our prayers and energy directed toward them (a skill we all possess without much training beyond the knowing we can do it and it is ours for just by being human). I will share some quotes that I find especially valuable for the start of a new decade and hope you will find inspiration or reasons to consider on their topic further …
Wolf Clan, Seneca Nation, Grandmother Twylah Nitsch, once said: “Don’t worry too much about the world. The world will be here long after humans are gone. The waters can heal themselves over time, the earth’s surface and air will heal over time, but we may not be here to see it.”
Let me add to her words: to truly heal this planet, we must first heal the hearts and minds of human beings, beginning with ourselves--thereby, placing trust in our ability to awakening that “Shaman Within.
Perhaps you have been on this spiritual or mystical path for many years or perhaps you are a beginner who wears “new mystical shoes” that need breaking in before you are courageous to stride onward and literally upward. Either way, you need only to do what your heart inspires; while I know that sounds simple, sometimes it is not and that is okay. As a reader, I am seeing too many people who have just had their wake-up call. They will soon realize what the others have known for a while; they will begin recognizing on a planetary scale, the signs that are all around us that speak to a need to heal on all levels, then apply one’s wisdom and positivity as it is the way of changing conditions in our world. I believe there are synchronistic things happening to us (including for all people and the world, in general) every minute of every day -- in the -- NOW.
To keep that trend going, it is important for us to learn at the deepest level the concept of -- “Power With” versus “Power Over.” Power With comes from a place of love and its counterpart (back on the teeter-totter?) Power Over, comes from that of control and disconnection. We are creatures of both light and dark. It may seem like a teeter-totter existing in the mind or heart (metaphorically, that is), but I would say such is for a later metaphysician debate. Instead, remember it is normal to contain part positive and part negative aspects and it is illogical to simply assume we are merely a mirror of that above realm or that it mirrors each of us below. Instead, as we learn life’s greatest lessons, we must honestly face those hiding in the shadows or our dark side. Remember that wisdom arisings from the lessons from within both of those aspects of our humanness and from both places do we learn to comprehend the truth of finding an inner balance. From that place does our evolvement and understanding of the self and our best lives emerge and develop.
We are truly becoming co-creators in the now; and, as the shamans and teachers of today continue assisting in creating that vision, thus we can reinvent a peaceful future instead of merely being passive byproducts of the misinformed and depressed minds. In order, to awaken our own “inner wisdom” or “inner shaman” we need to find a crack in our outer armor and then seek from within our hearts a willingness to step out of our old box/ways of thinking. Too often, it comes after a traumatic event, such as serious accident, darkness of an addiction, deep depression, divorce, loss of job/career or spiritual/mental crisis, all of which are as a dance in the blackest unlit corners of the heart/mind/spirit. Usually, the way out cannot begin until one understands they are in a space of wondering and wandering. Until something awakens the lost to a sense of there being something of light awaiting their attention or just that there is something greater toward which they might reach out and take a metaphoric hand.
All clear enough evidence that the inner shaman has heard the call our call to awaken; thus, receiving the messages and guidance from the Higher Power. On that thought, let me conclude this blog with the following and a hope that this new year will bring each of us a personal version or understanding of this truth –
When Buddha was asked if he was a god, he replied he was not. When he was asked if he was a saint, he replied he was not. ‘Then what are you,’ he was asked. “I am Awake.” He replied.
I want to share some insights I’ve collected that I hope will provide you some inspiration or perhaps get you thinking more about some topics that abound nowadays, needing our positive input, thought and most importantly our prayers and energy directed toward them (a skill we all possess without much training beyond the knowing we can do it and it is ours for just by being human). I will share some quotes that I find especially valuable for the start of a new decade and hope you will find inspiration or reasons to consider on their topic further …
Wolf Clan, Seneca Nation, Grandmother Twylah Nitsch, once said: “Don’t worry too much about the world. The world will be here long after humans are gone. The waters can heal themselves over time, the earth’s surface and air will heal over time, but we may not be here to see it.”
Let me add to her words: to truly heal this planet, we must first heal the hearts and minds of human beings, beginning with ourselves--thereby, placing trust in our ability to awakening that “Shaman Within.
Perhaps you have been on this spiritual or mystical path for many years or perhaps you are a beginner who wears “new mystical shoes” that need breaking in before you are courageous to stride onward and literally upward. Either way, you need only to do what your heart inspires; while I know that sounds simple, sometimes it is not and that is okay. As a reader, I am seeing too many people who have just had their wake-up call. They will soon realize what the others have known for a while; they will begin recognizing on a planetary scale, the signs that are all around us that speak to a need to heal on all levels, then apply one’s wisdom and positivity as it is the way of changing conditions in our world. I believe there are synchronistic things happening to us (including for all people and the world, in general) every minute of every day -- in the -- NOW.
To keep that trend going, it is important for us to learn at the deepest level the concept of -- “Power With” versus “Power Over.” Power With comes from a place of love and its counterpart (back on the teeter-totter?) Power Over, comes from that of control and disconnection. We are creatures of both light and dark. It may seem like a teeter-totter existing in the mind or heart (metaphorically, that is), but I would say such is for a later metaphysician debate. Instead, remember it is normal to contain part positive and part negative aspects and it is illogical to simply assume we are merely a mirror of that above realm or that it mirrors each of us below. Instead, as we learn life’s greatest lessons, we must honestly face those hiding in the shadows or our dark side. Remember that wisdom arisings from the lessons from within both of those aspects of our humanness and from both places do we learn to comprehend the truth of finding an inner balance. From that place does our evolvement and understanding of the self and our best lives emerge and develop.
We are truly becoming co-creators in the now; and, as the shamans and teachers of today continue assisting in creating that vision, thus we can reinvent a peaceful future instead of merely being passive byproducts of the misinformed and depressed minds. In order, to awaken our own “inner wisdom” or “inner shaman” we need to find a crack in our outer armor and then seek from within our hearts a willingness to step out of our old box/ways of thinking. Too often, it comes after a traumatic event, such as serious accident, darkness of an addiction, deep depression, divorce, loss of job/career or spiritual/mental crisis, all of which are as a dance in the blackest unlit corners of the heart/mind/spirit. Usually, the way out cannot begin until one understands they are in a space of wondering and wandering. Until something awakens the lost to a sense of there being something of light awaiting their attention or just that there is something greater toward which they might reach out and take a metaphoric hand.
All clear enough evidence that the inner shaman has heard the call our call to awaken; thus, receiving the messages and guidance from the Higher Power. On that thought, let me conclude this blog with the following and a hope that this new year will bring each of us a personal version or understanding of this truth –
When Buddha was asked if he was a god, he replied he was not. When he was asked if he was a saint, he replied he was not. ‘Then what are you,’ he was asked. “I am Awake.” He replied.
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