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Have you ever been to a football game and you really got into it and
cheered and clapped and when the game was over you think that time
passed really fast? Perhaps you have felt this when you have gone to a
fantastic movie. Or have you ever sat in the dentist's chair for 20
minutes and felt like it took forever? It was your emotions that caused
time to speed up or slow down. When you are excited and happy and really
into something, the time has a way of speeding up and the event passes
quickly. But in the dentist's office your were worried, frustrated,
didn't want to be there, and time took forever. So positive emotions
speed up time and negative emotions can slow time down. This is only one
example of the power of emotions but I offer this one to start because
you have all experienced this in your own lives.
Shamans watch and observe and over thousands of years have honed this
manipulation of emotional power down to a science. It is called time
travel or time shifting in Shamanic terms and is used to create time to
prevent an accident, time to allow for necessary things to occur, time
for someone to change one's mind. The power is in the emotion.
Controlling the emotions controls the power.
A Shaman will tell you that the only reason for emotions is to manifest
what is needed for healing! Don't waste your time feeling jealous or
hurt or angry. You will just extend the length of time of the apparent
hurt. And if you want to savor a beautiful thing or spend quality time
with a loved one, don't get too excited about it or it will be over in a
flash.
People today run their lives by how they feel emotionally. Every single
thing that happens, they judge its goodness by asking themselves, "How
does this make me feel?" If you think about it you will admit that you
ask yourself that question as much as one hundred times each day. But is
that any way to run your life? Perhaps today taking a bath makes you
feel terrible and so you do not take a bath but then next week taking a
bath will make you feel good and so you take a bath. It becomes a
whimsy, a folly, a willow in the wind without any reason or rhyme to run
your life on your feelings. And yet, this is really how people judge
everything that comes and goes in their lives! How can any decent
choices be made like this?
Where did we learn this?
We learned to live based on our emotional responses when we were very
little. If we wanted something we yelled and cried and carried on until
we got it. We learned that expressing negative emotions would get us
what we were looking for from our parents and siblings. We learned to
manipulate others with our emotions to get what we thought we wanted.
And what we wanted changed all the time. Every now and then we would
reach a crevasse and not even know what we wanted! But it has always
been, "How does this make me feel? I feel good, then I keep it and get
more. I feel bad then I throw it away even if it was really good for me
or even if I will probably want it tomorrow." We let emotions rule our
life and they are nothing but buttons on a soda machine.
Emotions can't gain you success, abundance, happiness, right
relationships or can they?
A Shaman says that by controlling your emotions you gain the power of
emotions to manifest healing. And it's true! By eliminating negativity
in all its forms in your life you attract goodness to yourself. Positive
attracts more positive. By actively controlling your emotions and seeing
that each time you think a negative thought you immediately and
consciously replace it with a positive happy, uplifting thought, you can
completely turn your life around from losing to winning. Many of our
modern gurus have written books on this subject. Read any one of them
and they are saying, control your emotions and change your life.
Get an attitude of a winner and start winning.
Be in control of your emotions; don't let them be in control of you.
Because if you let emotions run your life you have given up the rudder
and sails and you are floundering around going no where.
It is imperative that a Shaman be in control of his or her emotions.
Many forces in the universe know what "feel good babies" we are and come
to play on our weakness. They tempt us and prick us with things that
push our buttons to cause us to rely on our emotional selves. Why do
they do this? Because they are not human and do not have the beautiful
power of emotions. They are jealous and if they can't play like us they
want to watch us ?play? in possibly not very nice ways. They too, know
the power of emotion and they know that only some sentient beings have
this power. They watch us as we throw it away frivolously instead of
taking control and using the power of emotions to manifest joy and
healing and abundance and beauty. Can you imagine how silly and soft we
look to outsiders?
If you want to heal, think healing thoughts, get excited about healing,
work yourself up into a healing mode, really put yourself into it. Use
drumming and chanting and power songs and dancing to bring the power of
emotions into their healing ceremonies. Remember that football game? Get
into your intent for abundance or healing or joy. Sing, dance, and pray
out loud. With the proper intent set in place and the proper degree of
emotion as well as the knowledge of the ways to accomplish it, anything
can be yours, including a complete remission from cancer. I have seen
this with my own eyes.
Many philosophers and psychologists have sought to do away with emotion,
so that by eliminating all emotion we can be centered in mind and body.
Embrace the power of your gift of emotion but find the knowledge to use
it with wisdom in deliberate creation of goodness. Don't get rid of
anything about you. Learn all your tools and then practice with
intention and emotional control.
by :
Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls
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