How To Have Fun And Profit In Everyday Life With Shamanism
There are a lot of different kinds of shamanic dreaming exercises. If you do those every day, you are incredibly likely to feel good most of the time. But there is also the time in-between. Going to the post office, keeping your bills paid, and if you're really down on your luck, online video meetings. This article is about keeping your good vibrations during those.
There is a single idea to keep in mind. If you decide an experience is going to be a good thing for you, then you will get a good effect. There is a really nice phrase in Kahili Hula, and it's Everything Is Working Out Perfectly, and because that's kind of long- we just say EWOP.
Got fired? Only good things will come from this. EWOP. Inherited debt and signed anyway because you didn't know? Only good things will come from this. EWOP. Lost both legs in a freak traffic accident? Only good things will come from this! EWOP. This works even if you are facing very hard challenges. There is an endless list of people who experience those and later say they were blessings in disguise. There is no reason you can't skip straight to that part.
This is training yourself to trust that good things are happening, no matter what's happening. You will discover good aspects of what's happening you didn't notice before. Good things will come to your attention you weren't aware of before. And if you really keep it up, obviously amazing things will just be Tuesday for you. You will become lucky.
So let me walk you through this in detail.
You're in bed in the morning. Your alarm rings. You're tired, and you really don't want to do the normal things of that day. Stooooooop right there... that's expecting bad things, and it feels bad! Take a deep breath. Only good things will come from that alarm clock. EWOP. You're probably not totally convinced yet, but you might have quite a bit less existential dread and feel slightly confused from the unusual positive boost. So you get up.
You get your phone out, and something has outrageous has happened- a group of foreigners has made a huge mess somewhere with another group of foreigners, and even a few countryfolk were involved. Now your neighbors from the first group are upset, and your friends from the other group are afraid to get blamed. You start getting angry at the situation and you start wondering if the country is going to the dogs. Waaaaaaaaait a minute- that doesn't feel good. Only good things will come from this. Maybe this will be a wakeup call to change policy. Maybe it's just not that big of a deal. It doesn't really matter- this only means good things to you. Everything is working out perfectly. EWOP.
Now you go to fix breakfast and you burn your toast... that's different, so you throw the toaster out of the window, jump up and down, and swear loudly. Just kidding. Even with burnt toast- you don't know why that's good, you just decide it is. Only good things will come to you from burnt toast. It doesn't matter if you don't know what it is- everything's working out perfectly. Maybe it's just a demonstration that you have wasted a little bit of food, and the sky still hasn't fallen down on your head in divine wrath. EWOP.
So you feel much, much, much better than you usually would just from doing your best to catch all your negative framings and giving them a twist. It works even if you're not quite convinced. But, maybe, you just can't shake a funky bad feeling. So you sit down and do a proper shamanic technique. This feeling kind of not so nice... what would you have to believe in order to feel this? So you prod, and you prod, and you prod... dear subconscious mind, just let me know please what I would have to believe in order to feel this pointy-feeling achiness in my spine that is drooping my shoulders. Finally, it comes up- you feel like you just heard the words, "You must fight for your place under the sun." Yikes. While this was certainly the main philosphy through the ages, you know enough to know that hasn't to be how it is. You trust the belief will take care of itself. The funk clears up.
So you jump into the car and pull out of your driveway. There is an ad on, and there is something about the presenter that just rubs you the wrong way. You phony crook! Why don't you take those overbleached teeth of yours and chew on some gravel!
(If you don't have an anger challenge, feel free to substitute a different reaction...)
So you catch yourself feeling less-than-peachy about a radio presenter who is probably an out-of-work actor who is doing nothing else than putting food on the table for his family.
That's okay. It happens to all of us. But the bad feeling is still there. So you do another belief uncovering. What would I have to believe in order to feel this? This time it's faster. Oh, I believe that anyone who is selling something is out to get me. Well, that belief will certainly make you feel bad no matter what happens, thank God it's gone.
So during the drive there's nothing much else to do, so it's a good time for some auto-suggestion. So you bring up your goal- a brand new, beautiful, huge amazing house. You breathe deep a few times, pat yourself on the back, and make yourself a cup of coffee in the spacious new kitchen while a little rain of light is washing everything away that's in the way. The excitement comes almost immediately and colors the entire rest of the drive,
Arriving at the post office there's a huge line. There the pessimism goes again- there's a line! Haven't they managed to hire some people right before vacation season? Don't they use any technology? We're falling behind! The country is going to the dogs. Waaaaaaaaaait a minute right there- that doesn't feel good. I don't know why this line is good, but only good will come to me from it. So you stand around a bit, do a bit more autosuggestion and pick up your package and it seems like the entire thing was a lot faster than it looked like at first. You look back and imagine everyone in the post office has deer antlers, just for the heck of it, and you're doing pretty good again.
So you move on to an important meeting. The road is blocked, someone had an accident. You pick up on the frustration in all the cars around you. Someone in the car ahead of you is really losing it and honking the horn. Darnit, you think, why can't people just look where they're going! Don't they know there are people here who need to be somewhere? People are so dumb and selfish! Waaaaaaaaait a minute... everything's working out perfectly. I don't need to be angry with them, because nothing bad is going to happen. Only good things will come from being in traffic. You write to your associate and tell him what's going on. It's fine, he says, I can use an extra 15 minutes, and you just kind of relax and look around and take in the details of the scene around you. You notice a pickup truck ahead of you, and the driver obviously wanted to make sure everyone knew he considers the pickup trup to be male. Which is eccentric, but since you already dealt with how you feel about that sort of masculinity last time- is kind of funny. How brash. Maybe you will do something like that too someday in a different way. Then you use the extra time to think about what you want to happen in the meeting, surround it with a bubble of white light, and bless it. Sure enough, the meeting goes great! Not exactly as you expected it, but part is exactly like you wanted and part is vaguely different but kind of feel good. You're off to lunch.
Before lunchtime is always big autosuggestion time so you spend a little time in your new house that you are imagining again. And because houses cost money, you do your money goal this time too. That doesn't work at all- so you decide to do a little symbol healing on it, instead of the uncovering the belief, just for the heck of it. So you ask yourself for a symbol, and you get a man lying down being beaten by a man in a suit. So you change it to a group of people in different outfits all hugging each other and holding very large bundles of cash. That's more like it. You shift the old symbol to the new one seven times. Problem solved.
Time for a very large sandwich.
You wonder whether you can afford to eat the whole thing... and woah, wait a minute, everything's working out perfectly. You realize you can eat it, and everything will work out perfectly, or you can eat something else, and everything works out perfectly. Only good things will come from this very large sandwich, whether I chose to eat it or not. So you decide to go for it, and my goodness it tastes even better without a side of guilt!
The entire rest of the meeting you find yourself really wanting to go anywhere else but home because you know you have an entire afternoon of online video meetings waiting there. Darnit! You think. Everyone's just going to stare at the camera and you don't know if they're playing back a recording of them nodding their head and smiling!!! It's so impersonal! We never get anything done!!! Waaaaaaaait a minute... only good things will come from these meetings. If I'm not talking and I know about things... well maybe I can use the time for some auto-suggestion, and if that isn't productive, I don't know what is. And even if I don't know why a meeting is productive, and even if it's not, only good things will come to me because of this meeting. And while you're thinking these things, you get a call- the conference system is down. You have the afternoon off. Woah!!! That wasn't just attitude adjustment. That was real. Nice. So you spend the afternoon shopping.
While you're shopping, you start wondering if you should go for the more expensive model of air fryer. It's obviously going to last longer and the reviews say the food it makes is very tasty. But then you think back in the day you would have scoffed at anyone spending so much for something you don't really need. You feel a bit bummed. But waaaaaait a minute...
Say it with me? Only good things are going to happen to me if I buy this air fryer. So you just buy it. It won't be a stretch, that you know, and now you feel good about it, too.
Your phone rings, and a friend of yours you haven't seen for a while wants to come over! He's in town. But you reaaaaaally don't want to go anywhere... but he's your friend! You panic a little bit until you realize that only good things are going to come to you from this phone call. EWOP!!! Immediately you give yourself full permission to not go meet your friend if you don't want to, and someone, now you would really very much like to go. You just didn't want to feel in a bind. And knowing how to say no made it okay to say yes, and mean it- in this particular situation.
So you pick up your friend and after a lovely dinner it's time for more auto-suggestion back home, and by then- you're feeling pretty good. It's been a lot of effort doing Huna all day like this, but you literally feel like a million bucks after your money session. It's effort all right, but it's fun. Then it occurs to you you really liked to do comedy when you were a kid and write that down as something to look into. Maybe it'll come back. The universe is magical and flexible!!! Whatever might be the most fun.
You decide you'd like to have a nice dream about something exciting, you'll leave it open as to what, and you just nod off. You spend the night at a pool with strange and mystical creatures who give you little bundles of paper and little glittering packets of sparkly dust. Whatever that is, that looks pretty good! And the next morning, the alarm clock sounds fine.
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