What Can A Traditional Shaman Do For You?

What Can  a Traditional Shaman Do For You?

In ancient times, a traditional shaman was hired by a tribe or community to help restore health, to ward off evil, to defend the people from attack by enemies, to bring good weather, to birth or bury and in general to keep that tribe or community in line with abundance and prosperity in every way. If the Shaman did a good job and was successful at this, the tribe would reward that Shaman with the best dwelling, the best clothes, the best food, a high ranking of honor and more. If the Shaman that was hired did not do all this very well, he was thrown out of the community and had no food, no dwelling, no honor and certainly would not find work with any other tribe or community either.  So nobody would dare pretend to be a Shaman. It was a difficult and risky job and only a very few were able to withstand the years of apprenticeship with elder Shamans to learn how to do these things successfully. In fact it was not even a job that anyone wanted to have. The odds of being killed if you could not bring peace and healing and good weather were very high indeed. When a whole community depends on you to keep them healthy and then someone gets sick, your life would be on the line. Young people today should realize that calling yourself a Shaman means you are able to do these things for a community and is not just a comic book title with no responsibility at all.  Shamanism is not faith healing.  Shamanism is not just about journeying either. 

Shaman Elder Maggie has spent 58 years learning how to bring healing, good weather, abundance and protection to people. But today, communities no longer hire Shamans. So Shaman Elder Maggie has to work for individuals hoping to find her own livelihood and sustenance from her successful work on their behalf case by case, much like an independent contractor or counselor would. So what are some of the things that Shaman Elder Maggie can do for a person? 

- teach you how to remove fear based thinking and come into alignment with your higher self.

- show you how to find your purpose.

- bring you all kinds of abundance as long as your intentions are in alignment with Creators intentions for you. 

- teach you impeccability.

- align the forces of your reality to bring you health. ( Sometimes this requires a dialogue to produce.)

- create a strong connection for you between you and your Source. 

- help you enjoy your job, or if you are looking for work she can help you behind the scenes to find a job that you will love. 

- help you in your relationships with those people in your life. 

Here is what some people have written about the help they got from Shaman Elder Maggie:

“You are in some way, connecting me to something deep within myself, a stirring passion, need, or just maybe my power, but I feel it is more than that. Anyhow, I am deeply grateful, I am starting to open my eyes.”

“I am grateful for you and all the work we have done together.   I am grateful I can see, grateful I now know I am deserving of only loving happy helpful vibrant energies in my life.  Worry is removed and replace with the peace of knowing WHO I AM!”

“Thank you for all that you do behind the scenes to provide healing to me.  My life has improved dramatically- even from 2 months ago.”

“I must say that following your course in the past few months has been life-changing for me.  For the first time since my twenties I don't have constant anxiety, I am off my medication and I am balancing myself - this is truly wonderful.  Thank you!”

“I must tell you, when my brother was fighting cancer I wrote to you and asked if you could help him and you said yes and you sent him a medicine bag.  He has carried the medicine bag with him everyday since he received it and he has been cancer free ever since.”

“I am thankful to you the guides and Creator for turning my life around completely from hard to easy.  I will practice making my life easier for the rest of my life!”

“I just found out I got the job! I start Monday. I cannot tell you how life can change in an instant when you are happy and love yourself! It pays 2 dollars more an hour! Thank you.”

“My doctor was completely amazed today.  I went for my yearly physical.  I told him I'm off all my meds.  My blood pressure is 120/80, and I'm not a nervous wreck anymore.  He kept asking me, "Are you SURE you're not on any meds.  You seem much calmer now -- more in control."  That's because of you. “

You can tell a good Shaman by what his or her clients have to say about them. Their deeds tell the truth.

 

How does Shaman Maggie do these things for people? Primarily through her courses as she teaches each student individually and they get that chance to really work with her to benefit their lives. The courses provide unlimited dialogue by email and through these emails the student shares his or her life with Shaman Maggie who then works behind the scenes shamanically for their benefit. Also she offers counseling by phone call and that too is a way to discuss problems and issues that Shaman Maggie can then work to improve for that person. Shaman Maggie also offers free email counseling to anyone at all. 

Shaman Elder Maggie is a Traditional Shaman seriously dedicated to the energetic upliftment of the world and feels that this happens one person at a time. She is in love with humanity and does this not for herself but for your sake. She wants to see you standing fully in your own power, enjoying this adventure called life. You can hire her to work for you and your life and she can produce those achievements for you as the old Shamans did.

You can learn how to contact her or sign up for her counseling or courses at www.shamanelder.com

The Current you Are Not Using

There is a current in this river of life, placed there by Creator and if we allow ourselves to find that flow and go with that flow all good things can be ours.

It is you and your thoughts who deny that current and try to fight with that current and that causes you pain and trouble. 

Your  thought, your ignorant blind belief, that Creator would not care for you enough to put that current into your life,

that is the thought that is causing you harm.

And the opposite of that is the thirst,

the striving,

the desire 

to get yourself into that current.

I know you have felt this current of Creator’s  at times in your life.

 It is there and you know it. 

So why don’t you pursue it?

You know what it feels like when you are in it.

Get to that place again and let that current carry you along into the future.

But you will not be able to observe it at all 

if you are obsessively caught in

the web of your thoughts.

Shaman Elder Maggie

Learn more about how to do this by taking the Shaman Apprenticeship 101 course

I have been teaching Traditional Shamanism for over ten years now and have been counseling people for over 35 years now. I have been walking this path as taught to me by my own Shaman Grandmother for over 55 years now. I think you can tell that I can show you things here that will definitely benefit your life.  Its a win-win for you. But time is running out to begin.

Become A Lake

Be A Lake  (Source Unknown)

The old Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it.
"How does it taste?" the Masterasked.
"Awful," spat the apprentice

The Master chuckled and then asked the young man to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake.

The two walked in silence to the nearby lake
and when the apprentice swirled his handful of salt into the lake,
the old man said, "Now drink from the lake

As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the Master asked,
"How does it taste?"
"Good!" remarked the apprentice.
"Do you taste the salt?"  asked the Master.
"No," said the young man.

The Master sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, and said,

"The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less.
The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same.

But the amount we taste the 'pain'
depends on the container we put it into.

So when you are in pain, the
only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things .....

Stop being a glass.

                                          Become a lake!

Day 93 Get Out of Your Way

To get your life, give your life away. Give it to the higher intelligence, the greater mind, the larger you. Stand out of your own way. Open to intelligence that's beyond your comprehension.

As a leaf grows its complex form without consciousness, you grow and prosper in your season. You don't need to make yourself grow. You don't need to control your life.

Have faith in a greater power. Look at nature. The intelligence of creation is far beyond the comprehension of any of its beings. There's no need for beings to be aware of their own creation.

Your conscious mind is meant for something else. The ego isn't evil. It's just misdirected. Stand out of your own way. Watch and learn. Be prepared to be amazed.

To become a student of Traditional Shamanism with Shaman Elder Maggie just go to http://www.shamanelder.com and begin today!

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Day 84 Healing Audio CDs

New! Personal healing sessions and prayers by a Traditional Elder Shaman for your own specific healing request.

Now for the first time ever, Shaman Elder Maggie will create an audio recording directly to you. It will contain a personal consultation just for you. Whether you suffer from a broken heart or a job loss or depression or sickness of any kind, you can now receive a full audio CD addressed to you and you alone recorded by Shaman Elder Maggie especially for you personally to receive counseling and prayers and even music and mantras that you can listen to anytime you want and play over and over again!

Imagine having your own recording of this Elder Shaman speaking directly to you about your own issues in detail and offering you her healing prayers over and over again every time you listen to your CD! You can sing along with her and pray along with her and receive her Light and Love and encouragement and even specific practices to help yourself reach the level of total health and happiness and abundance!  What a gift!

Perhaps you have a loved one or friend who needs this very special gift of counseling and healing. No one can even get any Traditional Shaman’s time or attention at all for $29.95 and here you will have a personal consultation on CD that you can listen to whenever you want to! Every night before going to bed or every morning when starting your day, you can listen to your own personal CD about your own personal life and be uplifted, inspired, prayed for aloud and receive the courage and joy to tackle another day. Your CD will contain holy sounds and healing words, energy from Creator for your own total healing. Daily listening will bring you total healing so quickly! Now you can have your own counseling session with the power of Creator infused into it to use over and over again for the incredibly low cost of $29.99. This is offered at such a low cost because Shaman Elder Maggie never charges for healing. The cost is what it would cost in time to produce this audio CD to pay for the materials and studio time and to mail it to you with free shipping. Shaman Elder Maggie is not looking to make any money for herself. This is totally her heart felt desire to see you healed and whole and happy. Take advantage of this gift now as she will only be offering these individual customized recordings for a limited time. Each is made specifically for the individual client.  Just click here to order your healing CD now.

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Day 83 FREE God Course

A FREE course for you to learn the Shamanic truth about Source, Creator, God.

Who Is God?

 What is Creator doing and why isn’t Creator helping you in your life today?

 Is Source just a fiction someone made up for us?

 Find out the Shamanic View of who and what God is and how you can use this information And the practices given in each lesson

To better your own life,

 To bring more abundance into your life

To find more happiness and joy in your life

To create better relationships with others

To learn how to help yourself heal

To see the big picture and why we are here in the first place

We have all been taught conflicting things about Creator. But in this course I give you the truth for the 21st Century. I think we have grown beyond needing a priest or pastor or monk or religious leader in our lives. I think we have come to the place where each of us can clearly be in charge of our own relationship with God in our own way. And here are the facts and practices you can use right now to develop your own relationship with the Source of all good things. These abilities have already been yours. But others have taught you to believe that you cannot go here, that you cannot do this. But I am giving you here, for FREE, the tools and skills and knowledge that as been withheld from you by outside authority figures. I want to see you standing in your own power and making your own choices and living a beautiful abundant life. By taking this Free E-course and learning about God you will find many ways to make your life happy and free and strong and good, for yourself and for others, too!  Invite your friends and family to take this course along with you as well.

www.shamanelder.com/freegodcourse.html

This course is based on Shamanic wisdom taught throughout the ages. Take the time to read one short lesson each week for 10 weeks and to try the practices offered here. Just reading this course will change your life. I give this course to you because I want to see this world move up to the next level of spirituality for the 21^st century and now is the time for each of us to take authority for our own lives and our own understanding and relationship with Creator God Source individually.

Just click here to begin today. NO charge.

To become a student of Traditional Shamanism with Shaman Elder Maggie just go to http://www.shamanelder.com and begin today!

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Day 75 Personal Power

What does personal power have to do with this? Everything. Who do you give your power to? When you give in to someone else's wishes, desires or demands, when you allow someone else to control you in any way, when you say, feed me, heal me, support me emotionally, mentally or physically. You are giving your power away.

Some people find it easier to give their power away than to own their own power. It may feel easier to say feed me, heal me, support me than to do it yourself. Heck, most people do this. And so we have codependency and unhappy relationships. The truth is, no one can feed you, heal you or support you in the manner that you can for yourself. Why? Because no one loves you as much as you love yourself. And that is the way it should be. You know the commandment "Love the Lord Thy God with all thy heart and love others as you love yourself"? You are supposed to love yourself at least as much as you love others. But we don't love ourselves very much do we! In fact we love everybody else far more than we love ourselves. And because we don't love ourselves very much we let other people take over where we should be in control. We feed the needs and desires of other people and put our own on the back burner. And after a while we start to resent those people we are feeding because we are starving and we think that it is their fault. But it is not their fault.

Everyone is out there trying to get the best for themselves. Your kids are looking out for themselves. Your husband is trying to get what he needs. Your parents are trying to get what they need. And instead of you trying to get what you need, you are out there giving everybody what they need, what they ask for, what they desire. Guess what. They will get what they need whether you are the giver or not. The point is, who is getting you what you want?

If you need healing, you will find the very best and easiest to get healing, right inside you. If you need love, the very greatest and freest love is right inside you. If you need support, you can support yourself. If you need food, you know how to work for food. When you understand that loving yourself and caring for yourself is the only job you have, your life suddenly, and I do mean suddenly, becomes a joy to live! You are not responsible for Mom and Dad and Junior and hubby. You are only responsible for you! So much easier! And then you can start to really love yourself, to be kind to yourself, to care for your needs, your desires, your wishes. Believe me, no one else can really do it for you. They can try and you can ask but no one can do it like you can. And don't worry about hubby and junior. They will continue to take care of themselves. They may beg or plead because you turned off your easy access faucet but they will either turn on their own ever present Source and do it for themselves or they will find someone else they can leech off. They don't need to leech off you. It is not good for them anyway. They need to learn to love themselves too.

You know, this life is short. I would hate to see you leave without learning that you can love yourself and give yourself everything you need to be happy, absolutely joyous. Wouldn't you like to try it once before you go? Isn't that perhaps the lesson you are here to learn, the thing you came here to experience? Loving yourself

To become a student of Traditional Shamanism with Shaman Elder Maggie just go to http://www.shamanelder.com and begin today!

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Day 72 Freedom

Let me tell you about fear.

We are taught fear from birth. Our parents use fear to control us. If you have raised children yourself you know that you may have used fear to scare the kids into doing what you wanted them to do. Then fear is the controller in school. You will be punished if you do not do things the way they want, stay after school, detention, principal's office, failing grades, its all about fear.

So by adulthood, we are totally controlled by fear and it is the biggest part of our lives. Then we go to work. We learn to fear coming in late, displeasing the boss, not doing a super job every day, taking too long a lunch break, all kinds of things. So fear dominates our work life. Then we get married. And we use fear to control each other. “I won't love you if you ....( displease) me in any way.” “Get that supper on the table in time or I will be angry.” “Mow that lawn or I will shame you to the neighbors.” More, more, more. Fear of anger becomes the control in a relationship many times.

Wow! We are fear based people aren't we! How sad! At what point do we get to breathe??? No wonder we are unhappy. What a crumby way to live!

And who has time now to unravel 30 or 40 years of fear based thinking? It seems easier to take Prozac than to go to a counselor and work on the psychological factors for months or years. It seems easier to medicate than to break the chain. And it takes breaking the chain to find freedom, happiness and power.

What would you like to do? How precious is your freedom to you? How badly do you want to be happy? How much is your personal power worth to you?

Taking my course in Traditional Shamanism requires one to accept his or her own power. It teaches you where it is and shows the way. The course teaches you how to be a hunter, a warrior and work with the tools that have been given to you already but that you are afraid to use (because everybody told you not to). Why did they say that? Because, if you learn to use your God given tools they will no longer be able to control you with fear.

When we truly take back our power, no person can have power over us again.

When we truly take back our power, we become responsible for everything that happens to us. We can make wonderful things happen in our lives. We are no longer under the influence of other people’s poor plans for our lives.

Who knows you better than you? Why do you let others decide what is best for you? Only you know what is best for you. Step up and make your choices, take responsibility for your choices and watch those fear based controllers run for the hills. Those who were controlling you will leave. Why should they stay if they can't touch you anymore! Believe me it a very freeing feeling and all it take is a choice, a different way of living.

Traditional Shamanism teaches you to reclaim your power; that you are strong and yes, you do create your own reality. Traditional Shamanism also expects you to accept responsibility for yourself and for your actions and consequences. But that is not as bad as sitting back saying, "Well, they made me do this." What is that??! It is wonderful to be in charge of your own life! It is great to know that whatever you want in life is yours with the proper knowledge, the sincere intent and the correct emotional control. Traditional Shamanism gives you the skills. It is a great thing!

Should you fear studying Traditional Shamanism? Fear is a choice you can make. The other choice is freedom. Let someone control you, fear; or take control of yourself, freedom. My course in Traditional Shamanism will teach you how to take control of yourself and experience the freedom to have anything you really want out of life.

To become a student of Traditional Shamanism with Shaman Elder Maggie just go to http://www.shamanelder.com and begin today!

To get a copy of Shaman Elder Maggie’s new book The Shaman Speaks go here http://www.shamanspeaks.com

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Day 64 The Four Enemies of a Shaman Part Two: Clarity

2. Clarity:

 How many times have you heard someone say, “O yes I know that!” This very attitude keeps that person from ever learning anything new, from ever getting a new perspective or changing an idea or an old worn out belief. I have had people tell me that I needed a microwave to make tea! Do you see how we put ourselves into a terrible prison by thinking we are clear on something? The truth is we have not yet perceived much more than 10 % of all that is. How can we ever say we have clarity on anything? And isn’t the fun of this life experience in the exploration itself? Assuming we have clarity cuts off our very creativity, our ingenuity, our problem solving skills or innovative ideas. It also makes us burdens on those around us as we try to force others to see things only as we see them. It violates the free will choice of others to impose our supposed clarity on others. So to battle this enemy we need to have an attitude of humility, “Ok I don’t know everything. In fact, I don’t really know much about anything”. We need to have the intent to honor, to honor the Self and to honor others and not put ourselves higher or grander or more important than anything else, even a rock.

So we overcome clarity with an attitude of humility and an intent to honor Self and others.

Aho ( I speak my truth)

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Day 57 Betrayal

In every person’s life as a child, there comes  a day when we discover that our parents lied to us. It is usually not a very big lie, but these parents who we trusted completely and believed every single thing they said and did and we even attempted to imitate them thinking that they knew what they were doing and were experts on how to live life in the best possible way, we catch them in a lie. It might be simply that there is no Santa Claus, it might be that we see them doing some act of selfishness at our expense. It might be one of those do as I say not as I do events. It might be overhearing our parents talking trash about us in the heat of an argument saying things they don’t really mean. But in every child’s life there comes a moment when that child realizes that her parents have lied to her. And this feels like the ultimate betrayal. It is usually the first time we are betrayed by anyone we truly loved. 

So it depends on how that child handles that betrayal that can color their whole life experience. Most of us suddenly realize that our parents are not gods. We may realize that our parents are struggling and suffering and not having a very good time here after all. We may realize that our parents do not know everything after all and so we change how we see them and they become human beings instead of gods and we learn to rely on our own selves from that point on. This is that moment in a young teen’s life when she stops confiding in her parents, when she starts making her own decisions, when she would rather choose for herself than rely on her now human parents to make choices for her anymore. This is normal and healthy. 

But there are some kids who are so traumatized by the idea that their parents would actually lie to them,  that they never got over it. They feel such a sense of betrayal that they cannot forgive their parents for being human. It becomes blown out of proportion in the child’s mind and there is no one around to seek counseling from, to explain this betrayal is just a human being- being human. 

And, instead of going through what most of us go through and learning at this time of childhood that it is better to make our own way than to rely on other humans to do it for us, this person has not recovered from this natural point in every child’s life when they catch the ones they trust doing untrustworthy things. She did not reach that decision to create her own life the best she could and instead just rejected her parents as defective and she is still thinking that there are gods in the world who can run her life for her and not betray her. So time and time again she trusts in someone and makes them the parent god for her life and tine and time again they betray her. It is a broken record. 

What she needs to do is take responsibility for her own life, just like that teenage girl who decided it is better to make her own decisions for her own life, no matter how bad or mistaken they may be, rather than to let any other human being run her life for her. We learn by experience how to make better and better choices as we go along. But this person has not even picked up the baton and tried to make her own choices. She has spent her life looking for someone else to make her choices for her. I would encourage her to stand in her power now and begin to create her own life for herself rather than looking for another parent figure god. There are no gods in this world. There is no one else here who would know how to live her life in the best way. Only she can determine that and create that for herself.

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Day 56 Choosing Your Beliefs

You are accountable ultimately for your beliefs so it is important to know what you believe and why. And if you have some belief that doesn't work for you, that may have been given to you by someone else, especially childhood beliefs, this course is a good time to get rid of what doesn't work and get something that makes you feel whole, that is yours, that you do really believe in. This is the process of becoming an authentic person. This is what I offer you in this course at www.shamanelder.com.  A Shaman is authentic with him or herself first and foremost. In 50 years of examining my belief system, believe me, I know where my human frailties lie, I know my strengths and weaknesses, I know which beliefs are authentic to me and which ones are still held over from other people's belief systems that I still have to come to grips with. It is a process. And I accept myself as fully human, fully alive. I love life! I love being human! I have found the joy and happiness, the peace by creating a more authentic life for myself by examining my belief system and making it my own!

But with each belief you examine, whether you choose to keep it or replace it with something that does work for you, you will feel this coming home to yourself, this growing in your own self, this sense of freedom to be who you really are.

Its up to you!

Aho

Shaman Elder Maggie

To learn more visit www.shamanelder.com

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Day 56 Choosing Your Beliefs

You are accountable ultimately for your beliefs so it is important to know what you believe and why. And if you have some belief that doesn't work for you, that may have been given to you by someone else, especially childhood beliefs, this course is a good time to get rid of what doesn't work and get something that makes you feel whole, that is yours, that you do really believe in. This is the process of becoming an authentic person. This is what I offer you in this course at www.shamanelder.com.  A Shaman is authentic with him or herself first and foremost. In 50 years of examining my belief system, believe me, I know where my human frailties lie, I know my strengths and weaknesses, I know which beliefs are authentic to me and which ones are still held over from other people's belief systems that I still have to come to grips with. It is a process. And I accept myself as fully human, fully alive. I love life! I love being human! I have found the joy and happiness, the peace by creating a more authentic life for myself by examining my belief system and making it my own!

But with each belief you examine, whether you choose to keep it or replace it with something that does work for you, you will feel this coming home to yourself, this growing in your own self, this sense of freedom to be who you really are.

Its up to you!

Aho

Shaman Elder Maggie

To learn more visit www.shamanelder.com

To read Shaman Maggie’s new book visit www.shamanspeaks.com

Day 55 Sleuthing Out Your Beliefs

It is those beliefs that we are not consciously aware of that create suffering in our lives. We do things because we believe things and we are not even aware that we are believing those things. So those are the beliefs I want you to become aware of so that you can choose whether you wish to have them in your life or not. They are mostly the ones we believe unconsciously, we were trained to believe, we live them without really paying any attention to them. And the way to find them is to observe your thoughts words and actions and ask yourself repeatedly, now why did I choose to do that? Why did I choose to say that? Why did I choose to think that? Find that underlying belief that made you make that choice and write it down and share it with me.  We can work to find good benefitting beliefs for you for FREE. shaman@shamanelder.com

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Aho ( Yaqui language for “ I speak my truth”)

Shaman Elder Maggie

Day 50 My After Death Experience

I was pronounced dead on a Sunday night in a little country hospital that could not do what was needed to save me. When I died  I was suddenly aware of everything that I had done in this world. Every person I had interacted with, what I said, what they said to me and more importantly the reason why things were the way they were. I saw the reason for my mother being angry at me when I was six and didn't understand her. I saw the reason why I had become what I had become and why things had happened to me that at the time made no sense at all. It was not heaven or hell. It was instant knowing. It was the big AAAHHH! Now I understand! I also saw all those people whom I had hurt by my own misunderstanding or impatience. Not as a judgment upon me but just to show me where I went wrong and why.

I teach this now to hospice patients. And I teach them that if they have an issue that is not settled, that they should put it to rest. So many things happen to us that we do not really understand at the time. it is better to let go of those things. You will understand them someday.

I think this is a good thing to know. That when people pass on they become enlightened as to the events of their life and their affect on your life. It is a good thing for those who have led good lives. It is yucky for those who have led bad lives.

And you can live your life knowing that someday you will see exactly what went on and you will be responsible for everything you say to others and feel good about all the times you helped someone or brightened someone's day or made a difference or did your best.  What do you think? Leave a comment!

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Aho means I speak my truth
Shaman Elder Maggie

Day 42 How Do I Know I am Seeing the Truth

A student asks: You have taught us about knowing ourselves fully in order to move forward and become fulfilled.  How do we actually know that what we perceive is what we really are?  I know that many people, myself included, have, on occasion, deluded my thinking of who I was.  Can we actually ever be sure that what we are taking to be us is not a layered effect of what others and sometimes we want ourselves to be?

Reply:  If you are correct, you have confirmation from more than just one source. Yes we can delude ourselves anytime we want, but there will nothing outside ourselves backing up our delusion. When we are true to ourselves and being who we truly are, there are many sources of confirmation from outside sources, including events in the physical world, interactions with people who are meant to confirm our truth for us, our path is bright and we are able to walk it easily, spirit guides and teachers come to us and we are able to receive their wisdom fully and easily. When we are fooling ourselves we get none of this.

I work with many people counseling them and this is a fact. It is those people who are deluding themselves who will tell you they cannot find their guides, that no one is teaching them, that they cannot connect to Source. These are deluded thoughts.

Let me show you how to connect with your guides, how you have teachers with you at all times and that Source is constantly trying to give you abundance beyond measure if you would only allow it.

Take the correspondence course that I offer at www.shamanelder.com

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