Day 102 - From a Student of Shaman Elder Maggie to you

i have been a student of shaman elder maggie's now for over 2 years.  i would say that what i've learned is that however my practice is going, as long as i'm doing my best and emailing shaman maggie the answers to her questions and everything i'm going through, plus practicing the lessons throughout my day, i have been in the right place at the right time.  i have thought i was 'falling behind' or 'not getting it' in the past and i still do that sometimes still to this day, but i remember again and again that she has told me that this is not a school course where you will 'get it' and 'get the grade' and i remember that when i feel i am doing the same thing again and again, sometimes without what i think is 'success', but guess what? i find out later that it was teaching me a lesson that i wanted to learn that will help me walk this path. 
just the other day, shaman elder maggie told me to review lesson 1 of the 101 course again! lol... why?  because i asked a silly question that i should certainly by now have known the answer to.. you know what i did? i joyfully read the lesson again and laughed at myself and found joy in reading it again with new eyes!  i've learned to surrender and trust in her guidance and the teachings and release control about how i think it 'should go' or what 'moving forward is' vs. 'moving backward'... if i think about my practice walking this path with shaman maggie and how i've felt most of the time... i would say i've mostly felt like i'm moving backwards and that's how i've learned so much about myself and healed myself and supported others too... by going backwards ALOT!  i don't know if this helps reassure you at all, but it will at least let you know  you are not alone. 
one more thing, the way i explain my practice walking this path with shaman elder maggie is like the karate kid in the movie where he wants to learn karate so mr.miyagi tells him to wax the car, then he waxes the car and thinks he'll get to learn karate next, but then mr.miyagi says sand the floor, and he sands the floor and can't wait until he's done so he can learn karate, then mr.miyagi says paint the fence, and he's a little frustrated and mad at first because he doesn't want to wax cars, or sand the floor or paint the fence, he wants to learn karate already!!... but what happens?  in the end, he realized he was learning karate all along... this is my experience of walking the path of shamanism learning how to practice in the way that shaman elder maggie's grandmother taught her... sometimes it feels like you 'just want to get on to the next lesson and learn shamanism'... but when you look back on everything you've done, practiced, learned, tried, and failed, you have a shamanic experience that you can bring into your life... and that is the best I can say to myself, you and others walking this path... and that's also how i share with people i my life who don't understand what i'm doing and why I email and talk about shaman elder maggie so much... i share with them the story about the karate kid and i say... i am the karate kid and shaman elder maggie is like mr.miyagi and they usually get it and i do too... at least for a moment. - Kristine Castro

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Day 101 From a Student

A Student Writes: "I am so honored beyond belief as to who you are for me, my family and everything and I am clear that I cannot even imagine all the miracles you are causing.  I see them every day.  My husband is so thankful for you in our life too.  He had a great conversation with his younger son yesterday and were clear it was you who helped with that.  Thank YOU.  Things are getting better all around, both of them seem happy and healthy and taking care of themselves and responsible and they both seem clear.  Thank YOU.  Again, youre making me cry.  My only issue today was that I noticed my brain trying to figure out how to repay you my husband says not to do that and just receive.  He is very wise. its receiving of your love and Creators love for me that makes me cry tears of gratitude, freedom and joy". - Kristine Castro

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Day 100 Learning

"It does not matter if you have not yet started to learn something. When you have started, however, you must not stop until you really know it. It does not matter if you have not yet asked questions, but when you begin, you must not stop until the questions have been answered. It does not matter if you have not yet started to think carefully, but when you do, stop only when you have reached a conclusion. It does not matter if you have not yet started to discern something, but when you have, you must not stop until you are clear. It does not matter if you have not yet started to practice something, but when you do, you must diligently put it into practice."

This is my last day of my commitment to post a teaching each day for 100 days. If I can keep this commitment I can keep any commitment. I have proven my trustworthiness and my abilities to you. Now you can learn the 20 tools and skills that I can and will teach you in my course at www.shamanelder.com to make your life all that it CAN BE! Nothing is stopping you but your own fear of change. But without change how can things get even better?

Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls is a practicing traditional Shaman with a 400 year lineage in Shamanic healing. She has been counseling people all over the world for 35 years and offers her counseling for free. She is a Reiki Master Teacher, a minister, a teacher and is dedicated to helping people find their own freedom, health and power. To learn more about her Shaman Apprenticeship 101 Online course visit www.shamanelder.com Email her at shaman@shamanelder.com

Aho!

Shaman Elder Maggie

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Day 99: Your Healing

You have no idea of the healing that is being conducted through me by God to you and your family. You have no full concept that I have come to this world to this lifetime to bring miracles into the world for you and your family right now as I was trained all my life to do. You have no concept that I deliberately intended to bring God’s miracles to you at this time in the universe of all the eons of time that I could choose to be here. I will continue to do so. For you – because I love you. Just ask me.
Aho
Shaman Elder Maggie

Day 98 What Is Enlightenment

“When it's the middle of the night,

and the wind is screaming through the rigging at 45 knots,

and the boat is heeled thirty degrees,

and the seas are running high against you,

and water is breaking on deck...,

and you're all alone...,

 and there is white water and black death on the lee shore

and everything is confusion,

 and noise,

and icy fear that

approaches absolute terror

and you feel that the possibility of death is no longer remote,

but very real...,

Then, you had best know what you are doing.

Hope, will not take you off of that lee shore.”

Spiritual Enlightenment is

the ultimate goal of every spiritual practice and of the path of Shamanism.

The Yaqui Shamans were seeking a way to thwart the God that abused

them and that way was enlightenment.

The Egyptian Shaman was seeking immortality and the way to

immortality was enlightenment.

 Every culture, philosophy and religion has pronounced this awakened state of ultimate consciousness with Presence by some name.

Enlightenment

by definition

 is “shifting our center of personal identity from conditioned

mind to unveiled soul.”

How can you know if

You are enlightened?

 If you have to ask, you are not enlightened.

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Day 97 An Exercise for You to Try

How are you doing today? Ready for a shamanic visualization exercise?

Try this little exercise
 and then write your answers to the questions in your email reply to shaman@shamanelder.com

 Diagnosis One. Above and Below

 First: Sit down. Find room enough to draw a circle around yourself out
 the length of your arms. So you are probably sitting on the ground.

2. Take a deep breath. Take several. Calm yourself and balance yourself.

 3. Think of one color. Quick! Put that color inside your circle. What
 color is it?

4. Think of one bird that most represents you. The bird you most like or
 identify with. Imagine that bird flying around your head in this circle.
 What bird is it?

 5. Imagine one animal you have always identified with. Imagine him
 standing beside you. What animal is it?

 6. Imagine one plant that you have always liked. See a whole field of
 this plant growing all around you. You are sitting in a field of your
 favorite flowers. What flowers are these?

 How do you feel right now? Breathe. Just take this in and breathe.
 Center yourself.

 OK now look again at the bird flying around over your head. Invite this bird into your heart. Does it come in easily or does it hesitate? Is it happy
 or sad? What emotion does the bird have?

 Now look at the animal standing beside you. Invite this animal into your heart. Does it come in with joy, anger, does it hesitate, does it refuse?What emotion does it have?
 Is it happy or sad or angry? Does it say anything to you?

 Now look at the field of flowers. Are they well and growing great? Just
 budding? Withering? How do they feel emotionally?  Look at their roots?
 Are they long and strong or weak?

Now lie back in the field of flowers. Actually lie down for this moment
 on  the place you have been sitting. Just stretch out for a moment and
 visualize that field of flowers all around you. No matter whether they
 look good or bad, thriving or wilting. Just be with them for a minute.
 How do they make you feel?

 When you are ready this exercise is done. Please send me your answers to shaman@shamanelder.com.

We have more exercises like this in the Shaman Apprenticeship 101 course. If you are not already a student you can sign up today by going to www.shamanelder.com You will have your first lesson within 48 hours!

Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls is a practicing traditional Shaman with a 400 year lineage in Shamanic healing. She has been counseling people all over the world for 35 years and offers her counseling for free. She is a Reiki Master Teacher, a minister, a teacher and is dedicated to helping people find their own freedom, health and power. To learn more about her Shaman Apprenticeship 101 Online course visit www.shamanelder.com Email her at shaman@shamanelder.com

Aho!

Shaman Elder Maggie

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Day 96 The End of The World

I hate to tell you but the end of the world will never get here. It never has. One thing that never changes is the change inherent in every created thing., no matter whether it is good change or bad change, and that is just based on somebody p[perspective anyway. Since change is a constant in this reality, the every moment is a beginning and an ending. Everything travels on a  circle. Where do you measure the start of a circle?

We just keep going on this linear circle we have named time. It never begins and it never ends and we never begin and we never end. That’s right. We are eternal spiritual begins just having  a short physical life experience here in this body, this temporary vehicle. But did you think you went somewhere else when this body wears out and quits? This life experience is only one of many states of being. When you leave your body you are experiencing another state of being. We are eternally experiencing an unknown number of states of being.

So where are we going? We are not going anywhere at all. Its like being shot off into space in a space capsule. Once launched , there is no way  out. So you have a choice here. You can sit there and worry and feel bad or you can enjoy the adventure. I recommend the Shaman’s Way – enjoy this moment now!

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