I know it’s been a long time since I last sent anything out but it seems life has been rather intense for me lately. It all ends up good in the end though the journey to the happy ending isn’t always so happy. This got me thinking about life and why it seems, for some, to be so difficult and even painful.
One thing I’ve learned from Buddhism is something called suffering. In Buddhism we learn that attachment creates suffering and if we were to learn detachment we would be free from suffering. The attachment that is mentioned here has to do with being emotionally attached to something and the resistance to letting go usually has to do with a fear of loss. If you are really attached to your car then you will experience suffering because of your fear of loss of the car. The reason people are in competition with each other is because they fear losing.
I recently had to put my cat to sleep which caused me to grieve immensely. This cat had been with me for 14 years and she would have been 18 years old in November. She was an amazing cat and Skip and I still miss her very much.
Swartzer, the cat I had to put to sleep, was always so vibrant and youthful well into her old age. She had struggled with some health issues but it looked like she was making a strong come-back. Then one day she went down hill very fast. All night long she was writhing in pain. First thing in the morning I called the vet for the earliest time I could bring her in to be put to sleep. I knew she wasn’t going to recover this time. She was too far gone.
My problem is not with death but with the pain and struggle which usually leads up to death and that got me thinking. The shamans and yoga masters of old knew when it was time to leave the land of the living. They would prepare their disciples or followers and then just lie down and go. No suffering, no writhing in pain. So why did my cat have to suffer? Why did such a lovely being have to go through so much pain before leaving this world?
From what I understand about our pets is that they do their best to take on as much of our suffering as possible to help us. Much of their suffering is because of us and what we intentionally or unintentionally put on them. They seek to comfort and even heal us when we need it. Their little bodies can’t always handle the stress we put on ourselves and they end up developing diseases as a result.
So what’s the purpose for all this suffering? Why do we do this to ourselves? I believe the answer lies in how we view the world and the beliefs we have about ourselves. It is true you can walk on water but you really don’t believe it in such a way that allows you to actually walk on water.
So what’s the answer? I don’t know if there is one answer for it all but I know of one possible answer. I have a friend who has connected me with some very unusual people. They all seem to have an ability to remove energy blocks allowing more of your true self to be accessed by you. I would consider these people to be very much like shamans because the removal of energy blocks allows fragments of your soul to return to you allowing you to heal much like the shamans do with soul retrieval.
I was listening to Burt Goldman being interviewed on the Coast to Coast radio program and someone asked if a person could heal themselves. Burt responded and said that it was very difficult for a person to heal his or herself because there needs to be a giver and a receiver. I know of people who have been able to heal themselves after making changes in their lifestyle so this isn’t true for everyone. But the idea of having a giver and a receiver is key. You must be in a receptive place to receive the healing, this is true. I have heard of many stories of people using visualization to heal tumors and other ailments. There was no one giving them energy per se but they were creating health within their own bodies through the power of the mind.
I recently heard Jack Canfield talk about a man who was a doctor and had severe back pain. This doctor’s parents were doctors, his siblings were doctors, but what he didn’t realize was he himself didn’t really want to be a doctor. He really wanted to be an auto mechanic. So after discovering this in one of Jack’s workshops, this doctor quit his job and opened up a mechanic shop. He even started working on Formula One cars and making a really good living. Once this doctor quit his job and started doing what he really wanted to do, the back pain went away and it never returned.
Sometimes a person can figure out where they went off course and are able to make changes while the rest of us need some one to guide us. A shaman’s job is to do just that. To figure out what is wrong in your life and how you can correct it. The shaman can even go so far as to change your energy for you to help you make the changes in your life a little easier. But you’d better make those changes or else everything the shaman did for you will become undone.
A word of caution when working with these shamanic type energy manipulators. I have heard horror stories of how these energy manipulators have made their client’s lives worse. It’s important to know who you are working with to be sure they are the right shaman for you. Also, just because it worked for someone else, doesn’t mean it will work for you. There doesn’t seem to be a “one size fits all” when it comes to healing. You can use a pendulum or some other divination tool to rate how affective one energy worker is versus another.
I also want to caution you on anyone saying their energy block removal service is a one time permanent removal technique. Most of the time it is not that simple. For many people it will require working with the shaman more than once to finally get free from whatever blocks are in the way before it becomes permanent. It’ a lot like learning to dance. You can’t expect to be an expert dancer after just one class.
Many would say that you can’t have someone else clear your energy blocks because that is for you to do for yourself. You have lessons to learn and if someone else removes those blocks then you won’t learn the lesson. However, I am of the mindset that a person may not have the energy needed to heal themselves or see the problem and needs someone else to help. When you have an infusion of new energy from the removal of energy blocks, then you have the energy to see and learn the lesson.
You are responsible to do what you can and must do on your end. Part of that responsibility is seeking help when you are over your head. We are all in this together and we must learn to work together as part of our spiritual evolution.
Blessings,
Dawn Michele
auroramagick@gmail.com
319-213-4100
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Dawn Michele Ziemer is a Certified Spiritual Life Coach, Witchcraft Teacher, Yoga and Meditation Instructor, Karuna and Usui Reiki Master/Teacher and Clairvoyant living in Delhi, IA. To learn more about Dawn and to join her newsletter go to www.aurora-dawn.com.
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Tags: Journey, Letting Go, Resistance, Shamans, Struggle, Suffering In Buddhism, Yoga Masters