An Excerpt from The Shaman Speaks: How to use the Power of Shamanism to Heal Your Life Now b Shaman

El!er "a##ie $ahls

Are You Losing Your Path?

Question : Every time I try to walk my path as a healer something gets in the way. Why is that and what can I do about it? Sometimes we get tested . We get asked by Spirit to make a choice. We !ind ourselves in a very uncom!ortable place that we do not like and we have to make some sort o! choice. "!ten we do not even know what the choices are# $ut I have learned that when you commit yoursel! to a certain path% every now and then along the way you will meet a path crossing yours% a detour% a sidetrack% or a u&turn. We all reach these places. I! you are not committed !ully to your path% then you will run into con!lict when you encounter these places. 'ou will start to !eel unwell% dragged down% unsure% restless% and unhappy because you are being asked to once again con!irm your commitment. 'ou may have already !ound your path as a healer. 'ou understand the power and the holiness o! this path. (nd you may have already met a crossroads where you !altered and hesitated. 'ou then rea!!irmed your path as a healer once again and continued practicing) the crossroads was over and you continued to walk stronger than be!ore#

It is only pain!ul when we hesitate% when we are not sure about what we believe. 'our own *uestioning o! your healing path caused this presentation o! a crossroads. We actually place these u&turns in !ront o! our own selves. So by believing strongly in whatever you believe and being committed to whatever you believe% you will not see too many u&turns or sidetracks in your li!e. (nd when you do see them% you will recogni+e them as sidetracks and u&turns and ,ust

ignore them% or better yet% reali+e that you are trying to !ool yoursel!. -ow do we !ool ourselves? We say we do not have time !or our healing gi!ts. We say they don.t really work. We say we can.t do it. We say we are too la+y to do it. $ut the truth is that your healing gi!ts do work% and you know it. Everyone has healing gi!ts and skills. 'ou do have time !or your healing path every day% all day long. It does not inter!ere with time !or other things. 'ou will have to ,udge yoursel! to see i! other reasons have come up and i! they are true or not. It is all about being true to yoursel!% being authentic.

/et0s look at detours along the way. Somebody taught us how to put detours into our lives. 1hey don.t have to happen but they do% !or nearly everyone. Somebody told us there would be snags in our lives. I say% 21hat.s their belie!% not mine. Somebody said into every li!e a little rain must !all. I say% 21hat.s their belie!% not mine. 3y 4reator tells me that there is neither snag nor rain% only blessings% gi!ts% abundance% love% peace and ,oy. (nything else is the belie! o! others. 5oes it take determination to be a healer? 6ery much so# It takes commitment and determination to do anything worthwhile. In !act% the 'a*ui Shamans say that a Shaman even needs to be ruthless in his or her pursuit o! the Shamanic path. $ut when you weigh your e!!orts against the blessings that will happen through your e!!orts% the determination and striving !or impeccability are a low cost !or health% ,oy and abundance.

(n old 'a*ui Indian teacher o! mine o! long ago once told me an old saying o! his people. It was that by the time you have !inally learned what your path is and how to walk it% your legs are too old to do the walking# 5o not let this happen to you. We need your healing and your light in this world yesterday# 'ou can see all the healing that needs to be done here. 'ou can see the people

su!!ering% crying out% and lost in their own pathless lives. 1oday% you can do something about that. 1oday% you can live an impeccable li!e. 'ou can do your very best in every way today% and that includes learning what you need to learn% practicing your skills and o!!ering healing to those who come your way.

1here is another truth given to me by this same teacher. -e was a great teacher# -e said that i! you do not live your truth% then you are nothing. -e taught me the meaning o! truth not only in what I say% but in what I do and in how I interact with you as a colleague% a !riend and a teacher. ( person without truth is totally worthless. 'ou cannot trust them% you cannot believe them% and you cannot depend on them to help you. (nd what do they have i! they do not have their truth? 7othing. 1hat is why I begin and end everything I say or write with the 'a*ui word% 2(ho# which means in the 'a*ui language% I speak my truth.

3y truth may be all I have to give you but it is my truth. I keep a sacred vow to mysel! to be in my truth at all times. In this% I have dignity% light and power. It is part not only o! being a Shaman% but o! being an authentic human.

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