For around 5 years now, I have been inspired by the following from “Urban Shaman”: “The shaman was trained to be flexible, to be comfortable with change and to direct it in a positive way, to be free to explore new ways and means of doing things, and to constantly update, and expand his or her knowledge by travel and study with other teachers”.

A priest from Don Bosco, Manila has declared shamanism as New Age; This means it is forbidden territory for obedient Catholics. But It is from my book “Urban Shaman” that I acquired the best appreciation for the Passion and my salvation.
Now that I am no longer active in the academe, I enjoy being a teacher of life. “As teacher, shamans were trained to demonstrate and share their knowledge, helping people to discover their own power to change their lives”.

In my own life I draw inspiration from the likes of Martha Beck, Gill Edwards, Dr. Christine Page, Sylvia Boorstein etc. From Facebook, I get daily inspiration from the likes of Dooley, Dyer, Neale Walsch, Esther  and Abraham Hicks etc.
I manage my thoughts because I believe I am responsible for however my life turns out to be. According to “Urban Shaman: “Confident authority is the key to conscious creations, whether used with words, visualization or feelings.”

According to “Infinite Possibilities” by Dooley: “…because not everything you think can instantly spring into time and space, only those thoughts that are aligned with your beliefs and are felt intensely to the degree that they automatically throw you into action can appear.” This I hope can help those disappointed with “The Secret” I have been protesting against “The Secret”. It does not happen automatically!

Furthermore: “The belief of yours that are the strongest will ultimately muster up, the most powerful thoughts, you think, determine the words you speak and eventually manifest the life you lead.”

“By mistrusting God’s heart by reaching to take control of what they wanted, Adam and Eve initiated a process in our hearts, a desperate grasping that can only be described as addiction”
“Desire goes mad within us”

In my case it can be as petty as a problem with a feature of Facebook. For quite some time now, I have been replying to the messages of our daughter sent via Facebook. Weeks ago, I would get text messages from our daughter complaining about not hearing from me.

Out of the blue, I got a message from Yahoo that my messages needed an email address. Only then did I realize that I had been replying to the notifications of Yahoo and not replying to Facebook messages. But why only then?

At that point I needed “Urban Shaman’s” : “Understanding isn’t necessary to bring about positive change but a lot of people feel better if they have an explanation first .”
“Some people” Like me, logical by template “insist on knowing why things are the way they are before they will give themselves permission to change.”

But I have learned from Dr Cherie Carter Scott: “…we each will be presented with lessons that are custom-designed for us and designed to teach us what we need to learn next.”

So I will change if only not to be banished from the Garden of Eden. I want to be wiser than Adam and Eve.

I want to end this with a positive note from M. Tamura : “It is not God who kicks us out og His grace, it is we who drop out of the oneness, abundance, and flow of life when we resist anything. “

I have learned a lot from my half-blind acupuncturist, Pong Neri. Take for example my unhealthy reaction to the three-week long drilling and hammering in the unit below our condo. It has taxed my patience. My acupuncturist pointed out that I may have depleted the energy of my thyroid gland as well as my liver, also my kidneys.

According to Barbara Eden in her ” Energy Medicine”, in Japan “it is recognized that blind people often develop an enhanced attunement for energy. They are encouraged to study acupuncture because they make some of the finest practitioner.”

My sister in the States told me I am very lucky to avail of the services of an acupuncturist at a relatively inexpensive rate. She had to stop her treatment after a year although she felt she still needed it because of the high cost and it is not included in their health insurance.

Back to my noise problem. I tried getting help from my Ho’oponopono practice. I  surrendered to divinity what  I could not fix. I tried to contain the noise with the help of my husband who asked the building engineer to impose the rules and to insist the repair job be done within working hours.

I used Esther Hick’s guidance on focusing on what I want and not on what I didn’t like. Sadly I know my thoughts more often than not focused  on my irritation over the noise.

I applied the urban shaman’s instruction not to absolve the creators of the noise: “Whatever they did come from their own beliefs, attitude and expectations and to whatever degree they made conscious choices to do harm they are subject to the laws of society.”

“It is important to realize your part in the event so that you can change the factors in yourself that helped bring it about. If the power was in you to create it, then the power is in you to change it”

According to Michael Tamura: “The school of life is one of experience and distilling what we learn from it into wisdom… what is truly important in a soul’s education  is not what we are born into – our heredity, gender, environment, religion or socioeconomic status – or what happens to us in life.”

“It is in how we choose to respond to whatever happens in our life, in whatever condition we find ourselves that we gain our immortal wisdom and everlasting freedom and reveal the true worth of our soul.”

Lately my challenges come from such mundane issues as technology. I suspect this comes from my ingrained belief
that since I am already 70 years old approaching 71 I should no longer learn new things. But sending e-mails is not a new skill for me! Yet last week I had to retype my essay because my web creator failed to get what I sent. I thought I got Yahoo’s confirmation that the mail had been sent. Then I checked. I couldn’t believe my eyes. There was no record that I had sent the essay!

Another incident. I tried as many as five times to share a video with a Facebook friend> Each time I would Get “You have to provide a recipient.” although I had typed the name. I even checked the spelling. I gave up and wondered what universal law was spooking me.

Next morning with the first attempt to send the same video I could not send the night before, was right away sent. The lesson is for me to check my thoughts. I think several of my favorite authors will tell me that challenges will be repeated till I learn the lesson.

I believe I am and will never be too old to learn.

Dr Cherie Carter Scott… believes that we will be presented with lessons that are custom-designed for us and designed to teach us what we need to learn next.