A New Beginning

I have always had what I call a very "plastic" brain; by that I mean a mind that slips easily between paradigms of thinking. I begin to see through the filter of those other ways very quickly without losing my ability to relate to my prior position. I think this natural flexibility of belief this is the true definition of what Shamans call "walking in different worlds" and is what caused me to gravitate towards the study of shamanism in the first place.
I still call myself a Shaman, because I see the term as the closest definition to what I have become, but recently, a series of personal changes (and choices) has left me at a bit of a loss in terms of a defining paradigm. Contrary to what you might think, and indeed contrary to how I would have thought about it before, I'm finding that it's just fine with me! I do not mourn the end of an "identity", I celebrate the integration of my many facets into a more complete and effective Human Being.
I'm still writing stories, with plans to publish them in E-book form in the near future, but you will find other information here too. I believe that those who need to find this information will find it. I hope that something about my own personal journey speaks to you, and helps you to unravel some of the mystery of your own Life.
Thank you for reading!
-Grace

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Saturday, May 24, 2014

What?!?! And give up Show Business????





All people act in perfect accordance to their perceived reality, however, the reality perceived by two different people is rarely identical.
If the changes we make in our lives address only the surface symptoms instead of the causation of the pain, those symptoms will reappear.
For example, the issues that caused us to leave one situation (ending a relationship, switching jobs, etc.) will simply resurface in the new circumstances.

It is the addressing of issues by making surface changes, along with the existence of a conflicted state (A state judged as negative by the person experiencing it), that people label as "Drama". But, in using this term, we are invalidating someone else's personal experience.

 Individuals are not always acting out just to attract attention.  There is always something at the root of the behavior, and invalidating their feelings actually indicates that there is a blocked emotion within ourselves.

But this isn't really about "them"
Why?

Because by feeling that we have to somehow act against another for their actions, or by assigning a validity to the person via judgment, we see that we have our own resistance to the issue-and,what we resist persists on an energetic/vibrational level, because the Universe will responds to the *attention* (negative and positive) to the "thing".
To paraphrase the teachings of Abraham-Hicks;

" When you say yes, please, I want X; the Universe sends you X.
 And when you say I want *not* X; the Universe sends you X."

 This will attract more people into our lives who we label as "Drama Queens".

So, as always, the answer to removing the "drama" from our lives rests within ourselves and within our willingness to discover what is at the root of *our* prejudices and opinions.

Simply put, if we reject the Drama in others, it is because we have seen that tendency within our own psyche and dislike it there.

It can be said that the problem of dramatic people in our lives can be addressed by a surface measure, ie, ending communication with them, moving away. But unless the root of our own sensitivity is discovered, inspiring those surface measures from a place of Love and awareness (I accept you and choose not to give energy to that issue vs. I have to teach you a lesson and I dislike YOU -because you remind me too much of me and what I'm fighting to suppress in my own nature--so I'm cutting you off); there will always be another one.