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Creating Bridges: Spirituality & Philosophy:
Lynn Andrews and The Path of the Heart
Power Deck Card
of the Month: “Essence”
from the Power Deck, Cards of Wisdom)
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by Lynn Andrews |
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Power Deck Card
Life is like school. We move through it learning many things, cloaking ourselves in environmental knowledge. You are on the warrior’s path toward enlightenment. You must one day peel away accumulated knowledge like layers of an onion and move back into the source of your power. When contemplating a Zen garden, you find that the source of your power is the essence of the Great Spirit. We come onto this earthwalk like a giant piece of smashed mirror, every one of us reflecting the light of our god. The experience of life is a process of piecing together these scrambled fragments into one great mandala, reflecting the source of all being. Like the center of a cyclone, we sit at the one point of stillness, the pandemonium of life circulating madly around us. Choose equilibrium, not frenzy. Live life from your center. The essence of you and the essence of the primal moving force of the universe are one..
Message from Lynn:
Dear Friends,
One of my teachers, Shakkai, once told me, “Lynn, the source of power is like the wind itself. It can move mountains and change the surface of the oceans, but it is unseen. You cannot prove it, but you can feel it.”
The wind has always been my ally. Whenever I feel change coming in my life, I sit outside and listen to the wind. Oftentimes, the wind blows mightily as weather patterns shift, and then it stills itself as the temperatures rise. Yet we can feel the currents of air moving around us gently and subtly, making their presence known. I especially like to listen to the wind as it moves through bamboo trees. Bamboo is hollow and I can hear the wind moving in and around the trunks. It reminds me of how energy moves inside of us and is also manifested outside of us.
As I was doing a walking meditation a few days ago, I stopped on a hilltop to feel the wind moving through me and around me. I was thinking about our essence, our true nature as individuals and one of the great teachers within each of us. I realized that often essence is best understood through our physical existence and our connection with nature, as this strengthens us. When I listen to the winds, I hear the silence within my own soul, and then I can hear the teacher that lives within me. If I listen to it, this inner teacher will guide me through whatever change is on my horizon. You, also, have a great teacher within you, waiting for you to listen.
Agnes once said to me, “There is no more fierce warrior than a woman who has learned to change the wind. For if she can change the wind, she has learned to change the direction of her own thoughts, or to still them altogether. This is a quiet, contemplative thing. The circumstances in her life lead her toward her own inward power. The alchemy of moving energy from outer to inner is the alchemy of enlightenment.”
Agnes Whistling Elk and I spoke often about the teachings of the wind, about my emotions and their kinship with the wind. She said, “All emotions have a kinship with the wind. You must let these emotions go through you and travel on their way. Otherwise, you magnetize bad energy, which is what you do by clutching your unresolved sadness.”
Stand now, within your imagination and imagine you are on a rocky knoll overlooking the deep blue of the Pacific Ocean. If you can, go outside and find a hilltop or knoll near you where you can stand in the silence, and do this exercise.
As you look out on the vast Ocean, you smell the salt from the sea on the air. The wind blows the scent of orchids over you. Allow the wind to catch your emotions.
What are you feeling at the moment that the wind catches your emotions? How do you experience these emotions in this moment? Are they benevolent and calm? Or do they carry you away, like the tornado carried away Dorothy’s house in the Wizard of Oz?
How do you see yourself in your true nature, in your essence? Is it often like being in the eye of a storm?
Now allow the wind to blow through you and carry your emotions away, all of them. What colors are your emotions as the wind frees them from you? Let the wind show you the colors of your finest emotions, your joy, your creativity, and whatever makes you happy.
Now, shift your focus and notice the wind. Has it changed after giving flight to your emotions, become more playful, perhaps? What does your wind ally tell you, has it shifted so that it is now blowing from a different direction?
You can learn to change your experience of the wind as you shift your emotions and your perceptions.
I encourage you to move into your deepest center throughout this month of August. Allow yourself to open to the beauty of the flowers, the trees, the bushes, all of the growing things in your area. Open to the beauty of the heat, the rainstorms, even the stillness that appears in the hottest part of the day when you can see the mirage of waves wafting up from the hot pavement.
Cool your emotions if they, too, are heated. Explore your dreams and your life stories and see how they weave in and out of the beauty of nature around you.
What comes up for you when you think of the wind? What does it do to your emotions? Your thoughts? Are you filled with scattered ‘winds’? Is it because you are trying to do too many things at one time, or are your mind and emotions racing? Focus on feeling your energy moving out from you in gentle spirals. This is a fabulous way to stay centered during your rounds of daily tasks.
Remember your true essence, which is Spirit. Believe in the Great Spirit. Believe in the integrity of your own soul. Remember that winds change the surface of the earth, just as spirit can change the surface of your mind and bring your emotions into balance. Listen to the wind, what is she teaching you today?
In love and spirit,
Lynn Andrews
Prayer
Great Spirit, let the guardians of our dreams stand as sentinels around our beings as we move into the silence, as we move into that place of stillness and quietude where spirit dwells.
Listen to the winds as they come out of the four directions. Name the winds that are your allies.
Listen to the birds and the language of nature and the breath of summer. You are each the reflections of the Great Spirit. The Great Spirit blesses you and comes when you are most silent.
Let your silence be like a prayer in the night, soft and quiet, full of integrity. Let your bliss move up through your body from Mother Earth, up into your heart, opening your heart chakra, making you vulnerable to something new and radiant that wishes to become a part of you.
The first lesson of power is that we are alone. The last lesson of power is that we are all one.
Great Spirit, there is an enormous chasm between those two statements. Most of us spend lifetimes bridging that gap.
Silence of the mind, silence within the spirit, is a great bridge for the movement between body and spirit and aloneness, between loneliness and aloneness.
Great Spirit, let us feel your hand on our backs. May the wind caress us as the breath of your spirit as we move into the sacred silence, so that we can hear your words. Thank you, Mother Earth. Thank you, Great Spirit. Thank you, my ancestors, the four-leggeds and the winged ones, and all the sacred beings that surround me. Thank you, winds. Thank you for being with us now. HO!
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Lynn Andrews,
Shaman, Author & Lecturer
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Internationally acclaimed author, preeminent teacher and 21st century shaman, Lynn Andrews has written 18 books and created The Power Deck, audio meditations, and videos.
Lynn Andrews offers a variety of opportunities to work with her at her annual events and through online courses She also offers a degree program and a 4-year mystery school. CE credit is available for nurses and therapists. Lynn is available for private phone sessions.
For information about Lynn Andrews' Mystery School, events including Joshua Tree and Hawaii, Online Courses, or to schedule a phone call with Lynn please call:
1-800-554-7414 (US),
or 1-213-683-3804 (international),
or visit Lynn's website at http://www.lynnandrews.
com/.
Upcoming opportunities to study with Lynn Andrews:
Dream with Lynn in her 2007 series of online courses, “Dreaming the Tapestry of Your Life.” The 3rd course in this series is August 2-29, 2007.
Attend three powerful and enlightening workshops by Lynn at the “Celebrate Your Life Conference” in Scottsdale, AZ, from November 9-11, 2007.
Join Lynn at her 9th annual Hawaii Retreat for Rest, Rejuvenation and Renewal at Mauna Lani Bay, “Free Your Dreams,” from November 28 – December 1, 2007. Come dream with Lynn, swim with the dolphins, and learn from the lost Spirits of Mu, who shared their knowledge and ancient wisdom with the Sisterhood of the Shields.
Mystical Earth Walk with Lynn Andrews in Egypt: “Egypt Revealed Through Shamanic Dreaming,” March 30 – April 13, 2008.
Set your intent now and join Lynn’s 4-year “Mystery School,” the Lynn Andrews Center for Sacred Arts and Training, beginning February 2008,
Please come to Lynn’s website at www.lynnandrews.com to learn more about these and more special opportunities to study and work with Lynn. Who knows when you will come back to this earth plane and have these opportunities again?
Opportunities:
20th anniversary celebration of the Lynn Andrews Joshua Tree Spring Gathering – Joshua Tree on the Mesa: Shapeshifting Into Power, May 29-June 1, 2008 at Ghost Ranch in Abiqui, New Mexico. Please go to www.lynnandrews.com and click on the “Joshua Tree” link to learn more, register, and discover the benefits and rewards of becoming a volunteer. Enter the Joshua Tree essay contest to receive free tuition for this event.
“Crystal Dreaming,” an Online Course with Lynn Andrews, May 1 – May 28, 2008: Learn how to use crystal wisdom to let go of what does not serve you, instead of simply paying it lip service, as you heal your relationship with the past. Course #2 in the 2008 series of Online Dreaming Courses, “Daydreaming Bear, The Way of the Dream Talker.” Please go to www.lynnandrews.com and click on “Online Courses” for more information and to register. You do not have to have taken the 1st course in this series to participate fully in this course.
To schedule a private telephone session with Lynn Andrews, please go to www.lynnandrews.com, and click on “Opportunities/Schedule a Phone Session.”
Kindred Spirit Radio Show, with host Lynn Andrews. Tuesday, 4/22, 9-10 a.m. PDST. Listen at www.HealthyLife.net.
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