Right Balance
AYNI means balance in qetchua.
All things in ayni, means all things in right balance. For the shamanic practitioner, it is about recognizing the flow of energy in all things whether it be the room, the freeway or the body.
Our first community to recognize and keep in right balance is our internal one. Shamanic thinking means we recognize when something is out of balance in the world around us, and know we must balance something within us. We correct ourselves within, and then witness the demonstration of that correction as the world shifts before us.
The medicine man goes into his hut to pray for rain for his village by balancing the drought he feels within himself. As he shifts himself, the weather externally changes. He accepts that he is responsible for the world's expression, in ever growing rings of responsibility. We grow from feeling responsible for our self, to our village, to our mountain, to our country, to our planet and to our galaxy.
When we understand that the world is a responding field of energy, and that it is constantly responding to our feelings, we begin to realize the depth of responsibility we each have to bring our energetic awareness of life.
Everything responds to us. The flowers, animals, butterflies. The weather patterns, the economy, people. We receive based on what we broadcast out, and we broadcast out from our feeling body. Our feeling body is the unconscious field of expectation. If we expect life to be beautiful, we notice that it is. If we expect the world to be dark and ominous, we notice that it is. Our thoughts create, and our body responds.
Our senses are receptors, but what they sense is based on our brain programming. First we have a thought, and then we have the experience that validates the thought. The mind then, strives to be 'right' once it makes a conclusion, and then our senses validate that conclusion.
All things in ayni, means all things in right balance. For the shamanic practitioner, it is about recognizing the flow of energy in all things whether it be the room, the freeway or the body.
Our first community to recognize and keep in right balance is our internal one. Shamanic thinking means we recognize when something is out of balance in the world around us, and know we must balance something within us. We correct ourselves within, and then witness the demonstration of that correction as the world shifts before us.
The medicine man goes into his hut to pray for rain for his village by balancing the drought he feels within himself. As he shifts himself, the weather externally changes. He accepts that he is responsible for the world's expression, in ever growing rings of responsibility. We grow from feeling responsible for our self, to our village, to our mountain, to our country, to our planet and to our galaxy.
When we understand that the world is a responding field of energy, and that it is constantly responding to our feelings, we begin to realize the depth of responsibility we each have to bring our energetic awareness of life.
Everything responds to us. The flowers, animals, butterflies. The weather patterns, the economy, people. We receive based on what we broadcast out, and we broadcast out from our feeling body. Our feeling body is the unconscious field of expectation. If we expect life to be beautiful, we notice that it is. If we expect the world to be dark and ominous, we notice that it is. Our thoughts create, and our body responds.
Our senses are receptors, but what they sense is based on our brain programming. First we have a thought, and then we have the experience that validates the thought. The mind then, strives to be 'right' once it makes a conclusion, and then our senses validate that conclusion.
