Liberating Yourself, or ‘how to thank a dead buffalo’

A lot of attention gets paid to Gratitude, especially as it concerns attracting more of what you (should?) want to yourself. For some of us, it can get impressed on us to such an extent that if we’re not actively entertaining positive, abundant thoughts at every given moment, we might mentally beat ourselves up for it, due to a feeling that we’re doing ourselves (and the machine that is the Law of Attraction movement) a grievous disservice. Even with years and years of devoted meditative training or other mental conditioning, our minds can get the better of the best of us.

 
What to do?

Start giving gratitude to what you do have an abundance of: thank every one of your mind’s mental machinations. As an example, say “thank you” to every thought that arises where you tell yourself that you’re ‘less than’ or otherwise not clever, good, funny, or attractive enough. Say thank you to feelings of dissatisfaction with your life or relationships, to any situation that typically sets you to gnashing your teeth. Give attention to every adverse emotion, regardless of whether it seems mentally justifiable or not.

Rather than think your way through this practice with preconceived expectations or demands, ask Buffalo to help you in your offerings of gratitude, and be open to and enjoy every experience, and every moment. even – or perhaps, ‘especially’ – those that would typically get you ‘fired up’! Imagine for a moment that every negative thought or impulse you have has a negative entity associated with it, influencing it, and thank them, too!

If need be at first, all in good fun, say it sarcastically. For instance, offer a jolly “thank you” to the self-abusive emotion that gets aroused, should you berate yourself for not getting out of bed and to your ‘obligations’ quickly enough. Say thank you to the entity stirring up feelings of you not being superhuman enough to get everything you want done in the world done.

Don’t worry that this act of giving what sounds like gratitude to something you’d want less of might actually bring more of it to you, that you’ll be inundated with more of the particular experience that seemed to cause the negative emotion your thoughts had connected to in the first place. Don’t worry either that you’re putting responsibility for your emotions outside of yourself. As interconnected and expansive as you actually are, these other entities have been a part of your extended being, and a necessary part of your soul’s evolution (not to mention how you’ve been necessary for theirs). 

What’ll happen is – for one thing – you’ll start to realize the extent of the negative crap influencing and limiting you. Secondly (and better than that), though, you’ll introduce a different – ‘for the fun of it’ – attitude to those emotions and energies, and thus transform them; by not giving them the same old power, they’ll have none. And thirdly and so on, well, I don’t want to spoil the plot, so you let me know what happens for you from there.

While the constraints of collective conditioning might be insisting that your thoughts aren’t affecting anything outside of your own cranial space, in truth, you’re playing an actual, active and essential role in uplifting the planet.

If you feel unsettled through this process, I can certainly relate. On a soul level, what’s happening is pretty much commonplace for you, and on an earthplane level, well, I can in all faith assure you that you’ll be adjusted to your ‘new normal’ very soon.

Blessings and Love,

~Black Feather

(incidentally, the Bison in the photo isn’t dead; it’s just having a good roll in the dirt)

What's Going to Happen...

The journey you’re experiencing now, as you’re experiencing it, is the only one that matters. It offers the only wisdom that matters: Yours.

Consider some of the predictions that individuals who’d posited themselves as ‘experts’ had espoused about what might happen at the end of the Mayan calendar. I’m not saying that a Shift didn’t or isn’t occurring, but I’m glad I wasn’t one of the people motivated to queue up for some profiteer to benefit from their investing in an apocalypse shelter. I’ll admit that I was kind of thrilled at the thought of three days of darkness where our physical senses wouldn’t function normally, but for the fact that that didn’t come to pass, I can console myself with the thought that billions of people didn’t have to experience what might have been their worst nightmare, either.

No one else has experienced your life before, and for that reason, no one else can extrapolate on how you choose to experience what is your own personal reality. Neither has anyone else lived the lives you’ve lived previously. No one in existence has accrued the karma that you have (good and/or bad). In the interest of clearing it, no one else has needed to manifest the life you have – as you need yours to be – now.

No one else can tell you, for instance, how your intuitive abilities might manifest; how or what you’ll hear, what you’ll see or feel, what or whom you’ll connect with, or what form that will take.

This is undoubtedly a time of revelation and transformation for you/us, a time of movement from one way of being to another. In whatever way your reality presents for you, I’ll proffer that there will be adventure, and there will definitely be growth.

It’s a time in which we’re (rapidly) fulfilling soul agreements. While we might not feel that we’re being provided with all we ‘want’ in life, we are living the experience that best fosters our soul’s growth. As an example, I asked for guidance as to why I’d been having issues with my vision lately, and a past life was brought to my awareness in which I’d been partly responsible for someone being blinded. As frustrating as the obscuration of my vision has been, I can accept it as something necessary for my soul’s growth at this time, as a gift, even.

While I won’t assume to tell you how your unique journey will manifest, it’s likely that you are or will become aware of things while in a conscious state that you wouldn’t otherwise be aware of. Other beings may start appearing to you through the Veil. Now that I’ve mentioned it, though, ‘the Veil’ is perhaps not the best term to use. More than not, it implies something visual, whereas awareness of other realities, people, beings and dimensions may manifest for you as more ‘sensual’ experiences. You might be inclined to describe them as tantric, even, in the sense that it’s an extrasensory meeting of souls and hearts.

For the fact that we’re built to be wary of novelty, I will offer some advice (and the offer of personalised help, if you need it)…

Drop what you think you know about yourself or what’s possible, all that which has been imposed on you from others’ opinions of whom and what you are and what reality is ‘supposed’ to be like.

Expect, accept, be open to and embrace the new. ‘Magic’ may be the only way to describe some of the things that happen.

Ask (and then trust) your guides to allow into your field only entities/energies that are operating from a loving intention.

BE from a state of loving innocence, childlike, but not childish. Allow yourself a child’s wonder and playfulness, but with awareness of the responsibility you carry as an incredibly powerful energetic being.

Own what you experience. What’s ‘right and wrong’ may get a little confusing, but as a guideline, (please) try to be mindful about what karma you might accrue. What you choose to experience non-physically has repercussions – be that directly, or indirectly – in the physical realms, to physical beings (yourself included!).

(Angelic beings are watching you, assisting you with guidance, but not making choices or living your experience for you.)

Sometimes you’ll choose what you’ll allow or manifest. At other times, you’ll allow yourself to be surprised on every level. You’re creating, your self, your experience, your world.

It’s a playground, and it’s much, much Bigger than it looks. You are much Bigger than you perceive yourself to be. Allow yourself to know it, in whatever way that happens.

Big Medicine Love to You
~ Black Feather