JOSE ATID LEIIA STEVENS 129our benefit. Offering thanks ensures their continued support
and enlists their help in times of need.
If you accept any gift with thanks and then simply store it
without using it, you are reducing the flow of power. Love,
money, and possessions have no power as long as they are
dammed up or stored somewhere. It is their use that gives
them power.
We know of a child who received the gift of a new red
wagon for his birthday. He squirreled the box, fully
wrapped, into a closet and refused to play with it, saying
that it was too nice too open. He wanted to save it for
later. All the other children were disappointed because
they could not ride in the new wagon. That box stayed
there for years. Eventually the boy became too old to play
with the wagon and it was given away to someone else.
The boy grew up to have problems with relationships and
money. From a very young age he operated out of the
belief that he couldn't have what was given to him.This brings us full circle back to giving again. So you see
that both giving and receiving are integral parts of a never-
ending shamanic power circle that generates ever greater
supplies of power for use in the ordinary world.
Now you have been exposed to the basic shamanic notion
of the ever-balancing cycles of creation and destruction.
When you know their basic principles, you are in a good
position to:
- Clear your life of unwanted beliefs, goods, habits, and
people. - Know where you can find assistance when faced with ob-
stacles that seem more powerful than you. - Decrease arrogance, false humility, and guilt, and be able
to have more of what you want in your life by defining it in
clear specific terms. - Increase your ability to have more real power and energy.
- Understand how to increase your own capacity for satisfac-
tion in any area of your life by giving away or sharing the
wealth in that area. - Learn how to receive with grace and respect.
- Be in the position to make a much greater contribution in
life.