My Why

Why do I work with spirituality? I want to sing like Lady Gaga – I was born this way! About 1,5 year ago, I finally got a title after 25 years of hard work and education – shamana, for something that my inner child thinks that I’ve done since I was born. I remember a strong moment from my childhood, which I wont describe out of respect for everyone involved. But it was a deciding moment. I was not even a year old, and I experienced how otherwise loving, kind people were stealing energy subconsciously from one another. It was obvious to me, I could see it happen. A newborn child was lying next to me, and I built up a field of protection and love around us.

The promise to flow in love and freedom

I promised myself in that moment never to steal energy from others. Of course, as I grew up my experiences threw me into emotional turmoil at times, and I have surely played my part in this and similar strange behaviors between human beings. But I always remembered my promise, stood up and walked away, healed and changed.

Now I feel as if I’m finally grounded. My overweight during the last 5 years, due to medical issues (I had to take medicines which cause overweight), has helped so much with this as well as with personal development in general. My medical issues are now over and I’m loosing weight fast. I’ll miss it.

My why? Because the only drive in me is to dedicate my every moment to that promise of my almost 1 year old self, and to flow in freedom with True Love every day. And to create, art and magical moments. And of course, to dance with it all.

Photo: me leading a Cacao Ceremony last year, my first big one as a shamana, about 50-60 participants. So proud, of this and my title, and I allow myself to be so. The word “shamana” means “(a woman) who sees and knows”. A bit grandios, and I definitely don’t know everything, however, it says a lot about what it is.

Creating for the sake of creation itself

About a year ago I started making collages out of words from newspapers, which turn into a sentence. I don’t follow a plan, I make them very quick and then I paint, which I’m terrible at. But nevertheless I do it, using all from acrylic paint to crayons, marker pens and loads of glitter glue.

I even got myself an Insta account for them, with like 11 followers. But neither how many followers there are, nor how it looks is the point for me.

Simply doing

The point is, on the contrary from my other forms of expression, film making, singing, dancing, performance, storytelling and writing poetry, these collages are something I do without any type of feeling of having to create something with high quality. In the other fields, I have experience and kinda feel some pressure that it has to be good. With the collages, I don’t feel this at all. I just make them.

Since I started making them, I really notice that my mood is even better than before (I’m generally a pretty happy person, but this is deeper). I also experience a greater flow in life, as well as in other creative endeavors. So grateful!

And I learned to value the process of simply doing, creating, being in the moment so much more than before. Furthermore, my subconscious is communicating with me on a whole new level. Great life lesson!

Occupy the Present

With this, I sincerely want to start a new Occupy movement, simply with the goal of Occupying the Present. Like many, I believe that we urgently should slow down our destruction of the planet. I also feel that we would benefit from calmness in a longer time span than the Occupy “Now” allowed. “The present” is a longer time span than “the now”, at least it feels like this to me. Thus, Occupy the Present is my suggestion as a focus phrase for people to rally behind.

I urge us all to be present in ourselves and stop our conflicts, take care of our home, Earth, and to end poverty as well as the widespread abuse of all living things on this planet.

In the sign I created for this purpose, there is a little math exercise. I spelt it wrongly, “excersize” – but in a way it fits, simply since part of the answer has to do with size in a sense. Anyhow, the exercise is a combination of physics, math and mathematical philosophy. It’s marked with a green pen, but related to the red phrase “Occupy the Present”. One point of the exercise has already been defined to 4,89 by one person who I met.

The whole solution is however still a secret, only known to me – or do you know it as well? Please contact me via mail or comment below and tell me your answer and/or part/interpretation of the answer.