How to Feel Better Fast!
Part 1
by Keith Varnum

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Would you like to spend as much time as possible feeling good? Happy? Contented? The ancient shamans have a secret practice that can help you maximize your pleasure in life--and minimize your pain. Interested?
The shamans advise: "Welcome discomfort!"
They've got to be kidding!
No, they're not kidding. The ancient ones are quite serious. Or shall I use another word other than serious? Because the effectiveness of "Welcoming discomfort!" depends on NOT taking the discomfort seriously!
Life in the 3rd Dimension
Here on Earth in the 3rd dimension, we're engaged in a dance of duality, a ballet of opposites, a play of polarity. For every quality in our world, there exists an equal and opposite quality. Light and dark. Up and down. Forward and backward.
To create form out of pure formless energy, we construct this 3-dimensional world by believing in duality. Otherwise, we'd only be able to experience a world of oneness, sameness--pure energy, essence, spirit. And in order to experience any one quality in form, the reverse quality has to also be created in form. For one quality to exist--to come into existence, to be in existence--the opposite of that quality has to also exist.
So Where Does the Fun Come In?
The key to moving through life in our everyday world as easily, gracefully and pleasurably as possible is to be able to fully experience both sides of all qualities easily, gracefully and pleasurably. In other words, the shaman secret is an approach that keeps us from getting stuck in feeling the "undesirable" aspects of life any longer than necessary.
The shamans offer a practice that allows us to fully experience problems, loss, fear, anger, sadness or pain as efficiently as possible. If we approach the unpreferred qualities in life in a way that makes them easier to fully experience, we can move through them as fast as possible. And spend more of our time with the goodies in life.
Shortcut to Happiness
"The way to happiness is through the world, not around it," one of my teachers is fond of saying. I know of no one who has been able to avoid the unpleasant events and feelings of life. So if we can't have a universe without so-called "nasty" situations and emotions, we can at least learn how to deal with those conditions in the most effective and pleasurable way!
The Shaman Secret
The shaman way is to "welcome the discomfort" in life. Invite the uncomfortable, undesirable, unpreferred qualities of life. Tellingly, the dictionary definition of "undesirable" is "unattractive, disagreeable, unwelcome, uninvited." So, the solution is to make these qualities as attractive and agreeable as possible--so that we can actually welcome, invite and, therefore, fully experience each quality.
When a person chooses to fully experience a quality, event or feeling, the quality goes full circle, full cycle--and dissolves, disappears. When you give the energy of a situation or feeling the space--the acceptance--to fully express itself, the uncomfortable feeling is complete, done, fulfilled. You're free of it. It's over, gone, kaput. You can move on to focus on the more fun aspects of life!
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