How to Create an Authentic Life with Toltec Wisdom

My guest on the show today is Barbara Emrys, who is an author whose writings reflect both her diverse cultural upbringing and creative education. Twenty-five years ago, she met don Miguel Ruiz and began an apprenticeship with him. Her shamanic training, as well as her many years of work as a teacher of Toltec Dreaming, have given Barbara unique insights into human behavior and an artistic approach to life. Her collaborations with don Miguel, in the classroom and in their writing, are an ongoing source of inspiration and creativity. Barbara and don Miguel have published several books together: The Toltec Art of Life and Death and The Three Questions, and in today’s show, Barbara is here to share their new book “The Actor: How to Live an Authentic Life” which is part of their new, exciting Mystery School series.  In this show we talk about her magical insight into how we can harness ”story” to create an authentic life.  What You’ll Learn from this Episode: In life we have focused on playing the roles that give us the most approval, help us to fit in and get ahead - there’s nothing good or bad about that, it’s just what we have been trained to do as human beings - we perform for approval and tell a story. At some point, we start to question “who am I?” and choose to rearrange our ways of being and become more authentically us - and it is during this time, we begin to stop blaming people and choose again for ourselves.   We just need to imagine ourselves differently to allow us to more consciously perform our witchcraft of life, choosing how best to weave our own magic!  This is because we are powerful artists - we create and cast spells on ourselves with knowledge.  We can create art that is unpleasant or beautiful - and we long to create the art that is most inspiring for us.   Our Will is energy that comes directly from life - We often lose the sense that our Will is ours - it takes practice directing our attention, but we can reclaim it by directing it in a conscious way, instead of submitting to the will of others because it’s easier.  This is for the benefit of this human being and society.  We are pure potential - life energy is put into action via our attention - if we put our energy on our potential, we will manifest that.  I loved how she described that we can *decorate our minds differently with passion!* Magic is taking energy from life and directing it a certain way (your unique way) to transform it into manifestation (potential turning into action) - we are all artists, building a dream and you can create something totally different at any time - the real question is - what do you want for the main character?  Resources and things that we spoke about: Barbara’s conversations – https://www.miguelruiz.com/barbara-emrys The Actor Book - https://www.miguelruiz.com/events/2021/4/3/book-series-the-actor Thank you for listening, we’d love to know what you think of this week’s episode, so please let us know!  If you loved it, there’s a fresh episode every week - subscribe so you don’t miss it! Thank you,     Nicole xox