- The Yok´Hah Maya Nahual Tradition
- What is Nahual?
- What is Yok'Hah?
- The embodied Maya
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Various Mexican old cultures, such as the Toltecs,
Aztecs and Maya perceived the so-called reality as a
dynamic and energetic event which we can create the way
we want if we are free. According to the old Mexican
beliefs, freedom means to experience timelessness of
the human being and not to hold on to particular
behavioral or thinking patterns.
We can create and transform reality into different
facts of life, as we restore and use our connection
with our original strength. If we recognize and use
this elementary force in ourselves we can also discover
our personal power. This force is a creative energy of
life which comes from the inner source of a person. If
we reactivate our energy sources time starts flowing
into us again and we begin to see a different side of
the world which hitherto remained invisible. It exists
beyond rationality and logics. It is the level where
social rules and conventions limiting our
magically-creative selves are broken. Then we become
free.
If reality encloses within itself it starts to develop
everyday patterns of behavior and thinking. These
patterns can cause our captivity in time that does not
belong to us. In this time we exist in a place that is
not the place we actually live in. We are no longer
present in the Now. This imprisonment in
“non-time” is the cause of illnesses and
unhappiness of the soul. We experience the past where
we hold on to certain situations, memories, people and
objects which do no longer exist. Our inability to let
go the past impairs our true existence so that we can
not experience what is HERE and NOW.
Just like looking into the past our expectations of
the non-existing future result in projecting our
emotional poverty into an invisible spot. But the
future is intangible, it is an unknown land and time
yet to happen. If we tried to imagine a physical
position of the future it would be located behind us
and not in front of us as it is typically visualized by
Western cultures.
Vividly demonstrated is what I can see when I go
forward – my past – the tangible time I
can touch with my own hands like a real object. If I
then move backwards I bid farewell to the past and walk
into the future. It is important that I experience the
present with every step I make into the unknown land of
the future. Even today Mexican people walk through time
in this way.
For the Mayan people time is not linear, over the
course of their history they have tried to discover,
experience and set free the true time of the
individual. Our real time is the power of now where
every cell, every organ and every part of our bodies
are living in the eternal time of the present moment.
The Maya developed the Path of the Nahual to achieve
this timeless state of body and mind. In this state
there is a place where we can turn into Nahuals
– men and women with tremendous energy and
strength who are connected with the Universe and with
their own hearts.
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