Understanding Fear, Sadness & Anxiety
with Benki Piyãko - Ashaninka
Wisdom from Benki:
What disturbances harm our lives the most?
What harms our lives the most is not being sure of what we want to do on Earth. Then we develop fear.
What does fear do in the life of a human being?
Fear weakens us and makes us lose the excitement to live. Fear creates anger.
Today we see a lot of disturbed people on Earth. What happens when we are disturbed?
We start to think that the world isn’t a good place or we are not good enough because we lose all the trust we have inside of us. Then, we start to forget about the good things and acquire bad energies in our body. These energies weaken our minds and the mind becomes fragile. The mind creates disease in the body and makes us think we don't have the strength to do anything.
We sometimes want to do everything like a machine, however, our machine gets weakened if we don’t know how to take care of it. The more we get stressed, the more we pull anger inside of ourselves and anger is one of the worst things in our lives. Stress and anger prevent us from connecting with ourselves and from opening our world within. One word we say to someone else can heal / give life or kill. We need to be aware of our thoughts and words. We can heal someone with a hug or a smile.
The Earth also has a heart. It holds the energy to allow everything to be born from and shared with everyone who needs it.... the most perfect abundance. This energy is available to us when we purify ourselves. The Earth is a reflection of our inner world. It has the same ratio of water as our bodies. Once we heal ourselves, we are able to heal our beautiful planet.
Join us to learn more about the roots of these feelings which bind us and limit our potential. Receive tools to free yourself from these mind constraints and receive healing energy from the elements.
You will be able to access a video recording for 30 days to watch and replay.
This offering is presented in Portuguese and translated into English by a live translator.
This offering is live Zoom presentation.
The offering is approximately 1.5 hours
Benki has been recognized as a leading spiritual leader from the Amazon. He comes from an Antaviari lineage in the Ashaninka culture, which means "a direct Messenger of God". Since his teenage years, Benki has embraced the struggle for the rights of his community by replanting over 2.5 million trees. In 2007, as Secretary of Environment in Acre, Brazil, he inaugurated the Yorenka Ãtame agroforestry center, where he began to rehabilitate drug and alcohol-addicted youth by teaching them to work with nature, thus bringing people and endangered animal/plant species together again. He also established the world's first eco-market, which exchanges plastic for food in Amazonia. Benki has helped many indigenous groups recover their culture, and he is a recipient of the UN Equator Prize alongside his community, Apiwtxa. More recently, he has created the Yorenka Tasorentsi Educational and Spiritual Institute to pursue his environmental and spiritual work.
Grateful for Benki's excellent study of his time with the Plants, Herbs, Seeds -- "they are the ones who transformed my energy and allowed me to transmit it"...
Read MoreGrateful for Benki's excellent study of his time with the Plants, Herbs, Seeds -- "they are the ones who transformed my energy and allowed me to transmit it" -- watching how each seed that became a tree would influence its surroundings. So grateful.
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Understanding Fear, Sadness, and Anxiety
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