Everyone,
Namaste...
I have been thinking about something and thought I'd throw it out there for you to express your thoughts about it.
I have observed that there are many folks out there who have some real concerns and questions about what an attunement is.
In my own situation, I was told little about the process...the actual "ritual" and what was the master was going to be doing.
I was told what it does for me...but not how they were going to accomplish that end result.
Because I trusted them, I didn't question much, and thought the movements/motions quite odd but figured they knew what they were doing.
:-)
As a teacher now myself, I hesitate to make it necessary for my students to blindly trust me like that. I'm not sure that's even healthy.
I guess where I'm going with this is tradition is fine, but when you live in a culture where keeping secrets can be an attempt to manipulate or deceive, isn't being out there in the open with information a better way to establish trust and a healthy student/teacher relationship?
I know there is loads of info out there on attunements, but how many of your teachers really explained to you what they were doing as they went through the "ritual"? Did the ritual itself make you uncomfortable or did you think it "weird"?
And wouldn't feeling more informed/comfortable about the experience be beneficial energetically as well, making the student a bigger player in the process...claiming their own part in it all?
I had the same teachers for all three of my attunements and wouldn't change that for anything. They were great. It's just now being a teacher myself, I hear huge concerns (especially in regards to is this "OK" religiously) and feel a need to address that matter of factly.
Blessings to your day!
Mammabear
