The warrior always acts in the proper mood, and this he learns to create. Whereas an ordinary person's moods seem to be related directly to the people and events around him, the warrior is taught to arrive at and maintain a specific mood independent of people and events.
Two attitudes are required for the proper mood, and they are to be held simultaneously. The first is control over himself and the second is abandon. He must have total command of himself and at the same time be free to let himself go without caring about the outcome.
p 395, Beyond Health and Normality
...which is basically another way of saying that the shaman learns to "master" contingency, so that it becomes the shaman's special realm of domination.
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