| Brilliant One: >> Here’s the AUDIO for today’s Transformation Tuesday. In our Book of the Month, The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks shares that every human on the planet — no matter how successful they are — has what he calls an Upper Limit: the final barrier between you and your ability to live in thriving and success in every area of your life, at the same time. He writes: “Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed that inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.” He shares the moment he discovered his own Upper Limit, retelling of a time when he’d had a wonderful day at work, his relationships and job were humming along well and his daughter was at summer camp. As he sat in his office chair, savoring the good day, he began to have thoughts and images of his daughter being lonely, then even bullied, at summer camp, and the joy he’d been feeling dissolved away. He called the camp and was surprised to hear the staffer report back that not only was his daughter thriving and well, but he was the third parent to call with this kind of concern that day. The camp supervisor guessed that the parents missed the kids and were projecting their discomfort onto their imaginings of what the kids must be experiencing. The epiphany came when he explored why he’d begun to feel so bad when, just moments prior, he’d felt so good. What he realized was, it was precisely BECAUSE he’d felt so good that he’d begun to manufacture these unwanted, unpleasant thoughts. He went on: “When I reached my Upper Limit of how much positive feeling I could handle, I created a series of unpleasant thoughts to deflate me. The thoughts I manufactured were guaranteed to make me return to a state I was more familiar with: not feeling so good. .. if I hadn’t pulled up those particular worry thoughts, I would have used some other train of thought to dampen my mood.” When he applied this idea to other areas of his life – and to humanity in general, he started to see the pattern: He’d eat healthy food and work out for a few days, feel great, then binge and stay up late, feeling bad. He’d be getting along well with his wife, then pick a fight or criticize her. Even countries tend to cycle up and down between prosperity and depression, or war and peace. So it came to be that he realized we humans are just now beginning to evolve — psychologically and spiritually — and gain the capacity to let ourselves feel good in an ongoing, extended way. We are just now realizing that we can make a choice about how much love and abundance we’re willing to allow, and that we can also choose to see how we get in our own way… and stop doing that. We are — you and I are — just on the brink of learning that we can actually extend the periods of positive energy, contentment, prosperity and plain old happiness in our lives, living in a steadier and steadier state of success, happiness and abundance, as we go. Like in our affirmation: going from success to success, from glory to glory. Our New Reality goal, Hendricks says, should be to spend 70% or more of our lives solidly, firmly in our personal Zone of Genius, which we’ll talk about and actually find in the next few days, but it’s a place of joy. Discovering and dissolving your Upper Limit is your next step on the journey into that kind of a New Reality. At the same time, intentionally finding and focusing on what in your current experience of life feels good… now, and now, and now and also now, will begin to get you used to that feeling of good. Then you can work on extending the periods of time you can stay in that place before hitting your Upper Limit or starting to manufacture unpleasant thoughts, like fear or impatience. So get to your favorite spot to sit, and get as comfortable as you can. Slowly, gently close your eyes. Feel the pull of gravity on every part of your body, just asking you to let yourself be fully supported. Take a few grounding, deep breaths and just feel your forehead relax, your jaw relax, your neck and shoulders relax, and even your chest open up and relax a bit as you breathe. As you take an inhale, tilt your head up a little bit and let the glowing, warm, liquid light and the totally unconditional and abundant love of this Universe stream into your head and into your whole Being. Feel it flowing down your body, warming and thawing out any kinks or tight spots as it goes, cooling what needs cooling. Unconstricting what needs to unfurl. filling you up from the tips of your toes all the way up. Feel it make its radiant way from your bones and organs out to your skin, and even beyond. Feel yourself becoming even more poised and even more powerful than you already are, even more radiant and even more magnetic than you already are. Sit like this, focusing on the words: ALL IS WELL. Inhale, exhale: ALL IS WELL. Finding the passing ideas and thoughts and excitements and Beings you love, as your thoughts come and go, at a slower pace than normal, but still coming and going. As you see them, sort of grab the one that feel especially good and hold them in your heart and mind for as long as you can. And then, take a deep inhale, receiving Divine Light, occasionally bring your mind back to the phrase: ALL IS WELL. Allowing and accepting that whatever is going on right now, ALL IS WELL with you and your soul in this season, in this day, in this moment. And all throughout the day today, circle back to the ALL IS WELLNESS of you, of your life, finding good feeling thoughts and people and focusing on them as often as you can today. Head up + heart out, TNN Sign up for my Transformation Tuesday newsletter, here: http://www.taranicholle.com/transformation-tuesday |
Tara-Nicholle Kirke
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