Fear and Anger Reveal Gift

Deeply buried under the limiting patterns of your life is a gift. As you send spinning gratitude to the limiting patterns, the fear or anger and things you don’t want, a gift is revealed. The catch is to go deep enough.

The layers of toxins and old patterns created a shell of perceived safety around and through your body. This old layer of perceived safety can be filled with patterns that are really hurtful, dysfunctional or downright destructive. These layers were laid down when you were a tiny child, when you had no ability to differentiate. If anger was the family pattern, anger is in your nervous system and this pattern of anger is what is known as safety. So when a stressful situation arises, your body will retreat to anger, because that is what your nervous system knows. Until these patterns are cleared, your nervous system will continue to get triggered, no matter how great your intention.

Spinning vortexes of gratitude unscrew the layers of old patterns, fear or anger that have held your old stuff in place. Gratitude transforms all - the good, the bad and the totally unacceptable. The good increases while the bad and totally unacceptable transform with the high frequency of gratitude. As the gratitude spinners twirl deeper into your body, more crusty old parts fall off. The old patterns come off in layers so your body can adjust and recalibrate to a higher level of functioning. If everything came off at once, that would cause more trauma to your nervous system. The gradual melting away of the old with gratitude creates integration and ease in your body.

The limitation created by family dysfunction, your fear or anger has created a framework for your life’s development. This inner mechanism has been in place so you could navigate in the world. If your entire essence was revealed at birth or early childhood, it would have been too hard to discover your individual self. The vast sea of non-differentiated oneness is too great a field to individuate in. Once you become an individual, then the limiting framework that created your life can be dissolved.

As you send thanks to the layers of patterns that have formed who you are, your authentic self can now come out radiantly glowing with ease and grace. What is revealed is your shinning magnificent essence.

One great method to unveil the gift residing within and release the layers from childhood is by listening to the guided visualization audio 'Birth Your Magnificent Self'.

Self-Doubt, Fear and Radical Gratitude

I want to share this email and my response about joy and radical gratitude. After reading The Art of Radical Gratitude, the following question arose:

“Your book is full of beautiful images and words that cause me to reflect and put into practice.

My question as an analogy:
My question is, when you get there, when you have obtained joy, happiness and bliss, then what? I feel undeserving of it. I feel as if I have earned my way to the end of the diving board and I have a decision. I can either dive my favorite, most beautiful, elegant dive or allow my self-doubt to push me off, plunge in fear and have to climb the ladder again and try to find my way to end of the board to experience again. Is the answer in the rainbow, the glass ceiling?”

From what I have read and from my personal experience, there is the choice, moment to moment to choose grace, joy and gratitude or self-doubt and fear. This is not a one-time event for most people; it is a choice at each breath. The joy and gratitude keep going deeper, ever deeper, with no end. The gift of the self-doubt and fear is to follow that, rather than run the other way, and breakthrough into joy in the absolute depths of fear, terror and self-doubt. That is the practice!

The answer is in the moment, living your life in joy and gratitude, no matter what! What a truly radical stance to take!

“Thank you so much! Now I understand how radical it is. And how difficult it is to have such joy when the rest of our society and world does not feel this way.
Thank you, in the moment, I choose gratitude!”

Meeting fear with Gratitude

by Shannon Iris

Cynthia,
I am simply blown away. More accurately I am blown home. The concept of meeting fear with radical gratitude is a magic bullet for me. How precious. I have no idea why panic had re-emerged in my life (after a 5-6 year hiatus) but last night as I was falling asleep it was there again with a vengeance. About five minutes after falling asleep I woke with pounding heart, and because of my auspicious meeting with you that very day, met the process with gratitude. The panic was instantly replaced by joy: total confidence builder. I drifted off to sleep without fear. Round two (probably 15 minutes later) was much, much more intense... it got away from me. In the midst of full-blown terror I grabbed a hold of the concept of gratitude; it was like trying to grab a cord attached to a sail in a high wind. At first I couldn't discern whether I had it because the noise of the wind, the flapping of the sail and the pounding of my heart were deafening. The panic began to subside.

Looking back I clearly feel the essence of what gratitude offered me... presence, Gratitude grounded me in the experience. I remember it all, the texture of my pounding heart, the intensity of the storm. This morning I have a vision of my situation last night: I was on a sailboat in high seas. The environment was raging and for the first time all the pieces were there to handle my situation.

The storm continued all night, I would wake and tend to the necessities of being afloat on high seas and drift easily back into sleep. Today I am rested and empowered - I am seasoned.

Tears of joy flowing from deep gratitude,
Shannon Iris

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Clear Your Brain; Transform Your Life – Process of Transformation Blog #3

Did you know that your brain is carrying around 500 million years of ancient debris? Can you imagine how much junk you would have in your computer if you did not clear out your emails, delete your old files and empty the trash? Our skull holds three brains, each built on top of the other serving different purposes and functions. The ancient reptilian brain, which is about 500 million years old, is the oldest and smallest part of the evolving human brain. This brain center is concerned with the fundamental processes of keeping the body alive, needs of survival and safety, fight, flight or freeze. When a situation of either real or perceived survival is at hand, the ancient brain overrides the newer, more complex rational components of the brain.

Next in the evolutionary scale comes the limbic system, which is about 50 million years old, which among other things is concerned with emotions and the avoidance of pain and the seeking of pleasure. The newest brain center, the 2.6 million year old neocortex, is on top of the older brains and controls higher-order thinking skills, reason, language, creativity, visions and dreams. The right and left hemispheres connected by the corpus callosum are all a part of the neocortex.

Until the ancient brain patterns of fear and terror are cleared or at least neutralized, they will override peace and harmony thus undermining and sabotaging creativity, dreams and visions. Peace, harmony and balance start in the membrane, field, brain structure, cells and body then radiate out into the world, creating a joy-filled life.