This is Cynthia Sue Larson
with RealityShifters.com and I'm also the author of the best-selling book, "Quantum
Jumps: An Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity."
Today I'd love to share with you something that I consider
the core of my meditation practice and my quantum jumping practice,
and it's a top tip for you. First I'm going to start with a quote,
which is from Albert Einstein. He once said, "A new type of thinking is
essential if mankind is to survive
and move toward higher levels." So if you are wondering, "What does he mean by that
and how does that apply to my life?" It applies to all of our lives and
what I'm about to share with you. Maybe not what he was talking about.
What I'd like to share with you today is an idea of how to get back into a playful
state
that most children have where you can rise above any problem
and this is something we tend to forget as we learn more, think we know more,
and generally get caught up in the drama
of our lives. The key element here is play,
and so I'm going to go back to children. Remember a time, if you can,
when you were playing as a child, and at the end of the day--
you might have been playing good guys, bad guys, whatever--but whatever was happening,
at the end of the day, everything's fine. Even if there had been
terrible calamity in the play. Even if you lost a game.
Things happen, and so forth. But here's the big idea:
when you recognize that you are much more than the game, and when you can rise above it,
then
you are no longer caught up in the drama of thinking that you are either a victim, or a
rescuer, or some sort of a bad guy, perpetrator.
In fact, nobody really is. So rising above
that blaming kind of drama situation
is extremely important, and it's something that you can see
in your own life. You can see the benefits of rising above problems you might think you're
having
with relationships, with money, with your job, or
pretty much anything. So here's the
method. It is a three-step process we're going to go through today. And I see
that it has relevance in my favorite theories having to do with the
multiverse
which were written up in 2011 by Yasunori Nomura
of UC Berkeley, and also
Raphael Bousso and Leonard Susskind had a paper that same year, in 2011.
All of them basically are presenting this concept that the Many Worlds
is the multiverse, which is a huge idea. And if you think about it,
and you recognize you can allow yourself to feel a greater sense of awareness
than the drama in your life, the problems, the issues...
you can be the observer recognizing, "Aha! Something's going on!"
just like a child playing. That's really
the second step. The first step is breathing.
The second step is imagine that you really are awareness. The third step
is move through your life playfully,
feeling inspired by intuition. So how do we do this?
Let's do this experientially, if you've got a minute. Start by closing your eyes,
breathing deeply and fully, just below your belly button.
This is abdominal breathing. If you practice Qi Gong,
yoga, martial arts, then this will be familiar to you,
because this is your energy center. Young infants know how to breathe this way.
That's why you see
their abdomens rising and falling when they breathe.
So breathe to your lower abdomen. Slow your breathing down. Bring your
awareness to your breath, intentionally noticing that you can slow each breathe down to a
a natural rhythm
that feels good for you, that is very deep and very full.
This should actually take several minutes. We're going to
pretend that you've been doing that, like those cooking shows: "Now skip forward;
take this out of the oven!" But keep breathing like that.
Keep your eyes closed, if you can. Just keep staying relaxed, focused on that breath,
And as you keep doing that, the second step can begin,
which is imagining that your true identity is awareness.
That means you're not your body, you're not
a victim. You are also not a rescuer. You are
also not the bad guy. You can rise above all of those labels
and categories, to a level of eternal infinite awareness that always exists.
This is a rather advanced step in meditation,
but it's available to all of us. We all have access to it, because when you think about it,
who is really witnessing how you feel,
when you think, "I am so upset." You--
the true you--is a witness to feeling how you are feeling.
And that means that's the real you.
Now the third step after you do this meditation, which really
ideally, will go on for at least 10 minutes, maybe 20,
for best effect. After you've done this for about 20 minutes of breathing and
feeling, "I am the awareness, "I am bigger than any problem,
any issues, any drama in my life,"
in that third step, is when you come out of this meditation, you'll be acting
playfully like a child. Following those intuitions, and gut feelings
as they lead you to do something different,
to shake up that routine and that habitual way of
behaving that you might have been doing, so that you feel
this real sense of joyful enthusiasm.
If you don't feel the joyful enthusiasm now, as you are still breathing,
then curl up the corners of your mouth upward,
even if you don't feel like smiling. Intend that you'll be
experiencing joyful enthusiasm, that you will be
getting to a place where you can do as I talk about in my book,
"Reality Shifts: When Consciousness Changes the Physical World."
You can actually live your life lucidly.
That's lucid living; being awake within your life,
recognizing you are the awareness.
Until next time, this is Cynthia Sue Larson
reminding you to keep asking, "How good can it get?"
with RealityShifters.com Thank you!