"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you."
-- Rumi, from "Entrance Door" in The Soul of Rumi

The concept of inner dialogue is usually associated with our tendency to run thoughts and ideas inside our heads. This idea of the incessant chatter of our "monkey minds" is central to many meditation practices, which provide people with tools to quiet the mind and calm the body. These practices operate on the principle that just as we can experience increased tranquility and clarity from clean, organized surroundings, we can also feel much more positive, balanced, and compassionate toward ourselves and others when we take time to clear our minds on a regular basis. The simple activity of clearing out mental clutter can give us the optimal vantage point we most need in order to see new opportunities we would miss otherwise.


Cynthia Sue Larson  bonding with a very special sofa 

There is another aspect of inner dialogue, which is the interconnectedness between our inner thoughts and feelings and everything and everyone around us. We do not exist in isolation, and are therefore continually immersed in an energetic conversation with the universe around us... even when most of the time, this conversation happens beneath our normal threshold of consciousness. 

I was reminded of just how amazingly the inner and outer worlds converge while listening to Fred Alan Wolf's excellent audio learning course, Dr. Quantum Presents Do-It-Yourself Time Travel, in which Wolf tells the story of a man who had an amazingly complex dream set at the time of the French revolution. After many detailed events transpired, the man's dream culminated in a dramatic scene at a guillotine. At the precise moment when the guillotine dropped in the man's dream, he was startled awake by the headboard of his bed falling down on top of his head! The fact that such a lengthy dream could be dreamt immediately prior to such a dramatic and unusual event as a headboard landing on the dreamer's head demonstrates that we are much more connected to and aware of our environment than we tend to consciously acknowledge.

You can get confirmation of the interconnectedness between you and the universe when noting an amazing synchronicity of events which dovetails perfectly with something you were thinking silently to yourself. When you pay close attention to your inner dialogue, you can see how what you think and feel on the inside influences what is going on around you, and get a taste of how your inner dialogue interacts with the universe. Sometimes you will know things you had no obvious way of knowing (such as to look out for something landing on your head), and other times, you will find that your own calmness and clarity can bring coherence to an otherwise chaotic situation. It is in the very interconnectedness of All That Is that we can open the inner door to peaceful tranquility inside ourselves, and in so doing, share the gifts from this inner sanctuary with the world.

Wishing you may discover just how good your life can get,
Cynthia Sue Larson
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"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

-- Richard Bach, Illusions

 

As we approach the year 2012 and notice natural disasters around the world, many people wonder what will happen less than five short years from now. While some fear all manner of crises, it is reassuring to note that several indigenous peoples of Earth inform us that this time of transition has been long anticipated, and something that has occurred many times before. According to the Mayan long count calendar system which tracks events through 26,000 year cycles of time, there is special significance to the year 2012 being a time of transition from the "Earth era" to an "era of Ether" at the time of Winter Solstice, on December 21, 2012. Within the cycles spanning 5,125 years, there are cycles known as the '13 Baktun Count' which last 394 years, or 144,000 days. We are currently traveling through the final 13th baktun cycle -- which began in 1618 and will run through 2012, and which is known as both 'the triumph of materialism' and'the transformation of matter.' The Maya predicted this time would be a time of great forgetting, in which we lose our sense of Oneness with nature and the Earth. In the 1600s, mechanical clocks were invented which continue to this day, and which give people a sense that time exists outside of us, rather than as part of us. The end of this materialistic time and the movement into the time of Ether is a profound change that also corresponds to a unique celestial event. On the winter solstice of 2012, the noonday Sun exactly conjuncts the crossing point of the sun's ecliptic with the galactic plane, while also closely conjuncting the exact the center of the galaxy.

 

This past month I conducted a workshop in which participants and I remote viewed 2012, to see for ourselves what the future holds in store. In this remote viewing circle, most all participants clearly sensed a feeling of tremendous harmony, peacefulness and joy... and yet some also sensed that just past this peaceful calm lay some degree of chaos, stress and strife. This energetic view of 2012 is one which feels like a smooth continuation of life as we know it today, with an additional emphasis on heightened energetic awareness. Most remote viewers had a sense of being in peaceful contemplation by themselves on December 21st 2012, and some noted they could clearly look out at a large, calm body of water. I saw myself by the Pacific Ocean along the California coast, and sensed that even as I was basking in radiant vibrations of unconditional love, there were people on Earth who were primarily focused more on material matters... such as wind storms.

 

According to Hopi legend, the world has already ended three times before, and people have survived fire, an ice age resulting from magnetic pole reversals, and flooding. The signs of the coming Fifth World are now appearing as prophesied by Hopi, as life forms from previous worlds spring up from the ground, the stars, and our hearts. The Hopi Life Plan petroglyphs remind people to be not be misled off course into attempting to be better than others, but instead to remain guided truly by Spirit. In previous end times, those who made it through the transition with the most ease were those whose kopavi, the 'door on top of their heads,' stayed open to receive inspiration, and whose hearts were open to caring for others. An attitude of open-mindedness and open heartedness is clearly optimal for facing times of great upheaval and change, yet in stressful times, people who have not practiced the art of keeping open-minded and open-hearted can find it challenging to maintain.

 

This past month has provided us with opportunities to assist people in the world who have suffered through earthquakes and wind storms. While it is clear that many crises we are facing now require our attention and assistance, it is equally clear on an intuitive level that when we step back far enough, we can see that everything on Earth is moving forward beautifully. It is up to us to remain open to inspiration... and open to love. As singer/songwriter Michael Stipe from the musical group REM puts it, "It's the end of the world as we know it, And I feel fine."

 

Wishing you may discover just how good your life can get,

Cynthia Sue Larson

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Cynthia Sue Larson with Nevada petroglyphs

"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why."
-- Albert Einstein

Many of us who are sensitive to shifting energies have noted an increase in unexpected developments over the past several months. We can expect to see ever increasing volatility around us in the future, because so much many things really are changing that fast. As both human population and the number of new technological inventions undergo near exponential growth, it is inevitable that we begin to feel the effects of all this change on an intuitive level. The net impact of so much transformation going on all around us is that we constantly find ourselves in surprising situations which require us to solve problems we did not expect we would have to deal with. We are entering times which require that we be increasingly adept at intuitively reading signs and signals from the universe, in order to get things back on track, make timely decisions, and revise our plans.

While most people today depend extensively on cell phones, the internet, GPS devices, and a variety of electronic devices for information on how best to get where we are going, ancient navigators managed amazingly well by paying close attention to the color of the ocean water, birds, stars, and clouds to find land when traveling by sea. They found land masses which had been previously uncharted when out in the open sea with limited water rations. Our ancestors accomplished these navigational feats with a combination of intuitive gut feelings, natural experience, and keen observation of a wide variety of natural signs. We might feel uncomfortable imagining ourselves without our technology to guide us, but we can be reassured to know that we can be guided by intuitively reading the signs around us.



Cynthia Sue Larson on Virtual Light Broadcast

This past month during my time in Las Vegas where I was a guest on the Virtual Light Broadcast, I visited some petroglyphs in the Nevada desert with friends, and enjoyed being able to literally read "the writing on the wall." In this case, the writing was in the form of colorful images of people, animals, and symbols which were created by ancient artists who probably considered these pictures and stories to be "set in stone" for all time. Gazing at the ancient symbols and their careful placement on the rocks, I sensed how these ancient stories were reaching forward through time from many hundreds of years ago. A sense of timelessness descended on me, as I savored the experience of being still and listening to the rustling sounds of leaves of small bushes caressed by gentle canyon breezes. This, I realize, is the key to handling constant change: taking time to stop the hyperactive whirlwind of mental, physical, and emotional activity in our lives long enough to allow a sense of feeling relaxed, energized, and at peace. I looked up, and saw a cloud shaped in the form of a great turtle, and smiled inwardly that the shape of the cloud so matched the images of animals painted on the cliff I was resting on. The idea came to me that some signs are etched in stone, and others are more fleeting... like cloud images, which will not last the day. All of these signs, whether fleeting or permanent, can provide us with guidance when we still our active minds and listen deeply.

When I am able to free up my schedule to the point that I can follow whimsy, an amazing thing happens. Instead of going through habitual motions in robotic fashion, racing from one task or appointment to the next, I can quiet my mind... sense an inner spark of creative intent... and ease myself into reading the signs of energetic currents all around me. I then ask myself the question, "What is the best possible thing for me to be doing right now?" and look for signs that will give me precisely the best possible nudge. When I ask, "How can I see and feel how every day in every way my life is getting better and better?" I am able to discover exactly that, finding answers all around.


Wishing you may discover just how good your life can get,
Cynthia Sue Larson
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"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself." 
-- Anna Jameson

This month's featured realityshifters bumper sticker which reads, "Attraction is not just a good idea. It's the law" is very funny to me, because clearly there is no enforcement agency currently ensuring that everyone adheres to the "Law of Attraction." While you can get one of these bumperstickers for yourself or a friend this month through the realityshifters shop, it's purely something fun and entertaining.

I seldom mention the Law of Attraction, as my training in physics taught me early on that science doesn't have laws of physics so much as theories. All of the sciences are based on scientific method, which starts with a hypothesis, and moves along as various theories are systematically tested and gradually adopted. Science is an ever-changing playing field, where this century's ideas are intended to be improvements over last century's notions. Even the so-called law of gravity is not so much a law as a wonderful hypothesis which partially explains why we tend to observe apples falling down to Earth from trees, rather than floating upward. 

So what does it mean to bend the "Law of Attraction"? The so-called "Law of Attraction" is the idea that we tend to attract situations, energies and experiences to us that resonate with our own energy. Bending the Law of Attraction is something akin to getting great results, even when on our off days... when we are not feeling perfectly optimistic, enthusiastic, and energized. Fortunately for us, bending the known "laws of physics" is not as crazy an idea as it may seem, as some things scientists used to presume to be unwavering standards have turned out to be a bit more flexible than previously believed... so that even light can break the "speed of light." The relevance to us of this thrilling possibility, is that we need not let preconceived notions of what is and is not possible interfere with our intentions when we are contemplating ways to make the world a better place, and ways to make our lives more enjoyable, inspiring, and rewarding. Just as a musician might bend a note, we can take the way we are currently feeling... and move it just a bit in the direction of where we would prefer our end results to be. And we can get some pretty cool results!

Just when I was beginning to think it might be a long, long time until any version of my book Reality Shifts would be available in print form, I got the exciting news this month that it is now possible to order a print version of Reality Shifts through the RealityShifters shop at Cafe Press. This has been long sought-after by readers who wanted to read an actual print version of Reality Shifts, rather than the ebook... and now it's here!

Wishing you may discover just how good your life can get,
Cynthia Sue Larson

"At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want."
-- Lao Tzu

I recently heard word from happiness and depression studies that I have reached the bottoming-out, "ground zero" part of my life in which my lifetime happiness levels are expected by scientists in the United States and the United Kingdom to be at the lowest levels I will ever experience, since middle-aged 44 year-olds are being found to feel more unhappy and depressed in their forties than at any other time in their lives. While it is true that hormonal changes in midlife are presenting me with tremendous challenges to deal with in the form of tendencies toward anxiety, depression, and despair... I overcome the invitation into negative emotions through a combination of diet, exercise, meditation, prayer and energy work.

Thinking about the times you've been happiest and most upset, have you noticed a link between your happiness and how kind to yourself you were being in that moment? Chances are pretty good that your happiest times in life, and also the times when others most enjoy your company are times when you have been doing a fairly good job of keeping your needs and wishes central in your life.

This point came home to me very clearly when watching local news stories, and seeing how some people can create either tremendous pain or joy around them... entirely because they are either being kind or cruel to themselves. Kindness to oneself is something that becomes possible when one asks oneself the question my mother used to ask me when I was growing up:

What would make you truly happy?


I love this question, because it suggests that rather than dwelling on what must be done, or what has gone wrong, or what isn't here... there is something we can enjoy having or doing that will bring us tremendous happiness. Thanks to having learned to ask myself this question early in life, these past few months I've been having fun learning to do new things, as new activities and interests have recently become very appealing to me. I have been learning to quilt, play piano, play violin, ride a unicycle, and write screenplays... and generally having a wonderful time as I come up the learning curve from absolute beginner in each of these activities! I also find I am happiest when I do what needs to be done, rather than procrastinate, as I am feeling best when I am not worried about things that ought to be taken care of but are still hanging in limbo.

There are many advantages to being kind to oneself, not the least of which is the tendency for good things to tend to happen when one is feeling good. Pulling yourself up by the emotional bootstraps is something that may seem like putting the cart before the horse, but scientists are consistently showing that unless we put happiness first, we will not necessarily achieve it. Princeton university researchers have dispelled the myth that people who have the most money are consistently happier... as it turns out that unless people who become wealthy have first learned how to be happy, money in and of itself will not bring happiness to them. The researchers noted that, "People with above-average income are relatively satisfied with their lives but are barely happier than others in moment-to-moment experience, tend to be more tense, and do not spend more time in particularly enjoyable activities."

The good news here is that its never too late to have a happy childhood... we can start asking ourselves the question, "What would make me truly happy?", and start taking some action toward being a little bit kinder with ourselves.

Wishing you may discover how good your life can get,
Cynthia Sue Larson
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Cynthia Sue Larson

"The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile." 
-- Denis Waitley

Quick! Think of the person in your life who seems most fulfilled... who genuinely seems to have it all and be truly happy. Chances are that whoever comes to mind is someone who completely loves what they do in life, and their inner joy comes shining through. Their inner radiance... that evident bliss... is a quality which is frequently seen among those who have found what they love to do and who they love to be, and these happy, fulfilled people are succeeding in life precisely because they are keeping their most fulfilling activities and qualities as the centerpieces of their lives. More often than not, almost everything they do contributes to their overall sense of satisfaction in living a life of purpose and value... with very few empty or meaningless moments.

While contemplating how you can make 2008 truly, truly great, consider how you can do what people who live the most fulfilled lives are doing. You can make this the year that you take chances, reinvent yourself, and frequently consider how what you are doing impacts others and the world around you. Remind yourself that happiness leads to success, as numerous recent scientific studies have shown. Another important idea that successful, fulfilled, genuinely prosperous people know that unfulfilled people sometimes forget is the concept that: 

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." -- Abraham Lincoln

Fred Alan Wolf, aka Dr. Quantum, and Cynthia Sue Larson

When you make what you love the center of your universe, you can see how obstacles to experiencing your best possible life will tend to slip away. You can feel a happiness that stems from following your inspiration, and find courage in making time and space for you to live the life of your dreams. Once you have a crystal clear vision of your life in terms of it being as wonderful as possible, realize that successful people expect success... and you can expect success, too. Imagine how your best possible year is going look and feel to you... particularly in terms of the joy it will bring to you and everyone around you. Take a nice deep breath, exhale fully, and find a rhythm of deep, full breathing as you keep feeling excited about the wonderful journey you are on.

For the past couple of years, I have kept a gratitude / daydream journal that contains all the happiest thoughts and feelings about the past, the present, and the future... watching with joy and delight as each daydream moves from the realm of pure imagination into my physical reality. In many cases, there is nearly instantaneous materialization of those things I most desire... and the key to success with this write-it-down-and-watch-it-happen tool is similar to how the Vision Statement concept works... it helps to keep me positively affirming and expecting all that I love most in life... thereby helping to create all those things I love that I am lavishing my time, energy and attention on.

Wishing you may discover how good your life can get,
Cynthia Sue Larson
email Cynthia at cynthia@realityshifters.com 

"The greatest discovery of my generation
is that human beings can alter their lives
by altering their attitudes of mind." 
-- William James

The word Eudaimonism comes from the Greek word for happiness, eudaimonia. This is a very important word, because it represents a philosophy which states that right actions lead to the greatest well-being of every individual. The Eudaemons of ancient pre-Hellenic Greece were guardian angels that watched over mortals, inspiring people to do the best thing in each situation, and eudemonics is the art of happiness that results from consistently doing what we know to be correct. Part of the original concept of eudemonics is that taking right action naturally leads to happiness, whereas doing what we know is wrong leads to unhappiness. This concept that we can choose to live happy lives by doing what we know to be right is one of the most relevant concepts we are likely to encounter, as it holds the promise of greater joy for ourselves and for everyone we interact with.

One of the biggest challenges facing people who consult with me for spiritual life coaching is finding the most positive way to frame their life experiences so they can most consistently find and take the best possible action. Sometimes, people feel a sense of losing touch with what brings them the most joy, and with a sense of doing what they are here to do. The idea of doing the right thing is one which invites us to answer the question:

"How wonderful can I be today?"

When you ask this question of the universe with all your heart and listen for the answer, you will be consistently informed of more positive ways you can think, speak, and behave in ways that shape your character from the inside out, which in turn is guaranteed to improve the world.

Cynthia Sue Larson's vision statement

Wherever you are, and whatever you are doing, there is something you can think right now which will bring you and someone else greater love and joy... and it will only take a moment of your time to take some action and do. Set aside whatever you were doing and take some positive action by following through on that positive thought right now, and notice how you feel immediately afterward. Chances are that not only will you feel the benefit of an immediate boost to your emotional well-being, you will also feel uplifted and empowered in ways that stay with you through the rest of today and into tomorrow. When you take a few minutes each day to do something especially good for someone else, you will see ever-increasing evidence of how you are improving your life as you improve the lives of others.

While I practice several daily methods to boost my mood and keep my spirits up, one of my very favorite ways to raise my spirits while envisioning my life at its best is to watch my own personal vision statement, which is something like a music video showing pictures and words that correspond with my greatest dreams and aspirations. The tools and training to create your own vision statement are readily available through Malcolm Cohan's vision statement web site which can inspire you to further explore just how wonderful you can be. And keep in mind that for the very best results, you will do well to aim HIGH!

Wishing you all the best that life and love have to offer,
Cynthia Sue Larson
email Cynthia at cynthia@realityshifters.com 

"I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have -- life itself." -- Walter Anderson As I withdrew my hand from the depths of vegetable peelings and tea bags in the kitchen garbage, I wondered how and where I had managed to lose one of my favorite gold rings... the small "needle in a haystack" I was seeking. I had just put it on my hand a few minutes ago, and I marvelled at how I could have lost it so soon after putting it on. I dug down through the remainders of last night's dinner and this morning's breakfast, elbow-deep in food scraps, feeling heart sick. Compared to my intense feelings of sorrow from losing my ring, suffering the insults of the smell and feel of slimy garbage felt like a necessary hardship. I had already dumped out the contents of my purse and taken meticulous inventory of each item, returning them one at a time back to my purse, and the only remaining place I could think of where my ring might have fallen off in the last few minutes was the trash. So here I was, almost to the bottom of it. I had already thoroughly searched my sweater drawer and a cupboard under the sink, and I had retraced my steps around the house several times, with no sign of my beloved ring. Now it was time to leave the house, so I washed my hands and gathered my things. I took a moment to meditate on the fact that there was always a chance my ring might return to me anywhere at any time, and with this consoling thought along with my heartfelt feelings of connection and love for my ring, drove off to meet some friends for lunch. Driving down the road, I realized that I was facing a fear of losing that lovely amethyst ring, and realized that since I was communicating with it through my thoughts, and remembering how much I love it, in some ways it was still with me, and will always be with me. This realization helped me relax with the feeling that I hadn't really lost my ring, because it really will always be with me... in spirit. I decided to have a good time at lunch with my friends without worrying about what had happened to my ring. At some point during lunch with my friends, I reached my right hand down into my purse to seek a pen using my fingers to search by touch, when I was startled to feel a familiar ring-shaped object. I quickly held it up to examine it more closely, and was thrilled to see it was the ring I had lost that very morning! What's so special about this experience is that it demonstrates one of the principles at the heart of my prosperity manifestation meditations... which is that changing how I emotionally feel from sadness to joy, from loneliness to connected, from fearful to ecstatically loving is the key to astonishing success at becoming luckier and more likely to receive marvelous surprises and unanticipated delights. This is the key to successful reality shifting: knowing that we can always achieve greater prosperity, and relax while feeling positive about every situation, no matter how some experiences may initially seem. Wishing you all the best that life and love have to offer, Cynthia Sue Larson

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."
-- Leonardo da Vinci

Many spiritually focused people I know suffer from an internal conflict between wishing to succeed competitively and suspecting that competition is somehow at odds with living true to one's highest nature. These people are concerned that in order to achieve success doing what they love to do, they might be forced to abandon their high ethical standards. Keenly aware that life has winners, they presume it must logically follow that there will also be losers, and subconsciously fret that their financial or material successes might somehow inadvertantly contribute to harming others. Left to their own devices, these deeply seated internal fears can undermine the best of positive affirmations and intentions. While this problem may seem insurmountable, there is a graceful resolution: self-mastery.

Cynthia Sue Larson competing in staff spinning at Kuk Sool Won tournament

When participating in a martial arts tournament this past weekend, I entered the competition with the mindset of doing my personal best, focusing on what I can do, rather than what my various health issues (an injured knee and the beginning of a cold) would indicate I can't do. On the morning of the Kuk Sool Won tournament, I felt an enormous palpable sense of excitement as I woke up and realized this buzz of electric energy was coming from the hundreds of participants I would meet that day. I set my intention to do my very best as part of the overall success and prosperity of my martial arts school and the community of Kuk Sool Won. At the tournament, I met and made friends with wonderful Kuk Sool Won students from all over California, and was delighted to feel a sense of shared commitment to excellence. My intention turned out to match my experience of the day, as I competed in and won medals for three of the four events I signed up for, doing the best I could and being rewarded by sharing special moments with old and new friends, instructors, and the Kuk Sool Won grand master, In Hyuk Suh.

What we can learn from practicing competitive sports that require us to remain focused on doing our personal best is that we can simultaneously compete with others while being part of a larger community, and that essentially, the only one we ever truly compete with is ourself. Since financial prosperity is often viewed as a form of competitive success, it presents us with an opportunity to view financial success as serving the world while being part of the overall success and prosperity of mankind. We are fortunate to live in times when online organizations are helping people attain financial success one person at a time with person-to-person lending websites that allow people to borrow money from those who wish to help. I have joined and am happy to recommend both Prosper and Kiva for providing loans to those in need that are funded by those seeking a more rewarding way to earn interest on their savings. We are very fortunate to live in a world where we can feel community support for our individual efforts, and where we can each help one another as we work toward our own unique goals of personal mastery.

Wishing you all the best that life and love have to offer,
Cynthia Sue Larson

I just found out that my colleague Arupa Tesolin has written a book on using intuition at work & in business called “ting! - A Surprising Way to Listen To Intuition & Do Business Better.” As Arupa describes it, ting! is the “sound” of intuition striking an open mind. Kind of like a light bulb going off! The reason I'm telling you about this particular book promotion is that I want to let you know that Arupa is offering special gifts valued at $7300+ which you can check out and see if there's something you'd like in there when you shop for ting! from Wed. Oct. 3 to Fri. Oct. 19th at www.intuita.com/ting.htm lots of love, Cynthia