Showing Up Brilliant…

because we all want to shine.

I know you want to be your most brilliant self…who doesn’t?

You want to use our own unique gifts and talents to make a difference.

You have a vision and long to make it reality, but just how do you get that to happen?

As humans we have a deep universal longing to “help increase the quality of another’s life.” as Marshall Rosenberg says. This is what makes us feel good, purposeful, satisfied…ok, and happy.  When we are in service to our truest and highest calling we feel alive, juicy and vibrant even if what we are involved in is hard and challenging.

One of the most painful things possible is to have our gifts and talents unreceived…to have our very brilliance unseen and unrecognized.

Having a deep yearning to show up and make a difference, be the difference, can be frustrating, lonely and exhausting, most especially when we can’t seem to make any headway.

At times you may feel, lost overwhelmed and just plain confused about where to even start.

So what IS in the way?

Why don’t we all shine, in our magnificent brilliance?

• It’s not because you don’t know enough, or aren’t smart enough, or don’t have good enough ideas.

• It’s not because you haven’t worked hard enough or done enough.

• It’s not because you haven’t read enough books, or watched enough videos.

• It’s not because you haven’t tried, or thought about it a ton, or even, yes, obsessed about why you haven’t moved forward. You might even know the why and that STILL doesn’t help.

• It’s not because you haven’t taken enough workshops, classes or done the LOA until you are blue in the face with very mixed results…if thoughts and wishes made reality you’d be there by now, right?

• It’s not because you haven’t worked on yourself, done therapy, group work, mentoring programs or spiritual retreats.

It is certainly not because you haven’t tried!

If you knew just what and how you’d do it right?

So why hasn’t this worked?

To create what you most long for, you need the following:

• You need to feel safe.

This is number one for a reason. Feeling safe is more than just a feeling…it is a human biological need. We need to feel safe to grow. We can either be defended or we can heal, transform and create and thus, show up in our brilliance. We cannot do both at the same time.

For many of our nervous systems are on hyper -overdrive. We feel stressed and anxious much of the time. We have no idea how to move from fight or flight to thrive.  There are effective, simple  and easy to use tools that addresses safety on many levels.

• The Ability to Access Your Inner Wisdom on a Regular Basis

When we are doing too many things, when we are going in too many directions, when we are running on fear and adrenaline and survival thoughts…nothing works because we simply can’t get quiet enough to listen to that inner knowing and place of power. Many of us have difficulty even distinguishing and hearing the difference between the voices of our head, our heart and our inner knowing.

• Clear Intention and True Choice

The intention behind the intention is what allows us to really show up big. The vast majority of what is running the show and getting in our way is our unconscious, hidden beliefs and patterns.

We have access to only about 4-5% of our consciousness. That means, for example, that if we have a dream to show up big in the world and there is some hidden part that is terrified of being seen, battle is engaged and until that battle is resolved conflict and resistance is the hard edge we are up against. Part of the problem is the mentality of struggle itself.

• Groups and Communities

We have so much trauma around belonging and being in groups. The balance between autonomy and belonging is often fraught with all kinds of unconscious fears and unmet needs. The need to be loved, accepted and belong combined with the biological drive for survival is very strong. On top of that we also have a deep need to be autonomous and independent. We just don’t have the tools or models to create and be in relationship with others in a way that empowers everyone while maintaining a vision and focus.

I know you would drop all that stuff in your way in an instant if you could…but the majority of us need help to do that…and not simply therapy or talking about it…we need some serious energy tools to start moving these big tied up knots that are hidden away. Once these knots begin to move, we experience greater freedom and clarity to make a difference. And affect change in the world.

So how do you begin?