Tonight was the kick off of what is sure to be another amazing season on Healing with the Masters, and Guy Finley was the perfect choice to help get it underway.
We chatted about how we can better understand our experiences, and his work is about introducing people to making these changes. That it’s not the situations that hold us captive, but a part of us that clings to who or what we’ve been to know the freedom we’re looking for. Real life often brings what we think is unwanted, but we should recognize that these things are actually better or truer representations of ourselves. We gain new understandings of our relationships.
Oftentimes, we believe the present moment as being greater than our possibility to learn more more about ourselves through it because life is trying to introduce us to the incomplete or mistaken beliefs.
We talked a lot about fear, and Guy told us that it’s revealed in the moment to bring us forward because we resist what we don’t want, but need to see. We should choose a new kind of watchfulness over willfulness. When we watch, something new happens. For example, when we’re experiencing beauty, we’re opening ourselves to the beauty that is within us. And when we can learn the name of something, we then have the power over it.
One thing is clear… fear always steals from us. It steals our possibilities, and it doesn’t serve us. Fear appears to keep in place the part of us responsible for it’s appearance, and we can’t separate the level of ourselves that’s in the storm from the situation its creating.
He then shared with us once more an exercise called Stop, Drop, and Endure. The stop is where we acknowledge the negative reaction to whatever is triggering us; the drop is when we deliberately separate ourselves from the reaction; and the endure is where we begin to call its bluff and choose the light of awareness vs. the part of us that feels threatened. Events of themselves have no qualities; they’re neutral. BUT they reveal the qualities within us.
This was a really fantastic call, and Guy delivered lots of food for thought. And I’m only sharing the first half of the call… the rest of the call was just as amazing!
Tags: Guy Finley, Healing with the Masters, Jennifer McLean, Season 6
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