Master Fears & Create a Positive Shift

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"If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain." - Charles B. Newcomb

Learning to master our fears and develop a good relationship with the unknown is essential to living life to the fullest. One of the greatest things I ever did for my self confidence was graduating from UC Berkeley's physics department. I discovered when I began classes at age eighteen at UC Berkeley that I was one of very few women students in the physics department, and typically the only female in any given class. I was painfully shy, and frequently got knots of nervous tension in my stomach from the combined stress of living away from home for the first time, taking classes on a faster-paced quarter system for the first time, and being keenly aware of being an extreme minority. In order to succeed in this environment, I had to face and conquer many fears.

Cynthia November 1981

My first report card at UC Berkeley hit me with a feeling very much like a physical blow when I saw instead of getting most all A's as I'd received all through high school, I was getting C's. I thought to myself that my first report card from UC Berkeley confirmed my worst fears. These fears had to do with my thinking that the only students who could make it through UC Berkeley's rigorous physics program were the ones I saw in the majority in LeConte Hall... young Asian males. I broke down in tears at the thought of failing in my physics program, and wondered how I could ever tell my parents what had happened. Failure in my eyes at that time was more to do with not getting As than it was the concept of being kicked out by the university. In the midst of my dark mood at that point, my roommate Kathryn bounced joyfully over to ask me, "Did you pass?" I wiped my tears away with my hands, stunned by her question. "Yes, I passed," I replied. Kathryn whooped for joy, and said, "Let's celebrate!"

I still had tight knots in my abdomen facing the rigors of getting a grip on the quarter system, living away from home, and being one a handful of women in my program. The greatest epiphany for me at that juncture in my life was the simple realization that my own thoughts and attitudes made the biggest difference in my success in life. Yes, I had passed my classes... and while my first reaction to seeing my report card was to grieve, wasn't it a whole lot healthier to celebrate the fact that I was not at risk for flunking out?

This turning point in my life taught me that by mastering my inner dialogue of thoughts and attitude, I can face anything. Not only can I overcome my fears, but I can improve my relationship with whatever or whoever I have been afraid of. Even though I was still painfully shy, I found ways to enjoy being the only girl in most of my UC Berkeley Physics classes. I found ways to see myself as succeeding at meeting my goals by tackling areas I had difficulty with in small steps... and I succeeded.

And speaking of fears, the year 2012 brings curiosity and a touch of fear to all our minds. Unlike the Y2K fear, 2012 has been foretold in prophecy for thousands of years. People wonder what it means, who will be affected, whether 2012 is the end, and what will happen to us. I found some fascinating answers to these questions in 2012: Creating Your Own Shift, a tremendously important book at a time when the world seems to have gone crazy! This book is a strikingly powerful epiphany and a practical handbook, all in one. If you wonder what's going to happen on December 21, 2012, this book is a must read! It will enable you to explore the deeper nature within and guide you to answers about the outer world. 2012: Creating Your Own Shift summarizes the best insights that thirty-seven of the world’s most authoritative sources have to offer, providing readers with a vast cross-section of titillating information and perspectives on the 2012 transition. One thing on which all the authors of this amazing work agree is that 2012 will mark an initiation into a completely new consciousness and a divinely ordained new beginning for our world.

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Love always,
Cynthia Sue Larson
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Be Your Own Valentine

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Be Your Own Valentine

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.

Be thine own Valentine!

Valentine's Day has long been a favorite holiday of mine, mostly because I have always adored the idea of having a special day dedicated to the idea of Love. I enjoyed cutting and pasting hand-made Valentines when I was a little girl, and giving them to people I cared about. Valentine's Day is such a marvelous opportunity to tell the world how much you love it... and to let yourself know how much you love you, too! Never mind all the hype about how this day is devoted only to romantic love... the real beauty of having a day to honor Love is that when we stop to think about it, love is everywhere, all around. The key to most fully enjoying Valentine's Day is to be loving toward ourselves... being our own Valentine!

One thing I notice as I get older and wiser is what an enormous difference energy, enthusiasm and attitude makes. It's obvious how much better my days are when I start each day with meditations to clear, harmonize, balance and raise energy to a central core feeling of being the embodiment of love. This feeling of loving oneself is not so much "all about me," as it is about experiencing unconditional loving acceptance and support for oneself. This feeling can become one's regular everyday state of being, even when it feels strange or unfamiliar at first.

I was fortunate growing up to have a mom who frequently asked me the question, "What would make you truly happy today?" Whether or not you are in a romantic relationship, ask yourself, "What would make me truly happy today?" and imagine what you can do to brighten your day. Many of the same acts of kindness we like to do for others are every bit as wonderful when we do them for ourselves... such as thoughtfully making a favorite beverage, finding a favorite book, or going to a special place at sunset. You can even get yourself something whimsical and fun as a special token and reminder of love. Let this Valentine's Day be extra special for yourself this year, and know that when you feel loved by yourself, you are truly brightening the world.

I'm delighted to announce that my fifth book, RealityShifters Guide to High Energy Money, is now available in paperback, Kindle, and ebook editions! Finally all my best meditations, reality shift stories and summaries of prosperity research can be found in one book designed to inspire you to thoroughly enjoy finding, keeping, and growing your finances. This is where the money magic all begins... check it out and look inside the book today!

Let’s Connect

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Love always,
Cynthia Sue Larson
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Celebrate Life

Cynthia Sue Larson celebrating life in a treehouse in Oregon. See Cynthia summarize this RealityShifters on YouTube!

Celebrate Life

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." - Oprah Winfrey
Happy New Year! I love the feeling of getting a fresh start in life every time I move to a new place, start a new project, and start a new year. I love the sense of fresh energy and hopefulness and the feeling that anything is possible! When we celebrate these turning points in life, we get a terrific energetic boost.

New year's resolutions don't have to be entirely focused on restrictions and constraints... it is possible to take our positive intentions and transform them into ongoing celebrations that continually inspire us to be and do those things we desire when we focus on what most excites, tantalizes and enthuses us. Thinking about and taking steps forward according to such positive ideas is invites us on a celebratory journey through life,. One of the ways I celebrated life this past month was by spending a night in a beautiful treehouse, comfortably situated some thirty feet high in the air, surrounded by beautiful trees. I had longed to stay in a treehouse since I was a little girl, so this experience was tremendously meaningful to me. There is a special kind of joyful feeling from such an experience, which stays with me long after my time in that enchanted treehouse is gone.

This time of a brand new year is a perfect time to think about celebrating life in ways that truly make you happiest, based on what you've come to know about yourself. At the start of this new year, this is a great time to imagine it will be in your life within the next year... and write it down in a special journal of what you are thankful for, what you are dreaming of, and what you desire. There is something marvelous about combining a gratitude journal with your favorite hopes and dreams, and I have found that things I write down in such a book come true amazingly fast and easily. If you are grateful that you have a really good friend, give some thought to that special friendship, and write a sentence or two about what you love most about your friend. If your health is good in some ways, take some time to feel gratitude for all the things you are able to do. If you'd love to travel somewhere, or spend time in a special place, imagine yourself in those places, and write down a description of being there.

I invite you to celebrate life this year in two fabulous ways... by having fun with more money and better health! I hope you will read and enjoy my new brand new book, RealityShifters Guide to High Energy Money, as it inspires you to thoroughly enjoy finding, keeping, and growing your finances with inspirational stories of real life monetary reality shifts. I am also thrilled to invite you to join me in the I Am Healthy Project by declaring the powerful affirmation, "I am healthy." The target for this project is to start off by generating a critical mass of one million people who are all aligned with the same powerful and transformational idea... an idea that has the power to transform the world.

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Love always,
Cynthia Sue Larson
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Enjoy Divine Balance

Cynthia Sue Larson in Sonoma, California. See Cynthia summarize this RealityShifters on YouTube video!

Enjoy Divine Balance

"So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I was on my way to an event in San Francisco the other evening, when I ended up getting a bit turned around, not sure which way to go. I walked over to the nearest building, and asked a gentleman in the lobby directions at the very same moment that I noticed there was a wedding in progress. A feeling of amazement washed over me as I realized I had arrived at precisely the right time to see the bride and groom holding hands on the steps, and taking their vows. In this equisite enchanted moment, I knew I was in exactly the right place at the right time, and not really lost at all. In fact, this little detour added a richer emotional depth to my evening, as I marveled at the beauty of the moment being so deliciously sublime.

The more I practice meditation and mindfulness in my daily life, the easier it is for me to feel in balance with what is going on, even when it is not going according to the plans I had in mind. A mindful attitude gives me a unique opportunity every time things seem to be going slightly (or very) wrong, helping me keep an open mind to considering the possibility that everything is fine. Such a relaxed, positive mindset has been credited with contributing to creative breakthroughs and inventions, and also has been rather closely associated with happiness, and reduction in stress... so there are many reasons to remind ourselves this holiday season to stay relaxed even when we start to feel stressed out due to things not being the way we expected.

We can all benefit from adopting positive self talk about ourselves and our health, such as is recommended at this month's award winning web site, I Am Healthy Radio. I am honored to be part of a very special I Am Healthy Radio teleseminar on How to Eat Well, Look Good, and Feel Great today, December 6th, from 3pm to 6pm PST. You can also listen to me talk about my journey and reality shifts as part of the I Am Healthy University i-Heal Education Series
any time.

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Love always,
Cynthia Sue Larson
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Experience Good Timing & Flow

Cynthia Sue Larson in Sonoma, California. See Cynthia summarize this RealityShifters on YouTube video!

Experience Good Timing & Flow

"Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different."
- Stacey Charter
I enjoyed watching the World Series baseball games this past month -- especially the players who managed to consistently stay calm despite the pressures of performing at their opponents' home stadium in front of thousands of people in a nationally televised game. Clearly, being on top of one's game requires not just skill, but also an inner quality of character that helps ensure a relaxed attitude, complete focus, good timing, and seemingly effortless flow.

What kind of mindset brings us most readily to that optimal state of experiencing relaxation in the face of tremendous opposition, so we can maintain good timing and flow? When I reflect on this question, I get the answer: acceptance. Accepting ourselves as we are, and the world as it is, from a place of loving oneself even if other people might think of us as atypical, a misfit, or even a "freak."

Attaining this kind of self acceptance that ensures an optimal blend of being relaxed, focused and poised is something each one of us can cultivate for ourselves, and it starts in a state of unconditionally loving oneself. We can take daily check-points of how we are feeling, in order to pay closer attention to how relaxed versus tense we are, how loving versus fearful we are, and how joyful versus sad we feel. Whatever we are feeling thus becomes a kind of set point, which we can observe and accept, noting things we would like to change in our lives that we have the ability to improve, and making a commitment to ourselves to make those improvements, always unconditionally loving and accepting ourselves just as we are, every step of the way.

It turns out that this kind of openness and mindfulness is also the optimal approach to parenting, as Dr. Shefali Tsabary points out in her wonderful book, The Conscious Parent. When we embrace the totality of who we are, including our imperfections, we empower ourselves and those around us to be the best we can be at who we are.

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Love always,
Cynthia Sue Larson
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Seeing Loved Ones Before They Arrive

Cynthia Sue
Larson at Asilomar, California. See Cynthia summarize this RealityShifters on
YouTube video!

"Love is like magic
And it always will be

For love still remains
Life's sweet mystery

Love works in ways
That are wondrous and strange

And there's nothing in life
That love cannot change"

- Helen Steiner Rice


Thanks to RealityShifters reader, Kate, of Handwriting That Works, I recently heard of the Vardøgr (vard-deh-AY-grr), which is a Norwegian word meaning "premonitory sound or sight of a person before he arrives." A similar concept is known in Finland as Etiäinen, meaning a precognitive vision or dream. These words are used to describe experiences when one sees or hears a family member or guest before the person in question actually arrives. The July 2010 and August 2010 issues of RealityShifters featured several accounts of this particular type of reality shift including one in which I saw my front door open and heard my daughters voice about thirty or forty minutes before she actually appeared. I now wonder how many of the reality shift experiences I have had over the years might fall under this general heading as well, such as these two examples shared in my book, RealityShifts: When
Consciousness Changes the Physical World:

* My daughters saw me enter their bedroom and turn on their light, waking them up (Reality Shifts: pp. 114-115) * A woman requested a business card twice (Reality Shifts: pp. 138-139, 142)

The Vardøgr or Etiäinen concept also gets me thinking about a
couple of experiences involving bilocation and time loops that I have
mentioned previoiusly in RealityShifters:

* A woman entered an Albuquerque hotel twice * A woman saw me on Solano Avenue on a day I was actually at a holistic expo in another city

I am especially intrigued by situations where people reported having seen me bilocating, since the people reporting having seen me were people who knew me well, and in both bilocation instances I was in a meditative, relaxed state of mind as I was thinking about being elsewhere. My daughters were awakened by my double’s entrance to their room as I said "Good mroning," and turned on their light switch, filling their room with light. They were surprised to run to my room and find me "still in bed," when in my own experience that morning, I had never out of bed... only contemplated it. The woman who told me that she had seen me walking down Solano Avenue was excited to tell me about this, because she knew I was scheduled to be attending a full-day holistic expo in a different city that day, so she was therefore quite surprised to see me enjoying a stroll down the street. Strolling down that street is exactly what I was daydreaming about at that point in time, as I was sitting indoors many miles away!

Another experience I once had while on a bike ride with my daughter comes to mind as being similar to the Vardøgr, even though it involved trees instead of people. My oldest daughter had asked me to join her on an expedition to ride our bicycles out along a mountain road to visit a couple of trees she had seen and loved from a distance of several miles, viewed from one mountain ridge to another. I noticed as we arrived at a place that seemed close to our goal that this idea would be challenging, as a forest of trees lay between the road we traveled on and my daughters favorite trees. Surprisingly, as I rode my bicycle while turning my head to see if I could catch even a glimpse of my daughter's favorite trees, I suddenly saw a completely unobscured view of those two trees appear before me just as
clearly as everything else I was looking at. This vision of the two trees appeared in a particular place on the horizon, replacing the forest that was actually there... and lasting for almost a full minute. As the vision faded from view, I was so stunned by this vision that I excitedly told my daughter, "I know which way to go to find your trees!" We followed the direction of my vision, and found this guidance to be completely accurate. The two trees were indeed located exactly where I had just "seen" them to be.

In all these experiences I feel inspired by the idea that we are capable of traveling to where we wish to be in such a way that others observe us there... and sometimes when we daydream, we might just get home (or somewhere else wonderful) a little bit ahead of ourselves!

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Love always,
Cynthia Sue Larson
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Communicate With Past & Future Selves

RealityShifters subscriber Terry with Cynthia at the SEED Language of Spirit Conference in Albuquerque. See Cynthia Sue Larson summarize this RealityShifters on YouTube video!

Communicate With Past & Future Selves


"Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture."
- David Bohm

Can you imagine what your life might be like today if you could talk to yourself in the past? Can you further imagine the possibility that your future self might be giving you some guidance at this very moment? What would a world feel like in which such communication through time was commonplace? These were some of the questions I explored in my pre-conference talk this past month at the SEED Language of Spirit conference, Listening to Future Selves, Reviewing Our Pasts. As I mentioned in my conference presentation, one key to accessing all aspects of ourselves is by returning to a state of experiencing a timeless sense of Nowhen... which is a transcendent meditative state of mind in which most of our preconceived labels and habitual ways of thinking do not apply. This way of being in the world without being overly obsessed with Ego and its attendant fears, and free from the usual eagerness to reject what we presume to be too different from ourselves provides us with an optimal perspective from which we can most fully realize an interconnected awareness of self and all that is.

RealityShifters subscriber Gracie Gail of Starry Heart Earth with Cynthia at the SEED Language of Spirit Conference in Albuquerque.

The Language of Spirit dialogue was exceptional for being a deep conversation, initiated and moderated by original dialogue participant, Leroy Little Bear. Conference organizer Shawn Secatero helped bring together dialogue participants to delve into the topic of time travel this year, creating an opportunity for a sharing of ideas between indigenous scholars and elders, linguists and scientists from radically different walks of life and places in the world. The dialogue moderator, Leroy Little Bear, selected which person would have the next opportunity to speak, at which point that person would talk uninterrupted as long as that person felt inspired. A special rapport developed in this dialogue, which became evident as various ideas wove their way in and out of the dialogue, creating a deeply transformative conversation.

Physicist David Bohm's concept of dialogue as a way of communicating with no predefined purpose or agenda, other than exploring where a group of twenty or more people's conversation may go, is different than discussion or debate. There is careful attention paid to the process of thought in such dialogues, which are conducted along the lines of the David Bohm's quote at the top of this page. The main idea is that we stop defending our own ideas and start more fully listening to people saying things that we might previously have been blocked or felt insensitive to.

Deep listening is the key to good dialogue, and this is something we can do with ourselves and in every relationship in our lives. Finding a state of deep listening... of deep conversation... without imposing old preexisting views or conforming to others' views is a transformative state of consciousness. From such a place, it is possible to more fully appreciate and become aware of all aspects of oneself, including our past and future selves. It is also possible to move past a sense that it is always the other person who is wrong or prejudiced and not listening... so we can become alert and attentive to the way our minds sometimes move away from what we think may disturb us.

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Love always,
Cynthia Sue Larson
email Cynthia at cynthia@realityshifters.com