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Meditation can be a valuable tool in healing for individuals who have experienced trauma. 

Who would’ve thought that healing trauma with meditation is possible? The deep emotional wounds come with repercussions, like a person’s mental, emotional, and physical well-being in disarray. Meditation, when practiced mindfully and with appropriate guidance, can help in several ways:

Mind-Body Connection

Trauma can often lead to a disconnection between the mind and body. Meditation can help bridge this gap by fostering a deeper awareness of bodily sensations, emotions, and thoughts. Mindful practices like body scanning and breath awareness can encourage the reintegration of mind and body.

Regulation of the Nervous System

Trauma can lead to a dysregulated nervous system, resulting in hypervigilance, anxiety, or emotional numbness. Meditation, especially practices focusing on deep breathing and relaxation, can activate the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting a sense of calm and safety.

Emotional Processing

Meditation can provide a safe space to process and release trauma-related emotions. Individuals can gradually work through unresolved emotional pain by observing emotions non-judgmentally and allowing them to arise and pass.

Cultivating Mindfulness

Mindfulness, the practice of being fully present in the moment without judgment, can help individuals develop greater resilience to trauma-related triggers and stressors. One can learn to respond to challenging situations with greater clarity and composure through mindfulness.

Building Resilience

Trauma can make individuals more susceptible to stress and emotional turmoil. Meditation can help build resilience by fostering a more balanced perspective, reducing reactivity, and enhancing coping mechanisms.

Creating Space for Healing Trauma

Regular meditation allows individuals to create a sacred and nurturing space essential for healing from trauma. This dedicated time for self-care and self-compassion can be transformative in the recovery process.

That is where Mana Sciences comes in. With meditative yoga, uncover your inner strength in healing trauma with the help of ancient Hawaiian wisdom. Participants of the Empower Me Free yoga classes by Mana Sciences Yoga provide the best results. They also have excellently certified Hatha Yoga instructors registered with the Yoga Alliance.

If you are a registered yoga instructor already and need Continuing Education (CE) credits, you can enjoy the benefits of the Mana Gardening empowerment with private one-on-one yoga education classes, either physical or video conferencing. You’ll always have options with Mana Sciences, whose mission is to empower souls through yoga.

You can contact them here if you have any more inquiries and are curious about what more Mana Sciences can bring for you.

Working On the Complexities of Trauma

While meditation can be beneficial, it’s essential to recognize that trauma is a complex and sensitive issue. It’s crucial to work with a trained mental health professional, such as a therapist or counselor, who specializes in trauma therapy. They can provide appropriate support and guidance and ensure meditation practices align with your unique needs and healing journey.

Remember, healing from trauma is a gradual process that requires patience and self-compassion. Meditation can be a valuable complement to professional therapy, support groups, and other healing modalities. It’s essential to honor your experiences, take your time, and seek help from qualified professionals as needed.

Empowering Yoga Practices for Healing Trauma

To empower your yoga practice, you can incorporate the following tips and techniques to deepen your mind-body connection and enhance your overall experience:

Set Intentions

Start each yoga session with a clear intention or purpose. Setting intentions can focus your mind and direct your energy during practice, whether to cultivate inner peace, build strength, improve flexibility, or be present.

Breath Awareness

Pay close attention to your breath throughout your practice. Use deep, mindful breathing to anchor yourself in the present moment and maintain a steady rhythm. Breath awareness also helps you stay focused and calm during challenging poses.

Regular Practice

Consistency is critical. Set aside dedicated time for your yoga practice regularly. Regularity will bring more profound benefits over time, whether daily, a few times a week, or whatever works for you.

Practice Mindfulness

Yoga is not just about physical postures; it’s about being fully present in the moment and believing in the impossible. Cultivate mindfulness by observing your thoughts and sensations without judgment during your practice. This can help you develop a more profound self-awareness and inner peace.

Proper Alignment

Focus on alignment to avoid injury and maximize each pose. Listen to your body and make adjustments as needed. If you’re unsure about proper alignment, consider attending classes with experienced instructors or seeking online resources.

Warm-Up

Always warm up before diving into more challenging poses. Gentle stretches and movements prepare your body and mind for the practice ahead, reducing the risk of strain or injury.

Embracing Challenges in Healing Trauma

Don’t shy away from challenges for the sake of growth and self-discovery. With patience and consistent effort, you’ll gradually see improvements. Cultivate a sense of gratitude for your practice, your body, and your progress. Appreciating the journey will help you stay motivated and positive, even during frustration or plateaus.

And lastly, be kind to yourself and avoid self-criticism. Remember that yoga is a personal journey, and progress looks different for everyone. Celebrate your achievements, no matter how small, and treat yourself with compassion and understanding.

By incorporating these elements into your yoga practice, you can empower yourself to experience the full benefits of yoga on physical, mental, and spiritual levels. Remember, yoga is a lifelong journey of self-discovery and growth, so embrace the process and enjoy the transformation it brings to your life.

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To this day, the brain remains a mystery. Nobody truly knows its capacity and limitations. However, one thing is sure to humanity: rewiring the brain may be possible due to its dynamism.

The brain is an ever-changing system in people’s bodies. It’s in charge of ensuring that people can adapt to a likewise ever-changing world.

The constant reminder that adults must be conscious and aware of their behaviors in front of children isn’t done out of illogical fears or pure paranoia. There’s a logic behind this belief, which concerns the brain’s malleability or dynamism. Like its surroundings, the brain is a highly dynamic machine with a constantly changing and adapting functioning.

Knowledge like this allows people to regain hope, especially individuals with mental illnesses who carry a negative perspective of life. Nothing is set in stone when it comes to the brain. How it functions and perceives things can change – the brain does change. It’s a breath of fresh air, knowing it doesn’t have a single, permanent configuration that immobilizes people into perceiving life through a strict lens perpetually. With a determined and constant habit, rewiring the brain is possible and can be achieved through neuroplasticity.

Rewiring the Brain Highlighted by Neuroplasticity

Scientists keen on studying the brain once established that it only remains susceptible to change and influence during childhood. Once people have crossed this period, rewiring the brain becomes closely impossible. It’s as if there’s a freezing period wherein the brain starts to react differently and slowly to training and instruction. However, such belief has been proven wrong, and new research data posits that the brain continues to be malleable throughout people’s lives.

This brain’s capacity to respond and welcome change is called neuroplasticity.

At its anatomical level, neuroplasticity is defined by the brain’s continuous growth of cells resulting in the reconnection of severed pathways. At people’s behavioral level, this process manifests through people’s ability to learn or unlearn skills even after time or disease or the changes in their personality and thought patterns throughout their lives.

People continue and can change because of the principles of neuroplasticity.

For instance, someone with depression might believe negative self-talk is their new normal. And it might seem like it given the pathway for this behavior will become more robust following the diagnosis. People may wake up and be greeted with negative statements daily, but this doesn’t make it permanent. Through neuroplasticity, neural pathways in charge of these statements can be severed or strengthened, thus changing people’s behavior as well.

It’s through constant adjustment of behavior that makes rewiring the brain possible. It’s not easy. It will take time, but the newer version of themselves people will welcome makes the process worth it.

How Do These Changes Happen?

It can be challenging to envision how the brain can make these changes and even harder to explain the process. Rewiring the brain happens at its structural, chemical, and functional levels, influencing people’s behaviors. The easiest way to describe these changes without all the technicalities can be boiled down to repetition.

Use It to Lose or Improve It

When people constantly practice a behavior, this sends signals to the brain, asking it to form a pathway specifically for this action. The more people practice, the more the brain exercises and strengthens this pathway. Rewiring the brain towards the other direction happens as efficiently as practicing the opposite behavior to make a new pathway for the brain to strengthen. This specialized or constant training helps the brain understand the changes to be made at its structural and functional level.

Salience

Like practice, emotions can also help strengthen or weaken this connection within the brain. This can be easy to remember. After all, when people enjoy or love what they’re doing, they will likely incorporate or remember these activities strengthening the pathway required in rewiring the brain. On the contrary, if they dislike the activity or thought, they are expected to avoid it, weakening the connection. This emotional compound of neuroplasticity is why there’s a necessity for people to associate behaviors with emotions to help increase one’s memory of the information.

Time and Condition Matters

Repetition and emotion play their parts in neuroplasticity, but they won’t have a significant contribution if the brain is suffering from an injury. Neuroplasticity can occur anytime, but a window to when it doesn’t will exist during a trauma. When this happens, the brain focuses on recovery instead of creating new pathways. The earlier people concentrate on healing, the faster this window closes before a new one opens to welcome the change process.

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Positive self-affirmations revolve around a fundamental principle. It posits that maintaining a positive self-view can translate into tremendous physical manifestation. But with a primarily mystical process, is there a scientific basis for people to believe in such? (Critcher and Dunning 2015)

Self-competence trumps difficulties.

As long as people trust themselves, anything is possible. Problems become mere obstacles which are easily overcome. However, this value can be tricky to achieve due to its distinctive nature. Not to mention, the self is often one’s biggest enemy.

Self-competence depends on and is measured by how people perceive their skills and abilities. The higher their trust and acceptance of themselves are, the higher their self-competence becomes. When people know and find assurance in their strengths and weaknesses, they begin to view themselves positively. They set realistic expectations for them to achieve and trust themselves to achieve such. With self-competence, people never waver despite mistakes and failures. Instead of taking these too personally and beating themselves up over them, people perceive them as stepping stones for future improvement.

Self-confidence is everything.

It helps people cope and bounce back whenever they crumble against the lemons life throws. With this amount of trust, people can better nurture their growth, not dwelling on failure.

How Can One Cultivate This Competence?

Someone praising themselves for being amazing seems bizarre and often narcissistic. But over time and with better means, one may believe such and live to their potential. Seeing is believing. But when it comes to psychology, saying can turn into believing.

This is the primary concept for positive self-affirmations or affirmative cognitive behavior therapy. In its basic definition, self-affirmation is a means of validating oneself. Regardless of the threats and problems people face, positive self-affirmations work when people believe and tell themselves to believe in their capabilities and skills.

How does this work?

According to research, the body has a psychological protection system. This is a combination of defensive mental strategies that work to protect the individual’s self-esteem. Self-affirmation is a contributor to this protection system. A perfect example of this manifests whenever people rationalize their mistakes. When people associate positive outcomes with their hard work but blame external factors for adverse consequences, they’re unconsciously protecting their self-worth.

While there may be some critical perspectives toward these defensive mechanisms, it’s a crucial process so people can maintain their well-being. The more they safeguard their worth, the fewer the chances of them questioning their capabilities.

“I’ve failed to achieve this not because I’m incapable but because of other factors.”

“This failure isn’t my fault. I have done my best. I am enough.”

What Exactly Are Positive Self-Affirmations?

These affirmations are simple statements to change or influence one’s perception of themselves. In simple words, they challenge an individual’s existing self-concept. They encourage people to think the opposite of what they or society might have made them believe about themselves, creating self-change.

Positive self-affirmations can act as inspiration or a simple reminder that one is worthy amid creeping doubt. They can also be statements geared toward one’s daily goals.

“I am confident in myself.”

Affirmations are designed to nurture within people an optimistic mindset to protect their sense of self. These statements are inherently crucial in the reduction of people’s negative thoughts. The chief basis of this theory’s effectiveness is the belief that the constant repetition of affirmations can shift people’s mindsets, leading to positive behavioral outcomes.

This is why positive self-affirmations occupy a powerful place within Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). As this therapy focuses on the connections between people’s thoughts and actions, self-affirmation effectively bridges these elements.

With self-affirmation, thoughts have the most influence over people’s behavior. What they think influences how they feel and how they do in behavior.

The Science Behind Daily Positive Self-Affirmations

Positive self-affirmations intervene in people’s doubt, restoring their self-competence (Critcher and Dunning 2015). Although merely statements, these allow individuals to recognize and acknowledge their self-worth and core values when self-doubt rises (Steele, 1988). Again, self-confidence and realizing that the self is enough to triumph over adversities can help actualize their potential.

Ultimately, the fear that they won’t amount to anything stops people from stepping into their potential. Before they even take a leap and try anything, their doubt blinds them from seeing what they’re capable of. Positive self-affirmations challenge these negative and typically unhelpful thoughts (Koole et al., 1999; Wiesenfeld et al., 2001; Logel & Cohen, 2012).

Believing that the simplicity of repeating words can do wonders for the human mind can be challenging. But this concept of positive self-affirmations is based on psychological theory. Like meditation improves one’s well-being, repeating affirmations’ effectively is based on close associations with the mind. It’s maximizing the mind-over-body principle. It’s the belief that when people feel good and think they’re good, then life will follow.

The SoundCloud audio files below were recorded live in April 2020 with a group of daily meditators/co-creators, so you will hear group introductions, gratitude, comments and questions at the beginning and end of each guided meditation (which you can skip if you’d like). Sweet group magic is here!

There is also a YouTube Playlist with guided meditation only, produced without any audience.

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As you listen and participate in these guided meditations, you will be adding your personal intent and heart’s desires to the Heaven on Earth reality that is undergoing its dance into manifestation NOW.

KNOW that your participation is NEEDED and is KEY to the manifestation of a loving, peaceful, sustainable world of beauty and joy for ALL.

Guided by Dr. Michelle Shine of Mind Gardening / Mana Gardening, listen in as often as you wish.  THANK YOU for contributing to a harmonious planet for ALL!

Feel the positive vibrations in your body as you create Heaven on Earth in 7 days:

Day 1: Relationship between Gaia (Earth) and Humans

We are taking this incredible opportunity to Envision the New Earth, an Earth in which WE want to live in going forward. As we imagine it and feel into it, we create it. The focus of Day 1 is the creation of a heavenly relationship between Humans and Gaia.

Day 2: Relationships between Humans

Co-create New Earthly relationships, the ones between ourselves and others. Imagine the highest timeline for relating to one another one-on-one, in families, tribes, and communities in Heaven on Earth.

Day 3: Divine Human Systems (healthcare, finances, education transportation, etc.)

Guided meditation to envision and co-create how human systems work (or are no longer needed) in the New Earth reality timeline. Sustainable and healthy transportation, communication, education and healthcare are highlighted.

Day 4: Your Personal Relationship with the Divine

In a meditation guided by Dr. Michelle Shine, envision the New Earth timeline, one of the highest potential for all, and imagine and feel the creation of your own personal relationship with the Divine. You will feel a potent connection with the Divine and be able to call it forth more deeply from here forth.

Day 5: Personal Growth and Evolution

Day 5 of this guided meditation series of Envisioning the New Earth reality involves imagining how our own personal evolution will flow. We also dive into how we might be of service and help others in their conscious evolution process in the Golden Age. Facilitated by Dr. Michelle Shine of Mana Gardening Institute.

Day 6: Envisioning Healthy Communities

Day 6 of Envision the New Earth guided meditation series focuses on Communities. Visualize and feel how you want experience community/tribe in the new earth timeline. Yum!

Day 7: Basking in Completion

Envision the New Earth guided meditation Day 7 is the day of rest and completion. Bask and feel the fruits of the previous days of creation as you are blessed and appreciated. Favorite images from participants are visualized by all to give more energy to those creations.

WE are what we’ve been waiting for. WE are more powerful than we know. And WE are more powerful and creative together!

Namaste.

Everywhere you look, people are helping people.

Look around and see for yourself.

You see someone opening the door for someone, a person slowing down to let someone in to traffic, someone sharing food with another, giving a helping hand, helping a friend move, offering hugs when someone’s feeling down. You see people flocking to Standing Rock to protect water for the people, flocking to help out with Hurricane Harvey flooding, people donating money to all sorts of worthy causes. This is a very short list of all the help and kindness going on.

There are 1.5 million nonprofit organization’s in the US, over 1 million of them are public charities designed to help people,  animals or the planet.

When I was between houses for a few months, people came to my aid left and right! And I am so grateful! I stayed with friends, I stayed with more friends and I stayed with more friends. They welcomed me and my children into their homes and adapted to having us around.

People helped me move, lots of people helped me move all my junk into a storage unit. People shared their food with me, people shared their love and support when it started getting to be a little too much being ungrounded for so long.

People were kind beyond measure.

My gratefulness abounds and I’m very happy that people are so kind. I see kindness everywhere!

Look around and notice when you see people being kind, offering a helping hand, smiling at another, and being generous. It’s all over the place!

The more we see it, the more we continue to see it. The more we notice it, the more we continue to notice it, and then it becomes our reality.

So, see it in real life, see it in your inner garden.  Feel and imagine yourself having all the help and support that you need. Imagine you helping others and being generous, thoughtful and kind.

Pray for that. See it everywhere. What you focus on grows; it becomes your reality. This is one way to BE the change you wish to see in the world.

We can each do these seemingly small things that will help make this world a better place. Thank you for your kindness, your generosity and your loving spirit!

Namaste,

Michelle

Ps. The first book in the Mana Gardening series is now available! Get yours here and learn our fast, easy and fun technique for going within and accessing your mana!

My grandmother, a.k.a. Nanny, shared with me today that she used a mana gardening technique of replacing memories. She didn’t put it like that of course, but as she told the story, I realized that’s exactly what she did.

Nanny lives in a place with many other elders. The elders get together and share their stories of the past quite frequently. Instead of telling her story of her traumatic upbringing along with divorces and illnesses etc., she shared that she had a very loving, caring mother and father and had a very fun and loving childhood. She also shared that she had a wonderful husband who died young and they had a loving daughter who was very well cared for and nurtured.

In mana gardening, there’s a technique where you replace a non-empowering story with an empowering story—one that makes you feel good instead of one that makes you feel traumatized.

So without knowing it, Nanny gave herself the gift of feeling good instead of putting yourself through the memories of her tragic childhood and marriage! She shared with me that the purpose was so that she wouldn’t have to go through those emotions again. Some may consider that being untruthful,  however, I see it as a gift to herself and her wellbeing. Had she told the dramatic stories, she would’ve felt the negative emotion again and likely would have had to share many more details that would enhance the negative emotions. She just did not want to put herself through that again.

Every time we re-tell the story of a traumatic event, we inadvertently live it again. We experience all the emotions as if it just happened (like right now) as opposed to many years ago. That is how your mind sees it and that is how your body reacts.  Neurologically speaking, she created a new neurological pathway that, if she re-tells the new empowering story a few times or perhaps many times, has the opportunity to become part of her memories and enhance her well-being by leaving her feeling fulfilled with her life, rather than like a victim of a crazy life.

Such techniques, shared in the book Mana Gardening, Empower Yourself and Live a Better Life, have the power to help you replace memories that are potentially harmful to your wellbeing, with memories that benefit you and keep you happier. These are also excellent topics for the fields of Mana Psychology™ and Mana Sciences™.

And as you know, being happy is paramount to healthy vibrant living!

Get your copy of the book and to learn Mana Gardening happiness techniques.

Namaste,

Michelle

Decision Making Can be Super Simple if you Use and Rely on Inner Guidance.

How do you normally make decisions? What is your process?

Do you make a list of pros and cons? Do you play out each outcome and see how each might feel? Do you waver back-and-forth not knowing what choice to make? When you have an important decision to make does it keep you up at night? Does it leave you feeling flustered and doubting yourself?

I used to do all of this.
After Mana Gardening came to me (rather, after it came through me), I stopped all that and began to rely solely my inner guidance for making important (and not so important) decisions.

Mana Gardening is an inner technique using your creative imagination that allows you to quickly and easily access the inner voice that lies within. Everyone has an inner voice specifically designed to assist in everything from what food to eat, to where to relocate. Your guidance is personal to you and directs you towards actions that are consistent your best interests.

As an example, recently I was offered an adjunct teaching position at a local college and had to decide whether to take the position. It was for teaching a single class, as opposed to multiple sections of the same class. I was excited for the opportunity to teach at this college as I had applied for full time opportunities there before and was not selected. At this point in time however, my mental mind was saying, “No way!” It was not worth my time, not enough money, and would take way too long to prepare for each class.

I took this decision straight to my inner garden. After relaxing in that space for a bit and asking whether or not to take the position, interestingly, my inner guidance said, “Yes, do it.”
I did it. I agreed to teach the class, reluctantly.
I did this because I have learned to trust my inner voice even when my mind conjures up many good reasons to not listen to it.

Who knew that my consulting jobs would start to dwindle? Who knew that I would love my students so much? Who knew that I would adore the opportunity to inspire the students and let them know how amazing and immensely intricate their bodies (and hence they) are?

My mental mind was not aware that I would enjoy the material so much that it would be inspire me to serve others on the health and well-being path.

My mental mind was not aware that the connections I would make with the students and colleagues at the college would be so beautiful. And that the opportunity to serve others would also serve me. My inner voice knew all of this, yet my mental mind did not have access to that information.

Inner wisdom is available to all, yet many do not know how to access it. Learning how to quickly access inner guidance and getting to that place where you listen, trust it, and take the appropriate actions can serve you to your great delight! It is kind of like listening to your heart or a higher power speak. Sometimes you get information that is not what you’d expect, yet it is inconceivably brilliant!

Plus, using your inner guidance to help you with choices and decisions saves you the time and energy of going back and forth, creating lists, and doubting yourself. Your inner voice knows what you want. Allowing yourself to trust and follow your inner voice helps you stay at peace within, creates strength and leaves you empowered.

If you would like to learn how to use this ancient Hawaiian technique we call Mana Gardening to empower yourself and your life, register for our training course starting Aug 2o17 here.

Namaste,

Michelle

Inspiring words from a 7 year old boy, “God, please work your magic!”

This was his way of creating a certain outcome, and you know what?

It worked!

He was very focused with his eyes closed, intent on the outcome he desired (for our carton of eggs to not be all broken) while reciting three times, “God, please work your magic.”

When he opened his eyes and we looked inside the carton, only one egg was cracked, but none were broken.

I asked him where he got the idea to do that, he said God gave him the idea. (Love that!!)

We next tried it when we got locked out of the house.  I said the words, “God, please work your magic!” three times while visualizing the door opening and poof we magically got into the house!

Try it and see if it works for you and please share your experiences.  Maybe someone will be helped. Share this video and blog too! People are having a lot of fun with this wisdom from a 7 year old!

Namaste,
Michelle

“Just let it go…”  People say to those who are experiencing a tough time or situation.

And there’s the phrase that we have all heard, “Let go and let God…”

I actually heard a suffering man shout profanities at someone who said, “Just let it go, man!”

Perhaps this man didn’t know how to let go, or perhaps he had tried to let it go a million times and the incident still haunted him.

But What Does “Letting Go” Really Mean?
How Do You Do It?  How Do You Actually LET GO?

When someone pushes your buttons, or a situation presents itself that is not what you had expected or someone’s behavior seriously disappoints you, what are you to do?

The main questions are:

• Do you want to be happy?
• Do you truly want to NOT focus on this person or situation in order to be happy NOW?

Tough ones.

People say, “Of course I want to be happy.”

Maybe you have to give the situation some attention to get to the place where you can let it go.  You might need to consider this person or situation until you get a perspective that allows you to let go.  Sometimes it takes a bit of time before you can truly let something go.

An Example

Recently, someone totally surprised me with behavior I didn’t expect.

We had an important agreement that had been in place for years (in writing I must add) and I had religiously cooperated with my end of the agreement.  I just felt it was the right thing to do.

Because of this, many people, including myself benefited.

Now it was his turn to uphold our agreement and here he was backing out of it.   Hmmm.

It really disappointed me.

I fumed a bit and without explaining the situation, I texted a friend for advice on how to handle it when you are seriously disappointed with someone’s ‘out of integrity’ behavior?

The Answer from the Garden

She didn’t get back to me until the morning, so in the meantime, I used mana gardening and relaxed next to a beautiful waterfall.  I then asked the wisdom of my garden, “How do I handle this?”

Interestingly, the garden showed me that I needed to focus on my OWN integrity!

• To be PLEASED with MYSELF for upholding the agreement.
• For being integral.
• For following what I believed was right, with my action.

I got a good sense of self.  A good sense of who I truly am.
Actually what I received from mind gardening was a healthy dose of SELF-LOVE.  I felt love for myself and basked in that feeling for quite some time.

Then, from within my mana garden, I imagined this man’s energy leaving my garden and being absolutely unable to affect me from now on.   My inner garden went completely white for a moment and then came back to its brilliant scenic colors.

With that I gave gratitude and went to bed. And I slept well.

My Friend’s Reply

Early the next morning, my friend replied via text.

Her answer on how to handle such a situation:  COMPASSION.

What a beautiful answer.

She added:

Hmmm.  Great words.

I let them sink in for a minute.

It All Comes Down to a Decision

With those words, I decided to let it go.  The situation, his behavior, the lack of integrity, ALL of IT. I even had to let go of the fact that I felt I had a right to be angry with him.

I decided that the best perspective to take for me to be truly happy and be able to let go of this was one of compassion for him and a celebration of me.

It all came down to a simple decision.

And it was as if it all just left me right then.  I felt lighter!

So, How Do You Let Go?  Truly.  And be happy?

It takes a little trial and error to find what methods work for YOU and definitely some practice.  And it takes a perspective shift.

Perspective is everything.  It can change everything!

It takes a serious desire to be happy over anything else.  It takes a conscious choice to be happy over holding on to the pain, the drama, the disappointment, or being right.

It takes FOCUS!  A dedication to focusing on things that make you happy.

It takes a DECISION to let it go.

AND KNOW THIS:  YOU CAN DO IT!

Mana Gardening is a great way to experience your own happiness, a higher wisdom, a higher perspective, and the truest version of YOU!

Next time you want to let something go and not be bothered by it continuously, begin mana gardening and relax, and when you are ready, ask some questions.

Such as:

• “How do I handle this?”
• “What is the highest thought I can think about this situation?”
• “What perspective would allow me to let go of all this now?”
• “What is truly going on here?”
• “What do I need to know about this?”

You might be shown a new, brighter perspective that helps you let go. One that allows you to be happy with whatever the heck is going on!

You might be shown how amazing YOU ARE!

Your friend may say something the next day in direct relation to the question you asked and you might just KNOW or FEEL that that was the answer you were seeking.

The garden is brilliant!

Brilliant at maintaining your happiness and providing perspectives that are the best for all concerned (especially YOU!)

Your invitation is to become familiar with your mind gardening space, know it well, and allow that space to work with you to help you let go of all the worries, the drama, guilt, situations that don’t please you, the behavior of others.… and more.

When mana gardening, you can see your true self, your truest nature, a version of you that you LOVE!

I hope this information is helpful!  As always, keep what resonates with you and discard the rest.

Coaching on this helpful, fun and easy technique, called Mana Gardening is available. Click here to sign up.

Big Love to you,
-Dr. Shine