Cultivate the consciously unexpected.

April 10, 2023 by Sheila Winter Wallace

I am at an age where I have lived far more of my life than what remains. I have moments where I can imagine myself going strong for another 15 to 20 years. At the same time, I have moments when I think I am just about done. In the middle of this continuum, I know that my ‘work’ here, my living on planet earth, is essential, if not yet complete.

My life has been about evolving myself in the good company of others as aspects of my consciousness. Thing is, there was a time when I would not let myself know the potential I carried for living. Somehow, I heard ridicule about my daydreams and shut that down.

There were long and extended periods of time when I was just plain scared to speak out. Would I be accepted and appreciated for thinking differently OR would I be refused, rejected and shamed? I learned very quickly that if I kept my mouth shut, all would be OK.

The Power of Language and Metaphor: Leveraging Body Genius for Change

February 06, 2023 by Sheila Winter Wallace

One of the best things I ever did for myself was to enter into the study of NeuroLinguistic programming. As a practitioner of a plethora of healing modalities, the study and practice of NLP helped me to get in touch with constructs of mind which, in fact, were making me sick. It was a game changer.

I once heard my teacher John Overdurf say that “everything in life is an anchor.”

So often we look to what we think a healing modality will do to solve our problems, when in fact it’s not the modality, per se, which will make us well; rather, it is the reframing of the neurological anchors that are holding problems, or whatever we call them, in place. It is all a matter of perspective and how we think in terms of logical levels of thought.

Suffering: Self-Hypnosis to the Familiar

January 30, 2023 by Sheila Winter Wallace

So often, our conditioned default is to disassociate, deny, avoid and ignore the internal truth we carry so that we can fit into whatever situation we find ourselves in. That truth includes the sensations we are experiencing in our body, how we are feeling (our emotional state), and the truth about what we really want. Note that when we physically hurt, it’s worth considering that we might be experiencing emotional resistance to something we don’t want, yet feel compelled to engage. Because we betray ourselves, again and again to that resistance (call it our default mode), illness finally catches up with us, out of alignment with our potential to feel really well.

Risk

November 07, 2022 by Sheila Winter Wallace

What a time to be alive! So many of us have spent our lives afraid to take a risk into any unknown, if we even believed that we had choice to do so or not. We did have choice; however, most of us didn’t believe it. Truth is, the phrase, I didn’t have a choice has for ages been the mantra expressed for NOT leaping into an unknown potential. We were looking for safety, for the familiar, for sanity.

Now, I believe, the reverse is true; we are at greater risk of losing our minds if we stay with what we have always known and believed was safe, familiar and sane. Those days are over. The risk to our well being lies in forgetting ourselves and not remembering who we are as quantum biological human beings with the power of choice. Family systems dynamics, government authorities and media forces are engaged in the relentless pursuit of ensuring that we believe we are anything but that, such that it makes it easy AND dangerous for us to forget our inherent magnificence. In that, we sabotage our connection to our Selves and others.

Context, Process and Outcome

October 03, 2022 by Sheila Winter Wallace

There is another way to think about our lives. All meaning is context dependent. So, changing the framework for whom you really are IS, as far as I am concerned, the only way to change the meaning of your life. If you think that you are your body, you’ll get results that reflect that thinking. And, if you change your mind to consciously choose to believe that whom you are is way orders of magnitude beyond your body, then you’ll get results that reflect that thinking.

The former will result in same old, same old… the endless repetition of what you tolerate, yet can no longer stand, supplying only incremental changes to a life you have grown weary of.