Guest Post
RAINBOWS ARE ROUND
By
LeNae Goolsby
“When
you change the way you look at things,
the
things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer
“It
is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.”
-
Adept to Neo from The
Matrix
These
quotes sounded cool but meant very little to me. Until one day, I happened across a picture of
a rainbow that had been taken by someone who had a larger perspective than I
did.
The
rainbow was perfectly round. Until that moment it never occurred me that
rainbows could be round. All I had ever
seen were arcs, or glimpses of colors peeking through the clouds.
When
I saw this picture, all of a sudden it made perfect sense that a rainbows are
round, or at least can be round, and that it had been my limited perspective
that kept me from seeing the whole picture.
Consider
traffic jams.
We’re
sitting in traffic, running late for wherever it is we are supposed to be, at
whatever time it was we were supposed to be there. All we care about in the jam is how utterly
inconvenient and annoying it is to be stuck in between these cars, and
contemplating the risk and reward of flying by everyone on the shoulder (I know
you’ve thought about it).
Here
is another perfect example of us getting caught up in our own limited
perspective. I mean, we can’t see ahead to know what the reason for the delay
is – is it construction, an accident, did someone have a heart attack at the
wheel?
Or,
are we stuck here because if we were going any faster we would have been the
one t-boned by a random drug induced drive. We don’t know, we probably won’t
ever know. And that’s okay.
The
point here is to realize that often times when we react, when we make
fraction-reaction decisions, we do so based upon the information we have in the
moment. Sometimes we do not always have
all of the information. Sometimes our perspective is limited. In fact, much of
the time we are operating out of a limited perspective.
Personal Case
Study:
When my husband’s community oncology medical practice was in
significant debt and I did not have the money to pay the bills on time, I would
literally drive myself into a mascara running, anxiety ridden, panic attack
induced ball of frenzy and stress – because somehow that was going to solve
everything (not).
Then one bill paying Tuesday, I sat down and mentally went
through the worse case scenario of not being able to pay the lenders and the
vendors what they were due, when they were due.
And then I kept asking myself, “Okay, what is wore than that? And worse
than that?
My envisioning exercise ended up at having to file
business bankruptcy and losing the office building as being the potentially
worse thing I could think of. So, then what?
Well, we would lose the stuff and that would suck, but we
still had the ability to work, to make an income and life would move forward…without a bunch of debt, actaully.
Once I was able to realize that life will go on after the
worse case scenario, I was able to respond to what was effectively a temporary
cash-flow crunch, pay who I could when I could and just keep moving forward in
faith (faith – there’s that word again).
Once I was able to release my persistent worse case
scenario what-ifs I was able to respond from the space of calm because I was
able to shift my perspective.
It took about a year, but cash flow did increase, and now
profits are high enough to not only pay the bills with ease, but we are now
actually in a period of amazing growth and expansion – never even came close to
having file bankruptcy, btw.
Okay, so now you know that chances are
whatever is showing up in your reality is only showing up as a portion of
whole, right? We have but glimpses of puzzle pieces at varying moments.
For
the rest of the week, whenever something shows up that is stressful, annoying,
makes your shoulders tense up and your blood pressure rise, bite your lip
(a/k/a catch yourself BEFORE you go into fraction-reaction mode), take a deep
breath in, hold to the count of a slow 4 and release to a count of a slow 4,
and ask yourself the following questions:
• “How
does even this serve my highest good?”
• What
might be happening here that I am not seeing in this moment?
• If
I imagine myself taking a higher perspective of this issue, what is really
going on here?
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LeNae Goolsby is the author of Seven Sundays to Sweet Inner Serenity
- How to cultivate the calm even in the midst of the crazy chaos, the
co-author of the soon to be released, “Empowered Medicine – Harnessing the
infinite laws of the universe for optimized health.” She is also the Founder/Owner of www.LeNaeGoolsby.com, where she
offers intuitive empowerment life coach and pragmatic oracle services, as well
as the Practice Administrator/Director of New Business Development for Infinite Health Integrative Medicine Center in Louisiana.
LeNae received her certificate from the Duke University Integrative Medicine
Center Leadership Development Program in February 2017, and her
law degree from Tulane University Law
School in 2010. And somewhere between Tulane and
Duke she completed her universal laws-centric life coaching studies and honed
her intuitive abilities.
About the Book
Title: Seven Sundays to Sweet Inner SerenityAuthor: LeNae Goolsby
Genre: Nonfiction (Body, Mind & Spirit)
Seven Sundays to Sweet Inner Serenity provides an experiential journey where mental and emotional vibrations rise and conscious awareness expands. Personal power is reclaimed and peace restored with each chapter and each sweet serenity tip.
Author Bio
LeNae Goolsby is the Founder/Owner of www.LeNaeGoolsby.com,
the host of Empowered Living with LeNae which is syndicated on 50
global networks, as well as the Practice Administrator/Director of New
Business Development for www.YourInfiniteHealth.comIn addition to running these successful ventures, LeNae is a wife, mother, artist, writer, oracle of the pragmatic persuasion, calm cultivator and energy healer.
LeNae received her certificate from the Duke University Integrative Medicine Center Leadership Development Program in February 2017, and her law degree from Tulane University Law School in 2010. And somewhere between Tulane and Duke she completed her universal law-centric coaching studies and honed her intuitive abilities.
LeNae is also an expert and writer for www.YourTango.com. She is the author of Seven Sundays to Sweet Inner Serenity, and is on the cusp of releasing “Empowered Medicine – Harnessing the Infinite Laws of the Universe for Optimized Health,” which she co-wrote with her husband. She is also working on her next book, Seven Sundays to Money Manifesting Mastery.
Links
Website: www.LeNaeGoolsby.comWhere to Purchase: https://books.pronoun.com/seven-sundays-to-sweet-inner-serenity/
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