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Welcome to “Healing From Within.” I am your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit Answers for Healing and Infinite Love which shares stories of spiritual awakening communication, healing energies, and ways to use intuition for personal growth and success. Today I am delighted to welcome May McCarthy author of The Gratitude Formula which shares her method built with a grateful heart to help you create powerful practical and achievable goals.
As listeners of “Healing From Within” well know Sheryl and her guests share our intimate stories and insights for beginning to understand life as both an energetic and physical life journey, which when completely understood helps us engage the inner wisdom of soul life to create a more prosperous healthy and purposeful human experience. In knowing we are spiritual beings having a physical life we can begin to let go of control issues and allow life to unfold in its miraculous way, with less judgment, blame, anger, and truly learn to love life.
In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” May McCarthy who has co-founded and grown seven successful companies in a variety of industries helps us untangle from doubt fear or behaviors that hold us back from abundance, and help us say YES to prosperity and limitless possibilities. We will discover tools to use from her 7-step practice of Gratitude to create a happier more productive satisfying life.
When asked by Sheryl to think back to her childhood and remember a person place event dream or desire that may have shown her or others the life style or interests she would embrace in her adult life May tells us, “When I was growing up as the youngest of ten children in Hawaii I witnessed a number of extraordinary events that I’ll call miracles. My sisters and brothers got into horrible car accidents and were unhurt under circumstances that indicated they should not have even survived. I fractured my back while body surfing and the doctor said it was a miracle that I wasn’t paralyzed for life. Friend’s homes were left standing when terrible storms severely damaged all their homes around them. Even our family priest was cured of cancer after the doctors had told him the month before that he wouldn’t survive for more than six months.
Everyone can agree that extraordinary unusual or miraculous events happen. Most people believe there is an element of chance in these happenings. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could use a provable and repeatable system to enable more outstanding events to happen.”
May shows us a system that taps into the creative force of life and can helps us create more of what we wish to bring into our lives and to share with others. May introduces you to her Chief Spiritual Officer or CSO who she is in complete alignment with and who through intuition feelings signs and messages helps us to achieve our goals and dreams. In other words to succeed in our physical life efforts and understanding of Universal Laws of Energy and the Law of Attraction are a big help in achieving greater success.
May describes that there are a number of systems that people use to achieve success. In professional sports athletes mentally and physically train every day at the highest levels. The same is true for professional musicians. In religious and spiritual organizations forms of prayer are used in a repetitive way along with gratitude confidence and prayer. Prayer may include gratitude statements for achieving the outcomes desired in advance as well as the confidence that it can manifest. Repetitive chanting is often used to successfully reach a deeper level of connection with a spiritual source that can provide directions and orchestrate opportunities to achieve desired outcomes.
In business leaders and managers set and revisit goals regularly and measure their efforts against them. Often they will post their goals for performance safety or customer satisfaction where all employees can see them. This promotes an attitude of agreement. In the daily practice for success utilizing the above outline will create a practice that yields results. According to sports psychologist Michael Edgar Three must have keys to success is good instruction, practice and repetition.
In her book McCarthy shares an understanding of the physical needs that are also necessary for success in sports, spirituality, or business or any undertaking and mentions that Dr. Tom Farrow a clinical psychologist in England and his colleagues used magnetic resonance imaging MRI’s to study the effects of forgiveness on the brain. When a person is in the process of forgiving, the scanned images show that activity in the frontal lobe of the brain increases. The frontal lobe is involved in problem solving, complex thought and the complex functions of thinking and reasoning.
Another researcher and author Dr Fred Luskin created the Stanford University Forgiveness Project and studied the effects of forgiveness on people with hypertension and high blood pressure. The results were very positive. “People showed less stress, less anger, more optimism and more forgiveness.”
May shares her 7 Steps of the Daily Practice. This practice requires 30 minutes each morning with your spiritual partner or CSO to do the first four steps. Throughout the day you will do steps five and six as you interact with your CSO You’ll recognize and follow intuitive messages or your goals. In the evening you will do step seven as you give forth anything within you that is taking up room and not benefiting you so that you have more room available to receive more of the good things that you desire.
To demonstrate to yourself that you are serious about achieving your goals, it’s helpful to create a space in your home to hold your daily planning meeting. You will need a few tools: an uplifting book with stories that put you in a receptive mood, a journal or notebook to write in and a pen or pencil.
Think of your meeting with your CSO as a meeting with the most successful advisor you can imagine and whose advice you would highly value like Bill Gates Gandhi Oprah Walt Disney Albert Einstein Mother Theresa George Washington Nelson Mendela Spriitual Masters like Buddha Jesus Moses etc.
Step 1 Read something inspirational You will discover ordinary people having extraordinary accomplishments. No matter what your goal is use the daily practice to make what you desire familiar and welcome in your thinking.
Step 2 Write a Gratitude Letter Writing a letter to your CSO to express what you are grateful for: that which you have now, and what you want to achieve as your goals.
Step 3 Speak with Emotion Speak what you wrote out loud for up to five minutes as this anchors the meaning more fully within you.
Step 4 Imagine Experiencing Your Good This involves your imagination. In your mind, see yourself as having completed one or two of your goals for up to five minutes. This is a technique that many professional athletes musicians and business people use to succeed. Imagine yourself in a healthy body with a big bank account in harmonious relationships with others, with satisfying work, and enjoying recreation while living a balanced life. Mentally picture the answers to questions about your future life: who you are with, what you are doing, how do you feel, where are you what surrounds you, what do you have?
We mention Nicole Detling a sports psychologist with the United States Olympics said, “The more an athlete can imagine the entire package, the better it’s going to be. This is, more than ever, a multisensory endeavor, which is why the term imagery is now often preferred to visualization. Emily Cook, the veteran American aerialist said, “Visualization for me, doesn’t take in all the senses. You have to smell it. You have to hear it. You have to feel it—everything.” Whatever your goal is, mentally see and feel what it’s like to live the outcome of having it first. Then your subconscious and CSO’s intuitive messages will illuminate more possibilities to help you achieve it
Once you complete your morning meeting with your CSO you will feel more energized, and excited to begin your normal daily activities and work. Throughout the day you will practice Step 5 and 6 of your daily system for success. They include forming your expectations, noticing leads celebrating and accumulating proof that your partnership is working.
Step 5 is to expect and watch for leads, and follow the directions provided by your CSO. Throughout the day you will be on constant lookout for intuitive messages and directions from your CSO to take some sort of action,
Step 6 of the daytime practice is to celebrate and note demonstration. This happens after you get a lead and take a step. It’s important to celebrate even if you haven’t reached your final goal. This becomes your proof that the partnership with your CSO is working and it’s really fun.
Sheryl gives an example of how this work and relates the following story. “When my daughter was little everyone said she should be in commercials and I always thought there was too much rejection and that it might not be the best environment for a child. One day when my daughter was in a second grade classroom play dressed as an angel with her hair in tentacle curls, she jumped off the table and people in the audience were all captivated by her energy. In that moment I thought perhaps she could develop her talents and grow from experiencing the artistic world of film and theatre. The very next day while glancing at the newspaper I saw a tiny tiny ad that was looking for children: A Miss and Mr Long Island Contest that could be the segway into commercials and film. I entered both my daughter who was eight and my son who was three because I didn’t want him to feel left out. I dressed my daughter in a fancy dress and hairdo and my son in a little suit with shorts. A manager noticed my son who was quite handsome and strong willed even at three years old and handed me a card and asked me to bring him to his office the following week for an interview. While there I showed him a picture of my daughter as she usually looked with braids and her tomboy look and he said she had a great look for commercials. So the next week I brought her to him for an evaluation. After she read for him, he came out and told me she was quite talented and would make movies…and in time she did just that.” Sheryl has come to realize that while she wasn’t aware of a CSO operating in her choices and goals at that time, there was indeed spiritual guidance and a divine plan for personal growth at play, and she was following the clues, long before she actually put the pieces of the puzzle together, and became an intuitive healer and medium.
May goes on to give us three tips to use forgiveness to set you free from being hurt by another person or situation.
- Forgiveness prayer before bed to release and improve sleep
- Forgiveness mantra throughout the day to create peace.
- Denials and affirmation to regain your personal power and achieve goals
Sheryl says…In my book The Living Spirit I address how to understand our emotional landscape and write, “One way to do this is to examine our emotions, particularly those we consider negative. While interviewing Dr. Richard Moss author of Inside –Out Healing: Transforming Your Life Through the Power of Presence, on my Internet radio show, he described “intelligent feelings” in contrast to untamed emotions,” which are heightened reactions that lead to exaggerated responses. He suggested that if we attend to our “ordinary emotions” to evolve them into feelings that are intelligent, they can give us great insight, and give us instructions about how to engage in our experience. But emotions that are corrupted by our ego remain “unintelligent” and often lead us into unpleasant associations and sufferings.”
While we must feel and experience the whole gamut of emotions from negative to positive we have the choice to engage or disengage from that which does not serve us in a healthy and positive way. Experiencing all emotions is the necessary requirement of a human life journey. How we understand and choose to deal with emotion takes consistent effort and awareness.
May shares with us how it is that we often give away our power and deplete our energy when we’re unforgiving towards another person or situation. It is only by forgiving ourselves and others and realizing no one is perfect, as there really is no perfection, just opportunities for learning to love accept and flow with the challenges in life, that we begin to bring balance and a respect for ourselves and life in general.
May mentions in the book the ground rules and agenda format for improving communication and ultimately success in relationships.
Rules are:
- Confidentiality Share your experiences not that of others.
- Sharing Share your truths at the level appropriate for the others.
- Listening Do not comment, give advice or detract from another’s sharing. Do not tell a similar story on their time. This is called cross talk and should never occur at a small group meeting. People will learn from hearing their own thoughts spoken.
- Respect. Group members can show respect for one another by not interrupting or having side conversations. Attempt not to leave the room during the meeting but if you must, exit quietly in the time between when one person ends and another begins.
- Focus Staying on the topic and developing a deeper understanding of Spirit.
- Challenges If someone feels the need for further help, find a professional or ask group members for an appropriate resource
- Time the opening and closing times for each gathering
Sheryl thanks May McCarthy for sharing her relationship with her CSsO or Chief Spiritual Officer known by some as God, Divine Intelligence, Power Universal Energy or as Sheryl thought each time she saw the letters CSO…Celestial Spiritual Official and how a partnership and gratitude practice can create new attitudes awareness and a path to the life each soul deserves..one of joy.
In summarizing today’s episode of “Healing From Within” we have discussed a method to utilize the virtue of gratitude for expanding our hearts minds and souls: to empower our Spirit as we begin to create the life we desire by working cooperatively with our CSO for goals that help us reach our full potential and to find greater love compassion and our Higher Self.
May wrote a story about Albert Einstein that describes this so well. Albert Einstein said that we each have an intuitive mind and a rational mind. A popular quote attributed to Einstein says, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We’ve created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Today, more than ever, we are a society that honors the rational mind. When we have a question about anything, what do we do, We Goggle it! We figure out ways to get more information and then we analyze, measure, and evaluate the information. We consider every possible step that we can take and every possible outcome that could happen as a result. Only if we like the outcome possibilities, do we act. Otherwise, we do nothing. This is not a system for success.
May and I would have you begin to trust that small quiet voice or feeling that suggests you do something courageous and take a chance for change and innovation. If unsure about your intuitive message just ASK for another lead or clue, and most importantly, TRUST you are not alone in this life or Universe, and the plan for your ultimate life journey exists within you. You have only to awaken to your true Higher Self and become empowered with the light and love of Life in its infinite possibilities. The choice for happiness and abundance is yours!
