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SHIFT to Awaken and Ignite Your Life!
SHIFT to Awaken and Ignite Your Life!
SHIFT to Awaken and Ignite Your Life!
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What is keeping you from living your life everyday based upon your “real” potential? What is keeping you from identifying the fears, limitations, and age-old patterns preventing you from being the Best Version of YOU?

Shift to Awaken and Ignite Your Life! is a revolutionary way of enhancing your life

LanguageEnglish
PublisherDinavia Serro
Release dateMay 16, 2016
ISBN9781532313318
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    SHIFT to Awaken and Ignite Your Life! - Dinavia Serro

    PART ONE

    Perceptions and Beliefs:

    Taking a Look Within

    Awaken Yourself to Life Enhancement, First Steps!

    In order to access the path to enhancing your life, you need to take an honest look at how you live. How would you assess the overall quality of your life? What are some areas that are in need of change? Putting your life under a microscope can feel uncomfortable and even strange, or on the other hand, it can be exciting and refreshing, providing an interesting challenge. This forensic process automatical- ly brings you the pinpoint accuracy you need to uncover, identify, and engage the keys to enhancing your life!

    You must also understand and accept this key tenant: Your experiences are in relation to your thoughts and opinions. This is important because your thoughts and opinions in turn provide a backdrop and set a tone for your thinking and behavior. Your behavior and how you live out each day are in direct proportion to your perceptions and beliefs by way of the many roles you play every day.

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    Let’s take a look several examples of what a perception/ belief might be:

    Given the above list, you can see how perceptions are in direct proportion to beliefs. If you feel that you are busy and find yourself saying that often or using it as a go-to an- swer, for example, then this is a potential belief. As a result of the perception of busyness, the belief is there, ready to limit or perhaps eliminate other experiences from happen- ing. Yes, there are times when you truly are busy and you may not have time to accommodate other things that may arise, but this example pertains to the habitual use of the term. So, having a perception that you are busy is in direct proportion to having a lack of time. The way you perceive

    something may establish a belief about it, and those beliefs set up a response based on that perception.

    As you move through your day, how you respond to your interactions with people and situations is dependent on the role you are playing at the time and the perception and belief associated with that role. Let’s take a deeper look at roles, their relationship to perceptions and beliefs, and how that can impact an interaction.

    Roles and Interactions

    Before you start your day, you probably don’t think about the roles that you play during the day. You just go about business as usual, not really thinking about your so- cial role of employee, parent, friend, sibling, cousin, spouse, etc. The dynamic in each of these roles is different, and you act accordingly. Sometimes these roles can overlap and lay- er, thereby leading to a less-authentic interaction.

    Let’s say your role as an employee demands that you oversee and manage a high-yielding department in sales. It takes a lot of hands-on work to govern a large group of people. The intensity of this role may spill over to a conver- sation or interaction you are having with a family member about party planning for a grandparent. Since you are al- ready in the governing mode, you automatically assert your input as if it’s the last word on the subject. You just react naturally as you would at work, so you think nothing of your response, but the family member has an entirely dif- ferent feeling about it and takes umbrage to your input. As a result, energetically things start going downhill, nothing is decided or accomplished, nor does the family member

    state how unhappy she is. So this energy starts to build and branch out; it becomes the proverbial elephant in the room. This impacts your mood for the rest of your day in ways like being irritated and short with others and not enthusi- astic about having to be somewhere or do something. The funny thing is, you probably don’t even know what created this feeling to begin with, and you just continue on with a subpar day. All further interactions that day are tainted by the overlapping roles and lack of awareness of your actions, and hence the diminishing clarity and authenticity of those interactions.

    Understanding that perceptions tie into beliefs and how that can impact an interaction is key to being aware of your actions! Life is dynamic and ever changing, so you can wear a number of hats. Some roles overlap and layer, which can create lack of clarity and authenticity during interactions. This can also impact your mood and tone for further inter- actions that day.

    Let’s look at another example of overlapping roles and how they impact a moment or a series of moments.

    Sunglasses!

    Eric Walrabenstein, a cherished teacher of mine, pro- vides another example:

    "Let’s say that a perception/belief represents one pair of sunglasses that I have in front of me, and I have eight pairs. I put on one pair, and the room gets darker. I then put on the second pair, and it’s even darker. The third pair goes on, and I can’t see the chair in front of me. The fourth: I can barely make out that my hand is in front of my face! For

    every pair of glasses I put on, my vision gets impaired and my ability to react and be fully aware is hindered."

    Your awareness is impaired by layers and overlapping roles. Sometimes when you have an image or a situation (like the sunglasses) to define a concept, understanding that concept can become easier. Regarding this subject of overlapping roles and their effects, you have to first iden- tify what it is that needs to be sorted out in order to start removing the layers. You can do that by first recognizing your patterns.

    Patterns

    You may have a pattern for every role you play in your life and every role you play in your day. Once a pattern is established, you can get used to it, and not only does it be- come part of your life but it also may dictate how you live your life. So, just imagine how many established patterns you have that are dictating how you live your life. Seeing how perceptions and roles can directly affect your happi- ness and fulfillment levels every day gives you the ability to think about your choices and what actions (if any) you will take based on those choices.

    Earlier I used the example of an interaction between family members and how the choice of words (or lack thereof) resulted in a not-so-stellar outcome. Now let’s say the sales manager had the awareness to not insert her work role into the decision process for the grandparent’s party and

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