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Michelle L. Casto – Life & Business Coach; author of The Destiny Discovery
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Lynn Serafinn – Coach; marketer; author of The 7 Graces of Marketing and The Garden of the Soul
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Christine Kloser – award-winning author; mentor to transformational authors and conscious entrepreneurs
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Paul Zelizer – business success coach for spiritual people
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Brenda McIntyre – healer, business coach, spiritual mentor and award-winning singer
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Dee Wallace – acclaimed Hollywood actress, acting coach, internationally known healer, author of Bright Light
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Dr. Roy Martina – world-renowned holistic medical doctor, author of #1 bestseller Emotional Balance: the path to inner peace and harmony, and 40 other books
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Nan Akasha – CHT Mind over Money Coach, #1 bestselling author of Already Rich! Secrets to Master Your Money Mind.
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Eva Gregory – master coach, conscious channel, speaker and author
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Jackie Lapin – speaker, coach, transformational business consultant and mentor in Practical Conscious Creation
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Gail Goodwin – Founder of InspireMeToday.com, providing free inspiration from world-renowned luminaries every day to members in more than 120 countries
- Think of a situation or pattern you want to change.
- First, drop all judgment. We cannot see clearly when we are judging.
- Next, get clear on your goal. Where do you want to be? Be specific. If it is a financial goal, name the amount you want to reach. If it is a matter of not liking the way you are FEELING, how DO you want to feel? How much of the time do you want to feel this way?
- Now, ask yourself, where am I right now in relation to my goal. How much money do I actually have? How much debt? What do I need?
- How much time am I feeling upset every day? How long has this been going on? On a scale of 1 to 10, where would I rank my emotional health?
Ecstasy Vacation– for Free!
February 17th, 2012The Karma Buck Stops Here
Would you like to be free from the agony of ego? Would you like an ecstatic vacation? Sit with this article and actually follow the instructions and the vacation is yours.
We devise a sense of self from stories. The quality of our human experience is greatly determined by the emotional feel of our stories. We have cultural stories, family stories, and personal stories. We weave of web of “self” with our stories.
A sensation arises. Rather than simply experience the sensation and BE with it without resistance, we have thoughts about it. We make up a story about it. We have thoughts about our thoughts and then thoughts about our thoughts about our thoughts…
We build up these massive, interlocking false worlds with thoughts and stories and can spend our entire life there.
We instantly give meaning and construct stories from our thoughts and sensations and then create stories about our stories. All this creates a sense of self. This is the false self that we cling to. It is the part of us that wants to be right, that defends itself—even to the point of living in misery.
We end up creating walls in what would otherwise be closely connected relationships and creating actual wars on a large scale. We have been continuously at war somewhere on the planet as far as human history goes. And most people have some kind of personal war raging continuously.
All war is really against the self, since everything is, ultimately, your Self. For me, the war has always been internalized against myself. I have often exhausted myself many times by fighting within my own mind, one part of myself against another. Whether the war is focused outward or inward, it is still war.
Agony is ecstasy constricted by the ego. It comes with resistance. Ecstasy comes with opening. The ego has only been a thought all along. One thought is all it takes to block the process of awakening into ecstasy.
Becoming totally free all at once is more than most people even desire. However, a vacation from story can be just what the doctor (or metaphysical-healer-ecstasy- coach) ordered. This vacation is free in that it costs no money and free in that it sets you free.
When your mind is free, you can be in ecstasy in any circumstance. Whether you are in relaxing on a sunny beach or sitting at your office desk, take a moment to experience this vacation:

1) Take a moment now to get present and look at the nature of thought. See how every story is basically false. Know you can return to clinging to your story in a moment. Just give yourself this moment to open up to this spaciousness. Let yourself relax and expand.
2) Now, notice the sensations in your body. Tune into the one that is the strongest. Simply BE with this sensation—without story—without reacting.
Be in total simplicity. Let go of the thoughts and stories about the sensation. Let go of explanations and meaning you give to the sensation.
3) Remain with the sensation with no story, no clinging, no resistance.
For example, if you feel pain somewhere in your physical or emotional body, feel the SENSATION of pain without a story attached to it. No story about why you are in pain. No story about a past injury or illness. No story of fear about what the pain could mean. No story about who hurt you. No story about a cause of the pain sensation.
Let go of any thought that you have the pain because you are good, bad, right, or wrong. Simply be with the sensation. When you can be with sensation without thoughts or stories about it, the karma buck stops here and you are free.
There is No Escape!
February 10th, 2012
The Way to Ecstasy is THROUGH OPENING!
Perfect, complete, unconditional Love is infinitely available to us in each moment. You only need to say YES. You only need to open, to receive.
Many people on a spiritual path are using their spiritual practice as a means to escape the feelings they don’t want to feel—feelings that seem too overwhelming to handle. Intense feelings tend to terrify us. And we are not taught how to deal with them. We hide them, stuff them, deny them. But there really is not escape.
Unprocessed feelings lodge in our bodies and emerge as body symptoms—aches and pains and ailments and eventually disease and exhaustion. They also emerge as relationship problems. You fall in love or open your heart to someone and it feels so fantastic at first and then WHAM! The suppressed emotions—unprocessed feelings and experiences—come roaring to the surface. We project them on each other. The dream becomes a nightmare. Your beloved becomes your tormentor and your hopes turn to fears.
Most of us set our lives up in such a way that protects us from having to face the unprocessed emotions and experiences. We refuse to look at certain things. Certain topics get us riled ever time. We set up a small world for ourselves, one which we can predict and control. We become highly upset at anyone or anything that disturbs this world or brings unwelcome change.
It is only when our coping mechanisms totally fail us and we cannot escape the pain that we reach out for help and want to change. That is why major accidents, huge grief, and terminal illnesses often cause people to awaken. Suddenly, there is no escape and they must face what they have been running from. Finally, they are free. That is why so many people say cancer or some similar event was their greatest gift.
We learn to contract when an intense feeling arises. In general, all of our parents and our parents’ parents closed off when an intense feeling surfaced. Parents who have not learned how to BE with intense feelings cannot handle it when their children are having them. So they pass to their children this pattern of repression, denial, and suppression of feeling.
They do this because they did not know any better. If you have continued this legacy by passing this to YOUR children, FORGIVE yourself and be present with the here and now. Now is always the perfect time to joyously open and transform.
When you contract and get tense, you squeeze off the flow of life. You may be able to numb yourself to consciously feeling anything, but you are actually increasing your pain. If you open, relax, and surrender– then the intensity turns to bliss.
I saw a video of a woman having an orgasm while in the most intense and what is usually the most excruciatingly painful part of giving birth. She had training to open to it, to relax, to trust and know that all is well and perfect. She surrendered to the sensation.
In the surrender, the agony turned to ecstasy. I have experienced turning agony to ecstasy many times by surrendering to it, which means opening without judgment or resistance. Dropping the belief that whatever is happening SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING and OPENING YOUR ARMS AND YOUR HEART FULLY TO THE SENSATION YOU ARE EXPERIENCING!
When your muscles are tight and stiff, they are easily torn and injured. When a blood vessel contracts around an object in your blood stream, you can have a stoke. When the same blood vessel relaxes and expands around the exact same object, it passes with no harm done. It is the RESPONSE to the object that determines the outcome more than the object itself.
This process is not a one-time event. It is the process of on-going growth and expansion. You, like the Universe itself, are meant to be continually expanding. Taking this immense force and limiting it to a little life experience is painful. It creates neurosis, jealousies, chronic frustration, and clinical depression and anxiety.
You are not meant to live small. But you are trained to. This is what has been passed to us generation after generation. You are now in a place where you can awaken out of this cycle. You can be free now.
Lynnet helps you ease through the places you have been stuck on multiple levels. As a body story expert, she helps you “get” your transformation where your unconscious lives—in your body.
On the spiritual plane, Lynnet addresses each situation as a reiki master, shamanic practitioner, and an amazingly gifted kinesthetic intuitive.
On a practical level, Lynnet has been through the trenches herself dozens of times. She knows the way THROUGH and OUT from personal experience. She has also studied human psychology at both the University and workshop levels for the past 20 years.
If you feel called to work with Lynnet, write her at Lynnet @OpeningtoEcstasy.com. She offers a complementary initial “Breakdown to Breakthrough” session to a limited number of interested people monthly. Most people have powerful breakthroughs in just the initial session. This is an opportunity for both of you to see if you are a good fit and there is no obligation to go further.
What Lynnet’s Clients say about her.
Do You Get Caught in a Cycle Of Reactivity?
February 2nd, 2012
Do you find yourself behaving in ways that make you feel ashamed or disappointed in yourself? Though we are all love at our core, we do not act this way in every moment. Sometimes, our best intentions turn sour. Have you ever wondered why this happens?
We often behave badly because we have an unmet need to be loved. When we act from a place of NEEDING love from another person, we set ourselves up for disappointment and pain. No one can ever meet such a need. And when you act from a place of needing this love, the energetic vibration that comes from you brings out everything BUT love from the person you want it from.
NEEDING love from someone else can make you very reactive to every sign (whether real or imagined) of NOT love. So often, people get caught in this cycle of reactivity.
You reach out to someone with what you believe are the best of intentions, but you are unconsciously NEEDING love from them. The “love” may be in the form of appreciation, understanding, agreement, or approval. The need is felt by the other (also unconsciously) and they are naturally triggered to put up a wall of defense. This wall usually feels like rejection, which is the opposite reaction you were going for. Instantly, both people are now in a triggered, reactive place and the interaction turns sour (or even explosive!).
Now let’s NOT beat ourselves up for beating ourselves up. Enough is enough. You need love. We all do. Hallelujah, the truth is that you ARE love. I AM love. Even in our most badly behaved moments, we are all love at our core. YOU are Love at your core! The love you seek is the love you ARE.
The solution is to love yourself. To do that, tap into the love you already ARE at your core. Feel this part of yourself that needs love, that feels unworthy, misunderstood, or frightened. Love this part of yourself.
If you do not, you will be stuck here forever. You will continue to suffer in your relationships and sabotage your successes. No one else can get through to you until you open on the inside. It is a choice.
Open your heart to YOURSELF!
Open to the Love that YOU ALREADY ARE!
I challenge you to try this for at least 5 minutes. If you don’t like the incredible joy and peace it brings you, you can stop and go back to the stress and pain you were feeling previously
1) Breathe into your heart in this moment and accept the very part of yourself you find the most challenging. If you are not aware of what that is, think of a situation that makes you really upset. In that upset feeling, you will find a part of yourself that you have rejected, denied, or suppressed.
2) Open to this part of you that you have shut away in the dark corners. Open without judgment. Simply BE with this part of yourself. Be with this energy that you have found unacceptable.
3) Ask this part of you what it wants, what it needs. Simply listen. Write down the answers you receive. Share your answers with a trusted, supportive friend.
4) Open to the answer you receive. Have compassion for this part of yourself. Forgive yourself and let the emotions you have been suppressing come to the surface. The power of these emotions can transform your heart right now in this very moment. Simply open to the fullness of your feelings without resistance or judgment.
"We can only learn to love by loving." — Iris Murdoch
When you are simply aware of how we are feeling and accept it and give it the space it needs to move through you freely, resistance become a passing experience rather than a way of being. Relaxing around the resistance is a great first step toward living a life you love.
If you need help with this process, I specialize in helping people move through fears and resistance and into joyful abundance. It is my pleasure to help you move from an identity that brings suffering to one that brings great joy, love, and celebration! Email me at Lynnet@openingtoecstasy.com to see if we are a good fit for working together.
Many Blessings,
Lynnet McKenzie
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Discover YOUR Divine Destiny
January 14th, 2012
Today I have the great pleasure of being the host on Day 6 of the Virtual Blog Tour of author Michelle Casto whose book The Destiny Discovery: Find Your Soul’s Path to Success launches on Amazon on Tuesday January 17, 2012.
A renowned Life & Business Coach, Michelle L. Casto is an advocate for "everyday enlightenment", and author of the book The Destiny Discovery: Find Your Soul's Path to Success. Throughout her 20-year career, she has published over 30 life empowerment and career development books, including Get Your Career on the Fast Track. A former university lecturer and career counsellor, Michelle has worked with thousands of international clientele to find their ideal career path. A natural-born empath and healer, Michelle has become well known for her potent magic that transforms people into knowing & honoring who they are at a very deep level. Michelle's mission is to awaken people to their soul purpose through her unique Destiny Success Process. She lives in San Antonio, Texas with her beloved husband and two dogs. These days, Michelle's mission is to awaken people to their life purpose through her unique Destiny Success Process.
Yesterday, Michelle visited Carl Bozeman at http://cbozeman.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/the-destiny-discovery/, where they talked about How to discover our "soul connection”.
Today, I'd like to share with you a recent interview I had with Michelle when I got to ask her some questions on the subject of What are the keys to the door of destiny? I hope you enjoy it.
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Lynnet McKenzie: What are the keys to opening the door of destiny?
Michelle Casto: There are 2 keys to unlock the door of Destiny: Soul Journey and Soul Purpose.
Each impacts each other. The moment you decide to be your True Self, and pursue your Purpose for being alive, is the moment you will be set on the path of authentic happiness. The hero's journey is what we are all on, and it is where we either consciously or unconsciously experience adversity, master mental monsters, meet our appointed mentors, and learn the lessons of our Soul. You then begin to honor yourself and the path that is meant for you and this leads to joy and happiness, the kind that does not come from superficial living.
During this journey, we will seek to raise our consciousness and become personally transformed by facing the changes, challenges and choice points along our path. It is imperative to know that we already possess these two keys and can use them at any time, no matter how bleak our outlook may be. In my book, The Destiny Discovery, the book is divided into two parts, the Soul's Journey and Soul's Purpose, and so when you read the book, it is if I am walking walk with you step by step during your discovery process.
Lynnet McKenzie: How do you see our Soul purpose fitting with our careers?
Michelle Casto: Let’s look at some of the differences between a job, a career and your life’s work.
A job is something you get paid to do and money is the primary motivation. It is easy to perform because there is not much challenge, and you will eventually find other work to do. It may or may not fully engage you. Your Soul may or may not be present.
A career is something you get paid to do that is viewed as a profession (status or identity is the motivation). It may provide more challenge, but after a while, you may get burned out, and choose to stop doing it. It may or may not fully engage you. Again, your Soul may or may not be present.
Your life’s work or Purpose is something you do whether you get paid for it or not. Your Soul’s need for expression is the motivation. There is plenty of challenge and personal meaning. You will always want to do it. It definitely fully engages you and your Soul is present.
Remember that a job can get you started toward your greater Purpose. In fact, jobs provide the very important element of exposure to different kinds of industries allowing you to discover what you do or do not want. Take for example, a woman who started out working in a department store as a clerk who then moved into a management position and finally created her life’s work as an independent contractor who trains others in customer service skills. The challenge is not to get stuck at one level, unless your heart is in it of course.
Lynnet McKenzie: Once we discover our destiny, how do you recommend getting past the resistance to living it?
Michelle Casto: Resistance is what stands between the life you live and the unlived life within you. When I experienced the greatest resistance was when I made the biggest breakthrough in my life and career. On a deep level, I knew something was needing to change in my life, something big like a relationship break-up, and a move of residence, but I did not want to think about leaving my comfort zone of living on the island where I very much enjoyed a quiet, simple life where I could still run my virtual business.
When something like this happens in your life, recognize that it is a very important choice-point. What you choose to do (or not do) has far reaching effects; so be careful, because if you let resistance rule you instead of your “greatness,” you may miss out on the life experiences that you are meant to have.
For example, when I made the change, I met and married the man of my dreams, attracted new soul-mated friends and my business took off. I know in my heart none of that would have occurred, had I resisted what I knew was true for me—even though it was a lot of work—I went through a lot of release and had to pack and unpack my stuff three times in one year, until I settled in with a wonderful new home with my hunky buns.
Once I faced the fear, felt my way through it, and accepted my next step, all those physical symptoms subsided, and a new sense of Self and a burst of energy became activated.
When you are shifting through a major transition (divorce, career change, move, financial challenge, living your PURPOSE), it is common to be in a state of negative emotional and mental overload that makes it difficult to think clearly and make wise decisions. However, the stress that you are experiencing is the perfect prescription to evolve your soul—if you choose to see the blessing in the chaos (by the way, chaos, change and challenge are what I know to be “stepping stones to Destiny.”)
You can learn new skills that are built upon a spiritual foundation and learn to access the wisdom of your own soul which will empower you to recreate your reality base on what you really desire.
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I hope you enjoyed this interview with Michelle Casto and that you’ll check out her book The Destiny Discovery: Find Your Soul’s Path to Success at http://www.liveyourdivinedestiny.com/book-launch/pages/pre-launch.html
Here's why:
Although the below event took place on January 10th, 11th & 12th, 2012; you can still listen to the audio replay for a limited time if you register at http://liveyourdivinedestiny.com/book-launch/pages/telesummit.html.
The Discover Your Divine Destiny Telesummit
How Can We Discover Our True Destiny in 2012?
11 Destiny Mentors Discuss this Question on this
FR*EE 3-Day Online Event
January 10th, 11th & 12th, 2012
10am Pacific/1pm Eastern/6pm UK
Over the course of 3 days, we'll be exploring the journey of AWAKENING to the path of destiny, FINDING the path of true destiny, and SUCCEEDING on the path of destiny.
Here's our wonderful guest line-up:
This special 3-Day telesummit is Michelle's FR*EE gift to you,
to celebrate the launch of her book, which is coming
Tuesday January 17th, 2011.
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When you buy Michelle's book on Tuesday January 17, 2012, you can ALSO receive the MP3 download of all 3 days of this inspiring telesummit, plus a complete library of beautiful personal development gifts from authors, speakers, coaches and other enlightened professionals from around the globe including one from me;
From Frazzled to Fabulous! A First Aid Kit for Your Soul
To claim your FREE pass to the Discover Your Divine Destiny Telesummit
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Thanks for reading! As usual, please feel free to share your comments and thoughts below. I love reading your feedback.
AND… be sure to follow Michelle tomorrow when the next stop on the Virtual Blog Tour is Shelagh Jones, who will podcast interview Michelle on the subject of Why she wrote The Destiny Discovery? To visit that "stop" on the tour, go to http://SpiritualMarketing-Blog.com/books-by-spiritus-members/the-destiny-discovery-by-Michelle-l-casto/.
Start Where You Are
December 15th, 2011Hello Lovely Transformational Tribe!
Do you feel stuck, like you are working hard to improve a situation or way of BEING in your life and yet you don’t seem to be getting anywhere? You may be trying to start from the wrong place.
I regularly have grand visions. As lovely as this is, I have been falling into the trap of trying to immediately be in the same place now as what I see as possible for the future. This is an error because the only way to get where you want to go is to start from where you are. There is no other place to start.
Trying to be somewhere other than where you are with your emotional state, your finances, your relationship, or habits of mind will only have you spinning in circles.
Take a few minutes right now to find your starting point.
Seeing a positive future and choosing to feel abundant, happy, and peaceful NOW is different than being in denial. To get where you want to go, you must know your starting point. Once you know where you are starting and where you want to go, the path to get there becomes easy to find.

When Right Makes Wrong
December 1st, 2011What is your relationship with problems? Do you keep having the same ones over and over? Do you feel they are a bummer and maybe even a punishment?
Having grown up in an environment of “there is NO solution,” I did not know that problems can be solved. The unspoken “law” was that we just go around collecting problems and never really solving anything. My entire family complained daily. The teaching was to just be resigned to life being suffering.
The truth is that EVERY problem has a solution and we are definitely not meant to live in suffering! David Neagle was the first person to introduce this truth to me just two years ago. When I heard him say that every problem has a solution, I really HEARD him. As a result, my belief structure began to shift wondrously.
When I believed that problems do not have solutions, my inner GPS was set for “no solutions.”
When I changed the setting to “every problem has a solution,” my inner guidance became set to find them.
“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it. Because the answer is not separate from the problem.”
~Jiddu Krishnamurti
Your experience is determined by your unconscious setting. It determines what you SEE. We all collect evidence to prove ourselves right. Our minds automatically do this. Often, in order to progress in life and make the changes we really need and WANT to make, we must give up “being right.”
Giving up the need to be right means surrendering your story, surrendering your pre-conceived ideas, and surrendering your attachments. For me, it is a great joy to do this. It continues to be wondrous revolution in my mind to know that every problem has a solution. There is still a part of me that was use to running the show for nearly 40 years that believes otherwise. I am enormously grateful to be “wrong” about this. Knowing every problem has a solution gives me the freedom to find the answers and act on them. In this way, life becomes a dance—a beautiful, enjoyable, epic dance.
You are invited to join me in this dance.
Blessings,
Lynnet
“Impossible only means you have not found the solution yet.”
~Unknown
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I started on a quest to heal others and myself as deeply as possible over twenty years ago. Since early childhood, I have wanted ALL to be free from suffering. What I found in my search is that the armor we build to protect ourselves is what ends up being the source of our chronic pain. We must take off the armor and take down our walls if we want our dreams to come true.
To become a REAL person, have a REAL relationship, and live in your life’s TRUE PURPOSE, you must feel and release the emotional wounds you have been holding inside yourself.
The great news is that this does not have to be difficult. It can actually be a lot of fun. And the reward is that you get to be fully alive, you get to love and be loved fully with nothing in the way, and you get to live a life you love. The cost for not doing this work is illness, disease, chronic exhaustion, anxiety, lack of true connection, lack of satisfaction, emptiness, depression, lack of self-love, and general unhappiness lurking beneath the surface.
If you feel a pull in your heart to do this work, this is the perfect time. For a limited time, I am offering a single session for only $97. Set up a free consultation to see if we are a good fit to work together and get your session before the sale ends (ends December 24, 2011).
Life or Death
November 17th, 2011Hello Lovely Transformational Tribe!
I am currently at an intensive training in LA after being at a beautiful and heart wrenching memorial for a dearly beloved friend in Portland, Oregon. I am thinking of you and holding you in my heart as I write this to you after a very wonderful but long day and a couple hours of raucous fun in the hotel lounge.
I am ready to crawl into bed, so I am just going to get straight to what is on my heart. I hope you receive it with love.
Over this past year, fifteen people I love have died. One to old age, one to a heart attack, one to a brain aneurism, one to suicide, one to an unknown cause, and ten to cancer. Only one of these deaths was really expected and that was the one to old age. It is easy to complain about little things not going the way we want. It is easy to take people for granted. It is easy to fool yourself into believing you have all the time in the world. And it is easy to fool ourselves into believing that painful issues will some day be magically transformed for us.
The truth is that none of us know how long we will be here in physical form or how long our loved ones will be here with us. Each day, each moment, and every breath is a gift. This experience of life is a gift. You are not meant to stay stuck in suffering.
However, a solution will not fall magically from the sky some fateful day in the future. Your problems and issues are here for YOU to solve. The very act of solving them is what makes you grow into the very person you came here to be. You don't have to do it without help, support, or guidance; but you do have to make the choice and take the actions to follow through on that commitment.
On Halloween, during morning meditation, my friends who passed came to visit me in their light body form. The message they had for me was that they all chose to die, not just the one who committed suicide. They all chose to die when they chose to NOT look at the areas of greatest pain, denial and repression that they buried in their body and being. Each time they chose to look away, repress, and deny this pain they carried, they blocked the flow of LIFE. Blocking life is unconsciously choosing death.
The friend I was the closest to of the fifteen asked me for healing a month before she was diagnosed with breast cancer. As soon as I tuned into her pain, she chose to laugh it off and say she was fine. She only wanted me to run healing energy through her body and not to actually face what was blocking her from receiving it. She is one of the most amazing, loving, and beloved people I have ever known. But she died with so much un-lived inside of her. She died with all that pain still locked away. She made a point of visiting me after her death to tell me that I was completely accurate in what I saw and that she unconsciously chose death when she chose to NOT look at the pain and blocks she held in her physical and energetic bodies.
Facing these places that scare you does not have to be tremendously painful, drawn-out, or difficult. When a great healer holds space for you, doing this work can be fairly easy and even a great deal of fun. Clients who work with me report that they are incredibly relieved and exhilarated when they surrender to the process and discover that they end up laughing harder than they have in years instead of experiencing the great pain they feared.
Facing your monsters and "demons" can actually be the most relieving, energizing, and, yes, even FUN experience of your life. Getting FREE and staying free is the greatest longing of your heart. Don't wait to fulfill it. All we ever have is NOW.
If you would like to discover if we are a good fit to word together, sign up for a complementary session with me now. Put your name and email in the form below. You will receive an automated Body Story Questionnaire. Fill it out the best you can. Don't worry about doing it "good enough." I can help you with any missing pieces, even if much of the page is missing
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Change Your Identity!
November 10th, 2011|
Do you keep ending up in the same emotional place no matter how hard you work to change it? Are you repeating painful patterns over and over? Do you want to break free of the barriers that block your abundance? Then take my hand and we can change this right now!
Having spent years as a "victim" and "martyr," I know what it feels like to repeat painful patterns. I was DETERMINED to change my life, but, no matter how much effort I put into it, I ended up in the same place– traumatized, stuck between a rock and a hard place, hopeless, exhausted….
I repeated this over and over until I realized I needed to do the work on myself that I do with my clients. I needed to change my identity! No more victim! No more blame!
I determined that this is my life and I am going to live a good one! I committed to taking myself through the same processes that have helped so many of my clients go from fear to freedom and from suffering to ecstatic joy. If you don't like the place you keep ending up, something has to change. That something is YOU, my dear. Actually, it isn't really YOU. It is the identity that you think is you. It is really a program, a pattern.
These patterns live in our unconscious mind and body. They become like the air we breathe– something we don't even notice. We take them as truth, as "who we are." But they are not the truth. They are simply patterns from beliefs. They are simply ONE way of being in an infinite sea of possibilities.
Just recently, I helped a client who had lived for 30 years as an anxious, stressed person get free from this way of being and take on being a powerful, joyful man. We have had a series of sessions, and he has been following through on the home exercises I give him to strengthen these new muscles (this new way of being). He has transformed from being so afraid that he would freak when the phone rang to playing and laughing joyfully with the very things that were his fears.
This is not an isolated incident. We all have access to ease and ecstasy as a way of being. I have led client after client to identify their patterns and get free of them.
The challenging part is our resistance. When we really identify with our fears, or anger, or pain, or being a victim, there can be great resistance to letting this go.
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Release resistance
and open to the ecstatic
life you deserve!
Resistance brings suffering– and lots of it!
Relax around your resistance! Fighting it or suppressing it only makes transformation more difficult. Let's go for more fun and ease!
1) Notice What You are Feeling. This is always a great place to start. Breath is always in the present moment. Use your breath to take you into your body and how you are feeling right now.
2) Acceptance. Feel the resistance without judging it or trying to change it. Let go of the thought that it should be different in any way. Just be with it and with yourself just as you are in the moment.
3) Give it Space. When we are judging our feelings, we tighten up and this makes everything feel more intense. Relax. When we relax and open, a sense of spaciousness opens up where there was tension and intensity. Trying to move a pea-sized rock through a pin hole doesn't work. Let the pin-hole expand and it becomes easy.
When you are simply aware of how we are feeling and accept it and give it the space it needs to move through you freely, resistance become a passing experience rather than a way of being. Relaxing around the resistance is a great first step toward living a life you love.
If you need help with this process, I specialize in helping people move through fears and resistance and into joyful abundance. It is my pleasure to help you move from an identity that brings suffering to one that brings great joy, love, and celebration! Email me at Lynnet@openingtoecstasy.com to see if we are a good fit for working together.
Many Blessings, Lynnet McKenzie (541) 982-2707
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Suffer No More!
September 22nd, 2011The two main causes of suffering are NOT getting what you want or GETTING something that you really don’t want. Either way, you aren’t getting your heart's desire. My greatest passion is to help you STOP suffering and START CELEBRATING your life. So I’m spilling the beans on manifestation.
Create the Life You Desire Now:
7 Shifts that Made it Happen for Me!
Most of you have heard a lot about manifestation and creation, I am sure. Yet, most people are still lost on how to actually do it. I’m giving you the ‘secrets’ I discovered on my own after years of suffering over NOT getting what I most deeply desired, even after working hard to manifest it.
More than anything, I wanted a beloved partner—one that would be 100% committed to our relationship, be the father my son has always wanted, satisfy my deepest desires for partnership, sexual fulfillment, affection, communication, understanding, laughter, joy, and love. I wanted someone to give and receive love at the level I always dreamed possible. And I wanted a relationship that grows in love every day. I got all this and more. I have the absolute partner of my dreams. It is as if he was created from my heart’s deepest desires. We have the family all three of us have always wanted.
How did this happen? I put a lot of effort into creating this for at least 15 years previous to it happening for me. I wanted to give up many times. It seemed I would never get what I most deeply wanted. Yet, when I shifted a couple things in myself, it happened so fast my head was spinning. My dream beloved LITERALLY came knocking on my door 15 minutes after I made a couple key internal shifts.
Here are the shifts I made to manifest my beloved:
1) Tell the Truth about What You Want.
You have to get crystal clear about what you really want. Telling the absolute truth is essential. We so often tell ourselves we want less than we really want. We go for what we believe is attainable rather than going for what we actually desire.
Trying to manifest something less than what you actually want takes more energy than manifesting what you actually want. When you go for something other or less than your true heart’s desire, a part of you is in resistance to it because it is not actually what you want. And, if you do manifest it, you are never actually happy with it because it was not what you really wanted.
Ask yourself, “What do I truly want?” Let the answer come forward, whatever it is.
Dig deeply – what do you REALLY, TRULY, DEEPLY want?
Get clear on what you REALLY want and then OWN IT!
I have 6 more shifts to share with you. The rest will be in my next blog posts. Get started on this one now. You need to digest one meal before eating another. Take time this week to get absolutely clear on what you want! If you feel you need help with this process or to see if we're a good fit to work together fill out the Body Story inventory form on the left and schedule your free 20 minute breakthrough session today.
The last of the 7 Ingredients
September 22nd, 2011This is the last in an ongoing series of posts on Opening to Ecstasy. Thanks for reading! If you have questions or comments you may reply below or email me at Lynnet@openingtoecstasy.com
5. Permission for Pleasure:
Give yourself permission to be happy and feel good– right now, whether your dishes are done or not– no matter what condition your life, your finances, your home, your body and your relationships are in. Give yourself permission to feel good in this moment.
This does not mean that we don't wash the dishes or improve our lives. Progress brings us ongoing happiness. We are designed to evolve, to grow, to move forward. The truth is that when you relax and enjoy your life, your home, your relationships– all of it– just as it is right now– that you free up a large amount of energy for transformation and fun.
Give yourself permission right now to experience even more pleasure than you have every experienced before. This may sound trite, but it is essential. If you are to expand your capacity for pleasure, you must give yourself permission.
The expansion can be small. You can go to the edge of the most pleasure you have ever allowed yourself before and then just take one little step further. Once you see you can do this safely, you can take another step. And, when you are ready, take another after that.
You will get to a place that feels like it is the most pleasure you can possibly experience. You may feel that going further would be uncomfortable, impossible, or even unpleasant. I invite you to set your pre-conceived ideas aside and experience Life on a level that you is beyond what you have ever known or even dreamed to be possible.
This edge is where magic happens, if you are willing. This is where you let go of control and let Life LIVE YOU! This is where you step into Lifegasms—experiencing so much joy and ecstasy in life that your life can feel like nearly endless waves of pleasure. I invite you to this delicious edge!
If fear comes up for you, take a breath and let it pass all the way through. When you add breath to fear it becomes excitement. You are in control here. Just relax and be playful.
If you need to release some tension, laughing out loud is great for that. Do that now. Just laugh out loud for no reason. Laughing yoga is simply laughing out loud as a practice. It starts as a fake laugh but usually turns into real laughter. Either way, it is fantastic for your health! Laughter truly is the best medicine. Give yourself a good laugh right now!
Give yourself permission to feel good in this moment and to open to ever increasing ecstasy!
6. Focus:
Wherever you focus your attention fills your awareness and creates your experience. Your attention creates your experience. Your focus creates your experience. If you are semi-conscious and letting your experiences just happen to you, you have an entirely different experience than you do if you choose your focus and stay with it.
You may have to ride it like a bucking bronco at first. But, if you practice this focus, you will tame your mind. It will stop flailing around. It will focus. You CAN control your attention.
Train your energy system– your attention– to open to what feels good.
7. Opening:
This is the only “step” you need to do to open to ecstasy. Just open. All the other ingredients lead you to this one. This is the focus.
The opposite of opening is resistance or contraction. Ecstasy is our natural state and to experience it we must be open. However, resistance is also our human nature. If we resist resistance, we add another layer of pain and frustration to our experience. Have a sense of humor about your human nature. We are all in this together. We are all spirits in physical bodies living together on this planet spinning in a vast Universe. When you can laugh at yourself, you get a steady source of free entertainment and it is also easier to stay open.
As part of our human condition, we close our hearts automatically as a means of self-protection. What you may not realize is that the greatest pain you experience is from closing your heart to the fullness of life. Over time, nothing wears on you more than this. Practice opening to ecstasy as a way of BEING. Learn to live with your heart open.
Celebrate your superpowers. NO HOLDING BACK! Let Life energy flow through your body. Continue surrendering to the pleasurable sensation over and over and over. It will keep growing and expanding. Surf the wave.
By opening, I mean get into the pleasure in your body right now. Say YES to YOU! YES to what you REALLY want! Yes to being alive and FEELING!
And let the full experience of life flow through you– actually FEEL your life!
Open to what you most desire. Surrender to the sensation you most enjoy. Receive it fully! Open your heart to love and your body to pleasure!
Ecstasy is FEELING your life! Do you feel your life? Or are you just in half numb-pain and low-grade, chronic irritation?
Open to the mystery– to the question that haunts you, the longing that won't die no matter how much you drug it, distract it, or cover it up.
YOU LONG FOR YOURSELF! You long for an authentic experience of your SELF!
You long for the truth. You are tired of living the lie, the pretense. You are tired of hiding and playing small in your life.
You have been living limitations that are not ultimately real. You have been over-riding natural impulses 100’s of times every day, impulses to do what is natural and authentic to you. You may not even know what is totally authentic to you any more after a life-time of conditioned responses, a life-time of being a “good girl” or doing what you are “supposed” to do or say, think or feel.
The number one secret to ecstasy is simply to BE your authentic self. The challenge is that you may not even know what that is right now. No worries.
Simply take one small step. Start speaking the truth in small ways. Open to the truth of who you are in the moment– that is it. It is that simple. And keep opening- keep going further and further into what you really want.
It is really that simple, but there is a system set in place to block this opening– to block the experience of ecstasy. I help people see these blocks clearly and get free of them. If you want to experience working with me, you can sign up for a FREE 20 minute session with the form to the right(the one with the clip board) When you sign up, you receive a Body Story Inventory form. Just fill it out the best you can, submit it, and you receive a FREE 20 minute Body Story Breakthrough session with me. In this session, we identify your blocks and I help you move toward breakthrough.
Ecstasy is the essence of who you are. It is the very air you breathe. It is the space and energy that makes up your being. You do not have to CREATE ecstasy. You must deal with what is blocking you from experiencing the truth of who you are.
In Loving Service,
Lynnet McKenzie






