Cynthia Sue Larson

Fun with Future Memories

"I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the light around the shore"
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I had two fabulous future memory experiences on my visits to Santa Barbara and Los Angeles this month... and they were fascinatingly different. The first one involved my finding something wonderful in Santa Barbara that I recognized from previously future memories. While future memories and a past memories both provide me with a dreamlike mind's eye view of something, I recognized my familiarity with what ought to be a very unfamiliar piece of jewelry as having come from a prior future memory. While I may be part of the glimpse into that imaginal realm of memories, it is often not immediately clear to me which time frame the glimpse I'm receiving is from.

This wonderful something in Santa Barbara was a reversible ring... recognizable to me by its distinctive silhouette and setting with small diamonds on either side of a garnet center stone, which is my birthstone. I had felt drawn to the store where I found it, and inspired to request to view the rings kept under the counter. This ring looked so familiar to me that I knew it at first glance as being the one I knew so well... despite the fact that I had not ever before held any kind of reversible ring in hand. It fit my finger perfectly, and was priced at a remarkably affordable $30, which provided further confirmation of my feeling of knowing at once that it was mine. I felt ecstatic with a feeling of being reunited with a long-lost friend!

My second future memory experience on this trip occurred in Los Angeles and involved averting a situation I glimpsed in a future memory. While this might on the surface seem to be of a less enjoyable variety of experience, I view it now as beng entirely enjoyable, as it provided me with a warning I was able to heed. While I was talking with friends at brunch one morning, I suddenly received a gestalt awareness of seeing a possible future in which all of our luggage was stolen while we were away, because thieves came through after we left the luggage in the room. The fullness of this memory consisted of my friend cheering me up with kind words intended to lift my spirits after we had ignored our gut feelings that a theft might occur. My future memory daydream was fleeting, leaving me with a rapidly fading sense of having just peeked into a completely realistic possible future. When I described this vision to my friends, we agreed to take our luggage with us, and I was happy that no theft occurred.

Sometimes when I notice a feeling of deja vu, I recognize I have previously dreamed of exactly what is unfolding at that very moment.... noting an interweaving between the world of dreams and daily life, along with a sense that on a deep level, everyday life is constantly guided by our dreams. There is a gift both in seeing a future memory, and noting whether it points in a direction one wishes to pursue, and there is also a gift in recognizing a previous premonition when one sees something wonderful one has previously known only from dreams.

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Cynthia Sue Larson
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Cynthia Sue Larson

"yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds"
- e. e. cummings

When I was a teenager, I was surprised one day when a neighbor I had not previously met visited our home to ask my mother if she had teenage daughters who might be friends with her daughter. This middle aged lady had such a kindly face and sincere voice that any initial doubts on my part vanished before having a chance to fully arise. I was so positively impressed with this woman who had introduced herself and extended such a lovely invitation, that I immediately said, "Yes, I would love to meet your daughter!" I followed Joan directly back to her house to meet her charming daughter, who has now been one of my dearest and best friends over the past thirty years.

How can we know when we say "Yes!" to an opportunity, what may happen next? How could we even begin to guess what hidden worlds of possibility might unfold? There truly is something magical in the word "Yes," as it invites feelings of acceptance, recognition, appreciation, invitation, and connection. Barriers fall away like leaves in the breeze, and worlds of possibility open in ways previously unimaginable. "Yes!" is a word we can say to ourselves, and in so doing, open up new worlds we otherwise might never imagine.

I was with my childhood friend this month when we experienced some of the many joys in the worlds of "Yes!" We met a peregrine falcon named Thyme, heard his song, gazed into his jet black eyes, and saw him flap his wings to show off his fabulous wingspan. We both played the banjo for the first time... and I enjoyed creating a banjo song that the shopkeeper referred to as "trance banjo." We held museum quality antique Roman coins and artifacts, had lovely conversations with strangers, sang songs, and danced. If you could live every day saying "Yes!" just a bit more often, how much more enriched could your life feel?

I have been giving "Yes!" a lot of thought this month, as I discovered a book that will clearly be a classic in its field, Learned Optimism. When I took psychology classes at UC Berkeley many years ago, I was deeply impressed by studies I read about dogs that became helpless after experiencing situations they had no control over. As it turns out, one of the researchers involved in these early studies, Martin Seligman, was one of the researchers who first saw the significance of these experiments in helping identify root causes and possible solutions for helplessness and depression. Seligman discovered that just as we can feel helpless and depressed, so too are we capable of learning cognitive skills that provide us with the power to become resilient and remain hopeful. Optimism can be learned, and can be taught... and I am thinking that this just might be one of the greatest findings of our time.

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Wishing you may discover just how good your life can be and has been,
Cynthia Sue Larson

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Cynthia Sue Larson "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- -George Bernard Shaw

This month has been extraordinary for me in many ways, not the least of which involves seeing myself and everyone in my life in a completely new light. Part of this reviewing is a recreation of how I see myself... in how I newly comprehend that I am indeed creating myselt to be who I am. Rather than see myself as not being good at something, I consider myself a beginner who is excited to learn new thikngs. Such an approach to life has benefits beyond the obvious one of considering oneself capable of change... it establishes a sense of confidence that we can change in desired ways.

Lots of things I've done seemed unattainable to me before I did them, such as receiving my physics degree from UC Berkeley, getting a black belt after age 40, designing and finishing a full size quilt, composing and performing a song about Karen Kimball, writing the books I have written, and doing the special kind of spiritual life coaching I do. Each time I try something new, I am essentially creating a new me... a new version of myself which is not necessarily based on what people expect from me, nor based on who I have been before, but is instead a brand new me that I am envisioning even as I create it.

When you imagine how you can create a whole new you by learning new skills, trying new things, meeting new people, going new places... what kind of person would you most like to become? Close your eyes for a moment, and imagine that you are that person.

Can you envision yourself looking and feeling healthier, happier, and more fulfilled? What kinds of classes would you take or books would you read in order to start learning about making some of these changes? Just by giving these questions some serious thought right now, you are now initiating the process of positive self recreation. The word recreation is particularly apt here, as you can have a lot of fun when you take yourself from where you are to where you would like to be!

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Wishing you may discover just how good your life can be and has been,
Cynthia Sue Larson
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Cynthia Sue Larson

Get a Fresh Perspective

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."
- James Thurber 

I witnessed something truly extraordinary this month when driving north through San Francisco one rainy evening at sunset: TWO double rainbows over the San Francisco bay! This remarkable sight was partially reported by people who posted photos of one or the other double rainbow online, yet I have yet to see anyone else reporting the even more amazing fact that not one but two double rainbows appeared simultaneously that day. I felt fortunate to be at the perfect location at the perfect time to see these two double rainbows. I was driving my car at that time, unable to take a picture, noting that the two double rainbows would not have fit in one photo frame anyway, as they were miles and miles apart. When I checked the internet later to see if anyone else had noticed two double rainbows, I found a few photos and references to a single double rainbow, but none mentioning this quadruple rainbow extravaganza. 

What are we missing? We can observe a great deal more than we usually do by continuing to observe our surroundings even after we think we have just seen what we need to see. Rather than judging or categorizing something, it is possible to accept the information we receive and observe our thoughts and feelings about this experience. Our ability to observe ourselves gives us the opportunity to identify our sense of self with a higher level of consciousness, which in turn sets us free to take notice and better enjoy what is happening right here, right now. This concept is explained and explored brilliantly in the book, The Untethered Soul, in which author Michael Singer writes about how to understand and attain enlightenment. 

Brysen Bristow of the Help Yourself Nation elicited some very useful information from me in a recent on the topic of how you can effectively transform your life with reality shifts in the discussion we had during our interview. Listen to it here. Brysen interviews amazing people in the self-development field to share powerful techniques that you can use now to create the life you want. Subscribe for free to receive his updates here.

 

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Cynthia Sue Larson
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Carol Skylark of Light Torch Productions and Cynthia Sue Larson

"Artists are magical helpers. Evoking symbols and motifs that connect us to our deeper selves, they can help us along the heroic journey of our own lives."
- Joseph Campbell

Have you ever noticed how much more empowering it feels when you are aiming for goals that are not too big a stretch from where you currently are, compared to having a feeling that you are biting off more than you can chew? There is something very satisfying in seeing gradual improvement, especially when gaining confidence at mastering something we can see ourselves succeeding at doing. I love to consider the question "How good can it get?" to consciously become aware of what kind of future we can believe might be a possible future for ourselves in order to set goals and move forward to a future we believe is within reach. I feel most prosperous on days when I start the day with a meditation to envision just how beautifully well this day might go. This meditation allows me to move from feeling the energy of a 'just OK' day into a more positively energized day. In this way, each day becomes an incremental step onward and upward... a tiny positive adjustment.

Watercolor painting by Cynthia Sue Larson of hands around the Earth

This incremental approach is one which sometimes leads people to feel they're making slow progress, yet slow progress can sometimes be more effective than attempts to make giant leaps, as recent research on the topic of why positive messages hurt people with low self-esteem now indicates. While some people strive to state the highest possible intentions for themselves, they seldom consider the jarring effect that can occur when a person's stated intentions are terribly different from their statement of reality. Joanne Wood from the University of Waterloo found that people with low self-esteem who repeated "I'm a lovable person" to themselves felt worse than people who did neither. These researchers found that statements that contradict what people believe about their self-image are more likely to be met with resistance than acceptance, leaving people feeling even more unlovable than ever. While this finding might seem disappointing for Law of Attraction students everywhere, I find it tremendously informative and helpful.

Pendant by Carol Skylark

Keeping the concept of incremental improvements in mind, we can bring about improvement in our lives through positive affirmations by listening to our gut feelings, our hearts, and our heads... and communicating back and forth from the highest ideals to where we truly feel ourselves to be right here, right now. We can note what we truly consider to be a believable outcome for our given situation. Sometimes, we may find what we feel inspired to do from our pure gut feelings makes no immediate sense... but following our gut feelings and heart connections can provide us with wonderful rewards far surpassing anything we might even imagine for ourselves.

Carol Skylark and Cynthia Sue Larson with healing hands around the Earth

At a Sacramento holistic expo last month, I was delighted to notice that I was situated next to a woman I wanted to meet, Kathleen Robertson from southern California. What a marvelous synchronicity to find myself adjacent to the very woman whose photo had felt so appealing to me! Emerging from a happy state of reverent reverie, I began my morning by painting a watercolor image of two hands holding the Earth. This was the first time I had felt inspired to paint my hands, holding the planet, and I wondered why this might be. I left that thought for later as I became busy with people who came to see me seeking intuitive readings and life coaching. At the end of the day, I was delighted to talk with the woman in the booth to my left, aura portrait artist, Carol Skylark. I was stunned to see her wearing a necklace which was made of a stone framed by two colorful hands -- somewhat similar to what I had painted at the beginning of the day. Carol's name instantly seemed quite familiar to me, and as I leafed through the pages of my book, Aura Advantage, I slowed down when I reached the section of Aura Advantage where Carol Skylark is one of the two aura portrait artists I mention by name! I also showed Carol the watercolor I'd painted that morning of my hands holding the Earth, and she was stunned... telling me that she had recently painted a similar portrait back home in Colorado for one of her aura portrait clients, who had been holding a crystal orb in her hands and envisioning healing the Earth. Carol and I gazed at each other in awe as we recognized a connection far more amazing than either of us imagined experiencing with someone we just met.

Meditation: Knowing now that you can make incremental improvements in your life, allow your mind to wander and contemplate something wonderfully enjoyable you can imagine in your life that does not seem all that far from reach. Close your eyes and picture yourself feeling a bit happier, healthier, and more prosperous with this incremental improvement. Relax and enjoy this daydream, knowing it very well may soon come true!

Wishing you may discover just how good your life can be and has been,

Cynthia Sue Larson

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"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spring time in California is a time when I appreciate the amazing natural beauty of flowers and fresh green leaves shooting up everywhere. More than any other season, Spring reminds me of the presence of nature spirits of the flowers, trees, bushes and grasses, and the energies of the garden deva spirits looking after them.

When I was five years old, I enjoyed spending lazy days outside in the garden with my mother, an avid gardener. My mother pulled weeds and pruned branches as I scrutinized individual blades of grass, delightedly shouting, "BUG!" every time I found an insect. I was overjoyed to find ladybugs, walking sticks, praying mantis, ants, beetles, and honey bees in the garden, and ever so enchanted with the unique and highly individual energies and personalities of each. I loved to feel the firm grip of a walking stick's tiny legs as it held on fast to my finger, doing its best to blend in, and the soft flutter of a butterfly's wings against my hand as I held my breath and watched it rest for a moment before it flew away.

My grandmother also loved to tend her garden, and when I visited with her amongst the flowers, she would often tell me stories about fairies who loved her garden as much as she did. These graceful beings helped bring order to the garden, sometimes flitting about with the ladybugs and butterflies, and other times helping care for the poppies, baby carrots, and zinnias.

As I tend my garden this Spring, I invite the fairies and garden spirits to help new flowers take root and grow strong. I invite their assistance to help transplanted flowers and trees feel welcome and loved. I am grateful for their assistance in helping the entire garden hum together in a state of joyful harmony. When the sun first comes up on a dewy morning, I love to look out my window and see a beautiful garden beloved by insects, birds, flowers, grasses, bushes, trees, fairies... and me!

Wishing you may discover just how good your life can be,
Cynthia Sue Larson
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Cynthia Sue Larson

"The past is a gift,
the future is history, and 
this moment is a mystery."

I recently heard the saying, "The past is history, the future is a mystery, and today is a gift, which is why it is called the present." I noticed that while this seems true from a very ordinary perspective of reality, those of us who experience reality shifts might observe something rather different.

First, we can notice how the past is a GIFT. No matter what may have transpired so far in our lives, we will feel most confident and enthusiastic by recognizing the many blessings we have received from the entirety of our past. When we find ways we have grown and benefited from all the challenges and difficulties in our lives as well as the happy-go-lucky experiences, we can see that all experiences offer unique benefits when viewed from a grateful point of view. The resulting improvement in our own personal energy, or Qi, is simply phenomenal as we contemplate our good fortune. Rather than blaming people, situations, or events for what has seemed to have gone wrong, we can be grateful we have survived and learned something valuable along the way.

Secondly, we can see how today is a MYSTERY. This moment, right here, right now, is a moment of all-inclusive, infinite possibilites. With so many options to choose from, we can more easily switch gears from old habitual ways of thinking and acting to something fresh and new. Regardless of whatever we think we may know, we can best effect change in the world with an attitude of beginner's mind, in which anything is possible. Many of the world's greatest inventions have benefited from their inventors being completely unaware that some people considered their creations to be impossible. A state of open-mindedness provides us with the ability to switch gears and realities to those which are much more congruous with our true interests and desires... as we develop entirely new mental models and ways of thinking. 

Third, we can note that our future can be viewed as HISTORY. We often observe we get the best manifestation results when we do what star athletes do time and time again, by holding a clear and consistent vision (memory) of success in our endeavors. It also helps to note that we can reverse negative self talkwherever necessary, in order to ensure better visualization of what we truly desire. This visualization technique is so very popular for the very simple reason that it works. This method can be viewed as making a solid intentional connection to a desired "future memory" outcome that is particularly robust and stable precisely because our mind views this vision as something predestined... of something we are completely confident will happen next.

For those who find these concepts fairly easy to comprehend, there is something "extra for experts," and that is the matter of taking the above concepts and utilizing them for both forward and backward causation. Bi-causality works using the basic principle of this present moment always being the MYSTERY, and the past and future switching between being the GIFT and HISTORY. Whichever direction in time we may be working, we first start with the gratitude and thankfulness for the GIFT, and whichever direction in time we are shifting, we remember the HISTORY we are targeting. In the case of forward causation, the future is what we hold in our mind's eye as a memory, as being very much a "done deal," such as a parking spot we remember getting in advance of our actually finding it. This "memory" from the future is powered by our feeling at joyful, grateful peace with all of the past. In the case of reverse causation, the past we are shifting is what we remember as we recreate history with the energetic support of a grateful future. The key to success in all of this is our ability to clear out all doubts and fears, replacing those emotions with love, joy, purposefulness, enthusiasm and confidence. 

Putting this new concept together, we have a veritable recipe for high-powered manifestation success. Envision your favorite outcome as a fait acompli... a done deal... a memory. Keep an open mind to all possibility that exists right here, right now. Be grateful for everyone and everything from your past. The world is now your oyster!

Wishing you may discover just how good your life can be and has been,

 

Cynthia Sue Larson

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Cynthia Sue Larson

Recreate History
Are We Constantly Choosing and Changing the Past?

"History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten."
-- George Santayana

The recent popularity of retrocausality in physics has inspired me to contemplate how manytypes of reality shifts might actually be the result of consciousness at one point in time influencing the past. Physicists Stephen Hawking and Thomas Hertog propose that we take a top-down view of the beginning of the universe, with the idea that the present selects the past, while physicist John Cramer moves ever closer to conducting his experiment in sending photons of light back to the past. Physical changes could be going on all the time around us, yet we would mostly not notice that occasionally some things appear, disappear, transform and transport. In fact, everything would likely seem perfectly normal and completely unsurprising most of the time, since we would be accustomed to routinely walking into other worlds based on both prior and future expectations.

The significantly novel part of this idea is that in any given moment, each and every one of us influences the past. If history is written by "the victors," as some assert, then how we see and describe ourselves plays a pivotal role in our previous evolution. When we know ourselves to be winners, we jump to a reality probability space-timeline where we have indeed been winners. We continuously match our current real-time view of ourselves with events from the past that feel most correct for us from a vast range of possible pasts.

In this fashion, some people become spontaneously healed from miserable conditions, such as when my grandmother's liver cancer vanished. This switching between reality space-timelines requires that we absolutely let go of our current reality in order to make a smooth transition from one reality to another as we move from a reality we are willing to let go of to a reality we now choose to be connected with. This transition might occur in much the same way as we engage the clutch on our car when shifting with a stick-shift to disengage from one gear and engage the next. The switch from one reality time-space continuum to another would then feel quite seamless, with most aspects of our lives looking and feeling exactly the same as before we jumped from one reality to another.

I got to thinking about the business of retrocausal reality shifting this past weekend, when my car refused to start. The starter had shown signs of becoming weaker for several days, and finally it reached the point where turning the key in the ignition resulted in a pitiful small clicking noise... but nothing further. I tried more than ten times to elicit something more than no sounds whatsoever... and was rewarded with complete and absolute silence when I turned the ignition key... not even one small "click." It was becoming obvious that no amount of turning the key was going to work, and it might be time to consider calling for a tow truck. Recalling childhood days when I would often send my family car lots of loving energy on many occasions when it did not start up immediately, I sent my car some loving energy, and imagined that the starter was working just fine... and that because it had started (was about to start), I had been able to (was about to be able to) run the rest of my errands and return safely home. I was feeling a sense of both urgency and necessity, as it was raining and I needed the car to start so I could get my daughter where she needed to go. With a fresh future memory of having just heard the sound of the car starting, I turned the key to hear the engine almost turn over. I turned the ignition key off once more, sent lots more positive energy and imagined even more clearly that I had heard the car start strong and clear like a new starter, and turned they key again to hear the most beautiful sound of the engine roaring to life! This was especially surprising because never before had that starter started so quietly, instantly, or with such silent disengagement... having always in the past been slow and noisy. The retrocausality perspective on this incident is that in sending positive energy to the car, I was essentially connecting with a fully functioning starter... going back in time to select a different reality path... one in which the starter on my car still worked. 

Wishing you may discover just how good your life can get through all time and space,
Cynthia Sue Larson
email Cynthia at cynthia@realityshifters.com 

 

"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope." -- Samuel Johnson Anyone watching the news these days might get an impression that the future we seem headed toward is not quite one we had most been hoping for. Regardless what news is being reported, and what hopes may seem to be dashed, there is always a silver lining in every seemingly dark cloud. If you ever find yourself losing hope in dreams from the past, there are tried-and-true ways you can find your way to a wonderful future, full of love, joy, and fulfillment. The key to finding this happy future lies in keeping hope alive. Hope is more specific than optimism, that generalized expectancy of good things coming our way. Hope is founded on goals that genuinely matter to us, as well as how we plan to achieve those goals.  When I think of hope, I get a mental image of Tarzan swinging from vine to vine, effortlessly finding a new vine as he swings through the jungle. Each new hope carries us forward in a direction somewhat close to what we envision our optimal end point to be, and we can grab onto new hopes along the way. Even if our ultimate desired goal may seem impossible or distant, we can rely upon hope and our awareness of our personal goals to assist us in finding the next goal... the next hope... to move onward and upward. Hopes become conscious when we visualize and/or verbalize what we desire. We may look back through time to see how we have set and achieved a wide variety of goals despite various challenges throughout our lives. Simply stating what our goals are, and then relaxing into an energized, expansive state of consciousness is enough to bring us to a place of receptivity where we can find the next hope... the next goal. Barack Obama's successful campaign founded on the quality of hope provides recent validation of the human need to find and foster hope in troubled times. Psychologists point out in books such as Handbook of Hope how the loss of hope is associated with specific clinical disorders, and how the practice of hope therapy can positively transform peoples' lives. Hope therapy researchers such as professors Jennifer Cheavens and Laura Dreer present studies that show how Hope Therapy Fights Depression, as they point out that, "Hope therapy seeks to build on strengths people have, or teach them how to develop those strengths. We focus not on what is wrong, but on ways to help people live up to their potential."  You can practice some hope therapy right now, to improve your sense of well-being and positive focus on your dreams. Start by thinking back to your past and remembering a time when you fulfilled your goals. Think of a time when you overcame challenges that arose in your path. Think of a time when you experienced personal success. Think of what you are really and truly grateful for in your life right now, and how much of what you are so grateful for came about as a direct result of your hopes, goals, and desires. Take a few minutes to write down these chapters from the book of your life. Take another few minutes to read what you just wrote. This narrative provides you with a marvelous tool for getting a fresh perspective on your current situation, which might have seemed difficult or even impossible, but which now presents you with many possible options for moving forward, depending on what, exactly, you are currently hoping for. Are you interested in some light-hearted, yet powerful tips on how to go for your dreams? Hay House author, Peggy McColl has just the book for you... her delightful book, Be A Dog With A Bone: Always Go for Your Dreams, that can inspire you to "stop chasing your tail," "bark for what you want," and "be a little dog with a big dog attitude." Your book purchase this week gives you a chance to win one of sixteen fabulous prizes, including a weekend trip to Tampa, Florida... and a one hour coaching session with me! Wishing you may discover just how good your life can get, Cynthia Sue Larson

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