Jaclyn Beckerman Coaching

At Sunday’s service at Sacred Center Rev. Gold talked about life being about ecstasy and bliss.  Life begins, continues, is sustained and ends in ecstasy.

Bliss enters us naturally and it is reflected through our consciousness (or comes out of us) as whatever and wherever we are.  For example, if you’re in a crummy mood or angry, it might come out as judgment.

Another way we say this in coaching is that you ARE your essence (your greatest self) and you HAVE a survival mechanism (fears and automatic ways of being within your comfort zone).  In your natural state, you are love and joy.  But we add a lot of ‘stuff’ on top of that (fears, stories and interpretations about who we are in the world) and then live like that is who we are.  It’s just not true.  You are not your fears.  In fact, you just made them up.

We think everything is OUT THERE. But Eastern teachings say that NOTHING is out there.  It is ALL in us.  What we are, is. What we see, is. What we focus on is what we see.

Ultimately every single experience is coming to GROW you.  Though chances are, the experience won’t always look like you would like it to.  Because of course, we want the end point without any of the work.  We want to be wealthy, in incredible loving relationships, in great shape, have amazing homes and travel the world, but we only want it if it’s easy!  We don’t want to have to change or grow or expand in to who we need to BE in order to live that life.

And all it really takes is taking action, every day, that is in service of what you say you want.  Things are going to come up and you’re going to have obstacles pop up along the way.  But those obstacles are to grow you, not to tell you to stop and give up.