Jaclyn Beckerman Coaching

I just started reading Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh.  Early on in the book it says the following.  “A human being is like a television set with millions of channels. If we turn the Buddha on, we are the Buddha.  If we turn the sorrow on, we are the sorrow.  If we turn a smile on, we really are the smile. We can’t let just one channel dominate us. We have the seeds of everything in us, and we have to take the situation in hand to recover our own sovereignty.”

I loved this piece.  It really illuminates in the plainest terms that we are what we believe and we can simply choose which experiences to ‘turn on’. Yet people so frequently get sucked in to crappy programming.

People are so persistently plagued by beliefs that disempower them.  They’re not good enough, they’ll never be able to do it, they can’t afford it, they don’t deserve it, people don’t like them and so on and so forth.  Yet they’re the one ‘turning on’ (and tuning in to) that channel.

It’s human nature.  I of course do it myself as well.  For example, for the longest time I turned on the “I can’t afford it” channel.  Living out the starring role of this show I freaked out about giving myself anything and had lots of reasons and excuses to justify not doing so.  And when I did spend money anyway, I had tremendous guilt or uneasiness about it.  For example, I would go to dinner with friends and be hyper-sensitive about only paying exactly what I owed.  Talk about anal (and unpleasant)!

Then I finally started to break down this ‘story’ of mine.  First it was little by little that I started to make changes.  I’d split bills evenly at dinner and not care if I owed less.  I’d buy little things for others or donate money here and there.  Then at some point my coach encouraged me to invest in things I really wanted for myself in service of my clients being able to invest in theirselves and what they want (coaching).  After all, how could I expect them to take on what I myself wouldn’t?  I still struggled with this for a month or two still unwilling to let go and trust the universe.  Until something switched.

I read Brian Weiss’ ‘Many Lives, Many Masters’ and was fascinated by the stories of past life regressions.  When I got home I googled past life regression therapy and found that Brian Weiss was doing a workshop in Philly for $139.  I was so excited to find it and knew I had to sign up so I put my money objections aside and registered.  I posted the workshop on my twitter and later that day Rethnea contacted me to share with me that she had studied with Dr. Weiss and does past life regressions and wanted to offer me a free 3 hour session which I gratefully accepted.  (Unbeknownst to me I was the last free session she was to offer anyone as she decided to start charging for her work). Then, after completing Dr. Weiss’ workshop, we did past life work in my intuitive tool classes with Deganit.  There’s another amazing example in my post, ‘What are you bringing into your life?‘  It’s amazing what the universe provides you with when you get over yourself and surrender your BS to it.  All you have to do is give a little bit of yourself and trust that the universe will take care of you and bring you more than you could have imagined.

Now I’m creating the story of, ‘I can create anything!’

What’s one ‘story’ or belief you’re holding on to for dear life that if you took action in the face of it, might create something phenomenal in your life?  What’s just one baby step action you could take within the next week?

On a related note, I heard an awesome statistic the other day that when people sign up for a coaching program, when they simply register, they are anywhere from 20%-200% more likely to get the results they want.  If you think about it, this makes perfect sense.  What we’re actually talking about is putting some skin in the game of life.  You can look at this in other areas of life just as easily.  For example, you’re unlikely to learn a new language until you sign up for a course, or to learn salsa until you register for a dance class. You have to say yes to life before anything new can happen.

What do you really want in your life that you’ve been a constant ‘no’ to based on some circumstance?  I invite you to go take any action towards being a yes to it and watch it snowball.