I am a begginner and this is my first post. I just did the exercise for session 2 where you "feel" your response to dreaming "big". I felt overwhelmingly responsible. Like carrying a big heavy weight on my shoulders. So it was not a pleasant feeling of having a big dream. Has anyone else had this? Any suggestions of how to lift it off?

That's excellent, Jancat. It just means you have tapped into all the resistance that's built up over the years and is lurking within.

You don't need to "lift it off." Just continue with the course, begin to think about what you really, really, really want -- and give yourself permission to feel it. Be gentle with yourself and begin to RELAX into this process.

Strain, struggle, and those kinds of feelings are all signs of resistance. So we just gently notice those feelings (without judgment, blame, beating up on ourselves) and then look for ways to shift to thoughts that help us to feel a little better. When we make that shift, we're changing course -- and heading more toward things we want than toward things we don't.

It'll all unfold as you go along. Play with it. Relax and let it be easy and fun.

Thanks Rebecca I was suprised and thrilled that you found time to respond with some advice. It was good too. When I did relax and think about what I really really wanted it wasn't houses, shares and cash like I had originally thought. It was just plain cash ... and a lot more of it so that I could get and give a lot more "life to all". Then a little voice came up that said that I did not deserve more life and that in fact I didn't deserve any life. Pretty depressing stuff. And not much fun at all. Now I have a new dilemna. Do I just accept that this is the feeling that I have now and not resist it (what you resist persists!) or do I consciously choose a new thought.

My experience is that I have been trying all my life (and it is pretty long) to choose a new thought to be positive and successful and so on and while I ahve come a long way I am still Ms Average just subsisting and getting older.

My concern about just allowing the "untruth" to sit in me is that I might be giving it more power.

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Do I just accept that this is the feeling that I have now and not resist it (what you resist persists!) or do I consciously choose a new thought.

Absolutely choose a new thought. That is not resisting, that is right action in the certain way. Resisting is to keep thinking what that little voice said, over and over and over and....you get the picture, literally.

You might even try being compassionate with that voice. Say "thank you for sharing and I know you think you're doing what's best for me but I now choose differently! I most certainly do deserve these things!" Compassion and gratitude defuse many emotional thought bombs!

Namaste,
Linda