Magnificence is our birthright. The illusion of struggle, expectations, status, and what’s “fair” causes us to actually fight against our own greatness as we desperately seek to control our existence. We feel that somebody is hunting us down with the goal of making life hard. Yes! Something is hurting us, but the call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE! The self is the only opponent powerful enough to drag us down. And when we put down the weapon and realize that we were fighting shadows, our true power manifests and doors swing open.
In this episode of Refractive Johnny G looks into the saga of our fake battles through examples of interpersonal relationships, the epidemic of shame, and growth lessons from the allegory of Adam and Eve’s fall from grace. Despite our best efforts, [spoiler alert] while we can temporarily blind ourselves to it, our magnificence always wins in the end. Aim your light.
TRANSCRIPT:
Ever since you can remember you felt something in your chest telling you to move, to love, to speak, to try. Day after day you pretend you don’t hear calling. Maybe you dismiss it as silliness or worse, but it’s there ready for you, and it will wait for you as long as you need. My name is Johnny G and I invite you to join me on a journey of awakening as we dare to embrace our light. This is refractive.
Good afternoon everybody. This is Johnny G and welcome to Refractive. I’m sitting here next to a scented candle that I really love in my favorite sweatshirt on a comfortable chair and I just don’t know if life gets better than this. There’s so much joy in these little moments that surround me and I can’t speak for other people, I certainly hope that there are other people who feel the way I do, but you know, I’m sitting here and I just can’t believe that this is what qualifies as a great life for me. If you would’ve asked me, I mean not even a long time ago, just a year ago, I had a very different answer for what I think I would have wanted. But the ability to sit here on a weekday afternoon, not have to step into a job that I don’t want to do, in comfortable clothes with candles and a nice beverage anda beautiful place to sit. You know, this is, I don’t know, maybe people have known about this for a long time, but this is groundbreaking to me and I am just so grateful. I am grateful that this is where I’ve ended up. Anyway, that is definitely not the topic of today’s episode. We are looking at the concept of surrendering to your greatness.
This was a topic that I dealt into in some detail recently at a workshop that I did and I thought it would really be a prime for this podcast, so I hope you enjoy it. I got a lot of good feedback. I still have some people who were in the workshop who are in contact with me arranging follow ups. So I think it was effective and impactful. And so I’m delighted to share it with you here on the Refractive podcast. In the recovery community where I have roots, as well as in other spiritual aspects, there is a seeming paradox that in order to find power you must stop fighting. In the 12 steps we call it surrendering your will. But the idea is that the fighting is what we’ve done our whole life. We’ve tried to fix things, we’ve tried to manage the circumstances around us and we’ve only ended up deeper in misery and conflict and frustration.
So there is another way of looking at the tough stuff in life. And by just surrendering, stepping into flow, you are able to tap into power that’s not available to you when you are in the grips of a fight. So I took this from a slightly different angle because in my beliefs, I believe that I was created, my soul, my spirit was created by source. It is the same material as source. When I say source, that’s my word for God, higher power, Supreme being, Supreme intellig
