We’re in the midst of our retreat in North Carolina. What’s been particularly great for me is to hang out with so many Masterful Living folks. Many have been in community with me for years and their transformation is so obvious.

I’ve been sharing about being ALL IN and about true willingness. I’ve realized how many times people will say they are willing, but they actually aren’t. They’re just saying it. They are empty words. This was me too.

Until I really decided to be ALL IN, there were a lot of empty words. That’s why so much self-forgiveness is required!

ALL IN means you’re willing to catch yourself when you are not walking your talk. That’s what it really means to me. The more I became willing to catch myself NOT walking my talk and course-correct myself, the more I was demonstrating my willingness and that really made a difference.

One thing we’re working on this weekend is expanding our intuition.

I used to feel like there was an invisible wall between me and the clear insight that I believed was possible for me, if only I could find the magic key. The breakthrough I was looking for finally came as the result of a rigorous practice of willingness in the form of releasing my attachment to my opinions and judgments and a practice of self-forgiveness.

And, you see, this is how it goes. It’s much the same for all of us.

We can told how to have a breakthrough, but we won’t have one until we’re willing.

People don’t believe me.
They hear the words I’m saying.
But it doesn’t resonate.
Because the willingness isn’t there.

I get it. That’s one of the reasons why I offer the programs that I do. Because together we rise to a higher vibration and a more active willingness.

People are often excitedly telling me that what I share works. And then they open the door to more practices that work and bring forth the release of the blocks to Love, the relationship healing, the body healing, the bad habits healing that we ALL desire so much.

It takes a great willingness.
People think they are willing just because they’re willing to stop being stuck, unhappy and in pain – but that’s really not the same.

The willingness to stop suffering is not the same as the willingness to release the attachments to the blocks to Love.

They’re two different things.
In fact, they’re two VERY different things.

When we’re ONLY willing to stop the repeating pain patterns then where is our focus? It’s on the past and the pain patterns repeating.

When we’re willing to use even a simple spiritual practice to have a healing of the pain patterns NOW then we’re in the present moment because that’s the ONLY place where healing can happen – right now.

Everybody is willing to do something healing in the future – are you willing to do it now when there’s a choice between Love and fear right in front of you?

For me, when I was doing my own original version of this spiritual bootcamp of healing, I had so many friends who were spiritual practitioners, ministers and teachers and yet not one really wanted to go ALL IN with me.

And that’s what really shifted me into becoming a community builder.
If I have to do something challenging and difficult, I’d rather do it with a companion.

Often in a workshop, if I ask, almost everyone in the room will say they have a deep feeling of sadness and loneliness that they’d had most of their life.

Almost everyone will say they’ve always felt that they were different and they didn’t fit in.

I get it – me too!
What healed that was my willingness to really have an effective spiritual practice.
That’s what led me to going ALL IN.
Being ALL IN opened the doors in my heart and my mind.
And that’s what completely ended the sad and lonely feeling.
Gone. Healed.

And that’s what compels me to lead this community and create programs where we can join together to do this work and inspire each other.

There’s such a momentum that we can build when we come together and practice together.

You know what else is so cool?
When I started out doing this work and felt so alone, there were no tele-summits and no conference call programs I could join. As soon as they existed, I started using them and gathering like-minded folks.

And still, many folks would lurk in the background and not share.
And then ZOOM was invented and we could see each other if we wished to.
Which has made a HUGE difference to this community of folks all over the world.

Now, we can have all kinds of connections.
A Course in Miracles tells us that our brothers and sisters are our salvation and it’s true.

Sometimes it’s SUPER challenging to have a holy relationship with someone we actually experience in our day to day life, but we can learn to do it with a Mighty Companion who is doing the work alongside us in community.

That builds our momentum.

The most painful thing I’ve experienced is distracting myself with the intellectual pursuit of Spirit.

Information isn’t healing.
Spiritual practice is healing.
An effective spiritual practice is liberating and happy-making.

In our loving spiritual community, and on this retreat, there’s nothing to escape.
Only Love to celebrate.

That’s the feeling I wish for everyone.
It’s SO MUCH easier with the support of a like-minded community.
That’s why we seek each other out.

Being with Mighty Companions is a celebration of Love!

It takes courage and strength to relinquish the patterns of pain. We have become so identified with them that we don’t know who we are without them. When we do the healing together, it actually becomes fun.

That’s the power of joining.
That’s the miracle.

If you’re willing, sign up NOW for my Forgiveness Workshop on Saturday, June 7. Bring your willingness to receive the support necessary to accelerate your spiritual healing and deepen your spiritual practice.

Of course you don’t need me, you have it all within you, but it’s so much FUN to really do this together! It’s so liberating! I love it!