Gary Zuvak

"An Insightful  Author"

"Before television was invented, people used to sit around the radio and they'd listen to radio programs. The programs were in episodes. Things would unfold in each episode and within that episode, some of them would get resolved and others wouldn't.

"For example, the hero gets in a fight. He gets knocked over a cliff. On the way down, he grabs some roots that are growing out of the side of the cliff. He stops his fall. He pulls himself up onto a narrow ledge. He is relieved for a moment. He looks up and there is a big grizzly bear coming toward him. That's where the episode ends. And it always ends with the words, 'To Be Continued.'

"What I'm suggesting to you is that your life is an episode in a larger story. That larger story is the story of your soul. When you die...when you go home...your friends who are five-sensory — who are limited to the five senses — will put that date of your death on your grave marker. But your multi-sensory friends will write 'To Be Continued...'"

Begin to build authentic power — the kind of power that comes from inside. It cannot be lost like a set of keys. Gary says the creation of authentic power is a process. Once you create it, it can never be taken away from you.

Every time you lose control to negative emotions like anger, fear, jealousy or rage—you allow those feelings to have power over you. When you allow yourself to feel those emotions—instead of just acting out—you begin to create authentic power.

Gary says you must challenge the pain in your life. The more often you set your intention to challenge painful feelings—the more power you create.

Discover, Explore and Heal
Gary Zukav "Each time you challenge anger, fear or jealousy you empower yourself."

If you are angry, there is a deep pain. The world is not the way you want it to be. That pain is so great it is easier to blame someone else, or yourself, or the universe, and loose yourself in the anger. But if you do that you'll never get to the things that need to be healed. And the only one that can heal them is you.

In one way or another, when you become angry with another person, your intention not to draw them closer to you -- it is to push them away. You can challenge your anger with intention.
Explore these steps:
bullet Set the intention you don't have to speak in anger. Decide not to make someone else the object of your anger.
bullet Feel your anger.
bullet Ask yourself: What is frightening me? What is so painful to me that it's driving me to be an achiever, or a people pleaser, or rage out of control?
bullet Remind yourself that you always have a choice.
bullet Instead of venting your anger in your normal way, try explaining what you are feeling in a way that does not judge or blame the other person. Express what lies beneath the anger.

It's risky. Life is risky. But the consequence of not risking to be in your emotional integrity and striving for compassion at the same time is to continue to live in resentment or jealousy or fear