Shed & Shine â Riff Episode: What Have You Shed for You Lately?
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Gino Wickman
Hello and welcome back. This episode I call, what have you shed for you lately? And on that note, we are going to take a very different approach to getting to the thing that needs to be shed. And there's a good chance that something is going to bubble up for you in this episode. And dare I say, we're actually going to take an opposite approach to everything that Rob and I have shared with you up until now. And when I talk about things bubbling up or something bubbling up, that may scare you right now as you're hearing this, but what I would ask and plead and hope for is that if there is something in there to bubble up, it wants to come up. It needs to come up.
00:01:00 - 00:01:24
Gino Wickman
It's in there. It's in there. And I hope if it is, you want it to come up. So what I'm going to do, as I talk about the opposite, because at this moment I don't expect you to understand a word of what I just said in terms of approach. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to start with the traditional approach that Rob and I teach you in Shine.
00:01:24 - 00:02:05
Gino Wickman
And so I'm literally going to focus on Discovery Number Two of the three discoveries for freeing your True Self. Discovery Number Two is that all decisions are made out of love or fear. And so we're going to bask in that for a minute. And as I take you through the traditional approach pretty efficiently, something may bubble up there, just to prepare you, and that's a good thing. And as I take you through this, I would ask if possible to please close your eyes, sit with this with me, don't listen, literally feel it.
00:02:05 - 00:02:27
Gino Wickman
Now, if you're driving, obviously you can't do that, but just do your best to feel it more than you listen and hear the words. I want you to really feel this. And so what I'm going to do is take you through all four levels of this discovery, all decisions are made out of love or fear. So here we go. Eyes closed if possible.
00:02:27 - 00:02:36
Gino Wickman
Feel this. We're going down all four levels. At level one, again, it's an understanding that your True Self is in there.
00:02:36 - 00:03:28
Gino Wickman
Love, fear. Love is your True Self. Fear is your ego. And so with those two understandings, when you make a decision, it's either coming from your True Self or it's coming from your ego. And when you see that at that level, and I'm hoping you can see a visual, that just means your True Self is trapped in there if in fact most of your decisions are coming from fear, your ego, and your True Self is trapped in there by your ego, simply trying to protect you for all the right reasons from ever feeling the pain you felt in the past. So if level one is clear, what we now need to do is dissolve that ego to free your True Self. And at level two, the understanding there is everything I just said is energy.
00:03:28 - 00:04:02
Gino Wickman
We are energy beings. It's all energy. And as energy, we either shine very bright or we don't shine very bright. And when we don't shine very bright, it just means we have energetic blocks. That just means that our ego has us held captive and prisoner, and we're just not shining as bright as we can. And with that understanding, it takes us to level three, and that is simply we just need to remove those blocks. We just need to remove those energetic blocks.
00:04:02 - 00:04:49
Gino Wickman
Those energetic blocks are things like fears, old trauma, pain, jealousy, all forms of judgment, judgment of others, fear of being judged by others and judging ourselves. It might be anger, it might be triggering, it might be control issues. It might be realizing people have hooks in you or you have hooks in them. It might be protection mechanisms that pop up, but those are all forms of blocks that are hindering your energy from fully shining. And the idea is to remove them. And then that takes us to the fourth level, which is just simply being aware. Just be aware, present, conscious, stay aware of when these things come up.
00:04:49 - 00:05:14
Gino Wickman
And as I said, in this episode, something may come up. And with that awareness, when it does come up, you just work your way back up those four levels. Now that you realize, whoa, I'm feeling something here. And as I always say, if it's in my chest, it's from the past. If it's in my gut, it's something about the future. When that awareness comes up and you feel that sensation, you just work your way back up.
00:05:14 - 00:05:47
Gino Wickman
Now you go to the block, you process it. We'll talk more about that in just a minute. Then you go up another level where you've removed that block, you've increased your energy, you shine brighter, all the way to the top level where your True Self is finally free because you've removed all of those blocks. You've relaxed your ego. Your ego is no longer controlling your life. You're leading with your True Self. So all that said, that's the traditional approach, for lack of a better term.
00:05:47 - 00:06:34
Gino Wickman
Again, that's the way that Rob and I teach it to you in Shine. And like I said, just by sharing that and reminding you of that, something may have come up and something really big may have come up. And if it has and you need a minute, hit pause to get clear on it, understand it. And if you know how to process, which we're going to talk about just a little bit here, go ahead and process it and then come back and join me. This is a good thing that this came up for you. And I'm going to say it again because these blocks, it might be a control issue, hooks, fear, trauma, pain, jealousy, judgment, anger. Be open to all of it, all of these things that are blocking you from fully being your True Self.
00:06:35 - 00:07:06
Gino Wickman
And if you need a refresher and a crash course on everything I just said, just please go back to Shine and read those pages. Read that chapter. Read Discovery Number Two. Decisions are made out of love or fear. Now, with everything I just said, we haven't even gotten started with this episode yet. So hang in there with me because now, like I said, we're going to take a different approach.
00:07:06 - 00:07:49
Gino Wickman
We're going to literally flip it. We're going to do the opposite, the reverse of what I just shared with you. But don't get too caught up in my words because what we just did is we went from a standpoint of digging down deep to find the stuff, where now we're going to flip it and we're going to come at it from the highest level and see what comes up. And so again, as I take you through this next step, I ask you to please close your eyes, feel this if you are able. And if you are driving and you can pull over, it would be great for you to pull over and close your eyes. And so here we go. In flipping it, I want you to go to your highest state.
00:07:50 - 00:08:12
Gino Wickman
I want you to envision your body vibrating at the highest level. You are your highest True Self. You are the best version of yourself. You are feeling total peace, total love, total love. Total light.
00:08:13 - 00:08:52
Gino Wickman
You see yourself as pure light, burning bright, burning at the highest level. When I say that, in this place it makes me think of two things. I've been singing it all morning, the song, "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine." I want you to get to a place where your light is fully shining. And it also reminds me of the Marianne Williamson quote, which is, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
00:08:53 - 00:09:05
Gino Wickman
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us." We are all meant to shine as children of God. Dube. Dube.
00:09:05 - 00:10:08
Gino Wickman
So assuming you're there, shining at the highest level, your True Self is shining through and shining bright, and not from an ego standpoint, not from a chest-thumping standpoint, from strength, peace, a knowing. There's almost no sensation. You feel so powerful in that place. So let's stay there for a moment. And in this place, there is actually a theory that says there's a whole other approach. That means that if we come at it from this place, we take ourselves to this place of vibrating at a very high level, all the blocks, all of those things that I described, they just dissolve. They literally can't hang onto you at this level.
00:10:08 - 00:10:33
Gino Wickman
They can't vibrate that high. They just simply fall away. All of those energetic blocks will fall away. Now, that's a theory, and I can't speak from experience because I've shared this before. I have this very strong belief that there are people walking the earth that will shed all of their stuff in the blink of an eye. Snap of a finger. I believe some can.
00:10:34 - 00:11:14
Gino Wickman
I just haven't had that experience. I have unfortunately been on the eight-year plan. So I believe it is possible, but right now for me, it's a theory, but I've heard about it enough times that I believe it to be true. At this level of vibrating this high and burning this bright, sometimes there is residue still hanging on. And if so, that's what we need to address. So in this, something may have come up for you. Something might be coming up for you right now.
00:11:15 - 00:12:32
Gino Wickman
There's something at this high level. Now that you see what's possible, who you are at your core, there might be something hanging onto you or some place where you're not being the best version of yourself. It is something holding you back. It might be an addiction, an old memory, a past pain, a fear, a bad habit, a barrier that's stopping you, an obstacle that's blocking you, a sadness that still exists that you have not fully processed, a loss that you've experienced that you have not fully processed, some form of resistance in your body, hooks. You might now see some hooks that you have in people or hooks that they have in you, or it might be someone that you need to have a really important conversation with. At the end of the day, it's a sensation, some sensation in your body vibrating that high that's saying, wait, there's still something else here that we need to shed. And if something did come up in either part of this conversation in this episode, I urge and ask you to capture it.
00:12:32 - 00:12:47
Gino Wickman
You could write it down. You could just simply capture it as a thought right now. In other words, we're going to let it go, so I don't want you to hang onto it too tight, but just be aware of it. Feel that sensation. And if you need to hit pause to get really clear on it, that's okay.
00:12:47 - 00:13:10
Gino Wickman
We're going to talk about processing it in a minute. So come back, don't feel like you have to go process it unless you know exactly how. I just want you to see if anything came up either in the first half of this episode or with what we just did there. And if something did come up, that just simply means it's time to shed it. What have you shed for you lately?
00:13:11 - 00:13:47
Gino Wickman
As you may recall, there are 30 ways and resources we offer you in Shine. So you can go to the list of resources, but what I'm going to do is offer you the most common ones that we've talked about in many episodes and see if we can't do that right here and now. Because it is that simple, just not always easy. Sometimes it can be complex, but it is this simple. So assuming something did come up, I'm just going to ask you to follow my lead here if you want some help. So you've got to want the help. You may know exactly what you need to do.
00:13:47 - 00:14:25
Gino Wickman
You may have already hit the pause button and you've released it. But just try, first of all, stillness. So just try processing it. You may need to go get help. And please, if this is that extreme, go do that. But you may also be able to sit with it and process it now, in that you just sit in stillness and just feel every ounce of what's coming up. And as Michael Singer says, when it comes up, it's going to come up with just as much pain as it went down, so let it process.
00:14:25 - 00:14:51
Gino Wickman
I had one I processed four months ago. It took an hour. It was an hour and it was excruciating, but it was powerful. And the beauty is you don't have to know what it is. You just need to let it process. Your True Self is doing everything in its power to push it out and help you get it out. So if that doesn't work, you could also try the Process One exercise where whatever it is, remember it's three steps.
00:14:52 - 00:15:26
Gino Wickman
What you do in silence is you think about the location that the sensation is in, you think about the shape of the sensation, and you think about the color of the sensation, and then you sit with that location, that shape, and that color until it dissolves. And most of the time it dissolves within a minute. Sometimes it takes longer. The idea is to release it forever. But I repeat, if it's so big and you need help, please get help. And again, we offer 30 different resources in the book. So with all that said, I now bring you into the home stretch.
00:15:26 - 00:15:59
Gino Wickman
I bring you into the end of this episode. And if there is something to process and it hasn't processed, I urge you to please take as much time as you need to process it right now. And again, if it's that big, go get help. Because like I said, your True Self wants it gone so you can shine. Thank you for listening in today. We truly appreciate you taking the time to spend with us. And please tune in for the next episode.
00:15:59 - 00:16:08
Gino Wickman
Until then, we wish you all the best in freeing your True Self. Stay focused and much love.
