by founder Wendy Down:
Recently, I demonstrated how to become wildly flexible in your thinking and feeling about intense life situations as a way to gain peace within them. A member later described how that exercise led to these real-life experiences that amazed and astounded her:
“This summer my husband and I went on our annual sailing vacation. Because I have a lifelong fear of water after almost drowning as a kid, I usually take books along to fill the time. But this year I decided instead to experiment with the various consciousness techniques we’d been playing with in the Consciousness Playground.
One day, we encountered the worst weather I’ve ever experienced on the sea. Normally I’d be freaked out. Instead I did the exercise where you imagine the whole spectrum of possible outcomes – from the very worst to the very best (me falling overboard, captain getting hurt, hole in the boat, etc). I neutralized each possibility, until I was in absolute calm. When the decision was made to turn back, I realized I’d have been okay with any decision and while the ride was tumultuous, I had no worries or concerns crossing the angry seas.
A couple of days later, we decided to chance going out again. After a couple of hours we could see a storm building up on land that seemed headed for the water and us. Since we were about half-way to our destination, we decided to stay the course. I repeated the exercise. Suddenly, a funny thing happened. We found ourselves in a calm bubble of weather. We could see the storm behind us and we could see it ahead of us, but all around us the seas were calm. We stayed in this bubble all the way into port. The dock master told us that it was the strangest thing; as the storm passed over town, it split in two – one part going north out to sea, the other south, thus creating our bubble.
Later I found that all of this practicing had prepared me to deal with a serious health emergency with my husband a few weeks later. At first I was busy living in the drama (getting him to the ER, providing comfort as they did test after test, etc). He got worse and worse until I pulled back from the drama and remembered to do the energy work. I envisioned death, him bed-ridden forever, and the like at one end of the spectrum; full recovery at the other end. Then it occurred to me that perhaps I could expand my vision of the best and envision a possibility that my husband’s experience could somehow reset his physical body and his overall health could improve.
Sure enough, now he’s now totally recovered. And his circulation has improved, his neuropathy is gone, and his blood pressure is normal.
The real gift of my experience is not the seeming miracles. The real gift is experiencing that space of total neutrality.
It’s akin to life slowing down so that you can experience the beauty and perfection of every moment, even if your preferences don’t manifest.”
Now thaaat’s what I’m talking’ about! Wendy 
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