The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN: 0061735361
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
“Gay Hendricks is a great role model for true success. He enjoys abundance and a deep connection with his own spiritual essence, and at the same time has lived for three decades in a thriving marriage. Now, he shows us how to do it for ourselves.”
— Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of Cracking the Millionaire Code
In The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks, the New York Times bestselling author of Five Wishes, demonstrates how to eliminate the barriers to success by overcoming false fears and beliefs. Fans of Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, and The Secret will find useful, effective tips for breaking down the walls to a better life in The Big Leap.
important to regard criticism and blame as addictions. Getting Specific 77 If you want to find out if your Upper Limit behavior is an addiction, here’s a quick experiment: Try to stop it for a day and see what happens. If it’s not an addiction, you’ll be able to stop right away. If it’s an addiction, it will creep back into your behavior unconsciously, just as smokers who quit find a cigarette back in their hands without even realizing it. Self-criticism and criticizing others are one and the
making you miserable? I’m the one who’s the victim here. It’s your fault, not mine. I’ve been putting up with your guff so long I ought to get some sort of martyrdom prize! PERSON A: That’s absurd. Let me tell you all the reasons I’m the real victim here. PERSON B: Great. Then when you get through, I’ll tell you how all of them are your fault, always have been, and always will be. Once the race for the victim position is under way, each person must find some way to out-victim the other. In other
illustrate the Three Ps. • Punishment. Ryan, a successful middle-aged stockbroker, married and a pillar of the community, starts to suffer from what he calls “killer migraines.” When I explore it with him, I discover that he often gets them in the midafternoon. When I explore it further, he lets his hair down and confesses: on the occasions he gets the midafternoon migraines, he has usually spent his lunch hour having irrational, exuberant sex with his young secretary. Ryan has not mentioned
unconsciously trying to prevent yourself from having to do something you don’t really want to do and/or protect yourself from something you don’t want to feel. The illness or accident is your unconscious mind’s clunky way of doing you a favor. It’s a costly favor, 94 The Big Leap though, and once you learn how to navigate your Upper Limits, you can move through your barriers in a much more friendly way than making yourself sick or having an accident. Having created a few unnecessary illnesses
to each other. Any of us who embark on a path of conscious growth must remember that we’re bringing with us millions of years of evolution. There is no quicker way to bring forth our inner Neanderthal than to get into a loving relationship. When we open up to more love and energy, we begin to flush old programming out of our system. Our energy thermostat is reset higher, and sometimes this sets off alarms in ourselves. Genuine contact with another person gets us high, and this trips the Upper