S10 E33-36 (Building Success Habits) Journey Stage of the Hero's Journey - Becoming Real with Londina Cruz & Donna Kunde

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Londina Cruz & Donna Kunde - “Building Success Habits” 
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Journey Stage of the Hero's Journey - Becoming Real  
The journey always begins with a yearning. We feel discontented, confined, alienated or empty. Often we do not even have a name for what is missing, but we long for that mysterious something. The urge to seek the grail, to climb the mountain, to seek wisdom, to cross new frontiers, to achieve the formerly unachievable in all areas of life seems endemic in the human race. The Seeker starts us on the journey by responding to the call of Spirit to ascend. 

S10 E33 The Seeker Deep Dive |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz 

1. “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”― Joseph Campbell
2. The Seeker seeks to find a better future or a more perfect world. The call takes different forms for different people. Always the call is to function at a higher or deeper level, to find a way to live that has more significance and depth, to find out who you are beyond the social persona that you and your environment have jointly created. 
3. To some degree, all the forms of the quest reduce to a basic desire to encounter authenticity in oneself, in the world outside and in the cosmos as a whole.  
4. There are five levels of the Seeker:
   1. Shadow - Excessive ambition, perfectionism, pride, inability to commit, addictiveness in general
   2. Call - Alienation, dissatisfaction, emptiness; opportunity knocking
   3. Spiral One - Exploring, wandering, experimenting, studying, trying new things
   4. Spiral Two - Ambition, climbing the ladder of success, becoming the best you can be
   5. Spiral Three - Spiritual searching, transformation
5. Allow yourself to daydream about greener pastures, where you would rather be than where you are. Perhaps it’s a different partner, a different lifestyle. Then let yourself imagine how you would have to change to make it possible for you to live your fantasy. Are you willing to allow that transformation?

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S10 E34 The Destroyer Deep Dive  |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz 

1. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ― Joseph Campbell
   
2. At some point in our lives, the Destroyer within or without strikes and hollows us out and humbles us. It “wounds” us, and through that opening we are able to experience new realities. People deal with their sense of powerlessness in such situations differently. Some people simply miss the rebirth that comes after the death because they get stuck in their bitterness. It is important to feel our grief and anger about our suffering and then let go at least long enough to see the new reality on the other side. Beliefs that reassure us that everything is in control are helpful. 
   
3. The Destroyer becomes our ally when we recognize the need to change or give something up without denying the pain or grief involved. 
   
4. There are five levels of the Destroyer:
   
   1. Shadow - Self-destructiveness (including drug and alcohol abuse, suicide) and/or destruction of others (including murder, rape, defamation of character)
      
   2. Call - Experience of pain, suffering, tragedy, loss
      
   3. Spiral One - Confusion, grappling with meaning of death, loss, pain
      
   4. Spiral Two - Acceptance of mortality, loss and relative powerlessness
      
   5. Spiral Three - Ability to choose to let go of anything that no longer supports your values, life and growth, or that of others
      
5. Begin by getting centered and quiet, then breathe deeply. Allow yourself to move through the events of your life as if you were watching the main scenes of a movie sped up for easy viewing. Let yourself feel, see, or hear the major events of your childhood, adulthood, mid-life, old age, and finally your death. In this daydream, allow yourself to “remember” events that have not yet happened. When you reach your death, spend time saying good-bye to everything that brings you pleasure – from the people and places and activities you love to ordinary things like the warmth of the sun on your skin, the feel of a brisk morning shower, the smell of a rose. Then allow yourself to watch your body being buried or cremated. Then, after some interval, allow yourself to experience whatever form of rebirth is consistent with your philosophy or theology.  
   

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S10 E35 The Lover Deep Dive |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz 

1. “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.” ― Joseph Campbell
2. We can transform ourselves, to the degree that we cultivate a loving acceptance of ourselves. This means forgiving ourselves simply as a matter of habit. It also means forgiving others, since what we are very often most critical of in them is a shadow projection from within ourselves. All judgment is self judgment. 
3. What we adore outside ourselves usually carries with it the positive shadow projection of the deep wisdom of our own Souls. 
4. There are five levels of the Lover:
   1. Shadow - Jealousy, envy, obsessive fixation on a love object or relationship, sexual addiction, promiscutiy, obsession with sex or pornography, or (conversely) puritanism. 
   2. Call - Infatuation, seduction, yearning, falling in love (with a person, an idea, a cause, a work)
   3. Spiral One - Following your bliss, what you love
   4. Spiral Two - Bonding with and making commitments to whom and what you love
   5. Spiral Three - Radical self-acceptance giving birth to the Self and connecting the personal with the transpersonal, the individual with the collective
5.  There are three steps to this Daydream:
   1. Using relaxed, deep breathing to enter a meditative state, allow yourself to focus on your heart, imagining a small gold, glowing light in the center of your chest in the heart area. Imagine the gold, glowing light slowly becoming larger until it is as large as your heart, then your lungs, then the whole chest area, and finally, gradually as large as your whole body. From there imagine that light filling the room and then your community, the country, the world and finally the solar system. 
   2. Then become aware of more intense, many-colored threads of light connecting you in particular to everything you love, care about or feel strongly about. These threads may link you to stars, to the night sky, to a certain landscape, to certain animals, to places and things, and of course to people in your past or present. Take your time tracing these threads until you feel yourself at the center of a web of loving connection.
   3. When you are ready, return your consciousness from the threads to the golden light, and allow that light to shrink from the solar system to the world, from the world to your nation, from your nation to your community, from your community to the room in which you find yourself, and finally to your body, then your chest area, your lungs, and your heart. 

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S10 E36 The Creator Deep Dive  |IBGR | Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz

1. “Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.Love is a friendship set to music.” ― Joseph Campbell
   
2. When we discover or give birth to our true Selves, the Creator also comes into our lives. When we become aware of our connection with the creative source of the universe, we also begin to become aware of our part in creation. 
   
3. However unified our consciousness becomes, and however true we are to ourselves, most of us are still confined by our conditioning, by the social constraints of society, and by natural laws. 
   
4. When the Creator Archetype begins to be active in our lives, we often alternate between exaltation and potentially paralyzing fear. 
   
5. Creating a life means to honor our experience honestly, without denial, but also as worthy and valuable. This means accepting your life as the right life for you, your body and mind as the right ones for you, even your pathologies and bad habits (although in this case, it may be the process of overcoming or dealing with them that will teach you just the lesson you need). It means coming to recognize the form of your own beauty, whether it is the beauty of your body, your mind or your character. 
   
6. There are five levels of the Creator:
   
   • Shadow - Creation of negative circumstances, limited opportunities; obsessive creation, workaholism
     
   • Call - Daydreams, fantasies, images or flashes of inspiration
     
   • Spiral One - Opening to receive visions, images, hunches, inspiration
     
   • Spiral Two - Allowing yourself to know what you really want to have, do or create
     
   • Spiral Three - Experiments with creating what you imagine – allowing yourself to let your dreams come true
     
7. Imagine you had a magic wand and could change anything in your world you wanted for yourself and others. Allow yourself to imagine what you would change, and staying in the dreamy state of mind, allow the drama to unfold in your mind so that you witness the effects of your work. Allow yourself some time to process the results – to enjoy your successes and to regret any miscreations. 
   

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