By Lori Lines

What an organ the brain is! All its wrinkles and folds, nuances and enigmas, powers and abilities, working in perfect alignment and synergy…until it doesn't! The brain can be separated into different lobes, functions, and systems. The primary distinction is that of the right and left brain. Sometimes referred to as brains, these two hemispheres are meant to work together, making up for what the other lacks. The left brain is responsible for logic, analytical thought, scientific and mathematical reasoning, and processing what we have been taught to believe is factual evidence.

The right brain processes holistic perceptions, creativity, imagination, art, music, and insightful reasoning. When the two hemispheres are balanced, together they give us a grounded perspective in which we can function in our day to day lives yet aspire, envision, and manifest a more fulfilling, high vibrational future.
 
Unfortunately, some people are out of balance, listening solely to their left brain. This can be referred to as literalism. Defined as "adherence to a meaning in an exact sense, or an exact representation or portrayal without idealization or inference." In simple terms, understanding and judging everything at "evidence or face value,"…but is it really evidential face value?

From an early age, based on our culture, society, and family values, we are all taught what to attend to, who to trust, how to perceive information, what is "fundamentally" true, and what is "fundamentally false." This is called social conditioning. Social conditioning is how we have been taught to function and think, somewhat like a default state for an electronic device.
 
When we rely solely on the left brain, or literalist perceptions, we limit ourselves, our consciousness, and our opportunities. We give our power away to social, religious, political constructs and people, we've idealized and over identified with, to determine what we see and how we see it. In this way, literalism is taking everything at face value or basing our perceptions on factual evidence. Instead, it conforms to what we have been socialized to believe is accurate, proven, and apparent. Our schools and Universities have worked in lock-step with our mainstream media, infiltrating our energetic being and have generally compounded the left brain mentality, thus have created generations of conformists who are now feeling the angst of fear as our world is now waking up to what is  true and what is no longer true, simultaneously.

Spoiler Alert: Knowledge, grounded in literalism, always comes to a stop. There's nowhere else to go to expand on ideas to grow! Repressing our natural tendency to question, to think beyond what appears to be physically present, and to grow as the spiritual beings that we are, stifles our true expression.

In my opinion, this has been the crux of a trickle down effect and why our generation suffers from systemic depression and that people, collectively, are suffering the Dark Night of the Soul.

All that we perceive and experience is transient, except for the experiences that change our soul. The soul or spirit is the entity that exists and bridges us from one life to the next. It never dies. We explore the universal consciousness through our soul, commune with the higher consciousness, and reach the higher dimensions. Locked within the soul is a template of our life path, all that came before and will come after. Alignment with this map or template is how we self-actualize, awaken, and achieve enlightenment through connection to the universe and Spiritual consciousness. 

When we rely too heavily on the left brain's literalism, we tie ourselves too tightly to the physical realm's perceptions, experiences, and fleeting events. We lose touch with our higher selves, the universal unconscious, and the realm of the soul. Quickly we can become locked into the functioning of the day to day, observing the rules and regulations we have been conditioned to. A divide grows between who we are and who we are meant to be. We are not meant to follow, but to do the soul's work, honoring the template we come to this world with and the higher purpose we are destined to achieve.
 
As the division between who we are portraying and who we are meant to be, grows, life becomes challenging. We can lose our way, lose our sense of purpose, and life can lose all meaning. When we lose our "why," by habitually conforming to what we think we KNOW, we also lose our how and when.

There has never been a time where it is crucial for individuals to begin their self-actualizing, integrative process by whatever means is necessary than now.

Trusting the left brain too much can lead to not trusting ourselves at all! Our intuition and inner knowing repeatedly takes a backseat to what we have been conditioned to believe is right, even if it goes against what we want or what we feel. Like any other relationship, when we lose our own trust, it is difficult to regain it.

 This state of feeling conflicted towards the answers "out there" and having the answers within withheld can render us powerless. This powerlessness can lead to depression, anxiety, and general apathy towards the very life we are living. If you have experienced this or are experiencing it, you understand how difficult a cycle it can be to break. Yet, nothing can change within your spirit or in your outer world until you do the spiritual work it takes to amplify and hear your inner truth again. 

By bypassing social conditioning and the left brain's reasoning, the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique can access the part of yourself that can hear and feel your inner knowing again. QHHT can help you reconnect with answers that you have lost along the way regarding your everyday life and your spiritual calling. QHHT accesses the higher self and the collective unconscious through your spirit, your everlasting nature, and eternal awareness, rendering the confines of social conditioning and literalism powerless. In turn, returning your mental, spiritual and emotional balance and restoring your power!

I have spoken to many of you who are afraid of the QHHT process, those of you who know, on a deeper level, that you've clung to your literalism for far too long and believe you would not be successful at this practice. My answer to this is my Mindfulness Meditation and Awareness Series of coaching sessions that can help prepare you for a QHHT session. Practicing mindfulness to strengthen awareness naturally opens up the mind to balance and trust in your inner knowing rather than just accepting evidential proof, "out there" that may or may not be true.

When you can once again perceive the bigger picture, you will start to realize how "small" your physical existence truly is. Through connection to your higher self and your countless lifetimes, you can once again appreciate how infinite your options and opportunities are. You can begin to realize yourself and your exponential gifts and visualize unlimited new ways of living, and it takes trusting yourself to do so.

In love and truth,
​Lori Lines

By Lori Lines

The late great Dolores Cannon used to ask her ailing clients, "are you willing to give up what is making you sick?"  She would ask this question in the wake of a QHHT® hypnosis session.  While this question may seem harsh to some, it's simplicity gives rise to our own empowerment as more of us awaken to our responsibility tending  to our thoughts, actions and emotions that block us and make our lives...well..."sick."

The majority of the people in the world are living mechanical lives based on social conditionings and false beliefs instilled in us since childhood and beyond.

Our inharmonious thoughts and feelings, our desires and our compulsive behaviors create major blocks which densify our bodies and lower our vibrational frequency so that we become vulnerable to the negativity (or our created negative energy) around us.  Consequently, individuals attract situations and people of similar energies based on the cosmic principle of "like attracts like."

Mental blocks are nothing but dark energies stagnated in our consciousness over long periods of time.  These blocks can unconsciously be held within parts of our bodies, too.  When we cling to our negativity and appropriate our woes and sadness, we unwittingly trap them into our subconscious being, where they gradually crystallize into mental, physical and emotional blocks that affect us adversely at all levels.  These blocks obstruct the divine flow of energy into our being and can shift us out of alignment with our Source, so that all our thoughts and emotions are tainted with pessimism.

Our conscious-awareness is a sentry that guards our thoughts and feelings from straying away from the Source Light of Love and Peace.  When some outside situation provokes us to anger, fear, hatred and the like, we must be aware of our emotions and our inner dialogue that expresses those emotions.  It's important for us to be in control of our emotions before they overwhelm us.  

How to take control?  Take a pause, watch your negative emotions as a passive spectator.  Acknowledge each emotion that comes up, with: I am feeling "anger"...or I am feeling "fear" and so on.  Observe your emotions without allowing them to ruffle your feelings.  Your quiet vigilance prevents the discordant emotions to take possession of your heart, mind, even your body, and keeps them under control.  Do not be tempted to resist and analyze them or reason with them, but simply be with them until they subdue and dissolve into stillness.

With the power of presence we can get rid ourselves of  mental/emotional blocks and choose to lead a wholesome life, free from the compulsions of our negative thoughts.

It's helpful to challenge our fears that pose as obstructions to our success and well-being, and dare to break free from our comfort zone for a more enterprising life.  Know that fears are illusory by nature, and appear real only as long as we give it our energy to dominate over us.  Fears enfeeble the mind and cripple the spirit.

Similarly, it helps to be conscious of our mental activity at any given time.  It is typical of the mind to drift off to its shady haunts of dismal memories, bringing with it the dark remnants of pain and sorrow which cloud our present moment of sunshine and happiness and steep us into our own misery.  Your conscious-awareness repels untoward thought, allowing only those which are in keeping with our health and well-being.

When you catch yourself drifting down the bleak memory-lane, stop your thoughts right dead in their tracks and immediately replace it with that which uplifts your spirit and evokes joy in your heart. If the thought hangs on, I affirm, "I nullify this thought so that it does not enter into my subjective mind." It is helpful to engage in constructive activities that are instrumental in increasing mental cheerfulness and better concentration.

Life is not meant to be taken so seriously.  If we learn to laugh in the face of our trials and tribulations, we can understand that hardships are merely the lessons of life that we need to go through for our own spiritual progress.  These are transient - here, one minute and gone the next.

If we refuse to internalize other people's aggressive behavior towards us, we rise to the understanding it is nothing personal - it is just their way of releasing their inner turmoil and pent-up frustrations.

So, go ahead and dare to laugh when ordeals compel you to cry; dare to love and forgive your enemies when they provoke you to anger and hatred; dare to be resilient when the blows of life bear down on you so that you are able to bounce back good and strong once they are through with you; dare to remain anchored in the Light of Peace when fears threaten to close in on you and jeopardize your happiness.

Shadows and sunshine are a part of one's spiritual journey.  You have to allow yourself to move on and enjoy the ride.  Keep moving onward and upward, and look forward to new changes that bring with them surprises and opportunities.

Cast burdens onto your Higher Power and live free like a child who is filled with hope and wonderment.  Find joys in the simple things in life.  A happy heart is a healthy heart.  Afflictions and maladies can cease to exist in a body that resonates with true peace and joy.

Though easier said than done, practicing presence and vigilance over our hearts and minds requires persistent effort and a sense of responsibility on our parts. It is a pre-requisite in order to gain mastery over self and to live by the power of our souls so that we become a source of attraction for Universal Peace, Abundance, Health, and Prosperity.

In love and truth,
​Lori Lines

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By Lori Lines

In our present-day society, we are modern people. Lately, due to governmental mandates, many of us  have had time to pause and reflect, whether we wanted to or not.  We realize we have become very used to being stimulated regularly.  Our minds are addicted to all kinds of buzz and frenzy.

Technology has only exacerbated this buzz as our minds hunger for more.  When faced with the notion to be in the present moment, this may make many recoil in panic.  In fact we expend a great deal of our money, our energy and our time doing our best to avoid boredom because, to some, this state of being commensurates death.

​Seriously!  Many of us can remember using phrases like "bored to death" and "bored stiff."  

Consider the vast expanse of entertainment, amusements and diversions that we create and indulge in just to keep from feeling bored. And yet, the complaint of boredom still exists.

I once read a story where, ages ago, there was this Zen trainee who complained to his master that he didn't enjoy meditation because he found the practice of focusing on his breath to be boring.  "Oh you don't find breathing interesting, huh?" Said the Zen master.  "Well, come with me."  The trainee followed the master outside stopping at a stream.  At the edge of the water, the master told his trainee to gaze at his reflection in the water.  As soon as the student bent over to look at his reflection, the Zen master thrust his head deep into the water and forcibly held it there as the poor student struggled not to drown. "Sooo," said the Zen master, "do you still find breathing boring?"

Most of us believe that our boredom is because of our outward circumstances.  We think the situation we find ourselves in is simply not interesting.  Those who practice presence, on the other hand, regard boredom as a product of inattention.  We get bored, in other words, when we withdraw our full awareness to whatever we are experiencing at the moment.

Boredom is not caused by what we perceive as not happening, it is caused by our own mind.  The cure for boredom is paying complete attention with focused awareness.   Rather than paying attention, though, most of us are inclined to seek out more mental and physical stimulation to keep our minds occupied with trivial matters that just take up useless space in our heads.

The meditative practice of presence encourages us to let go of the craving for stimulation and simply be attentive to what is, in the present moment.

To digress a moment, I recall a time when I was new at practicing presence. My, then, 8 year old daughter came to me complaining, "I'm bored!"  Instead of jumping into my usual response to engage her in something entertaining, I said to her, "Many brilliant ideas and works of art were created out of boredom."  Then, I left it at that.  Reluctantly, she decided to pull out her art supplies and, voila!, she created a masterpiece.  A work of art I will treasure for the rest of my life.

When I asked her what she learned about herself when she was bored, her 8 year old self  thoughtfully replied, "That I don't have to be bored when I'm bored."  Indeed.

When we discipline our minds, we can take something that we perceive to be boring and make it into something that's profoundly interesting.  Just as a submerged head can become fascinated with the breath, boredom, itself, can become interesting if we simply observe it without judgment.  

When we can let go of our fear of being bored and direct our full attention to our breath, one might be amazed at what discoveries can be made. One might notice the pleasant sensation that relaxed breathing brings to our body.  It may be very mild and barely perceptible, but it's there.  When we can be wholly engaged with the simple pleasure of breathing, we find ourselves with a refined sense of completeness in that moment.  All we need to know is the joy of the breath.  In that moment, we know that simply breathing is enough and we want nothing else.

The benefits of practicing presence are immeasurable. When we learn how to be in a state of presence, we develop our intuition, we get to know who we really are, and we find focus in our lives, just to name a few.

I offer 1:1 sessions coaching clients on how to practice presence in their everyday lives. If this sounds like something you would like to do, just let me know and we can discuss it.

In love and truth,

​Lori Lines

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By Lori Lines

Social stigmatization is a symptom of our divisive culture.  In our society, people frequently face discrimination and are ostracized due to perceivable and imperceivable differences alike.  This alienation is often due to factors people cannot change or are very hard to change such as race, intelligence, culture, physical ability, socioeconomic status, and gender.

Stigmatization has detrimental effects.  For example, the stigma that those with mental illness face can lead to isolation, inability to seek appropriate care, and an overall decline in well-being.  Of course the effects one may face when they carry the burden of social stigma varies broadly.  Nevertheless, the result is typically very damaging for the ostracized, damaging for judgmental individuals, and damaging for society, as the foundation for these distorted belief systems.  

Social stigmas result from judgment.  Judging others is the lifeblood of the ego-self.  The ego feels more empowered when we are critical of others.  It is strengthened when we believe we are smarter, richer, more attractive, and more able-bodied than those around us.  The ego is also strengthened when we perceive we are less-smart, poorer, less attractive and less able-bodied than those around us.  Judging others elicits a false sense of ego-control and security.  Regardless of whether we feel we are besting or not besting our neighbors, colleagues, friends, or strangers.

The ego-self thrives on the misplaced belief that our worth, or lack of worth, stems from these judgments.  This process can become so automatic that it goes unchecked.  When we say, "I am smart," the ego may whisper, "compared to your coworkers that bungle presentations."  When the ego is in control, "I am enlightened" can also be accompanied by an automatic, subconscious thought like "more than that narrow-minded person." Conversely, the ego is in control when we have the reverse thoughts, "I am NOT smart," or "I am not as good as...", or "I'm less enlightened compared to...."

These judgements and ego-centric comparisons remain as long as we refuse to recognize the universal interconnectedness throughout humanity and the Divine.  Yet again, the sneaky ego-self whispers more distorted realities in our ear, that we are special, or less-special, and unique only as long as we uphold our separateness from others.  We are misled to believe that our magic and majesty is lost when we are one of many, a single droplet in the sea of humanity.  So, we default to otherness, isolation, and loneliness from those who are stigmatized.

This can be construed as a very low-vibrational state that keeps us from enlightenment.  The truth is, we are all connected, and the means to achieve individual, societal, and eventually, global awakening is through unity, compassion, and love.  We challenge and ultimately transcend the ego with a perspective of neutral togetherness, thereby reaching our highest potential individually and universally.

To get there we must learn to forgive and just trust.  Once again, this is contrary to our ego-impulses.  The ego-driven view is that forgiveness and trust is weakness and vulnerability.  Picture the ego as a little red imp on your shoulder, trying to convince you when you forgive, you submit, and when you trust, you expose yourself to danger.  It is yet another ego defense that twists our perception to retain control.  When the ego is in control, we fear surrender and avoid it at the expense of harming others and ourselves.

The inability to trust and forgive keeps us tethered, limited, constricted, and even depressed, perpetually seeking new ways to appease the insecure ego.  Surrender is the only release from the exhausting cycle that diminishes us and others.  Yield to the universe, the Divine, and uncertainty, break free of conditioned fears, beliefs, and limitations, relinquish the ego-driven need for control, and have faith that whatever the universe has in store for you will help you grow and achieve your highest potential.

In a state of surrender, there is no need for comparison or stigma.  We understand that each of us has unique purposes, gifts, and paths to pursue.  In that light, there is no need for distinguishing ourselves from others because we each have an individual journey to uphold.  Yet, we share a collective goal of alignment with our higher-selves and enlightenment of the collective unconscious.  It is because of this shared mission that we must uplift each other with love and support.

As we turn down the volume of the petulant ego perched upon our shoulder, thank it for protecting us when we have needed it, and begin surrender, we become more observant of harmful behaviors, words, and perspectives.  Leading us to challenging, and ultimately, overcoming distorted belief systems.

As the wave of surrender begins to swell within our individual psyches, our neighborhoods, our states, and our countries, we will come to know the joy of releasing negativity to allow humanity's beauty and goodness to be reflected and celebrated in every one of us.

In love and truth,
​Lori Lines

By Lori Lines

The mind can be construed as a double-edged sword. It is capable of providing us great benefit as well as great injury. Naturally, we want to cultivate our inner processes in such a way that we maximize or minds' capacity for doing good and to minimize its tendencies for causing pain and suffering.  

It is important, in this juncture in our evolution, to nurture our minds in a way that will bring us greater joy.  The mind tends to operate in a rather haphazard way, bounding from thought to thought with little or no apparent prompting of direction. Our minds seem to have a mind of their own.  It might appear that our minds are thoroughly out of our control as if we have no choice of the kinds of things that drift across our minds.

Although thoughts seem to come out of the blue, they are, in fact, conditioned
by previous patterns of thought.  The thoughts that our mind produces now have been shaped by its history of thinking. This history can connect all the way back to previous lives we have lived as well as our current life history of thinking.

Neuro-scientific research has shown that routine patterns of thought make incremental but substantial changes in the way the brain is structured and the way the mind functions. These alterations make the brain more effective at doing what it is asked to do.  If we habitually think in certain ways, then our minds become more adept at these patterns of thought. Patterns of thought becomes belief.  Beliefs manifest patterns of behavior and circumstances that can benefit us or injure us.

Thus, as the concept of conditioning suggests, positive or wholesome thoughts create a propensity for more positive or wholesome thoughts.  Fortunately, we can use this dynamic principle to our advantage.  While we may not be in conscious control of each and every thought, a meditation practice can show us that we can choose which thoughts to entertain and to develop and which to observe and release.  In this manner, we can influence the kinds of thoughts we are more likely to produce in the future.

Knowing this, we can use our power to select and foster or relinquish thoughts that can help us to cultivate a skillful and clear mind that serves us well.

I invite you  to become aware and observe your thoughts as they arise, but also identify the kinds of thoughts you are having. Once identified, we can make conscious choices about how we will handle them.

What can occur in a QHHT session or in a Mindfulness Coaching session is when one begins to wake up to the types of thoughts they habituate, one comes to an understanding of how these habitual thoughts have manifested problematic patterns in one's life. And, with this self-knowledge, one can begin to shift and change the trajectory of ones life altogether.

In love and truth,

Lori Lines
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By Lori Lines

It is the human experience when life is fraught with difficulties. Perhaps even more so when we are on a focused and determined spiritual path of growth and enlightenment. It’s as if we bring in a manifold of problems in our lives to sit with us while we face the special challenges of awakening.

But, I believe we should do more than to just expect difficulties and sit with them, we should welcome them. The problems we all face, on this path, are precisely the means that will help us to progress along the way. Facing life’s difficulties, today, will give us practice in confronting the problems in the rest of our lives and beyond. In time, we see what we thought were problems turn out to be stepping stones to greater awareness.

The real key in facing our problems is the attitude we take toward them. Often our approach to life’s difficulties is avoidance of suffering. Rather than confront the deeper fears of our lives, we often attempt to mask or evade them in one way or another.

To accept suffering, rather than to flee from it requires courage. Courage requires determination to take a look at our inner and outer difficulties straight in the eye and to finally deal with how we have dealt with our difficulties. Courage is the fundamental attitude for facing problems. Although we sometimes equate courage and fearlessness, courage is not the absence of fear. In fact, fear is an essential component of courage. One cannot be truly courageous unless we can feel our fear fully. One can be trembling in fear and still be courageous.

If we are able to stand our ground, rather than averting our gaze or taking flight - THAT is courage.  

I often reflect on my QHHT clients’ experiences. When one chooses to undergo a full QHHT session, it appears that most, if not all, come to the session willing to look bravely into whatever their minds have churned up without implementing their usual exit strategy they have unconsciously used in the past. Most clients have come to understand (consciously or unconsciously), by the time they have arrived, that a session will help them keep their place when a difficulty arises, knowing that running away will ultimately cause more suffering than staying put and gazing deeply within to face challenges they innately hold. Courage, indeed.

It always helps me to know that fleeing from problems and facing them can both be fearful. But, experience has made me more afraid of the consequences of evasion. To me, courage has become the matter of choosing the thing I fear less, but it hasn’t served my growth in that moment.

Facing difficulties is made easier by viewing them as opportunities to grow in awareness, to deepen our self-knowledge and our skills of compassion. We progress farther by courageously meeting our difficulties than by not having them at all. 

For those of you who have bravely faced yourselves, I applaud your courage and your willingness to end certain patterns in your lives.

So, I invite you to reflect on the history of your lives. You can see that the things that have contributed most to your personal development have been the trials you have faced and passed through. If you have not had a QHHT session or a Past Life Regression session yet, and if you are interested, you may be in the process of marshaling your courage. And there’s always progress in that one thought. 

In love and truth,

Lori Lines