#61 Transform Resentment Into Sensual Pleasure — Beverly Lawrence PhD
Troubles with pleasure could come from resentment screaming to be transformed into gratitude. The happiness that brims from pleasure is not something solid to hold on like an object that is going to be there, it´s dynamic, it´s fluid, it´s relational. You can´t force it.
You know how to find happiness?
Gratitude, when you live in gratitude.
Then you realize sun came out, I´m grateful OMG I´ve got another day. I see the stars at night, you don´t know when you´re gonna die. Birds sing. The Sun don´t always come out, it happened in the past with the dinosaurs and everything died. So I have roof over my head, not everybody does. I have food on my table, not everybody does.
And can´t help but to say a prayer of gratitude before every meal and live your life always saying prayers of gratitude.
Why it is so hard to be grateful?
Beverly Laurence sees the biggest barrier to gratitude is the lack of forgiveness.
People won´t forgive. You don´t have to forget, but you can forgive because not forgiving only hurts you and destroys your ability to be happy.
So if you forgive you say: The divine consciousness/ Gd/ Creator/ Great Spirit/ Whatever you wanna call it, call the law of Karma, they will get their lesson.*
Understand you don´t have to teach them a lesson, it´d destroy your own happiness. You be happy. They have a lesson to learn. By hurting you, you know how it feels like so you won´t do that to someone else. Don´t do onto others what you don´t want to be done onto you, golden rule remember.
If you´re ready for a quick self-hypnosis practice to live in gratitude and you´re happy, here´s The Sensual Sessions Episode #61 on how to Transform Resentment Into Grateful Pleasure with Dancing Bear Enlightenment Academy Founder, Acupuncturist and Medical Hypnotherapist, Beverly Lawrence (PhD).
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About Beverly Lawrence (PhD)
As an acupuncturist, holistic medical intuitive, energy & shamanic practitioner, and medical hypnotherapist, Dr. Beverly helps holistic professionals & Coaches become holistic medical intuitives through her Dancing Bear Enlightenment Academy, Dancing Bear Holistic Transformation Programs. Through her Dancing Bear Healing Center, she helps people with complex chronic conditions & pain return to and maintain optimal health.
Dr. Beverly is also a published author, international speaker, writer, workshop leader, spiritual healing facilitator, spiritual counselor, wisdom teacher, and metaphysician. She is a researcher, Certified Reiki Master & energy teacher, and shamanic practitioner. She also has a Masters in Hypnotherapy and is a Certified Medical Hypnotherapist & Hypno-Anesthesiologist. She was a Professional Teaching Assistant at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine (now Sonoran University) for over 5 years.
In 2021 she founded the Dancing Bear Enlightenment Academy, an online academy that facilitates the learning of various holistic health topics, spirituality, and metaphysics as well as creating the Dancing Bear Enlightenment Academy YouTube channel, "Holistic Transformation" that also airs on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, SimpleCast & other channels. She hosts a YouTube weekly live meditation on Thursday evenings. On Mondays she has a podcast that is either an interview of a Holistic Professional or coach, or she does a talk.The Academy also sponsors a semi-annual Holistic Transformation & Healing Mastery Summit the last week of March and the last week of September.An APP for the academy is available in both the Apple APP store for Apple devices and the Google Play store for Android devices.
She hosts a YouTube weekly live meditation on Thursday evenings. On Mondays she has a podcast that is either an interview of a Holistic Professional or coach, or she does a talk.
She is the author of Meditation Demystified: A Workbook for Everyone in 1999, a second edition was published in 2019 under the pen name Dancing Bear. She has also published many eBooks.
Learn more about her work at: http://www.drbeverlylawrence.com/
What´s Next
Go to The Sensual Sessions Podcast Episode #62: Engage Your Body´s Pleasure Through Movingness with Peter Appel
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