Impact of the Shift: Finding Yourself Through Your Experiences

By Zinna Ary-Davis

Zinna Davis, Entrepreneur/Author/Motivational Faith Builder Coach who resides in Shreveport, Louisiana. I learned at a reasonably young age that success could grow out of many painful experiences. Once I learned that those very experiences are the fuddle of growth. It would seem that the harsh and unpleasant experiences I endured as a child might have overwhelmed me, but with the grace of God, I rose out of them victorious.

Prosperous and bearing a message of hope for others. I shall forever be that way, and you can become it too! My coaching sessions, one on one consultation tools, and workbook layout that hopeful message. Everyone has a Pandora box filled with negative thoughts, negative people and adversities that were tucked away, and made invisible (sometimes seemingly invincible, but not) and now I am ready to assist clients in resolving those old wounds. And the scars, that have been hindering them from reaching their fullest potential in life.

Meanwhile, this is a Workbook. You are supposed to fill it with love and You, the Reader! I am giving you plenty of choice suggestions, but the rest is entirely up to you...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zinna Ary-Davis
• Release date: Feb 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370851379

Zinna Ary-Davis

Zinna Davis, Entrepreneur/Author/Motivational Faith Builder Coach who resides in Shreveport, Louisiana. I learned at a reasonably young age that success could grow out of many painful experiences. Once I learned that those very experiences are the fuddle of growth. It would seem that the harsh and unpleasant experiences I endured as a child might have overwhelmed me, but with the grace of God, I rose out of them victorious. Prosperous and bearing a message of hope for others. I shall forever be that way, and you can become it too! My coaching sessions, one on one consultation tools, and workbook layout that hopeful message. Everyone has a Pandora box filled with negative thoughts, negative people and adversities that were tucked away, and made invisible (sometimes seemingly invincible, but not) and now I am ready to assist clients in resolving those old wounds. And the scars, that have been hindering them from reaching their fullest potential in life. Meanwhile, this is a Workbook. You are supposed to fill it with love and You, the Reader! I am giving you plenty of choice suggestions, but the rest is entirely up to you...

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The Impact of the Shift

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The Impact of the Shift

By Zinna Ary-Davis

Copyright © 2018 by Zinna Ary-Davis

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The Impact of the Shift

A Workbook for Finding Yourself through Your Experiences

By

Zinna Ary-Davis

Shreveport, Louisiana

Copyright © 2018 by Zinna Ary-Davis

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ISBN: 978-0-578-15285-1

eISBN: 9781370851379

First edition: January 2018

Contents

Chapter 1 - Begin Right Where You Are

Chapter 2 - Your Great Awakening

Chapter 3 - Who’s the Boss in Your Life?

Chapter 4 - Are All Your Experiences Filled With Joy?

Chapter 5 - How You Can Unplug the Negative

Chapter 6 - Who's in the Driver's Seat of Your Life?

Chapter 7 - Stepping and the Impact of the Shift

Chapter 8 - Are Baby Steps Acceptable?

Chapter 9 – About Your Higher Being

Chapter 10 - What You Are Really Missing?

Chapter 11 – Removing the Mask

Dedication

In loving memories of Brenda Campbell – Sanders. One of the most intelligent, fierce, loving, caring, supporting, authentic, pure heart, guardian angel. God allowed me to have in my life when my journey was dark, and I wanted to give up. You called, motivated, loved, laughed and inspired me. I love you to the moon and back.

When I was challenged, she opened her doors to me.

When I was frightened, she protected me.

She shared her wisdom, her guidance, and unconditional love.

As she battled cancer, she unflaggingly gave strength to me.

She was the living, breathing difference in my life.

This book is lovingly dedicated to my beloved Godmother,

Nell Francine Jameson McGee

&

Brenda Campbell - Sanders

Acknowledgements

The living of my life so that I could write this book was supported by many people. My brother, Richard McGee, helped in nameless ways. Angie William and LaToya Sullivan were a disguised guardian angel, Dr. Julie Fowler, the Dean of Kilgore College, mentored me. Mrs. Althea Richardson opened her doors and her arms to me. My sister, Trina Ary, talked me through challenging nights. Sherrie Holland helped make the dream of this book happen. Mrs. Brenda Sanders Campbell offered encouragement and unconditional love.

C. C. deserves special appreciation and admiration for helping with my mom when she was ill, for being the friend to motivate me, support me, to listen without judgment, and to push me back into balance. You went beyond anything expected; your generosity exceeded comprehension; you were supportive more than the norm. I love you for eternity.

Introduction

In life, everybody faces daily challenges. We can feel them in the core of our belly, and they cause a shift in our lives. Some impacts are more extensive than others and have major side effects such as depression, stress, or major illness.

One of the ways we can release these shackles is to recognize, embrace, and accept The Impact of the Shift. This impact will awaken what is strong in you. I call these hurts growing pains. Remember what your mother told you: What doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger!

As each of your daily challenges is completed and you have overcome the impact of it, you will shift to another level in life. Throughout the process, remember to breathe, love, and forgive. Yes, you must repeat this all day and every day because you want to live, to improve, not just survive or exist—but to fully LIVE.

Search your Pandora's Box of experiences because it is time to clean the darkness out. No one gets a pass on this. Accepting the Impact of the Shift without blaming anybody else allows you to take full responsibility, even when you think it is not your fault. If something is in your experience, somehow, someway, you have attracted that thing to yourself so that more good can grow from it.

This book encourages you to answer questions, and I recommend jotting down short answers here plus purchasing a notebook where you can expand those answers. Responding to these questions will bring about the shift, and it will help you to review your answers occasionally. You will enhance your insight into your own personal shifts. I wish you the positive Impact of the Shift.

Zinna Davis

Shreveport, Louisiana

Chapter 1 - Begin Right Where You Are

You are here. It is now. Of these two things, we can be 100% certain.

Big deal, you think? Maybe, maybe not, I say. It all depends on how you view your right here and right now.

I would like to invite you to take a journey with me through the right here and right now. Afterwards, we can come back and look at those first two sentences again.

Right here, I live in a nice condominium with great landscaping and nice neighbors. Right here, I have comfortable furniture, food in the fridge, a small companion dog named Sparky, a decent laptop, clean sheets, adequate makeup, curtains to block the afternoon sun, and a trash chute right outside my condo for easy trash disposal. Right outside my here, I have a 2010 Chevrolet Malibu that gets good mileage, and I have a secure spot for parking.

My ‘right here’ is plenty enough for me.

Right now, all I must do is sit here at my laptop and write. I’ve had breakfast and coffee. I have cold water sitting beside my keyboard. Cool breezes are blowing through the open sliding door. Sparky’s snoring on the day bed beside my desk. It’s all good.

My ‘right now" is plenty good for me.

If we stop and only look at right here and right now, we might see there is a ton of jokiness in both. But we don’t do that. We drag history into the right now. We fantasize about the future and inject that into the right now.

You might be sitting pretty in your own right here, but instead you could be thinking of how your spouse slighted you, how you can’t pay the bills, blaming your parents’ lack of good parenting for the condition you’re in, or thinking of a million other things that just are not pretty. I’m sorry to tell you, but you are contaminating your right here and right now when you do that.

Let’s figure out a new way to just simply BE right here and right now.

You are alive. Only life can live, so you must be life itself. Whoa! That’s a big one. What if your only task here was to figure out what you are and what life is? What if all the things that you currently think are important have zero importance at all? What if big cars and fancy clothes keep you from your real job – figuring out what you are and what life is?

We each get 24 hours every day. We each get to decide what to do with that time. The choice is ours alone to make. Now look back over your shoulder and ask yourself What choices have I made? What have I thought was important? Is it all that important really? Do I want to stay on this same path for the next 50 years?

Have you heard of Pandora's Box? No, I don’t mean the internet radio station. In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman – a gift from Zeus to Epimetheus, a man who could only think backwards. (Prometheus, his brother, could only think forwards.) Pandora was accompanied by a box with instructions from Zeus to never open it.

Pandora was curious, and one day she cracked open that box. Whoosh! Out came evil in the form of spirits, and in the bottom of the box was one good thing; Hope.

Wikipedia says, Today the phrase to open Pandora's Box means to perform an action that may seem small or innocent, but that turns out to have severely detrimental and far-reaching consequences. This is what I would like you to consider—the far-reaching consequences if you open your Pandora's Box.

Each of us has a Pandora's Box, and it’s filled with yucky stuff such as our indictment of other people, things, and situations. It holds decisions you made when you were too immature to know better. It holds your failures. It has suitcases and trunks just filled with your past. But more than anything else, it holds blame for others in there, and blaming others is one of the yuckiest things in there because if it is somebody else’s fault, you can't do one darn thing about it.

When you were born, you were under your parents’ care 100% of the time. They may, or they may not have done a good job parenting you. I can tell you this; if they did not consider their own Pandora's Box and make some corrections, they carried along their parents’ yucky stuff right into your life. So true.

I have learned that some folks just do not like to look inside themselves. I do not have a problem with their choice.