The Best of Refractive: Surrender to Greatness

For the Best of Refractive, turn the dial back to February 2020 for an all-time favorite episode- powerful, raw, uplifting. Enjoy “Surrender to Greatness.”

Magnificence is our birthright. The illusion of struggle, expectations, status, and what’s “fair” causes us to actually fight against our own greatness as we desperately seek to control our existence. We can begin to see life as a series of threats and hardships. The truth is: something IS hurting us, and it’s US. The self is the only opponent powerful enough to drag us down. And when we put down the weapon and realize that we were fighting shadows, our true power begins to manifest and doors swing open.

In this episode of Refractive Johnny G looks into the saga of our battles through examples of interpersonal relationships, the epidemic of shame, and growth lessons from the allegory of Adam and Eve’s fall from grace. Are you ready to surrender? Because despite our best efforts, while we can temporarily blind ourselves to it, our magnificence will win in the end.

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For similarly themed content, try these other episodes: You Already Know, You Already Are and Making Peace with Our Dark Side

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT:

Ever since you can remember you felt something in your chest telling you to move, to love, to speak, to try. Day after day you pretend you don’t hear calling. Maybe you dismiss it as silliness or worse, but it’s there ready for you, and it will wait for you as long as you need. My name is Johnny G and I invite you to join me on a journey of awakening as we dare to embrace our light. This is refractive.

Good afternoon everybody. This is Johnny G and welcome to Refractive.  I’m sitting here next to a scented candle that I really love in my favorite sweatshirt on a comfortable chair and I just don’t know if life gets better than this. There’s so much joy in these little moments that surround me and I can’t speak for other people, I certainly hope that there are other people who feel the way I do, but you know, I’m sitting here and I just can’t believe that this is what qualifies as a great life for me. If you would’ve asked me, I mean not even a long time ago, just a year ago, I had a very different answer for what I think I would have wanted. But the ability to sit here on a weekday afternoon, not have to step into a job that I don’t want to do, in comfortable clothes with candles and a nice beverage anda beautiful place to sit. You know, this is, I don’t know, maybe people have known about this for a long time, but this is groundbreaking to me and I am just so grateful. I am grateful that this is where I’ve ended up. Anyway, that is definitely not the topic of today’s episode. We are looking at the concept of surrendering to your greatness.  

This was a topic that I dealt into in some detail recently at a workshop that I did and I...