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Mindset coach and spiritual alignment expert Lana Shlafer discusses in this episode how her connection to the natural world supports her, why aligning with solutions is more empowering and effective than focusing on problems, and why \\u2018realism\\u2019 isn\\u2019t a good standard.\\xa0

Tune in to hear Lana\\u2019s vibrant thoughts on:

• Why we need to create a feeling of safety within ourselves in order to feel safe being optimistic about the human future on planet Earth.
• Why she recommends asking, \\u201cwhat about the future pains you? Now use that as a portal into changing things in your own life. It\\u2019s easy to have hope when you are already taking action and already aligning with the solutions. It\\u2019s harder to have hope when you are aligning with the problems and taking no action to resolve them.\\u201d
• How \\u201cit doesn\\u2019t cost you anything to change your pattern of thought. Think of the plastic in the ocean and how it\\u2019s suffocating the turtles\\u2026or go out to the ocean and thank it for the life it provides. It doesn\\u2019t cost me anything to choose one thought over the other. One adds more momentum and impact, it makes me value the ocean so much I will go and do the clean-ups...and the other one leaves me powerless and hopeless. And I think we each have a choice in how we approach our mindset and our life.\\u201d\\xa0
• Why realism isn\\u2019t a good standard. \\u201cRealism is taking past experience and making an assumption that it will continue\\u2026All of the most impactful people have been unrealistic because they dared to look at what is happening and then inspire themselves and everyone around them to move toward what they want to be happening. It\\u2019s \\u2018be the change you want to see,\\u2019 not \\u2018sit here and complain about the fact that things are the way they are.\\u2019 "
• \\xa0How viewing pessimism as the more intellectual stance may be self-delusion: \\u201cIt\\u2019s a defense mechanism, where you think you\\u2019re smarter than hope, but it ends up costing you more than anyone else.\\u201d\\xa0
• \\xa0Why she recommends not seeing our creative, change-making efforts as counter-cultural, which is a view based in resistance to something: \\u201cno great person \\u2026 created change by trying to be counter anything. They created it because they were pro something so strongly that that\\u2019s all they saw, all they did, all they focused on. That\\u2019s what creates the kind of focused flow of energy that can move mountains\\u2026If you\\u2019re spending your energy fighting, you\\u2019re not using that energy to create.\\u201d
• Why your activism needs to be \\u201cadditive and life enhancing for you. If it isn\\u2019t, then for you to delude yourself by thinking this will be life-enhancing for the planet is inaccurate.\\u201d
• Her childhood in Siberia. Having grown up atheist before she developed her spirituality, the only paths she knew into comfort and grace were seeking connection with other people and seeking connection in nature, so nature has always been an important presence in her life. Lana asks, \\u201cIf you\\u2019re not connected to nature, how could you be connected to yourself?\\u201d\\xa0

Find Lana at www.lanashlafer.com and her new book at www.manifestthatmiracle.com

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