Shift to Shine. Bridging Science and Intuition

Introduction

Based on thoughtful self-reflection of her own personal life history and skillful application of her professional background in science, Raja offers a unique explanation for the true cause of stress in our lives and our potential for making meaningful change to alleviate this stress.

Raja’s writing style is personable and accessible, like having a conversation with a dear friend, so that we might identify with her own story of overcoming stressors and finding the path toward healing, and thereby, benefit from the wisdom she has gained through lived experience. These events from her life are reflected upon and elaborated through the skillful application of her knowledge of alternative approaches to healing through movement, nutrition, meditation and spiritual practice.

In other words, she not only present her stories so that we can relate to and find comfort in knowing we are not alone, but also so as to offer an intelligent analysis of these events based on a thorough understanding of the physical body, the subtle body and the spirit, and of the methods that will help us heal at each of these levels.

Just as a friend listens carefully to your pain and then shares with you the insights they have gained, Raja’s concern for the suffering of others and genuine desire to help is evident in every passage of this book. To read it is to feel you are in the presence of someone who truly cares and wants to help you make a difference in your life, and who has gained profound insight into how you can begin to do just that.

Lindsey Arnold, Author of The Land of Happiness: Reflections on a Journey (non-fiction) and The Six Realms of Samsara: Stories for Awakening (fiction)

Preface

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~ Lao Tzu

This book could not have been given a better name than Shift to Shine. Since its early stages, it has been going through numerous shifts whether in ideas, concepts, tools and illustrations. The book started initially in a more scientific account of my journey, which is what I am accustomed to; however, as I started writing and shifting between the different solutions for the problems, it became clear that I need to express my inner thoughts, emotions, and the flood of feelings with you, my reader.

You are going to notice there is much of my life story and upbringing intertwined in every chapter. Nevertheless, this book is not about me, nor it is about my upbringing or my culture. This book is all about you, the reader. It is identifying those negative energies and blocks you are currently experiencing in your life that are affecting you negatively and keeping you stuck in a rut. It is all about negative energies, thoughts, and limited belief systems you have inherited or are conditioned with from your environment experiences and your culture. I have observed the impact of negativity over years of professional experience in my own practice from working at clinics, and it is not specific to certain cultures, religion, or ethnicity but is experienced by many of us across the board.

The book is about helping you shift the negative energies that are preventing you from being who you are meant to be. More importantly, the book is about empowering and motivating you to take actions today to achieve success tomorrow in any area of your life. If you are feeling depressed, anxious or stressed, have tried everything else and are still feeling stuck and lost, then this book is for you. This book challenges your current belief systems, brings awareness to new areas of your life, and transports you to higher levels of consciousness. I will help you to explore a new and fresh way of looking at wellbeing through linking genetics and energetics.

From my training as a Molecular Geneticist, Developmental Neurobiologist, and Neuroscientist, I noticed the principles that govern genetics and how nerves function can be applied to the energetic world. I have many years of working experience on the bench, examining tissues and nerves and writing papers and conclusion on how the neurological system work. When I opened up to energetic healing and not only let it transform me, but spent many years learning how to harness its healing to help me and others, I soon discovered the immense power of combining both. In this book, I will propose new ideas for looking at a deeper level into human wellbeing and our connection to our soul.

For simplicity, the book is organized into five sections. In section 1, I discuss the genetics and energetics principles after which I’ll take you through a journey to search for the energetic genes that throw you out of balance and harmony. In section 2, I discuss Energetic Gene Cluster 1, which is usually inherited from our parents. Section 3 discusses Energetic Gene Cluster 2, which is about the environment and conditioning from the culture. Finally, in sections 4 and 5 I provide you with tools and techniques to help you shift those negative energies so you can connect to yourself, be true to who you are and what you are meant to be. Once you achieve this you will be in alignment with your higher self and soul and achieve success, abundance, love and happiness.

The unique approach of this book will make it easy for you to follow the exercises, meditations, affirmations and visualizations that will speak to both your logical and conscious mind, as well as to your intuitive and unconscious mind, to enable you to remove emotional and mental blocks. I will take you through step-by-step exercises that will help you change those energies in order for you to achieve your goals. Start with few minutes a day and then keep increasing the time until you are able to do thirty to sixty minutes a day of the recommended exercises.

It is my intention that you receive all the benefits from the simplified and easy tools described in this book to help you shift your life in order for you to reach your highest potential, and to shine your light in this world. Once you shift your vibration to a higher level, it is then, and only then, that you can have love, money, success and happiness.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science. ~ Albert Einstein

Happy Shifting and Keep Shining!

Section 1

Genetics and Energetics Principles

1

Pressing the Delete Button

Did you ever press the delete button on your past negative memories so you do not have to think about them anymore? Do you go through life thinking that as long as you delete them, they will somehow disappear on their own, or yet even better, you think you have healed from them? Well, let me tell you right now, and before I start talking about anything else, that is not the case. These negative experiences will always be there, and they will reveal themselves to you when you least expect it. That is the time when you learn that simply pressing the delete button will not do it and you need to do something to release them from your energy field and from your psyche.

Our past experiences shape who we are today, whether in a negative or positive way, however, it seems the negative experiences shape our lives the most. It is great if we learn our lessons from those negative experiences and grow, but that is not usually the case. Instead, we store those negative memories in our unconscious mind hoping that by ignoring them they will vanish. This process of shuffling is similar to the process of moving unwanted files on your computer to your trash bin. Even though you no longer see your file, it is still on your hard drive until you actually go and physically empty your trash folder. The reality is that you can move your negative experiences and hide them, but they will always be there and will in fact sabotage your life. What you do not know is that these negative experiences are printed energetically in your psyche where they attract everything else in your life. Therefore, the only way to deal with these energies is by identifying them, recognizing consciously that you have them and then shifting them so you can turn things around to have success, love, money, and happiness in your life.

These negative experiences dictate your relationship with yourself and the way you hear your own inner voices, which in turn will reflect on your relationship with others. Our relationship with SELF is the most ignored relationship in the world. Individuals usually focus on working on relationships with those in our lives, community or work environment, or on family dynamics with so many tools, instructions and consultants out there to deal with these relationships while very little guidance is there on how we deal with a broken relationship with ourselves. Imagine what will happen if we reverse this and start working on our relationship with ourselves first, to identify who we are supposed to be, and finally abolish all these negative voices within that make us feel inadequate. Wouldn’t that be a great thing? Does that make sense? You cannot build a house without laying the foundation first, so why should you expect that building a relationship with others would work without working on the relationship with yourself first?

We are the most sophisticated living beings on this planet and there is much more to us than just the physical body. That means it is time to think about all aspects of our being and our experience on earth. We are energetic beings in physical bodies. Identifying this concept is very important to affect any change in our lives. Once we accept that our universe is made of energy, from this energy we came to be, and everything we do, think about, imagine and act is energy, when we shift our energy is when we shift our lives and shine. Knowing this, we can change anything in our lives, we can achieve anything we want, and we can have success, love, money, harmony and happiness.

Now we know every aspect of our lives is energy, and we know from the laws of physics energy does not dissipate or disappear, it is merely transformed from one form to another, we can rest assured that any negative energy we have can be transformed into a positive one. The problem is that people either do not think they can do so, or they do not accept that there is something else beyond our physical bodies. Let me tell you right here, right now, that you can change the energy of any negative experience if you intend to do so, and by having this energetic shift you can move forward in life.

I invite you to start the journey of shifting and shining with me, so you can be in alignment with your higher self and soul and be a magnet for success, love, peace, harmony, money and happiness.

2

My Dead Father Is Back

My father has been dead for several years now, but what happened on that Sunday a few years ago put me into shock and made me cry. A job landed in my lap and as I am a big believer in not closing any door that the universe opens for me, I took it. I started working for an older couple helping them to put together events. I love helping people and spreading positive energy and thoughts around, so it seemed a great place for me to be.

I have lived in Canada for over twenty years with no parents or family around; my kids grew up not having grandparents in their lives. Likewise, the elderly couple did not have their grown-up children around anymore and it seemed that being in each other’s space was the perfect fit for all of us. We all now had a family to connect with. It brought so much joy to both my family and the elderly couple to have this type of connection. However, I could not help wondering why I was in their energy space. You see, I believe there is a reason for everything that happens in our lives and there is a reason for people to come into our energetic space. I wondered, was it just to share an emotional connection that we needed? Was it about earning a few extra dollars? Or was there something more to it that would be revealed to me later on? Little I knew then, it was the latter and I was in for a surprise.

On that particular Sunday, something happened that brought back childhood memories. We were working long hours, as was the case every weekend in this type of business. We were mentally exhausted from dealing with a very negative customer, and we were all unsuccessful in making her happy and uplifting her mood. After the customer left, and as we sat down around the dining table to have a bite, the old lady started talking to me. That is when her husband told her to stop talking. She was trying to explain to him what she was trying to tell me but he insisted she should stop talking. He even added, Just eat and stop talking, and shushed her whenever she tried to speak. I did not know what to do, so I decided to ignore the situation and the cold atmosphere.

We went through the evening working on more leads and connecting with clients when I noticed the old lady was working alone in the back of the store. While her husband was on the phone with a client, I sneaked out to talk to her. That is when she opened up about her relationship with her husband. As she was describing the relationship, it dawned on me that this was my father she was talking about and she was my mother. What she said was not new to me, I already knew bits and pieces of the story, but what triggered my reaction was the way he treated her in front of me. That opened the memory floodgates.

I was in shock and started crying. How on earth can something like this happen? How can you find two couples, one in the Middle East and the other in North America, with the same dynamics in their relationship? You see, my parents had a big gap in their education, my mum was a nurse while my dad did not finish high school. They were brought up in two different faiths and were shunned by their family when they got married. This old couple shared every aspects of my parents story and have lived almost an identical parallel lives. All of a sudden, I was haunted with memories from my childhood and with the way my father treated my mother. After decades, the sad and desperate feeling was back with the same familiar vigor. How could this be? I have worked so hard on healing that part in me