Last night I experienced a dream come true . I attended an Oprah Lifeclass in NYC at the Radio City Music Hall. My spiritual mother was there with me as a gift to her for opening my heart to spirituality when I was a very confused twenty something year old some twenty years ago.
We ended up sitting in the Orchestra about 8 rows back from the stage so we were able to see Oprah full on. The energy in the hall was electric. People from all walks of life from many places around the world shared in our common quest to find, harness and understand the light we all carry inside. But don't often see. There to learn from the best. Together in a large crowd hoping the collective energy would help us to reach Aha moments faster than we would individually.
Tony Robbins opened the show by getting us all pumped up and ready for an evening of awakening. He burst onto the stage with his larger than life personality to suit his larger than life stature. He is a very large man in every sense of the word. His raspy voice pulling us all in as he challenged us to shift our emotions by moving.
Tony told us if we want to change our lives, we have to change our state. He believes emotion is created by motion. In order to change our state we have to move. So he had us act out differnt emotions to see how our bodies, minds and souls responded. Much to my surprise he was absolutely right, holding back from people forcing our bodies to tense, our voices become smaller and our whole being wants to retreat. Embracing people and being happy to see them causes our bodies to expand, tingles run down our spines and we have a sense of euphoria. Of openness. Of willingness. Of inclusiveness.
He put us all in the mood for Ms. Oprah to make her grand entrance. And when she did the audience went crazy. She walked on the stage like a woman who knows her place in society, with strength, grace and dignity. Opening the show by telling us her story.
Stating matter of factly as an example herself, "we become what we believe." Oprah refused to believe she would amount to nothing because she was a poor, black girl from Mississippi. She believed in a higher power and a greater consciousness. Her belief in a higher consciousness became the current that flowed through her life. Opening her life to possibility rather than being closed off based on the lack of expectations of others.
More importantly, a light went off in her head when she was told she was God's child. She believed she was a child of God without question. Because she believed it, she felt she was no less than any other person in the world allowing her to know no one could stop her or limit her except the power of God. This belief propelled her to dizzying heights. To the place where she stood last night commanding the attention of the 5400 people gathered in Radio City Music Hall and the millions who tuned from around the world to see her. That little black girl from Mississippi who has now become one of the most powerful people in the world- simply because she believed she could.
Over the next few days I will write about some of the insights I gained from being in the audience of a great mind and soul, Ms. Oprah Winfrey, who by her own admission has become a person here to help those of us who are willing to find our life purpose.
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