Examining our questions and answers brings us face-to-face with our life events and choices. Walking The River of Our Life is an exercise used to illuminate the interior landscape of our choices. This helps us recognize the depth of feeling held in our actions and in the events of our lives.

How do we move through the resistance? How do we encounter and face our shadow side? It takes courage and the will to listen. The reader is reassured that if we hold the space for change, we will encounter change. Breathing exercises are used to facilitate the examination process.

The story of a film details the cruelty of withholding love. Then we are asked to gather strength with “Conversations We Don’t Want to Have.”

The photo of a tree, whose leaves are disappearing into light, accompanies the final narration. Here, the narration confirms the strength of our grounding even as we lose the thoughts and behaviors that have defined us.

We dove into the fire coming face-to-face with ourselves. Now we create a construct that builds new and greater courage and power. Images of Greece underscore the search. We look at choices, relationships, education and work through compassionate eyes. Using the Breath Walk Create Meditation we explore un-charted territory, which will allow us to fully own our power.

Evoking the power of the natural world to open our imagination and senses, we pay special attention to animals and how animals communicate to us in mysterious ways. The ancient traditions of nearly all indigenous people teach us that animal symbolism is a powerful way to tune into the voice of our highest self.

Animated animal drawings and an Animal Visualization exercise is used to open these channels to our higher self, creating space for new ways of seeing and the possibility of change. Finally, a photo of a white horse emerging from the darkness gently demands the reader to come out of the shadows. “What would happen if I moved so far from my old habits that my old world would be as a shadow”?

In this chapter, change in all its forms is presented visually for the viewer to consider. It begins with A Journey and moves through Love, Union, Conflict, Passion, A Dream Unfulfilled, A New Vision, The Interior Life and Learning. Presented as a curated art exhibit, these images are designed to evoke memories and feelings that bring the viewer to a most critical turning point: learning to forgive. For many, the concept of forgiving themselves will be quite foreign. But having launched an honest inquiry into our life events in Attraction 2, Land of Many Questions, examining our shadow side in Attraction 3, Into the Fire, and opening up our imagination and sense of wonderment in Attraction 4, A Journey Out – we might be ready to allow the idea of forgiveness to stir in us. And forgiving ourselves is within our grasp. Truly accepting forgiveness can immediately alter who we are.

Coming out of the darkness means understanding your story in a different way. It means releasing feelings that you inherited as a child; it means trying on a new thought process, a “new skin.” To open up our creative capacity, we have an exercise to create “A New Skin”. A New Skin helps us to think of different ways of being. Another exercise investigates the love that creates miracles.

This chapter introduces the concept of Angels and a benevolent universe conspiring to help us on our journey. Who would I be if I were completely aligned with the universe?

An advanced yogic breathing technique prepares readers for a powerful meditation.

Finally, quantum physics speaks to the possibility of walking on water: if one believes with every cell in their body that they will walk on water, they will walk on water.

“Creative beings create their feelings not just experience them.” We are encouraged to choose life because in it there is beauty and benevolence, interconnection, mystery and music. And we are all part of it. “You can’t want to die if you think you may never again hear Chopin or Mozart or Mingus.”

Gratitude sizzles in a multitude of appreciations, “Why Do I Keep On Keeping On?” Reinforcing the idea of strength gained through owning and choosing our thoughts and feelings, we are presented with an image and these words: “When the spine strong it feels like a heart.”

In animation, three more doorways open and steps spiral into the light.

Quantum Physics continues to instruct through the description of a film that dramatizes how thoughts become reality.