Gabrielle Bernstein: Mastering the Super Attractor
SANDIE SEDGBEER: Humanity is going through a huge paradigm shift right now. We’re watching all the old structures crumble around us. We’re seeing that the Emperors we were taught to worship—the politicians and presidents, world leaders and financial institutions, and the pillars of society—have no clothes on. Organized religion is in decline. Politicians are arguing and fighting like children in a playground. Corruption and greed are rampant, and it’s stoking everyone’s fears. What advice would you offer to those who are perceiving nothing but darkness right now?
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN: I would want them to read Super Attractor, or any spiritual book so that they could find light in the midst of that darkness, because if we just succumb to the darkness then we are contributing to the problem. We have to do our part to find the light, and that doesn’t come from focusing on all the negativity. We have to find the joy, the inspiration because when we start to dwell on those energies we get inspired ideas. That’s when we do our part to show up. That’s when we decide to run for office. Or that’s when we decide to donate that money. So being in that energy is extremely important.
SANDIE SEDGBEER: You say that we clarify our desires through the power of intention, and being a Super Attractor is not about trying to control every thought that passes through our mind or living in some Utopia without challenges. It’s about raising our vibration so we can co-create with the Universe. How do you raise your vibration?
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN: I raise my vibration every day through transcendental meditation. Through baths, exercise, and conscious contact with my higher power. Through time I spend with my son, cooking for him, playing with him. I raise my vibration through my commitment to others, especially when speaking. I feel most connected to that. Making people feel good raises my vibration.
SANDIE SEDGBEER: How has having your son changed you?
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN: He has given me a deeper level of compassion and connection to others. Something about becoming a mother and going through the dark times of postpartum has given me not an unhealthy attachment to people’s pain, but a greater awareness of the pain. Before, I would hold a strong boundary because I couldn’t get up and write and talk and take on everyone’s pain. I wouldn’t have survived, but I now feel more connected to them. I think it’s possibly a Mother, because I went through so much and now on the other side of it, that I can have a deep level of compassion for that kind of pain.
SANDIE SEDGBEER: You talk about the Universe as always guiding us to the highest good for all, and that living with positive expectations clears the path to solutions in all situations, even difficult ones. You’ve talked about the trauma in your life. If you were confronted now with a child or an adolescent who was experiencing trauma and is not in a place to be able to see the gifts in that experience, which comes with hindsight, what would you say to help them through this now moment of trauma?
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN: I would honor their feelings and their experience and tell them they are safe with me because when you’re in that kind of experience, you feel shamed and unsafe. If ever anyone comes to you, or anyone who’s listening, never deny it, don’t question them, because that’s where the shame comes in. You need to make them feel safe so as not to contribute to the shame.
SANDIE SEDGBEER: What inspired you to write this particular book at this time.
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN: I wrote this book while I was pregnant. I wanted to focus on feeling good and having fun. So I wrote it as a reminder of my capacity to live like a Super Attractor.
SANDIE SEDGBEER: Is that the motivation behind all of your books? At that moment in time, you want something, and the book that you’re writing provides that for you?
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN: Yes, I’m writing what I need. I used to think that I wrote my books for my audience. I wrote my books for myself.
SANDIE SEDGBEER: I know that people flock to your events, and your work is helpful to them – but I’m sure that some walk away saying, ‘Yes, I can see how Gabby can manifest all of this, but I’m not sure that I can.” That they see you as somebody, perhaps, that is above them.
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN: Yes maybe. But I think that when I’m as open about what I have gone through, they’re reminded that they are no different than me, and they can recognize themselves in me. If they felt that they were less than me in a severe way, it wouldn’t work. I wouldn’t be their teacher.
SANDIE SEDGBEER: You provide a wealth of tools, tips, exercises in Super Attractor. Two, in particular, are ‘Think to feel it,’ and ‘Choose again.’ could you just run us through them.
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN: The ‘Choose again’ method is about noticing consciously throughout the day the fear thought process that we have on the loop. Those stories that we replay and reprocess over and over again to ourselves, and to notice how that thought is making you feel. You become conscious, aware, and connected to what’s going on. Then the second step is to forgive yourself for having a thought because when you forgive yourself you’re dissolving the thought, you’re taking away its power, and you’re disassociating yourself from it. You’re no longer thinking ‘that is who I am,’ but instead, you recognize that it’s just a story that you’ve had on repeat.
The third step is to Choose again’ and this is about reaching for the next best feeling thought, and then going to the next one, but making sure that whatever that next best feeling thought is a thought you believe in. Then there is ‘Think it to feel it.’ When we start to get ourselves in a thought system that is more positive, and that we believe in, we can meditate on that thought, and repeat that thought as an affirmation. We can allow it to get us into an energy field we’re connected to, and that feeling is what attracts. Often, people think that if they put up vision boards and say affirmations, that’s enough, but it’s really about knowing, feeling a shift, and feeling that energy. When we feel that energy, everything begins to speed up in our lives, and we become Super Attractors.
SANDIE SEDGBEER: There are so many people waking up right now, and a lot of them are turning to your work and discovering who they are through what you’re sharing with them. What are you learning from these young people? What do you think that they want? What do you think that we can do to support them in getting what they want?
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN: I think that this newer generation wants to have an impact. And the way to support them is to not put down their ideas. To honor their commitment. Encourage them to work hard for sure, but teach them spiritual live-action, which is what I teach; that when we take action from a place of connection, inspiration, spiritual connection, faith, love, service, and spiritual alignment, that will have a much bigger impact. So, teaching them how to make an impact and giving them the tools is the method.
SANDIE SEDGBEER: We look at what’s happening in the world – as I said earlier, everything seems to be crumbling, and we seem to be heading back towards dictatorship, authoritarianism, etc., and at the same time we are seeing these incredible young people who are very action-oriented. They know what they want, they know the kind of world they want to live in, and they’re unashamed about rejecting some of what their parents and their grandparents stood for. How hopeful are you that we are going to get beyond all this chaos and that your son will have a much brighter future?
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN: I’m hopeful because of the spiritual awakening that’s happening. So that new global commitment to elevated consciousness, if it’s followed, will make a big impact on the energy of the world around us. My friend Deepak Chopra would say the world is ending – I was with him two weeks ago, and he was literally just talking about how crazy things are and how mad it is. He’s not wrong, but I can’t wake up every day without having the sense of faith that this is going to get better.
SANDIE SEDGBEER: How do you see your role moving forward?
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN: I just want to keep doing more of what I’m doing. I don’t have any goals. I just want to keep showing up, and I want to let God show me what to do. I want to make as big an impact as I can in the service of others. That’s really it. I don’t want to sound like I’m saying all the right things. I really mean that. I really mean that
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Also, read An Interview with Gabrielle Bernstein – Miracles Now
