"I highly recommend GAZE™️ if you are seeking wholeness, balance, and vitality in your life."

–Diane Lujan

Dear Friend,

I was a seasoned psychotherapist and spiritual guide. I had built a thriving practice and a robust business bridging psychology and spirituality. I was on the cusp of launching new products and programs that I thought would create a big impact in the world. I believed I had reached the pinnacle of my career, and I was clear, confident and convinced I had arrived.

Fear, sadness and anger were distant emotions I hadn't worked with for years.

One Thursday in January 2022, when I was walking back to our car after ice hockey practice, my 11-year-old son was hit by a car and died a few feet from me. A primal agony rendered open in me as I watched him die. I was devastated – in anguish, traumatized, and grieving.

Fear, anger and sadness became my daily companions.

In the ten days following his death, I was in shock, and I barely moved from a chair in our living room in front of our fireplace. I would gaze into the burning embers for hours, not disconnected or checked out. Instead, I experienced a presence that would rise in me as I gazed at the fire. Sadness, anger and fear were tempered by the soft hue of my eyes meeting the flames. I couldn’t explain it. It was comforting and calming.

It soothed me for the moment. Just enough to keep going.

Then rapid changes rifled through our lives like a rolodex in the aftermath. We left a Colorado ski town and landed in rural Central Virginia like a fish out of water. I closed down my spirituality business that I loved, unable to provide any semblance of wisdom or support in the wake of my grief. I clung to my living children with all my might, desperately hoping that if I held on, nothing bad would ever happen again. As I buried my son, I buried the remaining fragments of my life. 

I was constantly panicked, anxious, and afraid. My heart palpitated with fear.

After we moved across the country to be closer to family, my view changed from the Colorado mountain ranges to a bucolic farm in Virginia. The landscape changed; the gazing continued. I gazed into the fire in our wood stove, across the vast fields of crops, beyond the lake on the farm, and over the expanse of woods that had become my new habitat. The effect was the same.

I started to feel consistently calm, centered, clear.

Over time, I noticed that my gaze wasn’t only lowering my anxiety and fear. I began coupling gazing with expanded consciousness techniques. It was helping me access a new unordinary state that gave me purpose, direction, and insight. I started to feel more like myself again, and I was perceiving a larger purpose surrounding his death that was helping me make meaning from my loss. I wondered if gazing could be one method to help others as well. 

I gazed my way into a new state of Being –an unordinary state of expanded consciousness.

I wondered what was happening to me, so I dug into research and science behind gazing and discovered its reliability to increase the parasympathetic nervous system. This explained why I felt better and why it was changing my state. I began working with adults and teens and developed a comprehensive method, called GAZE, using three induction techniques that helped people diversify their perception, transform their perspective, and change their state. GAZE translated into tangibles, such as making clearer decisions, defining purpose, quieting the mind, and improving well-being, including how they felt about themselves, their relationships with others, and how they showed up at work, home, and with family. 

I am passionate about helping you access your unordinary state of Being so you can benefit from permanent emotional equilibrium.

Today, I teach and train this method, GAZE, for adults and youth. Through GAZE, a 13-year-old now knows how to prevent panic attacks before a big project, a young developer launched his own business fearlessly with a clear vision, a grandmother reduced rumination as she held presence with her daughter in chemotherapy, a 16-year-old discovered a soulful voice that countered the anxiety self-criticism, and a spiritual healer gave herself 8 weeks off for self-care without a second guess of how it might hurt her bottom line. 

Here's my bottom line...

Are you ready to feel warm, calm, centered and compassionate no matter what happens to you?

Are you interested in learning an innovative method grounded in science that explores unordinary states of consciousness, AND you are brave enough to start with your own fears?

Are you willing to transmute your fears so you do not transmit them and therefore make a big contribution for the greater good?

Are you ready to create a state of Being that is fearless –dream-like, mystical, magical and liminal –that is latent with possibility instead of fear?

And are you just plain tired of living afraid and anxious? 

There a state of Being that is ready to show you a new view. 

With gratitude for you,

Annie

"Working with Annie was approachable and powerful— the insights I received will stick with me for years to come— likely forever."

–Susan

"Annie helped me feel safe and grounded with solid support throughout the process. I felt a slight buzzing in my brain following the experience, and that lasted for rest of the day. I would recommend the experience to anyone who is interested in tapping into an altered, meditative state with intuitive guidance." 

–Corry Andrews

GAZE™️ for Teens:

3 Steps to Immediately Reduce Anxiety

Rates of teen/pre-teen anxiety are sky-rocketing and you need the skills to de-escalate your teen's fears on the spot. You may believe your teen won't want any part of what you have to offer. However, changing your own gaze will change theirs as well. Learn how to lower the temperature when anxiety rises in your home and softly and subtly suggest skills that can benefit both you and your teen.

GAZE™️ for Work:

5 Techniques Temper Difficult Workplace Dynamics

Do you leave your spirituality at home the minute you clock in at work or open your laptop to check your email? What might it be like to influence and impact workplace dynamics using the power of your attention, awareness, intention, and presence? Your state of Being is powerful and it can shift dynamics instantaneously. Learn  basic techniques to create a spiritual container at work that can change difficult dynamics.

GAZE™️ Plus:

How to Go Deep into an Unordinary State and Retain Self-Control

You may have heard about the efficacy of entheogens for healing and are reticent about its effects. You aren't sure about losing control and don't want to be embarrassed or ashamed about what you do or say in an altered state. Learn how to go deeper with GAZE in a way that you get to titrate your own experience and stay within the scope of what is right for you and your spiritual expression while reaping the benefits of extraordinary spiritual experiences.

GAZE™️ for Finances:

3 Methods to Shift Scarcity and Invite Abundance

Do you have a love-hate relationship with money? Do you identify as spiritual and finances make you feel squeamish inside? Do you secretly want abundance in your life so you can create a good life for yourself and greater good of all? Discover 3 ways you can invite abundance in your life in all forms –financial, relational, emotional and physical –from an unordinary state. Learn how to become a channel for abundance to flow without becoming consumed by greed.

"I was able to pinpoint and dig into very relevant topics in my life, and GAZE helped me to understand where I should focus my energies going forward to manifest what I want to create.

–James

Identify: 

The Courage to Face Your Fear and Let it Go

Here's what we'll explore together:

• Learn which core fear is beneath the surface of your anxiety so you are no longer ruled by it.
• Overcome your resistance to fear so you can start to work with at your own comfort level.
• Discover the benefit of fear to make big changes in your life without being afraid.

Decide: 

The Determination to Thrive beyond Fear and Follow Through

Here's what we'll explore together:

• Consider the threshold moments that are encouraging you to live beyond your fear into freedom.
• Develop your 'yes' to crossing over from being paralyzed by anxious uncertainty to being bold, clear and direct in how you are and what you do.
• Commit to limiting fear numbing behaviors that help you side-step fear and keep the anxious cycle alive.

Release: 

The Wisdom to Stop Worrying and Stay Still

Here's what we'll explore together:

• Identify behaviors, thoughts, intentions that keep fearful fretting going so that you know what is getting in the way.
• Dismantle the assumption about the benefits of anxiety for safety and develop an inner compass for security.
• Allow space to emerge in fear's absence without filling it in with another emotion or response so that a new state can emerge.

Suspend:

The Curiosity to Fear Less and Live More

Here's what we'll cover together:

• Address your attachment to fear and anxiety as a catalyst for change and replace it with curiosity for self-agency.
• Develop your dimensional perception to see more, know more, sense more and feel more without the lens of fear to open into new possibility.
• Cultivate a state of inquiry and wonder as a response to anxiety to support positive life changes in work, relationships, finances and health.

Arrive:

The Perseverance to Dissolve Fear into Permanent Peace

Here's what we'll cover together:

• Learn the markers of an even, calm, composed and clear state that transmutes fear so you can identify positive change.
• Validate what equilibrium is like for you so that it becomes a set point to go to during challenging times –difficult family, financial, health, personal or work situations.
• Repeat and practice how to vacillate between fear and equilibrium without spiraling into anxiety.

Embody:

The Integrity to Live 

Beyond Fear and

Lead the Way

Here's what we'll cover together:

• Craft a fearless state of Being that is unordinary –liminal, magical, mystical, dream-like and live in this state every day.
• Discover the ways your state of Being can naturally counter fear without effort and inspire others to live fearlessly.
• Gain access to the wise knowing within your state of Being that provides optimistic leadership and relentless hope.

Sustain:

The Purpose to Let Your State Speak for You and Transmit Peace

Here's what we'll cover together:

• Understand how a state of Being transforms the state of the world from chaos to peace without any effort on your part.
• Articulate the practices that can immediately shift your fear in a moment so you are always radiating peace.
• Implement one thing you will commit to moving forward that you have a clear takeaway that sticks with you.

Apply:

The Gratitude to Finally Be Free from Fear and Say Goodbye to Anxiety for Good

Here's what we'll cover together:

• Identify what solidifies a state of Being so you have the tools you need when life rocks you again.
• Take away memorable techniques that are replicable, easy and accessible so you don't have to work to stay centered.
• Acknowledge the edge of fear for new growth and personal development and how to use moments of fear for future empowerment.

“As the gaze grows, so does your Soul.”

-Annie L. Browning