In this informal, recorded lesson Renee Garcia shares her personal journey of surviving a severely abusive childhood, an early abusive marriage, and multiple hospitalizations for depression, and explains how she used the metaphysical framework of Reality Transurfing to move beyond those traumas. She argues that conventional therapy, while helpful, cannot alone shift a person into a healed future state. Instead, she emphasizes actively “playing the role” of a healed version of oneself by accessing the Transurfing concept of the Space of Variations – an infinite set of alternative life‑lines. Garcia outlines five core Transurfing‑based practices: (1) step into the future frame of a healed self, (2) raise thought quality and avoid feeding negative self‑pendulums, (3) recognize and stop induced transitions that keep one stuck in past‑focused negativity, (4) trust and align with the flow of variations that delivers supportive information, and (5) set a purposeful goal to help others, turning personal trauma into an advantage. Throughout, she stresses personal accountability, the power of thought, and the necessity of shifting one’s internal “track” to achieve lasting healing.
Chapters
Hello, Transurfers and the Transurfing curious! I am Renee Garcia, and this is my Reality Transurfing Express lesson of the day! I apologize in advance, there is a man literally right outside my window that is high on drugs, screaming and yelling, and he looks like he is not doing too well. And I think somebody's already called the police. So, I'm going to try, for the sake of time, to continue. On with my message today, even if you can hear him yelling outside my window. It's a little bit distracting, but I will continue. And it's actually fairly interesting that that's happening right now, because my talk today is on trauma, healing from the past, resolving your past, shadow work. Although I don't know exactly what shadow work means, I'm assuming that it's dealing with those darker parts of yourself that are maybe connected to— prior traumatic events or thought processes that are a little bit darker. So, it's interesting that I have this man outside my window that's obviously on a very, very serious Induced Transition and is not on a good track. So, it just goes to show, we can have the same set and decorations, we can be in the same environment, but we can be in complete— completely different headspaces depending on the quality of our thinking. Here I am inside my lovely home doing a video on healing from your past, and literally 10 feet away is a man that is in hell. So, it really just goes to show you that it truly is about you and what track you decide that you are going to exist on. That being said— I am doing this video today because a lot of people have inquired with me, especially lately, and I'm not sure why, but a lot of people have inquired about how to use Transurfing to heal from trauma, or to resolve your past. And I made a post about this on ITI, our International Transurfing Institute Facebook group. I'm not sure who saw that, but I'm going to talk about it now. And sort of give you a rundown of what I've done personally to overcome a fairly traumatic childhood, a traumatic past. I've been in— I was married for 5 years when I was very young, and I was married to a man that was highly abusive, physically and mentally abusive. So, in my childhood, there was some abuse and— I lived in a very low-quality environment where there was lots of abuse and drug use with neighbors, and all sorts of insanity going on. So, I have had to continue on a journey of self-discovery, even though at times I felt like I was not getting the answers. Now, I have done all sorts of work on myself. Primarily, I was in therapy for about 10 to 15 years trying to resolve this. The trauma that I had been through. And I'm not trying to say that therapy did not help. I know therapy is advantageous for a lot. I know that it definitely did help me reconcile some of the things from my past. However, it didn't take it all the way for me. And I think really what the, um, the bottom line of my talk is going to be is that We look to our past to try to decide who we are going to be now and in the future frames, right? And when we're not happy with ourselves now, in this moment, we seek cues from modern psychology to look back and say, "Okay, well, what caused me to not be happy or content or sane or functioning?" or whatever in this moment, what can I connect it to in my past that I can resolve and help me to feel all the things that I wanna feel about myself in this current moment now? And I think that's what happened for me with therapy, is I felt like if I had just sort of mulled over and went through all the events, that I would eventually just be whole and healed because I dealt with everything. Okay? And then I could move into my future, and then I could be functioning, happy, sane Renee without depression, without anxiety. And the fact is, that just never happened for me! I spent tens of thousands of dollars on therapy, I tried cognitive behavioral therapy, I tried all sorts of things, and— They did help, I'm not trying to talk poorly on therapy, but ultimately, what was going to help me move into those future frames, being the Renee that I knew I wanted to be, was literally me stepping into those future frames as the person that I wanted to be, okay? There was nothing from my past— that was going to help me do this, okay? This was me taking the initiative, taking action, connecting with a variation of myself in the Alternative Space that was healed, that was whole, that was happy, not depressed, no anxiety. I knew that variation existed, and I continued to look to my past. To try to connect with that version of myself, but really, I just had to do what Tufti really presents to us in the Tufti book, I had to play a role, okay? I had to play a role of a healed person, I had to play a role of someone that did not suffer from anxiety or depression or insomnia or PTSD, or, you know, be traumatized— by my past. I had to step into who I felt I was looking to be by going into my past. I had to step into that person and walk forward being that person and practice being that person. And then sure enough, my mirror responds and I feel healed. I feel whole. I feel, um, sane. I feel like I don't suffer any longer. So, that's a bit about my story. I don't wanna get into it too much, but I want anyone who is watching this to know this is not bullshit! If I were to go into detail about my story, a lot of you would probably be surprised that I have come this far, okay? Because I live in a place— I live in the third most dangerous city in California. There is lots and lots of very bad tracks swirling around me right now. Right now. There's tons of drug addiction and abuse and dysfunction and unemployment and all kinds of insanity. And I was in that realm, and I have managed to find my way out of it. But it wasn't in the exact ways that I believed I would find my way out. So, before I start with the 5 Transurfing tips that I feel will help you resolve trauma or settle your past— I just wanna state that Transurfing is not going to help you, nothing is going to help you until you are prepared and willing to step off of the track that you are now, if you're still struggling with trauma and your past. It doesn't matter what you can gather, how much therapy, books— Self-help, this whole world of self-help, it's great, right? But it's only as good as you are willing to take accountability to find yourself to a new track! And if you're not willing to do that, it doesn't matter what you do! So, there was a gal in the Transurfing Institute Facebook group who talked a lot about trauma, she's no longer talking on there, and I think just because the people on the group were not resonating at the same frequency! Frequency she was. She talked a lot about trauma, and anytime I offered her tips, she seemed to not want to accept that those were the things to do. And she wanted to keep coming back to, but I'm, I'm, I'm fucked up, but this is shitty, but my parents are shitty. And it's like, you will never get anywhere if you continue to do that. You have to start thinking like a healed, functioning person free of a traumatic past, if you want to be a healed functioning person free of your traumatic past. So, remember the Space of Variations, infinite lifelines, infinite versions of you, okay? There is a version of you that is healed, happy— sorry, guys! Is healed, happy, and got it going on. Okay? But you have to allow yourself to connect with this version of you that is healed, happy, and got it going on, healed from the past. But the first step to doing that is your thought quality. You will not connect to this version of you if your thought quality continues to stay low. You have to start thinking extremely positive thoughts about yourself and your process of healing, okay? Self-pendulums. Pendulums are outside of us, they are inside of us. If you have a pendulum that's telling you that you're fucked up, that your childhood was fucked up, that you're not gonna ever resolve this stuff, that you're traumatized, that is a pendulum you're feeding your energy to. And remember, if you're feeding your energy to something, You're still giving it power, even if it's negative thoughts, right? Especially if it's negative thoughts! The induced transition! Learn about the induced transition! I would induce transition myself frequently by thinking about my past and my trauma and getting over things! It was a pendulum I would feed into, it would send me plummeting, and I could stay there and exist there for months, sometimes years at a time! And if you've listened to some of my former podcasts, you've probably heard me talking about being hospitalized. I was hospitalized when I was 15, when I was 20, and when I was 23 for such debilitating depression that I could barely move. And it was a serious induced transition. It was the bottom, bottom, bottom track. And I would take myself there via my negative pendulum, thinking of "why me?" and "I'm never gonna resolve this, I'm never gonna heal!" Okay? The flow of variations. This is a good one! The flow of variations is trying to help you right now. It's trying to help you by presenting this video to you, presenting Reality Transurfing to you. Tools that you can use to help yourself. Now again, it's you that's going to truly help yourself, nothing else. But you can take these tools and use them for you to help yourself, okay? So, trust the flow, get into the flow, and look for material and information that is in line with this healed version of you. The flow will bring it to you. This is my final, this is my final, uh, Transurfing concept that has been just mind-blowingly, uh, effective for me. And this has changed absolutely everything about my past and my trauma and resolve it and put me on a different track. I created a goal to help people recover. Okay, this is me taking Transurfing and trying to get it out there to the best of my ability. Me creating this goal, seeing the advantage in my past. Now, right, I have transformed a traumatic childhood and a traumatic past into an advantage by saying, now I can take this story and use it to show other people, listen, You can do it too, right? If you would have seen me at my lowest low, my God, you would— if I can climb to here from where I was, anyone can do it. And that story is what helps me to do this with other people, helping others, getting involved. I have a past certified trainer who just contacted me saying that he created a new modality to help people "with shadow work." Perfect! Get involved, help others that are struggling also! So again, connect to the Space of Variations, or the Alternative Space! There's a very, very, very healed, happy, healthy version of you! Beware of your self-pendulum, beware of the induced transition! Go with the flow that's trying to help you, right? The flow will bring you everything you need to heal, if you let it! And create a goal to help others! These are my top 5 concepts how to heal! Let me know your thoughts, and I can't wait to see what you guys think about this! Bye!
