Excerpt from Give Yourself Permission by Cortney McDermott

Excerpt from Give Yourself Permission by Cortney McDermott

This book is not about getting somewhere, because you’re already there. 

It’s not about becoming someone, because you already are that someone. 

It’s not about having or doing, because the having and doing will happen through you once you awaken to the truth of who and what you are. 

Years back, I started having experiences I could not explain. 

Overnight in one instance, I shed considerable weight and my body was visibly toned in ways it had never been before. Another time, I was transported out of perceived space-time constraints and merged with a seemingly limitless Intelligence. At one point, I could literally feel the cells of my body and mind reorganizing into a new pattern of consciousness. 

Learning was accelerated for me. I knew things, and I couldn’t account for how I knew them. Also, time—or my relationship with time—was changing. It was as if I was living lifetimes in a day, so much experience was packed in. Events and situations that would have taken years to manifest were occurring with ease. 

If I hadn’t personally and spontaneously lived these transformations, I would not have believed them possible without plastic surgery, plant medicine, or science fiction, like the kind you might read in a book or see in a movie. Yet there I was…no surgery, no medicine, no fantasy—proof of the impossible. 

These experiences deepened my lifelong quest to understand who or what we are, to give myself permission to not know, and to play with opening my awareness to new possibilities. 

People often ask me how I look younger and healthier every time they see me. They want to know what foods I eat, where I go to the gym, which meditations I listen to. They are looking for a recipe for the same results. But I don’t have one. What has changed in me is consciousness itself, or perhaps my awareness of that consciousness. 

After witnessing my clients undergo similar metamorphoses, I decided it was time for my second book. Rather than a prescriptive “how-to”, you are holding a reminder of what you’ve always known—that your potentials are unlimited, that the intelligence inside you is the same that governs the rotation of the earth and the paths of the planets, that maybe there’s a way to harness that intelligence for what you want in life (instead of what you don’t). 

If all this talk of planets and spontaneous transformation is sounding a bit woo woo, I’m with you. It took me years of diligent study and practice—the science and engineering of change—to open up to where the intellect and discipline couldn’t take me: the mystical, ungraspable magnitude of what we are. 

This book dances between science and spirit, practical application and a playful “screw all that” non-approach. It’s the best I can explain of how the beautiful messiness of life has led me to where I am today. In this mirror of my journey, you’ll find concrete, linear representations of how big change can happen, alongside nonlinear explorations of the force that seems to guide and compound all that. 

I don’t have the arrogance to believe that I can teach you anything. But if you’re exhausted by the search and ready to turn within and let your own light lead, then I’m glad you’ve come here. 

It means you’re ready to be happy for no reason at all. It means you’re ready to embrace new beliefs and drop the ones that were never yours in the first place, to opt out of the noise and live by design, to do what you love and get rich doing it. You’re ready to remove layers of untruth to get to the truth, to shine more light on who you really are, to return to play and inherent confidence, and to remember and relax into love. 

So, without further ado, get ready to give yourself a whole lot of permission to be YOU. 

Reprinted with the permission from the publisher

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CORTNEY MCDERMOTT is an award-winning author, TEDx speaker, and mind-body expert who helps the world’s leading organizations and creatives to disrupt old patterns of behavior, grow healthy businesses, and apply the physiology and psychology needed for success.

Her work in the field of self-development and business strategy has been featured in Inc., Women’s Health, SUCCESS, The Huffington Post, FOX News, and many other mainstream business and lifestyle media.

Cortney’s career highlights include her time as an executive at Vanity Fair Corporation, Vice President at Sustainability Partners Inc., and then running her own businesses, with clients and audiences at Universal Music Group, Google, Nike, and Virgin Unite.

Cortney believes in exploring and challenging the confines of human potential and is passionate about neuroscience, epigenetics, and the practical applications of quantum theory.

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Tedx Speaker, Cortney is an international expert in the field of self-development & business strategy & has been featured in Inc., Women’s Health, SUCCESS, The Huffington Post, & many other mainstream business & lifestyle media.

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