Thursday, May 10, 2012
It's Rapport - No, Not Michael
How can establishing rapport lead to miraculous things occuring?
I met a man last week in the local park playing catch with his dog. I had casually interected with this man before at the same park, but never got his name, although I did get his dog's name. I figured I would go and talk to him and his dog. We had a few minutes of general chit chat, and it was through this that I had apparently built some rapport with this man. I had introduced myself and he told me his name. As we continued to talk, he started to share a very personal story with me about how his son had committed suicide almost exactly a year ago. I did nothing special during his sharing other than to be fully there listening to him. He was emotional during our discussion, and felt some relief by the end of our time talking. We acknowledged that what had happened was a true miracle, for before I left on my walk I had written a scene change about wanting the Law of Attraction to reveal to me related to the Celebration of Life. I mentioned this to the man, and he revealed to me that he was going to be having a party to celebrate the life of his son in the next week. We hugged each other and on my way I went.
This was such a powerful example of the Law of Attraction at work, but also how important building rapport is in allowing another person to open up and share things that may be very personal.
The Law of Attraction totally allowed the manifestation of celebration of life for me in this instance.
Often times, we have needs that we can get met through interaction with others. This was definitely the case for me, when I had an exchange with this stranger that was miraculous and reinforcing for me. None of this would have been possible if not for my first being fully present with this individual in a way that built serious rapport in a very short time. This interaction was so powerful, I literally had the shakes afterward and I had to note to myself the power of the Law of Attraction and the power of truly being there for someone in a way that establishes rapport.
What are some examples in your life where you were able to establish rapport with another?
What came up for you at that time?
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Choose It or Lose It
Here is the mind-blowing good news - we can choose how we spend our time.
Time spent in joy, or time spent experiencing any enjoyable emotion, affects the attraction equation by more than any other factor.
Many people have spent so many years pleasing everyone but themselves that they have no idea where to begin exploring what it is that they want.
Can you relate?
The exploration begins and ends with emotions.
I ask myself what brings me my greatest joys, and look to do those activities that have the most intensely joyous emotions attached.
Allowing yourself to do something you love that you haven’t allowed yourself to do in a while will get you started on the path to sustainable enjoyment and creating and attracting more of what you want. It is that easy.
How would you like to explore your ultimate potential? What can you do today to start you on your path?
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Ask and It Is Given
Up until very recently in my 43 years of physical existence, I have struggled to ‘find’ my life’s direction.
Can you relate?
It is through studying concepts like those described in Ask and It Is Given that I have been able to discover that I have only to follow my internal alignment system, i.e., my emotions, as they are what provide my life’s direction. I don’t have to figure it out in my head and then set out to find it, because following my emotions is like putting myself on autopilot. Everything I want and need is already there, and when I do those things that I enjoy and I experience enjoyable emotions, I am by default following my life’s direction. My mind-body-spirit already know what my life direction is and my emotions around the choices I make lead me right where I have been longing to go.
How cool is that?
Who wants more of that? If you do, all you need to do is ask (and it is given).
Can you relate?
It is through studying concepts like those described in Ask and It Is Given that I have been able to discover that I have only to follow my internal alignment system, i.e., my emotions, as they are what provide my life’s direction. I don’t have to figure it out in my head and then set out to find it, because following my emotions is like putting myself on autopilot. Everything I want and need is already there, and when I do those things that I enjoy and I experience enjoyable emotions, I am by default following my life’s direction. My mind-body-spirit already know what my life direction is and my emotions around the choices I make lead me right where I have been longing to go.
How cool is that?
Who wants more of that? If you do, all you need to do is ask (and it is given).
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Think and Grow Rich
May I share something with you that has made a huge difference in my life and millions of others?
I guess I always understood at an intellectual level that being authentic and sincere about what you are doing or sharing with another person was important. But, I didn’t really FEEL the magnitude of how important this was until I read about it in Chapter 7 on Organized Planning in Hill’s book. His story of how the depression was created because companies and people weren’t treating their customers with respect. They had lost their integrity of purpose and were not coming from an authentic place of mutuality. This breakdown caused a major financial crisis back in 1929, and really resonated with me because I see the same thing happening today with the Great Recession and the banking bailouts.
Here is what truly resonated for me: I learned that I need to apply the same principles of authenticity and integrity to my everyday life and in all of my interactions. I know this because when I don’t, I don’t feel well. In other words, my emotions are telling me that I am not being true to who I really am when I don’t act with integrity and authenticity. After realizing this, I discovered for myself that I have the choice of deciding who I want to be, and that choice is guided by my emotions. If I feel enjoyable emotions and space when making a choice, then I have made a choice that is in alignment with my true self, and if I feel painful emotions, I am not in alignment with my true self and I may want to choose again.
I guess I always understood at an intellectual level that being authentic and sincere about what you are doing or sharing with another person was important. But, I didn’t really FEEL the magnitude of how important this was until I read about it in Chapter 7 on Organized Planning in Hill’s book. His story of how the depression was created because companies and people weren’t treating their customers with respect. They had lost their integrity of purpose and were not coming from an authentic place of mutuality. This breakdown caused a major financial crisis back in 1929, and really resonated with me because I see the same thing happening today with the Great Recession and the banking bailouts.
Here is what truly resonated for me: I learned that I need to apply the same principles of authenticity and integrity to my everyday life and in all of my interactions. I know this because when I don’t, I don’t feel well. In other words, my emotions are telling me that I am not being true to who I really am when I don’t act with integrity and authenticity. After realizing this, I discovered for myself that I have the choice of deciding who I want to be, and that choice is guided by my emotions. If I feel enjoyable emotions and space when making a choice, then I have made a choice that is in alignment with my true self, and if I feel painful emotions, I am not in alignment with my true self and I may want to choose again.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Sex Hormone Chewing Gum - A Book Review?!
Sex hormone chewing gum! - Can you say Viagra? And soma, the choice drug in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. What a scary similarity it has to the prolific use of Prozac and other anti-depression drugs in our modern day society to keep folks in a state of suspension, a state of perpetual happiness, when an individual needs help in coping with their life.
Excerpt from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, c. 1932:
The Controller, after reading a paper scientific paper submitted for publication entitled “A New Theory of Biology”, makes the decision to not publish the paper because as he states, “The author’s mathematical treatment of the conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious, but heretical and, so far as the present social order is concerned, dangerous and potentially subversive.” Upon the title page he writes - Not to be published.
After further consideration he thinks to himself, “the paper may cause the higher castes to lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge. Which was, the Controller reflected, quite possibly true. But not, in the present circumstance, admissible.”
The key phrases here, the ones that ironically trigger an intellectual response in our current time, are the very ones that the Controller espouses that the scientific paper may trigger in Huxley’s world. Again, the key phrase here being, “that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.”
Here, it is not that Huxley is pointing to a higher power, or a religious figurehead, when he refers to the purpose of life. In fact, the Sovereign Good, as he refers to it, is the present circumstance’s religion, with Ford (their term for God) as the figurehead.
- As an aside, my take on Ford as being the God of Huxley’s society, is that Ford was the father of the assembly line and a prominent figure of the industrial revolution. It is Ford’s assembly line concept which plays a prominent role in the development of the castes, the different classes (Alphas, Betas, Deltas, etc.) if you will, that make up Huxley’s utopian society.
Is it somewhat ironic then, that some 80 years after the publishing of Huxley’s seminal work, sustaining lasting happiness is perhaps the ultimate purpose in life? Have we come full circle? Or, is Huxley’s vision an extrapolation, an exaggeration, of prevailing thought during his time. That happiness is the ultimate purpose in life? If so, the Controller’s thoughts as to, “the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere…” could be somewhat troubling if his alternately stated purpose of life is not taken collectively. The enlargement of knowledge, if taken as a singular recommendation, does not produce lasting happiness. It is that enlargement of knowledge, when undertaken in combination with the act of intensification and refining of consciousness that provides purpose. Huxley’s position may very well be that understanding your life’s purpose leads, by default, to happiness. This is reflected today in so much of what is written in self help books. Find your passion, your purpose, and attack that with all you have. Immerse yourself in your passion and happiness will be yours. Happiness, as a religion, or as a means to an end, is not happiness at all. It is a sham.
How does one enlarge knowledge and intensify and refine consciousness? That is a question that must be answered.
Consciousness:
· The fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world
One’s consciousness can only be truly refined if a balance is attained between the mind and the world. If you refine consciousness only from a personal perspective, you promote ego, and a large ego is counter to lasting happiness. The mind is elevated through the expansion of knowledge but, it is important for the mind to understand its place in the world. There is a collective mind as well, which is made up of the minds of all individuals. Keeping that perspective, and promoting and encouraging others (the world) promotes the necessary balance that leads to purpose, fulfillment and true happiness.
The Controller reveals by way of quotation, to Bernard, John (the Savage) and Bernard’s friend Helmholtz, that he is evidently familiar with the work of Shakespeare. The Savage asks of the Controller pertaining to Shakespeare, “Why can’t the society make a “feely” (a kind of movie that can be felt while it is being viewed) of Othello.” The Controller indicates that it cannot be done, because Othello is old, and the masses wouldn’t understand it. You cannot make a tragedy in a society that only experiences happiness for they wouldn’t understand it’s real meaning. They would only see it as something unreal and farsical. They only understand the new and consume the new. Consumption of the new is what keeps them happy. This also seems eerily similar to the consumption society in which we now live. Our culture preaches that consumption leads to happiness, but as people soon find out, this is not the case.
Huxley’s portrayal of utopia should cause us pause. It raises serious questions as to where we are headed as a society. Eighty years after the release of Brave New World, have we progressed in such a way that we are heading directly toward what Huxley so prophetically predicted? It seems so in many ways. Current genetic research could easily lead to human engineering. The human genome has already been cracked, and further study of genes progresses.
How soon before we start pumping genetically superior infants out of baby farms? Pulling them straight from assembly lines and handing them over to new parents? And whose genetics will we be handing off? What messages will our scientists have planted hypnopaedically (while they were sleeping)? How close already is our marketing to a supposed innocuous form of propaganda?
Why aren’t our Alpha-pluses taking steps to stem the tide of these trends? Is it because they get richer off of the lower castes by remaining silent? Or, have they already been sent to their island?
Excerpt from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, c. 1932:
The Controller, after reading a paper scientific paper submitted for publication entitled “A New Theory of Biology”, makes the decision to not publish the paper because as he states, “The author’s mathematical treatment of the conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious, but heretical and, so far as the present social order is concerned, dangerous and potentially subversive.” Upon the title page he writes - Not to be published.
After further consideration he thinks to himself, “the paper may cause the higher castes to lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge. Which was, the Controller reflected, quite possibly true. But not, in the present circumstance, admissible.”
The key phrases here, the ones that ironically trigger an intellectual response in our current time, are the very ones that the Controller espouses that the scientific paper may trigger in Huxley’s world. Again, the key phrase here being, “that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.”
Here, it is not that Huxley is pointing to a higher power, or a religious figurehead, when he refers to the purpose of life. In fact, the Sovereign Good, as he refers to it, is the present circumstance’s religion, with Ford (their term for God) as the figurehead.
- As an aside, my take on Ford as being the God of Huxley’s society, is that Ford was the father of the assembly line and a prominent figure of the industrial revolution. It is Ford’s assembly line concept which plays a prominent role in the development of the castes, the different classes (Alphas, Betas, Deltas, etc.) if you will, that make up Huxley’s utopian society.
Is it somewhat ironic then, that some 80 years after the publishing of Huxley’s seminal work, sustaining lasting happiness is perhaps the ultimate purpose in life? Have we come full circle? Or, is Huxley’s vision an extrapolation, an exaggeration, of prevailing thought during his time. That happiness is the ultimate purpose in life? If so, the Controller’s thoughts as to, “the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere…” could be somewhat troubling if his alternately stated purpose of life is not taken collectively. The enlargement of knowledge, if taken as a singular recommendation, does not produce lasting happiness. It is that enlargement of knowledge, when undertaken in combination with the act of intensification and refining of consciousness that provides purpose. Huxley’s position may very well be that understanding your life’s purpose leads, by default, to happiness. This is reflected today in so much of what is written in self help books. Find your passion, your purpose, and attack that with all you have. Immerse yourself in your passion and happiness will be yours. Happiness, as a religion, or as a means to an end, is not happiness at all. It is a sham.
How does one enlarge knowledge and intensify and refine consciousness? That is a question that must be answered.
Consciousness:
· The fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world
One’s consciousness can only be truly refined if a balance is attained between the mind and the world. If you refine consciousness only from a personal perspective, you promote ego, and a large ego is counter to lasting happiness. The mind is elevated through the expansion of knowledge but, it is important for the mind to understand its place in the world. There is a collective mind as well, which is made up of the minds of all individuals. Keeping that perspective, and promoting and encouraging others (the world) promotes the necessary balance that leads to purpose, fulfillment and true happiness.
The Controller reveals by way of quotation, to Bernard, John (the Savage) and Bernard’s friend Helmholtz, that he is evidently familiar with the work of Shakespeare. The Savage asks of the Controller pertaining to Shakespeare, “Why can’t the society make a “feely” (a kind of movie that can be felt while it is being viewed) of Othello.” The Controller indicates that it cannot be done, because Othello is old, and the masses wouldn’t understand it. You cannot make a tragedy in a society that only experiences happiness for they wouldn’t understand it’s real meaning. They would only see it as something unreal and farsical. They only understand the new and consume the new. Consumption of the new is what keeps them happy. This also seems eerily similar to the consumption society in which we now live. Our culture preaches that consumption leads to happiness, but as people soon find out, this is not the case.
Huxley’s portrayal of utopia should cause us pause. It raises serious questions as to where we are headed as a society. Eighty years after the release of Brave New World, have we progressed in such a way that we are heading directly toward what Huxley so prophetically predicted? It seems so in many ways. Current genetic research could easily lead to human engineering. The human genome has already been cracked, and further study of genes progresses.
How soon before we start pumping genetically superior infants out of baby farms? Pulling them straight from assembly lines and handing them over to new parents? And whose genetics will we be handing off? What messages will our scientists have planted hypnopaedically (while they were sleeping)? How close already is our marketing to a supposed innocuous form of propaganda?
Why aren’t our Alpha-pluses taking steps to stem the tide of these trends? Is it because they get richer off of the lower castes by remaining silent? Or, have they already been sent to their island?
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