Jill's profession as a neuroanatomist scientist helped her put into scientific description the step by step occurences that took place when she suffered a massive stroke while home alone one morning. Very fascinating insights into the function of the left brain vs. the right brain. Who would have thought that the right brain could see beyond the lines that separate one thing from the other. Intriguing!
2. Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke if Insight - Ted Talk on You Tube.
Jill's profession as a neuroanatomist scientist helped her put into scientific description the step by step occurences that took place when she suffered a massive stroke while home alone one morning. Very fascinating insights into the function of the left brain vs. the right brain. Who would have thought that the right brain could see beyond the lines that separate one thing from the other. Intriguing!
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1. DR. GABOR MATE - A charismatic, raving genius in the world of psychological research in the field of addiction, stress and ADD. Exposes conventional wisdom that claims genetic background is our downfall. No. We learn to be emotionally unstable. His books and lectures are very accessible and specific...and hugely spellbinding. A resident of Vancouver, Canada, with roots in Hungary. History will mark him as a major mover and shaker of psychological discovery. Amy Goodman's Democracy Now brought him to the attention of the U. S. Also catch him on You Tube.
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Book by Danielle MackinnonDanielle MacKinnon has taken the world of intuitive self mastery by storm when she made the life change decision to leave her MBA-trained corporate job and finally admit that she had a gift of intuitive quest since childhood. She began reading messages from animals and it morphed into a full blown career of helping people with their lives, writing, giving lectures, appearing in media interviews and being a faculty member at The Omega Institute.
Her book, Soul Contracts, published by Simon and Schuster 2014, instantly resonates with those s chess game with ourselves: control of thoughts are just as important as control of actions10/25/2014 CONTROL OVER OUR ACTIONS have been the lessons our parents and teachers have drilled into us. The world has painted a picture of objects, actions and phenomenon as being the only reality. The Western world especially is quick to validate the world that says__ what is seen with the physical eyes, heard with the physical ears, smelled with the physical nose, felt with the physical touch and tasted with the physical tongue sensors__is true and honorable. We have been driven into a cage that says that if we can't experience something with the five senses, it is worthless at best and perhaps even unrealistic and dillusional. Therefore, if you spend your attention in the world of non-action, non-sensory, others suspect that you are not productive, not worthy or just out to lunch. The worst part of this scenario is that we tend to not validate ourselves if we are not living a life of total action.
FAST FORWARD TO THE WORLD OF POSITIVE THINKING. How did the pop culture get here so quickly? What drove us all to re-examine the importance of deliberate control or management over our thoughts? Isn't this in conflict with the action-based materialistic society of the traditional Western world that demands products and tangible productivity? Well, product demand has contributed to positive thinking, in a round about way, because the corporate world discovered that productivity could be increased if the culture of the work place and the workers were more positive and supportive to each other. So corporations started investing huge sums of money into providing their workers with training inservice sessions such as attitude development, positive relationships, cooperative team strategies, positive self image and the like. This is where we have come. And these concepts have spilled over into common society. SO NOW THERE IS A FLOOD OF SELF-HELP INFORMATION COMING OUT ON HOW TO ELIMINATE NEGATIVE EMOTIONS AND MENTAL BLOCKS AND BELIEF OBSTACLES THAT CONSTRICT THE FLOW OF QUALITY LIVING AND HAPPINESS. Intuitives are speaking out. Insightists are now being asked for their expertise to help us with control and management of our thoughts. We also have learned from experience how important thinking is. We have found that we may have intentions in one direction, and those intentions could be very strong and deliberate, but that in the end, there is another self, another mind-set or construct of thoughts that sabotages that intention: in other words, we find it difficult to carry out our personal intentions. THOUGHT MANAGEMENT IS THE BASE OF PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION. If you follow someone like William Buhlman's work, you will find that work in the out-of-body experiential world is nothing more than management of the mind and then more subtle mind. If you look at the work of intuitives like Ines Martens or Danielle MacKinnon, you will find that we create what they call "soul contracts" that manipulate us on subtle levels that we may not even be aware of, but which we can detect because of destructive repeated patterns of behavior that we can't seem to shake off. Here again, they suggest that we explore these thoughts, try to face the causes of our destructive energy, change our thinking and thus be able to change our life. THOUGHT MANAGEMENT HAS ITS OWN LAWS OF OPERATION. Thought management sounds easy at first...just don't worry; be happy. Yeah, right. Thought management is simple, but not at all easy. When we are on a job, we have an outside force insisting that we concentrate or control our thoughts: in order to succeed on a job, we have to bring our attention into focus. But the problem comes as soon as we get off work and the mind is joyous, feeling that now it doesn't have to control its attention; it can think whatever it wants. Right? Wrong. Free time is the arena that separates the winners from the losers. Free time is where we have to double up our attention and make deliberate, conscious thoughts that work for us and not against us. It is in this arena that we can buck the system, so to speak, and transform our lives into ones that accomplishes our personal goals. Afterall, do we really want to come to the end of our life and realize that all we have accomplished is doing a good job at working for these companies and organizations, that we have done a good job at serving humanity, and have done a good job in pleasing our family and friends?...all noble ideas...but gees louise, what about me and my personal growth and happiness....how does that fit in? Can't I also have a little piece of the pie of my life for myself and my personal goals? Is that too selfish? Hell no! It is insane not to pursue our own quest of transformation,but no one will really encourage us to do it, because in the end, they would rather have you for themselves, either as a worker, a server or a playmate. So personal transformation is something we have to deliberately plot out for ourselves. And as the Alchemist tells us, once we make a deliberate commitment to our own growth, the universe conspires to see that that plan become successful. (pardon the paraphrase) So that leads to dynamic #1 of the laws of thought management. 1, Have an idea of the the goal of your personal transformation...hey, if you can't muster a formal goal..."happiness" as a goal is a good place to start. 2. Have an idea of some path you want to pursue, which you want to realize, can be changed at any time if you find a more effective technique. 3. Learn to monitor your thoughts....you may first want to start with just tracking your thoughts for a period of ten minutes...writting down every little thought that pops into your brain. (In ten minutes you may be exhausted!) 4. Look at all the negative thoughts that you entertain in your mind, write them down and then burn them from your mind. Some people like to physically burn a list as a symbolic gesture...which gets into the next idea. 5. Set up symbols of affirmation for yourself, or metaphors that represent thoughts. 6. Slow down your thoughts and cut down your analysis time. When you enter your free time arena, often you overbook yourself. You want to make up for lost time and think that frantically impacting your schedule is the key to success and happiness. Practice thinking one thought at a time. If you are, for instance, trying to decide on the right private school for your child and you have collected all the data, sit down and make a decision right then and there as soon as the data has been collected. You may have to slow down your mind and organize your thoughts by putting things into written pro versus con columns. But once you have looked at all the aspects, make a "working decision", meaning, you will decide and then give your decision an incubation period, usually 24 hours, and test your decision at that time and then go back to the drawing board and gather more facts if you don't like the idea or start action if you like the idea. 7. You must accept your positive thoughts. This sounds redundant, but remember that we are not always thinking thoughts that are in our best interest. Avoid worry. Avoid fear...the two tools of the negative power. Our sabotage mechanism does not want us to always stay in a positive, worry and fear-free environment. It can get us with comments like, "get real, the world is a dark, negative place...we should be afraid.", "we can't always be positive; we have to face facts." Yes, the world may be negative, but your world doesn't need to be, and that is the only world that counts for you, for afterall, you will be marching out of this world alone and at that time you will not have to answer for the rest of the world, only yourself. 8. Change may not feel good at first. If you have said good-bye to old habits and invited new habits in, know that the old was there because it did provide some sort of comfort and stability, however distorted. In the same way a person gets off of drugs, the transition is sure to be uncomfortable, because there was a false sense of security in taking those drugs; they filled a gap. Now that you have set your goals to a higher standard, you may still feel the void of the old destructive track:this is natural. Don't confuse simple withdrawal from negative ways of thinking and the discomfort as a sign that you are not on the right track. 9. Surrender to the change. Be patient and allow yourself time to digest the positive benefits of your new way of thinking. Breathe and become vulnerable to the new transformation that is taking place. Be open, be open and when you think you can open no more, open more. Allow the manifestation of your change of thinking to work its magic in its own time. 10. Adopt an ongoing attitude of gratitude, humilty, and begging for increased insight. You have seen how your choices can change your life and your happiness, peace and success quotient; now become addicted to that good feeling of aligning with truth and growing into a larger self. Make the love of growth your new friend and enjoy the relationship. So that's a start. ...thanks, S. W. William Buhlman is an insightist who speaks from authenticity. His book Adventures in the Afterlife is a basic course in transformation 101, speaking to the seasoned investigators of the non-physical world as well as those who merely want to improve their life from simply a psychological viewpoint. Yes, the book is a narrative of one man's experience after death, but if the skeptic who is uncomfortable with this premise would take the book as merely a metaphor, or as Samuel Coleridge would encourage us, to entertain the willing suspension of disbelief, then I submit that this book will reward you with an extremely valuable fundamental understanding of our own thoughts, how thoughts shape the world we live in and how we can control and manage those thoughts on a very basic and pragmatic level.
The book explains the concepts in detail of how thoughts are a result of our creative prerogative...in other words, we were meant to create realities with our mind that would lead us to the highest and best truth, but somehow along the way, we become impatient, or we become a victim of our own vices and we start creating worlds that are "lesser than" and that's where our problems begin. If we are not in pursuit of positve change of our reality, we revert to default mode, or let negativity seep into our lives. We find ourselves creating problems of our own making and becoming stuck in our own dramas or becoming addicted to the entertainment of solving our problems. The protagonist in the narrative, Frank, experiences specific instruction from various teachers and is shown first-hand illustrations of specific individuals who "chose" to limit themselves in their own confined world of wheel-spinning and stagnation...as an excuse to postpone their journey of transformation growth and elevation of consciousness. Instead of using their creative energy to grow, they use their creative energy to create little detours. And who is there who can't relate to these sabotage schemes our mind can come up with? We are all familiar with how our mind can work against our best interest. This book gives the reader an understanding of the concepts behind all this drama we create and gives specific action plans to move away from our destructive thinking and personal prisonhouses and get about the business of doing what we were meant to do: move forward. Here are some quotes from the book:
The ideas here give the reader a hopeful spin on the whole existence experience in that there is no real end with death...it is merely a continuation of our thoughts and constructs that we have created. As Buhlman states, "The universe is thought-responsive". The rhetorical style of Buhlman is simple, direct and practical, and yet somehow poetic in its eloquence. Get past the first fifty pages or so of this 248 page journey and you are hooked on a hunger to learn more and more. Well done, William B. Later, Homies! PASSING MIRROR OF FACE WE KNOW
DO WE REALLY WANT TO GROW? DO WE SECRETLY WANT TO FREEZE THE FACE IN THE MIRROR THAT WILL PLEASE? FOR WITH THIS GROWTH TIME SHOWS IN MIRRORS THE PAIN, THE JOY OF FULLY LIVED YEARS. AND WE PERHAPS, WHEN LOOKING THERE MAY FEAR THE GROWTH OUR FACES WEAR. UNLESS THIS GRAND CHANGE WE CAN FULLY EMBRACE HOW WILL WE ACCEPT OUR INNER FACE? THAT FACE WHO THRIVES IN CONTEMPLATION THAT FACE WHO SEAKS OUR LIBERATION. THAT FACE THAT FINDS A DIFFERENT MIRROR NOT THIS TEMPORARY MIRROR THAT WE SEE HERE BUT ONE REFLECTING A MORE SUBTLE SIGN OF THAT TRUER NATURE THAT IS SOMEHOW DIVINE. A NATURE THAT NEEDS NO MIRROR TO FREEZE TO PRESERVE THE IMAGE WE WANT TO SEIZE. BUT A NATURE THAT EVEN THROUGH A JAGGED CEMENT CRACK IN ITS YEARNING FOR LIGHT WILL RUSH BEAUTY BACK. _S.W. WHAT MAKES YOUR HEART DANCE
WHAT MAKES IT FLY? WHERE DO WE GO WHEN SURROUNDINGS FADE... OR JUST DIE? WHEN THE HOPE OF A SMILE WE FINALLY DISCOVER IS TOO LONG TO WAIT...AND WE SEARCH FOR SOME...OTHER. WHEN EYES BECOME WEARY OF THE TRAFFIC OUTSIDE AND MOUNTAINS OF EMPTINESS NEVER SUBSIDE. WHERE IS THAT CORNER ALONE I CAN HIDE WHERE IS THAT TREASURY BOX PROMISED INSIDE? OH WHERE IS THAT DANCE FLOOR FOREVER ALIVE WHERE SOUL WILL BURST OPEN WITH ONE STRATEGIC DIVE? WHERE FORGOTTEN PARTNER HAS BEEN DANCING SO LONG... ANXIOUS TO REMIND ME HOW WE DANCED TO "OUR SONG"! - S.W. Dr. Mario Martinez has just come out with a new book, The MindBody Code: How to Change the Beliefs that Limit Your Health, Longevity and Success, Nov. 1, 2014. This, I suspect will be just as good as his 6 CD set that came out in 2009 called The Mind-Body Code: How the Mind Wounds and Heals the Body, 2009.
The genuis of Dr. Martinez is the way in which he can translate his years of experiential research into interesting, instructive prose that is one takeaway after another. He addresses the larger theoretical picture of how we have adopted destructive myths about ourselves, yet he offers quite simple techniques to counter these ghosts with his "5 portals of wellness" and he discusses in specific detail how to imbibe them. He leaves you, after explaining his biocognitive theory, a new model of health and well being, with an uplifting sense of how simple and carefree life can be if only we just let go. He is truly a genius of our time in the world of transformational cognition. I predict that your will simple enjoy what he has to say, as his delivery and approach in his CD's is relaxed, yet enthusiastic; humble, yet confident; highly accessible, yet extensively researched. Enjoy. susan colantuano: The career advice you probably didn't getIn this Ted Talk on You Tube, "The Career Advice You Probably Didn't Get", Susan Colantuano ends her talk with the hope that more women can create careers that soar. Her whole talk exposed a very tangible factor of why women were able to make it to middle management, but they were passed over for top leadership positions in the corporate world. They took a look at all the outstanding qualities that these middle management women had: assertiveness and ability to manage others. These highly skilled, highly motivated business women had engaged in numerous trainings that were offtered in the arena of management, personal assertiveness and interpersonal relationships. The researchers looked at feedback and noticed that these middle management women received excellent reviews from their team members, but were stuck from soaring to the top.
It turns out that these business women did not have the awareness of top business strategies, the same business strategies, I suppose, that business owners have, that of how to create company growth and financial potential. Men, however, were apprised of these issues because of the positions they were placed in or because of mentoring from other business people in the higher positions. So once the woman in Ms. Colantuano's example addressed some of these larger-picture issues, rather than just being content to be an "assertive, nice person", she was able to get ahead...and soar up in the company. (So this achiever was mentored by Colantuano herself...mentoring is big...sometimes there is no other way to learn other than by learning something from a mentor.) It reminded me of those performance studies that revealed that little girls often perform better in school because they learn how to obey the rules better, but then down the road the men overtake them in success because they are more willing to take a risk and are not so "rule-bound". One female president of a business university said that the one ingredient the university could not teach was "willingness to take a risk" and that is the very quality that separates the successful from the unsuccessful business entrepreneur. So, women have a chance for self reflection here, whatever your goal is. Maybe your goal is not taking a ride on the corporate escalator, but the principle applies to any dream. Society feedback often leads women to believe that safe, sweet, swagger and skill can get her what she wants in life; these are admirable qualities, no doubt. But she also has to see herself as the CEO of her life and address the question of the dream: the larger picture of "where do I want to go in life....what personal growth goals do I want to accomplish...how will I accomplish them...what specific steps...how do I see myself as on the very top of my game...and how do I get the courage to take a risk and go for broke to attain those goals?" YIKES. Step back, here come the ladies! Go Girls! Make your dreams as big as you can make them. an idea for the roadTHE FOOT IN THE TUB CONCEPT: We have all experienced turning on the morning shower to get it warm and if you have the tub and shower combo, you are standing with one foot outside the tub, keeping your weight on that foot while you test the slipperiness of the tub by placing your other foot in the tub without transferring your weight. Then when you are convinced you have sure-footing, you transfer your full weight in the tub and proceed with your shower. Naturally this is an unconscious maneuver.
So in practical life, often we do not put our whole weight into things until we have some assurance that there is stability. But if we stay in this mode too long, we will never fully get in the shower and get clean....so,we have to know when we have enough testing and when we should put our whole weight into our project. We were not meant to always be in testing mode. Full living is putting our whole weight into what we are doing. As has been said, what is worth doing is worth doing well...and what it done well takes deliberate attention. As many of you recall, Malcolm Gladwell discusses in one of his revelatory books the rule of "ten thousand hours", which is the time it takes for a person to master a skill. But there is an important ingredient to this theory: your ten thousand hours needs to be spent with deliberate attention. Those who succeeded in mastery did not hold back their weight from the game. They jumped in with their all. Hang in, y'all. |