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I’ve often heard folks talk about habitual events, occurrences and other strange phenomena that run within families as a “family curse”. From infertility to financial predicaments there are…
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A married couple was in a terrible accident where the woman’s face was severely burned. The doctor told the husband that they couldn’t graft any skin from her body because she was too skinny. So the husband offered to donate some of his own skin. However, the only skin on his body that the doctor felt was suitable would have to come from his buttocks.
The husband and wife agreed that they would tell no one about where the skin came from, and requested that the doctor also honour their secret. After all, this was a very delicate matter.
After the surgery was completed, everyone was astounded at the woman’s new beauty. She looked more beautiful than she ever had before! All her friends and relatives just went on and on about her youthful beauty!
One day, she was alone with her husband, and she was overcome with emotion at his sacrifice.
She said, “Dear, I just want to thank you for everything you did for me. There is no way I could ever repay you.”
“My darling”, he replied, “think nothing of it. I get all the thanks I need every time I see your mother kiss you on the cheek.”
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
~unknown
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Last year I got myself a new friend to go play with. A Master Hypnotist who lives in my town and frequents the local Starbucks to boot. Now, I don’t know if Starbucks sell Cud but we manage to chew great quantities when we are there!
The great thing about conversation coming from a pointless state of ‘just for the sake of it’, is its ability to create. It comes from the unconscious and usually creates the unexpected or unexpectedly reminds us of something we haven’t considered for a some time and may have forgotten about.
During our last visit to Starbucks, JJ and I talked about the work of Dr David Hawkin, amongst other things.
In that one conversation, I found a model to easily explain a coaching model that I have been continually refining for about 10 years AND a superb explanation as to why the coaching model works. I came to know it differently.
I perceive knowledge has 4 states, 2 conscious and 2 unconscious:
Group 1. are logical experiences and come from the conscious mind, whereas
things in group 2 just occur and come from the unconscious.
Group 1 originate in the past and group 2 originate in the present.
Compared to the logical things , the unconscious things are almost limitless in number and always show up in conversation. Only in a conversation can you find out what you didn’t know that you didn’t know or realise that you knew something that didn’t think you did.
Then it is probably a good thing to start a conversation almost unconsciously, talk to people for no reason. There are no limits at that point. Try it on a bus or train and be surprised by how many strange looks you don’t get!
The limits come as one becomes more conscious of the conversation.
It makes me wonder if there is ever such a thing as a pointless conversation, since they will almost all arrive at a point.
However, conversation needs an intention and yet intension, in itself, starts as an unconscious thought. There are a few studies to support this and I have listed one below.
Then we might as well go chew the cud with everyone. Perhaps Forrest might explain it thus:
“Conversation is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get”
“To boot”
means Moreover; in addition to
The ‘boot’ is thought to be a derivative of the earlier ‘bat’ meaning ‘good or useful’. This is also the root of the word ‘better’
“Chew the cud”
means To chat, in an aimless manner
…part digested food that ruminant animals, notably cows, bring back into their mouths from their first stomach, to chew at leisure
definitions and explanations from The Phrase Finder
Intention
“TIME OF CONSCIOUS INTENTION TO ACT IN RELATION TO ONSET OF CEREBRAL ACTIVITY (READINESS-POTENTIAL)
~ Benjamin Libet, Curtis A. Gleason, Elwood W. Wright and Dennis K. Pear
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From the movie Forrest Gump 1994 http://imdb.com
Source http://blu-ray.com
An artist asked the gallery owner if there had been any interest in his paintings on display at that time.
“I have good news and bad news” the owner replied.
“The good news is that a gentleman inquired about your work and wondered if it would appreciate in value after your death. When I told him it would, he bought all 15 of your paintings”
“That’s wonderful!” the artist exclaimed. “What’s the bad news?”
“The guy was your doctor”
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Life isn’t about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself”~ George Bernard Shaw
Born 26 July 1856 died 2 November 1950
Irish playwright and co-founder of the London School of Economics
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What kind of year are you expecting?
- because there is almost every chance that you will get it.
Life just occurs, one moment at a time and the signals moving through our nervous system to our brain take time to process. Whatever we are experiencing , we are experiencing inside and after the actual event AND has been filtered through our personal relational database – our past experience.
Therefore everything in life is filtered by our interpretation and so we have already set a benchmark – it is as we say it is.
So what else would you like to say? 
In NLP we could call this reframing. You can find out more at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reframing
My Mentor, Steve Crabb often uses the example “What the thinker thinks, the prover, proves” ~ from Robert Anton Wilson’s ‘Prometheus Rising‘. Landmark Education proved to me that I can always find the evidence to prove life is how I say it is and I have noticed the tone that I take causes the quality of my experience.
So, the Financial situation that the world finds itself in is caused by conversation or the Frame in which we put it. Sure, the facts are the facts but it is feelings that cause action and action is how to reSOLVE everything.
SOLVE(nt = fluid = constantly changing structure)
You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends ~ Robert Anton Wilson
As Anthony Robbins says: “our motions cause our emotions”
I think the whole thing is an iterative loop – our emotions cause our motions which cause our emotions which cause our motions ………
In NLP we use a technique of spinning feelings; imagining the feeling floating out side of our body and by using our imagination, describing it in detail, using every sense that fits.
To change a feeling we can then change the colour of the feeling, the sound of the feeling, the smell and so on. Imagine how you would feel if every time you experience fear, you could smell your favourite food, hear your favourite music …. Having reframed the feeling, we can put the new feeling back inside and experience something completely different
Reframing and spinning remind me of my personal favourite quote, which comes from Louise L Hay, in her book ‘You can heal your life’.
”… the point of power is always in the present. You are never stuck..”
How are you feeling about 2012?
Thinking about it now, while you imagine your loved ones, the last really great joke you heard and your favourite drink and your favourite place on earth … How are you feeling about 2012?
This year is going to be the most rewarding year, financially, emotionally and experientially, because I say so and it feels that way to me. The only thing that stands in the way of that is what I might say as the year progresses.
Happy New Year!
A man walks into a bar and asks the bar man for a pint.
Whilst the bar man is pours the pint, he sees a dish full of peanuts sitting on the counter. As he looks, the peanuts say to him “you’re nice”. The man, surprised by what he just heard, sinks down into a seat next to the cigarette machine. As he does so , the cigarette machine says to him “you’re horrible”
Astonished by what he just heard, he tells the bar man, who explains:
“That’s ok sir, the peanuts are always complementary and the cigarette machine is out of order”
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Henry Valentine Miller
“What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs”
~ Henry Miller
Born December 26, 1891 died June 7, 1980
American novelist and painter.
He wrote novels containing fiction, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism.
Author of Tropic of Cancer (1934), Black Spring (1936), and Tropic of Capricorn (1939)
sources wikipedia
I see blog post after blog post about exploiting Social Media and most are dull
Is Social Media about being Social or is it about the Media? What is your opinion?
