Creating positive change

What kind of messenger are you?

2011-04-09T09:00:00.000-07:00

Did you ever think what kind of messenger you are?

Do you realize that every one of us is a messenger? We all received a story from our parents and after we received that story we began to send it out. We sent it out to everyone in our world.

We in essence have become their messenger and we deliver the same message to our children, to our family, to our friends, our colleagues, our bosses, our bankers, our children’s friends, their parents, strangers we meet in our day, everyone who comes into our lives.

Most importantly this is a story we tell to ourselves.

What kind of message did you receive from your parents? Ask yourself do you deliver truth or do you deliver lies? Think about it, whatever message you received from your parents you deliver to your children, at the subconscious level. Even if you think you are not, you are telling that story until you begin to change it.

No matter what family background we have come from, this message has been tainted. It is not authentic. It is not the truth. The message could have been "you are not good enough, not beautiful enough, not smart enough, not strong enough, not organized enough, not creative enough, not deserving enough and so-on-and-so-on-and-so-on." You convince yourself that you are not going to make it, or that it will be tough because life is so hard. And in the process you create all the situations that confirm the story you are telling. And then it allows you to say, “See, I told you so.” We probably see this better in other people than we do in ourselves.

Think for just a moment. Stop reading and sit back and close your eyes and think about your life. How do you truly see yourself? What are the messages or inner chatter, that self-chatter that continually talks to you in your head? What is it always saying? What is it constantly telling you? Is there self-doubt? Are there fears that you know are not true? Be honest, because when you begin to be honest with yourself, and really become aware of the lies you have been telling yourself, then you can begin to change your ‘story’ and in the process begin to change your life and allow the real authentic self to emerge.

When you look that deeply and honestly into yourself, you may find that fear is one of the largest obstacles in your way. Fear of taking a chance, fear of asking for what you deserve, fear of being honest with someone in your life, fear of allowing the real you to come forth, fear of…fear of….(you fill in the blank). You will find that your fears have made you reject yourself before anyone else did. When you face your fears, and really sit with the feelings of fear, and go ahead and do what you are afraid of anyway, you will see it is all an illusion. You will see and feel a clarity that was not there before and all the lies that have built up over the years around this part of your story will instantly vanish. You will realize it is the lies that have kept you in your story for all these years and that the ‘real’ you will come forward and begin to change everything around you because now that lie is not part of the story you are telling.

As don Miguel Ruiz, in the book ‘The Four Agreements” says “always be impeccable with your word.” In other words be impeccable with your story, your truth, with everything that you say. When you can master that then you will take the next step in your growth. Your life will get even better, you will be even happier, your relationships will be better, your children will benefit from it – in fact everyone will benefit from it. Most importantly, you will benefit from it.

Begin to change your story. Consciously become the artist of your life. Begin to paint a better picture, and if you like, please share it with everyone.

Have a great day. And before I leave you – here is an amazing individual with a gift unlike anything I have ever seen. Enjoy and have a great day.

Ken

...how big is the hole created by your absence?

2011-03-16T02:38:00.000-07:00

There are many spiritual lessons in just observing the landscape of nature and her wildlife. You will notice, for example, how obvious a mark a pack of elephants leave in their wake. You KNOW when an elephant has been around. You see its droppings. You stand in its footprints. You reel in the trees and bushes knocked down in its path.

Conversely, baboons leave no trace of their presence. Or at least none perceptible with the five senses. They tread lightly. They are not heavy-handed in their impact on the forest.

So my question to you this month is:

Are you an elephant or a baboon?

In other words, if you were to be plucked out of your life today, whether by alien abduction or otherwise, how big is the hole created by your absence? How much does it take to replace you? What is the legacy you leave behind?

On a simple level, you can apply this to business. Let's say three people are partners and one decides to move to another city. If the business suffers in their absence, it shows how much they added to the company.

And I don't mean who is there to replace you. In the big picture, there's always someone to fill our roles — in work, at home, with friends.

I don't ask this question to depress you or create stress. I use this question on myself, like a barometer. As I grow myself, increase the size of who I am — I take more. I need more. More knowledge, more energy, more accomplishment. I'm not satisfied with what I did before. But to balance that growth, I also need to make sure that I give more. As I expand my potential, I must also expand my value — in the world.

This question should either make you appreciate what you are doing, or make you realize you're not doing enough. It should then inspire you to consider how you can contribute more to the various aspects of your life.

Its not about how much money you make or your bottom line. We need to feel our value, and if we don't feel it is enough, that needs to motivate us to work.

Am I more valuable to this earth this year than last year?

If last year I was ME version 2.0, this year I want to be ME version 3.0. If we are not focusing on giving more, chances are we are taking.

Sometimes we have to ask the tough questions. But in asking them, we arrive at destinations that are sweeter, more fulfilling and more impactful.

Ask away!

Here is someone who is starting to make a huge imprint at a very young age. At 13 she stopped the United Nations for 5 minutes. I hope you watch it and ask yourself can I do more for our world? Can I be better today than I was yesterday? Can I make more of a difference? Will there be a hole created by my absence?

Have a great day. You deserve it.

Ken

The world is full of gifts. It's up to us to open them.

2011-02-08T04:10:00.000-08:00

Each one of us has a gift to bring into the world. It’s our responsibility to bring our gifts into the world so all can experience and benefit from the contribution we were born to give.
But we also have an obligation to help others bring their gifts into the world. I believe we often don’t realize the power we have with our words and energy, not only to motivate and inspire, but also to squash people’s dreams and keep them from soaring and fulfilling their purpose.
Can you image if Leonardo da Vinci was told ‘don’t paint?’ Or Andrea Bocelli was told ‘don’t sing? Or Alexander Graham Bell or Thomas Edison were told ‘don’t waste your time being an inventor.’ Can you imagine how this world would be different?
As leaders, as managers, as peers, as companions, even friends, our words can have a lasting impact on the people around us.

I know of an individual, whose best friend told him in grade four to stop singing because he sang so poorly. He did not sing for many, many years, only mouthed the words, for fear of embarrassment. It turns out his good-intentioned friend was the one that was tone deaf, and thanks to someone who motivated him years later to try and sing, this person not only could sing but became a lead singer in a band.
Another friend had his heart set on being a musician. By 15 he was writing music for a 60 piece drum corps. By 17 he was writing the score for his high school musical and by 18 was writing for a 13 piece dance band, and incidentally, he also played 8 instruments, some of them brilliantly. His parents were concerned because logically, in their minds, the odds of making a living in music were poor, so they convinced him, in their words, ‘to get a real job,’ and he ended his dream and wound up working many jobs for the rest of his life.
As parents, I believe we have a responsibility to support, nurture, and provide the fertile ground and confidence our kids need to experience and find the gifts they have in them and help bring them into the world. I believe that logic should enter into decision making but as a back-up to intuition and what feels like the right thing to do. It was Albert Einstein that said, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We need to be really careful and thoughtful with the guidance we give our kids. Too often our reasoning comes from logic and logic has little to do with inspiration, creativity and passion.” People who find their passion in life, not only will be driven by purpose, but their lives will take them on an amazing journey bursting with fulfillment, prosperity, abundance and happiness, so much that we can look back and feel good that we helped them find a passion and purpose-driven life. In fact we will share in their joy.

As teachers, coaches, scout leaders, and any other roles that influence our youth, we can be the catalyst to inspire people to reach for the stars.
As friends we can be ‘real friends’ and make people around us feel good about themselves and inspire them to try harder and bring their ‘real selves’ into the world. Become their’ life’ coach so to speak. It’s up to us to help others around us find their gifts and be the impetus and not the negative detractor. Heaven knows there is enough of that in this world.

A friend of mine sent me a great piece (below) about a 5 year old with a special gift. Some of you received this video too. Thank you Lori, your video inspired this blog. I appreciate your sending this out to us. Take a few minutes and see this amazing little boy.

And I hope you have an amazing, fantastically miraculous, gift-filled day.

Ken

Kyle Lograsso @ Yahoo! Video

Just get rid of it!

2010-12-14T05:02:00.000-08:00

I’ve been dealing with the clutter in my life. It is amazing how much clutter we have. It is incredible what we collect over the years. Ticket stubs, birthday cards, clothes we think we will use again, dishes we can’t seem to throw out, books that collect dust in bookcases, and then fill boxes because there are no more bookcases. My garage is so full I can only put one car in it. It’s a two car garage. It amazes me that the stuff in my garage seems more important to protect than that expensive vehicle that sits in the driveway.

Then there’s the attic. I don’t even know what’s up there. And of course, the basement. Yes there’s stuff down there too. And finally, there’s the junk room. How many of you have a junk room?

I’ve been reading about Feng Shui. Feng Shui is all about creating a living space that allows positive energy to flow freely. Practitioners of Fung Shui believe that what you see on the outside, in your homes and in your offices is in fact a reflection of what is on the inside. And if you want to blame all this stuff that clogs up your home on other people, remember that you attract those people into in your life so take responsibility. It’s yours.

Donald Trump believes so strongly with Feng Shui that he used it for his living quarters and offices when he started back after losing his first billion dollars. And of course we know the result of this.

Even if you don’t believe in Feng Shui, clutter has a huge impact on your life. It drains your energy. Effects your ability to be organized and more efficient. And I have to believe if you take a % of your house that is devoted to things that you don’t use anymore, you probably would be pretty surprised just how much space it takes.

I met a wonderful woman recently who told me she sold everything she owned, bought a small home and now is mortgage free, debt free and feels like a huge weight has been taken off her shoulders. The freedom she feels from shedding all these things has transformed her. She can now do whatever she wants, when she wants how she wants and no matter what difficulties come her way, she can easily handle them. Doesn’t that sound liberating.

Her goal now is to enjoy life and bring on new experiences. It is nothing to do with collecting stuff, getting a bigger car, and so on. She is free. She is happy. She is open to whatever opportunity presents itself and she can easily accomplish it.
And just think about your stuff for a minute and how useful it would be if you gave it to other people to use...or donated all your old books to a library, or gave your old magazines to a long term care home.
Let’s get unstuck.

Life is a wave of transformations. It’s about clearing out so we can have room for more. More growth, more experiences, more abundance and more happiness.
It’s about taking risks and letting go what we think is our security and understanding that happiness comes from freeing ourselves of the things that block our energy, about holding onto too much of the stuff that represents our past, our not-so-good memories. That’s not to say we shouldn’t have some memories, but maybe we hold onto too much.

Free yourself. Find the energy. It’s in us but for some it is buried beneath stuff, both physical and emotional stuff. Do the physical and you will be surprised the amount of emotional bloodletting that happens.
Begin today and free yourself from physical, mental, emotional and spiritual clutter.

On a different note, there are many sources that promote formulas. Formulas for success. Formulas for wealth. Formulas for happiness. The list goes on. Here are three gents from Australia with a humorous formula for creating a hit song. Enjoy.

Have a great uncluttered day.
Ken

The Power of One

2010-07-30T05:07:00.000-07:00

Picture for one moment, sitting in a stadium with 100,000 people. There’s a black-out and the entire city is thrust into complete darkness. Everyone in the stadium has a candle but no light, except for one person. One person has a lit candle. Everyone else is sitting in the dark. He or she can withhold the light. He or she might do this because they are afraid of losing their light. Or through an act of giving they can choose to share the light by lighting other candles and as other people share the light they receive, the stadium begins to light up and before you know it everyone’s candle is lit.

Everyone can see and the light from the original candle has not been diminished in any way.

In fact the person who gave the original light is now benefiting hundreds fold or even thousands fold because they can see so much better and so much further and all they gave was their original light.

This demonstrates the power one individual can have on our world. This demonstrates the law of giving. Religions often talk about the law of tithing, and even the Bible points out that the return from tithing, of giving 10%, is at least ten-fold, and even greater.

Giving comes in many different forms. Giving of your time, sharing a smile, making someone feel good about themselves, giving guidance to help someone accomplish something, giving a listening ear to a person with a problem, giving time and effort on a project that will be good for the team and the company, giving expertise or time or effort to make a difference, giving of your time and effort to change something that needs changing in your company and how people perceive it because it is the right thing to do. Giving comes in so many different ways.

Whenever you give, you feel good. But it is the hardest ‘giving’ that gives you the greatest rewards. When it is the hardest because maybe you don’t have the time, or don’t have the heart or don’t have the money, or whatever it is that makes giving truly difficult, that is the giving that will give you the greatest rewards, the greatest personal growth and provide the greatest benefit.

If everyone did one act of giving today, think of how many people you would touch and think of how they might respond to other people and make their day a little brighter. As with the candle, giving does not diminish your light. In fact it makes it brighter.

I think it is an old Chinese proverb that says if every person went outside and cleaned the front of their house everyday and the street in front of their house every day, we would live in a completely pristine world and all of this would be accomplished by one little unselfish act at a time. Collectively the power of one would have the capacity to transform our world.

I hope you go out and do one act of giving today. The Power of One can accomplish so much when the power is focused on making a contribution without any strings attached or any need for recognition, just an act of unselfish giving to make a difference.

This month’s video is a short conversation with Dr. Michael Beckwith on what we can do, in fact how, even in a small way; we can contribute to our world. Enjoy.

Have a great, fulfilling, giving and miraculous day.

Ken

Are you living in a toxic environment?

2010-06-30T18:01:00.000-07:00

Lately, I have been working in a toxic environment. Almost everyone hates their job. They hate the hours they work. They hate the conditions they work in. They don’t like the equipment they use, the offices they work in or the feeling of the place. They don’t like the way they are treated. They don’t like the people that run the company. They don’t like how they are paid. They don’t like…they don’t like….they don’t like…you get the point. And it just keeps spiraling downward.

This is an environment doomed to fail. Work doesn’t get done right because nobody cares. No-one does anything more than they have to. They complain to anyone that will listen. That includes each other, their friends and families, vendors, suppliers, and most troubling, their customers. The energy is toxic. Negative energy is low energy. It has an edge to it that feels bad and it brings everyone down that comes into contact with it. It creates confrontation, indifference, back biting, destructive activities, and breaks the company apart. It impacts productivity, cooperation, sharing, respect, harmony, growth, profitability, success, and even people’s health. People become defensive, distrustful and build barriers to protect themselves to the detriment of everyone else, the company and their contribution to the company.

Is there anything positive about it? Yes. If you work in an environment like this it has huge benefits for you. We are here on this planet to grow, to improve, and to make a difference. The more difficult the environment, the greater the opportunity along with challenge, to find the positive, and the greater the opportunity to grow and evolve. If you are in an environment that even remotely resembles this, take the initiative, create a difference and bring positivity into the organization, positivity in a way that is not judgmental, not accusatory and not confrontational. That is the trick. And difficult though it may be, the greatest gains are made in difficult situations.

You can’t change people that do not want to change. But you can start by being the change – as Mahatma Gandi said. It starts with you, your attitude, your behavior and your thoughts. Guard your words, see the good in where you are, the good in the people you are dealing with and find the higher purpose in what you do. Begin to demonstrate passion toward everything and everyone in your day. And little by little you will change and you will see them change. As the soothsayers and Kabbalists say, ‘bring the light into the world’ and in the process you will have a positive impact on everything and everyone in your day. Your positive energy will be far reaching. YOU WILL BEGIN TO CHANGE. YOU WILL CHANGE EVERYONE THAT COMES INTO YOUR SPHERE OF BEING and all will appreciate your contribution. And eventually, you may see change in people around you, or an opportunity may present itself for something better.

I would love to see someone take the challenge and begin to turn a negative organization into a culture that promotes cooperation, sharing, respect and harmony. I would be the first in line to help and together we would make a difference.

Have a great day.

Ken

The Power of your Beliefs.

2010-04-07T06:05:00.000-07:00

What are your beliefs? How do you see yourself? Do you ever wonder why some people always have bad things happen to them while others seem to lead a life as if there is a silver spoon in their mouth? Why is it that Donald Trump can become a billionaire, lose it all, and then become a billionaire again?

Here is a great interview with Dr. Bruce Lipton, Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Lipton is a distinguished Professor of Medicine and cell-biologist whose research has opened new doors and started to change our thinking on the power of belief and how it impacts everything. Everything we are, everything we do including our health. Give it a watch. It may change how you see yourself.

As Bruce pointed out, this is more than the power of positive thinking. This is profound change at the core of who you are. This is change at a level where our energy, or as quantum physicists would say, our frequency of vibration, resonates at a level where we can change our lives, our relationships, how teams work together, the environment at our places of work, and the degree of success that we enjoy.

There are techniques that can help people get there. EFT is one technique that is connected to this interview – there are many more. The first step is to take ownership of your personal development. Take the time to begin to change and I guarantee if you take that step, you will begin to see and feel a change in you and as you transform you will begin a path of Mastery that will make your life even better than it is now and give you a sense of who you are, what you want out of life and how to get it.

I wish you a glorious day and until next month, take care.

Ken

The Olympics, then...now...and the Edge.

2010-02-28T11:26:00.000-08:00

Thousands of years ago, armies put down their weapons, battles and wars were put on hold, so everyone could attend the Olympics in Greece. It was a celebration of athletic excellence and greatness that we still honour today. Athletes have always been searching for an edge that will help them be triumphant. In Greece, one such athlete lost his garment in a race and won. All the athletes thought he had an advantage over the rest of them, so they took off their clothes and competed naked. From that point on all athletes competed naked at the games. I can’t imagine competing in the nude and the thought of being in the audience – well, not something I can imagine either.

Today’s athletes use all the tools from science, diet, how they train, and their equipment to maximize their performance in their sport. “Own the Podium,” a program the Canadian Olympic team implemented for this Olympics has been a huge success and included the use of sports psychology for all the athletes.

You may have noticed skiers performing their visualization of the course and their run just before their actual run.

The Americans first started using this in the 80s. NASA had been using a technique for years called Visual Motor Rehearsal. The U.S. Olympic team hired Dr. Denis Waitley to teach athletes the power of Visual Motor Rehearsal. Here are the observations from Dr. Waitley. “Using this program, Olympic athletes ran their event –but only in their mind. They visualized how they looked and felt when they were actually participating in their event.

The athletes were then hooked up to a sophisticated biofeedback machine, and its results told the real story about the value of visualization. The neural transmitters that fired were the same that actually fired the muscles in the same sequence as when they were actually running on the track!

This proved that the mind can’t tell the difference between whether you’re really doing something or whether it’s just a visual practice. Dr. Waitley says, “If you’ve been there in the mind you’ll go there in the body.'

Visualization is a powerful tool that most people accept as part of an ongoing athletic conditioning program. Most professional athletes use it on a daily basis. Most sports psychologists teach their clients the value of creative visualization. Most Olympians, golfers, football players, soccer players, even hockey players us it before major contests. Why? Because it works – proven over and over to have significant impact on an athlete’s performance.

I ask you then, if it is such a powerful tool for athletes, why don’t we use it and benefit from it in conditioning our minds for success.

Recent research (Taylor 1995) has focused on the effectiveness of imagery as an important self-regulating skill – ie the ability to set goals, plan and solve problems, regulate arousal and anxiety, manage emotions effectively.) The key is to program your mind and emotions for success, and to make your imagery as vivid, realistic and detailed as possible. When you vividly imagine yourself accomplishing a plan your central nervous system becomes programmed for success. It’s as if the activity you have visualized has already happened.

Imagery can also be used for relaxation or to improve interpersonal communication skills – visualize yourself asking someone a difficult question, asserting needs to a boss, or when recovering from an injury – direct healing thoughts to an injured part of the body – and there is enough anecdotal evidence to show that actual healing results. Chronic patients use it for pain management.

What we have discovered is that the imagery must get as close to real as possible in terms of thoughts, emotions, the feelings, senses and actions. You must feel yourself moving, hear the sounds, smell the smells and create the feeling in your visualizations. It may seem foreign at first, because this part of our brain has atrophied. But with practice your visualizations will become more powerful.

So the next time you want an edge, think of using visualization.

Until next time, enjoy the celebration of the moment, enjoy this short video on visualization and have a great day.

Ken

Why must we do the dishes?

2010-01-13T10:45:00.000-08:00

Procrastination is like doing the dishes. The longer you take to wash the dishes, the harder it is to get the food off?

Most of us at one time or another have procrastinated. And like washing the dishes, the more we procrastinate on things, the more the sink fills, the larger the pile, the greater the stress and the harder it takes to tackle all the work.

Take a look at your in-basket. Is it full? Are there items that have been there for too long? Have you put some piles aside to get to later and later never comes? Does the pile keep getting bigger and bigger?

Time management consultants will tell you the best system of handling your in-basket is to only touch things once. They will tell you there are only 1 of 3 ways everything should be handled.

1.) Act on it immediately.

2.) Put in a file to be read later. (plan on reading this pile daily)

3.) Throw it in the garbage.

I guess you could handle your inbox in your email, in the same way. A study done by Queen’s University in Canada, a few years back discovered that the average business executive spends one day a week (8 hours) handling emails and mail in their in-basket, most of which is non-actionable. That’s 20% of your time in a week, and it may be even worse thanks to today's Blackberry and iPhones.

And procrastination only makes matters worse. I am finding that people are taking much longer to get back to me, or to make decisions, or to move some of their projects forward. They tell me they are so swamped, there are not enough hours, they can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, and the pendulum of balance has shifted so far to work, that entertaining personal hobbies or quality family time is just out of the question. And they seem to be so buried in paper, systems, procedures, and detail that does little to make a significant contribution.

PLUS - Procrastination can keep us from our greatness. As the saying goes – and I don’t know who to attribute the credit to it, “Boldness has genius power and magic in it.” We all have gifts to share in this world. We all have something to contribute. We often are holding back the success of something that could make a difference in our lives, in other people’s lives and even our world, but we are reluctant for a myriad of reasons, and so we procrastinate, even to the point that the “window of opportunity” closes, or someone else finally does it. We are reluctant to follow our intuition. We are afraid of being bold and taking action. I love one of Albert Einstein’s quotes – and it seems even more relevant today than when he wrote it many years ago.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift

and the rational mind is a faithful servant.

We have created a society that honors

the servant and has forgotten the gift.

— Albert Einstein

So the next time you are thinking of procrastinating on something, remember there is a good reason to wash the dishes immediately.

Have a great, stress-releasing, mind changing, transformational day.

And before I forget, I usually like to end with a video of some sort. Here is an amazing 3 minutes by the BBC that makes you realize how incredible our universe is and the wonder and miraculous joy there is everywhere. As usual, sit back, turn on your speakers and enjoy.

Ken

Inspiration versus motivation versus perspiration.

2009-11-12T10:43:00.000-08:00

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." Nelson Mandela

Great leaders, and Nelson Mandela falls into this category, understand that when an individual understands with their head, they must be continually motivated to behave in the manner the leader wants. This person requires constant motivation to think, feel and act in the right way. Whereas if you reach the heart, an individual’s actions come from a place of inspiration, from within and inspiration does not require motivation. A true leader understands this and when a group of inspired people operate from the right level within a company, growth, creativity, maximum efficiency, peak performance, superb customer service, and so on-and-so forth become instinctive - become the personality of the company and running an organization like this becomes easier, less stressful, less challenging, and just plain fun.

Motivation is an overused tactic that we have grown too accustomed to using in our world, I guess because it is an easy tactic to implement, it is measurable, its’ cost is quantifiable, it’s ROI is calculable and the results are predictable.

But motivation comes from an exterior trigger -through reward, or recognition, or even fear, or penalty. People will be motivated and behave appropriately; however, motivation only succeeds in accomplishing what you asked for. People will do no more. And motivation requires continual promotion and even continual change and improvement – more – more - more. What motivates today will not work tomorrow. If it was $5 today, will it be $7.50 tomorrow and $10 the next day.

Inspiration requires no improvement. Inspiration requires no motivation. You are inspired – period – or not. When people are inspired they work with intention and a sense of “purpose” where actions are positive, people are passionate, creative and driven and this energy is contagious. Their intention is inclusive, caring, sharing and empowering. There is no place for competition, politics, greed, ego or any fear-based feelings and behaviours that push people away and compromise success.

People that are inspired are open, authentic, respectful, sharing and cooperate as a group for the attainment of their mutual goals.

A company with inspired people attracts other good people, attracts good customers or clients and attracts vendors that work to help instead of just delivering a product.

And that old saying that success comes from inspiration, motivation and perspiration? Inspired people require less perspiration because quite frankly the work from inspired people doesn’t feel like work to them.

If you look at companies with the fastest growth, and the strength to maintain their position indefinitely, you often will find a company with a team of inspired executives and a culture that supports this.

Google is one example that many hold up as a model culture for today’s progressive companies. lululemon, MacDonald’s back in the Ray Kroc days, Richard Branson who believes in creating companies that fill a need, hiring good people to run them and then letting them run them. General Electric under Jack Welch; Steve Jobs at Apple; John Chambers at Cisco; Steve Ballmer at Microsoft.

Inspiration begets inspired creative thinking, begets passionate purposeful action begets brilliant innovation begets large leaps in progress – and it’s a circle that just keeps going.

You know when you are in the presence of inspiration. If you have ever had the pleasure of walking into a church that was designed and built in the 1400’s, 1500’s or 1600’s you can sense, see and feel inspiration. The same can be said with poetry, writing, music, a great painting and, of course great people who are inspired and aligned with their higher self. It’s genuine and you just know it.

I had a few of you comment on a group of Norwegian lads that sang in a blog I posted a few months ago. Here is a song from them with an arrangement that is truly inspired. It is a well-known U2 song but after you listen, you will hopefully agree with me. They are inspired. They have made it their own song.

Turn up the speakers, sit back, let go of the stresses of the day, relax and enjoy.

Have a great, glorious and inspired day.

Ken

The quality of your tools can mean the difference between success and failure.

2009-10-14T03:14:00.000-07:00

I was golfing with my in-laws one beautiful day this past summer, and my Mother-in-law kept harping on me – “try George’s driver---try George’s wedge---try George’s five iron---and so on.” So finally I relented on a short par 4, asked for his driver and proceeded to blast the longest drive I had ever made. It was beautiful to watch. It kept climbing and climbing and climbing and went completely over the green. Wow! I knew that new clubs were better---the sweet spot was larger---and your accuracy was better but I had never experienced it myself. I can only imagine the difference the quality of equipment could mean between winning and losing at the professional level.

Then I started to think of the importance the quality of tools can have in business, especially when the margin between success and failure is razor thin. Tools that improve efficiency and productivity are easy to understand, but the less tangible tools that create impressions can still mean the difference between getting new business or not, or getting the fees or prices we set or not or getting approval or not.

I just recently started using a new LCD projector. It’s an Epson PowerLite projector. I need a fairly versatile projector because I can find myself in large and small rooms, in front of large and small crowds, I fly a lot, and since one of the courses I teach is presentation skills, my equipment better be right up there with the best. I noticed immediately that the colours on my laptop were the same as the colours being projected on the screen. I had never seen colour accuracy like this before. And the picture quality was amazing. An added bonus with this model is that I did not have to travel with my laptop – this projector works with my memory stick or even via the internet – and it makes life just a little bit easier. I wondered how this projection of quality could impact on the perception, albeit subtle, of quality on my business. I have to believe there is a co-relation.

People form opinions of you quickly, and connecting with the right impression is what it is all about. Project your self image in a way that breeds confidence in others; a perception of being the authority in your area, and more times than not, you win. And even though first impressions are not always correct, they are the ones that stick in people’s minds until corrected. What is the image that you have of yourself? What kind of image do you think you project?

There are 7 observable behaviours that help people form their impression of you and when you are aware of and control these 7 behavious, you create the impression you want, purposefully and this can mean the difference between success and failure.

Here are the 7 observable behaviours, in no particular order, that create those impressions:

1.) DRESS & GROOMING - Your dress should be credible and appropriate. Think about the impression you are trying to create and dress accordingly. If you are trying to create the impression of a leader or an authority, dress “one up” from the person(s) you are meeting.

2.) STANCE / POSTURE Posture should be upright, not round shouldered, like you “own” the place where you are standing. Stand tall and confident, like you’ve just won the lottery. Look like you want to be there. Stance does so much for your presence.

3.) GESTURES They should be fluid, smooth and not repetitive. WATCH FOR ANYTHING THAT SUGGESTS YOU ARE INSECURE. Should be more expressive. Gestures done poorly can give the impression of being unsure.

4.) MOVEMENT Should be fluid, confident, purposeful. Movement can give the impression of being in control, relaxed and confident. The happy wanderer can make you appear unsure and nervous.

5.) VOICE – VOCAL VARIETY Should project an air of confidence, filling the room. Voice should be full sounding, and be commanding and compelling. Watch for filler words such as ums, ahs, you knows, like, and other repetitive phrases that add no meaning to what you are saying. Remember that pausing also adds to the impression you are creating.

6.) FACIAL EXPRESSION & EYE CONTACT Your face should say “I am interested”, even excited. Direct eye contact is one of the most important tools to connect with the other person. Watch for the feeling of nervousness. Don’t try too hard. Your ability to look someone in the eye as you speak to them is a tell tale sign of our own self-respect. It’s not only a display of confidence, it is a DISPLAY OF TRUTH AND A DISPLAY OF RESPECT for the other person.

7.) WORDS & LANGUAGE. How personal or impersonal your language is has a direct bearing on connecting with the other person and creating the right impression. Your language should be appropriate, educated, decisive, certain. There should be directness in your speech; your tone and your words.

You can control these “tools” and create the right impression with the people you do business with. And the quality of everything else serves to enhance that image right down to the picture quality of the presentations you make.

Take a look at yourself in a mirror. What type of impression do you think you make when you meet people? Can you improve it in any way and increase your chances for success, and professionally with your career?

People, rightly or wrongly, form opinions and judgments quickly. Help them make the right decision. If you feel like a success, look like a success and act like a success, then …..by golly….you will be a success.

And the next time my Mother-in-law says “Try George’s 5 iron," I’ll quickly say – "Dad, please pass me your 5 iron.”

Have a great day.

Ken

Let's create a dynasty!

2009-09-13T03:25:00.000-07:00

It was spring in 1956. Bill Russell, an NBA Hall-of-Famer, was signing with the Boston Celtics of the NBA. Red Auberach, the coach looked at Bill and said, “If you focus on helping your team mates, elevating their game, finding the open man with the best shot, then I will never care how many points you make in a game, when it comes time to re-negotiate your contract. If you just focus on yourself, at the expense of your team mates, then that will change how we approach your contract. The choice is yours.”

This was the entire focus of that team. It was one of camaraderie, cooperation, sharing and respect. The older players shared information with the younger players, information that would help them with the teams they would play. They cooperated and helped each other on the floor, respected one another for what they brought to the game and respected each other as human beings. They even liked each other.

From 1957 to 1969 the Celtics won 11 NBA titles, a span of 13 years: a dynasty that has not been surpassed or even approached in the NBA. And during that span, they only let one player go.

This is a perfect example of a team culture that fosters success. The positive energy of a vision – in this case to win – combined with a personal sense of purpose by each member, wrapped in cooperation, sharing, respect and harmony.

We see examples of this in the sports world all the time, but for some reason, we find it difficult to apply these principles to our everyday lives and in our businesses. We get too focused on looking out for ourselves, trying to get our fair share, protecting our own turf, or the dynamics of politics and competition creep into the fabric of our team culture.

We spend more time judging individuals, being critical of one another, controlling and getting our own way and creating an energy that pushes people away, puts up barriers to success, and fosters negativity instead of the attractive, inspiring and imaginative feelings that come from positive interaction.

Success is amplified by the creation of a group that likes one another, that cooperates, shares responsibility, shares ideas, and understands that the success of the team means everyone wins.

Teams that approach a project with this energy can work magic. Out of this harmonious blending, the minds connect in a positive energy, and draw upon creativity, imagination, inquisitiveness, cooperation and respect. Almost anything is possible and this is how great leaders impact on the teams in their company and create success in gigantic leaps and bounds. On top of this they are fun to be part of, stimulating your thinking in addition to being very inspiring and motivating.

It is the organized knowledge of the group, expressed through intelligent effort that creates the success. The individuals in the group engage in an effort that coordinates their knowledge and energy in a spirit of harmony. Lack of this harmonious coordination of effort is one of the main reasons for practically every business failure.

It is the collective intelligence, effort, passion, and knowingness to succeed that creates success. Success is not a solo project. It needs to be shared. There’s plenty to go around. You have to work with a team that shares the same dream or objective. A team is part of your lever. It makes success quicker and easier. It’s all about synergy. There is an incredible power when people work together.

Associating with like-minded, success-oriented, joyful individuals – a Dream Team – is one of the most exhilarating feelings and an amazing tool to achieve success.

Anyone can create a dream team. Look around. Think about something you want to accomplish and then approach the people you think would make a positive contribution towards achieving that goal. Help members work together in an effort that combines their personal sense of purpose, with cooperation, sharing, respect and harmony. Then watch as your success begins to materialize. And who knows, you may begin to build a business dynasty and your business and your career will take off.

Teams are like musical groups where everyone has their own part to play, and when they master their own role, and work in harmony, the resulting collective effort is a piece of music that is magic to the ears.

Much like these four young chaps from Norway who are playing a Leonard Cohen piece that was in Shrek 2. Turn up the speakers, sit back and enjoy and most of all,............ have a great day!

Ken

"If they had listened can you imagine our world today."

2009-08-17T04:30:00.000-07:00

“But what is it good for? Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM commenting on the microchip in 1968.

“We don’t like your sound and guitar music is on the way out.” Decca Records rejecting the Beatles in 1962.

“This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” Western Union internal memo in 1876.

“Hey we’ve got this amazing thing, even built it with some of your parts, and what do you think of funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary and we’ll come work for you.” And they said, “Hey we don’t need you. You haven’t even finished college yet.” Hewlett Packard rejecting Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, founder of Apple Computer about their idea of a personal computer.

“You will go broke trying to run a store on five and ten cent sales.” People trying to convince F.W. Woolworth not to go ahead with his plans for Woolworths Five and Dime.

Vision takes guts. Positive living takes discipline. Negativity is everywhere. There is no legal protection against those who, either by design or ignorance, poison the minds of others by negative suggestion.

Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich once said, “ This form of destruction should be punishable by heavy legal penalties because it may and often does destroy one’s chances of acquiring material things through their success.”

People with negative minds tried to convince Thomas Edison that he could not build a machine that could record and reproduce the human voice. “Because” they said, “no one else has ever produced such a machine.” Thomas Edison knew that the mind could produce anything the mind could conceive and believe, and that knowledge was the thing that lifted him above everyone else.

Doubting Thomas’s scoffed when Henry Ford tried out his first crude built automobile on the streets of Detroit. Some said the thing would never become practical. Others said no one would pay money for such a contraption. Ford said, “I’ll belt the earth with dependable cars,” and he did. His decision to trust his own judgment piled up a fortune for generations to come.

Protect your mind. Be guarded with your thinking. Positive thinking begets positive feelings begets positive actions, begets positive circumstances, begets positive opportunities, and so on and so on. This is a discipline that many of us find hard to do because there is negativity and doubting Thomas’s all around us. Negativity is toxic. It squelches great thinking. And mediocrity will attack brilliant thinking every time.

People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be airtight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement. You know…the list of “If onlys…..

It’s time you stopped listening to the conditioning you grew up with. It’s time you stopped listening to the world around you and realized just how perfect, how ingenious, how creative, and how fantastic you are. It’s time to realize that you can accomplish anything you set your mind to, and with vision, passion, and of course, a plan, you can succeed at anything you put your mind to.

You are an amazing human being. You are here to accomplish great things. You are here to grow, to be inspired, to create and to be happy, joyful, and prosperous beyond your wildest dreams. When you decide to change your thinking and picture your reality as you dream it and find the passion that sets your mind on fire, then your soul will shine, the nay-sayers will have no impact on you and you will create wondrous things and help multitudes of people and feel fulfilled, satisfied and alive.

Have a great day.

Ken

What does Bob Doyle have to do with fishing?

2009-03-22T03:55:00.000-07:00

It often amazes me how small we think. The universe is constantly presenting us with a smorgasbord of lasting fulfillment, yet we tend to settle for scraps.

There is a story of a man who goes fishing. After he catches the fish, he measures it up against a ruler and if it's bigger than the ruler, he throws it back. By the end of the day he has thrown back quite a few, and a fellow fisherman asks him why. He explains, "The pot I use to cook the fish is only 12 inches wide. I have no use for the bigger fish."

Life wants to give us everything, but, when we're stuck with our small desires, it's like we are throwing it away.

Today, rethink what it is you want out of life. Expand your desires. Imagine that you can do or have anything and allow yourself the courage to go for it. Yahuda Berg

Bob Doyle's name might sound familiar to you, it might because he was one of the teachers from "The Secret" and he's well known around the personal development community for his expertise in the Law of Attraction.

Here’s a brief video to help you think about a bigger pot to cook your fish in. It's a re-iteration on the principles to expand your thinking and create a life where your attraction to everything is limitless, eternally expanding, positively energetic, contagiously prosperous and gloriously enriching.

Have an amazing day.

Ken

"Be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi

2009-03-01T08:23:00.000-08:00

I believe these are among the most powerful words ever spoken.

Before we proceed with our session this week, I would like you to view this clip that wasn’t in the movie ‘The Secret.’ It was edited out – for whatever reason – and I guess left on the editing room floor. It’s now a secret I guess, because they did not include it in The Secret.

For those of you who have never seen The Secret, I recommend it – it is inspiring, uplifting and has been one of the most talked about and viewed movies around the globe the last couple of years that never hit a theatre or television screen.

We’ve talked about this before. Whatever you focus on expands into your reality. Whatever your thoughts, you attract more of the same thoughts, and situations, people, behaviours and events that support your thinking. Like energy attracts like energy.

There is no question about this anymore. It is a proven scientific fact. It is being tested over and over and over and over and over by our leading edge quantum physicists in Universities all over the world. Now is the time to harness the power you have in you.

Now is not the time to sit idly by and add to the energy that the people of this world are generating right now.

History shows that change – truly significant change – comes from individuals with a vision, with the right tools and the commitment to make things happen and create something new that changes the course. Be the catalyst to the change you want to see in your life, in your home and in your business world. Let’s begin to make the change now.

There is a woman whose name is Deborah Powell. She is the Principal of a school in our area - my daughter went there. She has a vision about creating the right environment for kids, an environment where kids want to learn. Her vision is all about creating a culture of cooperation, sharing, respect and harmony.

This is in an environment – our school system today – where bullying has become rampant. Where bullying that disguises itself in many forms, such as teasing, name-calling, sarcasm, making people feel like they don’t belong in the group, not letting people play with them, laughing at their clothes, or their hair, or their speech, or their work, racism, sexism, machoism, ageism, genderism – the list goes on, - but all this behaviour tears people down, hurts them, makes them feel less than they are and creates feelings that push people away instead of pulling them together as a team. All of this generates a feeling of negativity.

Deborah has created a school where kids respect one another, help one another, feel good about themselves and you can tell as soon as you walk in the doors there is happiness and joy in the halls of this school. People feel good about coming here every day.

She changes behaviour by telling people over and over about her vision. She tells them every moment she can, every day and even in formal assemblies every week. She tells them what is acceptable behaviour and what is not and she rewards good behaviour and penalizes bad behaviour. She has made it clear that there is zero tolerance for bullying. And when there is any bullying behaviour, she stops it dead in its track. Deals with it swiftly, even calls in the parent when necessary and tells the student and the parents that the behaviour will not be tolerated and if it continues they will be suspended from school and lose privileges, including bussing which has an impact on the parents too. The changes have been remarkable, and our daughter excelled in this environment.

Deborah is the catalyst. She is the change she wants to see. And her world and everyone in her world is benefitting form it.

So this week, look at yourself. Be bold. Take the step. Change how you see your world. Look at how you can help people around you. If you are a leader, of a group, a team, a department, a division, a company, take the steps to change what you see. Create an environment that pulls people together. Where a sense of purpose, cooperation, sharing, respect and harmony begins to change the old energy of crisis, conflict, competition and scarcity – energy that needs to change in our world.

And finally think about this. There are three groups of people in this world. The first group makes things happen. The second group sits there and says ‘it can’t happen and the third wakes up one day and says ‘what happened?’ Let's get ourselves into this first group.

Have a great week.

Ken

Transformation in 21 days.

2009-02-15T06:04:00.000-08:00

Lose 20 lbs in 20 days. Create wealth in 30 days. You can have beautiful abs in 7 days. We hear these promises all the time. We have become addicts of the “instant” gratification syndrome. We expect results from everything immediately.

Well, here’s a promise to you to transform yourself in 21 days – all you need is to get a bracelet and follow the instructions in this week’s blog.

In one of the courses I teach, I give all the participants a bracelet (my apologies for not giving you one, but the mechanics and size of this blog makes this impractical.) Attached to each bracelet is a piece of paper that reads as follows:

Positive Vibration Transformation Bracelet

This bracelet has the power to create joy, happiness, and bring everything positive into your life. Psychologists have long known that it takes 21 days of consistency to change any behaviour. If you can create positive energy in every thought, every comment and every action for 21 days you will begin a new behaviour, a new approach, a new way of dealing with life in a more positive way.

Wear this bracelet for 21 days and consistently think and hold positive, non-judgemental thoughts, comments and feelings. If you think or express any negative thought, don’t worry, put the bracelet on the other wrist and start again. Keep this up until you complete 21 days. It will transform your life.

The principles of the discipline behind the bracelet are solid, well accepted psychological truths. We now know that behaviours create neuro-passageways in your brain. Like a road map, a behaviour always follows the same neuro-passageway. Over time, the passageway gets a little stronger every time you exhibit that behaviour.

For example, if your significant other pushes a button, your reaction is immediate, it is the same every time because you have gone down that familiar passageway a thousand times and it gets stronger every time. They have learned, through testing, that in order to form a new passageway, and make it more familiar, you need to exhibit the new behaviour for 21 days and create a new neuro-passageway with enough familiarity that the old one closes off and the new one becomes the pattern.

So if you want to break the habit of negative thinking, or making judgments on the world, or people, or just discover how much of this comes to the surface, get yourself an inexpensive bracelet and try this exercise. Most of my participants tell me that they become shocked at how negative they are – that they were completely unaware of their negative attitudes towards many things and they feel a release; they feel lighter, an increase in energy and a whole lot more happiness and joy, all as a result of this bracelet exercise.

Try it out. Let me know. Pass it on. Discover that the negative energy in you and in the world can be tamed. And the reverse – what is our true selves – is positive, attractive, loving energy that will change – make that transform – you and your world into the loving, prosperous, exciting and stress-free world you deserve.

Have a great day.

Ken

Here's a short video - actually a commercial - that inspires. Have a great day.

The recipe for success is like baking a cake

2009-02-01T03:49:00.000-08:00

While I was going to school many, many years ago, looking for ways of making money to further my education, I found myself, one night, sitting on the edge of my seat in an auditorium, with three hundred people, hanging on every word being delivered by a man up on stage telling us about baking a cake. You could feel the room become energized and it all radiated from this young man of 30 or so; this amazing energy that was his presence as he passionately told us his story.

He showed me the power of being inspired and driven by purpose. He showed me how any disabilities you may have mean nothing when your passion for something shines through. This man was short, fat, with an odd looking face, and ruffled hair and he had a hair-lip (the proper term is cleft lip and palate), so he talked in a very peculiar and that very distinct hair-lip way. All of these “physical deficiencies” seemed to disappear as we listened to him inspire us and told us this story about how the recipe for success is like baking a cake.

You see, he said, you could get all the finest ingredients in the world to bake a cake; the finest flour, the best tasting chocolate, the freshest eggs and creamiest whipping cream and put it all together and then at the last minute put in a cup of sand, and that cup of sand would destroy that cake. No matter how good everything else was, the sand would make the cake inedible. And then he proceed to tell us, it didn’t matter if we put in a cup of sand, a bucket of sand or just a table spoon of sand, the cake would not be ruined any more or any less. The result would be the same.

Then he said, our negative thinking was like that sand. We could put all the positive intentions, the best ideas, the most creative ways of doing things, the best conviction and resources together and if we had any negative thoughts about our success, any feelings of lack, limitation, danger, difficulty, fear or any other troubled feeling, our success would be choked off.

Because it has nothing to do with the amount of negative thinking. It has everything to do with any negative thinking. That is why it is so important to clear yourself of any self-doubts and move forward with feelings of pure positive intention, confidence, a sense of knowing your success and when you are aligned with a sense of purpose and inspired to create something that makes a difference in this world and put behind this the pure empowering energy that flows from this focus, then you will attract limitless possibilities and be guided and receive the tools, the assistance, the resources, the situations, and the people to bring this into your reality.

But it all starts with getting clear. Of eliminating self-sabotaging and limiting beliefs. That is why the exercises that we talked about in earlier sessions are so important. That is why a daily discipline of meditation and visualization are so crucial to a path of growth, prosperity and personal mastery. So many people know this in their minds and then find every excuse to keep from doing it. And then they can continue to tell their story of lack to everyone who will listen, of why they are not succeeding in life and they will create all the dramas and situations that support their story.

Like the Chinese say, a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. And then it is just a question of putting one foot in front of the other, and then before you know it, you have walked your first mile, and then your tenth mile and then your fiftieth mile. Life is about the journey. It has nothing to do with the finish line. You never get it done, and you never get it wrong, it’s just about moving forward.

If you haven’t started a daily practice of meditation and visualizing, I strongly recommend you do – just 5 minutes a day – in the same place and at the same time every day. And then you will find 5 minutes will become 10, and then 20, and who knows where you will get to, but I know this, you will find the journey gets easier, and that you will be wanting and looking forward to your next session, when you begin to see the benefits and the progress you will make.

If you want to combine this with some of the emotional clearing techniques we talked about earlier, it will be like super-charging your daily regimen. And as you move forward you will realize that you are a limitless, all powerful, an all knowing soul capable of amazing things – in fact capable of anything you can imagine, and you will feel energized, balanced, joyful, at peace and people will be attracted to the presence you emanate and you will begin to change your life and the lives of people around you.

I wish you all the best. You are a great soul. Have a great day.

Ken

Here's a video to inspire your day. Turn up your speakers and enjoy.

Bill Gates used this and look what he created!

2009-01-18T05:33:00.001-08:00

I have been reading a book that apparently Bill Gates read while he was sleeping in his office because he couldn’t afford a place to live. It was originally written in 1922, called The Master Key System, by Charles F. Haanel.

It doesn’t matter when “truth” is written; it always rings true. The core principles in the book cover everything we have been talking about. One of the keys, in The Master Key System is the “Law of Attraction.” This is a law that has received a lot of press through the movie “The Secret” that was launched a couple of years ago and was even promoted on Oprah.

Little known to only a few of us, is that the foundation to the message in the movie The Secret came from a woman called Esther Hicks through the Teachings of Abraham. Esther’s work was the foundation of everything in this movie. There were only a limited number of copies released with Esther in it before she was edited out because she would not sign over her intellectual property to Channel Nine in Australia, the producers of the Secret.

I thought it would be worth watching Esther today – she is very inspiring and brings wisdom to us about this very important law. She also takes it to a depth not covered in the movie. I must first explain a few things about Esther and the Teachings of Abraham. This may be the first time many of you have seen/heard of a “channeled non-physical entity.” I hope you can be open to this, but if not, I understand. There have been many recorded channeling’s over the years. Seth was famous in the seventies. Ramtha and Veronica are two others today. There are many more. They all seem to bring the same wisdom.

Here is what is important – the wisdom you will hear. Not that it is channeled. There are five parts that fully explain the Law of Atrraction. Here are the links. I recommend that you see them all.

http://www.lawofattractioninteraction.com/LawofAttraction_Videos.php

If you can't see the five videos here, click the link below and then click "Law of Attraction Video."

http://www.abraham-hicks.com/lawofattractionsource/videos.php

Enjoy, remember just how powerful you are, and with a little practice and the right intention, you – and we as a group – will create magnificence, and bring prosperity, happiness, abundance and peace into our world.

All the best to you.

Ken

Beliefs are Chronic Thinking

2009-01-04T03:51:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year. I hope you had a wonderful break, a great time with family and friends and you are looking forward to a super year for 2009. I also hope you have found these sessions helpful.

I thought it would be worth looking at our beliefs this week, since they are so instrumental in creating our world.

Our behaviors are often directly influenced by of our beliefs. Beliefs are instrumental in creating the world we live in. All of us have a set of beliefs that influence our lives, probably even more than we realize.

Some beliefs are collective beliefs and serve as the foundations of our institutions like government. We believe in democracy. We believe that the government will look after us. Then we have beliefs in our banking system, our education, healthcare, policing. We have strong beliefs about our biology that significantly influence our approach to medicine, therapies, how we see disease, our diets. In fact our beliefs have changed incredibly in the area of food, with new knowledge on transfats, on chemicals leaching from plastics, on cholesterol, the consumption of red meat. Our beliefs in science are also changing, with most of our scientific beliefs based on Newton theory dating back to the 17thy century.

Beliefs tend to change with new information and new learning. Beliefs tend to change with geography and change from culture to culture.

We now know the world isn’t flat, that we are not the centre of the universe, that you can’t tell the sex of an unborn child by hanging and swinging a wedding ring over the pregnant mother’s belly, and that you can’t catch aids by coming into contact with someone who has it. In fact almost all our beliefs have changed over time and the ones we hold today, for sure will change as we get new information.

Our world has taken a belief pill, an ugly belief pill that perpetuates a lie; that makes us believe in lack, that there isn’t enough to go around, that there isn’t enough money, enough time, and enough resources.

It makes us believe things like we aren’t important, we don’t deserve success, that we are not worthy of prosperity, not worthy of respect, don’t deserve happiness. It conditions us to believe that we are less than we actually are.

A belief is nothing more than chronic thinking. If a thought is ongoing, repetitive, unchanged, then it becomes a truth. A truth for the moment. Your belief will be supported and re-inforced by events and evidence. And you will individually or collectively re-inforce these beliefs by the events you create and the evidence you see. In fact you can become oblivious to evidence that says the contrary because your belief is so strong it does not allow you to see it. Beliefs rely on your interpretation of what you see. Often, in fact in most if not all cases, the belief is created by the observer through their interpretation of what they see. This interpretation can be drastically affected by the filters the observer uses and sees the world through.

Many of the beliefs we hold are formed when we are very young and have significant influence over our reality. Each person’s beliefs can be different because their experiences differ, but there are some common beliefs and common themes that run through most of us.

When we were learning how to walk, it did not matter to us how often we failed. Failing was part of the learning process. We did not see our inability as failures. We didn’t care how others felt about our inability to walk. It didn’t even enter our minds. We probably fell hundreds, if not thousands of times before we could make that first step properly, balanced upright, standing with a little support on two legs. It took persistence, it took strengthening of muscles, it took practice, it took the training of muscle memory and it took, I guess you could say, failing over and over and over before we began walking and feeling the experience of what it was like to put our two feet together over and over, totally balanced, making our way across the room, or from one end of the coffee table to the other. Failure was something we did not know. This thinking did not exist anywhere in our reality

Yet through conditioning many of us have learned that failure and mistakes are wrong and this belief has forever affected our lives, our behavior, our thinking and even our judgment and in the process this changed the reality we create and experience. Negative beliefs, such as I’m not good enough, I’m not important, I can’t do it, relationships don’t work, I’m powerless and I’m not worthy. These beliefs have created a negative self-esteem that leads to dysfunctional behavior.

These beliefs are not a true reflection of us and I know we know this rationally, but many of us have been conditioned to believe and therefore our behaviors reflect these beliefs. Many of us may not realize our true magnificence. That we truly are unlimited in our potential. We do not understand how powerful each of us is in creating whatever world we want to live in. That within us is the wherewithal to create whatever we want and have a life of abundance, joy, peace, happiness, and prosperity. That within us are gifts that when brought to the surface, will contribute to a positive world – to contribute to the business we work in, the team we work with, our relationships, our customers, our community.

What is important is to understand that our conditioning has had a negative impact on our beliefs. And that with practice and using some of the great techniques in this world, we can change our beliefs.

There are a number of techniques that work to change and/or eliminate negative beliefs. One technique that works for many people is called the Lefkoe technique. The Lefkoe technique was developed by Morty Lefkoe some twenty years ago. It is a process that has helped tens of thousands of people change their beliefs of how they see themselves and in the process helped them carve out a new and amazing life. And the process works in a short and painless time frame.

Most, if not all, of our beliefs have emerged from childhood in our interpretation of events that have occurred over and over again to form “the truth” rather than “a truth”.

Morty Lefkoe has developed an effective and proven method that he has practiced and refined to eliminate each dysfunctional belief within 15-30 minutes. The method is described in his book in fascinating detail with case studies.

One key point that Morty makes is that the method can be applied to all situations especially parenting and business.

In business the hardest thing is change - or is it? Actually it comes back to the root beliefs in individuals. Why change when you think that what you are doing today is the best thing. If you can address this core belief present in many people, then change becomes easy. Everyone wants to do the right thing and succeed. The trick is to find the key.

Persuasion never works because it does not address the core beliefs.I recommend his 200 page book and the course that Morty offers on-line or actual facilitations. Its worth noting that there have also been various trials to prove that the method works.

There are other methods of changing beliefs and releasing the emotional blocks that get in the way of creating the business world and the life we all want. This is an area where many people have some difficulty in believing these therapies work, because they really are quite simple in their techniques. Our world has forged a belief that things must be complicated to work. In fact we spend a lot of time complicating everything in our lives, but as Albert Einstein once put it so beautifully, “If the answer is simple, God has spoken.”

Further investigation will help you uncover and select what is best for you. There are techniques such as the Sedona Method and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), the Healing Codes and Energy Healing that are effective. What you need to do is some investigation and decide on one or a combination of techniques that you can use.

If anyone has other techniques, please share these with the group.

If we could all change the beliefs we are holding about the state of our world right now and begin to create positive, and non-judgmental feelings of prosperity, abundance, cooperation, and respect, we would create from a state of limitless possibilities, and you would be amazed at what positive changes we would see in our lives, our businesses, our countries and in our world. Try it – let’s be the first – and our outlooks will have an impact on everyone else.

Have a great day. Here’s a little video on prosperity to help you “feel” more prosperous.

Best always.

Jack Nicklaus won 18 majors with this!

2008-12-22T06:35:00.000-08:00

Jack Nicklaus used it and won18 PGA Majors. Albert Einstein used it and developed his Theory of Relativity. Jack Canfield used it for the Chicken Soup series, the most successful series of books ever published. Adam Dreamhealer used it to cure Ronnie Hawkins of terminal pancreatic cancer.

NASA calls it Visual Motor Rehearsal. In the 80s the U.S. Olympic team hired Dr. Denis Waitley to teach athletes the power of Visual Motor Rehearsal.

Here are observations from Dr. Waitley. “Using this program, Olympic athletes ran their event –but only in their mind. They visualized how they looked and felt when they were actually participating in their event.

The athletes were then hooked up to a sophisticated biofeedback machine, and its results told the real story about the value of visualization. The same muscles fired in the same sequence as when they were actually running on the track!

This proved that the mind can’t tell the difference between whether you’re really doing something or whether it’s just a practice. Dr. Waitley says, “If you’ve been there in the mind you’ll go there in the body.'

I ask you then, if it is such a powerful tool for athletes, why don’t we use it and benefit from it in conditioning our minds for success.

Here is what science has shown us. Visualization, or imagery or feelization strengthens the neural pathways (ie psycho-neuromuscular explanation). When you imagine performing a particular sport, your muscles fire in the same sequence as if you were actually performing the skill. Second, imagery may function as a coding system in the brain to help athletes form a plan or mental blueprint; imagery strengthens the mental blueprint, enabling the actions/ movements to become more familiar or even automatic. Recent research (Taylor 1995) has focused on the effectiveness of imagery as an important self-regulating skill – ie the ability to set goals, plan and solve problems, regulate arousal and anxiety, manage emotions effectively.) The key is to program your mind and emotions for success, and to make your imagery as vivid, realistic and detailed as possible. When you vividly imagine yourself accomplishing a plan your central nervous system becomes programmed for success. It’s as if the activity you have visualized has already happened.

Imagery can also be used from relaxation to improved interpersonal communication skills – visualize yourself asking someone a difficult question, asserting needs to a boss, or when recovering from an injury – direct healing thoughts to an injured part of the body – and there is enough anecdotal evidence to show that actual healing results. Chronic patients use it for pain management.

For those of you who saw “The Secret,” visualization is mentioned throughout as the technique to bring your thinking, your desires into reality. But it is not just your thinking. It is the feelings that work vibrationally. It is the power of your emotions. It is the feeling that creates the mental blueprint that wires the brain and resonates through your core and brings your wishes into reality. And as they have discovered, you make no discernment between reality –what is happening on the outside – and what is being visualized. It is all real to your mind.

You can use visualization for just about any change you want to make in your life. It is more than just positive thinking or using positive affirmations. It is one of the tools you posses to create the world you want to live in. It is a fundamental part of a personal development program and when done daily will impact your life on an ongoing basis. I strongly recommend that you begin a regular practice of visualization.

This is the last of our sessions for this year as the holiday season approaches. Maybe you can begin to see the impact thoughts have on the reality you live in. I strongly recommend that you stop taking in the negative thought patterns that are in our world today. Stop reading newspapers, turn off the television and radio news reports. Stop watching movies and shows that promote bad feelings and negative emotions. Begin to see your life in a brand new way. As Mahatma Ghandi said – “You must be the change you want to see in the world.”

Here is a clip from the Secret that includes powerful positive imagery and great insights that reinforce what we have been talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbJ8dp4zK7A

Finally, one of you sent me an amazing piece on the principles of living a great life. This person is a great soul that does so much to bring “life’s messages” to us on a regular basis. Thank you Lori.

Since Blogs will not allow you to upload PowerPoint presentations, I have attached this special piece to the email with this link. Enjoy!

I wish you a relaxing break from everything and a happy holiday season to you and your family. See you next year.

Ken

Creating your own reality

2008-12-14T10:05:00.000-08:00

I have a great message for you this week. You were born with an amazing and immeasurable power. This power has made you what – and how – you are right now. You may be unconscious of it, but with this power you have created your present reality.

We are here to be creators. We are here to infiltrate space with ideas and mansions of thought. We are here to make something of this life.

- Ramtha.

Our purpose here is to develop our gifts of intentionality. And learn how to be effective creators.

– William Tiller, PhD.

Most people are unaware of this power I am talking about. They have unconsciously used the power negatively. Much of what we are seeing in our world right now is the creation of the people on this earth who are focusing on crisis, conflict, doubt, and creating fear and seeing the world fall into a crisis. What we are witnessing is the result of our earth consciousness at work, and it was negative thinking that lead up to this and now, since everyone is focused on the negative situation, it is getting worse. I know most people may have difficulty accepting this, but it is true.

Here in simplistic terms is how this power works. As we discussed in week one, and as all of us previously knew, we are – below the atomic level – pure energy. We are vibrational beings. Modern medicine can now measure this energy with CAT Scans, MRIs, EEGs. EKGs, ECGs.

They now can also measure a thought and emotion – we will show you evidence shortly – and these thoughts are what we project outwards into this matrix or field. Like energy attracts like energy – like vibration attracts like vibration.

We feel this energy when we walk into a room where someone is in a terrible mood. We can feel their low energy and it does not feel good. Conversely when we walk in and someone is in an amazing mood, we feel that too and the energy is high - it feels good.

When you feel sad you feel low or heavy. When you feel happy you feel light and alive. You have more energy. These are the different frequencies of your vibration.

In simplest terms if you project negative thoughts out into the field, the field responds by sending back more of what you are vibrating. This includes more negative thoughts, negative situations, negative people, and negative circumstances. Most people do not realize they are doing this. They think they are reacting to what is happening to them from the outside world. What quantum physics is discovering, is that the thoughts originate first and that if we begin to control these thoughts, and what is fed into our brains, a simple shift in mind will change our outside world.

Dr. Masara Emoto wondered if he could make a record of what emotions look like. He discovered that if he projected thoughts into water, then froze the water and took photographs with a microscopic camera, the crystals that were formed were changed by the emotions that were projected into the water. They show dramatic differences.

Please see the PowerPoint I have put together on this. I was unable to upload the PowerPoint onto the blog, so I have attached it to your email. My apologies for this.

When you are finished just think for a minute, how negative thoughts affected the water, and then contemplate how these thoughts and emotions might impact our bodies because we are upwards of 60% to 90 % water (depending who you talk to.)

Our thoughts are creating our world. Actually, it’s more than just our thoughts but that is where it begins. In fact, what they are discovering is that it is our feelings and emotions that are in fact at work here. The vibration of feelings and emotions are much more powerful than thoughts. (In fact the electro-magnetic energy that is emitted from your heart is 5,000 times stronger than your head). Your thoughts have a direct impact on how you feel and these are reflected through our emotions.

All you have to do to change your world is to begin to change the thoughts you have about your world – your life within it – how you see yourself – how you see everyone else in your life – and you will begin to create the energy that will change what you attract into your world. In essence you will change everything you intend to change, and it will be something you will control.

I am using Gregg Braden again this week – we’ll use others in the coming weeks – to explain exactly how this works. The link will take you to an interview that was used in a movie by Louise L. Hay, author of "You can heal your life." It’s a 6 part interview and I recommend you see all 6 parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTlC27bgkGw

What you will discover, is that this power that is currently at the subconscious level for most of us, when brought to the conscious level, will deliver unlimited potential for you. With this power you can create anything you want and attract into your life anything you want. Once you understand that you have the power and the techniques to help you change your vibration you will open yourself up to unlimited possibilities.

And the power of intention will change the world for you and for everyone around you. It will be very exciting. We will start to get into the various techniques in the coming weeks.

Have a great week.

Best always,

Ken

Balancing the Mind

2008-12-13T08:15:00.000-08:00

Hi and welcome,

It was great to see the response to my initial email. There obviously is a desire to change and to influence the world around us in a positive way. You must also, at some level realize how powerful you are in all of this and that – just like our brains – we are only using a small percentage of this power. We will be finding out more about this in the coming weeks. Welcome aboard.

I ask, in the beginning that you bear with me for the first number of sessions if they seem a little vague in their purpose or maybe covering ground you already know. When I look at the list of people here, we are all at a different place and we need to get on the same page.

I will try to keep each session as brief as possible. Our worlds have become so busy with things to do, that I understand and respect your time commitments.

My goal is to show you that fundamental change is not about changing the world around you. The core of change comes from within. When you change yourself from the inside, you will see a dramatic shift in the outside. And as I said in my initial email, I will use science, philosophy, logic and proven principles that are embraced by many in our fields of higher education to help you see the truth.

First, I would like to briefly revisit the two videos you watched last week. The first with Dr. Bruce Lipton talked about how a “change in mind” will bring back the “garden” that is the natural healthy state of our world. Dr. Jill Bolte Tailor – a video that many of you found inspiring – also showed that our left and right hemispheres – as one of you put it – are surprisingly completely separate and that when you shut one down you get a completely different perspective on reality.

I think you will agree that our universe strives for balance. Our ecosystems are the healthiest when they are balanced. We are healthiest when our bodies are in balance, when our diets are well-balanced, and we strive for work/life balance. Even our businesses use a “balance” sheet.

But we have become an unbalanced, “left-brain” centric world. (the language of our left brain is logic, numbers, graphs, computing, judging). We have so overdeveloped the left hemisphere in our brain that if we can’t measure it, quantify it, put it in a process, systematize it, memorize it, substantiate it, formulate it, then it doesn’t fit in our business world. Even our education systems, continually under budget pressures, look to cutting music and the arts – the language of the right brain, in order to save money, and retain the subjects where logic, memorization, formulas and computing are the main focus (maths and sciences).

Yet research time-and-time again show that children that take music and the arts learn better and faster because they are using both sides of the brain. Harvard, a few years ago, came out and said that the two most important practices for today’s business professionals are meditation and intuition – and they are both inter-related and they are both right brain.

Our geniuses such as Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, and Leonardo da Vinci are said to have been this way because of “whole-mind” thinking. They approached everything with balanced thinking. Inspiration and intuition created their ideas – from the right brain and then logic (left side) helped them to formulate their brilliant theories and inventions.

Left Brain

Logical

Sequential

Rational

Analytical

Objective

Computation determines what’s right

Looks at parts

Right Brain

Random

Intuitive, creativity & inspiration

Holistic

Synthesizing

Subjective

Gut feeling for what’s right

Looks at wholes – big picture

They have studied yogis’ minds for years and have discovered they have significantly more neural passageways between the left and right hemispheres than the rest of us. They have studied meditators at our universities for years and have discovered that as we meditate we build more of these neuro- passageways and therefore improve our balanced or whole mind thinking.

Here is what has happened to most of us. With the increased dependence on our left brain, the brain activity in this hemisphere – logically – has increased. We all except now that thanks to Quantum Physics, at the sub-atomic level we are pure energy. Science can measure this frequency and identify the various frequencies in the body. They use ECGs. EKGs, EEGs, MRIs etc. to do this.
The brain frequencies of each state are as follows:

Beta (awake state) 14hz - 30hz
Alpha (relaxed, super creative and learning state) 8hz - 14hz
Theta (dream sleep) 4hz - 8hz
Delta (dreamless sleep) 0.5hz - 4 hz

The left brain is where most of our day-to-day living experience comes from. This is where our to-do-lists come from, our worry about being on time, finishing reports, writing proposals, thoughts about our next important meeting, how people see us, judging ourselves, the inner chatter that sabotages most of us, talks down to us, minimizes who we are and sends us self-defeating messages, or as Dr. Jill Bolte Tailor said in the video – the 30 years of baggage that disappeared when her left brain shut down.

This increased activity raises our vibrational frequency in the Beta range where many, if not most of us, are operating at the dangerously high end of the Beta frequency the entire time (30hz). Living at this level increases stress on our biological systems that eventually manifests in emotional disorders, sleep deprivation (because our minds cannot shut down) and even physical disease begins to manifest. This imbalance creates stress and impacts on out thinking.

If you begin a 20 minute practice of meditation each day, it won’t take long before you begin to see a significant difference.

Deepak Chopra – a well known doctor, author, entrepreneur, spiritual teacher, who sits on many boards of large businesses today once said, “What if I told you that if you did an exercise 20 minutes every morning and every evening you would be healthier, richer, more successful in your career, have a happier marriage, more friends, and feel more satisfied with life, would you do it?” Of course, your answer would be yes, and what he was talking about was meditation.

Here are some of the benefits of meditation.

• Builds confidence.
• Reduces anxiety.
• Brings clarity to thinking and determination of priorities.
• Increases creative thinking, inspiration and intuition.
• Increases serotonin which influences sleep, moods and behavior.
• Increases energy, strength and vigour.
• Helps keep blood pressure normal.
• Creates a feeling of deep relaxation and general feeling of well-being.
• Increases concentration and strengthens the mind.
• Helps reduce heart disease.
• Helps with weight loss.

If you practice regularly, the benefits of meditation will promote a sense of calm and control, you’ll feel far more relaxed and happy. Your ability to concentrate will be greater. You won’t become stressed about things and you’ll feel more peaceful and relaxed about everything. One of the greatest benefits of meditation is learning to go with the flow and things that used to irritate you simply become insignificant.

“Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the truth.” – James Allen

If you haven’t already, I encourage you to begin a practice of meditation. You can find many great books and CDs on meditation at the library. Youtube is full of short meditations you can use. If you already meditate, congratulations – you know first hand what I am saying. If you can increase your meditation time, you will increase the benefits. Or maybe you would like to try some different techniques. Contact me and we can share our experiences and talk about other meditative practices.

That’s all for this week. I seriously want you to consider a regular meditation practice. It is the first step to changing you and your world. It is a practice that most personal development programs include – although they may call it something else. It is a practice that most of us say we don’t have time for. I believe this comes from a belief that is part of our cultural conditioning, that diminishes our importance and tells us it is more important to “give ourselves away” to our careers, our businesses, our families and “not be selfish.” But I submit if you do this for yourself, then you will find you have more to give to everything and everyone else, and the quality of your efforts will be better and you will feel more empowered and ultimately, as you will see in the coming weeks, you will begin to change your world for the better and change the world for people around you.

Have a great week. See you next week.
Best always,
Ken

Here's a video that will help you feel good about yourself and your day. Turn up your speakers and enjoy. /

The Field - Zero Point Field - Divine Intelligence

2008-12-06T02:46:00.000-08:00

Does prayer promote healing? Are you able to affect physical reality with your mind? Can you perceive things outside of space/time? Can a being walk on water? Does the Higgs Particle exist?

Probably most human beings on this planet would rather know the answer to the first four questions. Yet we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build more powerful accelerators to find the Higgs Particle.

Well, I bring you good news. There is now evidence that helps with the first four and that is the focus of this session.

I was going to work my way up to this, but I realize that you are here with an open mind so let’s just get to it. The best way to deliver this is through a taped interview by a recognized expert in this field – Gregg Braden. The two links below will give you all the information you need to start to understand the principles behind the Zero Point field and what it means to you.

Gregg Braden Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjM9JhzlXR0

Gregg Braden Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-716MTOf48

This is supported and widely accepted by scientists. Here are but a few with links to their web sites if you are interested. I am using Gregg Braden’s interview – the first 2 of 7 parts because it explains this concept so well, so succinctly and so quickly. There are great lectures by many other quantum physicists but, as professors tend to do, they take upwards of an hour, in a meandering way, to explain this.

So enjoy, ask any questions you have, and we will talk about the implications of this next week.

Meanwhile here are some of the leading experts that have confirmed and agree with the existence of Zero Point Field . I have included their credentials to re-enforce their credibility in this area.

John Hagelin, Ph.D. (www.hagelin.org) is a world-renowned quantum physicist, educator, author, and public policy expert. Dr. Hagelin has conducted pioneering research at CERN (the European Center for Particle Physics) and SLAC (the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) and is responsible for the development of a highly successful grand unified field theory based on the Superstring. In his book, Manual for a Perfect Government, Dr. Hagelin was named winner of the prestigious Kilby Award, which recognizes scientists who have made "major contributions to society through their applied research in the fields of science and technology." The award recognized Dr. Hagelin as "a scientist in the tradition of Einstein, Jeans, Bohr and Eddington."

Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. (www.fredalanwolf.com) is a physicist, writer, and lecturer who earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at UCLA in 1963. His work in quantum physics and consciousness is well known through his popular and scientific writing. He is the author of eleven books.
In academia, Dr. Wolf has challenged minds at San Diego State University, the University of Paris, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of London, Birkbeck College, and many other institutions of higher learning.

William Tiller Ph.D.ex professor Stanford Department of material sciences and engineering. William Tiller, Ph.D. (www.tiller.org) graduated with a B.A.Sc. in 1952 with a degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Toronto. He also has an M.A.Sc. and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Dr. Tiller has been a professor at Stanford University in the Department of materials science and Engineering. He has been a consultant to government and industry in the fields of metallurgy and solid-state physics and formerly Associate Editor of 2 scientific journals. He has published more than 250 scientific papers, three technical books and has five patents issued. He is also the founding director of the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine and The Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Amit Goswami, Ph.D. earned his Ph.D. from Calcutta University in theoretical nuclear physics in 1964 and has been a professor of physics at the University of Oregon since 1968. He also wrote a textbook on Quantum Mechanics that is well regarded and used. He is the author of ten books, including The Self-Aware Universe, Quantum Creativity, Physics of the Soul, and The Visionary Window, and The Quantum Doctor. Dr. Goswami is a pioneer of a new multidisciplinary paradigm of science based on the primacy of consciousness, known as Science within consciousness. His research has been published in scientific journals in three different fields, physics, biology, and psychology.

Dr. David Albert, Professor and Director of Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Columbia University, specializes in Philosophical Problems of Quantum Mechanics, Philosophy of Space and Time and Philosophy of Science.
Professor Albert is the author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience and Time and Chance, and has published many articles on quantum mechanics, mostly in the Physical Review.

Stuart Hameroff M.D. (www.quantumconsciousness.org) is a Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Hameroff’s publications include 150 peer reviewed papers including three co-authored with Roger Penrose and 5 books including: Toward a Science of Consciousness I-III (MIT Press 1996, 1998, 1999), and Ultimate Computing – Biomolecular Consciousness and Nanotechnology, (Elsevier-North Holland 1987.)
Jeffrey Satinover, M.D. (psychiatry), (www.satinover.com) M.S. (physics, doctoral candidate in physics). For over twenty years, Dr. Satinover has been an author and practicing psychiatrist. He was until recently a teaching fellow and doctoral student in the department of physics at Yale University, where he has completed a master’s degree as a member of the Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics group and Yale's newly-established W. H. Keck Foundation Center for Quantum Information Physics. Dr. Satinover is past president of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, a former Fellow in Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry at Yale University and William James Lecturer in Psychology and Religion at Harvard University.

Dr. Joseph Dispenza, D.C. (www.drjoedispenza.com) studied biochemistry at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. He received his Doctor of Chiropractic Degree at Life University in Atlanta, Georgia, graduating magna cum laude. Dr. Dispenza’s postgraduate training and continuing education has been in neurology, neurophysiology, and brain function.