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February 7th, 2010
Often, the law of attraction gets debunked by ’scientists’ and ‘doctors’ and others in white lab coats as a bunch of hocus-pocus. Unfortunately I suspect that a) these people aren’t up to speed on the fundamentals of quantum physics, and b) they are responding not as scientists and doctors, but as left-brain-focused human beings whose world view is being threatened.
Most scientists, and certainly almost all physicians, are immersed in the old, Newtonian view of the world (remember the apple) that said that everything is empirical and quantifiable, and there’s nothing you can’t measure. I taught enough pre-med students in my physics days to understand how challenged they are with abstract concepts, and I have many physicist friends who’ve taught doctors (including specialists in radiology, etc.) and rolled their eyes at the physicians’ inability to understand quantum concepts.
Let me say, this is not a criticism of physicians as people. They go through a very stringent, disciplined training process to become physicians. That process requires a certain type of thinking – empirical, predictable, Newtonian. It is diametrically opposed to the abstract thinking in quantum physics. Many people think that quantum is about complicated numbers and thinking. It’s not. It’s about uncertainty and probabilities and feeling. You can’t think about infinite dimensions, but you can feel and intuit it.
The same goes for many scientists and engineers – they follow a training path that demands a very different type of thinking than quantum physics, and most don’t understand just how much our understanding of how the universe has changed in the last decade, let alone the last 50 years.
A true scientist would not debunk the law of attraction. A true scientist would say that they have not seen the evidence to support it, and that they may not know enough. These people are not reacting as scientists and physicians when they debunk these principles – they are reacting as people – fearful people who’s world view is being challenged. It’s happened throughout history – the world is flat, the earth is the center of the universe, you name it. Learned people debunk the new theories, not because they know what they are talking about, but because they are afraid of something they don’t understand – and afraid that everything that they know is not true.
The fact is that quantum physics fully accounts for the fact that the conscious intention and presence of a person observing an event changes the event. Your presence and your conscious intention change the probabilities of what will happen. And in the past several years, there is a growing mountain of evidence that this is not just in the quantum world – it extends to everyday experiences.
This is not hocus pocus. This is the way the unverse works.
Tags: law of attraction, Quantum mechanics
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February 6th, 2010
In yesterday’s posting I wrote about the new age copout – how many who profess to believe in the new age philosophies and the law of attraction cop out when they can’t manifest everything that they want by saying that too much materialism is bad. I think the roots of this argument are actually biblical.
One of the most commonly mis-quoted elements from the bible is that money is the root of all evil. That is not what it says. It says that the desire for money is the root of all evil. It’s not the money that’s evil – it’s wanting and needing money.
The double irony in this is that those with money often dont’ want or need it as much as those who don’t have it, who are constantly living in struggle.
Tags: law of attraction, Materialism, Money, New Age, Religion and Spirituality
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February 5th, 2010
One of the things the law of attractionspeaks of is that we can attract whatever we want, and this suprisingly often receives a lot of flack from those who say they believe in many of the new age philosophies, including the law of attraction. This is what I call the new age cop-out.
Soapbox alert: I am about to get on mine. 
Randy Gage has been talking about mediocrity (scarcity) versus abundance on his blog. He gets a lot of flack for saying things like his latest blog posting Matching Your Car to Your Shoes, where he says he matches his cars like many people match ties to their clothing (and personally he seems to take great pleasure in receiving that flack). People criticize him for being greedy and over-indulgent – that he is too materialistic and has more than he needs. This is the same sort of critcism that many of these people make of anyone who has money.
There’s a few key points here. First of all,the universe is not just a catalog, as Joe Vitale said on The Secret, where you just order what you want. My biggest criticism with that book/movie is that it only focused on what you get, and not the other side of the equation – you get by serving the world, by giving, and as you give more, you get more. It’s not a one-sided thing. To get money as Randy has, he’s given a huge amount to the world. He’s earned it. What he chooses to do with his wealth is his choice, and he has to live with his decisions. Who are we to pass judgement?
Second, as Randy points out, you can do a lot more when you have money to make a difference in the world. It’s great to feel bad about what’s happening in Haiti and make a $50 or $100 donation. It’s even better if you can write a check for $1,000 or $100,000 without blinking an eye.
And finally, you can’t be a little bit abundant any more than you can be a little bit pregnant. You either believe in abundance and it works without limits, or you don’t. Many of those who make these criticisms don’t have the abundance of wealth and money that people like Randy have. And I believe that this argument of ‘it’s not all about materialism‘ and ‘you only need so much’ is just rationalization so they don’t have to face the fact that they haven’t been able to manifest all they want. This is the new age cop-out.
The fact is, your results are not a judgement on who you are – they are only feedback to show you what your thoughts are. If you are still struggling and not having enough, then you don’t really believe 100% in the law of attraction. There is no ‘little bit abundant’. And if other’s wealth bothers you, then, by the mirror principle, is it your own wealth (or lack thereof) that’s really at root? It’s never about the other guy.
Tags: Joe Vitale, law of attraction, Money, Randy Gage
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February 2nd, 2010
Last month I asked you what nourishes your soul – what things that you do go beyond enjoyment to feed and nurture you? Today, I’m asking you what is it that nourishes your soul that also changes the world? What is it that you can do that makes a difference in the world and at the same time revitalizes and energizes you?
I’m on the national board of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS), and after the earthquake hit Haiti we had ongoing discussion about what we could do to help, and we launched an initiative asking our members to contribute a percentage of their next engagements to Haiti, and the response has been phenomenal.
But I still felt there was more I could be doing, and I came up with an idea for something we could do locally. 2 weeks ago yesterday I called up the president of the local chapter of Meeting Professionals International (MPI), and along with 2 other individuals, CAPS and MPI put together a fundraiser yesterday called Speak Out For Haiti that raised $12,000, and with additional contributions from the Montreal chapter of MPI and the Federal government, over $23,000 will be going to Haiti.
Just after we started this, I was talking about the initiative with my 7-year-old son, and he said he wanted to do something to help Haiti, so he designed and started selling pins for $2, and now has raised almost $1,000.
Now this isn’t to aggrandize us, and it’s not even specifically about Haiti. There is huge need in Haiti right now, and there are also many other places in the world, both far and close to home, that need help.
What this is about is if, in 2 weeks, 4 people can design something that enables $23,000 go to Haiti and a 7-year-old kid can raise over $1,000, what could happen if everyone stepped up? What kind of difference could that make?
And not just to work. Putting together yesterday’s fundraiser was a lot of work. It was also incredibly joyful. And everyone who was there yesterday was basking in good feelings about being part of it.
This is not about adding work. This is not about sacrificing yourself. This is about getting clear about what your gifts are and using them in joyful ways that make a difference in the world.
What could be possible if everyone on this planet did that? If even 1 in 10 did?
How could it impact the world?
How could it impact you?
Tags: canadian Association of Professional Speakers, Earthquake, Haiti, Meeting Professionals International
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January 13th, 2010
In my last post, I wrote that one of the main reasons that most new year’s resolutions and affirmations fail is that we’re working with them with our conscious minds. The beliefs that drive us, that control us are programmed into our unconscious minds, and until we find a way to change that programming, no amount of willpower and conscious action will change us.
I’ve spent over 30 years exploring just about every psychological and spiritual approach to personal growth and development you can imagine. A few months ago, a mentor and trusted friend of mine told me about a program that allowed you to totally rewrite those subconscious beliefs, replacing limiting beliefs with empowering ones, in a matter of minutes.
Now, I know the building blocks of this technique, and, while they are powerful, I was skeptical. However I trusted my friend – and my intuition which told me to go – and I went.
And I was amazed.
These processes, from a discipline called Psych-K are probably the most powerful psychological processes I have ever learned in over three decades. I have never seen such a simple, elegant constellation of these building blocks, and they work powerfully. In a weekend you learn 3 processes that you can use with yourself or with others in a matter of minutes.
Learning these techniques helped me through significant change last year, and I still use them virtually daily.
Lesson one: Don’t assume you know it all, no matter how long you’ve studied.
Lesson two: It doesn’t have to be complicated. It can be incredibly simple.
It’s not rocket science, folks. You can believe me – I’m a rocket scientist.
That’s my 2 cents.
Tags: belief, Psych-K, Psychology
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January 11th, 2010
Many people make new year’s resolutions and many are already history, even this early into the new year. And there’s a very simple reason this happens – the same reason that simple affirmations are largely ineffective.
When we decide to make a resolution or use an affirmation, we are using our conscious minds which process about 40 bits of information each second. The problem is that our subconscious or unconscious minds process 40,000,000 bits of information each second. That’s like pitting an old abacus against a modern supercomputer. Our conscious mind has little chance against those odds.
It’s your unconscious mind that carries all the core beliefs that drive you. You ‘installed’ 70% of these by the time you were 5 years old, and most of the rest by the time you were 10. These could be beliefs about how intelligent you are, how attractive, how sensitive, whatever.
You may want to consciously change the habits that these beliefs control, but your subconscious mind is running the ‘tapes’ of those old beliefs on an endless loop, and your subconscious works at a million times the speed of your conscious mind. Simply making a resolution or saying an affirmation is like attacking an iceberg with a toothpick. Not very effective.
In order to make lasting changes, you need to ‘reprogram’ those subconscious tapes, and there are now some very simple, powerful ways to do that. I’ll outline one in my next posting.
Tags: affirmation, Consciousness, Resolution, unconscious mind
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January 6th, 2010
My question isn’t “what do you like?” or “what do you want?” My question is what nourishes your soul? And do you have that in your life?
This is especially relevant for me because last night I started ballroom/latin dancing again for the first time in a decade. It didn’t feel good. It didn’t feel great. It felt glorious! It wasn’t just fun. It enriched me, charged me, invigorated me – it nourished my soul. I’m still buzzing from the energy a day later.
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There were reasons I gave it up that seemed valid at the time. But now I know I can’t leave it again – it’s leaving something far too important to me.
Have you even done that? Had something that energizes and nourishes you, and then left it behind? The reasons are not relevant. Beating yourself up about giving it up isn’t relevant.
Deciding whether you are going to keep it in your life today (or bring it back) is the only thing that is relevant. It is these things in our lives that give us the passion and strength to do what we’re here to do. To make the difference we’re here to make.
I’m clear on what nourishes my soul, and now they’re non-negotiables. Dance does. My son does. My work does. My time to meditate and be with me does. And they are part of me now, from here on in, non-negotiable.
Do you know what nourishes your soul? Are you committed to that, no matter what?
Tags: Dance, nourishing your soul, soul
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January 5th, 2010
Yesterday in my leadership blog, I wrote about the need to invest in your organization if you are making a strategic change – not to look for the deal of the week. This applies just as strongly to investing in yourself for your personal growth. If you are serious about making changes in your life, then don’t look for shortcuts.
Years ago, I used to read many self-development books and I got a lot from them, and wished I could go to learn from the authors, but it was always so expensive. I would take some courses here and there, whatever I could afford, and I got a lot from them, but I always wished I could do more.
What I didn’t realize was that I was living in scarcity thinking, and that I was sending very unhealthy messages to my unconscious – that there wasn’t enough, that I wasn’t good enough. All of those thoughts kept me stuck far more than any lack of money did.
One day I woke up and absolutely knew I had to go to this place in New Mexico that I had read about in one of these books months before. There were no ‘if’s’ ‘and’s’ or ‘but’s’ – it was ‘do not pass go, do not collect $200 – go directly there’. Well, the program that I’d read about in one of those books cost $1200 at the time, plus travel, accomodations and food, and until that morning I’d felt that was well beyond my reach.
Fortunately, I had learned by then to trust my intuition and I booked it. And you know what? The money was there. All I had to do was decide there was enough and that I was worth investing in.
That was a transformational decision and journey, and my personal and spiritual growth has taken off exponentially over the decades since then, and I continue to invest heavily in myself, always pushing the boundaries. Because I’m worth it. Because there is more than enough.
If you are wanting to do something, but feel that you can’t or there’s not enough, I encourage you to challenge those beliefs. Don’t spend recklessly, but really look deeply into the reality behind those beliefs and the messages you’re sending to yourself. Once those beliefs change, you’ll be amazed how much more does.
Tags: Personal development
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January 4th, 2010
In the previous posts, I showed you how to identify what you want in your vision, prioritize these things, put them into a vision statement, and then create a vision board. In this post I’ll show you how to turbo-charge that vision with a process developed 100 years ago by an incredibly wise man named Thomas Troward.
To start this process, first hand-write your vision on the first page of a coil-bound scribbler. You may want to keep a second copy of this first draft in a separate place. Then, each day, for thirty days, go through the following process at the best time of day for you (morning or evening):
- Read your vision to yourself.
- Close your eyes and relax. Breathe deeply and/or go into a meditative state if you practice meditation. Use your imagination to experience what it is like already having and living these goals that you just read. Step into the picture and fully experience the feelings and experience of already having all of this. Associate into the images into your mind’s eye (as opposed to seeing yourself living them – be in the picture), and experience it in vivid detail as if you’re already there, right now.
- Get a fresh piece of paper and rewrite (it’s very important to hand write these) your vision on the next sheet of the scribbler starting with:
“It is now <Date of future goal> and I am so happy and grateful now that…”. Add in any new details and feelings that you discovered in your visualization.
4. Rip out the sheet(s) with your old copy of your vision (from step 1) so that your new copy (the one you just wrote in step 3) is at the front of the scribbler.
Tomorrow, this new version will be what you read in step 1.
Once you’ve done this, let it go and get on with your life. There may be some first steps you need to take to move towards your vision. Take those steps, but otherwise let it all go.
In order to program your unconscious and super-conscious minds to create what you want, you need as detailed a picture as possible, and you want to be passionately involved with that picture. You need to be able to recall it in a heartbeat, as well as your excitement and certainty that it is already yours. By doing this every day for 1 month (and don’t beat yourself up for missing a day here or there), you accomplish all of these objectives.
By visualizing and rewriting it every day, you’ll see more and more detail in broader and broader contexts. What you write every day may be different, with different areas of focus from day to day, or you may simply develop more details of the same picture. Either way, it becomes more and more real to you. As you re-experience it day after day, your excitement and passion and belief that it is real will grow, which provide the fuel to program your minds.
By the end of the month your head will spin at how far you’ve moved towards realizing your vision.
Tags: Strategic planning, Thomas Troward, Wisdom
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January 3rd, 2010
In the 3 previous posts, I showed you simple processes for identifying what you want in various aspects of your life, prioritizing those things, and then crafting your vision statement. In this post, I’ll give you simple directions for turning your personal vision statement into a vision board you can use to energize your vision.
To prepare for this, get a pile of magazines and newspapers and set aside a couple of hours. Go through all the magazines and find pictures, headlines and illustrations that capture key pieces of your vison statement Cut these out of the magazines and put them in on the floor or on a table.
Some of these pictures can be literal things such as places you want to visit, or a car that you want. Others may be symbolic, such as a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow to show wealth, or someone finding their way through a maze to show that you can figure out solutions to problems. The important thing is that it’s got to be meaningful for you.
Once you have clippings that address your most relevant goals, get a sheet of bristle board or card stock paper (about 2 feet by 3 feet). Then sit down and arrange your clippings into a collage on the piece of card. Group them in a way that works for you. One area may represent work, another your home, another travel, and another exercise, if those breakdowns work for you. Fit this to your needs.
Once you’ve arranged the clippings in a way that works for you, glue them to the card. Then post the card up where you can see it daily. In realizing goals, it’s important to have a clear mental picture of what you want, and by seeing this ‘vision board’ daily, you imprint it upon your unconscious mind.
This is an amazingly simple process to imprint important goals into your unconscious and to keep your focus on attaining them. Doing this with others helps you understand more about who they are, what they want, and why. It’s simple, and it’s fun. And it’s a delight to look at your vision board over time and see each picture being realized.
In the next post, I’ll show you how to turb0-charge your vision over the next 30 days to produce results that will amaze you!
Tags: unconscious mind, vision, vision board
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