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		<title>What You Needs to Consider when Going for Conversational Hypnosis Course</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although controversial, many experts hail the celebrated Underground Hypnosis program and its likes as potent approaches. In all probability you have heard that you can efficiently speak to the unconscious mind using these techniques, but you perhaps don't appreciate that you have the chance to ease problems, be they emotional, physical, or mental. You may add work to beat depression or diverse addictions to any half remembered frat-party comic high jinks. It might seem somewhat disturbing before you have a chance to consider it, but it's a surprisingly common technique which usually has no extra problems]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Underground Hypnosis has a somewhat cloudy reputation, but as with other <a href="http://www.hypnosistacticsguide.com/hypnosis-hypnotism/hypnosis-induction-methods/">conversational hypnosis</a> techniques it can be a source of significant benefit. Put into action to help treat mental, emotional, and physical ailments in addition to a potent communication technique, this style of &#8220;mind control&#8221; works within an individual&#8217;s unconscious mind to produce the outcome you&#8217;re aiming for. You may add help to beat anxiety attacks or diverse addictions to any half remembered stage show humorous high jinks and other mayhem. When employed by seasoned practitioners, there&#8217;s practically no danger. Let&#8217;s turn our attention to the Underground Hypnosis movement, together with comparable approaches to black ops hypnosis, and consider the goal; inducing a trance state. But you can usually only make the trance so deep. The depth to which the subject descends into the trance state is driven by factors like their emotional status, hypnotist&#8217;s ability, and personality. At the earliest level, the subject&#8217;s smaller muscles will declench following an unconscious compulsion. As the eyelids feel heavier and heavier, they&#8217;ll experience lethargy, wanting to sleep. Gradually larger muscles slacken, especially the shoulders and digits &#8211; and in most cases, this is a quick process.</p>
<p>You can establish trances so deep that the sound heard is solely that coming from whoever has hypnotized them. At this depth, the individual is exposed to compulsion by hypnotic suggestion and controlled by their subconscious. At greater depths you&#8217;ll find you can block memory in specific areas &#8211; or to suppress physical feeling, causing you not to feel a touch or pain in a given area.</p>
<p>Past that you enter the realm of hallucination; you can ultimately bring yourself to a state reminiscent of that found through anesthesia. It&#8217;s not unheard of for this degree of hypnotic state to be employed during medical procedures.</p>
<p>The Underground Hypnosis system won&#8217;t take anyone quite that far; but you don&#8217;t need it to. In most cases, the earlier strata are all you need. There are no boundaries on the Underground Hypnosis teachers &#8211; all are welcome. Would this take long, you wonder? Not long &#8211; some quick studying, a few hours to test the tricks you&#8217;ve just learned, and you&#8217;ll soon find you&#8217;ll have an astonishing party piece. That&#8217;s all there is to it &#8211; no reason to be concerned.</p>
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		<title>The Secret to Making Lasting Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think you can&#8217;t change? Many of us already know that we need to improve our state of well-being in order to extend our lives as we age. Making changes are traditionally difficult, but the good news is that it&#8217;s never too late to make changes for the better. The first step is to understand what&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Think you can&#8217;t change? Many of us already know that we need to improve our state of well-being in order to extend our lives as we age. Making changes are traditionally difficult, but the good news is that it&#8217;s never too late to make changes for the better. The first step is to understand what&#8217;s important to you, and then determine the choices and decisions that represent where you want to be. Maybe you want to start a new career, lose weight, stop smoking or start exercising. Whatever the change is, be sure you understand why you want to make the change. </p>
<p>Take a moment to think about a time in your life when you made a successful change or developed a new habit. What was your motivation for the change? What was your attitude at the time? What obstacles or barriers did you have to overcome? Your level of readiness to change will determine how successful you are, and how much time it will take. Once you make the decision to change, you must practice that new behavior one day at a time until it becomes a habit &#8211; a lasting change. </p>
<p>What allows some people to change, while others don&#8217;t? According to Dr. James Prochaska, developer of the &#8220;Stages of Change Model,&#8221; people cycle through a very distinct set of stages when making changes in their lives &#8211; from not being interested in making any changes, all the way through to maintaining a change after it&#8217;s already been made. This is the real challenge for everyone, because resistance is always the initial response to making a change. Sometimes people don&#8217;t see the positive side of change until it&#8217;s shown to them (or until they are forced to realize it on their own). Change is a choice. It&#8217;s something we decide to do. The same goes for wellness &#8211; it&#8217;s a choice, and once you have decided to change, you&#8217;ll feel better. </p>
<p>Embracing the concept of change is a big thing, because interestingly, many people think they don&#8217;t have a choice when it comes to change. Why? For some it&#8217;s fear, guilt, love, pain, time management or even a court order. What motivates one person may not be the same thing that gets another person to act. Everyone reacts differently to changes weather voluntary or mandatory. </p>
<p>To start making a change, let go of certain assumptions or ways of doing things, to make room for new ideas. Work on this one day at a time until you feel comfortable. This often comes into play when I work with sedentary people to increase their activity level (people who work a lot and don&#8217;t have a lot of time to exercise). One of my clients&#8217; complaints was, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to take an hour or 30 minutes to walk.&#8221; My solution was to suggest several two-minute intervals that would equal 30 minutes throughout the day  just stand up, walk around and visit people throughout the office, for example. The result was successful. He exercised and actually became more sociable as a result! Once he became comfortable with walking, I got him up to 10-minute intervals three times a day. Now he&#8217;s walking 30 minutes at one time and enjoying it. This all took place over the course of a few months. </p>
<p>To make a lasting change, you start wherever you are and stretch a tiny bit more each time. If you fall off the wagon, or experience resistance, identify the cause or circumstances who you were with, where you were, or your emotional state. The key is to get up and get back on the path again. You may go back and forward a few times because making a lasting change is hard. Your level of readiness to change will determine how successful you are, and how much time it will take. But you need to be ready, able and willing to make change happen.</p>
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Diane Randall is a Certified Wellness Coach who works primarily with adults over 30 to help them reclaim their zest and drive for life. Randall began her wellness journey over fifteen years ago when an unexplained health crisis forced her to adopt a better way of living, and has since used her education and experiences to help countless others. Randall speaks and writes about a variety of health and wellness related topics affecting the adult community.  </p>
<p>Contact her at diane@LifeAccelerated.com or visit her online at <a href="http://www.LifeAccelerated.com" rel="nofollow">www.LifeAccelerated.com</a> and take the FREE Wellness Assessment.     </p>
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		<title>Unattached and Looking for Singles Events in Greater Denver</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not that I hate to say it, but without a date, I get pretty lonely. Here&#8217;s the scoup, this morning I filed three years of back taxes. As a coping mechanism that comes from being alone, no less. Don&#8217;t judge me (j/k!). Is that even legal? Honestly, that&#8217;s the moment when I honestly looked into [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not that I hate to say it, but without a date, I get pretty lonely. Here&#8217;s the scoup, this morning I filed three years of back taxes. As a coping mechanism that comes from being alone, no less. Don&#8217;t judge me (j/k!). Is that even legal? Honestly, that&#8217;s the moment when I honestly looked into meeting new singles in North Dallas.</p>
<p>Nothing that can&#8217;t be fixed. I&#8217;ll ease back into dating with a professional dating service, <a href="http://www.denvergreatexpectations.net">Denver Great Expectations</a>. Probably turned out to be my golden ticket. The reason I mention my dating woes: After practically choking down some of grandma&#8217;s potato salad at George&#8217;s graduation at Oak Park yesterday, great aunt Judy wanted to know if I&#8217;ve bumped into my true love. They always bring this up, every year. So, I said, &#8220;No.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even The Old Tooter (aka: grandpa) doesn&#8217;t know when to quit driving home about true relationships. I quipped to all of them: &#8220;Dating isn&#8217;t for me, but do you even know me?&#8221;</p>
<p>Can you believe this? They smiled politely. Perturbed, I fell asleep that night so I could clear my head. That didn&#8217;t help! Nothing was helping and I needed some damn help. Billy, who is now a Budist monk or something offered his opinion that I enroll in Great Expectations. I said, &#8220;Yeah, maybe I should.&#8221; But it really was a good idea. I especially enjoy this <a href="http://www.gedallas.com">Dallas dating service</a>.</p>
<p>At the time, meeting new singles through dating services was a novel thing from my perspective. I was a bit nervous at first, that my hands started sweating. This emotional anxiety did not bring an end to another incredible Great Expectations event. That night I enjoyed was bursting with excitement. The greatest most memorable part of it all was the other members, some who are my new friends.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t long before I was regularly mingling at these splendid <a href="http://www.greatexpectationsevents.com/great-expectations-locations/denver/">Denver Singles Events</a> and parties at Great Expectations, I bumped into quite a few winners who clearly feel the same way I do when talking about real-world dating. I really shouldn&#8217;t allow my family get me down about me being single at my age. Surprisingly enough, mingling with Great Expectations is a lot of fun and just what I&#8217;ve been looking for.</p>
<p>Pat<br/><br />
<i>Just Trying to Help</i></p>
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		<title>Hoping for a Brand New Me Thru My Natural African American Wig</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Till recently, women&#8217;s wigs weren&#8217;t even on my radar. Dancing was what kept me pretty busy. That was true till the day when my hair wouldn&#8217;t be the same during chemotherapy. I resolved that I wouldn&#8217;t sign off on the possibility of becoming a balding fashion victim of Texas.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Till recently, women&#8217;s wigs weren&#8217;t even on my radar. Dancing was what kept me pretty busy. That was true till the day when my hair wouldn&#8217;t be the same during chemotherapy. I resolved that I wouldn&#8217;t sign off on the possibility of becoming a balding fashion victim of Texas.</p>
<p>I believed that my charm would be more difficult, deprived of beautiful hair. This was a sign that that it would be impossble to realize full fashion and the hair to match. Girl, was I wrong. Before I got my favorite real wig, I tried on a great deal of hot phony wigs that got my texture all wrong. My soulmate Reginald worked his magic and found some dignified wig stores where I could get invisible lace front wigs I could wear proudly.</p>
<p>Then I hopped to it and sized up the selection. I discovered an array of beautiful, seamless lace front wigs.  Their breathable <a href="http://www.womenslacefrontwigs.com/African-American-Wigs-s/7.htm">African American wigs</a> suited me best.</p>
<p>Trying on the best hair piece, a proud individual like me would foster courage working towards accepting her medical hair loss. I&#8217;ve never been more excited to flaunt my new voluminous hair. It was magical to actually regain my personality at the dinner table.</p>
<p>But maybe I&#8217;m getting out of hand as I ramble, but remember looks are important to my profession. Is there a deeper meaning to life than an amazing flow of hair? You know, I don&#8217;t care if that were so. Here&#8217;s the good news: <a href="http://www.womenswigsolutions.com">women&#8217;s hair loss</a> can be beat!</p>
<p>I couldn&#8217;t tell you what wigs have done for me. No one knows the reality of me and wearing a wig. However so it goes, I&#8217;m definitely set to fearlessly approach my career again. Real <a href="http://www.womenshumanhairwigs.com">women&#8217;s wigs</a> improved things for my family and I.</p>
<p>Shallow people could determine my sentiment is needy. Who cares? What makes existing on earth so practical?  Personally, it&#8217;s working hard and my wig.</p>
<p>Take Care of Fabulous Hair!</p>
<p>Denise Holton</p>
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		<title>Featuring this One Woman Show Who Really Has Great Expectations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 22:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firstly, I cannot say I&#8217;m terribly comfortable as an &#8220;independent&#8221; (aka: naturally single) person and not crack a smile. But, I&#8217;m not unhappy in that way, either. I merely suggest it on the blogosphere as an intriguing little tidbit setting up the story I will shortly unravel!
A week ago today I was talking to Corey, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Firstly, I cannot say I&#8217;m terribly comfortable as an &#8220;independent&#8221; (aka: naturally single) person and not crack a smile. But, I&#8217;m not unhappy in that way, either. I merely suggest it on the blogosphere as an intriguing little tidbit setting up the story I will shortly unravel!</p>
<p>A week ago today I was talking to Corey, pondering about signing up for a dating service for <a href=http://www.phoenixgreatexpectations.net>Phoenix singles</a>. You prolly couldn&#8217;t guess that, I type to each of you as a delightfully single member of the dating service. Seriously, it&#8217;s true. Its very comfortable and full of nice people! If you&#8217;ve been paying attention, perhaps you&#8217;re thinkin&#8217;, &#8220;You totally owe me an explanation.&#8221;</p>
<p>So, I noticed these <a href="http://www.greatexpectationsdating.net">Great Expectations Reviews</a> and can really get behind their approach. They&#8217;re for quality and professional singles who know dating doesn&#8217;t have to be so frivolous and stupid.</p>
<p>Quite frankly, I&#8217;d never been a fan of this silly social phenomenon most people so aptly entitled &#8220;The Dating Experience.&#8221; I heard it more than you know. Each night readers pester, &#8220;You&#8217;re still single? &#8221; and &#8220;Oh I know just the guy for you!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Nonsense,&#8221; I banter right back, smiling ear to ear. &#8220;Not after that last blind date you set me up on.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be silly,&#8221; they level with me. &#8220;That&#8217;s just an excuse for your cynicism.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s just my partner in crime The One-And-Only <img src='http://www.acweek.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':-P' class='wp-smiley' />  Trisha Wilson. She sets rational thought directly to my core to put me back on course. Caring souls you can trust to offer perspective. Can&#8217;t argue with that, and I joined.</p>
<p>Returning to the point of this blog entry. As I browsed from thousands of combinations of outfits for my first Great Expectations date, I acknowledged something real. For the longest time, I hadn&#8217;t had the greatest of emotional <a href= "www.whygreatexpectations.com">great expectations</a> for dating in the serendipitous path of life. Single life has its perks, only when you get out there and have fun. Embracing your own great expectations makes a difference in dating.</p>
<p>&#8211;Denise Davis</p>
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		<title>Motivation: The Power of Action, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard it said that 85% of success is showing up. While that&#8217;s true, in the words of radio commentator Paul Harvey, here&#8217;s the rest of the story.
If 85% of success is showing up, then in order to do better than 85% of the other folks, all you have to do is show up.
That&#8217;s fairly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve heard it said that 85% of success is showing up. While that&#8217;s true, in the words of radio commentator Paul Harvey, here&#8217;s the rest of the story.</p>
<p>If 85% of success is showing up, then in order to do better than 85% of the other folks, all you have to do is show up.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s fairly easy.</p>
<p>To do better than 90% of everyone else, show up, and be on time.</p>
<p>Still not too tough.</p>
<p>To do better than 95% of everyone else, show up, on time, with a plan.</p>
<p>Getting a little harder here.</p>
<p>To do better than anyone else, 100% of everyone else, show up, on time, with a plan, and follow through with the plan.</p>
<p>Ouch. Now this is really getting harder, isn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>Have you noticed how the last five percent of something is usually the hardest? Take working out with weights for example. The first of ten reps are usually the easiest, while reps 8, 9 and 10 are usually the hardest. Do you also know which reps do you the most good? That&#8217;s right, eleven and twelve.</p>
<p>So it is with following through.  In my experience, both personally and professionally, this is the hardest part of being successful. And therefore the most important and beneficial.</p>
<p>So what makes it so hard to follow through? The biggest hindrance for most people is putting action off, the deadly disease of procrastination.</p>
<p>Here are two sets of deadly procrastination words.</p>
<p><b>&#8220;I&#8217;ll do it later&#8221;</b> &#8211; What &#8220;I&#8217;ll do it later&#8221; really means is that we have done two interesting things in our brains. We have linked more pain than pleasure to getting something done and we have linked more pleasure to putting something off than to doing it now. Simply stated, when we say &#8220;I&#8217;ll do it later&#8221; we mean that it feels better to put it off than to do it now.</p>
<p><b>&#8220;I forgot&#8221;</b> &#8211; Sometimes we do honestly forget. Most of the time, what &#8220;I forgot&#8221; really means is that we did not believe something was important enough to do. It&#8217;s another excuse for procrastination.</p>
<p>So how do we beat the disease of procrastination? Nike had it right with it&#8217;s slogan &#8220;Just Do It.&#8221; I realize that I&#8217;m quoting a sneaker company here, but I guess you find your wisdom where you can.</p>
<p>The main reason why the just do it slogan works so well is because the smallest action is better than the best intention. All the best intentions in the world can&#8217;t stack up against even the smallest action.</p>
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<p>Visit SecretsofGreatRelationships.com for tips and tools for creating and growing a great relationship. You can also subscribe to our f*r*e*e 10 day e-program on how to enrich your relationship today, from relationship coach and expert Jeff Herring.</p>
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		<title>Parts that Make the Whole&#8230; or Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many parts that make up you.
There&#8217;s the Musical You, the Friendly You, the Amazing You, the Genius You, the Calm You, the Peaceful You, and many more parts that make up who you are &#8211; much like an identity check list:
All round good guy/gal part  check
Uniquely amazing you part  check
Witty and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many parts that make up you.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s the Musical You, the Friendly You, the Amazing You, the Genius You, the Calm You, the Peaceful You, and many more parts that make up who you are &#8211; much like an identity check list:</p>
<p>All round good guy/gal part  check<br />
Uniquely amazing you part  check<br />
Witty and intelligent part  check<br />
Lovable and charming part  check<br />
Moody and indecisive part  who me???   Never?<br />
Selfish and greedy part  not me!  Never?<br />
Self opinionated  Nope, not me!  Never?</p>
<p>We all have wonderful attributes; we also have parts not so wonderful which we&#8217;d rather keep hidden but really, it&#8217;s okay to acknowledge we have both.  There&#8217;s a part of me that&#8217;s greedy.  I can be greedy and thirsty for knowledge.  On the flip side I will give away this knowledge to others.  In a nutshell, there&#8217;s a part of me that really wants it and another part that gives it away.</p>
<p>Sometimes we have infighting between parts because one wants to do one thing and the other part wants to do the opposite, much like a tug of war.  An example is when you hear yourself or someone else say &#8220;A part of me would really love to move on but then again a part of me would rather I stay&#8221; or &#8220;There&#8217;s a part of me  that loves what money can bring but there&#8217;s another part that says it&#8217;s not important&#8221;.</p>
<p>Eventually we can become indecisive, apathetic, confused or frustrated, to name a few.  If a win/win negotiation becomes lose/lose our parts will slowly begin to separate from our true self.</p>
<p>Imagine for a moment a plump juicy, untouched mandarin.  With the mandarin&#8217;s segments still deliciously intact and protected by its shiny, orange outer skin, it&#8217;s whole.  Now imagine that these segments are the mandarin&#8217;s parts or aspects if you like.  Once peeled and a segment is broken off it then becomes separate from its original form.  Very much like our parts when they separate.  The difference is we can reclaim ours &#8211; the mandarin simply gets eaten.</p>
<p>Something Fun to Do</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve haven&#8217;t given much thought to how many sides of you there are, maybe you&#8217;d like to try the following exercise.  You can do this as a group or as something private and only for you.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what you do:</p>
<p>*Pencil in approximately one hour of &#8216;Me Time&#8217; in your diary for the weekend, a day off, or after working hours and find yourself an area where you&#8217;ll be undisturbed.</p>
<p>*Get some A4 coloured sheets of paper, coloured pencils/textas/crayons, scissors, glue, and a large sheet of white card paper, and anything else you might like to include.</p>
<p>*Get into the Zone by spending some time in quiet contemplation before you start.</p>
<p>*When you&#8217;re ready &#8211; write on your coloured sheets of paper the parts of you that you discover.</p>
<p>Some examples might be:</p>
<p>Busy Me!  Genius Me!  Loud Me!  Considerate Me!  Hormonal Me!  Selfish Me! Masculine/Feminine Me!  Creative Me! The Sex Goddess/God Me! Wicked Me!</p>
<p>*Cut out all the different parts and glue to your large card paper &#8211; you might like to add stories to it, favourite quotations and anything you believe is relevant to you.</p>
<p>*When you&#8217;ve completed this exercise, step back and notice how truly unique you are.</p>
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She is also a Transformational Coach, certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and writer who is totally committed to helping others create positive and action oriented changes to their lives.<br />
High on Michaela&#8217;s list of passions is her Meditation and the Clarity and Balance programs.  It&#8217;s from designing and delivering these programs and her inner need to express herself through the written word, and the practise of meditation that Michaela has now decided to share with others, her many meditations she&#8217;s written for her programs by means of her Meditation Script books.</p>
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		<title>Playing With Mindfulness:  Sneaking In The Back Door</title>
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My response is always this: &#8220;Oh, you poor thing! Have you tried *playing* with mindfulness? It&#8217;s very effective, and much more fun!&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I often meet people who say things like, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been working on mindfulness for over twenty years.&#8221;</p>
<p>My response is always this: &#8220;Oh, you poor thing! Have you tried *playing* with mindfulness? It&#8217;s very effective, and much more fun!&#8221;</p>
<p>They tend to look at me like I&#8217;m some kind of kook, and then ask the million-dollar question: &#8220;How can you play with mindfulness?&#8221; Glad you asked&#8230;.</p>
<p>We tend to think of mindfulness as something that develops only after years of dedicated meditation. We must sit for hours, contemplate in silence for days, go on retreats for weeks, practice daily for years. Okay, that can work.</p>
<p>The unfortunate thing is that it IS work, and consequently, it&#8217;s about as appealing to most folks as lying on a bed of nails. Sure, they want to develop a clearer perspective on life. Yes, they want to become calm and contemplative. Of course they want to live more meaningfully and with greater joy. But does it have to be so hard?</p>
<p>Absolutely not. You see, while most people knock politely on that front door of meditation in order to get inside the House of Mindfulness, I like to sneak people in the back door to steal a few cookies. Why can&#8217;t we play with mindfulness, dance with it, treat it like our favorite goofy cousin who happens to be brilliant instead of our strict uncle who happens to have a Ph.D?</p>
<p>Why can&#8217;t we tiptoe toward mindfulness through eyes-wide-open exercises that are engaging, uplifting, informative, and&#8211;dare I say it&#8211;fun?</p>
<p>Mindfulness should be like a big game of mental hide-and-seek: &#8220;Where am I now? Gotcha!&#8221;</p>
<p>As a student of Buddhism for nearly 30 years, I have the greatest respect for the Buddha and the philosophy that developed around his teachings. I have tremendous admiration for those who have dedicated themselves to a regular meditation practice.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s disturbing to me that mindfulness is seen as &#8220;belonging&#8221; to Buddhism and that meditation is seen as the only vehicle that will take us there. This sounds a bit like, oh, attachment? Clinging, perhaps?</p>
<p>I just can&#8217;t find it in my heart to believe that the Buddha would be ticked off about the idea of developing mindfulness in whatever way works best.</p>
<p>Not everyone likes the idea of meditation, but here&#8217;s the cool part: those who start off with easy, enjoyable exercises often find themselves seeing the value in sitting still. In fact, many clients say they&#8217;d never have started with meditation, but they so enjoyed &#8220;playing&#8221; with mindfulness that they have begun a regular sitting practice!</p>
<p>Sneaky? Sure, but that&#8217;s part of playing. Fun&#8211;in whatever form that takes&#8211;is what keeps us going back for more. If you&#8217;re not grinning, you&#8217;re not winning in this big ol&#8217; game of life.<br />
If &#8220;working&#8221; on mindfulness isn&#8217;t working for you, try playing instead.</p>
<p>Throw open the doors.<br />
Let your inner monk go out<br />
and play. It&#8217;s recess!</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Motivation is a call to  action. Motivation inspires change,  movement, and focus; it is what makes the world turn. The Art of Motivation is a must for Master Persuaders. How do you motivate in such  a way that prompts people to take the actions you want them to take? How can you plant the seeds to encourage motivation? As a persuader, one of the keys to success is  to motivate yourself and others. We have all had days when we did not feel like  doing the things we knew we needed to do.  It is useless to persuade and have others agree with your point of view  if you can&#8217;t get them to take action.</p>
<p>Martin Luther King said, &#8220;If a man hasn&#8217;t  discovered something that he will die for, he isn&#8217;t fit to live.&#8221; In order to successfully motivate someone &#8211;  or, to get him or her to internalize the motivation &#8211; you have to create a deep  hunger or thirst. It has been said you  can bring a horse to water, but you can&#8217;t make him drink. That&#8217;s true.  But let it be known that you can give that horse salt and create such a  thirst that the horse must have water.  As a master motivator, you are giving salt to your prospects. You are striving to create such a thirst in  other people that they can&#8217;t wait to act.</p>
<p>You will find people tend to get motivated  for the short term, lose steam, and then fall back into the rut they were  trying to pull themselves out of in the first place. As a persuader and motivator, you have to  understand what pulls people from action to inaction. What causes us to lose excitement, vision,  and energy? When you notice your  prospects are losing their motivation, these are the reasons why:</p>
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<li>The desire to gain </li>
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<li>The desire to avoid       loss</li>
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<li>To make money  </li>
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<li>To avoid criticism</li>
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<li>To save time </li>
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<li>To avoid loss of       possessions</li>
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<li>To avoid effort  </li>
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<li>To avoid physical pain</li>
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<li>To achieve comfort </li>
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<li>To avoid loss of       reputation</li>
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<li>To have health </li>
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<li>To avoid loss of money</li>
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<li>To be popular </li>
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<li>To avoid trouble</li>
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<li>The desire to gain       (cont,)</li>
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<li>To experience pleasure </li>
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<li>To be clean</li>
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<li>To be praised</li>
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<li>To be in style</li>
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<li>To gratify curiosity</li>
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<li>To satisfy an appetite</li>
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<li>To have beautiful       possessions</li>
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<li>To be an individual</li>
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<li>To emulate others</li>
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<li>To take advantage of       opportunities<strong></strong></li>
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<p>You can&#8217;t change a habit unless you replace it with  another one. The same is true for  motivation. You can&#8217;t change how someone  is motivated unless you replace the undesirable motivation with a desirable  one. You have to understand whether your  prospect&#8217;s motivation is a positive motivation or a destructive motivation.</p>
<p>Once inspiration is identified, build on that  inspiration until you create an intense hunger.  This means that you get your prospects to take responsibility for their  own lives. Get them to set new goals or  review their existing goals and their reasons for setting them. Another way to  stoke the fires is to find somebody who shares that same passion.</p>
<p>Since Maslow introduced the concept of needs,  countless motivational theories have been brought to light. Avid McClelland proposed that we learn three  things that motivate us as we go through life: achievement, affiliation, and  power. John C. Mowen used the three  &#8220;R&#8217;s&#8221; of motivation: reward, recognition, and reinforcement. Bob Stone suggested that people respond  either to &#8220;gain something they do not have or to avoid losing something they  now possess.&#8221; He created this list of  basic human wants to explain his theory.  In his book The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard identifies eight hidden  needs that motivate people into action:</p>
<p>1. Need for emotional security: We live in uncertain times. Terrorism lurks, the happenings on Wall  Street are shaky, we are surrounded by illness and disease, etc. We need safety, comfort, and stability in our  lives.</p>
<p>2. Need to feel self-worth: Much of today&#8217;s society is cold, competitive,  and uncaring. We want to experience a  place in the world where we know we&#8217;ve made a difference.</p>
<p>3.  Need for ego-gratification: We want  recognition and praise. We all want to  feel important.</p>
<p>4. Need for creativity: We feel more satisfaction and fulfillment when  we can work creatively through hobbies, sports, and other forms of recreation.</p>
<p>5. Need for love foci: Life is richer when we have someone to share  our love with, for example friends, children, grandchildren, a spouse, or pets.</p>
<p>6. Need for control: We need to feel a sense that we have some  control or power over our environment, our surroundings, or our conditions.</p>
<p>7. Need to belong: We want to feel that we are an integral part  of the world and that we are important to people whom we love, respect, or  admire.</p>
<p>8. Need for immortality: We fear dying or being forgotten. We buy life insurance because we want to  leave something behind.</p>
<p>Motivation  starts with vision. People need to  believe they will succeed in what you are motivating them to do. No one likes to lose. No one wants to lose. No one wants to be associated with losers. So, instill in your listener or audience a  vision of winning. Thinking we can win  and seeing the win in our mind&#8217;s eye stirs our internal motivation. When we help others think of past victories  or instill the vision of victory in them, we can motivate them to take  action. Olympic coach Charles Garfield  states that the highest performers are driven by a sense of mission.</p>
<p>Learning how to persuade and influence will make the difference between hoping for a better income and having a better income.  Beware of the common mistakes presenters and persuaders commit that cause them to lose the deal.</p>
<p>Master  Persuaders present a winning package.  When people sense victory or accomplishment, they will make sacrifices  and become energized. They will find a  way to succeed and win. If they sense  defeat, they&#8217;ll exert little personal effort, come up with lots of excuses, and  exhibit lack of energy for the cause.</p>
<p>Motivation  is true art. When you understand the  Laws of Persuasion not only will you be able to motivate, but you will also  have earned the right to motivate.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong><br />
 Persuasion is the missing puzzle piece that will crack the code to dramatically increase your income, improve your relationships, and help you get what you want, when you want, and win friends for life.  Ask yourself how much money and income you have lost because of your inability to persuade and influence.  Think about it.  Sure you&#8217;ve seen some success, but think of the times you couldn&#8217;t get it done.  Has there ever been a time when you did not get your point across?  Were you unable to convince someone to do something?  Have you reached your full potential?  Are you able to motivate yourself and others to achieve more and accomplish their goals?  What about your relationships?  Imagine being able to overcome objections before they happen, know what your prospect is thinking and feeling, feel more confident in your ability to persuade.  Professional success, personal happiness, leadership potential, and income depend on the ability to persuade, influence, and motivate others.</p>
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<p>If you are ready to claim your success and learn what only the ultra-prosperous know, begin by going to <a href="http://www.PreWealth.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.PreWealth.com</a> and getting my free report &#8220;10 Mistakes That Continue Costing You Thousands.&#8221; After reading my free report, go to <a href="http://www.PreWealth.com/IQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.PreWealth.com/IQ</a> and take the free Persuasion IQ analysis to determine where you rank and what area of the sales cycle you need to improve in order to close every sale!</p>
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		<title>Seven Aspects of  Making Brilliant Decisions: The Relationship Between Work and Self</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Workweek:  an opportunity for discovering and shaping; the place where the self meets the world.</p>
<p>Regardless of what business we are in, what projects we are working on or what interests we have in the world &#8211; we are all in the business of relationship building. In business we are always cultivating relationships with employees, with prospective clients, with colleagues. In our personal lives the place of relationship is often more obvious and more central. And our deeper relationship with ourselves is at the core of how we manage and grow each of those other relationships and therefore our lives.</p>
<p>At every moment in our professional and personal lives we are faced with decisions &#8211; one after another that create and move along the landscape of our lives. What criteria do you use to make good decisions, what benchmarks do you employ to measure your decision making process? The issue of relationships and decision-making are closely allied. If we are in close, clear contact with our own beings, our wisdom, our intuitive faculties- the decisions we make have more likelihood of keeping us moving along a path that is in integrity with our values and real goals. When we allow the rush of events to disconnect us from this deeper well of understanding and vision &#8211; all that we do suffers. I hear over and over again from clients how there isn&#8217;t the time, how the bottom-line is what must determine their choices and often their direction. I am not immune to the pressures and demands of the world we all live in. But if we are to, in some way, affect the world positively and develop a life that is worth living we must find some time to allow for the growth and development of that which will give us the foundation, creativity and energy to make moment-to-moment sound decisions.</p>
<p>How do you cultivate this essential connection or relationship with yourself? What nourishes it? For me sometimes in a busy work environment it is the presence of beauty or the kind and friendly relationship I have developed with my colleagues. My daily habits of mind and inspiring walk contribute to this. Sometimes it is taking the time to stop and allow silence to be present so I can sense the next move. I know that when I do this my decisions are more balanced. Each of us must look to ourselves, to mentors and teachers to cultivate even simple practices that we can integrate into our day.</p>
<p>When we are able to do this &#8211; to maintain a stronger connection to that core in us there is a sense of our own strength and power that then comes forward in our relationships and choices. Of course our decision making takes into account facts, weighing of potential outcomes, the history of the issue at hand. But if you are making a decision the context in which it is made is really the state you are in, your thoughts, your clarity, and your connection to a deeper well of being. These influence directly your perceptions, understanding, openness to options and solutions, and the flow of your creative juices. We must call on our own deeper understanding and vision to inform our choices.</p>
<p>Usually when we have cultivated this more essential connection it is easier to see or sense what is needed in the situation. We more easily feel our own power to stand firm in the face of conflicting opinions or forces. We can keep a perspective that serves the situation and begins to move it along in some creative and hopefully affirmative way.</p>
<p>The word &#8220;Choices&#8221; itself gives us clues to the components of good decision-making. I believe that good choices are ones that bring about more ability, more freedom for ourselves and others and ones that allow for continued growth in the situation. Here is a way of looking at your daily choices and seeing how they are or are not contributing to this.</p>
<p>C: Creative A good choice calls on your creativity, your interest in finding solutions that may have been hidden. They actual feel good in your body because you can feel the energy of your creativity being engaged. This in itself is satisfying.</p>
<p>H: Healthy Faced with a decision you can always look at what is the healthiest route both for yourself, for those involved and perhaps even for the future. Healthy native cultures often make decisions based on the impact they may have for generations to come. We have lost that long-range vision and often make short-term decisions that are detrimental to the entire situation further down the road.</p>
<p>O: Open- Opportunities &#8211; Objective Does the decision keep you open to possibilities? Does it bring in a larger field of opportunities? Are you able to make it in an objective as opposed to an emotionally reactive state?</p>
<p>I: Inspire Inspiration is usually the outcome of a good decision. Even if the solution is difficult or the next steps hazardous you know that you are doing the best thing possible in the situation. Once more that in itself adds to your self-esteem and raises the energy available in the situation or system.</p>
<p>C: Connections Isolation of some sort is often the by-product of questionable decisions. Whether that isolation is from others, our own selves or our talents and abilities. But when we maintain those basic connections we can more safely navigate the new and unknown territory that some choices bring.</p>
<p>E: Empower At then end of the day do your choices leave you feeling empowered &#8211; the author of your own decisions or do you feel caught in a web of confusion. If the later is true it is time to stand back and begin to take a larger view of the issues at hand.</p>
<p>S: Soul Finally choices that both utilize your connection to your soul and serve to support that bond are those that will bear the richest fruit.</p>
<p>Ask yourself &#8211; does this choice call on creativity &#8211; does it lead to healthy actions that support an open attitude and opportunities that lead to inspiration of some kind &#8211; empowering you and others to maintain the soul- the energy &#8211; the heart and guidance available in each moment. Choices such as these create energy &#8211; not drain it- they feel good to us and at the end of the day we can rest easy knowing that regardless of outcome we have done the best that we can.</p>
<p>We are the authors of our lives and our business. Although we are each within a larger field of forces, history and pressures each of us has at our disposal creative wisdom, connection and creativity that help us navigate the sometimes-chaotic landscape of each day.</p>
<p>&#8220;Feel the truth of what you are and at the same moment act. Risk yourself for what you know is right and true.&#8221; Fredrick Douglas, escaped slave from an Independence Day speech</p>
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<p>Connie Butler is a personal and professional coach working with individuals and groups to clarify their greatest vision and cultivate its successful realization &#8211; moving them past their growth frontier into new territory. She is available for personal or professional coaching, seminars and can be reached at 305-534-1119 or mailto:connie@conniebutler.biz. Ms. Butler is a published author and radio personality.</p>
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