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Stress

Today I am at the hospital to get an X-ray to see how my back is progressing post surgery. I think everyone should visit a hospital once in a while. There are people with bandages on their face, people who are walking in pain. Old people crippled over, and some not so old with eyes gone from this earth. Outside there are people crying, many of them overweight and smoking, soon to become patients I fear. I think when someone says "I need time off from my work because of stress they need to visit a hospital - maybe work there and see how blessed we are just to work and breathe without a tube. I know this sounds hard but really it needs to be said, our ego and sense of privilege can make us a sad reflection of who we really are. In natures arms it is so simple. We do make it complicated don't we? We pack up and go on holidays to relax - such a complicated way. We celebrate losing weight when it was just dumb to put it on. Work is not more than support and challenge, if you think you want that equation changed, as yourself which area of your life you'd like to pay for it with.

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Stress

Today I am at the hospital to get an X-ray to see how my back is progressing post surgery. I think everyone should visit a hospital once in a while. There are people with bandages on their face, people who are walking in pain. Old people crippled over, and some not so old with eyes gone from this earth. Outside there are people crying, many of them overweight and smoking, soon to become patients I fear. I think when someone says "I need time off from my work because of stress they need to visit a hospital - maybe work there and see how blessed we are just to work and breathe without a tube. I know this sounds hard but really it needs to be said, our ego and sense of privilege can make us a sad reflection of who we really are. In natures arms it is so simple. We do make it complicated don't we? We pack up and go on holidays to relax - such a complicated way. We celebrate losing weight when it was just dumb to put it on. Work is not more than support and challenge, if you think you want that equation changed, as yourself which area of your life you'd like to pay for it with.

Hospitals - the most expensive seminar on earth.

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Using the Laws of Nature to Get Over A Heart Break - Break Up

There are a few things you can be guaranteed of in life. One is you will eventually leave the planet (die) and the other is you are going to get your heart broken. You might not get heart break because of a relationship, it could even be money that’s the cause, but either way, sometime in the future, you are going to deal with a heart break at least once, if not, more.

I’ve helped people through relationship heartbreak, financial heartbreak, being fired heartbreak, getting serious disease heartbreak. And I’ve gone down those and many others myself. I am, at the end of the day, the most experienced person I know at dealing with heartbreak. So, I speak with authority on the topic. I’n not famous as a “heart breaker,” I’m famous as the “heart opener”

So, I want to share with you the tools to deal with a heart break when it happens: If you are not experiencing a heartbreak right now, I suggest you put this blog article in your “one day this will be interesting basket.” I promise you, for yourself or someone else, it’s a valuable save.

Get help … You need empathy not sympathy…. the painful feeling one gets when things do not go as expected. Never judge the size of the heartbreak on the size of the cause. My neighbour’s cat died and their heartache was the exact depth as my client whose relationship crashed. Heartbreak is heartbreak, no matter what the trigger. But two heartbroken people do not make one better. You want to find someone to be a friend or supporter who does not have an emotional engagement with your loss, or be that person for someone in need. If you love cats and your friend’s cat died, you can only offer sympathy which is fine but it actually can prolong the pain. What is needed to help people through heartbreak is empathy. Solid ground they can rely on that’s not caught up in the pain.
Find a Substitute …. You need to replace the thing that’s lost as soon as possible. Whether it’s a relationship or a cat or a job, the key to recovery is replacement. The vacuum that is left when there’s an unexpected loss is the real cause of pain. The empty space, the hole, the lack of a companion, the break in routine. It’s not always wise however to replace like with like. Sometimes it’s better to replace a relationship with a sport, a holiday, a movie, a camera. Sometimes it’s better to replace the loss with an icon, a picture or a plant. Activity based replacements are best. Internet based replacements are worst. Stay away from computers during heartbreak for as much of the day as possible. Sometimes TV is a help but really, getting outdoors is the key.
Get Outdoors in Nature…. Hearbreak thrives indoors. Pain and suffering is harvested indoors. Grief multiplies in isolation. This isn’t to suggest that you go down the pub, or go back to work straight away, but three hours spent walking in nature will do more for you than 24 hours locked up inside. Stay warm, keep dry, don’t go doing hardy “hero” things. Just walk, look up, look out, look around. Nature is born to heal you, that’s her thing. You need to put a lot of trust in the automatic and deep essence of nature at this time. Just be outside and get sunlight.
Don't go Too Far … Draw lines in the sand when it comes to your response to pain. Yes, it hurts, but there’s no good can be achieved reacting to pain today in a way that’s going to cause you additional pain, over and above the heartbreak, tomorrow. Getting pissed, saying bad things to others (especially the one who triggered your pain), thinking about self harm, sharing negative anger at the universe, it just doesn’t help. Sure you feel angry, sure you feel like kicking a rubbish tin, sure you want a pain relief pill but there are none that will help you be a better you as a result of this situation. All those options that come to mind just make the pain last longer and screw up your next stage of life.
Focus on Healing …. The cause of heartbreak is a sense of a shattered future. You were really connected with whatever went away, whether it was a job, money, a cat or your partner in life. You’d woven them into the fabric of the future. Now, that fabric is shattered because they were a key element of it. Either by using substitutes to get you back on track, or by shear determination, start making a new bucket list of what you’d love to be and do and have in your life in the future. Some part of your brain might scream “there is no future without ….. “ but there’s another part of your heart saying “oh, yes there is, bigger and better than ever before” the key here is not to let guilt about moving forward stop you. Sometimes the gift of a heartbreak is that it frees you up to a bigger story than you were living before. This is, at the end of the day, where healing a broken heart begins.
Love little things …. Heartbreak comes to it’s darkest moment when it spreads like a virus and begins to tamper with your taste buds, your hearing, your eye sight, your finger tips, your sense of smell. So, please be sensitive to the importance of the senses. Feed them small meals of love. Touch a tree trunk and feel the grain, taste a herbal tea or a sweet leaf of a herb you love, stroke a dog or listen to some soft meditation music. Avoid sensory triggers that remind you of the missing void in your life but instead add new ones. Add new foods, new music, new smells, new views, new environments. Avoid places that are going to make you focus on the missing and instead find places and sensory love bites that remind you of the beauty and possibility of your life and future. Think small things and expand from there.
Focus on the Cause … Heartbreak comes from a dependency on something on someone. This dependency is courageous because you were prepared to be so vulnerable and surrender a whole lot of more secure and self-contained living patterns to become attached to something or someone. You could have been less dependent on that job, or treated the cat with less affection, you could have been less interdependent on your partner or money for that matter. So, you have had incredible courage to be in a place where your heart is broken. That courage is love. You have loved something completely and that’s what it takes to be a real person. The courage to truly love. And that’s why it hurts. But ultimately, love goes one step more. Love is also letting go. The cause of heartbreak is the unwillingness to love that one step more, unconditional love. To love something so completely, whether they are here or gone, with you or not with you, doing what you expected or not doing what you expected. This is what is needed. Not withdrawal or anger or hurt or pain. What is needed is for you to love them or it, more. To move to the point of unconditional love. It applies to money as well as cats and people. To love is to release, and to release is to begin a new chapter. Freedom.
Begin a deliberate re-inventing your life process. For me, the best I can find is my Back on Track model. Start with the seven points above, then move to your “Health Programme” and create a whole new health focus. Then, move to your environment and really make a whole new space at home and at work including your clothes. Move to Brand You…. your wisdom, your resume, your capability and regain that confidence in you as you. Then, step 5, your VIP, get that bucket list out, start imagining the future, start dreaming of just a few ideas you’d love to be and do and have. And finally, which is where you may need some external support, start to believe that the best you is yet to come, that there’s a whole ramp of possibilities within you, unexplored and ready to be expressed. This is the future.

With Inspiration.

 Chris



Speaking, Training, Consulting

INSPIRED LIVING

Powered by nature, proven by experience, guided by Chris.

Tel: +61 417209636

http://www.chriswalker.com.au

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Using the Laws of Nature to Get Over A Heart Break - Break Up

There are a few things you can be guaranteed of in life. One is you will eventually leave the planet (die) and the other is you are going to get your heart broken. You might not get heart break because of a relationship, it could even be money that’s the cause, but either way, sometime in the future, you are going to deal with a heart break at least once, if not, more.

I’ve helped people through relationship heartbreak, financial heartbreak, being fired heartbreak, getting serious disease heartbreak. And I’ve gone down those and many others myself. I am, at the end of the day, the most experienced person I know at dealing with heartbreak. So, I speak with authority on the topic. I’n not famous as a “heart breaker,” I’m famous as the “heart opener”

So, I want to share with you the tools to deal with a heart break when it happens: If you are not experiencing a heartbreak right now, I suggest you put this blog article in your “one day this will be interesting basket.” I promise you, for yourself or someone else, it’s a valuable save.

Get help … You need empathy not sympathy…. the painful feeling one gets when things do not go as expected. Never judge the size of the heartbreak on the size of the cause. My neighbour’s cat died and their heartache was the exact depth as my client whose relationship crashed. Heartbreak is heartbreak, no matter what the trigger. But two heartbroken people do not make one better. You want to find someone to be a friend or supporter who does not have an emotional engagement with your loss, or be that person for someone in need. If you love cats and your friend’s cat died, you can only offer sympathy which is fine but it actually can prolong the pain. What is needed to help people through heartbreak is empathy. Solid ground they can rely on that’s not caught up in the pain.
Find a Substitute …. You need to replace the thing that’s lost as soon as possible. Whether it’s a relationship or a cat or a job, the key to recovery is replacement. The vacuum that is left when there’s an unexpected loss is the real cause of pain. The empty space, the hole, the lack of a companion, the break in routine. It’s not always wise however to replace like with like. Sometimes it’s better to replace a relationship with a sport, a holiday, a movie, a camera. Sometimes it’s better to replace the loss with an icon, a picture or a plant. Activity based replacements are best. Internet based replacements are worst. Stay away from computers during heartbreak for as much of the day as possible. Sometimes TV is a help but really, getting outdoors is the key.
Get Outdoors in Nature…. Hearbreak thrives indoors. Pain and suffering is harvested indoors. Grief multiplies in isolation. This isn’t to suggest that you go down the pub, or go back to work straight away, but three hours spent walking in nature will do more for you than 24 hours locked up inside. Stay warm, keep dry, don’t go doing hardy “hero” things. Just walk, look up, look out, look around. Nature is born to heal you, that’s her thing. You need to put a lot of trust in the automatic and deep essence of nature at this time. Just be outside and get sunlight.
Don't go Too Far … Draw lines in the sand when it comes to your response to pain. Yes, it hurts, but there’s no good can be achieved reacting to pain today in a way that’s going to cause you additional pain, over and above the heartbreak, tomorrow. Getting pissed, saying bad things to others (especially the one who triggered your pain), thinking about self harm, sharing negative anger at the universe, it just doesn’t help. Sure you feel angry, sure you feel like kicking a rubbish tin, sure you want a pain relief pill but there are none that will help you be a better you as a result of this situation. All those options that come to mind just make the pain last longer and screw up your next stage of life.
Focus on Healing …. The cause of heartbreak is a sense of a shattered future. You were really connected with whatever went away, whether it was a job, money, a cat or your partner in life. You’d woven them into the fabric of the future. Now, that fabric is shattered because they were a key element of it. Either by using substitutes to get you back on track, or by shear determination, start making a new bucket list of what you’d love to be and do and have in your life in the future. Some part of your brain might scream “there is no future without ….. “ but there’s another part of your heart saying “oh, yes there is, bigger and better than ever before” the key here is not to let guilt about moving forward stop you. Sometimes the gift of a heartbreak is that it frees you up to a bigger story than you were living before. This is, at the end of the day, where healing a broken heart begins.
Love little things …. Heartbreak comes to it’s darkest moment when it spreads like a virus and begins to tamper with your taste buds, your hearing, your eye sight, your finger tips, your sense of smell. So, please be sensitive to the importance of the senses. Feed them small meals of love. Touch a tree trunk and feel the grain, taste a herbal tea or a sweet leaf of a herb you love, stroke a dog or listen to some soft meditation music. Avoid sensory triggers that remind you of the missing void in your life but instead add new ones. Add new foods, new music, new smells, new views, new environments. Avoid places that are going to make you focus on the missing and instead find places and sensory love bites that remind you of the beauty and possibility of your life and future. Think small things and expand from there.
Focus on the Cause … Heartbreak comes from a dependency on something on someone. This dependency is courageous because you were prepared to be so vulnerable and surrender a whole lot of more secure and self-contained living patterns to become attached to something or someone. You could have been less dependent on that job, or treated the cat with less affection, you could have been less interdependent on your partner or money for that matter. So, you have had incredible courage to be in a place where your heart is broken. That courage is love. You have loved something completely and that’s what it takes to be a real person. The courage to truly love. And that’s why it hurts. But ultimately, love goes one step more. Love is also letting go. The cause of heartbreak is the unwillingness to love that one step more, unconditional love. To love something so completely, whether they are here or gone, with you or not with you, doing what you expected or not doing what you expected. This is what is needed. Not withdrawal or anger or hurt or pain. What is needed is for you to love them or it, more. To move to the point of unconditional love. It applies to money as well as cats and people. To love is to release, and to release is to begin a new chapter. Freedom.
Begin a deliberate re-inventing your life process. For me, the best I can find is my Back on Track model. Start with the seven points above, then move to your “Health Programme” and create a whole new health focus. Then, move to your environment and really make a whole new space at home and at work including your clothes. Move to Brand You…. your wisdom, your resume, your capability and regain that confidence in you as you. Then, step 5, your VIP, get that bucket list out, start imagining the future, start dreaming of just a few ideas you’d love to be and do and have. And finally, which is where you may need some external support, start to believe that the best you is yet to come, that there’s a whole ramp of possibilities within you, unexplored and ready to be expressed. This is the future.

With Inspiration.

 Chris



Speaking, Training, Consulting

INSPIRED LIVING

Powered by nature, proven by experience, guided by Chris.

Tel: +61 417209636

http://www.chriswalker.com.au

LinkedIn ... http://au.linkedin.com/in/innerwealth
Facebook ... https://www.facebook.com/Chris.Walker.Consulting
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With Inspiration,

Chris

Speaking, Training, Consulting

INSPIRED LIVING

Powered by nature, proven by experience, guided by Chris.

Tel: +61 417209636

http://www.chriswalker.com.au

LinkedIn ... http://au.linkedin.com/in/innerwealth
Facebook ... http://www.facebook.com/innerwealth
Twitter ... https://mobile.twitter.com/cw_innerwealth

Unique Corporate Training - love and family

Unlike any other corporate or personal development training process, Innerwealth has domestic relationships highest on it's list of priorities, even in corporate leadership training.

What we're sharing is a new model of how to balance your life, where home time, and self time are not used to balance work time. It means you turn up more in your relationship, deal with issues that piss you off and bring you into your heart more often.

Chris believes that the number of times people kiss and cuddle needs to be a part of life measurement. Instead of - "How much did you earn last year" or "how many properties did you buy?" he'd prefer to ask, "How many hugs and cuddles did you have with your significant other?" and "How few arguments and emotional dramas did you have with your family?"

These are work issues. These relationship barometers tell you how well you've been managing your career and work life. More hugs best management. Less arguments, best management. Walker proves that you make more wealth, have better health, do better at work and serve the world better just by managing your life and measuring it with more than just victories won.

Chris will teach you relationship healing skills but also how to better manage stress, anxiety and worry at work. His code is to encourage individuals to "TURN UP" when they get home and completely remove "workers compensation" from their family or relationships and the first step is "stop blaming the job."

Chris'll teach you process for balancing the day, clearing the debris before the front door, and, most important of all "TO ARRIVE HOME WITH MORE ENERGY THAN YOU LEFT FOR WORK WITH" that's a great life with self management applied to Love... BRING HOME THE LOVE... Like to Read more about this?

Unique Corporate Training - love and family

Unlike any other corporate or personal development training process, Innerwealth has domestic relationships highest on it's list of priorities, even in corporate leadership training.

What we're sharing is a new model of how to balance your life, where home time, and self time are not used to balance work time. It means you turn up more in your relationship, deal with issues that piss you off and bring you into your heart more often.

Chris believes that the number of times people kiss and cuddle needs to be a part of life measurement. Instead of - "How much did you earn last year" or "how many properties did you buy?" he'd prefer to ask, "How many hugs and cuddles did you have with your significant other?" and "How few arguments and emotional dramas did you have with your family?"

These are work issues. These relationship barometers tell you how well you've been managing your career and work life. More hugs best management. Less arguments, best management. Walker proves that you make more wealth, have better health, do better at work and serve the world better just by managing your life and measuring it with more than just victories won.

Chris will teach you relationship healing skills but also how to better manage stress, anxiety and worry at work. His code is to encourage individuals to "TURN UP" when they get home and completely remove "workers compensation" from their family or relationships and the first step is "stop blaming the job."

Chris'll teach you process for balancing the day, clearing the debris before the front door, and, most important of all "TO ARRIVE HOME WITH MORE ENERGY THAN YOU LEFT FOR WORK WITH" that's a great life with self management applied to Love... BRING HOME THE LOVE... Like to Read more about this?

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Have you noticed that while sitting in the bath or standing in the shower, all your wildest fantasies seem to be realisable? Is this because of the way you are soaping your underarm? Is it because you are free to fart without fear of detection? Or, is it because in the bathroom, your imagination has no challenger?

We need bathrooms. We need them for our daily hygiene but more important than that, we need them to give us permission to sing, fart and imagine what’s possible. Lets call that heaven. The unbridled use of imagination to come up with great ideas.

Then you towel off, put on your clean undies and (if you are so inclined) a bra and wrap yourself in your armour for the day. You can choose this armour based on what you want to project to the world. A suit, or shorts or a clown outfit. You are not your clothes and the projection might not match the images you had in the shower. You might be Jeckll and Hyde …. a wolf in sheep’s clothing. And out you go into the world, presenting yourself, conforming and yet, in some way, hoping that the imaginary movie you ran in the shower is more real than this one you are living. 

There’s a tension isn’t there? A tension between what we want and what we’ve got. There are periods when they line up. Some of those periods last longer than others, particularly in relationships. Like the last relationship you had. It started like a perfect download of the shower movie you had in your mind and ended up hurting. You had a dream and it ended a little different than you imagined. And now, it’s time for a second go, or third, or fourth and you probably don’t want to get your heart broken again.

So, I wrote this book for you.

You can review this book and download a sample at this link http://www.chriswalker.com.au/store/p32/Soul_Love_Take_2.html

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Law of Abundance

Learning the Laws of Abundance!

The Law of Abundance is the principle that there is more than enough for you to have everything you want out of life. According to the Law of Abundance, you can have everything you want without someone else having to lose something in order for you to gain it.
 However, the Law of Abundance only works when you:
Know what you wantKnow how to ask for itTruly believe that you’ll receive it.
As simple as these might sound, if you have these three principles working for you, the Law of Abundance will bring you anything that you want, no matter how big it is.
To discover just how simple and how powerful the Law of Abundance really is, let’s break these principles down one at a time…
The Law of Abundance and Knowing What You Want
If you want to get the Law of Abundance on your side, you must know exactly what you want. Saying that you want a lot of money or that you want to meet your soul mate or that you want to be happy isn’t enough.
Instead, you need to send specific instructions to your subconscious mind, to your higher power or to the universe. To get started, trying answering these questions in relation to your financial life*:
Exactly how much money do you want?Exactly what date do you want to have it by?What exactly do you plan to give in exchange for the money?What is your specific plan for executing step three?
*These instructions were adapted from Napoleon Hill’s book on the Law of Abundance “Think and Grow Rich.”
While this example applies only to financial goals, it can also be applied to finding your soul mate or to finding your perfect job/career. Once you’ve answered these questions, the next step is asking for what you want…
The Law of Abundance and Asking for What You Want
Take the specific answers you’ve come up with now and arrange them into an affirmation that you can say every day. For example, assuming that you want to make $30,000.00 by December 1rst and that you plan on earning this by working as a sales consultant for your company and closing 30 deals, your affirmation might look like this:
“I will have $30,000.00 cash in my possession by December 1rst. I will earn this money by working as a sales consultant for “XYZ Company” and by closing a total of 30 new contracts before December 1rst. I am now working on this plan and am excited about achieving my goal.”
It’s important when asking for what you want that you’re reasonable in your time demands. The universe operates based on natural laws and trying to make something happen faster than it is naturally meant to happen will just set you up for disappointment.
Most experts on the Law of Abundance such as Bob Proctor, Napoleon Hill and Joe Vitale, suggest that you worry less about specific deadlines and focus more on being in a state of absolute belief as you ask for what you want.
Belief is the third ingredient of Law of Abundance and the one which makes all the pieces come together…
The Law of Abundance and the Power of Belief
Harnessing the power of absolute belief begins with understanding the difference between wanting something and truly believing that you’ll have it. In his classic on the Law of Abundance of the Law of Attraction, Napoleon Hill wrote:
“There is a difference between wanting something and being ready to receive it.”
Everyone wants money. Everyone wants to be happy and everyone wants to meet their perfect soul mate. The reason people don’t get what they want is because they either don’t know how to ask for it or, more importantly, they don’t truly believe they’ll receive it.
Absolute faith only comes when you erase doubt by becoming actively involved in the pursuit of what you want. This means taking action, and the more action you take towards getting what you want, the better prepared you’ll be for responding to the universe, your subconscious or to your higher power, when you’re presented with opportunities to get what you want.
Belief cannot be built trough spoken affirmation alone, you must also invest energy towards getting what you want by taking action on your plan for achieving what you want. Physical energy is a huge faith builder, and even the book of James in the New Testament says that faith without action isn’t true faith.
Thankfully, the actions invested towards getting what you want don’t have to be right on target. Instead, you start taking action and you correct course along the way, refining your plans and moving faster towards your goals as you do so.
Through knowing what you want and through following the steps above and becoming actively involved in building faith in your ability to reach your goal, you can invoke one of the most powerful laws in creation: the Law of Abundance.

Law of Abundance

Learning the Laws of Abundance!

The Law of Abundance is the principle that there is more than enough for you to have everything you want out of life. According to the Law of Abundance, you can have everything you want without someone else having to lose something in order for you to gain it.
 However, the Law of Abundance only works when you:
Know what you wantKnow how to ask for itTruly believe that you’ll receive it.
As simple as these might sound, if you have these three principles working for you, the Law of Abundance will bring you anything that you want, no matter how big it is.
To discover just how simple and how powerful the Law of Abundance really is, let’s break these principles down one at a time…
The Law of Abundance and Knowing What You Want
If you want to get the Law of Abundance on your side, you must know exactly what you want. Saying that you want a lot of money or that you want to meet your soul mate or that you want to be happy isn’t enough.
Instead, you need to send specific instructions to your subconscious mind, to your higher power or to the universe. To get started, trying answering these questions in relation to your financial life*:
Exactly how much money do you want?Exactly what date do you want to have it by?What exactly do you plan to give in exchange for the money?What is your specific plan for executing step three?
*These instructions were adapted from Napoleon Hill’s book on the Law of Abundance “Think and Grow Rich.”
While this example applies only to financial goals, it can also be applied to finding your soul mate or to finding your perfect job/career. Once you’ve answered these questions, the next step is asking for what you want…
The Law of Abundance and Asking for What You Want
Take the specific answers you’ve come up with now and arrange them into an affirmation that you can say every day. For example, assuming that you want to make $30,000.00 by December 1rst and that you plan on earning this by working as a sales consultant for your company and closing 30 deals, your affirmation might look like this:
“I will have $30,000.00 cash in my possession by December 1rst. I will earn this money by working as a sales consultant for “XYZ Company” and by closing a total of 30 new contracts before December 1rst. I am now working on this plan and am excited about achieving my goal.”
It’s important when asking for what you want that you’re reasonable in your time demands. The universe operates based on natural laws and trying to make something happen faster than it is naturally meant to happen will just set you up for disappointment.
Most experts on the Law of Abundance such as Bob Proctor, Napoleon Hill and Joe Vitale, suggest that you worry less about specific deadlines and focus more on being in a state of absolute belief as you ask for what you want.
Belief is the third ingredient of Law of Abundance and the one which makes all the pieces come together…
The Law of Abundance and the Power of Belief
Harnessing the power of absolute belief begins with understanding the difference between wanting something and truly believing that you’ll have it. In his classic on the Law of Abundance of the Law of Attraction, Napoleon Hill wrote:
“There is a difference between wanting something and being ready to receive it.”
Everyone wants money. Everyone wants to be happy and everyone wants to meet their perfect soul mate. The reason people don’t get what they want is because they either don’t know how to ask for it or, more importantly, they don’t truly believe they’ll receive it.
Absolute faith only comes when you erase doubt by becoming actively involved in the pursuit of what you want. This means taking action, and the more action you take towards getting what you want, the better prepared you’ll be for responding to the universe, your subconscious or to your higher power, when you’re presented with opportunities to get what you want.
Belief cannot be built trough spoken affirmation alone, you must also invest energy towards getting what you want by taking action on your plan for achieving what you want. Physical energy is a huge faith builder, and even the book of James in the New Testament says that faith without action isn’t true faith.
Thankfully, the actions invested towards getting what you want don’t have to be right on target. Instead, you start taking action and you correct course along the way, refining your plans and moving faster towards your goals as you do so.
Through knowing what you want and through following the steps above and becoming actively involved in building faith in your ability to reach your goal, you can invoke one of the most powerful laws in creation: the Law of Abundance.

HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE IS CARRYING ANGER?

The words GOT TO or HAVE TO are spoken a lot.

Tiredness and fatigue.

Immune system broken down.

Depression, sadness, insomnia and avoiding being alone.

Whites of the eyes showing above and below the pupil.

Critical and negative.

Not happy, overweight, single.

High blood pressure.

Tight jaw, clenched teeth, closed hands, 

Hunched shoulders, head down, sore neck, 

Bad knees, sprained ankles, unexpected tears.

Asserting excessive control 

Lost creativity, generousity, kindness

HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE IS CARRYING ANGER?

The words GOT TO or HAVE TO are spoken a lot.

Tiredness and fatigue.

Immune system broken down.

Depression, sadness, insomnia and avoiding being alone.

Whites of the eyes showing above and below the pupil.

Critical and negative.

Not happy, overweight, single.

High blood pressure.

Tight jaw, clenched teeth, closed hands, 

Hunched shoulders, head down, sore neck, 

Bad knees, sprained ankles, unexpected tears.

Asserting excessive control 

Lost creativity, generousity, kindness

HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE IS CARRYING ANGER?

The words GOT TO or HAVE TO are spoken a lot.

Tiredness and fatigue.

Immune system broken down.

Depression, sadness, insomnia and avoiding being alone.

Whites of the eyes showing above and below the pupil.

Critical and negative.

Not happy, overweight, single.

High blood pressure.

Tight jaw, clenched teeth, closed hands, 

Hunched shoulders, head down, sore neck, 

Bad knees, sprained ankles, unexpected tears.

Asserting excessive control 

Lost creativity, generousity, kindness

Beyond the Four Subsitutes

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> Date: 18 September 2013 10:42:33 AM AEST
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> Subject: Beyond the Four Subsitutes
>
> Hi there
> Here is another booklet from the latest upgrade to the 30 day challenge Vitality segment
> It speaks about the four substitutes and insufficiency … it's quite important
> Look forward to any comments you may have and any areas that are in need of elaboration or simplification
> Cheers
> With Innerwealth
> Chris
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> From: Chris Walker
> Date: 18 September 2013 10:42:33 AM AEST
> To: Chris Walker
> Subject: Beyond the Four Subsitutes
>
> Hi there
> Here is another booklet from the latest upgrade to the 30 day challenge Vitality segment
> It speaks about the four substitutes and insufficiency … it's quite important
> Look forward to any comments you may have and any areas that are in need of elaboration or simplification
> Cheers
> With Innerwealth
> Chris
>
>
>>
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>> http://www.chriswalker.com.au
>>
>> THINK INSPIRED - LIVE INSPIRED
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Interesting facts about our world

Good reading

Interesting facts about our world
 

Depending upon your definition, and whether or not you count Taiwan , there are approximately 196 countries in the world as of this writing.

 So while you may consider yourself to be a knowledgeable global citizen, and we're sure you are, given
the dynamic and complex nature of our planet there are certain to be at least a couple facts on this list that you will find surprising.

 Here are 25 things that you wouldn't believe about these countries.

  25: Covers the most time zones. France

 


If you count everything, including overseas territories, the n France claims the title by covering 12 time zones.

The United States would be the runner-up with 11 and then Russia with 9.

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24: Most likely to disappear beneath the waves, Maldives

 



 

With all the talks of global warming and rising sea levels, it is the residents of the Maldives that have the greatest reason to fear.

 

With an average height of around 1.8 meters above sea level their nation is the lowest on Earth.

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23: Most overweight population, Nauru

 



 

With over 95% of its population being overweight, the small island nation of Nauru is by far the fattest country on Earth.

 

Its obesity epidemic is primarily attributed to the importation of western fast food that coincided with an increased standard of living in the 20th century due to the global popularity of its phosphate exports. It's almost non sequitur,almost.

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22: Roads made of coral, Guam

 



 

Because Guam doesn't have any natural sand, but rather coral, the island nation makes its asphalt using a mix of ground coral and oil rather than importing sand from abroad.

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21: Has 350 sheep for every person, Falkland Islands ( UK )

 



 

With only about 3,000 people the Falkland Islands are home to approximately half-a million-sheep. Not surprisingly wool is a major export.

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20: Oldest sovereign state, Egypt

 



 

This largely depends upon your definition of a sovereign state but if you are going by first acquisition of sovereignty the n Egypt would be the first country in the world to achieve sovereignty based upon the formation of the first dynasty in 3100 BC.

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19: Most lakes in the world, Canada

 



 

WITH OVER THREE MILLION LAKES , 9% of CANADIAN TERRITORY is actually FRESH water and OVER 60% of ALL THE LAKES IN THE WORLD are found WITHIN ITS BORDERS.

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18: Least
likely place to meet your neighbour, Mongolia

 



 

At 4 people per square mile Mongolia is the least densely populated country on Earth.

Compare this to the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong that has the highest population density in the world with 340,000 people per square mile.

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17: Largest number of tanks, Russia

 



 

It is a strange title to hold, but Russia has by far the most tanks of any army in the world (21,000).

Unfortunately for the mothe rland most of the se outdated machines are tributes to its past,

and although outnumbered (16,000), the United States has a much more advanced tank inventory.

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16: The land of no rivers, Saudi Arabia

 



 

Sounds a bit strange doesn’t it? For a country as big as Saudi Arabia the re has to be at least some sort of flowing water.

Well, there isn't. Most of their fresh water comes from desalinization plants or
underground reservoirs.

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15: Youngest population of any country, Niger

 



 

Generally the world's youngest country is determined by calculating the portion of the population that is younger than 15.

Presently it is Niger that holds this distinction with roughly half of its population having barely reached puberty (49%).

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14: Most diverse country in the world, India

 



 

In almost every category, culturally, economically, climatically, racially, linguistically, ethnically, and religiously

India is either the most diverse countries in the world, or the runner-up.

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13: Fastest disappearing nation, Ukraine

 



 

With a natural decrease in population of .8% annually, between now and 2050 Ukraine is expected to lose
around 30% of its people.

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12: Most of its citizens live abroad, Malta

 



 

After some rough economic times coupled with an increased birth rate, Malta experienced significant immigration.

It was so significant that the re are now more Maltese living abroad than within the country itself.

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11: Smaller than Central Park in New York City , Monaco

 



 

Although Vatican City is smaller (.17 sq mi) than Monaco (.8 sq mi), unlike Monaco it doesn't have any permanent residents

which leaves Monaco as the smallest permanently inhabited nation in the world, smaller than Central Park .

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10: Almost entirely covered in jungle, Suriname

 



 

With 91% of its land covered in jungle Suriname 's half-a-million residents live primarily along the coast near the capital.

Only 5% of the population (mainly indigenous people) live inland.

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9: Almost entirely treeless, Haiti

 



 

On the opposite end of the spectrum is Haiti , a country that has been so badly deforested that you can tell where

it borders the Dominican Republic by looking at a satellite image ( Haiti is on the left in the photo above).

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8: Largest country with NO farms, Singapore

 

 



 

Although there are a number of small nations in the world that show no hint of having an agriculture based economy,

(take Vatican City for example) Singapore is the largest of these urban city-states.

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7: Most languages spoken, Papua New Guinea

 



 

Although English is its official language, only 1-2% of the population actually speak it.

As the most linguistically diverse country in the world, over 820 languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea , or 12% of the world's total.

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6: Most educated people, Canada

 



 

With 50% of its population having been educated at the POST SECONDARY level, Canada easily has the most educated populace in the world.

It is followed by Israel at 45% and Japan at 44%.

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5: The country desert, Libya

 



 

With 99% of the country covered in desert, Libya is one of the most arid places in the world and in some regions DECADES may go by without a single drop of rain.

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4: Least peaceful nation in the world, Somalia

 



photo? latimes.com

 

Although for the last three years IRAQ has been ranked as the least peaceful country in the world, according to the 'Global Peace Index', Somalia overtook it this year for the top spot.

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3: Produces most of the world's oxygen, Russia

 



 

Siberia is home to approximately 25% of the world's forests that span an area larger than the continental United States
,

making Russia the largest converter of CO2 into breathable compounds.

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2: World's largest opium producer, Afghanistan

 



 

Producing a whopping 95 PERCENT of the world's opium, not even 10 years of occupation by American forces have slowed down the industry.

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1: Most people behind bars, United States - (Really makes you proud, doesn't?)

 



When it comes to incarcerating its population, the United States is the WORLD'S UNCONTESTED LEADER.

With 2.2 million people BEHIND BARS, it has 5% of the WORLD'S population, but 25% of the WORLD'S INCARCERATED POPULATION.

China comes in second place at 1.5 million and Russia comes third at 870,000.

 

 

G.I.V.E more than you take

don't apologise for it. I'm a bit rough and tumble and in the world of self help guru's that's an anomaly. I haven't learned much from books, but read many. I've disappointed people because i didn't say what they wanted to hear. I've pushed the envelope and busted the seams. I stand for anything that's beyond the mediocrity of safety in love, life, work and submission to fear. 

Yes, it's a bit rough and tumble this spirituality I live. It's not a book or a CD or a how to do this and that. It's not a judgement on you for being you, just a sign post that points toward the inevidible. An oasis in a desert of numbers and goals, and formula for life that are sold by people who can't walk their own talk. I'd rather spend a night out under the stars snuggled on the grass wrapped in a blanket than sitting in front of an indoor heater. My heart isn't built for sitting around. Most aren't.

My heart has been broken a thousand times and each gets worse so when you come to talk to me with a broken heart I know the short cuts out of it, not from books, or parroting others, from cold hard pain. I have run business, lost marriages, got arthritis from climbing to monsasteries and sitting too long with my legs crossed in the ice. I've got pains from yoga done wrong and from bones never mended from too much footy too quick after a ski accident. I've made the money lost the money and made it again. Now I know the road.

I know they speak more eloguently and entertain the mind. But for me, my only wish is to open your heart, just a fraction more and in doing so, ease the hurt. 

There's nothing new here. It's in all the great books. My only mission to to extract, distill, condense the essential nature of living.

Inspired By Nature - Using Nature to Grow Your Business and Heal Depression

Depressed people often need someone to hug. On occasion, that someone may just be a tree.

A new and growing group of psychologists believes that many of our modern-day mental problems, including depression, stress and anxiety, can be traced in part to society's increasing alienation from nature. 

Richard Louv coined the phrase Nature Deficit Disorder when speaking about increasing problems with children and wrote the book "Last Child in the Woods" 

The solution as I see it? Get outside and enjoy nature. But it's not as easy as you think... we've actually forgotten how to connect with nature.

A few years back I wrote the book Sacred Love and described going for a walk through nature with a friend. During the walk he talked about the stock market, his sore knee, a property he was buying and the state of the nation. At the end of the walk I asked if we could do the whole thing again, my way. On that walk I simply showed my friend how to use what our not too distant past relatives would have done naturally. Being outdoors is, in itself, not enough. 

While traditional psychotherapists focus their treatments on the patient's interior — whether through pharmaceuticals like Prozac, mindfulness practices like meditation, or old-fashioned couch-bound therapy by the hour — I believe that patient care must include time spent in the great outdoors. "It's psychotherapy — as if nature really mattered," says Linda Buzzell-Saltzman, a psychologist and the founder of the International Association for Ecotherapy.

Human beings have evolved in synchrony with nature for millions of years and we are hard-wired to interact with our environment — with the air, water, plants, other animals. But in the past two centuries, beginning with the Industrial Revolution, people have been steadily removed from the natural world, our lives regulated not by the sun or moon but instead by the factory clock. Recently it's gotten worse, with the rise of the Internet and other technologies, like iPhones and BlackBerrys, that dominate our lives, pushing us even further from any appreciation of our natural surroundings.

"We began to get the impression that we were somehow above and separate from nature," says Craig Chalquist, an instructor at John F. Kennedy University in San Francisco and co-editor with Buzzell-Saltzman of the new book Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind.

Today, more than half of the world's population lives in cities, and many people barely ever get a glimpse of green. At the same time, human beings appear to be doing their best to destroy what remains of the earth by contributing to climate change — a problem that in itself causes some people deep anxiety. But what the average person feels as stress or depression, eco-therapists suggest, is a longing for our natural home. "People were embedded in nature once," says Buzzell-Saltzman. "We've lost that, and we're paying the price."

Getting it back doesn't have to be difficult. 

Begin with starting a nature journal, in which you record how much time you spend outside. The results can often be shocking.

"Some of my clients find they spend less than 15 to 30 minutes a day outside, other than walking to and from their cars," I suggest that two hours a day is essential in a business life. Time for exercise, time to slow down, time to reconnect with nature simply by hiking, gardening or taking walks outdoors. 

All of my business consulting sessions and personal consulting sessions take place outdoors — in a park or by the beach down here at Bondi. I even do my phone consultations while walking on the beach — rather than inside yet another office. 

"We can use the natural world to be part of the healing process, and as a vital part of business leadership, team building and company culture. We have to acknowledge that we're part of this, not the master of it."

If such prescriptions sound a little simplistic, consider this: A 2007 study by researchers at the University of Essex in England found that a daily dose of walking outside could be as effective as taking antidepressant drugs for treating mild to moderate depression. Of course, it's no secret that regular exercise is a powerful mood enhancer — although researchers noted that a similar regimen of walking in a crowded shopping mall did not have the same impact — and the boost in vitamin D production in people who spent more time outside in the sun surely helped as well.

It may be that using nature as a crucial part of healing is less a practical psychological treatment than a timely philosophy that connects common feelings of isolation and stress with the fact that the world in which we live is slowly becoming something it shouldn't be. And with worsening climate change and a relentless drumbeat of bad news about our endangered environment, it seems our eco-anxiety may be a symptom of self preservation as much as it is a concern for the future of planet. 

"Ultimately, what we need to do is change human behaviour - to reconnect leaders, families, lovers, children, patients, life coaches, hospitals and office workers to nature. It's a commonsense recommendation for humans as well as the environment.

My book series "The Laws of Nature" are available on Kindle and in Print at Amazon

http://www.chriswalker.com.au 

THINK INSPIRED - LIVE INSPIRED

Inspired By Nature - Using Nature to Grow Your Business and Heal Depression

Depressed people often need someone to hug. On occasion, that someone may just be a tree.

A new and growing group of psychologists believes that many of our modern-day mental problems, including depression, stress and anxiety, can be traced in part to society's increasing alienation from nature. 

Richard Louv coined the phrase Nature Deficit Disorder when speaking about increasing problems with children and wrote the book "Last Child in the Woods" 

The solution as I see it? Get outside and enjoy nature. But it's not as easy as you think... we've actually forgotten how to connect with nature.

A few years back I wrote the book Sacred Love and described going for a walk through nature with a friend. During the walk he talked about the stock market, his sore knee, a property he was buying and the state of the nation. At the end of the walk I asked if we could do the whole thing again, my way. On that walk I simply showed my friend how to use what our not too distant past relatives would have done naturally. Being outdoors is, in itself, not enough. 

While traditional psychotherapists focus their treatments on the patient's interior — whether through pharmaceuticals like Prozac, mindfulness practices like meditation, or old-fashioned couch-bound therapy by the hour — I believe that patient care must include time spent in the great outdoors. "It's psychotherapy — as if nature really mattered," says Linda Buzzell-Saltzman, a psychologist and the founder of the International Association for Ecotherapy.

Human beings have evolved in synchrony with nature for millions of years and we are hard-wired to interact with our environment — with the air, water, plants, other animals. But in the past two centuries, beginning with the Industrial Revolution, people have been steadily removed from the natural world, our lives regulated not by the sun or moon but instead by the factory clock. Recently it's gotten worse, with the rise of the Internet and other technologies, like iPhones and BlackBerrys, that dominate our lives, pushing us even further from any appreciation of our natural surroundings.

"We began to get the impression that we were somehow above and separate from nature," says Craig Chalquist, an instructor at John F. Kennedy University in San Francisco and co-editor with Buzzell-Saltzman of the new book Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind.

Today, more than half of the world's population lives in cities, and many people barely ever get a glimpse of green. At the same time, human beings appear to be doing their best to destroy what remains of the earth by contributing to climate change — a problem that in itself causes some people deep anxiety. But what the average person feels as stress or depression, eco-therapists suggest, is a longing for our natural home. "People were embedded in nature once," says Buzzell-Saltzman. "We've lost that, and we're paying the price."

Getting it back doesn't have to be difficult. 

Begin with starting a nature journal, in which you record how much time you spend outside. The results can often be shocking.

"Some of my clients find they spend less than 15 to 30 minutes a day outside, other than walking to and from their cars," I suggest that two hours a day is essential in a business life. Time for exercise, time to slow down, time to reconnect with nature simply by hiking, gardening or taking walks outdoors. 

All of my business consulting sessions and personal consulting sessions take place outdoors — in a park or by the beach down here at Bondi. I even do my phone consultations while walking on the beach — rather than inside yet another office. 

"We can use the natural world to be part of the healing process, and as a vital part of business leadership, team building and company culture. We have to acknowledge that we're part of this, not the master of it."

If such prescriptions sound a little simplistic, consider this: A 2007 study by researchers at the University of Essex in England found that a daily dose of walking outside could be as effective as taking antidepressant drugs for treating mild to moderate depression. Of course, it's no secret that regular exercise is a powerful mood enhancer — although researchers noted that a similar regimen of walking in a crowded shopping mall did not have the same impact — and the boost in vitamin D production in people who spent more time outside in the sun surely helped as well.

It may be that using nature as a crucial part of healing is less a practical psychological treatment than a timely philosophy that connects common feelings of isolation and stress with the fact that the world in which we live is slowly becoming something it shouldn't be. And with worsening climate change and a relentless drumbeat of bad news about our endangered environment, it seems our eco-anxiety may be a symptom of self preservation as much as it is a concern for the future of planet. 

"Ultimately, what we need to do is change human behaviour - to reconnect leaders, families, lovers, children, patients, life coaches, hospitals and office workers to nature. It's a commonsense recommendation for humans as well as the environment.

My book series "The Laws of Nature" are available on Kindle and in Print at Amazon

http://www.chriswalker.com.au 

THINK INSPIRED - LIVE INSPIRED

Global Trends - Pharma Sales of Anti Depressants Drop - People are Looking to Nature to Cure their FUNK...

It's only natural. When we get out of alignment with nature we experience FUNK so why not use nature, or at least re- align ourselves with nature's laws in order to deal with FUNK. It's only Natural.

Here's an article that reveals the trend and its consequences for the Pharma industry:

(NaturalNews) 

The market for antidepressant drugs is quickly drying up as patents on long-time blockbusters like Lexapro, owned by Forest Laboratories, and Seroquel, owned by AstraZeneca, continue to expire. And because they are unable to develop new multi-billion-dollar blockbuster drugs to take their places, many drug manufacturers are ditching the antidepressant business altogether, especially as studies continue to emerge showing that antidepressants are largely useless and cause more harm than good.

A recent Reuters report appears to bemoan the fact that development of a new antidepressant drug ceased after it was discovered that the drug was ineffective. Highlighting an overall trend of failure in this area of drug development within the drug industry, the report actually positions drug companies as victims that will stand to lose billions of dollars in profits as a result of their collective failure to come up with new drug options.

According to projections compiled by Thomson Reuters Pharma, worldwide sales of antidepressant drugs are expected to drop by more than half in the next four years. While antidepressant drugs raked in $15 billion in 2003, they are expected to fetch less then $6 billion by 2016 -- and there is no indication that this downward trend will slow any time soon.

Drug-makers also appear to be abandoning research and development of new antidepressants because an increasing number of patients are waking up to the ugly truth about their deadly side effects, and ditching them for safer alternatives. One such reminder of this disturbing truth came in the form of a 2010 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), which found that antidepressants are basically useless for the vast majority of people who take them (http://www.naturalnews.com/028498_antidepressants_clinical_trials.html).

Antidepressants are also exceedingly dangerous, as they can lead to suicidal or homicidal tendencies in some patients. A study conducted by drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), for instance, revealed last year that its own antidepressant drug Paxil actually make patients worse off mentally, as they are more prone while taking the drug to attempt taking their own lives or the lives of others (http://www.naturalnews.com).

So rather than feel sorry for the drug industry which will have to "suffer" by taking in a few less billion dollars every year, the mainstream media and the public should be chiding Big Pharma for peddling these dangerous drugs in the first place, all the while having exploited the public all these years by charging obscene prices for them.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.reuters.com

http://www.utsandiego.com

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com

http://www.investorplace.com

http://www.chriswalker.com.au 

THINK INSPIRED - LIVE INSPIRED

Global Trends - Pharma Sales of Anti Depressants Drop - People are Looking to Nature to Cure their FUNK...

It's only natural. When we get out of alignment with nature we experience FUNK so why not use nature, or at least re- align ourselves with nature's laws in order to deal with FUNK. It's only Natural.

Here's an article that reveals the trend and its consequences for the Pharma industry:

(NaturalNews) 

The market for antidepressant drugs is quickly drying up as patents on long-time blockbusters like Lexapro, owned by Forest Laboratories, and Seroquel, owned by AstraZeneca, continue to expire. And because they are unable to develop new multi-billion-dollar blockbuster drugs to take their places, many drug manufacturers are ditching the antidepressant business altogether, especially as studies continue to emerge showing that antidepressants are largely useless and cause more harm than good.

A recent Reuters report appears to bemoan the fact that development of a new antidepressant drug ceased after it was discovered that the drug was ineffective. Highlighting an overall trend of failure in this area of drug development within the drug industry, the report actually positions drug companies as victims that will stand to lose billions of dollars in profits as a result of their collective failure to come up with new drug options.

According to projections compiled by Thomson Reuters Pharma, worldwide sales of antidepressant drugs are expected to drop by more than half in the next four years. While antidepressant drugs raked in $15 billion in 2003, they are expected to fetch less then $6 billion by 2016 -- and there is no indication that this downward trend will slow any time soon.

Drug-makers also appear to be abandoning research and development of new antidepressants because an increasing number of patients are waking up to the ugly truth about their deadly side effects, and ditching them for safer alternatives. One such reminder of this disturbing truth came in the form of a 2010 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), which found that antidepressants are basically useless for the vast majority of people who take them (http://www.naturalnews.com/028498_antidepressants_clinical_trials.html).

Antidepressants are also exceedingly dangerous, as they can lead to suicidal or homicidal tendencies in some patients. A study conducted by drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), for instance, revealed last year that its own antidepressant drug Paxil actually make patients worse off mentally, as they are more prone while taking the drug to attempt taking their own lives or the lives of others (http://www.naturalnews.com).

So rather than feel sorry for the drug industry which will have to "suffer" by taking in a few less billion dollars every year, the mainstream media and the public should be chiding Big Pharma for peddling these dangerous drugs in the first place, all the while having exploited the public all these years by charging obscene prices for them.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.reuters.com

http://www.utsandiego.com

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com

http://www.investorplace.com

http://www.chriswalker.com.au 

THINK INSPIRED - LIVE INSPIRED

Principles of ‘value-based leadership

Drawing upon his experiences at P&G, President and CEO Bob McDonald outlines 10 characteristics of a great leaderBy Rachel Farrell

Bob McDonald has a top 10 list. 

On Oct. 7, McDonald, the president and CEO of Procter & Gamble, presented his list of the 10 defining characteristics of a “value-based leader” to Kellogg students in the Owen L. Coon Forum. The list was inspired by experiences that McDonald had over the course of his 20-year career. 

McDonald offered his beliefs as a guideline and urged students to develop their own “list” of sorts. 

“It is important for each individual and each organization to get in touch with their education, experiences, culture, family heritage and organizational memberships to develop their own set of beliefs,” he said. 

1. Lead a life guided by purpose.
Only work for a company that you believe in, said McDonald. When looking for a job, examine a company’s purpose, values and people to see if they align with your own beliefs and ethics. 

2. Everyone wants to succeed and success is contagious.
Treat your employees like they want to succeed, not like they want to fail. “Most of us manage by exception: We wait until someone does something wrong to interact with him or her,” McDonald said. “Spend enough time in your leadership role finding people succeeding.” 

3. Put people in the right jobs.
McDonald emphasized the importance of identifying your employees’ strengths, and then placing them in roles that feed into those strengths. “At P&G, we have 130,000 employees around the world,” he said. “Imagine what would happen if we put them in jobs that they weren’t good at.” 

4. Character is the most important trait of a leader.
It’s important for leaders to have integrity and take responsibility for their mistakes. “Choose the harder right, rather than the easier wrong,” McDonald said, citing a prayer that he learned as a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point. 

5. Diverse groups of people are more innovative than homogenous groups. 
Diversity sparks ideas and innovation, so companies must employ a diverse group of people. “We try to plan innovation, but there’s a little serendipity involved,” McDonald said. “Diversity is what helps these nodes to connect.” 

6. Ineffective strategies, systems and culture are bigger barriers to achievement than the talents of people. 
It’s important to blend a high-performance culture with robust systems and sound strategies, McDonald said. Those ingredients, coupled with technical competencies and a strong company mission, will create a high-performance organization. 

7. There will be some people in the organization who will not make it on the journey.
Some employees won’t turn out to be a good fit for your company. As head of a company, it’s your responsibility to find the right place for them. “Your job as a leader is to be committed to them as people, not employees,” said McDonald. 

8. Organizations must renew themselves.
Leaders should always think about what changes are needed to stay relevant in the marketplace and fulfill the company purpose. “Organizations are like biological organisms — they constantly need to change,” said McDonald. 

9. Recruiting is a top priority.
“Somewhere here is someone who will be giving a presentation here years from now,” said McDonald, pointing to the audience of Kellogg students. “And that excites me.” 

10. The true test of a leader is the organization’s performance after the leader departs.
If you want to determine whether a leader has been successful, “look at their fingerprints and footprints,” concluded McDonald. 

McDonald was appointed president and CEO of P&G on July 1, 2009. He previously served as vice chairman of global operations for the company, where he led sales, information technology, logistics, customer marketing and on-the-ground operations in more than 80 countries. McDonald also previously managed P&G’s business in developing markets, which accounted for 20 percent of company sales. 

http://www.chriswalker.com.au 

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The Innerwealth Three Step Cure for Feeling Blue

The Innerwealth Three Step Cure for Feeling Blue

1. Calm
2. Trust
3. Imagine

1. Calm

Something usually triggers the blues. Stress exhaserbates them. Stimulants externalise them, sending depression within. Calm is the best cure even if it feels painfully passive at the time.

Go sit in nature and just let your mind drift to what isn't wrong with your life. Look down the list of what could be wrong and isn't. Maybe you can even write things down like "I haven't got xyz" or "I have still got abc" thinking like this focusses you on the abundance of what is, rather than the issues.

The ultimate achievement in being calm is emptiness. When you come to the place of feeling like you are nothing, need nothing, want nothing, you will realise that you have everything. Emptiness is the authentic space of your primal and spiritual home. Some call it soul. Whatever you call it, there is absolutely nothing there. It is emptiness and in this place you are impenetrable and powerful. Empty is actually full.

2. Trust

In my Back on Track online coaching course - there are seven steps to recovery, getting back in track in life. But the ultimate and most important step is trust. 

Trust that there is order in the chaos. Trust that your current chaos has order. That you are actually not off track at all - that where you are is a place of transition that is essential for you to create meaning and gift yourself with fulfilment. You can know that balance exists and for every dark there must be a light and if you can process the dark experiences light shines from them. Always.

Now, you may feel shitty. That's because there's a lack of certain chemicals flowing in your body. During dark times it is essential that you maintain trust that this pain has a pleasure and that one of those pleasures is growth to new meaning. You are evolving and this alone is a stand up, brilliant awareness that can, in itself, just by trusting this, cause those missing chemicals whose absence is making you feel blue, come back into your body system. Believe it before you see it. Trust that all blue has a gold in it. If you can't see it, email or call me for help. Free - it's what I do.

3. Imagine

Blue is simply lost hope that something you wanted will come true.

Suicidal feelings and depression are both triggered by the idea that tomorrow will not be as good as yesterday. 

When we lose hope we easily imagine yesterday as more pain free than tomorrow. So, when that happens we lose the will to move forward. This mental state demonstrates the power of human imagination because actually tomorrow will be better than today but when we can't imagine it, then it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Looking forward to tomorrow is the single most important element in life and if our imagination is powerful enough to imagine the worst, well, we can use that same power to imagine the best.

Now there is a caution here. Imagining fantasies is not wise. There is always a blend of support and challenge in life. So imagining pleasure without pain is not healthy and may have been a contibuting factor in becoming blue.

So when you imagine the future, use terms that are not sensory delights. For example - there are two ways to say "I imagine a life partner" - one would be " I imagine a beautiful (sensory) - sexy (sensory) - honest (sensory) partner." This is fantasy because there are two sides to everyone and you will get a shock when they exhibit the true nature of being human.

Instead you can simply say "I imagine a life partner who I love and who loves me on our journey through life"

Here's an exercise you might try:

Make a list of things that would make you feel better about the grand scheme of your life: focus on the career objectives that will get you to where you want to be, think about how you can nurture relationships with your friends and family, make a plan to change the world by donating your time or services to a charitable cause, or chart a course to travel to all the places you've always dreamed of going to. You can even do little things, like getting new clothes and personal effects to replace the old ones you got rid of, in an effort to shift your personal image and update the vibration you're sending out to the world. Whatever it is that you want to do, identify it, and note what these improvements will do for your self-esteem and confidence. Don't worry about going overboard! Let your imagination go wild. Once you've completed this list, decide what is most feasible for you to do ASAP, and then do it.

The Innerwealth Three Step Cure for Feeling Blue

The Innerwealth Three Step Cure for Feeling Blue

1. Calm
2. Trust
3. Imagine

1. Calm

Something usually triggers the blues. Stress exhaserbates them. Stimulants externalise them, sending depression within. Calm is the best cure even if it feels painfully passive at the time.

Go sit in nature and just let your mind drift to what isn't wrong with your life. Look down the list of what could be wrong and isn't. Maybe you can even write things down like "I haven't got xyz" or "I have still got abc" thinking like this focusses you on the abundance of what is, rather than the issues.

The ultimate achievement in being calm is emptiness. When you come to the place of feeling like you are nothing, need nothing, want nothing, you will realise that you have everything. Emptiness is the authentic space of your primal and spiritual home. Some call it soul. Whatever you call it, there is absolutely nothing there. It is emptiness and in this place you are impenetrable and powerful. Empty is actually full.

2. Trust

In my Back on Track online coaching course - there are seven steps to recovery, getting back in track in life. But the ultimate and most important step is trust. 

Trust that there is order in the chaos. Trust that your current chaos has order. That you are actually not off track at all - that where you are is a place of transition that is essential for you to create meaning and gift yourself with fulfilment. You can know that balance exists and for every dark there must be a light and if you can process the dark experiences light shines from them. Always.

Now, you may feel shitty. That's because there's a lack of certain chemicals flowing in your body. During dark times it is essential that you maintain trust that this pain has a pleasure and that one of those pleasures is growth to new meaning. You are evolving and this alone is a stand up, brilliant awareness that can, in itself, just by trusting this, cause those missing chemicals whose absence is making you feel blue, come back into your body system. Believe it before you see it. Trust that all blue has a gold in it. If you can't see it, email or call me for help. Free - it's what I do.

3. Imagine

Blue is simply lost hope that something you wanted will come true.

Suicidal feelings and depression are both triggered by the idea that tomorrow will not be as good as yesterday. 

When we lose hope we easily imagine yesterday as more pain free than tomorrow. So, when that happens we lose the will to move forward. This mental state demonstrates the power of human imagination because actually tomorrow will be better than today but when we can't imagine it, then it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Looking forward to tomorrow is the single most important element in life and if our imagination is powerful enough to imagine the worst, well, we can use that same power to imagine the best.

Now there is a caution here. Imagining fantasies is not wise. There is always a blend of support and challenge in life. So imagining pleasure without pain is not healthy and may have been a contibuting factor in becoming blue.

So when you imagine the future, use terms that are not sensory delights. For example - there are two ways to say "I imagine a life partner" - one would be " I imagine a beautiful (sensory) - sexy (sensory) - honest (sensory) partner." This is fantasy because there are two sides to everyone and you will get a shock when they exhibit the true nature of being human.

Instead you can simply say "I imagine a life partner who I love and who loves me on our journey through life"

Here's an exercise you might try:

Make a list of things that would make you feel better about the grand scheme of your life: focus on the career objectives that will get you to where you want to be, think about how you can nurture relationships with your friends and family, make a plan to change the world by donating your time or services to a charitable cause, or chart a course to travel to all the places you've always dreamed of going to. You can even do little things, like getting new clothes and personal effects to replace the old ones you got rid of, in an effort to shift your personal image and update the vibration you're sending out to the world. Whatever it is that you want to do, identify it, and note what these improvements will do for your self-esteem and confidence. Don't worry about going overboard! Let your imagination go wild. Once you've completed this list, decide what is most feasible for you to do ASAP, and then do it.

Think You're A Failure? You're On The Way Up

From John Demartini original article here

You have probably had moments in your life where you felt successful. Possibly you felt puffed up, proud, almost self-righteous and then noticed really humbling circumstances showed up. You’ve also probably had moments when you felt down and noticed that you attracted circumstances and people to lift you up. 

Any time you go above your authentic self and think that you are somehow more successful than you really are you become cocky you have a built-in thermostat to bring in events to try and get you back down so you can be yourself. The same thing when you go down. Nature tries to bring you back into balance inside your human experience. Any time you allow yourself to get addicted to being ‘up’, you attract events to bring you ‘down’. Anytime you try to compensate for being ‘down’, you attract support to get you back ‘up’ again. I call it the resistance factors and the assistance factors to make sure that we are authentic. 

Sometimes we get addicted to one side; we want the fame but we don’t want the downside of fame. We want the ‘up’ but we don’t want to have the fall. The real truth is that those falling mechanisms are actually getting us back into the centre. When we know how to take the ‘downs’ and use it as feedback, we stop our addiction to the ‘ups’. 

When you master your life, you learn to master your own emotions. You do not take credit or blame, you instead keep focused on the chief aim, your highest priority in life. 

When you think that you are successful, you have forgotten to notice all the things that you are not doing that is automatically bringing you down. If you don’t become aware of them then you attract an event to humble you.

We are not here for success. We are here to fulfil a mission, do something that inspires us, that gives us meaning. We are not here for the superficial facades called success or failure. When you have a bigger vision, success and failure doesn’t get in your way. If you think you are successful, you probably don’t have a vision bigger than that, that is why you are labelling yourself that way. 

People come up to me all the time and ask me how did I achieve success? I tell them that I don’t think of it that way. I think about what I am inspired by, what is my mission and what am I am grateful for and I keep working on that. I don’t get caught in the labels of success and failure; just feedback mechanisms so the most masterful person is the ones that can manage themselves. They don’t require the outer environment to kick them back into the centre. 

So if you find yourself really cocky and up, ask yourself: 

- Who have you forgotten to take care of today? 

- Who did you not serve? 

- What did you forget to do?

If you’re feeling down, all you have to ask yourself: 

- What did I accomplish 

- Who did I serve 

- What did I make a difference in today?

For further questions to assist you to remain centred, download the Self- Regulation Checklist here.

Learn to manage your own states so that you don’t get caught in these ups and downs, elations and depression, bi-polar states. 

The person who is centered is the person who becomes the leader. There is a word called ‘governmentus’ – one who can govern their own mind. Governing your mind means to take out the vicissitudes and the volatilities of the mind and keep yourself centred.

There are a lot of people who are supposedly the heroes; the people that have done super-achievements and super-success and later down the line they become the ‘villains’ in some people’s perspective. The real truth is that they are human beings and they have both sides. But the second they take credit, they attract blame. Nature is trying to bring that balance. Instead of getting addicted to the one side, embrace both sides of life because otherwise you are going to be trying to get rid of half of yourself and you will never appreciate and love yourself trying to get rid of half of you. 

If you manage your life by seeing both sides and embracing both sides equally; you won’t get caught in the illusions of ‘success’ and ‘failure’; the ego’s of self-righteous, self-wrongeous, pride and shame and all the things that distract you.

If you infatuate with somebody, you will eventually discover that there are downsides to them. If you resent somebody, you will eventually discover that there were upsides to them. You can do the same thing with yourself. You can call it pride and shame or success and failure. See both sides. Keep a balanced orientation. When you have ambition, you have ‘ambi’, both sidedness. So self manage yourself, regulate those oscillations. Keep focused on a bigger vision so you don’t label yourself as a success or a failure. You label yourself somebody on a mission of doing something you love. When you do, you will have the greatest achievements and you won’t end up in the news with highs and lows.

Think You're A Failure? You're On The Way Up

From John Demartini original article here

You have probably had moments in your life where you felt successful. Possibly you felt puffed up, proud, almost self-righteous and then noticed really humbling circumstances showed up. You’ve also probably had moments when you felt down and noticed that you attracted circumstances and people to lift you up. 

Any time you go above your authentic self and think that you are somehow more successful than you really are you become cocky you have a built-in thermostat to bring in events to try and get you back down so you can be yourself. The same thing when you go down. Nature tries to bring you back into balance inside your human experience. Any time you allow yourself to get addicted to being ‘up’, you attract events to bring you ‘down’. Anytime you try to compensate for being ‘down’, you attract support to get you back ‘up’ again. I call it the resistance factors and the assistance factors to make sure that we are authentic. 

Sometimes we get addicted to one side; we want the fame but we don’t want the downside of fame. We want the ‘up’ but we don’t want to have the fall. The real truth is that those falling mechanisms are actually getting us back into the centre. When we know how to take the ‘downs’ and use it as feedback, we stop our addiction to the ‘ups’. 

When you master your life, you learn to master your own emotions. You do not take credit or blame, you instead keep focused on the chief aim, your highest priority in life. 

When you think that you are successful, you have forgotten to notice all the things that you are not doing that is automatically bringing you down. If you don’t become aware of them then you attract an event to humble you.

We are not here for success. We are here to fulfil a mission, do something that inspires us, that gives us meaning. We are not here for the superficial facades called success or failure. When you have a bigger vision, success and failure doesn’t get in your way. If you think you are successful, you probably don’t have a vision bigger than that, that is why you are labelling yourself that way. 

People come up to me all the time and ask me how did I achieve success? I tell them that I don’t think of it that way. I think about what I am inspired by, what is my mission and what am I am grateful for and I keep working on that. I don’t get caught in the labels of success and failure; just feedback mechanisms so the most masterful person is the ones that can manage themselves. They don’t require the outer environment to kick them back into the centre. 

So if you find yourself really cocky and up, ask yourself: 

- Who have you forgotten to take care of today? 

- Who did you not serve? 

- What did you forget to do?

If you’re feeling down, all you have to ask yourself: 

- What did I accomplish 

- Who did I serve 

- What did I make a difference in today?

For further questions to assist you to remain centred, download the Self- Regulation Checklist here.

Learn to manage your own states so that you don’t get caught in these ups and downs, elations and depression, bi-polar states. 

The person who is centered is the person who becomes the leader. There is a word called ‘governmentus’ – one who can govern their own mind. Governing your mind means to take out the vicissitudes and the volatilities of the mind and keep yourself centred.

There are a lot of people who are supposedly the heroes; the people that have done super-achievements and super-success and later down the line they become the ‘villains’ in some people’s perspective. The real truth is that they are human beings and they have both sides. But the second they take credit, they attract blame. Nature is trying to bring that balance. Instead of getting addicted to the one side, embrace both sides of life because otherwise you are going to be trying to get rid of half of yourself and you will never appreciate and love yourself trying to get rid of half of you. 

If you manage your life by seeing both sides and embracing both sides equally; you won’t get caught in the illusions of ‘success’ and ‘failure’; the ego’s of self-righteous, self-wrongeous, pride and shame and all the things that distract you.

If you infatuate with somebody, you will eventually discover that there are downsides to them. If you resent somebody, you will eventually discover that there were upsides to them. You can do the same thing with yourself. You can call it pride and shame or success and failure. See both sides. Keep a balanced orientation. When you have ambition, you have ‘ambi’, both sidedness. So self manage yourself, regulate those oscillations. Keep focused on a bigger vision so you don’t label yourself as a success or a failure. You label yourself somebody on a mission of doing something you love. When you do, you will have the greatest achievements and you won’t end up in the news with highs and lows.

How Do I Achieve Balance? I have No Spare Time for it?

The question is about priorities. 

Heaven forbid but if I were to say to you that your life depended on balance, you'd do it. No, it's not about lack of time it's about lack of priority. Other things are just more important to you right now and so why not just love yourself for who you are, rather than who you could be.

I spoke to one client about balance and he said "the last thing I want in my life is balance. I want inspiration, I want to dive into whatever I do completely imbalanced." So, you see, there's no right or wrong when it comes to how we choose to live. There's just acceptance and rejection.

However, there is a thing called unsustainable. If you are living your beautiful life and choosing to ignore some tell tale signals that each of the seven areas of life are not being looked after, you'd better take heed.

In a recent relationship I could tell my partner was lying to me. However I chose to ignore it and simply be out of balance in that area of my life. Well that's living unsustainably, because the stress of ignoring lies is painful and unsustainable. it wrecked my health, and some other things too uncomfortable to mention. 

So, instead of looking for balance, look for sustainability and then put your whole heart and soul into what it is you'd love to do. That's a wiser way to approach fulfilment.

Love and Spirit

Chris

http://www.chriswalker.com.au 

THINK INSPIRED - LIVE INSPIRED

How Do I Achieve Balance? I have No Spare Time for it?

The question is about priorities. 

Heaven forbid but if I were to say to you that your life depended on balance, you'd do it. No, it's not about lack of time it's about lack of priority. Other things are just more important to you right now and so why not just love yourself for who you are, rather than who you could be.

I spoke to one client about balance and he said "the last thing I want in my life is balance. I want inspiration, I want to dive into whatever I do completely imbalanced." So, you see, there's no right or wrong when it comes to how we choose to live. There's just acceptance and rejection.

However, there is a thing called unsustainable. If you are living your beautiful life and choosing to ignore some tell tale signals that each of the seven areas of life are not being looked after, you'd better take heed.

In a recent relationship I could tell my partner was lying to me. However I chose to ignore it and simply be out of balance in that area of my life. Well that's living unsustainably, because the stress of ignoring lies is painful and unsustainable. it wrecked my health, and some other things too uncomfortable to mention. 

So, instead of looking for balance, look for sustainability and then put your whole heart and soul into what it is you'd love to do. That's a wiser way to approach fulfilment.

Love and Spirit

Chris

http://www.chriswalker.com.au 

THINK INSPIRED - LIVE INSPIRED

Relax

What do we think? Is sadness an end to something? Is happiness a cause for direction? One must be cautioned that sadness is not a bad experience and happiness is not a reason to do something. Both produce addictions and the addictions are dopamine. It's really not the foundation you seek for a good life.

Relax, sit quietly alone in nature and you will hear your heart beat. Only when you can hear your own heartbeat can you say "I know my direction" -

The best relaxation is nature. But one can still worry in nature. You might worry about how fast you run, or how much weight you lost, this is exercise. Vital exercise.

Relaxation comes after exercise. There are three keys to relaxation - they are not music, sex and a good feed. The three keys to relaxation are:

Ambivalence
Posture
Nervous calm

1. Ambivalence comes by not being pessimistic nor optimistic. Orr comes from having both at once. Balanced mind.

2. Posture means not arching your spine open or closed but standing with a long neck and chin drawn in. The spine will look after itself if you remember this.

3. Nervous calm is mostly about diet. If you eat junk you make your nerves junk. But food is not just things you eat. Food is also how you love - kindness, generousity, thankfulness and compassion. This is good food - more important than organic kale on your plate.

From the heart of Chris

Put Your Whole Heart into Your Work

J came to me after three years of virtual abuse at the hands of his employer. He'd been sidelined, had his pay cut, was under pressure to achieve and yet, the area he was working in was offering reduced potential and lower sales margins.

J had done the only thing he knew how. He'd worked harder. This strained his relationship. He came home tired and although he felt he was making an effort, his heart and mind were usually somewhere else even on romantic moments with his partner.

J is not alone. The cost of stress at work and the illusion that harder work means better results has far reaching community impact.

J had other options:

1. Cull low priority activities in his daily work routine including creating shorter meetings and less time spent invested in panic.

2. Relax more .. It's amazing how much more effective our decisions and choices are in our work when we are calm. In fact I'd suggest our productivity goes up 20% automatically when we don't panic. Best relaxation is exercise.

3. Love the challenge... J spent a lot of time complaining about why he was being persecuted at work, not taking into account that he'd really been in resentment for this job for a number of years. He really quit the job years ago and had been hiding under the radar hoping for a solution to pop out of a magic meeting with someone new. Instead, J could learn to appreciate where he is, in order to get what he wants.

4. J's home life wasn't on track. They wanted a baby, it wasn't happening for some reason and this placed a huge lifestyle stress over J. Literally, it never left his mind. The key here would be to link this job to the happiness at home and make sure there was a positive association between what he wanted and what he was doing.

Live with an open heart,

Chris

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Put Your Whole Heart into Your Work

J came to me after three years of virtual abuse at the hands of his employer. He'd been sidelined, had his pay cut, was under pressure to achieve and yet, the area he was working in was offering reduced potential and lower sales margins.

J had done the only thing he knew how. He'd worked harder. This strained his relationship. He came home tired and although he felt he was making an effort, his heart and mind were usually somewhere else even on romantic moments with his partner.

J is not alone. The cost of stress at work and the illusion that harder work means better results has far reaching community impact.

J had other options:

1. Cull low priority activities in his daily work routine including creating shorter meetings and less time spent invested in panic.

2. Relax more .. It's amazing how much more effective our decisions and choices are in our work when we are calm. In fact I'd suggest our productivity goes up 20% automatically when we don't panic. Best relaxation is exercise.

3. Love the challenge... J spent a lot of time complaining about why he was being persecuted at work, not taking into account that he'd really been in resentment for this job for a number of years. He really quit the job years ago and had been hiding under the radar hoping for a solution to pop out of a magic meeting with someone new. Instead, J could learn to appreciate where he is, in order to get what he wants.

4. J's home life wasn't on track. They wanted a baby, it wasn't happening for some reason and this placed a huge lifestyle stress over J. Literally, it never left his mind. The key here would be to link this job to the happiness at home and make sure there was a positive association between what he wanted and what he was doing.

Live with an open heart,

Chris

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Compartmentalise or Not

The F1 Grand Prix is an intense event for everyone concerned.

But for the celebrity driver even more so. First there are a sting of social engagements leading up to the race, sponsors demanding attendance at black tie events and then of course, endless press interviews.

When one Australian driver was interviewed about these potential distractions he simply replied, "no, it's easy, I compartmentalise."

To compartmentalise means to put things in boxes. Like to put a work problem aside when out on a date or a deep personal worry away while you work. This is a conventional approach that seems to work for a lot of people - at least in theory.

The driver in the F1 crashed. The person sitting opposite me at dinner last night wasn't really all there. I don't think compartmentalising really works as well as people think.

B's relationship was on the rocks, they had ann8 month old baby and were arguing continually. When I asked him about it he blamed his "needy" family. I didn't buy it.

On further exploration B' revealed a war that was going on between himself and his boss. A hate relationship. But B was trapped, the pay was great and their domestic needs, although he had reserves, were demanding that income.

B thought he was compartmentalising. But he wasn't. He was infecting his marriage, his babe, his health and family with toxin that oozed out of him between the lines of care.

B thought he was compartmentalising. He thought everything was disconnected. He wanted to work on his relationship but really, this hate thing at work, which he blamed 100% on the other person, was at the heart of his whole life struggle.

It took 7 days, 2 hours a day, to swing things around. B finally processed the anger, evolved himself above the situation. And guess what?

His relationship transformed overnight. His "needy" family became a loving, warm, kind and generous place to be.

The moral of this story: it's better to process your judgements than to be under the impression that being tender in your meditation is going to overcome your anger with something or someone in the real world. Compartments just don't work because all human hearts are intuitive, even if the other person denies what they feel from you, they know, deep down when you are not being real.

From the heart of Chris

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Compartmentalise or Not

The F1 Grand Prix is an intense event for everyone concerned.

But for the celebrity driver even more so. First there are a sting of social engagements leading up to the race, sponsors demanding attendance at black tie events and then of course, endless press interviews.

When one Australian driver was interviewed about these potential distractions he simply replied, "no, it's easy, I compartmentalise."

To compartmentalise means to put things in boxes. Like to put a work problem aside when out on a date or a deep personal worry away while you work. This is a conventional approach that seems to work for a lot of people - at least in theory.

The driver in the F1 crashed. The person sitting opposite me at dinner last night wasn't really all there. I don't think compartmentalising really works as well as people think.

B's relationship was on the rocks, they had ann8 month old baby and were arguing continually. When I asked him about it he blamed his "needy" family. I didn't buy it.

On further exploration B' revealed a war that was going on between himself and his boss. A hate relationship. But B was trapped, the pay was great and their domestic needs, although he had reserves, were demanding that income.

B thought he was compartmentalising. But he wasn't. He was infecting his marriage, his babe, his health and family with toxin that oozed out of him between the lines of care.

B thought he was compartmentalising. He thought everything was disconnected. He wanted to work on his relationship but really, this hate thing at work, which he blamed 100% on the other person, was at the heart of his whole life struggle.

It took 7 days, 2 hours a day, to swing things around. B finally processed the anger, evolved himself above the situation. And guess what?

His relationship transformed overnight. His "needy" family became a loving, warm, kind and generous place to be.

The moral of this story: it's better to process your judgements than to be under the impression that being tender in your meditation is going to overcome your anger with something or someone in the real world. Compartments just don't work because all human hearts are intuitive, even if the other person denies what they feel from you, they know, deep down when you are not being real.

From the heart of Chris

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Be You Be Wise - Innerwealth elements

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When the road gets rough - survival skills for the spiritually committed

Sometimes the road gets bumpy. It's surprising how little it can take to get us off track or out of balance. It's a tight rope and for the most part we do great at dealing with the wobbles that happen.

But every now and then life can throw us a curved ball and put us on the back foot and cause us to revert to patterns of response that are unhealthy.

Here are a few things to be mindful about during those ugly times:

1. Nobody does to you more than you do to yourself. If someone puts you down or is critical they've done you a favour by doing on the outside what you are doing on the inside. Don't run and blame. Instead thank and grow (grow means to dig in a work out why you are doing on the inside what somebody is doing to you on the outside) - don't run, evolve.

2. Ugly things don't signal you are on the wrong track - often they mean you are on the right track but you are growing through a self set limitation. So, again, don't blame and run, stop, evolve and grow.

3. Time and space - have you noticed that the further you get away from a problem the closer you get to a solution. The more instantaneous your choices, the more likely it is that you are acting habitually and potentially in a repeat cycle. So, avoid making big decisions when you are in reaction, blame or anger mode, because the likelihood is, you are not thinking in a healthy way, long term.

4. Watch your diet. During ugly times and when we are in repeat cycles of stress or reaction, we revert to food and substances as a mechanism for self medication, whether it is good diet or bad a sudden over emphasis on food - too much or too little can be a big sign that we are in reaction ( includes alcohol and coffee). Such signals are warnings that our choices are not coming from a good place.

5. Go back to purpose - the difference between living from ego reaction and living from your true self, your heart, is the amount of emphasis you place on feelings. It's hard but feelings are driven by ego and ego will make decisions based on pieces of incomplete data. Do you know your purpose? How does this ugly period like back to your purpose - Do you know your values? How does this ugly period demonstrate that you are not living according to your true values? Remember, nature destroys anything that is not fulfilling its purpose so the ugly time might just reveal that you were off not linking what you were doing to your purpose and values. This can be a great and positive way to approach any healing.

With spirit

Chris

The Back on Track - 30 day challenge is a city retreat designed to work you through any ugly patch in your life, resolve it and teach you the process of getting Back on Track quickly for the next time.

The Value of Inspiration and Intuition

I love the way nature guides us, contraction is not an option.

Sometime we hook our purpose onto fixtures hoping to create something special. But nothing in nature is fixed.

Sometimes we invest in something that fails to live to our expectations but in nature our expectations cannot halt the evolution of our master plan - where there is conflict between our expectations and nature's destiny, expectations lose.

We sometimes think that we are off purpose but we are never off purpose always learning lessons, if we are thankful for that we don't always need to repeat the same lessons, bitten by the same dog twice isn't essential.

Sometimes we invest in possibilities that don't manifest. This is the heart of the visionary and he or she has to get ised to the fact that some dreams do not manifest as they were hoped. The visionary can see what others can't and therefore sometimes the visionary sees the future while others resist. In nature there is a vision and those who tune to it create with a good heartedness.

Stress reveals a conflict within. That stress is 99% intuition arguing with hopes and dreams. In nature, intuition is the whole art of survival. It is wise to hone this art of intuition and save yourself wasting time, effort and resources and getting stressed.

The Back on Track 30 Day Challenge focusses 100% on your intuitive natureteaching you the skills to trust it, and understand nature well enough to hone that intuition (inspiration is a higher form of intuition) into vision and purpose.

Five things you need to know about intuitive awareness:

1. Pragmatism kills it
2. Disobeying it leads to physical and mental health problems - grave illness.
3. Doubt and fear are the result of following intuition (fearless is not a good sign of intuition)
4. Emotion is not intuitive - gratitude shifts emotion in the right direction (elation and depression shift it in the wrong direction)
5. Love is the only true space where intuition can rise to inspiration

With Spirit

Chris

The Value of Inspiration and Intuition

I love the way nature guides us, contraction is not an option.

Sometime we hook our purpose onto fixtures hoping to create something special. But nothing in nature is fixed.

Sometimes we invest in something that fails to live to our expectations but in nature our expectations cannot halt the evolution of our master plan - where there is conflict between our expectations and nature's destiny, expectations lose.

We sometimes think that we are off purpose but we are never off purpose always learning lessons, if we are thankful for that we don't always need to repeat the same lessons, bitten by the same dog twice isn't essential.

Sometimes we invest in possibilities that don't manifest. This is the heart of the visionary and he or she has to get ised to the fact that some dreams do not manifest as they were hoped. The visionary can see what others can't and therefore sometimes the visionary sees the future while others resist. In nature there is a vision and those who tune to it create with a good heartedness.

Stress reveals a conflict within. That stress is 99% intuition arguing with hopes and dreams. In nature, intuition is the whole art of survival. It is wise to hone this art of intuition and save yourself wasting time, effort and resources and getting stressed.

The Back on Track 30 Day Challenge focusses 100% on your intuitive natureteaching you the skills to trust it, and understand nature well enough to hone that intuition (inspiration is a higher form of intuition) into vision and purpose.

Five things you need to know about intuitive awareness:

1. Pragmatism kills it
2. Disobeying it leads to physical and mental health problems - grave illness.
3. Doubt and fear are the result of following intuition (fearless is not a good sign of intuition)
4. Emotion is not intuitive - gratitude shifts emotion in the right direction (elation and depression shift it in the wrong direction)
5. Love is the only true space where intuition can rise to inspiration

With Spirit

Chris

How to Hold Steady and Strong to Your REAL LIFE INTENTION

The greatest weakness is strength. Staying strong prevents adaptation, it's pure ego. Let go and flow - that's strong.

Einstein once said "most people give up when they are 99% of the way to the finish line... " he claims that in his observation the difference between getting what you want and losing it, is the willingness to suffer the hard times when doubt, fear, uncertainty and confusion overwhelm us with a desire to run away. 

The frist step of the Back on Track 30 Day Challenge is to note down your intent. This may be a great thing to do today for yourself. Mapping your intent is important because it is this map that can guide you across the line and into success, love and health when you feel a bit like abandoning ship.

Ask yourself "What do I want to experience and feel in your WORK, RELATIONSHIP, SOCIAL LIFE, HEALTH, WEALTH, SPIRITUALITY AND MENTAL WISDOM. List those down the left side of a page at least like this:

Health

I want to feel youthful
I want to feel light and energetic
I want to feel strong in my body
I want to be able to swim easily

Relationship

I want to feel love and loved by my partner
I want to feel devoted and tender with my partner 
I want to feel trust and trusted
I want to feel like my partner values me

Etc

Then, go down the right side of the page - and opposite each one of the intentions, write the opposite.

Health
I am going to feel old sometimes
I am going to feel heavy and lethargic sometimes
I am going to feel weak in my body sometimes
I am going to be unable to swim easily sometimes

Relationship

I am going to feel unloved and unloving toward my partner sometimes
I am going to feel not devoted or tender with my partner sometimes
I am not going to trust or be trusted by my partner sometimes
I am going to feel devalued by my partner sometimes

Resolution

Go down this list of opposites and think to yourself -- what am I going to do when I feel this opposite experience in my INTENT? Do I have a process to deal with it and to bring me back on track? 

This is the key that Einstein and the Universal laws of nature advocate, learning to adapt is wiser that reacting because there are always two sides to your intent: The one you want, and the opposite... If you set this up well, your reactions to the opposites will not dishearten you at all.... 

http://www.chriswalker.com.au 

THINK INSPIRED - LIVE INSPIRED

How to Hold Steady and Strong to Your REAL LIFE INTENTION

The greatest weakness is strength. Staying strong prevents adaptation, it's pure ego. Let go and flow - that's strong.

Einstein once said "most people give up when they are 99% of the way to the finish line... " he claims that in his observation the difference between getting what you want and losing it, is the willingness to suffer the hard times when doubt, fear, uncertainty and confusion overwhelm us with a desire to run away. 

The frist step of the Back on Track 30 Day Challenge is to note down your intent. This may be a great thing to do today for yourself. Mapping your intent is important because it is this map that can guide you across the line and into success, love and health when you feel a bit like abandoning ship.

Ask yourself "What do I want to experience and feel in your WORK, RELATIONSHIP, SOCIAL LIFE, HEALTH, WEALTH, SPIRITUALITY AND MENTAL WISDOM. List those down the left side of a page at least like this:

Health

I want to feel youthful
I want to feel light and energetic
I want to feel strong in my body
I want to be able to swim easily

Relationship

I want to feel love and loved by my partner
I want to feel devoted and tender with my partner 
I want to feel trust and trusted
I want to feel like my partner values me

Etc

Then, go down the right side of the page - and opposite each one of the intentions, write the opposite.

Health
I am going to feel old sometimes
I am going to feel heavy and lethargic sometimes
I am going to feel weak in my body sometimes
I am going to be unable to swim easily sometimes

Relationship

I am going to feel unloved and unloving toward my partner sometimes
I am going to feel not devoted or tender with my partner sometimes
I am not going to trust or be trusted by my partner sometimes
I am going to feel devalued by my partner sometimes

Resolution

Go down this list of opposites and think to yourself -- what am I going to do when I feel this opposite experience in my INTENT? Do I have a process to deal with it and to bring me back on track? 

This is the key that Einstein and the Universal laws of nature advocate, learning to adapt is wiser that reacting because there are always two sides to your intent: The one you want, and the opposite... If you set this up well, your reactions to the opposites will not dishearten you at all.... 

http://www.chriswalker.com.au 

THINK INSPIRED - LIVE INSPIRED

4 Inspirational Posts From Chris Walker

Today's Articles - Feelings of Love

I love you is more than three little words…….

You are not your feelings

Great Video about Putting Your Heart into Something

Today's Articles - Feelings of Love

Posted: 01 May 2013 04:56 PM PDT


Hi,
Today i've posted a few articles that really caught my eye over the past weeks. They focus on love. 

For me, I find it so easy to get caught up in the turmoil and pragmatic variables of life that are so important but at the same time, getting disengaged from all the important things that make it good to be of help to others and live my VIP.

What I've been emphasising over the past weeks in all the articles I've written for you, is making wise choices and having honest expectations of life. The real topic that evolves through all of this is - How do you feel today?

Since time began, people have been trying to feel good on a daily basis. Adam supposedly ate the apple submitting to temptation and forgoing long term benefits for short term feelings. So, it seems there is a quandary that has existed forever, and will exist forever.

That quandary is between short term pleasure (feeling good day to day) and long term results (feeling good in the long term.

We choose this daily.

On the one hand there is the person who might say "I don't care about anything or anyone - all that matters is me, right now and getting what I want" They often go to any source that stimulates their feel good experience whether it be food, sex, greed or spirituality... (the four substitutes)

On the other hand there is the stoic person who puts emotion aside and applies discipline to life. This person struggles a bit with daily happiness, never quite feeling that things are on track, but, at the end of a long period they will achieve a lot.

The cost of having what you want in the long term is paid in the short term

The cost of having what you want in the short term is paid in the long term.

Can we find the balance?

The answer is absolutely NO - as long as the definition of "feeling good" sinks down to self gratification and the multiplicity of emotional states that go with it are the measure of life.

The answer is absolutely YES - as long as love is the definition of "feeling good" rises up though the mire of dirt and dust of daily troubles to be the primary experience one has in life.

THe articles of the day list a few ideas about this. One important idea is that you can love anything you choose and it will permeate your life. Nature, a dog, a god, but the key here is that when you try to love yourself you are trying to love shifting sand or moving water. I believe, and I will take it through the tests of many challenges, that the first love in life, is a significant other. A partner, spouse or lover. This is, for an adult at least, the platform nature intended. It takes courage, an open heart and skills I teach to achieve this space, sacred love, but it's doable, you just need to trust your heart.

Trusting your heart is easy, once you know what it feels like to have it open in contrast to having a deep seated emotion... that's the experience I share in the 30 day challenge.

Love and wisdom

Chris



I love you is more than three little words…….

Posted: 01 May 2013 01:51 PM PDT


I love this article from Joshi's clinic... so I've reproduced it for you. 

When you say you love somebody, there should a much greater motivation than simply those spoken words.

Try to be constant so that they will understand the core of your personality and from that understanding gain strength and security that you are acting as you. You may falter with your moods. You may project, at times, a strangeness that is alien to them which may bewilder or frighten them. There will be times when they question your motives. But because people are never constant and are as changeable as the seasons, you should try to build up within them a faith in your fundamental attitude and show that your inconsistency is only for the moment and not a lasting part of you. Show your love now. Each and every day, for each day is a lifetime. Every day we live, we learn more how to love. Do not defer your love nor neglect it, for if you wait until tomorrow, tomorrow never comes. It is like a cloud in the sky, passing by.

If you give kindness and understanding, then you will receive faith. If you give hate and dishonesty, you will receive distrust. If you give fear and are afraid, they will become afraid and fear you. You need give out what you need to receive.

The degree of love you give is determined by your own capability. My capability is determined by the environment of my past existence and my understanding of love, truth and God. My understanding is determined by my parents, friends, places I have lived and been. Each experience is fed into my mind from living.

Love is universal. Love is the movement of life. You can love a boy, a girl, your family, friends, art, nature. All things in life are beautiful. No human being or society has the right to condemn any kind of love you feel or your way of expressing it, especially if you are sincere; sincerity being the honest realization of yourself, without hurt or pain for your life, or any life your life touches.

Become a truly loving spirit. Let my words, if I must speak, become the restoration of your soul. But when speech is silent, don’t you still project the great depth of your sensitivity.

When you touch them, or kiss them, or hold them, you are saying a thousand words.



You are not your feelings

Posted: 01 May 2013 12:58 PM PDT

Original article here
The lovely Lorna Patten, founder of Open Up Communication shares with us a beautiful article on why we are not our emotions. I had never heard a message quite like Lorna’s. Her writing style is poetic and her tenderness will permeate your heart. My favorite teaching is to ‘let emotion move through you.’ Ninety seconds is all it has to take! Enjoy and leave your comments below.

You Are Not Your Feelings by Lorna Patten

No you are not.
And you are not your story or your suffering or your triumphs or your transformation…

You are not your ideas or your beliefs or your learnings or your failings or your mistakes or your successes…

And you certainly are not your feelings….
Who you are is the stuff of heaven, the magical, mystical, is-ness of the all of the all:

Who you are is LOVE…

Pure, simple, boundless, limitless, joyous, expansive, creative, powerful…LOVE
No matter what has happened, no matter how awful the particular stuff, no matter what you think or or feel and certainly no matter what others think or feel…

You are perfect love – you are.

And that can and will never change.

Simple truth.

Hard to live in this polarizing reality because you have mostly forgotten who you are and have spent a lot of your life fearing and feeling you are a great deal less than perfect anything, let alone perfect love.

And the truth is that is how you have felt….and the truth also is…you are not your feelings…feelings are not facts and none of what you think and what you feel is WHO YOU ARE…none of it, nada nothing at all.

Let me say it again: Who you are is perfect LOVE.

What you feel often is anything but that. And you are not your feelings…you are the one who chooses to feel the way you feel. Jill Bolte-Taylor made the observation that emotion (energy-in-motion) takes 90 seconds to complete it’s journey though you and be done. If any feelings lasts longer than 90 seconds…you must be doing something to make them stay…you start to feel something, then you agree with whatever meaning you make out of the feeling then you feel it even more and on it goes…sometimes for a lifetime!

Yes, you do choose your feelings.
Now you may not like this or understand it…in fact I can hear the silver-tongued fearful ego voice in your head saying…”this is nuts, I don’t choose all my feelings, sometimes other people just make me feel stuff”.

No they don’t. No one can make you do anything you do not choose to do. You always have a choice even when you feel you do not. The truth about ‘I didn’t have a choice” is actually: “I did not like any of the other options so I chose the least painful/awful of what was available to me at the time”.

No matter what has happened in your life to date, the key to healing and restoring wholeness is how you deal with your feelings.

Who taught you how to feel your feelings?
Where did you learn how to respond to what you are feeling rather than react?
My guess is…no one did.

In fact, you have probably had no education or training in what feelings are, what they mean and how to use them as a resource for change rather than as a reason to stay wounded and suffering.
Consider this: How much of your life have you spent feeling that you are not good enough – not worth enough, or deserving enough or pretty enough or smart enough or successful enough or strong enough or brave enough or lucky enough or quick enough or calm enough or …just not enough?

Enough I say. Enough of feeling not ok, enough of doubting your own loving heart, enough of choosing the illusion of fear when only love is real. Enough of pretending to be who you are not when the truth about who you really are is magnificent.

Time to step-up, show up and start accepting the fundamental truth about yourself and what’s possible for you right now!

Step One: Choose to accept you are ok, lovable, valuable, powerful and unlimited
EVEN WHEN you don’t feel it. Let go of needing to figure it all out rationally and just accept that you are LOVE and let yourself BE.

Step Two: When you start to feel anything at all…pause for a moment, take a breath, get present in your own body, breathe, and let the feeling (energy-in-motion) move through you – remember 90 seconds and the energy will shift.

If you find yourself getting involved with your fearful thinking mind, tell yourself “this is just a feeling, it’s not a fact… just because I feel X doesn’t X is true, it’s just true that I am feeling X” and breathe…
Step Three: Choose how you want to feel, what you want to do next and how you want to
show up - then BE and DO what you have chosen. Revisit Step One often and Step Two as needed!

Top Tips:
Make colorful reminder cards and stick them up where you will see them every day e.g.:

I am OK, I am lovable and I am valuable
LOVE is always the answer
BE Here Now
Feelings are not facts!
Breathe

Practice allowing your feelings to move through you rather than suppressing, depressing or denying them. Avoid direct dumping of feelings on living things…go outside and tell the dirt how you feel… it doesn’t care.

Keep a journal/feelings diary and regularly dump them out on paper and leave them there.

Remember to pause regularly throughout the day and breathe….and BE here now and breathe…

Whatever your story, wherever you are now, whatever has been before…you are OK, you are perfect LOVE and you can experience this if you are willing to accept your magnificence and choose to live into WHO you are moment by moment, one loving breath at a time.

PS It’s really very simple…but don’t mistake simple for easy. Sometimes simple is the hardest to do and yet, when you accept, surrender your resistance and simply choose to accept LOVE rather than fear…well it starts to get pretty simple!

Lorna Patten
Dynamic. Passionate. Loving.
Recognized as an expert coach, facilitator and mentor, Lorna rigorously questions the way things are, and challenges you to think differently about everything. She will confront you with breathtaking truths that truly are life changing.



Great Video about Putting Your Heart into Something

Posted: 01 May 2013 12:40 PM PDT

From an idea to a billion dollar business in a few years - hard work - no parties - dedication and of course customers who love the product - it's got to start somewhere and that place is in your heart

http://once.unicornmedia.com/now/adaptive/m3u8/3aaae01e-e0f4-439d-aa7a-8d5e3e774105/db6630fb-4bb5-45b9-ba6e-04014bcf7f30/tdy_gopro_130501/tdy_gopro_130501.m3u8?visitguid=2fca9e7b-b03c-4b3b-b161-d68788dcab4c&UMADPARAMsite=10985&UMADPARAMzone=22881

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4 Inspirational Posts From Chris Walker

Today's Articles - Feelings of Love

I love you is more than three little words…….

You are not your feelings

Great Video about Putting Your Heart into Something

Today's Articles - Feelings of Love

Posted: 01 May 2013 04:56 PM PDT


Hi,
Today i've posted a few articles that really caught my eye over the past weeks. They focus on love. 

For me, I find it so easy to get caught up in the turmoil and pragmatic variables of life that are so important but at the same time, getting disengaged from all the important things that make it good to be of help to others and live my VIP.

What I've been emphasising over the past weeks in all the articles I've written for you, is making wise choices and having honest expectations of life. The real topic that evolves through all of this is - How do you feel today?

Since time began, people have been trying to feel good on a daily basis. Adam supposedly ate the apple submitting to temptation and forgoing long term benefits for short term feelings. So, it seems there is a quandary that has existed forever, and will exist forever.

That quandary is between short term pleasure (feeling good day to day) and long term results (feeling good in the long term.

We choose this daily.

On the one hand there is the person who might say "I don't care about anything or anyone - all that matters is me, right now and getting what I want" They often go to any source that stimulates their feel good experience whether it be food, sex, greed or spirituality... (the four substitutes)

On the other hand there is the stoic person who puts emotion aside and applies discipline to life. This person struggles a bit with daily happiness, never quite feeling that things are on track, but, at the end of a long period they will achieve a lot.

The cost of having what you want in the long term is paid in the short term

The cost of having what you want in the short term is paid in the long term.

Can we find the balance?

The answer is absolutely NO - as long as the definition of "feeling good" sinks down to self gratification and the multiplicity of emotional states that go with it are the measure of life.

The answer is absolutely YES - as long as love is the definition of "feeling good" rises up though the mire of dirt and dust of daily troubles to be the primary experience one has in life.

THe articles of the day list a few ideas about this. One important idea is that you can love anything you choose and it will permeate your life. Nature, a dog, a god, but the key here is that when you try to love yourself you are trying to love shifting sand or moving water. I believe, and I will take it through the tests of many challenges, that the first love in life, is a significant other. A partner, spouse or lover. This is, for an adult at least, the platform nature intended. It takes courage, an open heart and skills I teach to achieve this space, sacred love, but it's doable, you just need to trust your heart.

Trusting your heart is easy, once you know what it feels like to have it open in contrast to having a deep seated emotion... that's the experience I share in the 30 day challenge.

Love and wisdom

Chris



I love you is more than three little words…….

Posted: 01 May 2013 01:51 PM PDT


I love this article from Joshi's clinic... so I've reproduced it for you. 

When you say you love somebody, there should a much greater motivation than simply those spoken words.

Try to be constant so that they will understand the core of your personality and from that understanding gain strength and security that you are acting as you. You may falter with your moods. You may project, at times, a strangeness that is alien to them which may bewilder or frighten them. There will be times when they question your motives. But because people are never constant and are as changeable as the seasons, you should try to build up within them a faith in your fundamental attitude and show that your inconsistency is only for the moment and not a lasting part of you. Show your love now. Each and every day, for each day is a lifetime. Every day we live, we learn more how to love. Do not defer your love nor neglect it, for if you wait until tomorrow, tomorrow never comes. It is like a cloud in the sky, passing by.

If you give kindness and understanding, then you will receive faith. If you give hate and dishonesty, you will receive distrust. If you give fear and are afraid, they will become afraid and fear you. You need give out what you need to receive.

The degree of love you give is determined by your own capability. My capability is determined by the environment of my past existence and my understanding of love, truth and God. My understanding is determined by my parents, friends, places I have lived and been. Each experience is fed into my mind from living.

Love is universal. Love is the movement of life. You can love a boy, a girl, your family, friends, art, nature. All things in life are beautiful. No human being or society has the right to condemn any kind of love you feel or your way of expressing it, especially if you are sincere; sincerity being the honest realization of yourself, without hurt or pain for your life, or any life your life touches.

Become a truly loving spirit. Let my words, if I must speak, become the restoration of your soul. But when speech is silent, don’t you still project the great depth of your sensitivity.

When you touch them, or kiss them, or hold them, you are saying a thousand words.



You are not your feelings

Posted: 01 May 2013 12:58 PM PDT

Original article here
The lovely Lorna Patten, founder of Open Up Communication shares with us a beautiful article on why we are not our emotions. I had never heard a message quite like Lorna’s. Her writing style is poetic and her tenderness will permeate your heart. My favorite teaching is to ‘let emotion move through you.’ Ninety seconds is all it has to take! Enjoy and leave your comments below.

You Are Not Your Feelings by Lorna Patten

No you are not.
And you are not your story or your suffering or your triumphs or your transformation…

You are not your ideas or your beliefs or your learnings or your failings or your mistakes or your successes…

And you certainly are not your feelings….
Who you are is the stuff of heaven, the magical, mystical, is-ness of the all of the all:

Who you are is LOVE…

Pure, simple, boundless, limitless, joyous, expansive, creative, powerful…LOVE
No matter what has happened, no matter how awful the particular stuff, no matter what you think or or feel and certainly no matter what others think or feel…

You are perfect love – you are.

And that can and will never change.

Simple truth.

Hard to live in this polarizing reality because you have mostly forgotten who you are and have spent a lot of your life fearing and feeling you are a great deal less than perfect anything, let alone perfect love.

And the truth is that is how you have felt….and the truth also is…you are not your feelings…feelings are not facts and none of what you think and what you feel is WHO YOU ARE…none of it, nada nothing at all.

Let me say it again: Who you are is perfect LOVE.

What you feel often is anything but that. And you are not your feelings…you are the one who chooses to feel the way you feel. Jill Bolte-Taylor made the observation that emotion (energy-in-motion) takes 90 seconds to complete it’s journey though you and be done. If any feelings lasts longer than 90 seconds…you must be doing something to make them stay…you start to feel something, then you agree with whatever meaning you make out of the feeling then you feel it even more and on it goes…sometimes for a lifetime!

Yes, you do choose your feelings.
Now you may not like this or understand it…in fact I can hear the silver-tongued fearful ego voice in your head saying…”this is nuts, I don’t choose all my feelings, sometimes other people just make me feel stuff”.

No they don’t. No one can make you do anything you do not choose to do. You always have a choice even when you feel you do not. The truth about ‘I didn’t have a choice” is actually: “I did not like any of the other options so I chose the least painful/awful of what was available to me at the time”.

No matter what has happened in your life to date, the key to healing and restoring wholeness is how you deal with your feelings.

Who taught you how to feel your feelings?
Where did you learn how to respond to what you are feeling rather than react?
My guess is…no one did.

In fact, you have probably had no education or training in what feelings are, what they mean and how to use them as a resource for change rather than as a reason to stay wounded and suffering.
Consider this: How much of your life have you spent feeling that you are not good enough – not worth enough, or deserving enough or pretty enough or smart enough or successful enough or strong enough or brave enough or lucky enough or quick enough or calm enough or …just not enough?

Enough I say. Enough of feeling not ok, enough of doubting your own loving heart, enough of choosing the illusion of fear when only love is real. Enough of pretending to be who you are not when the truth about who you really are is magnificent.

Time to step-up, show up and start accepting the fundamental truth about yourself and what’s possible for you right now!

Step One: Choose to accept you are ok, lovable, valuable, powerful and unlimited
EVEN WHEN you don’t feel it. Let go of needing to figure it all out rationally and just accept that you are LOVE and let yourself BE.

Step Two: When you start to feel anything at all…pause for a moment, take a breath, get present in your own body, breathe, and let the feeling (energy-in-motion) move through you – remember 90 seconds and the energy will shift.

If you find yourself getting involved with your fearful thinking mind, tell yourself “this is just a feeling, it’s not a fact… just because I feel X doesn’t X is true, it’s just true that I am feeling X” and breathe…
Step Three: Choose how you want to feel, what you want to do next and how you want to
show up - then BE and DO what you have chosen. Revisit Step One often and Step Two as needed!

Top Tips:
Make colorful reminder cards and stick them up where you will see them every day e.g.:

I am OK, I am lovable and I am valuable
LOVE is always the answer
BE Here Now
Feelings are not facts!
Breathe

Practice allowing your feelings to move through you rather than suppressing, depressing or denying them. Avoid direct dumping of feelings on living things…go outside and tell the dirt how you feel… it doesn’t care.

Keep a journal/feelings diary and regularly dump them out on paper and leave them there.

Remember to pause regularly throughout the day and breathe….and BE here now and breathe…

Whatever your story, wherever you are now, whatever has been before…you are OK, you are perfect LOVE and you can experience this if you are willing to accept your magnificence and choose to live into WHO you are moment by moment, one loving breath at a time.

PS It’s really very simple…but don’t mistake simple for easy. Sometimes simple is the hardest to do and yet, when you accept, surrender your resistance and simply choose to accept LOVE rather than fear…well it starts to get pretty simple!

Lorna Patten
Dynamic. Passionate. Loving.
Recognized as an expert coach, facilitator and mentor, Lorna rigorously questions the way things are, and challenges you to think differently about everything. She will confront you with breathtaking truths that truly are life changing.



Great Video about Putting Your Heart into Something

Posted: 01 May 2013 12:40 PM PDT

From an idea to a billion dollar business in a few years - hard work - no parties - dedication and of course customers who love the product - it's got to start somewhere and that place is in your heart

http://once.unicornmedia.com/now/adaptive/m3u8/3aaae01e-e0f4-439d-aa7a-8d5e3e774105/db6630fb-4bb5-45b9-ba6e-04014bcf7f30/tdy_gopro_130501/tdy_gopro_130501.m3u8?visitguid=2fca9e7b-b03c-4b3b-b161-d68788dcab4c&UMADPARAMsite=10985&UMADPARAMzone=22881

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