Copyright (c) 2009 Willie Horton

For many years, Eastern medicine - acupuncture, Vedic medicine - was termed “alternative” by a Western society whose medical traditions could only be described as youthful or adolescent by comparison. As an Ayurvedic surgeon from Cambridge said to me last Autumn, “If I’d studied conventional surgery at somewhere like Stanford or Harvard, I’d be using text books that are fifty years old, at most. In Bangalore, I was using texts that were five thousand years old.” But the “developed world” knows best!

I’ve been talking to a variety of business people - people suffering from the stresses and strains of the current global economic environment - over the last few weeks. It’s a case of “same old, same old” - to quote one of my clients - people immersed in the communal self-pity of a self-destructing economic super-class for whom enough was always “please, Sir, can I have some more!” Surely, if there was ever a crying need for alternative medicine, this is it!

As I write these words, I prepare myself for a breakfast session with a large audience of professionals and business people - seeking some insights into how one might ride out the current economic storm. Being business people, they are used to complex advice - with the associated price tag - to what, are in fact, very simple problems. Whether it be “three-sixty degree feedback”, strategic analysis, corporate cultural audit, “dashboarding” or whatever (there should be a whole dictionary of deliberately overly complex business jargon - maybe there is!) these are the corporate equivalent of modern medicine, when the business world is actually in dire need of alternative approaches - alternative medicine!

If you stop to reflect for a moment, you will discover that everything in life - whether that be relationships, business, family matters - is very, very simple. It’s only us who complicate it. I run a small business - having been doing so successfully for almost fourteen years. Before that, I ran or partly ran larger organisations. The challenges, pitfalls and problems are the same - the only difference is scale. Regardless of the size of organisation - or apparently complex relationship or family issues - you might have, a little reflection is a major help. Take time out - perhaps even only an hour - to reflect (not think through or problem solve) - to do nothing at all and let yourself be inspired. As I’ve said to many people, the Buddha reputedly became enlightened after searching for decades, whilst simply sitting under a tree. And the penny finally dropped for Sir Isaac Newton (or was it an apple!) when he was doing much the same thing. We all need to allow ourselves to be inspired - but we all need the mental space in which to allow that happen. This does not require three-sixty degree feedback, dashboarding or God knows what - it requires space, time and an eventual understanding that everything is simple - so don’t complicate it.

In giving yourself space, a few key things become blindingly obvious - what are the really important things we need to focus on (a client recently told me that he sort of knew what they were but was paralysed by “gloom and doom” induced panic) - what are the things we’re doing that we shouldn’t be doing (not always obvious until you take that all important one step back) - why are we in this at all (whether that’s a business or a relationship, very often the fact that you’ve been doing it for a long time blinds you to the fact that maybe you should either be doing something else or doing what you’re doing whole-heartedly) - what do we want out of it (you need to ensure that you have your priorities right and know, in as far as that’s possible, what you’re definition of success is).

Armed with a little clarity of mind, everything becomes simple - and a definitive course of action becomes clear. The problem is that the normal mind is clogged with noise and (according to research 50,000 random pieces of) garbage. The normal mind is incapable of seeing the blindingly obvious, because the same research tells us that the normal mind only sees what it expects to see. Ask the normal person how they are, and they’ll invariably tell you that they’re “not too bad” - expect “not-too-bad” and you’ll never perceive just how effortlessly and exceptionally successful you can be.

So, we need to get back to basics, administer a dose of alternative medicine. We need to see the wood for the trees and smell the roses - all corny old sayings that, if you stop to reflect for a moment, you will find have a deeper meaning. And therein lies the key - put some time aside every single day for reflection, to develop your clarity of mind, to enable you expect what would normally be unexpected and to thereby achieve effortless success and happiness.

Willie’s work in the area of self-improvement and meditation has been described as “life-changing” and “phenomenal” by clients from every walk of life. His acclaimed two-day personal development workshop is now available online at Gurdy.Net

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Every entrepreneur knows that if they want to become more successful they have to not only set goals for themselves, but they have to RESET their goals to stay on course.

The big problem, though, is most entrepreneurs wait way too long to reset their goals. Since today is July 1st (and the official Second Half of the Year Day) let’s take a look at 3 types of goals every entrepreneur must have in place to succeed…and ones you may want to reset for the remainder of this year (hint, hint, wink, wink):

1. Attitude Goal

Zig Ziglar says, “Your attitude will determine your altitude.” Now, I don’t think being blindly optimistic in general will help you to succeed; however, optimism and a positive attitude is a must.

In my opinion, an extremely important attitude goal to reset this month is your CAN DO attitude. Not, it can be done. But, I CAN do it.

Your belief and attitude toward YOU being able to do something (whatever that something is) will help you succeed. Right now, reset your attitude to I can do it!

2. Energy Goal

No matter how good you are, if you’re not creating new energy on a regular basis it’s only a matter of time before your body and mind give-out or burn-out.

Reset your energy goal right now and design a plan to create new energy every day. Some ideas to put in your plan are: exercise, meditation, sleep, healthy food, and sex.

All of these ideas will help you create new energy; keep your mind and body sharp; and keep you sane!

3. Marketing Goal

For us entrepreneurs, marketing is the most important part of our business. After all, without new, fresh blood (clients, customers, patients) coming in the door on a regular basis, we’ll be out of business. Fast.

That’s why resetting your marketing goals are so crucial. What have you done in the past 6 months that’s worked? Do more of it this next six months. What have you done that has not worked? Don’t do it anymore.

Looking at your successes and tests (failures) will help you determine which way to go for the next few months. Reset your marketing goals now and watch the money flow into your bank account.

So there you have it, three types of goals to RESET for the remainder of this year. Of course, you can reset more than just these goals…and more sub-goals within the types of goals I laid out.

Whatever goals you decide to reset, make it happen now. Don’t know the secret and then do it too late!

Weston Lyon is the author of 10 books & a passionate-professional speaker.
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“We Can Only Change Our Lives If We Change Ourselves!”

The highest and most important level of Revat brings to light what kind of a person you are, how you feel, whether you lead a contented, happy and harmonious life …
Revat is about change, as it is very clear in external Revat (physical self-defense): We become an attacker rather than a defender, if the opponent is stronger our punch turns into a defensive movement, our advancing step becomes a turn or even a step backwards. If we are rigid or refuse to change, we lose our balance.
We cannot change anything about the opponent’s attack, we have to accept it; but we can change something about ourselves. Instead of pushing the opponent’s arm (attack) away, we push ourselves away (from the attack). If we picture the opponent’s arm as an immovable object like a wall, the problem becomes clear: We cannot push a wall away, but we can push ourselves away from even the strongest wall.
For many years, I have concerned myself with internal Revat, the highest level of the program. The object here is no longer to defend yourself against an attacker, nor to gain control or influence over others, or to achieve fame and fortune. The third and most important level is about yourself. It decides what kind of a person you are, how you feel, and whether you lead a contented and harmonious life.
You can win several million dollars, but if you think this will decisively change your life, you are wrong. You can move from London to New York, but if you think your life will be different, you will be disappointed. Whether you drive a new Bentley or an old VW beetle, whether you are rich or poor, you will not feel very much different – indeed probably worse, for you will always encounter the same problems and have the same difficulties with the same types of people. You will always feel overlooked as before and think you have been cursed. In short, you will suffer, and the world will seem like a vast factory where suffering is produced.
This is because you believe you can change your life by changing your circumstances in life. You think you can solve problems! But this means that you are somebody who believes he can push the wall away!
You can travel to the most beautiful places in the world, but after a while you’ll be confronted with the same problems again because you have remained the same. The way you are, your nature, attracts a certain way of life to you like a magnet.
If you want to change your life you need to change yourself as a person. For as long as you stay the way you are, you will attract the same life and the same difficulties. The way you are determines your life, and it will keep confronting you with the same intractable problems. Your problems will not become solvable by changing your external circumstances, by finding another job, a different home, a better-looking girlfriend or a more attractive man. After a short time you will be in the same, uncomfortable situation again.
Accordingly, the highest level in Revat concerns yourself, so that you can push yourself away from the “wall” of external events. If you can do this, you can change your nature and become a different, new person who will attract a new and different life.
How does one become a different person? It starts with wanting to be different. When the strain of suffering becomes too great, such people feel the wish to put an end to their suffering. The first step is a kind of self-observation: “Know yourself!” People do not really know who they are, though most would insist that they know themselves very well. But while we are usually able to assess others fairly accurately and can pinpoint their weaknesses, our own negative traits always remain concealed to us. If someone were to mention them to us, we would vehemently deny that we are like that. Some form of integral shock absorber prevents us from seeing the truth about ourselves that is so obvious to the outside world.
We are not always the pleasant, friendly and lovable person we think we are. All the difficulties we have are in some way due to our nature – we are to blame for everything that happens to us,… nobody else.
When the spotlight of self-observation falls on us and we start to recognize that we are not the wonderful person we imagined, this is the start of a process of change. Although nothing about your external circumstances in life has changed, (you still live in the same home, do your shopping at the same stores and cannot afford a vacation in paradise), you have begun to change yourself and therefore your life.
Let me reiterate: Do not try to change your circumstances in life or push the wall away, push yourself away from the wall and change your position – change yourself!In order to change you must take snapshots of yourself like a dispassionate camera, and recognize how you really are.
You must become aware of how rarely you are aware. We humans are like robots, like machines that are driven by the great wheel of life but do not know it. We live in the illusion that we control our own lives, and that we always act responsibly and consciously.
Accordingly we must observe ourselves to recognize how seldom we act consciously. Realizing how unable we are automatically makes us a little more conscious. So observe this living being that bears your name, and catch yourself when you do nasty things. Do not excuse yourself. Do not look for reasons that justify your behavior. Recognize that you are no better than the person you are condemning for the same actions. After all, it is you! Whenever you condemn something in another person, look inside you and check whether you do not exhibit the same behavior towards others!We ourselves are to blame for all the problems for we like to blame others. We do not really know ourselves, and it is not clear to us that as the individuals that we are, we attract a certain life. We give everybody else the blame - the circumstances, bad luck, and the lack of opportunity, the envy or malice of others – and prefer to assume conspiracies and mobbing, but we leave one unknown out of the equation: ourselves! Perhaps our creators or guardian angels are sitting on some cloud and making bets about which person will be the next to recognize his or her true self and his or her greatest weakness, thereby taking the first step on a long journey towards individual psychological evolution and transformation.

Sincerely, Ingo Weigel Revat Center For Personal Safety

Ingo Weigel is a martial arts and self-defense expert with over 20 years of training and experience. He is the founder of Revat, a self-defense program specifically designed for professionals adults living in an urban environment.

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Copyright (c) 2009 Valery Satterwhite

“Eighty percent of success is just showing up.” — Woody Allen

Showing up in your life is, indeed, an ingredient to success in any endeavor. How you show up, what your state of being is, defines what it is you succeed in creating, experiencing. Do you show up insecure, doubtful, full of fear or do you show up present, standing centered in the truth of who you are, fully engaged in your dreams, your desires? Both states of being succeed in creating an outcome. The former creates more experiences of your insecurity, doubts and fear. The latter creates the actualization of all that you desire.

“It’s the vibes man!”

We live in a vibrational universe. As Albert Einstein said, “Nothing happens until something moves”. Living things have a vibrational quality as do what you perceive to be solid, man-made. Put anything under a super duper microscope and you will see tiny atoms and molecules moving about. Energy. Everything is made up of this vibrational energy. Including you.

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” - Aristotle

Vibration is the language of this Universe. Sound is a vibration. Vibrate and there is a responding vibration. A communication; an understanding between vibrations. You’ve seen how this works. Put two tuning forks together, strike one to generate a sound and the other will begin to vibrate with a matching tone. Place two pendulums together, strike them randomly and they will soon begin to sway back and forth in unison in the same direction. If you’ve ever been to a concert and the audience applauds for an encore, it is not long before the entire audience is clapping in unison, matching the vibration of an imperceptible leader.

As the creator of your experiences you emit a vibration through your thoughts and feelings that reflects a matching experience back to you. Therefore, it is not what you say that delivers what you want, it’s how you feel that manifests your outcomes. This is why affirmations do not work unless you believe what it is that you are saying. For example, in your best Stuart Smalley imitation (from Saturday Night Live) you affirm “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me!” and your next thought is “Yeah, right! Who am I kidding” and feel less than what you affirmed, what you are communicating to the Universe you want to experience is more outcomes that will continue to affirm your feeling, your vibration, of being less than good enough, smart enough and likable.

To show up in your day, in your life, in alignment with all that you desire you must hold the vibration of that experience. What would it feel like to accomplish your highest goals? Who would you be, what would you do, what would you have? How would you feel if you achieved all that? Feel it with every bone, every atom and molecule within your body and hold that energy within you. Focus your actions, your choices, on that vibrational energy. It is a way of acting as if what you desire has already been delivered to you and you are enjoying it at this very moment. This present moment.

It is in your moments of now that you create your future outcomes, whether it be one minute from now or ten years or more. Holding the vibration of your past experiences that you did not want will only serve to create more experiences of that which you do not want. Holding the vibration of what you worry for your future will create outcomes that match what you worry about.

There is an easy way to tell what you are emitting vibrationally. Check in with how you feel. If you feel rotten, reach for a thought, or a series of thoughts, that will make you feel better about yourself and your current experience. If you feel good, build and act upon that good feeling to create more experiences to feel good about. It’s really that simple. Be mindful of how you feel, your vibration. Check in to focus and align your vibration so that it matches your deepest desires.

“Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.” - Denis Waitley

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The man is with endless desires and wishes.

There is none on this earth who can declare that he could fulfill all his wishes and desires.  The man is still struggling and still praying for one thing or the other and none is satisfied with his life.  actually all this progress and achievements which this man could cover those had been possible only because he had been wishing and desiring one this or the other in his life and therefore, we have concluded that necessity is the mother of all inventions and had this man been satisfied with his lot, there could have been no progress in the fields of science and technology.  Therefore, the process of these desires and wishes taking birth in the mind of man must continue and the man shall be going ahead.  Whether the man shall reach his destination, we cannot say anything, but we can say that these desires and wishes must be taking birth in the mind of the man and he shall be inventing and discovering more and more on this earth.

The man is struggling and is coming out with new inventions and discoveries each day and since the process of communication has become fast, all parts are informed about the new inventions and discoveries and within days, the whole humanity starts enjoying the benefits of new inventions and discoveries.

This man started from stone age and now this man is exploring the skies and there could be chances that he shall be establishing on more planets and shall be discovering people like him and shall be having relations with them.  This is one side of the man and on the other had, it is on record that this man can destroy whatever he has created and established on this earth.  The man could manufacture such war-heads which can destroy this earth and this mankind itself.  Therefore, we cannot say anything about the will of this man and we cannot say that this man shall be going on the right path.  We have seen that all the religions had been giving him good guidance, but still this man has not stopped fighting nor he has stopped killing his fellow-beings.

The man is going ahead, but still this man does not know what is his destination in life.  The man is following the traditions and the achievements of one generation ae being utilized by the next generation and the process is still going on.

The wishes of the man must never be fulfilled and this man should never be satisfied with his life because when such a stage is reached, the progress of this man shall stop and he shall make this life a Hell.  This man should remain unsatisfied and new desires and wishes must be taking birth in his mind and in his heart and he must continue planning new things in his life.  The people who pray that they should get all and they must life a satisfied life should be condemned.  All must pray that new desires and wishes must be taking birth so that they could struggle and go ahead.

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There’s a reason why everybody loves Barack Obama. And no, that’s not because he’s the president of the United States. That bit came after. Everybody loves Barack Obama the same reason everybody loves Ellen DeGeneres, George Clooney and half of the A-list celebrities out there. And that’s because he knows how to be charismatic. With just a smile and a wave, he has the entire world captivated.

You, too, can learn how to be charismatic like Mr. President. Just follow these steps and you’ll soon be on your way to wooing your own public.

Tip # 1 On How To Be Charismatic: Perfect Your Smile.

Smiling is one of the basic steps of charisma. Without a good smile, you’ll have a tough time getting people to warm up to you. Being charismatic means looking approachable. I suggest practicing different smiles in front of the mirror to see which one looks best on you.

As you smile, think about different situations. For example, you might want to think about the time your daughter first learned how to walk and see how your smile looks like then. Or you could think about how you won a contest and see how confident your smile looks in the mirror. The best smile, I think, is the kind of smile that makes people feel like they’re special.

Tip # 2 On How To Be Charismatic: Straighten Your Posture.

Not a lot of people realize how bad their posture really is. It’s different when you’re looking at yourself consciously in a mirror and when you’re standing among the crowd in a subway station.

Having good posture gives other people the impression that you’re confident and that you’re independent. They then become drawn to you like flies to a moth. The way you carry yourself can be more attractive than your actual physical appearance.

Haven’t you ever seen an average Joe or plain Jane who catches attention simply by walking inside a café or restaurant? I tell you. It’s in the way they carry themselves with confidence that exudes charisma like nothing else.

Tip # 3 On How To Be Charismatic: Be Genuine.

There are those who think that to be charismatic, you have to act the part. That’s not entirely true.  Not being yourself might even lead people to doubt what your inner motives might be.

When you think about Barack Obama and other charismatic celebrities out there, you can’t help but be drawn to how genuine they seem to be. They appear to be very true to themselves and treat other people the way they want to be treated.

Learning how to be charismatic is simple. There is no need for theatrics and all sorts of underhanded schemes. All it takes is to look inside yourself and get in touch with all the nice and wonderful aspects of you.

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Have you ever been in a position where you made a decision because you felt at the time that you had to, even though your mind was woolly and the world was unreal? I am sure you lived to not only regret that decision, but also to ask yourself “What had gotten into me when I decided that?”

And it is possible that at the time you were recently traumatised, for example being widowed, walking away from a very destructive relationship, being forced to leave a job, and so on.

Such experiences often uproot our entire existence, and turn our world upside down. While we are grasping at anything that may look like the old reality that we knew before, the world keeps turning and changing. We hold on for dear life, wishing the world would just for a moment stop turning so that we can get our footing back again.

However, the world keeps turning, and we have to make decisions about various things, from what to wear today to whether I should sell my house and move to the other side of the country.

Why is it that these decisions often turn out to be the worst we can imagine? It is probably because the decision is made by the shadow self that has taken control of the situation.

What is a shadow self? It is a far less mature self that we adopted earlier in our lives to deal with a situation that we could not cope with at the time. For example we refused to take responsibility for our actions and found somebody to blame, and at the time it worked. Remember when you were sixteen years old and stayed out too late on a date and had to face your father? Were you to blame? Of course not. It was either the boyfriend that did not want to leave on time, or the car that ran out of petrol.

Or we find that we have such strong emotions that we cannot deal with them. As a result we either stop functioning from the head down and refuse to have any emotions, or we do everything possible to distract the attention from ourselves and anything that is remotely personal. Remember when your adored parent suddenly died? You were frightened, scared, angry about being abandoned, lonely. You decided that nobody would see what a mess you are inside, and the emotional shutters went down.

Or we become doormats and accept the blame for everything, even when our logical minds say that we are not to blame. Remember when you first discovered that somebody you love is addicted to drugs or alcohol? Remember the argument where you were told “You drive me to it!” and you felt confused, hurt and wronged?

Later on we learned that all these shadow selves are temporary solutions and we discovered that in the long run it is far better to accept responsibility where appropriate. We learnt to deal with our emotions and get more perspective on situations. We develop ranges of responses and we get to choose the most appropriate response for a situation.

But when we get thrown into a traumatic situation, we instantly forget all those ranges of responses. We forget all the life experiences that helped us outgrow our shadow selves. We go right back to being the child that had that first experience, and we apply the same coping mechanism without even thinking. And it does not work, because you and the situation are both quite different.

Instead of having those sets of behaviour come to the rescue like the previous time, they make everything worse. And this is where you make a decision that is probably perfect for the old shadow self, but disastrous for the person you have since become.

You decide that the only way to deal with your trauma is to get rid of the environment that is to blame, and you move house to a familiar area of which you have good memories from a previous time. You wake up in a neighbourhood that has changed, among people that are quite different. You feel even lonelier than before and discover that everything you ran away from is still with you, ready to be faced when you are ready.

Or you decide to simply ignore all your emotions and get on with life. But things get worse because you develop health problems that can get quite serious. You also get into a relationship with a totally unsuitable person. It takes a while for you to realise that you have added to your problems, and then there is the task of getting out of the relationship

Or you outwardly accept blame for the entire mess and you do not tell anyone that you are so angry at some people. You lie awake at night, feeling guilty. You really feel like a victim when on top of everything you develop health problems. The easy way out is alcohol or medication, because they both dull the emotional pain - until you wake up the next day feeling rubbish, with even more guilt and anger.

Our shadow selves are very convenient when we initially use them. Later in life they are only convenient when we are able to recognise them and use them as a measure of our spiritual growth since we first needed them. The shadow selves also remind us of all the issues that we still need to deal with.

This is why traumatic situations should in fact be seen as blessings - they help us clear out the spiritual stuff that we no longer need, so that we can move on to the exciting stuff and into the Light.

Knowledge is power. When we identify our dominant shadow self (and we all have some of each in our arsenal) we are already in a strong position to confront the underlying limiting decisions and remove the barriers that we placed there for ourselves.

We can run, but we cannot hide - especially from ourselves.

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cellular phones? Anything you do while driving takes your attention away from the driving task. Even users who use a hands free device are still distracted by the conversation, so an argument could be made to ban talking with your passenger while driving. Reality is that even if that were a ban, people would find away around it and still use the phone.

cell towers? There is no difference between the towers. They are pretty much identical. The only difference that one may notice, if you look really hard, is that some towers have special signal amplification equipment mounted on the towers and some sites do not.

Now the equipment on the ground at the base of the tower will be totally different depending on who’s network infrastructure gear is used by the carrier in a particular market.

The profile of the equipment is more dependent on the equipment vendor rather than the technology. Some vendors use the same cabinets for CDMA, GSM, and UMTS. Some vendors use different cabinets for each technology. These decisions are made similar to how car maunfacturers decide on what style to use.

insurance quotes? There is no difference between the towers. They are pretty much identical. The only difference that one may notice, if you look really hard, is that some towers have special signal amplification equipment mounted on the towers and some sites do not.

Now the equipment on the ground at the base of the tower will be totally different depending on who’s network infrastructure gear is used by the carrier in a particular market.

The profile of the equipment is more dependent on the equipment vendor rather than the technology. Some vendors use the same cabinets for CDMA, GSM, and UMTS. Some vendors use different cabinets for each technology. These decisions are made similar to how car maunfacturers decide on what style to use.