We learn through stories. Even hard facts must be transformed into metaphors, images, and stories for us to remember them. Children love stories because that’s how they learn to be in the world. We all love stories because of the new
There are two kinds of stories: stories that limit us, and stories that expand the boundaries of what we imagine is possible. Possibilities must be imagined before they can be realized. Possibilities come to us first as stories. Limitations are negative possibilities, and are imagined in the same way.possibilities they present to us.
It’s rash to imagine that you can attain your best without wise counsel, support, and mentorship. If you feel that you have gifts to offer the world why would you deliberately hold yourself back from doing all you can from maximizing your ability to share them? Professional athletes have coaches, great spiritual teachers have mentors, and organizations have consultants.
Even the Dalai Lama still has teachers to instruct him. The best athletes may have an entire squad of coaches and trainers. Leaders with the greatest responsibility and reach seek guidance from those whose perspectives they trust.
Why would you imagine that you deserve less, or could achieve your best with less? The more creative and competent you are, the more this is true.
Two key principles
make up the
Psychology of Success
There are a multitude of details for how you achieve success, but here are two important principles, which when you apply them, puts success, however you choose to measure it, within your grasp.
For information about upcoming training in NLP go to www.nlpAlchemy.com
People often ask about silence and how silent our retreats are and why. And whether there’s any talking at all, if they get some guidance from us, the teachers.
Well, the answer to that is yes, we give some very specific guidance and instruction; and yes, these are silent retreats. Meditations are silent, meals are silent, and people are encouraged not to engage in social talk.
The purpose is not to close you down, or to cut you off from others. It’s something else, leading you towards a greater silence than can really only be found inside. To read full text click here
A five changes podcast by Caitriona Reed
Hypnotic Induction
10:26 minutes
The unconscious mind is a boundless resource, and repository. Within it is everything you are not now considering … yet …
including any new paradigm and possibilities for your own positive transformation.
Here’s a gift of a trance induction for
Mind-Body Well-being, Healing, and Transformation.
Note: do not listen to this while driving.
The fox who understands how to get rid of problems that bother her — by breathing, slowing down, and going deeper …
Caitriona Speaks about Transformational Change.
What is Transformational Change?
Five common questions that people ask.
What’s exciting to me now is how all the skills derived from my work as a hypnotherapist, and NLP trainer, complement my meditation teaching and practice. There is a relationship between goals and the goal-less state, and understanding that relationship gives you a bigger vision and a clearer view.
More than just removing obstacles, you become the change…
If you do not have a destination, a goal, then how can you ever arrive there? At the same time, if you have a goal, but are fixated on arriving there, without really knowing where you are right now, you cannot fully know the steps you must take. To pursue your dreams and goals, AND to live fully in the present, THAT is key. Caitriona Reed
Michele Benzamin-Miki speaks about her own experience of meditation as a vehicle towards clarity, joy, focus, and stability, and tells a story about walking meditation.
