Archive for the 'Mind' Category

The Reason You Can’t Concentrate

Remedios Varo - Woman Departing from the Psychanalyst's Office 1960

Many people say that it’s hard to focus, hard to concentrate the mind. Most people are only fully present in their thoughts and actions for a tiny portion of each day. They can sustain deliberate awareness for a few seconds and then it begins to dissipate. It is one of the seven wonders of my world as a Meditation Teacher and Mindset Coach over many years, that we can still function as well as we do, given how lacking in focus, and how unconscious most of us are, most of the time. For a transcription of this Podcast visit Five Changes

Imagination Awake!


Caitriona Reed and Michele Benzamin-MikiReplay of Imagination Awake Teleseminar

Transforming everything from the ground up – by eradicationg limiting beliefs, decisions,and negative habits and emotions.

Remember the story of the man who traveled the world seeking his fortune, which he finally discovered hidden behind his own hearth?

Or the story of the prisoner who treated the key to his cell as a holy object rather than testing it the door to his cell?

Stories give meaning to your life. How many are keeping you from living your passion and dream, and how many could support you?

On Creativity and Fear

Introductory Remarks and Opening Exercise from a workshop by Michele Benzamin-Miki

What are you most afraid of? Loss? Disappointment? Rejection?
Being alone? Appearing foolish? Being misunderstood?

Fear shows up as anxiety, apprehension, panic, dread, worry, even depression. Sometime people get so used to it they forget it’s running everything they do.

Fear is also a messenger.
It tells you what you imagine you’re afraid of,
AND what you CAN DO when you’re not.

Michele Benzamin-Miki

Michele Benzamin-Miki in a big pink hatMichele Benzamin-Miki — “I learned to bow from my Japanese mother whose background was Shinto and Buddhist. Bowing is simply a moment of being fully present with open-heartedness and generosity. It is a way of saying “come closer.” It is a way of entering another’s world ..”

Part 1 of this interview~conversation

Mindfulness and Clearly Defined Outcomes

two kids on a fence.. if you don’t have a destination or a goal how will you ever arrive there? And, if you are so focused on your goals that you forget where you are, how will you know where to begin? To pursue your dreams, and to live fully in the present, that is the key ..

Mind-Body Balance

Body Mind Well Being Guided Journey -
Well-being, Healing and Transformation

Note: do not listen to this while driving.

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

Guided Journey -
Well-being, Healing and Transformation

 

Michele Benzamin-Miki on Integrated Meditation and Personal Change

walking_uo_hillWhat’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…

Caitriona Reed on Hypnosis and Meditation

meditation and hypnosisIf 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



Caitriona Reed on the Unconscious Mind

unconscious_mindCaitriona Reed speaks of the unconscious mind as everything you are not currently aware of. How do you get to access what you’re not conscious of?

How do suggestion and hypnosis and NLP and invoke transformation at the deepest level to change deep seated conditioning and habits.