Archive for the 'Mindset' Category

The Reason You Can’t Concentrate

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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

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Imagination Awake!

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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

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

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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.

Wanting and Having

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Caitriona ReedDesire, Mindfulness, and Goals

Desire is demonized in Buddhism as elsewhere.

Are we afraid of disappointment, or of getting what we desire.

People are often unsure of what it is they want. The fact is, everything you experience and achieve in life is based on your intention and vision.  We always get what we want and expect, whether we think so or not! Do you believe that? If it were true, what does it say about choices you may have made?

Article at: http://www.caitrionareed.com/motivation-mindfulness-setting-goals/1508/

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Michele Benzamin-Miki

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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

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Caitriona Reed Part 1

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Caitriona ReedAll change is possible. We begin where many end, by teaching you to suspend limiting your belief about what is possible – not to mislead you, but to open doors to the truly miraculous nature of transformation. We start with the open-heartened understanding that we simply cannot anticipate the extend to which a client, student, or patient can transform and heal. We begin with the perspective that focuses on what works, rather than on what is wrong; and that person requires very little in order to embody a fully balanced, congruent, dynamic and creative life – regardless of outside circumstances.

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Mindfulness and Clearly Defined Outcomes

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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 ..

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A Simple Recipe for Success and Change

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sommersault to successSome people say that everything that happens to you is based on a choice or decision that you made. That may not always be true. What is true is that HOW you RESPOND to what happens to you in your life is absolutely your choice, and your responsibility.

That means – your mindset, your inner, emotional state, your creativity, your problem solving-ability, your ability to move forward with clear precise action … all  of that is your choice.

Abraham Lincoln once said, “People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”  You know that true, right? Or did you forget?
And if you forgot what is it that blocks you? What are you afraid of? What are you forgetting that prevents you from truly stepping into the fullness of your power … and who you can be?

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Telling Stories, Telling Lies

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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.

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Finding the Right Coach

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Five Changes Coaching ProcessIt’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.

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