Monthly Archive for July, 2009

18 Ways Meditation Will Change Your Life

18ways_meditationHere are 18 ways that meditation can help you. There’s more ! A lot more, actually. This list forms the basis of an upcoming class I will be doing.

This list of 18  is the ‘Why’. The ‘What’ and the ‘How’ will be covered in the upcoming class. Note: The class will be a teleseminar, so you can attend regardless of whether or not you are in Southern California. All you need is a telephone and a commitment to start putting the tools you will learn over the course of the six-week class into practice. Join our list to be sure you receive registration info.

For information on the class Click Here

 

Michele Benzamin-Miki on the Buddha’s Instructions on Overcoming Anger.

teachingBe yourself fully with no restraints and then start making the choices that you need to make. Anger is often not the most useful emotional state, but neither is repression without deliberation and congruency.

Moving away from being a victim of your emotions, moving away from being at effect to being at cause, is key here.

Michele Benzamin-Miki speaks of her experience teaching a  People of Color retreat in the summer of 2009 and the NLP training at Manzanita Village.

 

NLP Training. Content, context, and Boundary Conditions

from Claude Chabrol Les Noces Rouges

Claude Chabrol. Les Noces Rouges.

This short podcast excerpt from a ten day NLP training at Manzanita Village touches on the difference between content and context within any healing, transformation, or change work.


In it is mentioned Claude Chabrol’s 1973 film Les Noces Rouges. (Blood Wedding).



 

NLP Parts and Thresholds

nlp_parts.This podcast is from our ten day NLP training. It’s a brief overview on the formation of parts when innate wholeness is fragmented by negative emotions, values conflicts, incongruities, limiting beliefs and limiting decisions.



 

Stories, metaphors, and the power of focus

fox_swimmingThere’s no such thing as Buddhism. There is however a metaphor and instructions towards the sort of focus that can transform your life. How we choose the stories and how we use capacity our capacity to focus are key, and we can become, and do, and have, all we dream.

It’s important that we choose storiies and metaphors that empower us. Our capacity to focus allows us to do so.