tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40667418453590743422024-03-07T19:31:19.581-08:00Living MokshaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-38699072237125790082013-09-22T18:28:00.001-07:002013-09-22T18:28:27.505-07:00The Inner Activist<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Inner Activist</div>
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The world does not need more ideas about how to fix it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is hard for me to admit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all have a responsibility to help the
world, but if we try to impose our ideas about how to fix the world then we get
too many cooks in the kitchen and a muddy sentiment soup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may think we need more Jesus; I may
think we need more Krishna.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some fight for socialism; others for communism;
still others for democracy … Democrat vs. Republican … This vs. That.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do not have an idea shortage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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My Beloved used to be a fierce activist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She picketed and protested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She stayed up all night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She cried and she fought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She probably yelled a time or two and swore
for the cause. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, there is honor in
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As she stepped into her path as a
healer, she learned that changing the system with ferocity only led to the
energetic echo of ferocity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Mathew
said, hate begets hate (26:52) and evil begets evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or,
said differently, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate,
violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a
descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil-hate begetting
hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the
dark abyss of annihilation.” – MLK</div>
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It is non-violence which has changed the world and social
policy – because of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">inner activism</b>
involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is those who held steady
as they were spit upon and cursed – who resolved to hold their inner sanctum
above all else in the face of oppression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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We don’t need to convert the world to another theory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one needs to win for us to all work together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To create an enlightened world, we just have
to be an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">inner activist</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to discover what we have to uniquely
offer the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we contribute the
best of what we are then we will see the best in others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our projection will be our reflection and we
won’t live in a world of lack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Deep inside of us, there is a deep want to express oneself
and be relevant, validated, and purposed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But, unless we can find this goodness inside ourselves, we cannot begin
to really help others, because we see the world NOT as the world is, but AS we
are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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In spite of our ups and downs, frustrations, and times of
confusion – in the kernel of human experience, there is goodness. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back of all thought and things, there is
love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Path of the Sacred Warrior –
the Shambhala teachings of Chogyam Trungpa say that our work is to find that goodness
– that sweet juice, which fuels all that is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Discovering real goodness, though, doesn’t have to happen on
your vacation to Tahiti, during your hot stone massage, or even in your yoga
class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The magnetic nature of energy
and intentionality works from a Feeling state, more than a Thinking state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Abraham would say, Feeling good really
matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, feeling good is generally
thought of in “how to” terms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We think
about what we really want, and then we focus on “how to” get there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Rational brain usually wins here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We question, analyze, self-sabotage, and get
in the way of the natural Flow of goodness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We plan for goodness just around the corner after we finish these 3
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Goodness exists right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It exists as an appreciation for the miracle of experience in the simplest
terms – not in winning the lottery or buying a new car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a basic goodness in just being
alive and knowing it…. Watching a sunset, listening to the sound of cars
passing, feeling the wind on the back of your neck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Goodness exists in the mundane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In every thing there is beauty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finding goodness is just about waking up and
noticing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, that noticing starts
with you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Noticing yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Inside of you there is an awesome
gentleness, one who feels so deeply and vulnerably, an awed and overflowing
gratitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Perhaps you’ve masked your inner poet and learned to
critically think – analyze – compartmentalize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The call is for us now to find that inner love again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To look within ourselves and ask how we can
better serve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To look deeply at what makes
our soul sing and to walk bravely our own road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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A single match can obliterate a darkened room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you find your light, you will light the
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All is Love. </div>
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Namaste, </div>
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Ryan Pride</div>
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Dr. Ryan Pride is the owner of the Moksha Institute - a firm dedicated to turning this world around. Check us out for more info... www.moskainstitute.com</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00439531378150804655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-86364018234771471852013-09-18T19:19:00.002-07:002013-09-18T19:21:07.591-07:00Puke on Enlightenment <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Puke on Enlightenment</div>
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The amber hue marked the entrance to Big Bend Yoga Studio –
the most notorious and original yoga studio in St. Louis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were stoked – smiling from ear-to-ear in
giddy anticipation for that brief moment in time when Spirit soars, Mind releases,
and one is able to dance freely in the Field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Our beloved teacher – Saul David Raye – was in from
California.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saul does not travel to St.
Louis often, so this was a tremendous opportunity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, he was leading Kirtan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of you don’t know what that means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, to a yogi – it’s the Holy Grail of
transcendental connection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kirtan is
the yoga version of attending a Phish concert on acid while someone is
massaging your back and feeding you honey – only it’s not Phish and no one is
dropping acid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, it’s yoga,
singing, dancing, poetry, and love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But,
the environment, the words, the music – it is intoxicating and has the
potential to abruptly divorce you from your mind and immerse you into Being and
love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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But we have kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most of our friends who are heavily immersed in the yoga community are
not Breeders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would seem that the
path of the Seeker flows more easily without the beautiful encumbrance of
children – as most of our yogi friends just don’t “do” the kid thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, we hold the fort of the yoga couple –
the spiritual dyad, sacred mirrors to one another – a feat difficult considering
that the path to Enlightenment is ultimately a self-centered (purposely so)
pursuit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, we try.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We balance between who gets to go to what
training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We remind one another to
meditate or (in my case), remind one another when not to and just eat brownies
instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So, here we are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The night is upon us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The humming
of the Harmonium is beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
yogis are assembled. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smiles and open
hearts abound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We give our children (4
and 6 year old girls) the 3<sup>rd</sup> version of the “talk” about mommy and
daddy’s very special spiritual time and how important it is to “behave.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We pray that our youngest son (barely a month
old) will take solace in his mother – National Geographic style.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After our final yelling at the children in
the back who haven’t heard a word of what we were preaching, we pretend we
weren’t the parents just yelling at our children, we put on our Zen face, and
we stride into the Studio with the warm feeling of hope beckoning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe tonight will go okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe the girls will dance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe William will sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe… just maybe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We sit down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saul
begins by talking about the state of the world, the universal Field, love,
union, and the Path… the songs begin to build, dancing begins… my oldest
daughter taps me on the shoulder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“Daddy, I feel a little sick in my belly.”</div>
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“Oh… are you sure?”</div>
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“Daddy, I need to go to the potty.”</div>
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“Okay, sweetie, let’s go…”</div>
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I tip toe through the crowd of yogis, hand-in-hand with my
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She opens her mouth in slow motion and releases a torrent of
vomit all over the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trying to
cover her mouth, it spills between her fingers like a horrific waterfall of
disappointment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She looks at me with
those eyes that say “what is happening to me?” just before releasing her second
round.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then a third.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then a fourth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
smell invades quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look
helplessly to my Beloved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her eyes are
closed and she is in the Flow of the music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Immersed in the chunks of my daughter’s
vomit, staring at the stains on the yoga studio rug and walls and steeped in
the smell of wrongness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Inside my head, I curse and lament existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, then, just as quickly, I attend to the
cleaning that must be done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remind
myself that the Brahmin Priests were not allowed to step into their roles as guru
until after their children were reared fully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I remind myself that I am learning service and humility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remind myself that my children teach me patience,
service, and unconditional love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
remind myself of this - just as a secretly covet the lives of those freelancing
non-breeders and their travels and their dancing and their naps in the middle
of the day…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Of course, we had to leave our teacher and our Kirtan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think we got in at least half of one
song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we climb back into the car amid
protests from high-pitched wee folk and to the sound of a hungry 3-week old, I
look over at Sheila and our eyes meet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A wry smile creases her lips and there is a timeless moment of soul
gazing and instant understanding – of empathy and surrender.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is our dharma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is our yoga.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We can chase enlightenment like shooting stars – blanketing ourselves
in the warmth of spiritual experience and soulful expression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, these ecstatic moments fade like the smell
of a new car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything changes,
always.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enlightenment isn’t warm and
fuzzy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the gap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s finding that moment of serenity – the pause
of presence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Masters were able to
hold this space perhaps longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me,
my work is to find it while wiping the vomit stains from my knee caps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, that ain’t easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, perhaps it’s a better teacher than
losing myself in the reverie of chant and sway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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At least, that’s what we parents tell ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So – puke on enlightenment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps in the aftermath, there will be a glimpse
– a tiny crack – in the fabric of circumstance, revealing a space – a gap – a moment
of Being in the swarm and swirl of chaos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Namaste,<br />
Ryan<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the
owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving Wellbeing - for you or your company. A
profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for
the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For more information,
please go to: </span></i><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com</span></i></a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-55252803945576481152013-08-15T19:35:00.002-07:002013-08-15T19:35:58.253-07:00Engagement. What if we Got it COMPLETELY Wrong?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It’s just business, right?<span> </span>How much money is there in the employee “engagement”
world?<span> </span>Engagement models are sold like
popcorn in movie theaters to Executives doing their due diligence in trying to
show employees they care.<span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And, it’s no wonder.<span> </span>Working today is looking pretty grim.<span> </span> <span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Only 20% of us report being happy at
work.</span></span><span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span>And, that is
alarming, because your happiness impacts --- </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">everything</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Literally. Your happiness
quotient, if you were to give yourself a score, would highly correlate with
almost every area of your life experience here on Earth - your health (90% of
what we see the doctor for is stress-related illness), your relationship
satisfaction, your work performance, your overall wellbeing….<span> </span>This list could go on.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Companies should be interested in
their associates’ happiness.<span> </span>The link
between happiness and performance is no longer debatable.<span> </span>We know that when you are happy, your brain
actually works better than when you are not.<span>
</span>A lot better, as it turns out.<span> </span>For
example, when positive, you are 31% more productive than when in a neutral or
low mood state; if you were in Sales, you’d perform 37% better; if you were a
doctor, you’d make decisions 19% faster and over 20% more accurately… </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So.<span>
</span>Happiness is a good thing.<span> </span>All of
the sudden, those millions of dollars spent on consultants on engagement seems
worthy.<span> </span>Phew.<span> </span>What a relief… </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But, what if we got it wrong?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I worked internally as a VP of
HR.<span> </span>We did an engagement survey.<span> </span>We measured how our associates felt about
their job, their team, their boss, their working environment, their benefits,
their compensation … </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And, when we found low scores, we
developed “action plans” to address these low areas.<span> </span>We painted the walls and institutionalized
recognition programs.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Our scores the next year were the
same.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Regression to the mean?<span> </span>Ask enough people, everything is a 3
right?<span> </span>No. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">See - happiness does not exist
outside of you. It isn’t just around the corner. It
isn’t found in the next promotion, or when you leave this job. It isn’t
in that new pair of boots or that shiny new car. </span><span style="color: #b50900; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In fact, if we know everything about your
external world, we can only predict 10% of your long-term happiness.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> 90% of your happiness has NOTHING to do with
the external world, but rather – how your brain processes the
world. In short, what you make of it. Whether you see
it positively or negatively. How you filter the world. Whether or not
you are bothered by that person with 25 items in the “20 items or less” grocery
store line. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Our model of engagement completely
assumes that if we change the external environment, we’ll make people
happier.<span> </span>And, that just does not
work.<span> </span>It never has, really.<span> </span>Happiness is an internal process.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The performance associated with
happiness holds firm, though.<span> </span>So, if we
can get associates to be happier, everything thrives – performance, energy,
creativity, innovation, mood… </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You can.<span> </span>But, the process is an inside-out one.<span> </span>This is what we specialize in doing.<span> </span>We are re-writing employee engagement by focusing
on the individual.<span> </span>We start with
leaders, because organizations mirror their leaders and cast a shadow across
their organization.<span> </span>We hold leaders
accountable to their internal work.<span>
</span>When leaders are conscious and present, the character values of a leader
– honesty, empathy, passion, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">composure
… emerge naturally and without effort.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If you spend time investing in
engagement models – know this:<span> </span>the
engagement models you are investing <span> </span>in
are accounting for maybe 25% of the variance in predicting 10% of happiness –
or about 2% of happiness.<span> </span>The other
90%? – it’s in the person.<span> </span>Change their
filters, change everything.<span> </span><br />
<br />
WE have programs that do this work.<span>
</span>Gratitude at work, random acts of kindness, daily meditations, yoga,
leadership mindfulness training … these represent the new paradigm shift that
is already happening!<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We’re representing the other
90%.<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Moksha Institute </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> www.mokshainstitute.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Why? Because there is no other choice for us. How can we help to heal our world when so many of us cannot see our way to joy due - overwhelmingly - to how we feel about our workplace. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Your thinking rules are
determined by your beliefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These rules
categorize and encode information as you experience the world – putting away
into those buckets those experiences that validate your beliefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a process known as “hypothesis
testing and confirmation bias.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">And,
for many of us, we believe we aren’t good enough - that we aren’t lovable as
our most authentic self.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That means we
see the world through this lens and then filter experiences through it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All around us, we see threats and
validations of our own hypothesis of our worth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, for many of us, our self-worth is low
to moderate, at best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<li><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Are your thoughts kind to
you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></li>
<li><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">How often do you beat
yourself up?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></li>
<li><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">How often to you criticize
the mirror’s reflection or the impromptu comment you made in the </span></i></li>
<li><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">meeting?</span></i></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">A
thought is a chemical messenger, echoing through the body like the aftermath of
a rock guitar solo… or jazz… or funk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">It’s
happening right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be in
your best interest to know who this “someone” is that chatters so much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, let’s explore this ‘thing’ called
consciousness:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">What
we now know is that your body is a verb, not a noun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is an activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a process, not a thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back of you is consciousness and that
consciousness sits outside of ‘stuff’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is not pseudoscience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
picked apart by tweezers, we would end up as a pretty large pile of atomic
dust, none of which had EVER been alive, but all of which had been you.</span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">All
the atoms of your body come from the stars – quite literally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under a quantum microscope, you look more
like a galaxy spinning - than a suit of skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are recycling stardust, spinning, and recycling in and out of YOU
all while maintaining the illusion of solidarity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Atoms
are coming into your body and leaving your body at every second and in this
moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Your
body is not a structure, it is a process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At the level of sub-atomic particles, everything that you see is
changing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Particles are coming and
going.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">All
around us – EVERYTHING is moving and vibrating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A rock vibrates very, very slowly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">You vibrate much faster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>
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<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">When you look at the body, you see
stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heart, lungs, skin.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Get a bigger microscope and you see
molecules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Get a bigger microscope and you see
atoms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Get a bigger microscope and you see subatomic
particles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">And, that’s the building blocks of you, me,
and everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, also where it gets
pretty fun!!!</span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Radioactive
studies have proven that at this moment, you have a million atoms in your body
that once belonged to Gandhi, Jesus, and Alexander the Great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chew on that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">In just the last 3 weeks, a quadrillion atoms
have gone through your body that have gone through every living creature on
this planet – a tiger in Africa, a lemur in South America, a yellow Labrador in
Wisconsin, a Redwood in California, and that lunch lady in Knoxville,
Tennessee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Wellbeing
is a </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">state of being</span></b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">created
from your thoughts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Thoughts
matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are experiencing
anything less than a thriving work environment, then you are quite literally affecting
your ability to thrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Negative
thoughts produce negative actions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>More, your perception will be filtered through the lens of your beliefs
about life and work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you believe
work is hard, stressful, or intense, that’s exactly what you’ll see and
experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you experience it,
you’ll feel it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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Namaste,<br />
Ryan<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the
owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of
individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and
leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for
the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information,
please go to: </span></i><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com</span></i></a></div>
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<![endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #b50900; font-family: Mistral; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-67005620015807493112013-05-19T09:37:00.003-07:002013-08-08T09:13:29.246-07:00What is Moksha?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Everything is
energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ask any Quantum Physicist and
they will tell you that there is no difference between matter and energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does this mean for you?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Most things
work in synchrony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wind affects
the weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The moon impacts the
tides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your thoughts affect your moods
and levels of energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is very
important, because your thoughts are things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They impact your biochemistry and therefore your health, but they also
impact mine too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">The work of
Dr. Dan Siegal at Harvard University on interpersonal neurobiology has shown
that your energetic state has direct ramifications on mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your wellbeing impacts my wellbeing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are stressed out, your body is
producing cortisol (the stress hormone).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If I interact with you, I actually start producing more cortisol in my
system just through our ‘energetic’ swap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is because our electromagnetic energy field doesn’t stay within our
bodies, but actually radiates outward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Animals sense this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is why
a dog can tell if you are scared or not; this is why you can get a creepy
feeling when on the elevator with a stranger with bad intentions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">The work of
Candace Pert on Molecules of Emotion has shown that what you believe causes
your brain to release neurochemicals and that this transaction with your
environment is completely perceptual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
your beloved says “I love you,” and you happen to be in the middle of a fight,
you may perceive this as a “snarky” or sarcastic remark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This perception and attribution will then cause
a flood of cortisol (the stress hormone), adrenaline, and acetylcholine – among
other chemicals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you perceive this
“I love you” statement as a reconciliatory action with genuine positive
intentionality, then your brain will produce a “feel good” cocktail of
endorphins, oxytocin, and GABA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
sad reality is that the person honking his horn when the light turns green
because you didn’t go fast enough will be much more likely to die of heart
disease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s the sad, but real
truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Our beliefs
have a profound impact on our biochemistry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There have been hundreds of studies showing the remarkable impact of
placebo effects, which science treats as a type of statistical error.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time and time again we have seen that the
power of the mind produces the same effect as the substance of the pill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Numerous studies have shown that people will
lose their hair when taking a sugar pill believed to be a type of chemotherapy
treatment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Thoughts are
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have energy that we can
measure on an EEG or an MRI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t
stay ‘inside’ your brain/body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others
can sense them and pick them up in much the same way as the radio picks up the
FM or AM signal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">This is now being proven by Science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We now know that much of what the ancient,
Tibetan and Taoist doctrines referenced as the state of reality has been proven
by Quantum physics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time is
relative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is a unified field of consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mood is contagious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matter is
just another expression of energy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What you think impacts me directly – even to
the level of my endocrine (hormone) response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">It turns out
that the world is round.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turns out, the
Earth rotates around the Sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turns
out, we’re all connected in a giant web of consciousness and emotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Your beliefs
create your biological experience of reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Your beliefs can make you sick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or healthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Life is a
mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it…” – Ernest
Holmes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">In the
ancient texts it is said that where attention goes, energy flows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your attention - what we in the
consciousness field call “mind” – is a spotlight on the nutrient-rich soil of
creation and where it goes, that which it shows … grows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your attention impacts the outcomes that you
will get.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you focus on the negative,
you actually grow the negative in your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The ancients call this the “Law of Attraction.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Psychologists might call it a
“Self-Fulfilling Prophesy” or “Confirmation Bias.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Quite
literally, what you think - you become – AND you create in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You attract those with similar thought waves
and fields.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are listening to
country in your soul, then you tend to pick up the signals and attract to
others on the same “station.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Why does this
matter?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because the only difference
between a rut and a grave is the size of the hole. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Your brain
has about 100 billion neurons – give or take a few million.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every experience you have creates new neural
connections; these connections also create new emotions, which shape those
connections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As experiences are repeated,
these connections get stronger, while others get weaker (a process called
synaptic pruning).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quite literally,
this means that what you think and do has a “Bobcat” effect on your brain,
landscaping your brain based on your thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This entire process is known as neuroplasticity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In essence, what we know from neuroscience
research is that your brain is not stagnant, but is changing every single
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your brain is a process, not a
thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That means you are busy
creating new highways and byways and potentially even interstate connections
based on what you do, think, and feel regularly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Through the
process of synaptic pruning, certain behaviors – like riding a bike or swinging
your golf club – can become automatic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, so can emotional patterns or thinking habits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you view the glass as half empty for long
enough, guess what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your brain will
actually start “pruning” those centers for optimism, hope, positivity,
etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Virtually any
talent or skill can be developed through training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Musicians who practice start linking neural
pathways from the right to the left brain, allowing them rapid fluidity in the
ability to create and play music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Professional ball players can handle that bad hop with ease and grace
because their muscle fibers actually fire faster than those unpracticed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Whatever you
are doing – at any time – you are physically modifying your brain to become
better at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, if you are worrying,
you are getting better at worrying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
you are fighting, you are getting better at fighting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are cleaning, you are getting better
at cleaning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are loving, you are
getting better at loving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are
leading, you are getting better at leading… </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">This is a
foundational property of the brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
a strange notion to realize that the hard wiring of the brain is to be soft-wired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Operating System of the brain allows for
frequent downloads of new software.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Becoming
self-aware, mindful, “awake,” … <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #b50900; font-family: Mistral; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">to
find Moksha, then, is critical</span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because by doing so, we can
actively rather than passively shape our brains, our thinking, our emotions,
our abilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, what an empowering
notion!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, to be not awake or aware,
means that we are reshaping our brain with what the Taoists call our “monkey
mind.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Your monkey
mind is that chattering voice that chirps at you the entire car ride home
reminding you of your to-do lists, replaying situations from the day, scenario
planning conversations that haven’t yet happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we are not aware, our monkey gets fed - our
‘to-do’ list brain gets bigger muscles and sharper eyes… it gets better at
worrying and planning and … feeling anxious, less centered, and more
depressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">So… how do we
move forward?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">First, you
must realize that in order to have clarity, the water has to be still.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slow down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Breathe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find your presence in THIS now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Develop a sense of warmth and
gratitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acknowledge where you are at
and be thankful – simply – for the awareness of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Start “practicing” Mindfulness in all your
routines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taste the food you are
eating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drink in the hot shower as
though you have been stranded in Alaska for weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really look into the eyes of your fellow
human beings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stop
and smell the roses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Our beliefs
reflect back to us again and again as experiences and relationships until we
know that we are creating what we see and what we experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
experience patterns of experience based on our patterns of thought and
behavior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our lessons are learned through
trial and error and trial again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">The cycle is
a closed loop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It reinforces
itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have a belief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You attract experiences based on this
belief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The belief is reinforced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our belief becomes truth and truth is
reinforced over and over again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until
it doesn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Enlightenment
is not eternal bliss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not
euphoria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eckhart Tolle will be the first to tell you
that the experience of enlightenment is not an experience at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not a place out-of-time or
ever-after.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not a place outside
of this world or outside of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
exists right now and within you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
exists as an “aha,” or “oh, that’s what I have been believing?” moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: Mistral; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is Moksha.</span><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">It is insight and learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the knowing that that you are the
thinker and that your world will be what you believe it to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">You
are what you believe yourself to be.</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are your
thought habits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Change your thought
habits and change your life!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Namaste,<br />
Ryan<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the
owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of
individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and
leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for
the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information,
please go to: </span></i><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com</span></i></a></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #b50900; font-family: Mistral; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Mistral; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></i>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-15231349512793162342013-05-18T09:09:00.002-07:002013-08-08T09:17:06.690-07:00Energy Recycles - as you, me, and everything in between... <span style="font-family: Calibri;">When I first started learning about Eastern philosophy, I
thought reincarnation was absurd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
boiled down, like many do, a property of law or effect to the idea: “if I do
not live my life with virtue then I am likely to come back as a penguin.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">We need to start framing reincarnation like gravity - as a property of experience. Take all the religiosity out of it. Let yourself be an energy scientist for a moment and just consider the property and what it could teach you about experience. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To know the workings of the world, we need only to
look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We reincarnate every single
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We die every single day and are
reborn as ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, if we didn’t, we wouldn’t live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If our skin did not shed itself and completely renew every 30 days, we
would not heal from scrapes and scratches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Every month, 1.6 trillion cells form your new skin and all the experience,
memory, and about 100,000 bits of information are passed along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have to die to be alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The component
parts of your hand are made of completely different material from that of 30
days ago but remember everything – without any failure in transmission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Everything that was will come again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spring arrives just on time, every year,
reincarnating in a cyclical orbit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everything spirals – your DNA, your toilet bowl, the galaxies, and your
experiences. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh… and your emotional
habits (turns out that the daily hormone cocktail of neurochemicals, a.k.a., “feelings,”
is addictive, like your morning coffee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You simply get used to your daily chemicals). Where attention goes, energy flows. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Energy transmutates matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This happens all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Energy manifests in matter, giving the breath of life – of movement,
dance, and song – to inanimate atoms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Prana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Qi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ki.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Chi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you have ever lost someone and watched them pass over, the
experience is life changing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can
see life… feel it – not just in the movement of the body, but also the heat of the
body, the pulse of the neck, the feeling of the soul inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, you can also see the transition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see the body remain – empty –
following the last breath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can feel
the escape of prana – of soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all see this <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">and feel it – regardless of faith and irrespective of
definitional disputes over terminology (i.e., Biologists can call it
Energy while Christians call it Soul and both are right).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What if we do all go to Heaven?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, what if we return again to learn a
little more?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>That would certainly be
the coolest thing in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Personally, I wouldn’t want to just have harps and clouds and cheesecake
all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Cheesecake is definitely in Heaven. </span></span><br />
</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>From time to time, I want
to go hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want scrapes and bruises
and up-all-nighters. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From time to time,
life needs a little jaggedness and friction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We need the rain for rainbows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And,
knowing that we truly DON’T die… knowing that we can dip into the arena of incarnation / of experiencing again, and
always have complete connection to God (Oneness, Source, the Quantum Field) is completely awesome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It is incredible to know that the essence of us does not and cannot be destroyed. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">So, may your smiles see you again soon; they most certainly will. They always do. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Namaste, </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Ryan</span></span></div>
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<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the
owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of
individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and
leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for
the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information,
please go to: </span></i><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com</span></i></a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-1923814628029285442013-05-04T13:34:00.004-07:002013-08-08T09:14:07.821-07:00The Reason why Honking could Kill you. <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Reason why
Honking could Kill You<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We spend a great deal of time talking about sickness and
disease and little on healing and wellness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, there is good reason for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Healthcare is one of our largest costs and conversely, one of the most
profitable industries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Inside you, there is a key to wellness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, something that every good medical
doctor will acknowledge and report with an almost complacent, “Yep. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Strange, but true” is the reality that biological organisms -
specifically humans - do not respond in predictable ways to treatment; we
assume someone will respond according to the math of medicine – the linear A +
B should equal C treatment plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We aren’t machines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are more complicated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
thoughts interfere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doctors don’t really
talk about the placebo effect – it’s not profitable to acknowledge that the
power of your thoughts can have the exact same medicinal impact as that of the
drug if told what will happen to you after taking the sugar pill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Most things work in synchrony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wind affects the weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sun impacts your mood (there is a reason
people retire in the South).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two
patients with the same illness receiving the same medicine can have two
different outcomes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That thinking part of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That “someone” inside you that thinks and
believes and chatters to you all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thoughts are things and have outcomes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The work of Candace Pert on Molecules of Emotion<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>{ http://candacepert.com/ } has shown that
what you believe causes your brain to release neurochemicals, which ultimately
determines how you feel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stark
reality being that this transaction with your environment is completely
perceptual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I tell you that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I love you,” and we are in the middle of a
fight and your perception is that I am being snarky, then this will cause a
flood of cortisol (the stress hormone), adrenaline, or acetylcholine – among
other chemicals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you perceive my “I
love you” as a reconciliatory action with genuine positive intentionality, then
your brain will give you a “feel good” cocktail of endorphins, oxytocin, or GABA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
person honking his horn <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">when the light
turns green because you didn’t go</i> will be much more likely to die of heart
disease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s the sad, but real
truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My graduate research was in stress and stress
management.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, I don’t know why we
don’t see headlines about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stress is the number one predictor of
dis-Ease, is responsible for 90% of our healthcare claims in the U.S., AND is
completely transactional and preventable – meaning it is based on our
perceptions of what is going on in the world – i.e., “that person ‘cut me off’
in traffic on purpose” vs. “an honest mistake.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That means we can do something about
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What you think impacts EVERYTHING.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your thinking rules are determined by your
beliefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, these rules categorize
and encode this information as you experience the world – putting away into
those buckets those experiences that validate your beliefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And, for many of us, we believe we aren’t good enough - that
we aren’t lovable as our most authentic self.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That means we see the world through this lens and filter experiences
through it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All around us, we see
threats and validations of our own hypothesis of our worth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, for many of us, our self-worth is low
to moderate, at best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are your thoughts
kind to you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How often do you beat
yourself up?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How often to you criticize
the mirror’s reflection or the impromptu comment you made in the meeting?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is why the believability in our lovability as a nation
is … unbelievably important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I dare
say we should be investing national resources to re-educate all of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank God for Oprah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s not a whole lot of money in helping
people understand their true nature as whole, but there is a whole lot of
saving for all of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Healthcare is one
of our nation’s greatest spends, after all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Right now, “someone” inside of you is having a conversation
with herself – do you agree with me, whether you like what I am writing, do you
feel guilty because you sometimes honk your horn at people, etc., etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This conversation never shuts up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, every thought has emotional reverberation
- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>every mental action has a biological
correlate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A thought is a chemical
messenger, echoing through the body like the aftermath of a rock guitar solo…
or jazz… or funk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s happening right
now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This conversation impacts your health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be in your best interest to know
who this “someone” is that never shuts up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s time for a paradigm shift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not the first ‘scientist’ to write
about the now ‘proof’ we have for your consciousness and its impact on - - -
well, everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Consider the BIG picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<ul>
<li>
<!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the last exhale of Brahma (the big Bang), our universe was born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, we’re about 13.8 billion years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slightly more alarming is that after all this work, we now have the capacity to destroy our precious Mother Earth - Gaia, Bumi, Pachamama...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Human beings are brilliant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at what we have accomplished!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, we must move from the information age, to the wisdom age, and the difference between the two is application and execution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We still have cave brain culture in an age of nuclear weaponry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a scary notion. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And, as much as we know, we know so little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consider that all we know in all of our Sciences is based only on the .01% of the Universe that we actually know about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">75% of the whole of our universe is “dark energy” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- meaning we don’t know what it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dark energy is expanding galaxies faster than the speed of light at this point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Einstein called this the cosmological constant, which was close, but not quite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">20% of our universe is dark matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have no idea what it is, but we do know how important it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It holds EVERYTHING in place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, it’s really strange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It emits no light, reflects no light, has some ‘stuff’ or substance so it causes gravity – and a lot of it – and if particles of dark matter collide with one another, they pass right through each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without dark matter, we wouldn’t exist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It quite literally holds our bodies together through its gravitational influence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, we have no idea what ‘it’ is…</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">About 4% of the Universe is a hodgepodge of invisible atoms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, that’s 99%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The last 1% of the Universe is mostly hydrogen and helium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, of that 1%, only .01% is really visible to us as “stuff”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So .01% of our Universe is what we visibly see, study in Science, argue over, fight over… All the galaxies that you see in the vast expanse of space are accounted for in this .01%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you are on the beach, and you look up, and you see the billions of stars that are in the sky - that’s the .01% we’re talking about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Humans really do squawk a lot about how much we know, and we
marvel in the wonder of our science, which has categorized .01% of the universe
we are able to see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We could spend our time categorizing and framing or
performing advanced mathematics to figure it all out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, at the end of the day, nothing is more
important than the reality that you are here, now… that you exist and KNOW that
you exist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The real depth of the story
lies in the reality that you are awake – that this random cosmological error
fusing stardust and carbon - is now aware of ‘itself.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cosmic evolution took 14 billion years to
create you and me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are an activity
of the universe - an activity of the universe in which the universe is becoming
aware of itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without you, the “universe”
is a vast, ambiguous quantum soup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
universe has color, texture, and form, because YOU are the witness of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without YOU, quantum possibilities do not
materialize into these colors, textures, or forms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world – EVERYTHING - is a projection of
consciousness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So, it is <b>really, really, really, really</b> important to
understand WHO is doing this projection – 1: because your consciousness is a
gift of 14 billion years of evolution and 2: because it impacts everything you
feel and do; it affects your outcomes, and your health; it impacts me and my
health; and quite literally, our collective future depends on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So, here we are at this beautiful confrontation, much like a
Wild West shoot out scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sun is
rising.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Earth quiet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wind blowing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, we have guns on our hips. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, life is asking across from us in the best
possible Clint Eastwood voice, “what ya gonna do, kid?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what ya gonna do?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really consider the absurdity that we spend
billions of dollars every year inventing new warfare technology so that we can
blow one another up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really consider that fact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We have the capacity to heal our world, feed our poor, and to
thrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could invent a world, if we
could gather as one tribe, where there is goodness, truth, beauty, and virtue –
where none are starving or economically deficient, one where we are not burning
and chopping the Earth, but honoring her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But, first we must overcome our hardest opponent: our mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let’s explore this thing called “the mind.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe we can get to the bottom of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Your body has about 100 trillion cells, more than all the stars in the Milky Way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each cell is doing 100,000 activities every SECOND.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every cell synchronizes with every other cell in your body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does this instantly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That, in and of itself, is new science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We now know that your cells respond instantly non-locally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Local communication would be similar to me calling you on the phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s our old model of neural firing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You touch a hot plate and bang, nerve cells fire – going up to your brain, brain interprets ‘hot’ and send signal back to hand to remove itself from the pan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Welcome to the digital age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t work that way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your cells actually respond at the same time – without a local signal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You might be asking how your foot cells and brain cells can respond at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Simple: your mind does not exist in your brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is why your body can fight an illness, digest your food, maintain your heartbeat, monitor your temperature, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, grow a baby, and think thoughts – AT the SAME time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never before have we been able to explain how this works and thanks to advances in quantum biology, we now can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What we now know is that your body is a verb, not a noun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is an activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a process, not a thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back of you is consciousness and that consciousness sits outside of ‘stuff’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It sits in the womb of creation - the infinite void, the Buddhists “nothingness” or the Quantum Vacuum of Science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">W</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">e come from nothingness, spinning stars as we dance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the atoms of your body come from the stars – quite literally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under a quantum microscope, you look more like a galaxy spinning than a suit of skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are recycling stardust, spinning, and recycling in and out of you all while maintaining the illusion of your solidarity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Atoms are coming into your body and leaving your body at every second and in this moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Your body is not a structure, it is a process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the level of sub-atomic particles, everything that you see is changing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Particles are coming and going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing in the universe is ‘standing still’…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all around us – EVERYTHING is moving, vibrating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some are just vibrating more than others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A rock vibrates very, very, very slowly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You vibrate much faster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">W</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">hen you look at the body, you see stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heart, lungs, skin</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Get a bigger microscope and you see molecules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">G</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">et a bigger microscope and you see atoms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Get a bigger microscope and you see subatomic particles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">A</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">nd, that’s the building blocks of you, me, and everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, also where it gets pretty fun.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Radioactive studies have proven that at this moment, you have a million atoms in your body that once belonged to Gandhi, Jesus, and Alexander the Great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In just the last 3 weeks, a quadrillion atoms have gone through your body that have gone through every living creature on this planet – a tiger in Africa, a lemur in South America, a yellow Labrador in Wisconsin, a Redwood in California, and that lunch lady in Knoxville, Tennessee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You have ‘stuff’ in your body that was not there less than 3 weeks ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In less than 1 year, you recycle 98% of ALL the matter in your body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At the atomic/molecular level, you have a new liver every 6 weeks, a new stomach lining every 5 days, new skin once per month, a new skeleton – that thing that seems so hard - in less than half a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The chair at your dining room table is more ‘the chair’ – more the same – than you are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are now in your 2013 model of a body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last year, you had the same clothes, but a different body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your clothes, your dining room table, your computer --- these things have a longer shelf life than your physical body.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This raises a big question for us – and for science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who are you then?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you think you are your physical body, then which one are you talking about?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 2012 model.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or the 2013 model?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or the 1999 model?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who are you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My psychologist friends will gladly tell you that “you” reside in your “brain,” but your “brain” is made of completely different ‘stuff’ – different atoms – every single year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We are just recycling stardust, particles spinning in and out of a continuous field of magnetic energy and vibration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">YOU are not your brain, because your brain is not a solid thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is changing every single second.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where do “you” exist then?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where do “you” sit?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Your 2012 body is dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It left you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your 2013 model is made of completely new material.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There’s your first scientific proof that there is life after death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You die every second and your energy reincarnates materiality – ‘stuff’ – as you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every second.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You are in process with your environment, taking a bit of the atoms of the tree, the grass, the bricks of your home... with you – spinning it into the building blocks of you –making new hairs on your legs, new skin cells for your bio suit, and saliva in your mouth.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Your consciousness is outliving the molecules through which it expresses itself – all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s doing it right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t need proof of reincarnation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s happening now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The cells of your hand were not there a month ago – but they remember the difference between hot and cold, pain and pleasure… they remember how to hold a baseball or to write with a pencil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The MEMORY is reincarnated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So, where does memory sit?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is why experiences matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is how karma exists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Experiences, memory, actions… these things are lasting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They carry vibration and information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, this information organizes everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This information takes ‘dead’ stuff from the stars and organizes it into – everything you see around you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Your cells remember what they did yesterday, last week, and 15 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They pass on to their great grandchildren memory (this is why you can still ride a bike after 15 years, when the cells of your body today have NEVER ridden a bike before).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the yoga sciences, we call this imprint sanskara.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The hard problem of science is your subjective experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Where is the mind?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is everywhere and perfectly entangled with yours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we were having a conversation, I would be talking, and you would be listening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your mind would interpret what I said, and produce chemicals based on your perceptions of what I said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You would then dialogue with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mind would interpret what you said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This would be a dynamic dance of consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There is no mental event that doesn’t have a neural consequence and correlate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Every thought has action that follows in the body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The brain functions as an integrated whole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The brain follows the direction of the mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Everything is integrated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your thoughts are connected to your feelings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your feelings are connected to your body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your body produces chemicals that impact you and the environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The environment impacts your body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your body impacts your feelings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your feelings impact your thoughts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You are in a dynamic interchange with everything all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>YOU exist ONLY as a process, not a thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that’s really, really strange and hard to get.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, it’s true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as it’s hard to look at the Earth and know it’s round.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I am telling you right now is that the world is NOT flat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your ‘skin’ suit that you think is SOLID and separate from everything else is an ILLUSION.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If I told you that I learned that you were getting fired tomorrow, you would have a serious reaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You would produce cortisol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your blood pressure would increase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You would start to sweat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your pupils would dilate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s a lot of ‘stuff’ because of what I said to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had I said the same thing in Mandarin, you would have had NO reaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some part of you interpreted MEANING and from that perception, you had a reaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Science has YET to find the meaning-maker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t exist IN THE BRAIN, because it CONTROLS the brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The meaning maker tells the brain to produce cortisol, to raise the blood pressure, to sweat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The brain is the tool of the meaning-maker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You are not your brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the way, NO physical matter can make meaning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or imagine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or remember.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or be inspired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These things EXIST as separate from our ever-changing, ever impermanent physical matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is how we KNOW that consciousness does not exist in the BRAIN, but rather the BRAIN exists in consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The scary truth, mathematically, is that if you get to a small enough level, ‘stuff’ disappears and all that is left is the possibility of things with some laws in play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Why does this matter? There is no way of understanding human
biology without understanding the whole system, because systemically,
everything is connected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your thoughts
affect your neurotransmitters, your neurotransmitters regulate your immune
function, and your immune system regulates your health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We CANNOT look at the parts as we do in the
reductionist West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parts are fictions
of imagination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You cannot isolate a
molecule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A molecule is a fiction of
imagination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your body is not a noun;
your body is a verb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mind and matter are inseparable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the environment sick, we are sick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the rivers are poisoned, so are we.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything is connected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are in activity with “the environment”
all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is one system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trees are your lungs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The earth is recycling; so is your
body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rivers move like your
blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your emotions and mood affect
me; I perceive them subconsciously and actually produce neurochemicals to match
yours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As is the atom, so is the universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As is the microcosm, so is the
macrocosm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As above, so below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As is the human mind, so is the cosmic
mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are biological fractals and
holographic expressions of the total universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Identity CANNOT be contained by the boundaries of your skin, because the
WHOLE universe is involved in the shaping of your body… right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The entire web of life is responsible for
the activity you call your body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wellbeing is a state of being created from your
thoughts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your thoughts create brain
changes that syncs your biological functioning according to those
thoughts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, you think yourself
sick or healthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other moderators
matter, of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Exercise, Diet, Social
Support… these things matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The mechanisms of illness are not the root causes of
illness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Modern Science examines
illness from a reductionist lens – treat the bacteria with an antibiotic or
treat cancer with chemotherapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
problem with this approach is that mechanisms of illness are not the origins of
illness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is why when are treating
illness, we aren’t really changing anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Health comes from the word ‘holy’ – stemming from ‘whole’ –
the return of your whole self.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you
come in contact with that within you that is timeless – soul – you find that
which cannot be tainted, hurt, fragmented, or lost, and therefore free from
death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is no surprise that more people die at 9:00am on a Monday
morning, at work, than any other time of day (cardiac arrest).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is an entirely human
accomplishment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Animals aren’t dying on
Mondays more than Tuesdays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, they
don’t know when it’s Monday or when it’s Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am in the leadership coaching business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My partner Sheila and I help couples
transform their relationships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also teach
yoga and meditation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Often, I am asked why I choose to work with companies rather
than to just move on to some type of Tony Robbins initiative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Why help companies change corporate culture? </span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Because only 20% of us will answer “Yes” to the question – “Do you like
your job?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Because if your boss criticizes you (gives you
negative feedback), your wellbeing will drop by 40% and you’ll get sick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, if your boss notices even a single
strength of yours, you will start to thrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because we lose about $300 billion dollars each year due to disengaged
workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because disengaged workers are
not only unhappy, they actually seek to come to work to make others
unhappy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Because your thoughts matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, if you hate your work, then you hate
yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you hate yourself, then
you cannot see love in the world; your perception will be filtered through the
lens of a victim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And, if you filter
the world through this reality, then you are likely to honk at me when the
light turns green and I don’t move soon enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Namaste, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Ryan</span></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the
owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of
individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and
leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for
the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information,
please go to: </span></i><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com</span></i></a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00439531378150804655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-15054584631184089972013-04-17T21:04:00.001-07:002013-05-19T09:47:45.790-07:00Dealing with the Consequences of Being Yourself<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Back again</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We are constantly learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the same realization as that
before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, from a new place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We repeat ourselves in patterns – in spirals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We learn ourselves more deeply every day
through reflected experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The task
is to deal with the consequences of being yourself with as much ease and grace
as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, that’s what this whole shin-dig called
life is all about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here’s what I learned this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But, also for the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Stay grounded in your truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Know it first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, soften into
the perfection that is you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And,
imperfection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because you are perfectly
imperfect, as it turns out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are a
unique ball of energy that has traveled through time and experience to be where
you are right now and to know it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
can feel you inside - if you try.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know
you are in there – that little kernel of spaciousness and quiet that sits
confidently in knowing that this part of you has never been touched by
experience and pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There are moments when you can let your truth shine rays outward
in waves of grace and guided by will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Days when we are pushed so deeply into the fabric of ourselves that we
can seamlessly slip into the suit of our soul and then reflect on its entrance
afterward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These moments are fleeting
and perfect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To self, in these moments of grace and selfish honesty, we
will say, “Wow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just need to be me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I need to be clear on what I want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do it or Say it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And have the
courage to deal with the consequences of being myself.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Speak your truth and stand in the grounded nature
of your yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Listen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Be kind and empathetic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Feel everything incoming and notice how it
feels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t be reactive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just wait on the response to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Speak your truth and stand in the grounded
nature of yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Don’t analyze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Be present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Listen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then… </span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Repeat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Start living as yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Start by being authentic with yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, then show up as nothing other than yourself in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you don’t feel like having a
conversation, politely leave it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But,
notice first what it is that you want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Start here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, then be
brave!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s your life, after all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As my friend Sabrina says, Execute on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only difference between the idea of you
and the realization of you is moving from idea to action. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, Just Do It.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Namaste, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ryan<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">PS – In order to show up in the world and receive love, we
must first understand all the ways we get in the way of its natural flow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, offer up humble service to the way of your truth and the passions
of your heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end, all is faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Bob said, ‘Everythin Gon Be Alright’ …
ya.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everthin Gon Be Alright.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the
owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of
individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and
leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for
the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information,
please go to: </span></i><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com</span></i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-57295165919535449242013-04-13T07:40:00.001-07:002013-04-13T07:40:22.887-07:00A Little Friction is Needed
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A Little Friction is Needed<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As I was finishing the renovation of my home, built in 1907,
one of the last projects was finishing a custom, butcher-block bar made from
the wood studs in the walls that had been opened up to create a larger kitchen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, it was rough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wood was gnarled and nail ridden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Starting with very rough sand paper, we began sanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Layer by layer, we increased the grit of the
sandpaper until, finally, we were using ultra-fine, steel wool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end, the wood was “finer than frog’s
hair” as my Tennessee family would say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In order to polish ourselves, a little friction is
needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no growth without
pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Troubles, worries, frustrations,
and arguments are catalysts showing us where we don’t’ want to be, what we don’t
want in our lives, or how we need to change ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our relationships are our mirrors and our
greatest teachers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, wow… they are
hard, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So often, we experience the “rub”
of relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A gem must be polished using continual and easy friction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A stone polished with force and aggression will
be left with scores and abrasions that cannot be removed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In conflict, the words that we say and the thoughts we think
can create scratches and scuffs, and sometimes worse, gashes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are working on one another all the
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are all in process, shaping
and molding, sculpting and whittling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This shaping happens all the time – in relationship and across
society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not long ago, we still had
segregated restrooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Society, belief
systems, and thought movements are ever changing as we share and commune and “rub”
one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A plant that is not pruned will grow long and straight and
be quite narrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, its height
will outpace its leaves and growth will be stunted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a plant to thrive, it must be
pruned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pruning will cause the plant to
grow both tall and wide. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pruning helps
the plant thrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, if pruned too
much or cut too deeply, the ‘wound’ to the plant would be fatal, and it would
die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same is true for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need a little pain and struggle to
develop depth and wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must know
sour to fully appreciate sweet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
if we experience too much pain, we can wilt, retreating into the safety of our
shell and forbidding love’s entrance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To love we must be vulnerable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To grow, we must experience pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a tenuous dichotomy to hold –
allowing oneself to be vulnerable and at the same time – also allow and take in
feedback, fight through defensiveness and the natural tendency to reject new
ideas, to receive polishing, shaping, and that rubbing that comes in relationship
without bucking, resisting, or worse – attacking in defense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a delicate balance!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But, this is the nature of the universe. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything is duality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is order in chaos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To reach our highest potential, we must be
open, not closed, but also experience hurt/shaping/feedback in order to
love/grow/change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love cannot exist
without being open and vulnerable, wearing the essential nature of our soul on
our sleeve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this raw state, we love
at the level of the soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, this is
also the place where we can, naturally, be hurt the easiest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our shell gone and force fields dismissed,
we are the most raw and susceptible to pain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, in this space, we are able
to be polished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have to openly
receive a little rub – a little friction and pray that the surgeon of our heart
and soul is gentle and kind, careful and considerate, patient and earnest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So… give your beloved a little rub, but use an easy
grit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Words and thoughts are
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t cause wounds and
abrasions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be open to feedback without creating walls of
defense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, if you are vulnerable
enough, who knows where a good rub might lead … <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Namaste, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ryan<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the
owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of
individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and
leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for
the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information,
please go to: </span></i><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com</span></i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-4396089503121294072013-04-11T05:43:00.001-07:002013-04-11T05:43:40.014-07:00Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, who's the Wisest of them all?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i>Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who’s the wisest man of All?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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<i>Why you, my king, if you believe it to be, All is all in the
reflection you see…</i> </div>
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<br /></div>
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In the ancient texts, it is often said that your reflection
is your projection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have properly
been harassed for using the saying when illustrating a point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does sound preachy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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But, the point is really important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We cannot know anothers’ thoughts or
experiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We only can know our own
experience – our own thoughts – because we are the ones living and breathing
and seeing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, we have to often ‘infer’
the perspective of others with the stories we create about their motives, the
rationale for happenings and doings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So,
we are all mirrors to one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
we ‘assume’ someone feels a certain way or thinks a certain thing, then it is
likely we feel these things ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If we think someone is gossiping about us behind our backs, it is
probably because we gossip ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If we are being deceitful, we will suspect deceit from others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We only know OUR reality – and that’s why we
get to experience life with our beloved partners, our friends, and our family,
so that they can reflect back to us that which we may not see in
ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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I have experienced this first hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was a very young man, I met my ex
relationship (ER).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ER had a Borderline
Personality Disorder .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because I was “Captain
Fix-it” as a young man and determined to change the world with love, I took on
ER to save her .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ER had root level
feelings of being ‘damaged goods’ and unworthy of love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of these feelings, she often
perceived normal behaviors as overt acts of aggression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her “projection” into the world was her
perception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What she believed, she
perceived and therefore received.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
thought bad things were going to happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, to her, they did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Put
simply, thinking does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It gets about
doing and does it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you think it’s
going to happen, it will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because you thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And likely perceived it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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Everything is perception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Your experience of reality is completely mutable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These “acts of aggression” that happened to
ER were very real to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To anybody
else, not taking out the trash when asked the night before could have been a
simple forgetful moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To ER, it was
an overt act of hostility – a purposeful attempt to thwart, punish, or
harm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for her, this was real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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Thus is the nature of reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We determine it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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The relationships you have in your life are there to teach
you what you need to learn about yourself – they are mirrors to your projection
habits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What you perceive can tell you
a lot about what you believe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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This human tendency has been written about in the yoga
doctrines for ages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recently, science confirmed
in a unique way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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When we perform an action, interpret a beautiful painting, sing
in the shower, or even experience an emotion <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– our neurons fire. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This makes sense to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s where it gets a little peculiar… when
we see someone else perform an action or experience an emotion, many of the
same neurons fire as if we were performing the action or experiencing the
emotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are called mirror
neurons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are also, it
seems, hard wired to be mirrors for one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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Taking this one step further, what we can imagine also can
come true – and does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether you are
creating hives or irritating your bowels, thought has consequence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we imagine an event, neurons fire as
though the event were occurring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And,
we imagine a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About 50% of the
time, our minds are wandering according to experience sampling research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, a lot of that time, our wandering
minds’ thoughts are about things that make us anxious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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So.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does this
mean?</div>
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<br /></div>
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We must start by loving ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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When we love ourselves, we are able to see that within
others that is also loveable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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When we see ourselves clearly, we are able to see <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that within others that has never been touched
by sadness, grief, or loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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We are able to see those around us purely, their actions
innocently, and their intentions well meaning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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We are able to see love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In all forms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In all things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, love is worth
seeing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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Namaste, </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Ryan</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the
owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of
individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and
leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for
the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">For more information,
please go to: </i><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">www.mokshainstitute.com</i></a></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-89051685277840834862013-04-10T11:57:00.003-07:002013-04-13T07:53:28.727-07:00Perception MattersPerception Matters<br />
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Thoughts are things. They have energetic and biochemical consequences. Things like “the law of attraction” are considered pseudoscience by mainstream science. But, isn’t this the same pattern we have seen again–and–again? The world is flat. The Earth rotates around the sun. Depression can be cured with electrical shock or bloodletting. <br />
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The nature of science is the nature of man. We are certain. We are absolutely certain. Until we are not. And, then we are certain again. <br />
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<ul>
<li>The world is flat. It is flat I tell you!</li>
<li>Oh… it’s not?</li>
<li>Really? It’s not flat?</li>
<li>Oh….. hmmm. </li>
<li>The world is round. It is round I tell you! </li>
</ul>
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We now know that much of what the ancient, Tibetan doctrines referenced as the state of reality has been proven by Quantum physics. Time is relative. You are energy. There is a unified field of consciousness. Mood is contagious. Matter is just another expression of energy. What you think impacts me directly – even to the level of my endocrine (hormone) response.<br />
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These “crazy”, “woo-woo” notions are now being proven. And, they aren’t so “woo-woo” after all. Turns out, the world is round. Turns out, the Earth rotates around the Sun. Turns out, we’re all connected in a giant web of consciousness and emotion. Turns out, your state of happiness impacts mine.<br />
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We are so resistant to the new. In fact, norepinephrine is released when someone presents a viewpoint that is different than the one we hold. The same chemical compound is released when we are confronted with differences of opinion as those released when we are in a state of life-threatening danger. The purpose of these chemicals? – to shut down higher level thinking (i.e., the primitive brain takes over) and creating – physiologically – the inability to consider other viewpoints. In short, it is very, very hard for us to have ‘an open mind’.<br />
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In spite of this, we are capable. If we can dissolve ego and step into our higher self, spirit, consciousness, or “soul” – then we can let truth in like light through a window. And, the importance of doing so has never been so vital as right now.<br />
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Look around you – examine the state of wellbeing, the state of health, the state of our Earth mother … the call for the paradigm shift is NOW. <br />
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Let’s start with what’s in it for you:<br />
<ul>
<li>Our beliefs have a profound impact on our biochemistry. There have been hundreds of studies showing the remarkable impact of placebo effects, which science treats as a type of error. Time and time again we have seen that the power of the mind produces the same effect as the substance of the pill! </li>
<li>Thoughts are things. They have energy that we can measure on an EEG or an MRI. They don’t stay ‘inside’ your brain/body. Others can sense them and pick them up in much the same way as the radio picks up the FM or AM signal. This is now a scientific fact. </li>
<li>Your beliefs create your biological experience of reality. Your beliefs can make you sick. Or healthy. </li>
</ul>
Thoughts are things. Change your thoughts, change your life. <br />
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“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it…” – Ernest Holmes. <br />
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Namaste, <br />
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Ryan<br />
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<em>Dr. Ryan Pride is the owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and leadership development. A profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving. </em><br />
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<em>For more information, please go to: </em><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com/"><em>www.mokshainstitute.com</em></a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-30807977785759760042013-04-09T08:40:00.001-07:002013-04-09T08:40:28.060-07:00Your Brain is a Process, not a Thing
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Your Brain is a Process, not a Thing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the ancient texts it is said that where attention goes,
energy flows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your attention - what we
in the consciousness field call “mind” – is a spotlight on the nutrient-rich
soil of creation and where it goes, that which it shows … grows. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Your brain has about 100 billion neurons – give or take a
few million.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every experience you have
creates new neural connections; these connections also create new emotions,
which shape those connections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
experiences are repeated, these connections get stronger, while others get
weaker (a process called synaptic pruning).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Quite literally, this means that what you think and do has a “Bobcat” effect
on your brain, landscaping your brain based on your thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This entire process is known as
neuroplasticity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In essence, what we
know from neuroscience research is that your brain is not stagnant, but is
changing every single day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your brain
is a process, not a thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That means
you are busy creating new highways and byways and potentially even interstate
connections based on what you do, think, and feel regularly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Through the process of synaptic pruning, certain behaviors –
like riding a bike or swinging your 3 iron – can become automatic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, so can emotional patterns or
thinking habits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you view the glass
as half empty for long enough, guess what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Your brain will actually start “pruning” those centers for optimism,
hope, positivity, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What you think, you become.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Virtually any talent or skill can be developed through
training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Musicians who practice start
linking neural pathways from the right to the left brain, allowing them rapid
fluidity in the ability to create and play music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professional ball players can handle that bad
hop with ease and grace because their muscle fibers actually fire faster than those
unpracticed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Whatever you are doing – at any time – you are physically modifying
your brain to become better at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So,
if you are worrying, you are getting better at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are fighting, you are getting better
at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are cleaning, you are
getting better at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are
loving, you are getting better at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is a foundational property of the brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s strange, I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hard wiring of the brain is to be … well,
not so hard wired. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Operating System
of the brain allows for frequent downloads of new software.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Becoming self-aware, mindful, “awake,” … to find “moksha”
then is critical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because by doing so,
we can actively rather than passively shape our brains, our thinking, our
emotions, our abilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, what an
empowering notion!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, to be not awake
or aware, means that we are reshaping our brain with our monkey mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our ‘to-do’ list brain gets bigger muscles
and sharper eyes… it gets better at worrying and planning and … feeling
anxious, less centered, more depressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The “trick” is not a trick at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">First, you must realize that in order to have clarity, the
water has to be still.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slow down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Breathe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find your presence in
this now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Develop a sense of warmth
and gratitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acknowledge where you
are at and be thankful – simply – for the awareness of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Start “practicing” mindfulness in all your
routines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taste the toothpaste
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chew your food a little
longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You know… stop and smell the roses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Namaste, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ryan<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>Dr. Ryan Pride is the owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm
dedicated to improving the wellbeing of individuals, teams, and organizations
through culture transformation and leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha
Institute applies Ancient Teachings for the Modern Time in order to transform
striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
<em>
</em><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>For more information, please go to: </em></span><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"><em>www.mokshainstitute.com</em></span></a><o:p></o:p><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-74383229009046855852013-04-06T11:19:00.001-07:002013-04-06T11:19:34.662-07:00The Magic Pill (open the box and look inside)If you heard that a magic pill could help 80% of managers make better decisions; 90% better listeners and communicators; and reduce stress levels among all employees (even those not in a mindfulness program) by over 40%, your organization would be buying the pill, perhaps even the pharmacy to make sure they had an abundance of supplies, and mandating that every single employee take one – every day. <br />
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But, this isn’t a magic pill. This miracle drug is mindfulness training – and an overall commitment to a progressive culture shift - all of which are beginning to infiltrate corporate America and produce a competitive advantage than cannot be duplicated by anything else.<br />
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The P&L impact is significant; healthcare is typically the third largest cost for an organization behind manufacturing and payroll. And the MAJORITY of health spend is due to stress-related illnesses, as almost 90% of what we see the doctor for in America is stress-related. Of these, most are preventable or easily moderated – including things like chronic fatigue, anxiety attacks, mood swings, depression, sleep problems, high blood pressure, ulcers, poor immune function, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, the common cold and flu, and even heart disease (the one thing that companies pay that huge stop-loss coverage to prevent against). <br />
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Heart Disease? Yes, heart disease! Dean Ornish (of the Preventative Medicine Research Institute) in a Journal of the American Medical Association study found that mindful meditation practices can REVERSE coronary atherosclerosis (patients in the control group had more than twice the cardiac ‘attacks’ than those in the experimental group). <br />
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The long and short of it? Studies of mindfulness training (when done correctly) reveal that meditation may be responsible for “80% or greater” reductions in medically-related insurance claims (Journal of Behavior Modification: Walton, Schneider, Salerno, and Nidich 2005). Wow! Can you imagine reducing your organization’s third largest expense by 80%? <br />
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Bleeding edge research is now showing these practices are transforming the corporate bottom line. <br />
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And, in case you are worried that this Eastern explosion is too Zen for your company, don’t forget to look over your shoulder. Companies like all-American General Mills (whose workforce and campus headquarters are predominantly white and “corporate” looking) are introducing distinctly “uncorporate” elements into the average employee workday - meditation sessions for executives and team leads, yoga classes for employees, and gratitude programs for creating “community” at work.<br />
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But, this isn’t a magic pill. If it were, the government would have mandated that every American take one immediately. Learning mindfulness, the philosophy behind it, and more, applying it to the Western way of life is more than challenging – or we’d all be doing it. <br />
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At the Moksha Institute, this is what we do. We transform individuals, teams, and organizations. <a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com/#!team/cdgz">Our team</a> includes Ph.D. level Psychologists, former CEOs and VPs of Fortune 500 companies, and nationally recognized yoga / meditation teachers. <br />
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We understand the realities of working in a business, coaching an Executive struggling to balance work and home, and living the Moksha principles in the midst of daily life. We practice what we preach. We apply what we call Yogic Science – fusing the timeless teachings of the East and the scientific research of the West to produce an approach that is unparalleled. <br />
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At the Moksha Institute, we are applying ancient teachings for the modern time to help individuals and organizations thrive. We can help you transform. <br />
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Namaste, <br />
Ryan<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information, please go to: </span><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com%20/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com </span></a></i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-38082277932624843612013-04-06T11:12:00.005-07:002013-04-06T11:13:36.084-07:00A Story of Thriving... and Change.All of my life, I remember searching for that “thriving” feeling. I felt a thirst for life. I wanted to see the world, taste the flavors of experience, and live boldly. <br />
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So, I worked. I put myself through College in 3 years and completed a Ph.D. By the time I was 23 years old, I was working as an external consultant for Fortune 1000 companies. <br />
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I eventually started working internally, leading Organizational Development and then HR teams. <br />
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I had “made it.” I had “things” – a big house, a designer car, and all the trappings of success. Late at night, though, I was still reading and studying (with an almost feverish ferocity) the Sacred teachings of the East. In spite of my material comforts and my high-powered leadership position, I still felt a thirst for knowledge – and wholeness… I still deeply wanted to know and understand why we are here, what really made us happy, and how the Sacred teachings connected to our modern Science.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Seek and you will find.</span></strong> <br />
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As a VP of HR, I worked through perhaps the most difficult period in my company's history. The economic crash combined with massive changes in manufacturing decimated our industry. These changes were compounded by large restructuring initiatives in order to control costs and maximize efficiencies. I was asked to plan 2-3 restructurings every year, resulting in over 7000 job losses. Talk about karma… Going into work each day to plan restructuring initiatives and the complete cataclysm of my fellow humans’ lives and then coming home to my large house and fine furnishings, left me feeling the weight of hypocrisy. <br />
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I was a farm kid, after all, and those getting “packages” were mothers and fathers trying to support their families. Also, I knew from my scientific understanding that what happens to others deeply impacts all of us; wellbeing is not solely an individual experience, but one that has universal implications (see Harvard’s research on <a href="http://drdansiegel.com/about/interpersonal_neurobiology/">Interpersonal Neurobiology</a>). <br />
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In 2011, as I was presenting a package to an employee, the employee started laughing. I thought this was a strange reaction, and checked in. The associate told me that he was laughing at the irony of life. See, he had just learned that he was terminally ill and had an estimated 4 months to live. Obviously, this conversation stopped the HR script immediately. We proceeded to have the most real human dialogue I have ever had with another human. Toward the end of the conversation, he asked me about my feelings about corporate America, life, and what I really “wanted” to actualize. <br />
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I told him that I spent most of my nights staying up late reading about Eastern philosophy, had an informal Ph.D. in religious studies, and longed to teach people the secrets of living an abundant life, which were perfectly laid out in the esoteric doctrines and in the yoga sciences. Saying this out loud was transformative. I knew, in this moment, that I needed to change my life to live my truth. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">We have to be the change we want to see in the world.</span></strong><br />
<br />
And, that’s why I started the Moksha Institute. I want to help create change. For many, corporate life is making them sick. <br />
<br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">90% of what we see the doctor for is stress related</span></strong>. <br />
<br />
And, in all my experience in Corporate America, I met very few who were not stressed out. This takes a toll – on all of us. The demands of managing the day-to-day grind and balancing family life is not easy; and for many, with job cuts and the pace of innovation, work has gotten even more demanding. At the most basic level of human striving, we want to have meaning and purpose in our lives and we want to connect to the company we serve. <br />
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Progressive learning in the corporate world is often limited because of hierarchical systems and old fashioned norms suggesting how an organization or leader “should” behave or how the structure should exist. <br />
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There is a paradigm shift happening. If you close your eyes, you can feel it. <br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">People want meaning in their life.</span></strong> <br />
They want to contribute to their company and have their voice heard – to participate and be recognized. <br />
<br />
The most progressive companies in the world are now discovering the new form of innovation – waking up their organization, creating mindfulness at work, leveraging the innate goodness in their associates, and empowering others to realize themselves. <br />
<br />
This work is leading not only to dramatic decreases in healthcare costs – saving companies millions every year – but also amazing shifts in attitude, morale, engagement, and performance. <br />
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We need to stop selling our leaders on the “7 Secrets of Leadership,” and start teaching our leaders to be whole persons – real, flawed, honest – and most of all caring. <br />
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We are sold something every day – on Facebook, TV commercials, in Political campaigns, and from our leaders. But, we hunger most for authenticity – in ourselves and in others. That’s why it’s often so refreshing when a public figure is … simply honest. <br />
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This is why I started the Moksha Institute. I want to empower organizations and their people. I want to bring purpose and meaning into the lives of those organizations who hire us. I want to create bleeding edge innovation in companies so that they never have to cut their employees to cope with the changing times. And, if those companies are restructuring or merging, I want to help them create a culture that is inspiring, inventive, participative, and communicative. <br />
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And, I believe strongly that the future will be built on those companies who see the potential of people. <br />
<br />
We are in the information age. In 1975, the S&P index reported that 17% of the market cap was “intellectual property,” and in 2005, it grew to 80%. <br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">In 30 years, the value of intellectual property grew by 60%!</span></strong> <br />
The value of corporate assets today is PEOPLE. And the measure organizational success will be the degree to which your company has captured their hearts – not their heads, and not even their wallets (if you want more information on that, look at the research on what is motivating millenials). <br />
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We are in the shift age. Yoga studios are popping up on every corner. People are starting to ask the big questions again. The paradigm shift is here… and it’s not whether or not you are ready… it’s whether you can afford not to compete with those that embracing it – those that are realizing Moksha.<br />
<br />
Namaste, <br />
Ryan<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information, please go to: </span><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com%20/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com </span></a></i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-38636822856357822082013-04-05T08:50:00.001-07:002013-04-05T08:51:47.845-07:00Medical Costs Increasing. Leadership Changes Could Help! <h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A study reported in the Epoch Times this morning cited that
medical claims costs will rise by 32% in the next year. Medical claim costs drive the cost of
insurance premiums. For those companies
that are self-insured (i.e., larger companies pay for every visit to the
doctor; the insurance company of record for the company is only there to issue
cards and negotiate rates with doctors), every ailment, sickness, or dis-Ease
is a direct cost to the business and a hit to the bottom line. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As a former HR leader, our third largest cost - to the tune
of millions of dollars every year – was healthcare. Every dollar we saved by keeping our
associates healthy was a direct increase to our earnings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We spent over $1,000,000 a year with a company that provided
biometric screenings and nutrition counseling via a web interface. We saw no difference in our medical claims
data. Why? Well, any doctor will tell you that 80% of
what we see the doctor for today is stress related. We can
treat the symptoms, but the underlying problem is still there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What I don’t understand, and I still don’t, is why ‘mindfulness’
at work has not been fully embraced. At
the Moksha Institute, we totally transform companies - their culture, their
communication patterns, the sense of meaning people get from work, the feeling
of warmth they feel at work - and also dramatically reduce healthcare costs,
which is reason in and of itself to engage in this work. We have seen the fruits of our work – in increased
engagement and profitability. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #222323; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">The science
of Mindfulness, with roots in health care, is making significant contributions
to the fields of communications, conflict resolution, leadership, and cognition
(among others). When combined with what we know from Positive Psychology
research, the formula for success in life, abundant health, increased energy,
and strong performance is not complicated.
It isn’t a long process that requires 3 sigma’s, 6 sigma’s, or even
9. There are no white, yellow, or black
belts needed. And, unlike TQM programs,
health management initiatives, or even large, multi-focused firms like Hewitt,
Aon, or McKinsey – the cost of this work is often paid for by the savings and
increased performance before our contract is even up. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">What it does require is a mental shift – a paradigm change. It requires the John Wayne type that is
leading your company who came up through the ranks by “taking charge,” “getting
things done,” and “kicking ass” to do a
complete do a 180. And, that’s really,
really hard. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Our signature strengths often become our leveraged
limitations. Those “Type A” attributes –
the use of direct will – to get things done are catalyzing for sure, but the
road to transformation requires both will and grace, fire and rain, hardness and
softness, yin and yang, control and submission, pride and humility,
assertiveness and acceptance, faith in self and accountability and release from
expectations of perfection. It requires
the will to serve as much as to lead, the desire for profit as much as
wellbeing, and the understanding that no one thing can flourish at the expense
of other things suffering. Thriving
results from the whole of a person, team, or system working in oneness and
synchronicity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We see this same pattern play out time and time again. Industrialization wins at the cost of the environment,
Investment bankers win at the cost of your brother, uncle, or cousin’s pension
plan, you save time by going through the drive through, but deplete the body of
nutrients and decrease your energy…
Humans are not very good at gray yet.
We will take the momentary satisfaction at the cost of later
suffering. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The leadership crisis facing corporate America today is the
call to answer the question – “Are you willing to let go of control? Are you willing to release some of your
Power? Are you ready to involve your
company? Are you capable of turning
inward and looking at your own self – your motivations, your actions and
behaviors? What do you stand for and
where do you compromise?” The call for
leaders today is to let go. The “story”
of what it means to be a leader is and has already changed. Your employees WANT meaning and purpose in
their lives as much as they want financial gain. Your
associates want to contribute, create, and be a part of that which they are
building, rather than a cog in the wheel.
They want to trust you. They
want to respect you. And, given what
has happened in the last 5 years in business, today… they don’t. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And, when one part of your body starts to reject you, it’s
called cancer. In organizations, it’s
misalignment, which is a form of malignancy.
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<span style="font-size: small;">So much can be changed.
The time is now. The way is not
complicated. And, doing so will impact
all of us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Namaste, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ryan</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the
owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of
individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and
leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A profit-for-purpose
company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for the Modern Time in
order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information, please go to: </span><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com%20/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com </span></a></i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-12640701723683645242013-03-27T09:23:00.006-07:002013-03-27T09:25:23.897-07:00Stress and Disease are now Engaged !!! <br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I recently saw this post by Fox News … <em>wow, I never thought
I would begin my blog post this way - ever </em>… but here goes… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In 2009, Kristi Russo was diagnosed with colorectal cancer –
Stage 3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She went through the
traditional treatments – chemo, drugs, more chemo, more drugs...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all of this treatment, her cancer was
minimally impacted and in fact, had spread to her lungs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She researched alternative cancer treatments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is so much evidence from the East in
Ayurveda and Chinese medicine that is just now starting to infiltrate Western
thinking suggesting that: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we are whole
beings; disease is not normal, but abnormal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dis-Ease is a function of our life not being in balance – the thoughts
we think, the stress we feel, our environment, the food we eat, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, right now, people all across the world
are curing themselves of cancer by turning inward rather than outward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kristi adopted holistic practices of health and wellness –
as advocated by Andrew Weil, Deepak Chopra, the Moksha Institute, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Four years later, Kristi is <span style="font-size: large;">cancer-free.</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“First, we have to recognize that self-repair is, of
course, innate to our biology,” Chopra said. “We call it homeostasis. People do
repair their bodies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the best
thing we can do today is combine the best treatments in medicine, biological
treatments that are getting better day-by-day, with these integrative
approaches.” – DP on FN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The heart of this is in stress management.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Learning to deal with stress is crucial for
any treatment, because when stressed, adrenaline increases, cortisol increases,
and a host of other hormones change within your immune/endocrine system, which
directly interferes with your body’s ability to heal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Deepak (as reported on FoxNews) advocates the following six
priorities to wellbeing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forgive the
typos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deepak is Indian after all, and I
strongly recommend reading the list below with an Indian accent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It helps:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1. Set goals and priorities.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
</li>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Goals to establish a baseline health status and decide where you want to be, and what it’s going to take in terms of lifestyle, also in terms of standard treatment,” Chopra said. “That’s the first thing.”<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>2. Get rid of processed foods.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“In very simple words, get rid of anything that is processed, refined or manufactured. By large, anything that comes in a can or label. You know, she (Russo) did that,” Chopra said. “She planted her own garden and went to farmers’ markets.”<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>3. Practice meditation and visualization.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Russo said when she got sick, she would sit outside and visualize the sun, with all her kids home and a big swimming pool – and this is what they would do when she was healthy.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Visualization actually changes your behavior,” Chopra said. “It motivates you to do all the things. If you visualize a healthy, energetic, joyful body, and a quiet, restful mind, then that in itself will influence how you do other things.”<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>4. Express your emotions.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“It’s not that you have to think positively all the time,” Chopra said. “You have to get in touch with your emotions. You have to share them with somebody that you love, like (Russo) did with her husband. You have to release them. You have to express them, because if you repress emotions, that creates its own biology, too.”<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Resist alienating yourself.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chopra said you need to connect with peace, harmony, laughter and love – it’s as simple as that. They are healing emotions.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“My husband and I walk every night, especially before I’m going to have a blood test,” Russo said. “(I’ll ask) ‘Do you think I’m going to be OK? I’m nervous, do you think everything is going to be alright?’ He’s like, ‘Yes, it’s going to be fine.’ I always have somebody to talk to.”<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>6. Learn the science of self-repair.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Russo said she is a different person now – she’s more tolerant – and she does not believe her cancer will ever come back.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I believe that your mind has a lot to do with healing your body,” Russo said.</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">She’s right.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your
mind has everything to do with healing your body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was a Corporate VP, our <span style="font-size: large;">third largest
cost was healthcare</span>, behind the cost of manufacturing and payroll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a large company, we spent millions of
dollars to provide healthcare for our associates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, we were self-insured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
meant that we literally paid for every ailment, illness, and appointment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We paid the provider for the cards and for
negotiating prices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, preventing illness actually IMPROVED our
bottom line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We paid Active Health (a
firm to help control these costs) almost a million dollars a year to do
biometric screenings for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our health
care costs did not change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not one
bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To this day, I still don’t know why companies will spend
millions of dollars on strategy consultants while ignoring the white elephant
in the room – <span style="font-size: large;"><em>happy employees produce more, perform better, and are actually
MORE healthy</em></span> (and less costly).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our paradigm has to change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not for our company’s sake, but for all our sake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your health directly impacts me, because we
know from interpersonal neurobiology that your “state of being” directly
impacts my state of being through chemical and energetic transfer <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– something that is no longer viewed as a
hypothetical construct, but as a scientific reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further, it affects my pocket book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wait … <em>it impacts my WALLET.</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because healthcare costs are so high because we are so sick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If more use insurance, then insurance rates
have to go up – perhaps the only linear relationship that truly exists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We’re all in this together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, the story you have been sold about your health isn’t exactly
true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t have to take that pill
that will make you have uncontrollable bowel movements and carries a slight
risk of permanent narcolepsy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All you
have to do is meditate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">And, that’s
free.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, that’s why you DON’T see it
advertised in between Orange County housewives and Jersey Shore… not that I
have any clue what either of those shows are about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Namaste and good health!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ryan Pride<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the
owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of
individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and
leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A profit-for-purpose
company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for the Modern Time in
order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>For more information, please go to: </span><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com%20/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com </span></a></i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-60915102696318773952012-12-27T17:28:00.001-08:002013-03-27T09:28:52.005-07:00A Dumb Moment - of Perfect Clarity<span style="font-size: small;">Recently, I was reading a blog post by a spiritual writer
that I follow, and he posed this question, which I thought to be silly – and at
the same time, informing. He asked: “What
is the distance between yourself and your screen?” I answered, “Hmm. About 1 foot.” He then asked: “What is the distance between yourself and
that thought?” I paused. What kind of ridiculous question was
that? I paused. I thought about it. I thought about it. I thought about it some more. What?
What the hell is he asking? But,
there was a moment in between, where I sat there with a dumb look on my face in
some strange space of nothingness. He
then wrote: “Congratulations. You just experienced
a millisecond of awareness – the space between thought forms.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">My mind runs like the commentators of Mystery Science Theater. It doesn’t stop. It analyzes. It judges. It critiques. It wonders why those two are together, it
comments on the appropriateness of that particular combination of clothing, it
frets over my bills, and plans for the future things I desperately need to get
done. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Tantric teachings remind us that we are one with our
thoughts, feelings, and emotions. But,
it also cautions us that our true nature is the awareness behind those
thoughts, feelings, and emotions. In
other words, you and I were told a lot about the world as children. We also had a lot of experiences that created
belief systems about how the world works or the way the world works. This is what Psychologists affectionately
call your “ego.” The ego is your
story. It’s your collection of beliefs
that define who you are and what you hold true. The good news is that your ego has a purpose
– it keeps you grounded in a unique sense of identity. Those that don’t have healthy ego identities
can be flighty and seem to live in the stars.
As a yogi, I have plenty of friends that sleep with crystals and feel
the ‘vibrations’ of the room. They also
have trouble just being in this here and now and doing things like paying
bills. Some ego is healthy. The bad news is that most people confuse
their ego with their true (or essential) nature, which is the non-judgemental,
present-moment awareness in which looks out of ‘your’ eyes, tastes with ‘your’
mouth, kisses with ‘your’ lips, etc. If
that hurts your brain, then let’s make it easy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">You are awareness.
You are not your story. Awareness is right now. As you sit here and look at these
words. This moment. This is you – assuming you aren’t judging or
analyzing too much. Awareness is being. Your ‘story’ can confuse and disrupt your
experience of life. This is because we
have been hurt, we have been betrayed, we have seen loss, etc. And, our story-brain-ego creates all kinds
of thoughts that keep the story going.
The ego is like a thing living inside you, and it is very sensitive,
very fragile, very willful, and definitely has a fear of abandonment. This is why after 50 minutes of yoga or any
other mind-less activity, your brain cannot wait to send you straight back to
your to-do lists, your need-to-do’s, or your should-have-done’s. The ego has a HUGE fear that someday you’ll
figure it out and the gig will be up.
The ego wants to exist. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So, here’s your challenge… start to observe your
thoughts. Start to pay attention to
what you think. Ask yourself when you
have a thought, “Where does this come from?
Is this true? What belief
generated this thought? And, where did
that belief come from? Is that belief
true?.” You don’t have to abandon your
poor little ego. But, you don’t have to
let the ego run the show either. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Rumi said, “You are not just a drop in the ocean. You are
the mighty ocean in the drop.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Your brain is 90% water and fat. About 7% of that which remains is made of
minerals that you could buy at the hardware store for about $5 bucks. So, 97% of your brain is just some ‘stuff’
that doesn’t really do anything, see anything, feel anything. Your brain is just a thing that responds to
heat, pH, hormones, etc. Your ‘sense-making-ness’
or awareness is what tells your brain what to do. You are not your brain. You are not your ego (which is created by
the brain). You are the awareness (this
present moment) using your brain and using your ego to give it a role in the “play
of life.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The trick, in life, is to NOT create a role in the “play of
life” that you don’t really like or don’t really want to play. And, for those of us on the path, the real
secret is even more scary: you are NOT just creating a character in the play…
you are creating the entire play itself.
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The universe exists inside you – it is experiencing itself
through you, as you. Your life is only
limited by what you believe. For those
of us still in illusion, we cannot move beyond it while still a puppet of our
experience (ego-mind). Take the
reins. Guide that horse. The river has a source. It flows freely. The river does not ask to be directed. Recognize
your truth and know that you are capable of having the life you dreamed of
having. Be the hero of your own
story. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Now is the time for us to heal. Now is the time for us to return to our
Essential nature. Find that pause
within yourself – that moment of awareness.
Hold it. And, then move from
that place, questioning everything in between. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Life is a journey. Enjoy the ride. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Namaste, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">Ryan</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan
Pride is the owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the
wellbeing of individuals, teams, and organizations through culture
transformation and leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient
Teachings for the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information, please go to: </span><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com%20/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com
</span></a></i><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-36006915799076241922012-10-17T09:01:00.003-07:002013-03-27T09:29:43.546-07:00An Authenticity Movement<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
All good revivals start with a little doom and gloom. Sorry. But, I need you to hear this: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are starving for meaning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All around us is a sea of
inauthenticity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People show up to work
as someone they are supposed to be and pretend to care about a company to which
they are dedicating their soul’s time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our “reality” TV is staged and edited to be entertaining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the food we eat is made of gluten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is real anymore?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We live in a world that has been stripped of substance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
bypass pain as quickly as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We cope with our day through mindless
television.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We work to secure our
securities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, we work so hard. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We relish in the tiny moments in between when we get to go
on vacation and ‘check out’ of our lives for a spell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hug less often.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eye contact has become difficult for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meaningful conversations about
real things – you know, those “deep” things are just too heavy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are allowed to have some discourse or politically correct
disagreements about politics, but in all my time in corporate America, I was
never asked about the meaning of life at the water cooler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somewhere along the way, the human experience has been
numbed in the Novocain of conformity and idealism – but an idealism that has
been sold to us through marketing, rather than what feels right in our
hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>But, the “big questions” don’t go away.</strong></em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead they sit quietly waiting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our soul is patient, resilient, and
tenacious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So… we cope with our world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We check out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We pass by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We dissolve into routine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe when it’s over, it will get better?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heaven is waiting on us, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think it’s time for an authenticity movement.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Forget the badge you wear announcing your
employment position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who are you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is the fabric of your soul?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you want deeply inside your
being?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you dream about late at
night?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When is the last time you danced?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or laughed so hard it hurt? How long has it
been since you have tasted that moment when the world slows into the movie reel
of perfection – when you look around you and you see the purity of joy, the
warmth of love, the smiles of friends, or the laughter of children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When is the last time you fell on your face chasing
something you believed in?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or said what
was on your mind, rather than what you were supposed to say?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You are not your job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are not your social role.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are not your position in life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are a thriving beacon of love and hope and joy and desire to BE what
you are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A rose is not interested in
being a tulip, because she lives in a tulip field.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is a rose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How about we FEEL again?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to feel intense pain – to move into the center of our own sorrow and be real with it… to acknowledge it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to feel genuine gratitude – for our blessings, our health, our children, our loved ones … to really, really sit in the space of sublime grateful thinking<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to feel loved – to let ourselves be cherished, appreciated, respected… to honor all the goodness within ourselves<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to be touched and to touch one another… to feel the wrinkles and softness in our grandmother’s hands, the aching tenderness of our mother’s hugs, the unbridled squeeze of our children’s cheeks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>against our faces… <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have all been hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We should be hurt when we are hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have all been in love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We should announce it to the world when we feel it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have passionate feelings about life, religion, and
politics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should share them openly and
respectfully.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hate our jobs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or, we love them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we hate
them, we should leave them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we love
them, we should rejoice in them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We either live on the razor’s edge of life or we shrivel in
the fear of future pain.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><strong>Today, you are human.</strong></u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You have the greatest gift the universe has ever created – to be alive
and to know it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Use this gift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hug a stranger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have a conversation with that homeless guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smile at the person making your lunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ask her a question about her life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Skip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Skip in the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take in the beauty of a tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Breathe in life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Breathe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wiggle your toes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truly understand the unbelievable goodness
of ice cream – what an amazing human creation! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don’t want to know your story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t care to share mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is my soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am a sappy romantic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am a dreamer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am an idealist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am a contrarian in order to be
contrary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am in love with love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am playful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am capable of being selfish, greedy, protective, defensive, and
scared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am light and I am shadow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am <strong>beautifully human</strong>, <strong><em>flawed perfectly</em></strong>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And, so are you.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can sit alone with myself now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, I like the company I am keeping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do
you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love you all. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go be
yourself today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be authentic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Say what you mean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Share what you
think you are not supposed to share.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bravely love a stranger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remove
your invisible personal space boundaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tell your partner something that scares you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wake up!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, as my friend
Tim would say… “It’s awesome.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Namaste, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ryan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information, please go to: </span><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com%20/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com</span></a></i></span><br /></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-72867377411633956682012-10-06T18:43:00.002-07:002013-03-27T09:30:05.196-07:00Why am I doing this?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My body hurts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
hurts now more than it did before I started yoga.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, I have a curvy spine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, a small sacrum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which, sounds bad to say out loud about
myself, really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not many men would
openly say this about themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But,
like most men, I didn’t even know what a sacrum was a year ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why am I doing this again?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think this to myself all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think about this, and I think about the
bills I need to pay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I consider my next
consulting project or speech.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I worry
over the selling of my house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remind
myself of the household duties that need more than just a good considering, but
an actual cleaning or filing away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
regret a reaction I had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, then I step into yoga.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, I stop thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is not
a past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is not a future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only thing that exists between myself
and this moment is my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, my
mind is too busy reminding my body to breathe, move, hold, twist, or undulate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or
feel burning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our minds, the Taoists will say, are like monkeys – jumping all
around in an imaginary playground of either the past or the future or the analytical
now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mind is more like a yappy Jack
Russell, I am convinced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the theory
is all the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We spend a lot of time
in the imaginary future that hasn’t happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or we spend it in a regretful past that we cannot control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes, when I am meditating and my mind is monkeying
around – attending to all the things I need to do or worry about, I mentally
slap myself and get to the now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I say, “that’s
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stop all this noise!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Count to 20.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, then I do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look
around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I breathe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I focus inward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I count to 20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, while I am counting, I hear, “why are
you counting?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what are you doing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>do realize that you are sitting here
counting,” and I reply, “shut up. be quiet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and count.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, then I do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I count.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Somewhere along the way, the counting steps into the background and awareness
emerges and takes the wheel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this moment, I see everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jack Russell has stopped yapping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I smile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I sit in the full awareness of my soul – as my soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am connected to everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stand in this moment knowing that I am
fully alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, I start to move through my world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ten minutes later I find myself in some imaginary future
thinking about the things I need to do or worry about – the groceries<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need to buy, the upcoming event for my
daughter that I need to put on the calendar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s hard to be aware and awake if you are TRYING to be
aware and awake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s because you are
working at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, that means you are
engaging the mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See, in theory, Consciousness
uses the mind like a tool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, when we
are not awake, we are being used by the mind as a tool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Absolute awareness is a quiet observer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not active, but is passive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It cannot be called into being by the wants
of the mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It exists now and
always.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is always available, but
only available in stillness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Awareness is more like a docile Lab.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yoga, on some level, is like counting to 20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remind myself to breathe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I analyze the burning of my thighs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I postulate how many minutes are left in the
class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, at some point, I stop all
that mental quibbling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, I
breathe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I move.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I flow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I am the Universe and all is possible in this beautiful dance with life
and the perfect now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So… why am I doing this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To train myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To train myself
to spend a little more time with my true nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To remind my mental Jack Russell who is in
charge – that relaxed, but clear eyed Labrador.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are all beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is abundance everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Someone is not plotting against you or thinking bad things about
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You didn’t say the wrong thing
earlier today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The things you fear have
not happened and are not happening right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, practice finding yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find yourself any way you want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stop thinking about the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stop thinking about the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feel right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or, just count to 20 and let me know how it goes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Namaste!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ryan</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information, please go to: </span><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com%20/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com</span></a></i><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-18808703181777783642012-10-05T06:50:00.002-07:002013-03-27T09:30:23.054-07:00Get to Work!<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Almost a year ago now, I left
corporate America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was the Vice
President of Human Resources for two of the largest furniture companies in the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was being groomed to be an SVP
of Human Resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had health
insurance, a ‘designer’ dog that cost at least one paycheck, and a small estate
in one of the most prestigious neighborhoods in Saint Louis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The interior of my house looked like a copy
of <u>House Beautiful</u> and my car had heated leather seats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was living the American dream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since then, like clockwork, my mother
asks me at least once a week when I am going to “get to work.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought it best to address, then, my
latest work, so she doesn’t worry so much.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lately, I have been asking people the
question, “Are you happy?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, I have
learned something about how people answer that question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I asked some of my friends who
are working, making great money, and “living the dream,” the answer is
explanatory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They say something like
the following: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Well, I suppose it depends on how you
define happiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, what does
‘happiness’ mean?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have everything I
want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like my job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take vacations when I want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I enjoy my kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hmmmm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I am happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, it depends what you mean, right? I
have moments when I am frustrated for sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I wish I had more time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I
got along better with my partner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish work wasn’t so crazy and rushed all the
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish …”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also have a few friends who live
‘alternative’ lifestyles… those who have traded a nicer car for one that simply
runs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These friends have homes where
dinner parties take place on the floor with a plate in hand, rather than on a
dining room table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I ask them
this question, the answer is always the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Are you happy?” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Yes,” they reply. “Yes, I am happy.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, I no longer work in corporate
America, I don’t have health insurance (yet), I lost the dog in the divorce,
and I am selling my house, because I cannot afford the mortgage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This sounds bad, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, one year ago, if you asked me if I was
happy, I would have given you a long explanation to a short question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today… my answer would be a very
simple “yes.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, cue dramatic music…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The state of our world is in crisis on almost
every measurable scale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are running
out of oil, minerals, usable farmland, and even water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
have 7 billion people on our planet and that number will double in my
lifetime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are in the middle of a
mass species extinction, which has been noted by biologists on every continent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are losing an average of 137 species
every single day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over 50% of our
existing plant life and the source for 90% of our medicines in existence today
will be gone before I die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our food
supply is made of less “food” than filler (check those labels on the back of
the product).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are quite literally
poisoning our air, land, and sea – and our bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry for the sour turn there, but an
acknowledgement of ‘what is’ and acceptance of truth is the first step of any
transformational process that has ever been – whether it’s the 12 step program
or yoga or psychotherapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our Mother Earth is not well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is pretty darn sick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, the dis-ease that she is feeling is
felt through everything and every person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our economy is failing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surveys
of Happiness show that we are more unhappy as a country than we have ever been
- EVER.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not coincidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything is connected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This truth has been known and written in all
the ancient Spiritual texts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our best
science – that of quantum physics – has proven this many times over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything is connected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What does this mean? For me, it means looking
at “my truth,” acknowledging it, and doing something about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The question is this:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Is this a world that I want to live in?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is this a world I want my daughter to
inherit?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The answer for me: “No.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next question then is “What do I want to
do about it?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my past, I would have suggested sweeping
changes to legislation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would have railed
on the corruption of government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would
have slapped the water bottle out of your hand and educated you on the
commoditization of water and the waste of resources required to make that
single bottle of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Einstein said, though, we cannot change any
problem with the same thinking that created it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, fighting fire with fire only makes a
bigger fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #351d05; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As
Martin Luther King said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do
that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate,
violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a
descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil -- hate
begetting hate, wars producing more wars --must be broken, or we shall be
plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.”</span><span style="color: #351d05; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The world does not need more activism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world needs more love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It needs peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It needs teachers to demonstrate a new way
to live through a new vibration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best of our science has proven that we are
all connected. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every thought and every
belief we hold creates a frequency that we broadcast like a radio station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only way that we will change the music is
to change ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After leaving corporate America, I immersed
myself in myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took a sabbatical
from life and absorbed myself in the readings of the Ancient truths found in the
sacred doctrines – that you, too, may find in your spiritual book of choosing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I began a daily practice of yoga and started
to observe my own thoughts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I began to
meditate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I began to write again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I began to feel again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For me, I realize that what we are doing as a
society is not working. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, if I choose
to get up, go to work, and help produce more sofas, I do not change
anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I may live in a better house
or drive a nicer car, but at what expense?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My daughter will be the one to inherit a very sick world and perhaps
worse, an unhappy dad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happiness exists inside of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is felt when we come into alignment with
ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, when I am unhappy, I
impact not just myself, but you too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can no longer pretend to be someone that I
am not in the name of having “things” that I don’t really care to have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me, this is my truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is my heart song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, my vibration has changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time period is critical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are at a tipping point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What you can do now is to live your
purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Live your truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Live from your heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be
authentic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be honest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Move toward your vibration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dance to your rhythm rather than the
expectations of others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you open yourself to yourself, you open
to your inner Divinity, and God will flow into you and pave the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grace will come swiftly and free you from
guilt, resent, regret…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will stand
confident in your truth and in the warmth of self-love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will enable you to see with different
eyes and the world will literally change right in front of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Be the change you want to see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Change the world, by changing yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><u>SO… As my mom would say:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get to work!</u></strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Namaste, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ryan</span></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information, please go to: </span><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com%20/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com</span></a></i><br />
<o:p></o:p></span> </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18240332607421075721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4066741845359074342.post-11240780278670682502012-09-04T09:41:00.003-07:002013-03-27T09:30:38.291-07:00Thought Habits<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">My ex relationship had a borderline personality
disorder and was abusive. All who know and love me have heard me tell
many stories about my abusive marriage.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">My scars have been shown.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">I
have been adorned with lamentations… “How did you do it?” … “I don’t know how
you still function and are healthy?” … “You poor thing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">She was so cruel.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
used to re-read all of ex relationship's texts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I read them in a state of disbelief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hurt each time I read it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I forwarded them to others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told my friends about them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were the
weekly soap opera of entertainment for my soul circle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was the purpose?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why do this to myself?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">When
I answered this question, I said that I needed social support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It is healthy for me to talk
about this. Wow, isn’t it amazing that she still is this crazy… that she still
spends so much time and energy trying to tear me down after 5 years? Can you
believe this?”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But
when I got real with myself, and I had moments of Grace, I realized that the
better question was “Why do I keep the story going?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Why? </span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I
wanted to continue the story of being a victim. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw myself as damaged. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was the broken-winged bird.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And,
with these thoughts I manifested so many experiences to remind me that I was
broken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found a healer to
nurture me back to health with soups and candles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sought friendships from those who wanted to steer me and
‘take care’ of me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, they
did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I enjoyed the best
soups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had so many loving friends give wonderful care to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I was nurtured. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My
reward: I got to continue to be miserable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nurtured, well-loved, and miserable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Because at the end of the day, 'victim' thinking is not empowering - it is miserable. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our
thoughts create our experiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We manifest the mirror of our self concept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We become our self talk and our self story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our
beliefs reflect back to us again and again and again as experiences and
relationships until we know that we are creating what we see and what we
experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have to learn this lesson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only way to learn the lesson is through trial and
error and trial again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
cycle is a closed loop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
reinforces itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have
a belief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You attract
experiences based on this belief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The belief is reinforced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our belief becomes truth and truth is reinforced over and over
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until
it doesn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until one
day you wake up and see your own image. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You see your reflection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seeing
your own image is enlightenment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enlightenment
is not eternal bliss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not
euphoria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not a place
out-of-time or ever-after.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is not a place outside of this world or outside of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It exists right now and within you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It exists as an “aha,” or “oh, that’s
what I have been believing?” moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is the knowing that that you are the thinker and that your world will
be what you believe it to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
real truth?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a tiny rope
holding your leg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has
been there since you were young.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is twined in the fabric of your beliefs and your experiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, you are an elephant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, at any moment, you can
choose to simply move… to break free of this bond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This rope cannot hold your strength if you choose to snap
the bond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You
are what you believe yourself to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are your thought
habits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Change your thought habits and change your life!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Practice:</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Presence
is so important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you
are present, you are not a victim to your story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are creating your experiences in the endless
potential of “the now.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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best tool for presence is your breath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Therefore, today the practice will focus on breath work and identifying a
victim belief that you hold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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15 minutes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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to all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Namaste. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ryan</span></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Ryan Pride is the owner of the Moksha Institute, a firm dedicated to improving the wellbeing of individuals, teams, and organizations through culture transformation and leadership development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A profit-for-purpose company, the Moksha Institute applies Ancient Teachings for the Modern Time in order to transform striving into thriving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information, please go to: </span><a href="http://www.mokshainstitute.com%20/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.mokshainstitute.com</span></a></i><br />
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