Secret Garden – You Raise Me Up
One of my all time favorite songs -- from Secret Garden. This is the Brian Kennedy version.
Posted: September 4th, 2010 under imagination, self help.
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Exploring The Creative Process
Gregg Braden presents in a clear, powerful manner. His discussion about the partnership between thoughts and feelings in the creative process is excellent. (Gregg Braden “Louise Hay Film” Interview 5 of 6.)
Some excerpts….
When thought and emotion combine, you can move mountains. This is a literal thing – not a metaphor!
Gregg asked a Shaman about his process for praying.
Shaman: “Our prayer is about creating a feeling.”
In the West we have lost the texts that originally told us that feelings are a ‘language’. Instead we began to think that the words themselves were the prayer. We learnt to say the words. But we were not taught to add the vital ingredient – feeling.
In so doing, we lost our ability to really pray – and thus to change our reality in an elegant way. We came to rely upon a benign “Father figure” to look kindly upon our requests and pleas for help.
What is the force that holds the universe together?
“Compassion”, the Abbot answered.
Compassion is a feeling that we experience in our bodies. So in effect, we have the ability to feel in our own bodies the stuff that holds this universe together!
Earlier posts have discussed the other segments of this series.
Posted: April 12th, 2010 under imagination, power of mind, self help.
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Some Insights on How to Motivate People
In the YouTube video clip below, career analyst, Dan Pink, examines the puzzle of human motivation.
The presentation gets interesting approximately 12 mins in when he starts talking about the ‘new’ 21st century motivators of: autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
It’s interesting to hear how some innovative businesses are motivating their employees -- getting past a ‘carrots and sticks’ approach -- and instead, recognizing the intrinsic motivation that comes from encouraging employees to develop autonomy and mastery, and to define their own work purpose. Google and Encarta are just two such companies.
Posted: September 3rd, 2009 under imagination, neuroscience.
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Using Passion As Your Personal Muse
What makes your heart beat with joy? What makes you feel excited about life?
Anything that makes your heart sing, anything that ignites excitement within you; anything that you just want to jump in and do -- is your passion speaking!
Passion is easy to recognise once you know the signs. And the signs are always ones that make you feel good, that make you exhilarated about life.
Passion is your inner voice -- your private muse speaking to you and leading you forward on a path that is uniquely your own.
Do not follow others’ ideas of what you should do or what constitutes ‘success”. You are unique. You must develop your own ‘success formula’.
This involves some trial and error as you learn to listen to your inner voice and trust it’s pull.
Many will tell you that people who are rich and famous are a success and that that is the path you should mimic. But your success will be different to others’.
Your success may well include fame, fortune. But it may also include vibrant good health, mutually rewarding relationships and friendships, emotional freedom, mental freedom (being aware of the beliefs that serve or hinder you) -- to mention less commonly discussed criteria of success.
Trust your insights. Trust your gut instinct. Trust that your talents, capabilities and passion are there for a reason.
See the short video below on the topic of ‘trusting your passion’ -- from John Kehoe.
Posted: January 6th, 2009 under imagination, self help.
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Gregg Braden “Louise Hay Film” Interview 5 of 6
Gregg Braden certainly presents in a clear, powerful manner. His discussion about the partnership between thoughts and feelings in the creative process is profound.
When thought and emotion combine you can move mountains. This is a literal thing -- not a metaphor!
Gregg asked a Shaman about his process for praying.
Shaman. “Our prayer is about creating a feeling.”
In the West we have lost the texts that originally told us that feelings are a ‘language’. Instead we began to think that the words themselves were the prayer. We learnt to say the words. But we were not taught to add the vital ingredient -- feeling.
In so doing, we lost our ability to really pray -- and thus to change our reality in an elegant way. We came to rely upon a benign “Father figure” to look kindly upon our requests and pleas.
What is the force that holds the universe together?
“Compassion”, the Abbot answered.
Compassion is a feeling that we experience in our bodies. So in effect, we have the ability to feel in our own bodies the stuff that holds this universe together!
Earlier posts have discussed the other segments of this series.
See interview 5 of 6 below.
Posted: November 4th, 2008 under imagination, power of mind, quantum physics.
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