Guided Meditation can help you work less and earn more.

Guided Meditation can help you enjoy your life and work more.

Doesn’t that sound great?

Well, there are a couple important questions that naturally come up.

Who does the Guiding?

Ultimately, it is YOU.

But sometimes, as we are starting out with this new practice, it is helpful to “borrow” another person’s ideas, or thoughts or energy to get us going.

A good guided meditation should bring you something: More Energy – Personal, Emotional and/or Spiritual Energy. Maybe more peace or ease. Whatever it is that you want, you should be able to find a guided meditation or you can create one for yourself.

Sometimes it is also helpful to read along as you are learning a new meditation. I like to provide.pdf files along with the.mp3s of audio meditations I create.

But if you are building something new in your life or business, Guided Meditation may be just what you need to create a solid, energetic foundation.

Here are some guidelines and benefits you might look for especially if you are in business or an entrepreneur looking to build your energy and build your business. Enjoy!

Good guided meditations can help you break through the Mental Blocks that stop most people before they even get started making BIG CHANGES in their lives and further help you:

* Discover what all ancient spiritual traditions knew about the Power of the Mind

* Learn how to harness the Power of Your Mind

* Move past the Built-In Resistance of the Mind

* Use what shows up in your world to reveal the content of your limiting beliefs

* Re-Train your Mind to Focus on what you enjoy and what you desire

You can also uncover the Emotional Patterns that SAP YOUR ENERGY and learn how to live from what LIGHTS YOU UP!:

* Discover the Keys to Happiness and Fulfillment

* Learn how to Create Your Day with the emotional quality that you want to enjoy

* Add the Power of your Emotions to the power of your mind & knowledge

* See how you mastered to “Expect and See” what is in your life, and shift your relationship to “Expectancy”

You can also ReConnect with your Spiritual Center – Learn to Balance Heart and Mind:

* How simple practices of Gratitude can open you up to receive more

* Develop Compassion for yourself by “seeing” your mind at work

* Create practices to connect your heart and mind

* Learn a powerful technique to Build and Focus your Faith

* See how to unplug and disconnect from old reactions and habits that no longer serve you

* Learn how a simple change in perspective can eliminate all the emotional poison you create in your life

Learn the 5 Simple Steps to Design and Create Your Own Prosperity:

* Learn how to boost and magnify Your Daily Energy – your greatest resource

* Connect your heart and your business – get clear about Your Business Impact you want to create for clients and the world

* Attract Ideal Clients through simple to follow practices – and then learn to attract Ideal Partners who bring you your Ideal Clients

* Build simple yet powerful Business Systems that provide consistent quality and results and let you work less

* Discover the 4 Step Method to bring any Transformation you want

Here is a great resource for you to build your personal energy and then be able to deploy that increased energy in your business or in your projects:

http://www.earthandlight.com/guided-meditation/

I started to think, if I'm going to die, how do I want to go? I thought about my wife and children, and wondered if I could leave some part of me with them, in an act of will, at the moment right before I died.

Well, as you may have guessed, I did not die. I came home. I went back to work. Life continued.

But I looked for some meaning in this experience. What I finally landed on was: even more GRATITUDE.

So as I enjoy the day with my family and my brain, I invite you all to look for a couple more places to shine your gratitude. We can be grateful for things and situations. Or we can simply be grateful to be alive. I am today.

Thanks and Happy Brainiversary!

Kevin

Whether you are a systems-oriented thinker along the lines of W. Edwards Deming or a fan of The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss, The Four Agreements, by don Miguel Ruiz provides a simple-to-learn, lifetime-to-master set of principles that can create amazing leverage for today's small business owners, entrepreneurs and professional managers.

When I say "leverage," I mean greater results with relatively less effort. Another way of saying this is "working smarter not harder." These days with increasing global competition in all markets, we all need to enjoy greater leverage. Also for individuals, leverage is the way to come back to work-life balance. As we create more results in our work lives more efficiently, we have more time and energy for our non-work pursuits.

The Four Agreements are:

1. Be Impeccable with Your Word
2. Don't Take Anything Personally
3. Don't Make Assumptions
4. Always Do Your Best

So where to begin? How about almost at the beginning with #2?

The next installment will be about:

Don't Take Anything Personally

When we first engage The Four Agreements to shift our energy in our workplaces, the first place to look is: where are we using our energy now? One of the places we invest so much energy is in: Taking Things Personally.... To be continued....

For Class 2 of this series- click here - for The Four Agreements in the Workplace - Don't Take Anything Personally

For Class 2 1/2 of this series click here -for  The Four Agreements - Systems Thinking and Systems Point-of-View

For Class 3 of this series- click here - for The Four Agreements in the Workplace - Dont Make Assumptions

During our hike the other day I felt 2 layers of ideas fall together and overlap. It landed in a moment, like a flash. One familiar layer is the 4 seasons. The newer layer is based on a pattern I'm noticing in a spiritual awakening path. The newer pattern is that we go through 4 stages of spiritual growth, and like the seasons, they keep coming back around. It is not linear. It is cyclical. We don't complete the path. We go through with an increasing level of awareness, and then, just when we think we're done, it's time to go through another cycle, another season of spiritual growth.

The 4 Steps I refer to are Curiosity, Inquiry, Practice and Mastery.

At some point along the way of our lives, we have something or things that piqued our curiosity. Something that opened up our eyes and hearts a little. It may have been a book, a movie, a teacher, a moment in nature. We may not have known in that moment that Spirit was knocking on our door, but that's what it was. Or rather, our soul was trying to get our attention. Curiosity is awakened. So this is the starting point for anyone. For without Curiosity, why bother opening to anything new? And without anything new, what would ever change? So there is a desire inside each of us, and it takes a moment or many moments to come out through an invitation borne of Curiosity. Maybe it takes years before we act on it, but the first step is Curiosity.

What I saw in my walk with Zachary, was that Curiosity is like the Winter and could be represented by the seed. The seed rests quietly in the ground in the Winter, but inside is all the information required for the full nature of the thing to manifest fully as what it is. Just as in us, we have everything we need already to recognize ourselves as creators; to fully manifest our lives in our unique expression of who we are.

The second step is Inquiry. By this I mean a deeper inquiry into the force behind the Curiosity. Which is to say, the forces in our lives; Mind, Spirit, Body and Soul, Creator, Love. Inquiry involves a more active role for us. Curiosity may have us sitting on the sidelines, but at the level of Inquiry, we are simultaneously on the playing field. At some point the seed begins to move in the ground, signaled by warming in the Spring. The wisdom inside is inspired to action and new form. Curiosity is awakened into Inquiry and the journey into Self has begun. Or the journey has begun again with whatever new awareness we gained from our last time around the cycle of seasons.

Curiosity awakens into Inquiry. This type of inquiry is deeper than an idle wondering about the nature of things, God, the universe, etc.  This inquiry is into the nature of our minds, our beliefs, our patterns of behavior and language. At this level, we put our attention on witnessing the mind from an observer point-of-view . And of course, there are still many times where Mind is the dominant player, when we are not witnessing how the mind judges, opines, and otherwise pulls us through a day. We can be pulled through the mind's dominance when we are so completely identified with the Mind that we think it is who we are. The good news is that this Inquiry also brings the grace of moments where we can see the mind operating, and that simple vision confirms the suspicion begun in Curiosity: I am more than my mind. There's more to life than this!

These moments of grace are like the new leaves, shoots and buds of spring. Something is unfolding, something is happening. We see evidence of shift, but the larger manifestation is not completely apparent. Inquiry models this energy of Spring. There are moments where we can see our mind more clearly, and therefore have a capacity for new choice, sometimes we are back to mind-dominance and we don't have a choice. Similarly, not every seed will fully emerge. If the sun or the dirt or the water isn't right, the growth will stop and the plant dies.

Two qualities of the Summer season are discipline and commitment. In our relationship with nature, this is a time for working the fields, long sun-filled days. It's the time to do what needs to be done so that the harvest will be good in the fall. Without the discipline and commitment to tending the garden, the harvest will be less. The third step of spiritual awakening corresponding to this is Practice. As my prosperity teacher says "We know what to do and we do it." Our practice is whatever it is: meditation, mindfulness, contemplation, prayer, journalling, anything that supports and deepens our time with our essential selves. We may often still be filled with curiosity. We may still be inquiring into our true nature. These pieces do not follow each other. They are always present. One or another may be getting more of our attention. Just as the seasons overlap, sometimes there is a little reminder of summer even in the winter, with a little warmth and sun, so do these qualities of a spiritual path overlap.

The next step, not the last, is Mastery. Mastery is when we flow with life. There is no suffering. There is light and love and laughter. We manifest easily. We move with grace and ease. We are in service. This relates to the Autumn season. In the fall, there is abundance of the harvest. We reap what we have been busy planting, weeding and nurturing. This is a time to give of what we have received, just as the harvest gives its life to feed us. Just when we are at a place of Mastery, that is the perfect time to let go of whatever it is that we say we have mastered.

When a pumpkin is at it's fullest expression, just then is it time to disintegrate to allow the seed to go into the ground for the next cycle to begin. So too for the Master.  When our mastery is at it's fullest, the parts of it that we become attached to, the parts of it that have become 'set' in the mind, those parts we can let go. We let them go knowing that whatever we will need will be provided. Whatever we've always needed has always been provided. Mastery is empowered by this type of humility and allows us to plant the seed for the next part of the journey back into the winter of our curiosity and on from there.

T.A.G. You're It!

T hanksgiving
A ppreciation
G ratitude

You are the source of the amount and feeling of gratefulness and appreciation in your life.
In the larger world, there is a lot of lack, anxiety and fear.
Maybe this is merely a reflection of our inner fear, anxiety and feelings of lack?
Maybe billions of people paying attention to this on the inside (feeling it and believing it) create a world with a lot of lack and fear on the outside?

We propose an experiment:
For the 40 day period leading up to Thanksgiving, we will gather in a very short 7:00 a.m. phone call to share our thanks, to look to what we will appreciate today and to extend gratitude from our hearts to the world. We think this will shift your experience of these times.
We ask you to also look for Good News to show up in your life, and then share that good news with us as a way to monitor the results of this experiment.

Please bring to the call:
- What I will appreciate today
- What I am grateful for
- What I give thanks for today

Keep track of your Good News everyday in a journal or send it along as an email to all!
Where I am from, we say "It's not Good News until you share it!"

This will be a quick booster for the day. There will not be lecture or processing.

We plan on creating easy and fun ways for you to share this call with others in your life,
personally and professionally.

Calls are weekdays Monday through Friday. Beginning Oct 14th (that's tomorrow)

This call will begin at 7:00 a.m. sharp so please come on to the call 1 or 2 minutes before 7:00 so we are ready to begin at 7:00.  Thank you.

Free TeleConference Phone Number: 518.825.1300 (this is not a local call)
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kevin