Anyway, If you own an iphone or an ipod touch, check it out, it is a fun romp for only $1. Here’s the Itunes link.

While exploring the web and GTD I ran across Merlin Mann and his website about GTD 43 Folders. Merlin is an amazing person with a lot of great experience and knowledge to share.

I found a real jewel of a presentation by Merlin about how to get started. It echoed some NLP presuppositions, especially “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first”, and threw a few jabs at the Seduction community at the same time.

So, instead of procrastinating, give your motivation a kick in the butt, and listen to this presentation already….

The Sound of Young America

For more about family Constellations check out the wikipedia entry and Burt Hellinger’s web site.

I was lucky: In the last few days I got to participate in family constellations with two separate groups. I was very impressed:

1. The results are very spooky… There seemed to be some guiding hand making sure that the proper people were selected to play specific roles. And the scenario always seemed to deeply resonate with the client and open their reality to new possibilities.

2. Therapeutic results (when a constellation was ‘completed’) seemed to be gentle, and done with a minimum of interference.

3. I found the similarity to the NLP reimprinting process to be very interesting. Family Constellations seemed to be more timeless and automatically drew more broadly from the clients family and connections.

If you are interested in family constellations, and you are in the bay area, I recommend joining the local meetup group.

See you there!

As I understand it, the world is manifest from consciousness and consciousness is sustained by belief, because of this, I’ve discovered a new, profound respect for the power of belief.

So if I am exploring a practice which requires belief, the one sure way to not get results is to not believe…

I am very interested in exploring a variety of belief systems and their related practices. As I discover more things which “work” I am becoming less dogmatic and more open, and ending up with a better understanding of how it all fits together.
Coming from an engineering background, I wanted to share my process with you:

1. Find someone you respect and trust who holds an interesting set of beliefs. You can use referrals from friends you respect to help expand your circle of acquaintances. Be especially aware of people who have gained prominence recently, “When the student is ready, the teacher will come”.

2. Discover a practice that they recommend, perhaps a retreat or a training or a ritual you can do every day.

3. Do an ecology check: For instance, if you adopt this practice, will it take too much money? ruin my body? harm my loved ones? or hurt the environment? If so, abandon this practice and return to step #1

4. Decide how long you will do the practice. See how it works before you become too committed.

5. Use an internal ritual to take all your existing beliefs, doubts and criticisms, and put them into a mental “safe deposit box” for future reference. Put the box away in a safe place. Release the contents from your mind.

5. Model and adopt the beliefs of your friend as close as you can. Have faith in what you are doing.

6. Practice the new practice for the time you specified

7. Examine the new set of beliefs and pick the ones which seemed to be most useful.

8. restore your original beliefs from the “safe deposit box” then integrate the new useful beliefs into your system.

9. Observe how your perceptions have changed, then go back to step #1

As a life coach, I help people with the “Game of Self” I help athletes, business people, and people in transition discover more about the games they play, and improve their score! In particular I help my clients focus on their inner game.

The term “the inner game” was first coined by Timothy Gallwey in his seminal work The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance.

In this book, Gallwey discusses the difference between the “inner game” and the “outer game”. Where the “outer game” includes the techniques and skills needed to be a good player, the “inner game” is about having the right mental approach while practicing and playing.

Gallway went on to publish several more books, extending the concept of “inner game” to include books on “Golf”, “Work”, “Skiing” and “Stress”. Check out Timothy Gallway’s bibliography for more details.

The core principle of success at any inner game is the ability to remain confident, focused and relaxed.

Because of my leadership experience, my inside knowledge of games and my NLP and hypnosis skills, I am well suited to assist others in improving their inner game.

Take a deep breath, then imagine a future where you are more focused, more confident, and yet still comfortable and relaxed. Notice how your score has improved as you’ve increasingly mastered your inner game. Think of the joy and success you’ve experienced as you have gained more and more control of your mental state and learned to leverage the power of your mind. How does it feel to dominate the most important game of your life?? The Game of Self!

Make your move NOW, to transform your inner game: contact me by email or phone me at (510) 409-3660 to schedule a free 30 minute phone consultation.

I intend to improve this world, one game at a time!

Of interest to me, I found two Bay Area NLP practice groups; the East Bay NLP Meetup Group and the San Francisco Bay Area Hypnosis and NLP Practice Group. In addition I found a Universal Healing Tao group. Just last night I attended the taoist group and was very impressed.

We did Mantak Chia’s “inner smile” Qi Gong set, and it was very pleasant being in this room with about 12 other people while spending the time to resonate with each of my five elements and their associated organs. I’ve discovered that doing any type of Qi exercise in groups can be very beneficial, because in addition to getting your own mind and body to harmonize, you’ve also got the other participants resonating with your energy, thus amplifying your strength, and improving the overall power and serenity of the result.
Attending this meetup were several students and instructors of Chi Nei Tsang, an abdominal massage system based on Taoist principles and taught by Mantak Chia.

Check out these other Mantak Chia Resources.

Oakland has a couple of great Taoist attractions: The West coast Chi Nei Tsang institute is located here. In addition, Dr. Alex Feng runs the Zhi Dao Guan – The Taoist Center which hosts a free Taoist Meditation class on the last Friday of every month.

If you live in the bay area, I highly recommend expanding your social circle by getting involved in any of the organizations mentioned above.

One thing I like to do occasionally for inspiration is to review journal entries from the past, just to see what has evolved and what has stayed the same.

2 years ago I really wanted to become an NLP practitioner, so I followed a process where I created a “well formed outcome” and “set my intent” to do that. At the time I was just “playing” with an NLP process I was exploring, but something had “clicked” and here I am, having accomplished my desire.

Like any large goal, I broke this into steps.

Here’s what I did:
1. Learned Self Hypnosis, did many guided meditations on improving my self image and self confidence.
2. Since I’ve had a long commute (1 hr each way) I also immersed myself in NLP and hypnosis audio trainings from many different instructors.
3. I attended a Tad James 3 day Hypnosis Certification Course.
4. I graduated from the British Hypnosis Research online course in Ericksonian Hypnosis, this took over a year of participation in community forums, studying reference materials, and passing exams. I am indebted to Stephen Brooks for setting this course up, and for making it free!
5. After a year or more of concentrated study of NLP, I felt I needed a lot more practical experience, so I spent the money to attend an NLP Certification training where I could work on real people I was picky about where to take my training and finally settled on the NLP and Coaching Institute of California, the training was a total of 27 days spread over 9 months.

So the real question is; Where do I go from here? I’ll discuss that soon in a future blog entry

Another Frantzis resource is the Ancient Songs of the TAO: Music of the Spheres
which are ancient taoist liturgies which Bruce himself sings.
He actually has different songs for different parts of the body and different types of emotion.
I find it an unusually trancey experience where I can feel parts of my body resonating with his “overtone” singing.
I really enjoy getting into a nice open state while playing one of these songs while doing an afternoon round of tai-chi.

For almost 2 years I have wanted to take NLP practitioner training. I had studied many, many audio tapes and books, but I really wanted the experience of practicing with willing partners.

So last October I started an NLP Practitioner Training with nlpca.com, Tim Hallbom was my primary instructor. After 6 months of one 3 day weekend every month, I finally have my NLP practitioner certificate.

Some of the benefits I got from the program include:

1. I have an effective model of subjective experience. With a willing, open minded subject I can now catalyze major shifts in peoples perceptions, habits and illnesses. I didn’t really expect to be able to improve my powers of keen observation and subtle suggestion as effectively as I did.

2. I am much more aware of subtle modes of communication. This has changed my tai-chi, I now feel my Qi more strongly and directly. Best of all, my push hands is more sensitive, rooted, powerful and subtle.

3. I understand what motivates me in major areas of my life, and how to change them.

4. I now have a personal vision of building transformational communities online.

5. I have built really strong bonds with my class mates, I care about them in a ways which were totally unexpected for me.

5. I feel like my life has shifted in a fundamental way. My opportunities are limitless, my motivation is renewed, I feel centered and happy for most of every day.

Next Steps? I will be continuing with my Master Practitioner Training, 3 more months where we will focus on re-imprinting, language patterns and other advanced topics.

Check out Renee Stephens “Inside Out Weight Loss” for some tasty NLP morsels.

Or improve your coaching skill with “Coaching the Life Coach” by Robert Harrison.

Finally, i recommend the “Radical Change Group” a trio of enthusiastic seekers who seem to be well versed in using NLP in a variety of situations.