Why? Because if you don’t have good health, you’re probably in pain or some other kind of low energy that makes it very difficult to concentrate, focus on what you want, or even take physical action towards your visions.

Here are 2 videos from a talk I did at the Addison Wellness Expo all about how to use the Law Of Attraction to create your 100% physical health: your ideal form, relief from pain, and free of disease.

There are a lot of good resources in here, including a new pre-step to the LOA basic recipe: Rapport.  Additional notes and resources are below the videos.

watch on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uh0SjNamag

watch on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGoF-utfwMA

Here’s a link to the “pink handout” I mention in the talk. This is a great summary of the tools I recommend for each step of the LOA as applied to your physical health.

Using the Law Of Attraction For Your Physical Health Handout

And a few more resources you may choose to explore:

• The Let Me Be poem I recited is available as a photo/print
• The Sufi Remembrance is a great way to connect with your heart and your sense of the Divine and then check out your options on your path.  Here’s where I learned it and where you can get a great audio and guide book to walk you through the process http://www.heartofbusiness.com/the-remembrance-challenge/
• I briefly mention Matrix Energetics as one of my favorite healing tools and the source for the awesome inquiry questions “What if it were different?” and “What is different?”.  You can learn more about Matrix Energetics here.  If you’re local to Dallas, check out the Quantum Play Transformation Circle I host once a month for more like this.
• The uplifting book Every Word Has Power by Yvonne Oswald is an excellent resource for upgrading your language, which leads to more positive thoughts, which leads to more positive feelings, which leads to more inspired actions, which leads to the results you crave.
• Not mentioned, but another awesome mind-body resource that I reference often is Louise Hay’s Heal Your Body.  I use this often as a shortcut to find the probably emotional cause behind any physical symptom so I can adjust my thoughts accordingly.
• And if you haven’t yet explored all the raw superfoods, recipes and information on my other website, now’s a good time to check out my latest adventures in health: LovingSuperfoods.com

Enjoy your upgrades!

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watch Part 1 on Youtube: http://youtu.be/WpPQkgRfwK0

 
And here’s Part 2 of the presentation:

watch Part 2 on Youtube: http://youtu.be/6pmRjbylNX8

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This is one of those secrets that is better shared than kept hidden, so I’m happy to now share with you the video of my talk.

In this video I use an NLP technique called a Neurological Bridge. You can allow this video to help you automatically shift from doubt to confidence. Simply follow closely with your emotions what I am expressing with words and action.

See, hear and feel each emotional state as I move through them with you and notice how much easier it is for you to get quickly into the state of confidence.

Go ahead and watch this 25 minute video now:

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I had a delightful conversation with my good friend Barb Lundgren all about Judgments, where they come from, how they limit us or help us manage information, how to step out of the box and see new perspectives, and how to remove judgments as a way of improving relationships.

You can listen to the audio recording of our 30 minute dialog here:

http://recordings.freeconferencecalling.com/mp3/537274/537274/MN2124_04132011110411551_1050038.mp3

(right click the link and select Save As to save this mp3 file to your computer)

In our conversation you’ll hear Barb and I talk about the Rethinking Everything conference, which is AWESOME!  I’ll be facilitating even more conversations, workshop experiences and playful transformations at this year’s event in September.  I highly encourage you to check it out for yet another fun way to open your mind and expand your possibilities.  Learn more about it here: www.RethinkingEverything.net

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Well, when it rains, it pours, especially when you are open to receiving your vision in whatever ways it shows up.

A friend of mine has started his own publishing house, Open Heart Publishing, and one of his first projects is publishing an anthology of short stories along the theme of “An Honest Lie: Encouraging the Delinquency of Your Inner Child.”  He asked me if I would consider contributing a story to the anthology and I relished the idea.  I liked the idea so much, I started to write.

As another friend of mine says, “the secret to writing, is writing”.  It’s also apparently part of the secret to getting published.  I wrote a delightful short story called “The Life Boat”.  You’ll get to hear more about it and read excerpts later.

The important part of this life story right now is the value of staying joyfully inspired and motivated toward your visions and being open to receiving opportunities in whatever form they come.  It may not look like the original picture you painted for yourself, but it could be just as good or better in terms of the feelings, experience and even more opportunities you get from taking the leap and following up on what’s presented.

I know I’m glad I started writing and actually submitted something (none of the other people the publisher specifically invited to the anthology submitted anything).  Now I get to play even more in the arena of writer, published author, and speaker.  Even more exploration of this vision of author I’ve created for myself.  What fun!

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As long as you keep your attention on the “where you desire to be” end of the rubberband you will naturally and easily snap yourself into that vision. However, if you start to feel doubt or in any other way lessen your attention and good vibration from where you desire to be, you are putting slack in your rubberband and essentially keeping yourself where you are.

To help you stretch your vision rubberband into your future, and keep it tight with good vibrations, I’d like to introduce you to a beautiful NLP guided visualization called Strategic Visioning.

You can download your audio version here:

http://www.catalize.com/catalize_strategic_visioning.mp3

(right click the link and select Save As to save it to your hard drive and play it from there)

In this guided visualization you step into all the details of your vision – seeing it, hearing it, and feeling it.  Then you step out of the vision, but keep a picture of you in it so you have a snapshot of that moment when you arrived and you can easily recall all the good feelings associated with your vision being realized.

Then you stretch your vision rubberband by floating up into the air, above the stream of time, and drop your energized picture into the future date when you wish your vision to be fulfilled.  And now you can relax and allow all the events and opportunities and people to flow into your life with perfect timing, knowing that your vision is complete.

I love this NLP guided visualization because you can use it over and over again, each time adding even more feeling and detail to your experience to keep strengthening the good vibrations of your vision rubberband.

Try it, and let me know how it works for you!

p.s. you may desire to use the Catalize Wheel of Life to help you create visions and intentions for every area of your life and then use the Strategic Visioning guided visualization for each area.  Sign up here for the Catalize monthly newsletter to get your copy of the Wheel of Life … or just follow the instructions on the audio recording for more information on how to create your inspired vision.

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The darker days, the magic of the holidays, and the quietude of this season all support you as you go within to discover your heart’s desire and your higher self’s greatest wish for you.

To help you receive your inspired vision, I am gifting you the Catalize Future Self Journey guided visualization.

Catalize Future Self Journey
(right click the link and select Save As to save it to your hard drive and play it from there)

This 15 minute visualization will help you to connect with your most inspired, positive Future Self and through that connection you will discover your inspired vision now.  You can listen to this visualization many times – each time you may get a new insight into your vision.

Oh, and if you would like your own copy of the visioning questions you ask your Future Self in this journey, here they are:

• What is your highest vision for me?
• What must I become to empower this vision?
• What must be released?
• What must be embraced?
• Is there any other information that is needed at this moment?
• What metaphor or symbol or phrase best represents the focus of my vision now?

Many thanks to the Center for Spiritual Living for the input of the questions used in the science of mind Visioning process.

Enjoy your journey and let me know what you are inspired to now!

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We had a great discussion about the importance of sincere gratitude in attracting what you want in life – and especially how to avoid the “but” thoughts that sometimes follow gratitude for present circumstances.  You know, “I like where I am now, but I would really like …”

Listen on to hear my recap and the valuable insights of how to use gratitude, the law of attraction, and even work around attracting money in your life by clicking this link:

An Example of Gratitude and the Law of Attraction

Wishing you much success and sincere feeling in your own gratitude and attraction proactices!

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Do not write your story like a factual documentary, weighing all the pros and cons of your experience, but instead tell the uplifting, fanciful, magical story of the wonder of your own life and watch what happens. It will feel like magic as your life begins to transform right before your eyes, but it is not by magic. It is by the power of the Laws of the Universe and your deliberate alignment with those Laws.

Now, I believe in this optimistic approach to life. I’ve found over and over again how much easier and powerfully effective it is to focus on what you want (the motivation of desire) than on what “is” that you don’t want and how to get around it (realism?). For the past couple of years I have chosen my daily activities by doing what feels good in the moment, rather than what I think I “should” be doing in order to get where I want to go.

From a Realism perspective, this Optimistic approach to life seems silly, ineffective, and ignorant. From a Realism perspective, you must look at your obstacles and your weaknesses and find a way around them in order to get where you want to go in life. From a Realism perspective, you must do what’s hard, and even struggle, in order to achieve the level of success you desire.

Many of us are brought up with a Realism perspective. As employees, as entrepreneurs, as kids and adults in our society, we’re all taught the motto “no pain, no gain”. And many of us live long lives of struggle with the hope that it will result in yummy results that we can enjoy sometime before we must struggle towards the next goal.

From an Optimism perspective (like this Abraham quote suggests), you don’t need to focus on your obstacles or weaknesses or what you think should be done in order to achieve what you want. You just need to focus on all the good feelings of your desire and let yourself be inspired to take action from that desire and trust it will end in good results. When you use this approach, there is never any struggle and you are enjoying life while you are moving towards your goal, not just for the brief moments after you’ve achieved it and before you set out for the next goal.

So, does this Optimistic approach really work?

Here’s an example from my own life that I feel proves it:

For the past year I’ve done only a few public speaking engagements, even though I knew that more public speaking had been proven by others to increase business. I didn’t want to do lots of public speaking because I didn’t fully enjoy it then. Essentially, I had some mental and emotional blocks that kept me from desiring that action.

From a Realism perspective, I had a weakness to overcome in order to achieve my goal

From an Optimism perspective, I wasn’t led by my desires in that direction (yet).

After a year of “knowing that public speaking would help, but not wanting to do it” I attended Chris Howard’s Presentation and Platform Skills Training. I had the option of attending this course the year before, but it didn’t feel good then – it felt like it would be a distraction from the other business-building activities I wanted to be doing.

So, when I did finally take the course, I was completely in the right state of mind to receive the valuable information and to apply it in such a way that I easily and effortlessly overcame my mental and emotional blocks to public speaking. Now, by acting on what feels good, I’m actually wanting to do more public speaking … and my business is structured to support it.

Could I have achieved all of this sooner if I had taken the Realism approach and focused in on fixing my weaknesses and “just doing it” anyway? Maybe, but it wouldn’t be a fun journey and that struggle might have lead me to drop my business vision altogether since it wasn’t enlivening anymore.

Did I get good results in good timing using the Optimism approach? You’re darn tootin’!

So, if you’ve been using more of a Realism approach, or you’re still surrounded by people who are touting the “no pain, no gain” theory, try your own test.  Pick an area of your life to experiment in and just do what feels good, only focusing on what’s working well that you like and what you desire more of.  And let me know your results!

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