It"s amazing how much you can get if you quietly, clearly, and authoritatively demand it...

Everybody dreams of a stress free life... even though stress wakes you up. Stress as in challenge. I am not talking about the anxiety where you are fighting what if scenarios... that will never happen.

My countryman, who worked in Canada, Selye Janos (aka Hans Selye), was an endocrinologist, who was the first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress.

Stress response, what stress can do to your body.

But in his groundbreaking book, "Stress without Distress" he showed that stress also keeps us alive.
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How to measure vibration? How to measure consciousness? how to measure your vibrational frequency

It is good to know where you are at. With all the pretending, with all the charts, you probably overestimate or underestimate your vibration, your "vibrational frequency".

To measure another person"s vibration, your vibration needs to be above 200... and even there, you need to be connected to Source, be outside of your ego, to do that... to muscle test the other person"s vibration. My vibration is above 900, I am completely outside of my ego, so I trust my measurements.

People"s lives, emotional state, achievements, relationship prove that my measurements are accurate.

I can measure your vibration for a donation of $5 or more. I will email you the number, and my experience of you while I was measuring your vibration. If it is obvious to me, I will also email you my recommendation of a product of mine that will either ease your current discomfort, or will start the process of raising your vibration.

If someone has measured your vibration already... then you want a second opinion. If this is you, email me the person"s name or email address... I"ll also measure THEIR vibration for you to see how accurate they could be in measuring yours.
What is vibration? What are we measuring? What is the process?
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Limiting beliefs... what should you do about them?

Limiting beliefs... can you zap them like Christie Marie Sheldon pretends to do? Does listening to some guru, watching some Mind Valley video help you chuck them, change them, or eliminate them?
The answer is no. You can"t eliminate limiting beliefs, and they can"t eliminate limiting beliefs either.
Limiting beliefs will not go anywhere. You have to find another way to win: stop listening to them.

I have limiting beliefs, but you would not know from my actions. I don"t consider my mind chatter significant. I only listen to advisors that I hired... I never hired my mind chatter.
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The sad guru... Paramahansa Yogananda

Yogananda... I have measured his vibration at different times, in different contexts, always having a different number come up. So today I spent some time in his space... to see what"s up.

Paramahansa Yogananda was a sad person. For two reasons, the two sides of the same coin: he had something that he wanted to share, and it wasn"t shareable.

His words are simply his idea what made him the way he was, and the words did not communicate. Did not do for others what they, he thought, did for him.

So, slowly but surely, his words became a lie. Now, he himself wasn"t the way he said people should be: he had sadness, grieving, devastation move into his heart.

And greed... wanting. Wanting it to be different. Wanting that burning go away from his throat and his upper chest.

And then it all fell apart... and what remained is pretense.

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5 Characteristics Of Grit -- How Many Do You Have?

Reprinted from Forbes... ((by Margaret M. Perlis I write about Excellence in practice, people, places & product.))

Recently some close friends visited, both of whom have worked in education with adolescents for over 40 years. We were talking about students in general and when I asked what has changed with regards to the character of kids, in unison they said “grit” – or more specifically, lack thereof. There seems to be growing concern among teachers that kids these days are growing soft.

When I took a deeper dive, I found that what my friends have been observing in-the-field, researchers have been measuring in the lab. The role grit plays in success has become a topic du jour, spearheaded by Angela Duckworth, who was catapulted to the forefront of the field after delivering a TED talk which has since been viewed well over a  million times.

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I am changing... Why aren"t you?

I have been changing. Subtly.

The biggest problem with subtle changes is that they go unnoticed. And if you are like most people, you want encouragement, you want people to see that you are becoming something better.

But your environment is about as aware and as present as you are, which means: not very. And besides they are busy having their head up their ass... so until you are very very very different, they don"t notice it.

A good example is your weight: if you drop two dress sizes... then they notice it. But if you are doing it right, in a sustainable fashion, it"s taken you months... And for those months you had gotten no feedback.

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Become an Expanding human being aka living an interesting life

I am reading one of my all time favorite books. Again. I was guided to read it again. As I have been guided to watch everything I watch, read everything I read.

Sometimes the key to the insight is on page 800 of a book, or in episode 60 of a Netflix series.

The tricks are: trust, don"t be in a hurry, don"t expect the "key" to be a direct answer, and once you have what you were needing, acknowledge it.

This book is full of clues for me. Clues for why you are living a life of quiet desperation, why you don"t live an interesting life.

The book is about a little girl who gets an interactive smart book, to teach her life. ((Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age, in my subscribers only area in pdf, kindle, and epub format.))

She is four years old when she gets the book.

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Want to be high vibration? Leave the basement of your being... get well.

I woke up this morning. For the second day in a row, I am bursting of energy, more energy than I know what to do with.

I have been sorting my laundry. I have been cleaning the stove top, the sinks... doing things the I turned away from before, because I didn"t have anything to give it.

I went for a quick walk yesterday.

I am getting a lot more done even in my business.

I am starting to get some realizations that I did not expect.

For one: humanity is not ready to raise their vibration.

You are trying to put the cart in front of the horses.

You are worrying about the wrong thing. About the trip to the penthouse... but you are in the basement, and the elevator doesn"t go down there.

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Is your body stuck in survival mode? Framework for health

This article starts out very philosophical. If you can"t stand that, jump to here...

What is health?

No one has defined it yet, because just like "good" was until Dr Robert Hartman came along to define it, existed only in a context of good this or good that.
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Back into light... The counter cultural way to become your higher self, no matter where you are.

Living in the three levels of value, the systemic, the extrinsic, and the intrinsic, lived fully, and balanced, is the secret to the good life.

The Indian sages, including the Buddha, skipped the extrinsic. They taught people not to live there. They had a disdain for it.

But work is on the extrinsic level, making money is on that level, so skipping it means living a life of charity. Living a life where you cannot value another person on all levels... because you don"t value the values of that level.
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Eat right, live right for your type... How to regain your health and vitality in a few weeks time

You want more out of life...

You want to raise your vibration... maybe that"s the way to attract love, money, happiness to your life.

But you don"t have enough energy to do the work that would raise your vibration...

You are stuck between a rock and a hard place...


We each want to be unique, special, one of a kind. At the same time we want to be able to pigeonhole ourselves, so we can know how we are, so we can know what to eat, or what to pursue in life.

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How do you use the three levels of value in your "real" life to fall in love with yourself?

How do you use the three levels of value in your "real" life to fall in love with yourself?

The article asking: where do you look to define your value got a lot of "hits" and comments.

Reading the answers I saw that some fundamental distinctions are missing, in spite of the fact that I have written about all of those before, on this blog.

So after reading the article about the three levels of value, you probably start to see a little bit the difference how the different levels of value change what assessment you make, how your appraisal, evaluation, estimation, measurement, judgment will be, looking from that level.

So let"s look a little deeper and see with examples how that looks.

Where you are speaking from is as important as what kind of value you are judging.
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The wider the availability of food, the less healthy people become

Every plant is toxic. Every animal is toxic. To one degree or other.

The difference between plants and other plants, from your point of view, is what plant your body can use without much harm, because your body has evolved to handle the toxins in the plant.

Just like high altitudes are deadly for some people, and natural for others, for example the Tibetans, your body can handle some things and can"t handle others.

It takes thousands years of exposure to develop the ability to eat one food and be well, even though it"s toxic.

But no matter what, you"ll always pay the price...

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Updated: Learning lessons the hard way or the easy way: choose

You can make the same mistake, over and over, expecting different results.
You can eventually learns from your mistakes, but you insist on making them a few times...
You can learn from other people"s mistakes.

I am not talking here about your IQ? About ability?

I am talking about behavior. Behavior that comes from your world view, your self-view, and the number of the capacities you are wielding...

To consider doing things differently needs a modicum of humility. Modicum means: a little bit. Most people have none... Just watch a 3-year old: "Don"t tell me what to do! I know!" yells the little boy... and they freeze into that attitude.

Humility is a capacity. Without some humility there in no curiosity, there is not real learning, there is no experimentation, thought or otherwise, there is not growth.

If you are a fatalist or determinist, ((religious?)) you probably have no humility.
If you find the juice in life in being a victim: you probably want no humility.

Thought experiments are tools for growth, tools for evolution...  ((Occasionally you can do the thought experiment in an illustrated form, like a mind map, or in the case of military: on the war map. You need less intelligence to do it in an illustrated fashion, and the accuracy of the thought experiment is very much in question... You can be seduced by the physical activity of writing and drawing... feeling really smart...))

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You don"t know what you don"t know and You don"t even know there is something to know

First off: knowledge is grossly overrated.

Why? Because knowledge without application, without skills is useless. It won"t make you money, it won"t make you slim, good company, or a better driver.

We all grew up with the kind of education that emphasizes knowing, and we are all worse off for it.

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What if you have something blocking you from growing? The Seven Boulders principle

Some ten years ago I learned a valuable way of looking at making life meaningful, or living a meaningful life. The teacher suggested that we pick a horizon, a direction, and then look what"s blocking the way of getting there.

Since then I saw that even seeing the horizon is blocked... Blocked by seven boulders, lined up one behind the other, blocking your view, blocking your movement.

So, in my coaching practice, when I ask people to set a direction, and they can"t see any, I am inclined to suggest that they choose the direction: living a meaningful live, or a fulfilled life... without specifying what it is.

The goal is to see the first boulder that blocks your view, that blocks your path.

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How can you tell what is your level of consciousness, what is your vibrational frequency?

The only reliable way I know is to tell someone"s vibration accurately is to muscle test while truly connected to Source, by a person whose vibration is past ego... on or above the level of unconditional love.

About that doesn"t mean you can"t have pointers...So you can get a ballpark estimate of where you are or where another person is...


Stages of consciousness... metaphor

.buried
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.in the basement
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.street level
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.street level but inside a house
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The feeling that you are insufficient for the task that is in front of you

This feeling can be colored by fear, dread, can feel like anxiety, but at the root of most fear is a sense that you are insufficient for the task that is in front of you.

Not big enough, not smart enough, not fast enough... Not enough = insufficient.

Now, for most people, feeling this is all they need to run for the hills.

For some people, they can hang in there, waiting for the feeling to subside.

For some people, unless they feel up to the task, they won"t even start.

For me: I know that unless I feel that and go beyond it, doing what I don"t feel I can, several times a day, I am not growing.
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Making choices: are you a rank amateur?

This may be the most important article you read this year, this decade... because this article may inspire you to become a professional at living, instead of remaining a rank amateur... aka bumbling idiot.
Risk Management
You have two options. You need to choose. You need to choose the option that has the lower cost to your reproductive success if it turns out to be wrong.

Now, I suspect, that almost none of us think about cost in terms of reproductive success, but according to evolutionary psychology, you are a mere vehicle to your genes, your genes are only interested in making copies of themselves, i.e. reproduce, and make your particular genes more dominant in the gene pool.

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The Dark Side suggestion that love heals the world

There are many approaches to fix a problem, but all fixes are more harmful than the original problem.

Why? Because fix come from the same level of consciousness as the problem... and ultimately that kind of solution: a fix, is the root of the next problem. Like marriage: a fix for loneliness, and the start of more and bigger problems... yet it doesn"t stop loneliness... (Marriage is two people combining efforts to solve problems that would not exist without the marriage...)

Instead of dealing with what frightens you today, what you want to get rid of so you can live your puny little life, let"s go back to a time and situation where you weren"t even born, and it probably didn"t effect you much.

Hitler.

You look at it and you can"t imagine why I would bring it up... that signals a lack of ability to see under the hood...

The time we"ll go back to examine is the rise of the Third Reich... Hitler"s Nazi Germany.

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