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Look Within

We are all embarking into a dynamic and historical new year with one remaining question in my mind: What we will make of it?

Will we embrace the future ahead of us with open arms and know that flexibility, innovation and gratitude are the pillars of our ability to dance with change.  Or will we dive into our fear and run dark images of catastrophes ahead of us.  

Our heaven or our hell all comes down to choice.  The images we run in our minds, the language we are utilizing producing emotional states and driving our behavior.

My personal approach to this New Year is that this will be the best year of my life for relationships, business and living environment.  Whenever we are faced with the unknown we require taking massive action in the direction of what we desire to achieve and believe down to our depths that it is possible.

Here’s a great quote from the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright:

“The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”  

This is a extraordinary time in history when the structures of unsustainable consumerism is re-evaluating itself and as a consequence each of us requires to look at what is really important to us individually.

I can only share with you what has surfaced for me and my choice for this New Year ahead of me.   I know that possibilities remain endless and what I will make of this year ahead of me is up to me.  The critical factor for 2009 is my attitude.  My ability to focus, stay spiritually centered and curious about the power of relationship and the conversation.

Life has speeded up and changes are occurring more rapidly than ever before.  This translated means my thoughts are manifesting faster than ever before.  Which means I can make things happen?   

Where have we been loosing our energy to create the life we desire to create?  Worry will exhaust you, and fear depresses you.  Have you taken a stand for what is really important to you?

Stay curious about the possibilities in your life and forge stronger relationships filled with authentic, powerful and nurturing conversations. The time of the lone wolf is over.

This life we lead is a collection of snapshots in time of our consciousness.  What we chose to feel, think and be in our environments and relationships.  Now is the only moment of power any of us will ever have to become the person we deeply know in our souls to be.  Be the love you are today, in your next conversation, meeting the next stranger or sitting quietly alone. Kindness requires be extending and giving freely.

When all things are taken away from us, our youth, beauty, wealth or even health we have the collection of the snap shots of our life and the emotional intentions of our hearts to know who we are. 

This life is a profound journey of discovering what we chose to value and be attached to here.  We have tasted many experiences and stayed attached to our things and ideas about who we thought we were.  Buddha said: “You go where your attachments are” The Master I had the good fortune to study with India would say: “The last image in the screen of your mind is what you have been most attached to in this life and will determine your next birth.” We can go for wealth.  We can go for God.  We can live for our families or our attempt to sustain our youthfulness but whatever we are most attached to through our life will be the guiding force for our future. 

Watch the focus of your mind and let your thoughts originate from a well of gratitude for the blessing of your life, be considerate of others, mindful of your actions and know it is time to wake up from your dream of what the culture has indoctrinated into us.  You have this one opportunity to be you.   

Be like a lotus who blossoms with its face pointing toward the light and its roots deeply anchored in the mud below the river of your life.

We are magical beings who often times forget the power we wield and the sleeping wizard that lay’s within each one of us.  We are anything but helpless victims of a world gone mad.  We can chose to be awake observers of the changes destined to occur and focused upon the future like a child awaiting Christmas morning filled with opportunity and wonder.

It is a choice. 

My invitation is to us all:  Do whatever it takes to stay in the company of people who uplift you and avoid negative, toxic relationships, start a gratitude journal and list at least five things you are grateful for daily. Meditate and at the same time take massive action to create the life and contribution you desire to create. 

Stop wasting time.  Every thought and action is determining the overall snapshot of your life.   It is the moment where you can determine what you will focus upon therefore what you are attached too. 

The culmination of your life is the culmination of what you dwelt upon most.  See, think and speak possibility.  Stay focused on where you desire to go and if you find yourself off course, utilize it as feedback not failure and re-set yourself back on track once more.  

These are the times that bring forward all the learning we have integrated through our life experience.  Let’s demonstrate our wisdom in small and large ways through choosing joy rather than fear, possibility rather than hopelessness, creativity and innovation rather than stagnation and expansion and exploration rather than contraction.

The beginning of 2009 is the year to demonstrate who you have become so your future self is alive and well today in the brilliant New Year filled with possibilities and choice.   You are the one you have been waiting for.  Happiness is not in your future it is in your NOW.

Love & Light

Gary De Rodriguez

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Are You Awake?

 

One of our primary outcomes for you is that you’re looking at your outcome.  When you go to bed at night how many of us watch the daily news as we’re drifting off to sleep?  Or watch any of those other items as a lot of people do or as they drift off to sleep they’re reflecting on the events of the day that is already behind them.  And many people choose to retire each evening doing that in their past.  Our highest choice is that you face your future and stay in your outcome and develop that and what a precious opportunity that is.  Yes!

I had a client come in to see me.  He was very interesting.  He said, ‘I am so depressed.  I feel like if my life doesn’t do something immediately I will die.’  And he probably will.  And I said, ‘Well, tell me about what your life consists of.  What is your life.’  He said, ‘Well, I go to sleep at night watching the news.  I leave the news play all night long as I sleep.’  I said, ‘Well that’s the first way we can start a major shift. Turn the television off.’ 

Living in your outcome and impregnating your subconscious for the outcome…there are different outcomes like you had relationship, love, health, career, money, etc.  Do you pick one or do you do all of them and you’re up for two more hours before you eventually go to bed?  It really depends on how magnificent you’re choosing to have your life and how powerful you’re choosing to demonstrate your magnificence to yourself in the world.  If you’re choosing to know more about mind mapping, pick up any book by Tony Bezand.  He’s the one who originated the process.  He’s wonderful, his information is great.

Okay gang.  Are you ready?  Color, flowing lines, no arrows till I tell you.  When you do your dreams into reality, include your long-term dreams for your life and the outcome that you’ve been choosing to achieve this whole weekend.  Are you ready?  Begin your mind mapping, please.

I was hanging out in my bedroom one very early morning and at that time in the house I was living in there were mirrors most places in that bedroom.  I was awakening from this dream that was a very interesting dream.  I’ve yet to remember what exactly the dream was about.  As I was waking up I sat up in my bed and I looked at my reflection in the mirror and I had no idea who that body was in the mirror.  I looked at my hands and I had no idea who this body was.  I had no recollection of it at all.  I looked around my room and I had absolutely no concept what anything meant or what anything was.  After about 30 seconds of doing my very best to recognize myself, I started to hyperventilate and panic.  As I began to panic I slowly began to remember was, what my body was, recognizing my body and my room and this lasted for about a minute – the attempting to recognize myself again.  And then, as I slowly began to recognize my body, a voice said in my head, ‘Gary, this is exactly what it’s like when you die.  You slowly remember who you always were and you wake up out of the dream.’  Oh, wow.  You mean when I die I’ll have a moment or not of terror or panic.  And then I’ll slowly remember who I always was and where I was before in the dream will truly seem like a distant dream.  I’ve felt different about death ever since because I know that when we pass we’ll wake up out of this that we’re calling our lives and it will seem like that dream was so real.  All of those people and those places.  Because when you’re in a dream you really feel it.  Is that true?  Man, it is real.  But when you wake up you remember who you are now.  What if it’s just like that to die?  That would be very cool.

{Join me tomorrow for more}

Love & Light

Gary De Rodriguez

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How We Think

Mind mapping.  This is a present made for me by my partner because I am loved so much.  Before we go to bed at night we mind map out our days for the following morning.  It’s a very cool thing to do as a couple because then you can look at each other and go, ‘I am with someone who is accountable for their lives.  I am other than their happiness.  They are other than my happiness.  I am with someone who is consciously creating through the power of their own will, their happiness, and I am most certainly something other than a slave to their desires of me to produce happiness in them. 

Okay.  These are all my dreams and they are the daily mind maps I have done to direct my life.  And you just keep doing them and you keep doing them and you keep doing them.  I do them in the evening before I go to sleep at night.  This is the one I did for today.  So I’m going to explain to you how to do a daily mind map.  There are many ways to do mind maps.  You can take one subject, have one color, have it be across a wall for your entire life.  You can do huge mind maps.  I had one client who runs a clothing manufacturing company she said, ‘Gary, you have to come over and see my new studio.’  I walked into her new studio and her entire one wall was one giant mind map of how her business is going to flow.  And she keeps adding onto it.  Very powerful.  The man I learned mind mapping from said he is still realizing things that he mind mapped 30 years ago.  My personal belief that once you set it in your emotional body, you feel it to be real, you think it, you speak it and you feel it, you have planted a seed that manifests in this thing called time.  It has already happened.

The Hopi have no word for the past because they believe that everything that ever existed is present in their bodies in the DNA now.  Every thought that any ancestor has ever thought in your lineage is present in your DNA right now.  It is collapsed into this moment.  And the Hopi believe that the future, once they spoke it or thought it, it was already manifesting toward them.  So there was no future.  It was already coming into existence as soon as they had the thought of it.  Powerful, huh?  Did you know that the Aborigines, when they do the Walkabouts they actually call forth creation as they walk it and it is their belief that, as they walk it and think it, it is manifesting instantaneously before them.

When most of us think of the Aboriginal race, we think they’re really primitive people.  Unh unh.  Really advanced people.  Really advanced.  I personally think we’re all real primitive.  Yeah, we have the technology, we have all that kind of stuff.  But here – so underdeveloped in the past.  We are quickly developing it. And catching up to the indigenous peoples.  And now that we have indigenous people here, in the soul, we can utilize all of it.  Bringing together technology and mysticism and the power of the mind to do great work. 

Now mind mapping is a very, very powerful thing.  And as I said to you previously I have yet to understand why it keeps working as powerfully as it does.  It does.  If you utilize this for a week, you ardently coach yourself in your language, you neutralize your emotions before you go to sleep at night, you go into your outcome state before your head drops to the pillow and you go to sleep in your outcome every night, your life will be so much different this coming week. 

Love & Light

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The Way We Think

It’s in the details

Specificity is a tenet of the NLP model of communication. The specifics of your speech produce the emotions you feel. When you speak with specificity, it awakens your emotions so that your subconscious can more accurately manifest your spoken word. When your spoken word is aligned with your heartfelt emotions, creation begins.

Have you ever sat in an audience and listened to a presenter speak from a place that was not connected to his/her heart? How did you feel when that happened? When a presenter speaks distinctly from the heart, what does it do to you? What would happen if every word you uttered was distinctly from your heart? How much more impact would you have as you walked in the world?

Of course, it’s easy to be “clever” with words. But being clever and speaking wholeheartedly are not necessarily the same thing. Maybe you know this already. How often have you held back in your speech because you sensed that such heartfelt words would have too powerful a result?

Your thoughts and your language are creative. As you think and speak, you produce emotions, and those emotions create new neuro-networks in the brain and throughout the body. The electrical charge from your thoughts will follow the path of least resistance, and through classical conditioning and repetition, those thoughts and repeated emotional states form deeper and more complex neuro-networks until they harden into your character. This is how you reinvent yourself physiologically over and over again. Using specific perceptual patterns unique to you, you have habitually thought, languaged, imagined, and felt “you” into existence.

This can go on forever, but it’s your choice “who” you will create next. When you are alert to the “specifics,” you stay emotionally connected to your language. Emotions are the key to creating new ways of creating the “you” that you desire to become. Vague, generalized language is a form of fear and does not produce enough specificity for your subconscious to manifest your word. Your subconscious mind interprets feeling as fact. By asking simple questions such as Who? When? What? Where? With whom? and How? you can produce the emotions that will manifest desired outcomes.

Stop speaking about the past and focus on your outcomes for the future using specifics. Experience the feeling of your dream already manifested. This will bring your future to now, manifesting your destiny with every word you speak.

Conversely, the less you use outcome specific language and the more you disconnect emotionally from your dream, the more you will distance yourself from your divine right to create your life from your heartfelt desires. When you speak with specificity, you begin to feel more deeply, more accurately, more powerfully. Specificity drives the emotional body. Once you understand how it is you create and what filters you are using to interpret the world, you can change how you create and filter in the future. You can manifest choice. This is the goal for all practitioners of HNLP because scarcity of choice is the greatest source of pain you will ever feel. And abundance of choice will be your greatest joy. Choose your language carefully.

Love & Light

Gary De Rodriguez

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