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How to get People to Do What You Want them To Do

Much of life's success is about convincing others to do what you want them to do. 

Whether it's your kids, your dog, your staff, partner or local supermarket, convincing people to do what you want them to do is a key to getting what you want.

For the greater part, this convincing is done on the premise that it's going to be best for everyone if they do what you want. For example: Getting the kids to do what you think is best for them, makes your life better as well as theirs. Or convincing a well meaning telephone call centre operator that a refund would be in their company's best interest will be good for their review and your pocket too. 

This rationalisation is necessary for our moral integrity. 

Six Places Left for Innerwealth Coaching & Training Program 2011

There are only six places left for the 2011 Innerwealth training program starting in July 2011.

This comprehensive training includes personal discovery, process skills and coaching insight.

Completion of the training allows the graduate to coach, teach and guide others through the seven levels of human being, as well as the capacity to address any or all issues that challenge others.

Training is online, with a one day group session to be held at an agreed time later in the year.

Online coaching with once a week catch up via phone or skype provides an opportunity to process each level of study and application into ones own life.

For more information and costs for securing one of these remaining coaching spaces for 2011 please email us at this address.

 

Innerwealth Living Balance for Better Relationships

Which area of life is more important to you right now?

 

What do you do to cause work life balance?

The cause of 99% of all relationship failures is not the lack of love, but, moreover, the lack of balance in a person's life.

The individual who overworks will throw huge weight on the shoulders of their relationship in order to create balance. They forget that, "Relationsips are Not Life"

 

Amazing Guy - A Whole Lotta Love in Nepal

On my recent trip to Nepal, high in the mountains in Namche Bazaar we stayed at Camp De Base lodge, where, just a week or so before, an amazing man had spent time on his way up, and then down, from the summit of Mount Everest.

He's devoted to love - and his work seems to be contageous.

I suspect that a lot of his wonderful energy rubbed off on us as we shared the lodge he'd stayed in.

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New Video Nepal Trip

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Challenge Your Mind - Open Your Heart

If you want to hear, what you want to hear, don’t come here.

I challenge people. That’s my job. Some people love it, some not. The whole idea of personal growth is to challenge yourself, but frankly, it’s like tickling yourself, it’s really no fun. 

Somebody’s got to do it.

Nature has a purpose, and that’s to grow things. Including us. We either grow through the school of hard knocks (I’ve been down that path) or we grow from being Challenged by a wise mentor. 

Challenge can be fun. If love and inspiration are our intention, then anything that challenges our ego, existing thinking, mindset or beliefs is a great gift. If resistance, egocentricity and fear are our driving motive, being challenged is no fun at all.

Regardless, my job is to challenge people. I challenge them to step up, open their heart, to let go baggage and to get beyond social, familial and self set limits.

This is what I’m good at. However, I don’t just randomly throw down challenges. I use nature’s universal laws which, in 99% of the cases, challenge ego, emotion and limitations we set on ourselves. So, there’s incredible accuracy, time saving and insight.

The most resistance to challenging thinking comes from those who most need their thinking challenged. So, most often, that loudest voice, the most violent opposition, the most reluctant learner is the one holding back the team, company or family from real inspiration and love. So, my work has incredible compassion in it, but not a lot of acceptance of mediocrity.

In 35 years of this work, I have challenged a lot of thinking. I’ve met with some significant discomfort, but in the longer term, even those who resist, appreciate the results. 

To learn the Laws of Nature puts Raw, Honest, Intuitive Truth in your hands. That’s the ultimate challenge, to be able to know the difference between when your ego is speaking and when your heart is speaking. And that for me, is success.

Here are the Seven Innerwealth Steps to Deeper, More Loving Relationships

A man may work, but work is not the man. A woman may work, but that is not the woman. What we do, who we birth, what we give or what we take are not the measure of a life, because there are many who do, and give and care who shall never be remembered for anything good or worthwhile.

How we love is remembered, because how we love determines how we feel and how we feel determines how we make others feel. And so, it is our capacity to love that makes our mark. There are some who toil and struggle against nature, they are soon forgotten. There are those who live and love in harmony with nature, and their love is impecable and is forever remembered ... this harmony in love is the mission of this Innerwealth Article.... Work or Home... love is the secret ingredient that ... when achieved.... inspires.

Here are the Seven Innerwealth Steps to Deeper, More Loving Relationships

First in Summary, then In Detail

Are you a Singlet or a Shirt

A bruise can hurt your leg but eventually a bruise heals. However, if during the time you get a bruise on your leg and the time it heals you limp a lot, you’ll probably trigger a sore knee, ankle or hip on the other leg. It’s called compensational walking and it leads to spinal distortions. So, when you go to a doctor with migraines, headaches or backache, it’s rare that the doctor asks, “did you bruise your leg three years ago?” but they should.

In relationships there are bruises. Either you get them from your parents (by observation) or from your own school of heartbreaks. The end result however, like a bruise, is that you seek compensational relationships. 

The most severe form of compensational relationship is singledom, or as I call it, being a singlet. Now, please don’t assume that all people who are in some form of relationship and that all people who are single, are singlets. 

Singlets are people who live in a form of relationship that is safe, immune from heartbreak (bruises) and in control. Control is the most common form of singlet causing compensation. It seems that the more vulnerable some people feel the more control they require in relationship. This, in stark contrast to intimacy is a form of sexualised or emotionalised expectations. Toe the line or piss off. 

Love and vulnerability to heart break are friends. The less vulnerable a person is to heart break, the less they love, it’s as simple as that.

If you walk a tight rope, you can wear a harness in case you fall. The experience of walking the tight rope will feel great, but there’s nothing so wonderful as dropping the safety harness, the balance pole and all protecting and simply walking the tight rope. It seems mastery, risk and love might all collide.

My observation is that the more we love, the more we expect, and the more we expect, the more troubles we have in relationships. So, great love comes at great challenge.

The most important thing, from an Innerwealth perspective is to have a process to sort through your challenges in relationship. Given that the more you love, the more you expect and the more you expect the more challenges you’ll have in love and relationship, the process you have for dealing with challenge must really be the clincher for long term happiness.

I’ve seen some crappy process people use for dealing with challenge. These include, but are not limited to: Denial, Sweet Talk, Control, Manipulation, Religion, Yoga, Anger and Distraction. None of these deepen love, they just make relationships that are stuck, liveable.

Want deeper love? Take off the singlet. Follow the seven steps for Innerwealth. There’s an automatic clearing of the past and the learning of process for deeper love

Gluten and What it Does and Doesn't do for You

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There's a whole new debate about Gluten in your diet and the evidence is building. Less farting, faster running seems the two key benefits, but this article argues more....

Sleep statistics for 20 - 21 Jun (Mon)

Went to bed / woke up: 11:25 / 6:34
Total time: 7h 09m

Analysis made by the Sleep Cycle iPhone app.

My sleep graph for the entire night:



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Innerwealth Step Three: Effort in Doing the Right Thing

Today I would like to discuss the third of the seven Innerwealth Growth Steps: Effort Focusing life on goodness.

- Doing the right thing
- Fixing and preventing doing the wrong thing
- Be aware of causing the right thing
- Sustaining and holding the right space

We've mentioned the first step in Innerwealth growth as Getting Beyond the three dark emotions (moving past Blaming Others for):

- Beyond Anger
- Beyond Greed
- Beyond Hatred

We've discussed the second step in Innerwealth Growth as Awareness... Becoming aware of those variables that change the quality of your day, relationships and life:

- Mindful of Body
- Mindful of Feelings
- Mindful of Mind
- Mindful of objects

Basically this third Step is Buddhism in a nutshell and simplified. Buddhist suggests that: A. We suffer. B. We cause our own suffering. C. We can fix our suffering. D. Without Suffering we are Happy.

Where are you at in your Innerwealth?

As you may remember the first step in Innerwealth development, Entering the stream is to sort out your emotions. That's the ground zero, or starting point. If we can't manage our emotions, we can't manage work, love, health or wealth. So, that's the basics of Innerwealth development and the first of the seven stages.

So, this blog is to discuss the second stage of Innerwealth which is to become aware of your environment and the stuff that can change your world.

Awareness of Innerwealth. Becoming aware of those things that support and challenge your Innerwealth.

- Mindful of Body
- Mindful of Feelings
- Mindful of Mind
- Mindful of Objects

We become aware that what we think and what we do, have consequences far beyond what we can see. We realise with great astonishment that secrets are not secrets, that intention is as powerful a driving force toward outcome as any action or movement. What lies beneath our activities is as important as the activity itself. And that things have a life, energy and impact of their own.

This is particularly important when it comes to office design, home location, gifts, ceremonies and clothing. Many underestimate this, but it's a really powerful way to change your luck.

So, are you using the resources available to you?

Are you being mindful of the impact of opinions and feelings people have about you? (called karma)

Have you audited your environment to make sure you are giving yourself the best opportunity for love, balance and happiness in your life?

How's your body? Are you gaining weight, losing tone, improving felxibility? It's hard to do good if you don't feel good.

Whether you are single, or in relationship you will benefit from this step two Innerwealth audit of your lifestyle. Check your environment, mental state, feelings and body health. Also, look to those you are associating with for the same elements in their life.

 

 

 

The Path to Awakening Innerwealth

The Path to Awakening Innerwealth

1. Entering the Stream. Letting go of Ignorance and poor motive. Free from Ego.
- Beyond Anger
- Beyond Greed
- Beyond Hatred

2. Awareness of Innerwealth. Becoming aware of those things that support and challenge Your Truth.
- Mindful of Body
- Mindful of Feelings
- Mindful of Mind
- Mindful of objects

3. Effort in Harvesting Innerwealth. Focussing life on goodness.
- Doing the right thing
- Fixing and preventing doing the wrong thing
- Be aware of causing the right thing
- Sustaining and holding the right space

4. Success with Innerwealth. Creating an Outcome
- Diligence
- Energy
- Awareness (focus)
- Penetration

5. Powers of Innerwealth. (the Faculties Utilised for Good)
- The strength of Confidence
- The strength of Energy
- The strength of emotional and mental Stability
- The strength of emotional and mental Concentration
- The strength of true Understanding

6. Awakening Higher levels of Innerwealth
- Full attention
- The Universal Laws - Cause and Effect
- Energy
- Joy
- Ease
- Concentration
- Letting go

7. Humility the True Depth of Innerwealth. We return to the beginning.
- Loving Kindness - Give joy and happiness to others.
- Joyfulness - Happiness for ourselves and others that causes no harm.
- Equanimity - Give and act unconditionally
- Compassion - Remove suffering from others

The Path to Awakening Innerwealth

1. Entering the stream. We throw off the 3 dark emotions and recognise that life, without them as a burden, is beautiful. With this step we enter a new stream, moving continually forward, striving for more awakened, peaceful and happier states of mind.

2. Awareness. We develop the 4 awareness of mindfulness. We become aware that what we think and what we do, has consequences far beyond what we can see. We realise with great astonishment that secrets are not secrets, that intention is as powerful a driving force toward outcome as any action or movement. What lies beneath our activities is as important as the activity itself.

3. Effort. We learn the 4 secrets of right effort. We recognise that there is a limit to the time we have and that time itself is extremely precious. We learn from the past that, even wanting something to happen does not cause it to happen without right effort. We learn to refine our energy usage, directing our effort toward those things we choose. We learn to experience, cause and effect.

4. Success. We discover the 4 basis of success and in doing so tap our deepest humanity. We recognise that we are not super-hero's or magicians, and that nature has gifted us with certain unique talents. We learn that there are important outcomes of our life, and that we can only work hand in hand with our natural born gifts to create what we wish for. We start refining those activities and focus on our gifts. We don’t want to leave this planet with our beautiful, natural talents all bottled up inside of us.

5. Powers. The Five Faculties. The five faculties of the leader lift us into positions of social responsibility. Here, we learn to trust those things within us that have no name, no measure, no form. These are the essence of great leadership. We become capable of guiding others.

6. Awakening. Seven factors of awakening bring us closer to realisation. Here we can direct our efforts toward healing and guidance of others. Our own needs are already satisfied. We become absolutely unconditional in our work.

7. Humility. We return to the first step, and begin the journey a second time. Humbled, and without the distractions of the first, we re-live every step facing the world with loving kindness, compassion joy and equanimity. We are teachers, or helpers and extend a hand to those who reach out for it.

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Do it your way

Do things your way.

Depending on your elemental constitution, you’ll have preferred ways of doing things. There are five elements and thousands of combinations of them, so, different people do the same task different ways.

Earth people - Logical
Water people - Caring
Fire people - Fast
Air people - Creative
Etheric People - Possibilities

Doing things your way, means finding the process that suits you. It’s the same job, the same outcome but different process to achieve it.

I've written an ebook all about this. If you read that book you'll find a lot of the corporate training and culture change education you get is actually based on the poor assumption that all people approach the same task in the same way, happily.

This is an erroneous premise.

Take for example open plan offices where two, there or even twenty people share an open space. Water people, air people thrive in such environments, while Earth, Fire and Ether people die in it. So, there's a consulting firm out there or a book writer claiming the benefits of open plan offices (a current trend) and guess what, yes, the leader of the consulting form and the author of the book are either Air or Water people. This is not inclusiveness at all, but open plan is done on the premise of inclusiveness.

So, you are really wise to defend yourself against this sort of ignorance because when you start to do things against your natural constitution you really do enter a contract that will result in stress, depression and disappointment.

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Loveism

Neither it is difficult nor is it easy to reach Nirvana, but the starting point of the journey is Love.

Neither is it difficult nor is it easy to become an Enlightened one, but the starting pii t of the journey is meditation.

Neither it is difficult. Nor is it easy to understand ourselves, but the starting point of the journey is silence.

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Exercise For Empty Mind

When you decide to harvest your Innerwealth, you really want to gain control of you mind, mind control.

One of the most perfect states of mind control is empty mind. It's the state of mind you need for creativity, intuition, inspiration and love: empty mind.

Empty mind does not mean a vacuum in your head. It means that there are gentle peaceful thoughts, and that you are content, right here and now. Many people try to empty their mind by thinking nothing, but that just invites the environment to send their mind in any direction.

To achieve empty mind, you need to feel safe, at ease, happy and most important, content.
Contentment means life is beautiful, right now. This is not a wish or a hope or a fake imagination, it's real, you see it and love it.

My preferred method of being in a state of empty mind is to be in nature. I find a beautiful place, somewhere safe but awesome, like at the lake edge perched on a rock and I just sit there. I sometimes repeat the mantra, “I want nothing, I need nothing, and therefore I have everything,” but not always. I might watch a bird or a fish, or a frog going about it’s life and automatically I am empty.

But of course, sometimes we're on the train or in a meeting, and we want empty mind. So, being vulnerable to sitting in front of a statue, or out in nature is not always ideal.

The perfection of an organic meditation that requires no philosophical attachment or belief set is simply emptiness in a calm, stress free, do nothing, enjoy the simplicity space.

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Great sports people make great lovers

What is the world champion runner thinking when they move to “set” on the starting block, or the weight lifter as she puts her chalk covered palms on the bar for a world record lift? Are they thinking, “I wonder what I’ll have for dinner tonight?” are they contemplating what they will wear to work today or tomorrow? Are they even thinking, “wow this bloody bar is really heavy?”

The answer is, maybe they are thinking those things but if they are, then the odds of a great lift are poor. If their mind goes to their family, watching TV, the audience, their coach, the colour of their shoes, the smell of the chalk, the cold metal of the bar, the sound of the weights, then they’re probably on their highest lift, they're finished.

And you can see it happen time and time again. People who are good in practice but actually lose it in competition because they just can’t hold their mind in rocket space.

When it comes to lifting the heaviest weight in the world, the lifter must get beyond the physical.
It's like running a marathon, the first half is physical, the rest requires something else.

Becoming race hardened means tapping that non physical side of things at will. The faster you access that rocket mind space, the easier the race and the faster you go.

I paddle my kayak in the ocean. One day there was a storm, I got caught unaware and had to paddle into a huge head wind. I became exhausted so quickly because I was in the physical only space, fighting for my life. I realised the danger of continuing on that path, relaxed and got into rocket mind.

This process involves the ability to stick at something past the point of the physical.

The key to it is in the ability to be in the moment. In this moment there is just another step, a stroke or a paddle. If we can narrow down time to this moment, then the mental space becomes zoned in.

The ideal way to be in the moment is to encourage thte use of all five senses. The sense of touch, smell, taste, sight and sound. If all the senses become focussed on just one thing, right now, we automatically get beyond the physical.

Competition is physical, it's comparative. We compare this moment with the next, strategising about how to defeat or stay in front of someone else. This is the opposite to getting beyond the physical, to run your own race. To achieve this, you do it by numbers.

Work out the time you need to be achieving and stick to it. Don't worry about anything but small increments of time as you run or paddle. The smaller the increment, the more likely you are to stay beyond the physical. In the zone.

The easiest way to accomplish this is to love. A person who loves every step, loves every stroke of the paddle, every clinch of the barbell, is automatically in the zone. So, the skill of rocket mind, getting beyond the physical is simply the mastery in the art of love.

Great lovers are great sportspeople. So many people will testify that the love they received from a sports champion, or a masterful musician, or a devoted yogi was greater than any they'd received anywhere before or since. Excellence in any endeavour requires getting beyond the physical and that mastery comes in the art of love.

Love in this context is not counted in orgasms or fantasy sexual games, no, it is the connection one makes. When lovers connect, this is also beyond physical, not stuck in the lower realms of physical.

So, become a sports master and a great lover by learning the art of being present and doing what you love, loving what you do.

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Process - Be Open to Truth

To find Innerwealth, the first thing that must be learned is to unlock what has already been learned and then to unlearn it. We have to learn how to become a good student. The wise person does not spend their life inventing and experiencing what life is, then attempt to understand it retrospectively.

The first thing to learn is how to become a great pupil. It means loosing our individuality. And what is individuality but one's ideas and opinions; a collection of erroneous facts that, through conditioning, or experience have been adopted as truth? They are simply collections of data and knowledge, likes and dislikes, that need to be unlearned in order for progress to occur. Let me explain:

The one who wishes to harvest their Innerwealth as well as the outer, must become an empty cup in order that honesty and love may be revealed deep in their heart. And the secret to this journey is in unlearning.

Often a person comes to me and says "here I am. Can you help me spiritually?" And I answer "yes". Then they say, "I want to know first of all what you think about life and death, or about the beginning and the end of existence". At this time I wonder what their attitude will be if their existing opinion does not agree with mine. They seem to want to learn, yet they do not want to be empty. That means, going to the stream of water with one's cup covered up, wanting the water, and yet the cup is closed, filled with preconceived ideas.

The greatest freedom we are given is to choose our thoughts, and, as always that which is great has the ability to do most harm. Our freedom to choose our thoughts can free us in an instant or hold us bound for a lifetime. From truth to fundamentalist religion, you can see the full spectrum of consciousness all dwelling in the mind of the individual. It is the freedom and curse of being human.

You see the main difficulty in life is always what comes from ourselves. With a full cup, a mind full of beliefs, identities and ideals, it is impossible to learn or even change a thing. We do not like to be a student, we like to be a teacher. If only we knew that the greatness and perfection of the great ones, who have come from time to time on this world, was in their pupil-ship, not in their teaching! The greater the teacher, the better the pupil they were. They learn from everyone, the great and the lowly, the wise and the foolish, the old and the young. They learn from their lives, and study human nature in all its aspects.

How can one unlearn all that is collected in a life time? People say that the character of the mind is engraved on it. Some infer that things cannot be unlearned. But I heartily disagree, for the sake of humanity, I disagree. Unlearning is simple if only the ego feels safe enough to allow it.

Unlearning is knowledge. To see a person and say, “that person is bad”, that is learning. To see further, and recognise something also good in that person, is unlearning. When you see the goodness in someone you have already called bad, you have unlearned. You have unraveled that knot. If you have once said "I dislike that person" -- that is learning, and then you say; "I know, there is more to this person than meets the eye, there must be balance for them to be human" then you have unlearned and started to love.

When you learn you see with two eyes. First you learn by seeing with one eye; then you unlearn and you see with two eyes, this makes the learning complete.

Complete learning is love. Life is filled with love and this creates health in mind, body and spirit. The one who unlearns traditional judgements is reducing their attachment to what they believe is right and wrong and instead, building their Innerwealth, that gold within.

Like and love do not sleep in the same bed. You can easily love someone you don't like. Like comes from your ego, it is your way of learning what works for you and what doesn't. Love comes from unlearning what you like or dislike and seeing beyond it. Like and dislike come first, then comes unlearning and love.

Like and dislike bind us in a prison of our own making. We may dream of love and relationships and romance and great adventures with our partner but such things will be blocked by our likes and dislikes. This make up our conditionality, and limits.

You might say, "I don't like soup, I don't like cold weather, I don't like genetically modified foods, and those likes and dislikes become your personality. You can even become proud of them. Joining clubs and friendships with those who agree. But those likes and dislikes are the cause of allergies, illness and most certainly blocked love with your lovers (lover).

If you are building your Innerwealth, it means unlearning all these blocks. You get through your likes and dislikes by using the Innerwealth Mind Power Process. Your daily shower of unlearning and love.

This is how we evolve to be better people. More rich on the inside as well as the outside. If we focus only on the outside there will come a shortfall in the love we need to survive and thrive in life. Such a shortfall causes us to self sabotage our health, wealth and happiness in order to remain safe within the existing likes and dislikes of our personality. This is what needs to be unlearned and there is no limit to the opportunity to evolve and grow as human beings capable of enormous love.

Final: many people dissociate love and success in material life. It has been my personal experience that this dissociation is only a convenient way of holding tight to likes and dislikes that bind this person safe, protected. Yes, I agree there are ugly people who have enormous wealth in material ways, but it's my suspicion that these ugly people are great lovers of life, and only their ego is made to appear ugly for the purposes of their duty.

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Process - Avoiding self Sabotage

When people don’t enjoy doing something they sabotage it.

It’s wise to find ways to enjoy what you do, no matter what the circumstance. If you don’t, you may suffer mental and emotional illness and in extreme cases, physical.

Telephone sales people burn out quickly. They can get so dejected, their energy just burns out and they can easily start to self sabotage their health, job and friendships (alcohol etc). The job is hard because of the amount of rejection a person faces. A typical sales person on the telephone gets around one in one hundred positive positive responses and they can start to sabotage, not only themselves, but, subconsciously, the company as well.

As a leader we need to be aware of self sabotage in team members, because it often manifests as a subconscious attack on leadership and prosperity.

As a parent we need to be observant about self sabotage too, because this can cause huge social, educational and emotional problems for our children.

It therefore pays to be vigilant about self sabotage in self and.others.

The key is not to take rejection personally. If you simply build your golden Innerwealth, you will know the difference between ego and Innerwealth and all rejection is aimed at your ego.

Heart break is another form of rejection. We can see the damage that comes in heart break but we can also become more skilled at dealing with it. Instead of grieving for years and years, we can face the rejection of heart break in days.

The key, as mentioned earlier to to invest in your golden Innerwealth. Once you find your inner peace and harmony, you can go back to it and let the ego pain of rejection, pass.

But, if we hang on to those things that reject us, we can start to value what others think about us higher than what we think about us. This leads to overt and covert self sabotage.

I met an advertising guru who spent his who life manipulating what people thought about products and services, and, as an executive, himself. Then, when someone peeked behind the curtain and found him wanting, rejecting his image, he became uncontrollably drunk.
Sometimes we spend huge amounts of money trying to cover up our self sabotage. We might take major holidays or even go through a divorce, just because we don't like ourselves. This is not fine, shame and guilt are Nature's way of healing us, so, there's no need to escape. Better to just sit quietly and feel the experience of life than to try to escape it and make more problems.

When you do things that are harmful to others you do things that are harmful to you. When you do things that cause others pain, you cause yourself pain. This is the root of self sabotage, the way we act toward others.

When you curse somebody or withdraw your love for somebody you make a chemistry inside your own body and this attracts problems. Therefore by loving others you can bring love to yourself. This is evident when people become single for an extended period of time or even desperately searching for love on the outside typically because they have learned to hate someone in their past and justify it with right and wrong arguments. This is the root of self sabotage.

Innerwealth is the antidote to self sabotage. If you can build your Innerwealth and value it as gold, then there will be no stooping to doing harm to others or holding grudges that cause self sabotage. Remembering that there are seven areas of life and that self sabotage can attack any one of the seven, even though the root cause may be in one area alone.

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Dreams and insight

Insight also operates during our sleeping hours. A clear, intuitive, calm mind during the day will produce a powerful depth of dream state.

Dreams are the insight at work while the perceptions of the outer world are resting. At this time, the insight must receive messages from a deeper well of consciousness. However, the same qualities that allow for accurate and clear insight during the day also exist at night.

A disturbed mind during the day creates, unquestionably, a disturbed mind at night. Clear, focused and concentrated thought, with mental stillness during the day, will become stillness and concentration at night.

Dreams without meaning do not exist. If the dream has nothing to do with insight, it is a purely automatic activity of all that the mind has gone through during the day. Yet even behind this screen there is meaning, for nothing is projected onto the curtain of the mind which does not take root in the soil of the heart, producing similar flowers and fruits. If, in the dream, insight is working, then the dream is narrating something from the past, present, or what is in the future.

It has been suggested that dreams which occur in the early stages of sleep are the reflections of the day just passed. Dreams during the middle stages of sleep are those of the imagination, fears and memory. Lastly, there are dreams in the last hours of sleep, or the morning, dreams. These dreams are the predictions and insights for the future. It is a very inexact science but, your dreams can be an enjoyable aspect of your own self awareness.

Currently I am here in the mountains of the Himalaya only a few kilometres from the great mother goddess, Sagamatha, Mt Everest. My clients talk each day about vivid and incredible dreams way beyond their own imagination, reaching into supernatural places, the stuff science fiction movies are made of.

It is really no great surprise, as we are in one of the most spirited, sacred and honoured environments on earth, home of the gods and where thousands of monasteries of all denominations have been drawn for peace.

Last night I dreamt of your happiness. It's worth sharing in writing, but the thoughts and feelings that accompany such an insight have already traveled to your senses.

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The View from Namche Bazaar to Mt Everest

This the view from our trek in the Himalayas of Nepal looking up the Khumbu Valley toward Mt Everest. Our trail is just visible in the centre valley half way down the left side. 

 

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Innerwealth

You have a wealth in your heart that can be more precious than all the gold in the world.

This Innerwealth must be harvested to be of value to you.

Once harvested, it needs to be nourished and maintained.

The value of Innerwealth is seen in your:

1. Inner peace
2. Friendships
3. Relationship
4. Health
5. Leadership

At the core of your Innerwealth are

1. Gratitude
2. Presence
3. Certainty
4. Love

Sent from Nepal

Nepal

You may have noticed a sharp decline in blog posts. Don't be worried. I'm in Nepal trekking, writing and generally preparing for 2012. I have two great clients with me and they're loving it, being stretched to the limit physically and emotionally. Anyway, watch this space - I'll be back in action within a week.

Chris

Day 1... Arrival in Kathmandu with this in your mind....

via www.chriswalkeronline.com

Day 1. Nepal VIP Trek 2011

Sitting in Kathmandu drinking Italian coffee, working on an American computer, wearing French boots and Chinese undies. Truly multinational...

Do you want more love in your life?

If you are serious about having more love in your life then this short blog might help.

To bring more love into your life, clarify your vision.

When we have a clear vision, especially one that has passion greater than self satisfaction ( call this Life Purpose) then your need for emotional gratification goes down and your capacity for love goes up.

Many people who want more love - don't. It's easy to confuse emotional gratification with love. But it's easy to see the difference between them when it comes to relationships.

A relationship in which expectations, emotional manipulations, high maintenance depreciations exist, felt like love, but wasn't.

Sex usually helps confuse love and emotional gratification.

I remember a time when I was so busy, doing stuff, achieving stuff, worrying about the future and fearful about failure that the only time I really took time to enjoy the moment was with a belly full of scotch and a good session of sex. Of course, I thought it was love.

Some easy ways to differentiate between love and emotional gratification are:

1. Love needs nothing and is therefore unconditional ... "I need nothing, want nothing and therefore I have everything"

2. Love is not attached and therefore is not the critical link between unhappiness and happiness.

3. Love is not the reason for life. Love is the fuel for it.

4. Love is never exclusive. If you hate one thing you cannot love another.

5. Love does not demand entrapment into the safety of a relationship, the regulations of conformity or the comfort of promises.

Only emotional gratification demands safety.

The less clarity and certainty (certainty comes from intuition and inspiration not intellect) a person has about the future, the more they will substitute emotional gratification for love. It's ok, it's nature's way, she'll allow anything to help us maintain appreciation for life.

With a healthy vision, inspiration and purpose (VIP) love automatically grows.

When love grows, some people who are committed to emotional gratification get challenged. They may fight and resist, debunk and deny. That's what determines the authenticity of your VIP.. Because if you surrender your VIP in the face of resistance and challenge, it isn't yours.

Preventative medicine

The cost of repairing something that breaks is about 100 times more than the cost of maintaing it.

A relationship costs about $10 a day to maintain in a healthy state of romance, the cost of a breakdown and separation can be, in my experience 100,000 times that much, and more.

Health costs around $7.00 to maintain, but repair of ill health can cost a lifetime. Putting a value on that is impossible.

If you maintain what you've got you are being appreciative and nature rewards appreciation. If you depreciate what you've got, nature withdraws it, until you are appreciative. In nature, what you appreciate, grows.

V.I.P

The past should not affect the future. People often say to me, "I learned from the past" but this is often a catchall for, "I screwed up" and "I'll never do that again"

The more we learn from the past, the more nervous we become. The most nervous people, most stressed, always "learned" from the past. Now, their options are less, so, they're walking a tightrope, can't relax.

If you really see the beauty in the past, there's not a lot to learn really. Sure, there are the more gross examples of learning from the past. Like if you drink and drive and hurt someone, you'll rightly say, I've learned not to drink and drive. In this case, guilt has a really healthy application, (there's a benefit to everything)... But if you learn from the past it means that you are having experiences and not really understanding beauty in life.

If you marry someone, and then they get fat or cheating, you can say, "I'll never do that again" but there's such a dark cloud just formed in your heart from that learning, and this dark cloud ends up affecting your health, friends and family.

I think it's better to say, "sometimes I'm really stupid."

Owning our stupidity makes the beauty of life shine through. For example, you could say, "I didn't listen to my intuition, drank too much and drove my car and hurt someone," or, "I fell out of love with my partner but was too stupid to admit it to myself so, he/she turner into an elephant body and a cheating heart to push me away. I could have acted years earlier and saved them the cost of cream cakes and Jenny Craig.

It's great to know that we are guided, intuitively every stap, so we are never alone in life. Our intuition is a lower form of our inspiration, and inspiration comes through us, not from us. If inspiration and it's younger brother, intuition don't come from us, they must come from some sort of guiding hand and in this knowledge, whether we say Nature's Law or heavenly love, we know, there is not a lot to learn, we just need to get closer to our listening skills for intuition and inspiration by finding inner peace, love and beauty in life.

I think, rather than in meditation or worship, it's being at one with nature that connects us to our deepest source of intuition and inspiration. The essential thing is that we understand life, rather than learn and become self limited by rules and education.

Three questions you need to ask yourself daily

Life spins on, as it should, in a mire of fluster and sometimes life leads us instead of the other way around.

In order to stay authentic, at peace and make wise choices, aask yourself these three questions as often as you can:

What's your vision of the future in all seven areas of life?

What is inspiring you right now, in this very moment?

And

What's your overall purpose in life and are you doing it?

Two things you should never forget

There are two things you should endeavour never to forget.

The first thing never to forget  is to remember to forget the past.

If you carry yesterday around with you, then you are guaranteeing the future to be the same as the past. Ever notice how losers are always losers, no matter how hard they try to tell everyone they're not. It's not a curse, just a capacity to carry opinions about people in the past.

Try it for a day or two. Try forgetting you've ever met your children, partner, family. Act like it's the first time you've ever met them. Be surprised. Then do it again tomorrow. It's an interesting exercise in freedom.

The second thing to never forget is to remember to forget what other people did.

Carrying around memories is really toxic. We only do it to protect ourselves from the future.

Moaning

Many people have asked me to summarize the core premises on which my personal coaching programs, the V.I.P program and the 30 day challenge are based.

I'll try. I'll put the premises into the shortest possible, rememberable insight.

1. No Moaning

People love to tell us what's wrong with the world, their partner, their boss, the company, me, themselves or their parents. That moaning achieves nothing in the way of positive change and causes self sabotage. The more a person moans about other people, even if it's in the belief that it serves a loving end, the worse life becomes. Moaning is the human equivalent of dark clouds before the rain, do it long enough and it becomes a thunder storm. So, I start all coaching with the idea, "poop or get off the pot" meaning, either get over the moaning and learn to love and accept things or dump it.

2. People don't change

Over and over for the past 30 years I've watched friends and family learn and grow through all manner of programs, experiences and training. Nothing changes. Temporary changes are possible, but most are unsustainable. The key here is self acceptance, with a smile, of our sustainable path, to live it and walk it, but not expect the world to conform to it. Not everyone likes or can sustain the same path. One cultural model doesn't fit all. When we learn that people don't change we're left with two choices, accept them or change how we feel about them... Simplicity is essential in human development and when we accept people don't change, and there's no moaning, these two choices are perfect.

3. Vision, inspiration, purpose

All this leads to a rare and rather beautiful awareness and that is the understanding of the importance of v.I.p.... Vision, Inspiration, Purpose....... The health of relationships hinges on it, the strength of courage comes from it, youthful appearance evolves out of it and happiness hinges on it, v.I.p ....

Many people understand the importance of being in the now, turning up, being present, but what they fail to understand is that the reason we need to turn up is in order to free us to experience the joy and happiness that comes from v.I.p.

All human eyes are turned to the future and with: No moaning, No Blame, and v.I.p those eyes get to see what they are looking for.