What Is Motivation?

Do you believe you can have your cake and eat it?

Can you have what you want?

Or if you let yourself dream big are you only setting yourself up for a bigger fall?

Do you believe that the choice between these two belief systems is the only difference between people who get what they want, and people who don't?

It may sound simplistic, because at the root of every success in your life, is the simple belief that success is possible for you in that situation, and that it can happen, no matter how difficult it may be. Belief is that powerful. Getting what we want in life must be possible, because some people get it right. How did they do it? What is motivation? Is it the same as discipline?

I believe that the reason for a relatively small percentage of highly successful people in our world, is the popular belief that our goals are at loggerheads with each other, and that we have to choose between them. Financial success, our relationship, the job we love, doing good for others, speaking out about valuable causes... the common belief is that we can only have one of these goals, and that we have to pay dearly for this goal by sacrificing the others. The tragedy and triumph of our human experience is that belief is an extremely powerful force of manifestation. The moment we stop persevering or become lost in our pursuit of happiness, we fall back on the belief that life's rewards are limited. But what if we could somehow combine all our goals into the same course of action?

This may be difficult to imagine, because your relationship, or your desire for one, demands that you achieve a certain set of goals - work or school demands a different set of goals from you - family demands yet another set - your social life demands a different set ... It's all very demanding. But it's true that all these different areas are important aspects of your life, isn't it? And isn't it also true that the common thread between these seemingly unconnected demands, is you?

How would you feel if you had a good week at work? Say you received recognition, and things are going well for you. Wouldn't that feeling effect you positively in your relationship, and your social life? What about when you start a new relationship, and you feel all wonderful and floaty, even at work? Success in any area of your life has a positive effect on all areas, because success has a positive effect on you, and you are the connection between all the different areas.

It's one thing to notice this when this happens by accident, but it's another thing entirely to know how to make it happen. With the right skills and the right strategy, success in one area of life has a synergistic effect with every other area. The idea of synergy is that 1 + 1 = 4. If you have a positive effect on someone, they become more positive than they were before. So their energy level is now: what it was, lets say 1, plus the effect of your positive energy on them, say another 1. If this person also has a positive effect on your energy, your energy will also be what it was, lets say 1, plus the positive effect of their energy on you, say another 1. So the total effect of your combined energy together, is actually 1(+1) + 1(+1). So the exponential effect of 1 + 1 in synergy, is 4.

Synergy can be observed in healing, when the effectiveness of modalities or substances is increased when combined with "complementary" modalities or substances. Rudolf Steiner coined the term "Holistic", meaning the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

On a larger scale, the exponential effect of synergy has been measured in human behaviour studies, conducted during the research of Transcendental Meditation between the years 1982 and 1985, at Maharishi University of Management, (Fairfield, Iowa). It was observed that a group of just 1550 experienced meditators, or Sidhas, numbering only the square root of 1% of the U.S. population, caused a reduction of violent deaths in the U.S. over the duration of the study. (Dillbeck, 1990)

In similar TM studies, violent crime reduction was measured in Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, Israel, Lebanon, and Canada, with only the square root of 1% of the population of those areas participating in the meditation programs.

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#1: Remain Calm and Focused This Year - Your Free Guide to a Productive 2014

Did you notice how a lot of people found it difficult to relax over this holiday? Did you find it difficult? 
Have you done absolutely not one stitch of work over the last two weeks?

Most people try not to think about the coming year, because thinking about it only makes them worry. The inevitable first day of work rolls in, and they greet it looking the other way - hoping clients and management will still be in Holiday Mode.

Some people have a more motivated approach...

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION #1: I WILL REMAIN CALM, FOCUSED, EFFICIENT, AND PRODUCTIVE THIS YEAR.

We've all done this, even at school, and we know how difficult it is to keep it up through the year. Without a constant reminder, this great intention goes on the shelf with the dream home and the ideas for starting your own business, and your subconscious mind files it as "One Day, Probably Never", so you forget about it, months go by, stress piles up, and you find yourself wishing you could remember why you are doing all this, but the reason seems so out of reach - I guess you just have to, right?

Tai Chi, Yoga, and Transcendental Meditation are fantastic if you know how to do that, but what if you don't? Are you then demoted to needing pills to be able to sleep, and different pills to able to work?

Shockingly many people believe this to be true... but just for a moment imagine there was a way to remind yourself of how it feels to relax in a spacious pool of a perfect temperature, during an actually highly stressful moment, for example a massive amount of work that needs to be done in a short amount of time. Imagine you could sit up in this pool, totally relaxed, see the whole job spread out, as if floating on the surface of the pool, plan your strategy, write it down in sequence... And then begin. As if moving through water, you would gracefully and efficiently accomplish each item on your list, one by one.

Doesn't sound very stressful, does it? But is it possible?

NO is the easiest answer...
Is it possible to fly? NO. Easy, isn't it? How many people have NOT built a flying machine?

YES is the difficult answer, but the people who said YES to flying, and persevered, became extremely wealthy and successful, and later expanded their companies and fortunes by providing millions and millions of luxury cars, like Mercedes Benz, BMW, Rolls Royce, Saab, GM, Fiat, Chrysler, Ford...

The good news is: remaining calm and focused is millions and millions of times easier than building aeroplanes :) 
The bad news is in the newspaper - you are welcome to read that any time you want.

Being calm is a habit, like speaking. To learn a new language only takes repetition and the will to learn. This NBSR Free Guide to an Efficient, Productive 2014 contains everything you need to become a naturally calm, unruffled, confident, centred person.

Your NBSR Free Guide to an Efficient, Productive 2014

1. Quick Suggestibility Analysis

The brain hemisphere that you favour in your communication patterns, indicate the all important linguistic pattern that you should use in your affirmation.
Right Brainers respond best to direct messages, such as "I am calm, efficient and productive".

Indicators:

• Love talking, being the centre of attention, telling jokes and stories
• Comfortable and good at managing people
• Take comments or suggestions of others very literally
• Not so comfortable talking about your feelings, even with someone close
• Feel physically effected by direct suggestion, eg: Think about biting into lemon. Imagine, visualize if you can, or just pretend that the sour juice is squirting all over your taste buds. If your mouth is watering, Physical Suggestibility is indicated.

Full article on how to have a calm and productive 2014.

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Hears to a happy, prosperous, amazing journey in 2014!

The Harmony of 432 Hz and 528 Hz - Tuning In to the Cosmic Hum

People are easily deluded by the hope or promise of healing and peace, and tend to dismiss real solutions as "airy fairy", or "too spiritual", rather than getting fooled. For this reason, most people don't know when good things change.

In 1953, following the recommendation of evil Nazi propaganda genius Joseph Goebbels, the International Standards Organisation ruled that all western music conform to the tuning where "A" is set at 440 Hz - 8 Hz higher than it has always been, since ancient times.

Music, scales, and tuning, come from the same source of knowledge that built the Great Pyramid - a device which we have yet to understand. This ancient knowledge was so powerful that, long after the fall of those empires, only the initiated are taught their secrets: Kabala, Merkhaba, Tantra, Yoga, Ti Chi...

Who is Joseph Goebbels? Did he design accurate observatories and perfectly astronomically aligned Ziggurats? Why did we listen to his propaganda? Did we really know what we were doing when we raised the key of our music system by 8 Hz? Do we have the skill to perceive the difference that it may have on us?

When you tune your car radio, you are "tuning-in" to a certain frequency. 8 Hz is the difference between the signal you want, and noise.

Don't roll your eyes, its not a conspiracy theory, it just fact. Ask yourself this: when you learned history at school, did you learn about the atrocities committed by your country's soldiers, the lives pointlessly lost through incompetence or arrogance? Were you taught anything that would embarrass you or make you ashamed of what your country has done in the past? Or did you learn most of that through personal research and talking to people who saw the other side of your history lessons?

History is written by the victors, and the fact is, we are not told the whole truth, because if we knew what really happened, we would question our political leaders when they told us to go war against foreign terrorists, and we would question our religious leaders when they told us that foreigners have a rubbish God, and we have the real one.

Cymatics prooved that the Om sound at the right frequency creates the shape of the Shree Yantra in sand

For those who are willing to listen, the Cosmos is making music. If we could tune-in to the "Cosmic Hum", we would find bliss and well-being. A seemingly incredulous claim, this fact is evident from thousands of years of continuous use. The ancient Indian Vedas (books of science), instruments recovered from ancient Egypt and Sumer (Iraq), Greek mathematician Pythagoras, opera legend Verdi, natural scientist Rudolf Steiner, and an increasing body of modern anecdotal evidence published by the ever mushrooming learning culture of the internet, are the endorsements of the legend that 432 Hz and 528 Hz are in fact healing sounds.

Sacred Geometry, Music of the Spheres, the Cosmic Hum

Music of the Spheres is an alchemical principle explored by Pythagoras, rooted in Kabala, that assigns each planet a note in the scale, and maps the passage of a traveller from Earth to Heaven. The Cosmic Hum is described by Hindu mystics who claim to be able to hear a continuous OM sound. These concepts are really one and the same. In the remaining architecture of sites like the Giza plateaux in Egypt, Ankor Wat temple complex in Cambodia, and the stone circles at Carnac and Stone Henge, to name only the most well known, we have an undeniable record of just how much importance the ancient world placed on sacred geometry.

Sacred Geometry Cosmic Alignment - Giza, Ankor Wat, Carnac, Stone Henge

The architects of these structures spent incredible effort on precision alignments, and measurements that correspond with cosmic numbers. (Graham Hancock's YouTube series on ancient temple sites is highly recommended.) The reason for all that effort is the belief that microcosm mirrors macrocosm - our bodies are microcosmic, holographic representations of the macrocosm, the greater cosmos. This belief comes up in every ancient culture: shamanic, Egyptian, Aboriginal, and it is still alive and well in the Chinese science of Feng Shui, and the Indian science of Vastu Shastra. The design of your house and property, and the placement of your furnishings has a direct bearing on your health, relationships, wealth, and success. When these architects get the geometry right, they build structures that are in harmony with the cosmos, which means that the people who occupy these structures will be healthy, wealthy, and successful.

Sacred Geometry of the Human Body

432 Hz and 528 Hz - The Sound of the Cosmos

"All science is ultimately derived from vibration. Compound physics distils into math, and from there into geometry, but you can also create geometry from vibration"

Jamie Buturff

If we convert the numerical values of cosmic measurements into frequencies, we will begin to uncover patterns, systems, and programs that predict occurrences, for example the Golden Mean system. We can understand this from one, or any combination of 5 explanations:

1. Direct Experience
Sound meditation using the 432 Hz "A" is the easiest way to understand what all this fuss is about. Last Thursday I facilitated a guided Chakra meditation using isochronic pure tones of the 432 Hz tuning. The Vedas tell us that Chakras are energy fields generated by the electro-chemical activity of the 6 major ganglia (dense networks of nerves) in the nervous system. Each Chakra has a different frequency, and emits light of a certain colour, too low to be perceived by the average human eye. (The light and colour of Chakras can be seen by those who have trained their perception, and by certain equipment, eg Chakra Photography.)

The feedback from this meditation session was very positive. Everyone felt extremely relaxed and at peace afterwards, and a few people reported actually being able to see the colours of their Chakras, activated by the sounds. This meditation will be available for download as soon as possible, see available audio.

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Frequency-Following Response, Binaural Beats, the "God" helmet??? - What are the limits of FFR technology?

Frequency-Following Response, (or more affectionately: FFR) is a scientific way to describe "grooving to your favourite tune". And it's a handy phrase in that it points to the neural function that would otherwise be referred to rather insubstantially as: "You know that feeling you get when you listen to good music?"

FFR was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Dove, the neuro-scientist who revealed that the "beat" observed when hearing two, dissonant, pure tones, is assimilated in the brain when the two tones are presented separately through stereo headphones. By changing the frequency (the note) of the two tones, Dove observed that the brain patterns of his subjects were responding by "following" the changes in frequency.

The topic was dismissed as irrelevant by the medical community until 1973, when it was revisited by Dr. Gerald Oster, who's research paper "Auditory Beats In The Brain" was published in Scientific American. But the attitude of the medical associations remained a condescending "Ok, so what?"

It may be of interest that, at this point, the implications of FFR were the replacement of risky experimental psycho-active drugs with self hypnosis - learning positive suggestions aided by Binaural Beats - and that the very idea of such a revolution in accepted psychological treatment immediately provoked a strongly negative response from the medical fraternity, and more specifically the pharmaceutical industry. 

Koren "God" Helmet, Stanley Koren,
senior technician for the research group

Like Tesla, Essiac, and water cars, FFR technology went underground, and came up recently in a highly controversial project which became known as "The God Helmet". Taking the Frequency-Following Response to a new extension, Dr. Michael Persinger's research into the role of the limbic system in the perception of mystical experiences, Laurentian University's Neuroscience Department, resulted in the construction of an apparatus which provides magnetic signals to the brain, and runs on a computer software program. The brain follows the frequency of the signals, and according to test subject reports, tends to produce experiences of a spiritual nature.


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NLP, Binaural Beats, and Isochronic Tones

[Bin = two; aural = audible] - An illusory beat is perceived when pure tones of slightly different frequency are separately and simultaneously presented to each ear. 

Frequency-Following Response: The neural firing rate "follows" the perceived frequency.

Do pure tone binaural beats sometimes make you feel queasy? You may find that isochronic tones create a more gentle, less dissonant carrier wave for your affirmations and intentions, or you may find them annoying and distracting, and binaural beats really do it for you - the important thing is that you find a carrier wave that works for you, because FFR (Frequency-Following Response) is hard-wired, and everyone can benefit from it.

FFR is a scientific way to describe grooving to your favourite tune. Its a handy phrase, because it points to the neural function that would otherwise be referred to rather insubstantially as: "You know that feeling you get when you listen to good music?"

Everybody knows that music effects our emotions if we allow it. Do you choose your CDs and playlists specifically to lift you up? Keep you feeling good? Of course you do! Why would anyone listen to terrible music?

And if music is so powerful, and the Frequency-Following Response is a sure thing, why not take it one step further: you could theoretically "program" anything you like into the music you listen to, and your mind would follow it. You would start to feel how you want to feel, and if you feel how you want to feel then your behaviour and reactions will change, and if your behaviour is different then different things will happen to you, and if different things happen to you, things that you want, then your life is changing, isnt it?

This idea is perhaps the most over-simplified, underestimated, misunderstood, and consequently dismissed concept of self empowering personal development. Most people either deny it outright or see it as a lazy way to make a profound and amazing life transformation. Most products in this field promise to do all the work for you - and the fact is: all attempts based on laziness fail, because no-one can transform your life for you. 

Misunderstanding binaural beats and expecting your life to change is like trying to build a microwave out of headphones and then dismissing microwave technology as pseudoscience.

Experimentation with binaural beats revealed the Frequency-Following Response in the late 1800s, but the medical world had already turned to pharmaceuticals, and any attempt to research "alternative" therapies was quickly branded as quackery, and abandoned. Even the resurgence of interest in the 1970s, and a publication of Scientific American featuring the research of neuro-scientist Gerald Oster (Auditory Beats In The Brain), was not enough to merit a full scale enquiry by the medical fraternity. One may hazard a guess that, once you know the formula and the correct method of use, binaural beats and isochronic tones can too easily be produced on a home PC using free software, and if the AMA allowed that, who would buy their fancy expensive anxiety pills?

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Recovering From Abandonment - when Love runs out of Time

Have you ever noticed how, in every instance of abandonment, there is always a hidden clock? 

Somewhere in there is a loop counter - a silent fuse, a secret measurement of the number of attempts you have - unknown to you until the termination of your relationship, which, unless the dynamics changed, would inevitably self-destruct after a certain time had passed.

Parent, child, relationship partner, business partner, teacher, student ... anyone you care about who walks away from you can make you feel abandoned or unwanted. 

To understand why people walk out on us, we can turn the tables, and ask: what would make you abandon someone who you feel is getting too heavy? What do you do when you feel that your happiness or survival is being threatened by someone who is slowing you down?

You may try to communicate the problem, being pro-active, assertive, but if that does'nt work, then what? You try again, or try something different, but subconsciously the loop counter begins, because you don't want anyone to take advantage of your good nature. Subconsciously, you record the number of attempts, because if this situation does not change, you will have to abandon the sinking (relation)ship, or go down with it. With each failed attempt at solving the problem, your disappointment accumulates, you begin to feel like you're wasting your time, your patience wears thin, and then one day, Love runs out of Time.

Where physical separation is inconvenient or impossible, we detach emotionally, living in the same house, but leading parallel lives.

The abandonment complex is often buried deep beneath the surface of our awareness, sometimes completely covered by emotions like depression, anger, or anxiety, or obsessions such as shopping, sex, or substance abuse. When a relationship ends, and we feel grief and loss, the reason for the depth of that emotional hurt, is the primordial fear of abandonment, which goes back way beyond childhood, its encoded on a genetic level.

For social animals like primates, being abandoned means having to fend for ourselves, which is a significant survival risk. Even the most recluse, independent individuals must rely on others for their income and survival. For humans, abandonment is one of our primordial, deepest fears.

The 10 Million Dollar Question Is - What Can We Do About It?

To come back to primates, lets say that a little monkey in a big rain forest is abandoned, not necessarily because the other monkeys don't like him, maybe the others were eaten by tigers, but he has to come up with a survival plan: Where is the food? Where are the other monkeys? He journeys across the forest to look for food and the safety of companionship, and if he sticks to that strategy he will succeed. Any time he digresses from the plan, he can so easily become lost, wondering, desperate. As long as he's focussed on his goal, there is simply no time to be depressed. Anxiety or depression comes when he is sitting procrastinating in a tree, then he feels lonely, worrying, becoming more anxious and depressed because he's not getting any closer to his goal.

The truth is that sometimes, we need to do things on our own because there is no-one around to help. Anyone who finds it easy to change a tyre on the highway will tell you that its actually not that difficult, 10 minutes and you're back on the road. But what if it happens in a dangerous area? What we don't have a lot of physical strength? How do we become strong and independent? How do we know what to do? How can we connect our desires with a strategy and a plan of action?

When I am faced with a life challenges, a fresh perspective always clarifies what I need to do, and often reveals a few options that I would otherwise have overlooked. If I were the monkey, the first thing I would do is climb to the top of a tree, and get a good view of where I am... where I would like to be... and the shortest, safest possible rout for me to get there. 

This will seem counter-intuitive to people who are anxious to start their journey and not waste any time, and it will seem difficult to people who don't know what to do, and frequently experience a catatonic sate (moments of being unable to move, just staring). For this reason I compiled a workshop in 2010 called "Getting Back On Your Feet - How to recover from grief and loss of love" - in which the metaphor of climbing a tree to get a better perspective of the forest, is applied to your real life situation. We look at all your options, and identify any unconscious behaviour that is stopping you from pursuing a more direct path to your goal - or even stopping you from seeing what your goal really is - and then we set out an instruction manual for your specific rout, to reach your goal. Finally, To help you put your plan into action, we'll look at how powerful your thoughts are in creating your mood, and develop a personal affirmation for you, that works with your individual suggestibility. This is one of my most frequently requested workshops because it helps with both sides of the coin - gives you motivation when you feel down, and relaxation when you feel stressed. 

Getting Back On Your Feet - How to recover from grief and loss of love

Workshop Synopsis:

• What Do I Really Want?
• Passion, Logic, and Goals
• How To Climb Up, One Step At A Time
• When Last Did I Relax?
• Knowing My Mind
• Choosing My Thoughts

Duration: 2 hours
Cost: R200 (includes printed notes)
Venue: The Soul Sanctuary 124 Florida Road, 
Time: 5pm, Oct 23
Bookings: 079 567 4261

The method is based on actual survival skills, which can always be applied to psychological scenarios. You will come out of this workshop with your own complete set of instructions and personal motivation material, which not only lets you navigate through your current life challenge, but also has you coming out exactly where you want to be.

The ancient Myans believed that time was divided into day and night, not only physically, but also psychologically. "Day" was a time for extroversion, when outer progress could be made in life, where as "Night" was a time for inner work, healing, planning, studying, preparing for the next "Day". Its ok if you are going through a "Night" time, and if that has been a few months or even years, then that is how long you have needed. But if you are ready now to reclaim your life and your goals, and recover from your grief and loss of love, then this is the time for you to move on. The opportunity is here.

To book now call 079 567 4261

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OCD, Anxiety, and Serotonin

Terminology: OCD = Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The word “Disorder” can be a powerful negative suggestion for the sufferer of this condition, and may cause the person to obsess about having OCD. For this reason the author uses the terminology “Obsessive Compulsive Behaviour”, to emphasise that the condition can be corrected.

Obsession = CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT

Compulsion = HAVE TO DO IT

Obsessive compulsive behaviour is characterised by the experience of uncontrollable and intrusive thoughts which are disturbing and repetitive. In an attempt to dislodge the disturbing thought, the individual performs certain actions or tasks compulsively, repeatedly, and with a high level of intensity.

Compulsive behaviour may take on the appearance of rituals, since the number of repetitions and the thoroughness with which the task is performed has no practical value, but is performed as a way of liberating the person from his or her troubling thoughts. This behaviour is time-consuming and frustrating to the individual, and at best provides only momentary relief from the unpleasant thoughts.

Associated Behaviour

• Anxiety results from the stress of having to stay busy to avoid negative thinking
• Cigarette smoking is a frequent “self-medication” trait because of the immediate calming effect of tobacco smoke, but in the long term smoking aggravates anxiety because of the adrenaline that the body releases to metabolise the toxins from the cigarette.
• Low appetite due to anxiety causes insufficient nutrition, low blood sugar, and increased adrenaline, which then raises the anxiety level
• Insomnia results from high adrenaline levels

Obsessive compulsive individuals are usually highly intelligent, and if they learn to manage their condition, they are high achievers in life. One has only to Google, to find a list of “OCD Celebrities”, amongst whom are David Beckham, Priyanka Chopra, Leonardo Dicaprio, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, and Donald Trump.

Hormonal Characteristics - Body Chemistry

Neurochemically, obsessive compulsive behaviour is characterised by dopaminergic hyperfunction in the prefrontal cortex, and serotonergic hypofunction in the basal ganglia.

In simple English: dopamine, the hormone that makes you feel rewarded for getting something right, like winning or succeeding at something, is in over-supply, and serotonin, the hormone that makes you feel peaceful and that all is well, is in short supply.

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