Change is in the Air
Change—that seems to be the theme of the day everywhere. During this last election cycle I found myself doing several radio interviews regarding subliminal communication and the art of persuasion. There were subliminal ads aimed at both political parties and there were a number of other psychological techniques employed to gain your vote, but then there’s nothing new about that. What did impress me was the number of people on both sides who were just totally fired up about the election. There was a new level of energy, a higher sense of enthusiasm and as a result, some deeper divides. Passion—that is the word I would use to describe this last presidential election; passion on both sides of the aisle.
Pundits for both sides had plenty to say but ultimately everything came down to one word-- “change.” The dynamics of the election were such that change was virtually assured in some way regardless of who emerged victorious. Change is what the world wanted as well, and change is what the world celebrated when President-elect Obama was chosen by Americans. Our time now is a time of change and change is what we want and change is what most people resist the most when it gets right down to it. So, this newsletter is dedicated to the idea of change—not political change but individual change.
My staff has asked me over the years about our products and our philosophy. Whenever I am asked this question I think of Bill Gates and his book, “Business at the Speed of Light.” Gates explains in this book how the railroad companies used to think of themselves as in the business of trains. Has they recognized that their business was transportation, there would have been a different future in front of them then that of trains alone. I think of my business as a business whose product is “change,” not CDs, tapes, books, software and so forth. Indeed, whatever the tool we offer, it is about assisting and facilitating change.
In a couple of months a New Year will be upon us again. Think for a moment, what would you like to change? If you could change anything about yourself, what would it be? What would you change that is changeable? Would you like more energy and enjoy feeling and looking much younger? Would you like a greater sense of inner peace? Would you benefit from a better memory or an enhanced learning ability? Would you like to improve or attract a relationship in your life? Would you like to find the perfect employment? Would you like to change your body image or end some addiction? Or how about becoming fitter and/or more athletic? Again, what would you change?
For 25 years now I have researched and developed programs and products designed to help you make that change—the change that makes a difference. In that time I have found products that do it better than anyone else, and we have added these to our lines. In that time I also developed our patented and scientifically proven effective InnerTalk programs and the sister technologies like Power Imaging and Echo-Tech. Over the past twenty-five years I have also had the good fortune to actually conduct studies that helped many people and to hear from them and others. I readily admit that a very meaningful compensation aspect to what I do is the feedback you and your fellow customers have provided. I thank you!
As we approach a new era of change, let’s each of us pledge to make our change a change that helps make our lives and the world just a little better. To that end, I want to toast you and every other American and formally acknowledge what a truly wonderful country we live in. And if you are not American, I toast you as well in confidence that as a world citizen you share the same goals—peace and freedom with opportunity for all.
Thanks for the read and all the best!
Eldon
P.S. Confused about your choices for change? Here is a wise choice, get a copy of my book, Choices and Illusions. Readers from around the country have told me how helpful it was to them. Here is a link that contains some truly wonderful additional incentives when you get it: http://progressiveawarenesspromotions.com/hayhousepromo/092008/
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Prime Directive
Prime Directive
If you had a prime directive in life, what would it be For me, it is happiness. The Tao makes it plain, when we are happy we are living our purpose. Conversely, true happiness is not possible when we’re out of sync with our purpose. However, many people equate purpose with destiny or vocation or some other defined this or that when whatever your purpose may be, it is always dynamic.
I remember thinking about the Star Trek movies and the idea of a prime directive and then of the various oaths such as the Hippocratic Oath and the other directives held inviolate as a result, and I asked myself, what is my Prime Directive? Have you ever asked yourself that question?
For myself, I settled on what I think of as the three H’s. I try to base my choices and activities on meeting these three criteria: 1. Does it make me happy? 2. Does it promote health? 3. Is it helpful? Happy, healthy and helpful—if I use my time or make my choices with this in mind, I find that life seems to love me. It brings me the opportunities I seek to grow and learn while regularly putting a big smile on my face. Being helpful also provides that warm fuzzy feeling that I want when I put my head on the pillow at night.
In my newsletter I have addressed the seriousness of our time. The practical side of matters leads us to understand that there are some things we can do something about and others that are out of our control. Okay, we let go of those that are not in our power anyway and we apply our Prime Directive to all else. I think you will find that if you do this, meeting all three criteria in your every choice and endeavor, peace, balance and harmony will perennially visit you.
For example, when being cut off in 5 o’clock traffic, rather than getting angry I can simply slow down, allow the person who is obviously in a great hurry the space to drive safely, and feel good about being able to help. This choice pushes good chemicals through my body helping to keep me healthy and happy, while allowing me to help someone else.
This criterion can be applied to every situation and I guarantee you, if you choose the option that brings the most happiness, makes you feel good and contributes to helping someone else, then you too will feel that warm fuzzy feeling when you put your head on the pillow at night.
Be blessed and thanks for the read,
Eldon
P.S. If you would like more on making wise choices, get a copy of my book, Choices and Illusions. Here is a new link that contains some truly wonderful incentives when you get it: http://progressiveawarenesspromotions.com/hayhousepromo/092008/
If you had a prime directive in life, what would it be For me, it is happiness. The Tao makes it plain, when we are happy we are living our purpose. Conversely, true happiness is not possible when we’re out of sync with our purpose. However, many people equate purpose with destiny or vocation or some other defined this or that when whatever your purpose may be, it is always dynamic.
I remember thinking about the Star Trek movies and the idea of a prime directive and then of the various oaths such as the Hippocratic Oath and the other directives held inviolate as a result, and I asked myself, what is my Prime Directive? Have you ever asked yourself that question?
For myself, I settled on what I think of as the three H’s. I try to base my choices and activities on meeting these three criteria: 1. Does it make me happy? 2. Does it promote health? 3. Is it helpful? Happy, healthy and helpful—if I use my time or make my choices with this in mind, I find that life seems to love me. It brings me the opportunities I seek to grow and learn while regularly putting a big smile on my face. Being helpful also provides that warm fuzzy feeling that I want when I put my head on the pillow at night.
In my newsletter I have addressed the seriousness of our time. The practical side of matters leads us to understand that there are some things we can do something about and others that are out of our control. Okay, we let go of those that are not in our power anyway and we apply our Prime Directive to all else. I think you will find that if you do this, meeting all three criteria in your every choice and endeavor, peace, balance and harmony will perennially visit you.
For example, when being cut off in 5 o’clock traffic, rather than getting angry I can simply slow down, allow the person who is obviously in a great hurry the space to drive safely, and feel good about being able to help. This choice pushes good chemicals through my body helping to keep me healthy and happy, while allowing me to help someone else.
This criterion can be applied to every situation and I guarantee you, if you choose the option that brings the most happiness, makes you feel good and contributes to helping someone else, then you too will feel that warm fuzzy feeling when you put your head on the pillow at night.
Be blessed and thanks for the read,
Eldon
P.S. If you would like more on making wise choices, get a copy of my book, Choices and Illusions. Here is a new link that contains some truly wonderful incentives when you get it: http://progressiveawarenesspromotions.com/hayhousepromo/092008/
Monday, December 29, 2008
Memory And Me
When asked, the majority of people describe their real self as abiding or existing either in the mind or as consciousness in and out of the mind. Sounds complicated at first blush, but if you think about it for a minute, all of us think of ourselves, our identity if you will, as somewhere in our head. Our consciousness is who we are, at least for most. As such, our personality, our memories and everything else that is who we are, is a heady matter, pun intended. So what happens if one loses their ability to think or much of their memories? Who are they then to themselves?
I was asked to review a book titled, “A Matter of Panache,” by the author, Debra Sanders. The book retells the story of a woman who lost much of her memory and ability to think as a result of head injuries suffered in an automobile accident. It’s a great read and it set me to thinking. There is a part in the book where Debra informs the reader that she had to speak to people she once had relationships with just to ask them what happened.
Imagine that you remember a relationship with some significant other but your memory leaves off years before the relationship ended—years before. In fact, your memory leaves off following a wonderful and loving exchange between the two of you. Imagine having to ask what happened and somehow getting your feelings to square with your head. Who are we if we wake up one morning and know little of our selves?
Our memory, our time line, is who we are—or is it? I know who I am in part because I know what I did to get where I am. I know where I went to school, who my friends were, where I work, who my significant others are and so forth. I know my dog’s name and his peculiar crying sounds when I leave him unattended in the car. I know my favorite music, movies, television shows and on and on and on. So, I think I know something about me.
I could add that I also know of experiences that attest to a life after death, Divine intervention and more. I know also about the dark. So I think I know a little more about myself including the vast amount that I simply don’t have a clue about—can’t even take an educated guess over. So what then if suddenly I have no memory, no yesterday or last night, like I went to bed around ten pm and here I am?
Imagine waking up in a strange place to a stranger—yourself. You don’t even know until you try whether you are right or left handed. In fact, it takes little more to imagine not even knowing what handedness is. Just a bit more imagination and we could wake up without a memory of everything we have learned including our language. Now what do we have?
I’m sure you have just realized what we have is essentially a newborn only perhaps one that is 6 foot tall and more than a few minutes old. That in and of itself is worthy of some thought for it is an intriguing idea to think of memory as our identification. What if when we are born there is some mechanism, like the veil so many spiritual teachers speak of, that starts memory all over?
Back to the original point, who am I if I have no memory of who I am? Is memory critical to our being? The answer is obviously no for many people have experienced amnesia, partial and otherwise, throughout history, and they were all ‘being’. Then is memory more like an anchor that keeps us from moving into new ways of being? I remember, for example, that public speaking can make me very nervous, so I avoid much of it. What if I did not remember any so-called self-imposed limitation?
What if in losing my memory I gained the ability to experience and learn all over and in doing so I never experienced the same failures or fears? Would I still be the same person? The answer again is probably not. What then is who I am if not my memories? And if this is who I am, can I selectively change the memories I choose? After all, I want only positive reinforcing memories that encourage me to succeed at everything I enjoy or love. Isn’t this the exact thing we want for our children?
Somehow I sense, even know in a Noetic way, that the me that is me is still there even if I don’t remember who I be. What I also somehow know is that within each of us is the ability to rewrite memory in favorable ways. Ways that empower us to improve and to reach new vistas in our search for meaning and exploration of life. Indeed, our InnerTalk technology was designed with just this purpose in mind.
I am convinced that if we forget about ourselves, our past, and instead turn our thoughts to others, real insight into who we are and what we are made to do becomes obvious. For in aiding others, we experience a neuro-chemical reward (apparently we were wired from the factory this way) and that quintessential sense I just call the “warm fuzzy feeling” in my book, Choices and Illusions. It is almost as if we are factory built for service to our fellow human being and that in freely providing that service we find we are actually rewarded with all of those good neuro chemicals that make us feel happy.
It’s the Holiday Season and we celebrate at this time of year the real miracle of life. ‘Tis the time to be happy and give good cheer! May you truly smile from deep within and know the joy that is your birthright!
Thanks for the read.
Eldon
P.S. Readers from around the country have told me how helpful Choices and Illusions was to them. This is what one person sent me just last week, “I recently purchased your Choices and Illusions. Little did I realize how "mind altering" the information you shared would be in my life. "Choices and Illusions" was there, just when I needed clarification!”
Here is a link that contains some truly wonderful additional incentives when you get a copy of Choices and Illusions and as it costs under $15, you can’t go wrong: http://progressiveawarenesspromotions.com/hayhousepromo/092008/
When asked, the majority of people describe their real self as abiding or existing either in the mind or as consciousness in and out of the mind. Sounds complicated at first blush, but if you think about it for a minute, all of us think of ourselves, our identity if you will, as somewhere in our head. Our consciousness is who we are, at least for most. As such, our personality, our memories and everything else that is who we are, is a heady matter, pun intended. So what happens if one loses their ability to think or much of their memories? Who are they then to themselves?
I was asked to review a book titled, “A Matter of Panache,” by the author, Debra Sanders. The book retells the story of a woman who lost much of her memory and ability to think as a result of head injuries suffered in an automobile accident. It’s a great read and it set me to thinking. There is a part in the book where Debra informs the reader that she had to speak to people she once had relationships with just to ask them what happened.
Imagine that you remember a relationship with some significant other but your memory leaves off years before the relationship ended—years before. In fact, your memory leaves off following a wonderful and loving exchange between the two of you. Imagine having to ask what happened and somehow getting your feelings to square with your head. Who are we if we wake up one morning and know little of our selves?
Our memory, our time line, is who we are—or is it? I know who I am in part because I know what I did to get where I am. I know where I went to school, who my friends were, where I work, who my significant others are and so forth. I know my dog’s name and his peculiar crying sounds when I leave him unattended in the car. I know my favorite music, movies, television shows and on and on and on. So, I think I know something about me.
I could add that I also know of experiences that attest to a life after death, Divine intervention and more. I know also about the dark. So I think I know a little more about myself including the vast amount that I simply don’t have a clue about—can’t even take an educated guess over. So what then if suddenly I have no memory, no yesterday or last night, like I went to bed around ten pm and here I am?
Imagine waking up in a strange place to a stranger—yourself. You don’t even know until you try whether you are right or left handed. In fact, it takes little more to imagine not even knowing what handedness is. Just a bit more imagination and we could wake up without a memory of everything we have learned including our language. Now what do we have?
I’m sure you have just realized what we have is essentially a newborn only perhaps one that is 6 foot tall and more than a few minutes old. That in and of itself is worthy of some thought for it is an intriguing idea to think of memory as our identification. What if when we are born there is some mechanism, like the veil so many spiritual teachers speak of, that starts memory all over?
Back to the original point, who am I if I have no memory of who I am? Is memory critical to our being? The answer is obviously no for many people have experienced amnesia, partial and otherwise, throughout history, and they were all ‘being’. Then is memory more like an anchor that keeps us from moving into new ways of being? I remember, for example, that public speaking can make me very nervous, so I avoid much of it. What if I did not remember any so-called self-imposed limitation?
What if in losing my memory I gained the ability to experience and learn all over and in doing so I never experienced the same failures or fears? Would I still be the same person? The answer again is probably not. What then is who I am if not my memories? And if this is who I am, can I selectively change the memories I choose? After all, I want only positive reinforcing memories that encourage me to succeed at everything I enjoy or love. Isn’t this the exact thing we want for our children?
Somehow I sense, even know in a Noetic way, that the me that is me is still there even if I don’t remember who I be. What I also somehow know is that within each of us is the ability to rewrite memory in favorable ways. Ways that empower us to improve and to reach new vistas in our search for meaning and exploration of life. Indeed, our InnerTalk technology was designed with just this purpose in mind.
I am convinced that if we forget about ourselves, our past, and instead turn our thoughts to others, real insight into who we are and what we are made to do becomes obvious. For in aiding others, we experience a neuro-chemical reward (apparently we were wired from the factory this way) and that quintessential sense I just call the “warm fuzzy feeling” in my book, Choices and Illusions. It is almost as if we are factory built for service to our fellow human being and that in freely providing that service we find we are actually rewarded with all of those good neuro chemicals that make us feel happy.
It’s the Holiday Season and we celebrate at this time of year the real miracle of life. ‘Tis the time to be happy and give good cheer! May you truly smile from deep within and know the joy that is your birthright!
Thanks for the read.
Eldon
P.S. Readers from around the country have told me how helpful Choices and Illusions was to them. This is what one person sent me just last week, “I recently purchased your Choices and Illusions. Little did I realize how "mind altering" the information you shared would be in my life. "Choices and Illusions" was there, just when I needed clarification!”
Here is a link that contains some truly wonderful additional incentives when you get a copy of Choices and Illusions and as it costs under $15, you can’t go wrong: http://progressiveawarenesspromotions.com/hayhousepromo/092008/
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