Energy flows where attention goes – this is somthing that I heard my NLP teacher say once.  He is also a HUNA teacher and works with energy.  He’s a very wise person and so I chose to pay particular attention to this concept recently.

I’ve been focusing on increasing the level of energy in all areas of my life: health, family, and of course, business.  And it’s been working!  Now that I have my NLP instructor certification I have been asked left, right and centre to set up trainings and give talks.  I love it!  It’s good to know that all my work is now paying off.

I’ve been clearing out mental and physical energy in myself and my home.  I smudged my office and will also do this to the rest of my house.  I’m passing on the old to make room for the new.  And with it the new is flowing in freely!

I really recommend taking the time to do this type of energetic clearing to everone.  Especially to business owners who are wanting to play a bigger game.  If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten said Einstein.  Another wise teacher.  Since money and the services we provide are energy, it makes sense to do whatever it takes to bring in more of it.

Training Your Core

Recently I wrote an article for my Warrior Fitness Training newsletter about “Training the Core -Vector Style”.  Don’t worry; I’m not going to get into the aspects of physical fitness here.  But I did notice something when I was writing this article.

There were a couple of paragraphs that could be applied to personal development and personal empowerment.

Just to give a brief background on the what the core is, from a physiological perspective – “The core is a section of the body roughly defined as the area from the armpits to the knees, and more specifically, as the 29 pairs of muscles that support the lumbo pelvic-hip complex that stabilize the spine, pelvis, and kinetic chain during functional movements.”

OK…that’s it for the anatomy lesson.  Well except one other part… “most movements occur through the core, after beginning somewhere else.”

Let’s think about this from personal empowerment perspective.  What is you ‘core’?  I might offer that your core is your values.  That part of you that give’s you direction in life.  That gut feeling when something is right and something is wrong.

 But in today’s frantic pace many of us have lost track of our core and have let it get weak.  Let’s take a look at another expert from my article about the physical core.  

“If the core lacks strength with balance and stability then energy leakage can occur upon force production or force absorption and the power generated by the limbs and transferred through the core can be lost, resulting in less power generated for a technique or a compromised ability of the body to absorb force properly. During force reduction, the pattern of force reduction compensation can lead to injury due to core weakness and imbalances.”

You probably found this very interesting didn’t you?

Let’s take a closer look…”If the core lacks strength and stability then energy leakage can occur…”  WOW!

Let’s apply this to our values based core.  If we don’t live in alignment with our core values then we can get distracted with other things…this is also energy leakage!  Then we can’t generate any power! 

Can you see how this might be showing up in your life?

By studying the physical core we can learn about our values core.  One word comes to mind when I think about both cores…integrity.  According to dictionary.com one definition of integrity is “a sound, unimpaired, or perfect condition.” This can be easily applied to our physical core. 

Another definition is “adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.”  This could be easily applied to our values core.

So, when our core is in integrity we’ll have no leakage and be in perfect condition.

The question is then…how to do you train your “core.”

Since there are so many similarities between our physical core and “invisible” core, let’s look at how one would train the physical.  Again from my article:

“If the core can be trained in these various angles, with a variety of implements, then it will be better prepared to withstand, as well as transfer, the forces needed in preparation, operations and deployment.”

Hum????

So how does this pertain to our values core?   The same way a person trains and develops mental strength….go out look for opportunities of challenges themselves.

This means intentionally exposing oneself to circumstances that will confront your values.  This might be keeping a commitment to friend to meet for lunch instead of canceling because you’re too busy (if friendship is a core value). It could mean telling someone you disagree with them instead of remaining silent.  

Take a look at your top 3 core values and think about the last time you “exercised” them?  I mean really put then to the test. By putting ourselves in a variety of circumstance (training from various angles) we can train our core to become stronger.  We’ll then have no energy leaks.

When we have no energy leaks we will have more energy to accomplish what we want and achieve personal success and peak performance.

If we don’t train our core will be susceptible to injury i.e. disappointment, fear, etc and personal failure.

The choice is yours….train your core or allow it be weakened.  I hope you’ll choose wisely.

When you speak to yourself in a kind way the world smiles

When you speak to others in a kind way, they smile back

Every day we are faced with choices and challenged to take action or to stay where we are.  To get what we want we have to go after it with passion.  The universe responds to our desires and requests always.  It’s a matter of seeing, feeling, and receiving those opportunities. 

What do you choose today?

I’m having a super amazing time at this training!  It’s transformational, as Dr Matt James’s trainings always are.  I’m learning so much and shifting to new possibilities. 

I’ve also made some great friendships here.  The type of people who attend these trainings are very high level energy and they are motivated to invest in themselves and also in others.  They genuinely love to help and make a difference and that’s so inspiring to me.  No one here sits around and complains about the price of gas.  Being here with these fellow trainers has brought up my energy. 

I’ve had lots of my own limitations and beliefs come up and I’ve let them go and broken through lots of boundaries.  This is what I love to do…have breakthroughs and help others have breakthroughs.  I am definitely on the right track and I am so looking forward to teaching NLP!