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Finding Divine Gifts – Coming Fully Into the Present Moment

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

On my recent trip to the Maya Tulum resort in Mexico, I shot a photo of this labyrinth on the beach. It is beautifully laid out and made of all natural materials from the surrounding area. For me, a labyrinth represents an opportunity for reflection, an opportunity to be mindful, and to stop the “busyness” of everyday life, clear some space and open up to divine presence and gifts.

This time of year – the winter solstice and holiday season – can also be that for you if you want it to be. In all the hustle and bustle, just stop and take a few deep breaths. The divine is always with us and always waiting for US to recognize and welcome its presence. That is its gift to us.

In addition, the end of the year is a great time to complete the past, prepare for the future, and thereby come fully into the present. However you do this I invite you to celebrate and release all that 2011 has been for you, and make way for a fabulous 2012.

In this blog we’ll explore an important aspect for “coming fully into the present moment” – completing incompletions. Learning the importance of this and actually achieving it in your life, is the third step of my Major Good Mojo System.

Read on and enjoy!

Finding Divine Gifts – Coming Fully Into the Present Moment

The third step of my Major Good Mojo System is “Complete Incompletions.” An incompletion is simply that – something that is not complete. It could be anything: unpaid bills; anger or resentment toward someone or thing; projects around the house; something you said you would do but then never did, etc.

Something in our lives that is not complete holds a portion of our energy until it is complete. At some level we are thinking about it, worrying about it, trying to figure out what to do about it. Even if you think you’ve forgotten about it and let it go, you haven’t. This is the body’s natural tendency toward integrity, toward being complete and free.

To the extent we have incompletions in our life we are being robbed of vital life force energy, energy we could be using to create an extremely fulfilling life. Incompletions also block us from receiving clear guidance from our higher selves. We’ve got part of ourselves holding the energy of these incompletions and therefore we cannot pay full attention to the divine messages trying to get through. Actually, the message that is trying to get through is “complete your incompletions.” That’s why we keep thinking and worrying about them.

When it comes to completing incompletions in relationships (whether with a mother, father, sibling, spouse, friend, or co-worker) a big part is forgiveness – forgiveness both for ourselves and others. Interestingly, forgiveness means to “give as before,” no longer withholding or holding back. (Side note: we all think forgiveness is a great thing, and I agree, however, have you ever noticed that forgiveness has judgment built into it? If you feel you must forgive someone, you have passed judgment on them that what they have done is bad, wrong, and should not have happened. Now who’s the bad guy? Interesting, yes?)

There are a couple of good metaphors that can help us better understand the importance of truly letting go of the supposed “wrongs” we believe another person has done to us. Being angry with, spiteful toward, or withholding from another person is like holding a hot coal in your own hand with the idea that you are going to throw it at them…but you never do. It just burns and burns YOU. Or, said another way, it’s like drinking poison expecting the other person to die. In these examples you can see it makes no sense. All you have to do is drop the hot coal and don’t take the poison.

Incompletions in relationships are some of the most detrimental and life-sucking ones we can experience. However, all the incompletions in our life, from the $10 you may still owe someone, to the book you borrowed and have yet to return, to the projects around the house you keep putting off. They all drain you each and every moment. For truly free and energized living you must complete these incompletions.

Identifying and completing your incompletions is a key piece of the Major Good Mojo System. To experience the freedom accomplishing this can provide in your life, I invite you to engage the The Major Good Mojo Coaching Program.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Look into all the areas of your life. What is obviously incomplete? Make a list of those things. Just making the list and getting these things out of your head and onto paper will restore some energy for you. Then look at the list and select one or two things to complete. Start with a couple of easy ones so you can build momentum, and then work up to the more challenging incompletions. As you complete things, one by one, cross them off the list with a big smile on your face, then take on the next one that feels right…until you’ve crossed them all off the list.

Notice the amazing energy restored at each step along the way, and the exponentially rising access to Major Good Mojo!

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Change Your Mind and Change Your Brain! The Science of Neuroplasticity

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| 1 Comment

As I mentioned in my last eZine, I just completed The Resonance Project Emissary Program spending more than 100 hours in direct study with their Director of Research Nassim Haramein. He is an award winning physicist solving Einstein’s Field Equations and significantly evolving our understanding of how our Universe works, and how we can best work within it. I am actively integrating this material into my programs and preparing for a series of local talks.

The two-week program took place in Mexico, near Cancun in Maya Tulum, on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The stretch of road between Cancun and Tulum is called the Mayan Riviera. Known mostly for its large all-inclusive resorts and white sandy beaches, this area is also a popular eco-adventure destination, because beneath the landscape lie thousands of miles of underground waterways. These waterways join together in large, underground fresh-water caves called cenotes.

The picture shows more than 80 Emissary Program participants (I’m in there too!) in Cenote Samula. The experience of being in one of these caves is otherworldly! A band of sunlight streams in through a large hole in the ceiling, where roots from a giant tree reach more than 100 feet into the water below.  While obviously the heart-shaped lighting effect has been added, it is interesting to notice that our group frequently, without any conscious intent, organized into heart shaped patterns!

In this blog we’ll explore how your mind can change your brain. Learning to do this, and engage your neuroplasticity, is the second step of my Major Good Mojo System.

Read on and enjoy!

Change Your Mind and Change Your Brain! The Science of Neuroplasticity

The second step of my Major Good Mojo System is “Identifying Your Belief Structures.” It took me a long time to recognize the power of this in my own life and just how much it was in control. Belief structures make up the invisible filter through which we interpret and see the world, and each and everyone one of us has our own unique structure that has been built up from the day we were born. It’s our “truth about the world.”

It’s important to note that it’s OUR truth, and isn’t necessarily THE truth about the world. Over our lives we’ve created belief structures that served and supported us at one time. However, as we grow and evolve they become limiting and even damaging. The reason this is step number two is that you must first get clear on your own belief structures before you are able to change them at all. Moving them into conscious awareness is the first step to their transformation.

Beliefs in and of themselves are not bad things; beliefs can be very supportive, but they can also be very limiting. It’s the limiting ones we need to identify so we can begin releasing them, and ourselves, into far more expansive and fulfilling experiences.

One of the most exciting aspects of doing this work is that you are literally changing your physiology. Beliefs, habits, and old ways of perceiving the world are not just invisible ideas made up in the mind, they are imprinted patterns that literally exist in your physiology. This is both a good and a bad thing. Good because once we learn something, it tends to stay with us – we don’t have to think about how to tie our shoes, drive a car, brush our teeth, or any number of things we do each and every day. We have imprinted our physiology to automatically do these things.

However, the “bad” old habits and beliefs that no longer serve us run on automatic, too! And it’s these old patterns, habits, and beliefs we want to transform and evolve beyond. These are the parts of ourselves that are now holding us back from the freedom, success, love, happiness, and power we desire.

“The number one reason people don’t achieve or hold on to new success, is they haven’t released old issues.”

- Lisa Nichols, Best Selling Author, Coach and Speaker

 Science is now discovering “How the Brain Rewires Itself.” An excellent article by that title ran in Time Magazine on January 19, 2007, summarizing and highlighting some of the most important studies in this arena. Amazingly, these studies reveal “mental training has the ability to change the physical structure of the brain.” And these aren’t fringe, quack scientists performing this work. These studies are being done by neuroscientists at leading institutions like Harvard Medical School, The University of California San Diego, The University of California Los Angeles, The University of Toronto, and The University of Wisconsin at Madison.

These studies reveal how “The brain can change as a result of the thoughts we think… something as seemingly insubstantial as a thought can affect the stuff of the brain, altering neuronal connections in a way that can treat mental illness, or perhaps lead to a greater capacity for empathy and compassion. It may even dial up the supposedly happiness set point.” The researchers are calling this newly discovered capacity of the brain “neuroplasticity.”

Why is all this so important? Because this new information tells us that by practicing desired (chosen) thoughts, feelings, and actions, we can literally rewire ourselves to experience (and create) the world as we now desire. Through “self directed neuroplasticity, the mind can change the brain.” We are not, as was long believed, prisoners of our DNA, genetics, or childhood conditioning. While it will take some discipline and it will occur over time, it’s exciting to know you have a choice! You can literally change your physiology and sculpt your experience of reality.

Identifying your belief structures and learning to consciously cultivate your thoughts, and therefore your experience, is a key piece of the Major Good Mojo System. To take this skill to new levels in your life I invite you to engage the The Major Good Mojo Coaching Program.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Watch your thoughts very carefully. Choose a day to consciously watch and track your thoughts by carrying a small notebook with you through the day. At multiple times throughout the day – maybe every hour or so – write down the “nature” of your thoughts. Have they been mostly positive and creative, negative and destructive, or more neutral? Celebrate and reinforce the positive creative thoughts you are having, and question the more negative and destructive thoughts. Ask yourself “are they true?” And if your answer is yes, ask yourself can you absolutely know they are true? More often than not, you cannot ABSOLUTELY know they are true. There is almost always the chance that the negative thoughts are not true. Remember, life is dynamic, and what was once true, may no longer be!

In this manner you can begin to loosen the grip of the more negative thought patterns and open up to more creative thinking, positive experiences, and Major Good Mojo!

 

 

 

 

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Die While Still Alive and Be Free to Live Your Life

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| 1 Comment

Long sandy beaches, turquoise blue water, warm wonderful sun, sweet salt-kissed breezes, a bungalow on the beach. I am writing to you from Maya Tulum, southeast of Cancun, Mexico only 5 minutes away from the Mayan Tulum ruins. I’m engaged in the 10-day Emissary Program for The Resonance Project, learning a great deal about the fundamental underlying principles integrating our Universe.

The picture is me with Program Director Nassim Haramein at the Tulum Ruins. He is an award winning physicist working to solve Einstein’s Field Equations and significantly evolving our understanding of how our Universe works – and how we can best work within it. The information is transformational.

In places like this at Maya Tulum, it’s quite easy to feel alive; nature is so embracing, present and animated. If you haven’t escaped from the hustle and bustle of everyday life lately, I encourage you to take some time and go to a favorite place of yours (preferably with lots of natural, alive beauty) and nourish your heart and soul. It’s like the Universal “reset button” that makes all the difference in the world.

In this blog we’ll explore a key element for accessing full self-expression – our fear of death – and how embracing that opens up a whole new world of freedom. Becoming free of your fear of death, and thereby becoming free to live your life, is the very first step in my Major Good Mojo System.

Die While Still Alive and Be Free to Live Your Life

Do not live your life to avoid dying.

Die while still alive and be free to live your life.

Let’s look at one of our biggest fears: the fear of death. Over the years, in all the reading and research I’ve done, I’ve been surprised at how many successful and influential people have become that way largely through facing their fear of death. Once free of the fear of death, they were free to live their life.

Buckminster Fuller (famous inventor, thinker, and architect) almost committed suicide in his 30s after failing miserably as a businessman. Robert Kiyosaki (best selling author of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”) faced his fear of death as a helicopter gunship pilot in Vietnam. He tells his powerful story of “making peace with his maker,” which allowed him to fly free rather than flying to avoid death. Michael Caine (world class actor) faced his fear of death in the Korean War. In his subsequent pursuit to be an actor he said “If I died doing it, I didn’t care. I only go forward. After Korea, nothing could dissuade me.” He was free. There are many, many examples of people facing their fears with the result being freedom – freedom to fully live.

These are extreme examples of actually facing death itself, but the principles are true for any fear. Fears hold us in their grip until we decide otherwise. This is evolution, and is a core competency for moving your life forward: facing, embracing, and moving beyond your fears. Have you ever noticed how amazing you feel when you face a fear and take action in spite of it? That wonderful feeling of freedom is the triumph of spirit over ego, or, said another way, the expansion beyond your small self into your larger self.

Of course, this is not always an easy thing to do! And indeed, our small-self voice has a job to do and many times we should listen to it. However, more often than not, that voice plays it wayyyyyy too safe – far overestimating the risk involved and far underestimating your capacity and capabilities. So, we need to strike a balance and develop our muscle for trusting and expanding into our higher self, while still respecting and honoring that part of us that wants to keep us safe.

There is a paradox involved here that I want to clarify. On the one hand, we know that what we focus on expands, so one might think that embracing and allowing our fear of death will actually expand it! And that we definitely do not want! On the other hand, what you resist persists:

“Resisting” and “avoiding” are actually ways of focusing on something.

Can you see this? To resist something you have to maintain your awareness of it on some level – you have to know what you are resisting! This keeps your attention on it at some level and therefore actually brings it into your experience. So, while we do not want to focus on and expand, and thereby actually create, our fears, we must release our resistance to them to become truly free of them. We do this by embracing and allowing them. This is very different from focusing on and expanding – we are simply embracing and allowing them into our awareness. We are no longer resisting them.

So this is the paradox: that to be free of your fears, including one of our biggest fears, the fear of death, you must embrace and allow them. The logical mind does not understand this. It thinks that to keep something from happening in our life we must resist, avoid, and fight against it. So that is what it does. Have you noticed that whatever you resist, avoid, and fight against tends to stay around in your life for you to continue resisting, avoiding, and fighting against it?

We must come to know that the paradoxical path to being free of fears is through embracing and allowing them. This then allows us the freedom we need to focus on and create what we truly want in life. It’s kind of like that Chinese finger-lock game, the more you try to pull your fingers out the more they become locked in. Only by going into and embracing the lock does the lock become free so you can then pull your fingers out.

As part of the first step of my Major Good Mojo System, “Discovering Your Big Why,” my clients embrace their fear of death. Through an experiential process of embracing our biggest fear, the fear of death, we can uncover what it is we are really here to do and gain access to truly living. If you want to truly be free to live your life, I invite you to engage the The Major Good Mojo System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Take a deep breath and ask yourself “Am I afraid of dying?” And then listen to what comes up. Have a pen and paper nearby to capture insights. Next, explore a little deeper into the answers you get. If no, why not? If yes, what’s underneath that? Just spend a few minutes exploring your current relationship with death and see what’s there for you. Whatever is there, be willing to embrace and allow it, and thereby create a bit more freedom and clarity in your life, and access to Major Good Mojo! 

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