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Where is Wisdom? Why is it So Hard to Come By?

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”  Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922)

Wisdom is deep inside each and every one of us. If wisdom is right here, right where we are, why are so few truly tapped in?

Today I am attending the Wisdom 2.0 Business Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. This is a conference dedicated to exploring and developing the role of wisdom in the world of work. This is a topic I am keenly interested in, for I know there are untapped depths to be plumbed in each and every employee in the working world today.

In the working world of the past we have been asked to “check our souls at the door,” or said another way “to sell our souls to the corporation,” and blindly follow their lead, performing like automatons for the glory of a bigger bottom line. There was no place in this old working world for passion, heart, love, and dynamic solutions that address and fulfill the whole of human existence.

But today is a new day. And what used to work is increasingly failing us. The successful companies of tomorrow will have figured out how to employ ALL of their employees’ being – not just their minds, but also their bodies, hearts, and souls – and to employ those powerful and unique resources to truly meet the needs of the communities they serve. This will be divine work that includes the bottom line, but goes far beyond it.

In this blog we explore why wisdom is so hard to come by. Being able to access your own wisdom is a major outcome of the Major Good Mojo System.

Read on and enjoy!

Where is Wisdom? Why is it So Hard to Come By?

Wisdom comes from a deep place inside us, where most people rarely visit. Wisdom can be defined as thoughts, feelings, concepts, and ideas that are bigger than you and facilitate the greater good of the whole. The only way to have and experience these types of thoughts, feelings, concepts and ideas for yourself is to connect with something bigger than you. We can call this God, Universal Intelligence, Great Spirit, or Source.

This is no longer about religion, or faith, or philosophy. Today’s world demands we go beyond these limiting mental constructs deep into the felt experience of true wisdom. This depth, this experience, this wisdom, is available to each and every person willing to let go and surrender their “smaller self” into this larger “bigger than you” reality.

Both my book NexGen Human and my ´”10 Step Major Good Mojo System” are all about establishing a strong partnership with God, Universal Intelligence, Great Spirit, or Source. I see this as THE most critical skill to survive and thrive in the 21st century. With the amount of change, information, and choices exponentially increasing in our lives, it’s ESSENTIAL we connect with the changeless, infinite, wise guidance inside.

While Spirit communicates with us in many ways, one of the most powerful and effective ways I have found to partner with the power of the Universe is to tune into my own body. If it’s true that we and Great Spirit are one, then we need look no further than right here, right where we are, to tap into divine intelligence and guidance.

So why aren’t more people doing this? If wisdom is available to each of us, inside us, why are we not tapped into it? Well, in our western paradigm of living we are accustomed to thinking of intelligence arising, or coming from, the head. Familiar terms like “Use your head” and “Get your head in the game,” exemplify this way of thinking.

However, what science has discovered in recent years is that intelligence actually exists all over the body; in fact there are neurons, similar to those in our brain, that exist in the heart and as well in the stomach. The new field of neuro-cardiology has called this bundle of neurons in the heart the heart-brain, and those in the stomach have been named the belly-brain.

In addition, studies have shown there is more communication going from the heart to the brain, than from the brain to the heart. The brain does not run the heart – in fact, in a fetus, the heart is formed and starts pumping before the brain is formed. And if you know anything about heart-transplants, you’ll know that a heart removed from the body can continue to beat with no connection to the brain. And those neurons in the gut, they produce the familiar “gut instinct.” We haven’t really understood these things until now.

Someone once said “There is more wisdom from the neck down, than from the neck up.” This is an amazing thing to truly realize, and starts to turn our brain-centered, head-centered western way of thinking and being “on its head.” The bottom line here is that there is wisdom, insight, and intelligence coming from other parts of ourselves!

So why don’t we hear the wisdom from our body? First of all the head is so dominant with its screaming and yelling and nonstop fear-based messages that the subtle aspects of ourselves get drowned out; you just can’t hear them. The voice of wisdom coming from our body is the often-talked-about but seldom heard “still small voice.” It really is still and small. You have to want to hear it, get still, and really listen. If you don’t do this the head continues to dominate you with fear-based, survival-oriented commands. This is unfortunate, because with your head running your life, your life becomes a death march that’s all about avoiding pain, seeking pleasure, and controlling as much as possible. This is called survival and it’s completely void of God-like experiences including joy, unconditional love, compassion, inspiration, deep peace and serenity.

Here’s an interesting insight. Spiritual practices are pretty much ALL about one thing: connecting to Source. That’s it. In one way, shape, or form they are ALL doorways to connecting with Source. Chanting, meditating, prayer, postures, mudras, mantras, etc. etc. etc. Anything you can think of. Every single one of these things is A MEANS TO THE END. Mostly they are about calming and quieting our mental, physical, or emotional distractions. Why? So we can finally connect, hear, and EXPERIENCE that still small voice that is the God Inside each and every one of us.

Think of the mind, or your head, as the manager, and think of your body, and especially your heart, as the leader, as the visionary. Without a divinely inspired vision, the manager, or your head, is just spinning its wheels doing busy work. Your mind is there to serve your heart; however most people are so in their mind, and disconnected from their body-based wisdom, that the mind is dysfunctionally running the show. With these insights your practice becomes about getting connected to your body and accessing ALL your wisdom.

To develop your felt experience of true wisdom, your strong connection with God, Universal Intelligence, Great Spirit, Source I invite you to engage The Major Good Mojo System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Sit in a comfortable position with your feet flat on the ground and your hands resting on your thighs. Take several deep belly breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth. Close your eyes and feel your awareness draining down from your head, down into your body. You can literally sense this energetic shift of awareness-energy coming down from your head, down into your body. Imagine your awareness just melting down from your head down into your body as you breathe deeply in through your nose and out through your mouth. Do this for a minute or two and longer if you want.

Once you have moved your awareness down into your body, just sit calmly in that state for a few moments and notice the quality of your thoughts and feelings. If you have truly succeeded at moving your awareness-energy down into your body, your will likely notice your thoughts are more peaceful, calm, confident, courageous, loving, inspired, and actually wise.  More, one might say, “God-like” in their quality.

Congratulations – you are one step closer to Major Good Mojo!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hell Is Other People – Or Is It?

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

Friends at Esalen

This picture was taken at The Esalen Institute during an ITP (Integral Transformative Practice) Mastery Program Retreat. I always have a smile on my face when I’m at Esalen. Beauty, peace, and joy are so easily experienced there. It’s like Heaven On Earth, especially when you’re there with kindred spirits.

This past weekend I was with Dr. John Gray at his Mars/Venus Soul Mate Seminar. What a great program – I highly recommend it. He offered many profound and helpful ideas, when it comes to finding your soul mate. Here is one of his ideas that struck me: He suggested that you ask yourself, “Do you like who you are when you’re in their presence?” If your answer is “yes, most of the time,” that’s a good sign. If “no,” then you might want to reconsider the relationship. You can apply this to any relationship, group, or community. Do you like who you are when you are with them?

Have you ever heard the statement “Hell is other people”? I really laughed when I first heard that because of course there is some truth to it. However, the opposite is just as true or even truer: “Heaven is other people.” The key is: WHAT people? And to a very large extent, this is up to you. Of the seven billion or so people now living on Planet Earth, you get to choose the ones you are going to spend time with. Isn’t that amazing?

In this issue of Major Good Mojo we take a closer look at this very important element for your personal power and fulfillment: finding kindred spirits on your path. This is Step 10 of the Major Good Mojo System: “Connect with a Loving, Supportive, Inspiring Community.”

Read on and enjoy!

Hell is Other People – Or is it?

Step 10 of The Major Good Mojo System is: Connect with a loving, supportive, inspiring community.  As the old saying goes, no man is an island. To live a truly fulfilling life we need others. This is especially true when beginning to step out into new ways of living for the first time. You need a group of supportive people who can love and support you.  Who see and believe in the best for you. Who know who you really are and what you are hoping to achieve. The reason we are not alone on this planet is because we need each other. The key is to find your tribe, to find YOUR people. This is not always an easy thing to do.

I remember I was working with a professional life coach in the late 90s and he kept repeating to me, “Roger, you gotta get out there and meet your people.” I was sharing all this stuff with him about consciousness and living a creative life, and pouring my passions out to him in our sessions. He kept prodding me to get out there, to find those places where I and my ideas would be welcomed. I finally took his advice and found several communities where this was true. It made all the difference in the world to be with people who could understand me, who would support and encourage me, and even challenge me to get better, clearer, or more committed.

You know you’ve found your community, your people, or your tribe when you are accepted for who you are, you naturally fit in, and it’s easy for you to be yourself, say what you are thinking and feeling, and grow in the relationship.

One very interesting element of community is that “who we are with others, is not who we are when alone.” Think about it. Who you are, the thoughts you are having, the things you say, the things you do, are different depending on who is with you. This is a very interesting characteristic of relationships. We’ve all been around people who make us feel good or who inspire us. And on the other hand, we’ve all been around people who depress us and suck the energy out of us. Clearly, we are affected by the people with whom we are interacting.

In the spring 1996 issue of “The Noetic Sciences Review,” Margaret Wheatley (Organizational Consultant and author of Leadership and the New Science: Learning About Organization from an Orderly Universe) wrote an article about the hidden intelligence orchestrating and organizing all things in the Universe. In this article one of the things she pointed out was: who we are when we’re with others, or who we are in community, is different than who we are when we’re alone.

Margaret reveals the seldom realized and amazing fact that you cannot understand the power of an individual by assessing or understanding who they are when alone. You have to look at them when in community and in relationship with others! However, she pointed out, “none of the personality assessors or indicators (e.g. Myers-Briggs) let us know who or what we are capable of being when we are in community with one another.”

As your mission becomes clearer and your confidence in who you are becomes greater and greater, your ability to identify, attract, and engage people on your path gets stronger and stronger.On the flip side, your ability to know who and what is NOT on your path gets stronger and stronger as well. And eventually, what comes along with this knowledge is your ability to say NO to who and what is not on your path. The funny thing is, people and opportunities NOT on your path will likely keep showing up, especially in the early stages of engaging your mission. These become opportunities for you to continue embracing who and what you are, by saying NO to who and what is not on your path. (Side note:  these people actually ARE on your path, however they are there for you to say and strengthen your “no”).

Eventually you get to a point in life where it’s about living your mission and making your contribution to the world. This is what becomes most important. If someone does not support, or is not aligned with this highest purpose and vision for your life, then it serves no one (including them!) to spend your time and energy with them. Having this kind of capacity requires that you are very clear on your own authentic life path and mission (achieved through Steps 5 and 6 of The Major Good Mojo System: Get connected to your Purpose and Passions). When you have clarity on this, it becomes a lot easier to say YES and NO to best facilitate your service and gifts into the world.

Connecting with loving, inspiring, and supportive people, groups, and communities is an essential element for living a truly fulfilling life. To bring this alive in your life I invite you to engage the The Major Good Mojo Coaching System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Reflect on the following questions:

-       Who in your life right now does NOT support the highest vision of yourself? Who do you NOT feel empowered and good in the presence of? List these people, groups, and communities. Decide right now to give less of your time, attention, and energy to these people on your path that are not serving you (nor is it serving them!).

-       Who in your life right now DOES support the highest vision of yourself? Who do you feel empowered and good in the presence of? List these people, groups, and communities. Decide right now to give MORE of your time, attention, and energy to these people on your path that ARE serving and supporting the highest vision of yourself.

Congratulations – you are one step closer to Major Good Mojo!

 

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The Two Most Abused Modern Miracles: Diet and Exercise

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

This picture was taken on a recent hike of mine on the mountain in my backyard, Mt. Diablo. I love exercise that takes me into the inspiring energy of the great outdoors. I gave up boring gym workouts long ago in favor of free, fun, and truly energizing outdoor exercises that require no special equipment.

Have you noticed the conversation about health and diet really ramping up these days? It’s been prevalent since the exercise revolution of the 70’s, but recently seems more and more people are getting sick. The side effects of living in our modern world are catching up with us. It seems people are either too busy (I don’t have enough time) or too depressed (I don’t care) to take care of themselves. Both of these conditions – too busy or too depressed – lead to sedentary lifestyles coupled with consumption of highly processed, convenience foods. You can get away with this for a while, but eventually it catches up with you.

The data and research are clearer today than ever before: proper diet and regular exercise are the keys to healthy living. Almost every disease in our modern world can be linked back to poor diet and lack of exercise (plus mental/emotional stress). These are factors in which YOU are in control, NOT your genes, destiny, or bad luck. I see it on PBS all the time: people reversing chronic health ailments like coronary artery disease, migraines, even cancer, through changes in diet and exercise. Not to mention just plain old feeling better with more optimism and energy!

In this issue of Major Good Mojo we look at one of the most important ingredients for creating your life’s dreams and desires: taking conscious, loving care of your physical body. This is Step 9 of the Major Good Mojo System: “Feel Good In Your Body – Look After It!”

Read on and enjoy!

The Two Most Abused Modern Miracles: Diet and Exercise

Step 9 of the 10 Step Major Good Mojo System is “Feel Good In Your Body – Look After It!” This step has multiple aspects to it, all of them about taking care of your physical self. Over the years I’ve learned just how important this is to a life of fulfillment. We have bodies for a reason, and that reason is to live and fulfill our destinies and to create and fully experience our lives. If our bodies are out of shape, worn down, or not given the proper fuel, sleep, or fresh air, just like any mechanical system, they will break down. They will not be able to serve their purpose.

Lots of people struggle with this in their lives. I think one of the reasons is because the body is for living, and if you don’t know what you are living for, then you’re not truly, or naturally, motivated to live. That makes taking care of your body, your key tool for living, an uphill battle and struggle. When you are connected to Spirit and your passions (accomplished through the first 8 steps of the Major Good Mojo System), taking care of your body becomes so much easier and more natural. You are excited about life, you are inspired by life, you have divine energy flowing through you and you want to live. It makes a lot more sense that you want to exercise and move your body, eat a healthy diet, drink plenty of refreshing water, breath lots of fresh air, let in the beautiful sunlight, connect with plants and animals, and get plenty of rest and sleep.

One of my original teachers and inspirations was Dan Millman, author of the best selling book “Way of the Peaceful Warrior.” He is often asked, “How can I become a Peaceful Warrior? What is the most important thing I should be doing?” His reply is, “Get plenty of sleep, eat a healthy diet, and exercise your body.” We’re so busy looking for the magical aspects of living a fulfilling life that we forget these basic things and the huge difference they make.

One of the most powerful practices I have discovered is called Integral Transformative Practice, or ITP for short. This is a long-term practice for transformation developed by human potential pioneers Michael Murphy and George Leonard. Michael Murphy is one of the founders of the Esalen Institute (the west coast center for the human potential movement, founded 50 years ago, located in beautiful Big Sur, California) and George Leonard was President of The Esalen Institute for a time. Over the years these two saw pretty much everything when it came to programs and processes for realizing our human potential.

On January 4, 1992 they embarked on a research study they called “Integral Transformative Practice” with 36 people that met every Saturday morning for 11 months. In 1993 a second group met for 10 consecutive months. They decided they would forgo the spectacular “gee-whiz” experiences they knew they could facilitate, feeling they only gave the illusion of significant change and could even interfere with lasting, long-term transformation. Rather, they held a strong belief in the “transformative power and sacredness of life’s quiet virtues, including intellectual curiosity and integrity, a sense of the spiritual, unconditional love, healthy exercise, and a devotion to practice.” They “were in it for the long run.” “The practice would be integral in that it would involve and seek to integrate body, mind, heart, and soul. It would be transformative in that it would aim toward positive, long-term personal change.”

While the practice certainly has its physical/body-based components, including proper diet and regular exercise, it goes beyond this and recognizes the INTEGRAL nature of ALL OUR COMPONENTS. This means focus and development in one area affect all the others. So, for TRUE physical health and vitality, we must also develop our other parts: mind, heart, and soul. And vice-versa for all the other areas of our being.

The standard affirmation that every ITP Practitioner makes is “My entire being is balanced, vital and healthy.” It’s important to affirm your preferred state of balance, vitality, and health, and ingrain this into yourself through repetition as a conscious and unconscious truth.

So, Step 9, taking care of our physical body, is in the Major Good Mojo System as a very important part of our daily practice for fulfillment and experiencing Major Good Mojo in our lives. To experience the power this can provide in your life, I invite you to engage the The Major Good Mojo Coaching System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Take a look in your kitchen cupboards and pantry and see what you see. Are they filled with processed foods, crackers, cookies, pasta, chips, cereal, white rice, tortillas, bread, candy, etc.? Modern dietary research is indicating the average American diet is too high in these starchy, sugary, processed carbs. Just decreasing your intake of these things will make a big difference in your health. Replace them with things like fresh vegetables, fruits, and nuts.

Take a look at your exercise habits. Is your habit NOT to exercise? Just notice. Modern research is showing that even a small amount of non-strenuous exercise (a short walk for example) can make a huge difference in health and well-being. It’s the consistency that matters most, not the intensity. See if there is an opportunity for you to increase the exercise you are getting in your life and notice the big difference it will make.

Congratulations – you are one step closer to Major Good Mojo!

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How to Stay Connected to Spirit and Passion

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

This picture was taken at the Esalen Institute on California’s Big Sur Coast, as I gazed out over their “Great Lawn” to the Pacific Ocean. I selected the picture for this eZine because the two art pieces nicely demonstrate the typical path one follows living in Spirit and creating a passion-filled life. It’s never a straight line! However, over time, with a consciously engaged practice, there is progress, and often significant, beautiful progress.

One of my favorite quotes from human potential pioneer Michael Murphy, co-founder of the Esalen Institute, is “The question isn’t whether to engage a practice or not, because you’re already practicing something. The question is what are you practicing?” Michael is referring to our ability to consciously choose what we practice in our lives. Are you choosing to practice fear, worry, and concern? This choice, if you can call it that, is typically made unconsciously and by default. Or, are you choosing to practice joy, love, and generosity? This choice is usually made in a more conscious and intentional way.

In this blog we look at one of the most important ingredients for creating your life’s dreams and desires: having and establishing a consciously created daily personal practice. This is Step 8 of the Major Good Mojo System: “Stay connected to Spirit and Passion.”

Read on and enjoy!

How to Stay Connected to Spirit and Passion

Step 8 of the 10 Step Major Good Mojo System is “Stay connected to Spirit and Passion.” Spirit and your passions go hand in hand. As Chris and Janet Attwood, authors of “The Passion Test,” often say, “What you love and God’s will for you are one and the same.” As you deepen your connection to your Higher Self and become more and more adept at listening to and following its guidance, you’ll find you’re led to your passions. You’re led to move and take action on what it is you love. Step by step you’ll be fulfilling your passions, your dharma, and your purpose. This step, Step 8, is about putting in place a practice that keeps you connected to Spirit and your passions day in and day out.

I cannot overemphasize the importance of a long-term, daily practice. It’s inside of this long-term context that your true transformation and evolution will be most powerfully facilitated. In a long-term practice you have the time to experience what does and does not work for you, what is and is not efficient. Then you are able to tune and optimize.

Living and fulfilling your passions is the result of the path of practice, and it occurs and is engaged OVER TIME. Therefore you need to be on a path of regular practice that marks your way, guides you, supports you, and keeps your evolution on track. It’s like creating a groove in a piece of wood with a rock, or perhaps on a piece of glass with a diamond; the first time you practice you just scratch the surface of the wood or glass. But then each time you practice, over and over again, you deepen that groove, and subsequently those things you are working on. Your connection to Source and Heart Wisdom, seeing the good in everything, going with the flow, transcending limiting beliefs, embracing the contraction and low energy times in your life, and expressing and creating your authentic life purpose, all eventually become the natural path for divine energy flow in your life.

It’s also important to note that for your practice to have deep transformational value it must continue independent of what is going on in your life. If you allow life to rule you, you will soon stop your practice. However, if you engage your practice independent of the conditions in your life, you can persist. This means you choose to do your practice for no reason and you do it no matter what.

You can look at your life as your ultimate long-term practice. Over your years on this earth you discover what works and doesn’t work for you, making adjustments, learning and deepening your connection to Source, until you ultimately and literally do dissolve into the oneness. Your long-term practice can be a microcosm of this ultimate and real long-term practice of your life – becoming more free, present, powerful, and joy-filled – while still alive and animating your physical form.

And don’t be afraid to try out different practices. Do what works for you. I’ve engaged many different forms and my transformational practice has continually evolved. Know that something may work for you and be very powerful at one stage of your life, then you grow beyond it and are ready for something else. Don’t feel like you have to select something and stay with it forever. Be free to evolve and engage and create what works for you.

Establishing your own, customized, daily practice that keeps you connected to Spirit and your passions is a major benefit of the Major Good Mojo System. To experience the power this can provide in your life, I invite you to engage the The Major Good Mojo Coaching System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Take a look in your life to identify any daily practices you have that keep you connected to Spirit and your passions. If you have some, great, keep doing those. If you don’t, spend a few minutes right now to think of one or two things you might do each day to get more connected. Perhaps you’ll choose to read some uplifting and inspiring words, or start a gratitude journal, or walk in nature, or even meditate. These are all simple things that, if engaged consciously each day, can become a powerful practice in and for your life.

Consciously choosing, creating, and engaging a long-term daily practice is one of the most powerful things you can do.

Congratulations – you are one step closer to Major Good Mojo!

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Open Up and Bloom – It’s Your Choice

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

It has been said that human beings are the only creatures privileged with the ability to refuse to bloom and open up. Why is that? Why are we privileged in this sense and why do we resist?

We are privileged because as conscious beings we have the power of choice. You can say yes to things or you can say no. You can say yes to Divine Guidance and Wisdom or you can resist and say no. It’s your choice. Consider this quote by Rumi: “Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof, and closes his eyes tight, and says I don’t see anything.” You see, you CAN go to the rooftop and close your eyes tightly – it’s your choice. Buy why would you do that? Well, there are a lot of reasons, but a big one may be having been hurt by past experiences of trusting and opening up.

And why do we resist? Because we’ve been hurt in the past, or experienced other “flavors” of hurt like disappointment and failure. We close down and resist blooming and opening. This is a normal human mechanism for safety and protection that can of course be helpful. We’ve been hurt before and we don’t want it to happen again so we create strategies to prevent it. However, things are always changing, and these automatic mechanisms and strategies can become outdated over time and become more hurtful than helpful.

At some point the resistance to blooming can become so painful that we must choose to bloom! However, before reaching that point, we can help the blooming process by proactively looking at those things that are keeping us closed and resistant. We can look for the outdated strategies that are no longer helpful, and begin to dismantle them and their grip on our life. Doing this important work is the topic of this blog and is Step 7 of the Major Good Mojo System “Let Go of Old, Negative Stuff – Beliefs, Habits, and Patterns.” 

NOTE:  An easy and powerful tool that will help you address and clear negative beliefs and blocks is a short guided-meditation audio program called “Shift It.” Check it out here!

Read on and enjoy!

Open Up and Bloom! – It’s Your Choice

Step 7 of the Major Good Mojo System is “Let Go of Old, Negative Stuff – Beliefs, Habits, and Patterns.” As soon as someone steps onto their new path toward their new life, what they typically run into are all their old beliefs and habits that have been holding them back. It is vital to understand this and be able to address it. If you are not able to see, work with, release and transform old beliefs and habits that hold you in place, you will very quickly return to your old life and be even more resigned. You may say to yourself that you “tried” and it just didn’t work out. You will resist your blooming.

I have dealt with this a lot in my own life and, frankly, I still do. Often I would go to an amazing and inspiring seminar or workshop, come out ready to take on the world, only to find my old habits and ways of being creeping back in over the next few weeks. A month or more out from the workshop it was as if my brain was asking, “what workshop?”

Getting insights and inspiration is important, but is only the beginning. One of the down-side problems relating to weekend workshops and seminars is the lack of long-term support. There is often no process in place to work out the old ways of being that participants took with them into that workshop. There’s typically not even an acknowledgement that these things even exist!  I’m sure you’ve experienced this in your own life and know it to be true. Lots of people are offering fascinating and inspiring programs, but what is missing is the follow up. Old beliefs and habits have far more momentum and are far more ingrained than any new idea or inspiration. Without the follow up, most of the new ideas will die on the vine.

Learning how to let go of old negative beliefs, habits, and patterns is THE difference between success and failure. In my opinion this is why people became frustrated with the movie “The Secret.” They went out and asked for and believed they could have something. But what they were not told is that there is a huge part of them that does not believe they can have it, or should have it, or deserve it, or that it’s even possible. That’s what a friend of mine has called “The Dirty Little Secret.” The dirty little secret is that when you truly desire something and commit to having it, what comes up for you are all the beliefs or constructs that kept you from having it in the first place.  These must be released for true fulfillment to take place.

I know how hard it is to let go of negative beliefs and habits. That is why I created an audio program called “Shift It.” This is an easy and powerful tool specifically designed to address negative beliefs and blocks. Check it out here.

I have experienced and worked with MANY different tools and processes for releasing and transforming beliefs and habits we no longer prefer to uphold. The tools and processes that really work have these three things in common:

1) They make you stop and notice what is happening; you become a conscious witness to the FACTS about the situation(s),

 2) They invite you to embrace all aspects of your experience of the situation: physical, mental, emotional. You must embrace and allow the truth of your experience – the only way out is through. 

3) Once you’ve gone into the uncomfortable aspects and felt and allowed them, you then open up to new insights and possibilities for your life.

You can think of this generalized process as a bridge between two lands: your current, limited reality/experience, and your desired, expanded reality/experience. The bridge between these two lands is courageously built by embracing and allowing your truth and the full-body experience of the issue, situation, or challenge. Basically, you are consciously embracing all your “fears of what might happen.” Once you’ve done this, it is like magic! New insights and possibilities automatically begin arising.

When you engage the Major Good Mojo System I will walk you through several very powerful processes to open new doors in your life and embrace your blooming. And, even better, I will teach you these processes so you can do it for yourself for the rest of your life. To experience the power this can provide in your life, I invite you to engage the The Major Good Mojo System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Where are you “tightly closing your eyes” and afraid of seeing the rising sun? Where are you resisting your blooming?  

Think of an uncomfortable or frustrating situation in your life right now. Write down one or two sentences that simply describe the facts of that situation. Then, write down how you feel about it; what are all the thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations you experience when you think about this situation? Do you feel angry, mad, tired, resigned, or perhaps sad? Where in your body do you feel these feelings? Point to and describe the physical feelings you are having. It might be tension or tightness, a “sick to the stomach” feeling, a numbness, or perhaps heat or hotness.

Allow yourself to notice and experience these feelings. Fully go into them with an open curiosity, with an attitude of “Wow, look how irritated I am” or “Wow, look how much tension I have around this situation.” Just notice and allow whatever is there for you as you think about the situation. This should only take two or three minutes, but take as much time as you need.

Then, once you have embraced and allowed your experience, begin opening up to new insights, ideas, or thoughts that may be arising. Just turn your attention toward “new ways of holding or moving through the situation.” You can even ask, “In what new ways might I hold this situation.” Then listen quietly for your intuition and insights to arise. In the beginning, a process like this is best engaged with a skilled facilitator. However, with some courage, compassion, and gentleness, you can certainly make some headway on your own.

Congratulations – you are choosing to bloom and are building bridges to new lands of Major Good Mojo!

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The 7 Myths of Life Purpose: What you must know to align with your purpose

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

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We’ve all heard December 21, 2012 is the end of the Long Count Mayan calendar, the supposed end of time.  Of course, what this means, and what will actually happen, no one really knows.  It’s a great adventure for all of us! 

In the recent book “2012 and the End of the World” authors Matthew Restall and Amara Solari describe the way Western civilization’s expansion across the Atlantic brought apocalyptic ideas which flourished in North America.  And when a predicted apocalypse did not materialize, doomsday predictions never disappeared. They simply jumped from one supposed end-of-world date to the next.  “In recent decades,” say the authors, “no year has escaped prophecies of doom; regardless of when you are reading these words, you will find online a prediction that the end is months, if not days, away.”

One of the affirmations I say on regular basis is “I wisely choose to surround myself with energy that uplifts and expands me.”  I have a very low tolerance for people/ideas/and energy that tire and drain me – doomsday predictions being one of them!  It becomes a responsibility of mine (to myself) to either remove myself from the negatively draining situations/energy/people or actively engage to shape them toward a more positive and uplifting direction.  While the world we live in is certainly changing, and lots of things ARE coming to an end – my bet is that we will all be here to continue this journey into 2013 and well beyond.

Since we’ll all be here going forward, one of the most important and fulfilling things we can be doing is living our life’s purpose!  In this blog I will dispel for you seven myths of life purpose I have discovered through research, working with others, and through my own life experience.  These myths are part of Step 6 of the Major Good Mojo System which is “Design and Align Your Life Around Your Passions.”

Read on and enjoy!

The 7 Myths of Life Purpose

 Step 6 of my Major Good Mojo System is “Align and Design Your Life Around Your Passions.”  Once you’ve found your passions (Step 5), you’ve got to get your life around you pulling for them. This is about letting go of the old and bringing in the new, by saying no to old patterns and behaviors that are no longer part of the new you and saying YES to those things that are!

 We all have important work to do on this planet in the short lives that we live; it’s essential that we get our lives focused on our passions so we’re engaging them on a daily basis.  Mentally, spiritually, emotionally, physically, your environment, your relationships, how you spend your time each day and the choices you are making in each moment, how you spend and invest your money – all of these can be aligned with your greatest passion, your purpose and mission in life.  When this starts happening for you it feels soooo good, because you are finally on your path and doing what you are here to do. 

Now, I want to be clear this is not something that happens overnight; like most things, it’s a process, taken one step at a time.  However, done consciously, it can happen relatively quickly.  Moment by moment saying YES to your passions and what is on your path, and NO to what is not on your path, begins to get you aligned. Your life force energy flows into your dreams and you begin to manifest them.

To help you align your life with your purpose and passions I will dispel for you, right here, seven of the most commonly believed MYTHS that can hold you back from fully realizing who you are:

Myth #1:  “It’s too late for me” or “I’m too old and missed my chance.”

Reality:  It’s NEVER too late. If you’re still here, you are here for a reason (nothing exists without one) and you have time. Get on with it.

Myth #2:  “Leap and ‘my wings will grow’ on the way down” or “Leap and a net will appear.”

Reality:  Plan, plan, and plan, then leap and GROW YOUR WINGS on the way down. Do not expect them to grow by themselves – they won’t. With regards to the net, put your own net there, then leap. Again, don’t expect one to magically appear for you; better to put it there yourself.

Myth #3:  “Do what you love and the money will follow.”

Reality:  No it won’t. If that happens for some people, it’s out of pure luck, because this is NOT a law. Manifesting money, like manifesting anything else in life, requires focus and competence. To the extent you focus on manifesting money and build your competence in that arena, while at the same time doing what you love, it’s quite likely that money will flow from your efforts.

Myth #4:  “You can be anything you want.”

Reality:  No you can’t. Please avoid torturing yourself with this fallacy. While there is a relatively wide range of creative roles you can engage on your authentic life path, you have a specific purpose and a unique mission in life. The Universe has a plan for you – recognize and embrace it. That is your access to the life of fulfillment you so desire.

Myth #5:  “The purpose of life is material success” or “If one is successful in the material area of life, then they are successful in all areas of life.”

Reality:  The purpose of life is spiritual evolution, the constant expansion of your capabilities to be and manifest who you are. This is typically achieved by overcoming adversity and challenge, barriers both real and perceived. Manifesting material goods is only ONE aspect of the challenge. People who are good at that may or may not be evolving spiritually. In other words, we can expand our bank accounts without expanding who we are in other areas.

Myth #6:  “You need formal education, training, and credentials to make a difference.”

Reality:  You need competence to make a difference. Competence is developed and obtained in many ways, of which formal education and training is only one. In addition, when you are on the path of your authentic purpose, you do not need “others” to validate you. If you have truly done your work to become the open channel for life force you are meant to be, then the Universe is your credentials and authority, and others will instinctively know that. People will get that your power comes from the Universe, NOT from external credentials or a few letters after your name. God, Universal Intelligence, Great Spirit, Source  is the most powerful credential there is; align with God, give your life over to “him,” and others will intuitively know where you are coming from (authentic Life Force Energy will be flowing).

Myth #7:  “If anything is going to happen, it’s up to me to make it happen.”

Reality:  Non-local intelligence has infinite organizing power and can make things happen far beyond what our little physical selves may be able to think about, much less orchestrate. The Universe will make things happen IF the local intent/desire is aligned (authentic) with it, i.e. the clarity of the local channel will determine the efficiency of the non-local power. Your job is to maximize the clarity of the local channel (get your self, small “s,” out of the way) and make room for non-local intelligence and power to express through you.

How do you get your self, small “s” out of the way? Finding your passions and aligning your life with your personal well-spring of life force energy is a major objective and benefit of the Major Good Mojo System. To experience the power this can provide in your life, I invite you to engage the The Major Good Mojo Coaching System.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

A very simple way to identify what is aligned with your life purpose is to look at what gives you energy vs. what takes it from you. Those things that give you energy, that you look forward to and really enjoy, are most likely aligned with your life purpose. And those things that you dread and resist, are most likely not aligned with your life purpose.

Take out a piece of paper right now, draw a line down the middle and label the left column “Gives energy to me” and label the right column “Takes energy from me.”  Then write down all the things you do each day putting them in the column that best represents how you feel before, during, and/or after engaging that activity.  If you feel mostly positively energized, put it in the “Gives energy to me” column.  If you feel mostly negatively drained, put it in the “Takes energy from me” column. 

Once you’ve done this, look back over the columns and see if you notice any patterns – are there any common themes you can see regarding the things that give you energy?  Are there any common themes for the things that take energy from you?  Next choose one or more things on the list of items that give you energy and decide right now to do MORE of those things.  And then, choose one or more of the things on the list of items that take energy from you and decide to do LESS of those things.

Congratulations – you are one step closer to aligning with your life purpose and accessing 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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How to be a Star in the School of Life: Give Up the Blame Game

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

This picture was taken on the starting tee of the ITPI Kingdom of Golf Marathon Fund Raiser in San Rafael California. ITPI stands for Integral Transformative Practice International, a very powerful practice for integration of body, mind, heart, and soul, created by George Leonard and Michael Murphy. In the picture, Michael is in the middle wearing the Giants hat. Besides creating ITP, he is co-founder of Esalen, the west coast center for human potential, and author of the book and now movie “Golf in the Kingdom.” (Click here to see the amazing movie trailer).

Being one of the top fund-raisers, I was blessed with the opportunity to play in the foursome with Bobby Clampett, PGA Champions Tour Player, pro golf instructor, and NBC announcer. Can you guess which one he is? That’s right, the one in black and red who most looks like the pro golfer. He is actually wearing knickers and he also won the prize for best dressed.

As we played each hole, Bobby had lots of interesting things to say when it came to playing great golf. One of the most memorable for me was, “The best students and players never complain about why their ball didn’t go where they wanted it to. They never blame it on the wind, the grass being too wet, the sun in their eyes, or any of those things. Rather, they take full responsibility for each shot, knowing it didn’t go where they wanted it to go because they didn’t hit it there! The best students know it’s all up to them, and they LEARN from each shot so each one gets better and better.”

Today is 11-11-11 representing a powerful doorway to new levels of consciousness. Perhaps today is the day you embrace new levels of response-ability in your life. Perhaps today is the day you move into a new level of consciousness and power and truly own your life, your experiences, and all aspects of it. Today, 11-11-11, just may be that day.

In this blog we’ll explore more deeply how to be a star in the school of life. The answer, simple, elegant, and powerful, is one of the three Power Principles in my Major Good Mojo System, and one of the very first things my clients engage when embarking on their journey.

Read on and enjoy!

How to be a Star in the School of Life: Give Up the Blame Game

For the duration of the Major Good Mojo Program, my clients agree to follow, live by, and live into three important Power Principles. These are principles of living discovered through years of trial and error I’ve found essential to creating a life of Major Good Mojo. The third Power Principle, and the key to becoming a star in the school of life, is to take full responsibility for your results and experience in life. This is so important that I wrote a whole chapter about it in my book, NexGen Human, Chapter 4, “The Great Transformation.”

The blame game and playing victim is so common and prevalent in our society today; everyone wants to blame someone or something else for their apparent woes and problems. It’s so easy to do and we’ve all done it. The problem with this approach is that it never leads to solutions or resolutions of the issue. What it does is make powerless the person doing the blaming and playing the victim. By definition, blaming others and playing the victim absolves you of any responsibility, and thereby also removes your “response-ability.” You cannot respond, you can only blame and be a victim and perpetuate that vicious cycle of perpetrator and victim. The key is to wake-up and take back your response-ability and instead choose to move your life in directions you really desire.

Frankly, part of the awakening here is simply growing up and becoming an adult in those areas of our lives where we are still children. You see, when we were children we actually WERE victims, so it’s not that this story we believed was never true. The way we experienced the world was the way we experienced the world. It was true at one point in our life and we got very pissed-off about that. However, I’m sure you can see it was from a very limited view of the world.

When you are 6, 7, or 8 years old, you haven’t seen much of the world, nor have you interacted with very many of the people in it. You only knew what you were exposed to and that was it. However, over the years, as we develop adult competencies, distinctions, and capacities, we become far more able to take responsibility for our lives. We develop a far larger context inside of which our life is happening. And eventually the opportunity arrives when we can actually choose to be responsible about how we are reacting to our hurts, our trials and tribulations as a child. We can choose in this moment, as an adult, how we are going to relate to and perceive those incidences in our lives that hurt us.

At more advanced levels of this competency (being responsible for everything you experience in your life), deeper and more subtle stories of playing victim come to light. For example, people love to blame the government, the economy, the weather, their spouse, their kids, their finances, their health, and on, and on, and on! In all of these circumstances there is choice. Choice to be responsible for your life and the events in it, or the choice to be a victim and not responsible for the events in your life.

Again, this doesn’t mean bad things don’t happen, or that people and things aren’t out there making your life challenging. What it does mean is you don’t blame them and play victim to them. Instead, you acknowledge the challenges you have, recognize they are part of YOUR experience in YOUR life, and choose instead to take some creative, proactive actions that will move you and your life forward.

Taking full responsibility for your results and experience in life is a key piece of the Major Good Mojo System. To take this skill to new levels and become a star in the school of life, I invite you to engage the The Major Good Mojo Coaching Program.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Consider carefully the following questions. Your answers may grant you immense power and freedom:

-          Are there areas in your life where you can stop being a victim and become more response-able? What and where might these areas be?

-          Are there people in your life you can benefit from forgiving? Who might they be?

-          How much pain and suffering have you created from being a victim or holding a grudge in your life? Think how great it would feel FOR YOU to let that go.

If you were to focus on one of the areas above and become less of a victim and more like a responsible creator, what might that look like? What would be your first step or action? Take it, and take your life into new levels of freedom, power, consciousness, and Major Good Mojo!

 

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Why do people do mean, mindless, irrational, and unloving things?

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| 1 Comment

 

“People have a propensity to do mean, mindless, irrational, irresponsible and unloving things. Rather than asking why, ask ‘How can I use this for my own growth?’ Until today, you may not have realized that you have the power to re-shape and re-define any experience, no matter how devastating it seems. Just for today, take off the cloak of victimization. Look at your experience and ask the Holy Spirit to show you how to use it for something good. Today, I am opening my mind and heart to the power of re-creation!”

– Iyanla Vanzant: from Until today!: daily devotions for spiritual growth and peace of mind

This is a thought-provoking quote from Ms. Vanzant , the well-known inspirational speaker, author and teacher.

I am in agreement with the vast majority of her words, in fact, all except the first sentence.  In my view, people are always acting in their own self interest doing what they believe to be best for them – not always consciously, of course.  If that were not true, then we would have to say that all humans are insane – which they are not. They are simply acting in their own interest for what they believe is in the best interest of their survival and that of the species.  It only looks to us as mean, mindless, irrational, irresponsible, and unloving.  If you ask those people doing those things, I bet most of them would say they are not committing mean, irrational, mindless, irresponsible and unloving behaviors. In fact, they’ll probably argue the exact opposite. 

What Iyanla is pointing toward is that the astute student of life sees and uses everything – all circumstances, situations, and experiences – as opportunities for evolution, growth, and learning.  In this context, nothing is every “bad” or “wrong,” only a greater or lesser opportunity to learn something, or practice something.

FROM: wikipedia

Iyanla Vanzant is an inspirational speaker, New Thought spiritual teacher, author, and television personality. She is known primarily for her books, for her eponymous talk show, and for her frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Vanzant was born in Brooklyn, New York, as Ronda Eva Harris. She currently resides in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. She is also a Yoruba priestess and an ordained New Thought minister.

In the year 2000, she was named one of the 100 Most Influential Black Americans by Ebony magazine, which said that “Her books, lectures and television appearances have made her a multimedia high priestess of healthy relationships.”

Iyanla Vanzant: Wikipedia

 

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How to Move Mountains

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Roger Kenneth Marsh| Leave a comment

I love warm weather and the dry, beautiful nature of Northern California. In the picture I am enjoying some of the last days of summer weather on a hike with a friend near my home in San Ramon. Hiking to the top of this ridge we could see a spectacular 360 degree view of the entire San Francisco Bay Area. The mountain in the distance is Mt. Diablo, the highest peak in the East Bay. As you can see, we had great visibility that day.

This picture relates to today’s topic for Major Good Mojo. In this blog we’ll explore how to “move mountains” and “move the Universe.” The answer, simple, elegant, and powerful, is one of the three Power Principles in my Major Good Mojo System, and one of the very first things my clients engage when embarking on their journey.

Read on and enjoy!

How to Move Mountains: Commit to Yourself and Your Life

Most of you are probably familiar with the following famous passage attributed to German writer J.W. von Goethe. (Note: research has indicated that Scottish mountaineer W.H. Murray actually penned most of this quote, however in any case, it’s very powerful).

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”

Why does this passage hit home? Because each of us has experienced this amazing power of commitment. We know that when we authentically and fully commit ourselves to something, providence does move and miracles do happen. It’s a wondrous thing.

Some evidence for this power of commitment and its ability to move the Universe is found in the work of Cleve Backster, an interrogation specialist with the CIA and polygraph (lie detector) expert. In the 1960s he performed and published a series of experiments on the effect of human intention on plants and found that plants responded (via polygraph instrumentation) to human intention to do them harm. He called this phenomenon “primary perception.” While that is quite remarkable in and of itself, even more remarkable is that the plants DID NOT respond to “pretend” intentions to do them harm. Only when the person was REALLY going to them harm did they respond. The Universe knows the difference between real commitment and intention, and pretend or “half hearted” commitment. We know the difference too. 

Because of its incredible power, commitment is one of the first requirements for engaging my proprietary Major Good Mojo System. It’s the first of three Major Good Mojo Power Principles. For the duration of the Major Good Mojo System, my clients agree to follow, live by, and live into these important Power Principles. These are principles of living discovered through years of trial and error that I have found are essential to creating a life of Major Good Mojo.

So, the first Power Principle is: commit to yourself and your life. Going back to Goethe “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.” In today’s world there are so many competing priorities it’s easy to get distracted and off track. To live a truly fulfilling life, you must make your personal growth and development a top priority. The activities you engage for your personal growth and development must become as important and habitual as brushing your teeth, taking a shower, and eating – because they actually are that important.

In addition to working one-on-one with individuals supporting their realization of full potential, I also work with organizations in the same way. Organizations are realizing the pace of change in the world today requires they develop the skill of continuous learning and growth and are now making employee growth and development a top priority. In the past, developing employees was “nice” to do (often given lip service), but was not a necessity. However, today, it’s imperative. As one mentor of mine said: “You are either growing or you’re dying.” Which do you choose?

Committing to yourself and your life is partly about becoming comfortable on the learning curve. Decide to develop the skill to always learn and develop yourself, and commit to that, surrender to it, and let go of the fantasy that you will “arrive” someday. Let go of the fantasy that you will no longer have to be learning, growing, and evolving. The sooner you do, the sooner you’ll start enjoying some Major Good Mojo.

So here’s the thing: the world is evolving at a faster and faster pace and this requires we develop the skill of continuous learning, growth and development. It requires that we both surrender to this fact, AND commit to this aspect for powerful living. If you want providence to move, if you want to move mountains, then YOU must move, you must fully commit. Fully commit to yourself and your life, and you’ll move mountains too.

Getting committed in life is a key piece of the Major Good Mojo System. If you want to learn to move mountains I invite you to engage the The Major Good Mojo Coaching Program.

Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:

Commitment occurs at many levels in our lives. From something simple like our commitment to wake up at a certain time, to something more involved and longer term like our commitment to a relationship or a role in life. Look into the various areas of your life and assess your level of commitment in each: where are you fully committed and where are you not so committed? Where are you whole-heartedly engaged and where are you half-heartedly engaged? Do you notice a difference in the results you are getting from those areas where you are fully and whole-heartedly committed? In what areas of your life could you benefit from a higher level of commitment and more providence and magic? Choose now to increase your level of commitment in these areas and watch the magic unfold! 

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