Motivational Leadership
While in one breath we can say that you can’t do anything to motivate another person, in the very next breath we can clearly say that you can certainly act in a way that strongly influences, inspires, excites, encourages and causes people to become invested in a situation in such a way that they will extend a great amount of effort with a joyful attitude. Likewise, we know we can’t change people, but we can definitely influence them. If we have a fair amount of skill, we can influence with great precision and move people in very specific directions by literally ‘giving them’ the correct perception and attitude. Strong leadership skills that are employed simultaneously can serve to move a group of people very distinctly towards a common goal or specific outcome that is performed with a very positive attitude.
One of the best and most effective ways to lead and motivate others is by learning how to identify and work with their natural ‘thinking styles’. You must first realize that everybody doesn’t think like you do. People are typically motivated by their values (what’s important to them), which are often different from yours also. What you find intriguing and compelling may not even be interesting to them. Flexibility and the ability to induce a state of cooperation are of the utmost importance in learning to influence and direct the behaviors of others.
Ways of thinking – thinking styles – are predefined or ‘preprogrammed’ ways of viewing and responding to others and to events going on around us. This is a natural ‘efficient’ function of the mind that serves to ‘streamline’ thinking in everyday situations so it doesn’t have to engage in what can be a lengthy processes of rational thinking. Naturally, the down side to this is that it’s largely habitual and runs ‘old patterns’ over and over, some of which are useful and appropriate . . . and some of which are not.
Thinking styles are a form of filter called ‘meta-programs’ that we all use naturally to form a consistent style that forms continuity in how we look at things in order to understand them or create meaning. Like most things in life, any skill or technique works best and prove immediately effective when we deal people as they are – not what we think they should be, or by imposing our thinking style on them assuming it’s the same. To gain a sense of clarity, let’s look at the basic formula of a meta-program:
Perceptions, thoughts and emotions:
It is very useful to understand the relationship that naturally exists between perceptions, thoughts and emotions. Perceptions are primarily memory based, and are formed by filtering current situations using previous experiences, beliefs, knowledge and values to recreate a present situation in a similar fashion or by using the same type of meaning as context. We then form thoughts of a similar nature. Our perceptions as structured thoughts, then attach to corresponding emotions. If we identify which filters people are using – we can anticipate how we will respond to what they say or do. We can then use our behavior in a specific way to stimulate desired behavior in them through our interaction.
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D., CCHt., RMT – Is a professional Educator, Trainer, Mentor Consultant and Counselor. She specializes in Conscious Creation, Creativity, Business Psychology, Behavioral modification, Personal Transformation, Organizational Change, Communication and Leadership skills.
Linda@creativetransformations.com
www.creativetransformations.com
www.lindagadbois.com
(303) 816-1460
All articles are subject to copyright and may not be used without written consent by Linda Gadbois
Friday, March 20, 2009
Framing and Re-framing - "Shifting Our Perception"
Framing and Re-framing – “Shifting our Perception”
Framing is basically how we create the context of any given situation or idea that serves to organize not only “how” we look at it, but also what we see as a result, and how we feel about what we see. It usually “orientates” the experience we create with either a positive or negative format. How we look at it determines whether we see hope, possibilities and avenues that cause us to feel good, or whether or not it appears hopeless, scary and causes us to feel bad. Naturally one of the easiest ways of identifying “framing” styles or tendencies is through what we typically refer to as optimism or pessimism.
We typically have a preferred way of looking at things as a general attitude that then determines our approach, which we then simultaneously identify with. How we look at and approach things, first serve to express, then support, reinforce and validate . . . while simultaneously fashioning our identity. Our Identity is the main filter through which all of our self-expression and perceptions emerge naturally as a correspondence. When we walk into any situation, what is our tendency? Do we see the good, or the bad? Do we naturally see what is right and working well? Or do we see what is wrong and needs fixing? A more important question would be, what feeling does each ‘frame-of-mind’ cause or give us?
We don’t want to get caught up in the natural tendency to become side-tracked with endlessly explaining, or attempting to justify our right to be negative, pessimistic or “problem” oriented. All we want to notice is the feeling that we get based on our own perceptions, as well as the feelings we activate in others based on how we present or communicate ideas, recapture events, or by how we interact with and treat them as a result.
Basic human motivation is instinctual (largely unconscious) and subliminal. We do it automatically without direct awareness or a distinct thought process. We naturally move ‘towards’ what feels good, expanding, opening, relaxing and increasing – while moving ‘away’ from what feels bad, avoiding it, pulling back, stopping or becoming idle. What we focus on, give our attention to, feel and think about, we automatically begin developing into detailed scenarios in our imagination that we then run over and over in a compulsive manner. Our behavior stems unconsciously out of our feeling thoughts. We then create experiences that correspond to, or are of the same nature as what we have imagined. The imagination serves to create a concept as a believable reality that gives us a behavioral pattern to act it out and create an experience of it.
A good skill to practice, especially if you are in a position of leading, teaching, inspiring or developing others, is to take any subject and before you approach someone, ask yourself how you can present the idea or interact with them in a way that will produced the desired result. How can you approach what may be fundamentally negative in a positive way that will produce a positive feeling in the person your communicating with? How can you present something in a way that keeps the focus on the solution or what you want them to actually do, without pointing out a mistake or what they did wrong? Take any situation that has a negative feeling, and see if you can change your perspective and “reframe” it, or re-present it in a way that feels positive, or causes them to feel optimistic.
Example:
- Instead of stating, you missed 5 out of a hundred, you say you got 95 correct out of a possible hundred.
- Original statement: 10% of all people in California are unemployed. Reframe: 90% of all the people in California are currently employed!
- If you see an employee doing something wrong: Instead of pointing out and talking about the problem or mistake and then asking who trained them (smile). . . . simply offer to show them how to do it the right way, and see it as an opportunity to build a relationship with them that involves a sense of trust and comradely.
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D., CCHt., RMT – Is a professional Educator, Trainer, Mentor Consultant and Counselor. She specializes in Conscious Creation, Creativity, Business Psychology, Behavioral modification, Personal Transformation, Organizational Change, Communication and Leadership skills.
Linda@creativetransformations.com
www.creativetransformations.com
www.lindagadbois.com
(303) 816-1460
All articles are subject to copyright and may not be used without written consent by Linda Gadbois
Framing is basically how we create the context of any given situation or idea that serves to organize not only “how” we look at it, but also what we see as a result, and how we feel about what we see. It usually “orientates” the experience we create with either a positive or negative format. How we look at it determines whether we see hope, possibilities and avenues that cause us to feel good, or whether or not it appears hopeless, scary and causes us to feel bad. Naturally one of the easiest ways of identifying “framing” styles or tendencies is through what we typically refer to as optimism or pessimism.
We typically have a preferred way of looking at things as a general attitude that then determines our approach, which we then simultaneously identify with. How we look at and approach things, first serve to express, then support, reinforce and validate . . . while simultaneously fashioning our identity. Our Identity is the main filter through which all of our self-expression and perceptions emerge naturally as a correspondence. When we walk into any situation, what is our tendency? Do we see the good, or the bad? Do we naturally see what is right and working well? Or do we see what is wrong and needs fixing? A more important question would be, what feeling does each ‘frame-of-mind’ cause or give us?
We don’t want to get caught up in the natural tendency to become side-tracked with endlessly explaining, or attempting to justify our right to be negative, pessimistic or “problem” oriented. All we want to notice is the feeling that we get based on our own perceptions, as well as the feelings we activate in others based on how we present or communicate ideas, recapture events, or by how we interact with and treat them as a result.
Basic human motivation is instinctual (largely unconscious) and subliminal. We do it automatically without direct awareness or a distinct thought process. We naturally move ‘towards’ what feels good, expanding, opening, relaxing and increasing – while moving ‘away’ from what feels bad, avoiding it, pulling back, stopping or becoming idle. What we focus on, give our attention to, feel and think about, we automatically begin developing into detailed scenarios in our imagination that we then run over and over in a compulsive manner. Our behavior stems unconsciously out of our feeling thoughts. We then create experiences that correspond to, or are of the same nature as what we have imagined. The imagination serves to create a concept as a believable reality that gives us a behavioral pattern to act it out and create an experience of it.
A good skill to practice, especially if you are in a position of leading, teaching, inspiring or developing others, is to take any subject and before you approach someone, ask yourself how you can present the idea or interact with them in a way that will produced the desired result. How can you approach what may be fundamentally negative in a positive way that will produce a positive feeling in the person your communicating with? How can you present something in a way that keeps the focus on the solution or what you want them to actually do, without pointing out a mistake or what they did wrong? Take any situation that has a negative feeling, and see if you can change your perspective and “reframe” it, or re-present it in a way that feels positive, or causes them to feel optimistic.
Example:
- Instead of stating, you missed 5 out of a hundred, you say you got 95 correct out of a possible hundred.
- Original statement: 10% of all people in California are unemployed. Reframe: 90% of all the people in California are currently employed!
- If you see an employee doing something wrong: Instead of pointing out and talking about the problem or mistake and then asking who trained them (smile). . . . simply offer to show them how to do it the right way, and see it as an opportunity to build a relationship with them that involves a sense of trust and comradely.
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D., CCHt., RMT – Is a professional Educator, Trainer, Mentor Consultant and Counselor. She specializes in Conscious Creation, Creativity, Business Psychology, Behavioral modification, Personal Transformation, Organizational Change, Communication and Leadership skills.
Linda@creativetransformations.com
www.creativetransformations.com
www.lindagadbois.com
(303) 816-1460
All articles are subject to copyright and may not be used without written consent by Linda Gadbois
Culture, Values and Beliefs - "Shared Reality"
Cultures, Values and Beliefs - “Shared Reality”
A business model or paradigm serves as the “core Identity” for creating the culture of the business. A basic business model is typically comprised of the vision, mission and values which serve as a form of “map” or blueprint for creating and operating out of. This serves as the core out of which all other operational aspects of the business arise as congruent and natural correspondences. A model provides us with the necessary means to operate with consistency which is what ultimately produces success, not only in the start-up phase, but also in the ongoing operations that ensure success over a period of time. Every aspect of the company design, structure and operational procedures have got to be congruent with the company’s identity. Just as our individual “life story” as day-to-day experiences are a direct expression of our personal identity – a business’s formation and behavior is an expression of a fundamental model that represents a shared reality in which everyone has a clear role and specified function that serves as an inherent aspect of the whole.
A business map only has value if it embodies a shared reality. The encoded language used within the culture of the business either reflects a sense of family and community, or it produces internal conflict and contradiction. Any area where we create contradiction acts to ‘cancel out” and impede progress. This is the “one step forward, two steps backward” scenario that businesses often get caught up in and often don’t know why. Often business managers, leaders and trainers not only fail to represent the company as a shared reality, but often fail to use the word “we” to imply shared objectives. This is very common in private practices that are set-up and operated by the professional practitioner who is also providing the service or product of the business. They fail to separate themselves from the business, and act as if the business and they are the same entity. They operate out of an “I” model which is non-inclusive and serves to create a form of “mutiny”. I can’t tell you how many practices I have been in where the whole staff was “against” the doctor that also own the practice, or the manager who performed out of a personal agenda of their own making.
Practices and businesses which ignore the fact that they are not operating out of a business model that represents a “shared reality” in which all participants play an equally important role in creating and delivering a common goal as a team function often, will never be able to truly achieve the desired outcome, and may never know why. When we act to impose maps on others rather than inform and teach them by using them, we create a culture that is often punitive, autocratic and leaves little room for individuality or new ideas for growing the business. When this happens not only is it difficult to recognize and cultivate individual talent and latent potential, motivation also plummets, and we fail to bond not only clients and customers, but also staff members of our own team. There is no loyalty or sense of pride involved. Employees can seem random, alien, and readily come and go through revolving doors. This is often the greatest expenses a company incurs, and they often fail to even identify it.
While companies without an effective business model may flourish for a while, they will eventually crumble, fall apart or exhaust their primary creator. This reality may not become “terminal” if the management style can be changed in time – by educating existing managers or through major reorganization. These changes, however, must be desired and genuine, or the reorganization will serve to speed the collapse rather than prevent it.
No matter what style or type of culture the company has, it is usually set-up and produced by senior managers or professional partners, and the culture seldom ever changes in a perceivable manner unless there is major upheaval or pronounced change at this level. This is why, if you are a professional practitioner or specialist – it is imperative to create the fundamental model for your business or private practice in a way that remains fully congruent with your personal values and beliefs. If your working life seems unduly stressful or chaotic, the first step in trouble-shooting should be to review your own life “maps” or paradigm in relation to your business or practice’s culture.
Another situation that commonly happens is that there is a gradual shift into a new culture over a period of time where you no longer share the pervading value-set, and conflict begins to set in that disrupts the daily organizational flow. This easily occurs when a practitioner either hires a manager who is not aligned with their vision, mission and values of the practice (because they lack managerial skill in selecting staff that are most appropriate), or they hire key staff members who lack leadership ability and set-up unconscious and incongruent cultures of their own that begin dominating the daily operations.
Alternately, the actual day-to-day operations may be in conflict with, or at odds with the declared mission and vision and either no one recognizes it until it is too late, or if they do, they don’t have the skill or knowledge to effectively change it. Often, however, just recognizing the mismatch can be enough to ease the stress, but if an effective resolution can not be determined and implemented, it can cause great frustration. Once problems are recognized solutions must be sought after in an expedient manner that will provide the training and reorganizing strategy necessary to actually produce the desired result or outcome. This requires not only a fundamental understanding of the creative process, but a high degree of skill in execution. Behavioral modification in a business, much like in an individual has to take place at the identity level. Once a business is established and has formed its basic habitual behavior, this can be very challenging and requires the utmost skill to perform effectively. If you do not have the resources and skill necessary, a professional whose expertise lies in this area will be necessary.
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D., CCHt., RMT – Is a professional Educator, Trainer, Mentor Consultant and Counselor. She specializes in Conscious Creation, Creativity, Business Psychology, Behavioral modification, Personal Transformation, Organizational Change, Communication and Leadership skills.
Linda@creativetransformations.com
www.creativetransformations.com
www.lindagadbois.com
(303) 816-1460
All articles are subject to copyright and may not be used without written consent by Linda Gadbois
A business model or paradigm serves as the “core Identity” for creating the culture of the business. A basic business model is typically comprised of the vision, mission and values which serve as a form of “map” or blueprint for creating and operating out of. This serves as the core out of which all other operational aspects of the business arise as congruent and natural correspondences. A model provides us with the necessary means to operate with consistency which is what ultimately produces success, not only in the start-up phase, but also in the ongoing operations that ensure success over a period of time. Every aspect of the company design, structure and operational procedures have got to be congruent with the company’s identity. Just as our individual “life story” as day-to-day experiences are a direct expression of our personal identity – a business’s formation and behavior is an expression of a fundamental model that represents a shared reality in which everyone has a clear role and specified function that serves as an inherent aspect of the whole.
A business map only has value if it embodies a shared reality. The encoded language used within the culture of the business either reflects a sense of family and community, or it produces internal conflict and contradiction. Any area where we create contradiction acts to ‘cancel out” and impede progress. This is the “one step forward, two steps backward” scenario that businesses often get caught up in and often don’t know why. Often business managers, leaders and trainers not only fail to represent the company as a shared reality, but often fail to use the word “we” to imply shared objectives. This is very common in private practices that are set-up and operated by the professional practitioner who is also providing the service or product of the business. They fail to separate themselves from the business, and act as if the business and they are the same entity. They operate out of an “I” model which is non-inclusive and serves to create a form of “mutiny”. I can’t tell you how many practices I have been in where the whole staff was “against” the doctor that also own the practice, or the manager who performed out of a personal agenda of their own making.
Practices and businesses which ignore the fact that they are not operating out of a business model that represents a “shared reality” in which all participants play an equally important role in creating and delivering a common goal as a team function often, will never be able to truly achieve the desired outcome, and may never know why. When we act to impose maps on others rather than inform and teach them by using them, we create a culture that is often punitive, autocratic and leaves little room for individuality or new ideas for growing the business. When this happens not only is it difficult to recognize and cultivate individual talent and latent potential, motivation also plummets, and we fail to bond not only clients and customers, but also staff members of our own team. There is no loyalty or sense of pride involved. Employees can seem random, alien, and readily come and go through revolving doors. This is often the greatest expenses a company incurs, and they often fail to even identify it.
While companies without an effective business model may flourish for a while, they will eventually crumble, fall apart or exhaust their primary creator. This reality may not become “terminal” if the management style can be changed in time – by educating existing managers or through major reorganization. These changes, however, must be desired and genuine, or the reorganization will serve to speed the collapse rather than prevent it.
No matter what style or type of culture the company has, it is usually set-up and produced by senior managers or professional partners, and the culture seldom ever changes in a perceivable manner unless there is major upheaval or pronounced change at this level. This is why, if you are a professional practitioner or specialist – it is imperative to create the fundamental model for your business or private practice in a way that remains fully congruent with your personal values and beliefs. If your working life seems unduly stressful or chaotic, the first step in trouble-shooting should be to review your own life “maps” or paradigm in relation to your business or practice’s culture.
Another situation that commonly happens is that there is a gradual shift into a new culture over a period of time where you no longer share the pervading value-set, and conflict begins to set in that disrupts the daily organizational flow. This easily occurs when a practitioner either hires a manager who is not aligned with their vision, mission and values of the practice (because they lack managerial skill in selecting staff that are most appropriate), or they hire key staff members who lack leadership ability and set-up unconscious and incongruent cultures of their own that begin dominating the daily operations.
Alternately, the actual day-to-day operations may be in conflict with, or at odds with the declared mission and vision and either no one recognizes it until it is too late, or if they do, they don’t have the skill or knowledge to effectively change it. Often, however, just recognizing the mismatch can be enough to ease the stress, but if an effective resolution can not be determined and implemented, it can cause great frustration. Once problems are recognized solutions must be sought after in an expedient manner that will provide the training and reorganizing strategy necessary to actually produce the desired result or outcome. This requires not only a fundamental understanding of the creative process, but a high degree of skill in execution. Behavioral modification in a business, much like in an individual has to take place at the identity level. Once a business is established and has formed its basic habitual behavior, this can be very challenging and requires the utmost skill to perform effectively. If you do not have the resources and skill necessary, a professional whose expertise lies in this area will be necessary.
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D., CCHt., RMT – Is a professional Educator, Trainer, Mentor Consultant and Counselor. She specializes in Conscious Creation, Creativity, Business Psychology, Behavioral modification, Personal Transformation, Organizational Change, Communication and Leadership skills.
Linda@creativetransformations.com
www.creativetransformations.com
www.lindagadbois.com
(303) 816-1460
All articles are subject to copyright and may not be used without written consent by Linda Gadbois
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
The Essence of Expression
The Essence of Expression
"All great discoveries are made by those whose feelings run ahead of their thinking." CH Parkhurst
Expression, like various forms of creativity can be used positively- to uplift, instruct, inspire, bring beauty into the world- or negatively - to belittle, demoralize, tear down and even destroy. Expression takes many forms whether it's the spoken language, body language, a sermon, acting out in a state of emotional drama, any time an individual is active, or doing something, they are "expressing" themselves.
Humans express themselves every moment, through every feeling, thought, word, or the attitude they walk through life with, with the metaphors they use, what they reference as examples, the story they tell about things, about themselves . . every form of "action" is creative. Bringing an internal state into an external reality of some sort. All we are capable of doing is projecting our "self" onto our environment. Every thought, meaning, and perception is experience "through us" as us. Our models serve as filters used to perceive the world as something specific.
This day and age, the "age of communication" we have lost the art of "performing ideas" - transmitting information by developing skill at expressing it. Yet, it is the emotional quality of the information that provokes action, that motivates us to do something, to act based on the "feeling quality" of the information we have been given. This is the true art of "inspiring" people. To inspire is to take a standard goal or desired outcome, and perform it in a way that engages people emotionally in personally identifying with the goal in a way that compels them towards it, creating a desire in them to "do" something to make it come true. To act in a fashion that supports and creates a physical reality motivated by the "feeling quality" of the idea as it was communicated. We all seek to be apart of something that is greater than ourselves. The greater the emotional quality of the expression, the more clearly we relate to being apart of what's being expressed. If, by relating to it, I feel . . . "courageous, powerful, able to serve, compassionate, caring, sexy, valuable" etc. - whatever the feeling, if it feels good, it will attract people who have that "desire" inside of them that is being provoked into reality by the emotional quality of my communication- which creates a path for expression. All great artist, communicators and leaders understand this.
To be a great artist, a great leader, you must stir people's desire, touch them inside with emotions that compel them into action. Not because they should or it's the right thing to do . . . but because they must! Creating and transferring emotion, creates a powerful desire to do something as a result of your performance. By activating the right "state of mind" you can not only influence people towards a common goal, but bring out peoples magnificence in the process. When people feel moved by something, usually the best part of them, the part that is passionate comes forth and becomes more apparent. This passionate "presence" is what performs the action. When people act out of passion, they own and harness their personal power to self actualize. When you have the ability to trigger this response in people intentionally you literally bring out the genius in common people, at will. What you see in them, they see in themselves. What we reflect we are projecting. When we become invested in the fun of exercising our power to bring out the best in other people, we simultaneously experience the best in ourselves. To empower others, is to experience yourself as powerful. In order to express it, you have to have it.
To bring beauty into the world by expressing it, is to become a conduit for attracting it, a channel through which beauty can flow. Focusing your mind on drawing beauty to you, filling yourself up with it to the point of exploding into existence - you become the living, breathing expression of beauty. Your cup runneth over. It becomes your experience, your common every day reality! You are, by virtue of your nature . . . beautiful.
Commit to expressing it (purpose) and you will attract it (identity) when you receive it, you will have it to give (path) . . . . thus you will "become" the living embodiment of that which you are! :) :0
Feel it . . . . Think it . . . say it . . . . make it real!
Do it NOW!!
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D.(c) CHT, RMT
http://www.creativetransformations.com
linda@creativetransformations.com
"All great discoveries are made by those whose feelings run ahead of their thinking." CH Parkhurst
Expression, like various forms of creativity can be used positively- to uplift, instruct, inspire, bring beauty into the world- or negatively - to belittle, demoralize, tear down and even destroy. Expression takes many forms whether it's the spoken language, body language, a sermon, acting out in a state of emotional drama, any time an individual is active, or doing something, they are "expressing" themselves.
Humans express themselves every moment, through every feeling, thought, word, or the attitude they walk through life with, with the metaphors they use, what they reference as examples, the story they tell about things, about themselves . . every form of "action" is creative. Bringing an internal state into an external reality of some sort. All we are capable of doing is projecting our "self" onto our environment. Every thought, meaning, and perception is experience "through us" as us. Our models serve as filters used to perceive the world as something specific.
This day and age, the "age of communication" we have lost the art of "performing ideas" - transmitting information by developing skill at expressing it. Yet, it is the emotional quality of the information that provokes action, that motivates us to do something, to act based on the "feeling quality" of the information we have been given. This is the true art of "inspiring" people. To inspire is to take a standard goal or desired outcome, and perform it in a way that engages people emotionally in personally identifying with the goal in a way that compels them towards it, creating a desire in them to "do" something to make it come true. To act in a fashion that supports and creates a physical reality motivated by the "feeling quality" of the idea as it was communicated. We all seek to be apart of something that is greater than ourselves. The greater the emotional quality of the expression, the more clearly we relate to being apart of what's being expressed. If, by relating to it, I feel . . . "courageous, powerful, able to serve, compassionate, caring, sexy, valuable" etc. - whatever the feeling, if it feels good, it will attract people who have that "desire" inside of them that is being provoked into reality by the emotional quality of my communication- which creates a path for expression. All great artist, communicators and leaders understand this.
To be a great artist, a great leader, you must stir people's desire, touch them inside with emotions that compel them into action. Not because they should or it's the right thing to do . . . but because they must! Creating and transferring emotion, creates a powerful desire to do something as a result of your performance. By activating the right "state of mind" you can not only influence people towards a common goal, but bring out peoples magnificence in the process. When people feel moved by something, usually the best part of them, the part that is passionate comes forth and becomes more apparent. This passionate "presence" is what performs the action. When people act out of passion, they own and harness their personal power to self actualize. When you have the ability to trigger this response in people intentionally you literally bring out the genius in common people, at will. What you see in them, they see in themselves. What we reflect we are projecting. When we become invested in the fun of exercising our power to bring out the best in other people, we simultaneously experience the best in ourselves. To empower others, is to experience yourself as powerful. In order to express it, you have to have it.
To bring beauty into the world by expressing it, is to become a conduit for attracting it, a channel through which beauty can flow. Focusing your mind on drawing beauty to you, filling yourself up with it to the point of exploding into existence - you become the living, breathing expression of beauty. Your cup runneth over. It becomes your experience, your common every day reality! You are, by virtue of your nature . . . beautiful.
Commit to expressing it (purpose) and you will attract it (identity) when you receive it, you will have it to give (path) . . . . thus you will "become" the living embodiment of that which you are! :) :0
Feel it . . . . Think it . . . say it . . . . make it real!
Do it NOW!!
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D.(c) CHT, RMT
http://www.creativetransformations.com
linda@creativetransformations.com
Creative Energy
Creative Energy as Divine Power – “The Drama of Opposites”
“God created man in Its image, and with Its likeness”
The Creative Imagination has the natural ability to take an inspired idea, which usually comes as a feeling or notion, and serves as a channel for that energy to come into the world as a personal expression. The imagination creates a conceptual model out of a vague impression that can be expressed, lived or acted out to produce something real and valuable outside of us. Subtle energy as living forces forms a series of correspondences that expresses as a physical reality of a similar nature. Creative Life force orders, organizes and structures matter as a living composition that we “experience” as reality. The finished product, like a painting, is a congruent expression of the identity and mood that births it.
All of our personal experiences are created in our own image (through our imagination) and are of the same nature. What we perceive outside of us in our environment, is a reflection of our self. We see our self in everything we perceive. Our only method of perception is through our “model” or habituated style for interpreting neutral events to form a common theme that supports and simultaneously creates our “sense of our self” as a specific type of person by causing us to feel a certain way. All of our stories emerge as an expression or spontaneous correspondence of our identity.
Many people feel powerful so infrequently that when they do they try to hold on to it, possess it. But energy in all forms intensifies and gains power through flowing and gaining a form of momentum. By holding on, we stop the flow which closes the pathway. It doesn’t go out, but nothing comes in either. It stagnates and withers. We can only hold to power by becoming a channel that consistently discharges it . . . . by expressing it. We become the means through which spiritual power works in the world. God as Life Force, living power can only work through us. We are the conscious, thinking connecting element. Just like electricity must be harnessed, channeled and connected or attached to a fixed object in order to be useful and of value, Divine Power which is present all around us, needs to have a channel through which to flow, by becoming focused into a limited idea. Until then, it only exists in its potential state (unformed) and has no intrinsic value.
When power is only stirred or increased within us due to being a spectator of some external event, we find that when the event ends that triggered the excitement, the energy diminishes with it, resuming its latent state. But artists, teachers and scientist find that the power increases and intensifies over the course of a lifetime the more they discharge it into physical reality. In this sense, all knowledge and power that is obtained only for personal use and not given or put at the service of others and channeled into the world, diminishes, subsides and becomes lifeless.
Occult sciences are revolutionary because they teach the ability for direct salvation, in this life time, currently, through your own efforts. But this ability requires not only secret knowledge, but the commitment and discipline to practice. We were led to believe that Magicians, Wizards and Shamans had to make strange deals that involved selling their “souls” to the devil in order to gain extraordinary personal power. No one seemed to notice that the devil is a Christian God, and does not exist in a meaningful manner in other spiritual traditions. This image was partially conjured up from the Magicians who went underground and practiced in private which only served to pique the imagination of curious onlookers who whispered of secret societies, but also from the Church who saw the Magicians as competitors who dealt directly with the spirit without going through the priesthood. In order to eliminate the competition they created stories that justified their right to murder them. Occult practices, like Wicca, do not have a concept of the devil. They simply view the polarity of all electro-magnetic forces which exist in opposition while interacting in a complimentary fashion. In most spiritual traditions, God is viewed as “all of nature” and pure consciousness that is living intelligent (expresses through dynamic patterns).
In order to perceive God as having qualities and characteristic, we had to first form an image (concept) of God, then one of Its opposite. Because Spiritual forces shape and create what we call human characteristics, we created an image of God in our image and with our likeness. These humanistic characteristic are represented by what we have come to call Archetypes. Archetypes can be viewed as qualities that produce natural tendencies that lend themselves to specific “roles” that have inherent stories or themes in them that express through a specific genre. Because of this, we tend to form an idea of God, as being human that is the embodiment of love, kindness and compassion. Her opposite, the devil is viewed as being mostly animal like, aggressive and primal. Because God originated as dominantly Feminine, we tend to see God as passive, while the Satan is active. Because of this tendency, unfortunately, we often view the Devil as having more power in the physical world than God does. We even create mythologies that we are born basically bad, and have a lifetime to struggle in an attempt to become good. Drama . . . after all, is necessary for an interesting storyline that engages us through intense emotions that keeps us guessing as to the ultimate outcome.
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D.(c) CCHt., RMT
http://www.creativetransformations.com
Linda@creativetransformations.com
“God created man in Its image, and with Its likeness”
The Creative Imagination has the natural ability to take an inspired idea, which usually comes as a feeling or notion, and serves as a channel for that energy to come into the world as a personal expression. The imagination creates a conceptual model out of a vague impression that can be expressed, lived or acted out to produce something real and valuable outside of us. Subtle energy as living forces forms a series of correspondences that expresses as a physical reality of a similar nature. Creative Life force orders, organizes and structures matter as a living composition that we “experience” as reality. The finished product, like a painting, is a congruent expression of the identity and mood that births it.
All of our personal experiences are created in our own image (through our imagination) and are of the same nature. What we perceive outside of us in our environment, is a reflection of our self. We see our self in everything we perceive. Our only method of perception is through our “model” or habituated style for interpreting neutral events to form a common theme that supports and simultaneously creates our “sense of our self” as a specific type of person by causing us to feel a certain way. All of our stories emerge as an expression or spontaneous correspondence of our identity.
Many people feel powerful so infrequently that when they do they try to hold on to it, possess it. But energy in all forms intensifies and gains power through flowing and gaining a form of momentum. By holding on, we stop the flow which closes the pathway. It doesn’t go out, but nothing comes in either. It stagnates and withers. We can only hold to power by becoming a channel that consistently discharges it . . . . by expressing it. We become the means through which spiritual power works in the world. God as Life Force, living power can only work through us. We are the conscious, thinking connecting element. Just like electricity must be harnessed, channeled and connected or attached to a fixed object in order to be useful and of value, Divine Power which is present all around us, needs to have a channel through which to flow, by becoming focused into a limited idea. Until then, it only exists in its potential state (unformed) and has no intrinsic value.
When power is only stirred or increased within us due to being a spectator of some external event, we find that when the event ends that triggered the excitement, the energy diminishes with it, resuming its latent state. But artists, teachers and scientist find that the power increases and intensifies over the course of a lifetime the more they discharge it into physical reality. In this sense, all knowledge and power that is obtained only for personal use and not given or put at the service of others and channeled into the world, diminishes, subsides and becomes lifeless.
Occult sciences are revolutionary because they teach the ability for direct salvation, in this life time, currently, through your own efforts. But this ability requires not only secret knowledge, but the commitment and discipline to practice. We were led to believe that Magicians, Wizards and Shamans had to make strange deals that involved selling their “souls” to the devil in order to gain extraordinary personal power. No one seemed to notice that the devil is a Christian God, and does not exist in a meaningful manner in other spiritual traditions. This image was partially conjured up from the Magicians who went underground and practiced in private which only served to pique the imagination of curious onlookers who whispered of secret societies, but also from the Church who saw the Magicians as competitors who dealt directly with the spirit without going through the priesthood. In order to eliminate the competition they created stories that justified their right to murder them. Occult practices, like Wicca, do not have a concept of the devil. They simply view the polarity of all electro-magnetic forces which exist in opposition while interacting in a complimentary fashion. In most spiritual traditions, God is viewed as “all of nature” and pure consciousness that is living intelligent (expresses through dynamic patterns).
In order to perceive God as having qualities and characteristic, we had to first form an image (concept) of God, then one of Its opposite. Because Spiritual forces shape and create what we call human characteristics, we created an image of God in our image and with our likeness. These humanistic characteristic are represented by what we have come to call Archetypes. Archetypes can be viewed as qualities that produce natural tendencies that lend themselves to specific “roles” that have inherent stories or themes in them that express through a specific genre. Because of this, we tend to form an idea of God, as being human that is the embodiment of love, kindness and compassion. Her opposite, the devil is viewed as being mostly animal like, aggressive and primal. Because God originated as dominantly Feminine, we tend to see God as passive, while the Satan is active. Because of this tendency, unfortunately, we often view the Devil as having more power in the physical world than God does. We even create mythologies that we are born basically bad, and have a lifetime to struggle in an attempt to become good. Drama . . . after all, is necessary for an interesting storyline that engages us through intense emotions that keeps us guessing as to the ultimate outcome.
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D.(c) CCHt., RMT
http://www.creativetransformations.com
Linda@creativetransformations.com
How to See Something Different - "Cultivating the Quality of Attention"
How to See Something Different - “Cultivating your Quality of Attention”
What we see or how we see it is based on the state-of-mind or the quality of attention that we use as a means of perceiving. Whatever quality (feeling) I use (state) activates and brings to the surface those same qualities in whatever object I observe. The Law of Resonance demonstrates that whatever living force is active within me, serves to activate that same force in whatever I come into contact with. By “contact” I mean “near proximity” to. If I walk into a room or come within several feet of some other living being, subliminally I will activate the same qualities in them, detect them and move towards them. This is the primary form of “Attraction” that can also be thought of as the "Law of Resonance".
We are always influencing and manipulating other living forces around us, it is only a question of whether or not we do it consciously, with a sense of awareness and intent, or if we do it unconsciously, haphazardly and with no sense of responsibility. Energy is always interacting with other forms of energy. Because it is Subtle, we sense it and our conscious mind is influenced by it, but we never create awareness around it.
When we embody different qualities, we see those potential qualities in everything that we look at. If I have a feeling of dislike and I look at someone, all I seem to notice is what it is about them that I don’t like. I then serve to stimulate those qualities in them by how I look at and treat them, bringing them to the surface where I then interact with them. As I interact with those qualities, I reinforce the same ones in me and I become “like” them. On the other hand, if I cultivate feelings of admiration and respect, then the qualities that warrant admiration and respect is what I see in others. This again, stimulates those qualities bringing them to the surface which arouses them in me at the same time, and I interact with them, strengthening them in both of us simultaneously.
This is how we have a natural influence on others and bring out certain aspects of their potential to be expressed and therefore strengthened. The same qualities that I first embody and use to perceive the world, I activate, interact with and act on those traits within myself. I first project aspects of myself onto others, and then by acting on them, I become them. The more we bring certain qualities into expression the more we identify with those qualities. What we identify with, defines us. It serves to shape our character. We become those qualities, become proficient at expressing ourselves through them and they become familiar, comfortable and automatic. They become a natural part of us.
The best way to see something different is to first exercise your power of choice and select the mood you want to create as a lens to view the world. Use your will to discipline your wandering mind to fulfill an intended state, and then walk through the day creating and expressing a higher version of yourself while simultaneously activating it in everyone around you. This is one of the most fundamental forms of intentional self development. We decide what traits and characteristics we want to strengthen and actualize within us, we then cultivate those intentionally, perceive and project them, arouse them in others, which arouses them in us by creating a dynamic interaction as a thematic reality, and we experience ourselves as those qualities . . . . as “Being” admirable, adorable, compassionate, loving, etc.
Linda Gadbois , Ph.D.(c) CCHT., RMT
http://www.creativetransformations.com
linda@creativetransformations.com
What we see or how we see it is based on the state-of-mind or the quality of attention that we use as a means of perceiving. Whatever quality (feeling) I use (state) activates and brings to the surface those same qualities in whatever object I observe. The Law of Resonance demonstrates that whatever living force is active within me, serves to activate that same force in whatever I come into contact with. By “contact” I mean “near proximity” to. If I walk into a room or come within several feet of some other living being, subliminally I will activate the same qualities in them, detect them and move towards them. This is the primary form of “Attraction” that can also be thought of as the "Law of Resonance".
We are always influencing and manipulating other living forces around us, it is only a question of whether or not we do it consciously, with a sense of awareness and intent, or if we do it unconsciously, haphazardly and with no sense of responsibility. Energy is always interacting with other forms of energy. Because it is Subtle, we sense it and our conscious mind is influenced by it, but we never create awareness around it.
When we embody different qualities, we see those potential qualities in everything that we look at. If I have a feeling of dislike and I look at someone, all I seem to notice is what it is about them that I don’t like. I then serve to stimulate those qualities in them by how I look at and treat them, bringing them to the surface where I then interact with them. As I interact with those qualities, I reinforce the same ones in me and I become “like” them. On the other hand, if I cultivate feelings of admiration and respect, then the qualities that warrant admiration and respect is what I see in others. This again, stimulates those qualities bringing them to the surface which arouses them in me at the same time, and I interact with them, strengthening them in both of us simultaneously.
This is how we have a natural influence on others and bring out certain aspects of their potential to be expressed and therefore strengthened. The same qualities that I first embody and use to perceive the world, I activate, interact with and act on those traits within myself. I first project aspects of myself onto others, and then by acting on them, I become them. The more we bring certain qualities into expression the more we identify with those qualities. What we identify with, defines us. It serves to shape our character. We become those qualities, become proficient at expressing ourselves through them and they become familiar, comfortable and automatic. They become a natural part of us.
The best way to see something different is to first exercise your power of choice and select the mood you want to create as a lens to view the world. Use your will to discipline your wandering mind to fulfill an intended state, and then walk through the day creating and expressing a higher version of yourself while simultaneously activating it in everyone around you. This is one of the most fundamental forms of intentional self development. We decide what traits and characteristics we want to strengthen and actualize within us, we then cultivate those intentionally, perceive and project them, arouse them in others, which arouses them in us by creating a dynamic interaction as a thematic reality, and we experience ourselves as those qualities . . . . as “Being” admirable, adorable, compassionate, loving, etc.
Linda Gadbois , Ph.D.(c) CCHT., RMT
http://www.creativetransformations.com
linda@creativetransformations.com
The Nature of Beliefs
The Nature of Beliefs
We tend to have trouble really understanding what beliefs are and how they operate because we have a concept of beliefs as being singular or free-standing, when in fact they are dynamic and form unified themes that play out as tendencies that become expressed as full living scenario’s. Beliefs exist as a system that is not only supportive but completely interdependent.
Beliefs can be thought of as “creative forces” that form as subtle energy which exists in the natural orientation of being causal. They are dynamic patterns that are interwoven subliminally throughout the spiritual system (Soul) that forms a series of correspondences that work as a form of interpretation as an interaction of the conscious and unconscious mind in a form of dialoguing.
Karma can be thought of as beliefs (vibratory frequencies that we perceive as feelings) that exist as conscious intelligence that forms natural patterns through pre-disposition and tendencies. Tendencies act as principles that produce a common theme no matter what conditions or set of circumstances it expresses through. Feelings are to the Soul what food is to the body. Feelings have “wave-like” dynamic patterns that structure and order the “physical elements” to create subjective reality. Theses inherent patterns come into expression through a kind of “stop-down” process that shapes our interpretations that form our personal experiences that we then call “reality”. Beliefs are perceived as truth or fact and serve as the foundation for all perceptions.
Beliefs are “causal” because they initiate an entire dynamic process that determine both our conscious and unconscious intention, that shapes the quality of our attention, which shapes our interpretation which creates meaning and gives us a conceptual understanding which motivates and determines our behavior. Our behavior as an external expression, elicits responses (affects) of a corresponding nature. It stimulates qualities in others that are of the same type. Through this process, conscious intelligence (patterns) come into expression as a perceivable movie that we then identify with which simultaneously shapes our character and sense of self as the star in our own movie. We are simultaneously the writer, director/producer and main star in our own productions or thematic life experiences that form continuity through time and give us a well-defined sense of ourselves in relationship to others and the world in general. We create our self as something specific.
There is no such thing as “a” belief. There is only a point in the dynamic process where we are able to momentarily identify and recognize what stands out as a clear illusion. We gain a glimpse of a false interpretation of a common reality that serves as a reference point for perceiving other coherent illusions that spontaneously emerge out of it as a natural by-product. Because we can grasp it, we “point at it” and say “there it is, a limiting belief.” We then say we have identified a belief.
In this sense we are never able to technically speaking “change a belief”. What we can do, is use that reference point in the system to introduce a change that will serve to modify or transform the entire system. This performs a kind of “program upgrade” or participatory progression. In systems thinking, we know that there are key points within any system, that if altered will have the greatest impact on the whole system. Other points, when modified, do not serve to modify the system but are instead readily modified back into the original pattern through the system. The beliefs that we can pinpoint, that when altered have the greatest impact are what we traditionally refer to as core beliefs, or beliefs that first act to shape and then create a pathway of expression for our identity. Beliefs serve as a system of dynamic patterns that are interactive and interdependent; those then create concepts of possibilities for self-expression whose end product is consistent behavior. All behavior is an expression of the beliefs that motivate it. We behave “as if” are beliefs are real.
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D (c)). CCHt., RMT
http://www.creativetransformations.com
Linda@creativetransformations.com
We tend to have trouble really understanding what beliefs are and how they operate because we have a concept of beliefs as being singular or free-standing, when in fact they are dynamic and form unified themes that play out as tendencies that become expressed as full living scenario’s. Beliefs exist as a system that is not only supportive but completely interdependent.
Beliefs can be thought of as “creative forces” that form as subtle energy which exists in the natural orientation of being causal. They are dynamic patterns that are interwoven subliminally throughout the spiritual system (Soul) that forms a series of correspondences that work as a form of interpretation as an interaction of the conscious and unconscious mind in a form of dialoguing.
Karma can be thought of as beliefs (vibratory frequencies that we perceive as feelings) that exist as conscious intelligence that forms natural patterns through pre-disposition and tendencies. Tendencies act as principles that produce a common theme no matter what conditions or set of circumstances it expresses through. Feelings are to the Soul what food is to the body. Feelings have “wave-like” dynamic patterns that structure and order the “physical elements” to create subjective reality. Theses inherent patterns come into expression through a kind of “stop-down” process that shapes our interpretations that form our personal experiences that we then call “reality”. Beliefs are perceived as truth or fact and serve as the foundation for all perceptions.
Beliefs are “causal” because they initiate an entire dynamic process that determine both our conscious and unconscious intention, that shapes the quality of our attention, which shapes our interpretation which creates meaning and gives us a conceptual understanding which motivates and determines our behavior. Our behavior as an external expression, elicits responses (affects) of a corresponding nature. It stimulates qualities in others that are of the same type. Through this process, conscious intelligence (patterns) come into expression as a perceivable movie that we then identify with which simultaneously shapes our character and sense of self as the star in our own movie. We are simultaneously the writer, director/producer and main star in our own productions or thematic life experiences that form continuity through time and give us a well-defined sense of ourselves in relationship to others and the world in general. We create our self as something specific.
There is no such thing as “a” belief. There is only a point in the dynamic process where we are able to momentarily identify and recognize what stands out as a clear illusion. We gain a glimpse of a false interpretation of a common reality that serves as a reference point for perceiving other coherent illusions that spontaneously emerge out of it as a natural by-product. Because we can grasp it, we “point at it” and say “there it is, a limiting belief.” We then say we have identified a belief.
In this sense we are never able to technically speaking “change a belief”. What we can do, is use that reference point in the system to introduce a change that will serve to modify or transform the entire system. This performs a kind of “program upgrade” or participatory progression. In systems thinking, we know that there are key points within any system, that if altered will have the greatest impact on the whole system. Other points, when modified, do not serve to modify the system but are instead readily modified back into the original pattern through the system. The beliefs that we can pinpoint, that when altered have the greatest impact are what we traditionally refer to as core beliefs, or beliefs that first act to shape and then create a pathway of expression for our identity. Beliefs serve as a system of dynamic patterns that are interactive and interdependent; those then create concepts of possibilities for self-expression whose end product is consistent behavior. All behavior is an expression of the beliefs that motivate it. We behave “as if” are beliefs are real.
Linda Gadbois, Ph.D (c)). CCHt., RMT
http://www.creativetransformations.com
Linda@creativetransformations.com
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