Hey Emma

One thing i suggest anyone yo ask themselves before going into a relationship is 'how are your pots'.. By this I mean
For each emotion, we can metaphorically have a pot, therefore right now my energy pot is about 50% as the day is drawing to a close. My heart pot is quite high, my happiness pot is high, my communication pot is relativley high as well.. Confidence etc goes the same way.

So... Before embarking on a new relationship, ensure your 'pots' are pretty high. With high pots you are going to make better choices. If your confidence pot is running low, you might consider dating someone whom you would not touch with a barge pole if your confidence pot was high. There is a huge difference in the people and standards we will accept into our lives depending where our pots are at.

When most people come out of a relationship, their pots are running low, and this is possibily the worse time to look for another relationship. This is the time to rebuild yourself, strenghten your pots and to ensure you are happy within yourself. When you are in a happy place on your own, then it has to take someone special to increase that happiness, because anything less than special means they will drain your pots. If someone is draining your pots, you have to ask yourself is that the right person for you..

Good luck xx

Hey Guy
I know time has passed since you posted your situation to the forum.
So many people in life have parts of themselves that they don't like for various reasons. These can be feelings, physical scars etc.
I remember listening to a lady speak about having a tumour on her brain, which was terminal. She was angry, hurt, scared, everything that a person can possibily imagine that someone would feel if they were terminally ill.
The lady had cancer treatment and the tumour still continued to grow, and her nagative feelings grew with it.
One day, she decided to accept that the tumour was part of her, and it was now part of her character and her persona. She realised that he tumour would go with her to the grave, and she wanted to go to the grave feeling happy rather than negative.
The lady began to love her tumour, and was looking forwards to the next scan. At the scan, the results showed that the tumour had now stopped growing. This made her slightly confused, but she decided to still accept that the tumour was part of her.
The following scan, several months later, resulted in the tumour reducing in size.. They never said it was possible..
We are all about creating the impossible.
When negative emotions are face with negativity, they are fed and they grow. If we welcome that they are part of us, they are within us, and they reside with us.. they lose their strenght.
So many people liek to say, its bad to have bad feelings.. But it is what makes us human, and sometimes from bad feelings, good is produced. Its cool to feel the way you do, embrace it knowing that it is part of you, and you are entitled to feel that way.
Good luck x

Ruthie
A friend of mine used to be very angry with her mother, it always seemed that her mother knew how to press all of the wrong buttons and take my friend from calm to angry in 0.5 seconds.
So she decided to approach her mum in a different way, using a different frame of mind.
If her mother would say soemthing that would normally annoy the hell out of her, she would just run through her mind, 'thats your point of view, not mine, you can own your point of view and not mine, and I can think differently from you, but I dont need to verbalise my different thoughts as I know them within me'.
They say that at times, it's an art to agree to disagree.. But maybe both points of view do not need to be heard. Sometimes, by simply knowing that you share different views, you dont need to discuss them. There is a very rewarding skill in finding the pause between the brain and the mouth, and sometimes its easier to smile, walk away and think ok, i am growing by listening.

Good luck xx

I love reading your posts Jay.. Thank you

David so very true... I agree with you 

Eileen and Jim, thank you so much for sharing your journeys.

Hugs
Michelle

This is such a interesting subject, and everyones imput is just making me see things from many different angles, another gift from the universe?

David you make some really good points in your posting   

New girl, looking at the hand we are dealt with... Made me think a lot.

Sometimes we have limited choices in life, but it is what we do with those choices that count. Someone may have done wrong in our eyes, as Tom said, thats our judgement call. How we handle things, wrong doings, as well as right ones, is what makes us, us.

When something bad or good has happened to us in life, it becomes part of us, it shapes us, we can decide if we use that experience for negative purposes or positive ones. Something can make us better, stronger, wiser as long as we choose to do so.

I think that its about accepting that something has happened and choosing how to grow from that experience. Bad things can eat away at us, if they nibble at us they can only make us smaller, but if we take on board they are part of us then they have made us grow.

PARENT

Job Description

 

This is hysterical. If it had been presented this way, I don't believe any of us would have done it!!!!

 

POSITION:

* Mom, Mommy, Mama, Ma

* Dad, Daddy, Dada, Pa, Pop

 

JOB DESCRIPTION:

* Long term, team players needed, for challenging, permanent work in an often chaotic environment.  Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call.

* Some overnight travel required, including trips to primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournaments in far away cities!  Travel expenses not reimbursed.

* Extensive courier duties also required.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* The rest of your life.

* Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs $5.

* Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly.

* Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf.

* Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zippers.

* Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects.

* Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks.

* Must be a willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next.

* Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half million cheap, plastic toys, and battery operated devices.

* Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.

* Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product.

* Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.

 

POSSIBILITY FOR ADVANCEMENT & PROMOTION:

* None.  Your job is to remaining the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you.

 

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:

 * None required unfortunately.  On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.

 

WAGES AND COMPENSATION:

* Get this!  You pay them!  Offering frequent raises and bonuses.  A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent.

* When you die, you give them whatever is left.

* The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.

 

BENEFITS:

* While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock options are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth, unconditional love, and free hugs and kisses for life if you play your cards right.

 

Forward this on to all the PARENTS you know, in appreciation for everything they do on a daily basis, letting them know they are appreciated for the fabulous job they do... or forward, with love, to anyone thinking of applying for the job.

 

AND A FOOTNOTE...

 'THERE IS NO RETIREMENT  --  EVER!!!

Mark I love it lol 


I live in a remote area in Scotland. Just the children, the two cats n lil ole me here. There is no noise from cars, no street lights that line our track, no telephone box or a post box close by.

Its like the good ole days in a lot of respects. In my garage we have some gas heaters in case we get snowed in and lose power. By my front door there are welly boots and torches, and both upstairs and down there are candles in drawers with a lighter next to them in case the electricity goes. And it goes frequently.

In our drawing room we have several shelves in one of the book cases full of board games and a pack of three of playing cards. During the winter months i have to always ensure i have enough food in the house to feed us if we become shut off for a week due to heavy snow fall..

The children love it  We get excited about being stranded, to us that means board games by candle light, grabbing the quilts and pillows and snuggling together in one room to keep warm, cooking by lpg gas. Its incredibly romantic in many ways.

we are surrounded by farm land, sheep & cows graze right next to my garage. There is so much land to explore, sheep to chase when they escape and cows to run from if they are moody. There is the gravel track to skid your bike on and tweezers to dig out stones in cuts. It dont matter if your bleeding as long as it dont drip onto the carpet lol.

Recently several friends came here for a weekend, and one mentioned that if someone had a serious accident here, what is the call. I said well if its one of the children, i can get them intot he car and drive to the hospital, which is some distance away, as a ambulance would never find me here. If its me, well then the children know how to call emergency services and that one would need to go down the track and show a ambulance where we are. if its a fire, then basically you would get the sausgaes out and feed yourself whilst the house burnt down lol.

Most children of today, live with small garden to attempt to explore, here we have the countryside.

I have often asked both of my children would they have preferred licing in a town, where evrything is more local to them, and both of them love it up here. I am sure once they both hit the later teenage years they might feel more isolated, though we often have friends over and they frequently have pyjama parties, and all of their friends love coming here and the freedom to roam and explore.

Most children these days dont have the luxury of being able to use their creativity. I love watching mine climb the fences into fields, running around with kites, playing badminton or tennis or football in the same fields with sheep. Its often hilarious.

Most children anda lot of adults have never seen a lamb being born in a field, and how it takes its first steps, and how lambs wag their tails when feeding from their mothers.

There is no fish and chip shop, no kfc, no burger king.. There is good ole home cooking each night.
Drinking from the grden hose is a normal practice when water fighting in the garden.
The closest shops are 7 miles away and you dont just pop out for something.
There is no pizza delivery, we have to do our own.
Here is good ole fashioned cooked breakfast, with white doorstopper toast and butter..

If you have a chocolate bar you share, if you have a bottle of pop you share and to us germs shared means we are protected more rather then put at risk.

Mobile phones is when you have a signal, depending on how low the clouds are, the same with sky tv and the internet. Once the clouds are lower then us we lose recpetion on most things.. Ironically when we are int he sky (due to living on high ground) we lose sky lol.
When the cows lay down its going to rain. When there is snow on the mountain across the way, its coming for us next.

So to answer the question about central heating, when its cold and we have no electric and no heating, we use jumpers, and socks and quilts and we snuggle. We shut down half the house and live in as few rooms as possible to keep what heat we can make in confined areas.
Its amazing what heat two children, two cats and lil ole me can make when we are sat playing board games and kicking each others butts at cards.

Life is good 

LOL

Ironic that i am trawling through season one of Life on Mars right now.. What brilliant writing that is.

Lovely films that you can also share with your family-
The Last Mimzy
Bridge to Terebithia (have your hankies at the ready!)

Hope you enjoy

They are both great family films 

What a interesting sbuject 

It would be great if more people could add their points of views here...


Good morning Tom.

I restarted this thread over here simply because i thought forgiveness was a interesting subject for debate, and that it 'deserved' a thread all to its self.
This was by no-means a personal attack at you or a insult to you.

You are right when you mentioned that 'forgiveness is a deeply spiritual act'

I see forgiveness as a journey in a lot of people.. Normally there is a huge wave of emotions that someone has to work through before they can be at peace within themselves to consider forgiveness. Normally when someone is hurt, angry, frustrated.. forgveness would not normally be a emotion they are considering.
I say normally here.. Most people whom we come to meet in life who reach out to 'us' do not have the training or attitudes we have. We have travelled our own journey's to becomes coaches etc, we have learned to understand our own feelings, spent time on learning how to let go of issues, how to change state etc.. I am sure none of us learned the skills over night.

Forgiveness surley has to come from within first. A person needs to forgive themselves, normally surround a very emotive issue, the victim can be filled with guilt etc.

Gandhi once said 'Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love'

When i am being client focused, i would not ask them to forgive someone, i believe that comes from within them and not my belief on forgiveness. I always seperate my belief system from theirs, whats important to me when i am working with someone, is what either their belief or disbelief system makes them think and or feel. Realistically, what i think or feel has nothing to do with them moving forwards.

I think there has been a miscommunication on what my feelings are on forgiveness and what my feelings are when addressing a client and suggesting forgiveness.

As coaches etc, we will all have our own belief systems, and one thing i recall from the first day of going into learn NLP was a quote, I cannot recall if either Paul, Richard or Michael said it, but it was 'when you move outside your comfort zone, and you will learn', this will always stick in my head.  I welcome people challenging my belief system, i am always interested in listening to their point of view. Its through this process I can learn and grow with a greater understand of what other people think and feel and why they do.

I really appreciate all of your input on the the subject Tom, and its great to see another write so passionatley. Thank you.

Due to a debate starting on a previous place, i thought it was in the best interest to bring the debate here.

This way it is no longer in the way of the previous thread.

I believe that i may have miscommunicated my thoughts on forgiveness.

I do feel that when addressing a client, to ask them to forgive a abuser is not 'our' call. This can only be done with the client calling the shots. There can be so many feelings, emotions, scars, both physical and mental by abuse. Who are we to ask someone to forgive their abuser? By doing so 'we' apply pressure to the client. Sometimes forgiveness can take many years to achieve, sometimes they will never seek or want to forgive. We cannot assume that by not forgiving, there is hatred.
If the client is not mentioning anything about forgiveness, should we actually require this from them. Are we right to suggest that they find it within themselves?

Forgiveness in general is not found over night, let alone in one session. For someone not to forgive, does not make them any more different then the rest of us. If we follow the laws of forgiveness, then we should forgive them for not forgiving.... or if we dont are we too, then wrong?

There is a confusion on my beliefs of forgiveness and how i believe we should approach a client regarding forgiveness.

Sometimes, the most powerful accomplishments achieved in society are successful by a single person not forgiving, because they are driven to make a change, they feel so empowered in their feelings of hurt and wrong doing they stand up and fight. There is fighting for good as well as evil.

There is also a huge difference between forgiving and letting go off all negative emotions and feelings surrounding a incident. Forgiving ourselves is very powerful.

If we forgave a terroist for what they had done, and they walked out and caused another tragic action, would still forgiving them stop the actions?

What i was trying to say, that as a coach, therapist., nlp'er, etc,... we dont hold the right to ask our client to forgive anyone. I believe that by us asking this of a client can push them into a corner of self analysing their own emotions which can lead them into questioning themselves about whether they can or cannot forgive someone. This can lead to self doubt, confusion, guilt and a whole complex of negative emotions. We are here to help clients, not to make them feel worse.

I wish i could post more on this right now, but i need to be a mom and cook lol

Hugs
Michelle

Wow it seems to have opened a debate and i would like to firstly to take this oppotunity to apologise to Lilas, I do not believe that your thread is the right place for the debate here and i am sorry that my beliefs have caused this on your thread.

I will open a new thread so this debate can continue.

Hugs
Michelle

Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince 

( those wonderful children are growing up so fast now)

We lear something new every day  Such a interesting thread 

I believe at times, too much attention is focused around victims forgiving their abusers.

I firmly believe that because of this attention to forgiveness, it can place the victim under a huge amount of pressure that they basically dont need.

A abuser at the end of the day, made a choice, it was the wrong choice, and it served heavy consequences to the victim. It changed their lives, and left a scar.

For people to suggest a victim to give forgiveness, is asking for every person in prison to be pardoned. They are there for a reason, and that reason is because they made a choice to be dangerous to society.

Please air with caution when you suggest forgiveness. Its one thing to forgive ourselves when we are victims, its a very different thing to suggest to forgive someone whom chose to commit a crime by abusing a child, most of the time these people do not deserve forgiveness.

This sounds really harsh, but please take a moment to consider your own children / grandchildren, neices, nephews etc, if something happened to them which was illegal or immoral, would you forgive?

Please consider the pressures that are placed on victims when mentioning for them to forgive.

Personally when helping a client, i help their feelings etc, i never place my feelings on them. How one person feels about forgiveness is not how another does. Soem people would like to be able to forgive to move on, some would pefer to continue to hate the person, or to feel numb etc.

<-- waffled on too much

Warmest wishes
Michelle

Hey Terri

I have been part of the forum for some years now, and the old forum previous to this one being launched some time back.
I love that anyone can join and ask us all questions, after all there is such a wealth of experience and knowledge that we hold between us all, that someone will generally answer a honest question.
I feel that for people new to coaching & nlp, this forum is a great place to gain information from those whom have at one stage been newbies and have been in that position of having a 1000 questions and looking for answers and or advice.

Why am i here? I guess i come on to see if someone is reaching out for help.. I believe that if i have the knowledge to help / advice / encourage anyone, then its wasted if i keep it to myself. Whats the point in learning all of these skills if at the end of the day you cant use them.

Changes to the site.... I think its very 'off putting' to newbies and visitors, if the first three links they click when entering the forum are 'locked' ... how many give up at that stage before moving further down the page? Its like there is a elite club at the 'top' with the invisable hand keeping the rest of us down the page.

Its tiring to see a lot of people advertising courses, their downloads, trying to sell their stuff... Maybe that could have a section to itself where if we are not interested, its not force fed us. When i took time away from the forum, that was one of the things that bugged me. Sell sell sell...

This forum is a strong forum, and welcoming. There is such a wealth of information and a lot of access to many experienced people. Realistically its free advice, and you cant get that in many places, especially from such experienced people.




a quote from a friend this week... 'yunno Shells, I joined twitter, and its full of your type of people. life coaching, nlp yadda yadda.. everyone wants to sell me something to improve my life'

The constant sell image is beginning to give us a bad image.


<-- Places her orange box away

Warmest regards

Michelle

Faith, welcome to the forum 

There is plenty to read and to catch up on. Please jump onto any thread / subject or start one off.

Warmest regards
Michelle

Ian.. This is now going to sound harsh ~

I wonder if the lady in question knows your feelings?
Its sounding like you are in the 'relationship' with her for the 'friendship' of her and you mutal friends.
How would you personally feel, if someone was with you for the same reasons? Just waiting for a 'better option' to come along. Though its clear you have feelings for her, I am not sure if those feelings are the right ones to based a 'relationship' on. I do have to ask, are you being fair to both her and yourself?. It sounds like you want to eat the cake and keep it.
If the later is correct, then you will stand the chance of losing the friendships you have built up. The lady is not a part-time fill in, she does have feelings of her own, and I am sure if she felt the same way about you as you do her, you would say, lets break this and become friends. Maybe it would be a good idea to explain your feelings to her and make a amazing friendship.
When your 'in love' with someone, you know, i mean really know, you dont sit there and question yourself about it. There are different kinds of love, we can love our friends, whom we never want to be without, but thats very different from someone who sets your heart on fire, makes your pulse race and your heart skip.

Good luck

Michelle

Hi Lisa..

I too found 'therapy & counselling' totally worthless in my situation and NLP moved me forwards.
I now look back and know what happened in my childhood was not my fault, i was never to blame and i was not responsible for what happened. Also i feel that my emotional attachment to what happened has more or less gone. I kinda feel more like 'hey it happened' 'thats part of me' 'and thats is whats made me the person i am today' 'a kind, caring, loving, gentle, big hearted female'.... and to be honest i am proud of whom i am today 

Nlp moved me to this place, and i would totally recommend you visiting a Nlp'er whom is well trained.

I have used Nlp with several clients for the same issues. As i am also a qualified counsellor, i recal the first time i saw a client under these circumstances and i thought, 'wow i am such a different person now coming from a nlp point of view, rather then a counselling point of view'.

Good luck and hugs

Michelle

Hey Ian,

Firstly thank you for posting.

May i ask you, what exactly do you fear?


Hugs
Michelle

James, On reading your post, the one clear message that i see is about 'Beliefs'. Religion, politics, love and media are all about 'beliefs'... Maybe the title could be pointing at 'Beliefs' and then each chapter you can question things like the above issues. Though thats sounding very Zeitgeist in some respects, i believe that it can be handled so its not as hard hitting, but very informative. Sometimes to question a persons 'belief' system is ok, as long as you do it in a non judgemental way.. Sometimes, the key is not what people 'believe' in, but what they 'disbelieve' in.

Good luck

Michelle

Men are from mars & women are from venus ~ I have read this book a few times now, and i really enjoy it, and see more each time i read it. I recommend it throughly, aimed at couples / relationsips.. gives a good insight to human behaviour surrounding love

Mmmmmmmmm cookie doh ice cream yummmmmm

Hold those horses one min

Ok being logged on now with 387 people on line !!!!

I think that says a lot.. Maybe people dont post often, but there is certainly a lot of people reading the board 

I vote keep it lol even if you have to hand the reigns to someone else ... though i would hope thats not the case ;-) Facebook and twitter are so yesterday 

Peter, well done

I think you have found a little neiche in the market, how wonderful for people to train in a smaller environment, and to be able to stay in the same place, and dine together.

I think good old home cooking, plenty of wine, sort fluffy towels and crisp white sheets are what the doctor ordered.

I personally feel that a lot of MLP teachings / coachings, are way over priced.... I believe that far too many people train in NLP to make a quick buck rather then learning to actually help people. I can recall when you first joined the forum, and seeing how you have grown and progressed is wonderful. You have done so well, and should be proud of youself.

I cannot advise on prices etc.. sorry as i believe training / coaching / help, should be open to everyone, not just those whom have money..

I think contrast and compare against those whom offer courses with accommodation and take it from there. I believe your marketing point would be the size, location, and 'homely' environment.

Gives you a huge clap well done

Hugs
Michelle

Ok if Mark was back a few weeks ago... Then i must be front lol

Ok so i have been away for some time, life got kinda busy..

Coming back, i realise how much i missed this little hiding place :-)

Hope everyone is feeling good 

Allow yourself 15 mins a day, when you can set aside everything else and just focus on the future... I have found by encouraging people to write notes during this 15 mins helps. Using the meta model, start with the big plan, the goals, what do you want.. If that takes up 15 mins today, then tomorrow use your dedicated 15 mins to come down a layer. Looking at the goals, the wants & desires, and start listing what you need to do to be able to achieve them.

Some days you will fidn that 15 mins runs into 2 hours, other days you will get a mind blank after 2 mins.. The key is to set aside just 15 mins day, each day and look at that plan and expand on it until all the dominoes are in the right places for you to push the first one and set the plans running.


Hugs
Michelle

Transformers 2 yay it rawked

Hey everyone

Today is my first day back on the forum  in quite some time, life kinda took over..

My personal point of view is... Twitter:- is very limiting, its the new craze, and i wonder what its life span would be.. Its not a decent resource for interaction...

Facebook:- similar to myspace, fubar, yadda yadda, most people need a account, need to add friends yadda yadda..

I feel that the forum should stay, i believe that its a good resource for helping people and for people seeking information. I personally have learned a lot form here that i believe Twitter or Facebook could not offer. It would be a shame to see the forum end.

Warm regards
Michelle

James, welcome to the forum

Ben, one day a lady will knock you off your feet, and you wont find any faults in her. I believe that if your finding faults in all the ladies you have met so far, then basically none of them have been suitable for you. Live your life, love will one day knock at your door when your least expecting it


Warm regards
Michelle

I purchased the cd's when they were first released and i have them all on my ipod. When i was in America i found myself often listening to them when i was sunbathing, or listening when i was reading another book at the same time. Having them on my ipod makes them easier to access and i can just pop in my headphones and listen when i am doing housework etc.
I really wish more books were done in audio fashion, it has to be the way forwards with ipods etc.
Michael, its a great collection and being on cds i can listen time and time again, without having to keep picking up a book, i sure hope you consider transferring all of your other books onto cd format and your future releases  The collection has not only brought me interest in listening to, but i really do find them relaxing as well. I am not the best person regards flying on planes, yet listening to your voice is very soothing 

Hugs
Michelle

"For a turtle to move forwards, it must stick out its neck"

"I'm not totally crazy, some parts of me are missing" from my coffee cup

"Fridge pickers wear bigger knickers" from my other coffee cup

"If Barbie was so popular, why do you have to buy her friends"

"Life is not measured by how many breaths you take, but how many times your breath is taken away"

"Dont read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly" Baz

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles overcome whilst trying to succeed" Booker T Washington

"If you?re going through hell, keep going!" Winston Churchill

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde

"I am not afraid of storms, for I have learned how to sail my ship." Louisa May Alcott

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." Harold Wilson

"Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you're up to."

"Procrastinate now, don't put it off."

"Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back. "

"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. "

"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research"

"By perseverance the snail reached the Ark." Charles Spurgeon

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far they can really go." T.S. Eliot

Hugs
Michelle

There is a small business network in my local area, its always set on one day a month, example a Tuesday morning, and held for a business breakfast. It is working well, each person chips in a certain amount of money each time, which covers the breakfast, there are introductions from everyone, and the type of business they are. Each month one person delivers a talk on their company etc, goals, aims, yadda yadda and what they are searching for to attain their goals.
Its their Business Breakfast.
From knowing a few people that attend, they really enjoy going and have made some very good contacts within the group. New people can join via a recommendation of someome already within the group and they are introuduced. Though i guess when starting from scratch you would not be able to use this method.
I think if i was to approach it in regards to setting it all up, i would set a date, time and place, advertise it in the local paper, ask people to respond so you will have a good idea on numbers and to be able to give them some information on what your goal is etc. The first meeting would be information gathering, and introductions, and see where it goes from there.

Hugs
Michelle

Does anyone else actually have problems when trying to post a reply on the forum? I am having to use Firefox now as my explorer keeps timing out when i go to make a reply. Just wondering if its a issue my end of if anyone encounters Timed outs etc 

Hugs
Michelle

Wow for once i have to say i actually agree with Nick 

Also look at this link...

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/06/19/2012-planet-x-is-not-nibiru/

I think i trust science more then a religious theory ;-)

What is Planet Nibiru/Eris ? Is it going to flyby Earth in 2012 ? Are we going to survive the flyby ?
You seem to have fallen for the "Nibiru hoax". Eris is a dwarf planet in the outer solar system, a bit larger than Pluto, discovered in 2003 (see Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet)). Nibiru does not exist; it is a hoax, and certainly it has nothing to do with Eris. Wikipedia summarizes nicely: "There are a number of planets or planetary bodies whose existence is not supported by scientific evidence, but which are occasionally believed to exist by pseudoscientists, conspiracy theorists or certain religious groups". Neither Eris nor Nibiru will flyby Earth in 2012 or any other time. David Morrison
NAI Senior Scientist
January 22, 2008

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/question/?id=2707

Riff thank you so much for sharing your journey, its great news that your on a good road to recovery and sharing the importance of a early diagnosis.


Hugs
Michelle

I attended the Coaching Mastery last year in Oct. Michael is a amazing tutor, his energy and style is relaxed yet exciting.
The Course was very informative, full of many useful tricks and tips which were explained at a very good level so it was never a case of feeling confused or having loads of questions. Having a small group meant everyone got to work with just about everyone, and you were never sat so far away from Michael that you felt you were losing contact with what he was teaching.
The group remained together for lunch which i also felt was a really good thing, then split up into a few smaller groups for the evening. The location was perfect. If felt like Chris & Michael had spent a lot of time working together to produce a very good mix.
Michael is by far one of the best teachers you can work with and Chris is very focused on ensuring everything else goes to plan. I feel that they are a great team at producing events and totally recommend attending courses facilitated by them.
As far as courses go, this has been one of the best courses that i have attended, and i praise Chris for being client focused over purse strings and Michael for what he does with huge carisma and style.
Anyone attending this course will walk away gaining something.

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Michelle

I think that most forums depend on at least a small handful of regular posters, if for any reason these people are away from a forum it has a huge effect.
People can be happy to join in a thread, but there is quiet a lot of people whom read forums that never really start threads off.
Unless a forum has a huge database of members there is going to be some quiet times as well as some seriously active ones.
Its just peaks and troughs. Plus depending on where the majority of members live in the world has a effect as well, ie right now the Americans & Europians are going through spring and into summer, time people start to clean the houses, back to gardening and generally getting out more. The times of the colder weather are lifting and people dont sit at their pcs as much as they would do during the winter months.
Myspace has been around for quiet some time now and i personally dont think it effects forums, there is Fubar as well formaly Cherry Tap, and now Facebook. When new sites like this first come onto the scene there is a general rush of interest but normally its short lived until the next best one comes out. At first people were giving FaceBook rave reviews, but as your friends list grows on there so does the junk that you recieve and it can be tiresome to a lot of people, so the novelty wears off.
Those sites are about connecting people and forums are more information based. They still have not come up with the perfect formula regarding those type of sites.

I personally have not been posting much for a couple of reasons, one is that i have tried many times to reply to threads and i keep getting timed out ... i dont have this problem on any other forum or site, i do wonder how many other people have had problems in replying or loading this forum??


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Michelle

Riff its great news to see a post from you and to see your on the mend 
Keep positive thoughts about everything 

Visualisation is a very powerful tool and keep going with that, one thing i have worked with in the past is installing things just before sleep, so when your lying in bed, tell your unconcious mind that it knows how to heal you and it knows that it can speed up that healing process and as you sleep its going to take its time working through your body filing everything back into its correct oreder and the cells just know what they have to do to heal and your body knows what your perfect running speed is and it knows where to find that within itself.
Trust that you have a lot of control over what you say to yourself before you drift into a peaceful healing sleep.

Please keep us posted on your recovery and well done for taking on board all that is out there to help with healing and going with it.

Gentle hugs to you

Michelle

Being over in the States right now, i am seeing the McKenna effect going on over here.
I can make you Thin is being televised and its just good to see it being on TV.
I sit and watch it with the company i am staying with and seeing how they are interacting with it is great. I noticed that there is now notes on the fridge of the day and time the next programme is schduled to be aired, i have never known them to make notes of any programmes before... i guess he is getting into their heads 

American Gangsters

I loved this film 

Saw Black Snake Moans a little while back and this is a awesome film, not to be watched in front of children due to sexual nature, but a brilliant films to see 

We watched this on High Definition at the weekend! Its a great and somewhat strange movie, but the sort of folm you think about long after viewing!

I agree Nick, its very thought provoking, i have recommended this film to a lot of people to watch, one of my best see films of last year.

Whenever i come to the States, i always get my orders into Amazon so my parcels are here for when i arrive... this means getting my new NLP books etc... When i am here i always get plenty of chill out time so its the best time for me to get my head into books etc. Plus ordering them Stateside rather then back in the UK i find i get huge savings.

So NLP Salad Cards
I have had fun playing with these over the past week, and i do literally see them as fun when playing the cards with company they do generate loads of thoughts. If you like to play with NLP with company i think they are a interesting tool, maybe for teaching etc...

They are fun... most of the stuff you should know already if you have been in the NLP field, if you are new to the NLP field then they are a good learning tool as well.


Namaste
Michelle

Nlp for Lazy Learning ~ Diana Beaver

I have been reading this book for the past few days...
It is beautifully written, very easy to read and very easy to understand. The exercises are clear and i find that the way Diana presents everythign in the book is in a easy to understand language. You dont get lost in the text abd find yourself having to re-read  a paragraph several times to understand what she is saying (this i have found myself doing with plenty of NLP books).
Well done to Diana for writing a such a wonderful book.


Namaste
Michelle

I have now watched this a few times with huge interest.
I think its a real eye opener and i have shared it with quiet a few friends, mostly American ones, ones that suffered at the fate of 9/11 ones that have fought for their country and ones whom are in service both past and present.
If you have not seen this yet, take the time to watch it with a open mind, there are a lot of interesting facts and findings, and i am sure it will also challenge some of your beliefs etc.

One day my son came home from school and was chatting to me about what he learnt in his Social Sciences that day on religion. I decided to fire this film up on his pc and asked him to watch it..... He took his thoughts back to his class and generated what his teacher would say was the most imformative and hot debate he had ever had in a class room 

If we are going to teach people facts of life then sure they should be given all the facts 


Namaste
Michelle

Riff please give us a update on how you are and what you found that helped 

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Michelle