The Power of your Word! Hay House Radio

[William]

  Hi everyone!  New to the posts, and enjoying it!  So, Michael's previous show on the Power of your Word, and the 24hr no complaining challange, anyone else try it yet.
I was having so much fun going about my day, managed about 12 hours in when i suddenly found myself dropping into a vague conversation with my chef (I am a LifeLine & CranioSacral therapist who helps manage a restaurant!) about our owner and  blam.. out came the complaints.  So have started again at 4:56pm yesterday.
thankfully I sleep 8 to 9 hours so lots of time out of the way!!!
It is directly in line with the teachings of Abraham and the "Law of Attraction and Delibrate Intent".
Wonderful Challange Michael, thanks.  Will continue to try.
William

[William]

Hi Neil,
Well, yip seems I can't get past about 8hours.  Usually driven by people, or just my lack of a rusted steel traped mind.  Shall try again all week.
The challange seems more to stay in PTC (present time conscious) and not be floating around, hummmm?  i like to float, lol.
William

[Michael Neill]

All I can stay is stick with it, gang - it really does pay off!

love,
michael

[William]

Thanks for the encourging words Michael,,, So close today, managed almost the whole day, just before sleep!!!!  It is a wonderful test of PTC (present time consciousness) and being full of greatfullness. 
To those trying, I found that watching for the subtle clues in others speach (some NLP) helped me que into my own responses, and allowed me to enter into the present moment, find my words then address them before i set them free.  It seems to follow the concept of "feeding the dog".  I'm feeding the dog of conscious speaking and communication, and not the dog of unconscious speaking. 
Joy, peace and fun,
IL&G,
William

[William]

  Hi all again. Well, i did it!!!!!!!     One ful day, 24 hours.  I happened to be Chicago, taking a Advanced I course in the LifeLine (tm) technique (see www.infiniteloveandgratitude) as well as certification.  ((ty Micheal, ran some of the EFT techniques you have taught on the show, and almost sure i aced the test!!!!!  awaiting grade, but did great on the 1hr+ oral exam))
So, in this enviroment of wonderful LifeLine practitoners & Dr. Darren, and in the place of peace and intense focus, it was Fun to be in PTC, present time consciousness, and what a day!!!! 

I want to tell everyone, it really is an increadable sense of peace when you go thru a day with No complaints, and just a love for life and every experence!  Try this... Such joy.
Infinite love and gratitudeWilliam

[Michael Neill]

Well done, William - congratulations!

love,
michael

[Promethea]

Hi, Michael, I just listened to the archived show and I LOVED it. You have given me several good ideas before, but I really think this was your best show so far!

Happy New Year to you and all the forum members. Keep up the good work.

I will try my "non complaining day" tomorrow. And I really loved all the other challenges: one week without gossipping, one week without criticizing and one hour without self-criticizing (that will be the hardest  )

[Michael Neill]

Thanks, Promethea!

It really is a fun and worthwhile challenge, and for me it was very hard to do (not that I'm complaining, mind you...  )

Have fun and learn heaps,
michael

[Promethea]

Hi, Michael,

So nice of you to reply! 

Yesterday I watched your video about planning your expenses in a chart that you shared with a young (and lovely) couple - I love the new website, btw. Right now I don't have that issue with money, but I do have a BIG PROBLEM with time management and starting any action, so I am experimenting a version of that chart for myself. It goes something like this: Things that will bring bad consequences if I don't do them (bad things will happen): grocery shopping, keeping on top of laundry, balancing bank accounts, showing up on time to work  ); things that will bring good consequences if I do them: exercising, studying to improve my carreer, listening to inspirational shows  and reading books; then there's the "I'd be nice" category: keeping in touch with friends, finding some "me time", crafting, reading for pleasure... And the last one, "Bad things will happen if I do them": overeating, going to bed too late, spending too much time on the computer...

Now I am trying to figure out which things need to be done daily, 2-3 times a week or once a month.

You are a bottomless source of good ideas.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[Promethea]

Hi again,

I wanted to give you some extra feedback about the chart I made. After staring at it for a while, I realised that some of the things that were there were pleasant to do (mainly the ones "It would be nice" and some of the "Good things happen if I do them"... also some of the "Bad things happen if I do them") and some of them were not (the "Bad things happen if I don't do them"). I just noticed that they were ALL there for a reason, but then I tend to do only the pleasant ones and procrastinate about the other ones. I asked myself why I am doing this and I could hear a voice inside my head, but very low and far away. I had to "turn it up" and it was a grumpy voice that said "I won't, I won't, I won't". I found that quite confusing.

Then, I listened to a show in which you talked to a lady with fear issues. Whenever she tried to do something she had that feeling that wouldn't let her. You questioned her for a while and then you said to her: "That's discomfort. You can do discomfort". Then I recognised that in the voice in my head. It was discomfort. Nothing more. But it sounded so sure of itself, like I shouldn't do these things because they would be so difficult and cause me problems.

Sorry this is so long, it's coming to an end now. I have done some of the unpleasant things that I needed to get done (some of them were important!) and I still hear that "I won't, I won't, I won't" thing. I simply smile and say "Ok, ok, it's not so bad, we can do it...". To my surprise it said a few times "All right, I will do it this time just because you asked nicely"  I found it kind of cute :-)

Thank you for helping us deal with this crazyness we call our mind.

[aniinl]

Hi Promethea,

this made me smile 

Nice how you translated the chart to time management and even managed to befriend the voice inside your head 

Anja

[Promethea]

Hi, Aniinl,

Thanks for you reply. And thanks for the new word: "befriend". I like it 

I am writing to share something that happenned today. It is related to the power of words, although in a different way. I'm having a though time at work lately because my boss seems to think that his main responsibility is to make our life (the new workers' that arrived 2 years ago) as hard as possible. He has been mean, deceitful, manipulative and plain hateful. Today he did something even worse that we are used to and I found myself sitting in front of my computer thinking: "This is outrageous. This is just outrageous" (actually, I thought it in Spainsh: "Es indignante"  ) Then, I thought about NLP and how it could help me. I decided to change the word outrageous for "aggravating". I felt the shift in my body inmediately. "Outrageous" felt like something heavy breathing hard on my chest and something stuck in my throat that tasted quite like blood. "Aggravating" felt like a buzzing on the top of my head. It wasn't *pleasant*, but at least it let me think with ease. I listened carefully to the sentences I was "playing" in my head and changed them slightly, just some words in them and the feeling was totally different!

Really, it was like releasing a big weight. 

So I thought about all of you and wanted to drop by and say "hello" and thank you for being an inspiration.

Michael, I just purchased "Feel happy now" and the CDs. They will arrive any day! I really enjoyed "You can have what you want" and I have implemented many of your suggestions in my life. Keep up the good work!