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The whole class was astonished.

We were all coaches and healers. We’d spent most of our lives in improving ourselves and others. Yet what we saw shook the very foundations of everything we believed.

Our teacher asked for a volunteer to come up front for yet another demonstration. We were about to see something that would make our heads spin.

You might have heard of muscle testing. It’s a technique to find out if something is good for us or bad for us. Chiropractors and other health practitioners use it all the time.

She tested the volunteer for a baseline. In other words, you have to start by making sure the testing works correctly.

Then came the earthquake. Our teacher asked everyone to send healing energy to the volunteer. Then she muscle tested again.

You’re not going to believe this. The person tested weak!

The volunteer weakened when we sent healing energy to her!

We were about to get the next earthquake to complete the collapse of what we thought we knew.

The seminar leader asked everyone to see the person as already perfect in that moment. Guess what.

The volunteer tested strong!

She became weaker when we saw her as needing healing energy. She became stronger when we saw her as already perfect!

Whoa. What have I been doing all my life? What have we been taught?

Our intentions were good, but …

Perfection happens where someone sees themselves or someone else as perfect and does something, or nothing, for the benefit of the other person. The word intention may not even apply. We see the person as already perfect. There is no intention to change anything.

Black magic is where someone has an intention to damage another.

Misguided Intention

What the heck is misguided intention?

Misguided intention is where we see a person or situation as screwed up and we try to fix them. This is gray magic.

Does that shake things up for you? It sure shook me up.

What have I been doing all my life? What have I been taught?

Sure, you can see things as messed up and fix them. For example, you can see a house as dirty. You can then clean it up. And yes, then it’s clean.

Does it stay clean? There is a never-ending activity of cleaning the house as it keeps getting dirty. Does that mean that, if you always see the house as clean, it will always be clean? You still go through the motions of cleaning.

But we want to raise self esteem. And I can tell you that if we always see ourselves in our perfection, that we’ll dissolve anything that limits our self esteem.

This is good stuff!

Humility is fine. But that doesn’t mean that we tear ourselves down.

True humility is seeing perfection in others.

Smiles

Have you seen the Jack Nicholson smile? That smile tells me that Jack is really cool.

How about the Tom Cruise smile? It tells me that we’re both really cool. Does that smile help others to be really cool?

What does all this mean?

We had our foundations shaken. Are we going to go around with the belief that we’re screwed up? Are we going to keep fixing ourselves?

Is there a better way?

Glad you asked! We can practice seeing ourselves and others as already perfect.

This approach goes way beyond fixing your self esteem. There is nothing to fix. All you have to do is see your own perfection.

Would you like to help other people? See them as already perfect.

Copyright 2006 by Jim Kitzmiller

Jim Kitzmiller conducts self improvement workshops and retreats. He is the author of the Meditation Vacations website.

It’s been said that knowledge is power. While that’s true to an extent, it isn’t the whole truth. Knowledge without action is almost useless. It doesn’t help to be a genius if you never do anything with the knowledge. I tend to think of knowledge as ammunition and action as a gun. (It’s a typical guy thought, I know but it works for me.) Think about it. If you have bullets and no gun, they’re pretty much useless. If you have a gun and no bullets, the best you can do is throw (action) the gun at the target. Not as useless as the bullets (knowledge) since action without knowledge is more productive than knowledge without action

The reason I’ve been thinking about this lately is that I’ve been reading article after article about how to make money, get high search engine ranking, find customers & prospects, motivate myself and others and several other subjects and realized that regardless of how much info I’ve gained, it’s worthless if I don’t act on the knowledge. And it’s the same for everyone. It wouldn’t matter if you had a PhD in Quantum Physics if you worked at McDonalds, or a library full of books and never used the knowledge within, now would it? I’ve met some really intelligent homeless people and some stupid millionaires and the biggest difference is action. Let me say this again, ACTION. Action makes people successful to a certain degree. Not to say that any action will make people successful. Jumping up and down or changing channels will not do it, but action of any kind that propels you toward your target goal will get you they eventually.

Another way to think of it is like having a map. I could give you a map to a lost treasure, but if you never left your house, it wouldn’t do much good would it?

So here’s a question; what action will you do today, to reach your goal? Reading a book will only take you so far.

Brian Baldwin is a Professional Networker with Cognigen specializing in Telecommunications, Travel, Internet Services, and more. He currently lives in Reno/Sparks Nevada.
To find out what he’s up to now, go to www.BrianBaldwin.com and read his blog.

“Sometimes I can really hate myself. I’m showing off again.”
Sounds familiar? It does to me. And I know that being a good consultant the only thing you basically need to do is to listen.

How can you be a good listener?

Your ego is your life-time-partner. A shadow that is hanging over you and you cannot punish. You have to live with him (or her).
What you could do is start writing. Either publicly, like here at ezinearticles or private, keeping a dairy or something else.

All that you have written, you do not have to tell anymore. You have said it once and that should be enough. If people like it they can rate your article, if they do not bother, they won’t. So your knowledge was not that important.

I know for myself that I can appear arrogant to others. But what I want others to do is to listen to what I’m telling. And the more I talk, the less important does it seem all together. And that is when I can start listening.

If you have experienced this, you also know that you should listen to others. Everybody has an interesting story to tell, but they give up in the moment. There are so many of us that shout and want attention.

I think that what ever market is inefficient. And so is the market of communications. Those who talk all the time, should listen more and those who are afraid to communicate their ideas are undervalued for the wrong reasons. Stand up for yourself.

I will continue to write. But only to make time to listen.

© 2005 Hans Bool / Astor White

Astor White.
Committed to your management issues. On a distance. We will prove to you that we can listen.