This month I decided I would offer a list of 25 questions that are a great self-evaluation opportunity. As you read through these questions, I invite you to really think over the answers. You may be surprised by them. This is a good exercise. It is always good to get to know yourself better.  To improve the exercise, write your responses down. Again, writing your response is even more likely to show you things about yourself you didn’t know. The best practice of all would be to do the first two suggestions then share these responses with a loved one. This serves to make the exercise more real and lends some seriousness to the realization that you want to make progress toward a desired outcome in your life that is of great importance to you. Think of a place in your life where you are stuck or stressed and then ask these questions:

1. I know I don’t know, but if I did, what would it be?
2. How will my life be different if this issue is solved?
3. Who would I be without my story/obsession/compulsion/behavior?
4. If I were to ask a wise old friend for help, what would his/her advice be to me?
5. What if I were advising a friend? What would I tell them?
6. If I was employed as an investigator, what would I find?
7. If I were a lawyer defending me, what would I say in my defense?
8. If I wake up tomorrow and this problem is miraculously solved, how will I know?
9. Being the ideal me, living my ideal life, what positive attributes would others see in me?
10. If everything were great in my life, what would it be like?
11. What would a perfect day consist of?
12. When haveI been like myself the most?
13. What is my secret passion?
14. If I could change anything, what three things would I put into (or take out of) my life?
15. If I were to have this conversation a year from now, what would have needed to have happened?
16. What could I begin today, this week, this month, or the rest of this year to begin the process?
17. What did I want to do before I “grew up” and “got real?”
18. What would I do if no one else ever found out?
19. What would I do if it were really entirely up to me?
20. What would I do if nobody minded?
21. What would I do if money were no object?
22. What would “Wow!” look like in the different areas of my life? (Work/Career, Family, Finances, Friends, Spirituality, Fun Time/Hobbies.)
23. If I take myself forward to the day before I die and am asked to define what I have done and been proud of in my life, what would I say?
24. Who would I have to be in order to attract the life I want? Would I need to study, meet a different set of people, be in a different place, look a different way, talk with a different emphasis, believe different things?
25. What do I know now that I didn’t know before?

Be honest and have a genuine, authentic meeting with yourself. Good luck!

There are thoughts that weaken us and there are thoughts that strengthen us.  Thoughts are living things that vibrate in and of themselves.  As we entertain them on the stage of our minds, we call into our being each thought’s accompanying energy vibration.   “As a being of power, intelligence, and the master of his own thought, a man holds the key to every situation, to make his life what he chooses it to be.  When he discovers the divine power within his soul, he can lead his life … If one dreams lofty dreams, so shall he become.  There is magic in the way one thinks.  If we expect the worst, we will get the worst.  If we expect the best, we will receive the best … It is amazing when we expect the best how forces are set in motion which cause the best to materialize.  Our thoughts, more than circumstances, determine the course of our lives.  Outward circumstances do not determine the course of our lives as much as the thoughts that habitually occupy our minds.  These thoughts carve their impression on our faces, in our heart, and on the tablet of our eternal souls.”  (Howard W. Hunter)  The world is awakening with the awareness of this truth.

I feel there are some things to know that are critical. Consider with me.    Sheldon C. Deal, D.C., DIBAK wrote an amazing article called The Chemo Architecture of the Brain.  In it he says, “In common language we say that a quantum unit of light is a photon.  A quantum unit of gravity is a graviton.  A quantum unit of electricity is an electron.  A quantum unit of your body is a thought … At a very primal, basic level, thought is just an impulse of information that comes from our own consciousness.  So as we are thinking we are making molecules that are being generated not only in our mind but also in our whole body.  In other words, to think is to practice brain chemistry.”

Einstein has taught us that an atom is 99.99% empty space—and so are we.  If we could take an atom and enlarge the nucleus to the size of the earth, we would find the electrons to be about the size of our moon and they would be about the same distance away.  Fascinating, isn’t it?  The majority of the content of an atom is empty space; empty in terms of what we classify as matter, but full of the impulses of continual information—thought (and so are we).   Einstein also taught us that all things vibrate.  We can only see a very narrow band of those vibrations with our eyes.  Anything that vibrates from the relatively slow vibration of the color red to the much faster vibration of the color purple is in the field of our visual perception.    Anything that vibrates slower or faster than this spectrum is invisible to us; is not matter.  Ninety-nine percent of vibrating light cannot be seen with the human eye.  We, in fact, only see about 1% of what is!   What is happening in all that empty space?

All around us is a huge electromagnetic field which vibrates with all thought, and so all possibility.  It already exists and we are the drivers steering ourselves to align with the thoughts that are vibrating.  We don’t think an original thought.  It is already in existence.  We entrain  ourselves with thoughts and they come vibrate in us.  What happens in our minds and bodies as a result is key.  Our brains are stimulated by thoughts to secrete neuropeptides.  These are the chemicals that establish communications from one cell to another.  It was originally thought that neuropeptides were the property of the brain only.  What we have now discovered is that the immune system is constantly eavesdropping on the thoughts our brains are relaying and producing their own neuropeptides.  In other words, our immune systems are intelligent.  The next discovery is that our organs are also able to produce neuropeptides.  It turns out we have a thinking body.  Now consider another discovery that shocked the scientific world.  There was a time when we thought our bodies were genetically determined and cast in concrete, so to speak, and we were the victims of it.  We got what we got.  Now we know the cells in our bodies are replacing themselves faster than we could imagine.  We make a new liver every six weeks, a new skeleton  every three months, a new stomach lining every five days and new skin once a month.  Okay.  So what?  The essential bit here is that our bodies are responding continually to the stream of thought that we are vibrating in our beings and building and rebuilding accordingly. So in a very literal sense that makes us the keeper—the shepherd—of our thoughts.  In fact, perhaps that is the primary purpose of our sojourn here.    What we think and vibrate in ourselves is very accurately what we create, from our bodies to our environment and our life experience.

One more important thing to consider on this topic is that we have roughly 40 bits of information being processed per second in our conscious minds.  No wonder we can relive an experience in minute detail so quickly.  Now realize that there are approximately 20,000,000 bits of information being processed per second by our subconscious minds.  What are we to do about that?  We aren’t even aware of them.  Enter kinesiology—and other healing modalities.  Through the amazing gift of kinesiology, we can access the subconscious mind to relieve stressors, remove blockages and weed out unwanted thoughts that are producing dis-ease in our mind/body/spirit systems.  We can change our neurologies, biologies and realities, and bring about those things that we desire in health and wholeness.  Give me a call at 801.599.2253 and get a pulse on what your thoughts are creating in your life and how they can be changed to bring you more happiness and health.

Course Corrections

I heard a story lately that enthralled me.  It was about the airplane called the Concorde which, thirty years ago, was the first passenger plane to fly at Mach 2—1,350 mph—between the United States and Europe, cutting flight time down to less than four hours.  Of course, the maiden flight was accompanied by important guests who were excited to have this new experience.  Among these guests were media personnel who would chronicle the event for generations to come.

One such news reporter was given the grand tour of the plane’s cockpit with the other guests and was intrigued to learn that no one was keeping the airplane on course during the flight.  When he questioned this, he was given the answer that because they were going so fast, and given the slow reaction time of humans, by the time they were supposed to be reaching France they would be far off course.  Instead, there were two computers manning the cockpit.  The first computer would take a course reading every few seconds and feed this information to the second one, which in turn would make the required corrections to the flight in order to reach the desired destination.

He mused this over for an hour when he returned to his seat and and was bothered by something he couldn’t quite put his finger on.  He finally asked the flight attendant if he could visit the cockpit again.  Upon entry, he knew immediately that it was not something he had seen that was bothering him, but something he had heard.  The computers made a certain sound when they were talking to each other and the news reporter now noticed that the noise they made when communicating back and forth was almost constantly.  He asked the crew how often the airplane was off course and was astounded by their answer—99% of the time!  After this he was assured that they would reach Paris at the appointed time, plus or minus a minute or so.

So why are our response times too slow to correct courses before we miss the mark?  Maybe we are denying that we are off track in the first place, which is caused by resistance born of fear.  Maybe our compelling need to be right doesn’t allow for the crucial data to flow in and make the accurate corrections.

Could we focus ourselves on the purpose we wish to serve as the Concorde focused itself on reaching its destination?  If we were to stop requiring ourselves to be on course all the time, would we be able to look at mistakes differently?  Wouldn’t it be awesome to just accept course corrections out of love, for ourselves and for those around us who are giving us worthy data?

I know that we can clear up the resistance in our lives that hampers our accurate course corrections.  We can free our channels of  debris  and work in harmony with the wholeness which wants our good and desired outcomes.  We came with the necessary equipment, whether we use it or not.  Call me at 801.598.9288 to explore your innate course-correction equipment.  It takes 45 minutes.  That’s a good investment in your cross-life flight to ensure your desired destinations.