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David and Kristin Morelli, creators and hosts of the very popular radio show Everything Is Energy, are hosting a free teleclass on April 22nd called a Quantum Leap in Your Wealth.  If you fee like you have money blocks that are holding you back in your business and life, this should be a worthwhile event to participate in.

You can register for this teleclass by clicking here. Enjoy!

Kevin Doherty

The following is an outline from my teleseminar on 2/18/09 called Infusing Your Practice with Purpose and Prosperity

Why I’m doing the call tonight:

There is obviously a lot of doom and gloom out there with the economy. I’ve heard from a lot of practitioners who are feeling discouraged about starting or maintaining a practice. There is a lot of fear swirling around out there and many people are stuck in basic survival.

For me, the timing of all this is quite interesting, as I’ve just finished a 2 yr. process of writing a book called the Purpose Principle, which has just recently been released. What I want to do is share with you a few key concepts from the book and apply them directly to your needs as a business owner.

As much as anything, I want to offer you a sense of hope and inspiration from this call. It is very easy to get sucked down by all the negativity, so I think it’s really important to have the chance to absorb some uplifting and empowering information.

Now, I’m going to say something to you that you may not agree with, but I really hope it that’s the case that you have a shift in mindset by the end of this call:

There has never been a better time to be a practitioner of the healing arts.

Now, how could I say this with the down economy? Well, first of all, I’m witnessing it firsthand in my own businesses and in many of my coaching clients who have never been so busy.

You see, the success of any business comes down to positioning, which is how you perceive your role in the current state of affairs and secondly how your target market perceives you.

I want to start here by talking about your perceptions and how they are affecting your business. How do you perceive your role as a practitioner?

There are 2 fundamental orientations that you can embrace in your work right now:

1. The belief that it’s really hard to run a practice, that the economy is to blame, that people can’t afford your services, that you’ll need a second job, that change is hard, that you have to focus on your basic survival and not much else, that money is a burden, that success is random

2. The belief that you have something to offer people in this day and age that is so incredibly valuable and precious and that you sincerely want as many people as possible to experience this, that there are hundreds if not thousands of people around you right now who could greatly benefit from your work and who can make the sacrifices to afford it, that if you position yourself as a highly credible expert that there will never be a shortage of business, that your success is a choice, that money is a symbol of generosity and freedom in your life instead of just survival

So I ask you, which side of the fence do you lean on? What is your fundamental perception of what is true? And can you be really honest with yourself to expose any tendency you may have toward the former set of beliefs? Because we are all vulnerable to this way of viewing reality. It is the predominant form of expression happening in the world right now.

When I coach new clients, this is always the starting point in our work. I can usually tell within a few seconds whether someone has an aura of poverty or prosperity, victimization or purpose.

So one of the main ideas I want you to consider here is that your success as a practitioner is entirely up to you. It is a choice, regardless of what anyone tells you. If you’re in a receptive place, this will come as good news. If you’re more interested in holding onto disempowering beliefs, then you’ll likely resist this idea.

Purpose and prosperity will start to manifest in your life when you are sincerely ready for them. Until then, you’ll live out the conditioning of your upbringing, playing out old storylines and beliefs. This willingness means that you are ready to be honest with yourself and expose any and all obstacles that are standing in the way of your success. When you do this, you’ll see that your obstacles are not YOU. You can liberate them in any moment.

Yes, there are a lot of techniques out there for creating abundance and success. You can study the law of attraction. You can do hypnosis. You can do EFT. You can do visualizations. You can meditate. But none of this will work until you are willing to change.

And when we’re looking at our obstacles, we have to see there’s a payoff for staying stuck where we are. We don’t have to change. Attracting more money and success into your life often means that a part of you has to die—the part that doesn’t take things seriously, that is irresponsible, that wants to postpone what is important. Being stuck means we get to stay comfortable. And that is how most of us live out our days—and why most holistic practitioners never achieve lasting business success. They are not committed to change.

So, going back to our current economic situation, why not perceive this as a very powerful wake up call? A catalyst for your own evolution? Why not turn poison into medicine?

Instead of personally buying into the fear and stress, how about choosing to let go of any tendency to feel victimized by what is happening? Instead you can actually transmute all that distress into inspiration, wisdom, and abundance? Why not offer these qualities to every one of your clients? Exude these qualities energetically and in all of your marketing materials?

This is exactly why many of my coaching clients are busier than they’ve ever been. They are using all the stress and fear out there to their advantage. They are creating wellness packages with a focus on stress reduction. They are finding creative ways to promote this message. Now, the only way they can do this is if they aren’t personally identified with all the hardship. Instead, they are turning poison into medicine.

So, you have to be willing to see your obstacles to purpose and then set strong intentions to free these obstacles instead of dwelling in them.

This is the first part of the puzzle. Next, you have to learn to use your mind in a creative, non-habitual, resourceful way. A lot of people ask me about the law of attraction and how to use this force to build their practice. Honestly, if you don’t do what we’ve discussed up to this point, you can’t use the law of attraction. It will only be an egocentric game of trying to get more things to make yourself more comfortable. You have to clearly see your obstacles first, and then neutralize their momentum.

At this point, one of the most helpful things you can do is use your mind in a more purposeful way. 99% of what takes place in our mind is habitual thought. We replay the same soundtracks endlessly. And if we do this, we’ll take the same actions, and get the same results and circumstances over and over. It’s all part of the same continuum.

So what you can start doing every day, ideally to begin the day is to spend 10 minutes mindfully arousing the faculty of imagination to focus on what you really want. You don’t allow in any fear, distress, or lack into this exercise. You just rest your attention on your ideal practice, your ideal circumstances. Then you let it go. No attachment.

When you do this, you set a very powerful and intentional tone for the day. Your mind will become more lucid. You’ll awaken faculties in yourself that have been dormant. These faculties of imagination are your building blocks to a new way of living. They change your inner foundation, which will eventually lead to outer changes.

So every day, you consciously arouse a new kind of way of perceiving yourself. You choose to create a purposeful presence. Your practice becomes a symbol of this process. As you do this, everything you do becomes much more potent.

Then, every day, you commit to this regardless of what is happening outside of you. You choose to drop any resistance to what is showing up in your life right now. Instead, you neutralize resistance, which manifests as attachment to anger, fear, stress, and so on, and then you consciously put your mind in a purposeful place by focusing on what you truly want.

This is how you can use the law of attraction. It is actually a completely egoless process because when you do this, your focus is much more on how you can help others rather than how you can get more stuff.

So, let’s clarify some truths when you’re coming from this place of purpose:

• There has never been a better time to be a practitioner of the healing arts.
• I will not personally get attached to the negativity, fear, or pessimism that is running rampant in our society
• I can choose to turn poison into medicine and have my practice be a resource of inspiration to others
• My success is a choice
• I can use my mind in creative and purposeful ways to keep my focus on what I really want and how I can most help
• 2009 can absolutely be my most amazing and prosperous year ever
• Money is now a symbol of generosity and freedom in my life
• Whenever I find that I’m wallowing in stress, anxiety, depression, or doubt, I can choose to arouse a more purposeful state of mind simply by changing the focus from what I don’t want to what I do want
• All of this can be effortless because it is my natural state of being

If you want to learn more about building a practice with a purposeful and prosperous foundation, you can check out my new book The Purpose Principle at http://www.buildyourdreampractice.net/purpose

Kevin Doherty

Practice building coach

In late 19th century England, Herbert Joyce wrote a book about the history of the postal service entitled succinctly, The History of the Post Office from Its Establishment Down to 1836.

“As early as 1735, Members of Parliament had begun to complain that their letters bore evident signs of having been opened at the Post Office — alleging that such opening had become frequent and was becoming a matter of common notoriety … it transpired that in the Post Office there was a private office, an office independent of the Postmaster-General and under the immediate direction of the Secretary of State, which was expressly maintained for the purpose of opening and inspecting letters. It was pretended, indeed, that these operations were confined to foreign letters but, in the matter of fact, there was no such restriction… it was in June 1742 that these shameful facts became known through the report of a committee of the House of Commons.”

Communications, electronic or otherwise, have a long history of being intercepted by third parties — usually under the guise of “domestic security,” “protecting our business interests,” “protecting ourselves from ourselves,” etc. Our own National Security Agency was created in secret by President Truman on November 4th, 1952 — the same day his successor, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was voted in to office. Its inception began much earlier in Truman’s Presidential career but was hardly the first organization of its kind in national or world history. The timing struck me as significant not only to the Korean War and Second Red Scare politics of the time but it also draws comparisons to our own recently departed lame duck that claims he did what was “necessary to protect this country.”

Those of us who have read James Bamford’s books about the history of the NSA were not surprised to learn about the NSA’s domestic surveillance program or that it’d been around for some time before 9/11. I was, however, pleasantly surprised when convicted felon and former Qwest CEO, Joseph Nacchio, spilled the beans that he would not turn over his company’s communications records without a court order. Am I the only one that remembers when it was considered rude to spy on your neighbors? It was even made light of in 50s and 60s era sitcoms. Spies used to have codes of conduct but Joyce, David Kahn, and many others have written extensively about the history of governments that have spied on their own population for the greater good. That’s hardly cricket, eh, old chap?

While the 4th Amendment bears some text protecting our homes from unlawful search and seizure, our founding fathers (and mothers) were unaware of the upcoming inventions of the telegraph, the radio, satellites, and Facebook. But the right of privacy has a long history both in America and abroad — a history that may be traced four thousand years back to when Egyptian scribes began to subtly alter their heiroglyphs. A cuneiform tablet was once found in an archeological dig at the ancient city of Seleucia (about 30km SE of modern Baghdad along the Tigris river). This precious tablet bore an encrypted recipe for pottery glazes — written in cuneiform but with strange groups of vowels and consonants in order to protect its valuable trade secret.

But why should the average person care if their government is secretly reading their email, logging their phone calls, or intercepting their postcards from Auntie Sue? Public video cameras in the UK protect the population so why not snoop through my porn to see if any terrorists are secretly trading in weapons of mass orgasm? Should we believe that FBI’s COINTELPRO ended in 1971? Or was it merely parted out to less public organizations within the “shadow government’s” octopus of black chamber operations?

Will the Obama administration allay our worst fears? Who watches the watchmen? The X Files was a huge hit during the Clinton era — will shows like Fringe and Warehouse 13 be the equivalent pop culture paranoia for the masses during the current regime? Or will it be more drivel from the military industrial entertainment complex designed to distract us from the real covert operations being formulated and enacted every day? I’m sure there’s an entire warehouse of ideas waiting to be made in to pablum for the proletariat.

I don’t know about you but I’m inclined to agree with former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan that “the wind of change is blowing through this continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.” Let’s hope that our vigilance will only strenghthen and that the new administration will fulfill their promise that change has come to America in an era of new responsibility.

Your comrade in cognitus en crypto,
Stanley

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