Get out of your Mind (Your Left Side, at Least)

This is a brilliant video clip, which will spur on and validate the creativity within you. Find your spark again.

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. Robinson is author of "Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative", and a leading expert on innovation and human resources. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 20:03)

Harvest Creativity

A Healthy Mix of Rest and Motion

Check out this recent article from the New York Times about the benefits of interval training.

A Healthy Mix of Rest and Motion

Speaking of intervals, watch for a new interval workout this month. In the meantime, I'd love to hear what helps the most from me during these workouts. Full coaching? Cues just to indicate the intensity, with minimal chit chat from me? Nothing but music?

You're great. More soon.

The Meditative Workout

Exercise is for many a remarkable meditative experience. It has the potential to rapidly bring one into the present moment, via mindfulness and body awareness. Interestingly the brain releases many of the same endorphins during physical exercise as it does during deep meditation. By participating in a steady and somewhat mindless motion, like running or cardio machines, focus can go on the experience of being inside of a “body at work”.

When perception dictates our intensity we are essentially allowing our workout to become an exercise in biofeedback, training the mind for similar situations. The interval workout requires a different level of intensity each minute and is based on your own perception of how hard you are working. Physical awareness is a requirement of this workout. It is designed not only to help you become lean and strong physically, but also to become extremely present with your body, and each individual moment.

As you affect change in your physical world through exercising your body you increase your experience and confidence in the very same principles that will affect growth and change in other areas of your life.

To learn more about interval training, and to get more interval workouts (with or without coaching), check out www.mythoughtcoach.com.

The goal is to improve your a mode of living and seeing everything: relationships, work, and home life; your future and your past. Along the way, the practice of meditation can trickle into everything you do, bringing profound relaxation, increased mental clarity, inner peace and happiness!

What's on YOUR mind?

A thought, particularly one linked with emotion or habit, takes about 3 seconds to begin a physical response in your body. Throw the Law of Attraction into the mix (which teaches that in the unseen world, like attracts like) and within a very short period of time the thoughts you choose to dwell on will create all sorts of powerful responses.

Did you know that there are dozens of Universal Laws? You may already have heard of the Law of Cause and Effect. Another one of these great Universal Laws is the Law of Attraction. This law is being used by many of the wealthiest and most successful people in the world today.

This law states that we attract into our lives whatever we focus our attention on-- Like attracts Like. Everything in our Universe is energy. Our thoughts - what we focus our attention on is energy. What kind of energy are you attracting in your life?

By introducing structured, focused affirmations into your life, you can quickly and easily alter your current negative way of thinking to a positive life-changing way of thinking, thus manifesting the desired positive changes directly into your life.

Affirmations are powerful POSITIVE "I am" statements designed to train your subconscious mind into manifesting whatever you want into your life. This is not new-age mumbo jumbo. These are long-established techniques based upon proven scientific principles. You are what you think about all day long! Our thoughts, that 'little voice' inside our heads (often our own worst critic) has the power to make us feel good or bad about any given situation.

There is tremendous potential within 'positive self-talk.' The mood and tone of the 'little voice' is central and directly proportional to the quality of life you are now experiencing.

Silence that negative voice, amplify your natural positive voice and start living an abundant life right now! Choose statements designed to re direct and train your thinking, to help your reality match what you REALLY want, instead of simply what your habits are.