Rave reviews about the I AM Project

Uncategorized Dec 30, 2020
 

I had the pleasure to meet Sara at a dinner party at a mutual friend's home several weeks ago and I learned that she was a hypnotherapist and a very good one at that. I invited her to come back the following day so I could introduce the I AM Project method to her and in her words "it was profoundly powerful and liberating...it's actually revolutionary"! 

The I AM Project method is the fastest way to get past the issues that you may have struggled with that are true roadblocks to your happiness and success. And the best part, there is absolutely no need to re-experience our past...we simply rewrite it!

  

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Mindfullness and Weightloss

Uncategorized Oct 04, 2020

When it comes to eating and managing our weight and our health, it is important to acknowledge the importance of the mind-body connection. Our hectic, jam-packed lives may literally be weighing us down. In a recent poll, 38% of adults reported eating or overeating in the past month as a means to deal with or avoid stress, and about 50% of these adults reported these behaviors in the past week.

If this is a feeling or behavior you can relate to, you’re not alone. The good news is: There are steps you can take that may be able to help you to manage or lose weight, and meditation for weight loss is one of them.

 Understanding the terminology around meditation for weight loss

Specific practices and techniques — meditationmindful eating, and intuitive eating — can help us learn or relearn how to have a healthy relationship with food and how to remove any problematic feelings we may have surrounding eating. Weight loss...

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I had a thought...

Uncategorized Aug 19, 2020
 
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Negative Bias

Uncategorized Aug 13, 2020

Over the years I have worked hard on my own internal struggles, at times wondering if I am going to make it through. For whatever reason, I was also gifted at the same time a curious mind that reminded me "not to believe everything I think or feel".

Being able to witness and question one's own temporary insanity is a very interesting journey to say the least, but perhaps there was a reason for it. I believe considering my work and efforts over the past 10 years or so leaning towards neuroscience and mental health that perhaps I was being groomed for the job, after all, if you have never walked in another person's shoes all you can do is empathize and speculate, but you will never understand the struggle fully.

There are a few major realizations that occurred as I dug into the world of negativity bias and emotional evolution and there were some very profound details that came to life for me. The biggest one was how our minds made sense of the world around us, how we determined what...

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Artificial Intelligence

wellness Jul 31, 2020
 

Okay, I am not talking about robots or flying cars or any futuristic type of machinery, but what I am talking about is the new world we live in. A while ago I wrote an article titled “Asleep at the Potters Wheel”, in an attempt to create an awareness of the new world we find ourselves in and how much more self-aware we must become to thrive and, yes, even survive. I think the meaning was hidden by my attempt in creative wordplay, so let me be a bit more direct.

For thousands of years, we have lived in an environment that required physical effort to get through the day, from walking everywhere as a necessary form of locomotion, to working with our hands to grow our food, build our shelters and just about everything in our day required our physical effort. This external stressor, we used to call living, helped shaped our body due to the efforts required to live day-to-day. We were physically stronger, our bones and muscles denser, organs functioned better, and many...

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The Emotional Iceberg

Uncategorized Jun 19, 2020
 
Over the years and having had hundreds of conversations with people of various backgrounds (and many years of introspection) a very common pattern could be seen in everyone I spoke with.
 
It was simply this...by the time someone visibly displays signs of outrage and frustration, there have been years of "holding shit in and compartmentalizing issues" until something often not even related sets them off, unleashing a tidal wave of energy and emotions that threatens to take everyone out!
 
I first saw this in myself in a moment while I was giving my son a bath when he was a young child, and early on that day, I had a frustrating conversation with one of my employees which made me nuts. Still stewing over that conversation while bathing my son, and as he was splashing water out of the tub I could literally see the anger flash across my mind like a lightning bolt and get discharged at my son as I yelled at him to stop splashing!
 
It was an uncomfortable...
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Falling Short of the Mark

spirituality Apr 09, 2020
 
 
 
With so much more time on our hands, I am sure that some of us may come up against ourselves, the parts of us we may have shelved with our previous busy lives. A philosopher and psychologist, Carl Jung, coined the phrase "the shadow self" which is the unconscious 90% who we are. This constant intrusion of our "subconscious workings" can often make us feel like there is something fundamentally wrong with us, that we are always falling short of the mark.
 
Carl Jung expanded on the idea from Sigmund Freud, who first start to explore the powerful undercurrent of our subconscious mind and how it has the ability to drown us in a sea of confusion. Our entire life history, the influences of others, our own thoughts and emotions, our false beliefs, is all a part of the subconscious undercurrent.
 
During that time in history, there was also a seeming rise in what was called "hysteria" (out of control emotionally charged behavior) which Freud who proposed...
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It's our thoughts that count

Uncategorized Jan 30, 2020

One of the things that I became fascinated by is the world of "epigenetics (which means "above genetics") mainly as it suggests that we are not victims of our heritage if that being sickly, overweight for example. We do have the ability to "turn on and turn off" genes in our body through lifestyle modifications which can help us stave off many health risks that have been a part of our family's history.

I have recently enrolled in several new courses, one on medical neuroscience and the most recent one on Ho'oponopono, which is a traditional Hawaiian healing method. The main premise of the healing method is that almost all of our problems that we encounter are because of how we "hold the memory" of things in our minds.

For example...

My unspoken judgment of somebody with weight issues helps keep them trapped in that issue

My unspoken judgment of somebody with an addiction issue helps keep them trapped in that addiction.

My upspoken judgment of somebody's homeless condition helps...

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Do we really want the truth??

Uncategorized Dec 17, 2019

I got up early this morning at 5:00 am to start my day with a series of rituals like meditation, reading, and prayer. This ritual, in theory, is supposed to help me start my day and align my intentions with that of the divine, or so goes the theory. What it does do for me in the conscious realm is to get to me to think about life in a very particular way, more contemplative and curious about possibility and also to shine a light on where I am hiding from the truth.

This morning I was reading a chapter in “Anatomy of the Spirit”, written by Carolyn Myss, and a sentence leapt out at me that asked the very uncomfortable question “are you hiding inside your practices”?  The actual statement was “I want guidance, but don’t give me any bad news”, and what she was referring to was the tendency of using practices like exercise, meditation or prayer as a tool to reduce the burden of stress we may be feeling…but never to really want to...

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Embracing the Personal Development Journey with David Gilks

Uncategorized Oct 02, 2019

Today on the show we're talking with David Gilks about the journey of personal development. This episode is really a plea to do something with your personal development learning. We've taken all sorts of courses and listened to our mentors tell us over and over what we need to do but nothing happens if we do nothing. David is also a fitness coach and brings that sensibility to his I Am Project and his upcoming TedX talk. David is a great guest and deserves all of your attention!

 

https://anchor.fm/dopeamine/episodes/Embracing-the-Personal-Development-Journey-with-David-Gilks-e2tush

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