Seeing yourself with kind eyes
By Jena Griffiths | April 10, 2012
Probably one of the unsung heroes of all time in the world of psychology of human achievement, is Maxwell Maltz, author of Psycho-cybernetics.
Maltz was a plastic surgeon who noticed that some people’s lives were transformed under his scalpel, others not. It was as if these people were operating according to invisible emotional scars and an inner image of themselves rather than actual physical reality.
Maltz then went on to devote his life to helping people become their own inner plastic surgeons, to heal the mental picture they had of themselves. He called this the “self image” and likened humans to heat seeking missiles, goal orientated but internally programmed to always seek out and perform according to the image we hold of ourselves in our heads.
According to Maltz, if your self-image is unhealthy or faulty, all your efforts will end in failure until you change your self image.
The sports industry has benefited most from Maltz’s work. So has the self help industry.
Yet still, every year millions get spent on coaching but people don’t change because they fail to change the mental picture they hold of themselves.
Maltz says, “See yourself with kind eyes.
Acknowledge your mistakes without seeing yourself as a mistake.
You are not your mistake.
You may be a mistake maker but you are also a mistake breaker.”
Is it possible that the same applies to humanity as an entire species?
We simply have a faulty image of ourselves, who we are and our role or impact on the planet;
and we’re trying to live up to that faulty image of ourselves as killer primates and in doing so create mayhem and misery instead of miracles.
In his book Deep Truth, Gregg Braden implodes severals myths we have about who we are as a species.
Such as?
Braden says that modern humans seem to have appeared on Earth rather suddenly 200 000 years ago and we’ve hardly changed at all since.
Also it seems that humans have been building complex civilizations far longer than we previously imagined. Recent archaeological findings take this date back to at least 12 000 years, double the period taught in school history books.
Braden showcases mounting evidence that suggests we are innately cooperative rather than competitive.
He also points out that Darwin’s Origin of Species and his concept of “survival of the fittest” directly impacted the thinking and mass extermination policies of both Hitler and Mao, resulting in the death of at least 50 million people in the last century.
Darwin changed his thinking in later years to co-operation and sympathy as the cornerstones for communal survival yet we can’t seem to let go of his older ideas.
Perhaps it’s time for us to see humanity with “kind eyes”.
Neale Walsch, in his book When Everything Changes says we make a quantum leap when we train our brain to ignore everything we think we know about a subject. You “Skip Past Your Past” then you re-route your energy to Awareness rather than Data. “This is like switching tracks in a train yard, from a track that just goes back to where the train has just been, to a spur that takes it to a place of rest. (p. 243)
Is it possible that it’s not an evolutionary leap that humans need to take right now but simply a change of perception of who we are? Do we need to “skip past our past” or our beliefs about ourselves and our species limitations in order to allow miracles to happen?
Perhaps, instead of an evolutionary shift in our species, all that is really called for is simply a “re-membering” of who we really are?
Braden writes, “ What if we found that the universe itself is directly affected by the power that we’ve hidden from ourselves for so long that we’ve forgotten it’s even ours? Such a radical paradigm shift would change everything. It would change what we believe about ourselves, the universe, and our role within it. It’s also precisely what the leading-edge discoveries of our day are showing us.” (Deep Truth, p. 245)
So perhaps the next step is applying Maltz’s theories to society in general. This would mean rewriting our history to raise the bar for ourselves and who we are as a species.
If you haven’t already got Maxwell Maltz’s self help classic Psycho-cybernetics on your bookshelf, do yourself a huge favor and get it, or the updated CD series The New Psycho-cybernetics . I’m busy listening to this in my car.
Highly recommended.
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Rolling eggs
By Jena Griffiths | April 8, 2012
Every Easter I think about my Scottish mother’s longing to roll boiled eggs down a grassy slope to see whose survives the longest. It was one of the crazy traditions she brought with her when her family emigrated from Scotland to one of the flattest, driest, rockiest parts of Africa.
Each year she would think of doing it but we could never find a soft green hill.
In Switzerland there are lots of soft green slopes so this Easter Friday my son and I went to roll our eggs down a particularly steep slope behind our house. A Swiss neighbour asked me why. I had to google it to find out.
Apparently it symbolizes rolling the boulders away from Jesus’s tomb.
In her Easter message with Steven Dinan, Barbara Hubbard of the Shift says that each of us is busy going through a period of “being in the tomb”, feeling disconnected from spirit, and this is just a normal part of the process of metamorphosis we’re in right now. Collectively as a species we’re on the brink of rebirth and renewal.
What to do?
Know you’re not alone. Maybe roll an egg down a hill to remind yourself this is a temporary state.
Use your breath to reconnect with spirit. And big hugs to reconnect with friends and loved ones around you.
Happy Easter,
(It’s snowing here today! Happy Spring?)
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The human desire system
By Jena Griffiths | April 1, 2012
Why do we have desires?
What’s their purpose when we’re on a spiritual path?
Our next topic call with Richard Unger is this coming Tuesday.
In this interview, we will look at the desire system: how it operates, what can go wrong with it and how to repair this essential aspect of ourselves.
This is an Inner Circle call. 3 April 2012 11am Pacific 8 pm Switzerland. Elsewhere.
Members go here to pre-submit your questions.
The replay wll be on the same link.
Not yet a member? Join this call here: More information
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Do you have Hephaestus in your bedroom?
By Jena Griffiths | March 20, 2012
Our next advanced hand shape call with Richard Unger is today.
Tuesday 20 March 2012. The topic Hephaestus.
Time: 11am Pacific. 7pm Central Europe. Elsewhere.
Who is he?
Hephaestus (also known as Vulcan) was the husband of Aphrodite in Greek mythology.
He was the finest, most creative craftsman ever but she thought he was a bore who worked too hard.
He’s that part of us that’s constantly torn between creativity and hard work.
Are you creative, playful and outgoing or serious, disciplined and introverted?
What happens if you are all of these, all at the same time?
Each of us is a delicious mix of conflicting flavours.
That’s what makes us each unique.
Are you Hephaestus?
If so, what does that mean? And what has this to do with you bedroom?
Join us for the next call in this fascinating series.
Register here.
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Soul Tracking – Part 2
By Jena Griffiths | March 13, 2012
Our next call with Richard Unger is later today.
We will continue discussing Richard’s “Soul Tracking”
system through the Four Life Purpose Development Phases.
This call is really useful if you’ve had your hands and fingerprints analyzed
in the past. It gives you a step by step system of working with this material the way Richard intended.
Daily soul tracking exercises to unlock your life purpose.
How to recognize and work with advanced life purpose formulas.
If you’re already registered for today’s call
sign in here to participate live or listen to the replay.
Not yet registered, sign in here.
Looking forward to having you with us.
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Are you in the big gaping hole?
– 39 Steps to living on purpose
By Jena Griffiths | March 4, 2012
This month the topic in Earth School is life Purpose and how to live with meaning.
Our topic call with Richard Unger is this coming Tuesday, 6 March 2012.
We’ll be discussing 39 Steps:
how to go from the “Big Gaping Hole” to Living On Purpose.
What will we cover?
We’ll be looking at how to recognise when you’re in the big gaping hole
and what to do about it.
Why this looks different for each person.
What this looks like for you.
What’s your personal way out of the big gaping hole.
We’ll discuss Richard’s 39 step process in detail.
How to work with an advanced understanding of the life purpose developmental phases:
for deeper reflection, soul tracking, life purpose support and life purpose fulfillment.
We’ll be covering material that has never been published before.
This is an Earth School Inner Circle call.
Your questions are welcome and will enrich the call for others.
You will receive a supporting document from Richard on this topic when you sign in.
Members log in here to listen to this call or
to pre-submit questions for Tuesday.
Not yet an inner circle member?
Join us monthly or weekly
To join weekly – go here: Tuesdays with Richard
Monthly topic calls only: Register here for this call.
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Another free class with Richard Unger – on hand shape and personality
By Jena Griffiths | February 20, 2012
I’ve posted another free call with Richard Unger in Earth School’s free auditorium.
Click here to listen to the replay.
(Duration: 35 minutes)
(Log in first. It’s a free call.
(If you can’t find your Earth School password, ask for a new one and then wait a few minutes until it is sent to you. Please be patient and check your mail box. The system takes a couple of minutes to send you an email.)
Here’s a video of the first half of this call.
Log into the free auditorium for the second half (audio) plus reference document.
What did we discuss?
We talked about hand shape and personality and how hand shape
changes as humanity changes.
Hand shapes that were common a hundred years ago now hardly exist.
Richard explains his thinking on the subject and his system of identifying archetypes.
We also discussed the first 3 of 16 archetypes that we’ll be exploring in great detail over the coming months:
Which three?
Big Ideas
Hephaestus
The Ballet Teacher
Listen to this free call here.
Why is hand shape important?
Hand shape is the ultimate personality assessment tool.
It helps you narrow down life purpose and know yourself,
how you’re wired, so you can increase your effectiveness
and create the outcomes you want in your life.
If you’re a hand analyst, knowing these hand shape archetypes
helps you be much more effective at helping others.
The hand shape archetype series kicks off tomorrow.
We’ll be discussing the archetype “Big Ideas” over two 90 minute calls.
21 February and 28 february. It’s not too late to join us.
Register here.
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A brand new course by Richard Unger – advanced hand shapes – starts this coming Tuesday.
By Jena Griffiths | February 17, 2012
For the first time in 15 years Richard Unger will be offering a new course – covering his most recent work – this time on decoding hand shape.
Richard first decoded life purpose from fingerprints, then he decoded gift markers, heart lines and other line formations and, more recently, advanced hand shape types including the career archetypes.
This is an opportunity for you to learn Richard’s most recent work – advanced hand shape archetypes – directly from him wherever you are in the world.
Who is Richard?
Richard is maestro behind modern hand analysis and the teacher of all other accredited hand analysis teachers.
He is a world authority on hands, author of LifePrints: decoding your life purpose from your fingerprints and founder of the International Institute of Hand Analysis.
He has an engaging lecture style and is deeply thought provoking.
Why do this course?
This course will help you fine-tune your skills in guiding people towards their right life.
Whether you’re already a professional analyst with many years experience or just starting out, this course
will shave years off your learning curve and put you ahead of the field.
When does it start?
How can I join?
How much does it cost?
What archetypes will we cover?
Click here for more information.
Richard says:
“One of the two biggest upgrades to my reading
skills in the last five years has been the increased use of hand
shape variables to narrow down life purpose and life lesson
options. I would like to share this knowledge not just with my own students but also
with other hand readers from other schools.”
This online course starts this coming Tuesday.
The first archetype we’ll be exploring is “Big Ideas.”
If you can’t make it live there will be replays of all the calls.
Register here.
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a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose…..
By Jena Griffiths | February 14, 2012
“a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose…..” Gertrude Stein
A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose…..
why?
Because it isn’t a banana.
😉
May you be you
and love being you
and may the joy this brings you
be mesmerizing, intoxicating and utterly contagious.
Happy valentines day.
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Procrastination
By Jena Griffiths | February 7, 2012
“I love deadlines. Especially the whooshing sound they make as they pass by.” – Douglas Adams.
Our call with Richard Unger on Procrastination just whooshed by…
🙂 Only kidding.
The clock’s ticking. It’s coming soon.
No time for backpedaling, stalling, pressing pause.
What will we discuss?
We’ll be looking at 5 different types of procrastination.
+ why knowing which type you have helps you dust yourself off, recover and take action.
What do your hands say about this? How can they help?
More information on this call – go here.
If you’re registered, please go here to submit your questions.
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