2012 – think like a martial artist
By Jena Griffiths | January 2, 2012
Mayan calendar maker to a friend: “I ran out of stone when I got to 2012!”
The friend: “Boy, that’s really gonna freak someone out one day.”
How to prepare for 2012?
Apply martial arts thinking:
Instead of making more resolutions – do the opposite.
Clear your mind of everything so that you can be
“in the zone” – creative and spontaneous
and totally prepared.
How?
Here’s some advice from a world authority
on time management, David Allen:
Get all commitments and other psychic “clutter”
out of your head and onto paper.
– the door knob that needs fixing,
– the friend who needs to be phoned,
– the blog post that needs writing…
🙂
(It’s amazing how much we keep in our heads
so this process could take you a few hours.)
Then look at each item and ask yourself,
“Do I need to take action or not?”
If yes, ask yourself two more questions:
“What outcome do I want?”
“What’s the next action I need to take?”
For example, it might just be unscrewing the
old door knob so that you can take it with you
to the hardware store.
Allen also says instead of one “to do” list
have several:
– the urgent list
– the someday-maybe list
– the online list
– the “can be done anywhere” list
Interestingly, it’s not doing the next action step
that counts, but the process of putting all the
commitments currently occupying your mind
onto paper instead, thereby freeing your mind
to be fully present. Alert. Tuned in.
May you be “in the zone” in the coming year.
Thanks for being here.
Happy New Year.
Tuesdays with Richard starts January 24th
I’m leaving the early bird special up another week
in case you’re still on holiday.
The first call is about starting a successful business.
The advanced hand shapes course starts mid February.
Wishing you a year to celebrate for decades.
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How can knowing your type or your partner’s type help improve communication?
By Jena Griffiths | December 18, 2011
‘One man’s meat is another man’s poison’ Idiom
Are you giving other people what you need rather than what they need or want?
Knowing and understanding your and other people’s body type, personality type or learning type helps improve communication.
For example, there are three Ayurvedic body types: vata, pitta, kapha
Vata types need sound and touch (spoken words)
Pitta types respond better to visual cues such as written words or colours
Kapha types respond emotionally to smell or taste so buying them perfume or taking them out to a restaurant may be a better way of communicating your feelings to them, rather than writing a poem! (Deepak Chopra)
Also, when these types are off balance it manifests in a particular way. Knowing and being able to recognise imbalace makes you more compassionate towards their behaviour.
Are you an auditory, visual or feeling- kinesthetic type?
In NLP there’s a simple technique to assess more or less the same thing:
whether you’re auditory, visual or tactile type.
depending on whether your eyes go up, sideways, or down while you’re describing a past event.
You can do this test on yourself but probably you’re an auditory type because you listen to or learn through telecalls. How about your partner and kids? Perhaps they’re a different type with different needs. Are you giving them what you need (talking) rather than what they need (dinner)? 😉
The same applies to hand shape types or heart line types.
Understanding and respecting other people’s communication needs helps you be more effective and get better results
For effective communication, you need to talk differently to an Earth type with a long index finger (Master of my domain) than to an air type with a long pinkie (Sherlock type) or to a water type with a long ring finger.
We’ll be learning what these different types are, what their needs are and how to recognize when they’re off balance and what to do during our forthcoming advanced hand shape course with Richard Unger starting this February. More info.
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Miscommunication: are you misunderstood?
By Jena Griffiths | December 15, 2011
Our next inner circle call with Richard Unger is today. The topic is miscommunication
We’ll be looking at common causes of misunderstanding and miscommunication. And what to do. How to avoid arguing.
We’ll also be exploring this topic from what light your hands can shed on what’s really going on.
More information here.
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This week in Earth School: The masculine heart and miscommunication
By Jena Griffiths | December 13, 2011
Coming up in Earth School this week:
the Masculine heart.
Free Auditorium
On Tuesday 13 December 9am NY, 3pm Central Europe Earth School’s Jenna Griffiths will interview Dr Robert Kandarjian, author of The Masculine Heart. Robert has a fresh view on men in our society. We’ll discuss how men become wounded within the nest and outside of it. How to step beyond the “false” male self to embrace your inner power. We’ll also discuss intuitive healing and Robert’s mission to help healers and medical practitioners worldwide to train in intuitive diagnosis. More about Dr Robert Kandabjian http://drrobertheals.com
This is a free call.Listen to the replay of this interview here.
Thursday 15 December 2011 11am Pacific, 8pm Swiss
Richard Unger on Miscommunication
This is an Inner Circle member’s call.
Click here for more information or to register.
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Replay of free interviews with Richard Unger
By Jena Griffiths | December 12, 2011
updated 2024
In 2008 (2 years prior to creating Earth School) I set out to interview all leading hand readers at that time across numerous systems of thought with the view to finding common ground. After interviewing Richard Unger and Birla, all the other thought leaders from totally different systems whom I wished to interview turned down my offer so I interviewed a few of Richard’s former students. This made me aware of the fact that a lot of former students weren’t aware of Richard’s more recent work.
I subsequently changed my project and, instead of focusing on numerous schools of thought, decided to focus primarily on Richard Unger’s work, particularly his more recent thinking. This turned into a 6 year project (2010-2016) where I interviewed Richard weekly for students around the world in Earth School. The objective was to record his thinking for future generations and to create a searchable library for professional hand analysts so that they could understand the original thinking. You can access a number of calls from the Richard Unger Library here.
Many of the recordings with Richard are freely available below.
The rest have been archived.
Some free calls with Richard over the years
Richard Unger on Life Purpose from Fingerprints (2008)
Richard Unger (2016) Two video calls with Richard on broken life lines here
Richard’s new work on advanced hand shape (2014) – 5 videos on hand shape archetypes here.
Scroll down for the replay of an earlier Earth School call with Richard Unger (2012).
On the Simian line and several other topics.
During the call we discussed broken life lines, simian lines, warts and wounds as well as Richard’s recent work on advanced hand shapes and his fast track system for training students’ eyes to identify advanced shape types to narrow down life purpose options.
The reference page for this call
Replay from 2012:
The reference page for this call
I purposefully interviewed Richard on topics where people tend to get beaten up due to misinformation in old books and on various websites.
A few excerpts from the above interview
Broken Life Lines
a 16 minutes excerpt from the 2012 call above
The Simian Line
a 15 minutes excerpt from the 2012 call above
Video excerpt from the 2012 call above
Warts and Wounds
a 11 minutes excerpt from 2012 call above
Advanced hand shapes
a 32 minutes excerpt from the 2012 call above
Here’s the transcript of the entire 2012 call. including the last 10 minutes on hand shapes that is not on the audio file.
Second Free Call on Advanced Hand Shapes + Video
We decided to do a second call on hand shape (where we discussed 3 more archetypes).
Access this call + video + reference document here.
An earlier call on hand shapes from 2012
Over the years Richard has identified over 65 personality characteristics that can be identified through hand shape. Some of these indicators come from previous generations and were verified by Richard Unger. The rest were identified by Richard over the years. Many hand analysts from around the world are now using Richard’s advanced hand shapes model with great success.
Reference Library with Richard
These calls are now archived accessible only to students in tutoring progammes.
For more information contact jena@handanalysisonline.com
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Announcing: Tuesdays with Richard
By Jena Griffiths | December 9, 2011
Tuesdays with Richard
Now you can learn hands directly from Richard every Tuesday in Earth School.
The live calls are always at 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern, 7 pm UK, 8pm Central Europe/Switzerland.
But you don’t have to attend live. Download the replay into your ipod or computer and listen to them over and over at your convenience.
Topic calls: First and Second Tuesday of the Month
Richard has selected a series of talks that should pique your hands / life purpose interests.
Click here for topics / dates / prices.
New:
Advanced Hand Shapes: Third and Fourth Tuesday of the Month
Hand shape analysis is an often under-utilized tool in identifying life purpose options.
Click here to learn more about what Richard wants to share with you + dates / prices.
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Free Auditorium call with Richard Unger
By Jena Griffiths | December 8, 2011
I’ll be interviewing Richard Unger today in the Earth School Free Auditorium
at 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern, 8pm Switzerland. Elsewhere.
If you miss the live call there’s a replay on the same link.
Here’s the reference document for the call – hands and photos.
And here’s the event page: Earth School Free Auditorium.
What will we discuss?
We’ll be talking about broken life lines, simian lines, warts
and wounds.
We’ll also discuss Richard’s new class on advanced hand shapes:
sixteen archetypes to be covered in Earth School over the next
two years, including career archetypes that will dramatically shorten
the learning curve for both new and seasoned hand analysts.
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. My readings are so much more specific and my clients can
find themselves in my examples much more easily.”
We hope you can join us live. If you can’t there’s a replay on the
same link.
Please go there now and pre-submit your questions.
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Are you playing enough at work?
By Jena Griffiths | December 7, 2011
“The opposite of play isn’t work, it’s depression.”
I was at Google head office in Zurich yesterday to meet the Startup Bus team. A group of creative young entrepreneurs touring Europe at the moment. Well done to Zurich based event organiser David Butler.
While there I had a chance to peek behind scenes at the Google office space.
I really take my hat off to Google for understanding basic needs of their employees to play more, take cat naps and care for body, mind and spirit. What a cool place. They really set a standard that other companies would do well to follow.
There’s a wonderful ambiance: lots of play areas, snack bars, meeting nooks and crannies, a finess and massage center and there’s even darkened room lit up only with fish tanks where you can sleep or meditate when you need time out.
I love the firemen chutes from one floor to the next. Why take the lift when you can have an adrenaline rush?
It’s all a game anyway – most of us tend to forget this. Why not lighten up. Enjoy the ride.
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Surviving Christmas alone
By Jena Griffiths | December 7, 2011
Last night I interviewed Lori Latimer on how to survive the festive season alone or when your children are with your ex. How to juggle family commitments so that everyone wins and also, so you’re aren’t left feeling sorry for yourself.
Lori made some good suggestions such as offer your services at a local shelter or other institution, or invite other single friends to join you or treat yourself to a wellness.
We also discussed the importance of focusing on all the things you have rather than what you don’t have, such as the happiness and health of your children. As one door closes others open. There is always a seed of an opportunity in every crisis but you need to be open and not focused on your own misery to see them.
We discussed the need to get out there and meet new people.
Every city has clubs of like-minded people, women’s groups or business groups or philosophy clubs. For example, in Zürich there’s ZIWA (the Zürich International Women’s Association), the American Women’s Club, the Asian Ladies Club of Switzerland, Professional Women’s Group of Zurich, Toastmasters and many more. You simply have to take the first step: get out there until you find a group that you resonate with; your adopted tribe or family. Here are the links to a many different groups for women complied by Xpat Xchange. There’ll be similar groups wherever you are in the world.
Also it helps to look at your ex or original family from a higher perspective (eg through the lens of your fingerprints). This helps you to re-frame the past and look for how this is serving you in some way. In other words, adopt the perspective that this is a supportive universe. One way or another, your ex or original family are your noble friends. How so? This perspective allows you to be far gentler on both yourself and others. I find knowing what your fingerprints say really helps. (You can figure this out yourself inside Earth School.)
Like all calls in Earth School, you can listen to the replay of the call with Lori any time you need to in the free auditorium.
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Earth School Topic Calls with Richard Unger 2012
By Jena Griffiths | December 3, 2011
We have a really good line of Topic Calls with Richard Unger next year.
The calls are always the first Tuesday of the month and advanced threading the second Tuesday.
Exceptions: January (last 2 Tuesdays), May (2nd and third) and August. (last 2 Tuesdays)
Topics as follows:
Jan 24, 2012: Building a Successful Practice
Advanced Threading: 31 January 2012
Feb 7: Procrastination (No accident that this call follows the previous one)
Advanced Threading: 14 Feb 2012
March 6: Thirty-Nine Steps (From the Big Gaping Hole to Living On Purpose)
Advanced Threading: 13 March 2012
April 3: The Desire System: An Owner’s Manual
Advanced Threading:: 10 April 2012
May 8: Hand Color and the Transmutation Process
Advanced Threading: 15 May 2012
June 5: Famous Hands
Advanced Threading: 12 June 2012
The Three Axioms of Soul Psychology
(Note: Richard want’s this to be three calls –
He has exercises on each to offer)
July 3: Experience Required
Advanced Threading:: 10
Aug 21: The Paradox Principle
Advanced Threading: Sept 28, 2012
Sept 4: The Validity of the Personality
Advanced Threading: Sept 11, 2012
Oct 2: Emotional Maturity and the Four Tasks of Psyche
Advanced Threading:: 9 Oct 2012
Nov 6: Soul Tracking: Oh so much deeper on what your heart line is saying.
Advanced Threading: Nov 13, 2012
Dec 4: Grief and Rage
Advanced threading: 11 Dec, 2012
Join these calls with Richard here.
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