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 and classes with Richard Unger
By Jena Griffiths | December 12, 2011
Some of the free calls and classes with Richard over the years
In 2008 (two 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 (author of LifePrints, determining life purpose from fingerprints) and Birla (on his Vedic system), 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 who had written books or created courses. This made me aware of the fact that a lot of former students didn’t know about Richard’s more recent work.
Therefore, instead of focusing on numerous schools of thought about hands, I decided to focus primarily on Richard Unger’s more advanced work instead, particularly his more recent thinking. This turned into a 6 year project (2010-2016) – weekly calls and classes with Richard for students around the world, called “Tuesdays with Richard”. The objective was to record his thinking for future generations and to create a searchable library for professional hand analysts so that practitioners could understand Richard’s original thinking and so that future generations could have an opportunity to learn directly from him.
Some of the older free calls with Richard are below
The Simian line and several other topics. (2012)
Use the control panel bottom right of replay to make the replay full screen, change the speed or to view the transcript as you listen.
The reference page with images for this call
Video excerpt from the 2012 call above
The transcript of the entire 2012 call. including the last 10 minutes on hand shapes that is not on the audio file.
(2014) Richard Unger on advanced hand shape
Richard has identified over 65 personality characteristics that can be identified through hand shape. Many hand analysts from around the world are now using Richard’s advanced hand shapes model with great success.
Watch the five free video calls with Richard on hand shape archetypes and why knowing about these advanced shapes are useful – click here
(2016) Two videos on broken life and/or heart lines
2016 – Breaks in the major lines – Call 1
We discussed how a break on any of the major lines can be seen as a break in a circuit that, like an electrical switch, can be either on or off.
The life line provides a lot of information but is not linked to longevity, says Richard. Many people live long happy lives with broken lines or even no lifeline at all.
Advanced hand shapes
Second Free Call on Advanced Hand Shapes + Video
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
Searchable Reference Library
Visit the entire library of calls with Richard Unger 2010-2016
This library is mainly for professional hand analysts and students in tutoring progammes.
For more information and special seasonal offers contact jena@handanalysisonline.com
