A Wider Vision Of Passion

By Dr. William K. Larkin on October 26, 2009

We are discovering that it is a "vision" of one's life that will most heal the negative core beliefs of the past. It is also a wider vision of the future that will grease the passage through a transition. Negative core beliefs and transitions cause us to go into a DownSpiral and to "clutch" at what is, making ourselves the victims of this or that trauma or change. Actually, the brain is simply attempting to conserve glucose (the fuel of the brain) in order to maintain a constant level of synchronicity. When that is threatened, a fear mechanism is kicked into gear which signals some threat, the worst of which is the "unknown." This is a biological response to novelty or "newness" solely to conserve psychic energy and maintain the glucose fuel burn. It would be like an override in your car that slows your car down when you are going at a speed that is using more gas than needed for the speed at which you are accelerating.

Think of not being able to increase the speed of your car going up a steep hill. The brain is doing something like that when it is time for a "wider vision." We are comfortable when we are coasting along until it slows us down and doesn't seem work to work as smoothly.

The function of vision is to heal the past and to guide the individual and group "brain" toward the future with eagerness and enthusiasm. Inspiration cannot come, the "how" cannot be created, and the leaders cannot emerge when there is no vision or a puny vision that really does not move you through a transition in life.

We pay little attention to transitions and we know less about them. But they are the stuff of life. We are enthralled by people who keep reinventing themselves because it is the work of all of us. And it is the work to reinvent, sometimes in whole new ways, the visions that once drove us to greatness.

There is an enormous abundance of ideas and this is the time to get the billion dollar idea. This is the time to get the idea that will put your organization forward in a way that will speak to a new age with aliveness, vitality and verve. A vision, when it is right, arouses passion and the desire to "belong to it."

Everything you learn here-- from the Emotional Gym, to Strengths, to VibeCore, to FuturePac, to VisioNavigator and MasteRevelation, is about this vision that we never get done but that keeps us soooo alive in the living of it.

Nighty Night!

By Dr. William K. Larkin on October 20, 2009

For the past several posts, I have been underlying and again drawing attention to the vast importance of positive emotions. We have only scratched the surface. It is about seeing and knowing the good for yourself. More and more, I am realizing the great cultural bias there is against positivity.

There is a movie just recently released called "The Invention of Lying." It takes place in a community where no one can tell a lie, everyone can only tell the truth. What is interesting is that the truth is equated with what is negative. Telling the truth means saying what is negative. The discovery of lying is equated with the first person who begins to say something positive. Strangest thing. When the first positives are spoken -and they are not necessarily true- they become true. But throughout the movie, the positive characters are seen as saying things that are not accurate or absolutely true. The bias is clear; what is really true is negative and what is positive is, well, maybe true or not.

Enter "belief" and enter "nighttime" -the subjective sleep state where your brain and mind do a lot of work. What your mind and brain know, they will create. Go to sleep worrying and fretting and fearful and you wake up pretty much that way. Dreams are most impacted by the last conscious thought you had when you went to sleep. You create what you believe in the daytime and that sets up what you create in your sleep.

So tonight, make a list of everything that you are grateful for and FEEL the feelings of that. Then, in your mind, create the pictures of what you want and FEEL the feelings of what that would be like. Get into the feeling state, before you go to sleep, of how you would FEEL, if you got what you wanted.

Nighty night!

What Are You Pushing AGAINST?

By Dr. William K. Larkin on October 12, 2009

What don't you have enough of? What's not working out? What is getting in your craw? What is needling you? What are you being insistent about that needs to happen in your life? What hasn't happened that you focus on every day -more than you focus on what is good and beautiful; more than you celebrate what IS?

There is one fundamental secret to getting what you want. It is celebrating what you have. How do you eat an ice cream cone? How do you eat a bowl of soup? How present are you in your conversations? Are you usually thinking about or planning what you have to do next? These are good tests of celebrating today. Do you have enough time to savor an ice cream cone, a conversation, another person, the sky, your piece of paradise?

Pushing against is the "not enough" setting of a person who believes that one more thing has to happen before they can be happy. There is always one more thing that will do it, always, until we become happy inside, by our doing. From that point of inner happiness, all the rest comes. Happiness can happen today or you can wait for something outside of you to make you happy. Chances are you will wait forever.

The Flatland

By Dr. William K. Larkin on October 5, 2009

Flat, flat feelings, flat life, going through the motions. The "Flatland of life" happens when we are unable to feel, or even know that positive emotion is vastly important. The Flatland of life is absent of both positive and negative feelings. I am always concerned when people tell me that less and less is bothering them -that they have fewer reactions to things. I wonder if, on the other hand, they are feeling more positive, more alive, more joyful, and savoring life more. We have placed such a value on being "emotionally even" that we have realized that it is often "a learned way of behaving" and that it's not all that's cracked up to be. What about joy? What about exuberance? What about a great spontaneous burst of laughter -had one lately?

If you think you have achieved a great thing by being "even" all the time, you are deluded and you are missing the cues that life is giving you.

We can show you how to get into an UpSpiral.

Because here is the truth. If you aren't feeling positive feelings, you are what I call "flatlining in Flatland." You cannot stay there for long. No emotions are worse than negative emotions. That is why many people are negative. They don't know they have a choice to be positive. It seems unrealistic or impossible. Many times, it's just never considered as the essential alternative. You will feel negative rather than "flatlining in Flatland." And that negativity will increase until you are a victim of life, you are in despondency and despair and suicidal thoughts are frequent, if not haunting.

We can show you how to get into an UpSpiral and stay there.

We are not meant to have "no emotion" or flat emotion. Emotion is like sonic radar. It tells us if we are moving toward something positive or toward something negative. And if you are in touch with your feelings, you will know whether or not to go in the direction you're going or to change direction. Many folks, rather than change direction or change their thinking, choose to go to the negative. If you do not experience enough positivity, you will inevitably "default" to negativity. If the Flatland of feelings is where you live, you will move in a down spiral to the negative.

We can show you how to achieve an UpSpiral score of 95 and stay there 95% of the time.

What do you care about? What moves you to joy? What moves you to smile? What moves you to appreciation? What makes you feel desire and wanting? What makes you want to learn more, know more, experience more? Follow that signal out of your "Flatland" and into the realm of the UpSpiral.