Everyday Bliss For Women In Leadership

I am in an amazing vortex of creativity right now, sparked by watching Dr. Wayne Dyer’s The Power of Intention on PBS and reading Pema Chodron’s wonderful book: Comfortable with Uncertainty in the same day. Chodron’s book is a panacea for our troubled times and contains exercises and suggestions in short, three-page chunks for people of all faiths to quell fear and anxiety: practice of loving kindness towards others, reverence for all forms of life, constant prayer for the peace and happiness of all beings, etcetera. If you can at all catch Wayne Dyer’s presentation on PBS, please do so. It’s amazing and will change your life. And it fits right in with where I am going and what I coach on. (here’s a listing of the PBS stations showing this presentation)

My ideal client is someone who is searching for reconnection to Source and is actively helping others to do so. I coach the coaches, teachers and community leaders of Source-reconnection in whatever ways and methods they are using to do that. Dr. Dyer had a perfect quote: “We are all born geniuses, but the process of living de-geniuses us.” My purpose is to help people restore their inherent Genius and connection to Source that has been lost through the process of living this life. This purpose is summed up in a prayer that Dyer read during the PBS presentation. Though I am not Catholic nor yet Christian (in fact I don’t subscribe to any religious denomination) this prayer perfectly expresses, for me, my purpose in life. Perhaps for some of you too…
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Scientist Stephen Hawking Moved to Specialist Hospital (click here for full story)

“He was transferred yesterday from Addenbrookes Hospital and he is stable,” said a spokeswoman for Papworth. She declined to give further details. Police are also separately investigating allegations of an assault on the 62-year-old. “We still want to speak to him and we are continuing to speak with the people who provided the information,” a spokeswoman for Cambridgeshire Police said Tuesday. The Daily Mirror newspaper reported in January that his three children were worried he was being harmed by someone suffering from Munchausen Syndrome by proxy, a disease where sufferers hurt others to draw attention to themselves…”

Stephen Hawking is widely considered to be the most likely successor to Einstein. Hawking is perhaps best known for his 1974 discovery that black holes emit radiation, and for his “no boundary proposal” made in 1983, in collaboration with Jim Hartle of Santa Barbara, CA. He holds the Lucasian Chair in theoretical physics at Cambridge University, in direct line of succession from Sir Issac Newton, its second holder, and notable for being born exactly 300 years after Newton. Professor Hawking suffers from motor neurone (Lou Gherig’s) disease and is confined to a wheelchair. The thought that anyone would abuse a person under such circumstances is deeply disturbing.

When I lived in Cambridge in the 1980’s, Hawking was a familiar sight terrorizing the University byways in his motorized wheelchair. He was often to be found holding court in The Eagle pub - made famous by Francis Crick and James Watson when they literally discovered DNA over a pint there. Or at The Bath pub which sold Pizza Hut pizzas the students inhaled…but that had nothing to do with Hawking’s patronage. [*wink*] Always a gaggle of adoring students around him, Hawking was generous with his time as a faculty advisor. It is indeed sad to hear that one of the most celebrated scientists of our time has potentially fallen victim to what in social services we used to call an “indoor stalker”. Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy is brutal on the victims of its sufferers. Most cases you see are perpetrated by mothers on very young children up to six or seven years old, but MSBP is not unknown in caretakers of the disabled and frail elderly as well.

If you can spare it, send some good healing vibes to Steve, over in the heart & lung hospital in Papworth - a little town about ten miles outside Cambridge city. He’s working on some of the most complex problems in science - it would be nice if he had the time and comfort to finish his life’s work before someone goes too far and finishes his life for him. Spare a prayer too for whomever the perp is. Whoever that person is, they need help and healing just as much as Dr. Hawking. And if you haven’t read his Brief History of Time yet, you need to get it post haste. Good stuff, Maynard.