Everyday Bliss

For Breast Health Awareness Month and also each month out of the year – do you know how to do your monthly breast self-exam?

Review the self-check procedure and what to look for here:

http://snipurl.com/breastexam

When I spoke of this to a group of women in business at a recent talk I gave, it was pointed out by one of the ladies present:  "The body is a temple, sure, but not every woman wants to feel up her own breasts! I’m religious and I don’t think that’s "nice" for a woman to do."

And now for a reality check….would whatever god you worship want you to be neglectful of this temple that is your body? Or to suffer a disease you may not have if you check yourself and catch changes early? Average of nine months earlier than doctor exams, by the way.

YOU are your own best breast health advocate!

And to go along with your implication of immorality – no, this is not sexually oriented "feeling up".

While you can certainly enjoy the process yourself or even involve your partner for extra fun (why not? if it makes sure you get the job done, go ahead!) a monthly breast self-exam is a purposed, focused fact finding mission.

So please, religious ladies of all sects and everyone else, click the link above and learn how to give yourself a proper breast self-exam.

Once a month. It’s What Nice Girls Do.

The astute Dr. Judith Orloff gives good advice on energy drainers and funky family members you may not want to deal with. This is especially for Shelley’s friend Donna – check this out.

The Certified Energy Coach Program is NOW Registering for the autumn, and I’m going to be teaching the brand spanky new ETHOS Method!

If you’re a coaching-oriented manager, executive or therapist, go pick up your free Startup Kit right now – we start in September. The Startup Kit includes the first week of class audios and sample workbook. Actually…it’s now the second week since the program’s been lengthened. (banner link opens in a new window)

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If you’re a manager-coach, this coming semester is for YOU. You’ll learn QUICK and easy ways in how to energy coach our employees get past blockages that keep them non-productive, and how you can instill a culture of success that prevents burnout, increases efficiency and creates a calm sense of confidence throughout your team.

One of the most important of the Bliss Keys that I’ve discovered is:

The German metaphysicist Eckhart Tolle speaks about our collected personal negative experiences – fear, anger, pain, sadness, guilt and the like, operating as a form of consciousness inside of us. He calls this collection of experience the “painbody”.

As humans, we are somewhat addicted to paying attention to negativity. When we constantly attend to our painbody, it prevents us from being fully Present.

Added to our own personal negativity, we also have that of our immediate family lines and also, of the culture we we’re born into and the one in which we currently live. In times of national or local stress and crisis, the lure of the painbody becomes all the more magnetic & misery is amplified.  Sum all that up and the energy the painbody consumes can be a hellishly powerful force.

The painbody feeds upon negative input, and its existence is the reason we can sometimes experience very miserable lives.

Tolle and other spiritual authors point to the quality of having a fairly large painbody (most Westerners do) as being “compacted” or “compressed”. This always makes me think of those trash compacter machines back in the 1980’s. Remember those? They took a whole houseful of trash and compacted it into a cube less than a quarter of its original size.

Imagine being only a quarter of YOUR original size. I’m barely 5″5″ in stocking feet. If I were a quarter of my size, I would be less than a foot and a half tall (or, from 162.5cm to 43 cm for the decimal crowd).

Are there days when you FEEL as small as this? As if the weight of the world were bowing you down to the ground? This is the PHYSICAL SENSATION of Compaction – give thanks for this feeling! It is a powerful tool that will lead you towards Bliss.

How? By showing you the opposite of what you really want. Simply flip this state on its back and take a look at the flipside. This is what you DO want. Straighten your shoulders, elongate your upper spine and allow it to pull your entire body upward as you think about what you do want. Engage your abdominal muscles until you feel how strong you really are.

Think about it…

We had a bang-up call a week or so ago with the Everyday Bliss R&D Party folks. Aren’t a member of the party yet? join at left – you’ll get a hot gift to ring in your New Year!

In this call I shared a process I developed that you WON’T find in my Everyday Bliss For Busy Women book (out in May 2008 from New Harbinger Publishers), but you WILL learn, among many others, in my own lightspeed process, the:

((( I’ll be sharing this program to learn to live in complete Presence  — where NOTHING is truly a problem —  in February 2008. Go ahead, click on the name above, and catch the EARLYBIRD before it goes away on Christmas Eve! )))

Though we only had time to go through HALF the process, people have already written in claiming marvellous results! Gremlins gone, habits busted, relationship weirdness disappearing and crabby parents turned into lambs.

Such heartening news to hear, particularly in the holiday season!

So as promised, after giving you a good space of time to practice the process, here is a place to let us know what happened when you practiced the "Breathing Peace" process.

Simply click here and scroll to the bottom to share your experience of this powerful changework modality.

Weren’t on the call and want a replay? No problem! Get it here:

http://www.maryamwebster.com/holidayblissparty/

Happy Holidays!!!

Warmest Love & Blessings from Maryam
and the whole Everyday Bliss team

Come to EduCamp at Stanford University with me! A bunch of educators, both the hoary oldschool types who remember chalkboards and wooden pencils like me and a bunch of the younger high tech variety are gathering to conference over our ideas. 

I’ve been teaching in one format or another since 1979 and most recently in the last seven years, in an online eCampus format. Towards that end I’d like to invite you to join me at StanfordUniversity September 16 – 17 for Educamp, where I am giving a presentation on Successful Leadership in Online Learning Environments: Tips & Tools of the Virtual University.

More info here: http://educamp.pbwiki.com/

EduCamp is collaboratively hosted at Stanford University on Saturday, September 15, 2007 at 11:00 am PT- Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 5:00 pm PT and you can register here:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/70116721

For a look at what I’m doing, here’s the description and syllabus for my presentation:

Successful Leadership In Online Learning Environments:
Tips, Tools and Lessons of the Virtual University

with Maryam Webster, Director of The Energy Coach Institute

Course Summary

Maryam will share her experience of seven years as an online teacher for a specialty coach training institute, and as training director and course writer through the 1990’s for several corporations in different training contexts. We will be discussing the best open source software, audio class -vs- webcasts and how to handle each inexpensively, enhancing student experience through didactic and autodidactic participation, in-class structure, out-of-class semi-structured learning and participation opportunities, skilful initiation and use of the cohort bond, collaborative software as community, ensuring ongoing learning after the course is over.

Syllabus

• The Advantages of Online Learning
• One Model of eCampus Technology – it’s Advantages/Disadvantages
• eCampus Leadership and Community Building
• Collaborative Leadership Of The Cohort Model Online
• Fitting the Syllabus to the Learner: Languaging as an Aid in Learning Styles
• The Power of the Mastermind in Retention and Learning Group Cohesion
• e-Learning Course After-Care

Resources

Online Learning Course Search Network
The Moodle Open Source eCampus software- this is one of the opensource software packages we use and recommend
Online Learning Teacher Clearinghouse
Be a Student For a Day: Take An Online Learning Demo Course
Getting The Most Out Of Online Learning
Are You Ready To Learn Online?- this quiz would be really great…if the scoring system worked!
15 Benefits of Online Learning
More Benefits of eLearning

Are you having a tough time finishing your book, report, project or gaining inspiration?

Try the CREATIVITY TAP!

First: Think of your project, get it firmly in mind. DON’T start with the frustration of not being able to go forward! Start with what inspired you about the project in the first place. You want to keep it on an upbeat note to tap back into that passion you first felt for the work.

Second: Using the TEMPORAL TAP technique, tap with both hands on top and around the back of both ears, from the place where your ear attaches to your head in front, around the back and ending under the earlobe. Keep your taps in the channel where your ears attach to the head and simply keep focused on your project.

Don’t bust your brain, just think gently of how exciting it was to begin and even what mechanical actions you did (typing, cutting and pasting, walking to the library to do research) that began the work. Tap THREE TIMES from front to back of both ears while thinking of these things, then take a DEEP BREATH. . .

Third: Sitting or standing, cross both your arms and your legs (if you know how to do the CROSS CRAWL, go ahead and do the motions). Keeping the limbs crossed, take THREE DEEP BREATHS, then release the position.

Fourth: Now, if you’re sitting, get up, if you’re standing, start walking. Walk back and forth or twirl around in place for a minute. If possible, go outside and get some fresh air while you do this. If you’re chair or bed-bound, turn your body or your head as far as you can to the right and left, look up and down while breathing normally. This will quite literally give you a "different viewpoint" and shake the ole’ brain cells out of their rut.

Take another DEEP BREATH, and let it go. Let your mind relax and keep your eyes softly unfocused, at a point about five feet in front of you on the ground. Breathe normally for a minute or so.

Finally… Resume your working position, take another DEEP BREATH and get back into work, completely refreshed! If one iteration doesn’t do it for you, run through this process several times. It usually doesn’t take more than that.

Enjoy!

PS: Did this help? Not help? Do something else entirely different for you? Please take a moment and post your thoughts on this exercise by clicking the "Comment" link below. I love feedback. (and remember NLP guys ‘n gals – there is no failure, only feedback) Your feedback here helps everyone who reads it to learn and grow – me, most of all…