Everyday Bliss

This stop-motion video, made by 300 French students for the ESCP Business School is nothing short of amazing. Think of the hours of work, the coordination, rehearsal and good will that must have had to prevail to get this project to come together. Vive la cooperation! New Bliss Key: Cheerful Cooperation. Will save you spending money on antacid. How can you leverage Cheerful Cooperation at Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa with those which you may in years past have spent time with playing unhappy tug-of-war games?

With thanks to Heather Wibbels, I give you, the Glowing Sheep of  Wales. This is something you’ve got to see to believe. Especially the Mona Lisa and the fireworks bit at the end. Sheer brilliance fellas!

From my favorite Good News Site, www.gimundo.com:

…the premium Swiss chocolate company Callebaut claims to have solved both of these chocolate conundrums with the invention of a brand new confection known as the Voulcano.

Read the inventor’s article on this here.

What’s so special about the product? According to founder Barry Callebaut, the new bar is completely melt-resistant to hot weather: it’s able to withstand temperatures up to 131 degrees Fahrenheit without getting sloppy. Even better, the new chocolate, which will be available in both bar and cookie form, will contain up to 90 percent less calories than a typical piece of chocolate.

It sounds revolutionary, but the question, of course, is the taste. Is there any possibility that a Vulcano chocolate could compare to the luscious flavor of your favorite Lindt bar? Callebaut claims that it can—and, if the company’s right, they may have struck (black) gold.

“It’s nice and chocolatey, with a strong aroma, and crispy rather than creamy,” a Callebaut spokesperson, Gaby Tschofen, told The Guardian. “It does melt in the mouth, but it is the enzymes in saliva rather than the heat of the tongue that causes it to dissolve.”

Read the rest of this article here.

My mother, God rest her, used to save up pickle juice to baste fish in  – a particularly horrible tip she got from her Weight Watchers sponsor in the 1970’s. Now I’m not talking about the kind of pickled fish you find in a jar like that on the right. I’m talking about regular old Vlasic or Heinz cucumber pickle juice. The stuff that’s left over with all the floaty bits, when you’ve eaten all the pickles.

Throw it away? Mom would rather have bitten off her own hand than to throw “good food” away, so even old, clapped-out pickle juice got used up – to Dad’s and my chagrin. For Mom, that was being a good steward of the environment, being frugal (which was next to Godliness in her book), allowing her to be creative and seasoning a hated food item “interestingly”.

Interesting was one word for it. Once she actually put the whole sodden mess up in lime jello. That was one of the worst nights of my life. Dad rescued me with a McCheeseburger (hey, I was seven, ok?) and knowing Dad, probably fries and a rootbeer. We were great drinkers of Frosty Rootbeer in my household. Can’t get more white bread vanilla than that. 

Because Mom was the only one doing the cooking, PickleFish unaccountably became a Friday night standard with the cheery quip: (you know you’ve heard this before folks)

“You don’t have to LIKE it, you just have to EAT it!”

Just as unaccountably, Dad instituted the “alternate Friday pizza night” tradition.

We can all thank God that Mom didn’t meet Picklepop Bob before she passed into the great mystery. Or we’d have had the horrors of PickleSickles to deal with as well.

This is apparently…for real. Pucker now or forever after hold your peace. Click to check it out:

Now say: “Pickle pop packing plant prime pickle puree!” eighteen times real fast. The most worrying aspect of this is that they’re pushing it as an alternative to soda in elementary schools. Is there enough psychotherapy in the world to undo the damage this item will inflict? Worried experts are unsure…

Yes, as Mom used to say, “there’s all kinds of people in this world honey, and half of ‘em are as crazy as loons.” This, from the woman who innovated on PickleFish, which never should have been invented in the first place.

Dad rolls his eyes and makes the index-finger-twirling universal glyph for “fruitloop”.

Don’t even start telling me about your Grandma Yetta’s lutefisk or hakarl.

Picklefish was worse.

Maryam here, hoping this finds you well in the world and standing firmly inside your Un*limited Self today. I’m still taking time off on a creative hiatus, but there were a few things I wanted to let you in on today so thought I’d put a word your way.

I have a useful, no-cost audio for you below, that tattles on my life at the point of the interview, some practical tips on letting go and incorporates GREAT energy coaching… But first, a brief update on our Energy Transformation and Healing Open Source, or “ETHOS” Community:

If you were not able to view our ETHOS Method Community from Thursday through Saturday this week, you weren’t the only one. To avoid further difficulty and give you the best experience, we’ve reverted the site back to its Ning.com (the software where we host the site) URL to avoid any more issues with the community being available to you. This change will be permanent. Please CHANGE OLD BOOKMARKS for ETHOS to:

http://ethosmethod.ning.com

Please Note: our old URL: http://community.ethosmethod.com is no longer valid.

And now a gift, from my dear friend and student Liz Lichti and her business partner Laura Whitelaw, a few well…interesting answers to the question you may have been wanting to ask: Why did I walk away from my business to follow my Bliss? (this is me at right a couple of months ago feeling pretty blissful, with The Book. After a day in the pool, man, was I ever sunburned!)

You’ll also learn how, when and why you can (and sometimes SHOULD) drop everything to follow your own Bliss too.

Get the scoop AND experience a live ETHOS demo with Laura, Liz and myself, in their Way to Bliss Now community and you’ll get a sweet bonus audio of theirs on abundance, as well:

http://thewaytoblissnow.com/blog/download-for-interview-with-maryam-webster

Hope you enjoy it!  I look forward to seeing your thoughts if you’d like to post them, in the ETHOS Method Community forums. And if you’ve never visited or posted before, this is your engraved invitation! It’s all here for you:

http://ethosmethod.ning.com

Further on me? Well, I’m having a lot of epiphanies, learning a lot of new things and reformulating the idea of what true value I would like to bring you in the future. I hope you’re following your own bliss and living in the Now, stepped fully inside your own precious, unique Unlimited Self and having a ton of fun with yourself, every day.

Health & Happiness!

Warm Blessings,
Maryam

For all you Chocoholics out there, there’s really a VERY simple process from neurolinguistic programming that kicks chocolate – or anything else (cigarettes, icecream whatever kind of “mouth” addiction) in the booty. No tapping unless you really want to. Follow this simple process up with a round of EFT tapping if you really want to hammer it into the wall. But for now, just do this pattern below.

First, a few definitions and an equipment list:

1. “Associated” means you see yourself inside your own body, doing or saying the thing listed. “Dissociated” means you’re several feet to miles away watching yourself.

2. “Cues” refer to how you know it’s time to do this behavior. For instance, you eat chocolate every time you think of working out, or every time you hear a certain song, or when you’re depressed.

3. Anchor refers to setting a “bookmark” in your emotional state, so your mind can find its way back there. Don’t worry about bookmarking negative states – you’re only doing that so you can hone in on the negative state in order to uncreate that state.

4. Equipment: To establish and break anchors to your addictions, you’ll need a pencil, and a spoon. It could easily be a pen and a feather, or an apple and a can of tunafish. What we want is for you to have two dissimilar objects to hold in your hands, to represent the anchors to each state. You’ll also need a piece of chocolate or a cigarette or whatever your addictive substance is. Dove chocolates are particularly good for this as they are quite highly scented and come in both milk and dark chocolate for addicts at both ends of the spectrum.

From NLP Masters Steve & Connirae Andreas: The  “Godiva Chocolate Pattern”

1. Bring up something you absolutely adore and feel compelled to do. We’re going to use “chocolate craving” for this example (though you can easily use anything else, such as cigarettes, “carbs” and so on). Elicit the cues that tell you to eat chocolate by remembering what happens just before you feel the compulsion to engage in the addictive behavior. What is going on inside you the minutes and seconds before you unwrap and eat a chocolate? Take note of these.
2. Now you’re going to create an intensely associated picture of this addiction in order to get rid of it. Unwrap your sample chocolate morsel and smell it. Only inhale the chocolate scent. Feel what this does to your craving. Feel it fully.Now, take a tiny lick of the chocolate. Again feel what this does to your craving.

   Take it further by having a small bite and savor the feeling of the chocolate in your mouth. Savor fully and truly enjoy it. (for other cravings such as cigarettes, this might be to smell the cigarette, light the lighter and have a very small drag) Again, fully experience what this does to your craving for more.

   Now rate your craving on a scale of 1 – 10, with 10 being the highest possible craving you could ever muster. The kind where you would lie, cheat or steal to get that thing. Make a writtten note of this number, you’ll reference it later. Return to savoring the mouth feel, the creaminess, the taste and feeling on your tongue…

   When you have this image, the sights and sounds and feeling of it firmly in mind then…

3. Establish anchor #1 by picking up the pencil
   
4. Break the addictive state by putting the pencil down, looking at your watch or clock on the wall and noting the time.
5. Create a disassociated picture of something you need to do but have trouble making yourself do – the bills, paperwork, vacuuming, meeting new neighbors if you’re shy, etc. Remember that dissociated means you’re observing yourself from far away. When you have this image, the sights and sounds and feeling of it firmly in mind, then…
6. Establish anchor #2 by picking up the spoon.
7. Break this state by putting the spoon down, looking at your watch or clock on the wall and noting the time.

8. Now, bring up the picture/feeling/sounds from Step One, those Cues that tell you “eat chocolate now”. Pick up and hold the pencil. Now, FADE the image/sights/sounds of that and as you fade these, bring up picture #2, the DISSOCIATED image of doing the thing you have trouble making yourself do. Now, pick up and hold the spoon.
9. Hold both pencil and spoon at the same time. Note the time again, and put both pencil and spoon down.
10. Test yourself by picking up the chocolate morsel and smelling it. What is your craving rating on the 1 – 10 scale? Has it changed? Take a test lick of the chocolate. Again rate your craving. How much has it changed? Now take a bite. What has changed?
11. You might find that you still enjoy chocolate when you actually eat it, but when you smell and lick it, there’s no overwhelming compulsion to eat it. If there is, simply go through this process again, choosing a different image for Step 5. Sometimes it takes a bit of adjustment to get the correct “meh, I don’t care for this” image.

Good luck with this, though you won’t really need it. <wink> This process is really easy and once you get going, if for any reason the craving should ever re-surface (once you’ve pounded it down it shouldn’t) you can simply plug and play again. Have fun!

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BadEconomy > fix > gosub=WordOfMouth.  (geeks in the audience can laugh at will) There’s nothing like a personal recommendation. After all, you’d take your BFF’s recommendation over an impersonal ad, wouldn’t you?

If your business is running a tight marketing ship this year and your team is scrambling for marketshare, you’ll want to pay attention to “The Buzz Canuck” – a canny word of mouth supporter, I met on SWOM – Society for Word Of Mouth. Especially if you, like many of my clients, are a solo entrepreneur, or your larger company is downsizing its marketing budget (as many are) – you can still leverage the Law of Attraction by Word Of Mouth to build your outreach, visibility an market share. What do you want others to be saying about you? As Buzz explains below, know WHY moreover, WOM is important as a marketing, relationship and just plain good business strategy:

Because you Just. Have. To. See. This. Anyone who ever thought office work was dull or who didn’t realize the amazing things you can do with humble office supplies, here’s some joy for ya from those wild and crazy guys at Eepy Bird, who last brought us the sordid tale of what happens when you mix Diet Coke and Mentos roll candy (don’t ask). Slinky company, watch your profit margin.  Enjoy the pretty colors!

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