Now Live on Purpose . The Five Changes Process

Imagination Awake!

Caitriona Reed — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:27:42 +0000

Replay of Imagination Awake Teleseminar

Transforming everything from the ground up – by eradicationg limiting beliefs, decisions,and negative habits and emotions.

Remember the story of the man who traveled the world seeking his fortune, which he finally discovered hidden behind his own hearth?

Or the story of the prisoner who treated the key to his cell as a holy object rather than testing it the door to his cell?

Stories give meaning to your life. How many are keeping you from living your passion and dream, and how many could support you?

Imagine! NLP Alchemy

Caitriona Reed — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:13:29 +0000

Imagine choosing, designing, and recreating your life as if it were a work of art and you were a master artist.

NLP alchemy.com

Imagine choosing:

how you want to communicate with others,
how you want to BE with other people,
how you want to feel about your day, your life, your self ..

all of it based on your own highest vision and values!

So that you’re not at the mercy of old stories, old tapes, stale reactions and emotions and self-defeating cynicism or fear .. Is that too much to ask?

One of our FAVORITE things to do in the whole wide world, right up there along with

making art,
making food,
making love,
traveling,
spending time with loved ones,

is teaching our fourteen day NLP training intensives at Manzanita Village.

Truly!

“NLP” – might sound daunting technical, or downright weird but it has revolutionized everything we ever knew, (or thought we knew) enhancing our work as spiritual teachers, artists, hypnotherapists and above all simply as human beings.

What we’re saying is that this can be the foundation of your own work

with clients,
students
employees,
colleagues,
or anyone in your life

to utterly transform old patterns and limitations.

More importantly, it can be the key to YOU fully LIVING into your own highest vision and values!

It’s like FINALLY getting the users’ manual to your own life, your own brain, your own neurology.

I am describing this work as if it were a “something.” In fact it’s more like an attitude, supported by some very specific tools and skills. (about a hundred and forty of them) that we pack into two very int ensive weeks. These are tools that will allow you to run circles around most conventional coaching, consulting, and personal development work!

What you DON’T have to do:

You DO NOT have to take on a new belief system for this, except perhaps that you may realize that you are capable of a whole lot more than you once thought. (So you may just have to let go of some old limited beliefs about yourself)
You do not have to do, or be someone else, or give up what brings you most joy, unless on this journey to ever greater choice you discover possibilities for even deeper fulfillment and happiness.
You do not have to take on jargon although you may learn new ideas, new words, new possibilities, and an amazing new ability to get out of your own way at last!

This training is a BIG COMMITMENT (it’s fourteen days!) and although we have kept the cost very low and included food and accommodation in the price we realize it may take some consideration on your part.

So call and let us answer any questions you may have. 760-782-9223

We also have a special offer through the end of December

NLP alchemy.com

On Creativity and Fear

Caitriona Reed — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:07:49 +0000

Introductory Remarks and Opening Exercise from a workshop by Michele Benzamin-Miki

What are you most afraid of? Loss? Disappointment? Rejection?
Being alone? Appearing foolish? Being misunderstood?

Fear shows up as anxiety, apprehension, panic, dread, worry, even depression. Sometime people get so used to it they forget it’s running everything they do.

Fear is also a messenger.
It tells you what you imagine you’re afraid of,
AND what you CAN DO when you’re not.

Are You Coachable?

Caitriona Reed — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:16:42 +0000

Ask yourself:

Can you learn? Can you let go of what you thought you knew? Can you listen and take action based on what you hear? Can you stand directly in front of the things you have avoided because they terrified you, and learn from your fears? Can you trust .. which means, can you trust yourself, your dreams, desires, ambitions? Can you trust that life works for you, not against you, as soon as you start living and thinking for yourself.
Can you change? Can you risk losing what you thought you depended on? Can you risk losing who you thought you were? Can you risk failing in order to achieve a greater and deeper success. Can you understand that true success is not a zero-sum game. When you win, everyone can win? Can you get out of your own way? Can you stand face to face with those old fears and trust that they may be your greatest teachers, not just something to ‘overcome’, but true guides and teachers.

What is it ?

Caitriona Reed — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:08:28 +0000

It’s been around for 40 years, and some of what it teaches has been around for as long as people have attempted to communicate with one another. It is so pervasive that you might think it is a natural part of what you are. There isn’t any aspect of life – public or private – that can’t benefit from a deeper understanding of it. What is it?

www.nlpAlchemy.com

Outsider Buddhism

Caitriona Reed — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:14:52 +0000

Buddhism arrived in the West early in the nineteenth century, after the centuries of Western economic and political expansion. Asian religions like Buddhism were certainly known to travelers and missionaries long before then, but it was not until the early nineteenth century that Buddhism fully captured the western imagination.

The nineteenth century was one of social and philosophical upheaval, both for the west as well as for Asian cultures newly exposed to western ideas, education, and values. So inevitably, the versions of Buddhism that have come to the West, from that time forward, have been impacted by Western ideas, directly and indirectly, at the hands of both Western interpreters and Asian exponents. Read more

Wanting and Having

Caitriona Reed — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:45:31 +0000

Desire, Mindfulness, and Goals

Desire is demonized in Buddhism as elsewhere.

Are we afraid of disappointment, or of getting what we desire.

People are often unsure of what it is they want. The fact is, everything you experience and achieve in life is based on your intention and vision. We always get what we want and expect, whether we think so or not! Do you believe that? If it were true, what does it say about choices you may have made?

Article at: http://www.caitrionareed.com/motivation-mindfulness-setting-goals/1508/

Relationship is Relating to Yourself First

Caitriona Reed — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:23:00 +0000

Geoff Laughton interviews Caitriona Reed about relationship, personal transformation and healing. Originally broadcast on Blog Talk Radio

Relationships always begin with how you relate to yourself. If there is disharmony inside you – then trying to find it through some else is a futile task. The problem is that our ‘self’ is something we make up and change as we go along. And so the question is .. how to make sense of this.

Originally broadcast in Feb 2011

Michele Benzamin-Miki

Caitriona Reed — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:48:28 +0000

Michele Benzamin-Miki — “I learned to bow from my Japanese mother whose background was Shinto and Buddhist. Bowing is simply a moment of being fully present with open-heartedness and generosity. It is a way of saying “come closer.” It is a way of entering another’s world ..”

Part 1 of this interview~conversation

Caitriona Reed Part 1

Caitriona Reed — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:42:04 +0000

All change is possible. We begin where many end, by teaching you to suspend your belief as to what is possible – not to mislead you, but to open doors to the truly miraculous nature of transformation. We start with the open-heartened understanding that we simply cannot anticipate the extend to which a client, student, or patient can transform and heal. We begin with the perspective that focuses on what works, rather than on what is wrong; and that person requires very little in order to embody a fully balanced, congruent, dynamic and creative life – regardless of outside circumstances.