Human Effectiveness

YOUR INTERNAL NAVIGATOR - Part 9 - What Is Action

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:22:02 PST

Are you a winner? Do you want to be one? What do you tell people about yourself? Is that in line with what you are and what you want to be? Do you complain? Where does that get you? What is your body language telling others? You can do something to help the situation.

MIND MAGIC VIDEO: Volume 1, #8

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:25:33 PST

CHECK OUT YOUR BODY LANGUAGE.

Are you smiling?

YOUR INTERNAL NAVIGATOR - Part 8 - Mindquiet

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:27:22 PST

Useless words in your head? Why use words in your head? Your mind is faster than words. Trail off… You and your mind are a team. Get out your notebook and let’s do something about it.

MIND MAGIC VIDEO: Volume 1, #7

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:04:14 PDT

LEARN TO LAUGH

Accept what is.

YOUR INTERNAL NAVIGATOR - Part 7 - Pre-dreaming

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:28:47 PST

What do you want to happen? Does it happen? What is in your mind? Every thought and feeling you have is programming your robot to make them happen. Even if that is not what you want. Conscious mental rehearsal is a powerful tool. Click here to learn how to use mental rehearsal consciously through pre-dreaming.

MIND MAGIC VIDEO: Volume 1, #6

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:34:44 PDT

PLAY THE CARDS YOU'VE BEEN DEALT

Regardless of their strength.

MIND MAGIC VIDEO: Volume 1, #5

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:16:44 PDT

MAKE A PLAN

Let the dream of your future take you over.

INTERVIEWS-4 with Doug Grunther

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:38:20 PDT

Practice Insight

How do good things lead to bad? Love is a good thing. Love leads to attachment when we don’t let go of the past moment. This leads to fear and hate.

We can escape this cycle. Taking time each day to go inside thereby observing being an experiencer leads to insight and has immediate benefits. Discover your own ability to gain insight.

MIND MAGIC VIDEO: Volume 1, #4

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:36:47 PDT

THE PATH YOU WANT TO TRAVEL

It's time to live the dream.

MIND MAGIC VIDEO: Volume 1, #3

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:37:25 PDT

WHAT DID YOU ALWAYS WANT?

It could all turn out perfectly.

MIND MAGIC VIDEO: Volume 1, #2

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:45:06 PDT

PICTURE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE

Feel it, playing out like a movie.

MIND MAGIC VIDEO: Volume 1, #1

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:40:56 PDT

TURNING ON YOUR HIDDEN SWITCH

You have a hidden switch inside of you. Become the person you were always meant to be.

YOUR INTERNAL NAVIGATOR - Part 6 - Assimilate

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:13:42 PDT

What goes through your mind just before you fall asleep? Do you say your prayers, or is there something you like to imagine that helps you fall asleep peacefully? That’s all good stuff – keep it up. You might want to add this one other simple “trick” though – which sharply imprints what you learned that day so you don’t ever have to make the same mistakes again – and so that whatever you did right that day can become a pattern for your success. Click here for the “trick”.

INTERVIEWS-3 with Doug Grunther

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:00:38 PDT

Consciousness and Observation

We are overworked and overstressed. We have presumptions about the way our lives must proceed. How can we get back to a playful state of being? How can we live the life that we really want to live? How can we get in touch with our inner reservoir of insight and information? Doug and I discuss these questions and suggest a possible direction in which to look: Consciousness and Observation

INTERVIEWS-2 with Doug Grunther

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Mon, 22 May 2006 07:05:21 PDT

Education, Authority and Experience

To what degree is our personal education tied to what authorities in our lives have told us to memorize? Hopefully, at some point we will make the shift from this accepted method of education to becoming our own authority. Going with our experience through our own insight and contemplation, while using others as a reference, not an authority. Listen as Doug and I discuss education, learning and finding our inner gifts.

YOUR INTERNAL NAVIGATOR - Part 5 - Daily Alone Space

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Tue, 16 May 2006 07:53:11 PDT

Author, Bill Harvey, examines making life more enjoyable

by bringing meditation into every moment

Do you experience distractions as you perform your daily tasks? Are some distractions coming from thoughts and feelings that flit through your consciousness? A daily vacation is a wonderful way to enhance your life and allow distracting thoughts and feelings to sort themselves out automatically. Just get away for a few minutes with a notepad and see for yourself how automatic the process really is. Listen to Daily Alone Space.

Please share your thoughts by clicking on the email post envelope/arrow symbol below and to the right. Let us know what you are moved to do after listening to these segments, to keep these ideas working for you: Write in a journal? Post to a blog? Share ideas and feelings with friends? Check our website for more information.

YOUR INTERNAL NAVIGATOR - Part 4 - Love

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:00:10 PDT

Hi! How are you folks doing? I’m hoping that our interactions with each other are having a positive effect on your Life. If not, I’d like to know, so I can change my signaling ways to better get across the message I feel I’ve got – that when properly communicated will make a huge positive difference in your experience of this bizarre trip we’re both on. The audio podcast at the link coming up is all about LOVE – the LOVE you’ve already created in your own Life – and how to put it in the bank at the highest interest rate: Love

INTERVIEWS-1 with Doug Grunther

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:27:26 PDT

And now for something totally different: these raps between me and Doug Grunther are totally unedited – and unplanned. We just go with the flow to talk about whatever aspect of higher consciousness and the nature of the universe we are inspired to talk about at that moment. In this podcast I tell Doug about my theory of the nature of the universe: totally consistent with science it also, if right, would explain the underlying similarities across all religions. To find out more, buckle your seatbelt and get ready for what may be the wildest ride you’ve had in a long time, and click here.

YOUR INTERNAL NAVIGATOR - Part 3 - Mission In Life

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 09:00:28 PDT

Do you have a current goal for your Life? If you agree that it might be a good thing to have, or just want to consider having one, here is a guide to getting started, by creatively engaging your imagination and your will – and it’s fun. Think of it as Your Mission: what are you here for? Every character in a novel or in a movie is a glamorous character, full of personality, facing huge challenges, deciding whether to make a difference or just ride it out. They’ve got nothing on you: you happen to be A REAL PERSON with all of the same exciting possibilities and challenges, full of personalities yourself. Daydream how the rest of your Life can be by clicking here.

Mind Trainer Video Series - Part 1 - ROBOT

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 04:31:27 PDT

How does the “You” that exists now differ from the “You” that was born? This video segment contains a radical theory about what You are. It says that there are layers of You: a core that is the real You, and covering layers that were added like computer software since your birth. Check it out and see if you agree or disagree. And if you want to keep all of the software that got added, or selectively discard some of it. What could be more important than knowing What and Who You really are? Click here to begin. New segments coming soon.

YOUR INTERNAL NAVIGATOR - Part 2 - Contemplation

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:43:42 PST

Being in one’s highest space is something that can be brought on at will, once you know how to do it. You don’t have to wait for those moments of clarity and peace to come on by themselves. The knob you turn inside is the attention. Normally today we all live in a state of distraction because we are trying to attend to many things at once. Most of those things are happening outside ourselves and so we are paying very little attention to what is going on inside ourselves. This leaves us vulnerable to being swept away by negative feelings and counterproductive thoughts without catching ourselves immediately. The knob of attention can be turned the other way. That opposite state is called Contemplation. We are immersed, singlepointed in our attention, which gracefully flows from highest priority to next highest priority and so on, and what we do in each moment is our best performance. Here’s how to do it for yourself….

YOUR INTERNAL NAVIGATOR - Part 1 - Resolutions

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:06:24 PST

This unusual series of podcasts focuses on what’s going on inside of you.

Do you already have something you listen to – a new installment every few days – which stimulates your mind in new directions and keeps your Life fresh and growing? If not, try this, you may like it.

These podcasts are different – interesting – they make you more interesting – by stretching you in new directions – and giving you more insight into your Self. Take a listen…

Psychotechnology for the 21st Century

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 04:08:28 PST

Greetings! Thanks for coming. This posting is the start of the official blog for The Human Effectiveness Institute. Hope you’ve enjoyed the previews (mostly radio show podcasts) we’ve been posting since December.

This post will overview the Institute and our work. As a media researcher I’ve analyzed large databases, done surveys, measured brainwaves, tracked eye movements, absorbed a vast amount of information, and thought for the past 40 years about the way media affect the mind.

I started using computers in the 60s and was on the Internet in 1980 when it was called Arpanet. My exposure to computers during this period as they ascended to a major role in our culture got me to think about how the mind and the computer work in similar ways.

In my childhood my showbiz parents had me on stage from age 4 onward. The pressure of being on stage gave me the experience of “flow state” – almost an out of body experience, watching oneself perform as if from the outside. These experiences made me intensely curious about what was going on in my head not only at these times, but all the time.

I have always been a meditator and contemplator, having discovered the techniques myself under pressure to perform at above what I thought was my level. What do these words mean to me? Contemplation is immersive observation, and can be focused on any subject. Meditation is when the focus of contemplation is one’s own self. You observe your self without identifying with the feelings and thoughts that arise, observing them as if from afar.

All of these trends in my life coalesced into a set of theories that are the basis for my nonprofit work, which is the Institute.

THEI as I call it for short has the Mission of disseminating useful psychotechnology – tools for internal information processing optimization – similar in a way to the media optimization tools I’ve helped invent for the marketing industry. Tools for sublimating negative emotion into learning and into action items. Leaving only positive emotion.

The Vision is that one day probably pretty far in the future the whole human race will be using such psychotechnology on a continuous basis. Because this will avert war at the individual level and cause a shift from competitiveness to cooperation and mutual nurturing. May it come as soon as possible.

The history of the human race is uplifted over and over again by the introduction of bits of such psychotechnology which in the past has manifested as yoga, Zen, religion, mysticism, philosophy, science, morality/ethics, aesthetics, and many other good things.

THEI’s psychotechnology is under the wing of science and specifically relates to translating ancient and self-discovered practices into the language of information processing so that it may be considered objectively by all parts of the population including people who begin with bias against any of the above things.

The book MIND MAGIC was an experiment to see if this personal psychotechnology (it has been proven to work in my own life, or I wouldn’t pass it on) could actually be transferred to anyone else. About 2000 letters, cards, and emails indicate that the pretest worked at least for some people. Including a range of well-known folks from Norman Cousins and Jimmy Carter to John Lennon, Ram Dass and Daniel Goleman. Also some Bank officials, corporate executives, Army Generals, Colonels, et al, people in jail, teenagers, seniors, without any known group excluded.

Why do we need psychotechnology? It helps reduce stress, improve health, increase emotional intelligence, maximize performance, make you able to enjoy moment to moment Life even during downturns. It is speed learning. The element that it controls is attention – where you place it, where you don’t, and how to withhold the autonomic response that makes every feeling and thought your own to own.

Attention has been blasted to bits in the last 6000 years by the accelerating information overload triggered – in my theory – by the advent of written language which moved the use of language into the sphere of the primate dominant sense (sight). As my friend Doug Grunther points out, McLuhan said the same thing in a different way.

Ironically, the media industry that I help, and in which the latest development of the new media technologies I helped spawn, is the major contributor to our lack of focused attention. How can we focus when we are immersed in a world in which talking at us all the time are other people who like ourself are propelled by a tsunami of inputs driven centrally by media that occupy 90% of our waking hours in which we are almost always being bombarded by two or more media at the same time. The cycle of ‘media↔people talking about what they got from media’ hits our cortex with tens of thousands of unresolved experiences per day, producing P300 waves in our brain signifying surprising information deviating from expectation models. But without time or methods to speed absorption assimilation and distillation of action implications from all that information, we enter a state of Emergency Oversimplification Procedure in which we allow the robot mind to take over and run our lives. A free taste of THEI psychotechnology is offered at this link: Your Internal Navigation System. It’s a 15-day course. It is our gift to you for coming. In it are initial instructions regarding many of the “Cures” listed below (For example the cure called “Mindquiet” is introduced in Day Eight of the Navigation course). The “Diseases” stem from the information revolution and from a prior tilt of the history toward a culture of physical domination stemming from identification of each of us as separate rather than all parts of one thing.

We hope you get something out of THEI psychotechnology and give us feedback helping us to make it better. Please come back every few days for new postings, podcasts, and video podcasts. Thanks!

All the best,

Bill

Radio Interviews part 2

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 08:26:56 PST

This interview was recorded in the beginning of January and is also in the form of a radio roundtable.

In this fast-paced exchange, Doug and I explore the Galaxy of media and the mind from a different point of view every few seconds, ranging from how the world youth culture is taking control of the media (and maybe everything), to the moment-by-moment distraction we practice which keeps us from becoming who we could be, and how to cure it.

We had fun with this. I hope you do too.

Bill

The Radio Interviews part 2 Time: 25:05

Credit for The Radio Interviews: WDST FM and The Woodstock Roundtable

Mind Magic

info@humaneffectivenessinstitute.org (Bill Harvey) — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:12:11 PST

What is keeping us down today?

Stress, worry, and negative emotion degrade our immune system, make us look less beautiful to others, and reduce our effectiveness. The opposite of this syndrome is joy and effectiveness, our target state.

Actually the stress syndrome can be looked at as an opportunity. Stress, worry, and negative emotion can actually take us to joy and effectiveness – If we change the way we look at things...

Stay tuned as we undertake a journey of freeing ourselves, training our minds and uncovering our vast potential.

Bill

THEI

Listen to part 1 of The Radio Interviews. Bill Harvey discusses application of principles from his book "Mind Magic". Increase your effectiveness (not to mention your degree of interest and enjoyment in watching the micro details of moment to moment life). Time: 16:14

Credit for The Radio Interviews: WDST FM and The Woodstock Roundtable