Revolutionary Road is a powerful movie, but not for the faint hearted. It is an intense movie. This movie is probably one of the best movies I have seen to demonstrate the importance of not sharing your vision with those people who aren’t clear in themselves. Energetically we are very open to other people’s beliefs around what we are wishing to achieve. When we share our dreams with someone who has their own personal fears we can pick up sabotaging blockers which can in the end analate your dream.
So tread carefully with whom you mix!

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Remember the story of Pinocchio? He was the little wooden puppet who longed to become a REAL boy. I was thinking the other day how we are trained by the world to fit into a role that is comfortable for everyone else and in so doing we lose a part of ourselves. In a way, we willingly become wooden, less true to our natural core and expression.

So my question for you is….. when are you going to be real?

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Imagine that you’re tied up, placed on a chair and locked in an airtight room. You don’t know who did this to you or why but you know you’re trapped.

This may sound fictional but it’s not. This is exactly what we do to ourselves when we let our unconscious feelings, beliefs and history dominate our thoughts, our actions and then our life results.

Do you ever feel like no matter how hard you try and break old patterns and beliefs, something gets in the way? Have you tried certain programs, techniques or exercises only to fall back to you old ways? If you have, it’s not your fault. You are fighting against programming, unconscious memories and cellular memories.

Breaking out of your own personal prison isn’t easy but there are three key proven strategies to help you free yourself. Here are three of the best ways to remove those blocks and barriers:

1.   Coaching: Coaching is a relatively new profession that really became popular in the 1980s. Although history shows that we have always had some kind of coach, often it was in the sporting arena but now, we have coaches that help us reach our highest potential in our careers, our relationships, with our money, community, spirituality and more.

Coaches help us discover what may be holding us back from having a successful life and business. They find out what is and isn’t working, what our goals and dreams are and they help hold us accountable as we often have to report to them and keep them informed of our decisions and actions.

If you feel like you are hitting a barrier or have blocks, it’s important to seek coaching to help you deal with these obvious or hidden issues. What makes coaches different from counselors is that coaches focus more on the ‘here and now’ and what you plan to do to change your future if you are not happy with your present results.

Monique Gallagher of: Highest Potential Training, is an expert at helping people break through barriers and limitations to live a full, energized and purposeful life.

Sometimes, though, there are situations that are too traumatic or can’t be solved with just coaching alone. Sometimes these mental challenges are triggered by physical problems in the body. And, often these physical problems are triggered by emotional part of the brain.

While coaching is very effective, there is also another scientifically-proven technique that can enhance the coaching process and even speed up the results. It is called Emotional Freedom Technique and it is quickly becoming a major force with health practitioners.

2.   Emotional Freedom Technique: is a fairly new discovery that combines mind body medicine and the ancient practice of acupuncture without the needles.

The reason EFT works is that the body runs on energy. And within the body are energy meridians where nerves send signals from the body to the brain. When you put your hand on a hot element on a stove, it doesn’t take long for the pain sensors to travel up the energy meridian to the brain where the brain processes the feeling, determines this is pain and danger and you promptly remove your hand.

New research is proving that the cells store memories and trauma at the cellular level. In fact, disease is considered to be a ‘body not at ease.’ Disease is now being proved to be caused from many triggers but trauma to the cells is the key factor.

When a traumatic situation occurs – we generally react in a negative way and trigger negative energy. Our brain releases stress hormones directly into our bloodstream.
We also tighten up parts of our body and hold on to the stress.

For example, if you’re driving your car down a freeway and suddenly a car careens into your lane without warning and you are forced to swerve your car abruptly to avoid an accident, your brain reacts, stress hormones are released, your stomach muscles tighten, your mouth gets dry and you react – trying to get out of the way. The emotions stay with you for several hours, days or longer depending on the severity of the event and your interpretation.

If you are survivor of abuse, you’ll store the pain in your body in such areas as: the heart, stomach or muscles.

If feelings and stress stay in the body and aren’t released, toxins build, muscles constrict, blood flow constricts and you have the beginning of disease.

EFT is a useful tool to incorporate into a coaching program to clear cell level memories, which if unresolved, can also create beliefs such as: “I’m not good enough,” “I don’t deserve success,” or “Who am I to be successful?” These are the blockers which may come up and are unconscious habit patterns that may sabotage our success.

When you’re healthy, relaxed and unstressed, you radiate success and generate more success.

Emotional Freedom Technique is not a New Age scam – it is a detailed groundbreaking proven science. A recent study was done that included 5000 patients who had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and were treated with a tapping technique on the body.

People with EFT recovered much more quickly than the other test subjects who didn’t receive the treatment. 76% of patients were completely cured from EFT compared to 50% with conventional techniques.

To sum it up, EFT is like energy acupuncture – you tap into thoughts and feelings and move them through your body and release tension and toxins that are lying dormant in your cells. EFT removes the emotional part of the memory and makes thoughts benign. EFT isn’t 100% effective and other things may need to be done but it can make a difference with many situations.

Once the physical remnants of your thoughts are removed, you can start to consciously rewrite what happened. The emotion and negative charge is removed and you can reprogram yourself to be successful.

Emotional Freedom technique uses physical tapping with your fingers. Tapping is done with the fingers slightly curved and you use the finger tips and tap both sides of your body at the same time.

It’s important to have a glass of water ready as you may feel a slight headache while or after your practice a session. As toxins are released, they may cause you to feel a little disoriented; this is not a bad thing – it means toxins are leaving their ‘stuck points.’

Emotional Freedom Technique can be enhanced greatly if you add essential oils to your practice. In fact, essential oils have been used for thousands of years to calm, clean, and heal the body.

What are essential oils?

3.   Essential Oils: Essential oils have been used for thousands of years and they are oils that are derived from flowers, leaves, roots of plants. They contain volatile aroma compounds and have distinctive scents and healing properties.

They are generally extracted with distillation or pressing and are often used in perfumes, cosmetics, flavoring, incense, cosmetics and cleaning products.

Interest in essential oils has always been there but in recent years, aromatherapy has become ‘mainstream’ and has been used in alternative medicine.

Due to the concentration of the oils, they are generally diluted with a carrier oil such as: sweet almond oil so they don’t burn the skin. There are few pure oils you can place directly on the skin; Lavender is an oil you can place on your skin and this oil has been known to promote the healing of wounds and help with stress and sleep problems.

Oils are volatilized or diluted in a carrier oil and used in massage, diffused in the air by heating over a candle flame, or burned as incense, for example.

Essential oils hold many properties and can also be enhanced synergistically by combining one or more oils for a medical procedure, massage or cleaning.

Emotions are stored in the limbic part of the brain which is also where memories are housed. If you breathe in essential oils, they have compounds that increase the oxygen flow to this region of the brain and they help you release endorphins which make you feel calm and relaxed. Hormones and enzymes are also released and this can unlock blockages in our glands and organs which in turn, release emotional baggage which was held at the cellular level.

The chemical structure of essential oils in adaptable and synergistic with our cells and we can easily absorb it so this is why these oils can work quickly on us.

If you are thinking about using Emotional Freedom Technique and essential oils, you need to know that there are certain oils that are more powerful for releasing emotions when you start tapping.

There is a line of essential oils called: Young Living and the blends help release blocked feelings and aid healing in the body and mind. The ‘Feelings Kit’ has oil blends called: Valor, Acceptance, Inner Child and more. If you would like to know what oils are best to use with Emotional Freedom Technique, email Monique at: Monique@Highest-Potential.com

How do you use the essential oils and Emotional Freedom Technique?

First, be sure you have a quiet, relaxing place to do your exercise. Next, make sure you have a glass of water nearby as you’ll be releasing built up toxins and may get thirsty.

Next, you want to use a statement when you are tapping. This way, you’ll address the mental/emotional centre of your brain and replace negative emotions with positive ones while you tap your body.

The statement that works best is:

“Even though I have this­­­­­­­­­­­___________________ I deeply and completely love and accept myself.”

You may fill it the blanks with anything like: money problem, problem with procrastination, problem with overeating, problem with being rude – you get the idea.

Once you know what you want to say, place your fingertips in some essential oil and then start at the top of body. For this exercise, we will only focus on your face. If you study EFT in detail, it also addresses the rest of your body.

You will be tapping on certain bone areas of the face. To begin, start with your eyebrow. You will place your fingers at the start of your eyebrow which is above the corner of your eye. Gently tap this area on both sides of the body and use the statement that works for you. (EB – short for Eyebrow)

Next, go to the bone bordering the outside corner of the eye. (SE – short for side of eye)

Next, got to the area with the bone under the eye – about an inch below your pupil and then tap. (UE – under eye)

Then, go under your nose above your upper lip. (UN – under nose)

Finally, you can end this with the area at mid chin. (CH – chin) Make sure you’re applying oil each time and repeating the statement over and over while you practice EFT.

If you use all three of these techniques, you will break free of your self-induced prison, release emotional baggage and recreate a new life.

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Listen to my insights into this movie. This one is not an inspirational movie, but contains important understanding as to how being fixed on the “how” something is created can bring devastating results.

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Successful people know that leveraging their time and resources by doing something right once which produces multiple results is the way to increase productivity and income.  This is apparent with information marketers who create a course once and then resell it over and over again or network marketers who build a downline and that downline earns them residual income.   This is a great example of how doing something once right can pay immense dividends.So how do you get started? Begin by thinking in two time lines – right now and in the future.  For example, what project can you implement that will give you a return now and be repurposed for recurring income in the future?

Let me give you a personal example that happened by chance.

In 2006, I wrote and published a book about turning around the misbehavior of strong willed children – Acceptable Behavior Checkbook.

Someone who purchased my book asked if I did private coaching. At the time, I wasn’t doing a lot of coaching but decided that teaching others how to implement my system, made sense.

I quickly put together a three-session Fast Start program to help parents create a relationship with strong-willed children based on inspiring trust and respect.  On the first session, I asked the parents if they would permit me to record the sessions in exchange for a reduced rate in coaching.  They agreed and now I have three hours of parent coaching that has been turned into a valuable and useful information product.

This info product was effortlessly created when I was earning money coaching so it met two criteria.  It made money in the present and is also continuing to bring in revenue in the future.

Another great example came from my VA (Virtual Assistant).  It had to do with the concept of repurposing. My VA suggested I write and post articles as a promotion method to drive visitors to my site.  When she suggested that I thought, “Great idea, but I don’t have time.”  I then thought, “What if I used the content from my monthly free teleconference call to craft an article?”  That was a winner.

I reviewed my script, crafted an article, my VA edited and then posted it on line.  That was another winner which didn’t take as much time as I thought.  Now, when I pick topics for my free teleconference calls, I think of whether it would make a good article or not.

Before you begin your next project, think in two time lines so you can maximize your results and your life.

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You know the feeling. There is an important project to work on that you know if you complete it you will be able to relax and breathe, let alone the money you could make from it, but you find yourself unable to overcome procrastination.  Doing everything else, but working on it.  Why???

We are not a one thing, we have multiple inner lives that work constantly trying to help us with what we say we want.  If there is incongruence in your values or beliefs and your conscious mind, the values and beliefs….the invisible part will win out.  It ALWAYS does.  Here is a small action guide for the article “Slaying the Dragon of Distraction; Maintaining Focus”.  I hope you enjoy it.

Three Ways you can Overcome

Procrastination aka the Dragon

1.Distraction keeps us focused on things other then the problem. – which if we are successful at our distraction it will likely grow into a deeply rooted habit or worse yet an addiction and keep you further away from what you really want to accomplish.

2. Keeps us hiding – not moving forward on the very thing in our life we say we want that could make a significant difference in our life.

Until you know what need is being met at a core level it can still operate at the unconscious level and can and will sabotage your results.

So how do you get to your reasons?

The steps:

1.    Think about an important project or goal you really, really want to complete or have a successful resolution.

2.    Focus on a quiet place in your body, for people who have an inner anchor point focus on your Inner Anchor Point for other’s focus on the area around your heart.

3.    Then ask inside the following question and listen intently for an answer “how does it serve me to remain on the fence, distracted, unfocused by avoiding doing xyz?  Basically, what need is being met by not moving forward on xyz?”  Or if you know what distraction method you have used in the past to avoid working on things, ask “how does focusing on xyz serve me?”

4.    Take what you get and write it down. Ask deeper questions if you need more clarity.

Let me give you a personal example:

1.    How does focusing on my son going to karate classes so he earns his black belt serve me?

“Keeps me feeling like I am helping and doing something and being a good mother by helping him avoid regrets if

he gives up after 5 years of classes.”

2.    How does that distraction harm me?

“It keeps him resisting and pushing against me instead of pushing himself… which in turn makes him not want to

spend time with me.

It also keeps me from seeing what I need to work on and fix in my own self.  I delude myself thinking I am achieving

something by using my time and attention to find solutions for him.

-    My brain likes to have a problem to focus on as it thinks it is being productive.”

3.    What is one action I could take that would move me forward in this area I have permitted distraction to take me off course?

“Detach from the outcome, whether he completes his black belt or not, it is up to him.”

4.    Then check to see if you are comfortable actioning this

Solution.  If it feels good, great, you are good to go.

In my personal example above, I got a clear “no” when I did this exercise.  I seemed unable to let go of the idea that letting go of the 5 year investment in Karate would instill in him a “failure and regret”.  I felt in my core, it was still important to support him in this way.  I then moved to a process which I teach in my program.  The “Genius Idea Clearing” process comes up with 3 ideally suited action items that is for my highest good on a conscious level and unconscious level. You know that if we don’t ensure congruence between our brain and our inner beliefs and values, we may think something is a good idea but we still won’t act upon it.  The solution has to be congruent at all levels, your internal beliefs and values and your conscious mind has to be comfortable implementing it to effectively Slay the Dragon of Distraction.

Want to develop mastery of your brain, emotions and stay on track so you can create permanent, lasting results in your efforts please join me in the upcoming training.  What I shared with you in this article is just scratching the surface of what is possible.  Go to www.highestpotentialtraining.com/info to learn more.

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You’ve probably heard the term, ‘think outside the box.’

You may think you know what this expression means and may be surprised when you read the definition.

Wikipedia describes thinking outside of the box like this: ‘to think differently, unconventionally or from a new perspective. It also means to think in a novel, creative or smart way and to eliminate false constraints when attempting to solve a problem’.

The last part of the definition is what I have found for my clients is a key to success in their life and business – ‘to eliminate false constraints when attempting to solve a problem.’

In your case, the false constraints may be the harmless lies you tell yourself to keep you in your comfort zone. These lies keep you from being creative, taking chances and really living a full and joyful life.

What are the lies you tell yourself that keep you satisfied with your results and may be holding you back from becoming the business owner you are destined to be.   One of the biggest ones is denial or ‘sugar coating the truth.’

Denial and “sugar coating reality” is used by people who are resigned to keeping things the same and living in a comfort zone. They complain about business, their life, their health but when you suggest ways to improve their situation, they balk that they don’t have the time, money or skills to make changes.

You are not this person because if you were, you wouldn’t keep reading this article. You would walk away and pretend you never saw it – you would avoid the truth. Instead, you are putting your foot down and saying “enough” and may be asking yourself, “How do I get into massive action, because I know if I stay where I am, things will be the same next month as they are this month?”  Success minded people call it as they see it.

It all begins with us.  For us to make a difference in the lives of others it all starts with us being a leader of our lives. This means we not only have to be honest with others, but we must start by being honest with ourselves.

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