Get Back in the Game

It's time to get back in the game people! What have you started to do that you let slide? What about that particular 'resolution' you made late on December 31st last year?

We are half way though 2009 and it has really gone by so quick!

Now is a good time to recommit to yourself what you want. Know that you can be/do/have anything when you focus your energies and keep them aligned to your goals and objectives. Remember to put a little intention into the beginning of each day to take one more step towards what you want.

HOMEWORK: Write yourself a letter. Date it for 12/30. Start it with "Dear , Thank you for making the following dreams into reality." List your dreams, wants and desires. Sign it and put it in a self address stamped envelope and give it to a friend to mail to you on December 30th. Offer to do the same for them too.

BE Amazing!
-Lane

Make The Memories You Want Today

Right now you are making tomorrow's memories. 'nuff said.

BE Amazing!
-Lane

Steps

We have heard it before... start with baby steps... take one step at a time... put on foot in front of the other...

What each of these suggests also include continuance. It is a true statement that, to this date, you have overcome every challenge in your life. You did this because you kept putting "one foot in front of the other."

This week, our church is getting new carpet and a number of us stayed after services on Sunday to move all the pews out of the sanctuary and clear out 2 office and a file room. In the beginning, it looked like a lot of work! Deciding to take action, one person took a step towards getting things moved out. Then another person joined in and took a step, then another.

In about an hour - it was done. One person took a step and began to move the energy. One person move toward creating change.

No matter the challenge, when you take action and take that first step, committing to your choice, other forces in your universe begin to align with your energy and things happen very quickly.

Timid steps are a good start. BOLD steps really get things moving! And when others join in a take BOLD steps with you... whoa!

BE Amazing!
-Lane

Personal Responsibility

What would happen if you decided to be responsible for everything that happens in your world, including everything you observe or experience?

Now, when I say 'responsible' I do not mean to imply fault or blame for the event. By 'responsible' I am referring to how you perceive the event and whether or not this event is an issue in your world.

Everything you experience, everything you observe, everything... is open to your interpretation. Have you realized yet that two people will often have two different perceptions or interpretations of an event? Even in your day to day, you will perceive something differently depending on your mood.

The fact remains; Stuff Happens! How we choose to deal with it will determine our results and our condition in the moment. I think a couple of months ago, I wrote about a fellow who I had apparently cut off on the freeway exit ramp. It was an accident and I didn't even know it happened until he raced by me shaking his fist and making certain that I knew I was #1 in his book. I did not react. I observed. It was interesting to note that out of that exchange of which he and I were equal parties too, he was the only one unhappy.

What would happen if you decided to be personally responsible?

Isn't it empowering to know that you always have a choice? You can choose to be happy. You can choose to be empowered. You can choose to be responsible. And... when you think about it... choosing to be responsible is being empowered. You can only change things you have decided to take responsibility for.

BE Amazing!
-Lane

Let go...

Last Saturday, Colleen and I went to the Scarborough Faire Renaissance Festival in Waxahachie, Texas. What fun! Hundreds of people letting go of their barriers and limitations to take on and experience a different (and fun) reality. There where so many people dressed in period costumes.

Here in North Texas, it was a very rainy day. It drizzled and rained all day and... we had a ball! In fact, since it was a rainy day, only those who were really committed to be there were there and so there were so many people in costume. Due to the rain, the whole place was one big mud pit!

One little girl caught our attention. She was there with her daddy and she was muddy from head to toe. We watched as her dad stood by and allowed this little one to let go of the social requirements of cleanliness. She played, stomped, jumped, and sat in the mud. What a little doll.

In many ways, the youngest among us are the wisest.

What veil do you want to shed?

BE Amazing!
-Lane

Old Patterns

Yesterday was Mother's Day. My mom passed on from this life in 2000. More than most other times, she really made a significant presence on my mind this Mother's Day. I miss her and would really love to share with her everything that you and I are sharing now. I know she is/would be proud.

Our parents, or those who took on the parental role for us as a child, have had a significant influence on our lives even today. There are so many attitudes and behaviors that we chose to accept from them - naturally so.

The attitudes and behaviors (patterns) are reflected in the way we think about money and abundance, the way we raise our children, the way we show love, and so on.

I think, as the empowered being that you are, that it makes sense to look at your old patterns you adopted from your parents. Do they serve you today?

Here is an assignment for you. Get out a sheet of paper and answer the following questions. Be honest. Just write without judgment.

"How am I like my mom?"
"How am I like my dad?"
"How am I like ...?"

Of those old patterns, which of them are not serving your highest good and the highest good of those around you?

Now - and this is the most important part - take action to shift/eliminate/change or otherwise make your life... well... you life.

You CAN do it!

BE Amazing!
-Lane

The Meaning of Life

Hi Everyone

I'm back! ;-) I have such a wonderful wife! It was very sweet of her to get the newsletter out for me. I really wanted to get it done and last week was very full. Moreover, I am humble by her comments. I am blessed.

I learned an interesting lesson a couple of weeks ago. It was about the meaning of life (no, it is not 42).

Typically, when a body is buried at the end of a life in this plane, there are two dates written on the headstone. The birth date and the death date. Between those two dates there is a "-", a dash.

If a person has lived their life only to serve self, then the only meaning we can assign to that person's life is "-", and it is so declared on the headstone. There are no memories to recall, no writings of good works or legacies of charities. Just, "-".

When you live a life to serve others something magical happens.
Other lives, having been touched by yours, are indelibly etched with your signature. Your good works make a continual and on going difference in the world through each and every person you touch. You make memories. Stories are told. And what you give, you get back.

BE Amazing!
-Lane

Hello Everyone:
Lane has his plate full this week can't find the time to think his newsletter out. So, I thought I would take the opportunity to talk about him behind his back and what it is like to be married to him. Next month, May 11th will be our 10th wedding anniversary.

We have raised 3 kids together, his and hers. They were 7, 11, and 14 when we met and two years older when we married. They pretty much hosted our wedding in our back yard and each had an important part in the ceremony. We have been blessed with their support and their love. Life back then was normal - Lane went to work every morning, the kids went to school every morning, I am not sure what I did but with three teenagers there was lots of laundry involved.

Then Lane and I went to a seminar on making presentations from an NLP point of view and our lives changed. That seminar was on Saturday/Sunday and by the next Saturday/Sunday he was learning hypnosis. Within a month he was making plans to learn all he could so he could make an impact on the world in a positive way.

You guys know all this already but what you don't know is how much he believes in people, how much he cares and just how much he loves what he's doing. With Lane, his mind is always working. He is constantly learning, calculating, considering, developing, diagramming, preparing, researching and quantifying.

So, I guess the optimal words to describe living with Lane is "But wait, you are, we are, I am, more that that". I live in a constantly changing world and have learned to take things in stride. Trust me, its exciting to love him, live with him, and some days just simply watch him.

Colleen Pierce
Master Practitioner NLP, Hypnosis

BE

This week I have an important challenge for you.

If you have not decided yet, then let us begin with this... What is it that you are not being that you want to be?

I know there is something more that you want. For myself, I have to say, this has been a very difficult question for me. I know that there is something more I can be yet, on a daily basis, I had chosen to buy into my own limitations.

The good news it that because I am asking myself this question, that means, on a daily basis, I am uncovering layers of potential and growing more and more. Woohoo!

So here is my challenge for you... It's in two parts.

Part One
What do you want to be? Ask yourself in all sincerity, "What do I want to be?" Get an answer. Write it down. Be flexible and allow it to change as you realize you can be even more than that.

Part Two
Be courageous and do everything it takes to BE what you want to be.

1. Know you deserve it. That is why you are here on this planet.
2. Every day take some action step, no matter the size, towards being what you want to be.
3. Maintain your focus. Write it down and put it on your pillow. At night move it to the nightstand and in the morning put it back on the pillow.


BE Amazing!

-Lane

Recommit to Restarting

Springtime is a great time to give life to your dreams! Spring is when new life is in the air. The flowers bloom, the leaves come back out on the trees, the bees are buzzing and the birds flying about and our thoughts return to... uh... whatever our thoughts return to... ;-)

Spring really is all about the energy of creation being manifested on a large scale. If you're going to set in motion a process of creating a new job, a better relationship or great health - doesn't it make sense to put your creating energy in alignment with the creative energy of nature?

Funny thing about humans... we love mark milestones according to the beginning or ending of some timeline or scale we created. Let the odometer roll over to 100,000 miles on your car and that is a significant event. Let the year roll over from 1999 to 2000 and that is a significant event. Let the stock market go over 10,000 and that is a significant event.

On January 1, like me, I bet you made some resolutions or commitments about the new year. I wonder want would happen if you recommitted now to those thing that you want and made of all this abundant creative energy stirring in your being? Just how much can you accomplish when you work in harmony with everything going on around you rather than an arbitrary date?

Isn't this a good time to recommit to restarting what you started at the beginning of the year? Yeah, I thought so.

BE Amazing!
-Lane

Choosing Empowerment

My wonderful wife Colleen says, "I refuse to be a victim of ...". Just fill in the blank on that one.

Now I have to admit that the first time I heard her say that, I really didn't understand what she meant. Besides, being a victim isn't a place I go. She was talking about a friend who was going through some tough times and we really felt deeply for this person and wanted to help.

I asked, "Well how can you be a victim of them? They are the ones who are going through it? What does that have to do with you?"

I am so glad I asked because I learned a lot! She really took my understanding of being responsible for my own emotions, my own condition, to a whole new level.

Colleen explained that she decided since they are experiencing what they are experiencing, for whatever reason, it was not necessary for her to feel bad about it. It wasn't going to help them if she felt bad.

I was starting to get what she was saying then she asked me, "If someone does you wrong, are you going to play the role of the victim for that person?" Whoa! That got my attention and I got the message.

If you are feeling negative emotions because of something that is outside of you then you are being the victim. And there is so much to feel bad about isn't there? The economy, jobs, taxes... if you need more, just turn on the news.

Notice what I said in that last paragraph... "If you are feeling negative emotions because of something that is outside of you then you are being the victim." That's right. You have a choice to be the victim or not.

Since that is true then the opposite is just as true. You have a choice to be an empowered human.

How does the world change when you choose to be empowered now. The economy - restaurants are still packed. Jobs - you're working with really good people or you have an opportunity to do what you never had time to do. Taxes - you get to participate in being a part of a community.

Wow! The message here is that empowerment is about having a choice. The good news is that you always have a choice so you are always empowered.

I am...

Last Friday, I watched the movie The Moses Code. It is a great movie and I highly recommend it. If you enjoyed watching movies like The Secret and What The Bleep, Then I know you will enjoy The Moses Code.

If you have been a reader of my newsletter, you already know that I believe in you as an empowered individual. You are the all powerful creature of that which you choose to experience. You are always doing exactly what you need to do to get the results you are getting. - and - that means - you're the one driving your bus. You ARE in control.

The Moses Code is all about regaining your awareness of that fact.

In the work I do with my clients, sometimes they feel as though they are knocked about by all the circumstances of their life and that, for some reason, they are 'broken'. This is far from the truth.

The reality of our life is that from time to time, we do experience things that are other than what we truly desire to experience. I submit to you that those times, now, when you look back on them, are times that you probably would not give up because you did end up learning something important. Something that perhaps you would not have learned any other way. You are who you are today because of the experience and learnings you have had all along the way.

You are the sum total of everything you have observed into your experience.

As you go about your day today or tomorrow do this little exercise. With everything you observe (sight, sound, smell, taste or touch) say to yourself, "I am that."

BE Amazing!
-Lane

More Effective Communication

Last week, I mentioned that if you would hold in your mind, the most amazing, most wonderful outcome for what you are saying; that will create a whole new level of your communication.

This week, let's add another component to empowering your language.

First, I think it is important to understand how we might measure the quality of communication. In NLP, there is a presupposition that says, "The meaning of communication is the results you get." Also, in NLP, we operate on the principle that what a person is saying is not as important as the thinking behind what they are saying.

Rapport is the secret to really good communication. When you are in rapport, the communication flows easily in a trusted way between you and the other person.

Last evening, I was in Fry's Electronics in Irving, TX and I was looking for a scanner that would work with the Mac. I went to the computer department and asked the supervisor there if someone could help me find a scanner for a Mac. There was a sales rep from Epson who decided that I must be stupid because "any scanner would work with the Mac." His attitude and interjection into a conversation I was having with someone else was certainly not building rapport. I was on a mission to find a scanner, not create rapport with this fellow, however I figured he might be able to show me something I missed, so I followed him over to the scanners.

He showed me desktop scanners and I wanted portable. He showed me scanners for PCs and I wanted scanners for Mac. In a final bid, handed me a box with a really nice portable scanner in it and PC software for scanning. It was $200. I told him I didn't think the store was going to give me a discount for software I couldn't use. I gave him the box back and left. I did not trust him or his knowledge at all.

I got to thinking afterward that there was no rapport in that exchange. The salesman didn't take the time to discover my needs. I ask for someone to help me find a scanner for a Mac. My thinking was, I need to scan - I want a reasonable price - I don't know about or care about software.

Well, I went to front of the store and explained my experience to a store manager. After a courteous acknowledgement, he said, "I think I have what you need." We walked over to another location and he showed me two scanners, both of which would fulfill my needs.

Rapport is the magic of empowered communications.

BE Amazing,
-Lane

Effective Communications

Last Friday evening I spoke to a group of about 30 people on Effective Communications. It was a great time! We got through a tremendous amount of information in just a couple of hours.

Communication is so important in our everyday lives. You are always communicating even when you think you are not! Well... I figure if you are always communicating then perhaps you should do so on purpose. ;-)

A study done many years ago by Dr. Ray Birdwhistle published in his book Kinesics in Context (1970) revealed that the words we speak only make up 7% of our intended communication. The remaining 93% of your intended communication is contained in your body language and your tone of voice.

Now, knowing this little tidbit of information, you can begin to create a more powerful, more effective communication. How? Very easy... just hold in your mind the best possible outcome for saying what you are saying.

Think about this for a minute. If you must deliver some news that is not good, and you slump your body, put a grimace on your face and lower your voice; that will actually amplify the feelings of "how bad" things are. It is possible to deliver not good news from a place of confidence, courage and compassion.

Hold you head up, shoulders up, speak confidently, and with heart. Whether the listener chooses to receive your message with good or not good emotions is their choice. You however will have created the best possible condition for them to receive your communication in an empowered, effective way - just as you intended it!

BE Amazing,
-Lane

Let Your Emotions Guide You

The air conditioner went out in our car several of months ago while we are on a trip to Florida. We stopped, had it repaired and went about our way. About 4 hours later, the air blowing out the vents lost its cool. Luckily, I did not. I was concerned however. I had just spent a bunch of money and now I wondered just how much it would cost to get it fixed right. I felt I had wasted my money. I was really not happy about the whole thing, in fact, I was really focused on this problem and all the trouble it was going to cause me.

Since I was focused on the problem I was experiencing some negative emotions and I didn't feel good about it at all.

Since winter was coming on, I put it off and didn't pay any attention to the problem. I didn't give it any energy and therefore I didn't feel any negative emotion about it.

Here in North Texas, the temperature is rising. Last week, we reach over 90 degrees (Fahrenheit). I was driving the car and it was warm! I decided it was time to get the AC fixed.

As I focused on doing what I wanted (creating the experience I wanted to experience) I felt really good. I was exercising my power - my authority to do what I wanted to do, and inside, I felt a sense of empowerment.

If you focus on the problem the result will be the feeling of a negative emotion.

If you focus on the solution the result will be the feeling of a positive emotion.

Your emotions will let you know where you have chosen to place your energy. The interesting thing about where you place your focus is that you will actually create more of that in your life. In any situation, your feelings will guide you. It is an internal feedback mechanism. What a gift!

BE Amazing,
-Lane

Be Really Really Kind to Yourself

A very good friend of mine often reminds her friends and students to "be really really kind to yourself".

Can I let you in on a secret? Every judgment you place on someone, or something, else is a judgment you place on yourself.

Consider this, have you ever been angry with someone? And... how did you feel? Right, you felt angry. The other person didn't feel your anger. Only you experienced that feeling.

So, let me be honest with you. When you are feeling some negative emotion about someone else, you are the one experiencing the not so good feeling. Since you are the only one in control of your emotions, you are, in reality, not being kind to yourself.

That's right! You are in control of your emotions. Well, perhaps I should say, you are responsible for your emotions. You are in control of your emotions the moment you decide to take control.

Would you like to know how to be in control of your emotions? It is pretty easy to do. It is true that when you remember a time when you were really angry then you will actually begin to feel angry. Since that is the case then it makes sense that if you remember a time when you felt really joyful then you will feel joyful. Give it a try.

Your emotions are always a result of your focus and your expectations. Decide to find the good in every situation.

I remember a funny story about the little boy from the city visiting his grandpa in the country. Grandpa found the little boy with a smile on his face, digging in in a pile horse poo. Grandpa said, "What are you doing boy?" The little boy responded, "Grandpa, there's gotta be a pony in here somewhere!"

Be really really kind to yourself. Find the good in everything. You always get what you look for.

BE Amazing,
-Lane

More to Learn

You are a learning machine. No matter where you are in life, you have something to learn. I like to think that each day I learn something, then that is a good day. I suppose that the learning process is one of the things I always enjoyed as I watched my kids grow up.

Have you ever watched a baby learn? I mean really watched – like “fly on the wall”, just allowing them to investigate, and learn organically? It is quite amazing!

I remember my daughter teaching herself how to crawl. First there was a process of learning how to actually get up on her knees and hands. Then there was a process of getting those knees and hands to move in a way that led to forward motion. Sometimes there was frustration because she knew she could do it, yet she hadn’t discovered how. Left to her own devices she work through the frustration and confusion and learned how to perform that simple task for herself.

Once she had mastered that, there was more to learn – like… walking, then running, then riding a bike, then…

Even once mastered, there is still more to learn on that subject or something related.

I would bet that you probably are very good at communicating. In fact, you are so good at communicating that most of your communication is done unconsciously. Now, if you desire to be an excellent communicator, you have something to learn. Did you know that the difference between being a good communicator and an excellent communicator is intent? That’s right, an excellent communicator communicates with intent. The first step in being an excellent communicator is to ask your self, “Why?” Why are you saying what you are saying? What is the purpose of your communication or, more importantly, what is the result you want to achieve as a result of your communication?

I will be announcing in the next newsletter a regular meeting for anyone interested in learning how to empower themselves and how to empower their life through communication.

Keep learning, stay tuned and…

BE Amazing,
-Lane

Integrity With your Word

This past Friday, I sat in an introduction to NLP and how to get your goals, conducted by another NLP Trainer. He was promoted as a "Master" Trainer. I must tell you that I was very disappointed! For the first time, I fully understood why some people have an opinion that NLP is not good.

In my NLP career, I was taught that with your language you could very easily create states in the listener. The language you choose will create either negative, unhappy states, or you can use language that is just as effective in communicating just what you want with positive, uplifting, empowering states.

In fact the trainers that certified me as a NLP Trainer were very direct in saying that if any of the students intentionally created 'dark', negative or un-ecological states, that student would be asked to leave the training and; I have seen people removed exactly for that reason.

A couple of years ago, I was teaching a NLP Practitioner class in Toronto. One morning on the way into the classroom, I believe it was the 5th day of a 7 day training, there was a table outside the adjacent room setup for a group that was discussing human issues and how to improve your life and your community. It got my attention so I stopped and ask the lady behind the table about it. We had a nice discussion and she asked me what I was doing in the hotel? I proudly told her I was the trainer for the NLP class. Well... her reaction was not one of interest or pleasure. I forget exactly what she said but it was something along the lines of, "Oh. Yeah, they use that NLP to influence and mess with people." Uh oh!

Well, I took that as a positive message that I needed to have a chat with my class about the ecological use of NLP and the words you speak. We spent the first segment, an hour and a half, on it. I am proud to say that I have been privileged to teach many wonderful people who I believe are of the highest integrity when it comes to their use of NLP.

My friends, I honor the time I spent listening to the absolutely perfect example of how not to use NLP because it has helped me thoroughly understand where my values and boundaries are with respect to communication and I am even more motivated to share NLP with others!

I have been asked over and over again to put on a NLP training. I have been asked to start a NLP study group in Denton. Friends, it will be done. This weekend has moved me into action! Yoo hoo! ;-) I will be sending out more information on this in the future.

On the 7th and 8th of this month, we had a great weekend seminar called Reclaim Your Life. I mentioned to the group that one thing people who have done a serious study of NLP agree on is that the heart or spirit is missing in NLP. Quite a few of the people in the room who had studied NLP agreed. I always bring the heart in because it truly empowers the individual.

I know that, by now, you know how I feel about using words effectively and with integrity. Let me suggest to you all again, to purchase Yvonne Oswald's book called Every Word Has Power (see the sidebar). It will change the way you speak and by that, you will change your life.

BE Amazing!
-Lane

Move it!

I would be willing to bet that you already know that you are the embodiment of energy, that energy is all around you, and that you use your energy to create what you choose to experience.

Of course you knew that right? ;-) RIGHT......

Now, did you realize that you actually have to MOVE the energy?

A couple of weeks ago, I got the bug. Something was going around and I guess I needed the rest so... I got sick! It was powerful and, thankfully, brief. Just 24 hours but those 24 hours were pretty much in bed or on the sofa. My energy had come to a full stop.

The next day, I felt much better however I found that I didn't really feel like getting up and moving around. At first I felt tired but I walked downstairs, made some breakfast and pretty soon my energy began to build.

I had things to get done so I focused my energy on what I wanted to accomplish for the day. Pretty soon, I felt great! Just by putting my body in motion and moving, I built up my energy! We do the same thing through exercise.

What about creating a new job or a relationship?

Well... the same principles apply. You must move the energy.

If you want a new job, start moving the energy by networking with people, getting your resume together, whatever it takes.

If you want a relationship, start moving the energy. Give out what you want to receive.

And... oh by the way... you gotta be willing to receive. ;-)

BE Amazing!
-Lane

Spring is coming!

Something has already shifted inside. I know it is still winter but something inside of me has already begun to anticipate the arrival of a new vital force, a resurgence of life energy that comes with spring. Spring doesn't arrive until March 21st however, in February, we can already begin to see the days grow longer.

Sunday morning while having coffee, my wife and I heard a familiar sound that always heralds the coming of spring. Each year, a pair of barn swallows makes its home under the eve of our porch. Their little nest of mud, grass and a few feathers will house about four or five babies at a time and we will get two hatchings a year.

At the end of their time here, they fly off with their family to attend whatever business nature intends and I chisel the little mud hut off the brick ledge and dispose of it.

This morning, they were chirping loudly as if to let us know they were back. I peeked out the door and they had already rebuilt their nest and are ready for another year.

How is that these little gifts of nature know that their stay here is only temporary? Their little mud home is only temporary? There is a much bigger purpose in their life and they willing accept and act on that purpose. They know that when they return again next February, their old home will be gone and they rebuild and rejoice in what they have.

BE Amazing!
-Lane

Check in With Your Desires

It's time to check in and see how you are doing!

The end of January is approaching and you have had plenty of opportunity to see if you those resolutions you set 26 days ago are still what you desire today.

I love the energy of the New Year. It IS just another day right? But the energy of the New Year brings such anticipation and prospects for something new, something better.

Many of us make all kinds of resolutions and set our desires for the new year. The question is, have you been feeding those resolutions and desires with a little intention each day? Are they still what you want? If they are, nurture them.

As we round the corner and move from January into February, take a quick inventory of what you said you wanted for 2009 and see if those still hold true for you. If not, let those go that need to go and put that energy into what you really want. Remember, change is okay. Change means that you have the opportunity to move closer too and achieve your goals and dreams!

By the way, My latest CD, "Slim Down Now" has been out for a couple of months and it is getting great feedback. The cost is $35. It is, what I like to call, a full Therapy on CD.

BE Amazing!
-Lane

Changes are Coming

In fact, change always happens.

A couple of summers ago there was a student in my NLP class named Eric. Eric was absolutely committed to the benefits of the Mac computer and I, a proud and competent PC user. If the video file I showed had any hesitation, "That wouldn't happen with a Mac.", Eric would say. Eric spent a good amount of time trying convince me there was a better way but I would not hear it. He even wanted to give me his old Mac computer. "Nope, I like my computer. All my software is for a PC." I had all my excuses for not looking at something new. Little did I know... change was coming.

It began innocently enough. I bought an iPhone. A very clever phone made by the makers of of the Mac computer. Darn it! I was hook. Then came the Mac. I'd swear theme music played when I opened the box.

Well, as you can imagine, I am now happily typing away on a computer that I really never expected to be using and... I love it. What a great system.

Change is going to happen with or without you. Do you embrace the movement of this energy and direct it as you desire?

Here in the USA, tomorrow we will welcome our new President. The sitting President is of the opposing party, he has had a tough two terms as President yet, the transition from the old to the new has been very clean. No petty acts like stealing keys off of computer keyboards or stealing the property of the people off of the presidents plane. The outgoing President has embraced the change and is working to make it happen smoothly and easily. The incoming President has been open to listening and receive the assistance in establishing his office. Change. That has been the message.

It is just as important to receive the change you are asking for. Change is coming. Are you ready to be the change you are wanting?

BE Amazing!
-Lane

Give It Away!

I teach my clients. That is what I do. Often, I will have a prospective client say, "Can you fix me?" Nope. You're not broken. If you are, go to a doctor, get it set and have a cast put on it.

Sometimes they ask, "Can you make me give up my fear (anxiety)? Nope. I don't have that kind of power over you!

"Well how am I ever gonna get rid of this problem!", they say. " Decide to own it and decide to do something about it", is my answer.

You are the master of your world. You have the authority over your life. You get to decide what a problem is and what it is not. I know you are amazing and capable of anything! I know some stuff about how the mind and body work. I teach you how to make your body and mind work for you.

This past weekend I participated in a sweat lodge again. I love it. What an experience! My Dance Chief, Silver, reminded the group of the important aspect of getting rid of "problems" and I wanted to share that with you.

First, when it is time, you give away the problem. If you simply release it, you may release it from one hand into the other hand. You must give it away.

Second, You cannot give away something that is not yours. You must claim it, own it, so you can give it away.

Third, you cannot claim what you cannot name. Name it. Be specific.

I give away my belief my belief that this cold will last two weeks! I give away my hatred of my body weight! I give away the feeling of lack of time in getting done what I want. With gratitude, I preserve the lessons these have taught me. I choose health for my body. I choose love of myself. I know that time is abundant and endless.

BE Amazing!
-Lane

Begining with a New Lexicon

The words you use create the reality you choose to live in.

In previous articles I have talked about the powerful aspects of language and how it can empower you and your life. This topic is always worth revisiting. What a simple, inexpensive, New Year's Resolution... create a new more powerful way of speaking.

Dr. Anne Foerst, a theologian and research at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has suggested that the unique quality of being human is that humans make stories to express their reality. No other animal does that.

Words themselves have no meaning. We give them meaning by unconsciously assigning a energetic signature in our nervous system. It is this electronic signature that we respond to. Not the word itself. While we as a group of people have come to generally agree on what a particular word means, that meaning changes over time or when we move into a different group of people.

To oversimplify... words are simply an auditory expression of an energy you experience in your nervous system (mind/body).

It is easy to assume that if words create a certain kind of energy within you, then doesn't it make sense to choose, and use, words that create an energy of empowerment?

Okay... so what do you do to empower your language and your life? Begin now to consciously change your language. You can express "a problem" and do so in a more empowering way.

"I'm exhausted" becomes "I'm not full of energy"
"I'm broke" becomes "I'll have much more money next week"
"The traffic was horrendous" becomes "There was an abundance of cars on the road"

You get the idea. The simple way to do this is to just negate the positive. If "good" is the opposite of "bad" then "The movie was bad" becomes "The movie was not good".

This little shift in language will create a noticeable difference to you and others. Give it a try. Oh, and get a copy of Yvonne's book (see the sidebar on the left).

BE Amazing!
-Lane