# The swiftest horse can’t overtake a word once spoken*
# Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes
# A bad word whispered echoes a hundred miles*
# In a flood of words, surely some mistakes*
# A sharp tongue or pen can kill without a knife*
# If the first words fail, ten thousand will then not avail
# Watching chess games in silence. . .a superior person*
# The judge with seven reasons states only one in court
# If you want no one to know, don’t do it*
# If you want your dinner, don’t insult the cook*
# Honest scales and full measure hurt no one*
# Divide an orange–it tastes just as good
# If you always give you will always have
# Better lean and good than fat and evil
# To build it took one hundred years; to destroy it one day
# To know the road ahead, ask those returning*
# Touch black paint, have black fingers
# To succeed, consult three old people
# If you hurry through long days, you will hurry through short years
# Touch black paint, have black fingers
# The ripest fruit falls by itself*
# Simple to open a shop; another thing to keep it open
# What you don’t see, you don’t desire*
# Neither fortunes nor flowers last forever*
# An inch of gold can’t buy an inch of time
# Don’t waste your hour–the sun sets soon
# My life–a candle in the wind. . . frost on the leaves*
# Nurture the plant one year–ten days of flowers
# Slow work–fine work
# At birth we bring our nothing; at death we leave with the same*
# A king’s riches cannot buy an extra year*
# Beat the drum inside the house to spare the neighbors
# Climb the mountains to see lowlands
# Laws control a lesser person; right conduct controls a greater one*
# Forget the favors given; remember those received
# A careful foot can step anywhere*
# Stare at the profit and step in the pitfall
# In bed be wife and husband, in the hall each other’s honored guest
# To stop drinking, study a drunkard while you are sober
# If Heaven made someone, earth can find some use for them
# Without sorrows no one becomes a saint
# The pine stays green in winter. . . wisdom in hardship
# Three feet of ice were not frozen in a day*
# With virtue you can’t be completely poor; without it you can’t be truly rich*
# Determination tempers the sword of your character*
# Stout men, not stout walls, make the stout city
# To be heard afar, bang your gong on a hilltop
# Great doubts, deep wisdom. . . small doubts, little wisdom
# To know others, know yourself first*
# His virtues exceed his talents–a superior man *
# When the waters drop, the rocks appear*
# O eggs, don’t fight with rocks*
# Easier to rule a nation than a child*
# To have principles first have courage
# Blame yourself as you blame others; forgive others as you forgive yourself
# The wise listens to her mind, the foolish to the mob*
# A whitewashed crow soon shows black again
# Watch over workers at their labors, not their meals*
# Many a good face under a ragged hat
# Dogs have no prejudice against the poor
# If Heaven made someone, earth can find some use for them*
# Tile tossed over the wall. . . who knows where it will fall?*
# No horse can wear two saddles *
# While you are bargaining, conceal your coin
# No guests at home, no hosts abroad
# “I heard” is good; “I saw” is better
# We can study until old age. . . and still not finish
# A good teacher. . . better than a barrowful of books
# Teachers open the door; you enter by yourself

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To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach out to others is to risk involvement.

To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.

To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To live is to risk dying.

To hope is to risk despair.

To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken,

because the greatest hazard in life is to do nothing.

The person who risks nothing,

does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.

They may avoid suffering and sorrow,

but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.

Chained by their attitudes, they are a slave,

they forfeited their freedom.

Only the person who risks can be free

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David Neenan is the creator of the pioneering Archistruction(R) process for planning, designing, and managing building construction projects. As president of The Neenan Company, he has combined leading-edge information processing and design methods and innovative "people" approaches to reengineer how the construction process works from conception to completion. His company uses the Archistruction methods to design and costruct office, medical, retail, and light industrial buildings for clients throughout the Rocky Mountain region from offices in Fort Collins, Denver, and Colorado Springs. David is also a nationally recognized seminar leader, keynode speaker, business consultant, and the author of books such as "Evergreen" and "No Excuses: be the hero of your own life". He has produced his "Business & You" and other seminars in Colorado, Hawaii, California, Texas, Vermont, Taiwan, Sweden, Moscow, and Siberia. He and his wife, Sharon, live in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Changing Schools
  • Most beloved and hated man in town
  • Dealing with the School District - introducing superlearning into schools
• Observing the Observer
  • Handling opposition - Separate the observer from what is being observed
  • Observe the observer you are - learn from it
• Solving business problems - it’s about changing your life
• Confucius story
  • Always expect the unexpected
• Learning organization
  • vs. fighting or sleeping organizations
• Discover your magnifiscence in a breakdown
• Existentialism
  • I’m born free, make choices from my freedom
  • Responsibility - accountable for my decisions
  • Anxiety - the elixir of life
  • Evil
  • Death
• Taking responsibility
  • Patterns - what stops people, and what helps them to break through
  • If you have a problem, your options:
    • You can change yourself
    • You can change the system
    • You can get out
    • You can choose to suffer (99% of unconscious choice)
  • If you think your leader sucks, look in the mirror
  • Setting the right expectations
  • Biggest mistake in starting a company - thinking that everyone is like me
• Hiring is a crap shoot

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Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by positive psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the concept has been widely referenced across a variety of fields.
Colloquial terms for this or similar mental states include: to be on the ball, in the zone, or in the groove. (Wikipedia).

This episode covers the following topics:

• What is flow?
  • Our experiences of flow for the first time
  • Arman - high school math team
  • Sergey - dance, since being a kid
  • M - flow is magic; martial arts - after a lot of training
• What is the structure to your flow?
  • Self-modeling (as opposed to modeling someone else)
  • Common components:
    • Resonance
    • Time distortion
    • Elite performance
• Building the capacity for holding the flow
• How and when to apply the flow?

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We are continuing our conversation with Maniko - an accomplished musician and signer, personal voice coach, workshop facilitator, and a really wonderful person.

She has extensive professional and experiential training in expressive arts therapies, emotional release and integration, meditative disciplines as well as dance, movement and resonance awareness as vehicles for bridging the worlds of spiritual development, personal integration and authentic self-expression.

Maniko’s websites: TempleOfSong.com and VoxMastery.com.

This episode includes the following topics:

• Voice and Culture
• How one can explore this?
  • Just let your voice soar
  • Contextualized vs. everyday practice
• Range - knowing what’s available for me
  • Expand and relax back, gradually.
  • Physical movement, tonal movement, language movement, and silence - these are all our faculties
• Speaking and singing voice - make your talk sing
• Waking up the dead - voice in corporate world
• Tuning in to the heart of the listener
• Speaking to difficult audiences
• Tuning in - taking it across contexts
• Life as music - how do we sing it?
  • When something turns you on - stop and listen, pay attention
• Thank you!

Maniko’s songs used in this episode:

• And Now
• Just like this

Technocrati Tags: Voice, Embodied Voice, Alchemy of Voice, Maniko, Self-Expression

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Today, we are introducing you to Maniko Dru Dadigan - an accomplished musician and signer, personal voice coach, workshop facilitator, and a really wonderful person.

She has extensive professional and experiential training in expressive arts therapies, emotional release and integration, meditative disciplines as well as dance, movement and resonance awareness as vehicles for bridging the worlds of spiritual development, personal integration and authentic self-expression.

Maniko’s websites: TempleOfSong.com and VoxMastery.com.

This episode includes the following topics:

• Singing voice - connecting to heart
• Terror of your own magnificence
• Building a “soul muscle”
  • Dance, singing and silence
  • Working from within - with person’s own material
• Standing up for what is true
• Listening to others
• Finding your own path - knowing your calling
• Leaving your legacy
• Maniko’s approach
  • You are already a miracle
  • Start with the body & breath
  • Get the voice moving - no content, just resonant richness
  • When things happen - write it down (so many songs came out from that)
  • State of loving awareness
  • Whole person integration
  • It stops being a problem - it becomes a fuel for creativity
  • Honoring what is
  • Release to your genuine self-expression
  • Purely experiential
• Resonant voice gives birth to the myth and mysticism

Maniko’s songs used in this episode:

• Nature of Things
• Ishq Allah

Technocrati Tags: Voice, Embodied Voice, Alchemy of Voice, Maniko, Self-Expression

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This exercise is useful when one attempts to move beyond one’s
current belief structures. Record the the following in a soothing and
authoritative manner five times into a tape recorder.
(start of belief unlimited tape)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is
true or becomes true within certain limits, to be found experientially
and experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be transcended.

Hidden from one’s self is a covert set of beliefs that control one’s thinking, one’s actions, and one’s feeling.

The covert set of hidden beliefs is the limiting set of beliefs to be transcended.

To transcend one’s limiting set, one establishes an open ended set of beliefs about the unknown.

The unknown exists in one’s goals for changing one’s self, in the
means for changing, in the use of others for the change, in one’s
capacity to change, in one’s orientation towards change, in one’s
elimination of hindrances to change, in one’s assimilation of the aids
to change, in one’s use of the impulse to change, in one’s need for
changing, in the possibilities of change, in the form of change itself,
and in the substance of change and of changing.

The unknown exists in one’s goals for changing one’s self, in the
means for changing, in the use of others for the change, in one’s
capacity to change, in one’s orientation towards change, in one’s
elimination of hindrances to change, in one’s assimilation of the aids
to change, in one’s use of the impulse to change, in one’s need for
changing, in the possibilities of change, in the form of change itself,
and in the substance of change and of changing.

There are unknowns in my goals towards changing.There are
unknowns in my means of changing. There are unknowns in my relations
with others in changing. There are unknowns in my capacity for
changing. There are unknowns in my orientation towards changing. There
are unknowns in my assimilation of changes. There are unknowns in my
needs for changing. There are unknowns in my possibilities of me
changing. There are unknowns in the forms into which changing will put
me. There are unknowns in the substance of the changes that I will
undergo, in my substance after changes.

My disbelief in all these unknowns is a limiting belief,
preventing my transcending my limits. My disbelief in all these
unknowns is a belief, a limiting belief, preventing my transcending my
limits.

By allowing, there are no limits; no limits to thinking, no
limits to feeling, no limits to movement. By allowing, there are no
limits. There are no limits to thinking, no limits to feeling, no
limits to movement.

That which is not allowed is forbidden. That which is allowed
exists. In allowing no limits, there are no limits. That which is
forbidden is not allowed. That which is not allowed forbidden. That
which exists is allowed. That which is allowed, exists. In allowing no
limits, there are no limits. That which is not allowed is forbidden.
That which is forbidden is not allowed. That which is allowed, exists.
That which exists is allowed. To allow no limits, there are no limits.
No limits allowed, no limits exist.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either
is true or becomes true. In the province of the mind there are no
limits. In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true
either is true or becomes true. There are no limits.

(end of Belief Unlimited tape)

(from The centre of the cyclone an autobiography of inner space by John C. Lilly,M.D.)

When listening to the tape, lie in a comfortable position on the
floor with the lights very dim and just allow the words and meaning
enter you without any resistance. DO IT SOON, DO IT REGULARLY.

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We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre - the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website - Direct Impact Creativity.

In this podcast , we discuss with Paul the Lover’s Journey - the structure he has introduced in the previous episode.

• Hermes and the Dance of Transformation
  • Dedication to Gods
  • Story of the Dance of Transformation
• What is the essense of femininity and masculinity?
• Polarity, Acceptance, and Love
• Feminine-Masculine duality and universal human being
• Body Armor, Rolfing (see also Wikipedia entry)
• Somatics - applications in healing
  • Martial Arts - destructive / protective way. What are the healing applications?
• From Body to Heart to Mind

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We are continuing our conversations with our friend and teacher Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre - the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website - Direct Impact Creativity.

In this segment, Paul introduces us to his next original structure- the Lover’s Journey.

• What is lover’s journey?
  • A state of being. If the Hero’s Journey is phallic, masculine, then the Lover’s Journey is erotic
• Work a little with mother and father
  • “Parental possession meditation”: color parts for mother, father, your own
• Sexual history
  • Healing the sexual wounds; what comes out is a positive same-sex image
• The negative same-sex image of themselves or others
• Negative opposite sex image (anima / animus possession)
• Healing of the anima/animus possession - “the dance of transformation”
• Marriage
  • Bringing together the four “people” - the four aspects of themselves
• What is the result people get after the Lover’s Journey?

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Randy Pausch, the professor at Carnegie Mellon University who inspired countless students in the classroom and others worldwide through his highly acclaimed last lecture, has died of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 47.

Read full article at the CMU website »

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In this episode we are concluding the Sleight of Mouth patterns with the Alogical, or as we also call it Analogical, or Metaphorical SOM pattern.

• The Alogical SOM Pattern
  • Utilizes many different skills - metaphorical, hypnotic, by-passes logical objections
• 3 examples of the alogical pattern
• Explanations of the metaphors
• How do we use alogical SOM pattern in real life
• The Ultimate SOM Pattern

Technocrati Tags: NLP, Language, Sleigh of Mouth

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In this episode, we explain and give examples of the "neurological" SOM patterns, the second class of SOMs in our classification.

• Neurological Levels and SOM
• SOM at the level of intent - capture the fort and rule the territory
• Any level higher than the level of the problem can solve the problem
• Examples of using neurological levels - three examples of limiting beliefs and an application of the SOM pattern.
• Exercises
• Changing the frame size (level of detail): chunk up / chunk down
  • What it is, and three examples of SOM

Technocrati Tags: NLP, Language, Sleigh of Mouth

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