Guy Finley speaks in relation to his new book available on Amazon called "The Secret of Your Immortal Self."

A Journey of Self

Quite a spring revelation

I haven't posted to this site since May of 2011. While it was only a few years ago, in relationship to the journey that my self and I have been on, it seems like it has been many lifetimes. Lifetimes that involved dying and being reborn to my self. 
A month after my last post, being unemployed and on full disability, I began another new journey. I prepared somewhat for it by listening to tapes by a previously to me, unknown author named Guy Finley. 

There was something about his tapes that both rubbed me the wrong way and yet resonated with me at the same moment. His manner of speaking came across as gruff, seemingly harsh and even angry. Yet I listened to the same tapes over and over. His message carried beyond my personal perceptions I had based my listening abilities on. These were based on my past ideas and beliefs. 
As I became more accustomed to Guy's way of delivering his message, I was able to more fully work at actually hearing what I was listening to. 
For those who have not listened to Guy's messages, you may feel as I did. At first it seemed as hard to comprehend as trying to break a digitally coded message in an unknown language. 
Guy Finley's ability to put concepts, laws and truths into words is incredible to say the least. I still struggle to explain his messages, despite my language abilities. Guy's choice of words, analogies and stories help to bring his message across in a way few others that I have listened to are able to. 
 It's now almost 4 years since first attending Guy Finley's Talk in the Pines seminar in Merlin, Oregon and I have gone through so many life events, none that I would define a culmination or goal that I have reached, but rather an on-going series of endings and beginnings, with no end in sight. 
Last night at one of Guy's talks, a fellow listener spoke of a cell phone not working and just needing to reboot it and it was fine, no fault needed to be placed, although it felt like there should have been at the moment. Another listener referred to rebooting ourselves when things seem to be going wrong or off track and starting anew.
A few weeks ago I had been at the end of a 4 month visit with family on Maui, Hawaii. I was doing what I enjoyed, helping a community farming group with audio and video. Despite the fact that I seemed to be at the end of the work for the evening and also the end of my stay on Maui and feeling good about it, I experienced two defibrillator shocks to my heart from my implanted device. 
While the device did what it was supposed to do, and I was working a bit harder at the moment than normal, the device saw that my heart was not operating within the device's known parameters and it then, not so gently, "rebooted" my heart twice. 
Being fully conscious both times, although doctors said I wouldn't be. After the first shock, I looked around at wiring on the floor or any possible fault as to why I just got shocked. 
The second shock came a minute later as I was trying to rationalize the first shock while talking to my friends wife, who had witnessed it. When the second shock hit and literally had me sitting on the ground afterwards, I was wondering why she had not seen the lightning fly through the room, as I had seen it.
I finally stopped looking for the fault and began to accept that I had just been rebooted. Having visited my doctors back in Oregon and getting my device tuned up and tests done, I really relate to life as a series of endings and rebirths. Sometimes it takes a complete reboot to clear out and let go in order to allow the new to replace it and to again see new growth.

What is our Motivation to Love?

We all know there are many benefits to giving love. Just what those benefits are depends on how the love was given. What is our motivation to love?

The actions we take for love can may seem to us and others has as a very harsh action. On the surface, we may even mistake that love as being mean or cruel. If we look closely at ourselves and our honest about the motivation behind why we love, then that seemingly harsh action can be seen for the love it really is.

Recognizing this love is a double edged sword. A harsh action that takes place because of love should stand up to a test of whether our motivations are really in the best interest of the one we love, be it someone else or ourselves. Where it becomes a double edge sword is when our belief in that love and our motivations is shaped and colored by the world we have been exposed to. So many people are and have been convinced that their harsh actions are done purely out of their conviction that they are spreading their love through their actions.

How those actions are perceived by others is also shaped by the other persons exposures to life. Often the motivation behind the love is recognized after the action takes place, but in many cases others may never see a connection between that action and love.

Looking to nature can help, but is not always the answer either. In general the actions that take place with animals is tied more to instincts and survival and from what we can understand, less to love.

When a mother bear chases her cubs away from her to live on their own. This seemingly harsh action is rooted in their instincts for survival. The cubs may not understand this. Maybe the mother bear doesn't even understand it, but the instinctual drive to make the cubs learn to survive on their own is crucial.

As humans we also have those same instincts and yet we have another factor called love. Love can be in sync with our instincts or over-ride those instincts. Humans take many actions ranging from taking their lives to taking others lives in the name of love.

Using our instincts in conjunction with love probably gives us the best guidance. When we think about the act we attribute to love, we should also listen closely to our bodies instinctual response. The response that is generated from our gut and our heart can speak volumes to whether our action is motivated by love. If we are uncomfortable physically, upset stomach, a distressed feeling from our guts, hearts racing or many other "fight or flight " type responses, it is likely a signal that our body is giving us. It is trying to let us know that what we perceive and have convinced ourselves is love, is not in sync with our instincts. There may be an unrecognized motivation underlying that action. That motivation may be anything but love.

So while love may involve some harsh actions, we need to consider the question before hand. What is our motivation to love?

2011 Tapping World Summit Thursday's Green Room Presentation

Maybe Not Everyone Perceive Tapping the Same, What ever Works For Them!

Improving The Relationship With
Your Significant Other

Sasha Allenby presents using Tapping as a form of Improving a relationship with a significant other, or any others for that matter.


The Green Room - 2011 Tapping World Summit

"The Tapping Solution" is a breakthrough documentary
exploring meridian tapping, a healing tool based on the body's
subtle energy systems and meridians.

The film includes luminaries such as Jack Canfield, Joe Vitale,
Cheryl Richardson, Dr. Joseph Mercola, Dr. Norm Shealy,
Bob Proctor, Carol Look, Dr. Patricia Carrington and more!

Clarification on the 2011 Tapping World Summit

Aloha,

The 2011 Tapping World Summit starts on Feb. 21st.

The pre-events have already begun. And with this, there have been many questions about just what is the Tapping World Summit?

Here is some information to help clarify some of the details around this online free event:

• This event has 20 free presentations with big names
  from the EFT / Tapping world

• You're going to learn EXACTLY how to do Tapping in
  this event. Remember, the pre-event video series is
  just a warm up. The best part is still to come! :)

• This is an online event so there is no need to
  book hotels or wait in traffic

• The main event is 100%  free to attend. You get
  to listen to 2 presentations each day for 10 days
  and you have a 24 hour period to listen to the calls.
  (You don't have to be there at an exact time)

• Everything is streamed through the web so there's
  no expensive phone bills!

• The way that they are able to keep it a free event is
  by offering an upgrade option for those that want to
  own the audio to the presentations, the transcripts and
  the workbook for the event - all at a very fair price.

If you want to sign up for this free online (NO travel required)
event click on the link below (there's a really cool video
on this page also so make sure to check it out):

The Tapping Solution

When you sign up you'll also get three audios that you
can immediately listen to or download with Dawson Church,
EFT Expert Carol Look and Nick Ortner, the host of the
event, each of them talking about EFT and Tapping
in different ways.

Remember, this is 100%  free to attend the online
event and listen to all the calls during the 10 days of
the event.

If you want to own the calls and MP3's or have the CD's
of the event, plus the transcripts and the workbook there
is a small charge for that, but it is completely optional.

Plus, I don't know of any event or product where you
can sample the entire product before deciding if you
want to own it.

I hope you attend:

The Tapping Solution

Jim Hall


P.S. - Upgrading will get you the audios forever, including the
transcripts and the workbooks which coincide with
each presentation. There are between 5 or 10 different
bonus audios that are thrown in as a gift, depending on t
he upgrade package you choose.

It doesn't stop there! When you upgrade before the event
starts on Feb. 21st, they have a special bonus that includes
digital access to all 10 videos of the Tapping World Summit Video Series
(Only 3 of the 10 were released to the public)

P.P.S. - Once you listen to any of the content for the event
you will see for yourself just how amazing the quality is and
how powerful and life changing the content is that you will
want your own copies to listen to over and over, as well as
share with your family and friends.

The Tapping Solution

Life Is Too Short To Take Too Seriously. Enjoy!

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Dreams Of Happiness Does True Happiness Exist In An Awakened Or Dream State?

Can True Happiness Exist in Awakened or Dream States?

I have often read in books and through daily motivational emails , as well as just listening to people about not waiting to be Happy, just be Happy and Happiness will come to you.

This sounds like good advice and always begs the answer of how do we just feel Happy in a world that is constantly presenting itself with situations that are contrary to that State of Happiness.

Our lives are constantly bombarded by the rigors of Survival, Debt, Timetables, Requirements imposed upon you by others or agreed to by ourselves. The world is full of one crisis after another. People being killed or left homeless by the thousands, due to reasons ranging from the actions of Man and Nature. People killing and hating, is to Mother Nature an old movie people have bee playing out for countless of years. Cycles that people just happen to be in the way of.

Just prior to awakening on an early work day, approximately an hour and a half earlier than I really needed to, but finding that I had not set my alarm it turned out to be a good thing. Anyways, prior to awakening, I remember a dream and it even now fades as I write this, but in this dream it started with the thought of being truly Happy and one of the most loving feeling I can ever remember experiencing.. It was a time when my Grand Son was about a year and a half to two years old and when he came to stay for a visit as he often would.

I had renovated a spare room with a single bed and as was the case about then, he was reluctant to go to sleep by himself, so I would lay with him and read or talk or just enjoy laying there until he would doze off and while I might stay and sleep, most often I would move back to my own bed.

There was a particular time that I was overwhelmed, either through a remark he made or just that feeling between us as we laid closely together awaiting sleep. This feeling was like a rushing wave of what I can only describe as one of the most loving feelings I've had. Being that he was my first Grandson and still young and at such  an innocent age, along with his ability to feel love in an unaltered state. A state that primarily children seem to have the ability to feel. I guess this all contributed to my feelings.

This loving feeling was strong and life altering for me and almost a heightened bench mark that has been hard to achieve ever since. Although, since then, I have experienced a similar feeling with my now 3 year old grand daughter. Lying next to me, under the weather, as I read her to sleep and she holds my arm tightly and drifts off into her own dreams. Neither of my grandchildren live with their fathers.

This brings me to the feelings within Dreams. So often Dreams can take us in so many emotional directions. In what usually is such a short time and yet they can range from the worst of feelings to the best of feelings.To some feelings that can't really be described, nor pinpointed as to where the source of them ever came from.

I find that as life presses on and we seek this state of Happiness, despite our physical world's pressures, more and more I enjoy the often short Happiness that I find in a Dream.

In this morning's dream, it started with that thought of about the loving feeling I had with my grandson and seemed to move right to a conversation with a woman I know. The funny part of it was this woman, while seeming one person, was a composite of many women I have know.

During our conversation, which I don't even remember what the topic was, I blurted out my feelings of how beautiful a person she was in looks and personality. The exact words I've already lost in my awaken state. I then felt that I needed to explain myself and told her how I felt, that too often we feel things that we never share with the people that we know and love how we feel about them and before we know it the opportunity to do so seems to be lost forever. This time I just felt it couldn't be lost and had to be said.

While I don't remember what her reply was, if any, was to my words, I do remember the complete radiance that seemed to emanate from her upon telling her how I felt. The woman or I should say combination of women were not in a relationship with me, and this was not a romantic moment, but rather just a loving emotional moment.

The dream carried on for a little longer and all I can remember is awakening with a very good feeling. Being that it was a normal work day I still had many of the normal, worldly trials and tribulations to face, and yet, as I awoke from that good feeling of unhindered love and Happiness to the reality of being awake, I felt wonderfully released of burdens throughout the day.

While I can take the day and be thankful for it, be Happy for all that I have, including myself within my own physical life, I felt that the feeling of the dream, like many others I've had in the past, was just something that had to be captured and expressed. Thus this posting.

It may have very little meaning to anyone but myself, but to me it helps me to define a feeling of Happiness that is not dictated by the when and if factors, when I get something or somewhere or if I achieve a particular goal. Instead it was just a Happiness unbounded by any constraints and felt for a few moments within my Dream.

My challenge is to create that state of Happiness throughout my waking life, despite all that may try to prevent it. I think if I were to compare this to a religion, it would be like that Angel sitting on one side while the devil continues to try and prevent you from believing in such a thing as Happiness.

In ending, I am determined to find the Happiness in my waking life and while it might not equal that of the dream state of Happiness, it can be found in any situation when you don't allow yourself to dwell on the Unhappiness that comes and goes through our daily lives.

--Jiminy Nicks

8-24-2010

Just Realized I may have given a wrong URL out in the Past

I just realized that I may have been giving out the wrong URL many times. The proper URL is http://Empower-The-I-In-Me.blogspot.com.  Apparently there is one without the Empower portion and I may have sent people to that one instead. I really know nothing of this other one. So remember mine is Empower-The-I-In-Me.blogspot.com.

The Elusiveness of Love

Love is a very elusive emotion. Not only does it comes in so many different forms, it can be misinterpreted
from one form to another. It can be shaped and changed by experiences or even just the self examination of it.

Love is something really more than an emotion. The emotion love evokes is the visible or knowable aspect of it. Often love can exist and I can either be in denial of it or completely ignorant of it's presence.

Even to try and label the various forms of love as I know it is very difficult and that label would be defined primarily by my experiences or perceptions of what I think Love should be.

With that said, I can only look at love in it's present form in relation to my experiences, in order to be able to even write about it. In this article the love I speak of will be contained to the love I can feel or percieve for another Human being. I could stray into many forms of love for many different reasons, but I have chosen the love Humans have for each other as this topic.

I often think of love both when I am feeling it or even when I don't feel it around me. If I don't feel it, that love may be just in a form that I am unaware of and have no particular reason to feel it at the moment.
Sometimes this is because I have perceived that I am not being loved by another Human being. This perception can be the result of a perceived action, such as words, tone of voice, body language or just a past similar experience that invokes that feeling of being unloved by someone at that moment. This love or lack of love, is only my perception, and I know that I am actually surrounded by love at all time.The source of love emanated from us, not to us. Love is but a reflection of the love we feel for ourselves.

When a person comes up to me and shows me their love, I have a choice based on my past experiences and the love of myself to see that love and feel it, or deny my own self  love and thereby deny myself the opportunity to feel that love. Again, it's always my own choice to either feel it or not.

For myself, I have recognized that as bad as any experience has ever been with another Human Being, if I truly examine the relationship over time, I can always identify at least a moment in which I perceived a love for the other person. In most cases given enough time, I can actually find many instances where my love existed for that person, at a time when I allowed myself to love the being I am. 

I can truly say I have never met a person that I have not loved in some form or another. Whether I felt wronged by a stranger or a friend. In my reality, I believe that there is no right or wrong, just another experience that the soul is wanting to feel.

I might also, upon self examination, find that the experience with that person has taught me something more about my own self. These opportunities have allowed me to change my perception of other people and reevaluate their actions towards me. So in this way, I may love that person for the lesson that has been taught to me. The bad situations as I may perceive them, are no more than a lesson and I am free to learn from them or relive them.

When I have felt love for someone and yet hatred of them at the same time,  I try to remind myself that hatred, being much like love, is formed and exists as love does, based on my past experiences with people. I might tend to find that hatred comes more easily to the surface of my perceived memories than love does.

When I am not in a position where the hatred is in control, through my use of negative self talk to myself or just a feeling that I cannot easily explain, I will try to substitute the negative self talk for positive self talk or and think thoughts of love for myself.

When I am in a space that I feel safe and comfortable, I can let my feelings and emotions relax and then think of that person. At this time, I am more likely to remember past experiences of when I felt love towards that person. It can be something very obvious that took place or very subtle that involved no more than a fleeting moment in our relationship. It can be love that is also associated to a part of hate, such as a love for the lessons learned and are now a part of my life, as well as, the ability to pass on to others what I have learned from the moment.

In general, with true introspection, I as a person can find that somewhere within any situation that I created a moment of hatred, that I have had a choice in the process to direct that situation towards love or hate. There was a word or action that I did at some point that helped to tip the moment towards love or hate.

An example could be in an argument over just about anything. The moment that I choose to take an action, I either prolonged the argument or moved away from it. Often I might say, "I tried to stop arguing, but the other person wouldn't let it go." Again it was my own choice, when presented with the situation, to allow the other person to draw me into the argument. The point that I did, I allowed them to have the control over me and this leads to less self love.

As hard as it may seem to be at times, and the actions that I may have to take to prevent being drawn into an argument and towards hatred of myself, it does get easier them more times I do it. Practice does not make perfect, but repetition will get me close.

These actions may seem extreme or contrary to my ego at that moment. I just need to remember to "check my ego at the door" first.

Sometimes, it might mean removing myself from the situation. It can also mean some self reflection if I do remove myself. This is needed in order to prevent any negative self talk and convincing myself that the fault lays solely on the other person. One alternative that is always at my disposal, is to counter the hatred with love. I can look deep inside myself and express some kind of love that the other person may then feel. 

Whether that person wants to feel or perceive the love is their choice. If the love I show is sincere, truly coming from a place of self love, than whether the person excepts it at the moment or not, somewhere down the line they will realize that the love was displayed and they did not chose not to see it. 

Even after showing my love, depending on the choice the other person takes, I may still have to resort to removing myself from the situation. Then, when I examine what happened, I can realize I showed my genuine love to that person. In this way, I can also have a better chance at avoiding any negative self talk that I may inflict upon myself, than I would had I not expressed that love.

This is the point where love frees me and allows me to move on. By making the choice to love, whether seen by others or not, I are free to move again towards love and not carry the hatred with me. I am free to love that moment of hatred that was shared with me and truly whole heartedly learn from it and embrace it as my own experience. This lesson helps to guide me towards not repeating the same situation again.

Well It's In The Bag. The School Lunch Bag

The Uji Film, 

LUNCH LINE = kids + food x politics ÷ money,

involving Schools, Politics and Money was successfully funded. Personally I can't wait to see it.
It premiered in Detroit and I hope to have it show on Maui too. Maybe a few other islands if possible.

It was good news yesterday to see that Governor Lingle reached an agreement to eliminate the furlough Friday program and Hawaii's Children will be back to a 5 day school week next year.
Especially since Governor Lingle and others are preparing for an expansive tour of China and other eastern Countries. I guess the State still has money for travel!

School Lunches, Children, Politics and Money!

Rather than spending money on a foreign film about children and School Lunches, I decided to just add to my pledge. 

How about you? A few dollars could be helpful to see this through and perhaps our children or grandchildren would benefit.

Only 11 Days to go!

Easter A Time Of Change

Over the years between the Religious aspects, Easter Bunny or Commercialization of Easter from eggs to toys and candy, the one thing it represented to me was a renewal and a chance wanted or not to change.

Some of my worst Easter's turned out to be blessings in disguise.

The me thought it was a terrible time and on a physical, mental and emotional level it was.

The I on the other hand just took it as another experience in life and left it up to the me to decide how to deal with it.

I count my blessings that the me did, overtime realize what needed to be done and can look back at it as a blessing.

Now the me sits today, years later and surrounded by two grandchildren and realize that the me made the right choices at the time.

So as a Caterpillar changes to a Butterfly as a natural part of life, we to evolve and Easter is a good day to allow change to happen, understood by the me in I or not.

They're Nearly All Gone And You Will Have Lost The Chance To Improve Your Mind

A quick note while there's still time..

Natalie @ 7 Secrets to
Happiness has some really important
news..

Today is the very last day you can grab your
7 Secrets to Happiness program for 50% off
with over $1200 in additional bonuses including
your Mind Movies creation kit forFree.

Get yours here NOW


But I wouldn't waste any time... because
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So if you feel like you need something incredibly powerful
to help kick some of those big goals this year and
increase your overall happiness...

Check out and Secure your copy of the 7 Secrets to Happiness Program here


Speak soon,

Jim

P.S- You get over $2000 in value for a one time payment
of just 99 bucks but this all goes away at midnight tonight
or once the few remaining copies are gone.

Grab yours here before it's too late

Did you hear about the incredible teleseminar
between Loral Langemeier and Natalie Ledwell?

WOW...it was absolutely mind blowing.

You can Listen to or download it here

They shared some of the most insightful success tips
I've ever heard.

You probably already know them both...

..Loral being one of those woman that pops up
everywhere (She's a multi-milllion dollar New York
Times best seller, a regular guest on shows like CNN
and Dr. Phil, in the movie The Secret, and hosts her
own radio/tv talk show.)

..And Natalie being from the remarkable Law of
Attraction program- Mind Movies, and also the creator
of the incredible 7 Secrets to Happiness course.

So it's pretty exciting that they were on a call
TOGETHER answering real questions that people
had left on Natalie's blog.

They seriously shared some life
changing, jaw dropping
information- it was awesome!

But don't take my word for it...hear it for yourself:

Play me the Teleseminar between Loral Langemeier and Natalie Ledwell NOW

Oh...and you don't even need to leave your email address
or wait for it be to sent to...you can hear it straight away
and it won't cost you a dime! Don't ya love it when
it's that easy?! :)

They spoke about loads of really interesting topics but
a couple of things that really stuck in my mind are..

Loral explaining ..

- 5 easy steps to making money RIGHT NOW...by doing
things you love...

- How to get into a 'successful pattern' and use
your 'money muscles'.

Natalie walking through ..

- How to tackle negative thoughts and energies, and how
to stay focussed on the life you want...

And them discussing their top tips on how to attract your
perfect partner using the law of attraction, embracing your
own space and the importance of "letting go" to allow
your perfect partner to appear.

It was seriously awesome!

So... if you want to feed your brain with an hour of
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Speak soon,

Jim

Don't Worry, be Happy! The 7 Secrets Revealed

OK, so it's February and if you're like most people, guess

what has happened to your well-intentioned New Year's resolutions?

I didn't bother with any resolutions. Why bother if they aren't realistic.

Did your's disappear into the dark valley of
 shame, regret,
and discouragement.

Hey, I'm no pinnacle of virtue either, that's for sure.

But I really do not like feeling like yet another statistic

when it comes to making lasting and positive changes in life.

That's why when I previewed this, I immediately wanted
to tell you all about it too, because this IS the answer! I bought in while it's still available and at half the price.

Forget resolutions and do THIS instead!


The reality is, Natalie Ledwell (one of the
creators of Mind Movies) has hit the nail on the head
with this video.

Nat has worked closely with people who were involved
with 
The Secret. In fact, she has used the law of attraction
to reach 
a number of really phenomenal achievements in life.

But she quickly realized that something extremely 
important
was missing from the message of the Secret.

And it was causing a LOT of disappointment among those
of us who want with all our hearts to attract our deepest
desires into our lives--but can't seem to get there from here.

The difference between Natalie and "the rest of us" is that 

she set out on a mission to figure this out. And she did!

Simply 
by putting her philosophy to work and PROVING
it to herself first.

And when she saw how incredibly reliably this works, she 

knew what she had to do:

Make it available to anyone who wanted to fully access
the incredible power of the law of attraction...so you can 

actually get RESULTS by implementing a few
very 
easy-to-understand concepts.

It all starts with four steps you can take right now to 
get
started.

And you know what? It makes so much sense, it is so
easy 
to do, and it WORKS!

You'll see when you do it--things just seem to start falling
into place to deliver your goals to you. But they key is 

actually DOING this...

Natalie shows you the way right here 


She clearly explains the four steps, and it's super 
easy
to begin.

Actually, I'm still shocked that she's giving this away, but 

she is.

I watched this video twice, just to make sure I could jot
down some notes on the steps--and I have to tell you, I 

was so excited to get started with it, I began immediately.

I'm already seeing and feeling the difference this
makes. Once you do this, anything is possible for you
if 
you just follow these four easy steps!

Follow These 4 Easy Steps 

I'm totally stoked about this, and I think you will be
too. Because once you see how effective this is for ANY 

goal you want to achieve, I believe you'll be applying
this simple but powerful formula to accomplish ANYTHING.

So watch the video--and don't forget to leave your email 
to
get 3 other awesome gifts Natalie has for you. No 
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business or small print--she just wants to get this 
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realize your
dreams too.

Oh and by the way, this takes all the struggle out of trying 

to keep your New Year's resolutions. It's a whole different 

way of going after what you want with one big difference...

It WORKS!

Talk to you again soon,

Jim

P.S. Natalie explains this totally awesome concept
about 
creating your perfect life story. At first I wasn't sure
if it 
would make a difference or not, but I can already tell 

you that it definitely DOES. Get started right here...

What's Your Perfect Life Story? 

There's NO money involved either--it's a just a tremendous
gift from Natalie to you.

Putting the Power of the Mind to Work

After working a 10 plus hours on the Island of Lanai, I was exhausted, but determined not to just sit indoors and prepare for another long day tomorrow. I have to finish my work and catch the Expeditions Ferry back to Maui in the afternoon. then drive to the otherside of Maui to unload my equipment, so it will be another long day.

So I put the power of my Mind to use and showered, dressed as a typical trousit on Lanai and spent a couple hours just enjoying the ambience of the Koele Lodge on Lanai.

While I may not have been one of the tourist paying upwards of $500.00 per night, I was able to wander around the Lodge and take pictures, enjoy the piano player and sit by the fire outdoors with a cool breeze blowing and all the elegance of the Koele Lodge surrounding me.

I could have sat home and created this vision in my mind since I have stayed there in the past. Christmas is a wonderful time to stay at the Lodge. the staff treat you really well and in the past even hung stockings on the fireplace mantles for the children.

Instead, I chose to physically create my own mind movie and play tourist. It didn't cost me anything to do it and it was real. We can't always chose to have the real experience, but our minds can create or re-create it for us. We can feel the pure joy of experiencing such a wonderful place.

For those that have not been to the Koele Lodge, they have many rooms besides the great hall which has ceilings fourty or fifty feet high and fire places on each end of the room. The other rooms include a reading room with plush chairs and many books and magazines, they have a game room with pool tables and computers and my favorite is the music room. they have added a game to the room, but it used to have just musical instruments from far off places decorating the walls. And they used to serve tea and scones every afternoon in it.

I used my Mind Movie to create a sense of belonging that enhanced the feeling of being there. Since I was not staying there it was like being in a movie for two hours and being taken to a place you can't always go.

So whether you have had the experience of being someplace and visualizing being there again or just want to be someplace, visualizing yourself being there and creating the goals in your mind is half the work. The universe will help to work out the rest, as long as your sincerely want it enough.

Biking from Island to Island in Hawaii & Around the World

While waiting for the Expedition Ferry ride from Maui to Lanai to spend a few days working, is noticed some unusual riders.

Apparently, an entire group of people complete with double rider bikes were on their way to Lanai from Maui.

I suspected this was a part of a large group of people traveling through Hawaii and maybe even further.
There were many different languages being spoken and about a dozen double rider bikes loaded on board. I thought that I even heard that they had a second boat chartered to carry even more of the group over to Lanai. Maybe they were considering it if they couldn't all fit. There were bikes inside the cabin and all over the back of the boat.

If you have never been to Lanai, the city at the top of the island is reasonably flat, but the incline from sea level to the city (there is only one), is very steep and winding.

There are three main paved roads from sea level to the city and the city sits at about 2500 feet in elevation.

The three main roads lead from Manele Harbor, where we are headed and the Manele Bay Hotel is located. The second main road goes from the city to the Kamalapau Commercial harbor and the third and longest road goes to a desolate region known as ship wreck beach. As it's name implies, there are a few ships visibly sitting on the reef off shore. This area also called keomoku has no water or food and is on the wind blown North Shore facing Molokai and Maui. They was some extreme winds todays with warnings posted for the summit of Haleakala on Maui. It's a great place to drive to with plenty of food and water, but not my idea of a place to bike to.

For many years, Keomoku was scattered with many shacks that local families had built out of would drifted ashore to some pretty elaborate "shacks" that held the whole family and more. A great place just to get away on the weekends.

Listening to some of the English speaking bike riders talking about passing the "Fruit Loops Cereal" around had me wondering if they were fueling their bodies correctly for what they had ahead of them.

My thought was maybe they would stay at the Manele Bay Hotel the first day and then make their way to the city and stay at the Koele Lodge, sister to the Manele Bay Hotel and then base out of there while exploring the island, but riding the boat with all their riding clothes and at least a half dozen even had their riding helmets on, I thinking that they were ready to attack the ride to the city as soon as they get unloaded and assembled.

I later found out it was a group that was touring Maui, Lanai and Molokai. In fact, they were to end up at the Kamalapau Commercial Harbor at the end of the day to go to Molokai, I assume on the Molokai Princess.

No doubt, Lanai being such a small place, I suspect I will run into at least one of them in the today, especially since there are only a few places to eat on the Island of Lanai. A couple in town and the ones in the Hotels. They are all pretty pricey, but if you want to get the feel for life on Lanai, chances are you will dine at the Blue Ginger Cafe in beautiful Downtown Lanai City and skirting Dole park, but then again almost everything skirts Dole park, being right in the center of Lanai City.

As it turns out, within a few hours of leaving the Manele Bay Harbor I did run into them or most of them at the Blue Ginger while picking up my lunch.

In general the ride from Lahaina, Maui to Manele Harbor Lanai is almost exactly 45 minutes, but since we are in the middle of Humpback Whale season, the time of year they come from northern waters to mate and give birth to the young, watching for Whales crossing our pass is a critical part of the Captains job on the Maui-Lanai Expedition.

I do have to put a plug in for the Expedition and it's crew. Most of them have been working the boat for many years and the Captains operate these ferries incredibly smooth and with the utmost precision.

Well, were almost at the Lanai, Manele Harbor and the real work of the day begins, although I've been up since 3:45am in order to pull off this boat ride and move all my equipment single handed. I still have a full day of work ahead of me.

Thinking about people who enjoy traveling the world just to bike ride around, and one gentleman said he had been all over the world and lost count of the places he's been, and my world of living in Hawaii and traveling the same areas to do work, it makes me think of the various mind movies we all create for ourselves to have such varied goals. It's amazing what the mind can do, because frankly, you would never catch me riding up those hills on a bike.

It's All About Me in My Mind

It seems like everywhere I looked, on bumper stickers, window stickers and T Shirts, you would see the words "It's all about me." I used to think it was pretty self center and a selfish thought to be projecting.

Now that I'm 53 and having raised 3 kids to adulthood, helped them  financially as I could, the 30 year old is married and moved to Australia, my daughter gave me a 2 and 6 year old to help her raise, without the father's (2) involved much.

I'm starting to take the "It's all about me" saying to heart.


At my age and giving so much to others, I am realizing that making it all about me is more of a statement of responsibility than a selfish act. After all it's all just a Mind Movie we play over in our heads.

If more people took responsibility for their own choices, this world could  be a different place. Instead of compiling a list of why everyone's problems are the result of someone or something out of their control and accepted that every action  in our lives involves a number of choices we choose to make at that  moment, we can then accept the responsibility for our situations.

I know that in looking back at my life, I always had a choice in every  situation that arose. How I made my choices were usually based on guilt, other people  expectations of me and sometimes my own gut feelings, just to name a few.

I have found that the choices I made based on my own gut feeling, although not always easy, usually turned out the best in the long run. In many cases learning to say NO, allowed the the other person the ability to take responsibility for their own actions and gave them an opportunity to grow or develop in some way. They had the opportunity now to create their own Mind Movie of their life.

My Parents had a big family and being the middle child often put me into positions that my siblings didn't have to deal with.

So here I am with grown children and grand children and finally learning to quit trying to help or fix everyone else's problems.

This realization of making it about me finally has led me to a new understanding of what I want in life. I always had this gut feeling that I was being lead through some sort of forces or universal path, but never  understood it.

Learning what it is I want out of life for myself has been a tough journey and it's still far from over, but each day I wake up and remind myself  that I will have choices to make and that if I spend too much time trying  to analyze them I end up doing nothing.

Just making the best choice we can based on our gut feeling or instincts  is at least doing something.

Regardless off the choice we make, we always have more choices that allow  us to fine tune them.

Without getting too spiritual, if we have a soul, it doesn't care so much how we live our lives, but rather that it's our lives we are living.

Listening to poets such as David Whyte recite poems from the likes of Mary Oliver have helped me feel comfortable in living the life that is mine.

Today I had a number of things to accomplish and by prioritizing them and making choices that felt like they were coming directly from me. I am now sitting in my front yard on the Island of Maui, knowing most of what I set  out to do from online work, errands to painting half of a bedroom are done.

I've even had time to write this up on my Blackberry. I know I didn't finish everything I had on my list and tomorrow I go back  to work a 10 hour day, but what I did I feel good about and what I didn't  do, there's always another day.

If that day doesn't come, it won't really matter to me anymore.

When I go to bed tonight, I will be doing it with the feeling that  tomorrow may just be the best one of my life.

I think that making it "All about me" just means that if we do our very best and take care of ourselves first, we will be much better examples to  those around us.

That's my Manao (thoughts or advice in Hawaiian)