My friend Cynthia Lamb says, "the safest place is bold as brass". Boldness can be exhilarating for you and everyone around you. Can you dare to extend yourself to the world today?
Quotes above are taken from the book The Ever-Loving Essence of You
. Editorial responses by Gal VanIZed.
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The I am Galvanized song of the week comes to you from Michael Zampelli. Zampelli has been influential force in the Southern California music scene for more than 40 years and is the former owner of Zed Records of Long Beach. He continues to maintain an interest in new music coming out of the U.K.
Zampelli is the official webmaster for the Los Angeles Kings hockey club and maintains the on-line community for Kings fans worldwide at www.letsgokings.com . He takes photos for the Los Angeles Kings and his past experience includes shooting for LAist and the LA Derby Dolls. His photo gallery includes photos of Lil Wayne, T-Pain, Skinny Puppy, Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page, Stevie Wonder, Rivers Cuomo, Gene Simmons, The Prodigy, and Lucha Va Voom. Each week he will contribute a song with a theme, a message and a beat. Enjoy and stay tuned.
This episode is all about identifying and letting go of the blocks that can prevent you from living life to the fullest. We talked about how fear and stories from the past can prevent people from thinking and feeling and from being authentic. We talked about how sometimes rules can stifle creative thinking and how sometimes we get swept into "group think" because we fear being left out or chastised, even if we don't really agree with what the group is doing.
Thinking about the past and future can be a way to keep us in bondage even when we reminisce about good things. Living in the now is the only way to live an authentic life. But if you do tell a story about the past, you can choose what stories to tell. You can use a story to lift yourself and others up or you can use a story to beat yourself up and make other people feel bad.
Sometimes the stories we make up about other people can prevent us from seeing who they really are. We discussed how when we see people based on the the roles they play in our lives (i.e. daughter, mother, boss, husband, son, teacher), it will prevent us from seeing them as they are and potentially learning something valuable and even life-transforming from them.
We talked about how true listening is not just something you do with your ears, true listening is about being fully present and not seeing the current moment through the filter of old stories. Our story is often what prevents us from listening. Listening is a full-bodied experience that engages the body and evokes feelings or emotions.
We are here to gather stories and we get to choose what stories we share with others. Sometimes we are blocked when we replay a tragic aspect of the story. We are doing this with our own mind and until we realize it, it is difficult to take responsibility for our own lives. We have to be responsible for good and bad. Being a good listener is listening to what the other person is saying, It's not just about what we feel it's the ability to hear without fear.
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What makes your heart flutter with joy?When was the last time your heart fluttered with joy? Could you allow it to happen everyday and be okay with it?
Quotes above are taken from the book The Ever-Loving Essence of You. Editorial responses by Gal VanIZed.
Go to AskJamieLerner.com and get practical advice about real issues that impact your life and lives of those you love.
Watch the video on YouTube
The I am Galvanized song of the week comes to you from Michael Zampelli. Zampelli has been influential force in the Southern California music scene for more than 40 years and is the former owner of Zed Records of Long Beach. He continues to maintain an interest in new music coming out of the U.K.
Zampelli is the official webmaster for the Los Angeles Kings hockey club and maintains the on-line community for Kings fans worldwide at www.letsgokings.com . He takes photos for the Los Angeles Kings and his past experience includes shooting for LAist and the LA Derby Dolls. His photo gallery includes photos of Lil Wayne, T-Pain, Skinny Puppy, Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page, Stevie Wonder, Rivers Cuomo, Gene Simmons, The Prodigy, and Lucha Va Voom. Each week he will contribute a song with a theme, a message and a beat. Enjoy and stay tuned.
In this episode we talked about how you can develop your own Course in Miracles as you get out and interact with others. We shared stories of the miracles that took place in our lives simply by choosing to take a moment and pay attention to the people around us.
In A Course in Miracles it says that our brother is our savior and that everyone is our brother. We brought this concept down to earth with a few stories about "strangers" who changed the course of our lives. There was Abraham, the recovering crack addict who stopped me in the grocery store to talk about family and forgiveness and the story that changed the lives of thousands and was published in the book More Random Acts of Kindness.
I call it the "Bus stop story" and it's about the man who picked me up at a bus stop, dropped me off at a college and changed my life, the lives of readers and the lives of my students, and I don't even know his name. Erin told the story of the man who approached her in Wal-Mart with a message just for her. I'll call it the "Good Afternoon everybody" story. Erin said "how are you doing" and the "stranger" said, "You are the one I came to talk to". He started talking to her about her job and told her, "You're destined to have your own business." But the question is, how did this stranger know that was exactly what she needed to hear?
We came to the conclusion that awareness and asking questions is the way to have "miracles" like this happen in your life on an on-going basis. It's the whole, "If you ask you will find" concept. Seekers find answers and they can be found in the darnedest places at the darnedest time if you're receptive to it. If you have the heart of a child.
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