You see the lizard brain is all about survival; it’s heavily invested in activities like:

Eating
Attacking
Running away from danger
Surviving
Limiting
Planning Revenge
Getting Sex

This brain is all about fight/flight, polarity, it’s do or die. It’s purpose during earlier times was to save your life, and it’s great for life and death situations; it’s just not so good for daily living.

The lizard brain prevents you from taking risks, it stops you from being the boldest, brightest, bravest, most outrageous, most authentic, and transparent expression of who you really are.

It limits you.

The lizard is what makes it difficult to do what we say we want to do. It’s what keeps New Years’ Resolutions from sticking. It is a real part of your brain and this part is known as the amygdala.

It’s hard to stay quiet and ignore the lizard . . . but you can learn how to do it . . .

When you do, your lizard can become a great asset, as you learn to navigate the waters of life that your lizard has been controlling.

You will no longer need to appease or please the lizard.

The lizard brain shows up and wields its influence in a number of ways.

See if you recognize any of these:

You say you want one thing, but your actions are not aligned with that desire.

You say you want to be successful, but you never finish the project that would create success for you.

You say being healthy and fit is important to you, but you do not take actions that contribute to your health and fitness.

You have a great idea for an invention or product that would add value to a certain group of people, yet you never get

past the start-up phase.

You say you want to lose weight, but you are unconscious about what you eat.

Some of us have a lot of never ending conflicting intentions, while others only have a few . . . and in all of these there’s one common denominator besides you. Do you know what it is?

It’s the lizard!

One of my favorite writers is Seth Godin. Seth often writes about the lizard and in one of his recent blog posts he had this to say:

“The lizard is a physical part of your brain, the pre-historic lump near the brain stem that is responsible for fear and rage and reproductive drive. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because her lizard brain told her to.”

The lizard brain has a job to do. Its job is to keep us limited, and to that end, it has taken on the role of social survival strategist, remembering the times we looked bad or foolish in a social situation. The lizard brain is not known for its ability to utilize critical thought. In the world of the lizard brain, things are polarized and it’s never the lizard’s fault.

Whenever resistance is showing up in your life, it’s likely that the source of the resistance is the lizard itself. Resistance is the voice, the inner critic that tells you all the reasons why you cannot do something, and gives you all the excuses why it won’t work.

One of the key observations of the lizard brain is that the dialogue often contains the word we, and/or the phrase what if. A more sophisticated lizard may even say “let’s-”

Here are some examples:

What if we fail?

What if someone laughs?

We can’t succeed, someone else has already done it better.

What if someone doesn’t like it?

Let’s go to Starbucks!

We should really go out and get something to eat.

We should go to the store.

We need to . . . (fill in the blanks) The objections are endless!

The interesting thing is that it operates as though there are two of you.

I think you get the idea here; the lizard brain is a huge distractor from passion, purpose, focus, and delivery or shipping

as Seth Godin says.

This quote says it all!

“If you are not conscious of all of the different parts of yourself, the part of yourself that is the strongest will win out over the other parts. Its intention will be the one that the personality uses to create its reality.”~Gary Zukav, Seat of the Soul

Seth Godin goes on to say;

“The amygdala isn’t going away. Your lizard brain is here to stay, and your job is to figure out how to quiet it and ignore it.”

As I work with clients these, days it seems the bigger questions for most of us are:

• How do I share my genius and connect more with life?
• How do I break out and challenge the status quo?
• How do I move past the limitations of the past and embrace the fullest expression of my gifts?
• How do I honor and love myself without sacrificing myself?. . . and of course this one from Seth Godin . . .
• How do I ship?

The short answer is tame your lizard brain!

Now that you know about the lizard brain and it’s game, let’s look at some ways to quiet and ignore it. Here are my top 7 strategies that will allow you to quiet and ignore the lizard brain.

1. Get that awareness always precedes change; Just knowing about the lizard, and how it operates, is the first step in quieting, and ignoring it. Learn to ask yourself who is speaking? If the voice begins with “we should or what if” the lizard is speaking, and your focus is splitting from the actions that will move you closer to what you desire to the distractions that will take you off course.

2. Notice resistance. You can’t do this because . . . this is the inner dialogue with all the reasons why not. The reasons are endless. My friend Sunie suggested saying this; “thanks for sharing, what else have you got?”

3. Notice the type of fear that is showing up and act accordingly. There are different types of fear;   Rational fear . . . like being on a dark street and feeling like you need to be alert is very valid. Rational fear can save your life in situations of physical danger. This is the lizard brain at its best. This is what is was designed for! This is when you want the lizard in control.

Irrational fear has a what if energy to it and it’s useless. It is the fear that creates stuckness and immobility. When you are feeling stuck, you are unable to take action that takes you out of the same old, same old. Often these fears are laid down in patterns as a response to a memory of a situation in which you were embarrassed, ridiculed, or otherwise experienced something you interpreted as an insult, or injury.

There’s a big emotional component to this and the goal is to never go to that hurt, or injured place again. It’s all about survival through limitation.

The next type of fear is intellectual fear this fear does not scare you or immobilize you. A certain amount of fear of the unknown or apprehension is to be expected.

4. Take extremely good care of yourself. For you to effectively tame the lizard brain you must be feeling good. Feeling good is a function that is based largely on the choices you are making. Things like getting enough rest, fresh air, sleep, time in nature, exercise, quiet time, celebration, good quality food, all support feeling good. The better you feel the less powerful the lizard is.

5. Ask yourself the following two questions whenever you are considering taking action on your desires; Is the action I am taking, and/or the choice I am making moving me closer to, or further from my desired end result? Is the action I am taking, and/or the choice I am making, loving of myself? If the answer to either of these questions is no, consider not taking the action and reconnecting with yourself and your values.

6. Notice if you are comparing yourself to others and you are coming up short. The lizard brain wants you to play safe and small. It’s interested in maintaining the status quo. It doesn’t like change and making you feel badly about yourself, or less than another has been a highly effective strategy for the lizard. When you are thinking about what you are lacking, you’re not thinking about your creation and gifts. Your job is to get that you have value, and that value is no less than any other person or thing that exists on the planet. Value is an inside job, and it starts with you choosing to value yourself.

7. Notice your energy; are you expanded or constricted? Constriction is a function of the lizard brain, expansion is a function of the higher mind, the neocortex. The neocortex is involved in higher functions such as sensory perception, language, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, and conscious thought. If your energy is constricted, move, change positions, ask yourself what the story is that you are telling yourself. If you find you have been hi-jacked by the lizard . . . choose to escape!

While these top seven strategies may seem simple and obvious; implementation of them can be a bit tricky. You have to start somewhere though, and if you can implement one of these strategies a week, you can make great headway towards the goals of taming your lizard.

If you are like me and you don’t want to go at it with baby steps, you can get great results with my proprietary process called Consciousness Shifting. This simple energy shifting process is the fastest, easiest way, most elegant way to create fantastic results for you that are lasting. Book your free session w/me today to see if Consciousness Shifting is a fit for you! www.karenvizer.com/discovery

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1. Too Busy- If you are like most of us you have been living in do do land for a long time! You see we get our sense of self and our value from doing and doing is rewarded in our culture. Much of doing is unnecessary and the Paredo principle states that 80% of the effect is caused by 20% of the action. So if this is true . . . why not stop doing the 80% that is not creating results? Use my signature process; Body as a Compass ™ to identify the things you can let go of.

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2. Too overwhelmed- Living in do do land creates overwhelm. This is something that is modeled in our culture. You might even think it’s cool to be overwhelmed. After all overwhelm is part of who we all are at one time or another in our lives. Ask yourself is this the story I am telling? Am I identified with being overwhelmed? The new story is there’s enough time for everything I value and overwhelm is a distant memory.

3. Too Confused- Confusion is a state of being we use to keep us safe. If you’re confused you can delay decision making and weigh the pros and cons. You have a reason to stay in indecision. It’s difficult to recognize inspiration when you’re confused. Learn to choose consciously- no choice is a choice! Perhaps my e-course on How to Choose Consciously would be the perfect prescription for you if you are living in confusion.

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4. Too tired- Running on the hamster wheel can be exhausting and holding on to all the things you think you need to do zaps your life force and decreases your band width. Begin noticing your energy. Are you fueling yourself with adrenalin or with passion? Hint is what you are embracing and taking action on a push or a pull? If you are pushing it’s likely to be adrenal and that’s exhausting. Look for the things that pull you forward instead and let go where you’re needing to push.

5. Too many choices- Much of our programming and conditioning is geared to keep us doing and running on that treadmill. The story goes there’s one more thing I need to do before I can . . . . What if you are whole, complete, and perfect and nothing more is needed? Internet marketers often use psychology to get you to buy one more program, system, training that will . . . fill in the blanks! Before buying use your body as a compass and notice if this is something you really need or just another way to stay in sameness.

6. Too many incompletions- Incompletions take lots of life force or energy. They can be in a number of different areas of your life; projects you have started and not finished, relationships without closure, tolerations or the things you are putting up with around you, tax returns that are overdue, clutter. Make a decision today to start completing the incompletions. Just pick one and handle it. Then choose another. When these are no longer taking your life force your inspiration will increase dramatically!

7. Too little structure- Often those of us who have gone from having jobs to being self employed have difficulty in the unstructured environment of self employment. By scheduling specific activities daily you capture time that may have been wasted if not scheduled. Be focused with this. I am not suggesting you fill in every hour of every day with something to do but I am suggesting that you allow time for the things that allow you to be the best you can be.

8. Too little self care- Most of us spend so much time focused outward that we forget about us and forget to focus inward. Self care must be scheduled and your commitments to you must be honored. Often inspiration comes to me when I am in the midst of self care.

9. Too many competing forces- Focus splitters are things that creep into your mind that you need to handle and take you off course. Create a do it, do it later maybe, delegate it, dump it list and park those distractions in one of those categories so it’s not taking your attention.

10. Too little clarity about what you really want- What do you really want and why? Who is it for? Are you chasing a dream that’s yours? Are you consistantly taking action that moves you towards what you desire? Begin making a list of 100 things you wish to do, have, be, or experience before leaving the planet. When you get to 100 add 20 more and keep going. Having trouble thinking about this or feeling like you deserve something for yourself? Book a Consciousness Shifting session with me and we can change that in a heartbeat!

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Inspiration and Inspired Action for the Uninspired or Overwhelmed!

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 1PM Pacific time, 4 PM Eastern time, 9PM GMT

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Before beginning, I want to preface what I am about to share with the acknowledgement that many have suffered enormous losses during the last year or so. The focus of this note is not about loss and suffering. It’s about the good that is happening and the mindset that goes with a different outcome.

It felt important to share something extraordinary that I have observed since asking the question. As I contemplated the idea of recession and looked at it through the lense of law of attraction, I discovered something very interesting. There are many business owners out there who are thriving and may be having their best year ever in their businesses!

It all started at a popular Italian restaurant here in the desert. I was there one night about 2 months ago with my friend Linda. We arrived about 6:30 and managed to get the last table in the bar. (You see we did not have reservations and we were both operating under the assumption that it was early enough and the economy bad enough that this was not a problem.)

Well, we were quite surprised because this place was mobbed and there were often 20 people waiting in the entry way for their tables. I had an opportunity to ask the owner if he had been effected by the recession and he proudly announced “there is no recession at my restaurant!”

Being the curious person that I am caused me to probe deeper. One of the metrics restaurants use is the dollars per person a customer spends. So I asked him if he had noticed a decrease in this number. He replied that he hadn’t and looked at me as if I was asking the same question again. The liveliness of the restaurant was remarkable too! Here were all these amazingly happy people enjoying each other’s company, listening to music and spending money.

I coach a couple of restaurant owners with exceptional and wonderful restaurants, exquisite food and they are having a different experience. Keep reading to learn my view point of why . . .

It wasn’t too long after this experience that I was talking with the person who I use for manicures and pedicures. I thought I would ask her if her client base had decreased or if people were using her services less frequently. She replied that she was completely booked until the end of May when the season in the desert is over and many of the snowbirds return to their summer homes.

Another successful small business owner whose revenue has not been impacted by the economy.

Last week at my Chiropractor’s office, I asked him the same question. He looked at me and said I am having my best year ever; consistently treating 60 patients a day. He went on to say he was so tired he fell asleep on the golf course on his day off.

I know another Chiropractor who’s not having that experience. Are you wondering what the Chiropractor, nail technician and successful restaurant owner have in common? Keep reading . . we’re getting there!

A former client and caterer acknowledged that while revenues were down in her gourmet store her catering revenues were up and way up! She has now been discovered by a couple of the area’s celebrities and is preparing lots of food for them.

Once again an interesting conversation because a week after we talked I met a neighbor who has a catering business and told me he was reinventing himself as a landscape gardener because no one was buying catering services anymore.

Another friend owns a shipping business and deals with the post office, UPS, FedEx and other shipping companies. He provides an exceptional level of service with a genuine caring for the people his business serves. He’s been telling me how busy his business is and how the economy is not seeming to have an impact on his revenues. Last week he called to tell me April was a record month for his store.

Interesting, I thought, as at least 3 UPS shipping stores have closed in this area in the last year.

Several coaches I know had record months in April too. And I talk to coaches everyday who are struggling with their income and blame it on the economy.

Time to ask myself and observe what was remarkable about all of these people? The discoveries were simple and it’s usually the simple things that we often forget about.

This lead to the list of the Top 5 Ways to Lose the Recession Mindset

1. Each of the still successful business owners that I talked to demonstrated the amazing quality of bringing their best self to the business. What do I mean by this? They are not absentee owners. They are there present and happily engaging in the business they chose

Are you bringing your best self to your business? As an employee or in any other capacity . . . Choose to be the best you can be and be grateful for the opportunity you are experiencing; after all you chose it! Remember the restaurant owners I coach? They are often not at their restaurants.

2. The business owners doing well were also amazingly good at keeping their focus and attention on what they want; instead of what they fear.

Notice what you are focused on. Is your attention on your desired end result or on something you fear?

3. Delivering the best service and attention to detail was a shared trait among all who were doing well. When I was at the first restaurant I mentioned on another occasion, the owner noticed we were not eating the appetizer we ordered. He came to our table, asked us why, took it away, and came back to tell us we were correct, it was not good and he had ordered something else for us. Are you present, or checked out? What have you delegated that you need to take a look at? Are you multitasking? Would you pay someone what you ask for the products and services you are promoting?

4. None of these people were talking about the recession, economy or how bad things are. Each, while acknowledging that some people are having difficult times, chooses to focus on what they are grateful for and experiencing instead. This is hugely powerful because energy flows where attention goes and if you are focused on how bad everything is you’re right! Time to tell a new story . The one you are going for instead of the one that seems to be real now.

5. The successful business people I have discussed in this note all have a plan. The plan is not about how am I going to cope in times of loss; it’s about how am I going to deliver the best products and services at a good price and be remarkable doing it? These people are on purpose. Do you have a plan? I am amazed at the number of people I talk with during breakthrough or coaching sessions who have not developed a simple plan. How will you know that you have gotten where you are wanting to go with out a plan that defines your goals and benchmarks that are the indicators you’re headed in the right direction?

The Remarkable Business Owners are the successful owners.

Will you be remarkable or forgettable?

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Eckhart Tolle speaks of this shift in his book A New Earth. He says, “Awakening is a shift in consciousness in which thinking and awareness separate.” He goes on to describe this as a process in which the new state of consciousness gradually flows into and transforms everything we do and becoming fully integrated into our lives.

This shift then moves the process of thought to being a servant of awareness. Tolle defines awareness as “conscious connection with universal intelligence”. Presence is another word that can be used to describe this state, “consciousness without thought”.

I remember about 5 years ago attending a workshop with a fellow who held himself out to be an expert in this area. He enjoyed taking people into a meditative state and during that experience would ask for a show of hands for how many participants reached a state of no thought. He would then say that those who dared show their hands were mistaken because we could not experience a state without thought.

From his viewpoint and level of consciousness this was his truth. That’s true for all of us. Truth is largely governed by our level of consciousness and angle of view. In this example, when this happened I felt less than. I had given my power away to this guy and didn’t realize it. It was more important to me in that moment to be accepted and to agree to his reality. I was measuring my value and my consciousness by an external reference; his approval. Fortunately my reference point is now internal and is not affected by the response or reaction of others to me.

If you think about a particular experience or event in your past, you may see that what it looked like then and how it looks and feels now are a bit different. Sometimes the charge remains and any charge we have, whether it be a judgment about something or someone or a bad feeling from an experience we have had, that charge will forever interfere with our rising vibration and consciousness. Disabling the charge is essential to our personal development and growth.

For each of us raising our vibration and embracing the shift in consciousness from taking things personally to being the observer are both a journey and a choice. We can facilitate or speed up the process by identifying and using Consciousness Shifting™ to eliminate the obstacles to this and the charges from past insults or events, or we can enjoy the journey in slo mo (slow motion). Dr. Joe Vitale say the universe likes speed and so do those of us who have embraced our consciousness shifting process!

If you would like to embrace the fast track to becoming the observer, contact one of our Consciousness Shifting Coaches today. www.rockitcoaches.com

With love and gratitude,
Karen
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It would be fun to be in conversation about it and how our Consciousness Shifting process can benefit others as this time approaches.

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The insight that I took away from that conference is the distinction between possibilities and opportunities. This distinction is important because every day we are bombarded with choices, and options. This distinction profoundly changed forever the way I evaluated the options before me.

Possibility in this context is another word for “coulds”. “Coulds” are the things we have the choice to act on. We can also define “coulds” as ideas. We often have lots of “coulds” and feel that we must do something with them or about them. Thomas Leonard made several observations about “coulds” in his e-class series entitled Absence Of You:

• “The word ‘could’ is the past tense of can.”
• “A ‘could’ is something you can do but don’t have to do.”
• “’Coulds’ are a series of things you could do.”

At that time, my “could list” was getting longer every day. I was living in do-do land and the illusion of what could be. I was dabbling in too many things, and did not seem to have the time for what was important to me. I was lacking focus and attention for those things that were most important to me and I was being distracted by the stories of possibilities. The cost of living in the illusion of possibility was very high.

Opportunity on the other hand is something you are drawn to naturally. There’s passion and purpose and it’s less effort to embrace. When you are embracing true opportunities there is an ease and flow that is a natural evolution to this process.

I began living and choosing from a perspective of making the distinction between possibility and opportunity. Things fell off my to-do list and life became less complex and complicated.

Further refinements to the process came later, as I reordered my “to do” list in the following categories:

• Do it (because it moves you closer to your desired end result)
• Do it later maybe (this is the collection place for ideas you don’t want to forget and are not ready to dump. This list provides a way for you to remember so you do not have to commit brain power to this activity).
• Delegate it (We all do some things well and other things not so well. Delegating is a great way to get things done that is not your strong suit and free time up for the things that are your strengths.)
• Dump it (This is where all those coulds, possibilities and stories about should have go!)

Now I routinely ask myself the following two questions on a regular basis:

Is this a possibility or an opportunity? As Thomas had said in the Absence Of You program, “There’s a wide gap between potential "(possibility)"and reality and it takes time/energy/investment to convert potential into reality.” Opportunities in contrast are based in reality. Much of the time, energy and investment have already occurred. We have 3 sources of power in our lives, our time, our money and our energy or life force. If we use these power sources in pursuit of possibility instead of focusing them on opportunity, it’s like swimming against the current.

The second question I like to ask myself is the following one:

Is this choice moving me closer to or further away from my desired end result? Every choice we make moves us closer to or further from what we desire. What will you choose?

With love and gratitude,
Karen
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There can be a variety of reasons for this. In order to fully manifest what we desire, we must live consciously from a place of non-attachment, non-judgment and non-resistance. We must also be congruent.

Is there a place in your life where you’re attached, judgmental or resistant?

Judging
The idea or thought that the timing must be in a certain time frame is one of being judgmental. When we have judged the timing we may decide that because it has not happened, it won’t. When we have time limits on our intentions we often give up on the intention before it manifests physically. Formulating intentions that are based on our goals and desires is a good practice. Being present to what is, requires that we not attach a timeline to when it manifests or give up on the intention because it did not happen in our time.

Being Attached
Having an attachment to what the manifested version of the intention is often another barrier to manifestation. When we have a position with regard to what this is going to look like, we limit our options and may not recognize the manifestation if it appears in another form.

Resistance
Have you been congruent in taking actions and holding beliefs that supported manifestation of your intention? If some of your actions and beliefs do not support fulfillment of the intention, you are not fully congruent. Ask yourself a question. “Which of my actions and beliefs did not support the fulfillment of this intention?” This question opens the door to amazing awareness. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line and often this question will reveal several places where you may be holding back. You may also notice some limiting beliefs that no doubt have created resistance along the way.

There are lots of folks out there with remedies for manifestation. You can buy hypnotic products that are touted to clear your barriers to manifestation and co-creation. The bottom line is that no matter how many tapes, programs, seminars, workshops, teleclasses, e-courses, coaching programs you participate in, without congruence your results will be marginal at best. Why settle for less than you desire and deserve?

Are you congruent . . . walking your talk . . . mind and body in total agreement . . . fully resonating with what you believe?

Our Consciousness Shifting process is very effective in identifying and shifting limiting beliefs, negativity and resistance. The process involves going to deeper levels than most techniques reach. We identify the circular logic patterns that are tied to the limited beliefs. The fear based patterns cannot be eliminated by subliminal programming or hypnosis. They cannot be stopped by tapping although your attention can be diverted away from the pain.

These are the patterns of immobility. Once identified, these patterns can be easily erased using the consciousness shifting process. It doesn’t take a lot of time, and it’s simple and elegant. Our goal in sharing this work is to support you in being the best you can be in the shortest period of time. The process can be applied to any aspect of life from relationships to abundance, from money to peace.

When you have a plan that includes inspired action and you are congruent with your intentions, you will easily move beyond the areas of resistance.

With love and gratitude,
Karen
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Reserves apply to all areas of our life; material and non-material. Reserves of time allow spontaneity; reserves of money prevent fear and allow flexibility in regards to what one does with their time. A reserve of energy gives you enough personal power to take advantage of the situation you are in and to enjoy your life. Reserves of household items and food will carry you through an emergency or disaster. Reserves of emotional strength allow you to be there for someone and be truly present when it makes a difference.

Abundance is similar to reserves in many ways. If you are a person who has a to-do list that is so long you can never imagine seeing the end of it, you are certainly not in abundance with regard to time. If you are someone who is under a great deal of stress that is imposed by other demands on you, you will deplete your personal power and emotional strength as you meet the demands. If you are someone who never has time for themselves, you are not living an abundant life. If complaining about the situation you are in is part of your routine, you will not be in a place to notice everything you have to be grateful for nor will you feel particularly blessed with abundance.

Who do you know who always has time for what is important to her? Who do you know who has reserves in all areas of his life? How is a life with abundance and reserves created? How would it be for you to have reserves in every area?

Certain qualities are inherent in an abundant life. These include and are not limited to courage, gratitude, clarity, patience, openness, consistency, acknowledgment, enthusiasm, respect and having fun. We have been conditioned over our lifetime to have beliefs that limit the abundance in our lives. This programming becomes a hidden internal motivator and creates scarcity in the areas where we most crave reserves.

You can turn this around and create abundance where there has been scarcity; here are some things to consider:

1. Be aware of what limiting beliefs or scarcity patterns you are living with. Awareness always precedes change and when you begin noticing what you are thinking, you can change your thoughts. Working with a life coach who knows how to consciousness shift will help you find and shift the negativity and limiting patterns.
2. Tell yourself the truth of what is. You must be willing to look at your life or situation from this perspective. If you do not acknowledge where you are, it’s difficult to create new possibilities.
3. Change your operating system from a do, have, be mode to a be, have, do mode. This is a very important distinction because in the first you are doing (your to do list), in order to have something, so you can be someone. When you leave "do do" land you create the space for being and inspired action.
4. Identify your intended result; we call this starting with the end in mind. When you know what your intention is (where you want to be) and how you will measure it (know you have arrived), you will find that your results will manifest rather magically and effortlessly.
5. Connect with your dream (vision) so that you can fuel it with your passion. Can you list 10 things that you would like to do, have, be or experience before leaving the planet? Many of us never consider what we truly want.
6. Remember that you are bigger than your problem. Move, dance, breathe, take a walk, be in nature, play with your dog, do anything that will shift your energy from the heaviness you feel and allow the wisdom of your higher self to come to your assistance.
7. Keep an abundance journal. This is also knows as a gratitude journal and it will make a huge difference in your life. Every day list the 10 things you are grateful for and then list another 5 things that you can acknowledge yourself for. Gratitude and acknowledgement are powerful tools in this process.

Our ability to create abundance and reserves in our lives is related to how well we are able to manifest our dreams. Are you living your dream?

“You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough”
-William Blake

With love and gratitude,
Karen
You can have your cake . . . AND eat it too!
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I have been thinking a lot lately about the ways our society and culture drives us to accept mediocrity as the norm for our lives. Some of this is so subtle we may not be aware of it and some of it we may think we can do nothing about. I, for one, am tired of the messages that we are pummeled with on a daily basis and invite you to choose to be tired of them as well. To that end I have shared some of the messages and/or assumptions that I feel are the most toxic for you to consider. What if you could create or accept a different reality? What if the pictures that are being painted for you on a daily basis are simply an illusion? If you knew that, would you make different choices?

Aging
How wonderful and magnificent this thing we call our body is! I am grateful that all of my parts work! And I wonder why we think we must age and lose function? That arthritis, hair loss and slowed metabolism are normal? Could this occur because it is what is programmed as an expectation into the collective and it becomes our self-fulfilling prophecy? What if it could be different? There are 3 types of age. Two of the three can be reversed or stopped, (we do this in our resetting your Bio-Stat retreat). Just because you are chronologically 50 does not mean you need to be psychologically 50 or that the cells of your body must function as a 50 year old. The question for you is: will you agree with the media, the collective and the illusion of all the evidence around you, or will you choose to be young regardless of your chronological age? We have all met people who looked and felt great and appeared younger than their years and we have all met people who looked old before their time. Do you ever wonder what the difference is in these two different situations?

Dis-ease
I am so grateful for an awareness I have and a choice I have made that says, headaches, indigestion, insomnia and depression are not normal and do not have to be tolerated. I know that I don’t need drugs to deal with any of these “conditions” because I know that there is no disease in the mind of God (or if you like spirit or universe). Each of these is a symptom of something else that is going on. Our bodies have an innate intelligence that knows what is needed. Our problem is that many of us are no longer in touch with our bodies. Instead we allow the pharmaceutical industry to program us via television, radio and print advertising into an acceptance of “dis-ease” as a normal occurrence that can be remedied with toxic medications.

ED
Men are given the message that erectile dysfunction is normal and you can correct it with a pill. So if you are a guy with it, you are not alone and, if you don’t have it, you may think something is wrong with you because you are not having the same experience all the other guys are having. And what about those smiling, happy, women who are with the guy that got the pill. The message loud and clear says; erectile dysfunction + a pill = a happy woman. YIKES! This is insane! It’s nuts! And the beat goes on . . .

Anorexic and Airbrushed
How do you feel about the constant messages young girls and women are given via airbrushed, anorexic models on the cover of trendy magazines. Do you choose to accept these messages as true . . . this is the look to get no matter what, or do you feel less than because you don’t look like that? Will you recognize that this bit of “perfection” is created and is not real? It is an illusion – the question is; will you let that illusion determine how you are in your world?

Being connected
Our quality of life seems to be eroding by the minute as we become more and more wired and “wi-fied”. Why do we think we need this and that this is a good idea? What is the impact of this technology on our health and well being? Where is the research that says it is safe? We have a habit of thinking our government will take care of us and to that end would never expose us to something that is untested or unsafe. What if we are wrong about that assumption? What if these wireless devices such as cell phones, are not safe? What if you chose to research this as I and others have and found there is a problem? Would you then take action to protect yourself? Would you make another choice?

What happened to being? The connection we are looking for will not be found by being online with a bunch of other people who are on line. This is not connecting, although it’s a pretty good illusion. Do you really want to be connected with others? That happens by being in relationship with others. And to do that we have to be present. Will you put aside the distractions and habits that cause you to check out or avoid real connection in order to be connected?

Good Enough?
Many of us have been programmed to live in fear and that fear causes us to settle and have a life that is less than magical and fun. Mediocrity is not fun and if you tell yourself the truth you will agree.

Choosing Excellence
It’s time to get angry about what’s going on and to use that anger to move to a new place of being. The government is not going to take care of us, they can’t - there are far too many special interest groups in the way. No one can or will rescue you but you. If you resonate with even one bit of what I have shared here it may be time to shift your awareness and perspective and change the reality of your life. Your well being is at stake. Wake up and leave the herd!

What will you choose?

With love and gratitude,
Karen
You can have your cake . . . AND eat it too!
760.329.9173
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Second chances can also happen when we turn that corner in life and our priorities change. We determine the most important thing is to be of service and to be happy. The external reference to gadgets and widgets and external signs of success and status now take on a secondary importance as we become internally referenced. There is an essence or a feeling that is now the underlying motivation and reason for being.

Some of the opportunities that we have in life for second chances have to do with love, career or perhaps reinventing ourselves and bringing forth our genius. We each have a gift that’s ours to share with world. Unfortunately, many of us never get past the hidden determinants of behavior that can hold us hostage and prevent us from bringing our gifts through our being.

Second chances can also happen in relationships or marriage. When we can truly be in the moment and free of worry about the one we are with, we have a second chance to experience love from a deep, connected and whole way of being. Recently, I realized that I was holding back in this area. After finding the limited beliefs I had taken on and using the powerful process of Consciousness Shifting to eliminate these hidden determinants of behavior, I found myself free to allow a fuller and more connected relationship with the man in my life. What specifically changed for me was the need for him to show up in a particular way. I was able to let go and be without any expectations or assumptions and that was yummy!

Second chances happen for animals as well. There’s an incredible population of adoptable dogs in shelters across the United States. I became aware of this when I began working with a new client a few months ago. This client had founded a nonprofit organization to spread the word and provide a variety of training and support information for adoptive parents and their canine companions. (Check out www.rescuemedog.org to learn more.)

These fantastic animals have arrived at shelters for a variety of reasons;

• the death of person taking care of them
• the divorce of their caretakers and loved ones
• loss of a home due to foreclosure
• perhaps they’ve been lost
• or they’ve run away from a less than appealing home environment
• or their owner didn’t choose consciously prior to taking a dog home and surrendered it to a shelter when they realized being a canine parent was not for them

The point is there are literally thousands of fantastic dogs, pure breed and mixed breeds, all sizes and temperaments available at your local shelters, and waiting for that second chance.

The assumptions we make, and the expectations we hold, color our perceptions in every area of life. They become hidden determinants of behavior. The pathway to second chances for us and for dogs in shelters is the same. A shift in our consciousness is required. A shift in the collective consciousness is required. When we challenge our assumptions, beliefs, perceptions, and expectations and choose to live in the moment, enjoying what is, we change the way we experience every aspect of life. We get a second chance!

Find a certified Consciousness Shifting coach here: http://www.rockitcoaching.com/about/

To learn more about the hidden determinants of behavior, check out my book; Rockit Your Life, Reaching the Next Dimension of Your Spiritual Journey www.rockityourlife.com

With love and gratitude,
Karen
You can have your cake . . . AND eat it too!
760.329.9173
www.karenvizer.com
www.rockitcoaches.com

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