From Consternation to Curiosity

So things are flowing along well with the occasional hiccup that is mostly easily overcome, when it seems quite suddenly, everything changes.

Equilibrium is upset, hiccups become more like constant reflux and the heartburn sets in.

Things may be sorted out if it wasn’t for some offensive person (or indeed people) behaving like a complete idiot and making you feel sick to your stomach!

You ask yourself, how can they behave so badly? How can they not see the truth of the matter? How are they so missing the point? How can they not consider others in this situation? How can they be so aggressive? Or alternatively, how can they be so apathetic?

So I wonder how is your pressure level in this and how are you behaving?

Perhaps you are the one feeling the pressure and the resultant heartburn, everyone around you unaware and not able to detect the symptoms, let alone assist?

People feel pressure from different stimuli, the way they feel pressure is unique and the resultant behaviour is often hard to swallow, seemingly impossible to diagnose the cause let alone prescribe a remedy. When you are the one suffering the pressure it may be even more difficult to find a remedy.

It is also worth considering that pressure is felt in both negative and positive change, because… well it is change and it is natural. The problem is that change upsets the balance, true butterflies in the stomach or feelings of listlessness and dread.

My treatment program provides a cure for the acute condition and an ongoing pain management program.

My prescription is to become curious!

If you now bring to mind a situation about which you may have feelings of consternation or dismay ask yourself:

• What are the external forces at play?
• How is each of these elements affecting the situation?
• How is that likely to be impacting the person concerned, their motivators, those close to them?
• Who or what else is playing a part?

Any question that informs you will assist you in becoming rational about a situation and in doing so will help you tap into your innate skills to deal with the situation. You are then more likely to come from a place of wisdom rather than needing to be right!

Ask yourself the following questions to determine whether your … is painful enough to warrant treatment. If so please use my prescription to “Be Curious”… no charge!

• What is it that causes you to feel utterly dismayed?
• What effect does it have on your ability to respond rationally?
• What effect does your state of consternation and utter dismay have on your productivity?
• What about your ability to relate to the person or people involved?
• What is the cost to you and your business?

Enjoy being curious!

Noelene Dawes

All Power To You… at the Flick of a Switch

3 Techniques for turning on and tuning your electrics

How powerful do you feel right now? Are you feeling influential and in control? What does that feeling you have right now allow you to do, or not do?

What would it be like to be able to flick a switch to turn on your personal power grid when you need it most?

You already do this of course, but sometimes the line might have static, the connection interrupted by an unexpected wave of emotion or even worse experiences an uncontrollable surge.

If you could benefit from maintenance on your internal electrics or know some other person who could do with some help, pay close attention and I will tell you what you already know.

Why would you want to find out something you already know? Well perhaps you don’t know the access code or have forgotten it!

Let’s consider best you and not at your best you. Best you when all your circuitry is clear and you have a sense of certainty and clarity. You may have noticed that best you can easily access full power, no fog in front of you, no extra weight to carry on your shoulders, and no annoying noise to distract you.

No matter what the conditions you respond with positive power and lead others through calm or storm.

Technique 1 - Ask yourself now… What are the conditions that set up this personal state or mood? You have felt this before… find the patterns that work for you.

What about not at your best you when intellectually you think you will respond well, but your intellectual ideal and reality fail to meet? When your response to challenge or change gets a different result than you expected and you know you were responsible, however small your part?

These are your negative patterns at work, those that don’t serve you. Relax, we all have them, this is a part of what makes us unique… just like everybody else!

You know about these patterns, want to change them, but despite how hard you try to adjust, they recur.

Trying is your conscious mind trying to control your unconscious mind at a conscious level. I wonder if you realise how futile this is?

The conscious mind can hold 7 plus or minus 2 pieces of information at any one time. This is like a few circuits perched atop a major power grid trying to drive it!

In order to change any behaviour patterns you need to affect the change at a deep level. The greater the change you want the deeper into your wiring you must begin the repair.

Technique 2 – Ask yourself now… Do I have a reason big enough or a consequence dire enough to want to change at a deep level?

Ah! But right now is the quick fix switch the one you most want?
This one will give you a quick spark to begin to engage you in repairing the others.

Technique 3 – Ask yourself now… How can I think more expansively right now? Get up and look out the window, get a larger picture in front of you. Do this now so you remember how effective it is when next you get a wave of emotion come over you, static in your circuits or an uncontrollable surge.

This technique works because it moves your mind to a different perspective. In effect you are leading yourself out of a blockage and into clear circuitry. Only then can you lead others in the same direction.

Until next time, be electric, emotionally resilient and go with positive charge!

Noelene Dawes