Liberating Energy from Ego Consciousness

Section #26: The Synergy in Life System

Liberating Energy from Ego Consciousness

There is nothing wrong with thinking consciously.  Quite the contrary can be true.  Thinking is a potentially wonderful and powerful tool.  We must avoid the trap of thought, however.  That is the trick.  A Gradual Awakening was the first book I read on the topic of self development some twenty two years ago.  In it Stephen Levine emphasized that the rational mind is good for collecting and applying knowledge.  He said that it is useful for learning, and applying that learning to survival amid the complexities of the world.  Further, he explained that while thinking is a good tool and a good servant, it all too often becomes a terrible master.  This, sadly, is all too true.  A terrible, energy gobbling master! Read the rest of this entry »

We are like batteries… ! (?)

Human beings are great energy getters — great energy users. 

Like a battery, however, we do not store energy well over the long term. 

It is like this: we eat and sleep and rest to gain energy — when we are active we use energy.  If we practice a disciplined management of the FLOW of our energy between intake and activity, we can create greater and greater capacity for the storage and use of energy.   If we simply store and conserve energy, however, we do NOT get a good return on our investment.

Have you ever had a flashlight sit for a year?  Is it as bright one year later as it was the day it was purchased?  We know from common experience that it will not be as bright.  It loses energy in its lack of use.  The energy dissipates and is lost and is never available for a useful purpose: in this case, the illumination of dark places.

Imagine just sleeping and eating for a year.  Would you be ready to run several marathons and lift copious weights for days and days as a result?  Of course not!  The return on conservation of energy over the long term is not good.

This doesn’t meant that rest and relaxation are not useful and helpful, but we are at our best and our most effective and efficient when we manage our energy in the short term and build our capacity to USE energy.  We are most effective as short-term energy gainers and as energy users.

If you have been reading other entries in this blog, you know that we are energy creators as well…

Create something with purpose,

Douglas Leadbetter M.Ed.

The Grameen bank and You

The Synergy in Life System — Section 20

Ever heard of the Grameen Bank?  No collateral, No legal instrument, No group guarantee or joint-liability.  And… unlike many banks right now, this one is doing FANTASTICLY well!

If there was ever a story worth telling it is of the Grameen Bank and Professor Yunus.  He is a pioneer or magnificent magnanimity.  Below is the 20th excerpt from my book The Synergy in Life System.  Please read about this Nobel prize winning professor and how he helps others.  It has a bearing in your life too.

Helping Others

Some will say that they cannot or should not have affluence because there are so many poor and unfortunate people in the world who have nothing other than misery in their lives.  As you likely are deeply concerned about the plight of poor and unfortunate people, you should spend some of your time helping them.  You can help them best, however, not by giving them some form of material things that will keep them in their place, but through giving them the power of hope and by developing pictures of affluence in their minds, and by helping them to realize their deserved expression of life.  Read the rest of this entry »

What is Systems and Synergy.

There are always good questions and comments regarding Systems and Synergy.  Orlando recently checked in with a nice comment.  In my daily life, people keep asking me questions like: ”So, just what is this systems and synergy you write about.”  I always try to explain with… well, too many words. Then I realized just the other day that to have a practiced, concise answer to this good question is not slick or glib.  I realized that a precise and concise answer is important and necessary.  Here is the answer: Read the rest of this entry »

Positive Self Talk Reduces Stress and Happiness Makes you More Successful!

Positive Self Talk Reduces Stress and Happiness Makes you More Successful!

I like the ABOUT website because it hosts experts in many fields.  I have an application on my igoogle page that feeds headlines from several sites to my desktop each day, including those on ABOUT.

This morning, the following articles really caught my eye.

Reduce Stress and Improve Your Life with Positive Self Talk

and the next one as well

Happy People — Secrets of Happy People

Now, these sites have all sorts of advertising, but that’s okay.  The information is sound.  It just goes to show — once again — how important directed thought is.  The resources I studied and synthesized for my book go back as far as 2000 or so years right through to the present.  Here is another example of modern science discovering the power of thought.  Systemitized synergy… its the best!  Have a great day!

You are Who You are … Now

Section 19 of The Synergy in Life System.

You are Who You are Now – Not Who You Were

No matter what you believe you were, you must understand that you are only who you are right now.  Now is the only true reality, and the only moment that actually exists.  You are not the story of your past.  If you do not like your past and perhaps think you are unworthy of affluence then change your now, as you cannot change your past.  You have only NOW to be.  You are not your story, your past conditioning, or the past.   Read the rest of this entry »

Self-Made = Success

Leaders are self-made practical learners.  Click the link.  Its a great, short article on the development of leaders… the self-development that makes success. 

If you are plunking around the internet looking for places to develop yourself, this is a link for you.  Good quality, well-intentioned information.

All the best

Douglas Leadbetter M.Ed

Grateful Thanks….

I would like to extend a brief thank you to the many who have ordered my book lately….  Is it because it is spring? 

Something has happened and orders have jumped 200% in the last couple of weeks.  Its just fantastic!  Thank you.  Please enjoy; please share. 

In good spirit,

Douglas Leadbetter M.Ed

Health, Wealth, and Happiness!

Section 18 of the Synergy in Life System

Your Desire for Affluence is Natural

Your desire for affluence and your desire to discover and act upon your higher purpose is the reason you are reading this book and progressing through this system.  As you have read this far, it is likely that this system is making sense to you and is believable.  You likely resonate with the belief that a good life is led through the performance of constructive and generative and purposeful action and in its highest form finds expression through ideal health, abundant wealth, and sincere happiness.  You likely also know that when you make the most for yourself, you will have the greatest possible chance of making more for others.  You will most certainly create more life within yourself by realizing your desires of affluence.  You will create more for you and others by being affluent, by: eating the best foods; resting well and without worry; being surrounded by and appreciating beauty; seeing amazing sites; reading nourishing words; creating; experiencing joy and wonder in others; realizing your purpose; engaging in excellent activity, engendering health, enjoying wealth, and glowing with happiness.  Allow yourself to believe that you were brought to life in this life giving universe to rise to your greatest possible heights during your time on this earth.  Allow yourself to believe that your desire of affluence is natural and good. 

You can live your life completely and as it was intended through your realization of your desire for affluence.  Just like the flower is able to be moved, so can you move yourself and create conditions of affluence in your life.  Seeking affluence is seeking the capacity for a larger and more fulfilling expression of natural life; it is a natural energy that is seeking fulfillment within you.  It is a natural desire and a natural birthright.  Your desire for affluence is natural and right.

Finding ‘UP’ through Systems Thinking

If you are sick, you really don’t have to do anything… at the very least, people don’t expect much of you.  That’s fair because most people feel a little low now and then and getting cut a little slack can go a long way to recovery.

BUT

What if there is no direction for a recovery?  To recover, you are returning to a state of balance and if you don’t know what or where that balance is you don’t know what direction to head for an optimal state of being. Kind of like jumping from a height into a lake and losing the ‘UP’direction for a moment.  That’s a bad moment.  It feels very out of control.   Now, what about organizations?  What if they are ’sick’ and no one expects much of them because they don’t have the talent, the funding, the facilities, the management team, the support, the recognition….  What if your organization is sick and you are floating along with no where to recover to?  No ‘up’.

What if?

You have to know where you are going in order to get there…. That’s what forecasting is all about and planning.  Do they work?  If the road you are driving on leads to a cliff, then all the planning in the world, all the best talent on board, the best equipment etcetera will not mean much by the time you reach the end of the journey!  Forecasts and planning must be made in health and plan for health.  A sick organization is not the best planner.  Its like a sick person.  It just wants to get better and lays low and does its best to recover.  Luckily for individuals, we are — most of us — able to return to relative health after being ill.  Thankfully, gratefully, we return to health.  An organziation doesn’t have such sophisticated organizing power as does the magnificent human body… so, it needs to see itself as a system — and within the system that it inhabits — before it can find its up.

The systems thinking exercise in objectivity is done through symbolic conversation.  Using symbols to ‘tell the story’ of the organization helps everyone first SEE what the parts make and then realize — collectively — just WHAT the organization is.  After this, purpose and direction are determined.  And THEN strategies can be implemented — but ONLY those that make sense in terms of the system’s organization, structure and capacity.  And, all along the way the tools of systems — the symbolic language of organizing — are used for deep conversation and clarification.  They are used to CREATE the organization’s picture and its story.  Complete a systems thinking exercise in objectivity and you are ready to apply energy and find the correct times and places to influence for gain, for good, for improvement.  Its the only way that works.  It is the way.

Douglas Leadbetter M.Ed.

Systems Thinking in Daily Life: A to B

Proactive systems thinking is the best kind of systems thinking.  If you can make a change in a process or situation or system so that you don’t have to ‘react’ later on, then you are using systems thinking to your best advantage.  Sure, systems thinking can be used to ferret out problems and solve problems, but its that ‘problem’ word that we would like to get rid of because if you are not dealing with problems, then you are able to focus more of your energy on opportunities.

In the diagram above a simple visual aids in explaining the benefit of understanding your system and using that knowledge to apply change effort strategically.  Here’s the basic idea:  you want to move the line from 1 to 8 over time.  The angle of change that you can employ is limited to one grid of ascension per grid of time.  So for you math types, its a rise and run equation.  For every cell moved along the ‘x’ axis you are able to move one grid upwards on the ‘y’ axis.  This is really simple but powerful.  Look.

 In instance ‘A’ they waited until the fourth unit of time before implementing the change at the prescribed angle.

In instance ‘B’ the change was made in the second unit of time to impliment the change at the prescribed angle.

Look at the difference!  In ‘B’, using the EXACT same angle of change as in ‘A’ you finish at 6 rather than 4!  Simple?  Yes.  So simple that people forget about the power of proactive change?  In way too many instances people do not examine their systems and find areas of influence.  Far too often, people wait until a problem occurs, thus using vital energy that COULD be used for increasing positive possibility.  All the best. 

Douglas Leadbetter  M.Ed.