A Short Story About Awareness

When I was pregnant with my second child, I had many ambivalent feelings. You see, my first child was just that, my first. It was just the two of us and my attention was solely focused on him. I could not imagine anything or anyone interrupting my time with him. I loved my first child so much that I felt guilty that I was expecting another not understanding how I could ever divide my love between the two. People would say "I bet you are so excited that your son will have a new sibling soon." I politely nodded and secretly thought, that my first son was the center of my life it is incomprehensible that a second child could be anything but that, second. I remember worrying and thinking how can I possibly divide my love? The big day came and it was just that, big. I so clearly remember the nurse handing me my new born son. I wept with new found awareness. When love grows it multiplies, love never divides. I went on to have four more children and my love as a parent has multiplied each time.

This inspiring story was written and shared by Kelly Rippon of Authentic Change.

Visit Kelly's website and watch her Genuis Movie

Make it a great week, it's your choice.

My best

Séamus

Awareness

Here is an excellent video to get you all thinking about the area of awareness.

A few quotes about awareness.

“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
Abraham Maslow

“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
Nathaniel Branden

“Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.”
Jim Rohn

Make it a great week, it's your choice.

My best

Séamus

The State of The Union - The Union of The States

The United States of Resource

We spoke recently about the fact that one of the main presuppositions of NLP is that within us, we all have the resources that we need to be successful in anything that we want to do. Owen Fitzpatrick, in his book 'Conversations - Freedom is Everything & Love is All the Rest', suggests that there are eight different resource states, and that if we can master getting into those states we can be more effective, more quickly and more often. Three of the states are referred to as input states and the other five as output states. The input states allow us to successfully take in information and learn from the world, whereas the output states help us to effectively act and behave in the the world.

Input States

• Awareness - Pay attention to what is happening in the world and get an insight to what is happening in your head.


• Openness - Be open to new ideas, new experiences, new learning.


• Curiosity - Always ask questions and wonder about things.

Output States

• Flexibility - The more flexible you are, the more choices you have. It is this that gives you more ability to deal with the situations that you are in.


• Perseverance -Never give up, see failure as a way forward.


• Pragmatism - What is the most useful thing that you can do right now?


• Responsibility - Be accountable for what is happening in situations and use and improve on your ability to respond.


• Creativity - Use your imagination to be more effective in what you do.

Over the coming weeks we will look at these different resource states and discuss what we can do to maximise our ability to really get ourselves into a state!

Make it a great week, it's your choice.

My best
Séamus

Owen Fitzpatrick is one of the co-founders of The Irish Institute of NLP. They offer a variety of courses and training in NLP.