'Instinct is your Life-Blood,' says author. by Neil Millar

'Instinct is your Life-Blood,' says author. by Neil Millar

Fourteen thousand civilised people died when the tsunami hit Andaman Islandsfive percent of the populationmeanwhile a cannibal tribe, inhabiting the same island, hardly lost a life. And do you know what saved themthe earliest early-warning system known to man.

When the Jarawa tribe saw jungle creatures performing a speedy mass exodus they decided they should peg it too. Meanwhile civilised men may have noticed the lack of birds singing in the trees or their dog straining the leash and did nothing. Clearly something separates tribal man from civilised man.

While they run for the hills we stand around believing it will be nothing but a storm in a tea cup and that everything will be fine. The fact that they act while we suppress clearly shows that life and death comes down not just to instinct, but the way we use it, if we use it at all.

You and I could be as instinctive as any tribesman if we practiced it, but everyday, in our daily actions, we choose to ignore our instincts. We go to a work-place that depresses us; do work we hate and take pills to dull the pain and make it more bearable. We eat food that is addictive until our legs rub together and our underwear causes chaffing, fail to exercise and then take more pills, have our stomach sewn up or inject ourselves with insulin. All thisjust to survive.

And that is exactly what it is for most of ussurvivalhanging in there, doing the job that kills our soul, taking on contracts that turn our gut because we believe there is no other option, doing food that causes our major organs to breakdown, living at a financial level just above subsistence level, with just about enough money left at the end of the week to buy a tin of food for that dog.

Will you wake up, please? Will you see how your instincts are telling you about your work? Will you find work that gives you life instead of sapping every living cell out of you? Will you notice that ill health is a hint that you need to eat better and exercise more? Will you take the hint that there is something you can do to save your marriage or relationship?

Instinct is only about feeling something and acting. It could save your career, your finances, your relationship and you life.



About the Author
Neil Millar is a novelist and personal development author. Read more of his articles, join his fast-growing readership, free, and see what a New York Times Best-Selling author says about his novel Black Water www.neilmillar.net

Raise Your Bar: The Power of Yes by Catherine Franz

Raise Your Bar: The Power of Yes by Catherine Franz

Every one of us lives with a ceiling, a belief ceiling.
Some ceilings are lower than others. Beyond that
ceiling is all that is not yet known to us -- all the
possibilities of possibilities. Raising our bar takes
conscious awareness and embracing new experiences.
Here is an experience that will inch your bar
delightfully and positively higher. The exercise isn't
hard to understand, hard to learn, nor hard to
complete. Yet, you do need to approach the exercise
with a child-like openness, maybe even a few giggles,
and allow the harvest of your labor be its own
journey.

Everywhere and in everything that we do we hear no, no,
no and more noes. No on going over a certain speed
limit. No to what we eat. The noes keep piling up
including how we pay taxes -- now thats another story
that could get each of us going. The noes don't seem
to ever stop. With so many noes appearing in our life,
it is easy to get stuck in the muck of noes.

To raise the bar so that more miracles can enter, we
need to hear yes. We need to add more yes into our
life to counterbalance the noes to get out of the muck.
After sending the question, "How do I add more yes into
my life?" into the universe for an answer. The answer
fell from my bookshelf as I was pulling out another
book. The miniature book was age stuck to its side.
"The YES Book," by Christine Christakos and Susan
Saucedo. If my memory serves me correctly, I met
Christine or Susan ten years ago at an event when the
book was first published. The book is a list of yes
affirmations that these ladies use.

And it gave me a delicious idea. So I tried out my
idea first on myself and then with clients. Now I
would like to share the idea, how it grew, and the tree
trimmings. As I mentioned earlier, don't be fooled
with its simplicity. You will find it very powerful as
the rest of us have.

Remember, I said it was simple but you still need to
complete the exercise to receive the benefits.

Start and end your day with YES affirmations. Begin
your journaling exercise with them, or record on Post-
It notes. Begin each exercise by writing the word,
YES, in caps at the top of each page. Be creative with
the YES, make swirls and twirls with colors and design.
Write it once or write it many. I enjoy just writing a
page of YES is all sort of creative styles. Whatever
tweaks my Twinkie at that moment.

All the affirmations begin with yes. The yes can be at
the beginning of the sentence or many yeses written all
over the page. It doesn't matter.

Yes, I can write well.
Yes, I matter in this world.
Yes, I love animals.
Yes, I am a writer.
Yes, I can be rich.
Yes, I am rich in many ways already.
Yes, I can be a millionaire.
Yes, I love my children.
Yes, I love the changing of leaves.

Or create a list of yeses without place yes as the
first word. Remember, theres no exact right and wrong
way, just the YES way.

Yes

This too shall pass.
The sun is out.
I am in the flow.
I have lost one pound.
I did write today.
I do walk my talk.
Life is infinite.

Use whatever is occurring in your life at the time.
Whatever your focus could be. If you are blank start
with the weather. If you are thinking even broader,
write that down as well. Create a freeing experience
in order to raise your bar and rebalance the noes that
weight down our shoulders.

Well...I kept my promise. This exercise is simple to
understand, simple to learn, and simple to complete.
Okay, the last one takes a little more effort than
simple because you are learning to shift your thinking
from the societies murky depths of noes. Challenge
your inner voice to this exercise all day long. When
we hear no turn around and restate the phrase in yes.
You can even mumble yeses as you drive.

Every one of my clients and myself has experienced new
ceilings, new miracles, and many new experiences just
by re-balancing our lives with YES. The exercise
batted one thousand for all of us and it will for you
too. This is just one of those experiences that you
need to try it in order to believe it.

(c) Copyright 2005, Catherine Franz. All rights reserved.


About the Author
Catherine Franz is a Life and Business Coach and Master
Practitioner in the Laws of Attraction. Catherine
guides others in finding the light of their own
existence and walking an attractive truth in their own
lives. http://www.abundancecenter.com
blog: http://abundance.blogs.com