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I came across this real life example of how blindly following a pattern that we are used to, can be self destructive in some cases. Take a moment to read and think for yourselves how many such patterns in your life you can get rid of…
When we were young and learning bicycle for the first time, we used support. when we mastered it we no longer needed support, be it training wheels or someone holding from behind. While we become good in recognizing physical support, we often fail to recognize the mental training wheels we develop and tend to stay stuck to them well into our adult life… time to get them out of your way and here is an example of a pattern that has outgrown its use.
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Jean Henri Fabre was a scientist who lived during the 1800s. He is perhaps most famous for the experiment he did with processionary caterpillars in 1855.
These caterpillars follow each other very closely, forming a column that moves in a procession so they don’t stray from the path. When they go out in search of food, each caterpillar excretes a silky substance which deepens the trail that the procession follows on their return.
One day Fabre placed some of these caterpillars around the rim of a flower pot. In the center of the pot, he put the caterpillar’s favorite food, pine needles. The caterpillars just marched around and around the flower pot on their comfortable road of silk, doing what they had always done, following the comrade in front of them.
Exhausted, hungry, worn out, they blindly followed each other around the rim, while only a few inches away lay exactly what they needed to live a healthy and prosperous life. For days and days, the caterpillars marched around the pot, never leaving their silken path, until one by one they fell off the rim and died. . . Never breaking their pattern.
With all our intellect, abilities and gifts, most human beings are not all that different. We all have unconscious patterns that keep us stuck in one aspect of our life or another. Around and around we go, following our past programming, holding on to outdated beliefs and maintaining destructive habits and behaviors that are no longer congruent with who we want to be as human beings.
Why do we do this?
Following a familiar pattern can be very comforting because it feels safe. Sometimes it can be deadly as in the case of the caterpillar. Mostly, it provides a false sense of security and robs us of our vitality, creativity and our potential for creating the best in our life.
The wonderful thing about being human is that we can change!
Change the patterns and get focused on what you really want in life. Write it down and spend time each day thinking about it. Ask yourself during the day is what you are doing really leading to you to what you want?
By: Zoilita Grant Colorado Coaching and Hypnotherapy [info(at)zoilitagrant.net]
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Learning languages has for many years been something other people do – at least if you are from the UK. English is the world’s most spoken language if  you include those who speak it as a second tongue. Where once Britain’s educated classes would have spoken several languages as standard, today high schools are ripping languages from the curriculum. If you are lucky enough to already know the most useful language in the world, then surely your time is better spent studying other academic areas, or so goes the argument.
However, the CIA World Fact Book states that less than 6% speak English as a first language. CVs almost always contain the phrase “excellent communication skills” or something very similar. But what does this mean exactly? Without additional languages, communication is very limited. Indeed, knowledge of multiple languages is also said to help improve the mother tongue of the speaker, providing as it does a point of reference for understanding how vocabulary and grammar work in all languages.
Beyond the boardroom: the health benefits of learning another tongue
Beyond the boardrooms and bars of the wide world, new research seems to suggest that learning a language – and becoming bilingual – has far wider (and potentially far more important) advantages. As the brain is so complicated, firm conclusions are hard to come by, but in a study at the Baycrest geriatric centre in Toronto, cognitive neuroscientist Ellen Bialystok found that bilingualism seems to stave off the effects of Alzheimer’s. Her findings showed that because the brain has to work harder when learning and retaining languages it is better prepared to resist the debilitating effects of the disease.
You’re never too old
Thus, even if students do not have total mastery of a second language, their health and their brain benefit enormously. Just as a simple activity, such as taking a different route home from work, can stimulate the brain and keep it dynamic, so can remembering new words, sentence structures and unfamiliar manners. In the end, you’ll not only have a beautiful new language and a foot in the door of multinational companies, but a better chance of being in control of your life for longer. And you needn’t worry – no matter what age you begin to learn a language (or anything for that matter), the positive effects of mental stimulation will be played out in the health record.
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I used to write this section in our monthly Inspired Minds newsletter, but we figured it would be easier to read online, and all our blog subscribers would enjoy reading it too. At least I hope you do  Read June’s Inspired Minds newsletter here.
Downloads Unwrapped – June 2011
How to exercise restraint
Exercise addiction can lead to chronic ill health and can, ironically, lead to loss of fitness as well as loss of health. (1) As with any ‘fix’, the addict might feel irritable and restless when they miss a workout or haven’t managed to get out for that run. The problem with addiction (any addiction) is that it comes to dominate one’s life. Do we exercise to live? Or live to exercise? We all need to exercise to some extent. As we age we start, through a combination of inactivity and natural processes, to lose muscle mass, leaving us more open to injury and illness. And muscle mass burns fat extremely efficiently, so when we lose muscle we get saggy. But there are dangers to over exercising, particularly of ‘chronic cardio’ (as Mark Sissons of marksdailyapple.com describes it). Too much exercise with too little rest can overload the repair systems of the body, meaning loss of vital muscle, the onset of mood disorder and the impairment of the immune system. The ‘some is good so more must be better’ attitude can lead to an overdose of exercise which can be very damaging. (2)
Overcome exercise addiction instils a sense of proportion about exercise so that it becomes a part of life rather than the sole purpose of living.
Have we got news for you!
Talking of compulsive activities I, for one, have to consciously regulate my intake of news. Constantly feeling we have to know about every single update on national or international news starts to feel like addiction. What’s more, when, for whatever reason, we are denied our news fix, it can come to feel as if we are having a withdrawal. Why is this? It’s because the ‘expectation and reward’ neural pathways in the brain operate the same way regardless whether it’s nicotine or news coming down the wire. But apart from not wanting to be enslaved by an activity – any activity – too much news can actually be bad for you.
An awful lot of news is negative, scary, horrific and downright depressing. But how much of it is really ‘news’? How many stories you see or hear or read are just the same ‘news’ you saw or heard or read half an hour earlier? Seeing, reading, hearing about the same things over and over – especially if they are emotionally arousing – has a conditioning effect on the brain. Before we know it we can start to feel dispirited or even traumatised by the unremitting negative cast of news bulletins. News can be ‘hypnotic’ in the worst sense. Now I’m all for being well informed and knowing about stuff. But I’m also for balance and dosage. News once a day should be enough for anyone and if it’s that important to you then you will hear about it. The Overcome news addiction addresses news addiction to free up time and widen perspective.
Excuses: A lie by any other name
“Excuses are the tools with which people with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.” Steven Grayhm
Using excuses in an attempt to cover up personal laziness, fear or habit is like trying to hide an elephant with confetti. No one is really fooled. Not for long, anyway. But the worst use of excuse is when we try to deceive ourselves with it. At this point we’ve travelled some considerable distance from integrity. The new No excuses download is here to help people start to honestly see when ‘reasons’ are nothing more that ‘excuses’ and, of course, to help listeners start to ditch their own excuses so that they can actually get on and take action in life.
Once excuses are gone life becomes more honest, full and successful. We suddenly know where we are really ‘at’ – and the feeling is of profound relief. But we can also be too ready to make excuses for other people’s bad behaviour and this tendency means we conspire to keep other people from fulfilling some of their potential for decency and personal progress. Down with excuses!
Notes
(1) For example see: D.R. Swanson “Arterial Fibrillation in Athletes” which suggests that over training and the inflammation it causes or at least contributes to a whole host of physical disorders (Medical Hypotheses 66, no 6 (2006): 1085-92
(2) See Doug McGuff MD and John Little’s excellent and thoroughly researched book: Body By Science: A research based program for strength training, body building and complete fitness in 12 minutes a week
Full hypnosis download Be a winner – in production
Anyone might be unlucky enough to get mugged, but it’s also been found that people who feel like victims, who give out a ‘vibe’ of weakness and supplication, are more likely to be targeted. It’s not so much how big you look as how much of a fight you look as if you’d put up.
I love watching sports and you often see it. One person can be losing but they still look like a winner. Because they feel like one. If they have done the training and practice and worked on their game as much as their opponent, no matter what the sport, then the one remaining differential is attitude.
Feeling as if winning is a natural part of who you are and what you do will have an effect on outcome. We have just upgraded the Be a winner download and we’re sure that its going to be even more powerful in helping sports people (whether pro or weekend participants) sense that winning edge.
All the very best
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