The Call to Become a Public Speaker
In March 2008 I borrowed a friend’s “Triple Goddess Tarot” pack of cards (by Isha Lerner) and gave myself a reading. Among the cards that came up, one took the place of the “New Moon or New Beginning” – It was the card No. 23 or Infinite Truth.
Among the meanings of this card, the following ones stuck with me, for a long time… until I decided to write this course:
• “Love and truth are inseparable”.
• “Speaking true words with a beautiful voice”.
• “Thoughtful and well-intended communication (which the Buddhists call “Right Speech”), the vital source of inspired relationships”.
• “Reclaim your right to think exquisite, heart-felt, spirit-infused thoughts. Have the courage of your inspired convictions. Become a “true intellectual”, one who engages the full power of the mind, heart and spirit in the interest of alleviating suffering and making the world a true Garden of Eden”.
Yes, it was a new beginning for me.
In August 2008 I was facing a challenge with one of my speeches and I wanted some guidance, so I took my “Archangel Oracle Cards” by Doreen Virtue, PhD. and the card of Archangel Gabriel (Gabriel means <God is my Strength>) jumped out with the meaning of <Leadership>: “Embrace your power in a loving way and use it for the greater good. I will guide your actions so they inspire and motivate others”.
This sounded like music to my ears because it is true that in general we are very scared to embrace our own personal power, even though we know instinctively that it brings us the freedom we long for.
The reason is, I believe, that taking our own power also brings responsibility, integrity, discipline, personal development, inner strength… and many other spiritual powers. And sometimes we just think that we won’t be able to deliver what is requested from us or that we won’t be able to handle a higher level of responsibility.
But the fact is that every time that I have taken a challenge on the public speaking arena, I have moved one step higher up the ladder of my personal leadership and have grasped one little bit more of my own power. And although it has been very hard sometimes, I have always worked under the code of keep fighting my fears and keep on going and eventually the scale of self-doubt will tilt positively towards my higher potential, my brightest future.
The message in the Archangel Gabriel card continued: “I will replace any self-doubt about your qualifications with an increased desire to help, serve and teach”.
At the time, I just made a note about it all but really, after a while, I forgot all about this. It was only one and a half years later, when I decided to use my public speaking diary as a basis to write this course that I came across these notes and suddenly these thoughts made a lot of sense. Everyone is so much wiser in hindsight!
In September 2009 my daughter, then 3 years old, went to school for the first time. This left some spare time in my hands and, wanting to start creating a flow of abundance in my life, but not by looking for a job (I had already worked for corporations before and I found it soul destroying to a very large degree), I decided to do it my way this time.
In order to create my flow, I decided to put out into the universe all the skills that that I had acquired over the years (teaching languages, translating and interpreting, writing books, life and business coaching, Reiki healing, document reviewer, professional organiser, crafts teacher… you name it, I was it!.
At that time, the Animal Strategy card that I was working with was Bison, which meant follow the path already opened for you, the path of least resistance.
Following the path of least resistance meant to me not to analyze or judge any skill that I had as lesser than another and to allow the ever-surprising path of synchronicity and destiny to guide me to my new set of clients, friends, networking pals, and any other soul that would be at a matching frequency with mine that point in my life.
I thought that this would create the perfect possibilities to pull me forward, even if the paths were bizarre, unexpected or out of my usual line of work. I thought that by following this guidance, the universe would direct me towards the life-work that would bring to me my desired abundance, expression of personal power and authority and newly acquired level of leadership, as well as the greatest satisfaction and fulfilment.
“Animal Strategy for Life and Success” is a pack of 80 cards and guide book which I created and that is based on the notion of the Native Americans that says that animals are brothers and sisters and not less important beings in creation that should submit to human control. Each animal has a medicine or gift to give us when they cross our path (either physically or in a dream, or in a TV program or book when it catches our attention…): this is their way to show us where we need to focus at that point in our life so that we can raise above a challenge or a struggle.
Bison is a very strong animal. Should Bison desire to do so, it could very easily open up a path in the snow by using his enormous head and shoulders. But what the universe was trying to tell me was that one should not use precious energy trying to open paths that may not lead us anywhere important in our lives, while other paths are already opened and can take us to fulfil our potential, even if at the time they don’t seem to do so!
Very soon, what stood out was that people would call me to teach them… and it soon was clear that teaching was my way forward.
What a turn in my destiny!
I already was a teacher since the age of 23, but then I had decided to be anything else but a teacher! It was as if it was just too easy and so I assumed that there should be something different and better in life for me. I judged my natural gift as not-good enough and had many dreams that I wanted to follow. In the pursuit of these dreams, I became a manager, a life coach, a Reiki Master, an author … yet nothing would set my future in a stable path of prosperity. Not to mention the amount of efforting or struggle that I had to put in the process!
Now, 21 years later and living in South Africa, far away from my home country of Spain, my life had given some huge turns. Tired of struggling and armed with the wisdom of my years, learnt with many teachers and having won and lost many battles, I suddenly decided that fighting my gifts was not a very smart thing to do.
It is true that like the Native Americans say, you have to learn the path of the Wolf: you have to travel to enough roads to know which ones don’t lead you where you want to go, so I indeed decided to make this opportunity my new beginning:
I took my public speaking diary in which I had all the shifts and stages of growth I had experienced for the previous 3 & half years, and as I was browsing though it, I came upon an entry from May 2008:
“Whenever I give a speech, people come to me to tell me that they liked it. Someone told me tonight that my speeches are always enlightening and inspiring. And as I am writing these notes in my diary, Spirit talks to me: forget about coaching or anything else; train people to speak!”
“Did I ever write that?” I wondered. I didn’t even remember I did! But yes, indeed I did; it was there, in colourful words, in my diary!
At this stage, I didn’t really think I had the necessary skills to do this job.
Spirit has a weird way of inviting you to take the challenging road, not making any promises, not telling you how long it will take. All you have to do is work towards it in full and fierce faith that you are doing the right thing and you are going the right way. And all you have to guide you is your little inner voice saying: keep going, keep going… For the majority of people, this is not enough security to make you give up the way of the world as we know it. Yes, the one ruled by money!
However, it was at that time when I had the unmistakable inner realization that not only I was a natural teacher, but that I was finally ready to embrace the fact that I loved teaching and teaching made me really happy! That I no longer considered teaching a low profession because it was easy.
With the new insights and the new personal power that I had acquired over the many years, teaching had now become the most desirable, comforting and soul-aligned profession that I could find! And just like that, I felt equipped to teach public speaking. Just like that, that gift that I had dismissed as unimportant so many years before became the centre of my life purpose.
And this is how this course was born: when I finally accepted and was ready to receive my natural gift. And it only took 21 years after my first attempt, 44 years in all!
That day in August 2008, after my speech, I made a note in my diary:
“If you are honest, have integrity, passion and self-belief, you become charismatic and magnetic. But if you wrap all this into a focus of service, helping others get what they need, you become powerful and influential”.
How much sense this was all making! And now, Archangel Gabriel’s card was saying that I should: “Focus upon your strengths, the many lessons you have learnt and how good it feels to be a living example of following one’s divine guidance”.
Finally, in November 2009 I was browsing through one of my friend’s “Healing with Fairies” from Doreen Virtue, PhD, and the card “New Opportunity” came up: “It is safe to trust and enter this new realm. You may feel intimidated or unqualified to move to the next level, but Heaven will guide you as you soar upward”.
By this time, I didn’t need any more confirmation. I was sure.
Not only because the messages kept repeating themselves but also because throughout this whole time of preparation, I had had the opportunity to assimilate this concept, this energy, this growth; and now, finally, it wasn’t something that I thought in my head that I could do but something that I knew it in my heart that I wanted to do.
I was ready.
In the following pages, you will not find a 100-tips-to-become-a-professional-speaker kind of manual. This course has been created with the intention to lead you and inspire you towards a path of personal development using public speaking as a vehicle. It is meant to help you transform yourself into a powerful speaker; a healed person who is ready to command your own authority in front of an audience or a group and an individual who is able to express, not just your ideas but your personality as well, without fear or self-doubt.
If you are looking only for tips and techniques of public speaking, don’t read further because you will be disappointed. But if you are looking for a course that will trigger a complete turnaround of your life by using public speaking as a tool or channel to reach out and give others a part of your soul, then you and I have met for a reason.
So, brace yourself because we are about to begin.
Among the meanings of this card, the following ones stuck with me, for a long time… until I decided to write this course:
• “Love and truth are inseparable”.
• “Speaking true words with a beautiful voice”.
• “Thoughtful and well-intended communication (which the Buddhists call “Right Speech”), the vital source of inspired relationships”.
• “Reclaim your right to think exquisite, heart-felt, spirit-infused thoughts. Have the courage of your inspired convictions. Become a “true intellectual”, one who engages the full power of the mind, heart and spirit in the interest of alleviating suffering and making the world a true Garden of Eden”.
Yes, it was a new beginning for me.
In August 2008 I was facing a challenge with one of my speeches and I wanted some guidance, so I took my “Archangel Oracle Cards” by Doreen Virtue, PhD. and the card of Archangel Gabriel (Gabriel means <God is my Strength>) jumped out with the meaning of <Leadership>: “Embrace your power in a loving way and use it for the greater good. I will guide your actions so they inspire and motivate others”.
This sounded like music to my ears because it is true that in general we are very scared to embrace our own personal power, even though we know instinctively that it brings us the freedom we long for.
The reason is, I believe, that taking our own power also brings responsibility, integrity, discipline, personal development, inner strength… and many other spiritual powers. And sometimes we just think that we won’t be able to deliver what is requested from us or that we won’t be able to handle a higher level of responsibility.
But the fact is that every time that I have taken a challenge on the public speaking arena, I have moved one step higher up the ladder of my personal leadership and have grasped one little bit more of my own power. And although it has been very hard sometimes, I have always worked under the code of keep fighting my fears and keep on going and eventually the scale of self-doubt will tilt positively towards my higher potential, my brightest future.
The message in the Archangel Gabriel card continued: “I will replace any self-doubt about your qualifications with an increased desire to help, serve and teach”.
At the time, I just made a note about it all but really, after a while, I forgot all about this. It was only one and a half years later, when I decided to use my public speaking diary as a basis to write this course that I came across these notes and suddenly these thoughts made a lot of sense. Everyone is so much wiser in hindsight!
In September 2009 my daughter, then 3 years old, went to school for the first time. This left some spare time in my hands and, wanting to start creating a flow of abundance in my life, but not by looking for a job (I had already worked for corporations before and I found it soul destroying to a very large degree), I decided to do it my way this time.
In order to create my flow, I decided to put out into the universe all the skills that that I had acquired over the years (teaching languages, translating and interpreting, writing books, life and business coaching, Reiki healing, document reviewer, professional organiser, crafts teacher… you name it, I was it!.
At that time, the Animal Strategy card that I was working with was Bison, which meant follow the path already opened for you, the path of least resistance.
Following the path of least resistance meant to me not to analyze or judge any skill that I had as lesser than another and to allow the ever-surprising path of synchronicity and destiny to guide me to my new set of clients, friends, networking pals, and any other soul that would be at a matching frequency with mine that point in my life.
I thought that this would create the perfect possibilities to pull me forward, even if the paths were bizarre, unexpected or out of my usual line of work. I thought that by following this guidance, the universe would direct me towards the life-work that would bring to me my desired abundance, expression of personal power and authority and newly acquired level of leadership, as well as the greatest satisfaction and fulfilment.
“Animal Strategy for Life and Success” is a pack of 80 cards and guide book which I created and that is based on the notion of the Native Americans that says that animals are brothers and sisters and not less important beings in creation that should submit to human control. Each animal has a medicine or gift to give us when they cross our path (either physically or in a dream, or in a TV program or book when it catches our attention…): this is their way to show us where we need to focus at that point in our life so that we can raise above a challenge or a struggle.
Bison is a very strong animal. Should Bison desire to do so, it could very easily open up a path in the snow by using his enormous head and shoulders. But what the universe was trying to tell me was that one should not use precious energy trying to open paths that may not lead us anywhere important in our lives, while other paths are already opened and can take us to fulfil our potential, even if at the time they don’t seem to do so!
Very soon, what stood out was that people would call me to teach them… and it soon was clear that teaching was my way forward.
What a turn in my destiny!
I already was a teacher since the age of 23, but then I had decided to be anything else but a teacher! It was as if it was just too easy and so I assumed that there should be something different and better in life for me. I judged my natural gift as not-good enough and had many dreams that I wanted to follow. In the pursuit of these dreams, I became a manager, a life coach, a Reiki Master, an author … yet nothing would set my future in a stable path of prosperity. Not to mention the amount of efforting or struggle that I had to put in the process!
Now, 21 years later and living in South Africa, far away from my home country of Spain, my life had given some huge turns. Tired of struggling and armed with the wisdom of my years, learnt with many teachers and having won and lost many battles, I suddenly decided that fighting my gifts was not a very smart thing to do.
It is true that like the Native Americans say, you have to learn the path of the Wolf: you have to travel to enough roads to know which ones don’t lead you where you want to go, so I indeed decided to make this opportunity my new beginning:
I took my public speaking diary in which I had all the shifts and stages of growth I had experienced for the previous 3 & half years, and as I was browsing though it, I came upon an entry from May 2008:
“Whenever I give a speech, people come to me to tell me that they liked it. Someone told me tonight that my speeches are always enlightening and inspiring. And as I am writing these notes in my diary, Spirit talks to me: forget about coaching or anything else; train people to speak!”
“Did I ever write that?” I wondered. I didn’t even remember I did! But yes, indeed I did; it was there, in colourful words, in my diary!
At this stage, I didn’t really think I had the necessary skills to do this job.
Spirit has a weird way of inviting you to take the challenging road, not making any promises, not telling you how long it will take. All you have to do is work towards it in full and fierce faith that you are doing the right thing and you are going the right way. And all you have to guide you is your little inner voice saying: keep going, keep going… For the majority of people, this is not enough security to make you give up the way of the world as we know it. Yes, the one ruled by money!
However, it was at that time when I had the unmistakable inner realization that not only I was a natural teacher, but that I was finally ready to embrace the fact that I loved teaching and teaching made me really happy! That I no longer considered teaching a low profession because it was easy.
With the new insights and the new personal power that I had acquired over the many years, teaching had now become the most desirable, comforting and soul-aligned profession that I could find! And just like that, I felt equipped to teach public speaking. Just like that, that gift that I had dismissed as unimportant so many years before became the centre of my life purpose.
And this is how this course was born: when I finally accepted and was ready to receive my natural gift. And it only took 21 years after my first attempt, 44 years in all!
That day in August 2008, after my speech, I made a note in my diary:
“If you are honest, have integrity, passion and self-belief, you become charismatic and magnetic. But if you wrap all this into a focus of service, helping others get what they need, you become powerful and influential”.
How much sense this was all making! And now, Archangel Gabriel’s card was saying that I should: “Focus upon your strengths, the many lessons you have learnt and how good it feels to be a living example of following one’s divine guidance”.
Finally, in November 2009 I was browsing through one of my friend’s “Healing with Fairies” from Doreen Virtue, PhD, and the card “New Opportunity” came up: “It is safe to trust and enter this new realm. You may feel intimidated or unqualified to move to the next level, but Heaven will guide you as you soar upward”.
By this time, I didn’t need any more confirmation. I was sure.
Not only because the messages kept repeating themselves but also because throughout this whole time of preparation, I had had the opportunity to assimilate this concept, this energy, this growth; and now, finally, it wasn’t something that I thought in my head that I could do but something that I knew it in my heart that I wanted to do.
I was ready.
In the following pages, you will not find a 100-tips-to-become-a-professional-speaker kind of manual. This course has been created with the intention to lead you and inspire you towards a path of personal development using public speaking as a vehicle. It is meant to help you transform yourself into a powerful speaker; a healed person who is ready to command your own authority in front of an audience or a group and an individual who is able to express, not just your ideas but your personality as well, without fear or self-doubt.
If you are looking only for tips and techniques of public speaking, don’t read further because you will be disappointed. But if you are looking for a course that will trigger a complete turnaround of your life by using public speaking as a tool or channel to reach out and give others a part of your soul, then you and I have met for a reason.
So, brace yourself because we are about to begin.
Unlocking Your Creativity
INTRODUCTION
You don’t ask the river “How often does your water flow’…
Because if the river is healthy, its water will flow all the time. All day, every day.
It is only when there is a block and the flow stops that its waters become stagnant, its crystalline clarity goes and the life in it dies.
Creativity is just the same: like the water, ideas and inspiration should be able to flow through us at any time.
It is only when we are concerned or worried, when we resist change and movement forward fearing loss of control, that our creativity gets blocked. And both physically, and spiritually we get stagnant, maybe even sick and definitely die to a point as we replace a potential fresh way to look at the world with an outdated, repetitive, controlled and safe but limiting way.
Someone said: “When do you know you have reached middle age? When your narrow waist and broad mind swap places!”
WHAT IS CREATIVITY?
Creativity is a process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts. It is the act of making something new and a novel use of tools for problem solving.
The stages of creativity are preparation (we get a flash, an idea, an inspiration), incubation (the idea starts to take shape), clarity (the vision becomes clear in our mind) and elaboration (a plan is developed).
According to Arieti in “Creativity: The Magic Synthesis”, the conditions that encourage creativity are aloneness (fosters inspiration), inactivity (fosters inner focus), daydreaming, free thinking (allows the mind to wander), gullibility (a willingness to suspend judgment allows one to be open to possibilities), alertness (a state of awareness) and discipline (a devotion to the techniques, logic and repetition that permit creative ideas to be realized).
I would also add to be joyful or another high frequency emotion. Creativity bursts when we feel exhilarated, happy – we can raise our energy by singing, dancing, playing with our children, creating a moment of romance.
Finally, use our own signature, personality, gift or characteristic: this is a natural opening for creativity to flow to us (e.g. I can’t be creative at playing football because I am useless at it!).
WHAT LIMITS CREATIVITY?
• Controlling the process or the outcome instead of flowing with it
• Controlling results to fit the status quo: it stifles the birth of the creation
• Trying to stay within one’s comfort zone: no growth, no creation
• Trying to do things the way we have always done them if they no longer work: this repetition or re+action is oposite to cre+ation
A CREATIVE LIFE IS AN LIFE.
Dr Christine Page in “Spiritual Alchemy” tells us that there are 4 levels at which we can choose to live and she calls them Drivers of Manifestation: these are the main fuels or energies that are used for our creative activities:
• Survival based – (“I take from you before you take from me”). Very expensive! Energy cost: 95% outgoing, 5% in return.
• Power games based – (Very common in relationships and business): using large amounts of manipulation and the incitement of guilt, duty, anger, control, etc. Energy cost: 75% outgoing, 25% in return. (Energy is always lost despite an apparent win).
• Willing, trying, bargaining, believing or thinking – (“I will make it happen no matter what!”): energy is lost through stubbornness and the tendency to lock horns with a similarly wilful individual. Energy cost: 50% outgoing, 50% in return.
• Compassion (from the heart) and wisdom (expressed as flowing) – strength comes from within, developing right timing (very little waste, efforting or struggle – the most energy-efficient way to live but it requires personal growth). Energy cost: 25% outgoing, 75% in return.
Our lives become more creative as we grow or evolve from 1 to 4, we emit less emotional pollution and hence offer greater benefits to the Planet and create our own spiritual well-being.
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO LIVE A CREATIVE LIFE?
• You will be challenged in your beliefs at all times, values and personal truth – but will create wider horizons and a life of (inner) adventure.
• Living in the now = in the present; present means gift – a gift of life with connectedness to your purpose, flowing with Universal energy ebbs & tides, staying current with the higher plan and your role in it.
• You receive current solutions to old problems, which are normally surprisingly simple and they come in the most unexpected ways, so one needs to be alert – but one is alert when one lives in the moment!
LEAVING A LEGACY
Do you know what you looked like when you were born?
Do you know what you used to eat when you were 7 months old?
Do you know when at what age you were potty trained?
I have kept a diary for my daughter from even before she was born. I hope she will never have any questions about who she is. Don’t you wish we were all have been given this gift?
One of her diary’s cuts that I found says: “Leaving a Legacy”: “Possessions aren’t the only things worth passing on to your children. The story of your family – told in words, pictures or crafts – is more valuable by far”. “We assume that the details of our ordinary lives are not worth recording. But we couldn’t be more wrong Recording memories is more than a practical tool to preserve heritage; it is a therapeutic process that allows time to think, deal with emotions and bring closure”.
I know that we didn’t have the facility to take photographs or videos when we were little. But today we live in the “media era”. But people like to know the face and the person they are interacting with. They want to know that they can trust you before you build relationships.
Building relationships is a way to create loyalty and commitment.
Feeding people with not too much – not too little information is a way to create continuity: a newsletter or a place where people can find the information when they have the time, e.g. a blog or a web page.
NETWORKING
Have you ever been at a Network Marketing introduction talk?
You come out of it thinking that the product is the solution to all your problems.
But when the buzz goes, reality hits and you realise that not all that glitters is gold.
However…!
I have a strategy for learning. Wherever I go, whomever I meet, whatever I do, I have my “energy feelers” out and even if it seems that I am wasting my time miserably by doing a specific activity, if there is an “energy signature” that triggers my “feelers to go off”, I know that there is a lesson there hidden for me. It is not a mind-thing, it is a feeling-thing.
The idea is that we can use everything we know from every industry we are familiar with and apply it to our public speaking training and career, so happy creation!”
You don’t ask the river “How often does your water flow’…
Because if the river is healthy, its water will flow all the time. All day, every day.
It is only when there is a block and the flow stops that its waters become stagnant, its crystalline clarity goes and the life in it dies.
Creativity is just the same: like the water, ideas and inspiration should be able to flow through us at any time.
It is only when we are concerned or worried, when we resist change and movement forward fearing loss of control, that our creativity gets blocked. And both physically, and spiritually we get stagnant, maybe even sick and definitely die to a point as we replace a potential fresh way to look at the world with an outdated, repetitive, controlled and safe but limiting way.
Someone said: “When do you know you have reached middle age? When your narrow waist and broad mind swap places!”
WHAT IS CREATIVITY?
Creativity is a process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts. It is the act of making something new and a novel use of tools for problem solving.
The stages of creativity are preparation (we get a flash, an idea, an inspiration), incubation (the idea starts to take shape), clarity (the vision becomes clear in our mind) and elaboration (a plan is developed).
According to Arieti in “Creativity: The Magic Synthesis”, the conditions that encourage creativity are aloneness (fosters inspiration), inactivity (fosters inner focus), daydreaming, free thinking (allows the mind to wander), gullibility (a willingness to suspend judgment allows one to be open to possibilities), alertness (a state of awareness) and discipline (a devotion to the techniques, logic and repetition that permit creative ideas to be realized).
I would also add to be joyful or another high frequency emotion. Creativity bursts when we feel exhilarated, happy – we can raise our energy by singing, dancing, playing with our children, creating a moment of romance.
Finally, use our own signature, personality, gift or characteristic: this is a natural opening for creativity to flow to us (e.g. I can’t be creative at playing football because I am useless at it!).
WHAT LIMITS CREATIVITY?
• Controlling the process or the outcome instead of flowing with it
• Controlling results to fit the status quo: it stifles the birth of the creation
• Trying to stay within one’s comfort zone: no growth, no creation
• Trying to do things the way we have always done them if they no longer work: this repetition or re+action is oposite to cre+ation
A CREATIVE LIFE IS AN LIFE.
Dr Christine Page in “Spiritual Alchemy” tells us that there are 4 levels at which we can choose to live and she calls them Drivers of Manifestation: these are the main fuels or energies that are used for our creative activities:
• Survival based – (“I take from you before you take from me”). Very expensive! Energy cost: 95% outgoing, 5% in return.
• Power games based – (Very common in relationships and business): using large amounts of manipulation and the incitement of guilt, duty, anger, control, etc. Energy cost: 75% outgoing, 25% in return. (Energy is always lost despite an apparent win).
• Willing, trying, bargaining, believing or thinking – (“I will make it happen no matter what!”): energy is lost through stubbornness and the tendency to lock horns with a similarly wilful individual. Energy cost: 50% outgoing, 50% in return.
• Compassion (from the heart) and wisdom (expressed as flowing) – strength comes from within, developing right timing (very little waste, efforting or struggle – the most energy-efficient way to live but it requires personal growth). Energy cost: 25% outgoing, 75% in return.
Our lives become more creative as we grow or evolve from 1 to 4, we emit less emotional pollution and hence offer greater benefits to the Planet and create our own spiritual well-being.
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO LIVE A CREATIVE LIFE?
• You will be challenged in your beliefs at all times, values and personal truth – but will create wider horizons and a life of (inner) adventure.
• Living in the now = in the present; present means gift – a gift of life with connectedness to your purpose, flowing with Universal energy ebbs & tides, staying current with the higher plan and your role in it.
• You receive current solutions to old problems, which are normally surprisingly simple and they come in the most unexpected ways, so one needs to be alert – but one is alert when one lives in the moment!
LEAVING A LEGACY
Do you know what you looked like when you were born?
Do you know what you used to eat when you were 7 months old?
Do you know when at what age you were potty trained?
I have kept a diary for my daughter from even before she was born. I hope she will never have any questions about who she is. Don’t you wish we were all have been given this gift?
One of her diary’s cuts that I found says: “Leaving a Legacy”: “Possessions aren’t the only things worth passing on to your children. The story of your family – told in words, pictures or crafts – is more valuable by far”. “We assume that the details of our ordinary lives are not worth recording. But we couldn’t be more wrong Recording memories is more than a practical tool to preserve heritage; it is a therapeutic process that allows time to think, deal with emotions and bring closure”.
I know that we didn’t have the facility to take photographs or videos when we were little. But today we live in the “media era”. But people like to know the face and the person they are interacting with. They want to know that they can trust you before you build relationships.
Building relationships is a way to create loyalty and commitment.
Feeding people with not too much – not too little information is a way to create continuity: a newsletter or a place where people can find the information when they have the time, e.g. a blog or a web page.
NETWORKING
Have you ever been at a Network Marketing introduction talk?
You come out of it thinking that the product is the solution to all your problems.
But when the buzz goes, reality hits and you realise that not all that glitters is gold.
However…!
I have a strategy for learning. Wherever I go, whomever I meet, whatever I do, I have my “energy feelers” out and even if it seems that I am wasting my time miserably by doing a specific activity, if there is an “energy signature” that triggers my “feelers to go off”, I know that there is a lesson there hidden for me. It is not a mind-thing, it is a feeling-thing.
The idea is that we can use everything we know from every industry we are familiar with and apply it to our public speaking training and career, so happy creation!”
Your Voice: A Vehicle of Self-Expression
A few years ago I read a book called: “The Life You Were Born to Live”, by Dan Millman. This book describes, via the numerology of your date of birth, what kind of challenges and potentials you have.
I was born on the 14th of April of 1965. If you add these figures up, you get the number 30. And if you add 3 + 0 = 3. So according to Dan Millman, I am a 30/3.
This means that my potential and challenges are all related to self expression, as 0 simply refines or amplifies the potential of the number it accompanies.
This is what Dan Millman has to say about a 30/3 (myself) – as I read through, it makes me wonder how much of our potential is already written in the stars:
“Number 3’s have a large emotional body that can take over a room and uplift an entire audience”.
“The arena in which 30/3’s express may be large, as in performance, teaching or addressing large groups, or smaller, involving a circle of family and friends”.
“Their expression blossoms with other people, perhaps one on one at first. Eventually, if they draw forth the courage, many 30/3’s find the opportunity to speak before groups of people. I often recommend public-speaking courses for 30/3’s”.
“These individuals bring enthusiasm, compassion, understanding and service into the world, in ways large or small, through their creative expression. When they speak, they do so with attunement and sensitivity, and they uplift others. They are enthusiastic and connected to their emotions, and their expressiveness is passionate, forthright and even inspired. They manage their lives responsibly, not letting their own or other people’s emotions run them. They use their inner gifts of expression, sensitivity and intuition in the service of others, with a joy and altruism that further amplifies these resources, putting 30/3’s in touch with the subtle aspects and mystery of existence”.
Talking about coming into alignment with your destiny and potential! Once you taste it, would you accept anything less?
It has taken me a life of 44 years to actually get to this awareness, but I am holding on to it like a life-saving raft. Anything less means that you are accepting less joy and happiness, abundance and fulfilment than you deserve.
So firstly, keep track of every piece of feedback you are ever given. Take them all into account, even if at the time you dismiss them. When the time comes, it will all give you the opportunity to paint the whole picture. And secondly, find the passion inside and allow your drama and emotions to show through your speeches. The rest will be achieved all by itself!
Self-expression is linked to self-confidence.
In June 2008, I heard the voice of Spirit that said: “You must learn public speaking as this is the doorway to your future”.
More than the doorway to my future, the prospect alone of standing in front of an audience and speak felt more like a little hole on a wall through which I would have to squeeze myself with all my might if I wanted to come through to the other side!
INTENTIONS
“First was the word …” says the Bible.
In all accounts, it says that the way God creates is through the word = sound.
There are three levels of manifestation: thought, word and action.
Thought is related to spirit, word is related to the mind and action is related to the body, to the physical.
When these three aspects of our psyche are in alignment, we create an experience that is commonly named as “walk our talk”. It means that we are congruent: we say what we think and we do what we say.
When we are not congruent, we are out of integrity. And when we are out of integrity, we simply disintegrate! Our external world mirrors our inner state of being and so when our world is falling apart… it is because there are cracks in the foundations of our life, in our integrity!
It is the bow of intention which directs the arrow of energy: intention is what creates movement. Don’t get mislead as how things look – just see or know the intention behind things because it is your intentions which ignite good or bad energies. Hence, you can direct your energy inside with a congruent state of being into the achievement of your goals… or otherwise, the achievement of something else that you didn’t expect! And which will simply mirror the real you behind the intentions.
And so you need to be very clear on your intentions.
Likewise, if you have needs, these will underline your intentions, whether you are aware of them or not. Wants alone won’t take you there because needs will create a leak of your energy until they are addressed.
For instance: I intend to be a well-known and successful professional speaker, because my passion is to ignite people into finding their true voice and acting on their life-mission.
But if I have the need for recognition, I will make choices based on people approving of me, which will make me speak as people want me to and / or expect me to.
But that will lack personal spark and conviction, so I will not succeed as a brilliant professional speaker because I will be compromising my integrity. I will simply be a mediocre speaker.
However, if I have addressed my needs of self-worth and self-esteem, healed the ghosts of the past and come to terms with whom I am, whom I have become, then the path will be cleared for me to simply work on passion, and I will speak from the heart:
I will not choose subjects that others want or expect me to talk about.
I will break boundaries and challenge comfort zones.
I will inspire people to take a stand and move forward.
I then may become a well-known and successful professional speaker.
SELF-EXPRESSION
Self-expression is a need people have. We all need to belong somewhere. We all need to ex-press who we are: this means that we all need to put our gifts into the world and make them count. WE need to count, be acknowledged!
We express ourselves by our throat. In energy terms, there is an energy vortex in the throat area, called throat chakra.
A chakra is a spinning wheel of energy where Universal energy links to the physical body via its corresponding organs. The throat chakra covers mainly shoulders, jaw, mouth, gums and teeth, throat and back of neck. Any imbalance in this chakra will bring a malady or illness or mal-adjustment to one or more of these areas in our body.
The throat chakra is our will centre, our centre of communication and integrity. It relates to the honesty in your self-expression: Lying violates our mind-body-spirit alignment or integrity.
We express our choices with our voice.
Our choices have consequences on an energetic level.
Choosing not to make a choice is a choice in itself: for instance, choosing not to express our anger (speaking out) means that we repress our anger and this can result in laryngitis in a mild case or even throat cancer in extreme cases.
When we have a lump in our throat it can be because we don’t know how to speak the right words or we are suppressing our emotions.
The challenge of the throat chakra is to express ourselves in a truthful manner.
When this chakra is open and functioning well, one’s speech is clear and smooth. When it is blocked, not only does one find speaking or getting the right words out difficult, but one also feels an unwillingness to change.
The rhythm of music, creativity of dance, vibration of singing and communication through writing and speaking are all ways of expressing ourselves.
Do you want to become a better speaker? Are you in a rush to do so?
Do you want to excel, to become a polished speaker?
A little piece of technical information: I read somewhere that “sound moves the air molecules, which touch our ears, which get to our brain and which is transmitted to our nervous system. Our brain aligns itself with the vibration received”.
This is what happens when the audience resonates with the speaker. It is not always something you can control or analyze. When the brain and the nervous system react to the vibration of the sound of your voice, sometimes people react in an emotional way and something happens inside themselves that may not be able to be explained but which is real indeed. This is what I believe Dan Millman tries to explain with the expressions of “uplifting others” or “large emotional feelers” that capture the energy of a room…
People tell me that it is my energy and passion that come through when I speak, motivating them into action. If that is so, then I summon you to look inside your heart and decide whether you want to express yourself out of a passion to reach your potential, to align yourself with your life-path, or if there is a different reason.
Because if there is a different reason, you will find yourself in the future facing speaking engagements that may challenge your integrity and will force you to compromise who you are in exchange of recognition, money, status-quo or other people’s expectations. Although at that time the choices may be easier, in the long term, they will break the foundations of your inner self.
I intend to use the opportunity of public speaking and public speaking coaching to build seniority, experience and authority in order to follow my path and help others do the same.
What will you be using this opportunity for?
I was born on the 14th of April of 1965. If you add these figures up, you get the number 30. And if you add 3 + 0 = 3. So according to Dan Millman, I am a 30/3.
This means that my potential and challenges are all related to self expression, as 0 simply refines or amplifies the potential of the number it accompanies.
This is what Dan Millman has to say about a 30/3 (myself) – as I read through, it makes me wonder how much of our potential is already written in the stars:
“Number 3’s have a large emotional body that can take over a room and uplift an entire audience”.
“The arena in which 30/3’s express may be large, as in performance, teaching or addressing large groups, or smaller, involving a circle of family and friends”.
“Their expression blossoms with other people, perhaps one on one at first. Eventually, if they draw forth the courage, many 30/3’s find the opportunity to speak before groups of people. I often recommend public-speaking courses for 30/3’s”.
“These individuals bring enthusiasm, compassion, understanding and service into the world, in ways large or small, through their creative expression. When they speak, they do so with attunement and sensitivity, and they uplift others. They are enthusiastic and connected to their emotions, and their expressiveness is passionate, forthright and even inspired. They manage their lives responsibly, not letting their own or other people’s emotions run them. They use their inner gifts of expression, sensitivity and intuition in the service of others, with a joy and altruism that further amplifies these resources, putting 30/3’s in touch with the subtle aspects and mystery of existence”.
Talking about coming into alignment with your destiny and potential! Once you taste it, would you accept anything less?
It has taken me a life of 44 years to actually get to this awareness, but I am holding on to it like a life-saving raft. Anything less means that you are accepting less joy and happiness, abundance and fulfilment than you deserve.
So firstly, keep track of every piece of feedback you are ever given. Take them all into account, even if at the time you dismiss them. When the time comes, it will all give you the opportunity to paint the whole picture. And secondly, find the passion inside and allow your drama and emotions to show through your speeches. The rest will be achieved all by itself!
Self-expression is linked to self-confidence.
In June 2008, I heard the voice of Spirit that said: “You must learn public speaking as this is the doorway to your future”.
More than the doorway to my future, the prospect alone of standing in front of an audience and speak felt more like a little hole on a wall through which I would have to squeeze myself with all my might if I wanted to come through to the other side!
INTENTIONS
“First was the word …” says the Bible.
In all accounts, it says that the way God creates is through the word = sound.
There are three levels of manifestation: thought, word and action.
Thought is related to spirit, word is related to the mind and action is related to the body, to the physical.
When these three aspects of our psyche are in alignment, we create an experience that is commonly named as “walk our talk”. It means that we are congruent: we say what we think and we do what we say.
When we are not congruent, we are out of integrity. And when we are out of integrity, we simply disintegrate! Our external world mirrors our inner state of being and so when our world is falling apart… it is because there are cracks in the foundations of our life, in our integrity!
It is the bow of intention which directs the arrow of energy: intention is what creates movement. Don’t get mislead as how things look – just see or know the intention behind things because it is your intentions which ignite good or bad energies. Hence, you can direct your energy inside with a congruent state of being into the achievement of your goals… or otherwise, the achievement of something else that you didn’t expect! And which will simply mirror the real you behind the intentions.
And so you need to be very clear on your intentions.
Likewise, if you have needs, these will underline your intentions, whether you are aware of them or not. Wants alone won’t take you there because needs will create a leak of your energy until they are addressed.
For instance: I intend to be a well-known and successful professional speaker, because my passion is to ignite people into finding their true voice and acting on their life-mission.
But if I have the need for recognition, I will make choices based on people approving of me, which will make me speak as people want me to and / or expect me to.
But that will lack personal spark and conviction, so I will not succeed as a brilliant professional speaker because I will be compromising my integrity. I will simply be a mediocre speaker.
However, if I have addressed my needs of self-worth and self-esteem, healed the ghosts of the past and come to terms with whom I am, whom I have become, then the path will be cleared for me to simply work on passion, and I will speak from the heart:
I will not choose subjects that others want or expect me to talk about.
I will break boundaries and challenge comfort zones.
I will inspire people to take a stand and move forward.
I then may become a well-known and successful professional speaker.
SELF-EXPRESSION
Self-expression is a need people have. We all need to belong somewhere. We all need to ex-press who we are: this means that we all need to put our gifts into the world and make them count. WE need to count, be acknowledged!
We express ourselves by our throat. In energy terms, there is an energy vortex in the throat area, called throat chakra.
A chakra is a spinning wheel of energy where Universal energy links to the physical body via its corresponding organs. The throat chakra covers mainly shoulders, jaw, mouth, gums and teeth, throat and back of neck. Any imbalance in this chakra will bring a malady or illness or mal-adjustment to one or more of these areas in our body.
The throat chakra is our will centre, our centre of communication and integrity. It relates to the honesty in your self-expression: Lying violates our mind-body-spirit alignment or integrity.
We express our choices with our voice.
Our choices have consequences on an energetic level.
Choosing not to make a choice is a choice in itself: for instance, choosing not to express our anger (speaking out) means that we repress our anger and this can result in laryngitis in a mild case or even throat cancer in extreme cases.
When we have a lump in our throat it can be because we don’t know how to speak the right words or we are suppressing our emotions.
The challenge of the throat chakra is to express ourselves in a truthful manner.
When this chakra is open and functioning well, one’s speech is clear and smooth. When it is blocked, not only does one find speaking or getting the right words out difficult, but one also feels an unwillingness to change.
The rhythm of music, creativity of dance, vibration of singing and communication through writing and speaking are all ways of expressing ourselves.
Do you want to become a better speaker? Are you in a rush to do so?
Do you want to excel, to become a polished speaker?
A little piece of technical information: I read somewhere that “sound moves the air molecules, which touch our ears, which get to our brain and which is transmitted to our nervous system. Our brain aligns itself with the vibration received”.
This is what happens when the audience resonates with the speaker. It is not always something you can control or analyze. When the brain and the nervous system react to the vibration of the sound of your voice, sometimes people react in an emotional way and something happens inside themselves that may not be able to be explained but which is real indeed. This is what I believe Dan Millman tries to explain with the expressions of “uplifting others” or “large emotional feelers” that capture the energy of a room…
People tell me that it is my energy and passion that come through when I speak, motivating them into action. If that is so, then I summon you to look inside your heart and decide whether you want to express yourself out of a passion to reach your potential, to align yourself with your life-path, or if there is a different reason.
Because if there is a different reason, you will find yourself in the future facing speaking engagements that may challenge your integrity and will force you to compromise who you are in exchange of recognition, money, status-quo or other people’s expectations. Although at that time the choices may be easier, in the long term, they will break the foundations of your inner self.
I intend to use the opportunity of public speaking and public speaking coaching to build seniority, experience and authority in order to follow my path and help others do the same.
What will you be using this opportunity for?
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