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		<title>Change My Habits: From Hesitation to Action</title>
		<link>http://www.markjryan.com/blog/2012/04/change-my-habits-from-hesitation-to-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all have something &#8211; either personally or professionally &#8211; that we know we must do. There&#8217;s something that&#8217;s been lingering, maybe you&#8217;ve been procrastinating on getting it done. There&#8217;s something that would take you to the next level, if you would just take action on it. Is it starting a business? Writing that book? [...]]]></description>
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<p>We all have something &#8211; either personally or professionally &#8211; that we know we must do. There&#8217;s something that&#8217;s been lingering, maybe you&#8217;ve been procrastinating on getting it done. There&#8217;s something that would take you to the next level, if you would just take action on it.</p>
<p>Is it starting a business? Writing that book? Creating a product? Getting a new job? Or is it just cleaning up your clutter, quitting smoking, or losing weight?</p>
<p>What&#8217;s stopping you?</p>
<p>Are you feeling guilty about it? Is that one thing you need to do causing you more emotional stress and overwhelm than it&#8217;s worth?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s something you must realize: it is not your fault. </p>
<p>And one more thing: I can help you overcome the block in your way. I can help you change your habits.</p>
<p>There are proven processes available that can help you overcome hesitation, fear, procrastination. And I&#8217;ve created a system that can help you get to the next level of experience, no matter what&#8217;s blocking you. </p>
<p>You see, it really isn&#8217;t your fault. You just haven&#8217;t developed the neural pathways to take action in that area.<br />
When you brush your teeth, do you hesitate? Do you procrastinate or overthink what needs to be done? Of course not. You&#8217;ve got a neural pathway to help you. </p>
<p>When you drive a car, do you hesitate? Do you procrastinate or overthink driving? Probably not, because you&#8217;ve got a lot of neural pathways that help you navigate driving.</p>
<p>Change My Habits: From Hesitation to Action will help you create the same type of neural pathways to help you take action, no matter where you need it. </p>
<p>You can use this product to take action in a number of areas of your life, like:</p>
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<li>starting a new business</li>
<li>quitting smoking or losing weight</li>
<li>improve relationships</li>
<li>completing projects</li>
<li>learning a new skill</li>
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<p>Learn more about <a href="http://www.markjryan.com/pr/hesitation/">Change My Habits: From Hesitation to Action</a>. For only $27, you owe it to yourself to check it out. An immediate download, you&#8217;ll have videos to train your unconscious mind to work with you instead of blocking you from taking action.</p>
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		<title>A Book Worth Buying and Reading</title>
		<link>http://www.markjryan.com/blog/2012/03/a-book-worth-buying-and-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It isn&#8217;t often i recommend a book. I have to recommend this book because of its powerful ability to help people change. It is an easy read and to the point throughout. The process is very easy&#8230;but not as easy to implement. It does require some effort but the rewards are great. I wrote a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It isn&#8217;t often i recommend a book.<br />
I have to recommend this book because of its<br />
powerful ability to help people change.<br />
It is an easy read and to the point throughout.<br />
The process is very easy&#8230;but not as easy to implement.<br />
It does require some effort but the rewards are great.<br />
I wrote a review on Amazon that will give you more<br />
about why i find this book so worth recommending.</p>
<p>Please Click on the book cover to go to Amazon and read my review!</p>
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		<title>Cultivating a sense of wonderment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J Ryan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mindset and Psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been said that miracles can happen every day, and miracles take place when we open enough to allow something new to enter into our experience. It&#8217;s when we think we need a miracle that they&#8217;re less likely to happen. And it is when we have a sense of wonderment that we find ourselves most [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been said that miracles can happen every day, and miracles take place when we open enough to allow something new to enter into our experience. It&#8217;s when we think we need a miracle that they&#8217;re less likely to happen. And it is when we have a sense of wonderment that we find ourselves most open to receive them.</p>
<p>A few weeks ago, I was driving home at night near my home in Mount Shasta, California. The moon had not yet risen. It was glowing behind the mountain, making the mountain look like a big black monstrosity across the horizon. There were clouds hovering over the mountain, illuminated by the moon’s rising glow.<br />
<a href="http://www.markjryan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/1-2-11.jpg"><img src="http://www.markjryan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/1-2-11-300x225.jpg" alt="Mount Shasta" title="Mount Shasta" width="300" height="225" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-328" /></a><br />
Here in Mount Shasta, we get used to seeing amazing cloud formations around the mountain. However, this was unlike anything I had ever seen before. The sense of wonderment came over me to the point of not being able to drive without stopping to take in the amazing sight. </p>
<p>My conscious mind wanted to see shapes and images in the clouds, and I attempted to discern what it was showing me. But I remembered that feeling of awe and wonderment, and I stayed there and allowed it to be whatever it was. I allowed whatever was within me to be whatever it was, too. I felt humbled at the amazing beauty such a simple natural experience could create. </p>
<p>As adults focused in our everyday life, we tend to avoid experiences like this unless confronted with them. We want to know, and we want to know everything. We don’t want to be tricked. We don’t want to be embarrassed by not knowing. And yet, there is a part of us that longs deeply to do just that: to let go of knowing and be vulnerable to new interpretations, to experience wonderment, to get lost in awe. We know, at a very deep level, magic and miracles happen in that space. </p>
<p>What magic and miracles do you want to experience? What breakthrough would you like? </p>
<p>Cultivate that sense of wonderment, the place where miracles are not only possible, but probable. You can find it in many places. But it is often more fun and empowering when it finds you.</p>
<p>After I saw that amazing sight, I drove home in a heightened state of awareness. This is also something that happens often here in Mount Shasta. I was able to make a breakthrough on a project I was working on and found a new outlet of my creativity that has continued to add inspired ideas into my experience. That experience, also, adds to my sense of wonderment, magnifying the miracles I experience.</p>
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		<title>Boulders on your path</title>
		<link>http://www.markjryan.com/blog/2012/02/boulders-on-your-path/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently started working on my manifestation efforts much more diligently. After living in Texas, I felt that our time in Mount Shasta has been much more of a rest and rejuvenation period. Mark and I have both been getting inspiration that it&#8217;s time to get back to doing what we love. I started my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently started working on my manifestation efforts much more diligently. After living in Texas, I felt that our time in Mount Shasta has been much more of a rest and rejuvenation period. Mark and I have both been getting inspiration that it&#8217;s time to get back to doing what we love.</p>
<p>I started my manifestation efforts up again. I have some techniques that have helped me for years to create physical experiences. They&#8217;re just tricks that allow me to manage my focus and my attention so that I can attract/manifest/draw in the experiences I wish to play with next. Sometimes those experiences happen quite magically, other times quite predictably. But it doesn&#8217;t take long before I start seeing some physical manifestation of my efforts. </p>
<p>As I dive deeper into the experience of manifestation, I receive notification that I am going to have to undertake a new project. <strong>I don&#8217;t want to do this project.</strong> At all. I have to do some distasteful work that I am averse to.  But there&#8217;s no getting out of it; it needs to be done. And it needs to be done now. I can&#8217;t even put it off!</p>
<p><img src="http://www.markjryan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/boulder-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="boulder" width="300" height="225" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-450" />How can this be? I&#8217;ve done so well manifesting in the past, how can this new, awful situation now appear before me as a huge boulder in the road of my manifestation efforts? It was clear sailing before! I was getting things done! I was doing so well!</p>
<p>As I sat in front of the computer feeling overwhelmed, frazzled, and anxious, I couldn&#8217;t think of anything specific to do. I cleaned out my spam folder. There was an easy task. Then as I sat paralyzed in front of the computer just looking at my empty spam folder, a message arrived. A useless, meaningless spam message. </p>
<p>Well, the Divine has quite a sense of humor in my world. The email subject said specifically that I should not worry about this specific problem. Ha. Thanks Universe. I&#8217;ll do my best.</p>
<p>I am proud to say that it took approximately one day before I turned something awful into something good. Well, as good as it can be, at least.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the thing. I set my manifestation goals pretty high. They say shoot for the stars and maybe you&#8217;ll get the moon, right? So, I was targeting something far beyond my current experience. Without giving too much away, I&#8217;ll just say that my creation is something I haven&#8217;t experienced before by orders of magnitude. </p>
<p>Then, this boulder arrives, smack dab in the middle of the road to my goal. Darn boulder!</p>
<p>I can either say, <em>&#8220;Well, forget about that manifestation. This is my message that it isn&#8217;t going to happen for me. I guess I have to stop work on everything.&#8221;</em> I can&#8217;t say the thought didn&#8217;t occur, because it did. But the energetic pattern associated with that thought did not line up with what I <strong>felt</strong> to be true.</p>
<p>Or I can say, <em>&#8220;Maybe I just need to clear this so I have no impediments to my progress later.&#8221;</em> This felt more like it aligned with my beliefs. I settled on it as my framework for the experience.</p>
<p>Then, as I let that thought settle within me, I thought, <em>&#8220;Maybe this boulder is a gift. Maybe the work I need to do with it is less of a clearing, and more of a&#8230; reshaping. Perhaps I can use this experience to create a ladder of sorts out of this boulder, a staircase that brings me to the next level I wish to experience.&#8221;</em> There. Now we&#8217;re talking. Now I can feel in my body the freedom and acceptance of this boulder instead of the initial resistance.</p>
<p>Now when I sit with that thought, I start feeling like this new project is going to create a new, never-before-imagined pathway to my goal. How I carve the ladder out of the boulder will help create the next level of experience. </p>
<p>What started out as a horrible sign has now transformed into something meaningful, even something helpful.</p>
<p>Instead of stopping work on everything I was hoping to create, I give my attention and focus to BOTH the boulder and my goal. </p>
<p><strong>Managing Your Boulders</strong><br />
I&#8217;m not the only one who has ever experienced the arrival of a block. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re sitting with a boulder or two in your experience as well. You can decide to remove the boulder, give up on it, go around it, or reshape it. Whatever metaphor feels best within you, use it.</p>
<p>But never give up on your goal. No matter what happens, stay focused, manage your attention so that it remains ever focused on the goal. </p>
<p><strong>Boulders Can Be Useful</strong><br />
It can be very disheartening when you make a decision to head in a certain direction in your life (lose weight, get a degree, start a business, make a move, etc.) and you find the road isn&#8217;t as easy as you thought. When you feel that disheartening, see if you can see how the block you&#8217;re experience can be useful.</p>
<p>What if I manifested this boulder as a necessary step? I won&#8217;t know until I get there. </p>
<p>I know a woman who went through a painful bankruptcy many years ago. She lost her house, her business, and almost her car. She had nothing, and it was awful for her. But she has used that experience quite well. It was the work she needed to do in order that she could change habits, create new pathways and habits that would serve her later. She now runs a multimillion dollar business that serves her quite well.</p>
<p><strong>She used that boulder as a stepping stone to reach even greater heights of experience in her life.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Have Fun With It</strong><br />
No matter what type of block you&#8217;re experiencing, play with the idea of what that block is to you. For all you know, it isn&#8217;t really as much of a problem or block as you think it is. And even if it is the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone, that doesn&#8217;t mean you have to act that role. </p>
<p>Imagine yourself doing the work with your block. Give it attention. Shape it into something beneficial for you. And imagine yourself smiling happily as you do it. </p>
<p><strong>After all, it really isn&#8217;t about that end goal anyway. It is about <em>how you experience the now of the journey</em> getting there.</strong></p>
<p>Have a fun journey, no matter how big your boulders are!</p>
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		<title>Changing the Paradigms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J Ryan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mindset and Psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(written by Kathy) There are a lot of people, Mark and me included, who are not exactly thrilled with the state of the current economic and political situation. That may be quite an understatement. In fact, we see a lot of things that are downright WRONG. My gut tells me that certain political decisions are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(written by Kathy) </p>
<p>There are a lot of people, Mark and me included, who are not exactly thrilled with the state of the current economic and political situation. That may be quite an understatement. In fact, we see a lot of things that are downright WRONG. </p>
<p>My gut tells me that certain political decisions are like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. And then, I have a dream about the movie Titanic and my placement on it as it is going down. Interesting. Apparently my unconscious thinks so, too!</p>
<p>But what is going down? Is it the end of the world? Is it the collapse of civilization that so many people predict? Peak oil? Should we buy guns, ammo, 5 years worth of food and build an underground fort?</p>
<p>When fears seem to circulate in the collective consciousness like this, it is critically important that we center ourselves and find out what is really happening at a deeper level.</p>
<p>I see &#8220;bad&#8221; things. But I also see some really amazing, innovative good things. How can things be so bad in one arena and so really good in another? </p>
<p>Fears are justified in some respects. But to succumb to fear completely is to deny who you really are and how powerful you are. Succumbing to fear gives power to that which is dying. Using fear to propel you to greater understanding of a new paradigm and your power to create within it makes fear useful.</p>
<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s my prediction: it&#8217;s the end of economic systems, belief systems, and paradigms that are no longer relevant as we discover our true consciousness and our true nature as spiritual beings having a physical experience. New economic systems, belief systems, and paradigms for understanding our reality are being born into our collective consciousness now.</p></blockquote>
<p>And yes, we&#8217;ve all heard that saying before. But I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve fully explored our true nature as those spiritual beings as much as we could have.  And I think it&#8217;s time for us to really delve into some hardcore adventures in consciousness.</p>
<p>Part of the fear-based paradigm that keeps us from exploring are all of these beliefs in the end times. It makes us feel and think that these events are beyond our control: apocalypse, end times, 2012, Jesus&#8217; return. We sit on the edge of our seat waiting for an external event to save us from ourselves.</p>
<p>Mark reminded me, as he knows Bible better than anyone I have EVER met, that it says we must continue to work until Jesus returns. We don&#8217;t get to sit back and wait for his arrival. I would postulate that this work is the inner work, the spiritual work, the REAL work that we came here to do. Unless we do this, the change we think is coming is postponed until we do. </p>
<p>You see, it isn&#8217;t an external event that happens to us. It is an event that occurs BECAUSE OF WHAT WE DO. We bring real change about through our inner work, our belief work, and our commitment to be the best we can be. </p>
<p>We cannot cover up our past hurts, our pain, our anger, our sadness, and put on a happy face. The vision that comes to me as metaphor is of old Italian families that I knew that had plastic on the furniture in the living room and dining room, while they live their very real and sometimes messy lives in the basement. No, we don&#8217;t get to do that and take the plastic off of our reality when the change happens. Change happens because we&#8217;re doing the daily data cleanup on our realities every single day. It is about doing the inner work to make that clean and happy reality part of our every day experience. </p>
<blockquote><p>We must learn how to traverse levels of consciousness better. We must learn to access and explore deeper parts of ourselves so that we can expand our knowledge of who we really are. This is what elicits the change.</p></blockquote>
<p>If you want a new paradigm to be adopted by more people, a new mainstream belief system that is less egregious to you, or a new economy that is more to your liking, or a new political system that actually FUNCTIONS, then you need to begin to cultivate a larger awareness within yourself and expand your knowledge of who you really are. </p>
<blockquote><p>You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. &#8211; Buckminster Fuller</p></blockquote>
<p>I really believe we are at a tipping point. I believe there are more aware people on the planet now than at any other time in recorded history. And I believe that if more of us <strong>do the work</strong> of expanding and traversing our consciousness, we will immediately begin to cultivate and open to a more functional world. I think that with more of us expanding our knowledge of who we are, we will begin to see greater innovation, greater technology, greater and kinder business practices, greater government, and greater leaders. </p>
<p>But we don&#8217;t get to experience that greatness until we turn away from complaining, worrying, and stressing about what is broken. We don&#8217;t get to experience that greatness in our outer world until we expand the greatness in our inner world.</p>
<p>And even if my theories of changing the collective by changing ourselves is completely wrong, my ideas of applying yourself towards spiritual growth will do nothing more than improve the quality of your life. It might even *gasp* help you become happier and more in tune with the parts of your life that give you joy.</p>
<p>Tomorrow, we&#8217;ll post a list that will help you begin to build pathways to deeper, more powerful, and more connected parts of yourself. It&#8217;s all there. </p>
<p><strong>It&#8217;s waiting for you to open to it. </strong></p>
<p>We&#8217;re all waiting for you to open to it. </p>
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		<title>Learn How to Trust Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J Ryan</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is a video meditation on trusting again after your trust has been broken.</p>
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		<title>Become a Successful Entrepreneur</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J Ryan</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a video I did sharing my perspective on successful entrepreneurship. </p>
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		<title>Moving through blocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blocks. We all experience them. You want something, and something comes up and makes it seem impossible. That something can be real or imagined. The want comes from deep within you. Desire for something; it&#8217;s the knowledge that you came to this reality to Do Something Big. Part of the process is moving beyond whatever [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blocks. We all experience them. You want something, and something comes up and makes it seem impossible. That something can be real or imagined.</p>
<p>The want comes from deep within you. Desire for something; it&#8217;s the knowledge that you came to this reality to Do Something Big. Part of the process is moving beyond whatever is holding you in the space you currently reside.</p>
<p>Maybe you want to be a successful author. You imagine what the critics might say. It stops you. </p>
<p>Maybe you want to be thinner, but you imagine all of the diets that have never worked. </p>
<p>Maybe you want to own your dream home, but you cannot see how that could ever happen to a person like you.</p>
<p>Or maybe you&#8217;re really trying to write that book, but it&#8217;s not flowing. Or maybe it flows, but you have a friend read your first draft, and you get a disappointing review. </p>
<p>Maybe you&#8217;re trying to complete a project, but you can&#8217;t find the right subcontractor to help you finish the last bit of work. Or maybe the subcontractor you thought would do a great job messes up the job beyond repair.</p>
<p>Maybe you can&#8217;t get funding no matter where you look for the non-profit close to your heart.</p>
<p>Or maybe you just don&#8217;t know what is happening or why, but you just feel stuck. And that desire and knowledge of what you came here to do is just not going away.</p>
<p>Worse, maybe there&#8217;s actually someone out there who is out to get you and undermine your success any way he can. Someone who might be acting insidiously with the rage of fire and brimstone to ensure you are never able to do be successful with it. It has happened.</p>
<p>Even if you&#8217;ve got the cards stacked against you and a small army of detractors against you, <strong>it is no match whatsoever against the creative power of your flow</strong>. It is no match for the creative energy within you. Your work will stand on its own merit and attract those who want to hear what you have to say. </p>
<p>Of course, you could become embroiled in the discord. You could allow a war of words to become the most important part of your reality. You could allow the war of fear inside of you to become more powerful than your own creative flow.</p>
<p>When you allow the critics &#8212; inside and out &#8212; to have that much power over you, then you lose your voice. Spirit moves to a more open and pliable channel. And you become the biggest loser. </p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering.&#8221; —Ben Okri</em></p></blockquote>
<p>You may suffer, but you also have the power to be greater than that suffering. Commitment to the idea, the spirit, and the energy that flows through you is the power that is greater than anything that comes your way.</p>
<p><strong>So how do you get beyond it?</strong></p>
<p>There are quite a few tricks I&#8217;ve learned. You see, I&#8217;ve had a little of all of the above happen to me to some degree or another during my lifetime. Some things have been even worse than the maybe&#8217;s above. </p>
<p>If you&#8217;re stuck in a place of non-movement, here are some tips to get beyond your blocks.</p>
<p><strong>Get moving.</strong> Sometimes when you&#8217;re stuck, the best thing to do is get moving. On something, anything. If you can&#8217;t move on your project, go for a walk. Don&#8217;t bring the iPod, let silence guide you to the still voice within yourself. If you can&#8217;t move mentally, sometimes the best thing to do is send a message to your mind that you are ready to move by moving your body. </p>
<p><strong>Change the scenery.</strong> You can also get a change of scenery&#8230; go to a place different than where you are. Pick a place at random a few hours from where you are. If you have kids, pack them and a lunch and just go. Find a place where you can easily walk or hike in nature. Movement in a place far away from your usual stomping grounds creates a new perspective and movement within your spirit that will break you from a rut or block.</p>
<p><strong>Turn off the internet.</strong> The internet browser is a great place to meet people and make connections, but it can also be a giant procrastination time suck and distraction away from the things that block you. Download an alternative browser (firefox, chrome, etc). Use one browser for productive work and research, use another for play. If you have two computers, use one as your work computer and another as your production computer. Set yourself a time and a time limit for play online, but the rest of your day is dedicated to production. Don&#8217;t check Facebook every 20 minutes. </p>
<p><strong>Do something around the house.</strong> Sweep the floor, organize a file. Sometimes just clearing some clutter is enough to get you moving and feeling productive. That productive feeling then can be transferred towards your creative flow.</p>
<p>Feeling more energized? Feel like you might be able to do something now? Are you still churning on something that&#8217;s bothering you? If you&#8217;re getting some hardcore emotional things coming up that physical movement isn&#8217;t helping to clear, then you may need to turn your attention to your emotions. </p>
<p>If you&#8217;re angry, it may have helped to channel that angry energy into physical activity. I&#8217;ve found anger and anxiety are especially remedied by organizing and cleaning. </p>
<p><strong>Chunk it down.</strong> Once you&#8217;re ready to do something, do something small but important. Don&#8217;t add to your stress by taking on a massive project and attempting to do it all at once. Break it down into workable steps. Make a list, and prioritize the action items. Do one thing that you know you can do, that you know is important.</p>
<p><strong>Ask for help.</strong> Whether you ask your higher self, a guide, a friend, a relative, or a mentor, help is available to you. You are never as alone as you think you are, even in your darkest hour. Be persistent in seeking the help you need.</p>
<p><strong>Above all, be patient.</strong> If you were delayed on a trip, and that delay meant you missed an opportunity for an accident, you&#8217;d be grateful for the delay&#8230; if only you knew. Sometimes a setback is happening for a reason you cannot understand or comprehend. A delay or block might be exactly what you need in order for other events to line up in a more perfect manner.</p>
<p><strong>Persistence pays off.</strong> Some people advocate looking for the easiest way to do something. Sometimes the hardest way pays off more. The more blocks you can break through, the more fears you can dissipate, and the more challenges you can meet, the more you will succeed where others have given up.</p>
<p>I was watching my daughter learn how to jump on to our bed last night. It&#8217;s too tall for her&#8230; but she kept at it. She failed a LOT more times than she succeeded in the beginning. I helped her a few times. And then, something clicked for her and she made it up quite a few times in a row on her own. Her persistence paid off. From her perspective, she had many blocks to achieving this seemingly small feat, including her very valid fear of falling. </p>
<p>While achieving your goals of expressing your highest ideal is a reward, you&#8217;ll find a greater reward in confronting and overcoming any block that appears to stand in your way. Whether real or imagined, they&#8217;re part of the illusion we&#8217;re playing in. </p>
<p>My <a href="http://www.subliminalclearing.com/">Subliminal Clearing: Z+ Advanced Ho&#8217;oponopono</a> program talks about these illusions. It&#8217;s helped many people move past blocks and discover their power from a higher level. I&#8217;ll have more information on clearing blocks using the latest state-of-the-art techniques soon.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;No Gracias&#8221; Lessons from Mexico, continued</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you visit Mexico, you&#8217;ll learn to say, &#8220;No, gracias.&#8221; You&#8217;ll need to say it&#8230; A LOT. In the United States, people beg for handouts. In Mexico, people beg you to buy something from them. You can either ignore them, or you can say, &#8220;No, gracias.&#8221; The Mexican vendors are quite good at catching your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you visit Mexico, you&#8217;ll learn to say, &#8220;No, gracias.&#8221; You&#8217;ll need to say it&#8230; A LOT.</p>
<p>In the United States, people beg for handouts. In Mexico, people beg you to buy something from them. You can either ignore them, or you can say, &#8220;No, gracias.&#8221; The Mexican vendors are quite good at catching your attention. They&#8217;re smiling, engaging, and asking great questions to bring your awareness to what they&#8217;re selling. </p>
<p>At first, I felt terrible for saying no so much. While I can be quite a smart aleck, I also consider myself a healer. Being nice to people is a part of who I am. Saying no abruptly and walking away felt uncomfortable. Discomfort is a sign that I can learn and get past some of my possibly limiting beliefs about myself, and learn to become more flexible. When I was younger, I didn&#8217;t like these uncomfortable feelings. Now, I relish the opportunity they present to grow.</p>
<p>As I walked down the street, I wanted to say &#8220;yes&#8221; to the smiling, inviting people, but I also knew if I was going to make it down the street for a quick lunch and back to work quickly, I would have to say, &#8220;No gracias,&#8221; many times. </p>
<p>I did it. And I didn&#8217;t like it. </p>
<p>Why did I feel bad? These people were infringing on my space as I walked down the street. It should have been easy to say no. I sat with it&#8230; walked with it&#8230; saying &#8220;No, gracias,&#8221; many times. </p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t long before a little girl about 7 came up to my table at the restaurant with some toys around her wrist and blew this little whistle and said $1 please. There were signs all around that said please do not give the children money, as it encourages them and it is something Mexico is trying to stop. As I looked at her in the eyes, my heart was pulled. It&#8217;s only a dollar, I thought. And then i heard my friend Oh Be who was sitting across from me say, &#8220;No Gracias&#8221; and she looked at him and her sweet look turned sour on him and then she looked back at me with those eyes. I heard myself say &#8220;No Gracias&#8221; and her look turned sour on me as she walked away. This kid at 7 was already a pro&#8230; &#8220;nothing, personal mister.&#8221; I was thankful for her sour look as it made the rejection I passed her way a bit easier. She wasn&#8217;t going to be devastated by my rejection.</p>
<p>I considered why this bothered me so much, and what I came up with was that I really thought these folks would be devastated by my &#8220;no.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here was an illusion, my fantasy that i was torturing myself with. It wasn&#8217;t true. I realized I was projecting past instances in which I had devastated someone by a rejection into the present situation. </p>
<p>How cool I get to now get over this and get a more healthy view of what &#8220;No&#8221; means. At the same time, I don&#8217;t want to become like some people I know who take pleasure in &#8220;No&#8221; and rejecting people. I would have 17 days to find my happy medium in this live classroom of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.</p>
<p>It became much easier to say no or just ignore the most aggressive people. It even became easier to say no to the children.</p>
<p>One of the challenges I gave myself was to figure out how to say &#8220;Yes&#8221; while saying &#8220;No&#8221;.</p>
<p>It was easier with the kids&#8230;it always is isn&#8217;t it. <img src='http://www.markjryan.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>My practice was to look at them deeply as the spiritual being that they are&#8230; lovingly with a smile and verbally say &#8220;No.&#8221;  However, my challenge was to hold them in a spiritual place and say &#8220;Yes.&#8221; In a sense I was saying no and wrapping it in a great big &#8220;Yes&#8221; acknowledging them for who they really are.</p>
<p>While a bit more difficult with the adults&#8230;i decided to start with fun. I would say &#8221; No Gracias&#8221; while waving my hands with the gestyre of  &#8220;No&#8221; well before I even got close to them and they had started their presentation to me. This one really seemed to stop them and interrupt their pattern.</p>
<p>I also would say &#8220;Manana&#8221; (meaning tomorrow, or not today) before I even got to them&#8230;or when they would ask my to look at their wares. Most would just look at me with a blank stare, except the guys trying to sell fishing adventures, they wanted to sign me up tomorrow. Most folks wanted a sale now, the fishing guys were primed for tomorrow. Same with the golf and dinner cruise hawkers.</p>
<p>Next, I tried to say &#8220;Si&#8221; (Yes) to everyone, smile and keep walking. This confused them as well. I learned this one from a friend of mine years ago. Jerry would get all excited about what folks were trying to hawk him and act like he was going to buy and just keep walking. I never liked him doing it, and here I was trying it myself. I still didn&#8217;t like the effect.</p>
<p>I tried ignoring everyone. This worked well&#8230;but I was so inside myself in order to do this that I was missing my external world more than I liked. I could see how I could get used to it. I knew many narcissists and a few sociopaths who used this pattern most of the time. It is good to know I can do it and was glad to get back out of that pattern.</p>
<p>Ultimately I came around to a blend of all of them. My unconscious mind seemed to now have many choices on how to deal with it best with each individual. I grew beyond my one possible response, and I discovered  the freedom of many responses for many situations.</p>
<p>Towards the end of my stay, I noticed that I was not getting approached as much anymore&#8230;not nearly the same. I wondered if it was because the recognized the same gringo playing different  games with them each time they approached me and decided to give up.</p>
<p>Or maybe there was a different look I had that they recognized as someone who knew what they wanted and they decided to save their breath. I like to think this is the reason. I do think it is a bit of both.<br />
I want to thank the people in Mexico for helping me to expand who I am and being able to say &#8220;No&#8221; and &#8220;Yes&#8221; in many  new ways. It cleared something in me similar to what sales did for me.</p>
<p>Now i did buy stuff while there&#8230;and a few people had extraodinary way of getting into both Oh Be and myself to say &#8220;Yes&#8221; and buy when we wanted to say &#8220;No.&#8221;</p>
<p>I will talk about those lessons in Part two or &#8220;No Gracias&#8221;</p>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s a Mexican Deal&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When living in Texas years ago, my good friend Wesley used to say, &#8220;It&#8217;s a Mexican deal,&#8221; about anything that didn&#8217;t make much sense or looked dangerous&#8230; or even a repair job done poorly. A car with a coat hanger rigged up to hold the door closed? &#8220;Mexican deal.&#8221; A car painted three different colors? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When living in Texas years ago, my good friend Wesley used to say, &#8220;It&#8217;s a Mexican deal,&#8221; about anything that didn&#8217;t make much sense or looked dangerous&#8230; or even a repair job done poorly. A car with a coat hanger rigged up to hold the door closed? &#8220;Mexican deal.&#8221; A car painted three different colors? &#8220;Mexican deal.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.markjryan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/rigged-car-trunk.jpg"><img src="http://www.markjryan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/rigged-car-trunk-300x195.jpg" alt="" title="It&#039;s a Mexican Deal" width="300" height="195" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-426" /></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen similar pictures on posts saying &#8220;only in Russia&#8230;&#8221; </p>
<p>I used to feel bad that the Mexican&#8217;s were the brunt of everything that Wes deemed poorly done.</p>
<p>A few weeks ago, I was in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for 17 days. It was business with a little pleasure. Cabo is like wealthy American culture and poor Mexican culture mixed together. I loved it, personally. But every so often, I would run into something that made me think of Wesley.</p>
<p>On the first day, my friend Oh Be and I decided to take to the streets and see what Cabo was all about.<br />
As we were walking, Oh Be stopped me and said be careful. As I looked down, there were four huge bolts meant to hold a light pole sticking out of the ground ready to be tripped over. It was so glaring of something you just wouldn&#8217;t see in the United States. If you did, it would be marked with orange barricades to protect people, likely because of insurance and law suits. Oh Be mused to me that the insurance laws must be different here. I agreed and said I had better pay more attention and be responsible for myself more as there aren&#8217;t any insurance companies doing it for me to keep from being liable. Then I said it: &#8220;It&#8217;s a Mexican deal.&#8221;  Oh Be smiled and asked me what I meant. </p>
<p>Over the 17 days we were there, we saw a lot of things just as bad and some things even worse. I really had to be vigilant depending on where I was in order to ensure I didn&#8217;t get hurt. Some places it was just right as rain. Then I would let my guard down somewhat and run into another thing that could be dangerous. </p>
<p>There was this one corner on a nice street that had a small three foot wall and on top of that wall were these steel spikes that look like large steel arrows. If someone was walking too fast and slipped or tripped onto the wall&#8230;they would be seriously hurt and impaled. If someone fell on them they would have to be surgically removed from this wall of arrow heads. I thought of a child climbing up&#8230; well I won&#8217;t continue the thought. It was just crazy!  It was a &#8220;Mexican deal,&#8221;  both Oh Be and I said as we laughed together.</p>
<p>Over 17 days we were saying it all the time.</p>
<p>In the United States, I may have complained to someone about all these blatant dangers&#8230; but in Mexico&#8230; it would do me no good.</p>
<p>I learned a few important lessons from this.</p>
<p>When the onus of responsibility was on me and there was no one to blame or insurance companies to fall back on, I started looking out for myself more knowing there wasn&#8217;t anyone to blame but me myself. I liked this. It really felt good. I recognized somewhere in me that it was like life was supposed to be somehow. </p>
<p>I became more present in my body knowing there wasn&#8217;t a nanny state to take care of me if i fell or hurt myself.  I teach 100% responsibility to my coaching clients, so finding another place where I can learn to take this responsibility back from where I gave it away. It is nice to discover these places and take back my power.</p>
<p>After 17 days we were saying the phrase almost automatically and laughing. I started to understand Wes a bit more. He wasn&#8217;t really making fun of Mexican People. He was just noting how they do stuff in Mexico compared to the U.S. Wes and his father had spent a lot of time in Mexico border towns. When Wes and his father said it to each other, there didn&#8217;t need to be a big long conversation or a big upset. Once they said it &#8220;its a Mexican Deal&#8221; they seemed to just let it go with an acceptance that it would be futile to complain or get upset. It&#8217;s just the way it is.</p>
<p>I was practicing &#8220;Letting go&#8221; in a new way&#8230;i was practicing &#8220;acceptance&#8221; in a new way&#8230;and so often that it felt good and tickled me inside&#8230;it was a relief.</p>
<p>I liked practicing the idea that there was nothing I could do about it. In the US, I seemed to be stuck on fixing it&#8230;or getting someone to do something about it. In Mexico there were so many of these things in a city block that I went into overwhelm and transmuted the energy into something much more friendly and something that was now giving me humor for upset&#8230;&#8221;It&#8217;s a Mexican deal.&#8221;</p>
<p>As Oh Be and i landed in Phoenix to go through customs (I got caught by a most adorable Beagle trying to smuggle a Gala Apple from A Mexican Costco that originated in the USA..back into the USA), we had to walk about a half a mile around the airport to get back to the exact same gate and exact same plane to catch our connection to Sacramento. We were tired and I was complaining about the long walk and why couldn&#8217;t they make it more efficient&#8230;Oh Be looked at me with a twinkle in his eye and a smile and said &#8220;Its a Mexican Deal.&#8221; We both laughed and again the energy was transmuted.</p>
<p>Why not bring it back to the USA? Why not bring it with you everywhere?</p>
<p>PS  Oh Be and I love the Mexican people. We made some incredible friends. We love the attitude the people have and the big hearts we found in abundance. I can see myself spending much more time with them in the future.</p>
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