Think Big! FREE VideoCast April 22

Think Big!

FREE Video-Cast

with Genie Z. Laborde, Ph.D.

DATE: Wednesday
April 22, 2009

TIME: 11am Pacific
(12pm Mountain, 1pm Central, 2pm Eastern)

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Inspire Yourself With a New Story for These Stressful Times

How to Change Your Internal Tapes

FREE Video-Cast

with Genie Z. Laborde, Ph.D.

DATE: Wednesday
April 15, 2009

TIME: 11am Pacific
(12pm Mountain, 1pm Central, 2pm Eastern)

Most, maybe all of us, create an on-going story of our life's experiences. These could be called our own "Personal Myths." These stories add the "why's" and "how's" of what goes on in our collective and separate lives. Our moment to moment perceptions are coded in our brains, then we assign meanings based on these myths. What we tell ourselves about our see, hear, smell, taste, and feel data, dictates our reality. We create a reality that reflects and reinforces our stories.

You can change your myth. You can edit certain passages. We will demonstrate with our audience. It is a fascinating way to let go of anxiety now.

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Turn Off Painful Memories

FREE Video-Cast

with Genie Z. Laborde, Ph.D.

DATE: Wednesday
April 8, 2009

TIME: 11am Pacific
(12pm Mountain, 1pm Central, 2pm Eastern)

NeuroScientists have just published their discovery of PKM zeta, the molecules in the brain that control memory. Called "quick dial function" molecules, these can be turned off by an injection of ZIP, right into the brain. They tested this on rats, but humans are on the future schedule.

If the idea of a shot of ZIP into your brain doesn't ring your bell, join us on Wednesday and I will show you how to do this memory erasing with the "Magic in Your Own Brain."

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IDEA Trainer Gives Her Insider’s Vew of the AIG Bonus Question

I have been following the AIG story very closely, having worked in financial services for 36 years and also having many friends who currently work at AIG. This is my opinion about this very unfortunate situation.
First, this crisis at AIG was caused by its Financial Services Division. AIG is comprised of literally hundreds of divisions, most of them focused on the insurance business and are highly profitable and very strong. The Financial Services Division is only a very small part of AIG. Unfortunately, this division sold two highly risky products: Credit Default Swaps and Securities Lending. Both of these products were adversely impacted by the melt down of the mortgage industry.
What brought AIG down was this one unit that did financial services business, much like an investment bank. This business was not well controlled, either by the company or by the U.S. Government through strong regulation, and got in way over their heads insuring the collateralized mortgage obligations of many other banks all over the world….that was the credit default swap business…and when the mortgage bubble burst, AIG was caught holding the bag.
A Credit Default Swap is like an insurance policy bought by other financial institutions to insure against losses from deals they engage in. The Credit Default Swaps that AIG sold were protecting other banks like UBS and Barclay’s against credit losses from collateralized debt obligations supported by mortgages.
Securities Lending is when securities are lent to third parties and collateralized by, in the case of AIG, residential mortgage backed securities. Again, when the mortgage industry melted down, AIG was obligated to make good on these transactions, and was caught holding the bag. But this probably helped prevent many banks from failing, which would have brought down the entire financial system around the world.
I believe that it is true that if AIG had been allowed to fail it would have had a catastrophic impact on the world economy. They insure every aspect of international commerce as well as individual life, auto, home and other insurance policies and retirement annuities all over the world. They employ hundreds of thousands of people all over the world.
AIG is being held up in the glare of politics and media attention as being a villian. In fact, there are many good, decent and highly competent people working at AIG today, many of whom have worked there all their working lives and have lost a lot of what they were counting on for their retirement and many of them will be losing their jobs with little hope of recovering their retirement nest eggs. This is an enormous tragedy.
I understand the outrage being expressed over the bonuses, and those who are responsible for the debacle probably should not have been given the bonuses, but let us not forget that there are many, many others who have worked very hard to earn these bonuses and deserve them. And, they will pay hefty income taxes on this money. And this money will be spent and will be part of the economic stimulus so badly needed by our country and all over the world.
Let’s remember “Maps of Reality” and that we are all connected in one way or another. It doesn’t do any good to kick people when they are down and the same goes for the good people of AIG.

Carol Colone is an Influencing wih Integrity certified trainer and a retired Human Resources Business Partner, JPMorgan Chase.

Genie's Mgic Lamp: Erase Non-Useful Fears

Fear is the hidden bandit behind the present economic crisis. If most of us were not walking around apprehensive about the financial situation then business could return to normal and we could get on with our lives. This kind of nagging fear saps our energy, stunts our creativity, and stops us from taking even small risks.

There is no fear in your Right Brain so if you check out your fear by subjecting it to Right Brain scrutiny, it shrinks.

You can shrink fear right out of existence by using the awareness of fear as a trigger to turn the Right Brain on.

How?

1. Awareness of fear: look it over carefully
2. Look around you and notice three objects, in succession
3. Check out three separate body sensations
4. View the fear again. Note the shrinkage.

If you teach this intervention named Genie’s Magic Lamp
to 5 people and ask them to teach it to 5 more people, we could solve the financial crisis within four weeks.

Jill Taylor's insights about the brain change everything

Today I did a presentation on the effect on me of of Dr. Jill Taylor's stroke and her analysis of what went on in her brain during this catastrophic event. Her words changed my perception forever..or at least for the rest of this life time. The idea that the right brain processes information in a parallel manner (all data all at once) while the left brain organizes data sequentially has me almost shivering with excitement.

Of course, she's right, and this explains many of the mysteries about how we act as we do. It is quite simple really. No, it's not simple. It only seems to be at first glance. You might say that all the good stuff about humans (hope, spiritual insights, morality, kindness, connection, compasion, co-operation) resides in right brain processing, but that, of course is not true. It takes the left brain to carry out these impulses (even though the left brain is full of fear, jealousy, lies, deceit, immoral behavior, justification, etc). Actually, we need both brains working to be fully functional. It would be nice if most of our energy was funneled to the right brain. Or we evenly balanced both sides of our different brains. Freud was wrong in his divisions. It is left brain, right brain all the way. Watch Dr. Jill's video again.

WHY CONSCIOUS COMMUNICATION WORKS BETTER THAN HYPNOSIS OR UNCONSCIOUS COMMUNICATION

Sigmund Freud divided the brain into parts. Frederick Perls, the Father of Gestalt Psychology, divided it into Top Dog and Under Dog. Modern brain scientists tell us there is a left brain and a right brain. Being a student of Psychology, I’ve learned all the different names for brain and mind and their attributes. After all this and 25 years of teaching business people to use their minds more effectively, I now think of the mind, not the brain. The mind seems to be bigger and yet, include the brain and all its magical powers.

Because business is goal oriented, the effectiveness factor of the skills we teach is a good selling point for our seminars. Recently I’ve found some web sites that are recommending hypnotic techniques for your business dealings. Before you try these hypnotic techniques ( and get clobbered for your efforts) there is something practical you should know about the way the mind works.

I agree with Freud that we all have a conscious mind, a sub-conscious mind, and an unconscious mind. The conscious mind is the one that knows our identity, that can remember the past, and imagine our future. The one we are using here and now. The subconscious knows our phone number, the address of our office, where we parked our car, and all the memory items we are not using at this moment, here and now. But may need to recall quickly. The unconscious is simply everything else that is in the mind or available to the mind. It holds our memories, our conclusions and beliefs from those memories and the sensory data of the experiences that created the memories.

Communicating to the conscious mind is easy, communicating with the unconscious is difficult and tricky. Hypnotic techniques are designed to communicate with the unconscious mind and go around, jump over, by pass, the conscious mind. Sales people view the conscious mind as the policeman, the nay sayer, the blocker to closing the deal. They believe hypnosis will silence this policeman and convince the unconscious, which they think of as kind of stupid, but vulnerable to their hypnotic skills. They are making a grave mistake here. The conscious mind does not guard the gate at every moment, but it shows up often enough to be an important component to any sales deal. Hypnosis promises, but does not deliver.

The problem is that sooner or later, the unconcscious mind and the conscious mind do get together, and communicate with each other. That’s why in California, you can return the car you bought on Saturday to the dealer on Monday and he has to cancel the contract. The conscious mind woke up and communicated. That’s one reason not to use hypnotic techniques. You need to get buy-in from both the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. Then you’ve got a deal.
Now, for therapy, hypnosis is quite safe and effective. The therapist knows all the ins and outs of both the conscious and the unconscious minds and gets buy-in from both for the therapy to be successful. The unethical business person or sales person does not know how to do this, and believes he can trick the person into doing what s/he wants. In some cases the novice hypnotist actually thinks s/he knows what’s best for the other and is actually not trying to take advantage, just to get the other to do what the manipulator wants. No one knows what’s best for someone else, once the someone else reaches around 12 years of age, so do not fool yourself with this belief. Unless you are a therapist, take up another hobby. Drop hypnosis. It has a bad smell from being mis-used by crooks, manipulators, and deceit artists.