Inner Genius: Your Left Brain and Your Right Brain

Your brain has two parts:

1.    Your left brain:  All the knowledge and reasoning you have accumulated experientially and academically. This includes your organizational skills and  analytical skills.

2.    Your right brain:  Your creative, imaginative and holistic side.

One side of the brain is not more valuable than the other side of the brain although you probably have a tendency towards one side of your brain. It is important to note that the goal here is to have whole brain synergy. When you have both parts of your brain working in cooperation and concert you produce wonderful results.

If you are a left brained analytical person, make sure you take time on a regular basis to be creative and to appreciate music. If you are a right brained person, you may want to read more and listen to audios more often. Activate your analytical side.

We all tend to be a little too rigid. The left brainers think the right brainers are airey fairey and are not smart and the right brainers can be rather condescending to detailed analysis and sequential thinking. However, both parts are in all of us and we honor our Inner Genius when we support both sides of our brain and when we are more aware of which side we are leaning towards.

Inner Genius: Your Spiritual Connection

This is your spiritual and non-physical consciousness. This is sacred. Regardless of your religious background, we can agree to this mysterious connection that we all have with Source, Universe, The Divine, God, Divine Intelligence and whatever name you may choose. Inviting the sacred into your daily life and tapping into that Universal Intelligence has to be a part of your daily life to design the life that you want.

To be fully awakened, your Spiritual connection is mysterious, loving, life giving and full of liberty.

Inner Genius: Your Somatic Body

Your somatic body is your physical being and chakra system.  Your body is also intuitive. It speaks to you. You feel a lot of feelings in your body but you may not be aware of it. The Chakra system is an Ancient Sanskrit tradition that addresses the flow of energy in the body. Each of the seven chakras speak to where emotions can lodge in your body energetically. As you understand the seven chakras, you will understand the wonderful hidden messages that your body is communicating to you.

Your chakras are displayed in the diagram and each part corresponds to critical components of our lives that we may often overlook.

This is not an indepth study of the Chakras. However, regardless of your spiritual background, it is important to study the body and how it holds energy. Prolonged stress, fear and negative thinking have a negative impact on the corresponding chakra. Allowing negative emotions to flow through the body and discharge is important to your emotional  health.

Inner Genius: Your Emotional Heart

Your emotional heart: This is the center of your feelings. Your emotions are a guidance system. They are not who you are.  We tend to identify the sum total of who we are by our emotional expression. We say, “he is an angry man.” However, anger is an indicative emotion.

Our negative emotions are there to let us know that whatever we have experienced is not positive and does not help us. However, many of us hold on to negative emotions and identify ourselves with those emotions.

Our positive emotions are to us as sunlight is to plants and flowers. Our positive state is our natural setting. We are meant to be happy and to feel good. When we feel good, our bodies are healthier and others are happier around us.

Listening to your emotions and factoring how you feel and how you want to feel in designing the life that you want is a powerful tool.

Your emotions are a guidance system that is part of the whole of you. As you pay attention to your Inner Geniu, you will learn to harness the power of your emotions and create more positive results in your life.

Your Inner Genius

Welcome to your Inner Genius.

Your Inner Genius is the interaction of five areas of your life. As you become aware of these five areas of yourself, you will find that you have more control of your life than you realize. As you develop awareness of these areas and focus on creating synergy with these parts of yourself, you will increase your vibration exponentially.

The five parts of your Inner Genius are:

1.    Your left brain: your analytical side.

2.    Your right brain:  your creative, imaginative and holistic side.

3.    Your emotional heart.

4.    Your somatic body.

5.    Your spiritual side.

The benefits of activating and living from your Inner Genius is that you take responsibility for your life and control your outcomes and manifest miracles in your life.

Read further in this category to find out more about each of these parts of you.

Success: Prosperity Affirmation

SUCCESS: Prosperity Affirmation

Law of Attraction in the Classroom

My client wrote this blog post anonymously to protect the identities of her students. Some background information: As a teacher, she experiences such a high level of success. Her life is as close to perfect as it can be in that arena. So we have pulled her patterns from the successful areas and worked on replicating them in other areas of her life.

A challenge recently came up for her in teaching where she had very good clean energy. As she turned the corner from a place of strength in this area, it has spilled over into other areas of her life and she is gaining mastery over all areas of her life by using the Law of Attraction as a core self leadership skill.

Here goes……

Hello all,

Iyabo, my fabulous coach, asked me to share my law of attraction success story with you. So here goes!

First, a quick bit of background. I am in my fourth year of teaching kindergarten. Over the summer, I swapped school districts and moved into an at-risk school. Even though my heart was telling me this was the right move, I had many people warn me about the kind of students I would encounter. I knew I had to get my vibe right in order to prove them wrong. All summer long, with the help of Iyabo, I envisioned my perfect classroom. Kind, well-behaved students. Friendly, helpful parents. A colorful, well-funded classroom. When August rolled around, I found myself living my vision. Everything was perfect.

My co-workers were experiencing the exact opposite. Their students were (can I say this?) nightmares. In the hallways, my students followed behind me like perfect little ducklings. The other teachers looked like they were trying to herd chickens whose heads had been chopped off. (In fact, when I found myself low on caffeine, I may have visualized chopping off a few of their heads myself.) On the playground, my students played cooperative games while the other teachers’ students cooperatively tortured one another. One child in particular really drove everyone nuts.  He had been diagnosed with ADHD, and his mother made the decision not to treat it.

This kid made the other kids look like the baby Jesus. He was aggressive, violent, angry and compulsive. My first experience with C went something like this- He broke a rule. I asked him to “take a break.” He apparently heard me wrong and tried to break my leg. He punched me, spit at me, and rattled off some words I will be kind enough not to repeat here.

I went home thanking God that this kid wasn’t in my class.

On Friday, November 7th, I was notified by my principal that he was being moved into my room. I then began visualizing chopping off her head.

Over the weekend, I calmed down a bit. I had a coaching call with Iyabo that really turned things around. She reminded me that a five-year-old can’t really be evil. We got to work turning my vibe around so that this kid wouldn’t be met Monday morning with my negative energy. I began to visualize him fitting right in with the rest of my wonderful ones, paying attention, using polite words, learning to problem-solve. I went to bed early Sunday night (if I am sleep-deprived, my best intentions fly out the window). On my way to work on Monday, I prayed.

I told God that I truly believed this child was His, and that I knew God wasn’t looking down at this little boy thinking, “Man, what a brat.” I was. So I asked God to help me see C through His eyes. I then started affirming that we were going to have a great day. I pictured each part of the day, and I saw this little boy enjoying himself while following the rules.

Before he came over from the other class, I talked to my class. I told him how much I believed C would be successful in our class. I told them that he might need some help, and that we might need to be patient while he learned all of the rules and routines. (I also gave them permission to remind me to be patient if I needed it!) When he walked into my class, I greeted him enthusiastically with a genuine smile. Throughout the day, I explained to him what would happen next and what would be expected of him. I said things like, “I’m excited to see you walk down the hall quietly.” “Remind me what it will look like when I am talking and you are being a respectful listener.”

One of our biggest issues with C had been getting him to line up with the other kids when recess was over. I told him on the way outside, “I trust that you will line up when the whistle blows.” Well, when I blew the whistle, C (stuck in his role of the “bad” kid) would not line up. This did not fit in with my vision of what I wanted, so I ignored it completely. I lined my kids up, went inside, and buzzed the office. I let them know that he was outside, and they brought him back to my class. I went right into the lesson like nothing ever happened.

When the second recess rolled around, I took his hand and walked him to the pre-k playground, a much-smaller, “uncool” version of our playground. He was quite surprised. I told him calmly that until he earned my trust, he would have to play on the small playground. He wasn’t too happy, but he eventually played and when recess was over, we held hands while we walked into the building. I said, “C, next time I blow that whistle, what will you do?” His answer? “RUN FOR IT!” And that is exactly what he has done every time since.

It hasn’t been perfect, but I am telling you, this is amazing stuff. All throughout the day, I keep picturing him being successful. When he makes a mistake, I put all of my energy into the solution instead of the problem. I ignore the “bad” and seek out the good. And I am telling you, this kid’s energy has shifted to match mine. He has not been aggressive once. He is laughing, smiling, and learning.

My co-workers give me curious looks, looks that probably mean they are questioning what I’m putting in his Kool-aid. I just smile. Maybe one day soon I will tell them about the law of attraction and how I used it to turn this situation around. In the meantime, I’m just enjoying my little ducklings.

-L

P.S. Here is a list of the strategies I’m using with ALL of my kids, both regular ed. and special services, to get them out of the role of “the problem kid” and into “star student.”

1. Lots of smiles, winks, high-fives, and hugs.
2. At the beginning of each day, every child is greeted by another student with eye contact and a smile. We then play a community-building game in which there are no winners and losers. For greeting and game ideas, go to http://www.originsonline.org and go to Activity Central. You can sort by grade level.
3. At the end of each day, we name one thing we saw each child do that helped make our classroom community better- being a good listener, sharing, using words to solve a problem, drawing a picture for a friend, etc. We then do a little cheer.
4. Every child has an important job. I try to give kids jobs that get them out of their “bad identity.” For example, the kid who is known as being irresponsible might be given the job of taking messages to different parts of the school. (I might let the office know ahead of time to expect them!) The child who seems to only care about himself would be given the job of caregiver- getting an ice pack or a band-aid for a hurt child.
5. My students know that they can put themselves into “Take a Break.” I put myself in the break chair when I feel myself getting frustrated. I model taking deep breaths and getting back in control before rejoining the group. I’m amazed that five-year-olds can do this, but they all do!
6. We move- a lot! Five-year-olds may need to physically get their feelings out before they can concentrate, so we take a lot of mini dance breaks. If the weather is nice, we walk around the outside of the school once or twice before settling in for a math lesson.
7. I randomly send postcards to my kids’ homes, telling them about something great I have noticed in them.
8. If a child is having a particularly rough day, I will find a moment when they are doing something good (it may be very small and seemingly insignificant) and pull them over to tell them I notice. Then I will sing them a song (A You’re Adorable is a favorite) or read them the book of their choice.
9. If I notice several students starting to get off track during a particular time of day, I call a class meeting. Recently we had a meeting because they were starting to play instead of listen to directions. We made a chart showing what a good listener “looks like, feels like, and sounds like.”
10. I have two signs up in my room that keep me going. The first says, “Focus on what you want, not what you don’t want.” (Totally LOA!) The other says “All children want to be good.”
11. Biggest, most important one- I am learning to stay in my business and take care of my energy first. I have to be emitting good vibes in order for my kids to do the same.

Your Financial Blueprint

The same way your fingerprint is your own unique non-duplicate individual reflection of who you are, your financial blueprint is yours template for how you relate to money. No matter what you try to change on the exterior, you will never have the kind of relationship with money that you want unless you change the template that determines your relationship with money.

Sometimes we may feel broke and sense a lot of financial lack in our lives but your lack may not have anything to do with actual dollars and cents.

It may be something not related to finances.

It may be related to something totally different.

For instance, my client E. E had a long history of feeling abandoned by everyone around her. She was happily married but she still felt lonely and often had arguments with her husband that severely disintegrated the nature of their relationship. As she identified the energy of abandonment within her, she made a commitment to heal the wounds that her thoughts about abandonment had created within her.

Then she was surprised when I asked her to appreciate the abandonment and see which ways it had served her.

As she observed how often it had come up in her life, she realized that she pushed people away because she felt her needs were too much for others to handle. She realized that she did not want to risk being vulnerable with people because if she was not vulnerable, she would not get hurt.

Well, instead of not getting hurt by being too vulnerable to others, she was hurt by allowing the flow of abandonment in her life which hurt equally.

She realized that her feelings of abandonment were really a reflection of how she had abandoned herself as she did not trust that she could create warm loving relationships. As she allowed herself to love those parts of herself that felt abandoned, one day she had an image in her mind as to how she had done the same thing with money.

She had pushed money away not wanting to be abandoned by money.

As we worked on her healing the theme of abandonment in her energy pattern, and she allowed love to flow evenly in her life, her relationship with money opened up and she received more money flow in her life.

The law of attraction says what we focus on expands. Many times, we do not realize that we are focused on things that are anti what we want. That is why what we want does not show up in our lives.

How can you heal your financial blueprint?

What themes show up in different areas of your life?

What would your authentic financial blueprint look like?

Job, Career or Calling

I found this video from the Institute of Neotic Sciences. I absolutely loved it.

Now tell me, are you working at a job, a career or a calling? Please let me know. How can you transform your job into a calling? How can you transform your career into a calling? I went through the complete transformation of job as a lawyer to a career as I opened and maintained my own private law firm for fourteen years. Now, that I am a life coach, I truly experience my calling daily. I could not answer this question years ago like I can now. Are you in a career that does not feel fully satisfying? Do you feel there is something more? Have you even considered that your career and your calling may have absolutely nothing to do with each other?

Ride the wave!

Check out this awesome wave! I am struck by how far people will go to pursue their own passion and genius.

Please leave a comment.

Thanks,

Iyabo