January 2011 – Page 2

Two Choices

by David

Famous Quotivations # 8 – Jan 7 , 2011 [display_podcast]

duality in graphic form — Human duality means two in one

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart. – Marilyn vos Savant

For over two thousand years it has been observed that there is a serious division that exists in humans.

It’s the issue of duality.

Underscored in this duality is the fact that each one of us consists of two realities, our physical and our ethereal natures.

Now I don’t want to geek anyone out here but in the big picture we see a reflection of this dual nature in all matter found in the universe. It appears to either have the behavior of a wave or as a particle.

Personally I have a lot of respect for this duality. I support it in my work everyday where we help people acquire the perspective to deal with the dilemma described in today’s quote.

We do this by providing a way for anyone to observe a part of their ethereal nature by using a part of their physical nature.

Like all of us you may have been faced with indecision. Which way to turn? Left or right?

Your head is a talker and not always a very soft quiet one either. It’s boisterous and likes to loudly promote it’s own agenda. The heart on the other hand is often soft spoken and subtle. It just quietly suggests a course of action that you might like to take.

If the head holds sway you might be seen as selfish. If the heart get’s its way you might look like a pushover.

But as adults, when the day is done, all we’re left with is the realization that we must muster the courage to live with whatever choices we make be it head or heart.

Personally, I try to choose to go with the heart most of the time. It’s more considerate of others and eventually it comes back in spades.

Until next time … consider your self quotivated.

Placebo Mystery

by David

From time to time I rant on about how I believe that getting good advice from others is not always that great a idea. I usually wind up these rants by asking a question like this: “Do you need more advice or just more… immunity?”

What I’m saying is that whatever your decision is to do (or not do) a certain thing it has got to come out from inside of you anyway. The advice-giving “experts” are not as right as they would have you think.

I remember, back a few years ago, I somehow developed an immune system malfunction. Hyperthyroidism or “Graves disease” can be a serious problem and, if not treated in a timely way, it could even be fatal.

My doctor sent me straightaway to an endocrinologist for treatment and his idea was to apply the standard approach: a dose of radio-active iodine. It’s supposed to kill off a certain portion of the thyroid so that it can’t keep pouring so much of its hormones into the blood. Once they have that under control they give you synthetic hormone tablets which you must take for the rest of your life.

Now this treatment works for many people and I’m told it has saved lives. For me though it just didn’t feel right to actually have a radio-active tidbit inside my body. My dad, a doctor who had a busy practice for over 35 years, died of cancer not of old age. That’s not the plan I had in mind for myself.

A book titled “Blink” written by Malcolm Gladwell and published in 2007 is about a strange phenomenon that happens when someone get’s a “feeling” that something isn’t right and it turns out to be bang on.

In a way that’s sort of what happened with me except that the heightened and sustained belief that followed me for months and years after totally and absolutely had me convinced that I would be fine.

For treatment all I did during that time was to consume some high-grade supplements every day. The kind that you can’t buy in the health food store.

Now I don’t know if it was the placebo effect or what but as far as I’m concerned it doesn’t matter much. In the two years following my diagnosis the rapid weight loss abated, my energy and – factoring in for my age – a reasonable amount of my strength came back, and the best part I think is when my blood tests confirmed that everything had returned to normal all by itself.

Now I don’t suggest anyone should try this sort of thing and throw all caution to the wind. I was regularly monitoring things closleyby going to see my doctor and have my monthly blood tests read so that I knew I was making some progress.

Belief, especially if it’s triggered by tactile hard evidence is a very powerful thing. It can be used for good (as in my case) or it can be used for evil (sadly, we live in the age of the suicide bomber).

If my body’s immune system issue was corrected by something that triggered the mystery of what is known as the placebo effect then I think that’s something that should be looked at closer.

In my work on Mindset Immunity theory it certainly deserves some air time. I plan to do just that in my weekly webinars that I’m holding every Tuesday at 6PM Pacific.

You are welcome to join us for free. I’ll be putting up a special link here soon.

Until then…

More power to you.

Our Shiny History

by David

Mobius Monday Minute #9 – January 3, 2011

Memories of my first car going down the hiway — Memories may not be clear but they shine on - Photo: Morguefile

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I was listening to the radio the other day while I sipped my morning mocha. When a song came on that I recognized instantly as Neil Young’s “Long may you run”.

After it finished playing the announcer off-handedly mentioned that the song was about one of Young’s cars.

It surprised me. I never knew that.

Kinda made me think about the connections we make with things. I can certainly relate to what Youg must have been feeling when he wrote the lyrics to this song. I remember my first car. It was a Green 1962 MGA two-seater convertible sports car. Incidentally that’s the year mentioned in the song as the last year that he saw his car “alive”.

I was only nineteen back then when I first got it. I had a lot of good memories with it. It took me through my last two years of high school and through the accompanying summers. It was a wonderful time.

This car, despite it’s wonky mechanics, was at least a constant steady reality at a time of real change in my life. The biggest of course was when I moved out of my parent’s house for the first time. It took me to college in another city about 250 miles away and I remember running out of gas on the freeway that crossed the north end of the big city. I was only there for a few minutes when a tow truck pulled up in front of me on the shoulder of the road.

The driver got out and as I no sooner had described what my problem was he quickly took a gas can from his truck and was pouring i’s contents into my empty tank. He wouldn’t even take any money for it. Turns out he worked for the city and it was his job to keep things rolling on that busy stretch of highway.

Try that today eh? Good luck.

Lot’s was happening back then but, no matter what there was always that car.

But, just like the song says changes come and I eventually sold the car.

Funny isn’t it? How you can think of an inanimate object as some kind of important anchor point to memories long past their freshness date.

I don’t really know exactly how this ties in with my ongoing theme on this blog which usually talks about my theory of Mindset Immunity.

Perhaps it’s this admittedly very tangential refrain from the song itself:

“Although these changes have come.

With your chrome heart shining in the sun”

At least that’s how it is with the historical view of memory. The best one’s always shine on seemingly forever.

More power to you.