May 2011 - Mobiusman

Deep Self-Belief Test

by David

Mobius Monday Minute – May 30 , 2011

As you may know I’m very into examining the mechanisms behind our self-belief (or lack thereof). In my work I often find corresponding mirror-like operators in each of the two natures we humans have – the physical and the ethereal.

This duality thing is quite fascinating because it informs us of so many unique qualities that underscore the miracle of what it means to be human.

Case in point is the importance of the strength of our individual self-belief (ethereal body) and the level of glucose in our blood (physical body). Both seem to be indicators of the wellness of the systems that they are such a vital part of.

You probably know already that tests for blood glucose levels can be done by yourself at home using a glucose meter but what about a test for our own strength of self-belief?

I suppose a meter would be a cool thing to have for this too but that might be a bit of a tough thing to come up with since self-belief exists only in the domain of the ethereal.

Fortunately there is a reliable less outwardly mechanical way that helps give us an indication of the level of our deep self-belief and each of us already have it in our possession.

It’s the little known brain in the gut called the ‘enteric nervous system’.

Now, not everyone has heard that humans have another brain in their body besides the one in the head. Can’t say I’m surprised at that. I didn’t learn of it myself until 1996 and that was just by chance. A friend of mine had told me that there was an article on it in the New York Times science section.

It blew me away when I read it.

I had for years been trying to tell people that I thought there existed something like a base of operations for a motivational source that seemed to emanate from the gut area of the body. At the time there was a label in wide use back then calling this area the “solar plexus”. This seemed a descriptive term for it because it was recognized that there were a large mass of nerve fibers in this area that seemed to radiate out from a central area like the sun’s rays.

This description, although fancifully romantic, wasn’t very accurate medically. It was really just a boxing term for all the nerves identified in that area. It was Dr. Michael Gershon, it’s modern-day discoverer, who actually coined the more scientific term “enteric nervous system” for this unusual brain. ( In his book Gershon admits that he wasn’t the first one to actually discover this extra brain. He explains that the initial discovery was made 100 years earlier by two young British physiologists at London University – William Bayliss and Ernest Starling.)

So what’s the one thing that distinguishes this brain from the one in the head? Well, besides the obvious location differences it has one overriding feature: it’s a feeling brain not a thinking brain. It’s so good at feeling it can even sense things that would defy any scientific inquiry. It apparently can feel the presence of something in the ethereal (non-physical) plane.

Just to take the edge off that let’s just use the common vernacular and call it a “hunch”.

So, to test your personal self-belief all you need to do is tune in to and ‘see’ what your gut feels about your next big decision. Then, if you feel you can trust the direction it’s pointing you in (is it good or bad?) you should at least have some idea of which way to go.

Be warned though. Where it takes you to may not at first seem like a good thing. But remember, successful conclusions often come with long timelines. Of course, that’s why you need a sense of deep self-belief in the first place.

More power to you my friends.

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Quotius #4

by David

Each week I intend to dispatch my pent-up creativity by creating a new version of something I call a “quotius”. (Learn about the genesis of it here.)

“I’m glad I did… I wish I had.”

I’ve been around long to enough to have learned that life is all about living with the outcomes of our earlier decisions. We become one of two people:
• Someone who has true satisfaction in their accomplishment
• Someone who has regret for things they could have done but never did

For example, once I started down this road of research and discovery concerning human self-belief, I got to a point where there was no turning back. Didn’t matter how hard or difficult it got I kept working at it.

I was hooked.

My siblings thought I was crazy. I wasn’t making much money so they looked justified in their assessment whereas I didn’t.

This went on for decades but I couldn’t shake the truth of the clear vision I had before me. Now every time I work with someone who’s doing H.E.R.O. and they begin to realize that same truth in themselves that’s when I feel validated for taking the path that I did.

Happens every time.

If I have any regrets at all it’s that I didn’t start sooner. This is no truer than in my attempt at becoming a masterful writer. I always thought it would be too much work and, since I’m a bit lazy and get distracted easily, the river of time continued to flow by and now at age sixty two I really need to just get on with it.

Although to this day I have not yet produced an actual book at least I do have one in the works now (and, yes, it is as tough as I thought when you first start doing it).

Years ago I was of the mind that believed that there was a lot of things I couldn’t do. That there are things that just can’t be done (at least by me).

I didn’t have the university degree
I didn’t have the money
I didn’t have the gift of oratory
I wasn’t an effective enough communicator
(and on and on…)

I’ve managed to perish most of those old ideas. They really aren’t that useful.

So now, as I start to see things beginning to move forward in my chosen business, I remain more convinced than ever that a deep self-belief powers good decisions.

And I have to say with the utmost certainty of a person who now feels more like a winner every day: “I’m glad I did.”

More power to you.

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Quotius #3

by David

Each week I intend to dispatch my pent-up creativity by creating a new version of something I call a “quotius”. (Learn about the genesis of it here.)

“Change the way you look at things .. and the things you look at change” – Wayne Dyer
In this quotius I dissect Dr. Wayne Dryer’s famously well known message.

In a Youtube video he states, while pointing to his chest, that what this means is that “It’s all in here”. I certainly can’t disagree with that but I have some trouble with his using such a broad brush. There can be a lot of stuff happening “in here”.

I know a lot of people think Dr. Dyer is fantastically brilliant and I don’t totally disagree with that either but I think we need more from this than what I see so far. A little closer more detailed look might change what we see.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I certainly agree it’s “all in here” for sure. Change must come from within and everything. But we suffer from the “where have I heard all this before?” and the… “Tell me something I didn’t know” type of cynicism.

In my perspective, which deeply involves the simple little brain tweak that I call The Mobius Effect, the story ends up looking like this:

You have a vast amount of potential in you. But the problem we have is that a lot of us don’t believe it. It sounds like another one of those positive affirmation thingies. But if we look at it a little differently it will change to be more like this:

The pattern of your potential is the largest pattern that exists on earth. It is so large a pattern that it cannot fit into the human brain. We can only talk about it hypothetically. We humans need things with reasonable hard edges. We need some sort of frame of reference for our visual field even if it’s something that’s in our perceptual thought field. With it we can see where the thing is, reference it to where we are, and then from there understand it as well as make use of it.

In my webinars I use this example: If you’ve ever looked up, to see a single cloud in an otherwise clear sky, you know what I’m talking about. You can see its outer edges, its place in the sky in relation to you being on the ground. But what if the cloud is now itself on the ground and is surrounding you? Well, for one thing we don’t call it a cloud any more…

We call it a fog.

If, like me, you’ve ever been out driving your car and became surrounded by a dense fog that has completely obliterated your vision you would know what that feels like. You feel terribly lost and you may even fear for your safety. You immediately pull over to the side of the road (where ever that is) and hope that no one crashes into you who’s as lost in it as you are.

So…how can we change how we look at things enough so that we install some sort of frame of reference?

Good question.

I have a surprising answer for it too. (That’s the kind of thing that I answer using words and pictures in my free webinars every week. )

But I don’t want to leave you just hanging here so, while I firmly believe you need more visual detail than I can give you in this blog post, I’m going to give you my short definition of what the Mobius Effect is.

The Mobius Effect is a phenomenon that happens when we implement a simple little brain tweak and almost instantly our perception is changed. Now we can grasp much smaller self-similar patterns in place the super huge host thereby making it much more accessible to our mind’s understanding.

It automatically allows us to change the way we see all things more intelligently. And that, as they say, changes everything.

The Willing and the Desperate

by David

# 16 May 16, 2011

In a lot of places the economy is still in the dumper. When faced with challenges like we are going through these days people can be found who are willing to do all kinds of stuff to pull through. Allowing your house to be used as a billboard might be just the answer for some.

But others are way more desperate.

Police in the Scottish region of Tayside were appealing for information after four bee hives containing several thousand British black bees were stolen from a medical school in the city of Dundee. The black bees which are reported to be easily recognized, were part of a research project at the Centre for Neurosciences at the Dundee University’s medical school.

People do strange things when they feel they need to. Even if it means breaking the law. Apparently it’s not much different in the world of personal growth either. Seminars have for years been conducted that take participants across dangerous territory, climb high mountains, and in a few cases even leads them to sit and endure extremely high temperatures in a jury-rigged “sweat lodge”.

I always thought that self growth was an important pursuit and all the business advice I’ve read makes it clear that, believing in one’s self for example, is paramount to success attainment.

But I think it should be simpler. And safer.

That’s why I spent over thirty years of my life perfecting a simple little tweak that works to supercharge your efforts at being a better you. And you don’t even have to go outside your house to do it.

I’ll tell you more about it here.

More power to you.

Quotius #2

by David

Every week I intend to dispatch my pent-up creativity by creating a new version of something I call a “quotius”. To learn about the genesis of it go here.

To do is to be – Socrates To be is to do – Plato

This could easily slip into being one of those deep discussions. I think there is a two-hundred dollar word that describes what these two quotes are all about. The word is “existentialism”.

Now, if this big-ass word has you wanting to close this page right now then I can’t say I blame you. But, before you do, I just want to let you know that you don’t need to head to the hills. I’m not going to go down the long-winded road of some brainy intellectual here.

It’s just not me.

See I never went to Harvard. Never got invited to Cambridge or Oxford. Don’t even know what the inside of Yale or Stanford looks like. My last job was at a water park mixing concrete.

Hardly a prelude to the sacred halls of higher learning.

Nope. If you want the heavy on these quotes best to head on over to the search function at Google Scholar cause you won’t find it here.

All I know about these two quotes is that the two Greek geeks who first penned them were both famous for being head-brain heavies. I can’t hold a candle to them nor do I intend to even try.

I’m just a guy that likes the shape of the Mobius strip. I like certain quotes too so I just combined them to form a kind of word-sculpture that I call a “quotius”.

Demonstrating the kind of elegance that a two-in-one system gives us is why I like to put together these videos. To me at least they are almost self-explanatory in their simplicity.

If there is one thing I could say that would approach heavy it would be this: These two quotes are both about being and doing. Together they seem to be suggesting a systematic relationship with those two things. Since I’m well aware of my beingness I’ll have to lean toward the active side – the doing.

I’m not dead yet and I know I have a lot yet to do.

So, what side of the fence do you stand on?

More power to you.

PS: Have you noticed that a lot of personal development methods no longer pack the punch they once did? Could be the times. I went ahead and invented this simple little tweak that makes a huge difference in leveraging your efforts for creating a better you. Learn more right here.