I decided to think a little bigger than the initial idea of just inviting a few blog readers to a restaurant to hang out. Instead we’ve lined up an amazing night of mingling, music, dance and inspirational ideas. We’re limiting it to 150 people. This is a cross between a live musical act, a party and a seminar.

Here are the details:

When:

March 8th, 7:00 PM (you can order dinner at the venue).

Location:

The Organic Panificio (Waterfront Restaurant)
4211 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Map: http://www.yelp.com/map/the-organic-panificio-marina-del-rey-3

The event will be held at the WATERFRONT restaurant and concert theater side of the building.

What’s happening:

Sean Stephenson will deliver one of his amazing speeches.
Angelique Bianca (from the Healers Way) + many more live music acts
Story Teller Malek Houlihan
Surprise celebrity authors and guests showing up
A lucky draw — win thousands of dollars worth of MindValley Products
And I’ll be buying a glass of wine or beer or non-alcoholic drink for first 75 people to show up.

Who’s Invited:

YOU! And all FinerMinds readers!

The venue isn’t that big. In fact it only holds 15o people so if you really want to come please RSVP on this facebook page so I can reserve a seat for you: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=501783990042

You must RSVP on Facebook here:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=501783990042

Laura Silva and me

Lately we’ve been talking a lot about intuition. And I mean A LOT. There’s already over 600 personal stories of intuition up on this blog. I’m absolutely amazed by how familiar all of you are with the 6th sense.

That’s why I’m so happy to share with you an extremely up close and personal webinar where Laura Silva of the Silva Method interviews me. As many of you know, it was the Silva Method that helped me develop my intuition and led me to live my highest potential.

In this online webinar, I talk about my experiences with Silva and other programs and the biggest successes and failures I’ve had. My goal here is to help you accelerate your growth with intuition and personal development by bypassing some of the big mistakes I made.

I feel that it’s time I spoke openly about Silva, meditation, my intuition, and how I turned my struggling bedroom business into one of the best places in the world to work.  But what many people don’t know is that intuition and gut feelings played a big part in this. I’ve never been to business school, do not have an MBA and still can’t really explain the difference between net and gross profit (I heard Richard Branson had the same problem with this so I’m not totally ashamed!)

But people often comment that I seem to have the odd ability to be at the right place at the right time and have opportunities fall on my lap. That’s the way it appears — but the reality is that I REALLY pay attention to my intuition and hunches.

To give you a taste of this juicy webinar, here’s a few of the things that will be discussed:

• What I did to get visualization and goal attainment techniques to work for me. And the specific models and teachings I combined.
• How intuition can be developed and used in everyday life for positive outcomes. And why I want to bring this to the business world AND schools.
• How to find your life purpose and why it’s so important to discover and work on this as fast s you can while minimizing all distractions.
• My biggest learnings from years in the personal growth industry (I’ll be focusing mostly on learnings from the Silva Method).
• Experiments with mind-body healing: what worked for me, what failed utterly. Why Silva FAILED me in this aspect and how I gained success when I corrected my mental model of mind-body healing.

Check out this page for more information and details on the webinar. It’s completely FREE and a must for anyone focused on their own personal growth.

If you’re ready to truly embrace your highest potential and live intuitively, register for the webinar here »

The webinar has already happened, but you can watch the replay over here »

It’s coming up soon so I recommend registering early. It’s on Thursday 6 PM (PST). But until then, have a look at this video. Super inspirational and it just goes to show that to go from your current state to the life of your dreams, you’re going to need intuition on your side.

The webinar has already happened, but you can watch the replay over here »

We all have traumas from our past, anger or guilt about what others did to us, about what we did to others, and about what we did to ourselves.  These experiences come from those we love, as well as acquaintances and total strangers.  And more often than not, we hold onto the pain and are unable to forgive, and that is one of the biggest reasons why we are unable to experience the kinds of purposeful and conscious relationships our hearts yearn for.

Being unable to forgive doesn’t feel very empowering, and it causes us to make excuses why we shouldn’t try again.  We sometimes let go of our dreams and hopes. The thing is, when you understand the story behind all of these feelings and experiences, you learn an invaluable secret:

It’s not your fault.

Why People Hurt Us

In fact, it’s not anybody’s fault. It’s just one more story, and it’s the hardest thing for most people to change. When we truly understand this, we’re able to transform these old stories of pain and frustration into empowerment.  The first thing to understand is why people hurt us.

I believe that people are innately well-intentioned, and that our experiences and conditioning cause us to believe otherwise. I know that I’ve hurt people in the past, and it wasn’t because I was a bad person. I was just in pain. I had been rejected and ostracized for so many years that I lashed out at people. I was protecting myself from more pain and unconsciously I believed that if I pushed enough people away, they wouldn’t be able to hurt me anymore.

The problem is, because I pushed people away I made it impossible to have the very thing I wanted: a deeply fulfilling and connected relationship. It would be easy to blame my peers for all their unkind words and actions, and most people would think I was justified in blaming them.  But is it really their fault?

The Blame Lies With No One

I don’t believe it is.  After all, if I was a good person who lashed out in pain, is it possible that they were merely doing the same thing to me?  Perhaps they came from an abusive home, or they were also rejected?  Perhaps they pushed me away to protect themselves the same way I did it to protect myself.

In this expanded view, we begin to see that for every person who hurts us, they have a story behind their own pain… a story about why they hurt us (intentionally or not). We then see their story usually involves somebody who hurt them, which is yet another story. In fact, the cycle goes on for generations, and this is why we notice that many families seem to have similar emotional or psychological patterns within them.

What About You?

Think about this in your own life.

Have you hurt other people?

Do you consider yourself a generally well-intentioned person?

I believe the answer to both questions is probably ‘Yes.’

So if even we have hurt others, maybe what others have done to us is just another story. Maybe we’re all characters living this life story, and some of us get hurt by other characters, and we in turn may hurt people as well. It doesn’t make us bad people, just people in pain (the same as the people who hurt us).

Projecting Stories Onto Other People

In my own explorations of forgiveness, what I realized is that that people didn’t necessarily want to hurt me, but rather, they just had pain inside they didn’t know what to do with. They had a story they were “taking out on me,” and it really had nothing to do with me. That helped me see that my inability to forgive had nothing to do with them, but rather, with my ideas of them. I had trouble forgiving because I expected somebody to be a certain way, and they weren’t able to live up to that expectation.

This awareness helped me realize that forgiveness was not something I gave to somebody else; itwas something I gave to myself. I had to forgive myself for every time I “let” somebody else hurt me. I had to forgive myself for letting go of my hopes and dreams while I protected myself from more pain. I had to forgive myself for hurting others, just the way I had been hurt. And I had to forgive myself for believing the stories I told myself, like that I was a victim who didn’t deserve a conscious loving relationship.

Mindset Shift: Interactions Are Just Stories

Over time, as I began to just see all these interactions as stories, I learned how to look more objectively at other peoples’ actions. Instead of seeing them subjectively as bad or mean, I became curious. I progressively changed my thoughts from “That person is so mean!” to “I wonder why that person might have done that. Is it possible that he’s having a bad day and it has nothing to do with me?”

This more objective viewpoint fostered a greater sense of compassion for myself and others, and it was that compassion and objectivity that objectivity enabled me to transform my painful into personal empowerment. I’ve found that I enjoy my relationships with others more, and even with people close to me who have hurt me.

A Writing Exercise For Forgiveness

Now continuing with this idea of objectivity, if you’re having difficulty forgiving somebody then I have a writing exercise that may help you.  Just ask yourself, “If somebody like me were able to forgive the person who hurt him/her, what would that look like? How might it be possible?” Then write whatever comes to you.

This is just for you, so you don’t need to think much about it. It doesn’t need to be perfect. Just write from your heart and see what possibilities you discover. This gives you the opportunity to experience that objectivity I mentioned; to write the story as just a story and nothing more.

And this doesn’t mean you’re forgiving the other person, or even saying you’re ready to forgive. The purpose of this writing exercise is only to explore the possibility that somebody, somewhere, might be able to forgive in a similar situation.

If you’d like to, I welcome you to share your forgiveness story below (even anonymously) and I promise to read every single comment. I’ve also created a special bonus workbook for you that shows how to use the power of stories to attract your ideal relationship.

Enjoy!

Your Partner In Transformation,
Chris Cade

Click here to learn how to use the power of stories to attract your ideal relationship »

It was quite the visit. That’s for sure. We did a few risky things that I had no idea would even happen!

You’re probably wondering what I’m talking about now. Well, I’m warning you. It involves a little PDM or Public Displays of Meditation and some security mall cops

I think you’ll get a kick out of this. Check out the video and you’ll know what went down.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Now the whole point of this wasn’t to be weird or to collect strange stares from people. It was an exercise in quieting your mind. If you can meditate in a busy shopping mall, then you can meditate anywhere and anytime.

I think we got about 10 minutes of meditation in before the security came and tried to kick us out. It probably looked like we were trying to protest or something. But you know how groups of people sitting down, doing nothing can be terrifying.

If you’ve heard of Max before, then you’ll know he’s a BIG advocate of meditation. When he came to our office, he’d just sit there on the couch and meditate for 10 to 15 minutes. I think a few of the people at the office just thought he was sleeping though.

Max has a couple more videos on meditation that you can check out. The first one’s pretty funny and if you’ve got a dirty mind, then get it out of the gutter

Click here to view the embedded video.

This one’s an awesome mini-documentary on the benefits and power of meditation. A great video to send to people who still aren’t convinced of it’s positive effects.

Click here to view the embedded video.

If you haven’t read it yet, Max wrote a personal post for FinerMinds readers. It’s all about taking responsibility and how that will be what moves you towards greatness. Awesome read and a must for personal growth junkies like me. Just click here or the link below to give it a read »

7 Days of 100% Responsibility by Max Simon »

If you missed his previous articles, you can check them out here and here. Both great articles about the Law of Attraction (and why it shouldn’t be called that) and mindset shifts.

Richard has also given FinerMinds readers a free subliminal video that you can use everyday for just 2 minutes a day. You can download your copy here »

…

Subliminal Affirmations For Daily Use

by Richard A. Luck

The following is an explanation of how the affirmations are created and the keywords used to create the affirmations for each of the Success Accelerator Subliminal Videos.

I haven’t detailed each individual affirmation, the frequency of each keyword or the combination as that is the “secret” to my subliminal videos being so successful. It’s like the secret herbs in Colonel Sanders chicken, or the recipe for Coca Cola!

The structure of subliminal affirmations is different to the structure of “normal” affirmations which you might use. Whilst normal affirmations will work when delivered in a subliminal format, they are nowhere as effective as affirmations specifically designed for delivery using subliminal technology.

The affirmations are stated in the first person (I am…, I’m…) and third person (You are…, You’re) using the present tense. Single keyword statements such as “Confident” are used as well as combinations such as “I love…”, “Life is…”.

In addition to the keywords, each image has been carefully selected to achieve a “feeling” which supports each video.

Our readers have been raving about Richard’s subliminal videos for months. It’s all about eliminating your negative programming.

So, for those of you who haven’t downloaded your free subliminal video from Richard, you can grab it here »

I want you to watch the video below. It has 2 parts. The first describes how exactly the Challenge will work and talks about our Super Serious Experiment to see what happened when we exposed ONE person to PhilosophersNotes for 3 days. Word of caution. The results are fantastic.

Get in on the Challenge here »

Part II : This is the second part of the video. It explains exactly how YOU can get involved with PhilosophersNotes and join the Challenge. Plus we’ll be revealing a special surprise for you in the video. (If you’re having trouble viewing this video, check out this blog post »)

Join the coolest challenge in personal growth EVER with this FinerMinds 2-for-1 Special »

No, it’s not a long list of resolutions and it’s not waiting for spring either.

But, YES, definitely make a list of accomplishments you want under your belt in 2010. It’s just how you finish your goals that’s different from the typical brute-force, sheer willpower New Year’s resolutions that most people make.

Instead, check out this video from Brian Johnson of PhilosophersNotes below and let 2010 be a year of success and play.

It involves INTENTION, rituals, and just letting the outcomes take care of themselves. Awesome video and a fun way to live your greatest life.

(And Yes, this is the same Brian behind PhilosophersNotes.com)

Start your year off awesome. Click here to join us in the PhilosophersNotes Challenge »

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Here I’m going to show you what we’re giving away + a behind the scenes look at the cool technology and list of books behind PhilosophersNotes.

Click Play Below to Watch

Here’s the link to the original post

And here’s the website for PhilosophersNotes »

So recently my team at MindValley launched a product that is hands down, the most exciting product I’ve ever been involved with.

It’s basically a way for people to soak up the BIGGEST ideas, knowledge, and impact from the top 100 greatest personal development books EVER.

It’s called PhilosophersNotes.

I want you to watch this video below because in it, I’ll tell you how I’m giving away a hundred copies of this for FREE to any FinerMinds reader.

Click to Watch the 2 Min Video Below to Learn How to Get Your PhilosophersNotes for Free (100 Copies being Given Away).

No signup, no catch, no payment of shipping and handling. I’ll just be responding to the commenters directly.

How to participate:

All you have to do to take part in this challenge is comment below. Really, that’s it.

1) Just say why you want to be part of this and what you think you’ll get out of it.
2) Tell us which book you look forward to most (You can see the list of books here: PhilosophersNotes.com/notes).

The deadline for comments is December 29, 2009. You have to get your comment in by then to be considered for one of the 100 PhilosophersNotes.

The top 100 comments will get to take part in the challenge.

Now, here are the details on the 50 Days Challenge

If you are one of the 100 chosen, you will be given a new Note each day for 50 days, starting January 4th.

You’ll receive 50 notes. Each in the form of a 6 page PDF and a 20 min audio.

You will go through a process where you will absorb the biggest ideas from one great book in personal growth everyday. Just by reading a single PhilosophersNote. Your only commitment is to spend 20 minutes a day going through the Note.

I’ll be with you each step of the way. In fact, we’ll be setting up a community forum where all 100 participants can interact with each other and share their growth (more on that later).

Why the challenge:

The idea of this challenge is to see how much your sense of self, your life, your confidence, and your ability to create and imagine a more positive future for yourself is influenced when you’ve gone through 50 of the greatest books in personal growth via PhilsophersNotes (which is just half of the full product).

You will get the entire product, but the first 50 books you’ll go through will be picked and released on an day-by-day basis by me. So every day, I’ll send the “note of the day” to the group. We’ll study it in our free time and discuss it on the discussion page we’ll create.

Get commenting!

So if you’re ready to see some big changes in your life, drop a comment below. I can’t wait to read them and get to know you better throughout this challenge.

Here’s the page where you can see the list of books: PhilosophersNotes.com/notes

After December 29th, we’ll be picking the top 100 comments to take part in this challenge.

Dec 30th UPDATE: I put up a new video explaining more on PhilosophersNotes now that this blog post has blown past 2000+ comments. That’s amazing! Here’s the further update and behind the scenes view of PhilosophersNotes »

So we asked Gerald to help us out and he’s created a report answering the most common questions and misconceptions people have had when it comes to the Matrix, remote influencing, creation, and society’s harmful programming. It’s an amazing report and we recommend everyone read it.

Click here to download your free report from Gerald O’Donnell, Red Pill Or Blue Pill? »

(To download, right click the link above and
choose “Save Target As…” or “Save Link As…”)

Let me know what you think of Gerald’s take. I can’t wait to read your comments on a report this big.