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internet radio and freedom
Posted by: | CommentsIf ever there were a technology that supported the concept of “we the people” and freedom, it is internet radio, which is my attraction to it. As you know, my radio show – A New View of Life – is moving to VoiceAmerica Variety Channel internet radio on January 10, 2012 at 6 PM EST . With my announcement on Facebook, Twitter, my Facebook Fan Page and to other groups, I am being asked, “What is internet radio? How do I listen to internet radio?”
This is the beauty of the internet and the new devices – ipad and other tablet devices, smart phones as well as the ‘traditional’ pc’s, macs, and laptops. Internet radio is streamed live over the internet which is global. Is this technology not amazing? And for those of you who would like a peek into the future – streaming television is coming (actually it is here already).One really great aspect of internet radio is that it can and does combine the concept of ‘podcasting’ with live streaming which means the episodes or shows are recorded and archived (saved) and uploaded to itunes. Listeners are able to go to the archives of the show anytime and listen to past shows over and over again as well as have the ability to download the show to a phone, pc, or mp3 player and play the show whenever you choose (like jogging or in the car).
For advertisers this is an amazing boon. Revenues spent on sponsorship of an internet radio show are played to the consumer every time the show is heard from the first live stream and also on every subsequent playback unlike terrestrial radio where the advertisement is heard on the show and then gone forever.
My personal favorite of internet radio is the global reach. Currently Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s creator, is vacationing in communist Vietnam to soften the ground for Facebook being allowed there. Unlike broadcasting in a local area in a particular geographical zone, internet radio is available wherever there is an internet connection or cell tower with bandwith to access the internet on your smart phone. Information is disseminated freely and without censorship, interpretation or dilution which is truly empowering. This gives people everywhere the ability to listen and weigh up information for themselves and to learn, grow and expand unlike traditional media. We are truly becoming a global community.
VoiceAmerica has nearly 3 million unique listeners every month and is growing by leaps and bounds. They have been the pioneers in this new field for 10 years holding a vision for the rest of us of information rich programming across all disciplines and fields of interest available to everyone who can access the internet. See why I love the local library and the public pc’s?
Freedom of information is the most powerful gift of all the current technology. Wise people will take advantage of it, appreciate it and promote it for the Good of All of Us. It’s the best thing that’s happened since fire, the wheel and blogging.
Thanks for reading,
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relaxing into well being (a story, part 1)
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Letting go of human mind is directly proportional to one’s ability to relax and Trust in Well Being. Life transformation is simple; I never said it was easy. If you, like me, have been working, working, working at having the life you want and find yourself exactly where you’ve always been, then it’s not that the Universe isn’t answering you, because it is. It is simply that we keep creating the same conditions over and over again like n the movie, Groundhog Day. Conclusion: there’s a persistent belief in the black box of human mind that dis-allows your relaxing into Well Being so you can realize what you want. Allow me to share my story with you…
I recently realized that this was the case with myself. So in Applied Spirituality theory, I’m supposed to “play”, “relax”, and “have fun”. Do I believe that’s right and natural? Check. That belief feels right to me, but then I spend 12 hours a day working with my face buried in the computer, writing articles and posts, learning the technology, studying myriad subjects but never really paying attention to HOW I FEEL when I’m doing all this. I just do it. So accustomed am I (habituated) to the work ethic: head-down and sacrifice now for the future. I couldn’t see my own forest for the trees until the negative feeling became so big that I could no longer miss it.
I experienced myself less enthusiastic, less eager, and really not accomplishing much. Yes, I still be worked 12 hours a day, but without results and admittedly not much fun. I wasn’t playing either outside work nor within the work. It had become dull and lifeless to me. Slowly I realized this. And when I finally did, it felt like a powerless place to me – dead end. Now what do I do?
The box my human mind had cornered me into was this: if I wasn’t working, then I felt guilty playing. Deeper than that, however, was another operating belief: amount of work=amount of my worth. Ye gads. So I was in a bind – you know, that proverbial rock and hardplace that I write about. There I was. My human mind blathering about I’m only valuable if I’m working hard and my Self telling me to play, play, play and enjoy my life and through that attitude of joy, everything I want would come. My human mind, naturally, was sneering that that proposition.
Yet, the observable evidence was irrefutable. Working hard without joy was getting me nowhere. I was NOT happy. Something had to change; and it wasn’t something in the physical world of doing, because I’d been “doing” a lot. I had to let go…of what? I had to change something, but what? I had to let go of my human mind belief that work=my value; but then my human mind kept saying that if I stop working so hard, then what? Where will the dollars come from? This was a Trust issue. Clearly a rubber meets the road Waterloo moment. Just me and Me. Which would I choose?
When I listened to ‘me’ I already knew the outcome because I was living that: unhappy, lifeless, and going nowhere fast. When I listened to “Me”, I wanted to believe that all my Good would come if I could relax into Well Being and play. I realized my resistance to going there was because I didn’t Trust. Oh boy! So clearly I knew the direction I wanted to go – I wanted to be enjoying my life and abundant. In order to do so, I would have to TRUST. My human mind wanted me to think it was either/or…my Big Self knew the Truth.
Visions of the old parable, the Grasshopper and the Ant came roaring back. More human mind programming. I was literally assailed by my human mind ego to warn me off from even considering what Me was proposing – go play. Whilst Me sat quietly and patiently awaiting my arrival, not trying to entice me, but waiting for me to allow It. My human mind suggested I work at deliberate creation processes. Work. Work. Work!!!! I did, for awhile, and then stopped. My knowing is that life is natural. The birds don’t work for their worms; my garden is growing outrageously without any efforting. The planet spins on its axis quite well, the sun comes up every single day without any effort. Then life, my life, should be effortless as well.
My pea brain was unrelenting…”Allow? ALLOW??? No Effort??? Are you NUTS? You can’t let up for a minute! You’ll go broke. You’ll be lost forever! Work! Work! Work. That’s the way. That’s the ticket. It’s the way it’s done’ it’s the way it’s always been done.”
And so it went for weeks…with me walking the line between them. Not really working; and not really allowing. The results…the same in the physical world. Not much progress; not falling backwards…just unsatisfying mediocrity. Yuck!
Clearly I had reached a personal place within me that was illuminating the next place I had to LET GO in order to move forward, to evolve and expand. I had to relax into Well Being. I had to Trust at a deeper level; and in order to do so…I had to let go. Oh arg, arg, arg! Have you ever seen a kid at the swimming pool up on the diving board for the first time? He wants to dive in or jump in, but he can’t…yet. The line of kids getting longer behind him as he is stuck between his desire and his fear. Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no……Well consider that a good picture of where I’ve been.
I’m telling you all this in the gory detail, because this is an example of how it happens within all of us. The bind. Leap into faith and trust (and be ruined according to the human mind) or stay the course and be miserable. When I could at last see the choice to be made clearly, it was fairly simple. I didn’t want to live a mediocre life. I never have and I never will. So that propelled me to consider: what it would take for me to relax and Trust into Well Being.
Every been here? Tell me your thoughts and experience. I’d love to hear from you!
to be continued…
a thought bridge: every business is spiritual
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Bridging Status Quo Thoughts to New Thoughts
I’ve come to realize that I’m a consciousness bridge. That is thinking thoughts that bridge the status quo mindset into new thoughts. It’s not a job that someone applies for; I think you’re given it before you arrive here. My mind just works that way, so I rather live in three worlds at once: where we’ve been(history), where we are (status quo), and where we’re going (New View).
You see, most folks need to take consciousness (thought) one small step at a time. And this is quite good, because quantum leaps don’t stick. Quantum leaps are rather like leaping tall buildings in a single bound, and most of us take the climb one step at a time. As a matter of fact, it’s how we pretty much get anything done here – one moment at a time, one step at a time, one new tiny thought at a time. After awhile, we have embraced a New View without angst.
The bridge I’m building right now has to do with the traditional status quo mindset of business. More to the point, it is addressing the idea of spirituality and business being thought of as mutually exclusive. It has a corollary mindset that materialism and spirituality are also mutually exclusive. So let’s take this on.
Every business no matter how small or how large is a spiritual entity. In order to build the bridge to this new thought we have to begin by slightly adjusting the idea of spirituality from one of mysticism and a large voice booming from heaven, to nonphysical Energy – Source Energy, to be specific. Spiritual is nonphysical Source energy; spirituality is your personal relationship to and with this nonphysical Source Energy. If spirituality is a personal relationship with nonphysical Source Energy, then it is only a question of how much Source Energy each individual allows through their individual unit into physical expression through their thoughts and creativity.
A business, therefore, is a spiritual creation by virtue of each individual who participates within it. The question then becomes how much Source Energy does each individual allow into the business environment at any given moment through their unique unit (mind and body).
Since Source Energy is the highest, fastest, purist frequencies – the fullness of all potential, it would serve any business if leadership as well as staff and workers were fully connected personally to Source. What would this mean?
For anyone to be connected with Source, he/she must be allowing and relaxed to achieve alignment with Source. The intention must be in place to be in alignment. Imagine a garden hose as conducting the stream of Well Being into the individual. Imagine stress as the kink in the hose. Imagine resistance as a kink in the hose. Imagine status quo beliefs as a kink in the hose; and we all know that when there’s a kink in the hose, there is resistance. And where there is resistance, there is limited or no Flow.
A business as an entity does not become a more spiritual entity, rather the individuals within it become more fully connected, more consciously aware and allowing personally. Then, as a collective they create a more Living organization much as each individual grain of sand put together with all the others creates an entire beach.
If you are a business leader, you can only begin with yourself. If you are a worker within an organized business, you can only begin with yourself and take your own spiritual journey of bringing More of your True Self into your mind, and then into your creations at work. The Universal Laws pretty much handle what happens from there. Either people around you are influenced and begin to follow your example by becoming the change you wish to see, or you move to an organization which appreciates your Becoming More of You. If you’re the company owner or CEO, you can encourage others by your own example. You cannot impose your values onto others and force them into a spiritual journey. That’s been done without much success in previous centuries of religious conflict. In the spiritual journey, you realize there’s room for everyone and everything under the sun; and that they all organize and reorganize themselves around the frequencies of thought by Law of Attraction.
Spirituality and business have always been hand in hand, part and parcel, we’re just now beginning to understand how. Tend to your own Call to Adventure. Tend to your own expansion of consciousness. This is the greatest leadership of all whether you’re CEO or janitor. The influence is in your personal vibrational countenance wherever you be in the boardroom or on the trading floor. The true Value and Pure Frequency of your consciousness will then be naturally expressed in your every thought, word and deed – your creations. It has always been this way; it is just now that we are becoming consciously aware of the process.
The upshot, the bottom line is this: tend to your own vibrational frequency.Tend to your own spiritual journey. Tend to your own consciousness expansion into Self. Your first job no matter where you are is to be in alignment with Self, Source. From that alignment you influence everything to expand and become More.
“Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you to remember that you are here in this very physical world where Spirit has materialized. You cannot separate yourself from the aspect of yourself that is Spiritual, and while you are here in these bodies, you cannot separate yourselves from that which is physical or material. All of the magnificent things of a physical nature that are surrounding you are Spiritual in nature.” – Abraham
winter: the natural elegant order of well being
Posted by: | CommentsGood Morning Everyone,
I woke up this morning at 4:30 to a winter wonderland. Of course this was a complete surprise to me, as I don’t have television and rarely check the weather online. I like the surprises, because I get to practice “this is perfect”. For example yesterday when it was raining, I found myself visiting hospitals and medical offices inviting local healthcare providers to my seminar next week. I had “planned” on more of the same today; but a Panhandle Hook, a winter storm, is bearing down on Cleveland as I write making rush hour a real challenge for everyone and the weather advisory in effect until late afternoon. So much for my “plan”. Now I get to see how this is Really perfect.
Which brings me to the real point: why is it that we insist on going and doing when the Natural Order of things is saying “stop”. It’s winter! Some days we can get around with care, some days we can travel easily, but days like today are obviously telling us to pause. Yet, I know, if I walk out to Hwy 18, I’ll see a parade of cars creeping towards the Interstate where there will be even more cars creeping to Cleveland.
We all have plans, yes, I know that. However, these are “pretend” plans. In the summer we make plans A and B. Plan A is for a clear sunny day, and plan B is in case it rains. Yet in winter there is some strange compulsion to resist the weather, dam the torpedos and go, go, go no matter what. I was at a Christmas party just before the holidays just after a big winter storm. For the first 30 minutes of conversation the folks were comparing stories of how long it took them to get to work. One reported 3 hours and still another told the winning the horror story competition reporting 7 hours. I sat listening to this wondering what conclusions they had drawn by having these experiences?
The trees are asleep; the bears are hibernating, the flower and insects slumber, the Earth rests…yet the human mind has another story going on: domination. It is, of course, a fairy tale. When I first moved back to Ohio from San Diego, I was struck by how people hate the winter up here; and now I know why. They hate it because it interferes with their human mind plans. The human mind insists that this has to be done today; they can’t do without me at work; that project is too important; I’ll get fired if I don’t at least try to get to work. All these things point to the false beliefs of the human mind ego.The Truth is that Life continues. Another day will dawn. The work will still be there as will the opportunities; and if not THAT one, then infinite more will be there. Still, you don’t know that until you surrender to the Natural Order of things and not begrudingly, but gratefully and joyfully.
Don’t you remember snow days as a child? A whole day stretched before you to enjoy the bountiful snow in whatever way you chose. And you enjoyed it carefree…that’s the point…carefree. To do that, you have to “let go” and know that somehow this is perfect. It is a gift; and it will all turn out even better than what your human mind could have worked out.
Relax. There is this wonderful thing called Well Being. It keeps the planets in their orbits and your personal heart beating. Well Being has brought this storm to Cleveland today. There is nothing “to do”; rather it is time to just be and allow. Revel in this moment; enjoy the respite and know that all is Well. Watch and see.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
spirituality and business: no oxymoron
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Connected with Source Energy
Recently someone asked me to put together a talk for a corporation without using the word spirituality. I was told that was the last word they wanted to hear. Yikes! Just goes to show you how people fear what they don’t know or understand. So I decided to address this in my blog.
Fact: There’s no such thing as a non-spiritual business or organization. Period.
We are all Spiritual beings; humans and every physical form (manifestation) have their roots in nonphysical energy (thought) first. Nothing gets to the planet without being a thought form, first. So, banking or widgets, government or religious group, they are all Spiritual organizations…Yes, even hospitals and the military. Everything. Everyone.
To not recognize that or understand that completely is missing the boat. Every group is a spiritual group. We can create anything we want on earth: absolutely anything. I think some of the misperceptions come into play when you think that a spiritual group is going to look like something other than what you expect. They’re going to be off meditating before the board meeting or kneeling in prayer before battle. Not.
The big misconception is that spirituality=good. Earth is a free will zone. Everything gets to be here. That’s pretty obvious, don’t you agree? So this begs the question, what’s the point? Or what’s the different? Or what exactly are we looking to experience?
MORE Quality. Good. Joy. Humor. Fun. Collaboration. Willingness. Expansion. Exuberance. Innovation. Inspiration. Fullness. Satisfaction. Solutions. Exhilaration…LIFE!
Source Energy, which we all already ARE at our core, is the highest, purest, fastest frequencies. We feel this Quality in every moment: either a lot of it or none of it or every shade (emotion) in between. Just because you’re at work doesn’t mean you’ve left your Internal Guidance System at home. Just because you’re singing in the choir at church doesn’t mean you’re allowing Source Energy to flow through you and you’re feelin’ the Love.
Spirituality Defined:
Spirituality is the measure of someone’s personal, most intimate relationship with Self. It has nothing to do with church or religion nor is it left behind because you don a three piece suit or a military uniform. Your Self is always with you. The question is are you aligned with Self (Source) or not, how much Light are you allowing to flow through your unit right NOW? That is spirituality. How connected are you in any given moment to Source, which is YOU.
The spiritual business already is. The question now is: How much Source Energy is allowed in? The degree to which each individual within the business/organization brings Self to the table, is the degree that prosperity, abundance, creativity, joy, humor, innovation, inspiration, genius is created and experienced in the entity’s services, products, communications, etc. The greater the flow of Source Energy into anything, the more Good is manifested in the final product. Above all, it is the experience of feeling It as Good and Enlivening.
At the core of every successful business if Love. Listen to an excerpt from the online self study course to the book, Well Done – A Story of Applied Spirituality™.
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valentine’s day is everyday
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Chelsea Garden, Solana Beach, CA
It was Valentine’s Day 1984. My Restaurant, Chelsea Garden, had just been reviewed by the local rag, The Reader, with rave reviews from Eleanor Widmer who regularly closed a restaurant a week with her acerbic comments. The Review came just in the nick of time. Having been open since December, we were only doing single digit dinners each night. Suddenly, we were famous on Valentine’s Day.
I was out running around trying to prepare for an onslaught of customers. When I returned, my Manager told me that someone had been by to meet me. I couldn’t imagine who or why. She said he wanted to meet the person who had finally won a great review from the Wicked Witch. He was a local restauranteur and club owner who invited us to come be his guests that evening after we closed. I passed it off turning my focus back to the business at hand. We were going to be very busy that evening; and, thank God, we were saved.
That evening after we closed, Manager and I went over to the Restauranteur’s Club as invited. It was very late, perhaps 12:30 am. There was a line at the door to get it. Standing there with a grin from ear to ear was a man whom I’d never seen before. As I approached, he asked me, “Can I help you?” I nodded, “I’m looking for Woody.” He grinned back saying, “You just found him.” In that nanosecond I felt as though I had already met him. I knew him, but of course, I didn’t. We stood staring at each other in the space of infinity both of us trying to fathom this irrefutable Connection. I looked at his face, seeing it for the first time; feeling his Spirit, I knew I’d known him for Eternity.
It was a love affair that has lasted for lifetimes. Woody passed away in 1997; but since then I’ve learned the absolute Eternality of Love. Love never dies and neither do we. At the time of Woody’s physical death, I was dismayed. Why did something so wonderful need to end? Yet over the years I have come to know that in Truth, Love never dies. It is a living breathing Entity that is Eternal leaving you free to Love over and over and over because you are so full. It is the unconditional Wind Beneath My Wings.
I wish this experience for everyone. Valentine’s Day is everyday.
Thanks for reading
Kath
being who you really are: first, to thine own self be true
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President Obama was interviewed by Bill O’Reilly during Super Bowl XLV. About 9 minutes into the interview, the President confides that the worst part about his job is being “in the bubble”. He feels he cannot have spontaneous conversations with others and he has become much more guarded. O’Reilly says his close friends report he is much more guarded.
What would it look like if the President just continued to be Who He Really Is..funny, smart, spontaneous and more free in his job? In so doing he would bring his best of Self to the world. Everything goes better with humor, even the Presidency. What would it look like if we were each less concerned with what others thought about us, and more concerned with how we feel within our selves? What would it look like if each of our primary concern was how Good we felt? Feeling Good, of course, is the measure of how aligned one is with Self…Source – Well Being. That is what Shakespeare was referring to when he wrote,
"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." Polonius to his son, Laertes in Hamlet This is applied spirituality. When we are true to Self, we feel Good. Our human mind is in alignment with Source (Well Being); then and only then are we a gift to the world. Try it for a day. Feel Good within, first; then go out into the world and offer yourself. Waters will part; tides will shift and influence will be felt...easily. Here's the video of the interview. Thanks for reading! Kath
hydrogen vehicles are here!
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Hydrogen Bus in London photo courtesy of ridelust.com
I’m so excited! In 2000 I knew a guy who did an internship for the Hydrogen Institute in Arizona. I cannot find anything about it online at all now; nor can I recall the name of the man who spearheaded the Institute. At that time he told me that the Institute had been operating their trucks and cars on hydrogen for 20 years. In fact, he reported, that a $2000 investment would convert any car or truck into a duel fueled vehicle to gasoline and hydrogen. That was back in 2000.
I dream; I wish; I imagine and envision. This morning I see a wondrous item: England is launching a fleet of hydrogen buses! Guess what their emissions are? Water vapor. That’s it. Watch the video clip of hydrogen buses.
For about two years I have been participating in the Auto Insight Community. It’s a group that takes surveys for the American car industry. I decided to get involved, because I decided to stop complaining and put my advice into the minds of those who had the power to change things. You can too. Weekly we get a survey on various things: hybrids, electrics, dashboards, powertrain names…and weekly I use the last page, a blank, to tell them I’m not buying one of these electrics or hybrids when hydrogen has been around for over 30 years.
I am happy to report that we had a survey on hydrogen powertrain names just a few weeks ago! America is heading in the right direction; fear not! All is Well; ask and it is answered. The power is in shifting my internal state to realize the external shifts in the physical form. We are powerful Creators, we are!
Thanks for reading!
Kath
a new year gift for you
Posted by: | CommentsHappy New Year Everyone!
God in Everything in the World; yourSelf in Everything in your life
I’m thinking that by now we’re all pretty sick of pessimism, the recession, media hype, and fear…yes? I know that we can all do better in our daily endeavors if we feel Good, positive, optimistic. Everything goes better when we have the basic belief that we are supported in some larger Well Being and can tap into it at will.
To this end, I am offering everyone and anyone a Month of Sundays with Conversations with Kath: Living the Consciousness of Well Being Everyday. Your free gift begins on Sunday Evening, January 1, 2011 at 6pm EST. All you need is a phone with long distance capabilities and the willingness to listen, let go of limiting ideas, expand your thinking and allow for infinite possibilities.
You can expect some teaching, some coaching, some techniques to practically apply in your daily life. You will also find a community of supportive people all in the same place – a desire for more and better for yourself and for the world.
I love this nation, this world, this Universe; and I know we can all be better, live well and enjoy this Life we have.
Please take me up on this offer and join us for Month of Sundays. Sunday, January 2, 2011 6pm EST. You must register so I have enough lines on the call. See you Sunday!
Thanks for reading!
Kath
love and business: No oxymoron
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There’s a great paradigm shift afoot here on Earth. It’s the movement from living from ego mind (human mind) into living out from the heart. There’s no arena on Earth that is not transformed by this act. This act, of course, happens one heart at a time.
People come to a “spiritual” journey because of something happening in their personal lives that has finally become big enough to get their full attention. Once they begin the transformation within necessary to “fix” their personal lives, they take the transformation into every aspect of their lives, including business.
Years ago I attended a Transformational Gate with a friend who was a law enforcement officer. We had no idea at the time what we had undertaken: a life transformation. But at the end of the two day intensive my friend asked, “How am I ever going to be a spiritual cop?”
Spiritual cop; loving businessman; heart centered corporation. These are not oxymorons. These are not only possible, but already afoot on planet Earth.
Living from ego mind (human mind) has gotten us just so far. And mostly we are looking at the devastating results: sickness, war, a polluted planet, disease, paranoia, fear, etc. We look about our world, feel our lives and wonder how we got here. But more, we wonder how to change this. Wherever do we start?
It’s not so hard nor so mystical. It is simply to begin listening to your Internal Guidance System, and following your heart in every instance of your life. Every big or little “trauma” is a call to open your heart, which aligns you more and more with your Godself. Through the eyes of Godself, there is always a way, something miraculous, and more Love, Good and expansion/growth.
It is time to Love. In business, in the grocery, in your family, in school. The place to start? Loving yourSelf, first.
Come join us on Sunday evenings in Conversations with Kath to begin your journey to Self love so you, too, can be the change you want to see in the world.
Thanks for reading!
Kath
