Category — Recommendations

Robert Holden circulated this today, and I’m sharing it with you too because I think it tells a simple truth very well.

After living 16 years, 5,844 days, on the spiritual path.
After sitting for over 5,000 hours in meditation.
After reading 1,000 brilliant books on success, happiness and love.
After listening to 500 healing CDs.
After attending 250 self-development workshops.
After benefiting from 200 therapy sessions.
After praying on my knees more than 100 times.
After going on twenty-five retreats.
After enduring 10 fasts.
After suffering 5 colonic irrigations.
After trying to forgive mum and dad more than once …
I finally got the key to happiness:
Just RELAX!

See also: The Ways of Happiness

My friend Judy Rees has developed a really cool way of getting under people’s skin to find out what they really need.

It’s called X-Ray listening and I love it.

Check out her video here

When I heard that Richard Bandler was creating an application for the iPhone, that was exciting news. I love my iPhone and some of the 3rd-party applications on it are truly amazing.

Yesterday I went to Gloucestershire to visit a friend. As I changed trains at Swindon, the iPhone beeped to let me know my connecting train was on platform 4 but running a few minutes late. I had time to tap another button and find the nearest bookshop. Another button told me which books I might like to buy in a hurry, based on which I’d liked before. It’s clever stuff.

What could Richard Bandler come up with?

The new application was released today. It’s called iMeditation and the sales page says it uses “neural brainwave entrainment with biofeedback” to “provide deep relaxation leading to a calmer mind and better sleep”.

You get a three minute introduction first. Richard laments the stress that usually comes in via the iPhone – (I think he must be using his differently to how I use mine!) – and says now you can use the very same device to begin to train your neurology to be quiet, and to relax. So that you can really learn what it takes to slow down…

It’s a clever idea to play with. The nature of the iPhone means we have to go through the literal and metaphorical process of putting the phone into airplane mode before we start, so it won’t ring or beep during the program. Already there’s a sense of taking a step away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

Then you hold your iPhone in front of your face. As Richard begins a hypnotic induction, pulsing circles appear on the screen. So you have both visual and auditory input. And as he talks and you listen, and look, that’s right… you begin to drift off.

It’s a free download and you can get it here now

There are more than a dozen iPhone applications that use this kind of brainwave entrainment technology and most of them have more options and customisable features. What makes iMeditation unique is the way it uses the accelerometer built into the phone to track your hand movements. Be still and you’ll get soothing blue circles. Move and they’ll become an angry red. I’m not sure how valuable this actually is but it’s certainly pretty. I thought the biofeedback element would somehow calibrate to changes in my brainwaves and adapt/personalise the entrainment program to guide me in the right direction. Measuring my hand movements may be the first step towards that but it’s fairly clunky at this stage. I tested it a few times this evening and I only went out of the blue zone when I scratched my knee, and I wasn’t particularly relaxed most of the time – I was just sitting still.

A Bandler application for the iPhone is a great idea. After ten minutes of playing with it though, I’m ready for the next generation version already. It at least needs to have more than one program, and maybe some more options. But for a free download – I’ve rated it on iTunes as 5 stars out of 5.

Do you want more money?

What if the only thing standing between you and all the money you’ll ever want or need is… you!

I’m delighted to announce that NLP Connections has sponsored Michael Neill to deliver a fantastic-value package for our members, focussing on how we can make more money and enjoy it.

Most of us inherit our attitudes to money – we get them from our family, from our culture and sometimes even from the people who pay us. Often, we don’t even know what our attitudes to money are because we’ve been living with them for so long.

Michael has helped thousands of people to pole-vault over their old limitations and discover that making money can actually be easy and fun.

This is a three-part package that will reinvent your relationship with money. You’ll get:

* An exclusive mp3 before the event. Michael will introduce his ideas and set you some pre-event ‘homework’ to get your mind racing in the right direction.

* A fun-packed day in Central London. We’ll go from 9:30am – 5:30pm and Michael will be the only speaker – you’ll get him all day.

* An exclusive teleclass after the event where Michael will share even more of his ideas and do some on-the-spot coaching to help you to take things even further. You’ll also get a recording of this teleclass to keep.

All this for only £99… fantastic!

Paul McKenna says he’s made much more money since applying Michael’s ideas. You can too.

Click here for more information and to sign up

The new biography of Simon Cowell is dedicated to me, so I think that earns it a plug.

It’s written by my partner Chas. The dedication reads: “This book is dedicated to Chris – my very own outspoken, dark, handsome Englishman. To borrow a Cowellism: you are a gentleman, sir”.

Chas has previously written biographies of Amy Winehouse, Heston Blumenthal and Paris Hilton. His biography of Michael Jackson – up-to-date – will be published later this month. He also co-wrote Not In My Name with the legendary Julie Burchill.

Simon Cowell: The Unauthorized Biography

I’ll be hosting a one-day event with Michael Neill in September.

Building on the ideas in his best-selling book Supercoach, Michael will teach the fundamentals of Transformative Coaching at this one-day masterclass event in London.

The event is open to anyone.

Please visit www.transformativecoaching.co.uk for all the details.

I love optical illusions. This is one of my favourites because it’s really hard to believe those horizontal lines are straight, even though I have measured them with a ruler several times!

This one below is another of my favourites. In fact, I love everything by Octavio Ocampo. I have several of his pictures around my house and office.

My friend Michael Neill has a great new idea – and you can get involved.

All you need is an “impossible” project. It can be anything from writing your first novel to losing 30lbs or earning £50,000.

Michael will coach you for 30 days. You’ll get an e-book to start things off, then an audio message from him each day. There will also be special “action days” where you can go online or join a group teleconference. And there’s a private forum too.

There are only two prerequisites for your project:

1. You must believe you have a less than 50% chance for success in the 30 days of the program.
2. You must be so passionate about what it is you want to create that you will be glad of any time you spend invested in creating it, regardless of how things turn out!

If you are a member of Michael’s Solutions Cafe or Steve Chandler’s Club Fearless, you can take part in this for free. If you are not a member of either, (why not???), you can still take part for only $99.

Go on… make the impossible possible!

This is one of my favourite George Carlin clips. I hope you like it too.

I’ve found a delightful little site. Steve Chandler’s Club Fearless offers awesome value for anybody who wants to live an inspired life without fear.

Michael Neill told me about it. Steve offers so much value, it’s wonderful. So far I’ve been a member for two months and already he’s posted me two books and three CDs, as well as delivering hours worth of online content, including several e-books and downloadable audiobooks, his success journal and his reports on who is fearless in the world.

The cornerstone of the club is a live teleclass every month, and you get a CD of that posted to you – anywhere in the world.

All this for $19 a month.

Club Fearless