Living Power: 2021 LabPack your bags, we're going on a trip! This is the page where you'll find 'all the things' you need to complete this journey. Assignments will be added after each live lab. If you'd like to listen to any of the lessons that accompany each principle, you have full access to them in our Secret Library
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Remember: you can find the audio lessons on the 6 principles of Living Power and partner worksheets in the library.
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Power requires permission that only YOU can give. • Only you can give yourself the permission for the changes you say you'd like to experience. • Only you can grant permission to make the connection to subpersonas and transform their hidden beliefs into living power. • Only you are responsible for co-creating with living power. No one else can do it. You are the Creator. ⚜️ This Week: 1: Revisit the description of the island you're going to, at your suitcase, and on your ticket from your travel buddy. When we are en-route, it's common to take a moment of reflection...to glance at the brochure again, to re-read our documents. It's an act of power via reconnection. 2: Rules: Old and New Establish where you are: either on your vessel, underway, or in the port-al waiting room. Approve of where you are and see it in your mind's eye. Set your intention, attention, and attitude to match where you are and to line up with approving of where you are. Remember: use your power recipe when aligning your attention/attitude. A travel company employee approaches you...she wants to review the RULES (travel guidebook) for your island destination. It's important, she explains, for you to make the distinction between what was acceptable or normalized previously, and what is appropriate where you're headed. She's lovely and kind. You feel relaxed as she takes out a "guidebook" and begins to review the "old rules." What are the old rules? List them on the left side of the guidebook. (no more then ten and no less than five) Be specific and explicit. This guidebook is meant to help you identify the beliefs and corresponding actions that were habitual go-tos on your former island. Next to each item on the left side of the guidebook, write the cure, or new rule. On _______ Island, this is the way we think and behave! 3: Kinky Customs lost your visa stamp! The very nice travel lady returns to let you know that, unfortunately, they cannot locate your "kinky customs" certification in the automated system. "Would you like a free cocktail on the house?" she asks. "Or how about a credit for future travel?" In any event, she informs you that you will have to pass kinky customs once more. She tells you that the "second time's the charm" and that you may discover something new. What might you have been hesitant to declare but would actually love to have on the new island? Maybe it's an item, or a kind of experience (a la Fantasy Island.). Perhaps you want a meal by Thomas Keller, a sex toy room, a secret admirer, a crazy dance party. Nothing too small or too kinky. You do not need to share this with anyone, though it's really liberating (energy wise) to do so. However, that is not expected. This is for YOU. To free stuck energy. Kinky Customs can be found here 4: Etiquette and Cosmic Ass-Kicking Get together with your travel buddy. This travel company provides an array of on-board (and waiting room) edu-tainment. Napkin folding. Yoga formerly known as Bikram. Etiquette. Tik-Tok Guacamole. One of the passengers you've befriended tries to convince you to take etiquette, but you choose Cosmic Ass-Kicking instead. The instructor asks you to pull out your guidebook and the information gleaned from the nectar of the island in the second class meeting. (what you are being asked to let go of and trust, etc.- can be found on our FB page) You and your travel buddy retrieve the items. Your first exercise is to write down a list of 3 conversations that the nectar of the new island and your future island persona would LOVE for you to have. * examples... 1: tell my mom no about xyz 2: clearly state a price increase 3: let partner know a non-negotiable 'deal breaker' and outline consequences 4: decline an offer 5: accept a risky offer 6: share authentic expression or feeling Now, practice having each of the 3 conversations with your travel buddy. You speak and he/she listens without interrupting. When you're done, share with your travel buddy how each of your subpersonas feel about these conversations. And whether they are sabotaging them from happening at all, or derailing them from happening with love and power. Do you give yourself permission to have these conversations? Are you willing? How do you notice the new island is peeking through, calling you forward in your daily life? Remember the new island is the cure for some of the everyday, mundane stresses and challenges you are facing. ("perhaps trust is the cure". "perhaps a panoramic view is the cure." etc) Wrap up this session by connecting to your Future Island Self and asking: "what micro-action do you urgently want me to take now in line with the spirit of these conversations?" And " If I were just 15% more willing to live on the new island, I would ______________ right now." 5: Share the results of #2 and #4 with all of us in the group, let us know how you're doing with your #1 Trim-Tab action, what your Future Island self told you (from class one) and what the nectar of the island asked you to let go of and Trust (class two). Post your guidebook visual. Don't forget to post a travel voucher for your buddy. Appreciate anything in your life that demonstrates that you are, indeed, going to the new island. You're also welcome to share your "Kinky Customs" experience but you don't have to. 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Power is intimate. Power circulates. • Abiding in generalities. Avoiding connection. De-prioritizing the things you actually value while prioritizing (giving time and energy) to things you don't, prevents intimacy and lands you in the 'out-of-power' column of life. • This principle of power is about going down and in- it's about deepening. • Living Power is a practice. ⚜️ This Week: 1: Draw, paint, create a collage, or use a digital mechanism to craft your "old and new" rules guidebook. Add your Life Priority/ies to it. Place it in a prominent spot. AND share with someone who is NOT in this course. Can be a friend, peer, acquaintance or co-worker. Get Together with Your Travel Buddy 2: Practice Your 3 Conversations: Practice the first 60-90 seconds of your 3 conversations (from Lesson 3) with your travel buddy. Here's how. • Say aloud the first 60-90 seconds of your conversation while your buddy witnesses without feedback. • Tell why the nectar of the island really wants you to have this conversation. • Look at your "new rules" and tell which "new rule" this conversation aligns with. • Repeat for the other 2 conversations. (If you already did your 3 conversations, AWESOME! Let your future island self suggest one more that s/he would LOVE for you to have and practice that one conversation now.) When you're done, share with your travel buddy how each of your subpersonas feel about these conversations. And whether they are sabotaging them from happening at all, or derailing them from happening with love and power. Do you give yourself permission to have these conversations? Are you willing? How do you notice the new island is peeking through, calling you forward in your daily life? Remember the new island is the cure for some of the everyday, mundane stresses and challenges you are facing. ("perhaps trust is the cure". "perhaps a panoramic view is the cure." etc) * Your buddy gives a reflection after you share. 3: While you're with your Travel Buddy Look at your scheduling device or journal. Look at how you spent the week prior to this meeting and what you have planned for the week upcoming. • How does the way you are spending your time align (or not) with your Life priority/ies and new rules? Remember: Judge Not. Fear Not. Resist Not. Get intimate. Let energy circulate. Wrap up this session by connecting to your Future Island Self and asking: "what micro-action do you urgently want me to take now in line with the spirit of these conversations?" And " If I were just 15% more willing to live on the new island, I would ______________ right now." 4: In Flight/ In Lounge Entertainment
Whether you're en route on your vessel or in the waiting room, there is a top shelf entertainment system. You scroll through the film options. Horror? Nah. Tragedy? Nope. Superhero? Pass. You decide to go with CHEF, a heartwarming father/son comedy. You take a few sips of your beverage. What a fun movie! You're watching the scene when Jon Favreau (a chef) is trying to convince his boss, the restaurant owner, (Dustin Hoffman) to let him prepare a new and exciting menu. The owner refuses. He admonishes him: If you go to see the Rolling Stones, you want to hear their greatest hits-right? Play your greatest hits. Don't risk it. Stick with the tried and true lava cake... • What are your subpersonas' greatest hits? In other words, what THOUGHT does your subpersonas use most frequently to keep you from moving to the new island? or more easily prioritizing your values? {You can't. You don't really want to anyway. It won't be worth it. You don't have the resources. You're not good enough. You need more time. You can always start it tomorrow, or next week, or someday. It's too scary. I'll get in trouble. I'll regret it. I must be crazy to say no."} • Write down the THOUGHT that is (right now) the most troublesome or oppressive in terms of you getting to your new island safely and "living happily" there. Is this thought "true" and "accurate?" If you cannot absolutely know that it is true, then what is it that you're being asked to let go of that is an old pattern, and what new thought are you being asked to trust? How is this new thought part of the island's cure? 5: SHARE Share the results of #1 #2 #3 and #4 with all of us in the group. Who did you share your guidebook with? How would you rate your trip so far? Appreciate your travel buddy for something you notice s/he is doing well or progress s/he has made since the start. Why are you rooting for him/her to get to the new island? What do you see is possible? Appreciate anything in your life that demonstrates that you are, indeed, going to the new island. |
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TAKE A TRIP TO THE SECRET LIBRARY.
The Principles of Living Power and bonus audios are all there.
The Principles of Living Power and bonus audios are all there.
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POST in the group What was the highlight from your time with your travel buddy? Return to your notes from Power Lab #1. Look up what your Future Island Self suggested as a Trim-tab. If you forgot about it, reconnect to the advice. Appreciate your travel buddy for something you believe s/he is doing really well and share why you want him/her to get to the new island. |
2: OVERVIEW of your Island Journey
WOW! You've just taken a major "trip" through the 6 Living Principles of Power. You want to share what happened. But first, you have to take a few minutes to recognize what happened. 😂 So, what did happen? • Return to your notes from our first Lab. • Look at your calendar for the week prior. • Where were you then? Right before the Lab? • Read through your Lab notes and assignments. • What have the challenges been? The milestones? • Where are you now? • What power can you claim around your island? Using a multimedia approach, tell us the story of your journey. It must include these touch-points, above: where you began, what you traversed, your wins, where you are now, the power you can claim and appreciation for yourself and someone/s in the group. *multimedia= whatever you say it is. Song, Dance, Video, Collage, Poem, Oral Story with visuals... your choice. Above all, have fun! 3: POST in the group • What was the highlight from your time with your travel buddy? • Return to your notes from Power Lab #1. Look up what your Future Island Self suggested as a Trim-tab. If you forgot about it, reconnect to the advice. • Appreciate your travel buddy for something you believe s/he is doing really well and share why you want him/her to get to the new island. • Post #2- your STORY of what happened |