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Learn the master keys that will help you take your self development to the next level… Radiant Circuits, EFT (and other tapping methods), NLP, meditation, etc.
Welcome to Peaceful Prosperity!
This is the best place on the web to pick up where standard self help leaves you hanging…
When you take a look around, and find the things that truly resonate with you… you can begin your own mystic voyage… you can start to step into a place where all that is in your life comes down to what you choose!
More and more, Peaceful Prosperity has become my journal and my journey. In these posts I share with you the laughs, the tears, the successes, and the setbacks on my own path of self development, inner exploration, and mystic growth. Part of this path is perspective… you gain more and more…
Personal Development is ultimately about discovering the Master Keys of Mind-Body transformation…
Changing your neurology in a conscious way…
How do we do this?
There are numerous ways, but Peaceful Prosperity is focused on the Master Keys of change…
What is a Master Key?
The master key to a building is the key that can open all the locks in the building… there are also individual ’standard’ keys to each lock/door, but a single master key can unlock every door in the building…
I look at personal development the same way. There are plenty of ’standard’ growth/change/personal development programs out there, and they can help you to overcome an obstacle or make a change… but I want to give you the Master Keys of success… concepts and practices that will create generative change across your life… techniques, procedures, and understandings that you will appreciate more and more as you use them again and again to create the life you want!
Master Keys give you the power to truly change!
It is no longer about conforming to societal whims… it is about you getting what you really want!
If you look in the sidebar, there is a list of ‘Master Key Categories’ (this is how my posts are organized).
What do these categories mean?
Let’s take a look:
30 Days of
- The reason this is on top is that it is the latest Master Key structure I have implemented on this site. Psychologists vary, but the amount of time to create a new habit (or possibly eliminate an old one) is usually considered to fall between 21 and 30 days… so if you are willing to maintain consistency over 30 Days… you will have formed a new habit.
- When you give it some thought, you will realize the majority of your experiences in life fall back to habitual responses… the question is, are your habits serving you?
- In the ‘30 Days of’ posts, you can follow along with me through 30 Days of my own challenges as create, eliminate, and/or reinforce my own habits. You can do the exact drills I discuss in the posts, or you can simply use the structure and consistency of the posts to help you motivate yourself to create whatever habits you like!
Change Your Neurology – Mundane (a category of categories)
Again, only mundane by my reckoning, and then only when I’m not closely paying attention… with appropriate awareness and acceptance the mundane becomes magical… These are all methods that are commonly used, and/or easy enough that they are frequently done more-or-less correctly
Chakra/Energy Work
- Everyone is doing it now… some sort of energy work, chakra therapy, etc… it’s great because working with energies and the chakras is good for both physical health and mental/emotional health… for being frequently lumped in with all things ‘metaphysical’, these methods are getting very close to mainstream…
- Working with energy (meridians, radiant circuits, the aura, 5 elements, etc.) and/or the chakras is a quick way to experience real change in your mind and body…
Goal Setting
- Most of what I teach about goal setting is actually only a subset of NLP (well formed outcomes)
- This is a crucial ability… you have to know precisely what you want, or you will have no way to attain it or even know that it has been attained.
- Practicing goal setting and following through on an action plan will gradually move your life more and more under your control…
NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
- What you don’t know can hurt you!
- The unconscious aspects of your mind ultimately direct your life… your conscious ‘whims’ aren’t enough to change them… it takes something more…
- Understanding the structure of how we think and learn is priceless!
- Once you begin to examine the nature of your subjective experience, you will realize how much it is under your control… and you will begin to change it in the ways you see fit… you will learn these new strategies and behaviors at a deep level… and even if you forget about it again, you will feel powerful in the knowingness that the unconscious is serving you…
Relaxation Techniques
- This is the easiest and most sensible place to start… energy flows through a relaxed mind-body… a relaxed mind-body can perceive multiple points of view and begin to deconstruct its own… eventually you want to overcome the influence of relaxation… you want to be in the driver’s seat whether you are tense or relaxed… you want to be able to have transcendent experiences regardless of how tense/relaxed you may be… but that is a challenging goal to achieve, and the best way to start is to relax!
The Law of Attraction
- This site is essentially about attraction. Much has been written and recorded about The Law of Attraction lately, but very little of it truly presents a practitioner with a complete formula. There are many roadblocks to success, and though visualization and smiling will take you a long way, they won’t be enough to overcome everything. Peaceful Prosperity is my mission to share with you techniques and principles that will allow you to eliminate all barriers to your success!
Yoga
- Yet another perspective, this site is about the core of Yoga… Yoga is an ancient art of transforming mind and body… the yoga trend in America tends to be little more than the latest health fad. There is nothing wrong with using yoga to lose weight and get in shape… but if you don’t recognize how far you can actually go with an understanding and practice of Yoga… then you’re really missing out. Much like meditation, everything on this site can also be considered Yoga as well… so what’s the difference between Yoga and meditation? There isn’t necessarily any difference… but for the sake of simplicity, I typically use ‘Yoga’ to describe a more physical approach, and ‘meditation’ to describe a more mental approach… but remember, the two always cross over!
Change Your Neurology – Extreme (another category of categories)
These methods are only extreme by my reckoning… much of what I would have called ‘mind-blowing mysticism’ years ago, seems a lot like common sense right now… but whatever the case, these are methods that tend to be used (or at least used properly) much less commonly… they typically require a little more courage and a little more acceptance to utilize.
A Bit of Zen
- I see Zen in primarily 2/too ways… it sometimes serves as a sword of simplicity that elegantly (or brutally) slices away the appearance of complexity… it shows us just how easy it can be… on the other hand, Zen can be the great confuser… something that throws reason to the wolves and embraces (allows it to be) mental chaos… lovingly accepts, appreciates, and embraces the confusion… both of these processes are incredibly powerful, but the power is often only seen in the first. When you are truly willing to accept completely… an intellectual understanding becomes a very tertiary thing. Any path worth walking will generate some confusion… how will you deal with it when it arises?
Mysticism
- From another angle, this is a site of mystic study. The mystic is deeply engrossed in self study… perceptions are examined, re-evaluated, and changed as necessary. Beliefs are not expressions of ultimate truth (ultimate truth cannot be contained within beliefs); they are a tool to get the practitioner from point A to point B. The true Mystic uses these and other tools to achieve healing, bliss, insight, and incredible results in the external world. Ultimately, all self study is a form of meditation.
- As you take a look around, you will begin to notice that everything on this site contains a meditation. All the pages offer techniques to be used as meditation or in conjunction with meditation. When I speak about meditations I am referring to mind-body exercises that refine/develop awareness and acceptance, or exercises that use those those refined skills to the practitioner’s ends… better health, greater wealth, improved relationships… or just a deeper, heartfelt smile!
Tantric/Taoist Practice
- I have appended Tantric practice and Taoist practice together… this is for the sake of simplicity. When I started studying both, I was primarily practicing to achieve transcendence during love-making. I have since discovered that there is much more to both of these disciplines, and that transcendent love-making does not start in the bedroom. Take a look at the posts in this category… but this is still only the tip of the iceberg…
- There is incredible power in the transformation of sexual energy… it is a significant piece of higher spiritual practice… it can lead you to true relationship mastery… it can even make you wealthy! Taoists have recognized this for thousands of years… Practitioners of Tantra have realized it for perhaps even longer… even Napoleon Hill mentions it in his famous book, Think and Grow Rich. This may very well be something that is worth your time to study.
- There will be more posts in this category in the future.
Tarot
- The Tarot acts as a visual pathway deep inside your unconscious… now… I personally suspect that it taps significantly into individual psychology as well as the collective unconscious… but I am still a student, so I will only speak briefly.
- Tarot is much more powerful than amateur divination… it offers another way to look into the self… it is important to realize that longing for the future and/or lamenting the past both draw our awareness away from the now… from the self… that which we must always deal with… the symbolism of the tarot can be used either way… it can be another distraction… or it can be the invisible hand which deftly slips another knot free as the mystery of self continues to unravel…
- Currently, there are only a few posts on this… as I discover more, I will post more in this area.
Experiences
- The majority of the posts on this site draw on my experiences in some way… this category focuses on experiences that stand out for some reason or another… I don’t always tell you why they stand out (in fact, I don’t always know it myself)… but it is useful to draw your own conclusions, or just enjoy them as entertaining stories.
General
- It’s sort of like the category of no category… maybe I should put this under Zen as well…
Product Reviews
- This is pretty straightforward. These are products that I have used to great effect. If it is on this blog, I have used it extensively, and I highly recommend it! The one product that I harp on again and again, is the brainwave entrainment/binaural beats from the Unexplainable… they are inexpensive, and available as an instant download. All you have to do is relax and listen to the track, and you will get the effect… if it can be made any easier than this, I don’t know how! Check it out here: Unexplainable.net
To see my latest posts, click any of the links under “What’s New” in the sidebar!
To learn stress relief and how to achieve deeper relaxation through the master keys of mindfulness, guided meditation, deep breathing, chi kung, and pranayama, check out the techniques on the Meditations page.
To learn more about achieving your outcomes and deepening your awareness through the master keys of NLP, hypnosis, and other mind sciences, check out the Self-hypnosis page.
For better mind-body health, flexibility, coordination and development through the master keys of Yoga, martial arts, energy work, and progressive relaxation, take a look at the Yoga page.
To learn how you can reserve your personal session with me, check out the success coaching services on the Coaching page.
Feel free to read through the posts at your leisure… you can click the blog button above or any of the links to the left… I’ve written posts on Jeet Kune Do, the Law of Attraction, mindfulness, self-hypnosis, chakra clearing, chakra meditation and more…
In the blog posts and on these pages you will learn how to use elements from guided meditation, mindfulness, self hypnosis, NLP, life coaching, yoga, chi kung, pranayama, deep breathing, martial arts, progressive relaxation, and other techniques to achieve peaceful prosperity, greater focus, and improve at virtually anything (success is often just a matter of getting out of your own way)! You can also learn stress management and how to expand your consciousness! If you’re curious about sessions in person (or if you’re just wondering where the pictures were taken), I’m currently located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Mindfulness, guided meditation, NLP, and self hypnosis are all mind-body tools that begin with the mind and allow you to transform the mind-body.
Yoga, martial arts, deep breathing, chi kung, pranayama, and progressive relaxation are mind-body tools that begin with the body and allow you to transform the mind-body.
These methods are incredibly powerful!!!
Life coaching is the tool I use to bring this all together for my personal students. It isn’t a necessity, but it certainly allows you to grasp things much more quickly, efficiently, and with more clarity (would you rather swim to the Caribbean, or take a luxury cruise?). When you walk this path, your consciousness will naturally begin to expand, and stress management becomes incredibly easy. When you use these techniques and learn these principles, resistance gradually melts away, and you begin to create your outcomes much more naturally!
Keep in mind, many of these terms are often used interchangeably, and at some point most of these disciplines cross over.
Enjoy the site!
For those who feel interested in learning a little bit more…
Meditation: -noun
- the act of meditating. (I guess this one was pretty obvious)
- continued or extended thought; reflection; contemplation. (this doesn’t really sound like meditation… it just sounds like thinking…which is fine, but if you are going to intentionally engage in thought during your meditation, at least make it directed thought)
- devout religious contemplation or spiritual introspection. (this can be a valuable definition…if we take ‘religious’ to mean ‘frequent’ and/or ‘fully committed’… I feel that ’spiritual’ is an incredibly vague term, and obviously means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. I like ‘experiential introspection’… when I meditate on my experience, I begin to experience something unique, I feel that I have transcended my experience… and thus the meditation becomes what I would call a ’spiritual experience’)
-Transcendental Meditaion: -noun
- a technique, based on ancient Hindu writings, by which one seeks to achieve a relaxed state through regular periods of meditation during which a mantra is repeated. (is it only trascendental meditation if you use a mantra? I do use a mantra during some of my meditations, but I think the essential ingredient is something else. Primarily, I would say it is the mindfulness that makes the meditation… and thus during any meditation, with enough mindfulness, one can begin to transcend… the relaxed state is important, however… it is important to develop deeper and deeper relaxation in the mind-body)
-Guided Meditation: -noun
- A process where a person is lead through a mental exercise to achieve a given result. (you can be lead through a meditation, by a live person, a recording, a picture, or even your own unconscious mind)
Chakra: -noun
- One of the seven centers of spiritual energy in the human body according to yoga philosophy. (Chakra means “wheel” in the original sanskrit… a chakra is a wheel of energy emanating from the body. When you study Chakras, you can discover how much the energy system of the body, and these energy centers in particular, can affect you on a mental and physical level.)
Clearing: -noun
- To make light, clear, or bright.
- The act of a person or thing that clears; the process of becoming clear. (Chakra Clearing and Chakra meditation are two descriptions for placing the focus on these energy centers to purify consciousness and/or make life better. To “clear” a chakra is to make it light, to break up any stagnant energy in or around the chakra. This is also called “opening” a chakra. The value of chakra clearing is that it typically acts as a great way to get quick results in the “real” world, and each chakra is also its own self contained feedback mechanism. If you feel an unpleasant sensation, or a thickness at a given chakra, then you are likely violating or not living up to the wisdom of that chakra. Clearing Chakras is one of the quickest ways to change or deepen your experience)
Equanimity: -noun (I often refer to this as ‘non-judgment’ or ‘acceptance’)
- mental or emotional stability or composure, esp. under tension or strain; calmness; equilibrium.
-Synonyms serenity, self-possession, aplomb.
-Antonyms panic, disquiet, discomposure, agitation.
(this is the element that will add true magic to your meditation. When a person maintains a mental/physical balance, they do not need to react… it is very difficult initially to do this in tense or stressful situations, but this ability develops quickly when you practice diligently)
Mindful: -adjective (rather than mindfulness, I most frequently use the term ‘awareness’ on this site)
- attentive, aware, or careful (usually fol. by “of”): mindful of one’s responsibilities
mind·ful·ly, adverb
mind·ful·ness, noun
-Synonyms heedful, thoughtful, regardful.
(this is the true basic skill of meditation, and the root of being good at anything. Mindfulness, focus, awarenss, attention, presence… these are all words to help you develop something that is far beyond words)
Mystic: -noun
- one who practices mysticism…. (which leads us to…)
Mysticism: -noun
- a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality. (not bad, but I’ll add a bit more in a moment)
- obscure or irrational thought. (the stigma that must be overcome, at least internally)
- a scientific approach to spirituality where certain practices yield certain results; do the drills, get the skills. (I added this definition to give a somewhat clearer definition of the direction of the site. This is developed and discussed in the post Science, Mysticism, and Spirituality…)
Science: -noun
- a particular branch of scientific knowledge; “the science of genetics”
- ability to produce solutions in some problem domain; (these first two are standard definitions)
- The practice of observation and experimentation to accrue experiential knowledge and deepen understanding
- The deep understanding that “This is only working theory…”; all rules are subject to change. (the second two were developed to give the practitioner a better understanding of how to approach hard to quantify fields, such as ’spirituality’, ‘energy work’, ‘truth’, etc…. though ‘truth’ is the one most people and organizations lay claim to, it is the vaguest of the three)
Sprituality: -noun
- concern with or focus on the vital principle or animating force
(this is the definition I came to in the Science, Mysticism, and Spirituality… series)
Yoga: -noun
- 1 a school of Hindu philosophy advocating and prescribing a course of physical and mental disciplines for attaining liberation from the material world and union of the self with the Supreme Being or ultimate principle. (now this is a powerful definition… any practice of Yoga, guided or mindfulness meditation, chi kung or anytihng else that can keep in mind the goal/attitude described above, can help you to lead yourself in a powerful direction… unfortunately the “material world” piece confuses a lot of people - this isn’t an indicator that you should not enjoy material things, it is directing you toward the realization/experience of your ‘reality’ as a series of signals from your own neurology… signals that you have a great deal of influence over…this makes for a powerful guided meditation)
- 2 any of the methods or disciplines prescribed, esp. a series of postures and breathing exercises practiced to achieve control of the body and mind, tranquillity, etc. (this isn’t a bad direction either, but it is a step removed from the first definition… a few more steps and you reach ‘American Yoga’, which is usually little more than the latest health fad…trendy yuppies and soccer moms attempting to remain reasonable to look at… yoga does not have to be a series of postures or breathing exercises, but these can help quite a bit, particularly the deep breathing… I personally like to add some movement to yoga… it is also fun and useful to blend yoga with your everyday life, just like you would with mindfulness or meditation… if you begin to become more aware of your day to day breathing, posture, movement, and/or physiology, and gradually shift them in a more useful direction, your entire life will become a practice of yoga)
- 3 union of the self with the Supreme Being or ultimate principle. (we have to be cautious of what we do with supreme beings… this definition is really much like the first and very related to the second, but it tends to mislead people much more frequently… the first definition drops many more hints before it gets to the part that loses most people: “the Supreme Being”… )
Most of these definitions came from…
-Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
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