Change Happens (5 December 2009)

Along about Thanksgiving time, the SCS Web site moved to a new Web hosting company. We’re now on BlueHost. One of the advantages of the new hosting service is that it will facilitate online instruction through a course management system called Moodle.

You may have noticed that the blogging software (GeekLog) has been updated as well. See especially the new poll, and let me know about the issues you want me to address, and I will keep those topics in mind. Meanwhile...

At this point, Christmas, Chanukah, and the New Year are right around the corner. In the midst of preparation for celebration and celebrating, it is worth taking time to think about the events—both personal and global—that have influenced you this past year, honoring the positive and extracting the lessons learned from those less than wonderful. It is also worth looking forward to the coming year and setting your intent for the kinds of changes you would welcome. How would you like to change for the better in 2010?

One of the problems with New Year’s Resolutions, typically written on New Year’s Day, is that those who write them haven’t always thought sufficiently about what will be required to keep them or the logical consequences of keeping them—if that actually were to happen. That kind of planning is what December is for. Make sure that, when you reach the point at which you are ready to put your resolutions on paper (or in a computer document) as your vow to yourself to do whatever it takes to keep your word, you can and will keep the promises you have made to yourself.

One of my recurring resolutions has been that each year I will know more than I did the year before. I typically do two things to help ensure that happens: I continue to attend workshops and seminars offered by those I think have new insights that can help, and I read the kinds of books that I think will help. For me, such books tend to be nonfiction. As someone with a Ph.D. in English literature, I believe that literature can also lead to wisdom, but my sense is that the kind of literature (both fiction and poetry) that leads to wisdom isn’t read much these days. So, if reading is one of your enjoyments, ask yourself what you are learning from your reading.

At the moment, I am reading Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason,. By Caroline Myss. I have two books on neuroplasticity and one on the intuitive process stacked and ready for when I have finished Defy Gravity. I spend time reading these books not only for my personal enhancement, but also to help ensure that when Debra and I are conducting SCS trainings, I have a broad and deep reservoir of knowledge on which to draw.

Another of my goals is to provide the highest quality training in Energy Medicine, neurolinguistics (NLP), and hypnotherapy possible, and another of my continuing resolutions is to be a better trainer in the coming year. I am very much looking forward to being able to add the online component that Moodle will make possible to help ensure that those who seek training from SCS get everything they wanted—and more.

joel@scs-matters.com
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