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		<title>Special Offer: To Celebrate International Coaching Week May 20-26th, 2013.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I am offering 50% off professional life coaching (or EFT) for either one-one or telephone sessions, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you want to achieve your goals, here are six great reasons to get started today with a life coach. 1. A life coach can help you set realistic and manageable goals. 2. As a qualified [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/special-offer-to-celebrate-international-coaching-week-may-20-26th/">Special Offer: To Celebrate International Coaching Week May 20-26th, 2013.</a> appeared first on <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com">Spirit Bear Coaching</a>.</p>]]></description>
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<p>I am offering 50% off professional life coaching (or EFT) for either one-one or telephone sessions, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you want to achieve your goals, here are six great reasons to get started today with a life coach.</p>
<p>1. A life coach can help you set realistic and manageable goals.</p>
<p>2. As a qualified life coach, I can offer specific plans to help you break down your goals into daily or weekly, highly achievable steps.</p>
<p>3. Offer ongoing, consistent and positive encouragement through weekly or monthly one-one, phone calls and emails with you.</p>
<p>4. Help you understand what stops your progress, and teach you self help tools to overcome those obstacles.</p>
<p>5. Empower you in all areas of your life, from lack of confidence to anxiety/depression, stress management, relationships, work/life balance.</p>
<p>6. Provide motivation designed to meet your needs and keep you moving towards your success.</p>
<p>Please email jbrooks@spiritbearcoaching.com for more details. Offer expires on 31st May 2013.</p>
<p>’til we meet again,</p>
<p>Walk in Beauty;<br />
Walk in Peace.</p>
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<p>‘<em>Causing the Miraculous by Spreading Beauty, Truth &amp; Harmony</em>‘</p>
<p><strong>J</strong><strong>ohnathan Brooks, MAC, PG Dip </strong>is a Life Coach who has trained in a wide range of personal development treatment methods including the “Power Therapies” (CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (postgrad), EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, Master NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming) and has a Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Coaching and NLP’ which he passed with a ‘Commendation’. And is based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.</p>
<p>He is a full member of the Association for Coaching (MAC) and is a Gold member of The Professional Guild of NLP.</p>
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		<title>How We Heal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This week I&#8217;ve invited Trace A. DeMeyer to write as my guest blogger. Trace is co-author of &#8216;Two Worlds: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects&#8217;. If you remember, this was the book where I wrote and contributed a chapter about my adoption story. Trace found me on Twitter after I had twittered, &#8220;If you [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/how-we-heal/">How We Heal</a> appeared first on <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com">Spirit Bear Coaching</a>.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This week I&#8217;ve invited Trace A. DeMeyer to write as my guest blogger. Trace is co-author of &#8216;Two Worlds: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects&#8217;. If you remember, this was the book where I wrote and contributed a chapter about my adoption story.</p>
<div id="attachment_304" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 210px"><a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/TwoWorlds_Ecover_lores.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-304" title="ECover.indd" src="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/TwoWorlds_Ecover_lores-200x300.jpg" alt="TwoWorlds Ecover lores 200x300 How We Heal" width="200" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Two Worlds: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects</p></div>
<p>Trace found me on Twitter after I had twittered, &#8220;If you want to know more about me, read this&#8221; with a link to a feature article of an interview I gave, in the best selling monthly magazine &#8216;Spirit &amp; Destiny&#8217;. So the book is a product of social media. It&#8217;s amazing how social media brought together 17 adopted Native Americans to write their stories in their own words in this very informative and sad book. I say sad because after reading it, one is left wondering why non-Native Americans even bothered to adopt the children, who somehow felt that as a white race that they were more superior than the Native Americans, to treat them the way some of the stories are told. Unfortunately, a theme throughout history not only in North America but also in Africa, Australia and India etc.</p>
<p>By Trace A. DeMeyer, author of One Small Sacrifice and Two Worlds: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects</p>
<p>For many years, Indigenous people were subjected to inhumane conquest while the tribes were referred to as murdering hostile savages. That mindset was deeply embedded in many people, shown in movies and it’s hard to erase that damaging image in history or books slanted nicely to the conqueror.</p>
<p>One missed lesson in this history: the most crucial goal of the nation builders in North America was to gain complete control of the land, and to achieve that goal, these governments targeted removing children from their tribal lands and First Nation families. For a few centuries, this method went on (using residential boarding schools and adoptions).  In Canada it was called the Sixties Scoop. Few people are aware tribal children were targets for assimilation by using non-Indian parents who adopted them. Thousands of children were lost to adoption in North America.  Parents also succumbed to pressure by non-Indian social workers to let other people adopt and raise their children.</p>
<p>Indigenous people knew what was happening with the dismantling of tribes and tried for seven years to have the United States Congress hear their testimony and in 1974 tribal leaders finally shared their stories of lost children which lead to the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. That federal act was good news for Indian Country. With this law, Indian parents would place the child in their own family so a family member in the tribe would adopt them and if that was not possible, another tribe would adopt the baby. Kinship adoption was thought to be the best option for baby and family. Why? Tribes rely on future generations to carry on tradition and culture and language.</p>
<p>How we heal from this history is to know this happened to children. We can find ways to repatriate these children back to their tribes and help them to reconnect. We can unseal their adoption records and enroll these children as members of their tribes. Sharing the truth about the Indian Adoption Projects will assure these governments never attempt this again. That is how we heal.</p>
<p>Trace A. DeMeyer<br />
About me: <a href="http://www.about.me/Trace15">http://www.about.me/Trace15</a><br />
www.tracedemeyer.com<br />
Twitter: @Trace15<br />
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Splitfeathers</p>
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		<title>How To Change Children’s Lives In An Hour, Not Months Using EFT</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;Emotional Freedom Technique&#8217;s (EFT) remarkable power to bring about change probably stems from the way that its combination of carefully chosen words and gentle, physical stimulation of acupuncture points reaches deep into the most ancient and influential part of the brain, undoing conditioned mental or physical responses that can undermine us, foster illness or inhabit healing.&#8217; ~ Dr Robert [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/how-to-change-childrens-lives-in-hours-not-months-using-eft/">How To Change Children’s Lives In An Hour, Not Months Using EFT</a> appeared first on <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com">Spirit Bear Coaching</a>.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>&#8216;Emotional Freedom Technique&#8217;s (EFT) remarkable power to bring about change probably stems from the way that its combination of carefully chosen words and gentle, physical stimulation of </em><em>acupuncture points reaches deep into the most ancient and influential part of the brain, undoing conditioned mental or physical responses that can undermine us, foster illness or inhabit healing.&#8217; ~ Dr Robert Scaer, Neurologist (The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation and Disease, 2000.)</em></p>
<div id="attachment_724" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Fotolia_43385753_XS.jpeg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-724" title="Happy children with their hands up" src="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Fotolia_43385753_XS-300x246.jpeg" alt=" How To Change Children’s Lives In An Hour, Not Months Using EFT" width="300" height="246" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Get back to having fun with your family!</p></div>
<p>Over the years, I’ve studied many schools of thought for my coaching practice in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, from life coaching, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT &#8211; postgrad) and emotional freedom technique (EFT). I did my second postgraduate in ‘Coaching and NLP’. Other than feeding my thirst for learning, and knowing that one size doesn’t fit all. I was also looking for the right way to coach or to heal as I regard coaching as the same as healing. What I realised is that it was less about which school of thought a coach/therapist came from but who the coach/therapist was ‘Being’ as a model of excellence.</p>
<p>‘<em>The evidence is incontrovertible: Who provides the therapy is a much more important determinate of success than what treatment is provided.’ ~ ‘Supercoach’</em> (Miller <em>et al,</em> 2007)</p>
<p>Recently, I had received a call from a young single mother who had a four year old son. At his school &#8216;kindergarten/reception&#8217; class, her son was very shy and closed but was willing to join in the practises for the up coming festival. But when it came to showing the parents their showcase, he wouldn’t perform in front of the mums and dads despite really wanting to, he would get frustrated then angry which would then lead to some display of negative behaviour.</p>
<p>Her son was a delightful little boy, but there was one thing that was crystal clear. At this age, the cognitive process hasn&#8217;t developed yet, which meant the mental level approaches like CBT and NLP weren&#8217;t really the right tools for the job. Trying to find out whether it was a fear of performing school plays or getting it wrong or being laughed at, and any negative thoughts he may of had before any of those fears, wasn’t going to be very fruitful and nonsensical reasoning.</p>
<p>I decided to use Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) on the child and simply bypass thinking styles and challenging thoughts and beliefs etc.</p>
<p>EFT combines tapping on acupuncture points with words based on NLP.</p>
<p>He was able to tell me that he felt sad whenever he saw his mum in the audience. Curiously, I asked him what was he sad about when he sees his mum in the audience, he answered that he gets sad because she would leave again after the show.</p>
<p>I asked the mother where the father was and whether her son had been left alone in the past?  The father had never been around much after the birth of their son, and after the son was three and a half months old the mother, who worked as a make-up artist, had been offered work at the Opera House and gratefully accepted the job in order to move out of the tiny rented accommodation she had and get a mortgage for a home. By age two and a half years old, the mother then was offered a feature film contract but meant more crazy hours up to 70 hr weeks! So her son stayed with his grandmother while the mother went to work.</p>
<p>At this age, a child needs Love &amp; Attention, which no doubt the grandmother was able to give to her grandson. But the son not understanding why he was dropped off may have triggered a basic wounding of ‘abandonment’ perhaps feeling a little deserted. This can lead to the fear of being alone and would therefore cling onto his mother.</p>
<p>After tapping a mixture of <em>‘fear of being alone’</em> and <em>‘feeling really sad’</em>, half an hour later we were done. We did the same again the following week for our second session.</p>
<p>One of the most beautiful things working with children is how quick the sessions are as they are very receptive and not argumentative as adults can be. By dealing with this now and making it fun, means he won’t have to deal with this particular wound in 20+ years time when his negative behaviours may have magnified to something much worse! He can now be his own healer and with his new evidence can form new empowering beliefs.</p>
<p>Nip it in the bud early!</p>
<p>This is an email I received a week later from the mother:</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;<em>I took my 4 year old son to have EFT with Johnathan and have been utterly amazed at the results. After just a few days of &#8216;tapping&#8217; he was no longer highly distressed when I dropped him at school but running in happy and carefree with barely a backward glance. <strong><em>He is starting to love playing at Kindergarten and is interacting a lot more with the friends he is making.</em></strong> A sight I have longed for and one that filled my heart with joy beyond words. The festival was a huge success, and he  joined in with all of it and absolutely loved it. He had a huge smile on his face the whole time and kept waving. Very cute. He is so proud of himself and wanted me to let you know he had done it. </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>He immediately connected to Johnathan&#8217;s warm, gentle and compassionate approach and really enjoyed learning the tapping process.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>After just two sessions with Johnathan he would tell me the emotion he wanted to tap and we would do it together at home as well…and in some slightly more extraordinary locations! We were at the top of a steep tunnel slide and he really wanted to go down but was too scared (he has always been scared of these slides and has only gone down one once before) He turned around to me and said, &#8216;come on Mama let&#8217;s tap the scared feeling away.&#8217; After the first round of tapping he sat down at the top of the slide, after the second round he shuffled in about an inch, after the third.. a little more of a shuffle forward and after the fourth he started to giggle and said, &#8216;I don&#8217;t need to do any more tapping Mama, I can do this.&#8217; He gave me a big smile and then after a slight hesitation…off he went…whizzing down the slide, whooping. I couldn&#8217;t believe my eyes. Absolutely incredible!</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>The part I like the most is how easy and effective it is for him to do; for him it has already become as normal as brushing his teeth! It is a good feeling to know he has a tool which will help him all through his life, should he need to use it. Something which will help him always be true to himself…not his fears. No matter how big or small. Thank you Johnathan, for teaching my beautiful son such a wonderful healing method with such warmth and understanding.&#8221;  ~ T.M. Mother, Make-up artist and author</em></strong></p>
<p>’til we meet again,</p>
<p>Walk in Beauty;<br />
Walk in Peace.</p>
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<p>‘<em>Causing the Miraculous by Spreading Beauty, Truth &amp; Harmony</em>‘</p>
<p><strong>J</strong><strong>ohnathan Brooks, MAC, PG Dip </strong>is a Life Coach who has trained in a wide range of personal development treatment methods including the “Power Therapies” (CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (postgrad), EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, Master NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming) and has a Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Coaching and NLP’ which he passed with a ‘Commendation’. And is based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.</p>
<p>He is a full member of the Association for Coaching (MAC) and is a Gold member of The Professional Guild of NLP.</p>
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		<title>The 80/20 Rule: A Powerful Life Coaching &amp; Management Tool</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>One of the most widely used and commonly taught principles of time management, a topic that frequently arises in personal coaching in Tunbridge wells, Kent, is the 80/20 rule. It began as a simple observation in 1906 by an Italian economist named Vilfredo Pareto, who noticed that 20% of people owned 80% of the wealth. [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/8020-life-coaching-rule/">The 80/20 Rule: A Powerful Life Coaching &#038; Management Tool</a> appeared first on <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com">Spirit Bear Coaching</a>.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_673" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Fotolia_18793167_XS.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-673" title="Couple sitting at fireplace" src="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Fotolia_18793167_XS-300x200.jpg" alt="Fotolia 18793167 XS 300x200 The 80/20 Rule: A Powerful Life Coaching & Management Tool" width="300" height="200" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The 80 20 Rule can also work with relationship issues too.</p></div>
<p>One of the most widely used and commonly taught principles of time management, a topic that frequently arises in personal coaching in Tunbridge wells, Kent, is the 80/20 rule. It began as a simple observation in 1906 by an Italian economist named Vilfredo Pareto, who noticed that 20% of people owned 80% of the wealth. Pareto called this phenomenon: &#8220;the vital few and the trivial many.&#8221; And after studying it extensively across diverse applications, he determined that only 20 percent of anything is responsible for 80 percent.</p>
<p>That means in any team or group, 20% of the members are doing 80% of the work. And in an individuals own work, 20% of what they put into something is responsible for 80% of the results. In the 1940s, Dr. Joseph M. Juran &#8212; who is responsible for naming this phenomenon the Pareto Principle &#8212; observed similarly that 20% of the defects in a product or process are responsible for 80% of the problems. So it goes both ways. In fact, as it turns out, this principle can apply to almost anything:</p>
<p>80% of clients deliver 20% of your income.</p>
<p>80% of all frustrations in a relationship are caused by just 20% of the problems.</p>
<p>80% of your problems are caused by 20% of your circumstances.</p>
<p>80% of your income comes from 20% of your work.</p>
<p>So in terms of personal coaching in Tunbridge wells, Kent, how does one apply this principle toward improving your own time management and productivity? Toward increasing efficiency and effectiveness, whether in your work, school or home life? By applying 80 of your efforts to the most important 20 percent of your work or goals. Or find out which 20%  is the main cause of your problems and then eliminate them.</p>
<p>As I share with many a client personal coaching in Tunbridge wells, Kent, the Pareto Principle teaches you how to work smarter rather than harder, by reminding you to put the bulk of your energy toward the few tasks that matter most.</p>
<p>’til we meet again,</p>
<p>Walk in Beauty;<br />
Walk in Peace.</p>
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<p>‘<em>Causing the Miraculous by Spreading Beauty, Truth &amp; Harmony</em>‘</p>
<p><strong>J</strong><strong>ohnathan Brooks, MAC, PG Dip </strong>is a Life Coach who has trained in a wide range of personal development treatment methods including the “Power Therapies” (CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (postgrad), EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, Master NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming) and has a Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Coaching and NLP’ which he passed with a ‘Commendation’. And is based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.</p>
<p>He is a full member of the Association for Coaching (MAC) and is a Gold member of The Professional Guild of NLP.</p>
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		<title>The Basis Of Living Is Love</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The basis of living is love. Eventually, you have to appreciate something about yourself. If you don&#8217;t love yourself, you can&#8217;t love anything or life, because you are a part it.&#8221; ~ Johnathan Brooks</p><p>The post <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/the-basis-of-living-is-love/">The Basis Of Living Is Love</a> appeared first on <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com">Spirit Bear Coaching</a>.</p>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Whether you think you can or you can&#8217;t, you&#8217;re probably right&#8221; &#8211; Henry Ford Life Coaching in Tunbridge Wells, Kent starts with loving and valuing yourself. Low self-esteem can sabotage our every effort at happiness while high self-esteem can be our greatest ally. Fortunately there are many ways to boost your self-esteem, including these: Express [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/improve-self-esteem/">Improve Self-esteem</a> appeared first on <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com">Spirit Bear Coaching</a>.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Whether you think you can or you can&#8217;t, you&#8217;re probably right&#8221; &#8211; Henry Ford</em></p>
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<p>Life Coaching in Tunbridge Wells, Kent starts with loving and valuing yourself. Low self-esteem can sabotage our every effort at happiness while high self-esteem can be our greatest ally. Fortunately there are many ways to boost your self-esteem, including these:</p>
<p><strong>Express yourself.</strong> By this I mean two things:</p>
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<li>First &#8211; to express yourself creatively, through art, writing, song, crafts, cooking, drama, play. Creative expression is a basic human need that often goes neglected. Without it we may feel trapped, alienated, and unfulfilled, all of which can manifest as low self-esteem.</li>
<li>Second &#8211; to express those thoughts and feelings to other people that you&#8217;ve bottled up inside. As I&#8217;ve found repeatedly life coaching in Tunbridge wells, Kent unexpressed emotions wear people down and make them feel unsupported by the very person who should care for us most: ourselves!</li>
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<p><strong>Know thyself.</strong> Be honest with yourself about who you are &#8212; including your failings and flaws. Much low self-esteem is rooted in delusion. We may dislike parts of ourselves because we&#8217;re dishonest about what we&#8217;re seeing or think we should be seeing. Then we judge ourselves based on those false impressions: &#8220;I&#8217;m a bad mother&#8230;child&#8230;employee&#8230;spouse.&#8221;</p>
<p>Likewise we often overlook those aspects of ourselves for which we should be most proud. Taking an honest and unflinching account of who you really are, warts and all, allows you to stand firm in the whole of your being, for better and worse. And that makes you immune to the judgment of others.</p>
<p><strong>Pamper yourself.</strong> One of the most enjoyable lessons I get to impart Life Coaching in Tunbridge wells, Kent is that treating yourself with random acts of kindness has the same effect on you that it has on anyone else: it makes you feel good. And because it&#8217;s you who&#8217;s giving you that, it boosts your self-esteem. P.S. &#8211; Pampering others has the same self-esteem boosting benefits.</p>
<p>Live life purposefully manifesting, through focusing!</p>
<p>’til we meet again,</p>
<p>Walk in Beauty;<br />
Walk in Peace.</p>
<p><img title="“You may or may not get what you want, but you’ll always get what you need.”" src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhun3p9qhE1qflrye.gif" alt="tumblr lhun3p9qhE1qflrye Improve Self esteem"  /></p>
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<p>‘<em>Causing the Miraculous by Spreading Beauty, Truth &amp; Harmony</em>‘</p>
<p><strong>J</strong><strong>ohnathan Brooks, MAC, PG Dip </strong>is a Life Coach who has trained in a wide range of personal development treatment methods including the “Power Therapies” (CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (postgrad), EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, Master NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming) and has a Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Coaching and NLP’ which he passed with a ‘Commendation’. And is based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.</p>
<p>He is a full member of the Association for Coaching (MAC) and is a Gold member of The Professional Guild of NLP.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p> “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ~ Abraham Lincoln When you give a child praise for behaving in a desired fashion, then you help to encourage the personal development of those behaviours into a good habit (life coaching and especially EFT is very effect with children). [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/why-positive-thinking-works/">Why Positive Thinking Works</a> appeared first on <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com">Spirit Bear Coaching</a>.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: center;"><em>“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”</em> ~ Abraham Lincoln</span></p>
<p><a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/IMG_00435.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-630" title="Smiley Peas" src="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/IMG_00435-300x225.jpg" alt="IMG 00435 300x225 Why Positive Thinking Works" width="300" height="225" /></a>When you give a child praise for behaving in a desired fashion, then you help to encourage the personal development of those behaviours into a good habit (life coaching and especially EFT is very effect with children). In the same manner, when you focus your attention on the positive aspects of your life (and life in general) then you encourage more of those positive things to happen until they become your life.</p>
<p>Positive thinking is like praise a child for wanted behaviour and negative thinking is like scolding a child for unwanted behaviour. By praising a child for wanted behaviour, you are by no means ignoring the fact that unwanted behaviour does exist. And likewise, by thinking positively, you are not ignoring the fact that negative influences exist. You are just choosing to put your attention where it does you more good than harm.</p>
<p>Because here is the thing about your attention. It is very powerful. The power of your attention is no less than power of creation. Your attention, like everything else in the universe, is energy. When you focus your attention on something, it is like you are sending a beam of energy to that thing. And when you feed something this energy, you make it grow.</p>
<p>Feeding positive thoughts your attention, this universal energy, the lifeforce that is the source of all that is, is like pouring water on a plant (except you can never overwater it). Or, like blowing up a balloon (except this balloon will never pop).</p>
<p>This is why visualisations work. This is why affirmations work. And this is why positive thinking works.</p>
<p>But as suggested above, the reverse of this is true too. Feeding negative thoughts your attention makes that negativity grow. And this is why fear works. This is why guilt and blame both work. And this is why worry and doubt and shame all work. Because they’re all forms of placing your powerful attention on something negative.</p>
<p>Here is a very simple experiment you can try to see this power in action. Start smiling at strangers. And this is a warm and friendly smile we’re talking about. We all know the kinds of smiles this is not referring to.</p>
<p>When you start smiling at strangers what you will notice is that most of them will smile back at you. Some of them, who are accustomed to smiling at strangers themselves, will do it right away, without blinking an eye. Others will be thrown for a moment, not accustomed to having a random stranger smile kindly at them. Not seeking anything in return. Just passing along a friendly blessing. And you watch – most of these people too will start to show a return smile coming over their face as well.</p>
<p>Yes, in today’s day and age some people will give you a strange stare for smiling at them. But even those people are having fun! Have you ever given someone a strange stare? Fun isn’t its original purpose. But somehow it ends up being fun anyway. And even those sourpusses whose sourness won’t be moved for anything or anyone, they still benefit from your smile as well. Because, whether they like it or not, you just injected a bit of positivity into their world. And that can’t help but do them well. So there is not a person you can smile at, really, who doesn’t somehow benefit from it.</p>
<p>And when you put out that kind of positivity into the world, it can’t help but come back at you.</p>
<p>Now this was just an example, just one experiment – smiling at strangers. But it shows how the smallest amounts of attention placed on positive things produces more positive things for you and everyone you touch.</p>
<p>Live life purposefully manifesting, through focusing!</p>
<p>’til we meet again,</p>
<p>Walk in Beauty;<br />
Walk in Peace.</p>
<p><img title="“You may or may not get what you want, but you’ll always get what you need.”" src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhun3p9qhE1qflrye.gif" alt="tumblr lhun3p9qhE1qflrye Why Positive Thinking Works"  /></p>
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<p>‘<em>Causing the Miraculous by Spreading Beauty, Truth &amp; Harmony</em>‘</p>
<p><strong>J</strong><strong>ohnathan Brooks, MAC, PG Dip </strong>is a Life Coach who has trained in a wide range of personal development treatment methods including the “Power Therapies” (CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (postgrad), EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, Master NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming) and has a Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Coaching and NLP’ which he passed with a ‘Commendation’. And is based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.</p>
<p>He is a full member of the Association for Coaching (MAC) and is a Gold member of The Professional Guild of NLP.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Victory always starts in the head. It&#8217;s a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.&#8221;   ~ Douchan Gersi One of the biggest mistakes you can make in life is basing your happiness on your life’s circumstances. Often we tell ourselves that we’ll be [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/manifesting-happiness/">Manifesting Happiness</a> appeared first on <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com">Spirit Bear Coaching</a>.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Victory always starts in the head. It&#8217;s a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.&#8221;</em>   ~ Douchan Gersi</p>
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<p>One of the biggest mistakes you can make in life is basing your happiness on your life’s circumstances. Often we tell ourselves that we’ll be happy when some future event happens. <em>“When I can make a little more money, then I’ll be happy”, “When my kid shapes up, then I’ll be happy”, “I’ll be really happy when this rocky period is over!”</em></p>
<p>The first (and smaller) of the two problems with this is that waiting around for something to happen before deciding to be happy deprives you of all the happiness you can be experiencing right now.</p>
<p>The much larger problem, however, with this attitude that happiness depends on something outside your own conscious intention is that it impedes the manifestation process of attaining the very things that you’re basing your future happiness upon.</p>
<p>How is this? Because in manifestation (as in electromagnetism) like attracts like. Joy attracts joy. Love attracts love. And happiness attracts happiness. Likewise, unhappiness attracts unhappiness, misery and sorrow attract misery and sorry, and so on.</p>
<p>By choosing to be happy now, regardless of your life circumstances you are claiming a tremendous power already always working within you – but now with you in charge. You can choose to be happy in the face of your life circumstances and in so doing will allow the universe to produce in your life the evidence supporting that state of happiness. The life circumstances validating your inner state of happiness.</p>
<p>In other words, first you feel happy then your life reorients itself around that happiness. It does not work the other way around.</p>
<p>If you are waiting for happiness to come in the form of some thing or event, then you will always be waiting for happiness to come. Because even if that thing or event does occur there will always be some thing else for you to instantly attach your happiness to.</p>
<p>Either we take ownership of our emotions or we are slaves to them, always seeking release, never finding it. There’s always something else to want: better looks, slimmer body, a loving relationship. And wants are good – they’re the seeds of creation. But if we’re the type of people who attach our happiness to the flourishing of the plant that seed has the potential to grow into, then every seed we plant will be another reason to put off our happiness for a later date. And another reason to feel anxious and worried and uncertain while we wait.</p>
<p>If you understand the principles of the Law of Attraction, then you know that the all-important third and final step of the process is to allow that which you desire to come into your life. And the way you do that is with feeling – emotion. The process requires you feel <em>now</em> what it will be like to have the fulfillment of your desires, <em>as if it’s already happened.</em></p>
<p>For example, if you want a new car: you put the intention out there into the universe, you trust that your request has been received and granted and that the fulfillment of your desires is on its way, and then you ready yourself for its arrival by filling yourself to brimming with the feelings of fulfillment that energetically resonate with it. In other words, a new car is not going to come to someone who doesn’t feel they deserve it. And happiness does not come to someone who can’t take it.</p>
<p>When it comes to manifestation, happiness is a desire like any other. To manifest it outside yourself you first must manifest it inside.</p>
<p>Live life purposefully manifesting, through focusing!</p>
<p>’til we meet again,</p>
<p>Walk in Beauty;<br />
Walk in Peace.</p>
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<p>‘<em>Causing the Miraculous by Spreading Beauty, Truth &amp; Harmony</em>‘</p>
<p><strong>J</strong><strong>ohnathan Brooks, MAC, PG Dip </strong>is a Life Coach who has trained in a wide range of personal development treatment methods including the “Power Therapies” (CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (postgrad), EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, Master NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming) and has a Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Coaching and NLP’ which he passed with a ‘Commendation’.</p>
<p>He is a full member of the Association for Coaching (MAC) and is a Gold member of The Professional Guild of NLP.</p>
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		<title>Listen Here To Me Being Interviewed By Lynn Briggs On Radio Uckfield 105FM</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Find out what my connection was with the late Peter Cook, the comedian. Hope you find the interview amusing and interesting&#8230;..enjoy! http://www.uckfieldfm.co.uk/2013/audio/uckfield-lives-programme-highlights/ Look for Johnathan Brooks Uckfield Lives &#8211; Programme Highlights What People Have Said About It: &#8220;Dear Johnathan, I have just listened to your radio interview on radio Uckfiled and found it absolutely fascinating! [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/heres-the-link-to-the-radio-interview-i-gave-to-uckfield-radio105fm/">Listen Here To Me Being Interviewed By Lynn Briggs On Radio Uckfield 105FM</a> appeared first on <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com">Spirit Bear Coaching</a>.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Find out what my connection was with the late Peter Cook, the comedian.</p>
<p><a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Fotolia_41644826_XS.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-555" title="mikrofon on air" src="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Fotolia_41644826_XS-273x300.jpg" alt="Fotolia 41644826 XS 273x300 Listen Here To Me Being Interviewed By Lynn Briggs On Radio Uckfield 105FM" width="273" height="300" /></a>Hope you find the interview amusing and interesting&#8230;..enjoy!</p>
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<p>Look for Johnathan Brooks Uckfield Lives &#8211; Programme Highlights</p>
<p>What People Have Said About It:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Dear Johnathan, I have just listened to your radio interview on radio Uckfiled and found it absolutely fascinating! I have always had an interest in Native American Culture and Spiritual development. Happy to have found your Fb page. </em> <em>Kind regards, ~ Jo&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Just finished listening to this. It&#8217;s great!&#8221; ~Jededia </em></p>
<p>’til we meet again,</p>
<p>Walk in Peace; Walk in Beauty.</p>
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<p>‘<em>Causing the Miraculous by Spreading Beauty, Truth &amp; Harmony</em>‘</p>
<p><strong>J</strong><strong>ohnathan Brooks, MAC, PG Dip </strong>is a Life Coach who has trained in a wide range of personal development treatment methods including the “Power Therapies” (CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (postgrad), EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, Master NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming) and has a Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Coaching and NLP’ which he passed with a ‘Commendation’.</p>
<p>He is a full member of the Association for Coaching (MAC) and is a Gold member of The Professional Guild of NLP.</p>
<p>Johnathan</p>
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		<title>Giving to Receive &#8211; From The Heart</title>
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		<dc:creator>Johnathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” ~ William Arthur Ward With Valentine&#8217;s Day around the corner, I thought it might be a good time to reflect the concept that: Giving produces receiving. The energy that makes up everything in the universe is constantly in motion. It is [...]</p><p>The post <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/giving-to-receive/">Giving to Receive &#8211; From The Heart</a> appeared first on <a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com">Spirit Bear Coaching</a>.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” ~ <em>William Arthur Ward</em></p>
<p><a href="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Fotolia_36837226_XS.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-534" title="Health insurance or love concept" src="http://spiritbearcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Fotolia_36837226_XS-300x254.jpeg" alt=" Giving to Receive   From The Heart" width="300" height="254" /></a>With Valentine&#8217;s Day around the corner, I thought it might be a good time to reflect the concept that: Giving produces receiving. The energy that makes up everything in the universe is constantly in motion. It is constantly flowing from one thing to another; flowing in and out and in and out again. Like breath. We cannot just inhale. We must also exhale. That gives us life. And likewise, giving of ourselves to another, or to the world gives back to us in life-giving ways.</p>
<p>Giving is a powerful way of engaging in the flow of all that is. It’s like jumping into the rushing river, trusting that the current will carry you somewhere beautiful. By giving, you show the universe that you trust completely that you’ll be taken care of, because how else could we take our attention off ourselves and put it on another? If we didn’t know that we were okay?</p>
<p>By giving, you release energy and make space for new energy to come in. Which brings us to what happens when we don’t give. When we don’t give, that energy stays bottled up inside us. In fact, imagine just that – imagine a soda in a bottle sitting unopened and forgotten. What happens? It loses its fizzle, its life-force, and grows stagnant and distasteful, never fulfilling its destiny. By only taking and never giving, by hoarding (which is really what it is) we cut ourselves off from the flow of energy, of life-force, in the universe, and cause the energy, the life-force, within us to grow stagnant, itself cut off from the flow to which it once belonged.</p>
<p>The way this flow works is amazingly simple – anything we put out into the flow is what we get back, and magnified. In other words, if we put out love into the world, more love is what we receive in return. If we put out scarcity and selfishness, then more scarcity and selfishness is what we receive in return. The flow is quite literal that way.</p>
<p>This knowledge can be an open door for you to walk through and claim untold levels of happiness and abundance. However, before you step through the door, be aware…</p>
<p>Receiving only comes from giving that is done without the intention of receiving any personal gain from the gift. In other words, it must be selfless giving. This is the paradox in the power of giving.</p>
<p>While giving produces receiving – you can’t give with the intention of doing it so that you will receive anything in return. That completely counteracts the gift of giving. So what to do? How do we make use of this knowledge if we can’t use it intentionally?</p>
<p>By cultivating a naturally giving nature within. Start small, looking for ways you can give of yourself, and then do so. It’s okay right now that you know you’re also doing this for your own gain. That will fade in time as the innate and instantaneous rewards of giving build up in you – those being the inner joy and fulfillment that come automatically from giving of yourself to another.</p>
<p>As you keep doing this, you become a naturally giving person. It will simply be a part of your nature. And by then you will no doubt have already started seeing the fruits of your efforts coming back to you, and abundantly so.</p>
<p>Live life purposefully manifesting, through focusing!</p>
<p>’til we meet again,</p>
<p>Walk in Peace; Walk in Beauty.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>‘<em>Causing the Miraculous by Spreading Beauty, Truth &amp; Harmony</em>‘</p>
<p><strong>J</strong><strong>ohnathan Brooks, MAC, PG Dip </strong>is a Life Coach who has trained in a wide range of personal development treatment methods including the “Power Therapies” (CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (postgrad), EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, Master NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming) and has a Post Graduate Diploma in ‘Coaching and NLP’ which he passed with a ‘Commendation’.</p>
<p>He is a full member of the Association for Coaching (MAC) and is a Gold member of The Professional Guild of NLP.</p>
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