 Michael Neill is an internationally renowned success coach and the best-selling author of The Inside-Out Revolution, You Can Have What You Want, Feel Happy Now!, the Effortless Success audio program and Supercoach: 10 Secrets to Transform Anyone's Life. He has spent the past 24 years as a coach, adviser, friend, mentor and creative spark plug to celebrities, CEO's, royalty, and people who want to get more out of their lives. His books have been translated into 15 languages, and his public talks and seminars have been well received at the United Nations and around the world. Read More...
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We're into the third week of the Living from the Inside-Out and Living from Mind virtual learning programs, so next Sunday, the 28th of September, will be the final chance for you to join... 1. Living From the Inside Out with Barbara Patterson  Living From the Inside-Out is one of our most popular programs, and is being led for the first time by transformative coach and consultant Barbara Patterson. Through a combination of professionally recorded videos, facilitated conversation, and online discussion, this 12 week interactive exploration is a perfect introductory level program for anyone wanting to go deeper into the philosophy and principles behind The Inside-Out Revolution and Why Aren't We Awesomer? To join us for Living from the Inside-Out and learn more, click here. 2. Living From Mind with Michael Neill  Over the same 12 week period, I will be leading a brand new program for advanced students of the principles. Each week, I'll record a new video exploring the energy and intelligence behind life - what it is, how it works, and how it shows up in our lives. Then we'll get together by phone each Tuesday to explore how the deeper mind is showing up in your life. We'll share insights, ask and answer questions, and I'll coach you around whatever challenges you might be facing along the way. To join us for Living from Mind and to learn more, click here.
Thursday, September 25th at Noon Pacific/3pm Eastern/8pm UK The 3 Goals of Transformative Coaching Have you ever wondered what Michael's work with clients is really all about? Listen live this week as he shares the three things that he wants for everyone he works with, including you!  To reach me live on air:Inside the US (Toll free) 1-866-254-1579 From the UK/Outside the US 001-760-940-4300 You can listen to the show this and every Thursday - simply go to hayhouseradio.com at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 8pm UK and click on the button marked 'Listen Now'. Did you miss our most recent live show called LIVING IN THE MOMENT? For a limited time you can listen to it here.
 Want to listen to this tip on audio? Click here to hear this week's tip and other recent tips! Anyone who spends any time around principles-based practitioners will hear the word "grounding" bandied about a lot. It's become a sort of a buzzword - a currency in the "whose better at this game" game. There are conversations about how "her grounding is deeper than his grounding", which always sound vaguely reminiscent of the "my dad's bigger than your dad" games we used to play as kids (and one which my children must sadly lose at all the time in their schools and playgrounds.) Yet despite this somewhat pointless exercise in spiritual one-upmanship, there is a point to the conversation. Because our "grounding" - that is to say our level of understanding of who we are, what life is, and how it works - is pretty much the only thing we've got of any value as teachers, coaches, and practitioners. Our grounding isn't an intellectual understanding. Passing a written test on the principles behind the human experience would be like acing the final exam in a stand-up comedy analysis class. Just because you got an 'A' doesn't mean you're going to be any good at making people laugh. Comic timing is one of those subtle, invisible things that can be learned but not taught - by the time you've got it, it's in the bones, not the head. Similarly, our true understanding of life is the foundation for everything we say and do, consciously AND unconsciously. Teaching the value of spontaneity from a course manual just isn't the same as inviting the class to stop outside and enjoy the sunshine in the midst of a busy lecture. The one is practiced; the other is real. So what is it that makes up our grounding? What's so important that 80%-90% of a transformative conversation is spent focused on it? There are a million ways to talk about it, but I'll break it down to three fundamental things for the purposes of this tip... 1. Who are you, really? The Canadian mystic Terence Gray, better known to his followers as Wei Wu Wei, famously wrote:
If that's so esoteric it makes your head want to explode, let's back up a few levels of consciousness and think about it like this: What is innate (natural) in all human beings, and what is learned (conditioned)? I often use the following analogy to break down the answer to the question (with thanks to Lian Brook-Tyler of Born Happy for the drawing):  At core, we are all made of the same perfect stuff - what some would call spirit, or the life force, universal mind, or pure consciousness. This "diamond" of our essence is solid and unchangeable - multi-faceted and a perfect reflector of the light. But in our insecurity, we begin to think that we are full of crap - that the feelings of guilt, shame, self-loathing and selfishness we all feel from time to time are part of our essence and not the product of our programming. So in order to hide our crap from the world, we develop a personality - a kind of ego-based nail varnish designed to distract the outside world and keep them at enough of a distance that they can't get a good sniff of who we fear we really are. This is the "self" that so many self-help books aim to help us with, and the reason that our attempts at "self"-esteem, self"-worth, and "self"-love so often go awry. After all, to attempt to love, value, and esteem who we are only pretending to be is like worshiping the reflection of the moon instead of looking up into the sky to see what's really there. The irony is that when we let go of the quest for "self"-improvement, we often stumble across the essence of who and what we really are. And that wordless, indescribable Self needs no praise or idolatry, because it is made of the very love, appreciation, and intrinsic worth that we were seeking all along. Next week, I'll go deeper into a second fundamental element of our grounding - the one source of our million-fold experiences of life. Until then, you might want to spend a bit of time reflecting on these "pointing-out instructions taken from Ken Wilber's stunning spiritual diary, "One Taste":
Have fun, learn heaps, and happy exploring! With all my love,
PS - Our last pre-course call for Coaching from the Inside-Out is this Wednesday! Want to get more out of yourself and your life? Want to help others do the same? Coaching from the Inside Out is a three day coaching masterclass, providing all of us who want to touch and transform lives with the opportunity to take a deep dive into what it takes to unleash the human potential. We'll be exploring the difference between change and transformation, what it takes to be successful as an inside-out practitioner, and how the same principles that lead to profound personal change can shoot you forward or hold you back in building your practice. This is the last public coach training I will be offering until 2016, and I'm designing it as both a comprehensive foundation for doing principles-based work with others and an ongoing community to support and guide you as you do. Upon sign up, you will receive:
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