City Slickers

June 3rd, 2009

I’ve not before reviewed a movie on this blog, reserving my comments for good books or just my own thoughts.  However, here is a movie that deserves some comment.

It would fit the category of “Renegade” since it rather comes up from behind and kicks you in the butt.  It is raw, open, real, has too much bad language and sexual related themes for many, maybe most, but it goes straight to some real, common and deep-seated issues.  You have to go past just watching it and think a bit about it as well to begin to get the full impact of the message/s of this film.

Billy Crystal is the main character and because it is he doing the acting, one might expect it to be a comedy.  Indeed, there are some comic moments and this is one reason why it is such a surprising film.  It goes way beyond comedy.

Three men, boys who grew up together as best freinds and who have remained good friends, have discovered that life has been full of failure and disappointment.  One has an overbearing, nearly abusive wife and finds some “life” in adultery.  Another considers himself a real womanizer, but uses talk and acting out behavior as a means of covering up his extremely lacking self-esteem.  Truth be told, he cannot even get his “hot” wife pregnant.  The third has reacted to his disappoinmtment by just checking out, becoming passive, disinterested, feeling useless and less than a man, going through the motions but looking to the outside world like a very successful husband, father and businessman.

Together they decide they need to go a dude ranch for a couple week vacation.  Only the dude ranch has real cows and real needs, real cowboys who are bullies, preying on the weak and the female.  These cows need to be moved to summer pasture and back again.  Along the way these dudes suffer hardship and loss, and are faced with decisions that test their manhood.  Actually, the circumstances first test them in ways that make them decide if there is even any manhood in them at all.

The amazing thing about this story is that it is full of raw emotion and raw life.  Most of the issues these men face relate directly to their sexuality and their response to it, or lack thereof.  It turns out their issues revolve around the huge failure of Fatherhood in their lives which causes them to be lost and to feel worthless, ungrounded, uninitiated.  It becomes their excuse for their emasculation, their failed lives and their pitiful understanding of and attitude toward femininity and their own sexuality.  Mixed into the story is also a Savior figure, repentance, baptism, grace, forgiveness, true femininity and transformation.

This is an older film, one which you will likely have to rent to obtain.  It would be worth purchasing

City Slickers, Collectors Edition

City Slickers, Collectors Edition

and then watching about once a month.  When you watch it, though, don’t leave your brain or your heart at the door.  Think about it.  Feel it.  Mine it for the riches of the message contained in it.  Let it change you.
Blessings,

Dr Jon

Money vs. Value

June 2nd, 2009

The Internet, your mailbox (if it is like mine), the newspapers, TV, and the minds of most people today are filled with thoughts of money.  Mostly it seems to be thoughts of how little money there is, of how little they have and of how much they want more.

Almost nowhere and from almost no one is there ever mention of value.

However, money is merely a reflection of value.  Value is something you have that you give to yourself or another as a means to improve your or their life in some way.  Value is a measure of how much you care for and honor yourself or another person.  Value is a reflection of the character of yourself or of another.

For example, this past weekend was the third birthday of my neighbor’s oldest son.  My neighbors had friends and family over for a meal and a time of celebration of the life of this very little, very precious, very precocious child.  It turns out that little David LOVES firetrucks and anything related to them.  Right in the middle of the party we hear a siren and up drives a big, shiny firetruck.  Little David was awestruck, in childhood heaven!  This was a dream come true.  Heck, the adults were awestruck as well!

That was VALUE.  That was showing the love of a man for his son, going out of his way to do something extraordinary for another, just because he wanted to.

Will little David’s Dad earn any money for that?  Doubtful.  Will he receive value in return for the value he gave his son?  Absolutely!  He already has.  He witnessed the awe and amazement and sheer overwhelming delight that registered in his son’s face and behavior.  That alone is beyond anything mere money could purchase.  Besides, the other adults there were amazed and spoke of it.  I for one let him know how valuable he was and I am sure everyone else at the celebration that witnessed it will continue to value him for a long time to come (to say nothing of remembering when viewing all the pictures).  And who knows?  When it comes time for the promotion, perhaps his boss who was either there or heard the story will realize he would rather have that kind of value-giving person in the position of responsibility than someone else who has not exhibited that kind of character.

So what is the bottom line?

This:

Let’s change our thinking and begin to deal in the currency of value instead of money where we invest time and attention in ourselves and other people’s lives and get paid in love and blessing and growth of character instead of investing dollars just to get more dollars.  Let’s hang around and out with people who understand and trade in value.  Especially when it comes to also dealing with our money, let’s do it with people who understand value and caring and compassion, who aren’t focused just on money.  And here’s a little secret: when dealing in value, at some point money will also come.  Guaranteed.  But trading in money never guarantees money in return.

Be value.  Give value.
Blessings,

Dr Jon

Four Energies

June 1st, 2009

In a previous post we talked about energy.

Now let’s take a minute and look at the kinds of energy there are in the universe.

Of no question there is Chemical energy.  Without this energy chemical reactions can not and would not occur.  Science has for years dealth with, studied, analyzed, measured and harnessed this energy.  We have studied chemical thermodynamics and reaction activation energies.  Everything in our world around us runs on chemical energy at the physical level.  What we call Mechanical energy is the result of movement of the already existent chemically expressed world. This chemical/mechanical energy is explained by what we call Newtonian physics.

Besides Chemical energy, though, is Thought energy.  The Scripture says, “as a man thinks, so is he.”  Men like Napoleon Hill and Charles Haanel have pointed out that all of what we call “reality” first takes place in the thought of a person and from there is transmuted into physical expression.  There is no invention, no product, no service, no building, no art, no musical composition, no sculpture without there being first the thought of the same in a person’s mind.  Neither can that thought in and of itself generate the expression without some energy being expended and thought itself can provide the energy to begin and carry on the expressive process.  Thought works in conjunction with chemical energy to take form and to manifest.

Besides Chemical and Thought energy is the energy inherent in a Word. Let’s call this Word energy. Again, Scripture says, “In the beginning was the Word,” and “without [the Word] nothing that now exists came into physical reality.” In other words, before there can be the manifestation into chemical energy or physical reality, there must first be a word speaking it, which comes from thought. Now the Word was God which brought forth the existence of our planet, but we are made in God’s image and our words are producers of and necessary for the production of the reality that we create. Our circumstances, our families, our homes, our jobs, our businesses, everything about us are the result of our words to and about ourselves that we speak, causing energy to flow and manifest. The corollary here is that if we would like to change something about our life,  we need but to speak a different word concerning that thing than what we have been speaking.

Another energy that is present, that is exceptionally powerful and all pervading, we call Sexual Energy.  By this I do not mean the energy that is expended in sexual behavior, though that is certainly one expression of it. Rather I mean the basic, root energy that motivates and initiates all else, that is described in the term “sexuality” by some.  Scripture tells the story of communal God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) expressing the Thought in a Word to create another race of being like himself.  He later said that it was not good for this likeness of himself to dwell by himself so he separated out the genders making two sexual types.  The implication is that God himself realized it would be better if he were not dwelling alone and in other places in Scripture much is talked about the God-Son receiving a Bride.  This is very sexual.  God by the Spirit uniting with Mary to conceive the God-Son, Jesus, was in and of itself a sexual act.  (Did God “have sex” with Mary? That issue could be debated for a long time, I am sure, but the fact is he conceived a physical child via a means which every other time in the universe has been done sexually.)

It is my belief that what we call Sexual Energy or sexuality is at the root and core of our existence and motivates and pervades all action and all other energy. Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich spends a whole chapter talking about the presence of sexual energy and how the transmutation of it into expressive form is one of the necessary factors for great wealth.  The Eastern ancients have for centuries talked about the Kundalini energy that begins in our root chakra at the base of our spine and can be controlled and expanded up through our body for expression not only sexually but also for great deeds and great works of art and other forms of rich expression.  The sexual practice known as Tantric sex is the expression of Kundalini energy in actual sexual behavior.  This sexual energy is what enables us to see beauty in a sunset, to design a building with form and lines that flow gracefully into a complete whole.  This is what energizes and motivates a great story or a touching film, a painting or photograph that seems to capture deep felt, even raw, emotion.  It is, of course, sexual energy that drives relationships and compassion and nurturing of each other.  It is sexual energy that is creative and brings forth new life in all its forms, both the physical life of an infant, a new being, as well as the new life of a thought or word.

I believe that the Life Force, what the Eastern world calls Chi or Prana is the sum total of Sexual, Thought, Word and Chemical Energies.  It begins as Sexual energy, is put into a Thought form, then spoken or written as a Word and finally, by applied action, brought into physical reality by Chemical energy.

Because of the existence in our world of both Good and Evil, all of these energies can be applied in either way.  Many of a conservative or religious bent try to avoid the idea of sexual energy and sexuality altogether. Unfortunately, in doing so, they often are overcome by this powerful force in ways not healthy or helpful and thus fall into a vicious cycle of more avoidance leading to more problems, etc.

All of these energies can be used in “evil” or less than healthy ways. Sexuality used wrongly leads to cheapening it by using it to sell cars and merchandise.  It also goes very awry with prostitution, sexual slavery, pornography, and other aberrant and abusive sexual practices.  Thoughts can go awry when thinking poorly of ourselves or others, resulting in many of us never becoming or growing into what we were meant to become. Words used wrongly looks like condemnation, gossip, lies and hurtful statements.  Chemical energy used wrongly looks like bombs, pesticides and murder, for example.  Any of it used apparently rightly with wrong motives could be considered as less than “good.”

All of these energies can also be used for good.  Sexual energy brings new life and beauty and love and creativity and all things good into our world and lives.  Thoughts encourage us and help us grow.  Words similarly express to others the thoughts and encouragement we have for them and help make them grow.  Chemical energy used rightly has helped to make our existence the wealthiest, most efficient, and in many ways easiest, yet known and experienced on the planet.  It has even taken us off the planet into space exploration.

So what is the application of all this to our personal, daily lives, or is there any?  Are these thoughts simply the ramblings of a fool?

I believe that we are called to explore with openness and rightness the use of all these energies.

Let’s start talking about Sexual energy and start using it for healing, and creatively in the arts and sciences.  As we open up and get real and get honest about the role Sexual energy has in our lives, I believe we will open new vistas of expression and experience and relationship, all without going into hurtful sexual behaviors.  I believe as we explore this energy we will actually free ourselves to behave sexually in even more pure and more true ways.

Let’s begin to direct our thoughts into new ideas and creative products and services to help each other grow and improve.

Let’s begin to speak into existence these thoughts and ideas and encouragements.

And let’s apply action to see all of this take form in the chemical/physical world.

Let’s.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

Becoming Ourselves/Myself

May 27th, 2009

I have been listening to Kim Clement and participating in his  School of the Prophet for the last 8 weeks.  Very interesting and very good stuff.  One of his excellent points is that we need to be in our “element.”  Like fish in water, when they get out of their element (water) they neither function as well or as long.

I have also spent a lot of time over the last couple of years listening to the likes of Napoleon Hill and Charles Haanel and other “personal development”  or “self-help” literature.

Two plus years ago an internet “guru”, Mike Litman, got my attention with the statement

“You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going.”

Then tonight on Twitter I saw a link that looked interesting and when I went there the message was there in black and white:  become yourself, be bold and outrageous.

The bottom line is, I have spent all of my life trying to do what seems the right thing, the good thing, the acceptable thing, being safe.  This started out with medical school then residency then a family practice in Virginia which lasted only a few years.  It was short-lived because it didn’t take long to figure out that the tools and paradigm and practice of medicine was not able to touch lives as deeply and as effectively which (I now see) was my purpose, my task in life to do.

From there I went to organic farming, thinking that being a part of the  health solution was better than being part of the perpetuation of the health problem.  Though I dearly love/d living in the country and tending cows and chickens and sheep and goats (nothing like leaning on a warm bovine body on a cold  morning hearing the swish/clink of fresh milk in the bucket!) it soon became apparent that neither was this reaching people at the level to which my heart and calling was urging me to reach them.  One day my dear friend with whom we shared the farm told me I was not a farmer.  Though this was perceived by me at the time to be hurtful, I have since realized that it was a voice of God telling me to keep moving and keep searching for my true calling.

Next I tried property management and handyman work.  Though I am actually pretty good at it - one friend called me the most right-brained left-brained guy he ever knew - after a time it again became apparent that the “nurturing” of buildings was not my calling; I moved on.

This time it was massage therapy school.  Finally some things began to come together.  This was beginning to look like the kind of nurturing which my heart longed to provide.  Spending an hour or more in a “womb-like” environment, connecting to people on a deep level, allowing them to unload and shed fear and concerns, bringing them toward health and healing is what I began to realize would make me “hum.”

But upon completion of training I immediately began teaching other massage therapy students the anatomy and physiology portion of their curriculum and to do so I began to spend a lot of time around massage therapy.  I learned a disconcerting fact: most of us, therapists and clients alike, settle for the superficial “feel good” backrub, stretch or loosening of tight muscles.  Not that this is bad, mind you, and is way better than NOT getting a massage.  However, that was not what has been on my heart to see accomplished for clients.  Deep healing, letting go of the real issues, finding true release and health - that is what I was/am after.

Enter then the world and experience of nudism (that, in itself, is a longer story) and I discovered that my own deep healing was exponentilly enhanced when I began to FEEL again, when I began to let go all the fear and grief and disappointment and hurt and pain that for years had kept me in my brain and not allowed me to become who I was meant to be.   From my experience of being nude, both in a social setting and in a massage room, the world of nudism combined with the world of massage and all of a sudden the light bulbs came on and the potential of real progress toward deep healing became a reality.  Finally we are/I am back to where Father intended us to be - naked (free of the restraints that cause us to be less than what he made us to be) and unashamed (not concerned with the superficial but free to deeply just BE).  Now we/I can live in the glory with which Father intended us to express, on a higher plane of existence.  Now we can live at a level where we are no longer controlled by hormones, no longer in the narrow segment of existence where nudity is thought equivalent to sexual behavior, no longer controlled by the need for approval or the need to put on a front or cover up or use our dis-eases as excuses not to become.

So for the past while these thoughts have been churning through my brain: get nude in the massage room, client and therapist alike, open the possibility of real and significant healing.  Would this ever become a  reality?  Could this ever become a reality?  It has been the typical approach in the rest of the world for a while, but in current litiginous America?  Probably not.  In a public setting or massage practice it is currently probably even illegal.  Is it outside the box?  You bet.  Would it bring deep healing?  Guaranteed.  Not because of getting naked, but because of  being able to finally let go fear and pain and hurt at the deepest level and begin again to FEEL.  As the quantum biologists have discovered, the human being is hardwired to FEEL.  Will it be accepted by my “tribe” of theologically conservative church-goers?  I strongly doubt it.  If any of them read this they will probably “excommunicate” and crucify me - would put me in good company, I guess!  Will it be accepted by my “tribe” of massage therapists?  Probably not.  Most of us, even massage therapists, have huge issues with our bodies and thus with ourselves.

So where does this leave me?  Called to offer to people the possibility of deep and lasting healing, something most do not seem to truly want.  Called to do this in a way that is so far outside the box most people would not even consider it.  Sounds and looks pretty bleak, even foolish.  Nonetheless, I have a choice.  I can either sit down and shut up and let life go on and let my calling pass me by, or I can stand up and challenge people to change their minds and attitudes and grow to a place way beyond where they thought they ever could.

I think I’ll keep talking, keep challenging.

How about you?  What is your calling?  Are you becoming who you are meant and called to be?

Be You.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

Swine Flu Need Not Be a Problem

April 30th, 2009

As you all have heard, many times over, the swine flu is here!

I’m not even going to talk about the politics of it (who will benefit from all the hype, why the hype in the first place, etc.) but suffice it to say my cynical renegade mind has lots of questions/comments about that.

I won’t even talk about the pathophysiology of it (how it works and what it does and how you get it) - gosh knows the news is full of that, trying to impress with knowledge (that renegade mind being cynical again - ouch).

No, rather than all the diatribe, let’s get down to practical help:  what to do to a) prevent and b) treat if you do get it.

Prevention

Do the obvious things: avoid hand contact withknown contaminated objects.  Wash hands thoroughly after your own toileting and for sure after being around suspected cases.

Do the  nutritional thing: take a boatload of antioxidants.  These include Vitamin C, and E and multiple other agents.  There is a huge splash out there these days about antioxidants.  Juices from various berries and vegetables (Xango, Noni, etc., etc.) are everywhere and every MLM nutritional company has the best.  Don’t worry about which one, just take  something or all of them.  Get your antioxidants from fresh fruit and vegetables as well.  Just make sure and clean the veggies so they aren’t contaminated.

Building your immune system will in all likelihood prevent you from contracting the swine flu.  That means you also need to stop smoking, stop the big doses of sugar (cereal, soda, dessert, donuts, etc.), use a multivitamin daily that has zinc in it, breathe deeply, and get some exercise.

Treatment

If you contract the swine flu, you have a viral illness.  That means you should first treat it like any other virus: rest and lots of fluids.  Don’t get dehydrated.

It also means you need something that will effectively interrupt the  life cycle of viruses.  Antibiotics will not.  In fact, all they will do is effectively interrupt the life of your already now weakened immune system.  Here is a viable option:  BioDefense.  This is a combination of 8 food substances that have been  proven to be effective against viruses.  It is inexpensive, readily available by mail order and requires no doctor’s prescription.  Besides being effective against viruses it will also help to build your immune system.

Here’s to your not getting the swing flu.  Be well.  Be renegade.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

Another - Too Good To Be True

April 23rd, 2009

Earlier on this blog I have talked about things that are Too Good To Be True.

Even more recently I have blown off steam at my dislike of Marketing, at least the way it is done on the Internet these days.

But what happens when you do marketing the right way — actually care about people, provide an awesome product with a boatload of benefits for the little guy and keep the price to a reasonable level - and have a product, service and people that are truly too good to be true?

Believe it or not - and most of you won’t because you are programmed to think that “Too Good To Be True” is a true statement - when you put together these two concepts you come up with a very interesting result:

Too Good to be True + Marketing the Right Way = “Unbeatable Product/Service”

Here’s the link:

(If you are a business person, either online or offline, and in any type of business you will appreciate this - once you “get” the concept and understand the power and tools built in)

http://2getsales.com/sitemgr/s373/125qg/757

For those savvy marketers out there I purposely left it a “naked” link and didn’t try to “cloak” it just to point out that one of the many features of this Marketers Goldmine is a built in protection from link stealers (too good to be true!).

Other benefits are too numerous to mention:

Real people doing real marketing helping you in real time
Weekly conference calls for help and answering of questions
Weekly book discussion online for mutual encouragement
Personal help just for asking
Forum to discuss and help with problems, answers to any type of marketing/business model
Products to sell as affiliate
Ability to add your own product(s) and have others be your affiliates helping you sell

And MUCH more…..

Go be - grow - as a person, as a business person.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

P.S. OK - for those of you who can’t wait - the name of this amazing group/tool is
Focus Society Mastermind

Click the link to learn more.

Uniqueness and Humming

April 17th, 2009

I woke the other morning and tossed and turned for awhile, thinking, then went back to sleep or to somewhere.  It was more of a very deep trance-like state.  The interesting thing about this state was that I could get past my thinking brain and was  in touch with my very deepest feelings.  Turns out what my subconscious brain was feeling about was my attitudes toward my vocational history.  Turns out after only a few short years I gave up the medical practice and did some organic farming followed by property management for a church followed by massage therapy and teaching of massage students.  Not exactly a steady or obviously directed plan of life.

What is more interesting is that at each switch point, each change of course, there was some difficulty, some sense of rejection involved, some statement implied or otherwise that I was no longer needed or capable of performing the task/vocation.  I took each of these rejections very negatively and recurrently became angry, frustrated, disillusioned, disappointed and definitely confused.  Why didn’t anything to which I set my time and intention, to which Father apperently had led me, turn out  as a consistent, viable means to support myself and my family?

What I realized while in this deep trance state was that not one of those career choices actually made me “hum.”  By that I mean that not one of them was what I really truly wanted to spend the rest of my life doing, what made me want to jump out of bed in the morning so I could get to it.  Now, there were parts of each that I liked and enjoyed.  Solving problems for patients, seeing them improve, finding new, natural ways to treat dis-ease were delightful and enjoyable.  Putting cold hands against a warm udder to milk it on a winter morn, nurturing young goats or turkeys, seeing them mature and then receiving an income from labor spent outdoors was deeply satisfying.  Greetings visitors onto a campus, having the facility prepared and in order for their enjoyment was rewarding.  Touching people at deep levels while stretching muscles and holding space; seeing soon-to-be therapists “catch it” when discussing concepts about the body or health or therapy was particularly gratifying.

But none of these got the juices really jazzed, just a little.

What I realized, what I felt deeply, what came crashing into my deep awareness in that trance state was two things:

1)  It is all about PERSPECTIVE.

I have yet to discover what really does make me “hum” though I am getting pretty close.  I can feel it better than I can articulate it and it has a lot to do with the combination of all that I have done heretofore.  But I did discover that each of the “disappointments” associated with change in career were actually Father’s way of providing me a signpost to lead me.

It wasn’t a
“NO” of ‘don’t do this’,
but a
“COME HERE” of ‘there is more to learn and prepare yourself for’.

Bottom Line: a change in perspective makes everything look different and can totally change the emotional effect from  negative into a huge positive.

2)   “Humming” is all about UNIQUENESS.

Listening to one of my teachers, Kim Clement, made me realize  once again that each one of us is totally unique.  We each have our own set of genes, our own set of circumstances, our own environeent, our own emotional makeup with amazing strengths and weird idiosyncrasies.

And here is the neat part:
Father communmicates with each of us according to our uniqueness!

He knows what makes us special and different.  He has given us each a place to fill, a role to play that is the reflection of that unique way in which he has made us and the unique personality with which he has endowed us.

It is in this context, as we move and live in that uniqueness, that we will really and truly “hum” and be ourselves.

Go be you.  Hum.

I’m going to.

Love & Blessings,

Dr Jon

Ticked Off with Internet Marketing

April 6th, 2009

Now please forgive me for having my own issues but I have to say that this internet marketing thing has really got me ticked off (trying to be nice here - could use the word starting with “p”).

I have been trying to do the marketing thing for some time now and finally got some straightforward advice.  That advice had to do with mindset (the most important factor about the whole marketing world - and which the usual marketer never talks about).  The concept was that if I would perform a particular action for 21 days, that would reset the mental program.  Has to do with how the brain works.

Tired of my old mindset I took the challenge.  The big issue I wanted to start on was to get traffic to my site so I went onto safelists and traffic exchanges.  As I went to one, another would pop up, each with their own deal and lots of promise for success.  Just walk through the process: Sign up, start promoting with that one, join the system, the program or whatever.  And on and on.  Over the last two weeks I have seen a ton of programs/products/systems, all of which look the same as those I have seen over the last 6-8 years.

Here is what I am PO’d about:

Every one of the products/offers/tools/systems look just like all the others and run you through the same process - which makes all of them look like great big overblown scams.  It goes something like this:

Sign up for my FREE offer of the best and only working and successful thing out there (get me in the door), but OH, BEFORE you get the offer here is my SPECIAL ONE-TIME offer that is  a collection of hundreds of valuable ebooks, videos, splash pages, etc. (stun me with the value and make me WANT it) normally selling for 20,000 bucks but yours today for only $37 (affordable) and if you pass on it now you will never see this offer again (urgency).

Now when you dissect these offers/sales letters, they all fit the pattern that we are taught will make us successful, so at one level you can’t complain too much, I guess.  What works must work.  Unfortunately, I’ve been suckered a time or two before and discovered that these offers lack the one thing that make them real:

A PERSON ON THE OTHER  END THAT ACTUALLY CARES, ACTUALLY PICKS UP THE PHONE AND TALKS TO YOU OR SENDS YOU A BONAFIDE PERSONAL EMAIL.

In short, this whole internet marketing world is missing one thing:

A FRIEND.  A Relationship.  A Howdy, how are you?

So I’ve just spilled my guts.  My failure at marketing is due to my problem - I need a friend.

My next question, though, is this:  How about you?  Do you need, or would you like, a friend in the marketing world, too?  There is a store here in St Louis whose tagline is that they are a friend in the diamond busines.

I’m going to swipe it:  You have a friend in the marketing business - me.

Fortunately, I have some help - a Mastermind Group.  He is called Chuck Bartok and Sam Camerano and a whole bunch of other folk in the Beginner’s Marketing  Class.  We talk to each other (phone calls, weekly conference calls, forum), ask questions and get help.  Chuck keeps us on track with overview and focus.  Matt is our “Geibing Light” (BMC joke) who is getting out of himself and setting an example for all of us.  Kevin took action and when the job was gone it only gave him time to do what he wanted in his own business which was already making more than the job anyway.  Traci helps us with the techncial stuff.  Etc., Etc.  Real people, real friends, real results, encouraging each other to find their real selves.

Looking for REAL in internet marketing?  You have a friend in the marketing business.

Love and Blessings,

Dr Jon
St Charles, MO

P.S. Listen to some of the recorded conference calls on Talkshoe.com, both the book discussion and Public Call.  If you appreciate what you hear join us on the live calls, introduce yourself and tell ‘em Dr Jon sent you.  Expect a personal call back, though - I/we would like to know more about you.

6 Steps

April 3rd, 2009

Listening to my Focus 40 Personal Training System and wanted to share the “meat” that applies to anything to which you may aspire:

Six Steps to Turn any Desire into Reality

1. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. Be
definite and specific.

2. Determine specifically the price you will pay. That is what you
will do to get the exact amount of money you have determined
to obtain.

3. Establish a definite date as to when you will be in possession of
the money you have determined to possess.

4. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desires. Begin at
once
, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

5. Write out a clear and concise statement that are comprised of
steps 1 – 4.

6. Read your statement aloud two times daily, preferably in the morning before beginning your day and in the evening before laying down to sleep. As you read, see and feel and imagine yourself already in possession of that money.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, p. 39

Replace “money” with “any desire” you want/need.

Do the steps.

Know that Father will honor your belief and direct you along the path which He has placed into your heart by giving you the desire in the first place.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

More Than an April’s Fool

April 1st, 2009

33 years ago my soon to be wife, Susan, and I looked forward to life with excitement, anticipation and optimism.   She was completing nursing training with a BS in nursing.  I was completing a Master’s in Chemistry and about to begin Medical School.  Together we would be the perfect tool of Loving Father to bring health and hope to hurting people.

Enter life.

Medical school was depressing in every way, culminating in significant disappointment when realizing medical missions was mostly transference of American technological medicine on people who could not afford it.  Residency was a struggle though had its bright moments when able to help the “downtrodden” poor of Harrisburg, PA.   Life in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia was great but the practice was not so much about helping people get well as just maintaining the status quo.  Meanwhile, the lossin the womb by miscarriage of hard-to-conceive infants  took its toll.

One answer was to search for really helpful ways to assist people gain health and much in this area was discovered in the world of nutrition and natural care.  Unfortunately that isolated me in all ways from the medical community and I found the practice, the career and the ability to truly point people to health dying on the vine.

The organic farm after a few years also failed to produce results, aid for others or even more than a bare minimum of provision for self and family.

A providential move to St Louis rejuvenated the batteries at one level and though there was lots of helping of people going on, there was little about health or healing.  Massage training and practice offered hope once again as a practical means to truly unlock peoples’ hearts in a way that they could truly heal but for whatever reason, either lack of skill or interest, that option also soon withered.

So it would be easy to say that after 33 years I am the fool, and not just an April fool, either.  It would be easy to say I should have stayed in the practice and played the game, made my money, established the career, helped the few who might have been helped and quit dreaming.  Better yet, it would be easy to say I should have been the medical missionary and gone and given my time and energy to people somewhere who didn’t have what we have; could have looked really the great guy to have done that.

However, I continue to be more than an April’s fool for I still believe that there is real and deep healing to be had, healing that does not come out of a pill bottle or even some fancy procedure.  I believe that healing will come when we do the inner work necessary to get past the fear, the disappointment, the grief, the inadequacy we all carry and excuse in ourselves.  I believe that when we can get that naked with ourselves, and with others (confess your sins one to another and you will be healed - James, in the Bible) the expression of freedom and release that it brings will reflect in changed bodies, changed attitudes, changed actions and even changed resources.  I am still fool enough to believe that it will even work for myself as well.

I am still fool enough to believe that when Loving Father created us naked and unashamed and placed us in a Garden of pleasure, it was his intention that we live that way and live each day in close communication and intimate relationship with him.  I am still fool enough to believe that Jesus restored the means and power to live there once again and that Father waits for us to become that intimate with Him once again.  I am still fool enough to believe that loving people is what we are here to do, and not just tokenly with some program or good deed activity, but with our hearts, our lives, our time and our energy, meeting them where they hurt and need and being loved and healed ourselves in the process.

I am still fool enough to want only to be that kind of friend to Him and though all the disappointment and lack and frustration and grief in my own life has made it difficult to experience, my foolish self is holding out for the Garden experience in all its intimacy and fullness and abundance.

I am not just an April fool but a year-round fool for bigger and better.

Love & Blessings,
Dr Jon