Scott Desgrosseilliers

Expansion Through Limitation

It has long been my goal to live life with no limits. It’s a vague concept without context. At different times in my life I have interpreted “no limits” to mean making a ton of cash, making sure I stayed single, or keeping my possessions to a minimum so I could be fluid and mobile at a moment’s notice.

This mindset carried over to decisions I made. There was a consistently appearing worry that if I would fully commit to a project or business venture, then while I was spending my time on it, I would miss out on something truly spectacular. This type of thinking kept me semi-involved in a lot of things. This need to be “limitless” left me always feeling there was not enough time in the day. My brain was always running close to its limit in the attempt to have no limits.

The law of attraction works to supply ideas, opportunities, and introductions. To bring those things to tangible form, you have to narrow your focus and allow the manifestation. Self-limitation leads to expansion. Your energy needs to be channeled consistently and repetitively in order to bear fruit.

After applying a new organization system, I realized I would never achieve the goals I had with all of my commitments and half-baked ideas. So I took the following steps –
1. Developed goals that I felt passionate about
2. Affirmations each day to support those goals
3. Visualizations to support those affirmations
4. Took actions to make sure my projects supported my goals
5. Review my project lists for the very next action I could take
6. Put the most important next actions on a list I carried around
7. Continued to keep my focus with my list of most important actions each day until they were done.

This “limitation” of my activities has led to the launch of www.TheMeditationMind.com. Forcing myself to stay focused on what I had identified as the most important activities related to my goals, I made consistent progress until the site launch today. I am looking forward to continued expansion through focus and limitation.

Adele Vydra Massage

The bodywork and massage fields are seeing explosive growth in popularity. There is a very simple reason for this – It’s great. Regular quality massage is extremely beneficial. It reduces stress, clears the mind, and works out muscle tensions. Like all health care fields, there is a wide variety in the quality of masseuses. If you are in Chicago, I’d like to recommend Adele Vydra at www.adelemassage.com.

Adele uses a technique of inner observation that is unique to her. She connects with her inner Spirit during each massage. Rather than following a standard massage routine, her hands are literally guided by her intuition. This integration of spirit-massage can be felt by the person lying on the table. I entered a deep meditative state of silence while remaining aware.

Adele refers to her techniques as stress management therapy, or whole body-mind integrated therapy. Whatever you call it, I was able to have a completely clear and stress-free mind. This state is extremely energizing, I felt on top of the world when the session was over.

Adele is offering Chicago area readers of my blog a $15 discount. Just go to her website for contact information, and mention you heard about her on scottdblog.

Changing My Subconscious Beliefs - Meditation Workshop Leader

I feel very strongly that subcoscious beliefs need to be correctly influenced to achieve your goals. I've shared the background of subconscious belief changing, and I went through changing my subconscious beliefs on becoming a best-selling author. I really enjoyed the process so I am going to apply the same logical belief changing template to another belief.

The belief I’ve chosen to reprogram is that I am a leader of sold-out meditation workshops worldwide. As in last post, I know that something is blocking me from consciously creating this. I know this because I am not leading meditation workshops. I've led meditations, studied meditation in multiple countries, and been an almost daily practictioner for close to a decade. Furthermore, I am launching a new site www.TheMeditationMind.com where I wrote over 40 pages of original medita tion content. Regardless, my goal of leading workshops has not been achieved. So it' stime to re-program my subconscious to help me out.

Gregg Braden’s Personal Logic Re-Programming Process Template:

Key 1: State how you feel regarding your desired outcome as if it has already happened. For your own clarity, it’s important to do this in one concise, brief sentence.
Scott: I feel excited, thrilled, grateful, on purpose, and limitless by leading sold-out meditation and spirituality workshops worldwide.

Key 2: State which passion you are choosing to express.
Scott: I have a passion for meditation and teaching others the power and benefits of a regular meditation practice.

Key 3: State the limiting belief(s) that you have about yourself and/or filling your need.
Scott: My limiting belief is I will schedule a workshop and no one will sign up.
Scott: My limiting belief is I will hold a workshop and it won't deliver enough value.
Scott: My limiting belief is I will be speaking at the workshop and forget what to say.
Scott: My limiting belief is I will waste my time setting up a workshop when I should be doing something else.

Key 4: State the opposite of your limiting belief(s).
Scott: I will sell-out my workshop.
Scott: My meditation knowledge will provide high value.
Scott: I am a good public speaker.
Scott: Setting up a meditation workshop is a great use of my time.

Key 5: State when you feel most fulfilled in life. This will become your goal.
Scott: I feel most fulfilled in life when I am teaching and inspiring someone about freedom and the removal of limits.

Key 6: State the inarguable fact(s) that support your goal.
Scott: It is a fact that interest in meditation has greatly increased recently.
Scott: It is a fact that my meditation explanations involve more practical explanations than the average meditation teacher.
Scott: It is a fact that people turned off by new-age meditation approaches will be interested in my methods.
Scott: It is a fact that the meditation technologies I wish to present in my workshops provide proven meditation experiences to the participant.

Now, using the answers to the 6 keys above, you re-arrange them into a template for re-programming your subconscious.
Logic Statement Key Number
If: 2
And: 5
And: 6
Then it makes sense that: 4
And I have all that I need to bring my dream to life.

So my subconscious reprogramming for leading sold-out meditation and spirituality workshops worldwide reads as follows-

If: I have a passion for meditation and teaching others the power and benefits of a regular meditation practice.
And: I feel most fulfilled in life when I am teaching and inspiring someone about freedom and the removal of limits.
And: It is a fact that interest in meditation has greatly increased recently.
And: It is a fact that my meditation explanations involve more practical explanations than the average meditation teacher.
And: It is a fact that people turned off by new-age meditation approaches will be interested in my methods.
And: It is a fact that the meditation technologies I wish to present in my workshops provide proven meditation experiences to the participant.
Then: I will sell-out my workshop. My meditation knowledge will provide high value. I am a good public speaker. Setting up a meditation workshop is a great use of my time.
And I have all that I need to bring my dream of leading sold-out meditation and spirituality workshops worldwide to life.

Changing My Subconscious Belief - Best-Selling Writer

A difficult thing about subconscious beliefs is they aren’t at the conscious level in your brain. So determining that the subconscious belief exists, and it is one that is no longer serving you, is not easy. My approach is to look in my life at what I have not been able to change. Since life is a conscious act of creation, if there is something I want to change and I haven’t succeeded, my subconscious beliefs are likely to be the culprit.

A logic-based approach satisfies the rational conscious mind. You are choosing facts that you believe to reach an irrefutable logic based conclusion. Gregg Braden’s book presents a process for re-programming your subconscious. I am going to apply it now to program my subconscious.

The belief I’ve chosen to reprogram is that I am a best-selling author. I currently am not a best-selling author, but want to be one. If you take a glance at the rest of this blog, you’ll see it is not for lack of material! My conclusion is that something is blocking me from completing the book and getting it onto the next step of being a best-seller.

Gregg Braden’s Personal Logic Re-Programming Process Template:

Key 1: State how you feel regarding your desired outcome as if it has already happened. For your own clarity, it’s important to do this in one concise, brief sentence.
Scott: I feel excited, thrilled, and limitless by my book “How I Made This Book a Best-Seller” appearing on the New York Times Best-Selling List.

Key 2: State which passion you are choosing to express.
Scott: I have a passion to experience the world and express it to others through writing.

Key 3: State the limiting belief(s) that you have about yourself and/or filling your need.
Scott: My limiting belief is that the time I spend on writing the book will be wasted if it does not succeed.
Scott: My limiting belief is that I will miss out on a lot of fun activities while writing the book.
Scott: My limiting belief is that no one will want to publish the book.

Key 4: State the opposite of your limiting belief(s).
Scott: The time I spend on writing the book is the best way I can spend my time.
Scott: Fun activities are always available.
Scott: Publishers want to publish the book.

Key 5: State when you feel most fulfilled in life. This will become your goal.
Scott: I feel most fulfilled in life when I am writing something entertaining and valuable.

Key 6: State the inarguable fact(s) that support your goal.
Scott: It is a fact that the law of attraction and self-help industries are booming.
Scott: It is a fact that my book idea would fill a gap in those industries.
Scott: It is a fact that I have already written half the book based on my personal development blog posts.
Scott: It is a fact that I have had repeated confirmation that I have the skills to be a writer.

Now, using the answers to the 6 keys above, you re-arrange them into a template for re-programming your subconscious.
Logic Statement Key Number
If: 2
And: 5
And: 6
Then it makes sense that: 4
And I have all that I need to bring my dream to life.

So my subconscious reprogramming for writing a best-selling book reads as follows-

If: I have a passion to experience the world and express with others through writing.
And: I feel most fulfilled in life when I am writing something entertaining and valuable.
And: It is a fact that the law of attraction and self-help industries are booming.
And: It is a fact that my book idea would fill a gap in those industries.
And: It is a fact that I have already written half the book based on my personal development blog posts.
Then: It makes sense that the time I spend on writing the book is the best way I can spend my time, fun activities are always available, and publishers want to publish the book.
And I have all that I need to bring my dream of becoming a best-selling author to life.

Changing a Subconscious Belief - Overview

There are a number of esoteric theories regarding the law of attraction that hold promise but very little substance regarding how to implement their ideas and concepts. “Change your subconscious beliefs to change your life” is an idea that sounds loony-tunes on the surface. Why do I have subconscious beliefs I want to change? If it is subconscious, how do I know I have it? What is the benefit to changing a belief? And when I determine a belief I want to change, how do I go about changing it? Gregg Braden wrote a book called The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limitsthat clearly explains how these belief affects you. Much more importantly, he shows how to program your subconscious with beliefs you choose rather than ones that run your life without you knowing it.

A belief is something that you feel to be true. When you feel something to be true, your subconscious mind keeps that in its focus. What the subconscious mind focuses on tends to get attracted into your life. Sometimes subconscious beliefs can hold you back in hidden insidious ways.

If you have deep-rooted negative beliefs such as “money is the root of all evil”, “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer”, or “You have to work 80 hours a week to get rich”, they can work against your efforts to make more money. No matter how much effort you put forth to make more money, your subconscious works equally hard attracting your belief of “money is the root of all evil” so you don’t make any progress.

But it is not enough to know a belief can limit you. How do you transcend the limit of that belief? Gregg Braden tells us there are 2 ways to re-program your subconscious mind: Logically, or through the perception of a miracle.

A miracle is an event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature. This could be a story of someone falling off a building and surviving, a person’s dire cancer diagnosis going into remission, or a small person inexplicably lifting a 2-ton vehicle off a body…there are a number of stories where man has defied nature in a miracle. Braden says that the power of the miracle is not that we understand why it works, but that we must accept what it brings into our lives.

I haven’t observed any miracles other than the Boston Red Sox winning the world series. So I prefer to use his logic-based approach. The logical process designed by Gregg Braden has your own facts based on personal experience. These facts lead you to the conclusion that you have all you need to bring your desired outcome to life.

I’m sure that all sounds great, but how can you do it? I’m going to show you with Thursday’s and Friday’s posts. I will build 2 logic-based outcomes that I want to occur in my life. These outcomes are in my daily affirmations and now I am going to cement the belief in my subconscious that they will be achieved. The first desired outcome is to become a best-selling author. The second desired outcome is to lead sold-out meditation and spirituality workshiops worldwide.

Airplane Manners - An Open Letter

Dear Airplane Traveler sitting at the end of my aisle,

I realize we did not introduce ourselves before the flight. I was talking to my loved ones and listening to my iPod. I am truly sorry if that offended you. However, I don't feel like that warranted your actions.

For starters, your gas is really, really noxious. Perhaps you think that since you did not make a noise when farting, it does not smell. Let me inform you that the expressions "Silent but Violent" and "Silent but Deadly" can be directly attributed to the the gas that is seeping out of you. In fact, if the expressions did not already exist, I am confident I would've been inspired to create them if I do not perish from your stench.

I'd like to recommend that you see a doctor about sleep apnea. I am not a doctor, but there has to be an explanation for that jackhammer noise coming from your nostrils while you snore in my face. If the sleep apnea mask is too much, maybe a breathe right strip across your shnoz?

Since we didn't meet pre-flight, I certainly don't expect you to know my bladder patterns. However, I would be willing to bet that anyone ordering double vodka tonics is going to need to use the restroom at least once in 3 hours. Call it a hunch.

I appreciate you taking these points into consideration on your next flight. And accept my apologies. I did not have anything in my throat. I was just clearing it repeatedly in hopes you would hear my throat clearings over your jackhammer snores and seeping gas, and then wake up, so I could use the bathroom.

Yours,
Scott

CubanAndTheCubs.Com is Back!

We started an online petition awhile ago and got about 400 signatures. Then life too hold and CubanAndTheCubs.Com became less of a priority.

However, the news that Cuban was in town to investigate the books of the Cubs has caused us to rekindle the site. It is much slicker. Mark Cuban has already emailed us back rooting on the site...how cool is that.

Dodgeball Tips

Summer has arrived. I know this because we are playing dodgeball. Last Thursday’s game and the pre and post-game festivities finally made summer seem like it really, truly, is here. This is a great feeling after this past Chicago winter’s suffering. But I would be negligent in my dodgeball captain duties if I didn’t offer my team a few free unsolicited tips as a 4-year dodgeball veteran.

Dodgeball Tip #1 – Drink early and often. The dodgeball arena is no place for the timid. Pre-game jitters (yes, there is such a thing even in dodgeball) might leave you meekly standing in the backcourt avoiding detection by the opposition. Grab a ball and join the fray. A few vodka lemonades before the first game will help you get in the mix.

Dodgeball Tip #2 – Don’t be a lone wolf unless your name is Peter. Often times I see my teammates running up to challenge the other team in a burst of courage. Perhaps this is because they took tip #1 a little too much to heart, and are now bursting with liquid courage. I call this being a dodgeball lone wolf. A person charges the other team, throws their ball, and then receives between 3-5 balls from all angles and speeds hurtling towards them. It is especially dramatic when the lone wolf, after completing their burst, turns and runs, back facing the opponent, towards the safety of our team. We all cringe and scream as the wolf inevitably gets pelted. When you feel the urge to attack the other team, grab a teammate so you have ground cover during your assault.

Peter is the one exception to the rule. He is 2x faster than anyone else there and gets away with it. Trust me, no one else on our team runs as fast as him. That is just Peter being Peter.

Dodgeball Tip #3 – Don’t throw pathetic cross court lobs. This tip is to prevent the further graying of my hair. I’ll be in the midst of a dodgeball battle and see this slow, wobbly ball soaring across court. The other team will break out in big smiles and sometimes even fight to make the catch. A dodgeball catch causes our team to lose a player and their team to gain a player. Do not make long high throws to the other team. Short low throws at the knees!

Dodgeball Tip #4 – Watch the damn line. Dodgeball is played on a roller rink and there is a blue line that our team cannot cross. Give yourself 2 steps distance instead of one when throwing at the other team, because line violations kill our momentum when we have the other team backed against the wall.

I bring up these tips out of team love, the request for a strategy, and the fact I screamed myself hoarse last week. We had some good games last week, but people sometime violated all 4 of these tips at once; I saw a few sober lone wolfs run right up to the line and throw a lob! If you do this, you are still welcome to play, and the summer will still be awesome. But it will be a lot cooler if we follow these tips and win the night’s tournament (and therefore free beer).