2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.
The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 15,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 3 fully loaded ships.
In 2010, there was 1 new post, growing the total archive of this blog to 36 posts.
The busiest day of the year was February 8th with 799 views. The most popular post that day was Dealing with Resistance.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were zpointforpeace.com, mail.yahoo.com, mail.live.com, pure-and-simple-healing.com, and ioff.de.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for zpoint, zpoint process, z point, zpoint blog, and oriah mountain dreamer what if.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Dealing with Resistance February 2010
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ZPoint In-depth Protocol March 2009
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Simplified ZPoint Protocol January 2009
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The ZPoint Process: The One-Word Prayer You can use Anywhere! January 2008
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Affirmation Questions April 2009
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Dealing with Resistance
The dictionary defines resistance as the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding.
There are some people who are highly resistant to simply letting an issue go. In fact, it seems as though the harder they try to release a feeling or an issue, the more it seems to bother them. It has been estimated that about 10% of the population is seriously resistant to allowing needed change. Unless specific protocols are used, these people seldom benefit from Energy Work.
In most cases ZPoint deals well with resistance without taking specific measures. The regular protocol as set out in my Introduction to ZPoint e-Book will, in most cases, melt this resistance without taking specific measures. For those who may have more subconscious resistance than others, I am including a specific protocol below which will help.
First, understand that resistance is your subconscious minds way of protecting itself. It is not bad or wrong to be resistant, it just means that before you can find relief from what’s bothering you, you must first release the resistance to letting it go.
You do this by allowing yourself to feel that resistance when you think of completely and fully letting that issue go. If you think about letting the feeling go, how does that feel? Does it feel good? Probably not.
So allow yourself to think about what it will feel like to be without the feeling you wish to be free of. Allow yourself to feel that feeling and then imagine placing THAT feeling into the Circle and begin the process. Start by counting down from 10 remembering to repeat your cue word between counts until you reach 0.
A script to release this resistance follows:
The purpose of this script is to help you release any resistance you may have to fully letting go of the uncomfortable feelings that bother and upset you.
I’d like you to think about something in your life right now, that you would prefer not be there.
This could be something that you don’t want to happen. It could be a memory you wish you didn’t have or it could be something you don’t want to acknowledge to yourself or anyone else.
It could also be just a feeling you would prefer not to feel. Whatever it is, let yourself feel that ‘pushing away’ feeling that comes as you think about whatever it is that you don’t want to happen.
Imagine NOT wanting to feel stressed. What would that feel like? NOT wanting to feel that stress or NOT wanting to experience an unpleasant outcome. It’s that feeling of resisting that feeling or that outcome. That is our characteristic feeling.
So, I’d like you to imagine placing that feeling along with the memory of every experience we’ve ever had that evokes that feeling, and placing it in the Clearing Circle to be released as we count down from 10 to 0. And please, remember to repeat your cue word as I count you down.
And we’ll begin with…
10…
9…
8…
7…
6…
5…
4…
3…
2…
1…
0…
… and that makes me feel…
… and that makes me feel…
… and that makes me feel…
… and that makes me feel…
I clear all the ways I feel that feeling.
I clear all the ways I feel that way because…
I clear all the ways I feel that way whenever…
I clear all the ways I may feel that way if…
I clear all the ways unconscious parts of me feel that way.
I clear all the ways these parts feel that way because…
I clear all the ways these parts benefit from my attachment to feeling that way.
I clear all the ways these parts wouldn’t feel safe if I just let my attachment to feeling that way go, right now.
… and that makes me feel…
… and that makes me feel…
… and that makes me feel…
… and that makes me feel…
I clear all the ways I feel the remainder of that resistance.
I clear all the ways I feel that remainder because…
I clear all the ways I feel that remainder whenever…
I clear all the ways I may feel that remainder if…
I clear all the ways unconscious parts of me feel the remainder of that resistance.
I clear all the ways these parts feel that remainder because…
I clear all the ways these parts benefit from my feeling the remainder of that resistance.
I clear all the ways these parts just wouldn’t feel safe if I let the remainder of that resistance go right now.
… and that makes me feel…
… and that makes me feel…
… and that makes me feel…
… and that makes me feel…
Now, take a deep breath and pay attention to that feeling of resistance. Think of something that you don’t want to have in your life and pay attention to that feeling that is evoked as you think of that. It’s that resistance that we seek to release as we go through the process.
So put your attention on that feeling and imagine we’re taking that feeling whole and complete and placing it within the releasing circle and again, will count down from 10 to 0 and remember to repeat our cue word as we count down. And we’ll start with…
10…
9…
8…
7…
6…
5…
4…
3…
2…
1…
0…
… and thinking about all the ways I resist experiences and feelings in my life, I feel…
… and that makes me feel…
… and that makes me feel…
… and that makes me feel…
I clear all the ways I feel that way.
I clear all the ways I feel that way because…
I clear all the ways I feel that way whenever…
I clear all the ways I may feel that way if…
I clear all the ways unconscious and hidden parts of me feel that way.
I clear all the ways these parts feel that way because…
I clear all the ways these parts benefit from my feeling that way.
I clear all the ways these parts don’t feel safe at the thought of releasing my attachment to that feeling.
… and that makes me feel…
… and that makes me feel…
… and that makes me feel…
… and that makes me feel…
Now, just take a deep breath and relax.
Now, check in and feel for that characteristic feeling again. If you don’t feel completely and I mean completely peaceful, do the process again, placing the remainder of that feeling into the Circle and completing the process.
The idea here is to take that feeling of resistance through the process until it is completely gone. Feeling even a little bit of it is not good enough. As long as the smallest amount of it remains, you won’t see the results you want.
Each of my programs such as my Eliminating Fear Program includes a special recording that uses this script to eliminate the resistance you have to the program working as it should. All you need to do is listen and remember to repeat your cue word as you do so. You can think of this as pre-paving your way to success.
Until next week when we’ll have another article on how to make your time with ZPoint even more productive.
Regards,
Grant Connolly
Loving Life Lets Life Love You!
I woke up at my usual time this morning feeling fantastic. This is not an unusual occurrence for me but today was something really special. And strangely enough the words of the title of today’s piece “Loving life lets life love you” were in my mind.
Other than way too many words beginning with the letter L., this sentence expresses exactly how I feel at this moment. Life does indeed love you back when you love it more of the time.
As many of you may know, I am a follower of the teachings of Abraham. (www.abraham-hicks.com) I love the simple way that Abraham spells out what’s really important in life. He says, “whatever you put your attention on tends to expand.” That is the essence of the Law of Attraction that governs all of life. If you put your attention on what you like, what you like tends to expand. If you put your attention on what you don’t like, that too tends to expand.
In essence, this means that the more you appreciate what’s happening around you, the appreciate life itself, the more that life itself will return the favor and appreciate you.
You’ll notice people smiling at you as you walk down the street. You’ll notice that people are kind to you were before they may have simply ignored you. You’ll notice yourself spending far less time worrying about… anything. You’ll notice that your attitude toward life will shift to one of anticipation of the good things, rather than expecting things you DON’T want will happen. You’ll notice that you just won’t think about the things that upset you anymore.
Abraham also speaks about what he calls a Rampage of Appreciation. In essence a Rampage of Appreciation is putting your attention on the things in your life that make you feel good.
Rather than walking around mumbling, grumbling, moaning and groaning about the things that you don’t like, having a Rampage of Appreciation means that you consciously set out to appreciate everything that makes you feel good. And, the funny thing is that the more you do this, the better you feel. And the better you feel, amazingly you find that it gets even better. Truly, as Abraham says over and over again “the better it gets, the better it gets.”
Now, from my perspective I’ve arrived at this place of appreciation because we I have consciously and systematically set out to release everything that makes me to feel bad and using the ZPoint Process allowed me to do exactly that.
And you know something, the more I clear away the negative emotions the happier I became. It’s like I’ve removed all the little pebbles from my shoes that caused me to feel pain whenever I went for a walk. Most of us don’t know how to get that pebble out, so we’re forced to grit our teeth and bear the pain.
The heck with that!
What I did was to pro-actively and systematically release all of the negative emotions in my life. Below is a list of the first six of these that I worked on.
- Stress and upset
- Anger
- Worry
- Fear
- Guilt
- Resentment
Once I began to release these major impediments to my happiness, I started to be happy more and more of the time. And the more I released, the happier I became. And guess what, so can you. It is not difficult. It just takes a little time and commitment to the idea that you can be happy. And of course it requires you use The ZPoint Process as your tool to let these difficult feelings go.
And this is only the start of it. I also used the ZPoint Process to release the conflict in all of my relationships including the ones from my past. I worked on my mother, my father, my sister, my brother, all of my old girlfriends and my ex-wife. Then I worked on some of the people who’ve really upset me over the years. All I did was bring them to mind and take that feeling that arose as I thought of them and take that feeling through The ZPoint Process until it was gone and I felt peaceful whenever I thought of them.
This is not rocket science. All you do is take those aspects or memories from your life that upset you in any way and make peace with them. You are literally making peace with your past and you just wouldn’t believe how much doing exactly that will add immeasurably to your life today.
For those who may be interested, I am offering a series of six private one-on-one sessions with individuals to help them begin to achieve the same level of happiness that I have. Please contact me by e-mail for details at grant@zpointforpeace.com.
ZPoint in the Moment
One of the questions I’m always asked is “how do I use ZPoint in the moment when I’m upset?”
There are times when we’re upset for one reason or another and we don’t have the time to sit down and go through the In-Depth Protocol. For those times I have a very simple way to use ZPoint to shift away from feeling bad.
Just say “thinking about this makes me feel…” Then repeat your cue word for 8 to 10 seconds.
Then say “…and that makes me feel…” and repeat your cue for 15 or 20 seconds and again say “…and that makes me feel…” repeating your cue again for about 20 seconds.
Keep repeating “…and that makes me feel…” along with your cue word until you feel better. And you will.
Each time you say “…and that makes me feel…” you expose a new layer of feeling which you can release by the simple repetition of your cue word. If you do this for 4 or 5 minutes, chances are by the time you finish you will have forgotten why you were upset in the first place.
And it’s so simple to do this. “Thinking about this makes me feel…” followed by “…and that makes me feel…” and just repeat your cue word until you feel better.
I have also used this simple approach successfully on major life issues where we seem stuck. Just sit down and think of what is bothering you then begin…
Thinking about this makes me feel… <cue>
…and that makes me feel… <cue>
…and that makes me feel… <cue>
…and that makes me feel… <cue>
and so on…
As you work down through the layers other thoughts and feelings connected to the original thought will come to conscious awareness. It may not even seem related to the original thought but it will be. In some way. You need only continue repeating…
…and that makes me feel… and continue repeating your cue word.
This “Stream of Consciousness” method is very effective at getting to the root of an issue and will, over time, allow you to completely release whatever needs to be released. With time and a bit of persistence you may surprise yourself what you uncover and release.
Remember, we have powerful recordings on releasing anger, stress and anxiety, improving relationships, regaining your power and a host of other subjects. Go to http://www.zpointforpeace.com/ZProducts.shtml for more information.
Grant Connolly
www.zpointforpeace.com
Saying Yes To Life
WHAT IF by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
I’ve seen this little gem of wisdom before but post it here again as a reminder for us all…
- Grant
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WHAT IF it doesn’t matter what you do but how you do whatever you do?
HOW WOULD this change what you choose to do with your life?
WHAT IF you could be more fully present and open-hearted working as a cashier in the corner store – able to really see and be with the people who come into the store- than you are when you are striving to do what you hope or think will make a more important contribution to the world and the lives of those you love?
HOW WOULD this change how you want to spend your precious time on this earth?
WHAT IF your contribution to the world and the fulfillment of your own happiness is not dependent upon discovering a better method of prayer or technique of meditation, not dependent upon reading the right book or attending the right seminar, but upon really seeing and deeply appreciating yourself and the world as they are right now?
HOW WOULD this affect your search for spiritual development?
WHAT IF there is no need to change, no need to try and transform yourself into someone who is more compassionate, more present, more loving or wise?
HOW WOULD this affect all the places in your life where you are endlessly trying to be better?
WHAT IF the task is simply to unfold, to become who you already are in your essential nature- gentle, compassionate and capable of living fully and passionately present?
HOW WOULD this effect how you feel when you wake up in the morning?
WHAT IF who you essentially are right now is all that you are ever going to be?
HOW WOULD this effect how you feel about your future?
WHAT IF the essence of who you are and always have been is enough?
HOW WOULD this effect how you see and feel about your past?
WHAT IF the question is not why am I so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?
HOW WOULD this change what you think you have to learn?
WHAT IF becoming who and what we truly are happens not through striving and trying but by recognizing and receiving the people and places and practices that offer us the warmth of encouragement we need to unfold?
HOW WOULD this shape your choices about how to spend today?
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Life is like playing the piano
When I was a small boy, my mother decided I should learn how to play the Piano and my teacher was a homeless man named Max. Max being homeless lacked bathing facilities and sitting on that bench with him for more than a few minutes gave me a true appreciation for clean fresh air. God bless him!
Why do I mention this? It’s a good memory for me but more than that it reminds me that life is like playing a piano. It must be learned. No one with the exception of a Beethoven, sits down and plays perfectly from the start. We must learn how to make those beautiful notes and this takes time and effort. And in the meantime you will strike many many wrong notes.
Imagine sitting in a Canyon with high walls that reflect back the notes we strike as an echo. These echos tell us when we strike a wrong note. These “wrong notes” are instant feedback that we’re not playing in the proper way. Life is like that as well except that the wrong notes we play echo back to us as financial lack, difficult relationships, illness and suffering.
These are simply indicators that we are not in alignment with who we really are. They do not mean that we are “bad” people or that there is something wrong with us. They are just the echos produced by striking the wrong notes. With time and practice we start hitting the right notes more often and the echos that return to our ear please us more frequently until we hear a symphony and our life becomes a joy.
When you habitually think a thought that does not feel good as you think it, it is very much like striking a wrong note. That habitual thought, whether you know it or not, goes out and returns just like the echo I spoke of. It returns in the form of financial lack, difficult relationships, illness and suffering.
To change the habitual thoughts that you are sending out, you need only release the difficult feeling attached to those thoughts. Change the feeling and you change the nature of the thoughts connected to them. Change your thoughts and you change the nature of the echo reflected back to you. Instead of financial lack you start receiving financial abundance. Instead of bad relationships you start receiving good ones, and so on.
With ZPoint, you can change the notes you play simply by putting your attention on the difficult feelings that arise as you think of certain parts of your life, and releasing those feelings. And as you do this your life will begin to
change. The echos will sound sweeter.
This does not take a long time but it does require practice. If you decide today to change the notes you play, within several weeks you will start seeing a change in the echo that is reflected back to you. Your life will improve and
often quite dramatically.
My suggestion is to do this in a systematic way. Just as it is more difficult to learn to play the piano well on your own, having an experienced teacher guide you through this process can help you play the right notes that much faster.
Please consider joining us and learn to play like the virtuoso you really are. Go to www.zpointforpeace.com/training.shtml for details.
Regards,
Grant Connolly, CHt
Affirmation Questions
A Mr. J. Edward recently wrote to me and suggested we try what he calls “Affirmation Questions” with ZPoint. Below is the text of his message:
…and that makes me feel… <cue>
The Real Purpose of ZPoint
ZPoint is based in simplicity. It’s based on the idea that we are powerful beyond imagining. It’s based on the idea that we’ve learned to be far less than what we really are and that when we act in accordance with these ‘less than’ beliefs it hurts. It’s painful. It makes life far more difficult and less enjoyable than it needs to be.
We acquire these ‘less than’ beliefs through exposure to our various cultures that tell us that we are less than who we really are, over and over and over again until we believe it. Implicitly.
When we act in accordance with our true nature we are happy. Everything flows. Life is easy and for the most part, quite effortless. When we are at odds with our true spiritual nature we struggle, we know sickness, we suffer.
The purpose of ZPoint is to release our attachment to these untruths and begin to live our lives from a place of spiritual alignment with our true and abiding nature. We release these attachments to untruth by putting our attention on the difficult feelings that arise when we think ‘less than’ thoughts or remember events, situations, circumstances or relationships based on the belief that we are victims in any way. We then follow a simple ZPoint Protocol that quite quickly and effectively releases our attachment to these difficult painful feelings and the ‘less than’ beliefs that sponsor them.
The 6 Day Teleclass series starting on April 30th will begin the process of releasing our attachment to these ‘less than’ beliefs and allow you to begin to experience your life from a far different perspective. The first 2 classes will work through situations, circumstances and relationships that generate difficult feelings with an intensity level of between 7 and 10 with 10 being the most intense. Difficult relationships fall into this category.
Classes 3 and 4 clear away feelings with a characteristic feeling of between 3 and 6 on a scale of 0 to 10. Worry about lack of money or worry about health concerns fall into this category.
The final class will focus on shifting our attention away from not having such things as more money, more love, better health, etc to allowing ourselves to actually believe that we can have these things. And, when we believe we can have something, it activates the powerful Law of Attraction and those things actually begin to manifest in our lives.Â
After each class you will be given an assignment to complete by the next class to further your clearing in each particular area of life. By the end of the 6th and final class it is expected that you simply won’t look at your life in quite the same way. In short, you will be given the tools to transform your life for the better and you can do so almost without effort.
For more information on this truly groundbreaking series, go to www.zpointforpeace.com/intensives.shtml.
Regards,
Grant Connolly, CHt
The ZPoint Process
www.zpointforpeace.com
Saying YES to Life!
Clearing Aspects with ZPoint
One of the more challenging things about clearing issues is that many issues present different aspects or parts as you work through the layers of an issue. Recently several individuals on the SharingZeroPoint email list asked why it was taking so long to clear these.
The way that ZPoint handles these aspects is the…
…and that makes me feel… statements found in The In-depth ZPoint Protocol found in this Blog. With ZPoint, these ‘aspects’ are easily released using the … and that makes me feel… statements found in the In-depth Protocol.
For example, you would go through the first clearing statements like this…
I clear all the ways I feel this feeling. <cue>
I clear all the ways I feel this feeling because… <cue>
I clear all the ways I feel this feeling whenever… <cue>
I clear all the ways I may feel this feeling if… <cue>
I clear all the ways unconscious parts of me feel this feeling. <cue>
I clear all the ways these parts feel this feeling because… <cue>
I clear all the ways these parts identify with my feeling this feeling. <cue>
I clear all the ways these parts may be afraid to let this feeling go. <cue>
Then you would say…
…and that makes me feel… <repeating your cue for 10 seconds>
…and that makes me feel… <cue>
…and that makes me feel… <cue>
…and that makes me feel… <cue>
Every time you repeat that statement followed by the repetition of your cue for about 10 seconds, you clear a different aspect of the feeling. That is the reason why I include these statements. Although it takes a bit longer to go through them, it SAVES time by clearing away unknown aspects of the Characteristic Feeling.
You’ll notice we say these statements after every round of clearing. In this way we release different aspects and get to the real root of an issue. And we don’t need to know what that issue is or what those aspects are. We just need to release them.
An alternative to the …and that makes me feel… statement is:
… and under that I feel…
Think of this like excavating through layers of feeling until we reach the root layer. The Protocol works well as long as you don’t take shortcuts to save time. Believe me, you won’t save time if you need to go over it again and again.
Regards,
Grant Connolly, CHt
The ZPoint Process
www.zpointforpeace.com
Saying YES to Life!
What we resist, persists
I know you’ve heard this many times, but it’s true. What we resist persists. But what does it really mean and how does this affect YOU?
Anytime you’re not feeling good you are resisting something. If you feel unloved, you are resisting love. If you feel betrayed, you are resisting trusting yourself. If you feel abandoned, you are resisting accepting yourself fully, just the way you are. It all comes back to you, to accepting yourself fully and completely, warts and all, every time.
Really, it’s about us being in conflict with who we really are, being in conflict with our true and abiding nature. It’s about us believing that we are limited and small when just the opposite is true. But we believe it anyway.
I know you’ve all heard the story of the young Lion cub who was adopted by a shepherd when his mother died. The Shepherd felt sorrow when he looked upon the young cub trying to suckle from his mother’s dead body and decided to bring up the young cub alongside his Sheep. And as the cub grew he came to believe he was a Sheep and quite naturally did as Sheep do.
Every day the Shepherd would take his flock, including the young and growing Lion, down to the river to drink their fill, where the Sheep would graze peacefully beside the river in the late afternoon sun. But the young Lion found himself growing increasingly unhappy. He wondered why he was unhappy and looked around the flock to see the contented faces of his brothers and sisters.
And try as he might to fit in, he found he couldn’t and he just didn’t know why. And the bigger and stronger he grew the more restive he became. But not knowing anything else, he lived with those feelings and tried even harder to fit in. One day after many years the now full grown Lion was grazing with his brothers and sisters alongside the river in the late afternoon sun.
Suddenly he heard a tremendous roar from the small clearing across the river. He looked up to see another Lion, just like himself, standing there looking at him from across the river. And then again the other Lion gave forth a mighty roar and our Lion who had been raised all this time to believe he was a Sheep, suddenly knew who he really was. He knew within himself that he wasn’t the same as his brothers and sisters. He knew he was a lion and no longer needed to live as Sheep do.
And in that instant he accepted his true nature and became who he really was, a mighty Lion. Some who are reading this might wonder what became of our Lion. Ask yourself, what becomes of those who step into their true nature? You are like that Lion. You’ve been brought up to believe that you are something far less than what you truly are. It’s not your fault, it’s just the way things are right now.
But truthfully, don’t you often feel as that young Lion did, that there must be something more? Please consider joining us for ZPoint Training and find that something more and discover your true nature. Go to http://www.zpointforpeace.com/training.shtml for details. You’ll be glad you did.
Kindest regards,
Grant Connolly, CHt
The ZPoint Process
www.zpointforpeace.com
Saying YES to Life
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