Andrew McAfee - What is Web/Enterprise 2.0

The Internet Time Group - Engaging Communities of Practice

University of Hertfordshire - Evaluating Learning Process

Caterpillar- Collaboration Through Communities of Practice

People Power

For organizations people are a source of creativity, energy and information. Strategies should be designed to tap into this potential.

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Keith Ferazzi: How to Expand Your Network

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Using social media to drive knowledge management

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ILA Memories

My time at the International Leadership Conference in Boston was fantastic! I had a great time and enjoyed representing the University of Phoenix, School of Advanced Studies. My doctoral research was well received and I learned much from the experience.

Deeply Felt

"Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us".

Albert Einstein

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The Influence of Suggestion

All suggestions take effect sooner or later. We develop our good or bad life according to our constant suggestion.

The following are the forms of suggestion:

1. Physical Suggestion   (experiences of the physical body and its movements)
2. Suggestions of Senses ( perceptions of hearing, sight, sound, taste, touch)
3. Verbal Suggestion (vocal repetition of ideas and thoughts)
4. Mental Suggestion ( suggestion repeated only in the mind)
5. Environmental Suggestion (influences of the subjective and objective realms)
6. Autosuggestion (spontaneous self-suggestion that can take any suggestion form)

-Rammurti Mishra, M.D. (Fundamentals of Yoga)


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"The greatest power of nature is the power of suggestion. It is as old as nature and as powerful as nature. We are constantly moving every moment by our suggestion. First we think, then we do. First we plan, then we accomplish that plan".

Rammurti Mishira, M.D.

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The roles we take on can bring out our talents and can nurture our reinvention.

-Warren Bennis

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Comfort within Discomfort

I do not have to be comfortable with the process of  peronal development and that is ok. I am realizing that basing my actions upon how I subjectively feel about them can lead to limitations in my growth. Pleasure and pain though important concepts to consider should not be the sole determining factor regarding my decisions. There has to be a more encompassing intelligence upon which to guide my actions. My exploration into Education and Yoga is helping me to be ok with my path and practice. I am where I need to be. The barrage of constant self-evaluation and calculation of progress can take me away from being “present” if I let it. Presence in practice and action is essential to personal advancement.


When I am not present, I can feel it immediately in my training. My sessions start rough, I am not able to feel as deep or as smooth as I had desired. When these moments occur, an instant litany of judgments soon populates my awareness precluding any chance for me to engage. Even now as I document these experiences, the words seem pre-planned and calculated not really expressing how I feel in the truest sense.

Honesty is the root of embracing life and practice more fully. I am learning that fear prevents people from being honest with themselves about who they are, what they want etc. Perhaps this is caused by a fear of discomfort and pain. If one could tackle discomfort, render it helpless to the point where it no longer held its sway, what great things could be accomplished?


“There is nothing to fear if you refuse to be afraid”.
- Ghandi

Howard Gardner of The Multiple Intelligence Theory

The Art of Coaching in Business

John Wooden: Coaching for people, not points

Practice

Thoughts are controlled by practice and detachment. Practice is a continual effort to master thought waves of the mind. Practice becomes firmly rooted when cultivated uninterruptedly over a long time with devotion and skill.

- Patanjali Yoga Sutras (1.1 - 1.4)

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Stronger

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.


John F. Kennedy

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Relaxation and Breathing with Rodney Yee

  Beginning of My Practice

I never intended to walk the path of yoga. I picked up the Heart of Yoga book by T.K.V Desikachar, a chance and random occurrence, and poured through the book's contents. I was amazed by what I read. I never realized the transformative potential the discipline of Yoga held. At the writing of this journal entry, I am 6 months into my focused use of Yoga. It is strange but I am excited about the new prospects that are emerging because of this practice. Already I am seeing a subtle difference in the manner life opens itself to me. I feel a sense of synchronicity between my goals, the person I am becoming and the manifesting events of my life. I feel as if I do not have to try as hard to engage in the authentic expression of myself.

In the Heart of Yoga, Desikachar mentions that one can witness the evolution of one’s practice by observing the state of one’s relationships. Desikachar elaborates that a person will grow in the level of engagement and harmony experienced with other people. The changes I have noticed in my own personal interactions both professionally and personally mirror this statement.

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Mind & Body

I never knew the encompassing nature of Yoga. I had always thought of it as a supplementary and soft practice used to support another discipline. I have been researching the practice and now find it to be much broader than I had initially thought. I see in Yoga the potential to bridge the gap between physical and mental performance. The art form sets a platform for the practitioner to develop his or her human potential to a greater degree, creating synergy between mental and physical competencies.

What I am also interested in is the enhanced state of self awareness that Yoga cultivates. An awareness that helps a person address flaws and shortcomings previously outside of concious awareness. With awareness comes the ability to maximize areas of talent removing self-defeating barriers that limits expression.


"Yoga cannot guarantee us this or that particular benefit if we practice diligently. Yoga is not a recipe for less suffering, though it can offer us help in changing our attitude so that we have less avidya (misperception) and therefore greater freedom from dukha" (suffering).

-Desikachar