MARCH 10, 2010. First, a radio update. Today, Wednesday, on my show, at 4PM Pacific Time, I’ll be interviewing my wife, Dr. Laura Thompson about hormones and hormone therapy. This information applies to both women and men. Tune in.

Go to www.ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com and click on the listen button.

To pick up the show later, go to the archive where all my past shows are stored:
http://garynull.squarespace.com/the-jon-rappoport-show/

Since I’ve started writing articles on my private consulting practice, I’ve received a number of email queries. So I’m going to continue to flesh out a description of what I do.

I’ve now opened up a new email address for queries: qjrconsulting@gmail.com

First of all, as I keep saying, there is no formula for my work.

I’m fully aware that many people want formulas. They want steps 1,2,3,4.

“Oh, you’ve got some problems to solve? Just do steps one through four. Boom.”

That’s nonsense. That’s ridiculous.

On the other hand, I’m not flying out in the stratosphere on a thin string. There is a time and place in private consulting and teaching when VERY specific practical advice is exactly what’s required. And I’m ready, willing, and able to give it.

I hope to show you why a formula for life doesn’t work.

Everything about your life should be centered on the concept of FREEDOM. What you do freely and with power is what gets you where you want to be.

What’s done out of a half-baked sense of obligation gets you a sense of DIMINISHING POWER.

Every person I’ve ever worked with has a piece of magic they’re rubbing like a little brass statue. It’s something they feel ELECTRIC about. They may have trouble admitting it, but it’s there. They’re thinking, “Now, if I could do THAT, I’d be on fire. I’d be jumping out of bed in the morning with excitement running through my veins.”

But of course, they’ve tried to hide it from themselves, because they see no way to play it out in the world and make it into some kind of success.

Yes, and that’s the challenge.

Somewhere, somehow, we’ve learned that everything should be easy. What a sales job that was!

So let me say that, WITHOUT QUESTION, every person has, at some point in his/her life, WANTED A CHALLENGE. That’s right. There was a fine balance of expectation, anticipation, and uncertainty. A strong brew. And every person was up to that challenge.

Then, flashing forward, it was: “I just want EASY.”

What happened?

More to the point, what can be done to restore the confidence that challenges can be met and victories can be won?

This society, this world, in case you hadn’t noticed, is based on function and position. You find your place and you sink into it for 40 or 50 years and that’s that story. The society is based on that.

But LIFE isn’t based on that.

Society depends on organizing its citizens. You can have 200 million people moving around, but in the core of consciousness they are magnetized. They share a trance—and much propaganda is devoted to maintaining the fiction that the trance is a very good thing.

Every detail of our culture legislates against understanding personal freedom. And yet, underneath the cover, people yearn for it. They try to find it.

Our practical sense tells us we have to erect a frame around our efforts, we have to keep checking back to make sure we’re in the arena of sensible activity—but at the same time, we’re hoping to escape. Into wide-ranging freedom.

So how do I apply all this when working with a person? This would be the place where I’d discuss a formula, if there were one. But there isn’t. And you should be able to see that now, because finding a meeting ground where your true power and freedom can express itself—and yet you can succeed in the world—this is EXACTLY where you, as a unique individual, grapple with your future. This is where you engage in practical action and still try to maintain that magic that is yours alone.

You can’t put a grid over that and come up with a formula.

This meeting ground is where I do my work. This is where I see what you’re doing, above and below the surface. This is where I refuse to give in and say your freedom and power are unimportant. This is where I’m determined to help you navigate a course that will bring you to victory—a kind of victory where your power and your deep desire to do a certain thing can play out IN THE WORLD and add up to success.

We are working with your inherent power, not anything else.

We are working to restore your sense of excitement about challenges, as you project your energy, with focus, with strategy into the world.

I think this a good thing. A very good thing.

JON RAPPOPORT
www.nomorefakenews.com
www.insolutions.info

MARCH 9, 2010. Let’s say you’re nine years old. You’re determined to cross a stream by jumping from rock to rock. If you think about it too long, you’re going to turn back and forget the whole thing. You see the rocks. You see how you can jump from one to the other and reach the other side. You want to do it. So you do. You do it.

People get into a muddle when they don’t understand the power of WANTING TO DO SOMETHING. They have relatively little experience with that. For them, desire is like a radio station that cuts in and out. Sometimes it’s clear and strong, and sometimes it’s all static.

They can remember a time when the desire to do something was strong—but then it was buried. It went away.

As I wrote in Part One of this series, my work with private clients often involves digging up these abandoned desires. Rethinking them. Seeing if they still make sense.

In people’s lives, there is a see-saw. A person looks at one of his very strong desires, and he thinks about it. Can I really accomplish this? Should I try? Do I believe it can work out? Yes? No? Maybe? And with each minute of reflection, the see-saw moves. It moves away from the person, and it moves toward him.

It comes closer, and it goes farther away.

When it comes closer, the person is imagining the fulfillment of the desire in his life. He’s imagining the path and work to get there, he’s imagining what it would be like to make it come true.

When the see-saw moves away, the person is thinking that his deep desire probably won’t work out, he’s thinking it’s impractical or difficult, he’s thinking about what other people will say, he’s thinking he should take a safer course.

This is the quandary, the indecision, the back and forth, the postponing.

This is the lack of determination.

In my practice, I move directly into this back and forth situation and work with the client to explore it. What’s it really all about?

The imagining of a desire, fleshing it out, the vision of it being fulfilled—this is the kernel of a new life. Much has been said about this kernel. For example, there are people who will tell you it’s all about the law of attraction. If you know what you want and if you can really see it and feel it, you will attract the fulfillment to you.

Well, I’m not going to spend time exploring the law of attraction here, except to say this: most people are missing the point. The most important thing that happens when you imagine, with power, what you truly and deeply want is YOU ATTRACT YOURSELF.

This may sound like a mal-formed sentence, but it isn’t.

You are the one who can expend the effort and do the work and make a vision come true. Focusing on that is a prime fact, and it shouldn’t be ignored in favor of waiting for the iron filings of the universe to line up around the magnet of your dreams.

To put all this in a slightly different way, there is a natural feedback loop between what you truly desire and YOU. Your desire gives you power, and your power imparts life to what you desire. But you can cut that loop, you can interrupt it, you can stop the flow of energy and inspiration.

These are important matters. One’s future hangs in the balance.

Exploring and casting light on this situation is a fundamental part of my work with clients. The exploring is all about changing the relationship between what a person really wants and his actions, his lack of action. When that relationship is put back together, when the feedback loop is restored, a life is transformed.

JON RAPPOPORT
www.nomorefakenews.com
www.insolutions.info
If you’re interested in becoming a client, contact me at qjrconsulting@gmail.com