Chance & Change

How to Experience Radical Change – and LOVE IT!

I want to talk to you today about a decision that could change your life forever.  It’s the idea that a small moment, a small decision, that doesn’t SEEM radical, can create radical change.

Whoa…  You say, “Radical change?”  Who wants “Radical change?”  Frankly, I think most of us do.

No, not change as in upheaval, distress, movement, etc.

Change as in, “Everything is better, feels better, life is flowing, relationships are healing, money is coming in, joy has come back into the very core of my being…”

That, to me, is Radical Change.

Why do we need Radical Change? 

Because when I look around, most people are simply NOT feeling this way on a daily basis, or with any consistency.

It seems like we, as a society, have lowered the bar in a significant way.

It’s like an awful game of “Limbo”!

The issue is, there’s nobody out there in the mainstream media, in our communities, or in our families, looking at us and telling us, “You CAN feel good all the time!”

That message simply does not exist.  Imagine that, it doesn’t EXIST!  Look at the messages we are receiving if we dare to turn on the television.  They say, “Here is happiness, joy, and abundance, all you have to do is take this little pill (and please ignore the list of horrible side effects, just look at the pretty pictures).

Or

“Here’s a great time with friends and family.  Everyone looks great and healthy AND they’re drinking beer.”

Those are the “positive” messages.

If you actually watch the programming (and it is “programming”!) you are likely to see awful news on the “news”, or a game show where people are basically gambling to make any money, or a cop/detective show where someone is brutally killed in the first 5 minutes, and then we spend the next hour going after all the suspects and trying to uncover the mystery.

It’s almost laughable, if it were not so painful….

Now, you might say to me, “I don’t watch TV!”  Well, that’s fantastic, a great start.  So the questions then become, who are you interacting with?  What are you talking about?  What are you thinking about?

And if most of you take an honest look at that question, you’ll see it’s not a pretty picture.

So what do you do?

What do you do when everyone around you acts this way and it’s so much easier to “fit in” by just going along with it?

Easy to say, harder to do…

You make a CHOICE!

You make a CONSCIOUS CHOICE to no longer participate in energies that don’t support you and your well-being.  You pay attention, close attention, to how something makes you feel and if it doesn’t make you feel good, you move away from it, stop speaking about it, turn it around.

And you use TAPPING, every step of the way, to make the whole process MUCH easier.

You might be wondering, how exactly do I do that? Let me give you an example:

You just got home from work, later than you wanted to… again.  You’re tired, stressed, just fed the kids and put them to bed, and you’re overwhelmed with all the stress and responsibility.  Your habit and instinct is to put on the TV and watch CSI (a crime show).

You think, it’s a well put together show, and entertaining, and you get to zone out for an hour, but you never feel great afterwards and you often have nightmares from the violence in the show.  It would seem obvious not to watch it, but you’re just compelled to do so, and you just need to zone out…

Instead, here’s what you can do:

In that moment of making the choice between turning on the TV or not, you pause, tap on the karate chop point, and say, “Even though I’m totally stressed out, the kids are driving me crazy, work stinks, and I just want to disappear for an hour into the drama of that TV show, I deeply and completely accept myself.”

You repeat it three times while tapping on the karate chop point and then tap through each of the other points, repeating, “This stress… tap, tap, tap… I just want to watch TV… tap, tap, tap… I don’t have the energy to do anything else… tap, tap, tap…” and so forth, through the points.

You finish one round and take a deep breath… Sigh…
All of a sudden, something has shifted.  Your body has relaxed in a big way.  The stress has lifted just enough for you to say, “I feel ok, and I think I’m going to read my book…”

And that subtle but important choice, is ALL the difference.

Because you just keep making that better choice, again and again.  And you just keep using Tapping to balance your energy and come to that place of peace.

Again and Again.

Tap, Tap, Tap

Sigh… I can now make the better choice.

Again and Again.

And next thing you know… Radical Change!

You feel better, happier, and more fulfilled.

Sigh…

Tap, Tap, Tap…

Radical Change IS possible.  Start now!  What can you tap on to bring some relief into your life?  What empowering CHOICE can you make?

NOW.

Until next time….

Keep Tapping!

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As leaders, you can make a big difference! We 

encourage you to gather your teams and create 

a positive impact in the world by helping children 

reach their dreams through Jeunesse Kids.

How to Spearhead a Jeunesse Kids Project

• Reach out to the organization you’d like to work 
• with to discover needs
• Plan the project
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• submit your idea, along with any funding requests
• Note: All projects must focus directly on children 
• in order to stay in line with Jeunesse Kids’ mission

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each of our four regions, and we are working with 

our international teams to make that a reality.

One Heart. One Hope. One Mission.

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Jeunesse Kids Days

A prime focus this year is strengthening Jeunesse 

Kids as a Global Movement that provides the infra

structure and resources for our Distributors to have 

the ability and opportunity to give back in their local 

communities. This movement will begin at home 

with our corporate employees at JeunesseKidsDays.

• 1st Jeunesse Kids Day — March 14–18 at 
• Jeunesse Headquarters. Employees will volunte
• er at the Boys & Girls Club for an entire week.

Examples of Jeunesse Kids Days

• Volunteering at a local Boys & Girls Club
• Participating in a children’s charity 5k
• Organizing a blanket drive or a stuffed animal 
• drive for a children’s hospital
• Helping out a team member’s child

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International Jeunesse Kids Projects

We have adopted two villages through our partner

ship with Free The Children, and we are in the 

process of adopting another village.

Dao Lazui, China

• Contributed over $225,000 to date
• New, permanent school building constructed
• Learning materials purchased
• Teacher training
• Clean water system for the school
• School garden

Irkaat, Kenya

• Contributed over $290,000 to date
• Constructing a new school
• Clean water and sanitation systems for both the 
• community and the school
• Regular mobile health clinics and workshop 
• training
• Agricultural training and development including 
• a demonstration garden
• Alternative income and livelihood training

We are very excited to visit this village in July 

2016 on another one of our Bringing Hope trips. 

We will be helping build the school, beading with

 women in the community, and lending a helping 

hand.

New Project: Village in Ecuador 
Later this year, we will be adopting a third village 

in a remote rainforest village in Ecuador. We will 

share more details about this new village as they 

become available. You can join me here

Empowering Our Mind: Singapore Wakeup Message 2012

He who thus dominates over you has only two eyes, only two hands, only one body,
no more than is possessed by the least man among the infinite numbers dwelling in
your cities; he has indeed nothing more than the power that you confer upon him to destroy you.

Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves?
How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you?
The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own?
How does he have any power over you except through you?

How would he dare assail you if he had no cooperation from you? What could he do to you if
you yourselves did not connive with the thief you plunders you, if you were not the accomplices
of the murderer who kills you, if you were not traitors to yourselves?

You yield your bodies unto hard labour in order that he may indulge in his delights and wallow in his filthy pleasures; you weak yourself in order to make him stronger and the mightier to hold you in check. From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free.

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed....A people enslaves itself, cuts its own throat, when having a choice between being vassals and being free men,it deserts its liberties and takes on the yoke, gives consent to its own misery,or, rather, apparently welcomes it." --- Ettiene de La Boetie, 1552, French philosopher.


As you countdown to the end of another year, reflect again. It is a tragic quirk of human nature that allow billions all over the world to repeatedly and consistently subject themselves to brutish domination by the tyrannical few. The answer is partly due to violent coercion. But, if individuals with empowered mind and empowered networks refused to cooperate and allow themselves to be abused or used as instruments of state terror, tyrants would fall, immediatelly. A TYRant is just an 'ant' at its end.

 In 1552, French philosopher Etienne de la Boetie wrote:

He who dominates over you has only two eyes, only two hands, only one body, no more than is possessed by the least…among the infinite numbers dwelling in your cities; he has indeed nothing more than the power you confer on him to destroy you. How has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you, except through you? What could he do to you if you yourselves did not connive with the thief who plunders you? If you were not accomplices of the murderer who kills you? If you were not traitors to yourselves?

It is indeed a tragic quirk of human nature that allows millions all over the world to repeatedly and consistently subject themselves to brutish domination by the tyrannical few. The answer is partly due to violent coercion. But as de la Boetie expounded, if individuals refused to cooperate and allow themselves to be used as instruments of state terror, tyrants would fall. 

 

Another reason why masses often become putty in the hands of dictators is the use and misuse of information to shape public opinion. The use of the mass media to constantly exalt the rulers (statesmen-like photographs are strategically placed here, effusive write-ups prominently published there) and to create larger-than-life images of the leaders is a tried and tested means of mind-control. The constant droning of the official line and the downplaying, or complete censorship, of dissenting views for years upon years all contribute to shaping the thought processes of the people. 

 

The resultant effect is so pervasive and deep-seated that even the victims are led to believe that it is their inability and deficiency that has placed them in the situation they find themselves. In other words, they buy into the delusion that being in a state of subjugation is the natural order of things and, worse, that they are powerless to change the ruler-ruled relationship. This is exactly the problem that besets us in Singapore. 

The biggest struggle is not against the PAP; it is against what the PAP has done to our minds.

Unlearning learned helplessness

 

Yet propaganda, too, has its weaknesses. The erstwhile Soviet Union, mighty as it once was, could only keep the truth out and its people in for less than 75 years. Autocrats are acutely aware of how precarious the use of state violence and propaganda can be; hence the need to eradicate sources that provide dissenting information. This is where we need to start: To recondition the Singaporean mind into realising that no one is ever completely powerless. The ability to break the chains in our minds that lock us into thinking we are helpless is itself a power that each of us wields. We must not allow ourselves to believe that PAP domination is irrevocable and that events determined by the ruling few are inevitable and unalterable. I mentioned earlier that learned helplessness is an induced state of mind, and because it is an induced state of mind, it can also be unlearned. 

 

I am not saying that structures are not in place to prevent us from actively seeking change; I recognise this in earlier paragraphs. What I am saying is that the first step to liberating ourselves from PAP oppression is to recognise that we are not powerless. It is important to acknowledge our mental captivity and recognise we are not imprisoned for our thoughts as much as we are imprisoned by them. This first step to overcoming the state of learned helplessness so crippling to our efforts to achieve democracy in Singapore is crucial. 

 

One way to do this is to understand where power comes from and how it can be used. The most common perception of power is that wielded by the state, that is, the use of force by a government through the police and the military. But there are other sources of power that do not belong to the government, that is, power that can be exercised by citizens. 

 

How Singaporeans employ such power and what initiatives we take to free ourselves is a matter which I will take up in subsequent chapters. For now, it is important to remember that as long as we remain captive to our delusions, we will continue to be the eyes and hands that support the system that de la Boetie so eloquently described. Political factors change and so must our mindsets. The confluence of circumstances and how we respond to them can make all the difference. History is strewn with cases where the masses overcome dictatorial regimes by refusing to go along with the wishes of the rulers. When this happens in Singapore, the delusion that the PAP has so skillfully created will disappear like mist in the midday sun. 

THE USE OF KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. When power becomes gracious and descends into the visible .... the plot has been stopped, many extremely dangerous mass murderers ... and in countless books); and many, many other resources often cited. .... It is a cartel operating against the public interest. 

PHILOSOPHERS HITHERTO SERVED SECRET ESTABLISHMENTS WHICH ENSLAVED PEOPLE.
BUT THE THING IS TO REDEEM 'HUMANITY'.

You take the white pill and the story ends.

You believe whatever you want to believe.  

You take the red pill and you'll experience

how deep the conversation goes.

THE USE OF KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

When power becomes gracious and descends into the visible — such descent I call beauty. And there is nobody from whom I want beauty as much as from you who are powerful: let your kindness be your final self-conquest.

  

What you are matters infinitely

What the individual is, the society is. What you are matters infinitely.
That is not a mere slogan but, if you go into it really deeply, you will discover how significant your actions are, how what you are affects the world in which you live, which is the world of your relationships, however small, however limited.
And, if we can fundamentally alter, bring about a radical revolution in ourselves, inwardly, then there is a possibility of creating a different world, a different set of values.