In This Issue: DR. JOE VITALE Focus Only on What You Want Christy Whitman When Assumptions Can Cost You Business Ivan Misner Live Life Courageously: Walk the Path of Truth Sandra Miniere, MEd ATTRACT MONEY NOW Not many people would argue with that kind of outcome. Good thing Dr. Joe Vitale took time out from his world travels, book writing and recording his 9th music album to spend some time to help readers like you to move forward to that very goal. CONTENTS FROM EDITOR Welcome from Ric Thompson 01 MONEY & FINANCE Focus Only on What You Want COVER STORY: 10 Attract Money Now 16 SPIRITUALITY & MIND SCIENCE The Prayer Project— FEATURES: Reclaiming Our World 15 What is Your Pain A "Meditation: Healing the Scars Inviting You to Do? 02 from Child Abuse, Domestic 8 Habits of Eective Violence, PTSD and More 17 Critical Thinkers 05 CREATING MEANING & GIVING BACK HEALTH & WELLNESS How Do High-Prole What Kind of Salt Suicides Impact Others? 19 Should You Buy? 07 Is A Little Red Purse Sexier Than Healthcare? 09 PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT Just Let Go CAREER & BUSINESS 21 Live Life Courageously: When Assumptions Can Walk the Path of Truth 22 Cost You Business 12 02 0924 07 © 2014 Healthy Wealthy nWise | All Rights Reserved EDITOR EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR Ric Thompson Dixie Gillaspie Jen Lawrence Mirabai Holland, MFA COVER STORY INTERVIEW EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR Geordie Wardman Ivan Misner Christy Whitman EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR Tom North Paramahansa Jagadish Graeme Cowan Sandra Miniere, MEd EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR www.HealthyWealthynWise . Kelly Lewis com from EDITOR Wow what a month! And then from there, see what catches your interest. Where do your passions lay? Business? It's September and that means the kids are back Personal healing? Taking life to the next level? in school, football is in season (for all of our American readers anyway), Fall is here and a Dive into this months issue, have fun, and zillion other things that can be fun and exciting. until next issue - enjoy your passions to the utmost even if your kids do look at you a Personally, I'm a HUGE fan of college football little strangely from time to time :-) (Go Noles!) and can be found most Saturdays at some point in front of the t.v. yelling loudly. My boys think I'm mildly mentally disturbed and Liz (my wife and co-founder of HWnw) is gracious enough to put up with me and even once in a blue moon yell a little with me. It's great to have that feeling of passion about something and I invite you to celebrate what you're passionate about this month. While we won't cover fall sports, pretty much everything else in health, wealth or wisdom we touch on in this month's issue, starting with the Ric Thompson always incredible Dr. Joe Vitale. What he has to Co-Founder share with "Attract Money Now" is not to be missed. Healthy Wealthy nWise © 2014 Healthy Wealthy nWise | All Rights Reserved 1 What is Your Pain Inviting You to Do? By Dixie Gillaspie You’ve probably heard of ‘pattern interrupts.” our heads under our pillow and refusing to get out of bed for a day! If not, no worries. It’s not a complicated concept. You use pattern interrupts every day, and Some patterns have been reinforced by probably never notice. outside conditioning. Let’s say you have a pattern of chewing your Like the pattern of just pushing through when thumbnail when you’re working on a difficult we’re exhausted. Or caring for the needs of problem. So you put a bandage on that thumb so others while refusing to acknowledge our own. you’ll notice when you’re about to chew the nail. These two, pushing through and choosing not Boom! That interrupts your pattern, makes to care for myself, are patterns that I find cropping you aware of what you’re doing, and (theoretically up for me again and again. Because they’re at least) trains you out of that pattern. part of how I self-identify, and part of my inner value proposition. Or you notice you’re in a downward spiral of overwhelm and frustration. So you take a deep “She’s a get it done kind of gal,” they said. breath, go for a walk, call a buddy, whatever One of my first managers even told his replace- stops that pattern. That’s a pattern interrupt. ment, “I call her ‘Dixie Do’, because if I want it done, I get Dixie to do it.” But here’s the trick with pattern interrupts – you have to realize you’re in a pattern that “She’s a trooper,” they said, when I was caring needs interrupting! for my father during his last few months with bone cancer, and I strove even harder to We all have patterns. And, believe it or not, prove myself a comforting nurse to a dying every one of those patterns served us well in man and a gracious hostess to those who came some way at some time. That’s why we kept them. to visit him in his last days. Chewing on a thumbnail is a common self-soothing Patterns that bring us those kinds of accolades pattern. So is snacking, and playing solitaire are hard to see as needing to be broken, and scanning Facebook for the latest “What and harder yet to break. kind of ______ are you?” quiz. Sometimes when we get emotionally addicted Even that spiral of overwhelm and frustration, to a pattern, our body steps in to break it. while not productive in the long run, can bring on bursts of energy, garner sympathy and support, We call that pattern interrupt “pain.” or just make us feel a little less guilty for sticking 2 I started hurting in my early 20’s. But no one Five sessions later, I was pain free. took it very seriously, least of all me. We all figured I was just tired from nursing my dad, and the But – and this is a BIG but – I only stay pain grief that followed. free when I stay away from the pattern that created the pain. And then we figured I was just out of shape, because round-the-clock nursing doesn’t When I manage stress, or at least get plenty leave much time for physical fitness. of exercise to burn off those “fight or flight” hormones that stress introduces to the body. Finally we figured there might be something wrong. But no one seemed to know what it was. When I eat what is good for me, and don’t forget to eat then binge on whatever is handy. A diagnosis of fibromyalgia didn’t do much good. Because knowing what it was didn’t tell When I keep doing movement therapy (I’m us what to do about it. now working with a Z-Health Specialist and getting amazing results when I do what he asks of me.) By the time I was in my early 40’s I had days that started with dragging myself to the shower, And most of all, when I pay attention when my standing under the spray, and crying until I body tells me I’m getting into a pattern that was cried out. Then I’d dry off, put my face on, doesn’t serve me! do my hair if I could manage the blow dryer, put on my navy blue suit or some facsimile thereof, The past 18 months have offered me a lot and spend the day with clients who had no idea of pain, and a lot of lessons. that my neck was a bundle of raw nerves, my shoulder blades had superheated lances I’ve learned that holding spiritual space and sticking out of them, and my wrists and knees offering emotional support is perhaps more were filing protests every time I moved. wearying than being a medical care-giver. You’d think I might have paid attention to that pat- I’ve learned that what is real cannot be lost, tern interrupt. But no, I kept pushing though. but losing sight of an illusion can still come Looking outside for treatment, instead of inside at an extremely high cost. for clues. I’ve learned that it is easier to put the needs Until a man I met at a networking event asked of others first when I do not want to know to talk with me about helping him start a what taking care of myself requires. new business. I’ve learned that pushing through is only a “If you’re going to coach me,” he said, “it would strength when it’s used rarely and judiciously, be good for you to understand what I do.” and that when I use it to salve my guilt or my ego it creates a weakness. As it turned out, what he did was movement therapy to reengage the neuropathways. 23 And I’ve learned that my first duty is to my own purpose, your possibilities and perfection. care. Because I cannot care for others as they deserve when I am hampered by the physical and Pain is simply an invitation to change. emotional drain of constant pain. Will you accept? No more, “I’ll take care of myself tomorrow.” Because by the time that tomorrow comes it’s in Why yes, I believe I will. the form of a forceful pattern interrupt. Dixie Gillaspie is an international business One that says, “You are going to have to break coach and consultant who has helped this pattern, because your pattern of not doing entrepreneurs and business leaders create unlimited lives and unstoppable what you know you need to do is breaking you.” businesses for more than 20 years.