We covered a lot of ground this summer on the show. What we wanted to do this WED was take a look over our shoulder and review each lunar phase and what we covered as a means of reviewing this material and also to prepare the audience for yet another turn in the river beginning with next week show. Starting with the SEPT 5th show, we'll be conducting live Emotional Makeovers for callers live on the air. We'll use this week's show to introduce you to the process as we retrace our steps through the first 11 lunar phases of the Summer.
Take this time to go back and replay some of the videos, visit some of the links and get to know the 4 SomaStars we profiled for you this past month. We'll keep this blog up in the air for you to harvest but look for our new Show Blog address on the Host Site over the weekend. We're excited about what's next. Are you?
You can’t pigeonhole Pete Egoscue. He doesn’t fit into a nice, neat category. He has no formal medical or physical therapy training. In fact, he graduated with an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Utah State University, specializing in “jockdom” (or sports). He then went on to serve as an Infantry Officer in the United States Marine Corps for ten years, resigning his commission in 1978 as a Major.
In an effort to describe or put a label on him, long time friend and client Jack Nicklaus calls Pete an “Anatomical Functionalist” and goes on to say, “Pete Egoscue has totally changed my life. Never have I experienced such complete pain relief as I have by following the Egoscue Method.” Pete’s publisher, Bantam Books prefers the term “Anatomical Physiologist” when referring to Pete being consulted by some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment. But the bottom line is that Pete Egoscue has been successfully helping people relieve themselves of chronic pain since 1978. He has authored four books, including the best selling book, Pain Free. He is also host of the extremely popular, nationally syndicated talk radio show, Pain Free.
When you ask Pete to put a label on himself, he says, “I’m the Posture guy”. Pretty modest for a man who is responsible for establishing over 18 clinics (and counting), world wide, with corporate headquarters in San Diego, California. In fact, the Egoscue Method is “the world leader in non-medical pain relief”. Pete Egoscue is responsible for creating a therapy method that relieves chronic pain, and encourages peak physical performance for the young, the old, the athlete, the non-athlete, the famous, and the infamous. This unique method is based on the body’s functional design – or posture. Therefore, to put it simply, Pete Egoscue is a “Posture Therapist” – a very good one!
This ONTO doesn't have time for your b.s. (belief system). He deals with the 'elusive obvious' most of us miss hunting for exotic explanations for our chronic physical problems. Once you hear him speak or read his book or even visit his website, his infectious insistence that you have a blueprint for well-being written into your body's design takes hold. Listen to his radio show and you can see how he just knows why you hurt and how to eliminate it. It's like Pete has a copy of the rules of being a fully aware human being. The way he shares it his secret. His SAT morning radio show Pain Free Radio is a weekly initiation in Pete's knowledge base of no-nonsense postural re-education. While the science behind his work is almost incidental to him (egghead stuff), the art of living free of self-induced physical limitations is his passion. The success of his landmark book, oddly titled Pain Free has made Pete's extremely simple exercises (he's got over 400 of them and counting) transferable because he's using all his Secondary Domains. By being both a voice of the people (PHYLO) and a thorn in the side of the establishment (ECO), Pete captures your attention by speaking the truth to you and the way you live. He takes no guff from you about poor results you may experience.
Instead, he points to the facts of your life and says that until and unless you align with the facts of life in general, your poor results are actually your best friends. He says life is nothing but one giant stimulus and your symptoms, results, and outcomes are the response. The game never ends so if you start to slip into patterns of dysfunction, it's on you to change the menu. His work provides both an immediate path to regaining control of your body and a strategy (EXO) to confront the emotional and mental anguish pain brings us. This allows Pete to let his life to flow from IN-8 pattern #8 (truth) to pattern #4 (love) which gives him a 'code' to get right to the core of each person's capacity to self-regulate by following nature's design for them. All these factors make Pete a legit SomaStar (someone who's able to open their identity up and weave in aspects of all 4 life narratives to create a truly integrated life story). Take a look at some of ammo he left for us.
Called a “marketing guru” by the Wall Street Journal, Michael Port, has lectured, trained, inspired, and provided coaching and consulting services to over 20,000 business owners in the last two years alone. As a speaker, he has headlined events with leaders like Brian Tracy and Tony Robbins. Before starting his consulting business, Michael spent years honing his management skills by working in senior management for some of the premiere health and fitness companies in the country including The Sports Club Company and Clay, the most luxurious health club in New York, where he served as the Senior Vice President of Operations.
This PHYLO has taken what was a face-to-face industry and created an empire on-line. His MON noon conference calls on his Think Big Revolution have been a 24/7 coffee klatch for service providers in a day and age when time is at such a premium. By using the medium of the telephone, Port is able to convey his very caring voice to a world-weary crowd of 'big thinkers'. He creates an atmosphere of solidarity (ECO) and engages the listeners in some quick feedback exchanges that allow the rest of the audience to gain from their experiences and questions. But it's not just about feeding the emotional needs of the members of his tribe. Port has created an entire self-branding process, from conception to launch to development and now planning to springboard from the success of his book, Book Yourself Solidto his next book, aptly named Beyond Booked Solid. So you can see how by positioning himself as the ONTO leader of the small business service providers he's using all his Secondary Domains. This allows Michael to allow his life to flow from IN-8 pattern #7 (happiness) to pattern #3 (freedom) which allows him to thrive on ambiguity and opportunity...
All these factors make Michael a legit SomaStar (someone who's able to open their identity up and weave in aspects of all 4 life narratives to create a truly integrated life story). Take a look at some of clues he left for us.
"Ken Wilber is generally regarded as the world's most influential Integral thinker. He is the first psychologist-philosopher in history to have his Collected Works published while still alive, and with his 22 books translated in up to 30 foreign languages, Ken is perhaps the most highly translated academic writer in America." - from Integral Institute's History page
This EXO has all the classic feel of the wise recluse who just distills knowledge from behind the veil of his keyboard. In his latest book, Integral Spiritualityhe gets into a cross-cultural mode and proposes using what he calls an Integral Methodological Pluralism - which is his way into the octal code's IN-8 patterns as far as we're concerned. The Amazon review of the book place it out this way...Integral Life practices involve engaging every level of being such as body, emotion, mind, soul and spirit to bring about transformation of consciousness.
So how does a 'heady' EXO like Ken get this idea to spread and develop. Wilber's AQAL map is his greatest memetic device. It allows him to use both history and experience to reach both the lineage-bound PHYLO's and the self-asserting ONTO's. The content he places inside that AQAL map is where the ECO's are fed and since EXO's can't resist a well-organized lexicon, they all shave their heads and move to Colorado and join the tribe (relax, he's not a cult leader, but he could play one well on You Tube. These well-orchestrated Secondary Domains align in Ken and allow his life to flow from IN-8 pattern#4 (love) to pattern #8 (truth) which is what a philosopher is defined as anyway...
All these factors make Ken a legit SomaStar (someone who's able to open their identity up and weave in aspects of all 4 life narratives to create a truly integrated life story). Take a look at some of artifacts he left for us.
Bio: Serial entrepreneur and ultra-vagabond Timothy Ferriss has been featured in The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Maxim, and other media. He is a guest lecturer at Princeton University in High-tech Entrepreneurship and The 4-Hour Workweek (Crown/Random House) is his debut book on ideal lifestyle design. He speaks five languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, and has been a world-record holder in tango, a national champion in Chinese kickboxing, and an actor on a hit television series in Hong Kong. He is twenty-nine years old. He's been called the 'Indiana Jones for the Digital Age'.
This ECOhas created a world of his own and invited us to join him. In his book, The 4 Hour Work Week he details how the door is opening for more and more people to join what he calls the New Rich (NR) and stop living the old paradigm he called Deferers (D) that arrange their lives in a sequence where they work for 40+ years and delay any real gratification for their retirement. Tim challenges this set up and does so using all three of his Secondary Domains to align his life to flow from IN-8 pattern#3 (freedom) to pattern #7 (happiness). He challenges us to forget our past programming and embrace a lifestyle that avoids what he calls W4W (work for work's sake). His business takes in around $60K/month, yet he checks e-mail every 10-14 days and travels the world. His secret is that Tim has learned how to seperate the way he spends his time and the way he makes money. He also has been able to unhook where he lives (or travels) from where he works, which allows him to run a company with him as the sole employee and 200-300 'outsourcers' as his virtual, global business network. He took his angst (working 12 hours/day for $40K/year) and became a SomaStar (someone who's able to open their identity up and weave in aspects of all 4 life narratives to create a truly integrated life story). Take a look at some of footprints he left for us.
From a very early age, money establishes it's presence in life. Cultures, countries, families, and individuals relate much of their social identity to money. It is as unavoidable as gravity but remains a mystical pursuit for 95% of the world's population. Phrases like 'follow the money', 'show me the money' and 'money talks' are axioms of our lottery consciousness. Try and go a day without being offered a no risk financial opportunity, an e-mail scam from Nigerian refugees or a pre-approved credit card application. Jacob Needleman wrote in his 1994 book Money and the Meaning of Life:
“If only we would step back and look at the emotional and spiritual effects money has on us, the green stuff could serve the aim of self-knowledge and become a tool for breaking out of our mental prison.”
Spoken like the true ECO he is. Unhappily for the rest of us, it's the ONTO domain that holds that key. Just like the air is shared but a breath is ours to take, money works through the vertical principles of 'more is up'. This orientation is what drives us somatically to stand, literally to defy gravity and make ourselves the epicenter of our world. PHYLO's tend to rely on gravity and give the same reverence to money. ECO's split the baby and make their defiance figurative and carry the emotional and spiritual burden Needleman speaks to in his book. EXO's are free of those traps yet their see no value in self-knowledge so their relationship with money tends to be all or none; digital.
So what does an ONTO see that we don't see? The see money as a projection, not a reflection of themselves. Since projection is second nature to an ONTO everywhere they look in the world with passion becomes a new way to expand their sense of self. When coherent, you get charity, benevolence and prosperity. The difference is that ONTO's don't rely on that from others to achieve it. It works in the exact opposite direction for them. They see resistance as a cue to focus on a more narrow course of action. They know power is intensified through direct steps. ONTO's work on a level that can see through the resistance PHYLO's fear and ECO's carry because they have no feelings ABOUT money. They have passion FOR money and align themselves internally so their lives consist OF more opportunities to link risk and reward. What remains a dream in most is what an ONTO wakes up to every day. They keep their relationship with money fluid and 100% image-based.
Get the picture? If you don't, one will be sold to you soon enough. ;)
Growing up you either were a dog person or a cat person, a frog/lizard person or a turtle/fish person. As adults, these creatures become threads to our past, to how we view life. That animalistic aspect our nature plays a vital role when we perceive a threat to ourselves or our loved ones. We name our sports teams after animals. We use them in cartoons. But when it comes to understanding the human as an animal, we forget how untamed we really are. When we see violence on the local news or pay to see it in movies or DVD's, we call it a cultural thing. It's an odd situation. It's almost like in order to feel safe, we need to know we aren't afraid. And in order to know we're not afraid, we scare ourselves for entertainment. This 'social' conditioning is always present when we talk about health.
In Michael Moore's movie SiCKO, we get a visceral tour of what life is like inside and outside our culture when it comes to health care. We see some of the most inhumane, cold-blooded corporate agendas grind their ways over and through the lives of the poor, the insured working class. The very young and the very old are shown no mercy. In a sense, SiCKO is a horror movie that aims to awaken its audience to a 'flaw' in our all too human nature. The 'flaw' is called, self-preservation. It's part of our biological wiring that allowed us to survive, develop and 'evolve' into modern civilization. So it's unavoidable. Yet a lot of the reasons why Americans suffer from debilitating health conditions, shortened life spans, and diminished quality of life stems from their lifestyle choices, not their health care coverage. Where's that self-preservation when you need it? Well, it's been outsourced to the same culture that feeds them violence, consumption and an urgency to work at paces that derail families, relationships and ultimately the hopes and dreams of most Americans...
\ The somatic domain that perpetuates this is, of course, the PHYLO one. While it's the most biologically oriented domain, it's also the most socially conditioned too. So it tends to internalize all the fear and sense of futility the authority figures pump at them. This 'turtling' effect makes them slow to react to the loss of freedom and reluctant to challenge the authorities. So whether it's their local doctor who fills them with stories about infectious disease (better get that kid his shots) or self-limiting conditions (better get that kid an antibiotic) or now contagious diseases (beware the bird flu!) or the mainstream media or the good old medical machine AKA, the pharmacracy, the result is a populace of PHYLO's convinced this is as good as it gets. SiCKO aims to change that status quo by showing the beleaguered PHYLO's how other PHYLO's live and work in neighboring countries. This will change the menu when it comes to what's possible in terms of both the health care system, but also for their quality of life. It' simple. If the PHYLO raise the bar, no authority figure can stop them.
Have you ever seen a kid lose a faceoff with a parent when another kid has what they want?
