Aloha to "Tipping Points" in 2008

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The winter solstice, December 21, 2007 was an unusually quiet day spent all by myself on a condo terrace in Maui while visiting our dear friends and colleagues Drs. Tom Kane and David Shaw, who were our holiday hosts. I was deep in thought and pondering: The Mystery of 2012: Predictions, Prophecies & Possibilities. The book and it’s messages have been resonating with me the for the last six months knowing that the 2012 winter solstice is just five years away. My take away message is that the date represents a major tipping point for the human race. While I personally hold that time as a metaphor, I also experience rapid movements and major shifts in the human experience and perceptions, beyond what previously occurred.

While reading these articulate and lucid essays from twenty-six renowned experts on the 2012 possibilities, my own possibilities continue to unfold. As it so happens, I’ve been invited on January 16th to give an evening talk that I’ve called Beyond Our Wildest Dreams. In this backdrop, I decided to integrate some of the messages of this book, one in particular by Ervin Laszlo struck me profoundly, he states: “We now live in a period of transformation [personal and societal], when a new world is struggling to be born. Ours is an era of decision - a window of unprecedented freedom to decide our destiny. In this decision-window, ‘fluctuations’ - in themselves small and seemingly powerless actions and initiatives - pave the way toward…where the system tips in one direction or another. This process” he states “is neither predetermined nor random. It is a systemic process that can be purposively steered.”

Messages like this provide the larger context for what excites me about the Focalizing work that has evolved out of the new paradigm of energy psychology. Each Focalizing event (with whatever challenges/intentions individuals bring) results in a tipping point that is concretely experienced and resulting in a tangible positive shift not only for the person, couple, or group but also the larger systemic process as well. Folks who have done this work with me report that they’ve lessened their focus on binary (either/or) thinking, emotion, or even psychological pre-conceptions and expanded their felt awareness of the life force within and around them.

Come and join us on January 16th 2008 at 8:00 PM (RSVP Lisa @ 212-759-3508 by January 10). The talk is being organized by Crossroads Centre, Antigua, a wonderful international non-profit holistic rehab center founded by Eric Clapton. The evening is being hosted in NYC by The Freedom Institute, 515 Madison Avenue (53rd between Park and Madison, 35th floor) another respected non-profit addiction resource center.

I wish all of you a 2008 that is filled with grace and tipping points leading to a good place beyond your wildest dreams.