Provocative Discussion from Ted.com – Peter Diamandis describes why: Abundance is our future

Watch this video for yourself and draw you own conclusions. We’ll have the discussion after the video. It’s about 16 minutes long – if I remember correctly – and worth it. Enjoy… See you on the other side.

Part of the Healthy Wealthy Boomer philosophy is that abundance is the natural state of the Universe. That’s kind of the nature of the Infinite, yes?

What it is about thinking small that is so appealing to such a large group of people?

From our work as facilitators we see this frequently. It ties into the prospect of taking risk and failing. Often we have within us an inherent proclivity to compromise for mediocrity rather than take a big risk and fail miserably. We learn this behavior. Before we learn it, we don’t think of limitations and failure. This was not part of the original operating system that we were born with – we downloaded it from the environment we grew up in – parents, teachers, religion, neighbors, coaches, siblings, being poor, spouses, whatever.

How does this happen?

There is an event, a disappointment, a loss or a trauma – something – that acts like the tipping point. This “straw that broke the camel’s back” locks that dysfunctional way of thinking into our life energy and system of consciousness. From that point on it functions like a software bug until we clear out the bug.

It’s piece of bad code pure and simple. It’s not part of who we really are and never was.

In Diamandis’ talk, we see a very bright man looking at the way things are from the perspective of a highly developed intellect and clearly a great deal of thought and reason arriving at the conclusions within the framework of his arguments. He concludes that abundance is inevitable because of the nature of a kind of evolving collective consciousness and more simply, technology itself.

We arrive at the same conclusion based on a different premise and from a different perspective.

Our premise is that abundance is the natural default of the Universe. It always has been. The only thing in the Universe that deviates from that is the human mind – thought – and it is inevitable that we will eventually get our thinking straight.

Descartes almost had it right:

“I think, therefore I am.” He had the right words in the wrong order. I Am, therefore I think.”

Diamandis is brilliant like a Bucky Fuller or a Marshall Thurber.

Abundance is the Future.

I AM Michael Barrett.

Healthy Wealthy Boomer Talks about Common Sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said: ”Common Sense Is Genius in Working Clothes.”

Reading the Emerson quote this morning reminded me of the many personal discussions over the years based on the premise that there is nothing common about common sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote...

The irony here is that Emerson – himself – was a master of common sense, in working clothes.

Through observation – over the course of his life – Emerson  chronicled his code of how things are – identifying the ground  rules of common sense, for any individual willing to sit quietly long enough, often enough  and pay attention.

About common sense, in a different context, Emerson also wrote this:

“Common sense is as rare as genius.”

Emerson was a scholar and a champion of individualism. Emerson grew into this perspective through life experience and close observation of both human spirit and human nature. Over time he became a spokesperson for both.

Emerson tells us how to acknowledge our own common sense by following our own inner voice and paying attention to Nature and the Universe around us. He is a guide. In many ways, Emerson directs us to how find our own way.

What other influential western thinkers  have to say about common sense:

Albert Einstein:  “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

George Bernard Shaw: “Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.”

William James: “Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”

Leonardo da Vinci: “Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”

Source: http://thinkexist.com/quotations/common_sense/

There is a hint of Lao Tzu throughout and a connection here somehow between genius, common sense and individual freedom that threads itself learning to understand and recognize truth.

Emerson says that common sense is genius in working clothes. Shaw says a little bit of common sense is instinct and a lot is genius. Einstein implies that we have a handle on common sense when we are young before society teaches us the lack of it. James defines common sense as humor moving at a different speed.

Speaking of humor, WC Fields has this to say about that:

“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting
on people. ”  ― W.C. Fields

So collectively we learn that common sense is:

• genius
• instinct
• rare
• humor at a different speed
• disguised in working clothes

In today’s world of politically correct speech, an agenda driven muzzle for  independent thought, it is incumbent upon us to say what we think and to be authentic in the expression of who we are.

Great minds show us that more common sense is a good thing and it is inherent in the natural way of things in Nature and the Universe. Less common sense leads to difficulty, complexity, the lack of authenticity and individualism. Common sense gets more done with less effort. It is mental and practical economy.

My mom always used to say to me: “Use you head”.

Yet today it seems we are encourage not to do so. And on that note, we end this discussion with a final quote:

“Common sense has become the greatest oxymoron of our time.”  - Michael Barrett

I AM Michael Barrett, Managing Editor of Healthy Wealthy Boomer.

In this short 2 min 31 sec video, Jim Carrey talks about “Awakening”.

He is much more than baby boomer born in 1962, a regular guy who thought about getting a job in the steel mill where he grew up. He is a man who has worked his way to the top, through all the struggle and mistakes, and persisted until he succeeded. Jim Carrey is a healthy wealthy boomer role model.

Here we get to know him in a new way and there is a good message.

Carrey’s presentation offers reverence, sincerity and a recognition of something magnificent. Simultaneously he seems almost shy talking about his experience. There is both a tone of authenticity and humility. Seeing him expose a new part of himself we get a sense of childlike awkwardness coupled with truth.

A  favorite character role that Carrey portrayed on screen was  in the “Mask”.  The persona he created in this movie, Stanley Ipkiss, typifies the contrast to achieving in the face of adversity versus our resistance to take the risk necessary to do so. Ironically, the word “persona“ derived from Latin, where it originally referred to a theatrical mask.

Eleanor Roosevelt said:

“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”

And she also said:

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.” Source: Eleanor Roosevelt

Read more: Jim Carrey Awakening…

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Healthy Boomer.

Ever notice how some people never seem to be negative very often and how they can shift from negative to positive very quickly – in the midst of a difficult situation – and how others can’t?

We are always on the lookout for methods that work.

Learning to control – or shift – emotional responses is a success tool and a form of emotional health. To be a healthy wealthy boomer, we need to learn how to control and modify our emotions on command rather than allow them to run our lives. We can learn to control our emotions in a healthy and productive way rather than letting them control us or create predetermined behavior and responses to the world around us as it happens.

This is a segment of a post about how to practice the process of pivoting:

Negative emotions impact how we live our daily lives.  Most of us have a tendency to immerse ourselves in the negative when something triggers them – what someone else says or does, or a memory of something negative related to what is happening or being said.

What we see over and over again in our live workshops or private sessions with clients is that everybody experiences negative emotions yet few people arrive with effective methods for dealing with them. Part of our work includes systematically removing energy distortions that trigger negative conditioned responses. We get to the root cause and clear it out similar  to running a defrag program on a Windows lap top.

You can read the rest of the post: how to shift a negative emotion here.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Healthy Boomer.

Healthy Wealthy Boomer: Dr. Mickey Barber is the CMO (Chief Medical Officer) and CEO of Cenegenics Carolinas.

This is a very well done corporate “video business card or brochure” created by Charleston Magazine and yet it is good journalism. What this doctor (and others in the field of Age Management Medicine are doing) is appealing and is in alignment with the idea of disease prevenation versus disease management. So Dr Barber qualifies personally as a healthy wealthy boomer candidate and boomer role model.

Focusing on prevention is a drum we have beating a long time and is a core principle in the Healthy Wealthy Boomer philosophy.

The aspect that appeals to me most about Dr. Barber is authenticity. Her work and her desire to practice A.M.M. (Age Management Medicine) has roots in her own experience. In her forties, as a practicing physician, she became ill and did not resolve her own illness until she had success with A.M.M. interventions.

Her program combines exercise, nutrition, lifestyle and hormonal balance for men and women. This emphasis is indicative of a shift in the field of anti-aging medicine from disease management to prevention. So a mainstream definition of longevity is gradually taking on new meaning. It is no longer just “staying alive longer” or life extension, it is also beginning to mean being healthy and vital while doing it. This is both a pleasing and positive mainstream medicine philosophical shift.

Watch her video and see if you agree that her authenticity comes through. It seems that Dr Barber is sincere and loves her work because she has personal experience with her methods. Also the technology Dr Barber uses in the clinic is state of the art and impressive. This appears to be a really good application of technology combined with preventive medicine and a big plus for boomer health.

Another way to “be-come” a healthy wealthy boomer.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Healthy Boomer.

Hey Healthy Boomer: Join the Qigong Sarasota Group…

Siesta Key Florida

As a Boomer in the Sarasota, Florida area, you owe it to yourself to re-activate your vitality, initiate an anti-aging campaign and find some peace of mind.  In my experience, there is no single exercise set as beneficial to the human body as a combination of Qigong and martial arts training.

This is for a multitude of reasons including:

• Qigong renews the body on so many levels – improved circulation, increases in Qi circulation, natural strength and diminished levels of stress
• The type of strength that is developed over time is what I call a comprehensive strength – using the whole body in unison, not muscle mass without integration
• All aspects of the body are activated, rejuvenated and coordinated into maximum performance without requiring maximum output

You can do this by joining our group. It’ll take some time and practice, but it works every time for everybody who is diligent and receives competent instruction.

Mr. T.C Lee  of Honolulu was my Wu Style TaiChi teacher in 1973/74. He used to tell me:

“Doing TaiChi everyday is like putting pennies in a piggy bank.  It doesn’t seem like much, but in 40 or 50 years, you have a lot of money.”

Being  a Healthy Boomer requires a long range attitude and long range execution. A little bit every day makes for amazing health, stability and balance.

I speak from experience.

If you’re in the area, stop by check out the Qigong Sarasota group on Siesta and start packing away your pennies for 20-30 years from now. If you’re in a different area, find a Qigong group and try it out. You can learn Qigong at any age. Once you learn this stuff, it’s yours. You own it for the rest of your life. The beauty is that you can practice wherever you are:

• in  a hotel room while you are traveling
• in a park
• on the beach
• in your own backyard or living room
• at your mother in law’s house
• anywhere…

Being a wealthy boomer makes no sense at all without optimum health to go with it. How can you enjoy life from a wheelchair, an assisted living facility or a hospital bed?

I can’t. Not my thing and never will be.

What are you waiting for?

Check it out and see for yourself.

Qigong Sarasota

Sarasota is a little piece of paradise.

If you are not local,  stop by and say hello when you come here next time for vacation. Get tuned up and while you’re here plan to attend a Heart Forgiveness Workshop and get the inner self tuned up too…

I AM Michael Barrett, I  AM a Healthy Boomer, a Heart Forgiveness and Core Health Facilitator and I love Qigong.

Healthy Wealthy Boomer Authenticity

Are you authentic?

Why is being authentic such a big deal and so appealing?

Because, authenticity is interwoven into our health and wealth as a fundamental ingredient of being a Healthy Wealthy Boomer.

Authenticity is only difficult when you are trying – instead of being - authentic  and people see the difference. People know inherently when you are being real and coming from the heart. It’s something we read through all the unspoken things, intuitively.

Most people – who seem real – are.

Expressing authenticity is also a sign of health.

From personal observation, we watch time and again as participants in Core Health workshops and Heart Forgiveness workshops release old baggage, trauma, confusion and emotional junk.  This happens through participating in the processes of the workshops which are designed to clean out the junk and leave the “good stuff”.

The result?

What’s left are the positives – the natural part in each of us.

Participants begin to reconnect to their inner core of health and to take their identity from within themselves – again – as they did when they were young children. In the process many rediscover their own authenticity.

Their individual-ness becomes more visible, active and available in their behavior and attitudes. It is as if a dormant computer program gets activated and the “real person” – the authentic version of themselves – steps forward to participate in life – again.

Authenticity also is a big part of long term, healthy business relationships.

It impacts people in business, customers who buy from us and most things financial. Integrity, trust, credibility and reliability are part of the picture. Like the old business adage says: People like to do business with their friends.

We want to be friends with authentic people. Of course we want to do business with them.

In my experience around hundreds of speakers and trainers (behind the scenes) when I worked for Peak (and seminars I have attended), I have observed the following to be true:

Authenticity is fast becoming synonymous with walking our talk – where walking our talk is not just a coy 10 second sound bite for maximum “PR” benefit.

It is, by contrast, a quality – admired by all.

It is both an attribute and a symbol of strength of character.

What is it about Authenticity - or Being Authentic - that we like so much?

Authenticity is uncommon – particularly in the media and politics.

So, it stands out more dramatically than if it were common place. As a result, authenticity is becoming pronounced – as in “strongly marked, distinct”.

We admire risk takers who openly express independent thought and challenge the validity of the status quo. We are attracted to people who are willing to be vulnerable and take the chance of failure in front of others.

We ask ourselves: ”How do they do that? That’s scary. I wish I could do that.”

There is enormous peer pressure to conform in today’s society:

• to be careful what we say
• how we say it
• who it we say it to

The interesting thing is that this effort to modify and alter individual behavior for the good of the many is having the reverse effect.

Inherently in human nature, we are attracted to truth.  Somehow – on a non-conscious level – we always know the difference when someone speaks the truth or represents the truth or holds us accountable to the truth.

Here is a quote from Lisa Barone of outspokenmedia…

“While I’m sure you’re a very complex and interesting person, the core of you is simple. It’s the you that exists when you’re not trying too hard to be anything else. That’s what people want.”

Here are several web definitions of authenticity that strike a harmonious note:

Undisputed credibility wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Authentic – conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief; “an authentic account by an eyewitness”; “reliable information” wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

The quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original; Truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, and intentions; The quality of being authentic (of established authority)  en.wiktionary.org/wiki/authenticity

Authenticity Is Appealing

Because it is so rare.

Authenticity includes a component of being singular – or the attributes of singularity – the only one like it.

We are attracted to singularity because, by definition, there can be only one.

• the quality of being one of a kind; “that singularity distinguished him from all his companions”

and further…

• strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual
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• the state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual; a point where all parallel lines meet; a point where a measured variable reaches unmeasurable or infinite value…en.wiktionary.org/wiki/singularity

Authenticity is living and being the real “us” and through that expression, the finest example of what and who we are because we are all “singular” and unique.

Each – when being fully authentic – is the only living expression of who we are in the universe.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Core Health Facilitator. We’d love to see you participate in one of our live workshops and help you discover your true authentic self again.  You’ll be glad you did. See what others are saying: Core Health Testimonials

Imagine this: Seventy seven million baby boomers make a pact to take back their happy healthy image and birthright, and ALL become healthy and wealthy within the next year or two!

Seriously, look at this now! Boomers are a gigantic brain trust of information, experience, and know how. They have been down – raised by “depression age” parents and grandparents. They have been up – lived through some of the very best of economic times, great freakin’ rock music, comparative castles for homes, waged war on everything from terrorism to drugs to cancer, and are still better at most jobs than their children and grandchildren will ever be.

Boomers are world travelers, can do most anything you can come up with; they are gym rats, social media marketers, and can learn a language in 90 days.

Baby Boomers went back to school online and became honors students with Masters after age 50 or 60!  They have lost all their money once or twice and made it back on the next entrepreneurial venture or two without passing out in the sweat – even if they did lose a house or two in foreclosure. They are experts at picking themselves up, dusting themselves off and getting right back in the game.

Boomers have survived layoffs, divorce, child support, custody cases, 9/11, and a few lyin’-cheatin’ presidents, and they’re not dead yet! They changed jobs like sweaty gym shorts, made it through the dot.com boom and bust while changing hats as frequently as needed. Boomers have tried every religion on the planet from Tibet to Rome to Utah. They are as self- developed and natural health-ed as anyone will ever be. They have been medicated and meditated.

Baby  Boomers – WE – survived it all. What else is there?  Really?

What if:

Boomers decided to act on all that knowledge and stop buying into  the massive programming about prescriptions, high blood pressure, weight loss programs, motorized scooters, guilt about the end of the world, and spending the grand kids inheritance!

What if they said

“NO MORE!” to terrorists, politically correct speech, being robbed by drug using grandchildren, illegal aliens, and handing out money they busted their asses to make, and bailouts paid for with our tax dollars? What if they quit banks and bought gold?

What if they said “N-O!” to the media mind set about the boomer health image promoted and paid for by the drug companies and instead decided to prove them all wrong? What if: Boomers decided to walk every day, eat whatever makes them feel REALLY good, work as long as they want to, and said “to hell with social security just give me back everything I invested!”

It can be done, you know! It can. We can.

There is a SEVENTY SEVEN MILLION strong mindset that says we can do anything we put our minds to if we want to.  Who wants to join me? I am game if you are!

Start here: Do what you can do. Make your list and check it twice.

1. New mental image.
2. Walk daily morning.
3. Filtered water every hour.
4. No more red meat.
5. Lots of fresh veggies and fruits.
6. Daily protein powder drinks.
7. Daily gym-you got to move to improve.Do something to first strengthen your upper body-arms-back. Start light then build.
8.Meditate daily. Just clear your head of all the chatter for 15 minutes so you can tell when its actually you thinking and not another instant replay.
9. Acknowledge God’s life in you many times daily. Feel “the Light that never fails” no matter what name you call that Light.
10. Be gratitude-filled daily.
11. Reduce medications gradually as you feel better.
12. Stop making excuses.
13. Stop thinking  of yourself as an old fart.
14. Stop acting like an old fart.
15. Go on vacation as often as you can.
16. Discover IntraMax liquid vitamins by Dr.Drucker. (the best I ever found!)
17.Start treating yourself like today is the first day of your future.
18.Fall in love with first with yourself and then with your spouse again.
19.Walk daily evenings after dinner. (beach, park, school)
20. Hang around younger people and raise your energetic vibration to match theirs.
21.Be positive.Think positive. Act positive. Speak positive.
22. Focus only on what you can do. Forget what you cannot do. You’ll get there or you won’t.
23. Buy a mini trampoline and use it. (they come with handrails if needed).
24. Learn to increase your oxygen via all the above methods.
25. Mean it!
26. If you live near the ocean go sit in the water as often as you can. Take your chair and get 20 minutes of sun too.
27. Get 20 minutes of sun daily anyway. (you need the vitamin D)
29. Write about your life and find the passion, the experience, the purpose. If you don’t want to write, record it.
30.Make an endless list of all the things you still want to do and start doing them.
31. Do something you have always wanted to do and do NOT be afraid and if you are, feel the fear and do it anyway!
32. Get your teeth fixed, have your eyes done, whatever; just do something that makes you feel good that maybe no one else thinks you should “waste your money (their inheritance) on!”
33. Buy that boat, collectible car, beach house or whatever it is you used to promise yourself you’d have one day and celebrate your new beginning!

34. Garden. Sing. Dance. Ride a bike.

35. Find a Core Health Workshop and get your “will to live” back up to 100% asap.

36.Find a Heart Forgiveness Workshop and forgive yourself then everybody else -  from your heart not your head. Take back your life!

Most Important-Find a friend and support each other.

Start a Meetup group and make your lists. Make a plan and see it through. Live like each day has meaning the way one does when one is looking toward the FUTURE not at the PAST. Face forward and walk toward the sun!

See you in a year! Good Luck and Have Fun!

I Am Alexandra Barrett and I am a healthy, wealthy boomer!!!

Are You READY for Amazing Health?

Have you been thinking about lifestyle changes that will get you physically healthy again? Are you one of the 1 percenters ready to shift?

Lots of Baby Boomers are thinking about it. If you’re really ready, quit thinking and start doing.

We are looking for the 1% of all Baby Boomers on the tipping point – ready to tip over into a new, robust healthy lifestyle. Ready to let go of belief systems that don’t work any more and do not serve us mentally, emotionally or physically – and probably never have.

Why are we looking for you? Because if you’re ready, we know you’ll get involved and we know that we can help make a difference.

This is not a network marketing plan either. This is the primary Healthy Wealthy Boomer theme: How to make the 2nd 50 years Better than the 1st.

Getting in shape and FEELING GREAT does not have to be a trauma event. It should be fun – like baking cookies with our grand children. It doesn’t require making a huge change in your life to get started. Making incremental changes is easy as it should be. When things are both complex and not fun, human nature is such that we won’t do them – or at least we won’t stick with the program long enough to make a difference.

Who am I to buck human nature?

Where the 1 Percenters Can Start…

Start with simple things you can do right away that don’t require effort and do not cost money.

For example, if your morning ritual is meeting your friend for coffee at your favorite espresso shop,  maybe you can start by walking to meet your friend for coffee every morning. Maybe you can cut your latte down from a grande to a tall. Start eating carrot and celery sticks 3 times a week (as a snack in the afternoon) and cut back the number of times you eat fried food.

Start cooking at home more and learn how to make delicious, simple and healthy meals. If you don’t cook, take a cooking class or get together with friends and start cooking healthy recipes together.

Buy a blender and start making awesome healthy ice blended drinks or fruit smoothies. It’s a great time for smoothies since it’s summer time.

This is not about Jenny Craig or The  Biggest Loser. It’s about making a choice to enjoy your life better, to be happier and to LIVE LONGER.

Jamie Oliver has started something awesome that he calls the Food Revolution. He’s traveling around the US trying to get people focused on children’s  nutrition in schools and bring enough attention to it to get something done about the horrendous nutrition quality in school food programs for kids. It all starts at home and even if your kids are grown, you can get involved with your grandchildren’s food.

Awareness is a good place to start.

Here is a video of Jamie Oliver talking about how much sugar there is in commercial fruit juices.

A recipe for smoothies as an alternative follows. Here is a smoothie recipe from Jamie Oliver: Frozen Fruit Smoothies.

Many Baby Boomers realize that it’s time to do something different. The online estimates are huge – somewhere in the nature of ~23 million Baby Boomers are obese depending on the stats you read.

Obesity defined: Source: answers.com/topic/obesity

Obesity traditionally has been defined as a weight at least 20% above the weight corresponding to the lowest death rate for individuals of a specific height, gender, and age (ideal weight).

More recent guidelines for obesity use a measurment called BMI (body mass index) which is the individual’s weight multiplied by 703 and then divided by twice the height in inches. BMI of 25.9–29 is considered overweight; BMI over 30 is considered obese.

Harv Eker, founder of Peak Potentials – says,

“Clarity is Power.”

And I agree with him. Clarity can be power. Part of achieving clarity is knowing what it is you are going to do and why you are going to do it.

To some degree, clarity comes from the commitment to follow through on what you are talking about doing. To restate that what I am saying is:

Action is required for clarity to be power.

Otherwise it is just talk.

It’s funny, really, how we do things over and over that don’t work. We choose physical patterns that are are rooted in dysfunctional emotional stuff without being aware that we do it. It has become – for whatever reason – the default. When something becomes a default in human consciousness, it is no longer a conscious choice.

It is an unconscious choice.

At some point, we accept that default and get used to living with it. Sometimes clarity comes through waking up or snapping out of it – out of a walking dream state of semi-conscious behavior – a type of comatose that we have grown to accept as normal. To my way of thinking, anything but vibrant health is not a natural default, although it may be normal.

The greatest obstacles to overcome regarding health are belief systems.

What makes me an authority on this? This is an aspect of what we teach in Core Health workshops. Over and over again we see that this is true. We show people a way out of the rut and how to make new energy choices and it works.

The media and mainstream medical systems love to reinforce our dependency on the need to confer with them about everything related to our health.

Why?

Being healthy’s up to each of us. It’s part of our autonomy – part of our authenticity. We don’t need anybody’s permission to be healthy. Create your own clarity and clarify your power. It is such a great sense of release and a sense of in-powerment to take control of your health.

Choose your own perspective on health – choose a new version that suits you better and start challenging what the powers that be say to you over and over again.

Choose CHRONIC WELLNESS instead. Be a 1 percenter and jump in, if you’re ready for health.

I AM Michael Barrett and I AM a Healthy Boomer and I AM a Core Health Facilitator.