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October
28, 2009
In This
Issue
Featured
Article: Go Deep
Announcements
Speaking
Schedule
Daddy's
Little Girls
Welcome to this week's issue of Appreciation
(and Authenticity) in Action.
I hope you are having a wonderful day and week so far.
Life can be a beautiful adventure and a glorious exploration,
if we allow it to be!
I’m so excited and honored that the folks at Oprah.com
have published two more of my articles on their website this
week. Click on these links if you’d like to check out my
pieces, Celebrate
Who You Are and Speak
Your Truth.
I’m also really having a lot of fun with my new radio show,
“Let’s
Get Real with Mike Robbins” on Energy
Talk Radio. You can listen to my show each day at 7 AM ET
or 5 PM PT when it streams live. You can also listen to any
of my past shows on-demand
whenever you want.
Have a good one. As always, thank you so much for being
on my email list!
With Appreciation,
Go Deep
(For
this week's audio message, click here.)
For quite some time I’ve had a self righteous judgment
that most people in our culture are way too shallow. I find
myself regularly annoyed at what I consider to be a lack of
depth around me – in the media, in politics, in business,
in my industry, and even in my family and many of my personal
relationships. As is often the case with most of our self righteous
opinions, however, this judgment (as has become crystal clear
to me recently) is really all about me and my own lack of depth,
not about everyone else.
I’ve noticed that while I might “talk a good
game” about going deep, I really have quite a bit of fear
and resistance to it. Real depth often seems hard, scary, time
consuming, challenging, messy, uncomfortable, embarrassing,
intense, negative, painful, vulnerable, and more. It’s
much easier for me to stay busy, keep things on the surface,
and pretend to live my life with a real sense of depth, than
it is for me to actually go deep myself.
I remember years ago when my counselor Chris said to me, “Mike,
all of your power in life is trapped inside of your pain. In
order to retrieve your power, you’re going to have to confront
and heal your own pain. Everyone has pain; most people simply
aren’t willing to deal with it and don’t know how
to heal it.”
While the wisdom and truth of Chris’ words resonated with
me back then, and even more so today, I find myself often avoiding
my pain, covering it up, and pretending that “it’s
no big deal.” Can you relate?
However, think of the power, freedom, and liberation we experience
when we actually do go deep, get real, and address our own pain.
While it’s usually scary and difficult at first, we’re
almost always glad that we did. And, as I’ve been learning
more and more these days, if we truly want to live a life of
authenticity and fulfillment, we can’t run and hide from
our pain – we have to face it. As some deep pain in my
own life (and from my past) has been showing up lately, instead
of judging it as “bad” (which is what I usually do),
I'm choosing to see it as an opportunity to go deeper, to heal,
and to grow (even though it doesn't feel so good).
When we think about the most important aspects of our lives,
and the most significant people around us, having a real sense
of depth and truth is what most of us want. Living our lives,
having relationships, and doing our work in a way that has real
meaning and value to us won’t happen on the surface, it
takes place at a very deep level.
While many of us crave an expanded level of depth and authenticity
in our lives, work, and relationships – it’s not always
easy for us to create. Our culture doesn’t often encourage
depth, we each have our own versions of fear and resistance
to it, and in some cases we simply aren’t willing or interested
in going there or doing what it takes to keep things real.
However, most of the people I know and work with, including
myself, long for enhanced strength and an empowering environment
that encourages them to go deep.
Here are a few things you can do to expand your capacity for
depth:
1) Tell the Truth – Be honest about your
own willingness, ability, or difficulty with going deep. It
may be something you long for, but resist. You may avoid doing
and saying things at a certain levels. You may not be all that
interested in going any deeper right now in your life. You may
be totally comfortable with depth and simply looking for ways
to go even deeper. Or, you may be some combination of these
things or others. Whatever the case may be for you at this point
in your life and evolution, as with many things – by telling
the truth to yourself and others about where you are, you can
start from an authentic place and begin to deepen your experience
(if that is what you choose to do).
2) Find People to Support You – Search out
and attract people into you life who can help you deepen your
journey. For many people, like me, going deep can be scary,
vulnerable, and challenging. It often helps to have people around
you who you trust and you know will hang in there with you.
Whether it’s a coach, counselor, friend, mentor, family
member, support group, spouse, or anyone else – we all
need encouragement, feedback, witnessing, support, and even
challenging and pushing to go deeper in our lives and with our
growth. One of the biggest paradoxes of personal growth is that
while it’s always about our own personal journey and evolution,
so often we can’t do it as effectively or as deeply without
the help of other people.
3) Surrender – Let
go and trust! Being able to surrender is an essential aspect of
life, growth, and depth. Surrendering is a big one for me and
is something I continue to both struggle with and learn about
each and every day. When we try to control everything (and everyone)
in our lives, we limit our ability to grow and our capacity for
depth and authenticity. Trust, which is fundamental to this process,
is a real leap of faith that is important for us to take as we
expand our ability to go deep and live our lives the way we truly
want. When we surrender to the journey, mystery, and magic of
life – we allow ourselves to learn, grow, and deepen in new
and exciting ways that we didn’t even realize were possible.
Going deep is not always the easiest thing for
us to do in life, but it’s what most of us truly want at
some level. When we’re willing to tell the truth, get support,
and surrender to life in an empowering way – we tap into
a place of deep authenticity and in so doing can liberate ourselves
from struggle, suffering, and avoidance.
Where in your life and relationships can you go deeper? Share
your thoughts, action ideas, insights, and more on my blog here.
For this week's audio message (including
additional tips and suggestions) - click here.
Great New Book - One Soul, One Love, One Heart,
by John Welshons
 How
do we heal difficult relationships? What is their significance
in our "spiritual" life? In this profoundly moving,
compassionate, groundbreaking book, One
Soul, One Love, One Heart: The Sacred Path to Healing All Relationships,my
good friend John Welshons answers these questions and many more.
He shows why the path to real and lasting happiness lies in
recognizing that we are "all One," and living in that
awareness. He shows us how to heal our most difficult relationships
by transforming them into our greatest spiritual lessons. He
shows us how to love, forgive and care for our fellow human
beings - even those we find most difficult to love and forgive.
With compassion and wisdom, he invites us into a revolutionary
new understanding of ourselves, our "spiritual life,"
our world, and all our relationships. To purchase
copies of this wonderful new book, click here.
15 Cool Things - Success Package
 My
friend (author, speaker, and coach) Kristie Tamsevicius just
launched something extra special I wanted to tell you about
called "15 Cool Things." Today she is practically
giving away the top transformational products from her mentors
that have made her a success! She's also offering a ton
of cool bonus gifts. You can take a peak here, www.KristieT.com/15coolthings.html.
I'm excited to support Kristie and the success of her project,
not only because she is great and this package is so valuable,
but also because she is raising money for KIVA, a nonprofit
organization providing microloans for entrepreneurs in need.
I encourage you to grab a copy of this cool package today and
receive loads of free bonus gifts. For more info, click
here.
The RAY (Real
Authentic You) - Magazine and Interactive Community
 Join
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A women's magazine (although great for us men too) and interactive
community on a mission to help women see the best of who they
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by integrating a supportive community, The RAY is more
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Memberships and information about RAY living can be found at
www.theraymagazine.com.
Healing with the Masters - Free Teleseminar Series
 You
are invited to "Healing with the Masters" a free teleseminar
series hosted by acclaimed author, healer and speaker, Jennifer
McLean. This 13-week series provides you exclusive access to
24 of the world's leading experts in spirituality, wellness
and healing (I am also one of the featured speakers!). Renowned
leaders such as Neale Donald Walsch, Marci Shimoff,
Gregg Braden, Gay Hendricks, plus 19 more,
are providing an intimate portrait of how they achieved success
in their respective fields as well as giving you personal insights
on how you can easily accelerate your own consciousness and
evolution. The series has already started (on 9/29), but
you can still join. My session takes place on 12/1.
For more info and to sign up for this free teleseminar series
today, click here.
The New Warrior Weekend
 The
New Warrior Weekend,delivered by an international organization
called The Mankind
Project, is an all-male, weekend retreat that I first participated
in four years ago. It was one of the most powerful and
life-altering experiences of my life. The course is a
ritualistic male initiation. Through a series of heart
opening and powerful processes, the weekend allows men to fully
experience their masculine power in a sacred and profound way.
I tell many of my male friends and male clients that this course
is "mandatory" for conscious men. I loved it
and highly recommend it! I will be on the volunteer staff
for an upcoming New Warrior Weekend here in Northern California,
which takes place November 13th - 15th in Nevada City,
CA. For details, info, and to register click
here.
Connect with me on Facebook and Twitter
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Where I'm Speaking:
Below is a list of where and when I'm speaking for
the next few months. Most of these events are for my corporate
or organizational clients (i.e. not open to the public). The
ones in bold, however, are public events. I
hope to see you at one of these!
For all my upcoming public events, check out this link.
And, if you live in any of the cities where I'll be traveling
and want to contact me about setting up a speaking engagement
for your group or company while I'm in town, feel free to contact
me.
10/28/09 - San Jose, CA
10/29/09 - Hollywood, FL
11/10/09 - Dominican Republic
11/16/09 - San Francisco, CA
11/17/09 - San Francisco, CA
11/18/09 - San Francisco, CA
11/19/09 - San Jose, CA
12/10/09 - Redwood City, CA
12/13/09 - Santa Rosa, CA (CSLSR)
12/15/09 - San Ramon, CA
Again, for a full list of my upcoming public events, check out:
http://www.beyourselfbook.com/events.htm.
"We're definitely
passionate fans and
critics of one another."
- Samantha and Annarose Robbins
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