Comments on: How to Translate Your Life

By: Suzanne Hull

Suzanne Hull — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:55:14 +0000

I have been reading your blog latley and I have to say that your insight is amazing. I have recently filed papers to incorporate a company but have been stalling on finishing the business plan. After reading this I realize that I do all of these things. I imagine the disappointment and I translate every comment made to me in a way that negates my abilities and puts the ownness on someone else or the universe. It is the fear of rejection that scares me. What I realize now is that rejection or not, and I’m sure there will be some, I hold the power to continue. Thank you for sharing your vision and helping to give my cloudy view a healthy dose of clarity.

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:56:21 +0000

Oh, yea.. and you don’t have to set it up to email me when there’s a new comment. I’m pretty good at checking into the admin page!

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:55:50 +0000

Looks like it worked! (they’re a pretty design!)

By: Natalie Jost

Natalie Jost — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:20:52 +0000

This is another test to see what would happen

if I wrote over the span of a couple of paragraphs.

By: natalie

natalie — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:11:45 +0000

test

By: gail

gail — Fri, 26 May 2006 17:42:47 +0000

one more comment: thanks for all that. i’m keeping it on my desktop for awhile. it’s not that i haven’t heard (something like) this before but i need to hear more versions. and i need to get it in there. and bottom line: what we really want is freedom. all the other stuff just gets us more of that. i think of it as returning to our gorilla ways when we could climb any tree, eat any leaf, and observe as much as we wanted to. (as opposed to hyper-monkey ways). thanks again. good blogging.

By: christine

christine — Fri, 12 May 2006 00:17:56 +0000

Thanks again David! I love the Wayne Dyer quote, and I’ve never heard of reframing. I wasn’t under any illusion that I was being original though!

By: David (meer kitty2)

David (meer kitty2) — Wed, 10 May 2006 13:50:08 +0000

Thanks for sharing your steps in translation. This idea is also known as reframing and there is a book directly on the subject: Reframing by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. It is one of their formative works in the area of Neuro Linguistic Programming. The danger for us all is that we are mindless when we make meaning out of what happens, allowing the ‘bad stuff’ to be the basis for our judgements.

My favorite quote from Wayne Dyer is “You can never should have done something”. This points to the futility of not living in Now. Now is all you have. The past survives only between your ears and the future is promised to no one. Putting a failure or negative translation on what is happening NOW means you have dragged it into the past. Why is it easier to believe all the ‘bad stuff’ we regurgitate onto ourselves? We have the power to change our world in each situation if we attend mindfully to NOW.