The first video is fascinating if you are interested at all in how what you eat affects your life.  Doctor Daphne Miller visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss her book, “The Jungle Effect.” This event took place on May 23, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. For more information about Dr. Miller, please visit http://www.drdaphne.com/

Dr. Daphne Miller undertook a worldwide quest to find diets that are both delicious and healthy. Written in a style reminiscent of Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver, The Jungle Effect is filled with inspiring stories from Dr. Miller’s patients, quirky travel adventures, interviews with world-renowned food experts, delicious (yet authentic) indigenous recipes, and valuable diet secrets that will stick with you for a lifetime.

Daphne Miller, MD, is a board-certified family physician in private practice in San Francisco. She is an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, where she teaches nutrition and integrative medicine. A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Medical School, she did her residency at UCSF and an Integrative Medicine Fellowship at the University of Arizona. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, the architect Ross Levy, and her two children, Arlen and Emet.

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The Second Video continues our Self Awareness 101 With Willard Barth. This weeks subject is : When We Use Our Imagination, We Tap Into The Sources Of The Universe. The complete transcript is below. 

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Today we’re going to explore the idea that when we use our imagination, we tap in to the most powerful forces of the Universe. We all have access to and contribute to a “Greater Mind”; all we need to do is ask the right questions.

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you needed an answer, you needed a solution and you didn’t have the resources around you. There wasn’t another person you could reach out to for the answer that you needed. Then knowing you needed to find the answer, you asked yourself the question, and from somewhere, you immediately got the answer. And you knew inside of you, without any doubt, that it was the right answer. Then after you moved forward, you became amazed to find out that this information you that you had no past experience with, or reference for was the exact answer you needed.

Where did that come from?

Was it your creative imagination? Did you create the answer out of nowhere?

Was it “Divine inspiration”?

What exactly is imagination?

Some people look at imagination as being a collection of our past experiences, our perceptions, and our beliefs where we just mix them together and compile them in new ways to give us new possibilities.

Other people view imagination as being the ability to turn parts of your mind on like a radio receiver that allows you to tap into a greater mind, a larger self, a creative intelligence that exists outside of you.

There are also some people who see imagination as being Divine guidance. I’m not here to tell you that it is either one or the other. I’m here to invite you to open your mind to new possibilities by examining your own experiences and allowing you to decide which works best for you. I’m also looking to give you skills that will allow you to tap into more of your imagination, no matter which definition you think it is. Whether it’s something inside of your own head or whether it’s something outside, it is a muscle you can build when you actively work it.

You see whether it is internal, or something more “esoteric”, the reality is that we have access to every answer, to every question that we ask.

My personal belief is that as we become more self aware, we tap into our imagination more consistently because we open ourselves to more options. My personal belief is also that there is a field of consciousness that flows through all things. And as we expand our own consciousness, we tap into the “field” which also allows us to be more creative.

High School Science teaches that if you break everything down into its simplest form, beyond atoms, protons, electrons and neutrons, it is pure energy. Simple energy that is vibrating at different frequencies.

Today we have Quantum physics which has explored this deeper level of the physical world, and actually there is a new field developing beyond Quantum physics called Zero Point Field Theory; Lynne McTaggart discusses this in great detail in a book called “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe“. Scientific research now proves that the thoughts of an individual can now be broadcast and received thousands of miles away. Studies have also shown how a group of people focusing on a specific object can affect how that object reacts.

That means that when someone sets an intention; when someone thinks about something or asks a question, it can have an effect on something or someone on the other side of the world. Scientists all over the world, working on non-related research came together and shared their results, proving that this Field of energy in essence is a source of communication between all things.

Again, I’m not trying to change your mind or convince you that your imagination is something that’s divine or etheric; but what I do want to open you up to the possibility of, is that you stop yourself from tapping into whatever that source is, by the language you use with yourself.

Two things that will prevent you from coming up with any type of solution are the words, “I can’t” and the words, “I don’t know”. When you say those phrases, you instantly shut down the part of your brain that pulls together the resources for you to find those answers. Your brain is the most powerful supercomputer on the planet. And just like a computer, it can only follow the commands that you give it. It doesn’t here the command and say, “Oh, what you really mean is… “. It takes the command and follows the action. So when you say, “I can’t” or “I don’t know”, your brain goes, “Ok, no need for me to do anything with this”.

Tony Robbins does a great example when he asks a question and someone says, “I don’t know” his response is, “I know you don’t know, but if you did know, what would the answer be?” Just by redirecting the question, automatically they turn that part of the brain back on that accesses the answers. Whether it’s internal imagination or external guidance… and the answer comes to them.

Try it, I’m sure you’ll be amazed at how it works. What I want to offer you at the moment is that you truly do have access to more potential than you give yourself credit for. The challenge is, we’ve usually got so much stuff going on inside of our heads, that we can’t hear the answers.

To help with this, there is an exercise I want to share with you. It comes from a woman named Julia Cameron, who wrote a book called “The Artist’s Way” and it’s called a brain dump. I personally use this process and one of the things it helped me create is software called “The Desktop Life Coach” that I should have had no idea how to create. But by doing the brain dump I wound up being receptive, getting the clutter out of my mind so that when I asked the questions, I was able to hear the answers and ultimately find the solutions.

Quite simply, the brain dump is to sit down with a notebook, you know the standard 8 1/2 by 11 notebook; and for three pages you want to write, without stopping, any thought that comes into your mind. If your mind seems to go blank, keep writing anyway. You may just be writing, “I can’t think of anything, I’m not thinking of anything.” And also, you don’t have to write complete sentences, just thoughts, words, get it all out. Keep writing until you’ve reached the third page. Then stop.

After you have emptied your thoughts in those three pages, ask yourself the question that you’ve been looking for the solution for. Then just open yourself and be receptive.

My experience with this is that it has always has worked when I applied it. I do the brain dump, clear the junk out of my mind, open myself up to the reception of the idea, open myself up to the possibility that it may not initially make sense, and I have always found the answers I’m looking for when I’ve done this. I’ve also gotten great results using the brain dump to start my day.

Take a moment now and experiment with it. Do a brain dump. Three pages, any thought that are on your mind. Again, these don’t have to be complete sentences, just use the pen and notebook to get the thoughts out of your mind so that you are clear headed. Then put yourself in a very receptive state of mind and ask the question. Then just sit back and be open to receive the answer.

I look forward to hearing what your results are in using this. I know its a little bit “out there” compared to some of the other things we’ve talked about. And for me it has worked every time and I believe if you practice it, you’ll get the same kind of results.

I look forward to seeing you soon.

Continue on with our Series to learn about The Four Agreements.

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