Collaboration: Competition at its Finest

Alone, by Maya Angelou Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don't believe I'm wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone. Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can …

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Arms Crossed but Open Hearted

A conscious mind correctly functioning is a guardian for the heart. A weak and permeable conscious mind makes no distinction between that which should or should not be allowed into the heart, much like a border crossing guard asleep at his post. The world is full of dubious and nefarious agents. Anyone who interfaces with …

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Your Lucky Day

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the presenters I was privileged to watch this weekend at our annual Energetix Lyceum described the methylation pathways of our body. Methylation acts as an on/off switch that allows the body to learn how to deal with …

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Health Care for the New Century

One sees what one looks for. One looks for what one knows. ~ Goethe I'm in Chicago at the moment as my company just finished hosting its 13th annual Bioenergetic Lyceum. The Lyceum, a two day training that serves as a culmination of our four part Bioenergetic College series and as a general educational event …

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Altruism is Possible and Altruism is Real

I read a fascinating article in the New York Times called "Is Pure Altruism Possible?" The article's author, Judith Lichtenberg, is a professor of philosophy at Georgetown University who is writing a book on charity and her interest seems to be in part to discover ways to increase altruism in the world today. While much …

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Teamwork: Asking Questions and Keeping your Cool

Imagine yourself in the seat of an Air Traffic Controller, sitting in a darkened room somewhere staring at screens with moving targets and talking with the pilots of those moving targets as they whisk along miles high in an aircraft that is likely moving at several hundred miles per hour. The pilot of a jet …

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Professional Skepticism

In a previous post entitled The Honest Skeptic and the Alternate Plan, we considered the importance of honest skepticism in the living of life. The honest skeptic, as opposed to the lesser skeptic, or worse, the "yes man," recognizes the need to question when things don't appear right. In the world of aviation, pilots, air …

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Stop Cyberbullying!

A memo from the new Headmaster of my son's school yesterday caught my eye and attention. He spoke of the "good and bad" of the internet, particularly as it related to children and borrowed a quote from columnist Michael Daly of the New York Daily News to emphasize his point: There have always been cruel …

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Emergency Upset Recovery

Several years ago I had the privilege of attending an Emergency Upset Recovery Training course presented by APS Training in Arizona. Designed to make pilots safer, this three day advanced training course covers the theory behind and practical handling of unintended and un-commanded loss of control in flight. Boy, is it an eye opener! Standard …

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In Support of General Aviation

General aviation makes life easy. In an era where airline travel is increasingly inconvenient - the extra fees, lines, invasive searches and draconian rules - general aviation provides an increasingly attractive alternative. Despite the unfairly earned negative reputation held by general aviation after the chiefs of the Big Three automakers were scolded by an zealous …

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