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Life is Love – A Poem by Joy

joy — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 04:48:21 +0000

Life is Love by Joy Gilfilen

Life is love
Love is life
With the one
there is the other

So wake up now
Its time to shine
Its time to find
Your love entwined

Without life there is no love
Without love there is no life
We’re dead inside
No pulse – no light – a dark void

Life is love
Love is life
With the one
There is the other

So Wake up now
Its time to shine
Its time to find
Your love entwined

Its time to light our fire
Add the breeze
To turn it higher

Its time to risk
To put it up
Its time for change
For love to live

So wake up now
Its time to shine
Its time to find
Our love entwined

Lets together
Ignite the flame of life
the desire to live
Our lives to give

Life is love
Love is life
With the one
There is the other

Leverage Your Power of Achievement Using the Joy Triangle Model – Free Teleseminar!

joy — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:19:05 +0000

We all know we are experiencing high levels of stress in business today, and there are many challenges ahead. To thrive we need adaptability tools.

Come discover a simple, emotional conditioning tool for managing your power as a leader. You will learn how to transform de-constructive fear-manipulated, chaotic and reactive energy into joy-inspired, cohesive and resourceful energy to achieve quality performance results.

Learning how to ‘flip your switch’ allows you to handle pressure, stress and people in an all new, refreshing way!

The Joy Triangle Model can be used immediately and quickly:

• Find traps in thinking, which allows you to break self-destructive patterns in groups and organizations and replace them with constructive ones
• Do motivational and visionary coaching of employees and colleagues
• Build self-reliance and inspire action
• Resolve conflict and promote vitality
• Inspire fresh initiative, empower community and entrepreneurial collaboration
• Spark social, institutional and economic change conversations
• Encourage people to team up, to thrive and to work together to heal the planet

In this free downloadable teleseminar, you will learn about the power of fear as a destructive emotion. And you will learn surefire ways to redirect that emotion with rich creative passion to create the power of joy energy.

Joy is the rush of energy that is released through your physical system that you often feel when the culmination of anticipation is fulfilled! We can fuel this potential joy by feeding our desire to strive to build, lead or innovate. The tension of striving is anticipatory, the filfillment comes when an anticipation is met, and the joy is felt when energy cascades through the system bringing life, vitality and rich emotional nourishment into your cells!

In this free introductory call to the Joy Triangle Model, you will first notice, then briefly practice turning on your “inner joy generator”. You will discover your own inner wiring system and that you can control your levels of joy. You will discover how you can ‘flip the switch’ on your sensory awareness system so you can turn yourself on to reading and working with your inner joy power. Joy will talk you through it so you can notice you do actually control the switch. It is inside your heart, inside your brain and inside your neuronet. While it may have been buried underneath emotional rubble, you can choose to reawaken it and to feel or not.

Then Joy will show you how you can intentionally flip your switch off and on. You will begin to notice and learn how to identify common stories around fear that destroy joy and that takes us habitually out of the game of life, out of the game of joyful living. Then you will discover five maximum impact, high leverage techniques to redirect your energy to achieve results faster. and you will get a poster giving you a visual roadmap to follow and use like an emotional gyroscope.

Using the visual cue, having a context to use the model, and then mastering these five techniques will help you become emotionally self-reliant and mentally stronger and more capable in all arenas of your life.

What is even more fun is that you can do this for yourself, for your family, even in your company or in community groups. For joy energy is infectious and contagious in a very good way – it makes you and people around you happy!

This is a truly free link to the Vital Joy Radio Show called “Leverage your Power of Achievement using the Joy Triangle Model”! no strings attached.

When you click on this link, it will include:
1) the downloadable recording that you can listen to, and in this recording you will
2) receive an excercise you can do yourself where you notice that you have a sensory awareness system and an “Inner Joy Generator” to work with
3) the demonstration about the five techniques for how you can quickly flip your own switch at any time
4) a link to the PDF of the Joy Triangle Model poster that you can use as a ‘quick reference’ anytime.
5) A special offer to join a full 5-week coaching series to do personal group coaching with Joy starting in October, 2011 that will include a digital e-playbook and a copy of a 45 minute downloable educational DVD, “Flipping the Joy Switch”.
6) The opportunity to subscribe to all of Joy’s newsletters that are about emotional resilience coaching programs, leadership development programs and to learn about the UnitingCreatives.com social media platform for intentional change.

So with this one click, you can put the Joy Triangle Model principles and philosophies together with the emotional resilience coaching and adaptability tools and get to work immediately changing your life and the lives of those around you. Then, you can choose what your next step is. It is simple, Click Now, and discover real joy – inside and out! I promise that your level of joy will increase even now, knowing that your free Joy Triangle Model audio is on its way!

Restorative Business:

joy — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:21:41 +0000

At the beginning of last year I had absolutely no interest in anything I am writing about in this article – I thought it had nothing at all to do with business, or my personal life really. Today I am the President of the Whatcom County ReEntry Coalition because I have learned that this issue is one of three core issues at the root of dysfunction in business, in our society, in virtually everything we do.

Back then, I was living my life rather in a ‘glass bubble’ looking out at the sea of life around me, rather insulated from the social decay issues that I could see but did not feel.

Today, I realize that the way we deal with ‘justice’ is probably the most significant problem we have locally and in America – in business, in politics, in our families, everywhere. The problems that stem from our attitudes around this have become insidious in our lives…they are a no-seeum that leads to plausible deniability…but that doesn’t mean it disappears.

I believe we, the people of America, are on a collision course with the self-destructive structural patterns we have unwittingly set up to dominate and abuse us – all of us. It is time for a change. Here is an article that I just submitted to the Bellingham Herald Letters to the Editor. I believe that this problem is sucking vitality right out of our community…and until we have the courage to have this conversation transparently, all the other political issues will pale in comparable impact.

The good news is that there are many solutions...all we have to do is know that we need them…and then take appropriate action.

My Letter To The Editor:

A few months ago, when talking to county officials, I realized the size of the mess we’re all in. As a businesswoman and Mom it would be irresponsible for me to spend 70% of my budget continually locking my family in boxes, then levying financial penalties on them when they have no money. Adding restrictions and locking them up again when they fail doesn’t work. It’s illogical and unsustainable.

Yet, this is effectively what we’re doing in our County. Currently 70% of your tax dollars go directly to pay for law and justice. Yet the victims are not healed. Plus, 80% of the people in our jail are essentially non-functional citizens – they are illiterate, homeless, mentally ill or dealing with addictions.

To me its systemic failure: Our tax dollars promote addiction, co-dependency and systemized abuse patterns; the ripple effect has our middle class in economic bondage.

It’s a no-win. (Sidenote: It doesn’t have to be that way.) How to break the cycle? Intentionally change course. Build a better vision and a diversified community business model that works. Innovate. Support job reskilling, restorative justice, cooperation, recovery, functional literacy, sustainability, and economic revitalization.

You are invited to come talk about this with us at the ReEntry Coalition’s public forums:

Thursday, August 25, and Thursday, Sept 22nd – at 7 PM at St. Luke’s Community Center, 3333 Squalicum Parkway, Bellingham.

Then, YES! Magazine and my company, UnitingCreatives.com are co-sponsoring an event to raise awareness and money for the Whatcom County ReEntry Coalition. The founders vision of building a ReStoreALife Center to inspire social change in a highly functional way I think is laudable. I am doing everything in my power to support it.

I would invite all people from the community who are solution oriented and focussed on life-enhancing actions to please join us:

Community Opportunities Mastermind

and Concert Celebration of Community

(with Shawn Gallaway and Conscious Music!)

October 1, 2011 at the Bellingham High School.

We are inviting endorsements, Exhibitors and Sponsorships as well as philanthropic donations. The Coalition is a 501C3 organization and does alot of prevention and functional literacy training and support work for the community.