Take it to the next level:
The Shift Train the Trainer Certification will take place in beautiful Estes Park, CO Wednesday, March 28 – Sunday, April 1, 2007. This five day intensive training, facilitated by Shift Creator Nicole Casanova and partners Teri Lewis and Joyce Kinde, will ground your learning of the Shift principles. We will start with a true understanding of your Self and an unwiring of your personal mythology so that you can facilitate from a place of love. We will give you both our methodology and our content so that you can recognize the power within you and support others in empowering themselves.

To provide a truly intimate and unforgettable experience in a beautiful location, space is very limited. For more information, go to the website at http://www.shiftthegame.com/trainer-certification/ or call Shift at 1-866-SHIFT01 or email at Training@ShiftTheGame.com. We hope you will consider this personal invitation and come play with us! DEADLINE TO REGISTER: March 12, 2007

“You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it” – Dr. Wayne Dyer

How often have you found yourself in the same old thinking that gets you no where? Your life feels like constant turmoil. You want to join the neighborhood gym, but the $30.00 per month membership means you will have to scrimp somewhere else in your budget like the Mega Channel Cable TV package you have. Maybe you are limiting your “You Time” to a daily shower and wonder why you feel stressed all the time. You want to change jobs but there is just no place that’s a perfect fit for you, so you stay stuck where you are.

We have read and heard that change begins with within ourself, and it’s true. Researchers say that we have about 60,000 thoughts swirling around in our heads each and every day. Many of those thoughts are negative coming from our egos, from fear or from past experiences. Your Aunt Lilly said you would never be able to support yourself as an interior decorator. With a thought like that recycling in your brain, guess what – you will never be able to support yourself as an interior decorator. Sure, this is just an example, but put your own dream occupation in place of interior decorator. Are you able to make changes in your life and move in the direction of your dreams? Or, have you been unable to move towards that dream because of thoughts like your ego saying it’s a lot of work and you will be a failure or maybe you’re afraid that others will think you are not good enough. Or, maybe you think Aunt Lilly was right. You have the power to change all this.

When you change the thoughts that you carry around with you, you can change your life. Your thoughts are creating your life. Think of yourself as a magnet. If you believe your job is lousy, it’s lousy. If you believe that your relationships are awesome, they are awesome. If you believe that you are stuck in a life situation, you are stuck. If you believe that you are loved, you are loved. These are truths based on the law of quantum physics and the law of attraction.

You can change your thinking. You do not need to let negative thoughts control your life. Like any good habit, it just takes some time and practice. You need to exercise your mental muscles. Read a book, play a game or attend a class that will work your mental muscles to know you have the ability to change your thinking. For example, here is an exercise for you – take a moment to “hear” the thoughts in your head before responding. Are they positive thoughts that will move you forward as a loving individual, or are they negative thoughts that will hold you, and the people around you, back from reaching their full potential? For example, your co-worker Bob has just asked you once again to cover for his shift. Your usual response is to just say “yes” without thinking. You never say “No”. You just want to please him and get over any conflict. After the fact how do you feel? Do you really want to work for Bob? How did that feel?

Now stop for a moment before you respond to Bob’s request. This is your practice leading to good habits. Ask yourself when was the last time you said “No” to someone, anyone? Why can’t you say “No”? Are you always a compromiser to keep everyone happy except yourself? Think of what is best for you right now. Is it best to help Bob out again, or is it best to help yourself out by not working his shift and following your own plans even if it was to have dinner with yourself. Now practice in your thoughts saying “No” to Bob. How do you feel? Empowered? If Bob would not take it well, that is not your fault and you cannot take it personally. If you said “yes” would it be for the right reasons? Perhaps you could use the extra money and Bob knew that. In either case, there is no wrong answer and whatever answer you give, you give from love for yourself and Bob. Now, how did that feel?

Here is another example, when you give a gift are there always conditions and expectations or are you giving only from love? Are you a classic underachiever, or the victim or always expecting the worse to happen? Guess what, that is what will happen until you stop to hear your thoughts before you respond to others. Determine where your thoughts are coming from and change them to respond only from love and in spirit.

Next, practice looking at other people from love. When we focus on another person’s negative traits, our thoughts are judgmental. There is no way for us to know that other person unless we live in a science fiction movie and can literally jump into their head. The only way we truly know that person is through our own thoughts. If you only see the negative side of a person, then that is the relationship that exists between you. However, if you change your thoughts to focus on the positive – the love – in another individual you have changed that relationship just by changing your mind.

See how simple this can be? This year, don’t just change your diet. Change your thinking and you can join that gym, move to a different job and say “No” when you need to. It just takes practice to create new habits. Practice changing your thoughts and you can change your life

Another year is upon us and perhaps it’s a placebo effect, but I’m psyched to make some shifts in the new year. I feel a rebirth the way I do when spring rolls around and I get that unexplainable giddyness. Whatever I accomplished or didn’t last year no longer matters. It’s 2007 and here I am, new again.

My husband and I just did the coolest thing. I wanted us to write our visions for 2007 and I had us start by writing our gratitudes for 2006. What an amazing exercise. Before that, we checked in on our 8 Step Process (it’s a tool for getting clarity in any relationship because you go through your expectations and shift them into goals and operating instructions etc.). We felt as if 95% of the things we put down a year ago where now things we do regularly or things we no longer have an issue with. The one place where we realy needed to continue our work was around money- we decided to put tools into place to get clarity on our budget. I felt myself getting really tense because he’s been supporting me lately and it’s been one of my biggest lessons to learn to receive- especially from a man.

I had been reading A Course in Miracles that morning and it said that we teach everything. We teach how we should be treated in relationship by what we believe about ourselves. If I feel loved and whole and powerful, you bet the person I’m connecting with will get that. And when we feel somehow less than, we’re teaching that person that that’s who we are too. When we started to talk about money, I shrunk into feeling not good enough. I had just read him a line from the course that says,” Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him?” I joked that I was teaching him that I was the sparrow.

Still feeling a bit uneasy and wanting to avoid more money talk, I switched gears so that we could get on with the Gratitude/Vision exercise. We each wrote our gratitudes and my experience was powerful. By number four I was almost in tears. The feelings I had a second before immediately shifted when I started reviewing the year and all the wonderful experiences I’d had. I got married, went on a honeymoon, created a wonderful home, celebrated with my friends and family in the place my soul loves most…) It was interesting to see what I valued most. My relationship and friends and family were at the top. I didn’t mention work until number 8. We shared our lists and then wrote our visions and shared those.

There’s a quote that says it’s impossible to be upset when we are giving thanks. Gratitude has always been the number one way for me to make a shift. I think my Gratitude list was even more powerful than my vision because it’s based on acknowledging what’s real for me now. Maybe it’s because it’s past and that conveys a more solid reality for me where my vision is a want in the future that I believe I can manifest. Maybe it’s my scientific or egoic mind that wants to base things on what’s concrete, what’s transpired. In reality, both my vision and my reflection of my past and what I’m grateful for all come down to the filters and judgments I place on them. It’s all still a perception that I make real or more real.

Whew- when I see what’s shown up for me in just 2006, I know I am blessed. Gratitude, time and again, squashes all of my insecurities and self doubts. I decided to post my list on the wall behind my computer screen (along with my Bootstrapper’s Manifesto- Seth Godin, Massive collage/treasure map of what I want to manifest and my success meditation by John Randolph Price).

We completed by reading the success meditation. I’m reading it daily. You may want to include in your New Year too.
OK, 2007, BRING IT ON!

Success Meditation
John Randolph Price

All that the universal presence of God has is mine, for God and the expression of God cannot be separated.

I live in the Eternal Now with the Infinite All and nothing is missing from my life.

I am the power of God to have.

I am the fiery strength of God, the living force of vitality that goes forth with divine intention and authority.

My creativity is love in action and everything I do is victorious.

My divine power is the thought that I will and every door swings open before that power.

I have divine aspirations to fulfill my highest destiny, and with enthusiasm I move forward, forever illuminated by my higher vision. I see that which is mine to do and I do it with ease, devotion and gladness and I am blessed with the treasures of the divine for that is what I see.

I walk in the footsteps of my Self and my path is sure. My ideals have been formulated in the crucible of my mind and are forged in divine design in my heart. In joyful freedom I now follow my heart for I have seen my destiny and what I see I know.

Nicole Casanova is a featured speaker at the upcoming World Wellness Weekend in Denver January 27 and 28, 2007. For more information go to World Wellness website. Find us in Booth 105. Please join us at the Denver Convention Center for a weekend of insight and education from Nicole and other speakers including T. Harv Eker, Jean Houston, and Mark Victor Hansen.

What would happen if 1 million people committed to making a personal shift by January 1, 2007? 

Do you wish you could rebuild New Orleans, end the war, improve education, end child abuse, house the homeless, provide healthcare to those in need?  Is it crazy to think we can actually impact such huge issues?  The truth is we can.  It starts within.  

Making a shift does not require money, the right politician, or anything outside of us.  Making a shift is simply choosing to do something differently.  What would you choose to be different in your own life?  If 1 million people committed to making their own personal shift we would feel something; more peace, abundance, connectedness, love. 

 

Our thoughts are our reality.  If you write down a goal it is more likely to happen.  All we are asking is for 1 million people to write down their own shift.  Declare your personal shift to the world, and publicly commit to making the shift.  Declare your shift by replying to this post. Better yet, copy this and forward it to 5 friends, and ask them to come to http://www.shiftthegame.com/declare-your-shift.html and post their reply so we can make even more shifts.

State what you are willing to shift, your name, location, and date.  Add yours next to mine: 

 

1.  I will start each day acknowledging ME by writing down what I am grateful for about myself.  I will write down my accomplishments, qualities and more…so I remember that I am good enough.  Nicole, Boulder, Colorado, 9/1/06. 

 

2.    I am going to shift my thoughts and actons into helping those less fortunate than me..  I am going to do some volunteer work- I would really love to get involved with habitast for humanity- I can’t lift but I can use a staple gun or hammer or paint.  That is my way of mentally shifting from my materialistic existence to ehelp others who have less.  Arlene, Weston, Florida 9/2/06

3. I will say No without giving an excuse or defense.  Dan, Minneapolis, MN 9/6/06   

4.  I shall in my mind begin the process to be grateful for all the little things that come my way and the love I receive.  Amber, Key Largo, 9/29/06 

5. I will be more present.  I will cherish the moments to think of nothing, to rest my mind, to gain clarity of my surroundings and feel the purpose of an empty moment instead of trying to plan or define everything all the time.  Michelle, Delaware, 9/28/06.  

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Shift Workshops: Ask you to face your fears, take risks and choose love while uniting your team behind a single thought, your Playing to Win!

The mind is a muscle. You gotta work it. Shift workshops actively work your mental muscles. Other workshops give you a few small exercises to ground the lesson. Shift workshops keep you active. We exercise your mind. We engage that place where shifts take place. When you experience something, you own it. That’s why play promotes learning. Shift workshops are based on play so that you will experience what it feels like to make a shift. You will experience the shift from fear to love, from contraction to expansion, from judgment to open-mindedness and from being your own worst enemy to your ultimate champion.

We work the inside from the outside. When readings, affirmations, and lessons work, they work internally. Playing Shift works from both the inside and the outside. You get instant feedback from your peers who act as mirrors. You can receive acknowledgement, honor and respect. However, you can also get called on your “Shift.”

Instant gratification. Yes. Spray and pray. No. Some workshops spray you with their philosophy, give you a few affirmations and you’re left to pray that it will work. Our workshops give you the tools to see yourself, know that you are always at choice and shift the situation. Shift is a proven, effective tool that creates positive thinking and releases limiting beliefs. Based on you, Shift changes each time to meet your unique needs so that you can constantly make the shift to having the life you want.

Shift currently offers your organization 1 hour, 3 hour or 8 hour workshops. Facilitated game plays are available too. All are customized to meet your needs and timeframe.

Contact Nicole Casanova at nicole at ShiftTheGame.com for more information on costs and availability. Or, call us toll free at 1-866-SHIFT01 (1-866-744-3801). We want to help your organization Shift!

“Please come back to check us on our SHIFT!” … anonymous, Denver Schools

Go to www.inats.com to find out more! Visit Shift in Booth 1114 in the Expo at the Mart. Meet and greet Nicole Casanova, creator of Shift at 2:00 pm in the Performance Area on Monday June 26th.  She will be signing games and there will be some free give aways.  See you there!

Yes I’ve been absent… for so long- so much going on and so much to tell. I’ve been getting fantastic lessons and have so many different topics to write about. I’ve been to LA and Miami, have had bonding experiences with my family- good stuff, have stepped back and prioritized (I’m getting married in July and am now making sure to place my relationship and wedding plans at the top of the list). I’ve been reminded to PLAY THE GAME. Take a bit of time for me. enjoy.

We’ve had some great successes recently and some other shall we say hiccups. I’d like to go into it all and tell you about Martha Stewart, Woody Harrelson and Pam Anderson, dancing to Madonna and Daft Punk at Coachella in Palm Springs, getting to see my dearest friends some of whom are now new mothers, walking on the beach in Santa Monica where the ocean told me I’m truly powerful and that I am love, my screentest at Warner Brothers, my lovely time with my manufacturer who couldn’t provide me with my inventory because he had yet to produce it (that was fun:), having some really deep breakthroughs with my sister on the canals of Venice Beach, fishing off the cost of Ft. Lauderdale, dolling my mom up, getting her to drink an alcoholic beverage and convincing her to stay awake long enough for Sushi at The Shore Club’s Nobu (although niether my sister or mother eat sushi), my engagement party complete with hot pink centerpieces and DJ who consistently played the equivalent of you are the wind beneath my wings, spending an hour in the ocean with my mom yesterday morning hoping glassy didn’t mean shark infested…my mom and dad in the same car to make returns with me at Macys!!

Interesting- that all sounds like I’ve been playing around for the last few weeks. I’ve actually been working so much and we’ve seen that the services side- bringing the game into organizations and providing workshops and trainings, is a great place for us. The response has been amazing and I must say that I’m constantly blown away when I witness people getting it- seeing a room of 60 people play, open up, and get it is amazing… seeing 20 people play and then have a facilitator who has very little knowledge of the game tie it in so perfectly with the concepts in Insight was truly powerful. The game set the stage for them to learn at a much deeper level. I almost cried…

I really like the educational piece. I love it when I see people get something they hadn’t been aware of before… I love the connection. I’m moving more towards that direction.

If you read my blog you’ll probably see that I have the same patterns and that not enough or not good enough drives most of my issues. I’ve been working a ton again and did something I probably would have had difficulty doing in the past. We had 7 people interested in coming on board to work for equity- super qualified Marketing Pr and Sales people… just what we needed and I decided to let it go until after the weddding and trust that when I’m ready, they’ll be there or there’ll be a solution that’s equivalent. I realized I couldn’t manage any more and that although it would support us, I couldn’t spread myself any thinner. Can you imagine? In the past I would have killed myself to figure out how to get 7 people in SF, NY and Chicago to somehow work together while keeping 12 other projects going.

I realized that I created a game that shows people that their thoughts create their reality and the reality that I created for myself meant working 80 hr weeks… some reality. I believe it can all happen with ease and grace… I need not work 7 days a week for months… I can do it and see my man, get our garden growing and show up and BE PRESENT!!! for my wedding.

I’ve been getting amazing words of encouragement from the people I am so fortunate to meet and work with and I thought I’d share some emails I got today. These things remind me I’m on purpose and I’m truly grateful to get to live this life… namaste

and this one is soooo wonderful… Riley graduated from CU last year and did some work from me. I’m blessed…

Nicole,
I was reading a book that Joyce gave me for graduation tonight, and made me think about you. It talked a lot about the things that I had already learned from you, like speaking your truth and Fear vs. Love. I don’t know if you know this, but you inspire me. I am grateful for everything you have taught me, and hope this email finds you well.

I am sure you have a plan of action for getting on Oprah, but here is something that might be of interest to you. It is a link from her main page that says “Be On the Show.” From there, Header that says…Upcoming Shows… and link that says “Did You Put Everything on Hold for A Dream.” It describes you.

https://www.oprah.com/plugger/templates/BeOnTheShow.jhtml?action=respond&plugId=217700001

If you want my advice, submit your story…not so much your product, and it will speak for itself. If you just plug your game, they might see you as just another person trying to get their product on their show. You have an incredible story. I hope you get a chance to tell it.

Riley

Oh and Arturo has been sending the following quotes for our upcoming Shift retreat next week- how wonderful is our team?

In anticipation of our retreat – Quote 4

It’s not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. We must develop a new understanding of the true purpose of our existence on earth. Only by making such a fundamental shift will we be able to create new models of behavior and a new set of values for the planet.

Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic, prominent playwright and poet

In anticipation of our retreat – Quote 3

On Purpose

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes

by Kenneth Hildebrand

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered.

Our purpose is something we have been doing all along,

and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.

from John-Roger & Peter McWilliams “Do It – Let’s Get off our Buts”

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -

a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

So how do leaders discover the purpose—the destiny—of the organizations they lead? Very much as they discover their own. By embarking on a search to discover it. By asking: Why is this company here? What is its reason for existing?

Far too many of our contemporary institutions do not have an adequate dream, an imaginative concept that will raise people’s sights close to where they have the potential to be.

from Joseph Jaworski – “Destiny and the Leader”

In anticipation of our retreat – Quote 2

Quote from the introduction to the book “Let Love Lead” by John Roger & Paul Kaye

People often say that love will heal the world.

But this is not exactly true.

Loving is what heals the world.

Loving is action. Loving is manifestation.

Loving is movement.

Loving is the consciousness of giving.

Loving is love in action.

and my all time favorite

In anticipation of our retreat – Quote 1

Our Greatest Fear

by Marianne Williamson from her book “A Return to Love”

Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,
but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some; it is in everyone.

And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

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Visit us at the Boulder Creek Festival this weekend!!

Monday, May 8th, 2006 by admin

We will be in the Body and Soul area (near the library and food!) for the Boulder Creek Festival this Memorial Day weekend. Stop by and meet us, play and perhaps even drop a defense!

Then Come Play!!!

Play Date at Laughing Goat in Boulder

Come play Shift with experienced facilitators at 7:00 pm at The Laughing Goat on Tuesday May 30th at 1709 Pearl Street in Boulder, CO. For more information call 303-530-0787.

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