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Secret Ingredients
You know how it is with tasty recipes, you need to know the secret ingredients. Whenever I ask the cook, they tell me that you need the magic ingredient. What is it? I am a Creativityologist. People come to me with challenges, and the need for another human being to hear them out and create something different. My clients work...
Lunch Idea for Gluten-free Eating
Lunch idea for Gluten-free eating with Cat Wilson of Apositiva. from Cat Wilson on Vimeo. You can make one change today by focusing on what you want to be now. What you put inside of you today becomes you tomorrow. If you have been eating food that doesn't work right inside of you ... then adjust your food. If wheat doesn't...
And Did You Like It?
Storytelling can be a very rich experience. It can entertain, delight, and teach. My mom used to tell us stories on the rocking chair... ah ... fond memories. During the Growing Coach Training we told our favorite children’s stories. Students practiced getting into a curious, child-like state of fascination in youth, like when...
Lifted by 3
Ever had an event that shook you for a moment? Something obnoxious that felt uncomfortable, crossed boundaries that dropped you in a sad fog. Then ... something else happened? This blog is about optimism and self care with the power of 3. Yesterday, I worked a busy 12-hour day. In the evening, I walked outside, breathed the cold...
Planting Seeds for Your Future
Planting Seeds for Your Future, as demonstrated by 4 O'Clock plants. from Cat Wilson on Vimeo. This is a 4 O’Clock seed. It’s the end of the season. This is October and now that the flowers, the pretty little pink flowers are all gone, these little seeds are coming through. Nature Lets Go of the Old and Makes Seeds for the Future...
Oatmeal Weather Resource
It’s that time of year again, where we feel the wind changing. Cool breathes of morning remind the thermostat to blow heat. Are you noticing yourself snuggling up stubbornly in pillow and blankets, tipping the button on your alarm for 15 more minutes? Must be oatmeal weather. Leaves turned orange and gold, and Mom made a bubbling...
Prime the Field
Words can lift you. Words can direct an action. Words can create a state. Words can prime you to respond a certain way. Which words do you use to prime your field? Prime the Field Coaches prime the field or atmosphere for their clients with words and states. Coaches walk side-by-side to help others reach their potential, because...
Get the Message Right
What does one do when waiting or visiting in a hospital? Mostly read. Papers, pamphlets, and lots of signs on the walls. As I sit in one room, waiting for the patient to return, I notice the sign by the bed. "Call, don't fall." A picture forms in my head and I imagine falling. Oops. When people read signs, they usually...
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IT's a FUN Strange
Animal communication is amazing. Every morning little cat Alexa needs to follow through her ritual. She waits for her master to make his cup of coffee and sit on the couch so that she can sit next to him. Just sit, purr, feel his gentle stroking on her fur. He is the one who gives her a kitty treat every morning, and when he...
Before You Take the Call, Pause
Ring! Ring! Ring! Phone calls can startle us! It takes you out of the moment. What is the call bringing? Challenge or joy? The uncertainty can drive the thoughts to strange places. Anxiety. Fear. Surprise. Your mind and body respond with primal stress. You can prepare yourself to drive your body with more calm and focus. Take a...
Because we are human.
Every day we wake up. The sky is there, the body has it's sensations. We live each day and fight hard to have what we think we want. Yet, why does any of it matter? In my brain of Cat Wilson I am curious. In the light of a life snuffed what do you think about? Recently, we all heard the sad news of one of our best leaving the...
Hypnotherapy and NLP Training In Portland
Apositiva Offers a New Training Learning Format. Our Hypnotherapy and NLP classes are held in Webinars and Classroom. You will love the convenience of learning at home as well as experiential classroom practice. You will discover intuitive hypnosis training in the fun way we teach. Your First Class begins with everyone together...
Held Back by Nothing More Than a Thought
Are you familiar with what happens to elephants and horses? They become conditioned that they can’t go somewhere. They stop with even a piece of string. Hi, this is Rich Aanrich with a "new thought." In the case of horses, farmers put wires with small electric currents around an area. When the horses go up to the fence and...
Identity and Career
You attend an event ... holiday, neighborhood, or workshop. In one hand is a glass of water and you are making your way back to your table where a small group of people are talking. When the person next to you asks, "What do you do for a living?" How will you respond? Who are you? Ask people what they do for a living, and you...
Get Your Head On Straight
Do you ever feel off balanced? Head too heavy? Body bumping? Maybe what you want is to "get your head on straight." Where do you start? Wanting is when you have expectations about having things in a certain way. It doesn't feel like your life is happening that way right now. So, you are wanting to do something to make that...
Life Granola
“Just made this tonight. It's wonderful.” Yum! A recipe arrived from my son … and it made me think. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could mix all the very best ingredients up in a large bowl, bake it and have a wonderful life? This is Cat Wilson with a lovely and yummy thought today. If your life is granola, what is in your bowl?...
Laying Fresh Layers with Quiet Time
Did you ever stop to think ... what you were putting into your mind? Then it is time! Let's talk about laying fresh layers with "Quiet Time" for you in quiet meditation. It is almost like transcendental meditation. You allow your mind to be clear for a while. Every morning, prior to seeing people or getting on the computer, I...
Sweet Pause
It is early morning, and as I get up I am feeling very grateful for the beauty of this day. The sun is just coming up. I can hear the sounds of the morning, including morning birds, ... doves, sweet chirping and a very sweet pause, a quiet stillness. This stillness has such peace, a feeling that only seems to come when the dawn...
Intersections of Life
“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes. Is your life a colorful hero's journey? Some people give very serious attention to their goal. Setting intention, growth goals, education, and joining associations aligned with their goal – they do it all to guarantee success. They may be...
What Big Question Can Your Reach for?
In the world of coaching, the game is "Questions." Like in the movie based on Hamlet "Rosencranz and Gildenstern are Dead" there is a question and an answer, and it pings back and forth in play. Do you want to play questions? Coaching players can expect to bounce answers back and forth to questions asked ... like balls in a...
Story Behind the Story
Over the past few days, I have been vegging out on videos at home. Why? I caught a flu bug. Movies help me go beyond the bug. Entering into a story helps me focus on something else besides me. Let's focus. This is about the story behind the story. One video I saw was "Ender's Game," a movie about a young person chosen for a big...
Confidence is the Name of the Game
"Each and every child has a potential, and if there's one person who believes in them, they get closer to that potential," Wilson said. Yes, and I remember the moment. Victoria Blake of the Beaverton Valley times quoted me in her article entitled "Rising Stars" on May 27, 2004. I had just finished the program I did in the...
Have You FODMAP'd Lately?
Are you on a special diet? Or as Garfield the cat would say "Die with a T." There seems to be a different diet for every person I meet. It's important to have harmony in your diet. What is FODMAP? When I worked in the dietary department of a hospital, I was part of making sure patients kept to the foods in the right diet for...
Recital in Your Ear?
Ring, Ring! Chirp, Chirp! Hummmmm. Do you experience ringing in your ear called tinnitus? Has your doctor and ENT specialist done all they could? Are you open to other options? Hypnotherapy may be an option. Recital in Your Ear? Recently I went to my daughter’s music recital, and over 20 musicians performed. One of the...
A Tree of Values
What is important to you? Why is that important? It all adds up to "values." Over the week-end I trained a class in NLP. We discussed state management and the values that contributed to these states. I asked participants what was important to them and they gave me the value. A Tree of Values Here is the visual that I...
Who's Fuzzy?
Who is Fuzzy? Fuzzy is our "Totem" or "Mascot." This is who showed up in Cat's imagination for Pediatric Coach Magic! How do young people feel when parents, teachers, coaches, and adults listen to her/his fear, dream, or a youthful experience? You got it! Warm and Fuzzy. So, how do you help kids feel warm and fuzzy about their...
Interrupted from the Dream?
In our daily life we have 24 hours a day. How you use it is up to you. For those of you who get a fleeting idea from the Muse or schedule time to meditate or mindfulness or any special activity that brings you joy, it is important to learn tools to honor your spaces. Interrupted from the Dream? A Muse arrived for you today! It’s...
Controlling Your Inner Robot
Do you find yourself automatically doing what you don’t want to do? Want to change that? Catching the adrenaline and controlling your internal robot might be helpful. Let’s talk about your inner robot. Inside you have an internal robot. He/she captures a particular program and makes a recording of that event or situation. It...
Sugar is the New Tobacco
Rich Aanrich with some food for thought. Sugar Is More Addictive Than Cocaine? Yes. Amazing, isn't it? Have you checked the labels for ingredients lately? Take off the shades and open your mind, because you WANT to know this information. Fed Up? Have we drunk the corporate “Kool-Aid”? Is the Government mixed up in this sugar...
Board Certified Coach (BCC) Tuition Assistance Program
Coaching is an awesome and amazing experience. It takes skills and practice. Ready to play? Need some help? Growing Coach Training is presented in modules I through V. Apositiva's Coaching Course is a Board Certified course through The Center for Credentialing & Education (CCE). In partnership with the NBCC Foundation the...
Learn a Little or a Lot
Are you and your friends speaking the same language? Do you sometimes wonder what map your colleagues are using when they communicate with you? Learn a little or a lot using NLP. NLP is the art and science of human excellence. We each distinguish what we see and what it means through filters. Perhaps you were raised in a culture...
Five Ways to Show Mom You Love Her
Mother’s Day is almost here. Do you KNOW a mother you love and adore? Birth or adoption – this lady took on the responsibility and did her best. How do you show gratitude? Here are five ways to show mom you love her. As I was growing up, my mother was the central figure in my world. My father was busy working and keeping a...