The driving power of the WiseWell Program is a compressed set of 24 special Focus Phrases that instantly shift your attention in very specific and universally-important directions. The more you say these Focus Phrases silently in your mind, the more attention and manifestation power you aim in these important directions. Here in one video program [...]
For your evaluation and enjoyment, here are five WizeWell Breather Break video-programming samples, presenting our three different formats for daily at-work Focus Phrase instruction and support. For each day in the 6-week WizeWell Program, employees view 1) a primary daily lesson; 2) later that morning and afternoon, they can take two more Breather Breaks to [...]
This 4-minute video-meditation prototype is the deepest we’ve produced to date for guiding you into intimate engagement with your own breathing experience, which is the heart of all mindfulness meditation and also the core process for quieting the flow of thoughts through your mind … so that you can pop into present-moment clarity and inner [...]
Our one supreme freedom is our power to choose where to focus our attention each new moment. What we focus on determines what we manifest – it’s that basic and that important. But both the media and advertizing industries are doing their best to dominate our focus of attention … and influence our decisions. It [...]
This new 3-minute video by John Selby and Birgitta Steiner presents the core intent and dynamic of the WizeWell Program:
Most of us spend a great deal of our waking lives at work. Survival is a challenge, and often generates anxiety and stress, which in turn damage our health, reduce our productivity and performance, and definitely get in the way of enjoying each new moment to the fullest. With my colleagues in marketing and wellness [...]
When we look deeply at America’s economic dilemma, several points are now obvious: 1: Computers are taking over many of the cognitive functions that workers used to perform; 2: Likewise, manufacturing is more and more being taken over by computer automation; 3: Elsewhere in the world, most of the ‘rote performance and productivity work’ can [...]
Manifestation Meditation #1 from “The MAster Process”. For those of you who are familiar with my book ‘Tapping The Source’ and also those of you who haven’t read the book but would like direct guidance in the first Focus Phrase of that 7-step manifestation program, here is a ten-minute deep video meditation that you will [...]
We are continually making choices regarding what we do during each new day – 220 discrete choices every day just deciding what we’re going to eat … and around half of all our actions don’t even include a choice – they’re habitual, rote, preconditioned behaviors we don’t even think about. Life is obviously all about [...]
Being able to manifest what we need in order to be truly happy and satisfied is one of the primary challenges we all face. In my co-authored book Tapping The Source we present a seven-step daily meditation that ensures that you focus regularly in exactly the directions that stimulate long-term manifestation of the life you [...]
I just recorded a quick video talking about this Monday Feb 20 class. If you want to watch it, here it is. Birgitta and I are also preparing some preview materials for the class – coming later this weekend. We’ve finally figured out the tech side of online teaching – and are looking forward to spontaneous [...]
For the last six months, we’ve been evolving a new training program for people to use at-work to help them stay sane, enthusiastic, creative and in the zone no matter what’s happening on the job. This program is a pragmatic fulfillment of many years of my work with individuals and groups outside the work setting [...]
For six months (until I found myself not really resonating with the new Huff Post) I responded to a request asking me to write articles on whatever themes I chose – so I used this opportunity to speak out on a variety of different topics. If you’d like to take a look at these articles, [...]
Based on John’s forthcoming book with Greg Voisen called “Wisdom, Wellness, & Redefining Work,” this Symposium will feature John Selby and six other experts in the field of wellness in the workplace. The Symposium is being co-hosted by the California Health & Longevity Institute at the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village just north of Los [...]
For literally billions of years on planet earth, change happened very very slowly, in geological time frames where a million years one way or another didn’t much matter in terms of what changed during that time. Now and then sudden events occurred, such as a meteor hitting the planet – but mostly, change was incremental [...]
The at-work Breather Break has become a key ingredient in the new vision of stress relief and innovation at work, and I’m often asked about the origins of the term. For that answer, we need to look back forty years and revisit a most wonderful philosopher and meditation guide named Alan Watts, who was the [...]
While watching the presidential debates recently, I’ve observed over and over again the same argument about corporations being people – or not. It’s a complex legal question and vital planetary-survival issue, which can only be resolved realistically in the following manner: Namely, if corporations want to be treated as people, they must grow up and [...]
This is a very common misunderstanding – that being aware of one’s breathing and bodily presence somehow detracts from getting things done. The opposite is almost always the case – the more you hold your attention here in this present moment, the better your performance in the moment. This is all about ‘being in the [...]
For the last six months, we’ve been evolving a new training program for people to use at-work to help them stay sane, enthusiastic, creative and in the zone no matter what’s happening on the job. This program is an evolution of many years of my work with individuals and groups outside the work setting – [...]
First of all, many many thanks to Bobby Marchesso – he took over my author site and transforming its look and feel while maintaining all the content – he’s also going to make the site much more interactive, with new postings every day – that’s the way to advance – each day! This is a [...]
Usually when we think of our involvements with those we love, we think in terms of closeness with these people, not distance from them. And in fact, the underlying dynamics of any human relationship is based on that somewhat magical attraction which pulls us closer and closer to someone special we have found in the [...]
Here is John’s second art-inspiration video meditation, called LET THERE BE LIGHT. This follows his first in this series of short spontaneous meditations, IMAGINE MY SURPRISE. Running just 2 minutes but packed with insights and images (mostly from the Santa Cruz wilderness) this second video meditation begins with the big bang and ends with that [...]
We’re all now deeply immeshed and immersed in the new video dimensions of communication and experiencing – this revolutionary medium has become our way of life very rapidly as technology has made it possible to create post HD-quality videos very easily compared to the old days – and to post the videos online. This tech [...]
Looking down upon America from a high distance, we all seem to be buzzing around non-stop everywhere, going here and going there, doing this and doing that. Very seldom are we caught just sitting still, doing nothing. We complain about too much stress and not enough time to get everything done – and yet when [...]
Regularly I find myself returning to Michael Brown’s seminal writings in THE PRESENCE PROCESS … and again this evening, here’s some of what he says, that rings so deeply true: “When we take care of what’s happening right now, which is the only moment we can authentically attend to … our future moments are taken [...]
Even though it’s become a New Age cliche, each of us does continue in each new moment to consciously aim our creative attention where we desire to manifest – or we fail to focus on our deeper needs and desires, and thus fail to bring into our lives what we truly hunger for. Once again, [...]
I am experimenting with a new spontaneous realm of video communication and meditation, in which I put aside all pre-programmed ideas and allow that more universal spontaneous voice deep within me to speak … this is risky, it leaves me feeling naked on several levels … and yet it seems essential at this point. This [...]
What would happen if our government organizations started each meeting with a simple secular focusing process that brought them all together focused on what they all agree are the common universal spiritual truths? Imagine the Senate starting with the process taught in this video, aiming attention toward our universal Source and opening our hearts to [...]
In my last blog, I eulogized the Indian spiritual teacher Krishnamurti, and rightly so. He was an explosive spark leading to this emerging transformation-revolution that I discussed in that earlier blog. But in the spirit of full disclosure, I must finally say in public something that happened to me very privately, almost three decades after [...]
There is currently a buzz in many circles about the word ‘presence’ and how we can tap into a deeper quality of presence in our lives. Presence is all about ‘being present’ in the present moment. But … how can we be more present? Most of my work both for corporate and individual application centers [...]
For many years now, we’ve been exploring the impact of stressed breathing patterns on mental alertness and other cognitive functions. I’ve just done a new review of research on this important theme, and the documentation now entirely clear: When stress and anxiety, time pressure and other stressors tense the natural breathing cycle, the resultant shallow [...]
One of the most important video meditation programs on our “QUIET MIND” DVD is called “Emotional Help”, and this month you can enjoy this video here on our site for free. This guided video program is designed to be experienced several times a week, to help you discharge pent-up emotions, heal old emotional wounds, balance [...]
Because I began my career working as a therapist struggling to integrate cognitive therapy and meditation, I’ve been watching the great progress people like Steven Hayes (psychology professor at the University of Nevada) who has step by step managed to bring mindfulness meditation into the mainstream of cognitive therapy during the last ten years or [...]
Each interview I’ve given during the last 3 months for Expand This Moment has been unique, now that I’ve learned to really let the interviewer bring out of me what he or she is drawn to … these new interviews reflect that highly-intereactive spirit of engagement – where I find myself saying things that are [...]
Someone observing our current culture from afar would probably notice that we spend a great deal of time focusing on conflict points rather than choosing to focus on more-rewarding cooperation points. As if in self-torture, we tend to fixate on what upsets us – makes us angry and stressed out and worried and confused and [...]
So often, during the period of my life where I was doing a lot of marriage counseling, I would see otherwise quite beautiful relationships on the verge of breaking apart, simply because one or both of the people had faulty ‘togetherness’ programming from their childhood, mostly from their parents’ relationship patterns. All too often, young [...]
(Except from The Presence Process:) Gratefulness is the one single marker we can depend on as an indicator of how present we are in our experience. When we lack gratitude for simply being alive it’s because we have strayed from the present into an illusory mental state called “time”. In the world of time, it’s [...]
This Focus Phrase, “I feel connected with my source,” is the tenth Focus Phrase in my basic meditation/awareness/manifestation program, and represents the utter depths of the meditation each time you move through the twelve Focus Phrases. See what happens inside you right now when you say this Focus Phrase to yourself silently, as you breathe [...]
For almost exactly a month now, ATT goofed and goofed again in trying to hook me up to the internet … finally today, I’m back. Sorry for the gap of a month since I did any blogging here – it was weird to be unplugged for so long – at at the same time, it [...]
Enough of you folk are coming to this site now, to provoke friends into saying that I should be advertising on this site and making effortless money from all your visits. Hmm. I wonder if you want to see ads on this site? Please leave a comment at the bottom of this page, voting yes [...]
A while back, ‘healing your inner child’ was a fad that swept the nation. Remember it? But how many of us actually accomplished this essential act of self-nurturing, before the fad disappeared and we forgot about our inner child altogether? By the very nature of human family dynamics, we all got damaged as children, that’s [...]
John was interviewed recently by Greg Voisen, a San Diego corporate coach and author consultant who hosts the very sharp weekly show called InsidePersonal Growth. In this interview, Greg encourages John to talk about the origins of his Focus Phrase Process, and then provides space for John to guide listeners fully through his Process, so [...]
I tend to listen to spiritual teachers who are way out on the edge but in balance. I have known enough to know they are mortal human beings focused on teaching insights that Spirit has taught them … so I take them with a grain of humorous salt, and also trustfully at least tentatively explore [...]
The success-variable at work that right now needs urgent attention is the awareness variable. As John Selby insists, the underlying quality of awareness that a company sustains in its leaders and employees determines the overall success and durability of that company. In this recent lecture, John highlights the importance of the universal 12 Focus Phrases [...]
Worldwide, our business community is still reeling from its most-recent crash, and trying to figure out the root cause of its recurrent collapses and general state of weakness and confusion. John Selby recently visited San Diego and did an interview with Kristen White, talking in depth about what he sees as the root psychological problem [...]
Too much of the time, most of us are going around quietly hurting emotionally, isn’t this true? We’re stressed out, worried about the future, suffering from old emotional wounds of rejection, depression, apprehension, guilt, shame and so forth. In this new short video, John offers his daily path to healing those emotional wounds, so that [...]
Like many people. ever since I was very young there’s been this part of me that likes very much to shift into fiction adventure romantic fantasy realms where I let dramatic imaginations take me deeper perhaps than even ‘real life’ usually does. I spend time telling stories in order to explore certain feelings and ideas [...]
Much of my work involves quieting the chronic flow of thoughts, images, memories and imaginations through the mind (thinking) in order to enter into highly-rewarding direct engagement with the real world (experiencing). In order to comprehend why a quiet mind is often more valuable than being lost in thought, I’d like to share several new [...]
Almost all of us had one or more people, usually a parent, grand parent, or relative, who deeply touched our lies before we were six years old, imprinting positive qualities at the core level of faith and emotional resonance. IF you pause a moment, do you remember someone early in your life who truly touched [...]
(this was written for the Huffington Post …) “The person who maintains a higher quality of awareness will almost always succeed beyond someone with a lower level of awareness – that’s a basic performance law. And companies that maintain a higher awareness profile will outperform companies whose leaders and employees are less aware, less alert, [...]
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