Month: September 2009

The Applause Of Heaven

This message was re-brought to my attention by a couple
of subscribers who received this by email this week, &
re-experiencing how powerful this is myself, I decided to
re-post it here…Enjoy!

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Let’s do a quick experiment.

In a moment, I’m going to send you to watch a quick 3 minute video.

As you watch, though, and you see everyone clapping and cheering,
I want you to imagine for a moment that they’re all cheering for you.

A few years ago I read excerpts from a book by Max Lucado with
a wonderful title:

The Applause of Heaven

Today as I watched the video of Paul Potts singing below, I imagined the
feeling of people clapping and cheering for me, and I realized
how deeply the desire to be loved, accepted, and approved runs
in all of us.

For a moment I want you to experience the feeling of being
cheered, of being loved.

Whatever your circumstances, whatever your failures, whatever
you feel you’re lacking or wish were different, take a moment
now, watch the video, and enjoy the feeling of being cheered,
loved, and celebrated just for being you.

Then leave a comment about what you experience below.

To a blessed and wonderful week!

Dr. Ben

The Parable of the Trapeze

Heard this interesting “parable” from a business leader named
Dan Conlon at a talk in the Chicago suburbs this weekend, and
felt it had such a broad and powerful application to any key
transition in life that I wanted to share it with you here.

Dan called it, the “Parable of the Trapeze”

Imagine swinging on a trapeze…and as you reach the end of
your swing, another trapeze bar is swinging towards you.

You know that bar is for you.

Now you’ve got to let go of the bar you have in order to grasp
that next bar…

similarly in our life, relationships, health, or business, when
called to a new level, we have to let go of what’s comfortable
and familiar, and we’ve got to grab hold of the next “bar” so
we can travel the distance we’re meant to go.

If you let go consciously it looks really cool; if you let go
hesitantly – it looks really bad.

In between is where you’re the most alive — where you’ve
let go of one bar and not yet grabbed the next one — there’s
something new, and there’s risk. 

Now here’s a key:

If you focus on the doubt, gravity begins to take over.

On the other hand, if you let go of the bar consciously and
grab the next one, you can build momentum in your life.

So next time you’re faced with something new, remember the
“Parable of the Trapeze.”

Dr. Ben

P.S.  Just heard from Dan that the Parable of the Trapeze originally comes from Danaan Parry – “Hurtling through the void, we just may learn how to fly.”