Ending the year of the snake

Welcoming the year of the fire horse

Everything is Energy: The Shoaling Technique to Bend Reality and Influence Others

Most people believe they make decisions as individuals, but they don't. Just observe nature. Whether it’s flocks of birds or massive shoals of fish, humans subconsciously synchronise to the dominant signal in the environment. Physics calls this emergence. Neuroscience calls it entrainment. And we see this collective synchronization leading to a collective super intelligence that emerges when many units synchronise to a dominant signal.

Segment 1: The Wisdom of the Shoal

Consider a shoal of fish—sometimes hundreds of thousands of individual fish—moving in perfect unity as if they share a single mind.

Here is the fascinating part: There is no head fish. There is no planning, and there is no communication. Yet, every single fish turns simultaneously and swims in perfect harmony.

Biologists discovered something truly shocking. The shoal always follows the fish with the strongest and clearest directional impulse in the group. It’s not the biggest fish, and it’s not the fastest fish. The one fish with the clearest internal intention acts, and the whole shoal locks onto it.

Segment 2: Humans as Broadcast Towers

We have the capacity to synchronise and influence each other in exactly the same way that fish do. We synchronise based on the strength of our vibration, which is a byproduct of our intention, our emotions, and our thoughts.

Segment 3: The Dominant Field and Entanglement

When you focus your thoughts and emotions towards your intention for an extended period of time, your vibration becomes the dominant field. People with weaker or unfocused fields actually synchronise to you.

Segment 4: The Shoaling Technique

We are talking about building a powerful force field from within which you can use to broadcast your noble desires into the world. I call this powerful technique Shoaling.

How exactly do we build this capacity in our nervous system?.

The practice starts with noticing when you are scattered. You notice when you move into stress, anxiety, or overwhelm. You notice when your thoughts are jumping from topic to topic, feeling like you are not enough, or not being as far along as you should be.

The intention is simple: Bring yourself back to an image of the shoal. You close your eyes and imagine yourself connected to the shoal, connected to all the fish around you.

What happens when things show up in your shoal that don't belong—a problem, a crisis, or a certain person?.

How to Change Your Personality in Two Steps
Do you like trying lots of new things, or do you prefer to follow a routine?

Do you enjoy spending time with other people, or do you feel more comfortable alone?

Your answers to these questions may help describe your personality.

Personality researchers often use a model called the "Big Five" to divide personalities into five key traits.

These traits include: openness to experience, which includes how curious and creative you are; agreeableness; conscientiousness; extroversion; and neuroticism — with this last one referring to your tendencies toward depression and anxiety.

While some believe these traits don't really change over our lives, Shannon Sauer-Zavala of the University of Kentucky says not only do they change, but we can actually change them ourselves.

Writing in The Conversation, Sauer-Zavala says changing your personality starts with making some simple changes to your thinking and behavior. And these changes can have an effect over just a few months.

First, she says, you need to become aware of your thoughts to see how they're affecting your personality. For example, if you keep thinking, "Nobody likes talking to me," you probably won't feel comfortable in social situations, and won't be very extroverted.

Next, you need to become aware of how you usually behave in certain situations, and then try behaving in new ways.

So if you usually avoid talking to people in social situations, they probably won't talk to you either — which might feel like it proves your thinking that nobody likes talking to you.

But if you try something different — say, actively approaching people and trying to talk to them — it creates an opportunity to change both your behavior and the way others act toward you.

As you keep actively talking to people and get better at it, you will start to enjoy it more — which would make you more extroverted. And that's a change in your personality!

It all starts with your thinking and behavior.