Enhancing The Human Experience with Mark Phillips

Have you ever looked and looked for something, only to find it in the place you'd least expect it?

This same scenario usually happens when we go looking for happiness and joy.

We search and search for it everywhere, and usually only find it when we stop trying to find it and instead just start doing something useful with our time, like helping other people.

Lots of wise men and women have given us the detailed map to find joy, but we usually have to go through the whole hunt for ourselves, before we eventually wind up where they told us we'd find the joy we were seeking.

In addition to sharing my insights on finding joy, I also share five of my favorite (and I'd say best) quotes on joy, from some of the wise people I mentioned.

Here they are:

"Only a life lived for others is a life worth living." ~ Albert Einstein

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." ~ Albert Schweitzer

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." ~ Ghandi

"Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you." Daisaku Ikeda

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy.  I awoke and saw that life was service.  I acted and behold, service was joy." ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Quote of the Week:

See above.

Resources Mentioned:

Enhancing the Human Experience Store - Products and Apparel for Conscious Creators

Awesome Resources Created Just For You:

Just Be It! - Improve your performance and your results in any area of your life quickly and easily!

The Alchemy of Despair - 17 of the most effective techniques I've ever encountered for reclaiming your happiness!

The Magic of Being - Teach your child how to develop their self-image in a fun, entertaining way!

Connect with me

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How to review the show on iTunes - If you enjoy the podcast, it would be awesome if you'd take a minute and write a review on iTunes.  To do that, just launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone.  Search for Enhancing The Human Experience.  Select the album art for the show.  Then select ratings and reviews.  Then write your review.  Thank you in advance, I really appreciate it!

All the best - health, wealth, and success!

Mark

Today on the show, I’m taking you on a special VIP tour of the brand new Enhancing the Human Experience online store.

If you follow me on social media, you’ve probably seen me posting and talking about this project for the past few months.

Well, the day is finally here to open the doors and share it with you.

The store is filled with all the products and apparel a conscious creator like yourself needs to create and live an extraordinary life.

I'll be sharing some of the merchandise in the store over the next few weeks on the show, so check back often to get first hand glimpses of the items available.

I've also put together a little something for you that I'm calling The Conscious Creator Package.

It consists of (2) silicone wristbands and (2) 4x6 mini posters.

It's yours when you spend $100 or more, at one time or in cumulative purchases in the store.

You can learn more about it on the home page of the store.

Quote of the Week:

Fill your space with reminders of your divinity and your power to consciously create your life and watch your life transform and your experiences improve." ~ Yours truly :)

Resources Mentioned:

Enhancing the Human Experience Store - Products and Apparel for Conscious Creators

Awesome Resources Created Just For You:

Just Be It! - Improve your performance and your results in any area of your life quickly and easily!

The Alchemy of Despair - 17 of the most effective techniques I've ever encountered for reclaiming your happiness!

The Magic of Being - Teach your child how to develop their self-image in a fun, entertaining way!

Connect with me

Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Google+

How to review the show on iTunes - If you enjoy the podcast, it would be awesome if you'd take a minute and write a review on iTunes.  To do that, just launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone.  Search for Enhancing The Human Experience.  Select the album art for the show.  Then select ratings and reviews.  Then write your review.  Thank you in advance, I really appreciate it!

All the best - health, wealth, and success!

Mark

If there ever was a sure-fire way to win the game of life, it would include listening to our higher selves.

I'm talking about that part of us that isn't bound by knowledge, or intellect, or conditioned thinking.

That part of us that knows we are infinitely creative beings who can bring anything into being just by focusing the creative power within us on what we want and then getting out of our own way and letting it happen.

When we tune in and listen to the guidance our higher self is always sending us, we're much more apt to do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, and create the very best experiences for ourselves and others.

It's a lot like playing the game, red light, green light.

When we're on the right track with a project or idea, we feel excited and energized.

This is a green light to move forward and keep going.

When we're on the wrong track, we'll feel less enthusiastic and also a bit depleted.

This is a red light from our higher self and a signal that we should stop moving forward on it (maybe for good).

If you've ever had these feelings, you know they can be subtle, especially for those of us who haven't practiced this type of communication with ourselves before.

But, like anything in life, this awareness can be developed.

In this episode, I talk about an experience I recently had where I felt a strong red light from my higher self.

I definitely learned the value of tuning in to my feelings.

I put together a short list of questions that may help you discover if you're on the right track with a project or idea you're developing:

Does it feel good or bad to you?

Does it feel like a struggle, or is it flowing fairly easily?

Does it make you feel alive and energized, or dead and depleted?

Does it feel right or wrong for you?

Are you forcing it, or allowing it to unfold naturally?

What wants to come through you?

Let the games begin!

Quote of the Week:

The whole course of things goes to teach us faith.  We need only obey.  There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Resources Mentioned:

None this week.

Awesome Resources Created Just For You:

Just Be It! - Improve your performance and your results in any area of your life quickly and easily!

The Alchemy of Despair - 17 of the most effective techniques I've ever encountered for reclaiming your happiness!

The Magic of Being - Teach your child how to develop their self-image in a fun, entertaining way!

Connect with me

Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Google+

How to review the show on iTunes - If you enjoy the podcast, it would be awesome if you'd take a minute and write a review on iTunes.  To do that, just launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone.  Search for Enhancing The Human Experience.  Select the album art for the show.  Then select ratings and reviews.  Then write your review.  Thank you in advance, I really appreciate it!

All the best - health, wealth, and success!

Mark

Have you ever noticed how well things work out when you get out of your own way and allow yourself to "go with the flow" and be guided by the higher, all-knowing part of yourself.

Things usually work out pretty well don't they?

This is the best state to be in.

When we're in this state, our thinking, rational mind takes a back seat, and our higher, all-knowing self takes over and says and does the right thing, at the right time, in the right way.

We have so much power in this state, because we're not doing things.

We're allowing things to be done through us.

I really feel this is the state we want to live in all the time to create optimal experiences for ourself and others.

Life always works out well when we're in this state.

When we're in this state, there's no judgement, no critical analysis, and no overthinking, just pure focused awareness and presence.  It doesn't get much better than that, does it?

It's the state of no-mind, or mindlessness, and it's a wonderful thing.

Quote of the Week:

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few." ~ Shunryu Suzuki

Resources Mentioned:

None this week.

Awesome Resources Created Just For You:

Just Be It! - Improve your performance and your results in any area of your life quickly and easily!

The Alchemy of Despair - 17 of the most effective techniques I've ever encountered for reclaiming your happiness!

The Magic of Being - Teach your child how to develop their self-image in a fun, entertaining way!

Connect with me

Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Google+

How to review the show on iTunes - If you enjoy the podcast, it would be awesome if you'd take a minute and write a review on iTunes.  To do that, just launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone.  Search for Enhancing The Human Experience.  Select the album art for the show.  Then select ratings and reviews.  Then write your review.  Thank you in advance, I really appreciate it!

All the best - health, wealth, and success!

Mark

Thankfully, we live in a Universe governed by cause and effect.

It's because of this law that we have a high degree of control (some would say complete control) over the experiences we encounter in life.

With this law on our side, we can attract (or create) the circumstances we want in life via the process of personal transformation.

In the game of life, personal transformation is the way we win.

When we change...our experiences change accordingly.

This is the magic of being human.

We get to choose how we show up in the world every single day.

We get to make up our mind, and consciously create ourselves at the level of thought using our imagination.

No other creature has this divine ability.

When we show up differently, we will naturally have different experiences.

One tool to help you show up differently is a being board.

A being board is a powerful tool for personal transformation.

In this episode, I talk about how to make one and how to use it to start attracting more of the experiences you want to have in every area of your life.

Quote of the Week:

Before you can do something, you must first be something." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Resources Mentioned:

None this week.

Awesome Resources Created Just For You:

Just Be It! - Improve your performance and your results in any area of your life quickly and easily!

The Alchemy of Despair - 17 of the most effective techniques I've ever encountered for reclaiming your happiness!

The Magic of Being - Teach your child how to develop their self-image in a fun, entertaining way!

Connect with me

Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Google+

How to review the show on iTunes - If you enjoy the podcast, it would be awesome if you'd take a minute and write a review on iTunes.  To do that, just launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone.  Search for Enhancing The Human Experience.  Select the album art for the show.  Then select ratings and reviews.  Then write your review.  Thank you in advance, I really appreciate it!

All the best - health, wealth, and success!

Mark

(Correction - In this episode, I quoted Paramahansa Yogananda as saying, "All power is within you!"  This is wrong.  It was Swami Vivekananda that said this.  I tend to get these two spiritual dynamos mixed up from time to time :)

So, What's your story?

We ask this question to each other all the time.

It helps us get to know the people we meet, because by listening to their story we can better understand them; "you will know them by their fruits."

If you're like most of us, you know your story well.

But, the story you know is typically your past story.

The more important concept is how well do you know your future story.

While your past story is important to other people, it should be less important to you as an expansive and growing being, because the past is the past.

It's the future (and or the present moment) that is much more exciting.

This is where our real power lies.

If you keep activating your past story, it will keep showing up in your present and future experiences.

Why not activate your future story?  A story that is filled with all of the things and experiences you want to have more of in your life!

Even if your past was full of incredible experiences, there are infinitely more incredible experiences waiting for you in your future.

So, in case someone hasn't asked you recently,...what's your future story?

Quote of the Week:

Inside of every human being is something special, just waiting to be recognized by writing it down and then released into beautiful splendor by taking the correct action.  It's sort of like Michelangelo's David.  He visualized it perfect and then released it from the rock with precise chipping." ~ Mark Victor Hansen, Future Diary

Resources Mentioned:

Future Diary - This book by Mark Victor Hansen can help get you thinking of your future, so you can start activating those seeds in your consciousness.

Awesome Resources Created Just For You:

Just Be It! - Improve your performance and your results in any area of your life quickly and easily!

The Alchemy of Despair - 17 of the most effective techniques I've ever encountered for reclaiming your happiness!

The Magic of Being - Teach your child how to develop their self-image in a fun, entertaining way!

Connect with me

Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Google+

How to review the show on iTunes - If you enjoy the podcast, it would be awesome if you'd take a minute and write a review on iTunes.  To do that, just launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone.  Search for Enhancing The Human Experience.  Select the album art for the show.  Then select ratings and reviews.  Then write your review.  Thank you in advance, I really appreciate it!

All the best - health, wealth, and success!

Mark

Years ago I witnessed a simple exercise that made a profound impact on my life.

I want to share it here because I think it will give you an idea of what we're talking about when we say "turning thoughts to things".

This experience was something that took place during an Aikido Seminar at 3 Shapes Aikido.

AlejAndro Anastasio was our Sensei, and owner of the dojo.

He's been on the show before, here and here.

If you haven't had a chance to check out his podcast, One Hand Speaks, I highly recommend it.

Not only is he a professional public speaker, but he has lived (and continues to live) an extraordinary life.

He shares his experiences on his podcast.

As a side note, in addition to his deep dedication to Aikido, and teaching us solid technique, he would tell us stories that supported what we were learning.

It was an exceptional experience, and one I will always remember.

Getting back to my story...  At this seminar, Robert Nadeau Shihan demonstrated the powerful concept of embodying an idea.

It's something we can all do to rapidly accelerate the realization of our goals and dreams in life.

Because, at the end of the day, everything we want in life is an idea, or a concept.

Embodying the idea of what we want will cause us to act in ways that bring it to us.

This is one of the great practices we human beings can engage in.

Here's a video showing Robert Nadeau talking about ideas and presence during a class session.

We can learn a lot from him on many levels.

Thank you Shihan Nadeau.

Quote of the Week:

First there's the idea...now it has to shift down to the system.  We call it body, or functioning system." ~ Robert Nadeau Shihan

Resources Mentioned:

None this week

Awesome Resources Created Just For You:

Just Be It! - Improve your performance and your results in any area of your life quickly and easily!

The Alchemy of Despair - 17 of the most effective techniques I've ever encountered for reclaiming your happiness!

The Magic of Being - Teach your child how to develop their self-image in a fun, entertaining way!

Connect with me

Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Google+

How to review the show on iTunes - If you enjoy the podcast, it would be awesome if you'd take a minute and write a review on iTunes.  To do that, just launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone.  Search for Enhancing The Human Experience.  Select the album art for the show.  Then select ratings and reviews.  Then write your review.  Thank you in advance, I really appreciate it!

All the best - health, wealth, and success!

Mark

One of the main things we do here on earth is combine separate ideas together to form a new idea.  That's the concept behind the focus and flow too.

The focus and flow tool can help you grow the seeds of your desires fast and effectively.  These are the seeds you've planted in your consciousness.

Here's how to create the tool.

Using two sheets of paper (or one with a line drawn down the middle) make two lists with the following information on the lists:

What has worked out for you in the past, and/or what is currently working out for you.

What you want to work out for you, include your biggest grandest goals and dreams in life.

The goal is to flow your creative energy to what you want to realize, and stop flowing any and all energy to what you don't want to happen.

I realize this is easier said than done, but that is the only way you can realize the experiences you want in life.

We don't make things happen as much as we allow them to happen.

And, things can only work out for us when we get out of own way.

When we do this, we'll draw those experiences into our lives.

Remember, "creation is finished".  What you want is already here.  It's just in seed form.  Therefore, to create (or attract) the experiences you want in life, simply direct your focus to those things and feed them with the creative energy that is constantly flowing through you.

Quote of the Week:

Where focus goes, energy flows." ~ Anthony Robbins

Resources Mentioned:

None this week

Awesome Resources Created Just For You:

Just Be It! - Improve your performance and your results in any area of your life quickly and easily!

The Alchemy of Despair - 17 of the most effective techniques I've ever encountered for reclaiming your happiness!

The Magic of Being - Teach your child how to develop their self-image in a fun, entertaining way!

Connect with me

Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Google+

How to review the show on iTunes - If you enjoy the podcast, it would be awesome if you'd take a minute and write a review on iTunes.  To do that, just launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone.  Search for Enhancing The Human Experience.  Select the album art for the show.  Then select ratings and reviews.  Then write your review.  Thank you in advance, I really appreciate it!

All the best - health, wealth, and success!

Mark

Have you ever had the 'which came first, the chicken or the egg?' debate with someone?

If so, how did it go?

Did you arrive at an answer?

I never have.

That's probably because I never put much mental energy into it.

I'm pretty sure science has already solved this riddle by now.  I may look it up one day, but right now it's at the end of the list of things I want to spend my time doing.

What I want to talk about in this episode of the show, is something much more exciting.  Something that can make a big impact in your life in a very practical way.

That is, 'Which came first, the feeling or the experience?'

Now, this is a debate we can sink our teeth into, right?

Why?  Because the answer to this question can help us consciously create our lives and attract (or create) the experiences we want to have.

Now, isn't that more exciting than talking about chickens and eggs?

Since you're listening to enhancing the human experience, this is the place where we dive into questions like this.

In this episode, I talk about four ways to improve your ability to create the feeling of the experiences you want to have in life.  They are:

Imagination - The better we become at using our imagination, the better we'll become at manifesting.  Because, when it comes to consciously creating our lives, it all begins with our imagination.

Belief and Faith - "Belief creates the actual fact." ~ William James.  Changing our beliefs is vital to realizing better and better experiences.  Beliefs are the bedrock on which our lives are built.

Allow it - In a very real sense, the only thing we need to do is get out of our own way and allow the good that is meant for us to flow into our experience.  I realize this is often easier said than done, but that's the goal.  Allow.  Allow.  Allow.  Make this your mantra and watch out for epic experiences to be yours!  Get really good at allowing your good to come to you rather than resisting it every step of the way (something I am guilty of from time to time).

Consistency and Frequency - Spending time each day doing the inner and outer work is so important to attracting a steady stream of great experiences.

Quote of the Week:

If the [condition you desire] brought a certain amount of joy, satisfaction, and elation into your mental atmosphere, then the feeling that would be yours if you realized [this condition] would also produce that. In other words, that feeling and mental state captured in your imagination and feeling must produce the [condition you desire]." ~ Joseph Murphy

Resources Mentioned:

The 7 Pillars of Personal Development - This course is designed to help you support an extraordinary life by giving you a simple process for developing your relationship with yourself.  How you feel about yourself will be mirrored in the experiences you have in life.  Better experiences truly do begin within.

It - A new tool coming this spring to help you achieve your most exciting goals yet.  Detail to follow.

Awesome Resources Created Just For You:

Just Be It! - Improve your performance and your results in any area of your life quickly and easily!

The Alchemy of Despair - 17 of the most effective techniques I've ever encountered for reclaiming your happiness!

The Magic of Being - Teach your child how to develop their self-image in a fun, entertaining way!

Connect with me

Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Google+

How to review the show on iTunes - If you enjoy the podcast, it would be awesome if you'd take a minute and write a review on iTunes.  To do that, just launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone.  Search for Enhancing The Human Experience.  Select the album art for the show.  Then select ratings and reviews.  Then write your review.  Thank you in advance, I really appreciate it!

All the best - health, wealth, and success!

Mark

Before I recorded the very first episode of this podcast, I was very close to calling it...

Man vs. Mind: In the game of life, winning begins within

The theme would have been the battle we all face each and every day to take control of our mind and focus our thoughts on what's working out for us, and not what what isn't.

To think about the things we want to have happen, not the things we don't want to have happen.

To focus on feeling good, despite any and all reasons we have to feel otherwise.

I had the whole concept flushed out, including epic graphics and a whole blockbuster-like feel to everything.

After all, if I was going to produce something with a name like that it had better deliver in the showmanship, right?

In the end I decided to go with Enhancing the Human Experience, and I'm glad I did.

I just couldn't get past the whole inner confrontation thing that Man vs. Mind conjured up.

Even though, that's exactly what's happening inside each of us every day, as we wrestle with our own mind to focus on the good things that are happening all around us and not the seemingly bad things.

In my opinion, this is the ultimate battle we're all engaged in.

Winning the battle is about enjoying your life and realizing all of the good things you want.

Someday I may create a product of some kind based on the Man vs. Mind theme, but for now it sits.

In this episode however, I'm digging into some of the content I would have offered on Man vs. Mind, and sharing it with you.

Truth be told, the content is really the same as I have been delivering (and will continue to deliver) on this podcast.

Because at the end of the day, there's really only one thing we're doing here as human beings, and that is waking up to our divinity, and our power to create the experiences we want to have in life by deliberately choosing our thoughts and feelings.

In this episode I share the central idea that Man vs. Mind would have been built around and talk about the villain within each of us that we must defeat every day to realize our goals and dreams in life.

The villain within is none other than our own conditioned consciousness.

It goes without saying (because you already know this, I'm sure), that the only person capable of holding us back, or pulling us forward is ourselves.

Saints, sages, and mystics have been telling us for centuries that we have the power to be, do, and have what we want in life.

"All power is within you!" ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

The challenge is getting out of our own way and allowing what we want to come to us.

It's a game of accepting it rather than trying to make it happen.

When we think of all the things that could go wrong if we go for what we want in life, we imprison ourselves.

When we think of all the things that could go right, we set ourselves free.

This is the secret of getting to where we want to be.

What we think about we bring about, and what we focus on expands.

It's our point of focus at any given moment in time that is creating the experiences we will have in the near and distant future.

"Where focus goes, energy flows." ~ Tony Robbins

So here's to you and being victorious in the game of life!

I hope you win everything you've ever wanted and realize the very best experiences in every area of your life.

Quote of the Week:

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self." ~ Napoleon Hill

Resources Mentioned:

None this week.

Awesome Resources Created Just For You:

Just Be It! - Improve your performance and your results in any area of your life quickly and easily!

The Alchemy of Despair - 17 of the most effective techniques I've ever encountered for reclaiming your happiness!

The Magic of Being - Teach your child how to develop their self-image in a fun, entertaining way!

Connect with me

Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Google+

How to review the show on iTunes - If you enjoy the podcast, it would be awesome if you'd take a minute and write a review on iTunes.  To do that, just launch the iTunes podcast app on your computer or phone.  Search for Enhancing The Human Experience.  Select the album art for the show.  Then select ratings and reviews.  Then write your review.  Thank you in advance, I really appreciate it!

All the best - health, wealth, and success!

Mark