New Tools for Stress & Business Development
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The Emotional Farmer
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Background on this TopicMy start in Emotional FarmingDawson Community College
Agriculture Marketing & Financial Analysis
Format: One-on-one + LectureInteresting and consistent themes Share my experiences, research, tools and techniques for stress management and business development
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Farm A vs. Farm BFarm A vs. Farm BWhat makes Farm A so much
healthier?The FUTURE, and most important
aspect of business development – Intentionality and Resistance, and tools to enhance this process
To be more specific – its all about EMOTIONS
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Emotional Farmer
Odd language to use in Farming
The real secret is how to harness and use the emotions attached to your desired experiences, and how to melt away the emotions attached to your limiting beliefs, values, judgments, and memories.
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Stress!!!
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Common Agriculture Stressors Living with Tight Money,Feeling like Hired Labor,Heavy Work Load,Farm Greater Priority than Family,Relationship Issues,Lack of Control over Natural WorldTime Pressures,Machinery Failures,Poor Teamwork,Differing Time Commitments,
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Common Agriculture Stressors Receiving Criticism from Family,Disagreement over Spending,Not being Involved in Decisions,Not being on Own,Taking More/Less Risk than Others,Lack of Adequate, Affordable ,
Accessible Child Care,Media Portrayal of Agriculture
Industry,Farm/Home Role Conflicts,Generational Communication
Difficulties,7
Common Agriculture Stressors Family/Business/Ownership
Dynamics,Marketing Decisions,Meeting with Bankers,Rising Input Costs,Excessive Paperwork,Farm Transfer,Constant Attention to Business,Inadequate Access to Health Care
Services for Mental & Emotional Stress due to Geographic Location
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Statistics on StressStress related problems in the U.S. cost $300
billion annuallyIn California, workers compensation claims
for mental stress increased more than 700% during the 1980’s
40% U.S. workers rate their jobs as being very stressful or extremely stressful
50% of all workers say their jobs are more stressful now than just a few years ago
Individuals experiencing high stress are three times more likely to be ill than those without stress
Stress-related illnesses cost U.S. industry 132 million workdays of lost production annually
¼ workers have taken a mental health day off from work to cope with stress
Statistics on Stress
Up to 40% of job burnout is blamed on stressWorkers who report stress incur health care costs
46% higher on average, or $600 more per person, than other employees
Half of Americans report lying awake at night due to stress
1/3 struggle with managing work and family responsibilities
> 50% say stress causes them to fight with the people closest to them
¼ report that they have been alienated from a friend or family member due to stress
Statistics on Stress
Tranquilizers, antidepressants, and anti-anxiety medications account for ¼ of all prescriptions written in U.S. per year
Stress contributes and affects heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, immune system, development of alcoholism, obesity, suicide, drug addiction, and much more
Employee stress is being recognized as a major drain on corporate productivity and competitiveness
Stress is an inevitable fact of the work place
Identity ChallengeMajor challenge in dealing with stress in
agriculture industry is many farmers carry strong sense of identity
This identify can be compromised by reaching out for help in any formYet, we know farming is one of the most
stressful careers in the countryNo matter how strong one’s sense of
identity is, stress will always present itself somewhere; physical, emotional, psychological, behavioral
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Symptoms of Stress Emotional Symptoms:
Excessive worry, apathy, withdrawal, depression, helplessness and hopelessness, nervous
Physical Symptoms:Headaches, difficulty sleeping, weight
loss/gain, frequent colds, extreme fatigue, upset stomach, muscle tension
Behavioral Symptoms:Excessive drinking/smoking,/eating extreme
mood change w/o apparent reason, outbursts of anger/aggression, irritability
Psychological Symptoms:Inability to concentrate, difficulty in decision
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What are your Stress Management Techniques for the Workplace?
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Managing Stress 1. Therapy
• Insight therapies – talk therapy• Behavior therapies – learning therapy• Biomedical therapies – biological functioning
2. Meditation• Increase happiness, increase inner peace, lowers
stress, increase mental clarity
3. *Outdoor exposure – get into nature A British study found that a walk in the country
decreased levels of depression by 72%, and 90% increase in self esteem
4. *Exercise • Decrease life shortening and aging stress hormones
5. *Friends – close communion with group members
* Evolutionary Psychologist: return to ancestral behaviors15
Managing Stress6. Pets
• Simple petting can lower heart rate, decrease stress and anxiety, and lower blood pressure
7. Proper diet8. Balancing life activities
• Family, work, health, friends, leisure, spirituality9. Imagination
• Imagine being in nature, spending time with pet, etc.
• Mind and body can not tell difference between imagination and “real” world
10.Time management• Set priorities and stick to them• Don’t allow others to distract you• Delegate responsibility to others
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Managing Stress11. University extension publications on
stress management,12. Farm crisis hotlines,13. Farm business management programs,
• Addressing financial and management issues
14. Observe thoughts and language• Stay Tuned!!!
15. Energy Psychology!!!• Stay Tuned!!!
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A More Effective Ways of Understanding Stress
Stress is not a problem as we are often told
It is not about being broken, nor about being weak, it is actually an adaptive function
Actually a good thing!
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Stress is Information!Stress is actually just our bodies way
of communicating with usStress, or pain, is simply the body’s
way of communicating with us that something needs attention
“Something is not right here, something is not in alignment with you”
Our body is giving us hints as to areas in our lives that need attention
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Art to Stress PartnershipFirst step to effective stress management is
listening to your body and identify where the stress is coming from
Important to take note during stress, what is going on here – information
If don’t deal with now, deal with laterRepressed information, like a program
Art is to notice your stress and listen to body, what needs attention
Work, family, friends, spirituality, health, growth/education, self worth, fun/leisure
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Intentionality
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VisionVision is one of the most cited characteristics
of successful managers and business ownersGuiding image of success for yourself,
business, anythingDesired destinationProvides for a future that is planned and
agreed uponShapes the planning processIf not “big” enough, goes unnoticed
Each year, at least one “vision” studentResearch now supports this in a very big way
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Senior thesis rejectionRobert G. Jahn, professor of aerospace
engineering and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University
Princeton Engineering & Anomalies Laboratory (PEAR) 1979
Research on Intention - Princeton
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Variety of physical experiments used to measure effects of intentionIntention & Pin Ball MachineIntention Random Event Generators (REG)
PEAR Laboratory
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Analogous to electronic coin flipper resulting in 50% probabilities
But – when you add operator that attempts to influence the output…
Random Event Generator
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Control
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Experimental
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If I can influence coin flips, what else can I influence?
What is materialism, what is “out there” vs. what is “in here”, and where is “in here”
Maybe goals and having vision are very important!
Maybe adding Intentionality or Vision should be a day to day management practice!
My Experience
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Over 2.5 million trials observed, demonstrating that human intention is capable of influencing physical systems
Operators able to shift output in way that corresponds with intention
When results are summed together, odds of producing intention results by chance are 1 in 1 trillion
Results independent of distance and even time
PEAR
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Intentional Chocolate?!What is it about mom’s chicken soup that
makes you feel so much betterIs it possible that love and good intention
are ingredients that make a differenceDean Radin, PhD of Institute of Noetic
Science researched meditators infusing good intention into chocolate
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Double blind study, placebo controlled, peer reviewed journal “Explore”
“An individual who consumes this chocolate will manifest optimum health and functioning at physical, emotional, and mental levels, and, in particular, will enjoy an increased sense of energy, vigor, and well-being”
Intentional Chocolate?!
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Those people who ate the treatment group chocolate, reported a 67% improvement in well-being, vigor, and energy
In some cases, the improvement was in the 1,000% range!
Suggests that people who live a more intentional and purposeful life can experience outcomes that match their desired experience
Mind and matter deeply interconnected?!
Intentional Chocolate?!
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Intentional Water?!
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Intentionality & VisionThe techniques used in generating
favorable intentionality results are no different than a manager’s ability to create a facilitate vision
By emotionally connecting and finding meaning in this expected outcome, we see just why great managers and owners that use vision succeed!
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Where are you directing your thought?Are you directing your thought?70% of our thinking is negative and
redundant If thoughts can affect random probabilities
of REG’s, water crystallization, crime rates, germination rates, healing, pH levels, placebo, and on and on…how can they affect your being?
Your Intention?
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What if I place and USE Intentions with:How you interact with co-workers…Business development…Enjoy my job…Stress and anxiety…Productivity…Purpose and meaning to my day…Financial success of my business…With every part of your day?
Intention, or Vision, in my business
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Shift our awareness and focus away from the problem at hand, and towards:
The intention of desired experiencesWhat emotions would you like to have in
regards to…
A shift towards Intention
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Resistance
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Transition into Subconscious ThinkingSpecific to business, there is a continuum of belief
systems, values, and judgments that are gathered over time.
Over past several years, I have noticed the following consistently:
Farm businesses that truly and powerfully use vision routinely, and their visions are congruent with their belief systems, values, and judgments, demonstrate business success
Farm businesses that don’t use vision, or use vision but subconsciously counter their intentions with liming belief systems, values and judgments tend to demonstrate fear based characteristics around the health of their business
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Example: I am trying to grow my business, but…Rich people are…
◦ Arrogant, , evil, destroyers, lucky, greedy, sad, selfish, spoiled, stingy, famous, conceited…
Successful business requires you to…◦ Suffer, sacrifice, give of your self, it is difficult…
Dad hated businesses…◦ He was laid off, sued his employer, bad
mouthed…Can’t find clients…
◦ Too much competition, no one has any money for that, leads are uneducated…
None of it is true, but it is all true for him
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Conscious MindConscious mind
Thinks in past and futureSets goals and judges resultsMakes choices and decisionsThinks logicallyDoesn’t control memoryShort term memory capacity of 7 + 2 items
for about 20 secondsAware of 2,000 bits of information per
secondSleeps
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Subconscious MindMonitors body operationsThinks literally – believes everything it is toldUses present time, no concept of timeTakes over behaviors that we repeat – habits Contains strong evolutionary programsRecords everythingIncludes memories, beliefs, fears, defenses,
biases, misconceptions, judgmentsLong term memory unlimited capacity for long
periods of timeProcesses 40 Billion bits of information per secondNever sleeps
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Subconscious Mind cont.According to Emmanuel Donchin, director or
the Laboratory for Cognitive Psychophysiology at University of Illinois, “as much as 99% of the cognitive activity could be outside our awareness”
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Vision comes from Two Sources
Conscious Mind & Subconscious MindOver past several years, I have noticed the
following consistently:Farm businesses that truly and powerfully use
vision routinely, and their visions are congruent with their belief systems, values, and judgments, demonstrate business success
Farm businesses that don’t use vision, or use vision but subconsciously counter their intentions with liming belief systems, values and judgments tend to demonstrate fear based characteristics around the health of their business
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Exercise for Visualizing Subconscious Belief Systems: Writing on our WallsImagine that we all live in a PalaceEach person has his/her own room, and
tends to stay in their roomThe room is a comfort zoneThe walls are covered with writingCan’s, cant’s, should, should not's, must,
must not's, and suchThe writing is our belief systems, our
values, our comfort zones, its how we interpret the world
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Writing on your WallsWe read this writing all day every dayIf we step out of the room, you leave all
your truths and belief systems – very scary!Writing came from parents, coaches,
teachers, friends, peers, media, culture, religion, and such
Out of your mouth comes your writing on your walls
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Fill in the BlankRich people…Poor people…Atheists…Catholics…Barack Obama…Rush Limbaugh…Healthy people…Unhealthy people…Etc…
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Examples of Subconscious Mind maintaining Safety
Too difficult, too risky, take too long, I don’t deserve it, not my nature, can’t afford it, never happened before, I don’t want to change, not strong enough, not smart enough, too old, what will others say, too young, rules won’t let me, too big, don’t have the energy, its my family history, too busy, too scared, not safe, don’t want to stand out, don’t know who I would be, I might fail…
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Conscious & Subconscious Intention Examples
Average American has tried 8 diets, women 10 times (2005 Gallup Poll)2/3 overweight, 1/3 obese (Center for
Disease Control and Prevention), $60 Billion market in 2008 (Advertising Age, Feb. 2008)
Self-improvement market is worth nearly $10 billion (Marketdata Enterprise Market Report, 2005)
Dawson College student examples49
ReviewOur thoughts are powerful!Those that are consciously intended – like a
visionThose that are subconscious and behind
the scenes – related to our beliefs, comfort zones, values, judgments, and such
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Tip
Every time you use intention, listen to the background chatter; the doubts, the memories, the beliefs, and such, are areas of resistance
They will keep you at bay until they are addressed
Give yourself the opportunity re-address your “resistant” thinking
Get your conscious & subconscious thinking on the same page
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What is the Solution?Major challenge in dealing with stress
management & business development is
1.Lack of vision • Easy to address this• Daily ritual to emotionally resonate with
your ideal experiences – business or personal
2.Limiting beliefs, values, identity, judgments, & stress• Not easy to address
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We Need a Solution for the “Writing on our Walls”
What we need is:1.Self Administered,2.Easy to Learn,3.Highly Effective Treatment,4.FREE!!!
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Energy Psychology
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EFT Video www.emotionalfarmer.com
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Energy Psychology
Energy Psychology Definition: number of related therapies based on the Chinese meridian system of medicine and western psychology
Roger Callahan & TFTGary Craig & EFT
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Emotional Freedom Techniques
Gary Craig Stanford University trained engineer
Life long interest in personal development
CharacterBusiness model for
EFT – open hand policy, accessible
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Emotional Freedom TechniqueA simple self administered
acupressure technique, which you can use to relieve negative emotions, physical pains and ailments, and more easily adjust to your dominate intentions
Emotional upsets are the result of an imbalance in the body’s energy system
The body’s energy system is balanced by tapping with fingertips on selected points along the energy meridians
Psychological version of acupuncture, w/o needles
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Used For:
Fears & phobias, pain management, weight loss, addictions & obsessions, allergy relief, trauma, insomnia, PTSD, asthma relief, headaches, relationships, self-esteem, rage and anger, performance anxiety, depression, ADD-ADHD, abundance, and much more
Business Development – judgment, success, money, confidence, excuses, ability, sales, patience, creativity, etc.
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Research
The Andrade-Feinstein study (Preliminary Report of the First Large-Scale Study of Energy Psychology), which tracked more than 29,000 patients from 11 allied treatment centers in South America during a 14-year period. In this study 90 percent of the experimental group (using tapping) improved, and 76 percent were judged to be symptom-free (as opposed to 63 percent and 51 percent of the control group, respectively). Reported in Energy Psychology Interactive: An Integrated Book and CD Program for Learning the Fundamentals of Energy Psychology. Ashland, Oregon: Innersource. 60
Mechanics
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EFT Utilizes Common Spots
Massage under eyesMassaging templesPalm or fist to chestPalm to foreheadHeel of hand to
foreheadFace in hands
Biting on fingers Scratching head,
chest, under arm, legs, etc
Wringing hands Arms folded
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Acupressure Points
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EFT’s Basic Recipe
Process Easy to follow Simple to do One minute to
complete Four Ingredients
Problem Score Setup Reminder Score
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Step 1: Identify the problem
Physical or emotionalCan be easy to identify, may be very
difficult to identifySpend bulk of the recipe time hereReason why many have difficultyReal secret is getting to the core
issues
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Step 2: Determine an Intensity Level
Subjective Unit of Distress
(SUD)On a scale of 0 to 10
10 = worst ever 0 = no longer a problem
How much does this problem bother you NOW? If don’t know – guess Write your # down
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Step 3: Setup up spot + Add Phrasing
Generic Setup
Even though I have this (problem), I deeply and completely accept myself.
Problem + Freedom (acceptance, choice, forgiveness)
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Step 4: Vent!
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Step 5: Re-score your intensity level
Subjective Unit of Distress (SUD)On a scale of 0 to 10
10 = worst ever 0 = no longer a problem
How much does this problem bother you NOW?
Retest by imagining or presenting the issue again
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Types of change you should expect to seeEmotional charge Physical relief or shiftBehavioral changesPsychological shiftsCognitive shifts
It happened, its over, I’m safe, I learned from it, ready to move on
Awareness shiftBrain capable of processing 40 billion bits
of information per secondOur awareness is only of 2,000 bits per
secondSynchronicity (shift in physical system
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Emotional Farmer
Odd language to use in Business
The real secret is how to harness and use the emotions attached to your desired experiences, and how to melt away the emotions attached to your limiting beliefs, values, judgments, and memories.71
SummaryFormula is simple:
1. Use Intentionality towards your desired experiences and emotions
2. Use EFT for resistant thinking and limiting beliefs
Intentionality and EFT both require HIGH emotionality to be most effective
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To learn more, visit the following:www.TheOvermanProject.comwww.HR-SolutionsToday.comwww.EmotionalFarmer.com
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