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Take a deep breath in and slowly release it. Think about someone who is close to you and loves you. This can be someone from your life now, someone from the past, or someone who has passed away. Imagine that person standing beside you. Indeed, anything done with love increases its calibration, seen in the everyday arena of the food we eat. Machine-made food calibrates at 188-200, but homemade food rises to 209, and if it is blessed, it rises to 215. Machine-made bread at the supermarket calibrates at 188, but if the bread comes from the bakery in the same supermarket, it rises to 203 and then higher if it is blessed. Cookies made for the family calibrate at 520. These calibration differences are a unique demonstration analogous to Heisenberg's principle in that the introduction of human consciousness and intention alter the field. It also gives evidence that prayer itself is more than just wishful thinking. It follows that we bring more love into our lives simply by consciously focusing on its presence as a motivator in everyday life. For example, this can be noticed in the love involved in making the family dinner, in cleaning the kitty boxes, or in going to work to pay the bills. Ordinary endeavors, done out of love, carry great power. Consciousness calibration confirms the truth of Mother Teresa's famous statement: Do small things with great love. Preoccupied with what other people would think, Linda's parents could not get past their own fears of social rejection to understand who their daughter really was. When Linda's motivation began to take her down unexpected paths of nonconformity, with interests in art and unfeminine competitive sports, her parents became alarmed and warned her against being so different. On the rare occasions when Linda tried to stand up for herself, her mother became stridently critical and punitive. Linda's mother misread her daughter's self-defense as disrespect. My work with Linda clearly had to help her focus on rediscovering the certainty of motivation she had felt as a child, before her parents' fears made her doubt herself. Childhood Motivation

We all start out life full of motive. As little children, we are propelled around by motivation like inflated balloons released to jet around the room obeying the laws of physics. We are full of wants and desires, and the whole world is just begging us to come and get it. We are our motives. They are sending you their love and their hopes for your happiness and safety. See and feel the warm wishes coming from that person toward you. You might picture it as a wave coming toward you, filling you, and surrounding you. Think about a second person who also loves you. They also send you their love and their hopes for your happiness and safety. See and feel that warmth surround you and enter inside of you. Now, imagine that you are surrounded by all the people you have ever known who love and cherish you. Your friends, family members, and community. They are sending you their love and their hopes for your happiness and safety. Surround yourself in that love and fill your heart and body with it. Societal Leadership High-energy fields in societal leadership are rare, but recent historical examples give evidence of their power to overcome seemingly impossible societal divides and to usher in major breakthroughs by peaceful means rather than force. Force, through its insistence that the end justifies the means, sells out freedom for expediency. Force offers quick, easy solutions. In power, the means and the end are the same, but its ends require greater maturity, discipline, and patience to be brought to fruition. Great leaders inspire us to have faith and confidence because of the power of their absolute integrity and alignment with inviolate principles.

These all exemplify stature and alliance with integrity, excellence, beauty, and valor. Lower levels of consciousness routinely attack great leaders. Historically, all presidents, especially during times of war (Abraham Lincoln, for example), have been subjected to critical attack, extremes of vilification, or even assassination and have had to go through agonizing moral crucibles, such as Truman's painful decision whether to resort to the atomic bomb to end World War II. His decision calibrates at 475; Thinking comes later. Concepts of good and bad come later. Motivation is there from the beginning. When our enthusiasm pushes us on to the next moment because it offers something better tasting, more fun, or more exciting, we heed its call. We zip along; Unfortunately for some, as Linda described, we then get punished. For those whose spirit is squashed, the surprise of punishment just when we are being most ourselves is an incredible shock to our sense of security about ourselves. As children, we felt divinely inspired to be ourselves and act on our impulses. Suddenly another force opposed our motivation - our parent's reaction. It dawned on us with sickening suddenness that we must have done something very wrong to upset this big, powerful person with whom we lived. You are overfilled with love. Look at the first person next to you. Start to send them your love. You and this person are alike; Send your love and your hopes for their happiness and safety to them. Silently repeat this phrase three times, sending the wishes to that person.

May you be safe, may you be happy, and may you be healthy. Now focus on the second person on your other side. Start to send them your love. You and this person are alike; The evolution of consciousness reveals that it is a major error to assume that others share one's same values. From the Brain Physiology chart, we see that people who calibrate below 200 and those who calibrate above 200 are literally two different kinds of people in how they perceive, process information, and respond in the world. As noted earlier, 85 percent of the world population is below 200, motivated by greed, hate, pride, and other self-centered goals. They are not trustworthy or teachable. Thus it is naive to assume that other people have one's same integrity. Throughout history we see the cost of this naivete. Tens of millions of lives are lost as a result of decent people projecting their own inner decency onto indecent others, and thereby failing to discern the wolf in sheep's clothing. Calibrating just under 200, the wolf has a lot of intelligence, capability, and aggressive confidence in its pack to hunt and kill prey much larger than itself. Wolves use camouflage (deceit) to get near their unsuspecting prey. The sheep, at 210, is a very different energy; Our parents' displeasure was obvious and our motivation suddenly became associated with bad feelings. If we were even less fortunate, our desires might have become associated with the pain of physical or emotional punishment. Consider this: our parents' disapproval and punishment showed how desperately afraid our parents were that our motivation might lead to unacceptable behaviors that could embarrass them. If you have ever felt this kind of conflict, then you know what an uncomfortable bind our truest childhood motivations sometimes can put us in. We can end up being caught between family honor and personal destiny. Motivation Makes Us Different

Through punishment, we learned as children that there was something about us that caused big problems with people we loved very much. It was our motivation that made us different from them. Our childish motivation made us do things our parents objected to, like playing in the toilet. They scolded us and their disapproval made us feel terribly alone, left with nothing but our shriveled motivation. Send your love and your hopes for their happiness and safety to them. Silently repeat this phrase three times, sending the wishes to that person. Just like I hope to, may you live a good life full of safety, happiness, and good health. Now imagine all of the other people who love you. Start to send them your love. You are all alike; Send your love and your hopes for their happiness to them. Silently repeat this phrase three times, sending wishes to those people. May your life be full of happiness, well-being, and health. Think of an acquaintance that you know. Humans and some entire societies calibrate at 190, and they are masters at camouflage by hiding their real intention in the sheep guise of agree-ability, goodwill, and even peacemaking. Consciousness calibration instantly reveals the essence of the wolf hidden in the appearance of a sheep. The calibration of wolf in sheep's clothing, at 120, is worse than expected, as most of the political methods calibrate around 190 (prideful egotism). The calibration of 120 means that it is extremely important to become sophisticated and realize that essence and perception are two completely different things. It is a serious error to misperceive, not a minor one. To think that the Komodo dragon is safe because you are a humanitarian and animal lover does not mean that you can step into its cage wearing sandals.