Monday, August 27, 2007

Week 12 Summer Review & Fall Preview


We covered a lot of ground this summer on the show. What we wanted to do this WED was take a look over our shoulder and review each lunar phase and what we covered as a means of reviewing this material and also to prepare the audience for yet another turn in the river beginning with next week show. Starting with the SEPT 5th show, we'll be conducting live Emotional Makeovers for callers live on the air. We'll use this week's show to introduce you to the process as we retrace our steps through the first 11 lunar phases of the Summer.

Did you all see the bloody lunar eclipse on TUES? Here's a video clip: http://itn.co.uk/news/ca844ca01cdbc4f92587646d21e8a931.html

Take this time to go back and replay some of the videos, visit some of the links and get to know the 4 SomaStars we profiled for you this past month. We'll keep this blog up in the air for you to harvest but look for our new Show Blog address on the Host Site over the weekend. We're excited about what's next. Are you?



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Monday, August 20, 2007

SomaStar #4 - ONTO Maverick, Pete Egoscue

Pete Egoscue


You can’t pigeonhole Pete Egoscue. He doesn’t fit into a nice, neat category. He has no formal medical or physical therapy training. In fact, he graduated with an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Utah State University, specializing in “jockdom” (or sports). He then went on to serve as an Infantry Officer in the United States Marine Corps for ten years, resigning his commission in 1978 as a Major.

In an effort to describe or put a label on him, long time friend and client Jack Nicklaus calls Pete an “Anatomical Functionalist” and goes on to say, “Pete Egoscue has totally changed my life. Never have I experienced such complete pain relief as I have by following the Egoscue Method.” Pete’s publisher, Bantam Books prefers the term “Anatomical Physiologist” when referring to Pete being consulted by some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment. But the bottom line is that Pete Egoscue has been successfully helping people relieve themselves of chronic pain since 1978. He has authored four books, including the best selling book, Pain Free. He is also host of the extremely popular, nationally syndicated talk radio show, Pain Free.

When you ask Pete to put a label on himself, he says, “I’m the Posture guy”. Pretty modest for a man who is responsible for establishing over 18 clinics (and counting), world wide, with corporate headquarters in San Diego, California. In fact, the Egoscue Method is “the world leader in non-medical pain relief”. Pete Egoscue is responsible for creating a therapy method that relieves chronic pain, and encourages peak physical performance for the young, the old, the athlete, the non-athlete, the famous, and the infamous. This unique method is based on the body’s functional design – or posture. Therefore, to put it simply, Pete Egoscue is a “Posture Therapist” – a very good one!


This ONTO doesn't have time for your b.s. (belief system). He deals with the 'elusive obvious' most of us miss hunting for exotic explanations for our chronic physical problems. Once you hear him speak or read his book or even visit his website, his infectious insistence that you have a blueprint for well-being written into your body's design takes hold. Listen to his radio show and you can see how he just knows why you hurt and how to eliminate it. It's like Pete has a copy of the rules of being a fully aware human being. The way he shares it his secret. His SAT morning radio show Pain Free Radio is a weekly initiation in Pete's knowledge base of no-nonsense postural re-education. While the science behind his work is almost incidental to him (egghead stuff), the art of living free of self-induced physical limitations is his passion. The success of his landmark book, oddly titled Pain Free has made Pete's extremely simple exercises (he's got over 400 of them and counting) transferable because he's using all his Secondary Domains. By being both a voice of the people (PHYLO) and a thorn in the side of the establishment (ECO), Pete captures your attention by speaking the truth to you and the way you live. He takes no guff from you about poor results you may experience.
Instead, he points to the facts of your life and says that until and unless you align with the facts of life in general, your poor results are actually your best friends. He says life is nothing but one giant stimulus and your symptoms, results, and outcomes are the response. The game never ends so if you start to slip into patterns of dysfunction, it's on you to change the menu. His work provides both an immediate path to regaining control of your body and a strategy (EXO) to confront the emotional and mental anguish pain brings us. This allows Pete to let his life to flow from IN-8 pattern #8 (truth) to pattern #4 (love) which gives him a 'code' to get right to the core of each person's capacity to self-regulate by following nature's design for them. All these factors make Pete a legit SomaStar (someone who's able to open their identity up and weave in aspects of all 4 life narratives to create a truly integrated life story). Take a look at some of ammo he left for us.


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Monday, August 13, 2007

SomaStar #3 - PHYLO Yapster, Michael Port

Michael Port


Called a “marketing guru” by the Wall Street Journal, Michael Port, has lectured, trained, inspired, and provided coaching and consulting services to over 20,000 business owners in the last two years alone. As a speaker, he has headlined events with leaders like Brian Tracy and Tony Robbins. Before starting his consulting business, Michael spent years honing his management skills by working in senior management for some of the premiere health and fitness companies in the country including The Sports Club Company and Clay, the most luxurious health club in New York, where he served as the Senior Vice President of Operations.


This PHYLO has taken what was a face-to-face industry and created an empire on-line. His MON noon conference calls on his Think Big Revolution have been a 24/7 coffee klatch for service providers in a day and age when time is at such a premium. By using the medium of the telephone, Port is able to convey his very caring voice to a world-weary crowd of 'big thinkers'. He creates an atmosphere of solidarity (ECO) and engages the listeners in some quick feedback exchanges that allow the rest of the audience to gain from their experiences and questions. But it's not just about feeding the emotional needs of the members of his tribe. Port has created an entire self-branding process, from conception to launch to development and now planning to springboard from the success of his book, Book Yourself Solid to his next book, aptly named Beyond Booked Solid. So you can see how by positioning himself as the ONTO leader of the small business service providers he's using all his Secondary Domains. This allows Michael to allow his life to flow from IN-8 pattern #7 (happiness) to pattern #3 (freedom) which allows him to thrive on ambiguity and opportunity...

All these factors make Michael a legit SomaStar (someone who's able to open their identity up and weave in aspects of all 4 life narratives to create a truly integrated life story). Take a look at some of clues he left for us.

Last Blog Entry - Reality Check

Amazon Profile

Podcast Interview - Michael Interview SomaStar #2, Timothy Ferriss (isn't that special?)

Michael stumps to the peeps on You Tube

OK, that's a flyover on Michael... heed him if you can...


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Monday, August 6, 2007

SomaStar #2 - Ken Wilber EXO "Mapster"

Ken Wilber
"Ken Wilber is generally regarded as the world's most influential Integral thinker. He is the first psychologist-philosopher in history to have his Collected Works published while still alive, and with his 22 books translated in up to 30 foreign languages, Ken is perhaps the most highly translated academic writer in America." - from Integral Institute's History page

This EXO has all the classic feel of the wise recluse who just distills knowledge from behind the veil of his keyboard. In his latest book, Integral Spirituality he gets into a cross-cultural mode and proposes using what he calls an Integral Methodological Pluralism - which is his way into the octal code's IN-8 patterns as far as we're concerned. The Amazon review of the book place it out this way...Integral Life practices involve engaging every level of being such as body, emotion, mind, soul and spirit to bring about transformation of consciousness.

So how does a 'heady' EXO like Ken get this idea to spread and develop. Wilber's AQAL map is his greatest memetic device. It allows him to use both history and experience to reach both the lineage-bound PHYLO's and the self-asserting ONTO's. The content he places inside that AQAL map is where the ECO's are fed and since EXO's can't resist a well-organized lexicon, they all shave their heads and move to Colorado and join the tribe (relax, he's not a cult leader, but he could play one well on You Tube. These well-orchestrated Secondary Domains align in Ken and allow his life to flow from IN-8 pattern #4 (love) to pattern #8 (truth) which is what a philosopher is defined as anyway...
All these factors make Ken a legit SomaStar (someone who's able to open their identity up and weave in aspects of all 4 life narratives to create a truly integrated life story). Take a look at some of artifacts he left for us.

Last Blog Entry he's got another book! Holy Sacred Cow!
Wiki Page
PodCast Interview
Ken stops his brain waves on You Tube
OK, that's a fly over on Ken...decipher him if you can...
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