Dear Friends,

I have a desire to drive more traffic to the FREE tools that Dr. Michael Ryce and his wife Jeanie are making available through their website at www.whyagain.org, and through the Internet Radio Show they have hosted for over seven years on BlogTalkRadio.com.

To that end, I have written an introduction that I hope to broadcast in different ways to motivate people to visit their website, listen to the Internet Show, or visit the archives of past shows.

Please read the following and give me your feedback about whether this would motivate you to visit their website, or inquire further about these tools.  The problem I have after working with these tools for so many years is that I know their value and use them daily, so it is difficult for me to imagine living my life without them.  As such, I often just assume that anyone who is having difficulty in their emotional lives, or relationships will just naturally want to use these tools.  

So, I am asking for honest feedback on what about the following script would either appeal to you, turn you off, or just leave you flat.  If you would be kind enough to respond in the comments with your thoughts and reactions I would greatly appreciate it.

Here is the script I am proposing:

“I’m Tim Hayes – I’m a clinical psychologist with over 44 years of doing therapy in many different settings throughout my career.

I want to share with you some of the most powerful, efficient, and accessible “TOOLS” I have learned for improving the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of my life.

Your investment in these tools will be your time and effort. The return on your investment has the potential of going beyond words, each time you apply them.

A tool is only productive if someone picks it up and uses it. 

What would it be worth to you to relieve your anxiety without medication, or years of therapy?

What would it be worth to you to alleviate the stress of your anger without medication or years of therapy?

What would it be worth to you to relieve the effects of past trauma in your life without medication or years of therapy?

What would it be worth to you to improve the quality and intimacy in your relationships?
Is it worth your time and effort?

Here is a recent unsolicited testimonial – ”

Dear Dr. Tim
Just want let you know how much Cindy and I have benefited from the work you do along with the whole Mind Shifters team. We live a quite, peaceful life now with an abundance of gratitude and appreciation from doing the work and applying every day.

The truth does set one free.
Sincerely,”  – 

Are you worth it?

If so, and if you are willing to explore solutions that may go against most everything you have been taught about your thoughts, your emotions, your relationships, and even your physical pain and discomfort, then click here to visit www.whyagain.org where you can have direct, FREE access some of the most powerful, effective, and easily accessible tools I have ever encountered.”

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and input.

We Come From Love.  We Are Made Of Love.  We Are Love.  Everything else is false. 

Dear Friends,

The work we do in Mindshifters groups, and on the Mindshifters Internet Radio Show five days each week for the last seven and a half years, continues to amaze me.  The fact is that the use of these tools is changing my life for the better every day.  An added blessing is that I get to see, and hear how the use of these tools is improving other people’s lives on a regular basis.

I am going to include in this blog post links to four recent radio shows.  The thing that makes the first two shows so powerful is the level of honesty that Michele uses in presenting her upset, and doing her work.  If I am going to heal, I must be willing to learn more about what I have been hiding from my self.  I must be willing to face and process out every level of pain, fear, sadness, and anger that I generate, or hold in my system.

In the first two shows from August 2018 Michele does just that.  The results she gets are deep, profound, lasting, and repeatable.  Please listen to the shows with an eye for how each person begins by believing that someone, or something, outside of them has caused their upset, and by the end of applying these tools, they realize that it was all an “inside job”.   In my experience the power of these tools cannot be overstated.

By the third show on Friday August 3, 2018 Michele stated that even though she tried to bring up the anger, sadness, and hurt that she began talking about on August 1st, she could find no trace of it in her mind, or body energy system.  

The fourth show I offer is from Monday August 6, 2018 and it is just another wonderful example of how, if I am willing to quit talking about my problem, quit trying to reason my way to a solution, and simply apply one of the tools Dr. Ryce offers for FREE,  (www.whyagain.org),  I can transform my experience from sadness, anger, or even TERROR, to one of calmness and joy.

While each of these audio files is a complete Internet show in itself, for the most clarity, the first three shows should be listened to in order of their dates, for maximum benefit and continuity.  

The fourth show, from August 6, 2018 stands alone, and is not linked in content to the other shows.

Mindshifter Radio Show 8/1/2018

Mindshifter Radio Show 8/2/2018

Mindshifter Radio Show 8/3/2018

Mindshifter Radio Show 8/6/2018

Please feel free to share these recordings with anyone you know who may benefit from learning some of the most powerful and effective tools I have ever been exposed to in my 44 years of doing therapy.

We Come From Love.  We Are Made Of Love. We Are Love.  Everything else is false.

Dear Friends,

I have been contemplating what prompted me to post the link to the Mindshifters Internet Radio show from 6/22/2018.  The more I listen to that recording, the more it becomes clear to me that the “Synchronicity”, and the “Flow” that was occurring are part of the attraction.  There are several things that occurred which reveal to me how much of a “dance” was occurring between the caller, “the infinite”, and me.  I was moved to use words like “creed” in the beginning of the show which triggered deep associations for the caller, and led us to further discussion which helped her “shift” her thoughts, feelings, and perceptions in a helpful way.

There are also aspects of what was “flowing” which help me clarify and refine my “work”.  One particular aspect that has been on my personal radar for a while now is the the relationship between different levels of meaning for the same words, concepts, events, and interactions.   The guiding force and focus for me through all of this is the recognition that:

“The only significant difference between myself and anyone who has ever lived, is the degree to which we live from the deep realization that we are all the SAME!”

In this case, I am using the phrase “different levels of meaning” the same way Guy Finley uses the phrase, “In Scale”.  It simply refers to that fact that there are many ways to look at a situation, from the concrete logical / linear level, to the more esoteric, symbolic, or mythical level.  Those who reach for different levels of meaning are often tricked into thinking that their new understanding negates their previous understanding.  That is like an adult resenting the fact that they once crawled, or stumbled as they learned to walk.  The more productive approach seems to be accepting and integrating all of the different levels of meaning and life lessons, with the appreciation that all levels of meaning have value.

Here again is the link to the audio file of the Mindshifters Internet Radio show from 6/22/2018.  Click Here

We Come From Love.  We Are Made Of Love.  We Are Love.  Everything else is false.

Dear Friends,

On Friday June 22, 2018 I was asked at the last minute to host the Mindshifters Internet Radio Show.

Thanks to a caller named Susan, and an unspeakable set of forces, the resulting show just flowed and flowed.

I would like to share that audio recording with you, and I welcome any comments, questions or answers you wish to offer.

Click Here to Listen

We Come From Love.  We Are Made Of Love.  We Are Love.  Everything else is false.

Dear Friends,

I am honored to be asked to teach a new class at Relax 4 Life in Barrington, IL this weekend.  I will teaching two of Dr. Michael Ryce’s worksheets – The Reality Management Worksheet, and the Mind/Goal Management Worksheet.

Please forward this to anyone you feel may be interested.

https://www.relax4life.com/workshops/changing-your-current-reality/

We Come From Love.  We Are Made Of Love.  We Are Love!  Everything else is false.

Dear Friends,

I had the honor of addressing the Sunday Congregation at the Tree of Life U.U. Church in McHenry, IL yesterday.  There was a rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow storm happening all morning and yet there were still people who braved the cold and difficult driving conditions to attend the Sunday Service.  Many thanks to all who attended and to the wonderful people at the Tree of Life Church who asked me to speak.

The link to the audio recording of the talk is below:

Dr. Hayes Speaking at U.U. in McHenry, IL

Thanks for listening and sharing this with anyone you feel may enjoy it.

We Come From Love.  We Are Made Of Love.  We Are Love.  Everything else is False.

In our Mindshifters Support Group last night, the discussion about special relationships continued.  It became apparent that several people had interpreted the conversation about special relationships to mean that we should not have any passion, affection, or preference in our relationships.  Nothing could be further from the truth!  We will of course have preferences for some people, places, and things over other people, places, and things.  This is natural and healthy.

The difficulty enters when I think I have to have a special relationship in order to have value, or be worthy, or be happy.  The difficulty arises when I feel tension, sadness, regret, or anger and I think it is because I don’t have a special relationship, or that a special relationship has ended.  In this case, I have misinterpreted the alarm system within me, (which is designed to let me know I am in error), and assumed that my pain means that someone or something else should change, or that the world is wrong!  

“Special Relationships” only have the meaning we attribute to them.  The words we use to describe those relationships only have the meanings we attribute to them.  When I construct a meaning about a relationship that says, “I only have value because of this relationship.”, or “I don’t have value unless I have a certain relationship.”, then I create fear, pain, or tension within myself and hide the source of the fear, pain, or tension from myself.

The quote from Albert Einstein – 

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

He does not say that because my personal desires and affection for people closest to me creates a prison for me, that I should cease all desires and affection for people!  He says that I can only free myself from that prison by having more affection and compassion and extend it to all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.  

A Course In Miracles cautions me not to withhold the essence of my nature, Love, from anyone or anything.  If I do, I am hiding a wound, or pain within me and blocking the healing power of Love from entering there.  

Love, creation, Life is not a zero sum game.  When I give affection, I have not lost anything.  When I extend the awareness of the Love that I am made of, I only get to experience it more fully and more directly!  These teachings encourage us to continually work to become more directly aware of our True nature as the energy of Love, and Creation, and then to extend that energy and awareness to everyone and everything, in every interaction.

We Come From Love.  We Are Made Of Love.  We Are Love!  Everything else is False.

The concept of “Specialness” and “Special” Relationships often stirs up quite a bit of emotional energy when it gets raised as a topic in our groups, or on the Mindshifters Internet Radio Show.  This is probably because we are living in a culture where the economy is driven by advertisers who tell us that we all need to be special and find a way to stand out from the crowd.  We need to be prettier, stronger, thinner, sexier, smarter, richer, etc.  We are also told that as social creatures we “need” to be in a relationship.  Some of us are told that we are not “complete” unless we are in a relationship, that we are in some way defective if we can’t find someone to “love” us exclusively.

I begin with this conversation by bringing out the big name –  Albert Einstein –  

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

So, without even having to reach deep into various spiritual traditions and find explorations about how all yearning for specialness is the work of the ego, or “Edging Out God”, we can just tap into what Einstein lays out for us and realize that specialness creates a prison, and is born of the optical delusion that has us believing that we are separate.

After a recent discussion on the Mindshifters Internet Radio Show on March 16, 2018, during which a caller was struggling with difficult emotions around needing to feel special, it came to me to write down the following observation.

“In order to create any desire for “Specialness”, or a “Special Relationship”, I must first hide from myself the awareness of The Miracle of Life expressing through me and as me in this moment.”

I present this for your consideration and your comments as we continue to explore together the ways to find and remove every blockage to experiencing ourselves as the energy of Love expressing in form.

We Come From Love.  We Are Made Of Love.  We Are Love.  Everything else is False.

Dear Friends,

As many of you know, I have been teaching an all-day class on EFT tapping at Relax 4 Life in Barrington, IL, two or three times a year for over ten years now.  The last class there was March 3, 2018, after which Neal Harris asked if I would like to teach something else at his center.  He suggested that I teach something from Dr. Michael Ryce’s body of work, (probably because he noticed that I can’t stop myself from talking about how this work has dramatically improved my life).

The result was, that after some discussion, I have agreed to teach the following class on June 2, 2018 at Relax 4 Life – “Changing Your Current Reality”.  In this class I will teach The Reality Management Worksheet, and the Mind/Goal Management Worksheet from Dr. Michael Ryce.  These two tools and the knowledge about how my mind creates stress with the goals I set, have changed my life for the better in ways that go beyond words!

Please forward this information to anyone you know who may be interested.  Please also note that for the first time that I am aware of, continuing education credits will be available for the learning of these powerful tools!  So, if you know someone who needs CEU’s for their license or registration in their profession, have them check with Neal at Relax4life.com and see if he will offer the CEU’s they need.

https://www.relax4life.com/workshops/changing-your-current-reality/

We Come From Love.  We Are Made Of Love.  We Are Love.  Everything else is False.

Dear Friends,

I was privileged once again to be asked to speak at the Unity Church in Rockford, IL this past Sunday.

Here is the link to the audio of that talk.

Dr. Hayes Speaking at Rockford Unity

I will also include a link to the Mindshifters Internet Radio Show from today, since it is fresh in my mind, and I was left with this quote bouncing around in my head after the show:

“Wisdom is not possessed, it is Accessed.”

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mindshiftersradio/2018/03/13/mindshifters-radio-with-host-dr-michael-and-jeanie-ryce

We Come From Love.  We Are Made Of Love.  We Are Love!  Everything else is False.