

Loving kindness meditation
The Emotional Plane of the Energetic Life Cycle is all about finding balance between focus on the individual and focus on the community. Both of these are very important; finding balance between these two ideas is key. If you focus all of your energy inwards, your life will lack context and fulfillment. Humans are social animals and having a sense of community is critical to our survival. In fact, a major meta-analysis of the scientific literature done at Brigham Young Uni


Our river of love - the Energetic Life Cycle
We talk a lot about the Energetic Life Cycle as the cornerstone of Proactive Growth. The Energetic Life Cycle is the key to understanding how we can transform our potential for healthy growth into the habits and behaviors that actually produce healthy growth. Our beliefs - what we believe in our heart - have a dramatic effect on the formation of our habits and behaviors and subsequently on our physical wellbeing. False, untruthful, unforgiving beliefs have a dramatic effect


Our biological imperative
Love is real. It is our biological imperative to learn how to weave a cocoon of loving energy around ourselves, our loved ones, our communities and the world at large. We do that by transforming energy – the real current called love – from Source to Form (and back). We have modeled this transformation in the Energetic Life Cycle. A stem cell remains a wave of infinite possibility until it becomes aware of a single future form it is being called to take-on. So too do our min


Hope for the future
The only viable long-term strategy for achieving affordable healthcare for all in today’s environment of political insanity and escalating healthcare costs is to devise a way for individuals to proactively engage in their wellness. We need an understandable model – a clear, well defined map - of how our thoughts and feeling entangle in a dance that ultimately affects our own health outcome and the health outcome of our world. The Energetic Life Cycle is that model. We are eac


Process improvement for living
Years of professional experience have taught me that if one wants to understand a process, one needs to step back and see if there isn't a bigger picture to observe. It’s common knowledge in systems engineering that products, services and outcomes do not simply appear out of thin air. Cars do not magically appear off an assembly line; they are a result of an intricate engineering process that began with an idea and results in the design of a series of complex processes that


Thoughts shape reality
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Mark Twain Proactive Growth certainly challenges many commonly held “truths” about who we are and the world we live in. Proactive Growth invites you to challenge fundamental beliefs about how you see yourself, your purpose for being, and your ability to modify ingrained habits an