Wow – what an adventure I’ve had today 🙂 🙂 ! Over the last couple of days, I’ve been learning about Google Hangouts On Air so that i could give today’s adventure a whirl : my very first live broadcast.
My inspiring friend, Leslie Marsh, agreed to be interviewed live about her journey through and beyond cancer. We had a few technical glitches on our first attempt but it didn’t prevent us from having another go : we struck it lucky on our second attempt.
This was all brilliant practice for a bigger adventure later this month. From the 16th April, I’ll be undertaking a series of adventures involving the making of a live daily TV show. You’ll be able to watch live here !
You can watch the play-back of today’s interview here ~
You can keep connected with Leslie on Facebook here and you can find her website here.
It’s the last day of  this series of adventures! Today I share my experience from last night’s meeting and from a special meeting I held today after lunch.
It’s the last day of March (already!) and that means, in addition to today’s adventure, I’m posting a short video about what I’ve learned about adventure this month as well as welcoming a pair of intrepid guest adventurers : Louise and Jeronimo!
In today’s adventure, I share news about my first Invisible Counsellors meeting :
Here’s my adventure summary for March :
And here are my wonderful full-of-the-spirit-of-adventure friends, Louise Ware and Jeronimo Santos-Gonzalez :
You can keep connected with  Louise here  and Jeronimo here.
Today I’m starting a new series of adventures! Having stumbled across the Invisible Counsellors technique this morning, for the next couple of nights I’m going to be seeking some business advice, and some insights, from my own “big name” counsellors 🙂 .
In today’s video, I explain how this problem-solving technique works and introduce you to my panel of counsellors ~
Today I’m having a go at a technique called image streaming . If practised regularly, it’s supposed to increase your IQ and improve your creativity. After I’d let the experience settle, I had some insights : I’ve put these below the video.
Watch me try image streaming here :
In my dream adventures, the river is a representation of me. In the image streaming experience today, I witnessed a series of images returning back to the river. In my life right now, I am taking action to return to myself. Something feels significant about landing on a tiny,spinning planet and being huge and (again!) bare. Bareness awakens the feeling of vulnerability in me ; a small planet and a big “me” brings the words “not fitting” to mind and the spinning elicits a sense of dislodgement and movement. As I type these associations, something is emerging that is making my heart pound!
I am just going outside and may be some time 🙂 .
In yesterday’s video, I made a throw-away comment about sensing a “something’s- not -quite- right” under-current. Today I’ve decided to try out a new technique to ascertain what that under-current actually is!
You can find everything you need to know about the Over The Wall problem-solving technique here . Today’s video shows how powerful and effective this simple process is . As I’m writing this blog post and waiting for the video to upload, I’m gaining further insights from the experience “on the other side” ~ the landing was much softer than I expected and I sense that if I open further to the presenting emotions (and the insights, knowledge, wisdom and information held within these states), I will be well supported by the part of me that knows how to break my fall 🙂 .*
* [Please note : this process works best when you genuinely want to see what’s on the other side of the wall. Depending on the issue you choose, for some people, being supported through this process by someone else may be the best way to go].
I’m feeling a little bit stressed at the moment, so for today’s adventure I thought I’d try out a new relaxation technique. I’ve never tried the Moving Space technique before. In today’s video you see me trying the technique for the very first time 🙂 .
I have to say it feels a little odd not to be extending my memory palace today : it really has become a bit of a way of life! It makes me giggle that when I check my bag for work, the list of essentials goes something like this now : phone, keys, diary, periodic table of elements 😛 .
For today’s adventure, I’m going to say a heartfelt thank you to Josh Foer (he was the guy in the TED talk on day 1 of my memory palace adventure). The message of thanks isn’t just for the inspiration, it’s also for the additional benefits of the technique : a genuine appreciation of the power of the human mind and a new sense of presence , a renewed sense aliveness to the world around me and within me.
I’ve tweeted a big “TY” and here’s  short “thank you” video too :
Yesterday I managed to recall the first 103 elements of the periodic table . You can watch me in action here 🙂 . Today is the big day, I’m going for the full 118!
Throughout my memory place adventures, I’ve been having strange dreams. Some of them involved me watching the elements being projected onto a kind of mind screen. The most interesting of them involved me wandering through a complex labyrinth and making my way into a central cave. This cave was like a central “dream projection booth”. The cave had many portal-like windows and through the windows I could see a multitude of dreams going on simultaneously. I could step into each dream and observe it as a lucid dreamer before selecting the dream that I’d like to slide into.
This dream left me with a real sense of “mind space” and possibility. It left me with a tangible sense of the vastness of my own mind. Over the week, I’ve grown to marvel at the capability of the human mind and I’ve had a sense of discovering a doorway to an infinite space. The memory palace experience has really changed my mind about my own mind – the idea of “cramming” memories in just doesn’t seem to fit anymore 😛 . There seems to be a vast amount of space to record everything we need ~ and in the actual experience of recalling, that place of memory seems to exist way beyond my own head.
So, here’s me giving it a whirl. I’ve spent around 3 minutes a day for the last 9 days building this palace. In other words, this memory feat has taken under 30 minutes! If you’d like to try this technique for yourself, you can learn more about it here . For me this hasn’t just been about memory, it’s been about presence. The more immersed I am in learning, the easier it is to remember. The more immersed I am, the more alive I feel … the more alive the whole world looks – even the periodic table 🙂 .
I am just going outside and may be some time 🙂 .
Wow – what an adventure I’ve had today 🙂 🙂 ! Over the last couple of days, I’ve been learning about Google Hangouts On Air so that i could give today’s adventure a whirl : my very first live broadcast.
Humans Resourced 