Supreme Influence: Change Your Life with the Power of the Language You Use - Hardcover

Niurka

 
9780307956873: Supreme Influence: Change Your Life with the Power of the Language You Use
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0307956873 ISBN 13: 9780307956873
Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

“Supreme Influence is a way of being and communicating with purpose, poise, precision and power. It is a practice that allows you to consciously create harmonious relationships and produce successful results in every area of life.”

Transform your language, transform your life! Niurka, a former Anthony Robbins corporate trainer, and popular transformational leader and communication expert, teaches us how to increase confidence, enrich relationships, transcend fears and achieve greater success – all by choosing language wisely.

In this inspiring journey of discovery, Niurka shows us how shifting what we say and how we say it can forever alter the way we experience life and all its bounty. With practical and simple tools and techniques, this book guides us to expand our awareness, consciously direct our focus, and choose empowering thoughts and words, which ultimately will lead us all to a greater appreciation of life no matter what's happening around us. As we actively participate in uplifting our imaginings and conversations, we elevate our entire experience of reality.

On this journey, you will learn how to align your thoughts, focus, beliefs, body language, goals and vision with your purpose and authentic self. Most important, you will realize a deeper understanding of who you are and why you are here.
Regardless of what you’ve experienced up until now, you can rapidly and often instantly transform challenges, realize your vision,and inspire others through your example.

“No matter what you’ve experienced in life,” Niurka writes, “your being is beyond any circumstance, the past, any story, or beliefs. Throughout this book, I share my own past and stories because they offer wisdom and can make a difference, but the specifics of my circumstances don’t really matter. Who I Am is beyond every story. And so it is with you.”

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NIURKA is a transformational powerhouse who inspires and empowers people to live genuinely, freely and mightily. She is a dynamic speaker and teacher whose work unites the world of business with essential wisdom of mind-body-spirit. At the age of 20 she was the #1 corporate trainer for Anthony Robbins. In 2000, she launched her company, Niurka, Inc., which offers courses and retreats with the vision of creating social transformation through inner evolution. She has shared the stage with such luminaries as Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, John Maxwell, Bill Phillips, Mark Victor Hansen, Denis Waitley, Bob Proctor and Jim Rohn.

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JOURNEY OF AWAKENING

You are holding this book and probably wondering . . . what is Supreme Influence?

Supreme Influence is a way of being and communicating with purpose, poise, precision, and power. It is a practice that allows you to consciously create harmonious relationships and produce successful results in every area of life.

Why is Supreme Influence important? Because we have been influenced through upbringing, society, schools, religions, media, and culture. Studies show that by the time we are 8 years old, we have had over ­twenty-­five thousand hours of linguistic programming. Words have been downloaded to us, imprinting our minds with ideas about who we are and what is or isn’t possible. These subconsciously ingrained beliefs fuel our thoughts and drive our behaviors until we wake up!

This book is a journey of awakening to a deeper understanding of who you are and why you are here. These pages offer you wisdom and practical tools to transcend reactive tendencies so you authentically embody your magnificence. You will learn advanced communication skills to improve your business, enhance your relationships, and enrich every area of your life. You will learn how to align your thoughts, focus, beliefs, body language, words, goals, and vision with your true purpose and authentic self.

Regardless of what you’ve experienced up until now, you absolutely can rapidly and often instantly transform challenges, realize your vision, and inspire others through your example. Let me share a story with you about how I discovered this for myself.

WAKING UP

At age 15 I embarked on a quest for freedom, truth, and ­enlightenment—­except back then I called it “running away from home.” I hopped on the back of a friend’s motorcycle, not sure where I was going or what I would do. I just knew something had to change. I was going through a rebellious phase, resisting my parents, opposing the strict religious school I was forced to attend, and being frustrated in a world that ­didn’t make sense to me.

So, I scribbled a runaway note, stabbed it onto a dartboard, and disappeared into the night. At the time I felt like I ­didn’t belong, as though my parents and others surrounding me ­didn’t see me, hear me, or care to understand. I kept asking myself, How did I get on this planet? I felt trapped. Alone. I ­didn’t understand the world I was living in and felt powerless to change it. I suppose I only saw two options back then: fight or flight. After years of disagreeing and ­arguing—­I left.

What brought me to that point? I was raised by conservative Cuban parents in Miami. I went to Catholic school and partook of confession, communion, rosaries, and penance. I sold doughnuts at Sunday morning service. I was told what was right and wrong, good and bad, moral and immoral. If my intuition led me in a different direction than the rules, I ­wasn’t allowed to follow it.

Then, when I was 12, a traumatic event shook my family. My parents changed religion and radically changed the rules. I felt ambushed. We stopped celebrating holidays. We went to church up to three times a week. By 13 I was in a new school that ­didn’t allow listening to rock ’n’ roll music or dancing. I remember sneaking in Bon Jovi cassettes and paying the consequences in detention hall, where I was made to write countless dictionary definitions (a “punishment” that gave me glimpses of the power of words). Shorts were banned, even during physical education class, and replaced with ­Smurf-­blue culottes. I had never heard of “culottes,” and soon learned it was a divided skirt ending just below the knee. I hated playing soccer in those culottes. Actually, I hated my life. I felt confused and controlled. It ­didn’t make sense that my parents’ new way would be right and everyone else in the world following a different path would burn in hell for all eternity. I was craving answers to some major questions: Who am I? What is my purpose? Why am I here? I was yearning to know myself, to understand my place in the world, in the cosmos. I was longing to know God, to feel God, to understand the truth about God.

For three years I plotted my escape. Several times I packed my schoolbag with a few possessions and hid it in my bedroom closet, only to chicken out. Eventually pain outweighed fear. I could no longer follow rules and traditions without understanding their source and reason. I felt like a volcano on the brink of eruption. The angst manifested in my body as strange ailments doctors ­couldn’t diagnose, including an engorged lower lip and a stiff neck that caused me to hunch to one side like a prettier version of the Elephant Man. I had nothing to look forward to, but right then “nothing” sounded a lot better than the “something” I was experiencing. I had to get out.

After leaving home, I skipped school and spent the next few weeks bouncing from place to place. With no skills or experience, just sheer determination, I acted older to get jobs. I sold gym memberships and credit card machines, hawked knives ­door-­to-­door, and worked one gig at an eclectic clothing boutique called “Ouch,” which sounded like I felt, for $4 an hour in cash. I ate budget meals: ­33¢-­a-­box mac ’n’ cheese; a cup of noodles for variety. Eventually I rented a room with no furniture and saved for a futon and a TV, which turned out to have only one ­channel—­poltergeist static.

By the time I was 16, I had officially dropped out of high school, my best friend had died, I had been raped, and I felt awful about myself and my life. Not knowing what to do, I decided to go back home. My dad was grateful; he even gave me his older red Honda Prelude. But soon home life grew disharmonious. My parents and I ­didn’t understand how to communicate without getting upset. One day I had an argument with my mom and left the house. When I returned the next day, my books and clothes were in a bag on the front porch waiting for the donation truck pickup, and my bedroom was painted a different color. I knew deep down we all loved one another. I yearned for a way to create understanding and bridge worlds.

Once again I left home. I was grateful for my little red Prelude, which I parked across the street from the airport to watch the planes take off, pretending I was journeying to a ­far-­off exotic land. I ­didn’t realize it then, but watching those planes soar into the sky sparked my search for who I would become. I began visualizing myself living free and traveling the world. I saw myself riding a camel at sunrise by the Great Pyramids in Egypt. I saw myself swimming with wild dolphins in the sea. I saw pictures in my mind of the life I wanted. Feeling a surge of energy, I declared, “I will find a way to do what I want to do!” Then something inside me snapped. It felt as if my soul cracked open, unleashing a fierce resolve to find answers, feel peace, and discover a way to create a magnificent life. Beyond the chaos, I had a silent knowing that my life had a ­purpose—I was destined for more. I made a decision. Something had to change . . . and I had to change it.

My resolve created a sense of personal power and direction. Yet I had no idea what to do next. Throughout the day I recited a mantra I had read in the Bible: Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall open. I spoke these words passionately, believing an answer would come. And in a flash one did, in the form of a thought: Go back to school and study business. I followed this...

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Verlag
Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0307956873
ISBN 13 
9780307956873
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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