Ragini Michaels
Certified Trainer of NLP and Hypnosis
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Wisdom Of The Mystics For The Modern Mind - Paradox Management Expert
Ragini Michaels Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Behavioral Change, Mystical Psychology, Spiritual Guidance
- Career Focus
- Author, Trainer, Speaker
- Affiliation
- International Society of NLP, Institute of Noetic Sciences
Ragini Elizabeth Michaels is a Marketplace Mystic, Author of 3 books & 8 CD's, Trainer of Communication and Modeling Skills, specializing in Behavioral Change, Hypnosis, and NLP. She has gained international recognition for her original work and her reputation as a superb teacher, presenter, and the pioneering originator of Facticity® and Paradox Management. Invitations to share her work have taken her beyond the boundaries of the US to Canada, England, Scotland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and India. She founded the Facticity Wisdom School in Seattle, Washington and has run what she calls Paradox Salons and Paradox Soirees, helping people discover how to better live in duality with peace and presence.
Ragini’s Paradox work has been recognized with respect and acclaim by the top leaders in her field, including Robert Dilts, head of NLP University in Santa Cruz, and Dr. Tad James, founder and director of Advanced Neuro-Dynamics in Hawaii. Ragini’s first book entitled Facticity – a door to mental health and beyond, was favorably reviewed by Dr. Tad James, author of Time Line Therapy and the Theory of Personality, as well as by one of her first meditation teachers, Dr. Jack Kornfield, author of Seeking The Heart of Wisdom, Living Buddhist Masters, and After The Ecstasy, The Laundry. Her book was listed as one of the “new favorites” in the News Magazine of the American Board of Hypnotherapy in 1993, and was also published in German in 1996 by the VAK Institute in Freiburg, Germany. Ragini‘s second book, Lions In Wait – a road to personal courage, is an allegorical trance book also focused on paradox and is of prime interest to spiritual seekers and a powerful support to therapists doing trance work with individual clients and groups.
Accompanying her written Paradox work are 2 series of Ericksonian Hypnosis Relaxation CD’s - Hypnosis for Conscious Awakening and Remembrance. These received critical acclaim from The New Times in Seattle, The Rapporter – jou al of human performance technologies in Arizona, Anchor Point – NLP Jou al in Califo ia, and an endorsement from Will Macdonald, co-author of Insider’s Guide To Submodalities.
Ragini’s pioneering work surfing the psycho-spiritual interface from a paradoxical perspective earned her invitations to present at National and International NLP Conferences in Utah, Idaho, Seattle, Denver and Phoenix, Hypnosis Conferences in Washington and Califo ia, and in varying cities throughout America, Europe, and India. An international bevy of students consistently comment on Ragini’s integrity and depth. Her warmth and humor allows the difficult concepts in the work to be explored and grasped in a playful, safe, and respectful manner. Her reputation as one who will deliver you to your goal is evidenced by her thriving private practice focused on Behavioral Change and Transformational Leadership.
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Facticity - a door to mental health & beyond
http://www.facticity.com/content/Bookandcds/excerpt.asp
Lions In Wait - a road to personal courage
http://www.facticity.com/content/Bookandcds/liwexcerpt.asp
2009 Calendar
http://www.facticity.com/content/Bookandcds/2009_calendar.asp
Unaware of Unresolvable Dilemma?
http://www.awarenessmag.com/sepoct06/so06_unaware_of_unresolvable.htm
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Unaware of Unresolvable Dilemma? Discover The Biggest Ongoing Drain On Your Time, Energy and Money
What if you heard that to “let go”, you had to hold on? What if you were told that to relax, you had to be tense? What if you found out that to be aware and present, you first had to be unaware and absent? Your first thought might be ‘how ridiculous!’ But on second thought, your own experience ...
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Managing a Paradoxical Life: A New Way of Living with What We Like and Dislike
I don’t know whether you are intrigued, shaking your head in dis-belief, or laughing at the notion of something so seemingly absurd as managing paradox - that mental phenomena where two things cannot logically co-exist, but indeed, do. In our daily lives paradox shows up in the form of ...
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Are You a Marketplace Mystic?
Are you by any chance a marketplace mystic without realizing it? It took me a long time to discover my own penchant for the mystical path. And it took longer still to realize that I needed to follow it while living in the practical world of daily marketplace reality. When I became clear about ...
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Navigating You & Me With Love & Compassion: Pet Peeves: Accept Or Reject?
Everyday Dilemma: Should I keep my own counsel and accept my partner’s unpleasant behaviors? Or, should I let him know that I reject them and want him to change? There’s something very odd about us humans. We invite others to be our intimate friends, lovers, and partners because we either like them, or love them. Then, oddly enough, we set about trying to change them. Sound familiar?
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Navigating You & Me With Love & Compassion: Our Dualistic Dance of Relating
The Everyday Dilemma: Do I take care of myself now, or everyone and everything else first, including my career? Most of us truly wish to infuse our lives with love, compassion, and caring. And, you have probably been enticed by the common notion that bringing these words to life requires you to ‘be’ and to ‘do’ things in a certain way. Trying to live these words out loud can produce a lot of confusion and frustration as you juggle meeting your own needs and the needs of your beloveds – significant other, children, parents, siblings, friends, and of course, your career or job.
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Navigating You & Me With Love & Compassion: You’re Not The Boss O’Me!
Everyday Dilemma: Should I follow my urge to take control of this project, do it my way, efficiently and quickly, and risk a fight? Or should I just breathe deep, surrender to my partner’s way, and opt to keep the peace to get the project done?
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Navigating You and Me with Love and Compassion: Can Being Wrong Be Alright?
Everyday Dilemma: Should I point out my thinking and doing is right, even though you’re telling me I’m wrong? Or, should I take the high road, avoid conflict, and let you believe I’m wrong and you’re right? ‘You’re wrong!’ Those words were a red flag to my bull. I love being right; and I hate being wrong. Regrettably, my demand to never be wrong dominated my relationships.
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Navigating You And Me With Love And Compassion: Two Sweeteners for Intimate Interaction
Everyday Dilemma: Do I honor my thirst to be alone for awhile, or do I follow the longing in my heart to be together with friends and family? For years I believed intimacy meant being together with my beloveds - all the time! Everyone I knew suffered greatly from my youthfully exuberant misunderstanding! As a woman, it seemed natural for my life to revolve around the notion of ‘we’. Unfortunately, it did so without my knowing the ‘I’ that made up my part of the duo. When I realized I could meet this ‘me’ by being alone with myself, I was both relieved and scared.
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Navigating You And Me With Love And Compassion: The Two-Sided Silver Lining
Everyday Dilemma: Even though I’m exhausted, should I push myself to keep that independence that makes me feel really competent and good? Or, should I just relax today and enjoy depending on family and friends for all the wonderful things they bring me? When I was growing up, the silver lining of a woman’s life was clearly marriage and children. This scenario promised to deliver all the important, meaningful, and worthwhile treasures of being.
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Unaware of Unresolvable Dilemma?
Unaware of Unresolvable Dilemma? Discover the Biggest Ongoing Drain on Your Time, Energy and Money What if you heard that to “let go,” you had to hold on? What if you were told that to relax, you had to be tense? What if you found out that to be aware and present, you had to be unaware ...
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Ragini Michaels
You can reduce the stress of life's overwhelming complexity by understanding how to live simply and peacefully amidst the chaos and relentless uncertainty that we face every day. Paradox Management, based on the Psychology of the Mystics, offers this guidance in a precise and practical way. It is especially designed for the sophisticated and somewhat cynical western thinker full of questions demanding practical answers - a good description of me as its originator! This work makes the inscrutable not only obvious, but comprehensible, and shifts your life from frustration and overwhelm to satisfaction, peacefulness, and presence.
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"To set up what you like against what you dislike is the dis-ease of the mind. When the deep meaning of things is not understood, the mind's essential peace is disturbed to no avail." Sengsten, 3rd Zen Patriarch
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"Love tells me I am everything. Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Between these two my life flows." Nisargadatta, 20th Century Indian Mystic
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"Allow that which is inescapable to overwhelm you, and you will find immense peace." Tai Hui, Mystic
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How to get started
To get started, please visit www.RaginiMichaels.com and watch the Welcome Video to pick up your GIFT of a 3-Video series called The Beggar's Secret. There, you'll discover the beginning steps for how to save yourself from a life of frustration and disappointment. There is hope . . . and the secret to finding your emotional freedom is now available in 6 precise and proven steps.
Read my Mystical Scuttlebutt Blog posts and watch the trailer for my new book, Unflappable - 6-Steps To Staying Happy, Centered, and Peaceful No Matter What.
Facticity® Trainings is the home of the Marketplace Mystic. We offer practical wisdom for mindful living in a paradoxical world - at the office, at home, and in the privacy of your mind.
Based on the Psychology of the Mystics, Facticity's unique experiential approach highlights the often unacknowledged impact of impermanence on your mind, body, and soul. In addition, we provide specific tools to better navigate the world of duality and its resulting dilemmas, opposites, polarities, and paradox.
Dedicated to the development of Leadership Beyond Polarization, our trainings are guaranteed to expand your world view to include the mystical perspective. Using your mystical eyes organically accelerates your understanding of what it truly means to "go with the flow", "be present", and "live in the now".
For both personal and professional application. Coaches, Consultants, Educators, Therapists, and Counselors welcome. To get started, go to our website at www.RaginiMichaels.com
Other highlights
- One Day Workshop: The Tao of Dilemma (TM)
- The Facticity Wisdom School - a depth experience for the expansion of your consciousness and practical wisdom
- Paradox Management Practitioner Certification Training - for professional application - pre-requisite: The Tao of Dilemma one-day workshop
- Paradox Management Master Practitioner Certification Program - pre-requisite: completion of participation in The Facticity Wisdom School