Once Upon A Time - Everything Changed
It was as if someone struck a match and threw it into a tinderbox full of fireworks. Neural connections began exploding all over the place. I could actually feel it...I was ON FIRE!
Lost in Ancient Medicine To Quantum Leaps and Bounds
In 2006 I began practicing the ancient art of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM). Acupuncture & herbs. For those that are not aware, Chinese medicine is a profound healing art which involves the reading, redirecting and balancing of energy pathways in the human body. Before that, I had spent another 20 or so years of obsessive personal study—and I do mean OBSESSIVE— everything from art, colour, form, sound, to meditation, shamanism and a vast array of alternative healing practices. I studied astrology, psychology, philosophy, palm reading, sales marketing and face reading. Theosophy, anthroposophy, Microsystems and Cymatics - the list goes on and between it all I had lots of wonderful little entrepreneurial adventures.
I was like a sponge, soaking up information. Trying, experimenting, exploring the esoteric and the exoteric. Piece by piece, I had been building, filing and compiling knowledge across seemingly unrelated fields. I had no idea how it all connected, no conscious idea that it did. I was simply searching for truth and understanding. Desperately trying to settle a restless soul and survive in the process. I would find a new field of study, learn something, file it and move on to the next. And so it went. Year after year.
And then one day, one lazy afternoon, everything changed.
One Minute I Was Bored, The Next I Was On Fire
I was bored.
It seemed like it was the first day I had actually stopped to breathe after 11 years of intense, hard core, adrenal overload. From my 20 years of personal searching I stepped into 8 years straight of conventional study - 5 to get my BA in Health Science Degree in TCM, 2 in Japanese acupuncture techniques and then a final year, just for fun, in animal & equine acupuncture. Obsessive? Me? No. - From there I spent the next 3 years on a journey to find and set up a little country practice.
Business was good. I knew it would be. I saw the signs. I had scratched out a note on a single piece of A4 paper and stuck it on the shop front window. "Acupuncture Opening Soon". Within 24hrs I had a local GP knocking on the door wanting to know when and if she could book an appointment. Yes, I knew business would be good. And it was and now I needed to stop. Just breathe and take a moment. I stood on the veranda looking out over 5000 acres of classic Australian landscape. Complete with kangaroos hopping and kookaburras laughing. Now what?
Now I did something I never ever do. Watch a DVD in the middle of the day.
I went to my dusty collection and pulled out one I had been carrying around for years. A documentary called "The Elegant Universe." It was about physics, quantum physics, String & M-theory. It was about the scientific world's united search for the holy grail - "A Theory of Everything."
And while listening and watching, the most unexpected thing happened. It started with a stirring, which turned into a quickening. From there a spark and before I knew it I was on fire.
My brain went off like a rocket.
It was as if someone had struck a match and threw it into a tinderbox full of fireworks. Neural connections began exploding all over the place. I could actually feel it. My brain would have been the most spectacular event for a neurologist to witness that day. I was ON FIRE!
I began pacing, pacing, pacing, like that tiger in a cage until I couldn't stand it any longer. The white board was out, till there was not a square inch of space left. Then scraps of paper, whatever I could find. Frenetic writing, notes and scribblings. For days I paced, took notes and paced some more.
The Revelation - When Everything Connected
It was as if the last 40 years of perpetual study, in one instant, all came together as a congruent picture of the universe and our place in it. Like the final piece of a massive puzzle suddenly fell into place and I could see what I had been searching for all this time.
A fusion of how our current view of reality merges with our internal spiritual yearnings.
For me, this was a real revelation.
The gauntlet was set that day. A new obsession—or was it a calling? A new, unified worldview emerged, and with it, a burning desire to articulate it and formulate it in some way.
But this wasn't just some grand collective abstract theory. I knew instinctively this was something I could apply to the individual in very personal and practical ways. The same energy systems I had been studying in Chinese medicine, the same patterns I'd observed in astrology, the same principles I'd found in quantum physics - they were all describing the same fundamental truth from different angles.
And Then The Sweet Spot Flowered
Like petals in the morning sun, opening to receive the light, one of my own personal sweet spots flowered. A skill, unbeknown to me, deep below the surface, had been growing and developing all this time.
An ability to weave together the big picture with all those tiny details. An ability to see beyond the conventional boundaries of our inner and outer landscapes. An ability to see how they danced together, worked together and in fact were the same thing.
I think I have Chinese medicine to thank for this. Some advice given to me in my first week of clinical practice stayed with me: "Regardless of how complex a person's illness, symptoms or pathology, you can always boil it down to an imbalance of yin and yang and treat it successfully from that perspective." I learnt how to see patterns in complex energy and simplify them. Microsystems in macrosystems and vice versa.
My clinic focus shifted. Testing my theories began and it worked. My theories held. It helped. I had developed a nose for the truth hidden between the B.S. of our generally accepted, yet very questionable, so-called "normal life." I began to grasp the true nature of the human psyche's struggle and somehow manage to articulate it in a way that makes sense for others to get. This was a good thing and very exciting.
The Cosmic Dance - What I Do Best
Understanding the energy systems of the human psyche is my thing. Give me a person and their drama, and I will tell you their story, show you their stumbling blocks and put it into context. Physical, mental, emotional - no difference. I can shine a light on their path and then place that path in the bigger scheme of life. This is what I do best.
You see, I don't just talk about personal growth in isolation. I talk about where we are at this very important time in history—where we've been and where we're going, both individually and collectively.
I teach the cycles and energy systems we experience life through, how to understand them, and how to work with them. I discuss the power of our mind and how to harness it, the discernment between the subtle differences of our feelings, emotions, intuition and higher perceptions.
But most of all, I talk about life as this amazing, energetic, cosmic dance. How much fun it can be when you understand the steps. How to move, how to jive. Sometimes we're doing the fiery tango, sometimes it's the smooth, cruizy, love waltz, but the cha-cha-cha and the bunny hop...ahhh now they are my personal favourites. ;-))) Cha cha cha...
This is what silent power looks like in action - when you understand the dance, you don't need to fight the music. You live it. You become one with it.
Are You Ready To Fly?
I had begun to resent my clinic work and I couldn't make sense of it. I knew I was helping people but it wasn't enough. Most of my clients were fallout victims, stuck in a mindset, set on a path to self destruct. What I was doing wasn't good enough. I felt like I was ineffective. It was as if I was throwing peanuts at a raging river in an attempt to change its direction. It was a ridiculous farce. Pearls before swine. I was wasting my time, my gifts, my talents and my life force. I knew I could do more. Needed to do more.
I was treating symptoms, not the root cause. And the root cause wasn't just the individual—what I started to see was systemic, chronic and collective. This was bigger than me and something I knew I couldn't possibly do on my own. Nor would I want to. It was time for me to grow. Time for me to evolve. I needed a new audience. An audience that was hungry for change and growth. The kind of audience who have already stepped up to the plate to make change happen. The kind of audience that would get what I have to give, could take it, run with it, get lift off and actually FLY.
The same principles that govern quantum mechanics govern consciousness. The same energy systems that flow through the universe flow through your body, your business, your relationships, your leadership style and your life as a whole. Harness that and then let's see what is truly possible.
The Heart That Drives Everything
Although my speciality is helping leaders lead, by teaching them how to integrate their inner/outer landscape, I must confess, I do have a hidden agenda. An ulterior motive if you will.
At a time when I was really confused about what, who and how to be in this world someone said to me, there is only one question you ever need to ask to find your real purpose in life. And that question was this...
"What breaks your heart?"
Wow and Ouch! There's a dagger with a twist.
It was so unexpected that it bypassed all my filters and did indeed go straight to the heart! The answer was immediate and hit hard. It hurt like hell then and hurts just as much now.
So what breaks my heart? What guts me open, raw and bloody? - What we are doing to this planet and all life on it. Especially the wild life.
Despite all our conscious awareness we, not they, we, continue to perpetuate the unnecessary destruction and poisoning of wildlife, insects, trees and forests. In fact we justify it and rationalize it to protect our egos and make a dollar. In broad daylight, in full waking consciousness we pollute and contaminate our air, water and food. Then breathe it in, eat it and drink it and wonder why we get ill. It's madness. Pure insanity. All of it.
But here's what I've come to understand: this madness isn't separate from our very personal individual struggles. It's the same disconnection playing out on a global scale. The same fragmentation I experienced in my own journey - seeking truth in isolated pieces, never seeing the whole picture - is exactly what's happening collectively. Narrow minded thinking yes, but worse. Narrow minded thinking that has become locked in, as an absolute law to live by.
We are not doing life here at this moment in time, we are doing anti-life. Our train has gone so far off track that we are now in a process of diminishing returns; devolution, not evolution is the name of this train we are on.
We've lost our connection to our true nature, to each other and to the planet. A misalignment to man's law has left us, on the most part, feeling helpless, hopeless, useless, worthless, powerless and incredibly disconnected. Realign to nature's law however and you'll see it for what it is. Just a lie that we bought. A programmed illusion and a delusion that we perpetuate and cling to as if our lives depend on it.
It is there, in the program, that the parasite of our madness lurks and cowers in the shadows. We're operating from wounded, unexamined, unconscious patterns instead of our extraordinary authentic power which is just sitting there waiting to be realised and released.
The Dream Beyond The Drama - The Shift
I have a dream beyond the drama, beyond the madness. I can see what is possible and I can see where the glitch in the system is.
What we need is an evolution revolution. In fact I think we are smack bang in the middle of one.
It's time for us to grow up, call our spirits back and return to nature's law—to our true nature. It's time for us to heal and become whole again. A revolution, a revolving back, a return to nature's law, to working with nature not against it is what we need. You know it. I know it. So let's call it.
This is why The Silent Power Station exists. I started the silent power station with one intention and one intention only. To have the greatest positive impact I possibly can. Working with whatever skills I can bring to the table to facilitate that effect. They say 'choose a cause you are willing to die for' I say - better still, choose one you are willing to live for.
I believe that it is the entrepreneurs, the game changers, influencers and creative professionals that will change this world. The ones that have William Wallace Hearts and Gumption. They are the ones who will turn these rivers around and clean these waters. This is where it starts. The shift.
“What we do in life, echoes into eternity…”
(The Gladiator. By Franzonie, Logan & Nicholson)
I don't know what your mission is but I do know what mine is and if, by any chance, yours is anything like mine, you know that we can't do it alone. This is a numbers game.
This is how I see it. Plain and simple. I am here to do what I am here to do and you are here to do what you're here to do and together, we can make a difference. Together we can make change happen.
I believe everyone of us is born to lead. Everyone of us has the potential to have a positive impact on those around us. Everyone of us is responsible—response able.
Our role as a leader is not to control others but to inspire them to be leaders unto themselves. Empower them to become powerful. Guiding them to express their own, full, creative potential.
When you know the truth of who you truly are, when you have integrated all the scattered pieces of yourself into a coherent whole, a shift happens. You stand in authentic integrity. All parts working as nature intended. The result: silent power and pristine clarity. None of this imposter syndrome nonsense.
Operating from a grounded, integrated stance, you naturally make different choices. You can't help but respect and honor all of life in all its unique and colorful forms. You wouldn't have it any other way because from that stance you understand the importance of everyone's place in this grand tapestry of life.
The Integration - Bridging Worlds
The Silent Power Station is about bridging the gap between ancient wisdom and cutting-edge science, between spiritual principles and practical leadership, between imposter syndrome and the purity of your essential self.
My gift to you is this: An opportunity to experience your own "Elegant Universe" moment - that sudden integration where all the scattered pieces of your journey suddenly make sense and reveal your unique path forward.
An opportunity to find congruency and authentic integrity in every aspect of your life. An opportunity to fine-tune and master your true nature as an energetic being. An opportunity to discover all your extraordinary skills and talents that lie dormant and unleash your full creative potential. To reveal your own sweet spot and unleash your genius...
Because in my experience, the leaders who will thrive in this new era are those who understand that consciousness isn't separate from physics—it's the foundation of it. When you understand the integration of science and spirit, when you learn to read the energy of situations and align with natural law rather than fighting against it, everything changes.
When you're dancing the cosmic dance from a place of silent power, you're not just transforming your own life - you're contributing to the evolution revolution our planet desperately needs.
And that, my friend, is how we change the world by changing ourselves. And sure, in the process I may flip the world as you know it upside down, but you know what? Maybe, just maybe, what I'll be doing is flipping it the right way up.