Hi Timothy,

Perhaps you can ignore all the well-intentioned joking around in this thread for a moment and answer my original question so I can understand what's going on and then I might be of some help.

What has led you to believe that telling someone that you greatly admire and respect their artistry would mean anything other than that you greatly admire and respect their artistry?

Did someone tell you this, or are you a part of a spiritual system or religion that holds this as a belief or...?

Answer this in as simple and straightforward a way as you can and I will be in a much better position to advise you.

Be Well,

Michael Perez

A musician once told me many many years ago that if a statement like that was uttered, it would mean that the person would never reach that level because he or she has proclaimed that that person is above them in essence.

Guys, I can't have any effect on him. He's a fantastic Bass Trombonist (Charlie Vernon), and I'd hate for his artistry and wellbeing to be intertwined with mine. And it still feels like it is so. Why? I can't quite articulate it, but I feel that it is happening.

I have absolute pitch, and I can literally feel messages taking place in daily life (as far as NLP is concerned). I can literally feel our energies intertwined from afar (to the northwest). I feel that it is happening, please help!


PS, I'm not crazy or delusional. I hope you still take me seriously and respond to this! You've been of immense help so far.

Hi Timothy,

Funny, one of my coaching clients is a concert pianist who was telling me just the other day how odd it was to have surpassed so many of the pianists that she loved and admired as a younger woman and whom she had told were her inspiration and, as a result, received their guidance and encouragement in return. It can be amazing how odd life can be as your dreams come true, don't you think?

I guess she hadn't heard this from your friend so it doesn't apply to her. But you did, and now it's time to change what you're doing because of that.

I don't doubt that you feel this, because it's you in there producing those feelings so that you can confirm your belief.

It's the same way a person who believes that the world is full or trouble and strife sees it everywhere they look. And the person who feels the world is full of opportunity and chances of a lifetime sees only those. Pair up two of those kinds of people and have then describe what they see as they walk down a street and you'll know that they really live in and experience two different worlds.

So, you're (unconsciously) intertwining your energy with his and you hate that. I get that.

So do something else. Energy flows where attention goes. All the experts know that to be true and will tell you that. it's a many thousand-year-old principal.

So where do you want your energy to go instead?

If you were to pull your attention off of this guy now, what do you want to pay attention to instead, so that you can notice what it's like to have your flow redirect as it's too occupied with one thing to be another, I wonder? You can't not think of something, you've got to think of something else instead. Same with energy.

And as you change the way you represent your energy to yourself (of course you can do that, you know, it's the first step all energy schools and all energy masters have ever taught for eons and eons now), changing the colour, the location, the temperature, the feeling, the motion, the pitch, the tempo, the highs, the lows of it, what configurations make it even easier to redirect in any way that you choose?

And as long as your at it, I wouldn't want you to accidentally discover that some of these changes are making you an even better musician now... So go ahead and avoid the accident. Do it on purpose.

And after you see how well that's working for you, give me some feedback, will you?

Be Well,

Michael Perez

Timothy,

I do want to apologize, and hope that you realize that everything I said was in good fun--I hope!

Michael has some very good things to say to you. I hope that you listen to him!

However, there was ONE thing I will not take back:

GO PRACTICE! :-)

Cheers,

Phil