Personal Development Seminars have both believers and skeptics. I truly believe in it while my husband is skeptic about the benefits of such programs. Yet when our whole family attended Wings Seminar in Oregon, we all came home renewed and equipped with tools to living better lives.
A fair and wise lady whom I now consider as one my mentors, Kris King is the CEO of Wings Seminar. Through her practical teachings, participants like me, were able to fully understand how to become 100% accountable of the choices we make and its consequences.
This short video was taken after my family completed the course in Eugene, Oregon. You can also find this on Kris King’s website http://www.krisking.org. Filled with nuggets of wisdom, who knows your life might get an extra boost in just six minutes! I hope you enjoy and learn from it!
And let me borrow Ghandi’s words “Be the change you want to see.”Open your heart, be grateful and let the magic and bliss of your life start all over. Enjoy your own journey!
For your reading pleasure, here’s the Interview Transcript of the Video:
Jhet: Hello everyone, I am right here in Oregon, with Kris King, one of my mentors.
That’s Kris King. And I am attending her Personal Development Seminar, Lifeworks. And I am going to tell you about who is Kris King and what she does for the world.
Kris King’s Mission
Kris: Our mission is to inspire and support positive change, creating an abundant, respectful and loving world community. And we do that one heart at a time, one mind at a time, in a way that I believe is respectful, inspirational, practical and profound.
Most of us in our culture and lots of cultures now, I believe, are out of balance because they were so driven by what we do. And we don’t think about who we are as we are doing those things because our doing is rewarded financially, with respect
and things like that.
The cornerstones of a balanced life are about creating a person who has broad range, with accountability, integrity, compassion, making conscious choices, based on love and respect.
When all those aspects are present and we know how to access them all, we create balance, I think.
Jhet: Oh I love to do that. You mention also that structure determines our behavior.
Love and How Structure Determines Behavior
Kris: The structure of our belief systems determines our behavior too. You ask first about love and may people are seeking love rather than wanting to learn how to create love.
In all my years of doing this work, I truly know what searching for love was like – it was hurtful and sad, and I felt kind of victimized when I didn’t have the love that I wanted, and what was wrong with them
Coming into this work, I realize that Love is an inside out job. Believe it or not, I only do what I love – from shopping for groceries, to how I drive my car, to what books I read, the clothing I buy, that my choices are based in love.
More important that even is my state of being – so starting with myself, taking care of myself, being the kid inside that I am. On that kind of state of wholeness it is so easy to give love away to other people and not be worried about what’s coming back.
Jhet: Wow. What about the baggage, what are some of the mind traps? When you
are talking to me, I could feel that you are touching my heart. And I know that I have a lot of baggage from my childhood. What are the mind traps and how can we move forward?
Getting Rid of Mind Traps
Kris: Mind traps are where we get caught to a certain type of thinking that lead to negative behaviors. You know, I truly believe that we can create the world we want to live in. People do what they know until they know better.
And so coming here, is where – you know I don’t – this is not about learning to think the way I think and going out and be a replica of Kris King – last thing that I want.
This is the place where you come and find out that you have choices. And choices that you make are really, really important to the quality of your life. So we learn about major things like accountability, integrity, being in service, and being fully engaged in your life instead of checked out.
Jhet: Yeah. One of your quote is “I can’t stop it out there until I stop it in me.”
Kris: It’s true. So many, so often, people want to fix the circumstances of their life and say, “well if he will treat me better, if my boss will treat me better, if my kids will treat me better, then everything will be fine. Well it wouldn’t be fine, we’ll find something else to react to. “
The important thing is for me to discover what am I doing that I react to this other people. And when I do that, it’s not going to bother me at all.
Kris’ Book “My Heart Has Wings”
Jhet: So it starts from within. Can you share about your book. I’m in love with that book.
Kris: Oh good. My Heart Has Wings 52 Reflections on Living, Learning and Loving is a work of love.
Jhet: It is indeed, it’s by my bedside.
Kris: Oh thank you. I created it so there’s all different aspects of a person learning – there’s beautiful photography, and there’s poetry or quote that lead in to the article. They are not that long, they’re three or four pages. And a series of questions to reflect back on and take your own learning our of it.
And I did it, I finally completed it when I found out that my mom was dying with metastasized breast cancer. She had always wanted to write a book and she hadn’t. As soon as it became a gift for my mom, my ego was totally out of the picture. All my worries of it being perfect were gone.
How to Live an Extraordinary Life?
Kris: Choose to live accountably which means you take responsibility for your life. That’s huge and it’s a step that many people never take. So stepping in and taking ownership that “hey my life is the way it is because of my choices, not my husband, my wife, mom or dad!” Just stop blaming other people and step in your own shoes.”
Biggest step you’ll ever make.
Jhet: Accountability.
Kris: Be grateful for every single day of your life. Live it with all your heart. And be open to the mystery and magic around you.
Jhet: Oh thank you so much Kris. It’s an honor and privilege to have met you and attended your seminars. And you’ll be seeing me more. I love you. Thank you so much.
Kris: Thank you.