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Nov 19

You might be wondering where my Twitter account went to?

Similarly if you were a friend on Facebook, where have I gone?

Well, I have deleted my accounts, for one simple reason.

I would rather that, people interact with me on my blog.

I have revised the way I am publishing material by making the blog, podcast and website more integrated.

This simply gives me a single space to work from and as you can see, allows me to blog from my phone!

If you enjoy the existing podcast, please note, I will be archiving it and linking a new one from this feed very shortly.

Make sure to download the episodes you want to keep.

Welcome to the new blog!

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

mark ty-wharton

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Nov 18
Autism Conference As a positive spokesperson for autism I am a professional speaker, sound artist and writer.

If you are neurologically typical, I believe there are more things about us that are the same, than are different.

If you are on the autistic spectrum, then like me, you are looking for a place where you fit in to life.

So what am I trying to achieve?
I believe every section of humanity has a purpose and serves a function.

If one part of society is dysfunctional, then society is dysfunctional as a whole.

My goal is to make society aware of the benefit of giving autistic people a voice.

To reintegrate the Einstein mindset, lost by the education system, with humanity.

To reintegrate humanity with the very value that makes it human…

Diversity.

The campaign?
Jobs for genius is a project to create a commercial autistic mastermind group, which solves seemingly unsolveable problems for corporations, manfacturers and technical service providers.

The vision?
Thousands of self managed mirror groups worldwide.

The talk?
The possibility explained.

Intrigued?

contact me to find out more

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Nov 05

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I was in ASDA supermarket with my partner, a rare occurance, I promise.

We were looking for something.

I walked around an aisle and jumped about a foot backwards with my hands in the air and shouted.

“AAAAAAAAARRGH!” then shaking violently, “Whoa!”

“I know, she’s very scarey isn’t she” the mother of a little girl piped up.

Her small three or four year old daughter was standing in the front of a shopping trolley looking completely and utterly bewildered. (I think).

My partner was looking at me, shocked and bemused.

“Sorry, she made me jump”.

“What on earth was that, that poor child, why did you do that?” Gina asked me. “She’ll get a hang up about it now”.

“I have absolutely no idea”, slightly confused “she just made me jump, it was unexpected”.

Children you see, are terrifying. Even my own children, who should know better.

Why?

Because they turn up in inexpected places without warning.

There had been an apparition of a child face where I would have expected to see an five foot tall adult face.

Who Do Voodoo? You Do!

So they are in my face, invading my aura, hanging off my pockets, kicking my shins, threateing my balls and now, unexpectedly appearing at armpit height with no logical statement to explain what they are doing there.

They don’t follow patterns either.

I like patterns, they are safe.

Even my predictable chaos is patterned and has its own complex structure.

But unpredictable kids!

Go and be hyperactive somewhere else…

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

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mark ty-wharton, creative thinker | innovator | visionary

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Nov 01

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I recently signed up to John Assaraf’s newsletter, after buying his excellent book, The Answer.

I particularly like Law Of Attraction material with a tangeable scientific base and John certainly knows his subject.

On his FaceBook feed John introduced us to his colleague Mike Koenigs, co-founder of TrafficGeyser.

While I find it hard to read facial expressions in a social setting, I like to freeze frame the videos of people who are selling to me from time to time and study their faces.

I am a great believer in micro-expressions. Micro-expressions give away what a person is really like / thinking.

Try it on Joe Vitale for example.

Run one of his sales videos for a bit, then randomly pause it and see what you get. In an all digital world, it is very easy to do. And in the split second of a frozen frame a person will often reveal to you what they are thinking in a micro-expression.

What do YOU get from Joe Vitale?

As a disclaimer, remember depending on who trained them, a GOOD presenter is often taught to present to a single person they hold in their imagination, so what you get, may not be aimed at you personally!

Another author from The Secret, has a micro expression that involves sticking out his tongue in a yah boo sucks “that showed you” manner.

Maybe the person is driven to prove to someone from their past they could make it. Hopefully it is not aimed at us…

Onto the competition.

I was watching the Mike Koenigs video presentation, when my son interrupted me for a glass of milk.

So what do you think he is trying to say!

Caption Competition

Comment below…

Best comment gets a free paperback copy of The Logic Of Attraction,

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

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mark ty-wharton, creative thinker | innovator | visionary

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Oct 28

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I have just returned from giving a talk in Cambridge about my experience of CBT.

While my intention is to benefit the people listening, the open discussion that followed proved to be useful as well.

I got to remember the human brain makes shortcuts, I make the processing of creative tasks simpler for you to undertake.

Though you consciously learn things, once we have done the steps a number of times, the brain will simply log the routine and go on auto pilot, your “aware” thought processes can be used for other things.

This situation = this result, without having to think out each step.

For example, if I learn to be afraid of dogs, rather than taking all the steps needed to initiate a fight or flight response, all that needs happen is for someone to say the word DOG and the adrenal glands will put me into a heightened state of alertness.

I won’t remember the first twenty or so times I encountered DOG, I got bitten by one, or it at least looked as if it would bite me again if it could get off the leash!

So I got to see where I have re-programmed some of MY dog thinking this evening.

As I talked through a couple of things I said things like “yes, well in that scenario, I do…” and then found I needed to correct myself and say “used to do…”

I got to see movement.

I was there, now I am here. You are here to!

You probably need a reminder to buy my book, or one of my audio products. You do that when you visit my Lulu store after you finish enjoying the blog.

I haven’t entirely solved social anxiety (if I choose to look at it as a problem), but I have created some new routines that don’t even entertain the old possibilities in certain situations.

Something else came to light too, as I looked through my medical notes to research my speech.

At each stage along the way, mental health services have discharged me after a few sessions.

What is missing for me is, I need ongoing help with some areas of my life.

Each time I need help with something I go to the doctor and ask for a new referral, which leads to a new assessment and so on.

The process of referral and assessment sometimes takes months.

Then after six sessions, I get discharged.

Surely, this is a total waste of resources.

I will ALWAYS be autistic. And I would be fair to say after 44 years of consistent diagnosis, anxiety is not going to just disappear.

I am actually going for another assessment tomorrow, to start the whole process again.

Okay, I am the guy who wrote a FREE eBook suggesting it is possible to view anxiety as an extreme sport.

At 46 however, there are some social situations that could be handled another way, rather than surfing through them on a fu*king roller coaster :-)

So there’s ups and downs. What I can handle today may be tomorrow’s problem. And your problem child may become the perfect adult and inspire millions!

Surely it would be cheaper to provide mental health services to high functioning autistic patients on an ongoing and as needed basis?

Put all my medical notes in a central database, perhaps organised into key areas of ability and disability so that whoever is assigned to help me can easily see where I am at.

Food for thought perhaps?

As I said, I am here. You are here to!

Browse around, read more here… Visit my Lulu store!

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

creative thinker | innovator | visionary
mark ty-wharton, creative thinker | innovator | visionary

Buy my book now: http://stores.lulu.com/logicofattraction

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Oct 20

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I had one of my reccuring dreams last night.
I dream I am at the start of an exciting fairground ride, but to get there I have to go down this tunnel (kind of like a water flume, but the first part has a really tight bend in it that I get stuck in).
Wonder what that is a metaphor for :-)

Anyway, in the dream, just prior to this I am on the roof of an old building.
I remember in the dream, at this point I usually slip on some green moss and fall to my death, I wonder if I can do it different.
I manage to get past the point where I slip and get into the building via a broken window.

Once inside I am ready to enter the tunnel.
I am worried I have put on a lot of weight recently and will get stuck.
By the way, I was an eleven pound eleven and three quarter ounce baby.
Yes, think about it…
Ouch!

So I decide to try something different.
I choose a positive mindset about the tunnel before entering it.
I choose to be aware of my body and to be centred in myself.

When I get through, my son is there on the ride with me and there are bubbles. I am travelling backwards very fast and I duck, worried about banging the back of my head on something overhead.

So what do you think?

Reading through the unconscious metaphors, am I a born again positive?

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

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mark ty-wharton, creative thinker | innovator | visionary

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Oct 17

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It is not really social networking in the same sense as FaceBook is it?

And I have an opinion about why Twitter works.

As a long term Internet user (since CIX back in 1990) I am going to make a simple observation about a few trends.

I have used AOL and MSN style messengers to communicate with my friends and acquaintances for a long time.

I also use SMS to communicate on my phone, where speaking might not be appropriate.

It has become second nature to send and recieve messages in both the above ways.

Twitter follows a similar format to SMS.

As most of my messenger based friends are on Twitter, I DM them instead of using messenger.

Half the time I forget and simply bang out an @ message.

And there in lies the rub.

It is easy to forget, Twitter is not a private messenger or SMS service.

It is easy to slip and divulge personal details about my life, once out there, I can be amused by my own candidity, or shamefully embarrassed.

If I choose to be amused, my ego tends to want to follow the same path to more amusement.

Tee hee, I just stuck my willy in the toaster!

In the not so distant past Jonathan Ross was having private conversations with his lovely wife Jane, which were fascinating to follow.

Why?

Because human beings, including me, by nature are intrinsically nosey.

Our curiosity drives us to follow people, just to find out what they are up to.

What makes them tick?

The simple truth!

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

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mark ty-wharton, creative thinker | innovator | visionary

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Oct 13

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The death of two people in a sweat lodge in Sedona, offers us a very interesting opportunity to look at the energy we are using in life and ultimately at what we are attracting.

Negative or positive?

It is very easy to be sucked into the media’s version of events. Ray is inexperienced and out to make a quick buck?

The Internet is littered with articles vilifying Ray and his practices. Mine is not one of them.

I am not applauding his actions either, but realise in the past year or so, something in me has shifted.

The media encourages us to seek out and revel in the negativity of it all. It is the soft sell, get at the basic emotions and hook people.

The story we are being offered is interesting, compelling even, but it is badly researched and simply not true.

I have recently been listening to an interview Bill Harris recorded with James Ray as part of The Masters Of The Secret series. (also on iTunes).

Despite the spin the media are putting on it, it is absolutely clear from the interview that Ray is incredibly experienced in more than one set of spiritual practices, having studied with groups all over the World.

The Native Americans are claiming he was performing one of their rituals, on their land. They then go on to claim Ray was doing it all wrong. But was he?

Here is my take on it.

$10,000?

Why not?

It is a six day course and James Ray has spent a lifetime learning various spiritual practices and bundled them together into the “Spiritual Warrior” package which is ultimately designed to help people.

He is entitled to charge as much as he likes for his time and services.

Arguing that Native Americans don’t charge for the same service is ridiculous, given that the service was completely different from and traditional Native American culture is based on barter.

In Native American culture they still would have given him something valuable, some tobacco, some food, a horse.

Try getting that one past the IRS!

More important, the money from these courses goes into running a business that provides less profitable seminars all around the world. As far as I can tell, he sows seeds of abundance in people that go way beyond the financial.

Yes, we can pick at his business practices and find fault, but if YOU are doing that… WHAT are YOU attracting with this energy?

Okay, clearly something did go wrong. The reality is two people died. But why they died has yet to be determined.

When someone is doing something groundbreaking and new, what do we have to judge it against when things go wrong?

Until the cause is clear, give James A Ray the benefit of doubt.

Simply send the sick your love and good will.

And… This includes Ray, he may be sick too… One possible reason he left, of many.

You can choose to be positive, or negative about it.

Maybe 49 people had an incredible experience, perhaps all did to that point?

Being positive or negative, putting in your energy, having your say…

It may, or may not, make a difference to this situation, ultimately it will make a difference in YOU.

This is mine…

I have read a lot of negative things about James A Ray in the past few days; people telling their poor me stories about how he was horrible to them in one of his seminars.

Hello there… Isn’t that what you always do?

When will these “poor me” stories STOP?

If it fits you, then take responsibility for your feelings!

If seminar leaders are horrible to you, you probably NEEDED it to see you, to GET your perception of things.

Frankly, if you are still complaining, you just won’t get it!

Hit the comments below. Get it off your chest.

Which side of the looking glass are you on this one?

I am with the positive reflection!

See you there…

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mark ty-wharton, creative thinker | innovator | visionary

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Oct 06

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I have been talking with my partner Gina about the word “No” and have concluded there is such a thing as a positive “No”.

If you have seen the film ‘Yes Man’ you may be familiar with the idea of having a “Yes” day.

At least one real life self-development course I can think of, invites participants to do just this as a part of their homework.

You literally choose a day to say “Yes” to everything and observe the consequences.

On deeper reflection I concluded; it would be equally valid to have a “No” day.

I probably say “Yes” to way more things than I intend to, usually to please my partner, a friend, or perhaps to avoid feeling guilt.

Perhaps a positive “No” might sound something like “I would love to come to your event, except it doesn’t fit in with my plans, sorry”.

So, is there such a thing as a negative “Yes” ?

The answer my friend is…

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

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mark ty-wharton, creative thinker | innovator | visionary

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