The original MindMillion book 2005 by Silvia Hartmann - Part 6

Dominion

Phase 6

Dominion

Dominion – what a wonderful word that is.

Try speaking it for yourself.

Say it out aloud, say it slowly and FEEL the resonance of power in the concept, in the idea, in the essence of this word.

Dominion is the heart and soul of being in charge of your empire.

The concept of Dominion applies to your business and your work, but it goes much further than that.

Dominion is being safe inside your own skin, trusting of your environment and your ability of response, of being the master of your own destiny, of creating your own life in all ways.

Dominion is the highest end goal for every empire builder. Without a sense of that, of what that is, any empire will and must fail in the end.

An End To Dominance

Firstly, we need to be very clear what dominion is NOT, and what it isn’t, is dominance.

For many millennia, people have lived out their old ape ancestry in many different disguises. One of the old ape ancestral behaviour patterns that a true empire builder simply cannot afford, is ...

The Silverback Principle

This is when a new empire builder comes in and MUST destroy what came before; the new silverback MUST kill off the old one, and perhaps even his offspring as well so that it seems to all concerned that the new silverback is the only one who ever was, the Alpha and Omega of all and everything.

Plato and Aristotle, Freud and Jung, it has played out a million million times, again and yet again and this is what holds not just whole civilisations in everlasting struggle and strife, but individual incarnations too, and we will learn to do better than that.

Dominance and the hierarchical “alpha male down” pyramid shaped systems are inherently WAR based. Their driving force is actually FORCE, the force aspects of power but without the common sense of evolutionary co-operation.

Take Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich for an example of a dominance based empire. So much force – physical force AND MENTAL FORCE! – was used to hold the components together, keep the people in their place in the rigid hierarchical structures.

But with every application of force, you get COUNTERFORCE – the greater the pressure, the greater the efforts of the saboteurs, of the freedom fighters, of the repressed minorities. Right from the start, the seeds of dissent and of CHAOS are being sown, and as the empire grows and exerts ever more pressure, the counterforces become stronger in turn, until the empire becomes unstable and falls like the proverbial towers.

There is a very different way to get to real dominion, far more workable, far more stable, far more EVOLUTIONARY and structurally correct, and those who know what that is get to be great emperors.

To Be A Champion

King Arthur, the mythical man who unified the kingdoms of his time under a single banner, had a round table built because he wanted to make it clear that his knights were not his serfs, but that they were equals – all CHAMPIONS together, co-operating in a way that only champions can.

So, what is a Champion?

A champion is a human being who no longer uses ape dominance to subdue his or her opponents, but instead uses the power of dominion to build, inspire, change and fight, if necessary.

A champion is someone who has learned that they are safe and powerful in who they are and what they do. They know that no-one can take what and who they are from them, and that WHO THEY ARE is not connected to worldly goods or how many armies of slaves they may “command”.

I can think of no better illustration than the Bushido Samurai Champion’s Vow which encompasses the essence of what it means to be a true champion, a HERO, if you will.

This is an update of the Bushido code of the Samurai for the use of 21^st Century individuals. It serves as a very powerful spell or affirmation to raise this kind of energy in a very different way. Especially women can greatly benefit from calling upon "The Champion's Power" because that is often not available as a rule "as a feminine attribute", yet is in many cases exactly what the doctor ordered for issues from self actualisation to self esteem.

The Champion's Vow

I have no home; I am the home.

I have no means; I am the means.

I have no life; I am life.

I have no death; I am death.

I have no body; I am the body.

I have no mind; I am the mind.

I have no heart; I am the heart

I have no soul; I am the soul.

I have no plan; I am the plan.

I have no law; I am the law.

I have no strength; I am strength.

I have no sword; I am the sword.

I have no desire; I am desire.

I have no creativity; I am creativity.

I have no magic; I am magic.

I have no love; I am love.

>> Exercise: Evoking The Champion

Place two white candles on a surface with a mirror (such as a bathroom shelf) where you can stand up straight and look yourself in the eye, with the candles either side of you.

Be clean and preferably nude.

Light the candles.

Stand up straight and take three deep breaths. Put your hands on the centre of your chest and say out aloud,

"I am here to re-affirm the Champion's Vow."

Now, say one statement after the other.

On each half where it says, "I have no ..." have your hands open, palms up, in a "giving away" gesture.

On the second half, draw your hands back onto the centre of your chest whilst you state "I am ..."

Allow the power and energy of that statement to echo round your body and system, wait until it has entirely receded, breathe in and out, bow to yourself in the mirror briefly, then move onto the next statement.

After the last statement has echoed its full resonance, take a moment to simply breathe and look into your own eyes, then say, "I have re-affirmed the Champion's Vow."

Bow briefly to yourself and blow out the candles.

Champion’s Rewards

As you can see, a champion is a very different person to you average silverback aggressor. This is a form of strength and power that age cannot take from you, that is immune to a change in circumstance and environment, and it is further, immensely spiritual.

The champion state includes the highest human virtues, from humility which stems simply from a clear, rational and logical assessment of one’s own abilities to affect the world around us, to courtesy to those less fortunate than oneself. It includes honour, loyalty and the ability to INSPIRE LOYALTY AND LOVE in others.

You can’t build your empire on negativity and force and misery. If you do, you will make a rod for your own back that remains life long, as you will be constantly at war with everyone around you, always looking over your shoulder for the next attack, always fire fighting, never being able to simply walk in delight through your domains.

Alexander The Great made his army march 20,000 miles on foot. They would have gone home a long time before mile 2,000 if they didn’t WANT to follow him – they believed in him, they loved him and they were GLAD to be in his army, rather than in the army of any of his foes.

You can check history for yourself. It is always the true champions who change the world, to make the difference, who get things done.

You do not have to be the son of a king, or even anyone’s son at all, especially if you are a daughter instead, to be a champion. It has nothing to do with where or how you were born, it is about what YOU CHOOSE TO BECOME.

I want to tell you of some of the things that a champion gets as a result of their decision to BE A CHAMPION and to try with their best resources to live up to those high, high principles.

There are truly ASTONISHING rewards in even trying for this, make no mistake.

Love & Loyalty

I have already mentioned Alexander’s army – men don’t just march on their stomachs. Imagine for a moment if you had the love and loyalty of:

• Your users
• Your suppliers
• Your wholesalers
• Your distributors
• Your staff

Can you BEGIN TO IMAGINE the difference THAT would make to your business, whatever it is?

Have you ever talked to a lowly tele-person who worked for a big faceless company because you wanted to get something fixed, something done?

A person who is apparently NOTHING AT ALL in the greater scheme of things, on minimum wages, not well educated – and yet they totally held the power and the key to make or break what you were trying to achieve?

If they just did their job and nothing more, it would work alright.

If they didn’t like your attitude or were having a bad day, they could put you in HELL with mis-filing your request or pressing the wrong button on their computer.

If they were to fully co-operate with you, your request would be fast tracked and you’d get what you wanted quickly and could get on with your life with ease.

EVERYWHERE YOU GO

the world is full of ....

PEOPLE.

They punch buttons and they make your soup. They take your order, take your money and invoice you.

Silverback apes like to treat these as though they were just cogs or didn’t even exist at all – and it’s so strange how their lives get very, very difficult simply because of that.

They wonder why their soup tastes so strange ... what happened to it in the kitchen ...?

People are what you need to build your empire.

People can SMELL a true champion a mile off, and they will go out of their way to assist such a person. They will do their best, and just imagine for a moment, if all and everyone who you would ever deal with from now on, all those thousands upon thousands of individual people ALL would try their very best to HELP YOU SUCCEED?

Imagine THAT!

This alone is a lifting and a raising that can make YOU achieve things that no-one, but no-one has ever managed to do.

Are you beginning to see how dominion triumphs over dominance, every time?

But wait, there’s more ...

Mastermind Groups & Networking

Silverbacks can’t network.

They can’t, try as they might – they’re all about DESTROYING everyone else and being only one left standing at the end of the day.

Mr Hitler lost it the moment he failed to understand that if you run that pattern on the global community, you end up fighting a war that you cannot win. One country against – well, all the rest really. It then only becomes a matter of time before the total capitulation and utter destruction of all the works will happen, as it must.

It is a shame that so many people in so many businesses simply don’t get it that with that attitude they are making their own lives and everyone who comes into contact with them a total misery for absolutely no reward at the end of the day.

Just WHAT real champion’s networking can do in actuality is a miracle. It can easily double your earnings, then double them again, and yet again, without ANY EFFORT AT ALL really, without any of the hard work and graft usually linked to success and triumph.

Imagine for a moment, you had a mailing list and everyone on your mailing list had bought your product already. You find someone else to network with PROPERLY, from the champion state, and they recommend your product to their mailing list, whilst you do the same for them.

Ala-kazam! Magically, both have sold TWICE what they had sold before and DOUBLED their customer base.

For a champion, all it takes to achieve this “magical 200% increase in sales and users overnight” is a phone call and a pleasant chat to a like minded soul.

What does it take to achieve this for a growling, snarling ape aggressor?

I rest my case ...

A champion doesn’t just consider what’s best for them. They take a higher viewpoint on what’s going on and therefore finds where what they do NATURALLY FITS with what others do, thus aligning two forces, two people, two sets of energies into the same direction.

Now we have real co-operation. This is way, WAY beyond the ape idea of “win-win” which is only that to make it palatable for the silverbacks to even be in the same building with each other and so they can go home and think, “Well, I won that one!”

It’s a different level of achievement altogether when two champions align. That’s when “co-operation” becomes exponential rather than just linear, and when things happen “as if by magic”.

Now, for a moment sit back and imagine you have more than just two champions co-operating. The mystical “master mind group” arises, and that is what changes the world and so quickly, it is literally spooky.

It only takes two or three real champions to start working together and really, the sky then becomes no longer a limit to what can be achieved.

Becoming The Hero

There is a progression from being a disciple, to being a peer, and then to become a true hero, the champion, which is the step beyond peerdom.

Most people start off on the right track.

They pick a personal hero, someone to inspire them and teach them, and they become “followers” of this person.

This is right and completely natural and structurally the same process if one was to join a fan club, or if one was to buy the books and attend the trainings of a certain person.

What is generally not known is that the “hero worship” stage of the follower is not permanent but only an EVOLUTIONARY STEP towards becoming a hero in your own right eventually.

The progression is simply:

Follower -> Peer -> Champion

In our hierarchically organised societies, of a hundred thousand, only one might even expect to become a peer to their former hero at some point in their life – most never even think further than remaining in the follower position forever.

You, who have purchased this book, are amongst these one in a hundred thousand who want more, go higher, attain dominion; so even if you are not a peer YET to your own personal hero/s you will be working on this, as the heroes are your role models and your guides to how to be THAT in any given business, field of endeavour or influence.

So, for a nice exercise in the spirit of this, please now stop and make a list of your personal heroes, the people who you look upon as role models and inspirations for your own field of endeavour.

As an example, here are some of my champions.

1. Oscar Wilde

2. David Bowie

3. Krishnamurti

3. Richard Bandler

4. Charles Dickens

5. Marion Bradley

6. Alfred Korzybski

7. Hiroshi Yamauchi

8. Jim Morrison

9. John La Tourette

10. Roy Hunter

11. Brian Tracy

12. King Arthur

13. Nigel Bennett

14. William Shakespeare

They are in no particular order, as there cannot be a hierarchy amongst champions; and this is a totally personal choice and affair for every person who constructs such a list.

Please make your list now.

This is a VERY POWERFUL thing to do, and something that silverbacks just can’t – to acknowledge your inspirations and have them be HERE AND NOW, not forgotten, but very much active and supporting YOU in the HERE AND NOW – and the future to come.

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So. How do you FEEL when you read down your own list and pause at every name, what that means to you, what that stands for?

Allow yourself to really FEEL love and admiration and great loyalty to these people. They are people, and so they have their shortcomings; they tried to do great things and regardless of whether they failed or succeeded in this, they are here TODAY on YOUR sheet of paper, picked out from the multitudes as CHAMPIONS who made a DIFFERENCE in a person’s life.

Isn’t THAT the most extraordinary achievement, the greatest success of them all?

To live on in THAT way, to have made THAT kind of contribution, which lives on long after pyramids have crumbled into dust, long after the buildings of power have been bombed into oblivion?

Do YOU want to be ... THAT?

Ask yourself that question, sit with it for a moment, and if your answer is, “Yes, with all my heart and soul.”, then carefully and lovingly, add YOUR OWN NAME to your list of champions.

To be a champion, you have to

WANT TO BE A CHAMPION.

You have to do nothing else but

do YOUR BEST to BE YOUR BEST.

You are human and your greatest achievement is YOUR WILL TO TRY.

The Magic Of The New

“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” Robert Burns

I would not have done my best with this book if I was to leave you without addressing the issue of what to do when things go wrong.

It is not in success, but in disaster where the paths divide between the champion and the one who might have nearly made it – but fell at the last hurdle.

The last hurdle for any champion is of course, not a great foe or an end of level baddy, but indeed and always only – they themselves.

We are not our own “worst enemies”, but we as our conscious selves are indeed our own most serious limitation, until we have fully learned to really think and act very differently than we were taught and brain washed into all our lives.

The greatest strength and the greatest magic of them all lie in moments of challenge, of what others might think of as “disasters”, indeed, in those magical moments when the best laid plans of mice and men go seriously awry.

Imagine for a moment, if you will, that the plans you made for your life when you were about 15 had perfectly come to pass. Everything EXACTLY as you had laid it out back then, no divergence, no disappointments, just EXACTLY like you wanted things to be from that perspective back then.

Eeeeouwh ....

Well – but what makes you think that you know better NOW? What makes you think that whatever you are planning right now with such fervour and intensity is not just as way off the mark as that was back then?

Time changes. People change. Circumstances change. Only one thing remains the same – and that is the ongoing evolution and unfoldment of all things into directions we just simply cannot foresee as yet.

There is great comfort in this thought, and it doesn’t mean at all that you shouldn’t make plans, have visions and goals, and try to achieve these with all you heart and best effort.

But inherent in these “unknowable unfoldments” is the possibility for SUCCESS BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS.

Surprises, in other words. Things that go BEYOND the plan, magic that you could have never foreseen, that opens up whole new glorious directions possibly no-one at all ever thought to even want or will before.

Amazingly, these seeds to whole new unfoldments are often found in moments when things SEEM to be going wrong.

And it is HOW ONE RESPONDS in these special moments that whole incarnations are decided – forward to glory, or down into the dust, never to rise again.

Here is therefore one more thing I need to give you and catalyse this day that if you really understand this, YOU can make MAGIC of a kind you never ever expected you could.

The secret is ...

The Trooper Principle

Not long ago, I was working in the living room with my lap top and in the background, there was TV show of live avant garde music artists running along.

I gave it little attention, glanced up once in a while, winced once in a while when the avant garde got to be a little too avant garde for my liking, and there was this lady singer introduced who had come out of retirement after some 15 years to try and make a come back.

So what. There are many of those, who cares.

She was singing live to the accompaniment of the show’s host, a famous piano player, when right in the middle of this “make or break” performance she forgot the lyrics!

The piano player played on, of course, what else could he do? He looked at her in horror, the whole live audience was shocked and staring, and I looked up too as like everyone else, I had not expected this – the best laid plan on this occasion was to expect a very good performance, a FLAWLESS performance, to do well here in this one shot chance to convince the target audience of an entire country that her new album was worthy of purchase.

But this lady was a veteran of a thousand nights in a thousand clubs, and she simply laughed and sang, at the top of her voice, “Oooh yeaaah, ooh, yeahhh, the lyrics, they are forgotten, they are no longer here ... yeah, ooodoopidooo, doodlidoo ...”

She improvised the whole rest of the song, singing her heart out and the piano player laughed and went right into it, they finished with HUGE flourish and the audience was on their feet, cheering wildly, I was on my feet, clapping her in delight – “Brilliant! Wonderful! Delightful! Way to go, lady!!”

I REMEMBER that. I REMEMBER her name.

Anita Baker.

She lit up the studio, she lit up my sitting room, and I REMEMBER HER NAME.

I don’t remember anyone else from that show, don’t remember a single song but Anita Baker will be with me until the end.

And so, what had been “laid out” to be “the perfect performance” broke through into REAL MAGIC. It was the master key to her success.

Just two days later, and I saw the same thing again, this time in an American movie about some girls in high school, doing a performance at the Christmas celebrations of “Jingle Bell Rock” in formation and dressed as sexy Santas.

No-one particularly liked these girls and they had performed the exact same thing for three years running, never coming close to winning a prize, never mind first prize.

On this occasion however, one of them stumbled and knocked the boom box off the stage. It exploded and sparked and then there was ...

... deathly silence.

A thousand people stared at them and they stood there, shaking.

One was just about to run off stage, when one girl found it in her to raise her voice and just sing it out by herself into the silence:

“Giddyup jingle horse, pick up your feet, jingle around the clock ...”

As she sang, she went into the routine of dancing and movements; the other three girls fell in and started to sing it too, and then the WHOLE AUDIENCE began to join in, a little at first, then wholeheartedly.

When the performance finished, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house and the cheering lifted the roof.

A moment of real human magic had happened.

This is the very ESSENCE of being a champion – when it all falls apart, and all the others run away in tears and disgrace, to stand your ground and sing your heart out into the silence, by yourself if necessary, and FINISH WITH HONOUR.

This is what makes magic, what creates love and loyalty, and not a man, not a woman, not an institution nor any whirlwind or tidal wave can ever take this away from a person.

What would you not give to be a part of such a moment of magic?

Don’t fear the future.

Don’t fear what will go wrong.

Embrace what happens, stay TRUE to yourself and your heart and your MINDMILLIONS will be more, far, far more, than simply a lot of money in the bank.

Silvia Hartmann

19. 12. 2004

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