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TIGER WOODS IN TOKYO
What, you think I missed watching Tiger Woods just because I was out of the country? Impossible. Here in Tokyo I have become a TV addict. It's from hunger to hear English. Three Tokyo stations carry programs in English: CNN news, Discovery Channel, and Star Channel. Back home I wouldn't be caught dead playing TV in the background, but here I do it often when clients have left. Puttering around in my condo, I subconsciously listen and soak up my beloved English language -- the wondrous language where I have communication skills beyond those of a two-month old baby, which represents a refreshing change when I am in Japan. Only it's not easy, watching TV in the background, not when you want to avoid violence. Many of the movies on Star are way too cringe-inducing. Fortunately, sometimes Star runs a promo interview with Harrison Ford about his latest film. Perhaps I should be ashamed to admit that I have seen this comforting program at least eight times so far. Amazingly, Harrison always handles his taped interview the same way, incredibly blasé, verging on disgusted. Every time! Still, it's in English, and the interview isn't violent, so I have become a pretty big fan of what I fondly think of as "The Harrison Network." Discovery Channel has taught me important facts about
architectural history, and you can't beat discussions of French sewer
construction for thrills, right? Unfortunately the cable station
So then I'll flip over to CNN, only you never know when they'll be obsessed with breaking news about war, death or terrorism. Sometimes, it's merely recent events of war, death, and terrorism. Then come exciting broadcasts about fears of future war, death, or terrorism. When I'm lucky, however, it's sports. Normally I would never watch sports, but here in Tokyo watching non-violent sports interviews in English, well, it's just about perfect. And thus I watched shows about the U.S. Open for many, many days. Regularly, I would hear the latest conversation with some golfer guy being interviewed, not Mr. Woods but an easygoing fellow reminiscent of Peter Lawford who would find a bright new way to say, "I know Tiger will win, but I'm just going to get out on the golf course anyway and have great time losing. Since I know you can't get him to come on your show, I'm soooo glad that you invited me here for this interview." Then came the broadcasts about Tiger's golfing triumph and the bad news about his injury. All Tiger, all the time. All knee and victory, thanks to CNN. Don't you just love TV, when they speak English? Pried away from my TV set, I taught a two-day Face Reading in Japan and, coincidentally, all my students received handouts that included a drawing of the great Tiger Woods. His face helped my students to recognize the characteristic I have named the Nose Bonus, and also to understand a more important point about ethnicity. One of the most important things to learn, reading faces, is that you read a "Cablinasian" like Tiger the same way you'd read a man of any single race: One item of face data at a time. EMPOWER YOURSELF Absolutely, you can learn the full set of skills as an empath by reading Empowered by Empathy. I especially recommend the audio book edition, because it contains an extra layer of empathic oomph through voices of the two narrators, Marilyn Cooley (locally known for her popular radio show on classical WETA in the Metro Washington, DC area) and, well, me. But if you would care to jump-start your skills forward by half a year or more, join us for the Empath's Empowerment Workshop, to be held in Virginia September 19-21. Details are here.
If you're considering flying into nearby Dulles Airport (D.C.s largest hub and 20 minutes from the Intensive location), you might wish to supplement your Intensive with a session of Energy Release Regression Therapy, Face Reading, or an Aura Transformation session. Mitch, our Appointments Coordinator, will be glad to work with you to find the most convenient schedule possible. Call him at 703-404-4357 or email to mitch@rose-rosetree.com. FIERCER THAN HE LOOKS -- READING TIGER'S FACE
As CNN or other media may have told you, Tiger has just won his latest victory, the 108th U. S. Open. Victory isn't new to Woods, who's not just the top golfer in the world now but one of the sport's all-time greats. Unfortunately, problems with Woods' left leg aren't new to him, either. During this tournament, he played against doctor's advice. Before cameras he emphasized the win, not the wince, but now he'll be sidelined for the rest of the year, healing injuries to his knee and a double stress fracture in his left tibia.Let's celebrate the great man, first by reading that handsome face and then, in our second article, doing an empathic merge as the basis for reading his aura. You may think you already know about that super-famous face, but look again. Tiger Woods just might be fiercer than he looks. Mostly we'll use this photo as a basis for the reading:
One of the distinctive features of my trademarked system is that each item of face data corresponds to a talent and also to a potential challenge that the person may, or may not, have overcome at the time of the photo. Since physiognomy works like an alphabet, any traits you share with Tiger will have the same meaning for you. For instance… THAT NOSE BONUS This is how Tiger looks a lot like me! We have an extra chunk of nose between and below the nostrils. Technically this is called a "hanging columella," but I much prefer calling it a nose bonus. The talent: Work must involved service. Woods has, indeed, written a mega-bestselling how-to for golfers. If you think about how he has comported himself in his personal life, it's significant that the man has had such a low profile. Tiger doesn't do scandal, even under all the pressure of his oversized success, and it could well be that one motivator for his straight-arrow life is a sense of service. The potential challenge: If you have a nose bonus, it could be hard to stay with a job if you feel that it isn't really helping anyone. And you may have noticed that Tiger is a professional golfer, inspiring countless fans. He isn't a lobbyist for some tobacco company. FAR-SET CHEEKS Look for the emphasis on Tiger's cheeks, where they are fullest, and you'll find that (unlike most people) he DOES show a cheek emphasis. It's out to the side, towards his ears, which is why I call this characteristic "far-set cheeks." The talent: Long-term stamina, using courage for projects that take a very long time. And that would include the playing field for golf, where a solo player must keep his grit going and (to use an expression I normally loathe) "Stay the course." Sure, runners and skiers and other athletes may compete in ways that appear to last longer. But consider the level of surgeon-like precision required, the intense concentration, the high-pressure inner game. It would be fascinating to read auras of a top golfer, comparing key chakras at every hole all the way to the last. I think you'll find that many just lose their poise. But not this long-term player. The potential challenge: Pushing himself to perform, the whole game, the whole season -- relentless long-term courage is great for the soul but not always easy on the body. TOOTH-FRAMER SMILE When photographed, Tiger is very consistent about showing that big, open smile. It reaches up just enough to show his upper row of teeth, but not the gums. The talent: Woods has enough confidence, and innate generosity, to open up to others. In life, he's a giver, not a taker. Yet he also has a clear sense of appropriate boundaries. The potential challenge: You won't have room to hide a golf ball in your mouth if you insist on smiling like that. Wait, that's not it. His challenge is that little problem that surfaces occasionally in my system of Face Reading Secrets®, nothing super-terrible, just a lack of tolerance for the rest of humanity. When it comes to opening up to the public, celebrity or no celebrity, Tiger Woods has no trouble. Maybe, in the privacy of his own personal golf course, or wherever he hangs out with his wife and daughter, he secretly grumbles about the people who insist on fake smiles, also those who give incessantly without allowing others to give back to them. Between that charming, perfectly open smile and the service style lurking within his nose bonus, Tiger may seem mild mannered indeed, more like an Eldrick (his birth name) than his famous nickname. But keep looking, like the intrepid explorer of deeper perception that I know you are. And when we get to his aura (in an article found below), consider that a less genuine smile might prove less baffling to his competitors on the golf course. No scary crocodile grin for this athlete, giving his foes an excuse to hate him. Tiger Woods truly is a nice guy…. Except what will his aura show about who the man becomes when he competes? EAR ANGLES Notice the asymmetry? Crossing over, of course, to tell left from right on this photo, you may notice that Woods has an out-angled right ear and an in-angled left one. Ear angle asymmetries are pretty common, but usually they go in exactly the opposite direction. The talent: In his career, Tiger doesn't do what others do. He doesn't care much what others do. Googling around for his photo, I read that for years he refused to update to more high-tech golf clubs, even though other pros were doing that. Great example of the independence that goes with that out-angled right ear. The in-angled left ear suggests that Woods needs a home life with stability, rules, predictability. No Britney Spears lifestyle for him, thank you. The potential challenge: Golf is a conservative game, compared to many other sports. You may find that a majority of top golfers have very in-angled left ears. They certainly would feel more comfortable than Tiger Woods in that mainstream golfing culture. Yet, where it counts, Tiger has the one characteristic that all top golfers need. You could even call it fierce, his chronic nonconformity. CLOSE-SET LEFT EYE Having read faces since 1975, I have found only one characteristic that spells excellence in a particular field of life. And that is the importance, for golfers, of having at least one close-set eye. Take a look at any superb golfer and you'll probably find that same characteristic. What makes that so important for golf? The talent: Having a close-set eye brings the perspective of noticing very fine details about anything of interest. For Woods, that would mean golf clubs, angles of hills, texture of turf, wind speed and direction -- offhand, I can't think of a more detail-oriented sport than golf. Can you? So any golfer wishing that Tiger Woods would just go away and find some other sport may be waiting a very long time. The potential challenge: Being critical is the potential challenge. That could mean self-criticism if he doesn't score holes in one every single time. It could mean criticism of people he knows, insufferable fellow golfers, annoying caddies. Has Tiger overcome that challenge? Soon we'll read his aura, and that would be one way to tell. UNUSUAL EYE ANGLE ON RIGHT I've saved the best for last. Check out the inner and outer corners of Tiger's right eye. Connect them with an imaginary line (or hold a golf club against his photo, if you feel that somehow would improve your game). EVEN! Maybe 1 in 2000 people has an even-angled eye. The talent: Realistic assessment of life, including golf courses, tournaments, players, broadcasters, business deals -- yes, you can expect Tiger Woods to excel at this. The potential challenge: Compared to Tiger, many of us are dunderheads. Alas, that's a challenge for him. And for us. But at least we can all enjoy a rousing game of golf, especially when the commentary is in English. And if Tiger Woods hasn't been sidelined, you just know that he's going to see that field clearer than others, choosing an unconventional inner plan, framing his strategy with all the carefree insouciance and feckless whimsy of a Peter Lawford. Oops, make that the carefree insouciance of a tank rolling right into a battle. CUT CORDS OF ATTACHMENT BOOK SOLD TO A JAPANESE PUBLISHER Women's Intuition Worldwide, that little American publisher that could, has just signed its 24th contract for publication in a foreign language. VOICE, the same company that sponsors me to teach in Japan, has its own little section in mainstream bookstores here, I'm told. They have decided to follow up their success with Empowered by Empathy by publishing Cut Cords of Attachment. My story about the night of the contract signing can be found on my blog "Deeper Perception Made Practical.
TIGER'S SECRET JOY, SECRET FEAR -- READING TIGER'S AURA
Here in Japan, I'm surprising people when I talk about my latest findings with auras. As you may know if you have read either of my two latest books, Read People Deeper or Cut Cords of Attachment, I now teach people how to read as many as 50 databanks of information in a chakra. Every chakra includes a gift of the soul, permanent as a fingerprint, plus "STUFF," my oh-so-technical term for stored-up problems of one type or another. Think we're going to find much stuff in the aura of Tiger Woods? Think we'll find a flawless Superman, whose "Achilles heel" just happens to be a bit higher, at the next leg joint upward from the foot? Who is this Tiger man anyway? To read along with me, I especially recommend the aura reading techniques in the above-mentioned books.
Let's share the fun and inspiration and pathos of reading Tiger Woods. To read along with me, use this photo: PERSONALITY WHEN PLAYING GOLF, Databank, Throat Chakra Outwardly, Tiger appears cool and even laid back. Inwardly though, he is intent, with a fierceness that matches his name. Most interesting, he avoids giving any outer indication of inner struggle or fatigue. It's as though his personality is like a suit of armor, even if he looks as if wearing a golf shirt. COMPETITIVENESS WHILE PLAYING GOLF Databank, Solar Plexus Chakra Information in this databank would normally be among the most private for a professional athlete, but when it comes to auras, there are no secrets, just as there is no ability to conceal the truth. So I have to say that Tiger is a roaring, raging, red-hot competitor. He is out for blood. Think of a method actor, drawing on all his past experience of a certain type in order to portray a role convincingly. Woods summons the memory of every injustice done to him, or those he knows, every reason to clobber the competition, and it's used as fuel for the furnace. That potential annoyance with people over little things, discussed in our face reading, add that as more fuel. If golf is a psychological game as much as a physical one, any emotionally empathic golfer had better watch out. This competitive blaze within Tiger would be truly scary. PHYSICAL RELATIONSHIP TO ENVIRONMENT Databank, Root Chakra How appropriate it is for me to read this databank on Tiger Woods on a day I am teaching a workshop for empaths! Most people have scant understanding of the term, so if they think of empaths at all, they think "An empath is a mushy gushy person who feels other people's feelings." Tiger Woods sure would flunk that "test." Although far from self-absorbed, emotionally he is keenly self-aware. Still, when it comes to environmental empathy, Tiger Woods has innate talent of the highest magnitude. Also skill about when to switch his gift on or off. When the aptly named Mr. Woods lets himself go, he awakens a sense of himself as unified (in consciousness) with his environment. Whatever section of golf course he's facing can become an extension of his own body. Thus, every ripple through the grass feels as real to him as if the wind were blowing through the hair on his head. You and I have proprioceptors in body parts like hands and feet. Tiger has extra ones in body parts like hills and trees. Walt Whitman, America's great mystical poet, had one extraordinary opening up of consciousness that he immortalized in Leaves of Grass. If Whitman lived today, he might envy the daily experience of Tiger Woods on the golf course. If you're a skilled empath yourself, you can do more than envy. Find a good photo where Tiger is playing golf. Then do the Darshan technique. (This technique, from Empowered by Empathy, has protection for you built right into the experience.) SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIP TO ENVIRONMENT Databank, Third Eye Chakra Tiger's experience spiritually is identical with the physical gift for merging with the environment I just described at the root chakra. So count him as having Spiritual Oneness as well as Environmental Empathy. The one big difference I notice about the third-eye version of Tiger's talent, merging with him as he merges, is the quiet ecstasy. You've heard of runner's high. It's made of sweat and endorphins and cooperative body parts, moving through space. Golfer's high is different. At least Tiger's is. This is a landscape painter's way to look out serenely and tell God, "Thank You, Thank You, Thank You." PERSONAL NEED TO WIN Databank, Right Knee Sub-Chakra Woods has an inner gift of poise, expecting victory rather than worrying about whether he will achieve it. As with other databanks, I have read here, Mr. Woods is remarkably clear of STUFF. His golfing victories have helped him to release the pain (even, to him, shame) of losses. So the confidence runs deep. ABILITY TO HANDLE LOSING A PUBLIC SPORTING EVENT Databank, Left Knee Sub-Chakra Deep down, Woods has a gift of the soul at this databank for rolling along, moving forward after losing, shrugging the experience right off. Yet STUFF has lodged here, painful memories of every loss. Each seeming humiliation lives within Tiger Wood's conscious mind, easy to summon up, and flaming, flaring within him, right at this knee. As the stakes rise in his golf career, the pressure to not suffer loss correspondingly grows within him, and this is where Tiger Woods can punish himself severely, as in this recent photo. Yes, this photo portrays Tiger responding to physical pain... mostly. Moving empathically into that left knee, I don't find pain as much as rage + fear -- and especially fear that he will lose the ability to play. This is downright terror, burning with a harsher flame than any mere physical pain. Which athlete today has a bigger career? Who, therefore, has more to lose from injury? Retirement would mean braking hard after traveling at the speed of light. Heroes like Tiger Woods are easy to envy, especially someone with such charm and apparent ease. Yet even for him, everything here at Earth School is bought at a price. Even Tiger Woods pays. His knee is a reminder to us all. With our free will, we can follow our desires. We can even succeed spectacularly. But no degree of success can protect us from pain. If we're wise we'll set goals and aim for happiness, but our only certainty is that, one way or another, we will learn. ZINE ARCHIVE Have you missed a recent issue of "Reading Life Deeper"? Below are links to the previous 6 months' issues. Issues prior to December 2007 are posted on my website under Articles. I hope you enjoy these: READING LIFE DEEPER ARCHIVE
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