LFP v 3.0: A New Facelift
June 23, 2009 by dr. lam · Leave a Comment
Today, I am proud to announce a tiring (for me at least) 2-month adventure trying to rebuild a 3,000+ page website from scratch. Okay, frankly, I did not do the work. My great web team did it. However, I did have to look through a lot of it, guide it, edit it and write new material. I am most proud of one element that is completely functionless, which is my home page, featuring 25 rotating branding messages that declare what I stand for and what LFP is all about. I combined elements of nature that had compelling color, graphic quality, and relevance to the message. I actually got the idea when searching through the Ritz-Carlton spa when I saw a beautiful leaf (I chose a different leaf for the image in question), as I almost never get ideas from other plastic surgery websites. The blue color of the top navigation I pulled from the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong spa. I love the regal bluish-green to it. I was thinking of a lighter blue but you could not read the wording well in the navigation bar. The rebranding of my color emanated from the repeated protestations a couple of years ago during my web contest to change my brown color scheme. Accordingly, I have listened. Come on, it only took 2 years! The design (ahem) is all Apple. Sorry Steve Jobs, but I love Apple so this is my homage to Apple.
The function (thanks Adam and George) of this website is so much better. My website became increasingly cluttered like a closet overstuffed with new shoes and old shoes that don’t fit. (My webmaster, Adam, said he need both valium and propecia before he could undertake the task of redoing the site. I thought that was hilarious.) Here’s another analogy. I kept adding new rooms to an old house so that nothing worked or matched. That is the problem with a restlessly creative mind always seeking a better solution for my customers. So, in short, I tore down the house, razed it to the ground, and rebuilt it from scratch. I have had a lot of compliments with my past website but I certainly knew where it fell far short. I like what Steve Jobs said when he was introducing the iPod Nano, “The iPod Mini is the world’s best-selling iPod and MP3 machine ever. Today, we get rid of it.” That is how I view my old site. It worked (sort of). It was good but this new site is so much better.
What didn’t work with the old site was its navigation. It was impossible to find anything. Now, if you are interested, for example, in fat grafting, you go the expandable menu item under “procedures” and you have all the major videos and related information related to that topic. If you want to learn more about chin augmentation, I have all my video diaries and journeys linked to from the chin augmentation page (well, we have a few videos that still need linking to that hopefully adam will be done with in the next few days). If you are just searching the videos section itself, all of my 400 plus videos are organized, suborganized, and suborganized so that they are more easily cataloged and thereby found. I hope you enjoy this behemoth labor of love and value your feedback to making it better (or if you find any glitches, which I am sure there are plenty). Thanks for your continued patronage and support of LFP (and patience during this web transition phase)!
Mindfulness Mondays 4: Healing
June 22, 2009 by dr. lam · Leave a Comment
I am really enjoying Wayne Dyer’s Excuses Begone! book and audio-presentation, which will be a blog series in a couple of months. I really like the idea of programming your own biology toward what we want to be rather than what we see as a limitation. He talks specifically about a sham operation performed in arthritic patients that led to the same healing capacity in these individuals as for those who actually underwent a legitimate operation. People with canes started to walk without canes simply because they believed that they were healed. Many times we are given a diagnosis: cancer, heart disease, back pain, sickness, and we simply program our body toward that end. He talks about a guy that he encountered on a treadmill who was sniffling and Dyer asked him, “How long have you been sick for?” The man responded, “In 3 weeks, it will have been a month.” That is negative programming. Dyer cites the book, Biology of Belief, that exemplifies how we actually can program our DNA the way we want by creating the right belief system. He mentions he was listening to the nightly news and Brokaw at the time said, “Stay tuned, in a few minutes, we will list the things to look out for as early signs for Alzheimer’s.” He thought, “Why the heck do I want to hear the list of things that will program my mind toward a negative belief?”
In short, this week, program your mind toward healing whether that be physical or mental. He clarifies that the law of attraction (a la Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret) does not say that we will attract those things that we want but those things that are like us already. We need to not only want it but be that. So it is not enough to just want healing but to feel the healing spirit throughout and through you already. If you are in the path toward healing, do not indulge sickness. Focus your mind on where you should be and be there now. Be healed. Reprogram your biology. Program healing. We will discuss more about Dyer’s new ideas in the coming months.
For all of you blog devotees, waiting for a new blog and website, my web crew and I are diligently working to make that a reality. Hopefully, any day now. Even with the new design, there will be a ton of tweaks so please have patience, especially the blog design because I have not even gone through a first edit on the blog design as I have been focused entirely on the web design overall.
Psycho-Cybernetics Part 28 of 30: Reprogramming Old Thoughts
June 19, 2009 by dr. lam · 8 Comments
As many of you know, I believe that those individuals who have had less than desirable plastic surgery become obsessed with their past mistakes of having wrongfully picked their surgeon, reliving the experience, and further reinforcing that negative attitude as a present-day problem. Maltz says that we can program our present by how we view and handle the past. We can look at our lives like a tape-recorded show. The more times we replay a certain event or thought, the more it becomes ingrained within our psyche and the harder to let it go. It becomes such a powerful force that we are consumed by the negative energy that emanates from such a thought. Maltz calls these neural recordings “engrams” that we can further etch into our soul with past unpleasantness or rather begin to erase them through disuse and instead focus using repetition on a currently happy situation.
He recalls when he attended this funeral service for his friend and was shocked at the brother who hated his deceased sibling having poured forth a glowing eulogy. When pressed about why he gave such a warm remembrance of his kin, the brother told Maltz, “I’m the kind of person who does not speak ill of the dead.” The sentence that begins, “I’m the kind of person who…” is extremely powerful, notes Maltz. It sets the emotional tone of where someone currently wants to be by self-perception and opens the flood gates for the servo-mechanism to act in a positive way toward the intended goal. This deep level of positive affirmation can be the juice to propel one toward the end goal. Today, try to find one or more sayings of “I’m the kind of person who…” that would help you shape your intention toward the envisioned goal.
Psycho-Cybernetics Part 27 of 30: Establishing the Winning Feeling
June 18, 2009 by dr. lam · 2 Comments
As you guys know, these blogs have a lot to do with our feelings first because how we feel dictates our mood, thoughts, and goals. If we don’t like to do a goal, we won’t. If we are sad about a situation, it affects our thinking and our judgment. When we harness our feelings in the right direction, we can enlist the power of our Automatic Success Mechanism to move in the right direction.
When we set our mind on our intended goal in front of us, we need to feel as if the goal is already achieved. We need to take a future tense objective and make it into a present day possibility by feeling how we would feel if we have already accomplished it, as if it were already right in front of us. We can thereby direct our servo-mechanism toward that goal effectively.
When George S. Patton, the great U.S. general in World War II, was asked whether he got any fear in his heart during a major military campain, he replied that he did. However, he said, “I never take counsel of my fears.” So even when we are tainted by a fear of possible failure, that does not ordain the inevitability of failure. We can still succeed despite our fear and anxiety, as Patton rightly pointed out. However, when we can we should focus on future successes rather than the possibility of future failure.
Remember also that when we talked about our condition in a hypnotic situation, our brain could not tell the difference between reality and something vividly imagined. We literally can program our brain for success or failure depending on how we adjust our feeling about the situation. First, set your mind on where your goal should be and then bring your feeling into alignment with that goal, then let your servo-mechanism do the rest.
Psycho-Cybernetics Part 26 of 30: Second Acts
June 17, 2009 by dr. lam · 7 Comments
The quote ascribed to Fitzgerald albeit dubiously that “there are no second acts in American lives” is oft cited for an exception that proves the rule. However, there are simply too many exceptions. Therefore, there is no rule.
Jimmy Carter finished his presidency and returned to Plains, Georgia with his tail between his legs. But he has achieved remarkable renown for his Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, his worldwide humanitarian efforts, and his ability to draw bipartisan support for his endeavors. He clearly has a had a great second act in his life. Regis Philbin failed in his career for about 20 years until he hit it big again with his morning talk show and his “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” show, drawing a reported $20 million contract with ABC. Who remembers the time when he was a nobody? Both of these men started their second acts much later in life.
Whatever situation you are in life, you can have a second act no matter what age, gender, race, etc. Take a risk today. Live your dream. Get your chance at a second act. Remember when you set your target goal, your servo-mechanism will drive you to it.