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Bella Bleicher >3 Lavi Sigman

Elevate Your Strengths

The 22 Powers for Success in Life & Business

A Practical Guide

Dozens of recommendations from professors, doctors,

businesspeople and leading experts for entrepreneurship
and management from around the world.
Lavi Sigman & Bella Bleicher
Elevate Your Strengths
The 22 Powers for Success in Life & Business
A Practical Guide
Editor: Alicia Voss
Proofreader: Alicia Voss
Translation: Eran Levy
Illustrations: Rogelio Roxas
Design: Nishami Silva
Authors’ portraits: Kathleen Sue Mallari

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The Secret of Success: The 22 Inner Powers
Which inner strengths, powers, abilities, and mental
resources lead us to succeed? Which powers are
responsible for physical health or emotional wellness?
Which powers promote happy, long-lasting
relationships? Which inner strengths empower people,
help them through difficult times, promote feelings of
inner power, emotional and spiritual fortitude, and
bring people to experience happiness and
satisfaction?
Which inner powers are at the core of the self-realization and success of
famously accomplished people such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Oprah
Winfrey, Warren Buffet, Albert Einstein, Napoleon, or Cleopatra? How
can these people inspire us? What are the powers at the roots of our
success?
The “Elevate your Strengths – 22 Inner Powers for Success in Life
and Business” method is based on practice and multi-disciplinary
research into the basic powers responsible for success and wealth, good
interpersonal relationships, emotional balance, satisfaction and
enjoyment in life, health, and inner balance.
The method is based on studies in the fields of psychology, coaching,
organizational consultation, and management, which deal with the topics
of identifying and managing the inner powers directly related to financial,
professional, romantic, and social success, and to emotional balance.
This method and book were born out of comprehensive theoretical
research and rich practical experience with patients and students, as well
as individual and group sessions with clients and trainees in the
commercial and organizational fields.
Throughout our work process, we realized that the methodology we had
developed establishes a different type of discourse that improves and
develops our own inner powers and those of our patients, helping them to
handle personal, spousal, familial, organizational, commercial, and
financial problems and challenges. The method helps us to identify and
manage the inner powers that lie inside every one of us, leading us to
greater success.

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We further developed the training method on the basis of our
accumulated experience, therapeutic insights, and the positive feedback
we had received for different tools used to develop the 22 inner powers.
We, the authors, use the tools we have developed in our day-to-day lives;
it gives us a broad perspective and the opportunity to improve our
concept of self and attitude towards life by utilizing the full potential of the
powers within us. Formulating the method and developing its tools have
also been of significant help to us, throughout our personal journey of
development, our self-discovery, and the formation of our own powers.
During our own personal journeys, we have experienced, both together
and apart, a process of renewed thought and emotional reflection. We
used the method's tools of the Power Games, the Guided Power
Imagery, the Strength Exercises, and the Seeking, Relations, Emotional
management and Doing Power Maps. With it, we underwent a process of
self-questioning about these issues and the relationships between them:
How can we activate more of the powers within us? Which beliefs prevent
us from using the powers we want? How can we channel these powers in
a helpful and precise manner? How can we draw new Power Maps with
our environment in a way that will be beneficial to all parties? And how
can we, as the authors, form among us synergetic powers of
empowerment and realization, sharing and creativity in our lives, in
business, and in our personal friendship?
In the process of our research and practical work, we chose 22 powers,
represented by 22 cards, that express a variety of abilities, skills, talents,
strengths, and resources – inner powers that are within each and every
one of us, in a well-balanced, excessive, or insufficient amount. This
stems from our desire to invite you, the readers, to self-knowledge and
psychological, emotional, therapeutic, or spiritual dialogue in order to
elevate your personal awareness of your inner powers and your ability to
use them for your benefit in a variety of areas.
This training method and book provides the reader with practical, easy to
use, innovative exercise tools including Power Questionnaires, Strength
Exercises, 22 Power Cards, Guided Power Imagery, Power Maps, and
Power Games. These tools combine to form a practical and innovative
toolbox, which equips us to learn how to manage our array of inner
powers in a unique way, thus producing a new reality, if so desired.
This book and the methodology it is based upon are suitable for anyone
who is interested in getting to know his or her inner powers, mapping
them and managing them in an emotional and practical way in order to
accomplish their goals and enjoy an empowering experience.

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They are suitable for anyone interested in learning how to utilize a
powerful, simple, and fast empowerment tool, improving one’s emotional
state, problem solving, creativity, growth, personal development, and
promoting emotional balance and material wealth.
This book can be used by executive directors, trainers, life coaches,
business consultants, and counselors working in the fields of psychology
or complementary medicine due to its basis in thorough scientific
research, experience in coaching, consultation and treatment, and
extensive practical knowledge, combined with psychological, managerial,
innovative, and organizational methodologies.
This book includes no religious or offensive elements of any kind, out of
sensitivity to the wide spectrum of people who have used and will use the
method, in a way that can suit anyone anywhere. In our method, we have
chosen to conceptualize the various powers that lie within each and every
one of us, using insights – not just from the fields of psychology,
counseling, and coaching, but also from spirituality and healing. The
result is a comprehensive solution for personal, familial, social, financial,
and occupational situations.

A Fun, Practical, and Powerful Guide

This book is written as a practical user guide as to how to face life
challenges and promote your success.
It is intended to provide the reader with an enjoyable, fun, useful, quick,
and powerful experience.
While presenting some of our intriguing scientific analysis, research, and
examination of the inner powers responsible for financial and romantic
success, wealth, satisfaction, and joie de vivre, our efforts were put into
developing a method that would provide a fun emotional experience.
Hence, we have delved deeper to develop practical tools and accessories
meant for personal and enjoyable use. Every supportive tool we have
developed within this method was designed to inspire thought and
conversation, be experiential, useful, interesting and fun, and surprising -
to make the discovery process special, emotional, personal, and touching
for each and every person.
Among the methodic tools described in this book, readers can, as
mentioned, experience and enjoy Power Questionnaires, Strength
Exercises, Power Cards, Guided Power Imagery, and a series of different
Power Maps and Power Games – versatile tools that can inspire

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Practical Tools in this Book -
Cards, Questionnaires, Exercises, Games, Maps and Guided
Affective Imagery
1. Power Cards
Throughout the chapters of this book, you will enjoy a fascinating detailed
description of each of the 22 Power Cards. Each card is represented by a
name, a symbolic illustration, an emoticon, a number, a letter in English,
a letter from the Hebrew alphabet, a syllable, a planetary sign, and a
power symbol. The card’s background colors were chosen in accordance
with one of four types of 'power cycles' to which every power belongs.
We believe there is practical and instructional value in using symbolism in
general, and symbolic characters in particular, as a supporting tool for
empowerment.
During the course of our studies, we found that starting from various
religious texts, mythology, and folklore, to the work of Plato, Descartes,
Kant, and Freud, to modern symbolism and finally to the multitude of
scientific studies conducted on this subject, certain symbolic prototypes
constantly resurface – fascinating, meaningful, and related to our inner
powers responsible for success.
Renowned psychiatrist Carl Jung, one of the founders of the science of
psychology along with Sigmund Freud, focused on studying the
psychological meaning of symbolic elements – archetypes.
Archetype is derived from a combination of the Greek word Archē (ἀρχή),
which means primary, original, initial, and the word Tupos (τύπος) –
meaning type, form, model, pattern, or framework. An archetype
describes a prototype that expresses representational categorization for
humans, objects, or situations.
Our research focused on the assorted realms that deal with symbolism:
archetypes, images, signs, situations, fiction, motifs in dreams,
representations in tarot, cultural symbols, religious tales, mythology and
folklore, ancient and modern characters and representations, and
fascinating characters throughout history, as well as modern symbolic
representations in various fields including emoticons, which are
combinations of letters and keyboard characters in shorthand electronic
communication, describing facial expressions, characters, archetypal
faces, and more.
Along with an illustration inspired by the archetypes, we have, in order to
remain in a modern context, chosen to represent each card in the deck
by a modern emoticon that conveys an emotional aspect in shorthand

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electronic communication. The chosen emoticons represent a spectrum
of emotions, expressions, characters, comic situations, or symbols of
different objects that relate to a certain power, such as the happy face
emoticon, the knockout sensation emoticon, the confused face, the gift
symbol, a character in the throes of impassioned dance, and more.
We believe that this irregular combination of emoticons, which can be
seen as a form of modern symbolism, alongside traditional symbols,
creates a unique synthesis that allows for intellectual stimulation,
enjoyment, and a new and surprising experience for readers.
The name and illustration chosen for each card represent a possible
positive outlook for using the associated power. The illustrations might
resemble motifs related to different symbols. However, it had been
created as a unique renewed design, custom-fit to the book’s concept
and method.
In our research, we chose to represent and associate each group of
symbols, characters, and archetypes with common properties. Each of
the 22 powers belongs to one of four categories. Each of the four
categories is a general group describing types of powers.
There are four types of inner powers – four 'power cycles' which are
related to success. Each of them focuses on a different kind of power:
The Power Cycle of Seeking, which relates to inquiry and discovery skills.
The Power Cycle of Relations, which relates to social skills.
The Power Cycle of Emotional Management, which relates to affective
skills.
The Power Cycle of Doing, which relates to practical and executional skills.

The Hidden Power

For scholars and enthusiasts of mystical insight, each power
is associated with various numbers, letters, and a certain
astrological sign. During the course of our study of powers and
archetypes, we came across diverse information originating from
theology, philosophy, and mysticism related to numbers, letters,
stars, and symbols connected with the archetypes and characters
or the relations between them, including those which appear in the
Major Arcana Tarot deck.
To increase the playfulness and inspiration one can gain from the
different cards, we chose to include this information along with
each power card. However, we stress that this book and method do
not deal with predicting the future, but rather with mindful influence
of it by understanding the array of forces within us and in our
environments and the proper management of them.

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