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VOIP is an acronym for Voice Over Internet Protocol, and it works by using your broadband internet connection to route your call more efficiently and cost effectively than conventional calling. The most common VOIP method works like this. Your standard telephone is connected to VOIP gateway, usually located somewhere in your house like a basement or utility closet. This gateway takes your voice and converts it from an analog signal to a digital signal. Once it exists in digital format it is broken down into smaller more manageable units known as “packets” and is transmitted over the internet the same way data is transmitted to and from your computer. These “packets” contain information about their final destination and have instructions to enable them to be put back together in the proper order. Once the packets reach the closest location to their desired destination they go back through another VOIP gateway which translates the signal back into an analog format. The gateway then passes the signal over to a PTSN (Public Telephone Switch Network) and your call is routed to the number that you dialed.

As people become more familiar and comfortable with VOIP calling newer and more advanced methods of communication will occur. In the very early stages of adoption are IP Based telephones. Instead of using standard telephone equipment with an RJ45 telephone connection to a VOIP Gateway these phone interfaces directly with the internet through a standard network connection. This enable you to use your phone at home unplug it when you leave and then plug it in at your office and your calls are automatically routed to the phone wherever it’s plugged in. As WIFI networking becomes more prevalent expect to see wifi compatible cellular phones emerge to make calling even more portable.

While VOIP is still in the early stages of adoption there are still some hurdles that need to be overcome. The most important ones include emergency calling, and the need for uninterruptible power sources. However as VOIP and other IP based telephony continues to grow and advance, VOIP service providers will find ways to solve these problems.

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Jessica Liu is a staff writer at http://www.voiptelephonesystem.org a news and information website about VOIP and VOIP related technologies.

Voice of the Gremlin ©Written by Alana Tobin 2005, Life Coach

Live Your Heart Story www.heartstory.co.nz

‘Gremlin’ is a well known term in coaching circles representing
the ‘inner critic,’ a personification of the negative inner
voice. Gremlins are conceived through the passing along of
negative or self defeating messages which have been internalized
throughout life. Well meaning parents, teachers, siblings and
associates who like our selves are challenged intermittently
with the voices of the gremlin have (unconsciously) past these
along. When the voice of the gremlin overpowers our authentic
voice, it can feel difficult to go after what we most desire, as
we are plagued by self doubt, fear or feelings of low esteem.

The negative thoughts of the gremlin discourage us and can have
us believing we are not capable or worthy of being, having or
doing what we desire to experience in life. At times, it may
appear and feel as though there are insurmountable obstacles
blocking us from realizing our goals; such as: writing that
book, starting a new business, losing weight, healing a
relationship, or…. Gremlins may discourage you from speaking
up for yourself, or might have you denying your own needs in
order to make it easier for everyone else. Through minimizing
risk you may pass up important opportunities to excel in life by
nursing feelings of low self esteem. Familiar messages such as
the “I’m not good enough” or “I can’t, shouldn’t or won’t
succeed,” are expressions of the gremlin and at times they may
even go so far as to sabotage your progress by evoking negative
fantasies where you envision a ‘worse case’ scenario until you
catch yourself and snap out of it.

My role as a coach involves co-creating a space for an
individual so they can remember their innate magnificence
especially at times of transition when they may forget or lose
touch with their authentic nature and the truth and power that
is within. When moving into new territory, as in committing to a
new life venture, these gremlins emerge because they are
invested in keeping you safe and protected from imagined threats
and failures. If we resist the voices of our gremlins we may
‘white knuckle’ it through life’s challenges, however I have
found their influence grows when we choose to deny or ignore
them. A gremlin’s influence can be so compellingly powerful that
it becomes difficult to distinguish between the gremlin’s voice
and what our own heart is communicating. Without a supportive
structure, it can be impossible to keep your vision for your
life in clear sight. As a life coach I ask powerful questions in
addition to utilizing a variety of empowering tools to assist
individuals in remembering and accessing more of their own inner
wisdom, creativity and power. Have you ever had the experience
of being chased in a dream and it seemed the harder you ran from
a shadowy pursuer, the harder it was to shake them off?

Dream interpreters suggest that if you have such a nightmare, if
you make a conscious intention before going to sleep, to turn
around and face your opponent head on, rather than running away,
that the frightening dream figure will often appear in another
form; more allowing for you to connect in a new way. Often in
dreams, parts of ourselves that we may not easily accept do
their best to get our attention; even scaring us into submission
so we will listen more closely to our deeper pain and the needs
that lie beneath it. Through acknowledging rather than ignoring
the gremlins, we allow ourselves to gain important insights and
opportunities to gain significant breakthroughs facilitative of
us reclaiming buried treasures once left behind.

In a coaching session, I asked a woman if she would be willing
to meet her gremlins through a creative process. She agreed and
a powerful healing experience ensued. This woman decided to meet
her gremlins head on, and even though at first it felt difficult
for her, she committed herself to draw pictures of her gremlins
on a few sheets of paper. After each drawing was complete her
intuition gave her little messages which she wrote at the bottom
of each page. Each message conveyed a feeling and once she set
about connecting the dots to these emotive messages…memory was
triggered allowing her to remember a time as a child where a
teacher had told her she couldn’t draw. Over time her gremlins
had limited her in sharing her art with the world, yet once she
decided to meet them and her hurt feelings, emotional release
provided her with rich insights and genuine healing. Through
allowing her gremlins to emerge in a space of compassion, she
opened to a process of reclaiming and reintegrating her creative
gifts and was able then to move her art to a new level.

Deep down you may find that these gremlins with their negative
messages are really giving you an opportunity to become aware of
something important in order that you can retrieve a part of
yourself or reclaim a gift that you previously set aside. It is
through nurturing authenticity and exploring more of your
creative nature that you are inspired to express your ‘true
self’ and go after your heart desires. As your authenticity
grows, the gremlins voice and power also wanes and eventually
there is nothing that can deter you from acting on and realizing
your heart dreams.

The way you lead groups and get to have a way with the crowd is by taking the first initiative. You take a person that you pick and approach them with a question. They might accept you, and something else they could do is reject you. Once they accept you that is you standing offer, you take it and you shop around by approaching other people you might also have interest with before coming back to your person and accepting them back. They are accepting you when they answer your question and waiting if you have any more questions, thus offering you to ask more, before you do, ask other people.

Another thing they might do is reject you. This is good. If they reject you, basically look for other people to approach and initiate conversation with other than the people that have rejected you already. Once your list is exhausted, you basically sit by yourself and give people time, or just create an opportunity for other people to approach you.

Something else that might happen would be something that would lead to a conversation. Instead of accepting and waiting for you with a standing offer, the person basically takes their own initiative and reciprocates with their own initiative such as a question for you. Now it’s your turn to either accept, reject or reciprocate jet again. If the two of you keep reciprocating back and forth, asking and answering, that is known as a conversation.

During the process of group dynamics an action you might take is engaging other people that feel rejected while you are talking with someone. Someone to engage would be the person that engaged you the most before, but is now engaging someone else. An ideal candidate is someone who engaged you the most and is now engaging someone else the most. They were either giving you eye contact, looking at you intently, listening to you actively, asking you a question or maybe even repeatedly asking you questions. The more they were approaching you the more you would wait to similarly approach someone else.

When you would approach someone else is when someone is giving you a standing offer, or asking you a question. When someone is initiating you, asking you a question or waiting to see if you have any more questions, is when you can approach another person that feels more rejected and is approaching someone else as much or more than they were approaching you.

This is the way that you constantly pull people by asking or approaching them and push by rejecting, approaching someone else when they approach you or give you an offer. By constantly pulling and pushing people and maintaining any one particular conversation you get pulled and pushed in return by the circle of people and the result is you being in the center. A note to keep in mind is what to do when you exhaust your rejections which is normal.

Sometimes you don’t feel like initiating a person with a question either because you feel too shy or because they have turned you down too many times before. If you don’t feel like doing it because you feel rejected it is often because you haven’t balanced out your approaches among the members and have went back to the same person before giving them sufficient breathing space. Start with the people you have talked to the last and only after you have exhausted everyone evenly sit by yourself and let people come back to you.

Also try decreasing the level of your intensity by way of decreasing to simple eye contact instead of verbally asking a question. Start off verbally, then exhaust the circle off people, then sit by yourself for a while and then use less subtle means. Instead of verbalizing use a look of intent and active listening, if that’s not getting you responses form people then decrease to an even subtler glance and eventually just make brief eye contact until people invite feedback from you. This is very understandable, usually you will find participants before having to exhaust the group. However, when dealing with a particularly tough crowd, when being new, or when the group is full off attractive self absorbed girls, it’s important to know what to do in each situation. You do what you know works following a process and before you know it, you too will have the gift of the gab.

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