From those days, they have cemented a firm friendship. Steve has helped many people who are in challenging life situations and unsure about how to find
\n a way through, and how to blossom again as people. <\/p>\n
Steve Papps has three businesses - Papps Nutrition, Papps Consultancy, and LifeForce Water. All of this from a man who grew up in a home that by his own
\n admission was a \u201cOnce Were Warriors\u201d household. Liz asks him about the early challenges he faced- an unavailable father, an alcoholic mother and a
\n house where parties, violence, police being called in the night, and dire poverty, were the norm. Yet he found bright spots - the good foster families
\n who took him and his brother in at times, a love of learning and of his schooling in Remuera thanks to the state housing in which they were lucky enough
\n to live. <\/p>\n
Steve talks of having to have a pillow over his face and ears as a boy ( and he still does this) to be able to go to sleep. With that pillow over his face,
\n he would make internal resolutions that he would be a father who hugged his children and was connected with them, and also a man rich enough to provide
\n for his children so he could give them the kind of childhood he was not enjoying . These were the early days of his unknowingly developing his ability
\n to create a different reality for himself.<\/p>\n
Steve was determined to excel at school in sport. With his bright mind, he also soaked in the good learning. But at 13, that state house was pulled down
\n and the family were moved to a much rougher area and to a school in Penrose. From there, the two brothers started getting involved in drugs and alcohol
\n and his schooling suffered .<\/p>\n
When he was 16, he found out he was to become a father. He had an innate sense of what is right. He chose to stay with the mother of his child and sought
\n out work. By 19, he was the father of three children .<\/p>\n
At 17 he took on a commission job. He realised he could make in one day, what he was making in a week in his other job. He followed the advice of his Maori
\n mentor exactly- \u201c I didn\u2019t out think it. I did exactly what he said \u201c . He had to keep a positive mental attitude and never give up. He simply never
\n gave his attention to the negative thoughts. His first day\u2019s sales were a record. \u201c You see Liz, I had to sell ( or ) my son didn\u2019t eat \u201c. By 18, he
\n had risen to assistant manager of NZ for the company, and he was running a whole team. <\/p>\n
Steve then alluded to the second company he began - a security company which became extremely successful for him. <\/p>\n
Liz and Steve discuss the principles behind success, by looking at Papps Consultancy\u2019s aim-to help people with their consciousness, to help people understand
\n how the Universe really operates . Everything is a reflection of the internal world, the internal thoughts. <\/p>\n
He took these understandings in to Papps Nutrition and into body building. From coming last in his first competition, after studying the nutrition to help
\n him win, he ended up representing NZ at the most prestigious amateur championship Mr Universe . \u201c I became passionate - I outsmarted the bigger guys
\n in nutrition and I studied how my mind works \u201c <\/p>\n
Steve now gets up at 4.30 am and does a 12 to 14 hour day at work plus his workout . By the end of the day, he still has the same level of energy as at
\n 4.30, and he says it\u2019s because he knows how to eat, how to drink water, how to think and how to breathe .<\/p>\n
Steve talks of the growing levels of poor health in society . One example is the epidemic levels of diabetes - 9 people a week in NZ losing a limb because
\n of diabetes - and yet he has seen evidence that it is able to be healed. \u201c Obviously there\u2019s evidence that as a population, we\u2019re doing something wrong
\n . And it\u2019s the way that we\u2019re shopping, the way that we\u2019re eating \u201c<\/p>\n
He says that most people are overfed and at the same time are starving- starving of nutrients.<\/p>\n
Steve tells the story of a client, Colin, who had Type 2 diabetes. He was addicted to drugs and alcohol when he met Steve. He was very depressed. Steve
\n did a nutrition plan for him . 8 weeks later, he had an appointment with the doctor and he was off all medication. His own doctor said to him \u201c Whatever
\n you\u2019re doing, just keep doing it\u201d . The doctor added a follow up comment to that, which may surprise you when you listen to this interview. Steve was
\n bemused- and he and Colin were both confused by the doctor\u2019s comment. <\/p>\n
Colin\u2019s life story completely changed with his better health, his diabetes healing, his drug free life, his weight loss from 124 kg to 82 kg, his fitness
\n programme, but most of all , with the different thinking patterns he developed through his talks with Steve, and the coaching he received. Thanks to
\n the shifts from that different perspective which Colin developed, he is now in a happy relationship, has a young child, travels around the world ,
\n and is on his way to getting his own home. <\/p>\n
\u201cDiscipline gets you started, it\u2019s just like turning the key in the ignition. What is required is awareness. Discipline will get you started but awareness
\n keeps the change\u201d <\/p>\n
Steve and Liz discuss the idea of awareness, and the difference of that from just positive thinking. He tells the story of Rene, his friend who now runs
\n a successful business . But he used to have a false sense of \u201c NEXT week I\u2019ll get my business started\u201d ( and Steve talks about how people do that with
\n fitness too - and in many other areas - \u201cNEXT week I\u2019ll get around to that \u201c) . Steve tells the story of how he challenged Rene\u2019s desire to stay within
\n his comfort zone. Liz asks what happens when that human being takes that leap off the cliff.<\/p>\n
Steve says every successful person will tell you about the failures they have had. It\u2019s part of the process towards success. You can\u2019t succeed without
\n failures. And they\u2019re not even really failures. They\u2019re part of the refining of your consciousness. <\/p>\n
Everything is energy, vibrating - protons , neutrons, electrons… but in their most refined form, it\u2019s just one energy expressing itself in many
\n forms. There\u2019s actually only one energy vibrating on different frequencies. <\/p>\n
When it comes to money, it\u2019s all about the vibration we hold - it\u2019s nothing to do with how smart we are, how many hours we work , or even the product itself!
\n It\u2019s as if there is a mirror. The mirror will reflect back to you the essence of the energy at which you vibrate. Ask -for example- how do I truly
\n feel about money today ?? Steve has found that every wealthy person has one thing in common: they truly expected to be wealthy. <\/p>\n
He takes a further common example- the woman who grew up in a home seeing her mother abused and now, as an adult, set at that frequency, she will tune
\n in to an abuser, just as an abuser will tune in to a victim. It\u2019s not from her conscious thoughts. What she needs is an awareness of deep subconscious
\n energy .\" Everything in your external world is a reflection of your internal world \u201c<\/p>\n
That person - that behaviour- can only stay in your life by you giving it attention. <\/p>\n
Steve gives a powerful metaphor for tuning your energy, by likening the 'tuning in' to changing the frequency of a radio. <\/p>\n
Reality is happening inside of you. It\u2019s only your attention to something that makes it \u2018exist' outside you.<\/p>\n
Everyone is trying to change their external world, not their internal thinking patterns and beliefs. That is where the misunderstanding lies. <\/p>\n
These are shifts in fundamental understandings. \"Reality happens on the inside and the story we\u2019re playing out on the inside, we\u2019ll see hardened into physical
\n form on the outside. But that\u2019s not reality \u201c .<\/p>\n
It all starts from within. Someone who is vibrating from frustration will manifest frustration around her effortlessly .<\/p>\n
In each of our bodies are 37.2 trillion cells. That\u2019s 37.2 reactions per second ! That\u2019s an incredible intelligence flowing through us every second. Life
\n flowing effortlessly. There are laws that operate this universe. The influence you have is tremendous and these laws of the universe are exact. The
\n laws of the Universe. You can apply them in each area of your life. You can have a totally different life . But if you don\u2019t even understand them,
\n it won\u2019t open up for you .<\/p>\n
Liz asks Steve about that little boy with his head under the pillow, daydreaming of a different life. Living it in his imagination. Steve talks of Einstein
\n saying that imagination is more powerful than knowledge. Imagination is Image- in-action. <\/p>\n
Liz refers to that third company - LifeForce Water - and the book on water which Steve has written. And she asks him about his successes making millions
\n in a security company. And how he also misapplied the principles which had helped him build up wealth and success, by saying to himself \u201cDon\u2019t you
\n mess this up\u201d. Liz says she will discuss this with Steve in greater detail in their next programme.<\/p>\n
And Tim Lynch, who was sitting in the studio waiting to edit the interview, later edited in the reaction of Liz when she thought they were all off air!
\n It\u2019s a spontaneous, heartfelt reaction to a man Steve Papps, who helps others from his own heart.<\/p>\n
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