Review

Ric Hayden, Head of Learning and Development, City Link

Before I first met Nikki Owen I would have said that we met purely by accident and that the accidental meeting wouldn’t have amounted to much. When I met Nikki, my opinion instantly changed as I watched her deliver an excellent presentation and I was more interested in her delivery than the presentation itself. I would now say that it was maybe fate or Karma, I would say that it was the start of a journey I wasn’t quite aware I wanted to go on, and certainly no accident.

I went along to An Audience with Charisma partly through intrigue into what all this stuff was about; I mean how can dowsing, noetic science and the Big Apple project make me have more Charisma. The other part was a profound effect one person can have on another person. Nikki had told me she sensed a blockage and placed her hand on her chest, the gesture I make every time I wish I had just said what I wanted and got on with things. All of this I say in hindsight as the journey I went on at The Globe was extremely powerful and it is only since then that I have thought things through and realised the blockage is gone.

I have always been told that I have magnetism, and that my positive energy is infectious. I am a truly positive person and love to take people along with me, but sometimes it gets out of control and I can be way too enthusiastic. That’s where the blockage comes from and I tend to let others be heard over myself. I also push it back, not really sure of how to channel the positive energy and sometimes wonder why anyone would want to be part of it. Then the opposite of positive kicks in and I let the negative energy others can have consume me.

The journey I went on took me through a rollercoaster of emotions, all unexpected, all amazing, challenging and different. Feeling emotionally different at every step but also, feeling totally as I should be. Nothing was uncomfortable through the journey. I felt the energy in me and in the people around me all supporting each other and understanding why.

The turning point in the whole experience was to develop my personal mantra, a turning point that was noticed by everyone. It didn’t work at first and I went away wondering if it would. Nikki knew this and worked with me to get my very long mantra to a short, precise mantra with immense personal meaning.

Building my Charisma and truly understanding my energy, where it flows and the effect it has, has been the biggest gift I will ever receive and now “I say what I believe”.