8 Minutes to Peace of Mind and Ultimate Health Forever
What precisely is meditation? It appears that so many folks nowadays are practicing this form of process. By definition, meditation is oftentimes used to identify the individual’s state of acute attention upon a object of awareness or view. The person tries to turn his or her attention within. Meditation follows ancient Vedic Hinduism roots. This is normally practiced in the eastern faiths but nowadays even the western civilization is active in such natural process.
People use meditation to calm and center their mind for their personal growth, to attain peace of mind, and to achieve health.
Numerous Americans are getting involved in some method of meditation. According to Time Magazine there’s one meditation technique that can be used by just about anyone. This could be regarded as the essential primer of Americans desiring to begin meditation but haven’t a clue where to start.
There was a book brought out in 2005 authored by Victor Davich that’s all about the 8 minute meditation. If you can still get the book and study it, you would find out a lot of things about meditation, and how you can get it all in 8 minutes of time.
Just about every individual who begins with anything new to him or her will often have questions, desires, and doubts. There are even folks who hope that when they start to meditate, they’ll be enlightened. Or maybe you’re one of those persons who think that meditation is just like any workout or diet that you’ve been trying to do. These things are quite normal; so do not be surprised if you are also like that.
The best thing to do is to face all the positive and/or negative expectations, and after doing so, forget about them and start with a clean slate. If you want to try the 8-minute program of meditation, you should learn how to approach it one minute at a time.
While many people think that meditation is a simple practice, you’d better think twice. You might not notice it, but your mind is always racing from here to there. You can’t concentrate. According to the book’s author, you must watch your breath. This is the very first step to meditation. Do your inhalation and exhalation by breathing deeply. If you always do this and just keep on practicing, you can become good at meditation.
Just a word of reminder, if you notice yourself thinking of other things, or put differently your mind roams off, focus once again on your breathing. Meditation is all about concentrating so if you realize that you are not on the proper track, you can easily return to that calm state of mind gently. Do not get discouraged. Just keep on practicing. There is a popular expression that says practice makes perfect. Always keep that in mind. If you are one that quits easily, then you will most likely remain a quitter.
Meditation can help you in achieving peace of mind. With all your problems at work, in your family, and the entire world, you should at least experience a few minutes of peace.
Do not hold off anymore. Discover personal freedom by spending just few happy moments every day.
Changing the Habits That Weigh You Down
If you are someone who believes that making changes is difficult, for instance changing one’s eating habits, then you have been trying to change habits on the conscious level only rather then the subconscious level where habits are actually programmed. Traditional diets can work, you can lose weight healthfully and effectively and keep it off if you create these changes in your subconscious mind. When changes are made in the subconscious mind where your long-term memories, beliefs and perceptions are stored, you in turn make changes to your thought process. Change your thoughts and you change your life! That’s right, and as a result, you can actually change your behaviors and your reactions easily with little to no conscious effort on your part. “How can you do such a remarkable thing?” you may be asking. The answer is with hypnosis. A trained professional hypnotist can assist you in accessing your the powerful subconscious mind to help you make your desired changes.
Now I am sure that you have heard “if something is not working for you, change what you are doing.” Right? And surely you’ve heard “do what you’ve always done and get what you’ve always got”. Well that is exactly what is happening to most people who have been unable to lose weight effectively and keep it off. They have continued to do what they have always done and they continue to get what they’ve always gotten. Let’s make that statement even more specific “If you THINK what you’ve always THOUGHT, then you will get what you’ve always got.” It is in making the changes in that thinking process, in that belief and perception process, where hypnosis is extremely effective.
Studies have been done that estimate that 75% of our beliefs about ourselves have been imprinted into our subconscious by the age of 7. Therefore, the majority of our personality is determined by the time we are 7. In a hypnotic state an individual can experience age regression, a mental journey back into their past safely and objectively to look at their framework of beliefs that were established at a young age. Then the hypnotist will guide you forward (age progression) bit by bit to review what other beliefs were established based on the original beliefs. These beliefs or perceptions can then be changed as necessary to create beliefs that are in line with one’s conscious desires. Future progression often follows, so you can imagine and experience your life with the changes already in place.
75% of our beliefs about ourselves have been imprinted into our subconscious by the age of 7. Therefore, the majority of our personality is determined by the time we are 7. (That puts a whole new twist to “acting like a child” doesn’t it.) This knowledge is useful for hypnosis age regression. In a hypnotic state an individual can mentally journey back into their past safely and objectively and look at the frame work of beliefs that were established at a young age and then move forward bit by bit to review what other beliefs were established based on the original ones.
Imagination is the “language” of the subconscious mind. It is very much like the mind of a young child. It creates through imagination and believes what it hears. The subconscious mind takes in whatever it has been given and the conscious mind acts upon it. As W. Clement Stone said ” What the mind can conceive the mind can achieve.” The subconscious mind unlike the conscious mind will accept what it hears and if it has been fed negative information, it absorbs it as fact. If you have been thinking of yourself as fat and that is mainly what you focus on then that is exactly what you experience in life. Therefore, you can understand that what you are feeding your mind is as important as what you feed your body. In hypnotherapy, the hypnotherapist presents positive suggestions to your subconscious mind. Those positive suggestions are what you want for you, not what the hypnotherapist wants for you. We work together to clarify what it is that you want for yourself and we put that in the most positive language possible and feed it to your subconscious mind. Once that new information is in place in the long-term memory of the subconscious, your conscious mind can begin to act upon it. Ultimately you will then act in the new way that is in balance with your conscious desires.
Inject Momentum Into Your Business
As I write this analogy, I am reminded that sometimes a message is meant to be told. And, apparently this one is. After my family, being a private pilot is my greatest passion in life. There are so many great parallels with success and aviation, probably because aviation itself is drawn from man’s pursuit of greatness. Understanding momentum is critical to your business success. Let’s think out of the box for a minute and look at how momentum applies to aviation and how this seemingly odd little analogy might just help you in your business.
Momentum is both a physical property and a psychological one as well. We all have had times when things just couldn’t feel any better, couldn’t go any smoother, like we were on cloud nine and nothing we did seemed to fail. Likewise, we’ve all had times in our life where we felt no matter how hard we tried things just wouldn’t turn our way - momentum is the common denominator in both, both as a positive and a negative.
One of my clients asked me the other day what I did to transition into success in this industry. He asked me what I meant when I said to take massive action. As I began to explain to him about the concept of massive action and building momentum, this aviation analogy came to mind. I’m just going to tell this from an aviator’s perspective and let you draw the parallels yourself…
As a pilot probably the most critical part of any flight is knowing your destination - knowing where it is that you are going and when you intend to arrive. After that, of course, you must do your fair share of planning, but, rest assured, all of the planning in the world will not prevent the head winds from coming, or the abrupt change in weather that inevitably alters our course, and, plan as we might, planning alone will never take us one inch closer to our destination. For planning itself is useless without actually “taking off”.
The experienced pilot knows that there will be deviations along the route. He doesn’t obsess about them, but he does plan for and acknowledge them. Furthermore, the experienced pilot knows that the most important aspect of flying is to ARRIVE at your destination. Sometimes that means some pretty major deviations along the way. Sometimes it means that the destination itself must be changed during the flight. But commitment and resolve to make it to that destination are unquestioned. Can you imagine being in a small, single engine airplane with a pilot who says (after you’re airborne), “we’re gonna give it a try and see if we land safely, if not at least we can say we gave it a shot”? Yet how many of you have taken that exact same approach to your network marketing business and then later pondered as to “why” it has not worked out for you?
Whether you’re flying a Leer Jet (as one of my clients does) or my humble little four passenger Cessna, there are two points in time when flying is at it’s most critical juncture - take offs and landings. Today I want to discuss “taking off”. Again, if we go back to our prime objective of reaching our destination, I think we can all agree that a successful departure is the most fundamental step. After going through the preliminary systems checks and ensuring we are safe to fly, we turn to the runway. One last glance at everything and then comes the moment of truth.
Once aligned and pointing down the runaway, we reach down and begin to apply power. How much you ask? Do we apply “just enough”? Do we think to ourselves, “What is the minimum amount of power I might need to probably get airborne?” Do we add an extra little bit for safe measure? Or do we give it EVERYTHING WE’VE GOT and apply full power, thrusting the throttle forward until our knuckles rest on the dashboard? I’ll tell you what, I don’t want to fly with a pilot who is trying to save gas and use “just enough” power to “maybe” get airborne! Likewise, do you really think that people will join you in your company if they see that you take the same approach to your business? Are you really giving your business every possible opportunity to take flight? Or are you perhaps loading it down with unnecessary baggage and weight and giving it a half-hearted “I think that should be enough effort” attempt?
You see my little Cessna weighs 3100 pounds fully loaded and it takes a lot of momentum to persuade it to get aloft - where it was designed to be. On the ground my little plane is awkward, uninspiring and even boring. Taxiing around the ground it is cumbersome, slow and awkward. But once you apply the necessary momentum it needs to become airborne, it transforms into an agile, docile and elegant machine - doing what it does best with the grace that can not adequately be described, it must be experienced. But without tremendous force and will, it would never get off the ground.
If you were to consider becoming a pilot, don’t you think that one prerequisite would be your complete and unwaivering belief in flight? Could you possibly fly a plane if you didn’t fundamentally know with every ounce of your fiber that that little Cessna could fly? Would you have the belief necessary to allow you to get the courage to apply full throttle that very first and magical time you departed the ground if you questioned the principal of light? Likewise, how strongly do you believe in yourself and your ability to make your business “fly”? This believe must be beyond question, beyond doubt - it must be known to you and just as real to you as “gravity” itself.
Once airborne, we pull back the power to “normal” ranges; we don’t want to over tax the motor that we need to take us to our destination. No longer are we concerned about giving every last RPM of power - we now have other things to concern ourselves with. Principally, keeping on course so that we ensure we arrive at our destination. This may surprise you, but any pilot will tell you that they are off course 90% of the time. But no pilot will ever tell you there is a doubt in their mind of where they’re going or that they will get there (if they do, I suggest you find another pilot to fly with). The destination is known. The general course is known. The approximate arrival time frame expected. But it is never that simple, and neither will your business be that simple. There are the winds to contend with, the clouds, the fog, Temporary Flight Restrictions to be navigated, the lighting strikes or the icing layer that must be avoided - flying can be a challenge, so can piloting your course as an entrepreneur!
Many of you as entrepreneurial business seekers have the “dream of flight”. You have prepared. You have studied. You have dreamed of arriving in style at your destination (maybe driving a new car, buying a new house, making that $20k a month). But ask yourself, have you truly pushed that throttle all the way to the dashboard until your knuckles are white with force? Ask yourself if you really are deserving of your dream? Have you really taken the massive action required to ensure your dream becomes a reality?
I started this off by saying that some stories are meant to be told… Well here is what I mean. I’ve had this in my mind for a couple of days now to write this analogy to you. Then today, I sat down and began to read a book that I have read many times before. Every time I re-read it some parts come alive again as I remember them, others are if I’ve never read them before - perhaps I wasn’t really tuned in the last time I read it. Let me quote you a paragraph from “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey:
“Those of us who watched the lunar voyage of Apollo 11 were transfixed as we saw the first men walk on the moon and return to earth. Superlatives such as ‘fantastic’ and ‘incredible’ were inadequate to describe those eventful days. But to get there, those astronauts literally had to break out of the tremendous gravity pull of the earth. More energy was spent in the first few minutes of lift-off, in the first few miles of travel, than was used over the next several days to travel half a million miles.” (page 46)
When I read this paragraph, I knew I needed to pass on my little aviation analogy to you. What gravitational force is preventing you from achieving lift off in your new business venture? Are you really applying enough energy to “break free” from your current circumstances? Answer this one question: If you could not fail, what would you try to achieve? How much better would your life be if you truly pursued your dreams with the belief of a child - unaware that it “can’t” be done?
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” –Aristotle.
One last thought. Above I said that my little plane was designed to be ‘aloft’ - that is where it is at it’s best, graceful and true. Can you imagine how disappointed the engineers who designed it would be if the pilot never had the desire to apply full throttle? Never had the courage to give it all it deserved? You too, were designed to be successful. Each of you was born with all that is necessary in life to succeed. Only one question remains; do you have the courage to apply the momentum necessary to transform your dream into reality?
Make Your Affirmations Practice More Effective With These Tips
Practicing affirmations is a very simple yet effective personal development method. When doing affirmations, there are a number of guidelines to follow. It is these guidelines that will determine the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the affirmation.
PRESENT TENSE Affirmations should be stated in the present tense. This adds to the effectiveness and impact of the affirmation. For example ‘Everyday in everyway I am getting healthier’. This affirmation states that this is happening in the present.
SHORT AND SPECIFIC It is a good idea to keep your affirmations short and to the point. This way it is easier to say, the power of the affirmation is concentrated and the sub-conscious mind picks up short sentences much easier than long wordy sentences.
REPETITION The more repetitions you make for any affirmation, the greater it’s impact and influence. To ensure the affirmation is powerfully imprinted on the brain, numerous repetitions are required. The more you do, the better.
EMOTIONS Doing affirmations without emotions is like not giving the affirmation any energy. When you do affirmations weakly, you are making the affirmations weak. When you do it with emotion and power, the force of the emotion will give the affirmation energy. Doing affirmations with emotion shows your belief in the affirmations, your conviction and your determination for the affirmation to materialize.
POSITIVE Affirmations should be stated in the positive. That means do affirmations for what you want and not what you do not want. Instead of affirming ‘My business will not fail’ , use a positive statement such as ‘My business is succeeding’. Avoid negative statement as much as you can.
PERSISTENCE Practicing affirmations will not bring immediate results. It will require some time for it’s effect to materialize. That is why it is very important to be persistent and not give up. Often times people get discouraged when they see a lack of results. Remember that the only way to reap the rewards of doing affirmations is by being diligent and keeping your belief in it.
DO VISUALIZATIONS While doing affirmations, visualize it in your mind as well. Doing visualization while practicing the affirmation can greatly enhance it’s effectiveness because it adds the visual element to the affirmation. This way you will be utilizing all 3 elements of visual, auditory and kinesthetic while doing affirmations and this will increase the energy of the affirmation.