How is it that we so often discuss health in terms of the body and rarely mention the health of the mind? Most of us make our debut into the world with a perfectly healthy body, pure and clean from the safety of our mother’s womb. What happens next to the body is a product of genetics, environment, nurturing, and socio-economonic conditions.
But as physical health is so often the focus, the larger part the mind plays must become a larger presence and take its rightful place of prominence. Quite simply, the mind plays the most important role in physical health. When exercising, the mind must be as involved as the body for a serious workout to have an excellent benefit. Otherwise, time is wasted and the body is fooled
We are taught to ‘eat right” and exercise and all will be well. Do that every day without mental and conscious involvement and the likelihood that any lasting change for a healthy balance in weight, nutrition and mind health will be just part of the routine and the homeostasis we all are challenged with in adult life. A wolf stays at the door only until it is part of awareness and chased away.
As children we are filled with optimism and welcome daily challenges. This same route beacons as we become adults: to learn again to be optimistic and challenge ourselves daily. This is how to be happy. A happy optimistic person is engaged and involved and is not focusing minute by minute on what is problematic in life, but busy working on problems as they come up.
Developing the the habit of observing your mind daily is the first exercise in keeping Mind healthy. “Watch yourself“ is a mild mantra to practice. Watch and let go. Don’t obsess.
We have a rich reservoir of ancient wisdom we can access at any time. Learn how the thinkers think. Study a bit of philosophy, wisdom and learn some of the aspects of how successful societies prospered. Cultures come and go in success. Wisdom was once taught and held as an ideal in ancient Greece, China, Egypt and many older societies that have come and gone. Consider that we could study and adopt the wisdom of the ages and apply it to our lives. In that, each practicing individual would become independent from the lower mind pop-culture contrivances that serve not the mind, but a temporal invention that will be gone with the next generation. Consider that youth is fun, but temporal and that wisdom endures. Consider that society and the mind can get caught up in what dazzles but does not sustain.
Mind is strengthened just by paying close attention. Attentive concentration on any action or activity equals what the sages call Mindfulness. The result of this purposeful attention is excellence. Striving for excellence is nothing but the conscious and useful expense of time ….and why would we consider doing anything but that.
The first step is awareness; focusing and exercising the mind to the best of its ability in deliberate action, without an excess of deliberation. Being in awareness of the moment calms the heart, assists concentration, and strengthens the centered self to produce at best and keep distractions in their proper place. Practice becomes habit and improves the mind daily.
As one notices an ease and a joy in engagement, it is also noticed more fully when things are uncomfortable. Instead of mindlessly staying in discomfort, one can move in the direction of dreams, comfort and joy. Life is not an easy journey, it is a challenge and we must bite big, facing and working through the obstacles that keep keep us sharp.
Challenging the mind with new information and testing beliefs that may be stale is a must for a sharp and evolving mind.
Spending time alone, especially in Nature, brings insight, clarity and even epiphany at times. This renders a personal freedom and confidence that cannot be gained in any other way.
Walking has been proven one of the most healthful practices for the mind. A daily walk will enhance holistic health clearing the mind for potential new insights beckoning to be recognized.
Learn something new that requires more serious concentration. Studying music or a foreign language for those more left brain focused, and for those with a more right brain tendency, digging into a scientific concept or listening to challenging debate on a complex issue will charge a mind which can get lost in unchallenged imaginings. Both sides of the brain must be exercised. Learning this difference in how the brain and therefore, Mind makes contribution to the world helps us to understand how both aspects are necessary, but more importantly how to understand our opposites. People see in different ways and understanding this promotes harmony rather than the division, discord and the need to be right.
We are all born in wonder with hearts and souls reaching out for comfort and acceptance. That is our bond and “oneness”. It is our individualism, our minds, our Healthy Minds that hold the promise of a world of wisdom, peace, harmony, Natural health and true progression.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
THE HEART ~ MIND CONNECTION
Life in awareness is joy. We create our life through choices whether good or bad, conscious or unconscious. Why not choose consciously and create joy? The heart ~ mind connection seems so simple and it is once learned and lived.
Our hearts are our main connection to Source. The heart does not deceive, it is the center of our soulful selves. Human hearts all have the same thing in common; a desire for love, peace and acceptance. It is when the heart grows cold, that our humanity is lost and dark worlds can come about. We have seen this repeated in history and in current events. The heart will always find a solution if humanity keeps it open. As individuals we can choose to keep it open and connected to the mind for protection as we all have fragile hearts. The mind goes in many directions, but the heart has only one.
The mind directs our ego choices as our hearts keep us connected to the One in an aware and joyful life. This artful way of living can be learned and practiced, creating a more joyful and truly prosperous life. The brain is accepted as the center of logic and reason and the organ of learning and intelligence. But we are now becoming aware of a heart that also acts like a brain in a similar way, using intuitive and subconscious intelligence that we knew at first breath. A baby's brain is developing through experiences of the heart. Reasoning powers have not taken hold yet, but babies know who is safe for them and will respond positively to smiles, warm eye contact and sweet chatter. Imagine relating to a baby without eye contact, no smile and a rough voice. We know the result. Babies remind us that we all connected through heart. The Institute of HeartMath in Boulder Creek, California has been researching and documenting heart intelligence for over 15 years. We know about heart intelligence intuitively, but we lose this inner knowledge as we disconnect heart from brain, forgetting hearts value as we are programmed through man made systems to honor the reasoning and learning powers of the brain.
We must keep our brains sharp, but cold reason and fact accumulation alone is lacking for an evolving and ever growing human population. We already have a solution and we must remember our core and how we are truly connected.
The heart is the organ at the core of our being whose central physical purpose is to act as the pump providing life giving oxygen throughout every cell of our bodies. It is the spiritual center where we love, attract and make friends and come to know who we are as individuals. Its common purpose is to unite body, mind, soul and ultimately humanity. It has no ego. That happens in the mind when it is not connected to the heart. An open heart however, without a directing and logical mind will be vulnerable to wounds and exploitation. That is why heart and mind must be developed to work in unison.
The heart is the central station so to speak of the Hindu chakra system connecting the lower chakras of solar plexus, sacral and root chakras to the higher throat, third eye and crown chakras. Ancient wisdom is full of heart centered images and directives. It is not new, but we are understanding it and implementing heart intelligence with new awareness for more hectic modern times.
Through hypnotherapeutic techniques carefully developed, I help clients awaken to their powerful core using a simple system that is easy to duplicate through first exposure to it and then through repeating which creates a habit. This is self hypnosis and reprogramming.
Learning and practicing this technique awakens the soul and empowers in a lasting way that fosters an individual to easily flow with the current of life becoming aware of the magic within and support of Source, rather than resisting and falling into fear.
The heart ~ mind connection is a way of living that creates an easier and more profound route to knowing the self of best talents and strengthening relationship to others and the world.
Put your heart, mind and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
~Swami Sivananda
Our hearts are our main connection to Source. The heart does not deceive, it is the center of our soulful selves. Human hearts all have the same thing in common; a desire for love, peace and acceptance. It is when the heart grows cold, that our humanity is lost and dark worlds can come about. We have seen this repeated in history and in current events. The heart will always find a solution if humanity keeps it open. As individuals we can choose to keep it open and connected to the mind for protection as we all have fragile hearts. The mind goes in many directions, but the heart has only one.
The mind directs our ego choices as our hearts keep us connected to the One in an aware and joyful life. This artful way of living can be learned and practiced, creating a more joyful and truly prosperous life. The brain is accepted as the center of logic and reason and the organ of learning and intelligence. But we are now becoming aware of a heart that also acts like a brain in a similar way, using intuitive and subconscious intelligence that we knew at first breath. A baby's brain is developing through experiences of the heart. Reasoning powers have not taken hold yet, but babies know who is safe for them and will respond positively to smiles, warm eye contact and sweet chatter. Imagine relating to a baby without eye contact, no smile and a rough voice. We know the result. Babies remind us that we all connected through heart. The Institute of HeartMath in Boulder Creek, California has been researching and documenting heart intelligence for over 15 years. We know about heart intelligence intuitively, but we lose this inner knowledge as we disconnect heart from brain, forgetting hearts value as we are programmed through man made systems to honor the reasoning and learning powers of the brain.
We must keep our brains sharp, but cold reason and fact accumulation alone is lacking for an evolving and ever growing human population. We already have a solution and we must remember our core and how we are truly connected.
The heart is the organ at the core of our being whose central physical purpose is to act as the pump providing life giving oxygen throughout every cell of our bodies. It is the spiritual center where we love, attract and make friends and come to know who we are as individuals. Its common purpose is to unite body, mind, soul and ultimately humanity. It has no ego. That happens in the mind when it is not connected to the heart. An open heart however, without a directing and logical mind will be vulnerable to wounds and exploitation. That is why heart and mind must be developed to work in unison.
The heart is the central station so to speak of the Hindu chakra system connecting the lower chakras of solar plexus, sacral and root chakras to the higher throat, third eye and crown chakras. Ancient wisdom is full of heart centered images and directives. It is not new, but we are understanding it and implementing heart intelligence with new awareness for more hectic modern times.
Through hypnotherapeutic techniques carefully developed, I help clients awaken to their powerful core using a simple system that is easy to duplicate through first exposure to it and then through repeating which creates a habit. This is self hypnosis and reprogramming.
Learning and practicing this technique awakens the soul and empowers in a lasting way that fosters an individual to easily flow with the current of life becoming aware of the magic within and support of Source, rather than resisting and falling into fear.
The heart ~ mind connection is a way of living that creates an easier and more profound route to knowing the self of best talents and strengthening relationship to others and the world.
Put your heart, mind and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
~Swami Sivananda
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
PERSPECTIVE ON FEAR
There are many cliche's about fear; Fear = "False Evidence Appearing Real", "Fear is the opposite of Love", "The only thing to fear is fear itself". Going to the core and Truth of "fear" is the known fact that a baby fears only two things: loud noises and falling. So we were all babies at the beginning. Comfort from Mother and family were the core of our earliest memory. So how did we learn to fear? Just the way we learn most things, we are taught to fear. Loving parents project their own fears unconsciously on to their children and thus we all learn to fear. Though we may have developed different phobias, the anxiety level of our own fear is directly proportional to that of our parents.
As adults, it is our responsibility to handle our phobias and move forward. The first step is to observe the fear as it happens. As an example, fear of heights may seem irrational if one has never had an accident due to falling from a high place. But that experience is within each of us. Every baby falls. The seconds it takes to hit the ground produces the place of "knowing" resulting in the success of experiencing you are OK and will move forward again. Loud noises as well produce uncertainty and we are concerned until the source is uncovered. The lesson is that fear is a "feeling" that may or may not be rational.
Fear thus can be defined as "unknowing". Taken in steps, each fear can be conquered. The key is in facing the elements of unknowing. Your most important relationship is with yourself and what gives you anxiety defines or frees you. A common fear is that of spiders. In deconstructing the fear, decide on the rational. If you live where there a poisonous spiders, the fear is rational. You must learn to identify where these poisonous pests reside and educate yourself on how to avoid them. Black widow spiders are common in many areas, but rarely show themselves and are easily identified. Common house spiders invoke irrational fear as they are relatively harmless, at most causing a painful bite. Seeing a spider on the wall at night can cause anxiety as you may imagine them crawling around as you sleep. Realizing that the sightings are rare, you can sleep easy knowing you can dispatch the pest to the next life before you sleep or you can stare at it fearing to take action and turn out the light. Choosing the latter reaction, you increase your anxiety and diminish your confidence in handling the situation. If you fall asleep and awaken to a light on and a blank wall where the spider first appeared, your imagination may go into overdrive and your fears will not be quelled until you take action a learn how to stand up to a spider.
Another common fear is that of being alone. This fear stems from a confused relationship with yourself. Building a solid relationship with self must involve daily practice of working through issues that may evoke feelings of inadequacy and insecurity. Working through feelings on your own will clarify their origins and enhance confidence as you conquer fear and trust in your ability to disable feelings that bring you downward rather than elevate your mood. The acceptance and understanding of self that working through feelings produces, builds confidence and thus a comforting sense that you are enough as you are ... and "as you are" continuously changes. Growth occurs through progressive change. Fear of being alone will soon disappear as you attract experiences and relationships through centering and accepting the self. Know that all is as it should be right now and dwelling on what you think it should be is counterproductive. Be and accept. Let go of desire as you fill the moments with doing what you enjoy, even if that is nothing for a time. The paradox of knowing self is quietly doing while staying aware and not getting lost in "have to be".
Fear can be framed as a paralytic thought stored in the subconscious which limits, or as a series of challenges that you overcome on your road to self-realization. Again choice and courage are key to a fulfilled and empowered life. Once you put into practice the simple techniques, your habit is one of facing the unknown, therefore building your confidence with knowledge. Successes are achieved with small steps and useful choices become a habit as the results produce feelings of confidence and freedom.
As adults, it is our responsibility to handle our phobias and move forward. The first step is to observe the fear as it happens. As an example, fear of heights may seem irrational if one has never had an accident due to falling from a high place. But that experience is within each of us. Every baby falls. The seconds it takes to hit the ground produces the place of "knowing" resulting in the success of experiencing you are OK and will move forward again. Loud noises as well produce uncertainty and we are concerned until the source is uncovered. The lesson is that fear is a "feeling" that may or may not be rational.
Fear thus can be defined as "unknowing". Taken in steps, each fear can be conquered. The key is in facing the elements of unknowing. Your most important relationship is with yourself and what gives you anxiety defines or frees you. A common fear is that of spiders. In deconstructing the fear, decide on the rational. If you live where there a poisonous spiders, the fear is rational. You must learn to identify where these poisonous pests reside and educate yourself on how to avoid them. Black widow spiders are common in many areas, but rarely show themselves and are easily identified. Common house spiders invoke irrational fear as they are relatively harmless, at most causing a painful bite. Seeing a spider on the wall at night can cause anxiety as you may imagine them crawling around as you sleep. Realizing that the sightings are rare, you can sleep easy knowing you can dispatch the pest to the next life before you sleep or you can stare at it fearing to take action and turn out the light. Choosing the latter reaction, you increase your anxiety and diminish your confidence in handling the situation. If you fall asleep and awaken to a light on and a blank wall where the spider first appeared, your imagination may go into overdrive and your fears will not be quelled until you take action a learn how to stand up to a spider.
Another common fear is that of being alone. This fear stems from a confused relationship with yourself. Building a solid relationship with self must involve daily practice of working through issues that may evoke feelings of inadequacy and insecurity. Working through feelings on your own will clarify their origins and enhance confidence as you conquer fear and trust in your ability to disable feelings that bring you downward rather than elevate your mood. The acceptance and understanding of self that working through feelings produces, builds confidence and thus a comforting sense that you are enough as you are ... and "as you are" continuously changes. Growth occurs through progressive change. Fear of being alone will soon disappear as you attract experiences and relationships through centering and accepting the self. Know that all is as it should be right now and dwelling on what you think it should be is counterproductive. Be and accept. Let go of desire as you fill the moments with doing what you enjoy, even if that is nothing for a time. The paradox of knowing self is quietly doing while staying aware and not getting lost in "have to be".
Fear can be framed as a paralytic thought stored in the subconscious which limits, or as a series of challenges that you overcome on your road to self-realization. Again choice and courage are key to a fulfilled and empowered life. Once you put into practice the simple techniques, your habit is one of facing the unknown, therefore building your confidence with knowledge. Successes are achieved with small steps and useful choices become a habit as the results produce feelings of confidence and freedom.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
TIME: MAGIC & ILLUSION
Slow down for a moment and imagine time stopping. Be silent for a minute or two and you are bound to notice that time did not stop, you did. Consider now that time is an illusion and that the "churning of events" is what we often refer to as time. But time is a constant eternal present. The sun rises and sets daily and in a few billion years will burn out and collapse into a black hole. Events transpire all in the Eternal Present.
The beauty of this little meditation is the grasp of reality one can muster taking the "time" to accept the concept. The great masters of Buddhism understood the real sense of this and related that "time is an illusion". At first it may seem counter intuitive. We all have watches after all. But "playing" with the concept and considering it deeply for a period, will enlighten to a place where time becomes an ally because the illusion is broken and empowerment begins. "Controlling" or "managing" time starts to reveal itself as foolish and mundane.
The empowerment arises when one realizes that within the totality of existence, you are the chooser on how you work or create within your own experience. When you learn to value your own experience over time, time itself tends to disappear. You become one with the present, the eternal present and your relationship to time shifts to you being the master and time, the servant or ally.
Once the illusion of time is understood, the magic happens. Those who would teach or accept time management as a useful way to live are honoring the world in all its madness of deadlines, need to do, and slavery to a system that has a basis in linear structure. Living this way, time is short and suddenly you may come to a point in life where you wonder where time has gone. It is doubtful you will have these thoughts if you come to see your life as an experience in which you are fully present. You then see and experience all as a part of just being, living fully, connected to a whole that is much larger than the linear time clocks of structured society. You claim your existence separate yet within the structure, choosing from a soulful Self the best way for you to align with time.
Now this may seem difficult to grasp at first, but taking steps to engage the system of allowing self and detachment from time will transform fairly easily relative to your resistance level. If you have always been resistant to change, the process of course will take longer. A person who engages in life
with more of a flow will grasp more easily.
Simply test the idea. Start the day telling yourself, (programming yourself) that you will experience time the way the sun moves around the planet, slowly, but with absolute determination and ownership. You will get everything completed that needs to be completed. We often put more upon ourselves than is necessary and then proclaim that we "just don't have the time". You have the same amount of time that anybody has, it's just how you choose to use your time that is so important. As with anything in re-programming, allow the process to unfold. You become expert at what you do daily and with greatest attention. As the process moves forward, you will begin to notice that time does become an illusion or at least has taken its place in perspective. You will notice that you are more calm, and have the feeling of confidence building as you realized you are in control of life more than you ever imagined. This can be your freeing dance with reality rather than continuing as the slave to time you allowed in the past. Making this a habit replaces the stress you have submitted to in your previous life.
Good habits can replace non-useful behavior and put you in the role of victor vs. victim. Believe that you can conquer the idea that time has power over you and repeat the behavior of a confident person who knows that time works with you and is an ally that allows you to be your best and most confident and evolved self.
What is time? If no asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain, I do not know.
~St Augustine
The beauty of this little meditation is the grasp of reality one can muster taking the "time" to accept the concept. The great masters of Buddhism understood the real sense of this and related that "time is an illusion". At first it may seem counter intuitive. We all have watches after all. But "playing" with the concept and considering it deeply for a period, will enlighten to a place where time becomes an ally because the illusion is broken and empowerment begins. "Controlling" or "managing" time starts to reveal itself as foolish and mundane.
The empowerment arises when one realizes that within the totality of existence, you are the chooser on how you work or create within your own experience. When you learn to value your own experience over time, time itself tends to disappear. You become one with the present, the eternal present and your relationship to time shifts to you being the master and time, the servant or ally.
Once the illusion of time is understood, the magic happens. Those who would teach or accept time management as a useful way to live are honoring the world in all its madness of deadlines, need to do, and slavery to a system that has a basis in linear structure. Living this way, time is short and suddenly you may come to a point in life where you wonder where time has gone. It is doubtful you will have these thoughts if you come to see your life as an experience in which you are fully present. You then see and experience all as a part of just being, living fully, connected to a whole that is much larger than the linear time clocks of structured society. You claim your existence separate yet within the structure, choosing from a soulful Self the best way for you to align with time.
Now this may seem difficult to grasp at first, but taking steps to engage the system of allowing self and detachment from time will transform fairly easily relative to your resistance level. If you have always been resistant to change, the process of course will take longer. A person who engages in life
with more of a flow will grasp more easily.
Good habits can replace non-useful behavior and put you in the role of victor vs. victim. Believe that you can conquer the idea that time has power over you and repeat the behavior of a confident person who knows that time works with you and is an ally that allows you to be your best and most confident and evolved self.
What is time? If no asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain, I do not know.
~St Augustine
Thursday, March 29, 2012
DEEP RESTFUL SLEEP PROMOTES CLEAR MIND AND WEIGHT LOSS
Anybody who has suffered from chronic fatigue appreciates the value of a good night's rest when it comes along. Contributing to feelings of well being and mood elevation, all goes better after deep rest. Lack of deep rest can lead to depression, weight gain, accidents and confusion. It is as necessary as proper diet and exercise for total health. Rest and sleep cannot be taken for granted. It is something you deserve and should demand for yourself. In the stressful over stimulated world that surrounds us, you can be hypnotically drawn into accepting the stimulus, and never allowing retreat from noise and distraction. It is up to you to figure out a way and routine that allows a daily shelter or withdrawal from daily pressure. Balance is key to a happy life. Being over stimulated when you need sleep most, actually contributes to the circle of anxiety making deep rest even more elusive. To restore balance, the following techniques will help. As you take control of your waking life, you must take control of your rest.
Dreams happen as a result of one of the stages of sleep that allows your mind to release thoughts and energy. Just as your body releases waste, dreams do the same to help you clear your mind. All of the body processes including digestion are happening as you sleep. Fatigue stresses digestion and deep sleep allows the body to metabolize more easily. Both a clear mind and rested and restored body will lead to weight loss if caloric intake and exercise are also in balance. High calorie comfort foods are craved and mindlessly introduced into your body when fatigued. As children, we naturally went into deep sleep. As adults, most of us have to relearn how to do this. Imagine every day followed by a deep restful night's sleep.
Decide for yourself you will enjoy a night of deep rest rewarded by an energetic joyful day to follow.
Helpful tips:
** Exercise at least 40 minutes a day. Move in some meaningful way. You can do this. Just dancing to music will do the job. Walking is the easiest and can be done just walking through the mall. It burns calories, releases stress, and allows the mind to "download". Go either by yourself or with a companion that will not talk about the day's problems or goings on. Walking in Nature will release tension and stress 100 fold. Go with a not too chatty friend or by yourself for the best results.
** Learn to eat by consuming the highest carbohydrates and protein meals earliest in the day. Eliminate sugar from you diet as much as possible. Read labels and create a diet mostly free of processed foods. Eat lighter as the day wears on and no coffee/caffeine beverages or excessive alcohol after about 6pm. A small glass of wine or beer before bedtime can assist you to relax. Fruit or lightly dressed salad are good snacks a few hours before bedtime and help with digestion. High calcium and magnesium foods: milk, soy milk or almond milk will soothe as calcium and magnesium act to relax the nervous system. Tryptophan works when your stomach is nearly empty: so a light snack of these tryptophan containing foods will help; almonds, turkey, warm milk.
** Minimize sugar intake and be sure to have a protein snack in the afternoon to keep the blood sugar from dropping. Afternoon fatigue leads to your craving for comfort foods, carbs, and caffeine which will affect the natural cycle and can lead to restlessness and interrupted sleep patterns.
*** A perfect before bedtime snack: Oatmeal (rich source of sleep inviting melatonin) with banana (contains some melatonin, serotonin, magnesium) and warm milk (calcium rich and contains some tryptophan).
** Observe your breath and breathing throughout the day as this will center you and set the stage for relaxation and balance while oxygenating the brain as breath deepens.
** Prepare for sleep with as much care as you prepare for meals.
> Take time away from stimulating TV and electronics.
> A warm bath always helps.
> Keep your sleeping space uncluttered and never bring work to bed.
> Try sleep CD's with calming music created to program the mind into quiet.
> Take a calcium/magnesium supplement, a natural relaxant for the nervous system
with almond or soy milk.
> Use natural relaxants: calming teas (such as chamomile), valerian root,
caffeine-free aspirin or baby aspirin if your system tolerates it.
The mind body connection is key to balance in weight as in all aspects of living.
Consciously planning and structuring for success, educate yourself about nutrition and what works best for your body. Taking the leadership role and responsibility for your results insures your brain is engaged fully in the process. This is key! Make a decision about your ideal weight and assure yourself that you are capable of achieving your goal. Back up your goal and vision with action. Much information is available for consumption, but keep in mind the four necessary steps: excellent nutrition, burning calories by body movement with a program you enjoy, engage the mind for results and success programming yourself for deep restful sleep. Attention to the first three is likely to insure the last. Finally a visual affirmation before rest and a smile of assurance will bring your dreams, waking and sleeping, closer to where you want them to be.
So as you lie down to sleep, observe your breathing by concentrating on heart center...by observing the breath (Test this now!), it naturally deepens. Then scan your body from head to toe, allowing each area to peacefully relax. Let thoughts flow and let go. You are re-teaching yourself something you knew as a child, to let go into deep relaxing sleep.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
TO KNOW YOU IS TO LOVE YOU
"Know thyself". Socratic ancient wisdom, simply stated, is the formula for success in all areas of life. Interestingly most wisdom is ancient. Humans seem to have figured it out thousands of years ago. The bigger question is why are so many still so confused? The obvious answer is, if the information is not given by your nurturers, then you have to figure it out for yourself. Many do not consider that there may be more to learn than what you are taught. For those in places of distress about success, relationship, and money, the big three areas if concern, the answer is again ancient: Look Inward.
The reality of you is that you have arrived here against all odds. Think of the forces that worked to favor your birth and entry into life. Evolution, conquest of disease and hardship by your forebears, the "coincidental" meeting of your parents and all the many things that could have been in place to thwart your arrival and special place on the planet. YOU are part of something Great and that is supported by fact. You may be stuck and not realize the importance of your being, and that is only supported by illusion.
Real success comes first through self acceptance and matures through to self love. A being can exude an illusion of success with personal wealth, a fine position and a respectable family and group of apparently supportive friends and acquaintances. But true success is felt within. Can you have success without feeling happy? No, that is not true accomplishment and those that create the illusion of success and happiness without really feeling it are living to please an idea and not connected with Self and Life as a truly engaged experience.
So logically, "to know you is to love you" is a truthful statement. Taking time to look into your soul, your experiences and your accomplishments will allow you to see through the veils of illusion into the real of You. It is worth your time and energy to start this and to practice on a daily basis. You will discover that your "mistakes" were just part of the growing process and the "not really knowing" process. Misjudgements or "mistakes" are just stepping stones toward becoming the best you. These "mistakes" are your greatest opportunities for learning. If you come to understand your life in this way, you are empowering yourself through true knowledge which is experience. No teacher can be better than this. Uplifted from the bonds of ignorance you are also more understanding of others and will likely find yourself in the company of those who are also in a better place as the darker souls with less courage fall away from your life.
As with any success in life, the act of courage is the first requirement. The noblest act of courage is the willingness to face yourself and your shortcomings, but more importantly your talents. How often is it the case where one was never told of her gifts at an early age and therefore it was left up to you to learn for yourself what gifts you brought into the world! This is the usual scenario for most of us as many parents see more of themselves in their children than reality warrants. And many may see parts of themselves that they spend more time addressing than the true talents of their children that lie waiting to be expressed. That was then and this is now. You alone have responsibility for ferreting out your best gifts and talents so that you can perfect them and return them as gifts. That is truly why you, evolving through eons, came to be.
As you may have guessed, they key to an evolving self is to do what you love. You are honoring yourself and the Greater source you evolved from to be involved in what you love. If you are working at a job to pay bills, accepting a role prescribed by society, not challenging anything in your life and not doing as a part of your routine something related to your talents, you are surely wasting the most important part of your life. If you have a hobby you love and spend time working or playing at this interest, this is the joy you give back to the world, even if nobody or very few people know about it. Love is a vibration and the joy in your time spent doing something you love or gives you pleasure becomes part of the universal energy. How personal energy is spent does affect universal energy.
As Dr. Goswami reveals, "Vibration is Life." The ultimate of course is to be paid to do something you love and you have nothing limiting you from working toward that vision if that is a vision in the back of your mind.
Attending to your life and hobbies with Excellence will reveal the best you. This is your challenge and the more you work to meet it, the closer you will become to realizing your best and truest self.... and the happier you will be. Take up the challenge and you will quickly come to realize that you are worth knowing and the more you know about the soulful you, the easier it is to forgive yourself....and others. Move forward with this idea and engage in useful and joyful activities.
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act. Your actions will delineate and define you."
~Thomas Jefferson
The reality of you is that you have arrived here against all odds. Think of the forces that worked to favor your birth and entry into life. Evolution, conquest of disease and hardship by your forebears, the "coincidental" meeting of your parents and all the many things that could have been in place to thwart your arrival and special place on the planet. YOU are part of something Great and that is supported by fact. You may be stuck and not realize the importance of your being, and that is only supported by illusion.
Real success comes first through self acceptance and matures through to self love. A being can exude an illusion of success with personal wealth, a fine position and a respectable family and group of apparently supportive friends and acquaintances. But true success is felt within. Can you have success without feeling happy? No, that is not true accomplishment and those that create the illusion of success and happiness without really feeling it are living to please an idea and not connected with Self and Life as a truly engaged experience.
So logically, "to know you is to love you" is a truthful statement. Taking time to look into your soul, your experiences and your accomplishments will allow you to see through the veils of illusion into the real of You. It is worth your time and energy to start this and to practice on a daily basis. You will discover that your "mistakes" were just part of the growing process and the "not really knowing" process. Misjudgements or "mistakes" are just stepping stones toward becoming the best you. These "mistakes" are your greatest opportunities for learning. If you come to understand your life in this way, you are empowering yourself through true knowledge which is experience. No teacher can be better than this. Uplifted from the bonds of ignorance you are also more understanding of others and will likely find yourself in the company of those who are also in a better place as the darker souls with less courage fall away from your life.
As with any success in life, the act of courage is the first requirement. The noblest act of courage is the willingness to face yourself and your shortcomings, but more importantly your talents. How often is it the case where one was never told of her gifts at an early age and therefore it was left up to you to learn for yourself what gifts you brought into the world! This is the usual scenario for most of us as many parents see more of themselves in their children than reality warrants. And many may see parts of themselves that they spend more time addressing than the true talents of their children that lie waiting to be expressed. That was then and this is now. You alone have responsibility for ferreting out your best gifts and talents so that you can perfect them and return them as gifts. That is truly why you, evolving through eons, came to be.
As Dr. Goswami reveals, "Vibration is Life." The ultimate of course is to be paid to do something you love and you have nothing limiting you from working toward that vision if that is a vision in the back of your mind.
Attending to your life and hobbies with Excellence will reveal the best you. This is your challenge and the more you work to meet it, the closer you will become to realizing your best and truest self.... and the happier you will be. Take up the challenge and you will quickly come to realize that you are worth knowing and the more you know about the soulful you, the easier it is to forgive yourself....and others. Move forward with this idea and engage in useful and joyful activities.
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act. Your actions will delineate and define you."
~Thomas Jefferson
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
POWER OF MIND IN WEIGHT CONTROL: Stress, Lies, & Video Tape
For the many frustrated with the desire to drop pounds, relax and just breathe a bit while you read this. Take a breath!
There now. If you are still reading, you may have noticed a sense in that moment of acceptance. The first step with any goal is to first accept where you are and allow your mind to view the situation objectively. You have the responsibility for your own health and weight balance, but just allow yourself the time to reflect on your journey a moment. There are three main reasons outside of calorie intake and output that may be contributing greatly to weight gain.
Reason #1 STRESS: Pressured with day to day obligations of work and family you may be medicating yourself with comfort foods you subconsciously crave as a result of the stress. In response to the poorer or absence of any nutritive value of these foods, stress only increases and the non-useful responses feed one another. Sleep is disrupted or not experienced fully allowing the body to de-stress into its natural state of deep relaxation leading to the deep sleep needed to promote body processes and complete metabolism. As stressful behavior continues, even with a fairly balanced diet, the cycle continues and you are unable to experience life to its fullest offering with this destructive cycle. You may also notice that the people closest to you also have weight out of balance, subconsciously reinforcing the mindful elements that are keeping all stuck in the cycle. This is the group effect and acceptance of stress as a reality. Be the leader in your group and practice a new way of living and thinking. Mountains are conquered with single steps.
"Problems are not solved with the same thinking that created them." Albert Einstein
Reason #2 HORMONAL IMBALANCE Stress can also be the cause of hormonal imbalance and you may be able to naturally get back into better balance through diet, exercise and stress release. You may need to talk to your health care professional about this, but remember that healthy habits are your responsibility. Choosing to be a conscious practitioner and partner with your doctor regarding your health will insure the best outcome.
Reason #3 LAZY MIND This may be very hard for those not willing to exercise the mind as well as the body to understand the power of mind in all you do. The overload we have today of technology, cell phones, smart phones, magnified TV, internet can program and control you in ways you do not notice or just take for granted. You are plugged in and cannot get free of mind numbing habits that disempower you rendering you a robot of your own non-useful habits. Examining each aspect of your life and committing to improve on every level is actually a mental exercise that will burn calories. Stay a robot to your schedule and beliefs and nothing will improve, but change which is constant will continue. You will change for the worse. You have the power of your own mind and its your responsibility to use it wisely. Wisdom grows from a well fed mind. A well fed mind knows how to feed a body. Repeating the same behavior and expecting a different outcome is a form of insanity.
In observing the growing obesity problem, I know very well that these people are not eating as much as it would appear. The problem is the inability to take control of the mind. Empowerment is the outcome when one chooses to commit. Refusing the responsibility of your own thoughts causes stress. It is much easier to be conscious once you get into practice. Turn off the TV, cell phone, internet or at least be aware that media is in the market of selling to you; and often selling you what you do not need. Figure out for yourself what lies you are being told and what lies you are telling yourself. The new term Nature Deficit Disorder (NDD) describes that we are disconnected from our Source. Decide to connect with Nature at some level each day. Observe a flower, look at the night sky, take a walk and feel the air; then realize that in the scheme of things there is a Great Power that you have access to moment by moment.
The solutions for dropping pounds are within your control and involve these very simple observations. You can start today to take control and build the confidence of a successful person in control of her own weight. Take the steps to de-stress, commit to empowering your own mind, stop plugging in endlessly to technology, be aware of your hormone balance, rest well, eat wisely, investigate reality and start to tell yourself the truth, spend time in Nature, spend some time alone.
As your spirit is empowered and lifted, your increasing inner beauty will show on the outside and you will return to the beautiful child of the Universe you were meant to be.
Know who you are, feed the flower.
Boldness has Genius Power and magic in it. When one definitely commits, then Providence moves too. ~~Goethe
There now. If you are still reading, you may have noticed a sense in that moment of acceptance. The first step with any goal is to first accept where you are and allow your mind to view the situation objectively. You have the responsibility for your own health and weight balance, but just allow yourself the time to reflect on your journey a moment. There are three main reasons outside of calorie intake and output that may be contributing greatly to weight gain.
Reason #1 STRESS: Pressured with day to day obligations of work and family you may be medicating yourself with comfort foods you subconsciously crave as a result of the stress. In response to the poorer or absence of any nutritive value of these foods, stress only increases and the non-useful responses feed one another. Sleep is disrupted or not experienced fully allowing the body to de-stress into its natural state of deep relaxation leading to the deep sleep needed to promote body processes and complete metabolism. As stressful behavior continues, even with a fairly balanced diet, the cycle continues and you are unable to experience life to its fullest offering with this destructive cycle. You may also notice that the people closest to you also have weight out of balance, subconsciously reinforcing the mindful elements that are keeping all stuck in the cycle. This is the group effect and acceptance of stress as a reality. Be the leader in your group and practice a new way of living and thinking. Mountains are conquered with single steps.
"Problems are not solved with the same thinking that created them." Albert Einstein
Reason #2 HORMONAL IMBALANCE Stress can also be the cause of hormonal imbalance and you may be able to naturally get back into better balance through diet, exercise and stress release. You may need to talk to your health care professional about this, but remember that healthy habits are your responsibility. Choosing to be a conscious practitioner and partner with your doctor regarding your health will insure the best outcome.
Reason #3 LAZY MIND This may be very hard for those not willing to exercise the mind as well as the body to understand the power of mind in all you do. The overload we have today of technology, cell phones, smart phones, magnified TV, internet can program and control you in ways you do not notice or just take for granted. You are plugged in and cannot get free of mind numbing habits that disempower you rendering you a robot of your own non-useful habits. Examining each aspect of your life and committing to improve on every level is actually a mental exercise that will burn calories. Stay a robot to your schedule and beliefs and nothing will improve, but change which is constant will continue. You will change for the worse. You have the power of your own mind and its your responsibility to use it wisely. Wisdom grows from a well fed mind. A well fed mind knows how to feed a body. Repeating the same behavior and expecting a different outcome is a form of insanity.
In observing the growing obesity problem, I know very well that these people are not eating as much as it would appear. The problem is the inability to take control of the mind. Empowerment is the outcome when one chooses to commit. Refusing the responsibility of your own thoughts causes stress. It is much easier to be conscious once you get into practice. Turn off the TV, cell phone, internet or at least be aware that media is in the market of selling to you; and often selling you what you do not need. Figure out for yourself what lies you are being told and what lies you are telling yourself. The new term Nature Deficit Disorder (NDD) describes that we are disconnected from our Source. Decide to connect with Nature at some level each day. Observe a flower, look at the night sky, take a walk and feel the air; then realize that in the scheme of things there is a Great Power that you have access to moment by moment.
The solutions for dropping pounds are within your control and involve these very simple observations. You can start today to take control and build the confidence of a successful person in control of her own weight. Take the steps to de-stress, commit to empowering your own mind, stop plugging in endlessly to technology, be aware of your hormone balance, rest well, eat wisely, investigate reality and start to tell yourself the truth, spend time in Nature, spend some time alone.
Know who you are, feed the flower.
Boldness has Genius Power and magic in it. When one definitely commits, then Providence moves too. ~~Goethe
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