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Thirty Days To Change Your Life
Thirty Days To Change Your Life
Thirty Days To Change Your Life
Michael Miles
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. Marcus Aurelius
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Win riches and prosperity Regain former youthfulness and vigor Work real miracles in the lives of others Find new peace of mind
There are many ways to tap into the power of your subconscious mind, but I believe that there are three techniques which have more power and are more effective than the rest. In a series of articles, I will be exploring these three techniques. The first technique is the proper use of affirmations. What is an affirmation? When you affirm something, you are saying that it is true or a fact. So an affirmation is simply a verbal statement which you regard to be true. Our view of the world (and of ourselves) springs from our subconscious. It is here that we keep a picture of the world; here lies our happiness, our confidence, our success; here lies all our truth whether we think the world is a caring and nurturing place or lonely and cruel it all comes from our subconscious mind. Unless you have worked deliberately to change it, the picture of the world you have created came mainly from your childhood. It has been there for a long time and you will believe that it is the truth. But the real truth is that you are projecting your image of the world onto the world which is, largely, a neutral environment to be interpreted. For example, some people see money as a wonderful, beautiful thing, while others see it as filthy lucre. But money is just money inanimate, passive, neutral. Our views about it are entirely our own creation.
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Day twenty-five: dealing with procrastination Procrastination is putting off living your life now, often by planning for the future. I work in an environment where people are constantly talking about the future will look like and how they are going to make it happen. Theres nothing wrong with having a vision of course. But we must not allow planning to become the primary focus of our life. Wasnt it John Lennon who said that life is what happens to you while youre making other plans? These days I find it alot easier to get things done, and you can do the same. There are a few simple pointers to remember. 1. Plan. Having said that we can get obsessed with planning, it is still a necessary activity. Plan your monthly, weekly and daily must-do activities. Draw up a to-do list; preferably, write it down or set up a spreadsheet. And, include all the MUST dos in your list. These are things that must be done today. Period. 2. Prioritize. Set up the activities in order of importance, the more important ones taking precedence over the less important. If there are urgent things to do, but not important enough to be worried about if not done, put them below the important ones. The idea is based on the established principle that 80% of rewards come from 20% of effort directed towards accomplishing important work. This also relates to the idea of proactively spending more time on important activities than on urgent ones. Steven Covey writes about this in his Seven Habits. 3. Begin. Even if the deadline is a month from now, even if there is no deadline. Say you want to starg a business. No one is going to force you to do it - you need to be a self-starter. When it does come to deadlines, some people seem to like stress, but Im not one of them. Starting out on an important project will help you avoid stress and do it well. When you start a major project just the day of the deadline, you will most likely feel stressed and do a worse job. Get into the habit of starting things before the deadline. When I was a trainee teacher, one of my mentors told me about her one touch approach - whenever something came across her desk, she dealt with it immediately, either herself or by delegation. I dont use quite this approach myself, but it can be a good idea if you habitualy procrastinate
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Day twenty-eight: Hypnosis It is my belief that hypnosis is the most powerful technique for changing our subconscious programming. We have been conditioned since childhood to see the world in a certain way, and the beliefs under which we operate at a deep, subconscious level have been scripted into us by a process of which we are largely unaware. If we are to seriously change our experience of life, then hypnosis is a must. To some people, hypnosis might conjure up images of stage shows or thoughts of people being forced to do crazy things against their will. Like anything, hypnosis can be abused, but in fact it is the most natural and normal thing in the world. Normally, our mind is in a state called beta quite active, with the conscious part of the mind in the driving seat. But when we relax, as we drift off to sleep, when we daydream, we enter another kind of consciousness called alpha. This is a different state, sometimes called a trance. Hypnosis is simply the deliberate induction of this trance state. In the alpha state, our conscious mind is less to the fore, and our subconscious is able to take over to a much greater extent. The subconscious, where all our beliefs and scripting lie, is then susceptible to suggestion, and we can take advantage of this openness to introduce new beliefs directly into our mind. Affirmations and visualizations are good, but in hypnosis we can go more deeply and directly to the place we need to work on. So do you need to go and make an appointment with a professional hypnotherapist? Well you can do, and if you have serious problems I would suggest you seek out a properly qualified therapist. But there is a lot you can do to without the help of such a person. It is fairly easy to put yourself into a trance state and make hypnotic suggestions to yourself. Even a very light alpha state will have benefits. Personally I like to use hypnosis scripts on CDs and MP3s. You can download these from the Internet for a few dollars or buy them from a shop. You can also record your own scripts. The best products have music, which contains subliminal messages to reinforce the hypnotic
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Day twenty-nine: Take action Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyones task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. Viktor Frankl When you do what you love, the whole world comes alive. It starts dancing to your tune it becomes your puppet. When you are doing the thing you love, you will naturally draw the right people and resources towards yourself to ensure that you accomplish your goals. Taking action is important without it you will probably never achieve anything. But the action must be easy, effortless even. And action can only be effortless when you are in the flow of the universal stream. To do a job you hate is to swim against the tide; to get up every day and go to a job you feel no enthusiasm for is a waste of life. The way we are now is a result of our past thoughts, our self-talk and visualizations. But every moment is a new beginning. Our future depends on what we are thinking about right now. So to create the life we desire, we should dwell on thoughts about the things we love and trust the universe to take care of it.
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Of course, youre not suddenly going to love a job youve hated for years. In fact, if you hate your job so much then you probably ought to leave. But its unlikely that there is no aspect of your job that you like. The trick is to identify these good bits and focus on them, making them more central to your experience. And the things you dont like? Can you find any redeeming qualitative in these things? Can you change your attitude so that you see these tasks as useful or meaningful? If you can start to love what youre doing, then youll be adding value in some way. Do What You Love Interestingly, Steve Jobs didnt say do what you love. He said love what you do. You dont have to quit your dull nine-to-five job and start all over again. But doing what you truly love certainly has its rewards. In Making a Life, Making a Living, Mark Albion cites a study carried out by Srully Blotnick. The careers of 1,500 business school graduates were tracked from 1969 to 1980 and were split into two groups: group A said they wanted to make money first so they could do what they really wanted later, and group B said they would follow their interests first, regardless of financial considerations. At the end of the study, there were 101 millionaires. All but one came from group B.
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