Posts Tagged ‘Energy’
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Affirmations are great and they are the reason this website exists. The way they are phrased is very important, so let’s review some of the basics of affirmations.
Affirmations are supposed to be affirmative, positive statements, should have ‘the speaker’ included in them, and need to be stated in the present time. To expand a little bit on the basics, affirmations are supposed to talk of what you want instead of what you don’t want. So, if you are dealing with a health issue, the affirmation should mention something about “being in a healthy state and feeling great”, instead of “not feeling sick and tired anymore”. You sense the difference?
Whenever writing or saying an affirmation, make sure to feel included. I wrote a post a little while back where I shared a comical story of what could happen when you do not feel like part of whatever it is that you are affirming.
Finally, affirmations should be stated in the present tense. If you say “I will be healthy” you are sending your energy to the future. However, saying “I’m healthy” when you are not can feel awkward. So there is a little trick that I read somewhere for phrasing affirmations. Instead of saying “I am” start your affirmation with “I’m in the process of” – that puts the statement in the present and at the same time keeps it more true, since the end result can be ‘in development’. I personally really like that trick. Have fun with your affirmations!
Until Monday,
V
Tags: Affirmation Triggers, Affirmations, Energy, goals, Success, The Secret, Universe
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Just to be clear, I know very little about this field – I have never met or even talked to a sports psychologist. My guess is that the job of a sports psychologist is to help athletes work through any mental issues that they may have. So for instance, if a player is afraid to shoot the ball and is instead always looking to pass, I imagine that a team psychologist will address that confidence issue in some way. Or if the player had a really bad game, a team psychologist would help the player get over that game and leave it in the past; if the player has a good game, however, maybe they’ll try to work on carrying that momentum forward. Essentially, a sport psychologist tries to get the player’s mind to help him or her instead of getting in the way.
If that is at all accurate, it sounds very similar to psychologists in other fields – they help you get your own mind to play for you and not against. A lot of self-help materials deal with the very same concept. When you hear players give interviews, they often mention ‘faith’ in themselves and their team and ‘belief’ that they will win. The interesting thing is that when two teams compete for the ultimate prize, players on both teams believe that they will win, but only one team wins. Taking Law of Attraction into the count, who wins? The team that believes more? Or the team that doubts less? What about the fans – in town and around the world? Or do all the beliefs and doubts balance out and a better skilled team wins?
I am just curious to hear what you think…
Until next time,
V
Tags: Energy, goals, intentions, Law Of Attraction, Neo-Spirituality, Success
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
As a final project in the Science of Mind class that I have been taking, we were supposed to present our vision for a better world. Yesterday’s post gave me an alternative vision for a better world than the one I actually presented. To tell you the truth, there are a lot of things that can make for a better world, so this is only one of them. What is it? People taking personal responsibility for their lives.
Think about it…how different would the world look if every single person took responsibility for their lives, for their actions, and for their behaviours? Now we are playing that ‘what if’ game, but I think that if that was the case, people would not be complacent and would actually take action to change things they do not like – politicians, economics, relationships, etc. People would stop blaming others, which will result in more love and peace. People would live more happy and fulfilled lives as they would not remain stuck for long in any particular place that they do not like. People would pursue what they want in harmonious ways.
That would truly transform the world, don’t you think?
Until next time,
V
Tags: Action, Energy, goals, Human Behavior, Inspiration, Personal Power, Response-ability, Responsibility, Science Of Mind, Success
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Friday, April 30th, 2010
It’s nice to feel nice. Actually, what I am trying to say is that it is very useful to feel the way you want to feel – and this is not just a play on words. We talked many times about the importance of feeling in a way that is conducive to creating the experiences you want to have more of. So if you want to bring about more happiness you need to feel happy, to experience more abundance you need to feel more abundant, to experience more love you need to feel loved, etc, etc. So pay attention to the things you do and the little cues in your environment that make you feel a certain way that would be useful to you. Let me give you some examples.
If you find that you feel really connected and appreciated when you hang out with a certain person, make an effort to hang out with them more often (this is of course assuming that you want to experience feelings of connectedness and appreciation more often). If you find that buying lunch for a friend makes you feel abundant, start inviting more people to lunch. If you discover that driving a clean vehicle makes you feel on top of you game, go wash your car more often. If you…you get the idea.
Have fun with this!
Until Monday,
V
Tags: Action, Energy, goals, Law Of Attraction, Success, The Secret
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
This is one of those phrases that sounds nice and playful, yet contains a lot of power and wisdom. I’ve talked in the past about the vital role that expectations play in our lives, and this phrase, which I heard in a Bob Proctor program, puts it rather eloquently. The idea is pretty simple – your true expectations will create your experience. It’s not what you want, not what you wish for, but what you truly expect that becomes your experience. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had countless situations that reflect that very principle at work.
So, ‘never expect what you don’t desire’! Pretty simple, right? In theory yes…in application it can be more difficult. If it wasn’t we’d never get what we don’t desire. But seriously, if you don’t desire something, why in the world would you expect it? It’s a logical statement, but we are not very logical beings. The same holds for the other side of the equation – ‘never desire what you don’t expect’. If you desire what you don’t expect, you simply will not be able to bring that into your experience. If there is something that you desire, work on expecting it in your life.
Now I’ve got to go work on the lesson in this phrase myself…
Until next time,
V
Tags: Bob Proctor, Energy, goals, Irrational Behavior, Law Of Attraction, Neo-Spirituality, Success, The Secret, Universe
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
In class last night we had a lengthy discussion on how emotions differ from feelings; people had ideas, but no one seemed to be able to effectively get their point across to the rest of the class where they agreed. Often people use these words interchangeably, but when you study this in a little more detail, there is a difference between the two. And the most peculiar thing is that the difference is not very well defined. I’ll give you my understanding of the difference between the two, but I’d really like it if you could add your thoughts through the comments.
My understanding is that feelings are physiological responses to stimuli, where a physiological response involves the chemistry of your body, and a stimuli can be a thought, a external event or occurrence, someone’s words or touch, etc. Feelings are physical and chemical changes in your physiology – you feel love, anger, frustration, stress, and joy as a very real sensations in your body. Emotions, on the other hand, are the labels that we put on those sensations (happiness, love, anger, etc). So the two are closely related – no doubt – but they are not the same. First you have a stimulus, which creates a physical change in your body (a feeling), which we label with a name of a certain emotion.
Feelings are ‘absolute’, while emotions are ‘relative’. What I mean by that is that a given feeling is always the same (a feeling, again, being a certain physiological state of your body), but that same feeling can get a variety of labels from different people (called a number of different emotions). When I push on my desk, the desk pushes back (that would be equivalent to the feeling), but I can use several phrases to describe that behaviour (call it a number of emotions), like “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” or the “Newton’s Third Law of Motion”. They are different words describing the same overall idea.
Who knows, I may be out to lunch with this… what do you think?
Until next time,
V
Tags: Emotions, Energy, Feelings, Kenn Gordon, Science Of Mind, Universe
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Pretty much every book that talks about the concept that we are responsible for what we create and attract into our own lives, says that it is the feelings that get the creative process rolling. Sure, everything begins with a thought, but though by itself will not create much – you need to be emotionally involved in the idea – that means that you need to have corresponding feelings about that idea. More importantly, those feelings need to be supportive of you experiencing and achieving whatever it is that you are after; if you feel like you are incapable or unworthy of the given goal, it’s counter productive and will keep you away from what you desire.
We talked about how vital our subconscious mind is to the creative process. So how do you know what you mind is doing? A great way to check that is to check your feeling. This idea came to a friend of mine who shared it with me, and I thought it was a very insightful observation. If at any point in time you want to get an idea of what you are brining into your experience, ask yourself how do you feel. Feelings are like a temperature gage for your consciousness, that is your conscious and subconscious minds put together. Do you feel happy, loved, joyful, and abundant? Or do you feel sick, lost, confused, and generally pitiful? That is what you are bringing more of into your life.
I think that “How do I feel?” is a great question to ask yourself throughout the day. It will likely provide you with some very interesting insights into what is going on in your mind.
Until next time,
V
Tags: Energy, goals, Law Of Attraction, Neo-Spirituality, Success, The Secret, Universe
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
“I am not creative!”
You may have heard that phrase uttered by different people; I have no problem admitting that I have said that many times in the past, and maybe you have too.
We are taught that creativity comes from the right side of the brain and that logic comes from the left, and that people are somehow strong in one and not in the other. I was always good at the sciences, so I figured that I was not supposed to be good creatively, and thus I never pursued anything in that field. On top of that, add loving parents, who kept saying that I was tone deaf every time I expressed any interest in music. The picture paints itself.
The interesting thing is, exploring childhood memories, I remember really enjoying drawing, painting, sculpting with play-do, and building things out of LEGO. Somehow, over time, I did not focus any energy on developing those interests, and so, as expected, they dissipated into thin air. I think there are quite a lot of people who had a similar experiences, and what does not help is our school system that rewards sciences a lot more than arts.
These days I find that I have periods of creativity, so the fire is not out yet. I am trying to pay attention to what is going on when I get into the creative mode so that I can develop it some more. It is something that I recommend you also pay attention to if you find yourself in a similar situation.
Until next time,
V
Tags: Creativity, Energy, Human Behavior, Inspiration, Neo-Spirituality
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Friday, April 9th, 2010
This relates a lot to the yesterday’s post on self-image. I’ve heard this question asked, “what is in your container of certainty?” I thought that ‘the container of certainty’ was a really cool way of expressing the idea.
The concept is pretty simple and straight forward – you will always get whatever is in your container of certainty – no more, no less. You will not get what you want nor what you wish for, but rather what you truly expect. Every time I write something related to this concept, I am in awe from the power that comes once you understand and internalize that idea. Personally I’m starting to get there after all these years, but I’m a slow learner.
So what is in your ‘container of certainty’? What kind of life are you expecting? What kind of relationships are you expecting to have? What kind of work do you expect to be doing? What is your expectation when it comes to health and fitness? Just some food for thought…
Until Monday,
V
Tags: Energy, goals, Human Behavior, Law Of Attraction, Marriage, Money, Neo-Spirituality, Relationships, Success, Universe
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
And as a spin-off from yesterday’s post, I also want to make sure that you don’t focus your energy and attention on knowing what you don’t want. Sure, there are things that you don’t want to have and experience in your life, but don’t focus on that – instead focus on the opposite of that. So if you don’t want to be alone, focus on having friends; if you don’t want to be broke, focus on abundance.
As you may have heard, the Universe cannot interpret the negative of anything. Not wanting something and wanting something is vibrationally identical because you are still energized about that something. Essentially the Universe takes the absolute value of the things you are talking about. Another concept to note is that your subconscious cannot tell the difference between the energy directed at yourself and energy directed at someone else. So if you are calling someone an idiot, it is the ‘idiot’ that is perceived, and not that it is someone else that you are actually talking about. Maybe this is why many wise people have said that you should send love out to everyone else – maybe it is so that you interpret it as love for yourself?
Now you may find this concept rather obvious, but I still hear a lot of people tell me with much greater ease what they do not want instead of what they do want. You’ll ask them what they want next year to be, and they say “I don’t know…I know that I don’t want to lose my job though”. Umm…OK. With that attitude, you just might…
So what do you want? Take the weekend to ponder that question!
Until Monday,
V
Tags: Energy, Human Behavior, Neo-Spirituality, Science Of Mind, Success, Universe
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