People tend to think that balance is good, that somehow living a balanced life means living a happy life; I don’t think the two are very closely related. James Arthur Ray talks about balance and he brings up a really cool analogy of a scale in balance. When a scale is balanced, there is absolutely nothing happening. There is no movement, no vibrancy, no vitality. Everything is still. On the other hand, if you think about a rocking jazz band, it is anything but balanced. Different instruments dominate different parts of the musical piece and there is a lot of energy, movement, and harmony. Going for harmony seems like a more worthy ideal!

Harmony is a lot more interesting. To me living a harmonious life means living a happy life. There are times when work takes centre stage, while at other times, it will be family or friends or an important relationship. And sometimes it is all about fun! And there is no need to be balanced. The only thing that I make sure I do is keep my mind focused on my goals and keep working towards them.

What are your thoughts on balance and harmony?

Until next time,

V

Anyway, as the title says, this strategy is called ‘The Critical 6′. I came across it through James Arthur Ray; James Ray mentions where the strategy comes from, though at this time I can’t put my finger on it. In any case, the strategy is pretty simple (but not easy).

Write down the 6 most important things to do today and rank them in order of importance from 1 to 6. Go to work on #1 and don’t do anything else until you are done. When you are done with #1, move on to #2, and so on. If you are not done with all of the items on the list, the remaining ones roll over to the next day, so if you were only able to finish the first 2 tasks on the list, you roll over the remaining 4 to the next day. The suggestion is to come up with your own Critical 6 in the evening before you start the day, so that you know exactly what it is that you need to do.

So go ahead and do that now…come up with the 6 most important things to do today, and get to it!

Until next time,

V

James Arthur Ray argued for the Universal Subconscious and that all new ideas are instantaneous and are the result of your connections with the Universal Mind in that moment. Otherwise, when you are consciously thinking about and pondering on a concept or idea, you are limited to what you already know. That is all that you have access to, since you are relying on your conscious mind, and your conscious mind is only aware of a portion of your overall experiences to date. It has no access to any new information – it can only take old information and repackage it into something that looks new. I don’t know about you, but I am yet to come up with something even remotely ‘revolutionary’ via that process.

To me that makes perfect sense and I have a lot of proof supporting that concept when I simply look back on my life and my experiences. That is why these days I never really think about a problem that requires a new idea since I know that I will not come up with it using my conscious mind – I simply turn it over to the Universal Subconscious and wait for an answer in the form of an instantaneous idea that just pops into my head.

Albert Einstein said that “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” This says to me that we need to expand our awareness because problems that we created cannot be solved with the things that we already know. And, in my experience, one of the best ways to expand my awareness is to get in touch with the Universal Subconscious.

Your thoughts?

Until next time,

V

If you think back to your high school chemistry (or maybe you covered this in the physics class), you may remember a lecture on the atoms and how the electrons buzz around the nucleus. In fact, if you look at something, like a piece of metal, at the atomic level, you’ll find that the molecules (molecules are made up of atoms) shake and vibrate. As you raise the temperature (you can think of increased temperature as added energy), the molecules vibrate more violently, eventually splitting up and turning solid into liquid and then liquid into gas. As you lower the temperature (again, think of lowering the temperature as taking the energy away), the molecules vibrate slower, eventually ‘freezing’ in place when the temperature reaches the absolute zero (-273.15 degrees Celsius).

Now, we’ll talk about the physics of waves a little bit. Every wave carries within the same amount of energy, regardless of how big or small the wave is. If you look at the electromagnetic spectrum you’ll find that gamma rays have much shorter wavelength (0.01nm vs 100 nm ) and higher frequency than UV rays, meaning that gamma rays pack a lot more energy since you can fit more gamma rays in a given distance. That is why gamma rays will penetrate a lot deeper than UV rays, and consequently are more difficult to stop (think of putting on a shirt to protect against UV and the protection required when working with radioactive materials).

This is precisely why self-help gurus, like James Arthur Ray and Bob Proctor, talk about putting yourself in a state of a higher vibratory rate. When you increase your frequency of vibration, you increase the amount of energy in your body. With more energy in your body, you can motivate yourself to do something productive instead of being idle, you are in a position to take higher quality action, and you increase the likelihood of achieving the results that you are after.

How do you increase your vibratory rate? Well, that is a whole different topic, but one of the ways I touched on yesterday – get some sun!

Until next time,

V

Affirmations are supposed to be personalized, positive statements stated in the present tense. The more personalized the affirmation are, the more effective they become. To me, as I said in one of my earlier posts, affirmations are synonymous with intentions as well as with goals. James Arthur Ray talks about how he likes to set intentions instead of setting goals, since the term ‘goals’ is overused and we, as a society, are somewhat accustomed to hearing it. Then, after thinking about it, I decided that affirmations and intentions are really the same thing. And you are supposed to use them in the same way too – you are supposed to keep your mind focused on them as much as possible by doing whatever your need to do (saying them out loud, writing them down on a card and reading the card regularly, etc). In other words, affirmations, intentions, and goals are all positive statements about something that you want to accomplish in your life or statements about the way you want to be and act.

So here’s my problem with the pre-made affirmations. They may sound personalized, but they are not personalized since you did not come up with them. Now don’t get me wrong, I think that it is possible to take an affirmation that someone made, make it feel personal, and internalize it. That being said, I think that it’s a lot easier to internalize an affirmation that you made yourself as opposed to an affirmation made by someone else.

You can use Affirmation Triggers to come up with a list of your own affirmations and then use this FREE service to send your own affirmations to your phone at regular time intervals to make it easier to keep them fresh in your mind. I would love to know what you think of the service.

Until next time,

V

I agree with James Arthur Ray about how the word ‘goals’ is a little too overused and thus has lost its punch. So ‘intentions’ is a great replacement. And since affirmations are positive statements about you, life, or the world, intentions done properly can be called affirmations. ‘Affirmations’ is also a more popular term, so that is why it became the name of my website – www.affirmationtriggers.com.

So, use whatever term makes more sense to you.

Until next time,

V