Re-Program The Mind

Brainwashing is a term perceived in a negative way by most people. But you know what, I think our brains could actually do with a bit of a washing sometimes!

You see, everyone comes into this world with a clear mind, and a belief that everything is possible. All is positive and well. Remember as a child, you could do and become everything, without any boundaries!

As we grow up however, we pick up beliefs, fears and limitations from our surroundings and peers that gradually form the person we are today. A lot of these beliefs unfortunately are negative and as we build our lives they limit us in our actions and being. Very often they therefore contribute to unhappiness or feeling unfulfilled in our lives and business.

It can be the smallest -- seemingly harmless -- remark from a mother like "just let me handle that, you are no good at that" that can convince you that you are not good at a certain task. A teacher who calls a pupil "the clumsy one" can do more harm with this remark than he realizes when repeated often enough. With every remark the belief is harnessed further in the child that it indeed is clumsy. Even though a remark is said with a smile or with the intend to be funny, it still leaves a legacy in the belief system.

This programming of course doesn’t stop at adulthood, it keeps influencing people in all stages of life. We are being influenced by our parents, kids, partner, friends, colleagues, television, newspapers, magazines and so on. Sometimes positive, but very often in a negative way. No wonder we limit ourselves in so many ways! Belief is the key to your success. If you belief you can do something, you can. If you belief you can’t do something, you will be right too.

The good news is: we can "reprogram" our mind and replace our negative, limiting beliefs for positive contributing ones. Positive brainwashing is what I like to call it! This can be done by the use of so called "affirmations". An affirmation is a positive self talk statement, stated in the present tense that covers a goal you want to achieve and that ‘overrules’ negative beliefs towards that goal.

An example is "I easily do 10 sales calls a day". Or "I am an excellent negotiator". By stating this positive affirmation regularly during your day, you will achieve the goal you have set for yourself easier. This positive self talk helps your mind to overcome beliefs that you have about yourself, that limit your success and actions. Compare our mind with a computer: when you change the input, the output will change accordingly.

So if you have the limiting belief that you are no good in public speaking (probably because of negative experiences in the past) you can actually reprogram your mind by stating the following affirmation: " I am an excellent public speaker. I love to speak for huge audiences and people love to hear me talk". By affirming this belief over and over, you actually start to believe it and your mind will find a way to make this statement a reality. At some stage, you might decide to do a course in public speaking, or someone might ask you to speak at some kind of seminar, which forces you to work on your speaking skills. Somehow, this positive affirmation help you to reach the ‘goal’ you have set for yourself, and open doors for you that would normally would have been kept closed. And this works for virtually everything. Belief, and it will happen.

Imagine standing for a big river, with a heavy stream. You have to cross it, but you don’t think you can actually do it. Your belief is keeping you from crossing, although you physically should be able to do it easily. It just looks too hard! Then someone else comes up from behind you, and without thinking starts crossing the river and gets to the other side. His belief was positive, and he knew he could do it. The interesting thing is that this will probably influence your belief: "if he can do it, I can do it too" and you will then cross the river without any problem at all. Similar things happen when a group of people is introduced to the phenomenon of fire walking. At first a big group of people will say that there is no way they will walk on fire. Until…other people with higher beliefs go first, then all of a sudden everyone else rushes over to do it as well.

So think about YOUR beliefs, and try to discover which belief are actually holding you back from reaching your full potential in your life. Then, one by one, start eliminating these beliefs from your system. Formulate a positive affirmation that counters your negative belief, and re affirm it daily. Write them in your diary, on your bathroom mirror, next to your computer; anywhere you see it often and say the affirmation out loud as often as possible. You will be happily surprised by the results!

To Do Without Doing

ACTION -- Least Required

One of the mistaken certainties or misconceptions most people operate under is that

you get what you want in life by what you DO, or through the actions you take. Most

people believe that the DOING or action part is what makes things happen. However,

this causes you to create in reverse.


Let me explain..

The reason we put a lot of emphasis on action is

because we do not understand the power of our thought.If you analyze it, 90% of most

people's actions are spent trying to compensate for in appropriate thought.

The Chinese philosopher Lao-tsu said that, "In the practice of the Way, every day

something is dropped.Less and less do you need to force things until finally you

arrive at *non action* When nothing is done, nothing is left undone". What he is

talking about is *doing without doing* The problem is that most of us are

preoccupied with "doing". Unfortunately most of our doing usually involves struggle.

In the western world we are conditioned to be action-oriented, so we place a

tremendous value on doing. We are so busy doing that we do not realize that all

this "doingness" causes us to create in a reverse fashion. Most of our actions are

out of fear, worry or doubt because we believe nothing will get done unless we DO

something. In other words, we are trying to force our desire into manifestation

through action. If your decision to DO is dominant, then you will not focus on what

you want to BE in the present moment.This causes you to miscreate because BEING is

the first and most important step in the creative process.


~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~Here is the secret:~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~

It is not your action that makes things happen, it is your intent. You can reduce

the need for action to a very minimum by allowing yourself to focus on what you

desire until you feel the positive energy begin to move within you. This energy is

not based on doubt,fear, anxiety, worry or need. If you focus on what you want

instead of what you don't want, you will know when it is time to take action. And

when you do, it will be effortless. Doors open and the entire universe will conspire

to assist you in your desire. Put simply, you should take no action on anything

until you have visualized your desire and made it real enough in your mind that your

next action (step),whatever it is, seems like the most logical step. How can you

know the next logical step? Here is the test that you can give to yourself before

taking any action. If you focus on what you desire and still feel overwhelmed or

anxious, then you are not ready for any action. You know you are ready when it feels

like the next logical step is effortless. There is no effort,no strain, and no pain.

What we want to do is to use the leverage of energy,the same leverage of energy that

creates everything in the universe. However, we are so caught up in the reality of

WHAT IS, that we feel we must create everything through mental effort and physical

activity. Have you ever seen people who seem to have all the wonderful things in

their life without much effort? It almost seems like they have an advantage over

everyone else. Then you see the people who work the hardest usually have the least.

That doesn't seem fair does it? But that's the way the universe works.

Unfortunately, those who work the hardest usually have the least because they

haven't learned the leverage of aligning their energy. They are going about creating

their lives the hard way. They are trying to use their actions to create what they

want. We have also been programmed that in order to have what we desire we must work

hard. How many times have you heard - "No pain, no gain." The implication is that if

you want to make something of yourself, you must work hard. The message is clear -

if you are not hurting or struggling, you are not moving forward.

But here is the truth -

anytime you are struggling you are miscreating. Anytime you feel pain or struggle,

your magnetic point of attraction is directed to that which you do not want, rather

than to that which you desire.

Read it again! Actions are necessary, but they are

the last component of the creation processes. Actions cannot be used effectively to

initiate results, because initiation is the function of BEING, then thought,then

action. Remember, the creation of anything is through your vibration. Everything

vibrates, and it is by that vibration that we harmonize and attract experiences to

ourselves. So before you act or do anything, first ask yourself, how am I vibrating?

How do you tell? You tell by how you FEEL. Your feelings show you your vibration.

How you feel determines what you attract. When you use the process of creating by

only focusing on what you want instead of what you don't want, you will see that the

universe will provide a different set of circumstances for you that requires much

less action. This puts you in a state of "doing without doing" or

action without effort.