rethink + change your mind in 4 simple steps

 
Life, happiness and your experience of it is all about perspective. And the fun thing is that you totally get to choose your point of view, every single day.
Some people call this action to re-frame. Reframing your thoughts. Putting them into a new perspective. Seeing things from a different point of view. The perspective in which YOU’RE the hero and the world is great.
Have you found a few disgruntling beliefs or thoughts adding shadows to your otherwise rainbow coloured world? Here’s how to change them:
 

  1. Catch that thought. Become aware of it and where and why it has cropped up. Don’t judge it. Just become clear on what it is and if you can, why you’re holding on to it. Maybe you read it somewhere. Maybe someone told you it was true once. Maybe you picked it up subconsciously.
  2. Challenge it. What would happen if this belief was no longer true for you? How much sweeter, happier, easier would life be for you?
  3. Replace that thought. With something loving. Something tender and compassionate. With something you would actually like to be true in your life, even if it hasn’t manifested itself yet. And if you can’t think of something “I deeply love and accept myself just the way I am” never fails!
  4. Move forward. Let go of the process once all the steps have been completed. Trust life to use the momentum of change to move you into the new positive beliefs and thoughts that you have created.

 

5 steps to being intuitive from dr judith orloff

If you have ever wanted to get in touch with and strengthen your intuition, then Dr Judith Orloff can show you the way. Here a 5 steps to for intuitive healing:
Step 1: Notice Your Beliefs
Positive attitudes stimulate growth. Negative attitudes impede it. It’s important to rid yourself of counterproductive attitudes that you may not even realize you have. If you examine your beliefs, choose life-enhancing ones, you’ll create optimal wellbeing. No organ system stands apart from your thoughts. Your beliefs program your neurochemicals. I’m not suggesting that you be Pollyannish, but that you be completely true to yourself. This will free you from unconscious negative beliefs that can sabotage your healing.
Step 2: Be In Your Body
Your body is a complex and sensitive intuitive receptor. Most people in Western society are conditioned to live from the neck up, ignoring the rest of their body. This stance is counter-intuitive. I’d like you to shift that perspective-to enjoy your intellect but revel in your physicality as well. Being aware of the sensuousness of your body opens intuition. Then you’ll become more cognizant of early warning signs your body sends. womens health. This gives you a head-start on preventing illness, choosing healthy relationships, and avoiding detrimental situations.
Step 3: Sense Your Body’s Subtle Energy
We are composed of flesh and blood, but also of subtle energy. Chinese Medical Practitioners call it “chi,” a vital substance which penetrates the body and extends many feet beyond it. From an intuitive point of view, these vibrantly colored energy fields, whose centers are called chakras have a significant effect on our health. For that reason, it is important that we learn to sense this energy within us, recognize when it is off, and learn to correct the imbalance. Feeling energy can be very sensual, an extension of love. Learning to tap into your body’s energy is healing.
Step 4: Ask for Inner Guidance
We each possess an intuitive voice that contains answers about our healing. Because our intellect is often so loud, this voice often gets drowned out. It’s essential that we learn to access the stillness within–though meditation, quite contemplation, connecting with nature, prayer-in order to gain answers. Spend a few minutes each day devoted to listening to this voice. It may appear as a gut feeling, a hunch, an image, a sound, a memory, an instant knowing-as if a light bulb suddenly switched on.

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. Learn to trust the signals your inner wisdom sends.
Step 5: Listen To Your Dreams
Intuition is the language of dreams. Every ninety minutes each night during the REM stage of sleep, we dream. Dreams provide answers about health, relationships, career choices, any new direction. There should be no situations in everyday life when a few hours of difference in the drug intake can play a significant role. Learn more at https://summitps.org/antibiotics-online/. If such situation happens, the actions to resolve it should be carried out in a hospital, and probably with the help of other medicines. The secret is to remember them. I suggest keeping a dream journal by your bed. Before you go to sleep, ask a dream a question. For instance, “Is this relationship healthy for me or should I move on?” The next morning, write down any dreams immediately before getting out of bed. Try repeating the question, every night for the next week until your answer comes. As you develop the habit of remembering dreams, you’ll be able to benefit from this form of healing. As a physician, I have a continual sense of awe for the relationship between body and spirit. As your heart opens, so does your intuition. Your intuition will teach you how to see and how to love. It will instill in you a renewed faith to face anything.
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Why I Keep Changing My Mind & Happiness Is Overrated

 

Today I wanted to write about lots of things and I couldn’t make up my mind and then I would start something and then would change my mind again. It’s not so much that I am indecisive, but rather that I acknowledge that we all make decisions based on the information we have collected up to that point and sometimes as we garner more knowledge this changes our decision. Or it’s a very windy day.
I tend to change my mind a lot. It’s part of going with the flow of life.
When the wind blows in one direction it doesn’t decide it must blow in that direction for the next 4 hours 37 minutes and 22 seconds. No. It blows and then it changes. Whenever. Whatever.
So I’ve decided to go with the flow today and post about several different concepts running through my mind. One is about changing my mind, the other is about happiness:
I recently saw a quick news clip that the Dalai Lama is coming to Australia and in that short segment he says something like “If you are happy, you are happy! And if you are not happy, it doesn’t matter!”
This made me think about happiness and my own personal pursuit of happiness in my life. What makes me truly happy? Like, actually really happy? Not the happiness from that stunning handbag I bought on the weekend, but the kind of happiness that builds from within and burst out full of joy and glory. Am I happy now?

And I’ve realised something. There are two types of happiness.

  1. One is superficial. There’s the happiness that comes from doing, achieving, receiving and so on. It’s the happiness that comes from being with friends, or doing a job well or buying something special. This type of happiness is an active happiness that stems from action. From doing things.
  2. One is deep seated. That’s the happiness that just exists no matter what. And maybe it’s not quite happiness but more of a constant simmering contentment. The simple joy of life. The happiness that exists within all of us no matter what end of the emotional roller-coaster ride we are currently on. This is a passive happiness. It exists and we don’t have to do anything to experience it.
  3. Both are equally valuable and necessary.

So the one type of happiness I need to chase down and actively participate to experience and the other one is always here. The first one is fleeting and based on external outcomes but the second one, as I just said, is always here. So what it true happiness? And again, am I happy now?
This question quite honestly makes me a little uncomfortable today. Squirmish. (Quick, what’s the right answer? Is this a test?) I want to say, YES! Of course! I’m happy all the time! Because I think I should be. And deep down I am blissfully content. But on some days (like today, when it is wet and cold and the world appears so very grey and dull and less fun than usual) all of the life stuff gets to me and I feel far away from that inner happiness. And I feel guilty for not being as happy as I could or should be. So, there it is. My belief, my expectation that I should always be happy. Because that’s what society is telling us. Be happy or go home. And the way society commonly measures happiness is through external results. The superficial type of happiness is easy to explain and to measure. The deep seated happiness, the I’m happy for no reason happiness is much harder to understand.
So this is where I change my mind. I reframe. It’s okay not to be happy all the time. To not have some external measurement of my current state of happiness. In fact I believe it’s necessary for growth. We would never change, try new things, do things differently if we were perfectly happy all the time.
Also, being not-quite-happy gives colour to my life. How gold is gold next to other gold? How happy is happy next to other happy? Happy looks much happier next to sad, as gold looks much more golden next to silver. Diversity is the spice of life and I love it!
So, am I happy? Yes. My inner being, who I am, is happy. My external experience of life is a bit glum today, and that’s okay. In fact, I kind of like it!
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10 Super Fun and Easy Steps to Instant Manifestation


We always get exactly what we need right when we need it. There is a sequence of events and a divine process that we must experience and understand on the pathway to receiving the gifts of our desires. When we open or hearts to love, appreciation and gratitude, we will then step into the flow of material abundance waiting for us.
 

1. Make a list of everything you want to do, be or have.

 

2. Release the I WANT list. Some people like to symbolically tear the paper up, burn it or simply crumple it up and throw it away. The reason for this second step is that when we say I want, what we are really saying is I don’t have. If you are familiar with the law of attraction, you will know that the universe mirrors our thoughts and actions. What we think about, what we say, the feelings we have and the action we take is equal to what we attract.

 

3. Take a fresh piece of paper and rewrite your list as if you have what you want in the present moment. For example if you would like to live in New York write: I love living in New York. Or: I have a loving and wonderful relationship. Or: I have a fulfilling and interesting, creative job.

 

4. On a scale of 1 to 10 rate where you feel you are at right now in relation to your desire. 1 being far away from where you see yourself being, and 10 being where you want to be. It is valuable to be able to measure your progress when you start something new.

 

5. Complete your list with a statement of gratitude. This is a key factor in manifesting your desires as gratitude is the energy that attracts more of what you want.

 

6. Schedule going through your list daily for the next two weeks. When you plan something into your daily life you will be more likely to actually take action and do it, and taking part in this process on a daily basis is what brings about the fruition of your desires.

 

7. Take a minute or two visualising and feeling the feelings of what it is like to have your desires. Feel and visualise as if this is your current reality. The reason this works is because your mind does not know the difference between what you see externally and what you see in your mind’s eye.

 

8. Release all attachment to the desired outcome. Remain open to new possibilities and look for opportunities throughout each day. Just know that whatever happens is in perfect alignment with your true purpose in life. The right things will always come to you at just the right time.

 

9. After two weeks of being present with and visualising your desires you will notice a shift in your awareness towards each desire and certain ones will become clearer whereas others will fade or change to make space for desires that are more in alignment with who you really are. Allow this change to pass through you and see how you grow.

 

10Finally review you desires list and revaluate where you now stand to each one on a scale of 1 to 10, as we did in step 4. Acknowledge the movements that have brought you closer to your desires and reward yourself for manifesting wonderful things into your life.

 
 

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Monsters Under the Bed Part 3: Radical Self Love


It appears that the short musings last week on facing your fears has become a bit of sequel, a journey linking through the assorted paradigms that fears represent. Let’s keep this one short, sweet and to the point.
Take it even deeper and the fear of failure has implications of not being worth all that you KNOW you are deserving of and therefore something lying much deeper in the core of people’s beings.
In fact all fear is based on the lack of self-worth.
There, I said it. Now THAT is scary. And totally, and utterly changeable. Hoorah!
This is when we say I may be totally and utterly freakin scared that things won’t turn out the way I’d like them to, but I love myself too much not to take this opportunity and DO IT ANYWAY. So I’m gonna do it. And eventually, if not right away, I’m gonna get it right. So there.
When we make that decision to metaphorically take that risk and make the jump into the unknown we are sending a message out to the universe that we trust and love enough to know that what happens next is the best possible thing that could happen even if it is different to what we think it should look like.
Plus, a BONUS of taking risks and facing our fears is that this leads to a happier, more fulfilled life. We will never know what could have happened if we don’t try and actually find out.
And as we start to achieve positive results, recognise them and celebrate them, all of a sudden the fears will have magically disappeared.
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