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Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:
"The Power of Visualization, Part III' Podcast
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This is Part VI of a six part blog. See my 12/25 blog post for Part V.
What follows is a simple, yet highly effective visualization technique that can help you to imagine and manifest all the good you ever wanted in your life. Since you are imagining or visualizing all the time, anyhow, why not do it consciously and intentionally. Why not create what you want?
I. Decide what outcome you want to work on, e.g., to meditate regularly; to laugh a lot; to be true to oneself in all circumstances; to not experience stress in specific situations; to lose weight; to effortlessly create abundance; to improve your health; to feel self-esteem and confidence in specific situations; to get a raise, to get a new job, a new house, etc.
II. Get very specific about what you want, e.g., I want to meditate once a day for ten minutes; I want to listen to my Higher Self in all situations and at all times; I want to weigh 100 pounds and be a size four; I want to be relaxed and feel confident every time I meet new people, etc.
III. Get quiet. Take three deep breaths into your abdomen. Now start relaxing your body. Begin with relaxing the top of your head and slowly and gradually relax your forehead, eyelids, cheek, jaw, chin, neck, throat, shoulders, arms, hands, fingers, chest, back, abdomen, pelvis, thighs, knees, calves, ankles and feet. Breath deeply into any area that feels especially tense.
IV. Know that now that you are in this relaxed state you are able to access your subconscious mind and your super-conscious mind and that anything that you visualize clearly and think positively about will definitely come to pass. So, see yourself succeeding: truly believe and expect yourself to achieve your ideal manifestation. Envision as many scenes as you can with you being successful at achieving your goal. Really feel it! Really praise yourself! Use your imagination to bring other people into the scene. Hear them tell you how excited they are about how healthy, successful, and good you look, etc. See it and really Feel it! Really feel how good it would be to already have accomplished your desire. Feel as if you have already accomplished it. This is how you can create new manifestations in your life and use your imagination to bring the desired results you want into your life.V. Worry creates more worry: Joy creates more Joy! You get to choose!
VI. Thank yourself for taking the time to consciously create your life.
VII. Bring yourself slowly out of this relaxed state.VIII. Do this as often as you can; at least once a day.
This is Part VI of a six part blog.
If you would like to know more about the power of visualization, please check out my Meditation CD: Peace of Mind is an Image Away: Visualization Meditations.
You can hear a sampler at: http://www.learnmastery.com/AudioTapesByYanni.htm
This is Part V of a six part blog. See my 12/20 blog post for Part IV.
In order to help you get a better grasp on the role and power of visualization, I thought the following two quotes would be quite helpful:
"Although research in this field is still in its infancy, we have already found that visualization has a definite effect on the body's EEG, or electrical field. Physiologist Edmund Jacobson has shown, for example, that if you imagine yourself running, small but measurable amounts of contraction actually take place in the muscle you use for jogging." [This certainly happens when we dream.]
"Anatomists have demonstrated that there are pathways between the part of the brain where our pictures are stored and the autonomic nervous system which controls such so-called "involuntary" activities as sweating, blood pressure, and digestion. These same pathways link the autonomic nervous system and the pituitary and adrenal cortex. The end result is that a picture in the mind has an impact on every cell in our bodies."
These two quotes come from a book entitled: Visualization, by Adelaide Bry.
So, what we imagine, we experience viscerally in our bodies. Our imagination has a very, very powerful effect on our bodies.
As well, what we imagine, we experience as real psychologically. And by doing so we then we attract more of what we are imagining or visualizing into our life experiences. So, we really can’t afford the luxury of a negative imagination! It gets us into a lot of trouble!
Please see my next blog entry for a simple, yet highly effective visualization technique that can help you to imagine and manifest all the good you ever wanted in your life.
This is Part V of a six part blog. See my 12/27 blog post for Part VI.
Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:
"The Power of Visualization, Part II' Podcast
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This is Part IV of a six part blog. See my 12/18 blog post for Part III.
Why not be relaxed in dealing with events rather than be totally stressed out in dealing with them?
Am I saying don’t be proactive and anticipate things? No, not at all! What I am suggesting is that you “see” and expect the best of all possible outcomes and then you will be in a better place to respond wisely and effectively to what does in fact happen.
So, why would you want to be stressed out all the time? Worrying can not and will not bring you the results you are looking for. It will only make you feel lousy and create unnecessary and unhealthy tension in your body. As well, it will attract more worry.
As you begin to slow down and meditate on a regular basis you will notice the incessant, fearful, worrisome, angry, confused, disoriented thinking and imaginings that you have constantly playing around in your mind; but by observing all of this you can then learn how to instead shift away from all this static and noise into more positive thoughts and imaginings.
So, what I am suggesting here is that you can learn how to avoid your landmines of negative thinking and imaginings, and by doing so you will feel better and be physically and psychologically so much happier and so much more at peace. As well, you will attract more good into your life.
Peace of mind is an image away. You can learn to see/imagine the best in everyone and everything, including yourself! You can learn to not only make “the best of it.” You can learn to make your life the best!
So, give your self some time now to imagine the best! It will transform your life.
This is Part IV of a six part blog. See my 12/25 blog post for Part V.
This is Part III of a six part blog. See my 12/13 blog post for Part II.
Negative imaginings create enormous tension in your body. Because what you imagine, you experience as real in every cell in your body. And so learning to consciously visualize the most positive outcome and to see the best in yourself, in others and in any situation you are in is one of the greatest gifts you can give to yourself because this is what is really going to help you to relax and be at peace.
If you were to stop and observe your imaginings you would begin to realize how often they are caught up in “seeing” the worst. You will see how often you “awfulize” and “catastrophize” a situation. You will notice how often you worry.
You can change this and then change how you feel physiologically and emotionally and also change what you experience practically in your life. You can choose to experience peace, happiness, joy and fulfillment every moment by what you choose to focus on and how you choose to interpret events.
We create an enormous amount of stress on ourselves physiologically and emotionally when we worry. Eighty to ninety percent of what we worry about does not happen. So, why worry, so much? Why create so much tension in our bodies and minds?
This is Part III of a six part blog. See my 12/20 blog post for Part IV.
Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:
"The Power of Visualization, Part I'" Podcast
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This is Part II of a six part blog. See my 12/11 blog post for Part I.
Why it is so important to learn how to positively visualize is because what you imagine, you experience physiologically, emotionally and practically in your life. Science has discovered that when you visualize something, your mind and body respond to your imaginings as if they are real.
So perceived threats and or positive fantasies are both experienced as real by your body whether you are conscious of the effect they are having on you or not. Therefore, it is so important to consciously choose what you imagine, to choose what you “space out” on, to choose what you place your mental attention upon.
You have a choice as to whether you are engaging in happy imaginings or not. Being happy or at peace is a choice you make each moment by the thoughts you choose, the images you envision or the feelings you allow yourself to experience.
It is not about what is happening around you or “to” you. It is about the choices you make each moment. It’s about how you choose to “see” things; about how you choose to interpret them and what meaning you give to them.
Peace of Mind is an image away or a thought away.
This is Part II of a six part blog. See my 12/18 blog post for Part III.
This is Part I of a six part blog.
Some of you may be thinking as you start to read this: “I’m not so sure that I can visualize very well.” But if I were to ask you what your bedroom looks like, your living room, or a loved one, I am sure that you can easily bring a picture to mind as to what they look like. And by doing so, you have successfully visualized. This is all that visualization really is; we all have the inherent ability to visualize, the ability to imagine.
My goal in these series of blog entries is to teach you or remind you again how important it is to know how to consciously visualize or “space out.” It is actually a gift for an adult to know how to “space out.” Of course, I do not mean all the time, but at least some of the time. Actually we all “space out.” We are constantly, whether we realize it or not, visualizing or imagining or spacing out on something.
So, I would like to teach you how to consciously and positively visualize or imagine; and, also, I would like to teach you why doing it regularly and consciously is so important.
Again, we all visualize all the time. But mostly we “awfulize” or “catastrophize” – in other words we imagine the worst. We worry and worry is just negative imagining or anticipating the worst. And by doing so, we create that which we worry about and draw into our lives that which we do not want.
This is Part I of a six part blog. See my 12/13 blog post for Part II
Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:
"Love is 'Being Present'" Podcast
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This is Part II of a two part blog entry. Please see Part I on 12/04/06
It wasn’t until I realized that “I was looking for love in all the wrong places” that I began to look within. It finally dawned on me that by not looking within I was not allowing myself to come to know who I truly was (am) at the core. I did not know how to go within and be present with the bedrock of who I really was and to stand on that foundation and not stand on the shifting sands of my temporary ego-based personality.
By going within I finally began to identify with that part of me that is eternal and true, i.e. my Soul or my Higher Self. My Soul knows my inherent goodness and value. All I ever need to do is to touch in with its understanding of who I am and then I am whole.
In other words, I finally began to know what it meant to have Self confidence (that is confidence in my Higher Self or Soul) and not be concerned about developing confidence in my little self, that part of me that only wants to be validated by another and wants to feel control over its circumstances.
As Rainier Maria Rilke wrote, “How deep is the reservoir from which your life flows?”
We are so much more than our current personality. As we learn “to be present” with our Higher Selves/Soul, we will come to know who we really are and then we will totally and completely love and embrace ourselves. This will then bring a “peace that passeth all understanding” to us.
Then we will know how majestic and astounding we really are. We will realize how great a blessing it is to be in our own “Presence.”
This is Part II of a two part blog entry.
This is Part I of a two part blog. See my next blog post of 12/06/06 for Part II.
What does it mean to love oneself or another person? As I have journeyed through my life, I have come to the following understanding of what it means to truly love:
But what does it mean “to be present for yourself,” to just be there for yourself?
As far as I am concerned, you are your most “significant other.” So, in order to love yourself, you must be fully present for yourself. You must be “listening” to your self. You must be honoring yourself. You must be accepting and appreciating yourself unconditionally. This is love: “Being totally present for your self” with no judgments, no analysis, no preconceived beliefs, concepts or ideas of what you “should” be or do.
Giving this kind of love and presence to yourself, whether someone else is “present” for you or not, is the key to Self-mastery and happiness; it is actually “the key” to life. “Being present,” in this way, I believe, is the answer to the perennial question of “How do I love myself or another person?”
As for myself, I know that in the past I did not think that it was possible to love myself. I did not appreciate or understand my value. All I ever did was look at what was “wrong” with me and judge and reject myself. So, all I was doing was playing an old script of “I am not good enough” and “I am not worthy.” I had adopted a false belief system about myself.
As well, I was always looking for validation outside myself. I was looking for others to affirm me. I was “looking for love in all the wrong places,” so to speak.
I had no idea how majestic and miraculous a being I really was. I did not know how to be in my own “Presence.”
This is Part I of a two part blog entry. Please see Part II on 12/06/06
Life Mastery's Friday Weekly Podcast:
"Create a New Vision/Vibration for Your Self, Part II" Podcast
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