By Kurt DuNard, The Exceptional Life Coach

The secret is that you have an amazing power within yourself that can bring about miraculous outcomes. The power that you have has been known to cure incurable diseases, build billion dollar companies, create magnificent symphonies, paint masterpieces and build fantastic loving families. The light switch that turns on this power is called visualization. Anyone that has created anything worthwhile in their lives used visualization whether consciously or unconsciously. The ones that systematically use visualization consciously have created amazing success. We all know who they are. They are Olympic athletes, the super rich, star entertainers, top salespeople, and almost anyone you can think of whom you believe has created an exceptional life. Visualization is such a powerful tool that it pays to practice and increase our visualization skills. Here’s how.

Why Visualization Works

It puts the subconscious on notice by saying “Here are my dreams—help me achieve them.” The subconscious then sends creative ideas and amazing inspirations.

There is a place in the brain that is called the Reticulated Activating System (RAS). You might tell your subconscious that you would like a blue Lexus LS 430 and all of a sudden you start seeing these cars everywhere. The RAS has been activated and you are noticing lots of beautiful blue cars. Visualization causes you to notice. Before you were blind and now you notice.

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Visualization creates enthusiasm, excitement, and joy because your subconscious starts believing that your dreams are coming true. Enthusiasm, excitement, and joy are the fuel that is needed to emotionally make it OK to take action to achieve our dreams. You believe that success is yours for the taking and so you are enthused and take action. If diamonds are in the road, you must take action to pick them up and you are enthusiastically picking them up. There must be action—pick them up.

Start Where You Are

Visualization should be a fun relaxing exercise. Visualizing your dreams should never be a chore, a have to, or routine. It should always inspire emotions of happiness and peace.

If you think you are new to visualization, you are mistaken. You have visualized all your life, you were just not conscious of your practice. What may be new is that you have decided to become better at the practice and to be a conscious guide to your visualizations. You have decided to consciously tap into your power. You can only succeed. Follow these few simple rules.

Visualize what you want. Make them positive visualizations.

Avoid visualizing disaster or what you don’t want. Avoid negative visualizations.

Visualize living your dreams now in the present tense and how you feel.

Use lots of emotions and all the five senses if you can. It is important that your subconscious believes this is real.

Do balanced visualizations to create a balanced life. Visualize health, prosperity, family, friends, job, spiritual, wisdom, creativity, etc.

Visualize every day in the morning and just before going to bed. The more you visualize, the more you will look forward to it and the more you will notice positive changes in your life as a result.

Priming the Visualization Pump

The real power to change our lives comes through visualization; however, there are other practices that can help us augment the subconscious other than visualization. These practices can be done through the day or just before a visualization session.

Use pictures to help you visualize

Find pictures that make you emotionally excited, that represent goals, and aspirations. They could be the perfect house, you at the perfect weight with your picture Photoshoped onto another body, or it could show laughing friends and children. The pictures are more powerful, when you are in the picture. When you test drive your favorite car, have a picture taken of you with the car and another picture that you have taken from behind the wheel. Have a picture for all your dreams and goals. Make sure your goals are balanced in all areas of your life. Otherwise, you could have a great career with a sadly neglected family. Jack Canfield talks about how he took a $1.00 bill and then wrote six zero’s behind the “1″ to make it a million dollar bill. He then put that “$1,000,000 bill” above his bed so he would see it every morning. That representation of a million dollars soon materialized in Jack’s life.

Written Goals on 3 X 5 Cards

Put each goal on one side of the card. You could make it even better if you put a picture on the other side representing the goal. Morning and night, look at each card and visualize how you feel having accomplished this goal in the present moment—not the future.

Convert Your Goals to Affirmations and Memorize Those Affirmations

These affirmations are a statement of how you feel having accomplished the goal. It is a verbal visualization.

I feel fantastic, full of energy, and always ready for action now that I weigh 150 pounds.

Because you repeat these affirmations so frequently, they almost become a mantra that can be used to still the mind during meditation and visualization. To be effective, however, they must be done with thought and never as a thoughtless chant.

Get Ready For Success Because You Know it is Here

If you don’t prepare for success, then you don’t believe in success and even if it came you would not be ready. Part of making it happen is to assume all of these ideas work and you must get ready. Buy the new wardrobe for the new job. Learn Italian for your dream vacation to Italy. Move to where you want to live even if everything is not perfect right now. We must have an unwavering faith that everything is going to go our way or maybe even better. That faith is what convinces the law of attraction to go into overdrive.

Example of a Simple Visualization Session

You get very relaxed and sit down in your favorite chair that you use every morning. It is quiet and you have learned to love this time of day. You get out your power pictures that help your visualize. You go through them and get more and more positive. Then you go through your index cards and look at all your goals. You are starting to get ready for visualization. Now you relax, with both feet flat on the ground and both hands resting lightly on the chair arm or on your legs. You close your eyes and slowly you say your affirmations.

Legend has it that Bill Gates, Paul Allen and many Silicone Valley entrepreneurs were influenced by the book The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel. Here is a series of affirmations he talks about.

I am whole,

Perfect,

Strong,

Powerful,

Loving,

Harmonious,

And Happy.

You say your affirmations to yourself at least three times. As other thoughts outside of your visualization invade your mind, you come back to saying your affirmations. Now you are in the right frame of mind for effective visualization. You start imagining your life as you live your dreams in the now. You imagine perfect health and what that means to you. You imagine perfect friendships and how they interact with you in your home. You imagine your career working with the kind of people you love and how every day you are being recognized and appreciated for your excellent work. You imagine going to those wonderful places you have only dreamed of—now you are there. Your clothes, the food you eat, where you live, everything is in living color and you can smell the ocean breeze as you sail in your yacht. Everyday as you do your visualizations, the images, the inspirations and faith will become stronger and stronger. One day you will come to a clear realization that you are living what you lived in your visualization only two years ago. It will be no surprise.

Visualize all your goals, dreams and affirmations. Change them when they are no longer exciting. Spend at least fifteen minutes a session.

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Affirmations are a useful tool if you want to raise your self-esteem. You can write them down on small note that you hide for yourself in different places. You can record them and listen to them when you’re out walking, when you’re driving, when you’re waiting for the bus, when you’re sleeping etc. You can say them aloud to yourself.

Affirmations are basically the thoughts that you would like to put into your head. They should be in present tense, as if you are already experiencing what the affirmation says.  Here are some example affirmations that you can brainwash yourself with:

I am a valuable person.

I feel happy for simply being alive.

I love my life.

I feel so grateful for living the life that I am living.

I feel grateful for being me.

I am competent. I can accomplish everything that I set out to do in a brilliant way.

I am a loving and kind person.

I am full of love towards myself.

I am beautiful. / I am handsome. / I am cute. / I am sexy. / I am good-looking.

Other people enjoy being with me.

I am intelligent.

I am practical. / I am trustworthy. / I am punctual. / I am creative. / I am XXX

I feel grateful for having so many great qualities.

I am a wonderful person.

I feel like an amazing person.

I enjoy being me.

I love being the person that I am.

I attract good things into my life.

Wonderful people are attracted to me.

Other people love me.

I am loved.

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ive Thinking affirmations Guide

Positive thinking is not something you are born with. Most people were not raised to understand the importance of thinking positively, but it can truly determine the difference between a life of struggle, and abundance and freedom.

Positive thinking affirmations are meant to increase you ability to see the world in its true positive nature. Utilizing these affirmations for whatever purpose, can be very powerful, but instead of using specific physical things, I would suggest using affirmations to enhance your positive point of view on life.

Once you do that, almost every subject in your life will change. The reason being  you are going straight to the root of your emotions and not the superficial branches.

If you change the root, then everything built upon it must start changing.

How to use positive thinking affirmation:

The best way is to write your own affirmation and repeat a daily process for a minimum of thirty days (which is about the time it takes the brain to build a habit).

Once you’ve done that, you will start observing change in many areas of your life. It will start pretty subtle, but it will grow bigger and bigger like a snowball thrown down a hillside.

I do advise before you start working on your positive thinking affirmation, taking some time to think about what you really want in your life. What are your dreams? What does positive thinking mean to you? If you could have anything you want, what would it be?

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Learn to think freely about what you want and stop hiding from your heart’s desire.

After you’ve sat down with yourself, write down the affirmations you would like to implant in your subconscious mind.

Choose 3 and sit every day at the same hour and read them to yourself. Visualize and imagine how it feels to be positive and thankful for this great life. Do it 10 minutes for every affirmation and when you finish, simply let it go and go on with your day to day activities. Rinse and repeat daily 30 days.

That is basically how I use positive thinking affirmations, I’ve been doing it for some years now and it’s become second nature to me. I would advise anyone new to this process to find a professional system that feels good to you. It is important to get help and learn how to use these techniques correctly.

Positive thinking affirmations are a great way to boost your confidence, abundance, relationships and any other subject under the sun. It is not a magic tool, it takes practice and patience. But when you succeed once, all the rest will be immensely easy.

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By: Alan Tutt
There are many keys to Power. One key which provides many people with solid, reliable results is affirmative prayer. In this article, I will explain what affirmative prayer is, why it works, and how to use it.

While there are many types of prayer, affirmative prayer is the most scientific, and the most reliable. But what is affirmative prayer?

Affirmative prayer is a prayer where you don’t ask for anything, rather you make a statement as though what you want already exists. For instance, instead of asking for a large financial income, your affirmation would be something like “I am now making $100,000 per year, doing what I enjoy doing. I am happy in the job I have, and I work with wonderful people.”

But why would we want to pray this way? Because it works! Is there any other reason? Yes, because the process is more enjoyable. How enjoyable is going to your boss at work and asking for something, like a raise? Most people would rather avoid it. The same feeling usually comes up when trying to ask for something in prayer. You usually feel as if you have to prove yourself, or give something in exchange for what you are asking.

But there is no need to give up anything in exchange for what you want. Most religions have taught us that God is just like a person, and has many of the same caprices, temperaments, and moods that any human has. This is just not so. God is so far beyond our petty emotional fickleness that you could almost see God as being another natural law in the Universe. The Christian Bible even quotes God as saying “I am the same, yesterday, today, and forever.” or something to that effect.

Do you really care what the bacteria in your stomach want? Do you care what the worms in your back yard are doing? NO! You will continue to do whatever it is you normally do and let them do their thing. You will eat the same foods, giving the bacteria the nutrition they need, and you will cut the grass from time to time giving the worms what they need to survive. Your actions do not change based on what these lower level life forms do.

God is the same way. God (neither He nor She) has set up the Universe so that each individual can get whatever they want if they will but use the resources available. One of these resources is the supply of Universal Power that supports and sustains the Universe and all Life.

If you are alive, then you have access to this Power. In the Christian Bible, there are many references to the availability of this Power. Christ Himself taught that as long as you believe that you will receive what you ask for in prayer, that you will indeed receive it! His great example of prayer (The Lord’s Prayer) does not ask for anything. It commands! “Give us this day…”, not “Could I please have….”. The example is missed by most, who continue to ask, beg, and go without.

God has created you in such a way that you can supply your own needs! All you have to do is tap into the Universal Power and command what you want to come into being!

Of course, this theory is all well and good, but the real question is exactly how do you go about doing this? It’s simple really, although not necessarily easy. The first step is to make contact with this great supply of Power.

This first step is the one that most people will have the hardest time with. I generally spend several sessions with my students working on various aspects of this, to insure that they can reliably make this contact any time they want. Here, I can only cover the basics.

At it’s simplest level, making contact with the spiritual source of Power is about having the intention to do so. Your inner mind handles the intricate details of managing your connection to the spiritual realities. You have to communicate to your inner mind that you want to open the gates to spiritual Power and you want access to that Power now.

You can communicate this intention in several ways. You can affirm “I am opening up my connection to spiritual Power, and this Power fills my being with great intensity!” This is a time-honored method which has been used very effectively. Another approach is to imagine going into the deepest recesses of your being and opening the gateway and releasing Power for your use. A third option is to imagine yourself going into an imaginary workroom/temple/holy place, and using imaginary tools to make contact with this Power. If you use this third option, you have to believe that what you are imagining will be echoed in reality. Faith is the foundation of all spiritual activities, including making contact with Spirit itself.

You will know when you make contact with spiritual Power. Different people sense the presence of Power in different ways. Most will feel heat, or pressure, or will perceive a greater luminance. Some will feel a sense of cold, or a light airiness around them.

When you make contact, then you are ready for the second step, which is to affirm what you are asking for as though it were already true. You will usually want to create your affirmative prayer before you start, however. We mentioned one example at the beginning of this article, dealing with money. Another example, to create an ideal relationship, could be: “I am in love with a wonderful partner, who loves me dearly. We spend many happy hours together sharing interests, hobbies, and just enjoying each other’s company. This is an ideal relationship, I am completely happy with my partner, and my partner is completely happy with me. Neither of us wants to change the other.”

Whatever you want out of life, you can have. Do whatever you can on the physical level to bring it about, and add the assistance of the spiritual level with affirmative prayers. God Bless You.

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Are you motivated each day when you wake up in the morning? Do you spring out of bed eager to engage your daily tasks with enthusiasm and vigor?

If not you don’t have to experience a lack in motivation when it comes facing situations in your life. You gain the motivation that you need to get things done.

No longer do you have to trudge through life feeling defeated, tired and frustrated.

There are several techniques that you can use to garner the drive that you need in order to get the things that you want.

Getting and staying motivated will help you enjoy life to a greater degree than you ever imagined possible.

Two Keys to Staying Motivated

Energy is one of the main components to motivation. In order to get things done maintain high reserves of energy. The more energy you have the more you will be able to do.

You will find that if you can get going and keep going you’ll start to gain momentum. When you get momentum even difficult task become easier to deal with because you’ll find that you are on a roll.

Maintain a well balanced diet, exercise regularly and get plenty of rest. This will help you build a high energy level.

The other key part of motivation is memory. Use your memory to recall past successes.

This exercise will do wonders for your confidence and your ability to bounce back after disappointments. Rather than dwelling on failures, simply replay your past victories over and over again in your mind.

Thinking about past successe

Motivational Affirmations Help You Stay On Track

On some days it is hard to get out of bed much less tackle a set of goals that you are aiming for. At times like these you need to have good self talk.

That is where positive affirmations come in. Affirmations can motivate you when you are feeling the worst.

Positive affirmations are simply statements used in the present tense affirming that what you want is already yours.

Some good examples are:

•    I am wealthy and I make great decisions which make me richer.

•    I am a winner and I enjoy hitting my goals.

If you have statements which fire you up when you say them then you can pick yourself up at any time of the day regardless of what is happening.

If you say to yourself, “I am so happy to be in process of accomplishing my dream of owning a brand new convertible sports car” while you are working overtime to save up the down payment for it you will be motivated.

Use motivational affirmations all throughout the day, but use them especially when you are in difficult circumstances. That way you’ll be able to stay up and preserver as you press towards your goals.

You can also use motivational affirmations for those days when you simply want to stay in bed with the covers over your head.

Search for motivational affirmations that speak to you. Whether you write them yourself or use others that have already been created, find statements that touch your life. Think about your goals that make you want to be a better person, and then turn these thoughts into positive statements.

The secret to staying motivated is keep yourself in the best mental and physical condition. Do this by maintaining a high energy level and using positive affirmations.

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An affirmation is a statement or concept of belief. Affirmations are synonymous with everything we say and think. We are constantly affirming to ourselves through our subconscious thoughts, which are sometimes called mind chatter, mind-scripts, or self-talk.

This subconscious stream of affirmations is vitally important to our life results because they create a foundation on which our conscious actions are built.

Many times our self-talk is the result of experiences from our childhood. Our thought patterns usually reflect self-impressions that we created long ago, as children. They can be positive and work in our favor, or they can be negative and cause huge problems in our lives. Positive affirmations are a way to let go of outdated attitudes and feelings about oneself.

A powerful way to sculpt our self-talk is to create beneficial affirmations and review them on a consistent basis. These positive affirmations are short statements meant to override and replace any negative beliefs held by the subconscious mind.

Using positive affirmations is a conscious effort to stay focused on goals. They remind us to target our thoughts and words on what serves us best. Positive affirmations are a type of prophecy that when imagined with true belief and passion can come true.

When our conscious mind believes our positive affirmations, it feeds them to the subconscious mind. The subconscious may easily consume the belief, or it may reject the belief. Daily repetition of positive affirmations is the most effective way to overcome resistance and rea

Once you have firmly established a positive belief in your subconscious self-talk, it can begin to manifest great changes in your conscious reality. The faster you are able to embrace change and alter your beliefs, the faster positive affirmations can work to make tangible improvements in your life.

The format for positive affirmations is very important. They are best constructed as if the desired result has already occurred. For example, “I enjoy sharing my wealth with others”, or “I have boundless energy to exercise each day”. This format enables the mind to begin thinking like a person who has already accomplished those results.

Positive affirmations can be super-charged when accompanied with high levels of emotion and passion. A way to evoke powerful feelings is to involve as many of the senses as possible. Using a program that automatically incorporates images and audio with your affirmations leverages the benefits of the experience.

An image or visual representation that accompanies each of your affirmations sends a strong message to the subconscious about what is truly desired. And using audio that incorporates brainwave entrainment technology puts the mind in the best possible state to receive and hold those messages permanently.

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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 wash 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 intent 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, and magazines and so on. Sometimes in a positive, but very often in a negative way. No wonder we limit ourse

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 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, these affirmations help you to reach the ‘goal’ you have set for yourself and open doors for you that would otherwise 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 an 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!

Another powerful way to manifest your goals is by visualizing them. By looking at a picture of your goal or dream daily with a strong desire, you will start attracting them in your life.

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Affirmation Basics – Part I – Before You Affirm, Deny!

“The Secret” did much to raise public awareness about the Law of Attraction. One of the simplest ways to express this Law is like attracts like. Its attractive power works in all realms: physical, mental, spiritual.

In the physical world, every thing produces after its own kind: Apple seeds produce apples. In turn, the apples produced contain seeds that, when planted, create more apples. The same is true on the mental level where thinking and feeling take place. Prosperous thought seeds produce prosperous thoughts. In turn, the prosperous thoughts produced contain seeds that, when planted, create more prosperous thoughts. This activity is the Law of Attraction in action.

On a personal level, if you have ever felt a rush of emotion – good or bad – then, you have experienced the Law of Attraction in action. When you feel good, your mind goes on the hunt for other things to feel good about. And, the more strongly you feel a positive emotion, the more fervently your mind searches to find other positive feelings. The same is true of feeling bad. When you feel bad, your mind goes on the hunt for other things to feel bad about.

Why should this matter to you?

It should matter because your thoughts and feelings build your world. The better your thoughts and feelings, the better your world. Happy, joyous, prosperous thoughts and feelings will create a world for you that stands in stark contrast to one built on sad, depressing, downtrodden thoughts an

Here is some exciting news! You control the direction that the Law of Attraction takes in your experience. Just as you have control over whether you plant apple or turnip seeds, you have control over whether you plant prosperous or impoverished thought seeds. As the only thinker in your experience, you decide the type of crop that will be harvested.

So, what do affirmations have to do with any of this?

Quite simply, affirmations are a tool for building your mind. An affirmation is a positive statement of Truth. Its purpose is to establish in your mind a broad understanding of the divine principles on which all life and existence depend.

Living on purpose is the act of deliberately choosing the thought seeds you plant. Affirmations are positive thought seeds that direct the mind to think positively and to create positive experiences for you.

In actuality, you use affirmations all the time, whether you are conscious of this behavior or not. Every thought contains within it a new thought seed. Right now, those thought seeds are charting a course for your future. Your today is the harvest from the thoughts and feelings you planted previously. And, your tomorrow will be the harvest of the thoughts and feelings you plant today.

Your future shines so brightly! Can you see the good that awaits you?! Anything good is possible for you!

Here is the point where most people get off track. And, it is the point that “The Secret” overlooked. There is an essential step you must take before you use any affirmation. Affirmations are only one tool for creating a positive, prosperous mindset. But, they have a companion tool that controls their proper functioning. That companion tool is called denials.

Before you affirm what you do want, you must deny what you do not want. Denials erase, cleanse and release from your mind the beliefs, thoughts and concepts that stand in the way of the life you want to have.

Before the farmer plants any crop, he must turn the soil and make sure it is fertile. This is the work of denials. They turn the soil of your mind so that you have fertile ground in which to plant positive affirmations. So, before you affirm, you must first deny.

The next installment of Affirmation Basics digs in to this essential tool for creating a mind receptive to positive affirmations.

Spiritual practitioner, educator, storyteller and expert author Denise Allen is the curator/author of the bestselling “The Money Poems,” an extraordinary set of lyrical instructions that were simply created to put anyone who recites them on a path to financial freedom. For more information on Denise Allen or The Money Poems, please visit www.themoneypoems.com. This article may be reprinted provided the author’s name and URL are included and no changes are made to the text.

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The Law Of Attraction And Weight Loss: Can You Think Yourself Thin?

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS

www.burnthefat.com

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Metaphysics & Brain science merge and prove that positive thinking and goal setting literally create your body and your entire life experience

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On recently broadcast special edition of CNN’s Larry King Live, Mr. King interviewed a panel of “mind experts” about how the thoughts you think literally turn into the events you experience, the material things you possess… AND even the health of your body.

For years, “positive thinking” and goal-setting were often criticized as “pollyanna” and “the law of attraction” was relegated into the category of “new age” fluff.

On the recent Larry King show, panel experts Bob Proctor, John Assaraf and others who were featured in the movie ‘The Secret’ explained that recent breakthroughs in neuroscience along with understanding mental laws, reveal why goal setting, the “law of attraction” and “positive thinking” all work, regardless of whether you look at them from a metaphysical or a scientific perspective.

Scientists have even identified specific parts of the brain, such as the reticular activatin

The RAS is activated by “programming” goals into our sub-conscious minds. Our sub concscious mind is the “power center” and THIS is the mechanism that explains why goal setting and positive thinking are now being accepted as scientific methods for change.

We are discovering that our brain is cybernetic in nature, which means that it is literally like a computer, waiting for a program to be installed.

Here’s the kicker – the subconcsious is completely neutral and impartial – it will carry out any instructions you give it.

Unfortunately, many of us are still running negative programs we picked up from others as children when our non-conscious minds were totally open and impressionable, or which we developed over the years as a result of repetition of our own negative thinking.

As it turns out, our own thoughts, repeated daily, are one of the primary ways that our “mental computer” is programmed on a sub-conscious level, which is the level of beliefs, habits and automatic behavior.

To change your results, you must overwrite old negative programming and install positive new programming into your subconscious.

This can be achived through such techniques as written goal setting, positive self-talk (affirmations), and mental imagery (visualization).

In the 1970′s, the Soviets and East Germans were the first to formally use structured mental rehearsal, and at that time, they dominated in several olympic sports. This was reported in great detail in Charles Garfield’s landmark book, “Peak Performance.” Today, virtually all elite athletes use visualization extensively, as we now know that the brain cannot differentiate between real practice and practice that is vividly imagined.

If you are getting more of the same negative results in your life – such as the same health problems, or the same body fat continues to return even after you lose it, then you have probably been un-consciously running old negative programs and re-inforcing them with negative thought patterns.

You can begin the positive mental reprogramming process by writing down your goals, changing your internal dialogue and taking a few minutes to relax, quiet your mind and perform a session of visualization or mental rehearsal every day (seeing yourself in your “mind’s eye” not as you currently are, but as you ideally would like to be).

These methods, repeated often enough, will begin to program the non- conscious portion of the mind, which is the same part of the mind that controls your heart beat, digestion and new cell production, all on “automatic pilot.”

In the last decade, neuroscientists discovered that you have the capacity to create an almost infinite number of new neural connections in your brain when you run new thought patterns.

The Old neural pathways are like grooves in a record, and if you are struggling with your health related behaviors or behaviors in any other area of your life, you have been playing the “old records” over and over again.

If you were to carve a new groove into that record, it would never play the same way again. the old pattern would weaken and the new one would take over. Brand new, positive thoughts, feelings and images begin to create new neural patterns.

Psychologists estimate that it takes 21 to 30 days to establish a new pattern in your brain. During this time, the focus on sticking with your practice and repeating your new thought patterns is critical.

Is this easy? For most people, no it’s not. In fact, controlling your thinking and keeping it constructive may be one of the most difficult challenges you have ever faced. Fortunately, writing goals and reading affirmations can help get you started.

You can take some of the pressure off yourself by simply accepting that negative thoughts and self criticisms will pop up from time to time. Just observe them, without mulling over them or adding to them, and change the polarity of the thought by quickly repeating one of your positive affirmations or by changing your mental pictures.

So is there something to this whole “positive thinking” thing?

The philosophers and theologians have been saying yes for the entire span of recorded history: “As you think, so shall you be.” Variations on this proverb can be found in every spiritual and philosophical tradition.

But… if you are the left-brained, “prove-it-to-me” type, you dont have to go on faith anymore. Scientists are beginning to prove more and more convincingly that thoughts are powerful things. Even Larry King seemed impressed with what his panel of “mind mentors” had to say.

So how soon are you going to begin your mental training right alongside your physical training? When are you going to learn how to harness this power locked up inside your mind?

Guess what? You’re already using this force every day because you cannot turn it off. Whatever you are thinking and picturing in your mind repeatedly on a daily basis is already on it’s way to you, so it’s simply a matter of HOW you are using it, not IF you are using it.

What do you say to yourself every day? Do you say, “I am becoming leaner, healthier and more muscular every day?”… or do you say “I am a fat person – Ive tried everything, nothing ever works?”

The fact is – you can think yourself thin and healthy or you can think yourself obese and ill. Maybe not in the literal sense…but most certainly as the critical part in the chain of causation…

You see, there’s a lot of talk these days in the personal improvement world about law of attraction, manifesting, intention, visualization, affirmations and of course, positive thinking.

Without understanding that there is an orderly, scientific basis underneath all of these things, many people will simply remain skeptics, while on the opposite extreme, others may get the idea that you can sit around meditating and visualizing, then expect a mystical “law of attraction” to kick in and then “poof!” a great body materializes out of thin air… along with the perfect relationship, a nice bank account and fantastic career success.

What really happens is “Positive thinking” and related methods quite literally re-program your brain, which in turn creates new behaviors that move you physically toward whatever you have been thinking about and focusing on.

So success is achieved through positive thinking + positive doing…. attraction + action. There are two sides to the coin. Without paying attention to both, you may continue to struggle… often against nothing but yourself.

If you want to transform your body or any other aspect of your life, then you have to change on the inside (the mind) first and then everything else will follow.

This process of *scientific* goal setting and mental reconditioning through emotionally charged mental imagery (visualization) and internal mental dialogue (affirmations) is the very first thing I have always taught my clients and the first thing I wrote about in my book, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle You can learn all of these techniques in detail in chapter 1. Learn more about the psychology of body transormation inside the Burn The Fat ebook:

www.burnthefat.com

About the Author:

Tom Venuto is a natural bodybuilder and author of the #1 best selling e-book, “Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle,” which teaches you how to burn fat without drugs or supplements using the little-known secrets of the world’s best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and turbo-charge your metabolism by visiting: www.burnthefat.com.

Retired from the computer industry, loving every minute of my online market experience, live in Brazil teaching English on the side. http://www.marketadssuccess.com

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Affirmations are a simple and effective way to influence your subconscious mind. It is quite easy for you to search the Internet to find tones of free affirmations in various categories. I have also written another article on how you can write your own affirmations. But this one is going to focus on ways to increase their power!

Remember that it is always better to stick to a certain group of affirmations for a while, since we absorb them faster this way. Also, you should feel the desired result taking place already.

Written below are 7 different way to make your free affirmations more powerful…

1. You should get into a relaxed state of mind. When this happens, our conscious minds are less intrusive, thus leaving our subconscious minds wide open. You should use this to your advantage.

2. Repeat them while looking at yourself in the mirror.

3. We all tend to remember rhymes and tunes more easily. So choose your affirmations and just get a bit creative.

4. The times just before sleeping and after waking up are great for influencing the subconscious. So make sure you use them at these times.

5. If you are in a place where it would not be appropriate for you to use them out loud. You can just repeat it to yourself mentally. It helps if you imagine it getting louder and louder.

6. Write them down. This has much more power than just verbally repeating it. I would suggest that you write each one at least 10 times daily or so. Of course, the more you do it the better.

7. Write them down on pieces of pape

You are probably wondering how long it will take you to see changes in yourself, right? Well, it is scientifically proven that it takes 21 days for one person to change form one habit to another. So don’t lose heart, just keep doing it for a while. Remember, you have an infinite number of free affirmations from which you can choose from!

Andrew Stone is extremely passionate and well-informed in the field of Mind Power. You may wish to visit his website if you want to use the power of the subconscious mind…

http://www.UnleashMyPower.com

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