Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Live for the Moment and Put Worry on Hold - Part 2

For once, I am going to endorse procrastination. When it comes to worrying, you should put it off. Do everything you like to avoid worrying. Worries don't help us; and in fact, they make many bad situations worse. On top of that, most of what we worry about never comes to pass.

On the other hand, putting off tasks that will help us advance, right now, is an epidemic. There is a health maintenance disaster on the horizon when most of the western world does not want to engage in exercise. Therefore, the habit of procrastination should be purged as soon as possible.

Here are a few things that will help you "stay on track" toward your goals, live for the moment, and leave most of your worries behind.

You should design a specific and detailed plan, of our future. Your plan should have an exact step-by-step formula with time lines. Cover every possible detail and research it.

Your written goals should be reviewed daily. This is a healthy process, and people who write goals down have a much better chance at success. Don't talk, or think, in terms of "some day."

Meditate and visualize yourself attaining success. Take the time to quiet your mind and focus on your dreams. You should do this every day to keep your vision alive. You could do this in the morning, or the evening, when you can make time for yourself.

You should exercise regularly to increase endorphins and rid your body of toxins. This will change your entire mindset for the best. If you are new to exercise, walking is the best place to start. Walking alone is a great program for overall health.

Drinking water, and getting a massage, are two more ways to flush toxins from your body. Getting a massage is truly living in the moment and gives you an appreciation for the finer things in life. Massage could also be a form of bonding with your "significant other."

Learn to laugh, watch a comedy, and lighten your spirits. Some of us take ourselves far too seriously. In order to live for the moment, we all have to put serious feelings aside and learn to enjoy life.

Posture is important while sitting, standing, walking, eating, or anything else. A slouched body posture is bad for all forms of health. Always sit up, or stand up, straight whenever you think about it. Poor posture is usually a reflection of poor self-esteem, so get rid of a slumping posture right now. Make changes to your goal setting plans when you have to. Nothing is "carved in stone," and if you see a collision course with disaster, make an adjustment as soon as you can.

You may not be able to implement all of these changes at once. That's not a problem; but if you add them to your lifestyle gradually, you will enjoy your life and leave your worries behind.

? Copyright 2005 - Paul Jerard / Aura Publications

Paul Jerard is the director of Yoga teacher training at Aura in RI. He's a master instructor of martial arts and Yoga. He teaches Yoga, martial arts, and fitness. He wrote: Is Running a Yoga Business Right for You? For Yoga students wanting to be a Yoga teacher. http://www.yoga-teacher-training.org

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Monday, August 3, 2009

Master Three Ways to Live Life to Its Fullest!

All of us tend to take life a little too seriously. Do you see the proverbial glass as half empty or half full? Living life to its fullest means always seeing that glass as half full. Whether you think it is good, bad, or ugly, you are experiencing life. You can choose the way you react to the things you experience in life. There are three ways to live life to its fullest: laugh at life, wait to worry, and practice forgiveness.



#1 — Laugh at life.



Things happen that you cannot manage, manipulate, predict, or prevent. That’s just life. However, of the things you can control, one of them has the ability to positively impact every area of your life, including the hard times. It’s your ability to laugh! Laughing is not a personality trait. Instead, it is something we do purposefully, looking for things to laugh at.



The French have a great adage: “The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.” I like that and try to make each day count. One of my most constant sources of laughter is laughing at myself. Whoever said that if you learn to laugh at yourself, you’ll always have something to laugh about, was absolutely correct.



If I take myself too seriously, then I begin to think more and more about the negative situations around me. From that vantage point, discouragement, lack of faith, hopelessness, and bitterness can seep into my life. Instead, laughter enables me to maintain a healthy perspective. Why not laugh? There’s always a reason to laugh. There’s probably also a reason not to laugh, but you have to choose which one you want to do. Here are five reasons why cultivating the habit of daily laughing is beneficial. Laughter is…



1. Better than tears.

2. Good for you.

3. Powerful.

4. Fun to be around.

5. A good teacher.



#2 — Wait to worry.



More damage is done by worrying than by what is being worried about. This is because over 90% of all worries never come to pass. Worrying is neither normal nor necessary. Over the years I have made it a deliberate point not to worry. If something happens at work or home that would constitute a worry, I have learned to address the potential worry and say, “I’m going to wait to worry.” Then when I objectively and realistically address the issue, the obvious need for worry goes away.



How can you win over worry? Entire books have been written on this subject, but I have found that regardless of the great information on this or any topic, people will continue to do what they choose to do. The only way for them to bring about change is to willfully change their way of thinking. Living with a positive attitude and without worry is a great way to live. I don’t expect something bad to happen, but if it does, I deal with it and get on with life. Make the decision for yourself to live worry-free. It is not only possible, but it is very enjoyable.



#3 — Practice forgiveness.



Forgiveness is an incredible thing, especially when we’re the one being forgiven for wrongs we have committed. It not only feels great to be forgiven, but it feels just as great to forgive others who have wronged us. To me, forgiving others is like being given a reprieve from an impossible task. It takes time and practice to develop an “I will forgive you regardless of what you do to me” mentality, but the rewards are immeasurable.



Despite the heavy price that forgiveness carries with it, the price of un-forgiveness is far greater. People who never forgive have effectively been held captive, stuck in a jail they made for themselves. Their emotions, creativity, joy, peace, hope, dreams, etc. have been minimized by their unwillingness to forgive. Choosing to forgive or not forgive will always be our choice, but for me, it’s always been one of those “no-brainer” choices. Forgiveness is first a choice and then an action. Forgiveness is freedom. Forgiveness requires guts, determination, courage, and a whole lot of love.



Wouldn’t you rather be remembered for someone who lived life to its fullest than someone who was negative, bitter, or unforgiving? There’s an old saying that if you want to know what people will say about you when you are gone, write your own epitaph now and then live that way. Here are a few of my favorites. He … loved God first, loved his family and extended family, was an encourager, a giver; he always had a positive attitude, and he kept his word.



Remember, we don’t always get a second chance. I want to make the most of everyday, because tomorrow there is no guarantee. Carpe diem — seize the day — to start living life to its fullest! Learn to laugh at life, wait to worry, and practice forgiveness.


Paul J. Meyer is a New York Times best-selling author, successful entrepreneur, and a millionaire many times over. His life-long passion is helping people develop their full potential in business and leadership through tried and true methods of achieving success. Visit http://www.pauljmeyer.com/ for more resources.

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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Living Your Greatness

I think our biggest fear is living up to our potential. We are afraid of our greatness. We are afraid to venture beyond the norm, the expected, the usual. We are afraid to be different, to stand out, to be the unique beings we really are. So we fall into the trench of common, ordinary, and routine. Yes, a trench. A hole in the ground. Dug in times of war for protection. Dug in our consciousness to hide our true selves.

To claim our greatness, we go up against a very powerful force: race thought, collective unconscious. Race thought teaches us to fit in, to be ordinary, to not break the mold, to belittle ourselves, to deny ourselves of our desires, deny our potential, deny our expression of our talents, to not dream big or do big. Who do you think you are, anyway? You can't do that. You can't be that. You are the little guy.

We not only hear that from the outside world. We buy into it. We start telling ourselves that. As don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements) would say: we agree to that. That is our hand-shake deal with the world.

But you know what happens when we make that deal? We become frustrated, bored, depressed, hopeless, lifeless, angry -- with ourselves and the world. When we turn those feelings inward, we become mentally or physically ill or unbalanced. When we turn those feelings outward, we become violent and destructive.

We are living inauthentically. And our Spirit knows it. Why else would you be frustrated or violent? We keep pushing down our greatness. For that is our authentic selves. We were born of greatness and must express our unique greatness. It is hardwired into us.

I'm not talking about human egotism. The most egotistical people are also the ones with the highest levels of feeling worthless. They need outer bravado to make up for inner feelings of inferiority. True greatness is humble. True greatness knows where that greatness comes from ("It is the Father within that doeth the work"). Human ego is a poor substitute for Spiritual greatness, but that is what ego attempts to be.

When we force outer behavior to make up for the lack of inner power and peace, we get into trouble.

Peace will not be seen on this planet until we accept and live by our greatness and accept the equal greatness of others. Every human conflict stems from feeling powerless enough to lash out; from building up an ego to feel superior when in the midst of the deepest inferiority complex.

We are born of the image and likeness of God's Greatness. The world gains little from our self-imposed smallness. It gains much when we allow our greatness to shine. Think Big. Do great things. Move beyond your comfort zone. You can handle it. Crawl your way out of that trench. You can do it because of the Spirit within you. Celebrate your uniqueness. Don't pretend to be like everyone else. We know you are not.

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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Change Your Life For The Better With Mental Fitness Training!

MENTAL FITNESS TRAINING BOOSTS YOUR MENTAL POWER TO MAKE YOU SMARTER AND BETTER AT EVERYTHING YOU DO!

What is Mental Fitness Training?

Mental fitness training is a dynamic brain exercise approach that converts your mental functions – such as your senses, your ability to think, your emotions, and your attention – into mental workout tools that reshape your physical brain to give you more mental power. Because the human brain behaves in many aspects like physical muscle, dynamic mental fitness routines serve to sculpt your brain into the necessary shape to do more than it ever could before. For you, that means far better personal performance, endurance, flexibility, and creativity in anything you set your mind to accomplish.

Training your brain with dynamic mental fitness exercise stratagems (as opposed to static, such as with schoolwork) rewires hundreds of millions of neurons over time, allowing you to determine in advance the specific behaviors, thought patterns, and positive emotional tendencies that best support your long-term goals, and lay down the mental tracks necessary to move you forward at best speed.

What Can Mental Fitness Training Do For Me?

Whether you are a business owner, professional, student, senior citizen, athlete, or serving in the military, mental fitness training can put you on the fast track to your goals while it enables a better ‘you’ overall. Lots of people want to enjoy self-discipline, get better grades, be more creative, have top evaluations for career advancement, lose bad habits, earn lots of money, live with deeper joy, act congruently with spiritual beliefs, or become the kind of person who easily attracts better relationships. The problem is most people don’t possess a mind that’s potent enough to make it happen in all areas consistently – and that’s if they’re able to get even one or two things they’re looking for in life! Then there are those of us who are blessed in one area but suffer in others to where we’re just not satisfied. All of this has at its root a fundamental obstacle, which is the mind is the source of your life experience. To get a better life experience, you have to go to the source! Dynamic mental fitness training takes you there and puts you in charge.

By making mental fitness into a personal lifestyle the way you would any healthy habit, you will enjoy astonishing benefits that can positively impact all areas. Rapidly expanding cognitive control skills that come from dynamic brain training gives you finely-tuned command over what you think, what you feel, and even how you behave in any situation. When you have ultimate command over your thoughts, emotions, and actions, you can set your life goals with confidence, knowing that you will move forward a straight line to achieve them without being pulled off course by distracted thinking, negative feelings, or self-sabotaging behaviors. The biggest thing that differentiates dynamic brain training from others is that it physically prepares your mind to help you get more from life! Just imagine for a moment what it would be like for you to get what you want without struggling so much, simply by taking a little time each day to enjoy time with yourself.

Why Dynamic Mental Fitness Training Approaches Are Better Than Game-Based Puzzles

Mental Fitness Training is a dynamic brain training approach far superior to limited brain training methods that typically force you to waste your time playing with puzzles and brain teasers. Rather than blowing hour after hour on crosswords and word searches, dynamically designed mental fitness routines use your brain’s own functions as the gymnasium for building a stronger mental physique. The best game-based training software can do for you is hopefully make you gradually better at playing games before you get bored and quit, a process that accesses your ‘Crystallized’ intelligence similar to how practicing a specific golf stroke increases your proficiency with the swing itself, without enhancing your daily life in any measurable way.

Even the Washington Post in August 2008 warned against throwing money away on game-based tactics because of glaring industry controversies surrounding pseudo-scientific research studies used by companies to market ‘brain-game’ products. Many of these have recently come under heavy fire from members of the Neuroscience community interested in protecting the integrity of their profession. Current press releases detail several false claims by game makers like those by one Japanese Professor behind Nintendo’s brain game misleading consumers into believing such games are a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. The facts are that while a minority of the games may have some entertainment value, the lion’s share of their worth exists mostly in the consumer’s becoming more efficient at playing that particular type of game. Because many people purchase brain training for the express purpose of having more mental and personal power, the best choice is some form of dynamic mental fitness training.

Dynamic mental fitness brain training methods directly access and enhance the ‘Executive Function’ of your brain, which is the center of your personal identity as well as your unique ability to plan for the future, execute your goals, control your thoughts, manage your emotions, and conduct your behavior so that you can have the best life experience. That way, you steadily improve your ‘Fluid Intelligence’ which gives you better problem-solving ability, creative insight, and confidence in handling complex situations with greater confidence, especially as you grow older. Because dynamic mental fitness approaches require you to exert your Executive Function just like you would use your muscles at the gym, they result in drastic improvements of the very ‘muscles’ that make up Executive Function: Mental Concentration, Mental Focus, and Willpower.

Mental Concentration

Mental Concentration is the first brain function trained to give you increased power, endurance, and flexibility of mind. Concentration serves as a working muscle that you exert like any other. The more you train it, the stronger it becomes, and the stronger YOU become, mentally. You can eradicate mental weakness with just this skill alone, making your mind tough and resilient as your thinking grows clear and precise with deeper creativity and intelligence. Bolstering your ability to concentrate your mind makes it a razor-sharp instrument that cuts through distraction like a white-hot laser beam through butter. With newly acquired mental concentration skills, you naturally, easily collect your previously disbursed attention to aim it only at the things that matter. When the full force of your concentration is aimed onto a single target, it is like a diamond-tipped drill backed by heavy-duty equipment, because nothing can withstand its penetration.

Dynamic mental fitness training puts your concentration muscle to work by applying the weights of your other mental functions to forge a sculpted mental physique. As an example, you are trained to concentrate on your thoughts so that you can manage them, but you are also trained to take one single thought and hold it long enough to blow past prior endurance limits, because every baseline limit you surpass equates to significant mental growth, self-confidence, and intellectual competence to handle life circumstances. Concentration gives you power over thought, and THAT gives you more than enough mental power to surpass nearly everyone you know.

Mental Focus

When your mental concentration is sufficiently developed, you will then have the mental aptitude you need to develop a clear, irresistible long-term vision for your life, love, and happiness. As you learn to control what you think, how you feel, and the way you act, you can establish a course in mind with utmost clarity and faith that you will always have the power and skill to think just the right thought and take the right actions to make your vision happen over time. Dynamic mental focus training teaches you to take these mental concentration skills and push them to tap into the deepest levels of your creativity, intuition, and certainty so that when the time comes for you to decide what you want to be, what you want to do, and what you want to have in your life, those detailed thoughts stay with you at all times, displacing all other thoughts that would otherwise take you off course or prevent you from getting on course in the first place. With clear thinking, unshakable belief in yourself, and the determination to follow through no matter what, there is nothing that can keep you from the success you deserve!

Willpower

Having trained yourself in dynamic mental concentration and focus, you’ll have many opportunities and situations that require you to dig way down for more energy, more resolve, and greater Willpower to carry through on the promises you make to yourself and others. That vast, endless reservoir of personal power is yours when you master the simple discipline of Willpower. Here, you’ll learn to cast off all influences inside and outside yourself that either conflict or have nothing do with the visions you create for your life. Even better, you’ll learn what it means live a thoroughly unique, independent life free from emotional turmoil and negativity. All these talents you master without having to strain or struggle or control others. Instead, you are trained to see that they are simply talents that have existed inside you all along.

So, you now know why training your brain through dynamic mental fitness approaches can deliver the life you want into your lap. You also know why it’s superior to the limited game-based methods. Plus, you understand why it’s so effective in helping you become a better human being so that you can make a unique contribution to yourself and those around you.

"The single, most fundamental, underlying reason why you haven't experienced the success in life that you want is because you lack the very simply learned skills of Dynamic Mental Concentration, Focus and Willpower."
--T. Lavon Lawrence


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