5 Part Mini Course on Visualization

5 Part Mini Course on Visualization - Lesson #1

The biggest blocker to achieve your goals and earn more money has to do with unconscious programming. It's because your consciousmind is saying one thing (words or a written goal) and your unconscious mind (emotions) are doing another.

Thoughts are the starting point of all your results. One of the most powerful ways that I have found to rewire unconscious programming is by visualization, if it's done effectively.

The problem is that many people don't know how to visualize effectively. They make these minor mistakes that have a big impact on their results.

I know this 5 part series will help clear all of this up for you.

In this lesson I'll cover the 1st of five pillars to help you become a more powerful thought creator with visualization.

 

5 Pillars to Visualization

These five pillars to visualization are like the legs of a
table. In order to set a solid foundation for the table
you need to have all legs working together. If any one
of these legs is missing, the table looses it's stability.

Therefore, decide now that you will commit to apply
and practice all five pillars to eliminate unconscious
programming and create new results.

... and most importantly, have some fun too!

Here is pillar #1.

Pillar #1: Consistency

Get into the habit of visualizing daily. This practice will
help you plant seeds of thought. These seeds will grow
into massive trees and bare the fruits of opportunity.

Consider this analogy. Let's say your deep within the
Amazon, in dense jungle. As you make your way
through the jungle for the first time, there is a lot of
resistance from vines and plants. It can be very
difficult in the beginning.

The next time you walk through the same path, it gets
easier to walk. With each pass through the jungle there
is less resistance than the time before. It gets easier
and the path through the jungle begins to widen.

How to Create Neural Highways of Thought

The same holds true with your mind. Each time you
visualize you're creating new neural pathways of
thought. At first you may only create very thin neural
strands, but with time and consistency these strands
will grow into pathways and then highways of thought.

It's these highways of thought that become your
new unconscious ways of thinking. When you're
effectively visualizing, you're giving your unconscious
mind instructions and new ways of thinking that align
with your goals.

It's these neural highways that channel your most
dominant thought patterns. The more energy and
consistency you give to these new ways of thinking,
the stronger the neural strand becomes.

Repetition is the game. If you repeat a phrase,
picture or feeling to yourself enough times, you'll
start to believe it - regardless if you do now or not.

The more times you bring up these new images on the
screen of your mind, the easier it gets. Be consistent and
visualize for at least five minutes every day.

Does it have to be everyday? 

Well, think of the jungle analogy again. If you stop
walking that path in the jungle for even one day, what
happens?

The vines, plants and trees start to grow back and
narrow the pathway, which draws back on your
previous efforts.

Even with visualization, it's important to be consistent
and visualize everyday to firmly plant new instructions
into your unconscious mind.

Watch this space, Pillar #2 is coming up soon

This lesson was taken from Freedom Coaching by Stephen Martile.

For more information visit:

http://www.freedomeducation.ca/coaching/

"When you visualize then you materialize." - Dr. Denis Waitley

Carrots, Eggs and Coffee Beans

This is tale I read at Binki's Blog.  Its such a magical tale, that I decided to repost it here.  For the original post, click here.
Thank you Binki.  This story warmed my heart, and highlighted core values we need to treasure.

The Tale of the Carrots, Eggs and Coffee Beans

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed that as one problem was solved a new one arose.

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water. In the first, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs and the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.



Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied. She brought her closer and
asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they got soft. She then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, she asked her to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled, as she tasted its rich aroma.

The daughter then asked. "What's the point, mother?" Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity--boiling water--but each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard and unrelenting. However after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior. But, after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water they had changed the water.

"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?"

Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but
with pain and adversity, do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?

Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with
the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a break-up, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and a hardened heart?

Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it
releases the fragrance and flavour. If you are like the bean, when things
are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hours are the darkest and trials are their greatest do you elevate to
another level?

How do you handle Adversity? ARE YOU A CARROT, AN EGG, OR A COFFEE BEAN?

Don't tell GOD how big your storm is. Tell the storm how big your GOD is!

i love this! i want to be seen as the coffee bean (smiling)

Blessings and love always binki x

Inspiration from the Heart

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged -  Dale Carnegie

Quotes to Inspire

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. - John Stuart Mill

The secret of success is constancy of purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli

Quotes to Inspire

He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. - Confucius

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. - William Penn

Quotes to inspire

The world is but a canvas to the imagination

- Henry David Thoreau

Four Steps to A Super Attitude

By: Brian Tracy

Decide How to React
It is not what happens to you that counts. It is how you react to what happens to you, especially when you have unexpected problems of any kind.

In this newsletter, you learn powerful strategies you can use to keep yourself thinking and acting positively and creatively.

Here are four things you can do to assure that your attitude is the very best it can be, under all circumstances.

Focus On the Future
First, whatever challenges you face, focus on the future rather than on the past. Instead of worrying about who did what and who is to blame, focus on where you want to be and what you want to do. Get a clear mental image of your ideal successful future, and then take whatever action you can to begin moving in that direction. Get your mind, your thoughts, and your mental images on the future.

Think About the Solution
Second, whenever you're faced with a difficulty, focus on the solution rather than on the problem. Think and talk about the ideal solution to the obstacle or setback, rather than wasting time rehashing and reflecting on the problem. Solutions are inherently positive, whereas problems are inherently negative. The instant that you begin thinking in terms of solutions, you become a positive and constructive human being.

Look For the Good
Third, assume that something good is hidden within each difficulty or challenge. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a major proponent of positive thinking, once said, "Whenever God wants to give us a gift, he wraps it up in a problem." The bigger the gift you have coming, the bigger the problem you will receive. But the wonderful thing is that if you look for the gift, you will always find it.

Seek the Valuable Lesson
Fourth, assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to you to help you learn something, to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.

Decide to Be Positive
A Positive Mental Attitude is indispensable to your success. You can be as positive as you want to be if you will simply think about the future, focus on the solution and look for the good. If you do what other successful people do, if you use your mind to exert mental control over the situation, you will be positive and cheerful most of the time. And you will reap the benefits enjoyed by all successful people.

Action Exercises
Here are three steps you can take immediately to put these ideas into action:

First, become solution-oriented with every difficulty you face. Make a habit of looking for the answers to your questions, the solutions to your problems.

Second, seek for the valuable lesson in every adversity. Make a list of every idea or insight you can gain from every setback or difficulty.

Third, think on paper. Take some time to write out every detail of the problem, and then take the most logical next step to solve it.