"From Bars to Bikram Part 1" was all about the tools to bring you clarity within yourself: through meditation, mindfulness practice and yoga. Check it out if you haven't already. By incorporating these things into your daily routine you are going into phase 1 of getting in touch with the gold that lives within yourself. Part 2 is all about using that gold to create abundance and great things in your external world.
What you focus on increases - Andy Andrews
What you think you become - Buddha
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve - Napolean Hill
Do any of these sound familiar to you? Understanding and grasping this concept: that your mind is the most important tool to creating your experience of the world - is the key to living a life of whatever you wish. As mentioned in Part 1, we can find ourselves swimming in “mental muck” and in turn finding a whole lotta crap showing up in our lives as well. What if we were to take that concept and turn it into the positive for ourselves? We all have the power. Here are the tools of the trade in manifesting the great things in life:
Positive Affirmations
I want you to PUT good things in your life. It's as simple as that. Grab a journal, grab a pen and get positive, over and over and over. I first came across how to do affirmations PROPERLY upon reading Louise Hay’s “How to Heal Your Life”. Prior to then, I had tried to do these "affirmations" I had heard of, gave a half assed and cynical attempt then got frustrated when it did NOTHING (what do you think I ended up creating more of!). It was only when I became open with the idea that we have some pure personal power within that I started to truly use it and see the power affirmations can have. I know I keep going on about Miranda Kerr but I adore her and in her book "Treasure Yourself", she too, puts half the book's emphasis on positive affirmations and how it helped her career. Your subconscious is an incredibly powerful thing, whatever you put in it, is what comes out. Nothing is left to chance, what you actively do or dont think will be represented in your life (I know this might scare some people). Look at what’s around you, I mean REALLY look. The chair you're sitting on, the computer or iPhone your reading this from - they were created first with a THOUGHT that started in the mind, and through action was brought into reality. Beautiful, ugly, messy, sharp. Everything starts in the mind first. Everything we experience is interpreted through the mind. So let's get cracking and proactive to bring some positivity to life!
How to do it:
1. First we have to choose something we would like in our lives. I find the best place to start is rewriting the beliefs we have of ourselves. Where do your insecurities lie? What beliefs do you hold of yourself that are holding you back? Sometimes all you need is a little self love. Louise Hay gives us the most simple and useful place to start affirmations - "I love and approve of myself" . Once you've got that part sorted you might start to feel the other areas that might need attention ie. "I am discovering new meaning in my life" or "Everything I do turns into success"
2. Make sure your affirmation is present tense, positive and precise (clear). See examples above.
3. The aim of affirmations is to introduce positive concepts into your reality. Now find a quiet spot and start! Buy a journal especially for your affirmations. Give yourself at least 10 minutes and write it out about 20 times. Try to remain calm and focussed on what you are writing, dont think about anything else. Practice daily, and I find the best time is in the morning. Now let go, know the universe has heard you, and keep living. You'll be surprised.
Here are some more awesome links on positive affirmations
There is also some great tips in "Treasure Yourself" by Miranda Kerr
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| Louise Hay with Miranda Kerr |
Gratefulness
If you realised just how lucky you are, no matter what your circumstance, you would never be unhappy. There is always someone worse off than you. Just by knowing this, you should realise the power you have to be more than what you are, and create more than what you think. Stephen Covey gives us a great recommendation to read: "Man's Search for Meaning", by Viktor Frankl, who recounts the physical and mental torture of being prisoner of war in the Nazi Germany concentration camps. They stripped these prisoners of their identity, of their families. Throughout the book is a search for freedom that lives within, no matter what another person does to you. Being thankful for the things in your life, no matter how small is your freedom & your way to grow more of it. Just as what you focus on increases, what you are thankful for increases. The attitude of gratitude will get you very far.
How to do it: Practice. Every moment. The best place to start is by taking some quality time out, to write out at least 10 things you have been thankful for in the day. That day specifically. You may want to do a wholistic one on all the things you are thankful for in your life first. But the daily practice of finding things in every moment to be grateful for is what is most important. This is how you develop the attitude and the habit of being eternally grateful. Life changes when the way you see the world changes.
Putting trust in life
"Oh God! Noo! Last time I did that this happened and it was terrible I'm going to just shut myself off from that forever now!" Quit it. Launch on in again to whatever scares you. Have you ever been in a situation that at the time seemed TERRIBLE but then you looked back and went, whoa I actually learnt an incredible lot from that, I wouldnt be the same today if I hadnt have tried that. Never be afraid, I can promise you that life loves you. All life wants you to do is WAKE UP and LIVE IT. Take a chance, take a risk. Whatever is in your heart will be supported if you just trust.
How to do it: Set yourself a challenge and go for it. Identify what scares you and then DO IT. It's all about living in the now to reap out the greatest benefits. If you havent read it already go get yourself a copy of Eckhart Tolle's: The Power of Now
I know for a lot of people, this kinda talk is all woo woo and wee wahh. But let me give you a challenge:
Do your positive affirmations
Practice the gratefulness exercise
Live in the powerful perfect present with no fear
For at least 21 days straight. See what happens ;)
x o x
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