You better believe Oprah used thought and intuition to create her awesome reality. Imagine what she had to go through to get to where she is today. Could you believe that the thing that started her off on this inspiring journey of change and world domination was 1 book and a movie offer from Stephen Spielberg? Sounds weird huh? Well the universe works in mysterious ways.
For those who know the story, Oprah tells it here with exuberant zeal. And for those who are new to it, get ready, because this could change your life forever! ;)
Meditation Technique #1: Breathing Meditation
This is one of the best meditation techniques for beginners. Ancient, powerful and effective, by simply watching your breath, you give your mind something to focus on in a relaxed way.
Get yourself in a comfortable position, close your eyes and begin to observe the sensations of breathing. Pay attention to how it feels as you draw air in through your nose, down into your lungs and back out again through your mouth. You don’t need to control or force your breathing in any way. Just watch. If your mind wanders – and it will – don’t worry or criticize yourself, this is normal in the beginning. Gently bring your attention back to your breathing and continue.
Meditation Technique #2: Mindfulness Meditation
This type of meditation allows you to be fully present in the moment by bringing your attention to the sensations within your body. Start by focusing on your breath then allow yourself to become aware of other sensations – how you’re sitting, where you feel tension or tingling or ease. The goal here is to become a neutral observer. Try not to analyze or judge anything you experience or any thought that passes through your mind. Simply observe.
Meditation Technique #3: Mantra Meditation
The ancient Sanskrit word, “aum” is a mystical syllable often used in chants or as a meditative mantra. By repeating a sacred word or meaningful phrase (including short affirmations) you can bring your mind to a state of focused tranquility. You can say the mantra aloud or repeat it silently.
Meditation Technique #4: Walking MeditationIf sitting still for too long makes you squirm, try the walking meditation technique. You can do this just about anywhere, although a garden or other pleasing environment is ideal. Simply focus on your body as it moves: your arms as they swing, your legs as they lift and extend, your feet as they rise and touch the ground. As with all meditation techniques, when you find your mind wandering, gently bring your attention back to the movement. Try not to judge, just observe the sensation of walking.
Meditation Technique #5: Empty Mind Meditation
This meditation technique allows you to be aware without any specific focus. Simply sit quietly with your eyes closed and allow thoughts to float freely in and out of your mind. As they come and go, observe them without judgment or attachment.
Have you ever had something that you really, really wanted fall unexpectedly into your lap?
Did you think it was a coincidence?
Have you ever noticed that, that seems to happen to some people, all the time?
Is that a coincidence?
Let’s find out:
The Law of Attraction
You might have heard of this before, it is quoted often, but if you are like me (who just recently learned what it really is about) you never completely grasped its power.
85 % of all communication is your body language
The Law of Attraction states that whatever you “ask the universe for, with passion, will be given” if you ask enough.
The reason for this is that when you can visualize something and can see it in your life you start to send out those signals with your body language, the way you talk, the way you act and the opportunities you see and react to.
Before long you will get an idea, be presented with an opportunity or in some other fashion get what you “asked for”.
Take action at once on inspiration
This is the second step of the process. When you get an opportunity or an idea that will move you towards your goals, you need to take action at once. If you wait your chances of success will quickly diminish.
The longer you wait the less a chance you have. Because of this, if you learn to react quickly when inspiration strikes you will succeed a lot more often.
You can ask for anything
This truly works for anything. I have heard dozens of stories about people visualizing and asking for a parking space at the entrance of a crowded mall. For some reason they always seem to get a spot right next to the door.
It works for business:
You ask for a particular result and all of a sudden inspiration strikes and you get the idea that changes everything. If you act at once you can make it reality and succeed.
I met my wife by using this law:
When I was 14 years old I decided I wanted a girlfriend, I had very little luck with women, mostly because of my confidence.
But one day I decided, “Next Tuesday I will have a girlfriend!”
I told my friends, but they just laughed and asked, how are you going to accomplish that. I had no idea how; I just knew that I would find a great girl.
Next Monday I had a baseball game and my friend, another player on the team, had brought a friend. An extremely attractive girl, way out of my league. We started talking though and really hit it off.
We went on a date the next day and today she is my wife!
You should have seen the look of surprise on my friends faces when they met her.
Don’t be afraid to ask
The worst thing that can happen if you ask is that you don’t get it. The best, is that you do. Don’t be afraid to try it out.
Remember it can take a couple of months before inspiration strikes, depending on what you ask, but if you really want it enough, it is worth the wait.b
Conclusion
This technique has worked for thousands of individuals for hundreds of years.
Visualize what you want, feel yourself in possession of it, feel the sense of fulfillment, of happiness and take action as soon as inspiration strikes.
Writer: Daniel Wood
1. Appreciation
Sounds simple – is profound. If you make a daily habit of sitting for even 10 minutes to write a list of all the things you appreciate, in a month’s time you will expand your vibrational frequency and deepen your spiritual understanding of the preciousness of this life.
2. Meditate
Or pray. But take 15-25 minutes every day to bring your mind into at least the alpha, if not the theta state. When you do this, you build your capacity to handle stress and are much more able to handle life on your own terms. This means that where stress once consumed time and energy, you now have room for spirit to dwell.
3. ‘Yoke’ the Body
The word ‘yoga’ means to ‘yoke’ together the spirit and body. Don’t worry you don’t have to be a gumby to do a little yoking of your own. Even if you sit still and totally focus on using the breath to both initiate and complete a movement – say raising and lowering an arm – in time you’ll start to unify your mind with your spirit.
4. Keep a Journal
You can keep a journal where you communicate with whatever you consider to be most sacred. Whether you want to engage in a dialogue with God, ask questions of your Higher Self, request help from your Guardian Angels or simply give thanks to Source, a journal grounds you in the physical act of paying homage to Spirit.
5. Share with a Friend
Find a spiritual buddy to share with. You may want to do a dream exchange, create spiritual songs or do sacred dances. Maybe you just want to share your perceptions and experiences of the Divine Hand in your life. It’s up to you. But by sharing with another, you exponentially expand the pleasure of connecting with what is most sacred to you.
Back in 1984 my life was not going very well at all. I was a management consultant with very few clients. I was on my third marriage and we were arguing a lot. I had a two-year old baby girl and money was really scarce.
Right after New Year’s Day in 1985 I was on a plane from New York to California to make a consulting proposal to Carter Hawley Hale, a department store chain.
With over five hours without interruptions, I started thinking about why certain things in my life were such a struggle, especially money.
Based on some books I had read and some workshops I had taken, I had gotten the idea that the difficulties in my life might be caused by my beliefs. This might seem obvious to you today, but at the time the idea was not as widespread as it is today.
Despite all the workshops and trainings I’d attended and the numerous books I’d read, I had never found a way to permanently change my beliefs
Well, I wondered sitting on the plane:
“If my life is the result of my beliefs, what did I believe that’s responsible for this pattern of struggle?”
Here’s what I came up with:
I had always seen myself as someone who never gave up. No matter what, I’d keep going. In fact, that was the one trait most people who knew me always acknowledged. So what did I actually believe?
Five hundred or so miles later I had found the answer:
Because I had a bunch of negative self-esteem beliefs, such as I’m not good enough and I’m not important, I had based my self-esteem on never giving up. I thought forging ahead no matter what is what made me good enough and important.
If the way people’s lives turn out is the result of their beliefs, I thought, what would show up in my life if I believed “What makes me good enough is overcoming obstacles”?
Obstacles, of course! Not success, because that wouldn’t give me an opportunity to demonstrate that I’d never give up. I needed obstacles to prove that nothing could ever stop me, which would make me a worthwhile person.
I continued to question. Why did I think that? By the time I landed I felt different, as ifsomething profound had shifted in me, but I didn’t know what.
I made the business presentation I had flown to LA for and returned home the next day still musing over the remarkable shift I had experienced on the plane.
What Had Happened To Me? What Did It Mean?
I had just started trying to explain to my wife, Shelly, what I had realized on the plane, when the phone rang. It was Carter, Hawley, Hale, the company I had made my presentation to in LA.
I had gotten the assignment.
I hung up the phone and turned back to my wife Shelly. “It looks like I really did eliminate a belief, because the obstacles just disappeared. I got the assignment!”
But I had to find out exactly what I had done on the plane, because not only didn’t I have the belief anymore, something had changed in my life.
If a belief had made me perceive my life as full of obstacles, then helping other people eliminate beliefs could change how they perceived their lives and, ultimately, their behavior.
It took Shelly and me weeks of going over the notes I took on the plane to figure out the formula for eliminating beliefs. Then, using the process we formulated, I eliminated a bunch of negative limiting beliefs.
The beliefs I eliminated enabled me to look at my then desperate financial situation as an opportunity rather than a problem, and then find a way to take advantage of the opportunity.
I decided to totally change the type of consulting I had been doing, and started to help organizations eliminate the beliefs that were keeping them from necessary changes.
As a result, my associates and I were able to help several corporations dramatically increase their profits. Our own revenues reached one million dollars the following year. And over the next few years my wife Shelly and I helped over 13,000 people eliminate negative beliefs about themselves and the world so they could live better lives.
Since then I’ve been discouraged and disappointed by circumstances more times than I could possibly count. What has kept me going? The belief that there is a solution and I will find it. If I hadn’t gotten rid of the beliefs I had in my early 20s, such as “I’m not capable” and “I’m powerless,” I would have given up a long time ago.
The best-selling business book, Success Built to Last, reports that enduringly successful people “find it irresistible to try, fail, improve; then try again, fail again, and get even better.” Could you do that if you believed “Mistakes and failure are bad” or “I’ll never get what I want”?
What’s the difference between the millions of people who lose their jobs and get paralyzed by feelings of hopelessness and helplessness and the 600,000 last year who said, how can I monetize my skills and interests, and who then created a new business?
Only one thing: Negative beliefs about themselves and life versus positive ones.
How You Can Clear Negative Beliefs
I’m going to show you how to eliminate the beliefs that destroy your ability to find solutions and undercut your ability to take action, when circumstances are at their worst.
Before I do that I want to make some things clear:
First, clearing just the few beliefs right after I created the process was not enough. I’ve had to eliminate additional self-esteem beliefs and some limiting beliefs about money I had picked up in my childhood, such as “I’ll never have enough money,” “Money is a struggle” and “I’m not deserving.”
Second, although it took me only a year to build a million dollar a year company back in 1985 after I created this process, eliminating beliefs did not automatically make me wealthy. I had a good product (helping people eliminate crippling beliefs), a good strategy for marketing the product, and a great team working with me. Without those things I probably would not have been as successful as I was.
I tell you this because I want you to know that I can’t guarantee that just eliminating the beliefs will make you money. There are too many factors involved in building wealth for any honest person to make that guarantee.
What I can tell you is that if you try my program for free today you’ll eliminate one important barrier to taking action and having the kind of mental attitude necessary to improve anything in your life, including your financial success.
We discovered the three beliefs that are the biggest barriers to having a positive attitude and taking the actions necessary to achieve abundance and any of your other dreams.
And I’m going to show you a technique to permanently eliminate the belief of your choice that’s better than the one I used on the plane 24 years ago … and it will take you only about 30 minutes.
After using this revolutionary process to banish one belief, you’ll be amazed by the new possibilities that open up for you in your life.
Writer: Morty Lefkoe
It’s not about what’s happened to you in the past that causes your successes or failures in life – it’s about what you tell yourself about those experiences. In other words – its the story your telling yourself. This is a great vid with a simple message. Enjoy!
This video talks about the importance of "Intuition" and how it can change your life.
Can a shift in your consciousness create a shift in your biology? Deepak Chopra says yes, it sure can! The spiritual doctor claims some big names as his followers and for good reason. See what he has to say about thoughts, healing and the quantum ’metaphor’ in this short interview with author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.
The Evolutionary Need to Understand Consciousness
What is the purpose of spiritual inquiry?
It is to make sense out of life at the deepest level. If we don’t make the effort to deeply grasp who we are and why we are here, we will half-blindly stumble our way through life, like most people do. And that’s not much help to the evolutionary process. We are living in a time when nobody really knows what the rules are anymore. Now that we have more or less transcended traditional orientations, we really have to let in the fact that those of us at the leading edge, in so many ways, are in uncharted waters. That’s why engaging in the deliberate practice of philosophical and spiritual inquiry is more important than ever.
In light of the reality of our postmodern predicament, engagement with spiritual inquiry becomes very potent and inherently meaningful, because what you are doing is not just philosophical and intellectual entertainment. You are actually trying to make sense of life in the biggest context for the biggest reasons. It’s not a game. You are literally trying to create new grooves in consciousness — new structures, deeper perspectives and higher potentials.
So if you are serious about the evolution of consciousness, spiritual inquiry is not just something you do in your free time on a Sunday afternoon. It is a certain orientation to life, which is the orientation of the Authentic Self. An authentically inquiring position is one in which you are passionately interested in that which you do not already know. For the sake of the evolution of consciousness itself, you want to know. If you personally are not deeply committed to the evolution of consciousness, then you are not going to be truly interested in spiritual inquiry, beyond a kind of philosophical exercise.
It’s Not ‘Out There’ – It’s ‘In Here’
Consciousness is not some mysterious cloud-like substance that exists “out there” somewhere. It is the deepest part of each of our selves. And it is also something we share. Consciousness is a field that exists between us, a collective or “intersubjective” field in which we share values, beliefs, and world views. So for that field to be able to evolve and develop, the individuals who make it up have to make room within their own consciousness for this kind of subtle, profound, and mysterious growth process to actually occur. The field of our shared consciousness can and does develop according to the level of participation of those individuals who are actually passionately concerned with its development. So that’s the context for serious spiritual inquiry. And the only way you can really engage with this practice is to allow yourself to not already know.
Knowledge or Knowing ?
Most of us, unconsciously, are taking a position that at a deep level, we already know. Already knowing is the position of the ego, because the ego always needs to feel secure. Now, of course, we all do know things, and that’s not a problem — indeed, our intellectual capacity is an extraordinary gift of evolution. But the problem is that when we begin to accumulate knowledge, our ego tends to get attached to the idea that it knows something. We often begin to feel that we are important simply because we know something. Knowledge makes the ego feel powerful, and more often than not creates a wall that protects and empowers that part of the self. And when we are attached to the idea of being someone who already knows, it’s very difficult to learn or develop at the level of the soul. Especially when the context is enlightenment, development always involves venturing into unknown territory.
So when we realize that the evolution of consciousness is not just a personal matter, but profoundly affects the field that we share, then finding the means to not already know, which means to put the ego aside, becomes an imperative.
The field itself simply cannot develop unless your engagement with the process is ego-less. If you are unwilling to not already know, your unwillingness is going to hinder the evolution of the self. Intersubjective evolution is always a matter of conscious, intentional, volitional, willing cooperation. You have to want to cooperate with the evolutionary process, you have to be genuinely interested in it, not merely as an abstract philosophical idea, but as your own engaged commitment to the evolution of consciousness. An individual who truly cares about the development of the intersubjective field is like a parent who deeply cares about the upbringing, education, and welfare of their child. This only works when you awaken to that kind of passionate interest in and care for the evolution and development of the field itself.
Hint: It’s the Ego
When I talk about not already knowing it doesn’t mean that you have to literally be a blank slate or erase your memory bank. A lot of people don’t know the difference between not already knowing and knowing nothing. Not already knowing doesn’t mean to not know intellectually. It doesn’t have to do with your intellect; it has to do with your ego. It has to do with your freedom from being egoistically identified with the information that your intellect has amassed. As long as you are attached to the information you have accumulated because it makes you feel powerful and superior as an individual, you will never have the room inside yourself to not already know, to authentically inquire.
So what does it mean to have a relationship to knowledge, memory, and experience that is not binding? The perfect posture for the self to assume in order to be able to evolve is a miraculous middle place between not already knowing, on the one hand, and wanting to know, on the other. Not already knowing, at the deepest level, aligns us with the ground of all being, that primordial emptiness, inherently free and already liberated, that is the Self as unmanifest consciousness. Wanting to know, passionately, energetically wanting to understand, aligns us simultaneously with the Authentic Self, which is the evolutionary impulse or deepest manifest expression of consciousness. So the perfect evolutionary posture is one that is dynamically poised between those two opposites.
If you are abiding in that middle place between not knowing and wanting to know, between the Ground of Being and the Authentic Self, there is no foothold for the ego. And from that miraculous middle place between all pairs of opposites, new grooves in consciousness — new structures, deeper perspectives, and higher potentials — begin to emerge and evolve within the intersubjective field that is your own self.
Writer: Andrew Z. Cohen
One of the best ways to expand your consciousness is to practice some spiritual exercises. I’m not talking about knowledge. You can read as many books as you want about everything from god to quantum physics, and while your knowledge of these subjects will be much greater, your consciousness will remain the same. Knowledge helps give context and understanding. but it’s in the action that true expansion begins.
Here’s a few spiritual exercises that can help you expand your consciousness quickly.
1. Appreciation
Sounds simple – is profound. If you make a daily habit of sitting for even 10 minutes to write a list of all the things you appreciate, in a month’s time you will expand your vibrational frequency and deepen your spiritual understanding of the preciousness of this life.
2. Meditate
Or pray. But take 15-25 minutes every day to bring your mind into at least the alpha, if not the theta state. When you do this, you build your capacity to handle stress and are much more able to handle life on your own terms. This means that where stress once consumed time and energy, you now have room for spirit to dwell.
3. ‘Yoke’ the Body
The word ‘yoga’ means to ‘yoke’ together the spirit and body. Don’t worry you don’t have to be a gumby to do a little yoking of your own. Even if you sit still and totally focus on using the breath to both initiate and complete a movement – say raising and lowering an arm – in time you’ll start to unify your mind with your spirit.
4. Keep a Journal
You can keep a journal where you communicate with whatever you consider to be most sacred. Whether you want to engage in a dialogue with God, ask questions of your Higher Self, request help from your Guardian Angels or simply give thanks to Source, a journal grounds you in the physical act of paying homage to Spirit.
5. Share With A Friend
Find a spiritual buddy to share with. You may want to do a dream exchange, create spiritual songs or do sacred dances. Maybe you just want to share your perceptions and experiences of the Divine Hand in your life. It’s up to you. But by sharing with another, you exponentially expand the pleasure of connecting with what is most sacred to you.
Writer: DAWN DELVECCHIO
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