Positive vision of end results.

When you set new goal very often your mind suggest you automatically all obstacles on the way to achieving your goal. If you do not try to overcome this you will focus on problems not on goal. As a result you get more problems and less positive outcome. This is why positive thinking is so important and we should practice it every day. When you set your goals you should also find and write down as much as possible reasons to success. It is important to positively visualize results, which we want to achieve. You should start your journey to goal with positive vision of end results. Keeping positive image of your goal in your mind and heart helps you to overcome obstacles to achieve it.

Don't limit yourself.

It is worth to think what better you can achieve than your initial goal. What result can be better than this which you set on the beginning? What enjoyed you even more. Remember you should set your goal so big to make all problems, small and insignificant in comparison. There is the rule that if you can imagine it you can achieve it.

On the beginning it can be, that you will not see any results. You may also have no idea how to achieve your goal and sometimes you may even think that your goal is not achievable. In the moments like that think about analogy to seed. After sowing, you have to wait long for the first blade and this is just first sign of harvest, to which still long way. If you give up and you will not be cultivate the grain you can forgot about harvest. So never, never, never give up.

Vocalize your goals.

Beyond positive creation of your goal image, you can try also to vocalize it. It means read or speak out loud this what you want to achieve with the energy and confidence. On the beginning you will feel little stupid and uncomfortable,but your goal is outside your comfort zone.

Take an action.

All mind tricks have one reason - motivate you to action. Taking action is most important. Do something to achieve your goal, check if it working. If not find if you can modify it to get the result you want. If still not working find another method. Do not stop acting.

Initial failures are inevitable. Positive vision of end results allows you to overcome it, stand up and try again.

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How to change your circumstances?

It is much easier to change your thoughts than your circumstances. It is not what happen is bad, it is the meanings we assign to this what happen make this bad, good or neutral. Anytime when something is happen to you, you automatically think this is good, this is bad or this is neutral.

Simple example. There is a spring and five workdays was nice warm and sunny weather. You have thought all the time that during the weekend you will ride bicycle. On Friday evening you watching the weather forecast and there is information that weekend will be rainy and cloudy. Now is the tipping point. You can be angry and even write a post on facebook complaining that always raining during the weekend. Your bad feeling make your weekend really bad, and you will not relax and you will go to work next week in bad mood. So you will work slower and probably make some errors and so on. In the other hand when you think that on spring weather forecasts very often do not work perfectly. So maybe it is still some chance for good weather. Even if it will rain thanks to that all plants start to grow and become green. Fresh light green is so wonderful in spring. There is a saying "there is no bad weather, only bad clothing". You can still enjoy your bike tour just put on rain jacket. Have the circumstances changed? No, you just changed the way you interpret them?

In many cases circumstances are not the real problem. They are problem as long as you focus on it as a problem. Only thing you need changing is your perception of the circumstances.

David Brinkley said:

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

Don't waste your time to blaming circumstances. You can even reverse the situation but you have to want, and change will begin from inside not outside.

Self Help - How To Be More Positive About The Things That Happen

By Petris Lapis

How To Be More Positive About The Things That Happen

Positive meanings (thoughts) give rise to positive emotions. Negative meanings (thoughts) give rise to negative emotions. Positive thoughts do not give rise to negative emotions and negative thoughts do not give rise to positive emotions. Negative emotions debilitate you mentally, emotionally and eventually even physically.

Let's refer to positive meanings as green thoughts (give them the 'go' ahead) and negative thoughts as red thoughts ('stop' them in their tracks).

In life you seek to get a green light whenever you can. You are happy when you get them and they let you keep moving forward. Red lights, on the other hand, cause you unnecessary delays, slow your progress and can cause you stress. The same is true of green thoughts and red thoughts.

Apparently at the pinnacle of our personal growth lies a place where you can view an event with detachment and have neither a red nor green thought about it. I got very excited on the one or two occasions I have been able to do this. The rest of the time I use strategies to be aware of the meaning I have placed upon an event and other strategies to ensure I choose to place green rather than red meanings upon the event. Successful people place empowering meanings upon events and challenges are more easily overcome while you are feeling positive rather than negative emotions.

As the ultimate outcome of every event that happens in your life is your personal growth, it is always possible to find a green meaning to place upon even the worst of events. The green outcome could be for example, another lesson learned, a higher understanding, a stronger character or more wisdom gained.

For example, an arsonist burned down a block of classrooms at our local school. As traumatic as it was for the children and parents, the toll on the teachers was even more severe. One of the teachers lost 25 years of teaching materials and was so traumatized by the event that being around campfires and BBQs caused her distress. She was subsequently unable to teach at the school and went on stress leave. During the next year her long term relationship broke down, she moved house and entered into custody arrangements for her children. I saw her two years later and asked how she was going. She smiled and said, "Out of the ashes of despair, rise the seedlings of new beginnings. I am now teaching a Grade 2 class at another school with lovely children, my partner and I have an amicable relationship, my new little house is very beautiful, I have started yoga and meditating and I feel much more at peace than I ever have before. I suspect that the arsonist's flames provided the wind beneath my wings. Without it I would not have made some of the wonderful changes that have occurred in my life."

So how do you go about placing a green rather than a red meaning upon an event? There are several ways you can empower yourself by turning red thoughts into green thoughts and placing a more positive meaning upon events:

1. Using challenge thoughts.
2. The art of reframing.
3. Using positive language.
4. Asking yourself better questions.
5. Judging situations differently.
6. Adopting an attitude of gratitude.

You will be happier if you seek always to find the silver lining in every cloud and rejoice in the cup being half full rather than bemoaning the fact that the cup is half empty. You are responsible for the meaning you place upon events. You can choose to place either a positive helpful meaning upon an event or a negative unhelpful meaning.

1. Challenge Thoughts

Challenge thoughts are thoughts that challenge your thinking. When you have a red thought (and we all do), the best thing to do is to challenge the thinking behind the red thought and turn it into a green thought.

Challenge thoughts are thoughts such as:

• Is that really true?
• Am I exaggerating?
• Did I do my best?
• Why do I think this is true?
• What examples can I find that make this not true?

For example, Jolie finds herself in front of the television on Friday night. She thinks, "I am such a loser. I have no friends." This is a red thought. As soon as Jolie is aware she has had a red thought, she can challenge the thought by asking herself, "Is that really true? Do I really have no friends? Who are my friends?" She will then have the information she needs to turn the red thought into a green thought. Once she is thinking more positively, she can then plan to take actions so that she is no longer alone on Friday night.

2. The Art Of Reframing

'We're not retreating, we're just advancing in another direction.' - General. S. Patton

Once you have challenged your red thought, you then use reframing to turn red thoughts into green thoughts and avoid entering into negative or unhelpful emotions. In a nutshell reframing simply requires you to look at situations through green glasses rather than through red glasses.

Life always gives us the ability to reframe red thoughts into green thoughts. Those weeks that are the hardest, those employers that are the toughest, those break ups that rip our heart into little pieces; those are the moments that offer us the greatest opportunities for self-learning and growth. Once the pain has worn off, those are the moments we can be grateful for. They contributed the most to our character, our courage and our self worth. For this reason, it is always possible to view any event through more than one perspective.

Example #1

A man is driving his new sports car along a winding mountain road. The wind is whistling through his hair and he feels good about life. A young boy on the side of the road throws a rock at his car. The outraged man stops his car and storms over to the young boy. His muscles are clenched and his jaw is tight from the seething tide of anger that is surging through him.

As the man approaches, he notices the young boy is hurt, appears to be in shock and has tears in his eyes. The young boy says, "I'm so sorry I threw that rock at your car sir. We've had an accident and my mum is trapped in the car at the bottom of the hill. It was the only way I could think of to get you to stop and help us."

Example #2

One day a donkey was walking along watching a butterfly flit in the sunshine when he fell down a well. The farmer came to investigate the noise the donkey was making and was very dismayed to learn that his donkey had fallen down the well. He thought for a long time, but could not see any way to rescue the donkey from the well.

After a while he concluded:

• The donkey would be missed, but the farmer could survive without him;
• The donkey would smell very bad if left to die at the bottom of the well;
• The well had dried up and was quite dangerous; and
• The best solution would be to fill the well with dirt. This would stop the terrible smell from the soon to be dead donkey and would make the well safe.

That afternoon the farmer and his neighbors began to fill the well with dirt. They chatted about life and the weather as they threw shovel after shovel of dirt into the well.

At first the donkey was outraged by the insult and the decision the farmer had made. His outrage increased with each clod of dirt and the pain it made as it hit him on the back. Then the donkey realized that the pain from the dirt hitting his back wasn't going to kill him. He also realized that if he shook his body, the dirt fell off, landed on the ground and he could stand on it.

The farmers kept throwing dirt into the well and the donkey kept shaking it off. Eventually the farmers were stunned to see the donkey's ears rising out of the filling well.

Example #3

Suzanne didn't have the skills she needed to get a promotion in her part-time Government position. She had never managed an underperforming employee nor did she have experience in making presentations or chairing meetings. The person she shared a position with went on leave and she was required to work full-time for a fortnight. During this time some major Government policy changes occurred and a seriously underperforming employee had to be put through a formal warning process.

Her supervisor, who would normally have handled these tasks, became ill at the same time. As a result, Suzanne had to do the following tasks she had never done before:

• Take the underperforming employee through the formal warning process;
• Draft documents and present them to the Government Minister; and
• Chair a meeting for 50 people including a Government Minister and 40 senior public servants.

At the end of the fortnight she told me that she had just lived through the worst two weeks of her life. It wasn't until I said to her, "Didn't that fortnight just give you the skills to apply for your promotion?" that she smiled.

So, how do you reframe your perspective on a situation? Once again it is as simple as pulling yourself up and asking yourself questions such as:

• "What is another meaning this situation could have?"
• "What is another perspective on this situation?"
• "What is another outcome that could arise from this situation?"
• "What is a positive outcome that could arise from this situation?"

Example #1

Assume a father doesn't allow his teenage daughter go to a party with her friends. The teenager sees it as. "My father doesn't love me and he doesn't care if I am humiliated in front of my friends."

The teenager could ask herself, "What is another meaning that this event could have?"

She could conclude, "In fact he loves and cares for me so much that he wants me to be safe and have appropriate boundaries."

Example #2

Assume a single father of two wishes to start his own business. The single father sees the situation as: "I could not possibly start my own business as I am a single father."

He could ask himself, "What is another perspective I could take on this situation?"

He could conclude, "Anyone who can raise two children on his own and be there for them 24/7 has the perseverance and commitment it takes to run a successful business."

3. Use Positive Language

Another way to adopt a positive perspective is to use positive language. Our unconscious minds don't recognize negations such as "don't", "won't", "shouldn't" etc. If I say to you, "Don't think about your left elbow." What did you think about? That's right, your left elbow. If I say to you, "Don't think about a big fluffy teddy bear with a red bow." What did you think about? That's right. To even make sense of the instruction, you have to think about the thing you were not supposed to think about. By using negations in your language (including self-talk), you get yourself to focus upon the very thing you are trying to avoid.

For example, if you say to yourself, "I am not going to think about how far in debt I am", then how far in debt you are is the very thing you have just focused upon.

You will, however, have the right focus and perspective if you frame your internal self-talk positively in terms of what you want to focus upon, rather than negatively in terms of what you don't want to focus upon. The same principles apply here as for setting goals.

For example, when you are going to the grocery store, choose to say "Remember the bread", rather than "Don't forget the bread."

This technique works equally well when speaking to other people. For example, you see your four year old jumping on the couch. Instead of saying, "Don't jump on the couch", phrase it positively in terms of the behavior you do want. You could try, "Hop onto the floor and come here for a hug", "Jump on the trampoline instead" or "Get off the coach and play on the floor".

4. Asking Yourself Better Questions

We have already seen the power of using questions to help us to challenge red thoughts and to reframe ourselves into adopting a more positive perspective upon an event. The way you ask yourself questions also affects the perspective you take on situations.

Questions such as "Why can't I do this?" assume:

• There is something to be done; and
• You cannot do it.

Questions such as "How can I more easily make this work?" assume:

• It can work;
• There are a number of ways to do it; and
• That you can do it easily.

For example, assume you are concerned about your weight. If you ask yourself, "Why am I so fat?" or "How can I not be fat anymore?" you have kept your focus upon your weight (the problem), rather than upon the solution. Questions like this also continue to reinforce your impression of yourself as being fat.

It is more helpful instead to ask yourself a question such as, "How am I going to easily become fit, healthy and strong?" A question phrased like this is more helpful for your emotions, thoughts and self-esteem as it assumes:

• It is possible for you to be fit, healthy and strong.
• There are a number of different ways in which you can achieve this goal for yourself.
• You can do it.
• It can be done easily.

The power of asking the right question is evidenced powerfully in Stanislavsky Lech's story. He was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp in World War II. Despite other people telling him that it wasn't possible, he continued to ask himself how he could escape. By doing so he kept escape open as a possibility in his life. Those around him had ruled it out as a possibility in their life and stopped looking for ways to escape.

Eventually the answer came to him. He stripped naked, climbed into the back of a truck piled high with bodies from the gas chamber and made his escape.

5. Judging Situations

"No pressure, no diamonds." - Anonymous

When we judge whether a situation or event is positive or negative, we do so by comparing it to something else. We judge a situation as being negative when we compare it with something better. We judge a situation as being positive when we compare it with something worse.

The key to maintaining a positive attitude is to be aware of the comparisons you make and choosing only those that are empowering for you. In the following picture, Roman could be very happy owning a small car if he compared it to owning a bicycle. Conversely he could be unhappy with owning a small car if he compared it with owning a top of the range sports car. How he will feel about it will depend upon the choice he makes.

There are always numerous perspectives from which you could choose to judge whether an event has a positive or a negative meaning for you.

For example:

• A million dollar turnover to a small businesswoman is a cause for celebration when compared to what she made last year.
• A million dollar turnover for a large business is a catastrophe when compared to the turnover it made last year.
• A small cottage with running water may be the most wonderful thing for a tribesman, but a terrible thing for a multi millionaire used to living in 5 star hotel rooms.

The way in which we judge whether a situation is positive or negative and the impact it has on our response is beautifully illustrated in a story that was distributed on the internet several years ago.

Example of a letter from a college student:

Dear Mum and Dad

Apologies for taking so long to write, but my writing utensils were destroyed in the fire at my apartment. I am out of the hospital and the doctor says that I should be able to lead a normal healthy life. A handsome young man called Pete saved me from the fire and kindly offered to share his apartment with me. He is very kind and polite and from a good family, so I think you'll approve when I tell you that we got married last week. I know you'll be even more excited when I tell you that you are going to be grandparents very soon.

Actually, there wasn't a fire, I haven't been in hospital, I'm not married and I'm not pregnant, but I did fail my biology exam and I just wanted to make sure that when I told you, you put it in a proper perspective.

Love

Your daughter

6. Adopting An Attitude Of Gratitude

Adopting an attitude of gratitude also helps you to maintain a positive perspective on situations. It is often easier to wallow in the negativity of a 'dreadful' situation but doing so doesn't empower you or even help you to get through each day. Choose instead to find the silver lining in every cloud and embrace the blessings that arise from the same situation and understand and grow from the lessons you have learned and the experience you have gained.

It is possible to find reasons to be grateful in all situations.

Example #1

• In the death of a friend or family member is cause to be grateful for the time you had with them and the joy they brought into your life.
• In the serious illness is the chance for legitimate time out, recovery and reflection.
• In the child with physical impairment is the gratitude for the ability to share time with a soul on a fast track, a brave courageous being who may have much to teach you.
• In the loss of material assets, is the chance to start again.
• In the ending of a relationship is the chance for a new beginning.
• In the failure of a business is the valuable knowledge of what not to do next time.

Example #2

As another example, Andrew had been dating Sharon for 8 years. They decided to get married. Their family members flew from a number of different countries for the wedding. It was the night before the wedding. Andrew realized during the pre-wedding dinner that his greatest fear was walking out of the church after the wedding and seeing the girl he should have married. It took much courage, but he stood up during the pre-wedding dinner and called off the wedding. This became one of the worst moments of his life both financially and emotionally. Three weeks later he injured himself while playing sport and was admitted to hospital. His ex-fiancée visited him in hospital and told him that he was getting his 'just desserts'. Half an hour later, the nursing staff changed their shift and into his room walked the nurse he eventually married. If he had not been courageous and lived through the difficult times associated with calling off his wedding, he may never have met his soul mate. (His ex-fiancee also met her soul mate several months later).

Example #3

Julianne was repeatedly molested in her teen years. She could have asked people for sympathy and used it as a justifiable excuse or reason for ensuring that things in her life didn't work out. Instead, today she can look back at that event and be grateful because it gave her the drive, the stubbornness and the determination to succeed and prove to herself that she was worthy of love and respect.

Petris Lapis, Director of Keys To Potential Pty Ltd the new and exciting approach to personal growth, easy unconscious change, self help, opening your heart and unlocking your potential for a fuller more magnificent life. Visit now to book your seat at the next workshop. http://www.KeysToPotential.com

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Attitude Makes All The Difference

Very inspiring and motivating wise words from a wise man showing the importance of the Attitude of Gratitude.

7 Simple Mind Tricks To Achieve Success

By Greg Frost

Most people do not utilize enough of their brain. Some would even say in order to succeed, you need luck, not brain power. You can trick your brain into believing otherwise with simple mind tricks. Success is something that you envision and create for yourself. Use these easy techniques to help gain more success in your life.

Motivation

If you can envision yourself on the path to success, you are already using motivation as a way to engage your mind and gear yourself toward the reality of your thought process. To keep yourself motivated, talk about the plans you intend to fulfill. The more you motivate yourself by talking about your plans, the more likely you are to take that first step toward completion of those plans.

Motivation is a major key to success. No plan or idea ever created itself. It takes human ingenuity and the brain power of man to see plans through and make them a reality.

Positive Thinking

This may not seem like a mind trick, but in all actuality it is one of the best mind tricks. Achieving success can be a very challenging task. When you think positively, you dispel any doubt you may be harboring. Negative thoughts bring you down and make it difficult to succeed. No matter how bad things may seem, keep your thoughts positive and do not stray from a successful course.

Read to Exercise Your Mind

Reading may seem like it is a simple task that you do every day. This is true, however reading also helps transform your ideas and introduces new ways of thinking. Reading is one of the true ways you can train your mind for success. Not only does it help keep your brain geared for optimal performance, it also helps your continue to educate yourself.

Envisioning

Perhaps you have hit a slump and can't seem to get past a road block you have set for yourself. This would be procrastination at its best. When you get to this point, don't let it stop you. Instead think ahead. Close your eyes and envision the task already done and what it feels like to have accomplished it. When you open your eyes you will be ready to continue down that path of success and finish the work that put you in that slump.

Identify Thoughts

Distractions cause even the most motivated individual to stray from their path of success. Most of the time distractions come in the form of thoughts. It is important to be able to determine which thoughts are actually inhibiting you from succeeding and which thoughts are the motivating thoughts that are helping you succeed.

Relax

When you relax you take the stress out of success. When you relax you give yourself the time to wind down and become comfortable with challenging ideas. Once you begin to consider them to be manageable hurdles you can relax and tackle them.

Focus

In order to feel assertive and carry through with your goal of success you need to think confidently about yourself and be what you think. This is one of many very simple mind tricks that most people do not even realize they can accomplish.

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6 Things You Need for the Law of Attraction to Work for You

by Nelson Berry

Are you interested in using the law of attraction? For it to be effective in your life, you need these six essential elements to be present:

1. Patience. The law of attraction is extremely effective and powerful, but it does not always work instantaneously. If you want it to yield actual results, you need to be diligent and patient to work towards your goal while also attracting your goal towards you using positive and powerful thoughts. In a way, you and your goal has to meet in the middle. In sum, you have to show a positive and patient attitude towards your desires.

2. The right desires. Sometimes, people use the law of attraction to try and attract things or desires that are not even in the realm of possibility. The law of attraction will only work if you have the right desires in mind.

3. An open mind. You should also have an open mind. The law of attraction says that a Higher Force in the universe will be the one to send your desires your way. This means, however, that this Higher Force has jurisdiction over the universe. Thus, sometimes, you need to accept that even when you don't receive the exact same things you wish for, you may often be provided with things that are actually better, more beneficial, or more appropriate for you.

4. A spiritual goal. If you expect the law of attraction to bring you complete fulfillment in life, make sure that you also have a spiritual goal. If you only use the law of attraction to help you attain all materialistic desires you can think of, at the end of the day, you will still not find complete fulfillment. It is only the conjunction of the law and your spiritual goal that will guarantee total life contentment.

5. Your own experience. The law of attraction requires a journey of discovery and learning. You have to learn and experience the power of the law in your own life. The common principles may be the same, but techniques that worked for others may not work for you since people have very unique desires and characteristics.

6. Subliminal products. One of the easiest ways to attain results based on the concept of the law of attraction is the use of subliminal products. These include subliminal videos, audio files and tapes, and so on. Self-help books may also help. The purpose of these products is to fill your head with positive thoughts and ideas, and to feed your mind and cultivate a positive environment within you.

People have somehow become programmed to take in negative feedback from the external world, and a lot of negative thoughts and beliefs have accumulated in our personalities due to our negative experiences. That's why most people find it hard to apply the law of attraction because they are easily distracted and destructed by negative thoughts, no matter how they try to stay positive. In order to build the habit of positive thinking, you need subliminal products to give you the reinforcement you need.

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Live Your Life With an Attitude of Gratitude

By Michele Tocci 

Cultivating gratefulness enhances your life and will provide long-term emotional rewards. How grateful are you for your life, for those around you, for where you live, for having running water everyday?

We live in an extremely materialistic age. It is standard to expect so much, often too much. The fact we have and own so much appears to have an impact on how grateful we actually are. Some of us tend to focus on what we don't have at times rather than what we do have.

Imagine what it would be like if you started every morning being grateful. Grateful for a wonderful night's sleep, grateful for a warm bed, grateful for a comfortable mattress, grateful for being able to sleep in your own room. Wouldn't that be a positive way to start the day?

I once heard someone say - don't wait to have a wonderful day - start your day in a wonderful way. So why not start your day by being grateful from the moment you wake up.

Imagine the impact it would have on those around you if you show true gratitude. You would be the person they aspire to be. As we get older, we do tend to be more grateful, grateful for our health, our family, our friends, good food, at times even a sunny day. When we are grateful, we magnify our positive emotions.

The impact this attitude of gratitude would have on your children or grandchildren and generally the people around you would create an incredible ripple. You would be leading by example in such a positive way.

Gratitude is about appreciation; it is recognising the small details around you that are special. We take so much for granted. We start to appreciate 'the little things'. You start to see good in so many places. Living your life being grateful means that in so many small ways, everyday will be a positive experience.

Keeping a gratitude journal is a fantastic idea as it allows you to spend time each day thinking about what you can appreciate in your life. Oprah Winfrey once said:

"If you look at what you have in life, 

you'll always have more.

If you look at what you don't have in life, 

you'll never have enough."

So why not spread the gratitude and teach others around you how to be grateful. Lead by example; start to send thank you notes to friends for small things. It could be a call, a text or an email.

Display gratitude and thankfulness to those around you often. The more people that hear and experience your appreciation, the bigger the ripple effect.

The bonus is that the more you display appreciation and gratitude, the more you will experience and notice the small things that we do for others. At times, if we let it, our life can feel hectic and we can reach our capacity and then comes overwhelm; however, when we stop, take a moment to enjoy the present that is when we can see, feel and experience, all the wonderful things and people that surround us every day.

Promoting this is promoting life. Live your life everyday with an attitude of gratitude.

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5 Ways to Reduce Worry Right Now

by Colin G Smith

Everybody worries about things from time to time. Amongst the most common things people worry about are; Health, Work, Children, Looks, Age and Money. It's only really a problem when a person starts dwelling on worrying thoughts. Obviously it would be best to simply 'stop worrying' but this is easier said than done, unless you know about the following worry reducing methods

1. Get Above it All

When you're worrying you tend to focussing on big worrying images. By changing perspective and 'getting above it all' you can quickly change your response to the source of the worry and feel more detached and objective. Go and ahead and think about the thing that worries you. Now in your mind step back and imagine seeing yourself 'down there with the worry' as you float higher up to get a bird's eye view of it all.

2. Meditation

It's well substantiated that meditation can help to reduce stress and anxiety. By doing basic breathing meditation you can reduce your feeling of worry. Simple get comfortable. Close your eyes and concentrate on the sensation of the breath going and out. Do this for ten minutes and notice how you feel afterwards!

3. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

EFT has become quite well known and for good reason. EFT or 'energy tapping' is a way of using the fingers to gently tap the meridian points on the body which causes blocks in the human energy system to be released. By tapping away 'worry' you will feel more inner calm instead.

4. Art Therapy

This can be done in a very simple yet effective way. It's been observed that when people are stressed or agitated they tend to doodle with angular strokes. Because of the mind/body connection you can send calming vibes to the mind by drawing curvy / circular motions. Simply start doodling with pen or pencil, curves, circles and figure eights.

5. Practice Gratitude

The feeling of gratitude is a great antidote to worry and anxiety. Pick something really basic that you can feel grateful for right now. Are you in a warm, safe place? Feel grateful about that. Now what else can you feel grateful about? Friendships? Family? Pets?

Worrying at the end of the day is just a series of thought processes. Images and words in the mind. We can interrupt these thoughts and instead think about more positive things. By practicing simple methods like the one's above we can learn to reduce our worrying and enjoy life more.

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Why Do Some People Seem Luckier Than Others?

By Sara Linn Anderson

To help us decide, let's take a look at the lives of two women, Kelly and Michelle. 

Kelly is one of those people who seem to have it all. She's popular, cute, and always in a great mood. She has a thriving business and a nice car, a great wardrobe, and she is married to the love of her life. She always seems to be in the right place at the right time; just last month she won a 32" TV after buying a a raffle ticket!

Michelle has lived alone in a tiny apartment in the mountains for the past 13 years. She says all the good men are taken and there are just no good men in the small mountain community where she lives. She drives 80 miles to work, where she works two days a week. She can't stand being in the city because the people are too unfriendly there, but there just aren't any opportunities closer to her house that she's heard of. Her car has broken down twice this year and she is already starting to worry about how she's going to make it down the mountain safely with the adverse winter weather coming. Her house seems to be falling apart right before her eyes. Just last month a tree branch fell on her house and now she has to get her roof fixed before winter hits. She just can't seem to catch a break!

Is Kelly actually luckier than Michelle? The answer, of course, is no. 

The simple truth is, whatever you put your energy and focus on, is what you will attract into your life. This is because your subconscious speaks the language of your emotions. If you are afraid all the time and you worry that bad things will happen, you're sending a message to your subconscious to bring this type of thing in. Your focus is the only thing that the subconscious responds to. What you are focused on is what you are instructing your subconscious to manifest.

Did Michelle actually make her car break down? She's already worrying about it with the upcoming bad weather. She knows that the same weather conditions arrive every year yet she continues to allow it be a problem in her life. Driving over three hundred miles a week for a part time job is expensive with the current gas prices, yet she hasn't bothered looking closer to home for a job. She spends most of her time worrying and she expects that the worst will happen to her - and it sure seems to be.

By now, you should know what this "law of attraction" thing works both ways. When you dream about and visualize positive things, you send a specific message to your subconscious, which understands that it's the good things that you want.

If we were to ask Kelly about winning the TV, she would likely reply, "I am just so blessed!" She sees her whole life as a blessing. Her life seems so easy, but she actually puts in quite a bit of effort and focus to make it go the way she wants. Owning a business is quite a time consuming endeavor yet she seems to do it almost effortlessly. This is because she refuses to focus on little problems that arise so you won't see her complaining when things wrong. She's learned that obstacles are something she only sees when she takes her eyes off of her goal.

Would you be surprised to know that she buys her clothes at discount stores and thrift shops? Since she takes such good care of her health she is fit and whatever she puts on looks simply amazing. Not only does she find great clothes at killer prices, her outfits are one of a kind so you won't find them hanging on the rack by the dozens at department stores. Her nice car is a actually few years old it but looks brand new because the body style hasn't changed and she takes good care of it. She decided to buy a used vehicle in good condition to avoid paying the sticker price and she put the extra money she saved towards retirement. Because she shopped around and got a good price, she'll sell it in a year or two for close to what she paid for it. This way she can enjoy a newer car and have less of a risk of mechanical problems.

So is Kelly actually luckier than Michelle, or has she just discovered the key to success and happiness? And what is that exactly? Is it just using the law of attraction alone? No, but it sure plays a key role. To create a life that's worth living you need to incorporate some or all of the following ingredients:?

A positive attitude!

Having a plan and setting goals to help make that plan happen

Self Discipline and consistency

A feeling of gratitude for what you have

Compassion and a heart that is open to love

Does Michelle display any of these qualities in the paragraph above? There's no indication that she does.

Does Kelly? Absolutely!

We all experience ups and downs in our lives. However, when we operate powerfully from our higher place, we understand that there are life lessons which arise and that we need to learn from them in order to move forward in life. We understand that life lessons are usually shrouded in unpleasant situations. When we focus on finding what the lesson is, instead of wallowing in being uncomfortable, we can focus on identifying it, learning from it, and moving on - back to our beautiful life again. And we're even stronger than we were before.

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