How often have we told ourselves that we should do more in life? How often have we thought about changing our life circumstances and never acted upon that impulse? Or maybe we've thought about all the reasons why we can't do better for ourselves. When you really start to think of it, there certainly seems to be a mountain of difficulties stacked up against us. From poor wages to poor relationships or bad financial situations we are certainly good at doing one thing, making excuses!
This mindset is so troubling that it has been the constant driving force for why our civilization and planet are in distress. We bare an immense weight as humans. You may think your life is insignificant but the truth is that you carry the same purpose that everyone carries.
Our purpose, although vast in definition is ultimately the same. This is why we all have a sense of belonging to something larger than oneself. When we can begin to identify this oneness and learn to appreciate our fellow humans without judgment, we can evolve into the beings we are intended to be. We are spiritual in nature. We influence our reality at the level of our oneness. Through conscious focus and attention to your mind you can discover how your mind works. When we listen to our thoughts we are the observer and as the observer we are then free to either accept or reject the thoughts we are having. Consciously choosing our moment by moment thoughts is the path to a life that only dreams are made of.
When we tell ourselves that we should do more in life or we ridicule ourselves because of all the difficult situations facing us, why don't we simply choose not to have those thoughts? It really is a choice we can each make. It's not even hard to do. Try listening to your thoughts asking yourself ?why am I having these thoughts? and then simply dismiss or accept the thoughts.
You can start doing this today, right now! Nobody can judge you or tell you that you're crazy. You can have no fear of what others think. Life is about studying your mind, listening to your intuitions and the acting upon them. We live in a cause and effect world, when we want something to happen we must first set it in motion. This is a widely accepted scientific process and we have the power to shape it as we see fit.
We cannot change a car into a pile of money or a toad into a perfect mate but we can use the subtle influence that resides in each one of us. Successful people are only successful in life because they understand these principles. Hopefully you see the pure potential inside your mind. Develop your mind, read, and open up to a world you were ment to be a part of. This is not a practice run, there are no do-overs in life so it's up to you to take responsibility for your thoughts and actions. It is your pathway to freedom.
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This can also apply to moving out of a comfort zone. When the pressure is off individuals will often return to their original state.
In order to move out of the comfort zone and create permanent change, strong enough pressure must be applied to transcend old habits. Once the pressure’s released you’ll then have successfully moved to a new level.
There is however another way of creating inner change, that, from experience, is not so painful, and that is through perceiving life differently.
This change can go unnoticed until such time you meet your fear face to face, which in my case was a fear of flying.
I often flew for either work or personal reasons although it filled me with fear every time I stepped onto an aircraft. That was until I finally had a panic attack flying at approximately 32,000 feet above the Australian outback.
Something had to give because I knew that sooner or later I’d again have to fly.
One day with the help of a great coach friend of mine worked on eliminating this fear of mine. We did this by drawing a line, which we named the past time line, and looked at the different events that occurred on it. Nothing exciting really, and we spent the time with my friend asking me questions and me answering them as best I could. To me it was a routine day having fun with a wonderful friend and deciding to do something about my fear.
I thought nothing more about our session until it came time for me to once again fly. There I sat in the departure lounge waiting for the familiar stirrings of anxiety and stress to overwhelm me but something wonderful happened. Nothing! No anxiety, no stress! I had finally become comfortable with the uncomfortable!
Even as the aircraft became airborne, I remained calm and have since enjoyed my flights tremendously.
I now have this new sense of freedom all because I decided to look into why I had this fear in the first place.
We’re all so magnificently unique that not everyone’s outcome will be exactly the same as mine – some may need to work harder at it, some possibly less.
Whatever the case when individuals choose to remain within the safety of their comfort zone nothing changes and life goes on as it’s always done – which is perfectly okay.
For others, it takes commitment on their part to change old habits until the new behaviour becomes the ‘norm’, which it will eventually.
Unfortunately there’s no instant fix or cure (I would’ve found it by now) – personal effort is required, and will, in all likelihood, be uncomfortable initially.
The outcome of this will be living how you want to live, and knowing you achieved this through your own efforts by simply changing your mind.
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