The Seven-Day Mental Diet
The food you furnish your mind determines the character of your life.
The subjects you allow your mind to dwell upon, make your surroundings what they are.
Everything in your life today - the state of your body, the state of your fortune, the state of your home, the present condition of every phase of your life - is entirely conditioned by the habitual tone of your past thinking. The condition of your life next week, and next year, will be conditioned by the thoughts and feelings that you entertain from now onward.
In other words, YOU CHOOSE YOUR LIFE!
Thought is the real causative force in life, there is no other.
You cannot have one kind of mind and another kind of environment.
You cannot change your environment while leaving your mind unchanged.
This is the real key to life; if you change your mind your conditions must change too.
Your body must change, your activities must change; your home must change;
the color-tone of your whole life must change.
And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind...
(Romans 12:2)
This may be the GREAT COSMIC LAW
The practical difficulty in applying it arises from the fact that our thoughts are so close to us that it is difficult, with out a little practice, to stand back and look at them objectively. Yet, that is what you must learn to do. You must train yourself to choose the subject of your thinking at any given time, and also to choose the emotional tone.
If you are not determined to start in now and carefully select all day the kind of thoughts that you are going to think, you may as well give up all hope of shaping your life into the kind of thing that you want it to be.
To train yourself in the habit of thought selection will be difficult for the first few days, but it is the most interesting experiment that you could possibly make. You will be amazed at the things that you will learn about yourself. This week may be the most significant week in your whole life; not only will you be able to face your present difficulties in a better spirit, but the difficulties will go. You cannot change conditions directly – you have often tried to do so and failed – but go on the seven-day mental diet and conditions MUST change for you.
The way to start on a Seven-Day Mental Diet is to BEGIN NOW.
This is your Seven-Day Mental Diet prescription
For seven days you must not allow yourself to dwell for a moment on
any kind of negative thought.
You must watch yourself for a week and must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
This discipline will be so strenuous that you could not maintain it consciously for much more than a week, but a week will be enough, because by that time the habit of positive thinking will begin to be established. Some changes for the better will have come into your life, encouraging you enormously, and then the new way of life will be so attractive that you will find your mentality aligning itself almost automatically.
What is meant by negative thinking?
A negative thought is any thought of failure, disappointment, or trouble; any thought of criticism, or spite, or jealousy, or condemnation of others, or self-condemnation; and thought of sickness or accident; or, in short, any kind of limitation. In practice you will never have any trouble in knowing whether a thought is positive or negative. Even if your brain tries to deceive you, your heart will whisper the truth.
It is not the thoughts that come to you that matter, but only such of them as you choose to entertain and dwell upon. Many negative thoughts will come to you all day long. Some will be given to you by other people, or you will hear disagreeable news. These things, however, do not matter so long as you do not entertain them.
Red Hot Cinder Analogy
An analogy is furnished by the case of a man who is sitting by an open fire when a red hot cinder flies out and falls on his sleeve. If he blows that cinder off at once, without a moment's delay to think about it, no harm is done. But, if he allows it to rest on him for a single moment, under any pretense, the mischief is done, and it will be a troublesome task to repair that sleeve. So it is with a negative thought.
Rock On
People often find that the starting of this seven-day mental diet seems to stir up difficulties. It seems as though everything begins to go wrong at once. This may be disconcerting, but it is really a good sign. Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.
Do NOT tell anyone else that you are on a mental diet.
Remember that your soul should be the Secret Place of the Most High. When you have secured your new mentality, then tell the story to anyone else whom you think is likely to be helped by it.
Meditation
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal;
no door that enough love will not open; no gulf that enough love will not bridge;
no wall that enough love will not throw down; no sin that enough love will not redeem.
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle,
how great the mistake; a sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
The Seven-Day Mental Diet comes directly from
Around The Year with Emmet Fox – A Book of Daily Readings, p. 360-363. ISBN: 978-0-06-250408-1
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Turn The Other Cheek
RESIST NOT EVIL
The Greatest Metaphysical Secret
To the world – those who do not understand – it sounds like moral suicide, the feeblest surrender to aggression; but it is superb spiritual strategy. Antagonize any situation, and you give it power against yourself; offer mental nonresistance, and it crumbles in front of you.
WHAT YOU RESIST, PERSISTS
TURN THE OTHER CHEEK
This is a mental practice, not a physical action. This refers to changing of one's thought when faced with error, changing from the error to the Truth – and , as a rule, it acts like magic.
It will sometimes happen that you will find yourself in company where the conversation is very negative, sickness and trouble being described and dwelt upon at great length, or perhaps uncharitable statements made concerning absent people. For various reasons it may be difficult for you to withdraw, and if so your duty is clear – you must mentally “turn the other cheek” and thus help both the speakers and their victims.
YOUR OWN CONCEPT IS WHAT YOU SEE
If, when someone is behaving badly, instead of thinking of the trouble, you will immediately switch your attention off from the human to the Divine, and concentrate upon the Real Spiritual Self of the person in question, you will find – if you really do this – that his conduct will immediately change.
THE SECRET OF HANDLING DIFFICULT PEOPLE
Remember, they are not doing it to you...they are just doing it.
If people are troublesome, you have only to change your thought about them, and then they will change too, because your own concept is what you see. This is the true revenge. It has been tried thousands and thousands, perhaps millions of times, and it never fails when properly carried out. It is often quite amusing to see it acting like clockwork. If somebody comes into the room at home, or into the office or shop, or anywhere else, looking as if he meant to make trouble, just try switching you attention straight off to the Divine, instead of sparring up aggressively to meet the difficulty or shrinking away to avoid it, according to your temperament. You will be amused and gratified to see the anger fade away from the subject's face (which will mean it has faded from his hear too and quite different expression take its place. You may find it helpful in the beginning to glance away from him while giving yourself this “treatment,” but with a little practice you will be able, so to speak, to look through him to the Truth of Being (the same spark of consciousness that is in you is in them and is in the God of your understanding).
PRAYER AND AN OPEN MIND
When you find yourself in difficulties, you should pray for harmony and freedom, and expect to get it; but you should not seek to select the exact arrangement that will come about, or the course that things will take.
*** Emmet Fox - The Sermon On The Mount - Chapter 4
Paraphrased for my own personal understanding and practical use. Take what you like and leave the rest.
The Greatest Metaphysical Secret
To the world – those who do not understand – it sounds like moral suicide, the feeblest surrender to aggression; but it is superb spiritual strategy. Antagonize any situation, and you give it power against yourself; offer mental nonresistance, and it crumbles in front of you.
WHAT YOU RESIST, PERSISTS
TURN THE OTHER CHEEK
This is a mental practice, not a physical action. This refers to changing of one's thought when faced with error, changing from the error to the Truth – and , as a rule, it acts like magic.
It will sometimes happen that you will find yourself in company where the conversation is very negative, sickness and trouble being described and dwelt upon at great length, or perhaps uncharitable statements made concerning absent people. For various reasons it may be difficult for you to withdraw, and if so your duty is clear – you must mentally “turn the other cheek” and thus help both the speakers and their victims.
YOUR OWN CONCEPT IS WHAT YOU SEE
If, when someone is behaving badly, instead of thinking of the trouble, you will immediately switch your attention off from the human to the Divine, and concentrate upon the Real Spiritual Self of the person in question, you will find – if you really do this – that his conduct will immediately change.
THE SECRET OF HANDLING DIFFICULT PEOPLE
Remember, they are not doing it to you...they are just doing it.
If people are troublesome, you have only to change your thought about them, and then they will change too, because your own concept is what you see. This is the true revenge. It has been tried thousands and thousands, perhaps millions of times, and it never fails when properly carried out. It is often quite amusing to see it acting like clockwork. If somebody comes into the room at home, or into the office or shop, or anywhere else, looking as if he meant to make trouble, just try switching you attention straight off to the Divine, instead of sparring up aggressively to meet the difficulty or shrinking away to avoid it, according to your temperament. You will be amused and gratified to see the anger fade away from the subject's face (which will mean it has faded from his hear too and quite different expression take its place. You may find it helpful in the beginning to glance away from him while giving yourself this “treatment,” but with a little practice you will be able, so to speak, to look through him to the Truth of Being (the same spark of consciousness that is in you is in them and is in the God of your understanding).
PRAYER AND AN OPEN MIND
When you find yourself in difficulties, you should pray for harmony and freedom, and expect to get it; but you should not seek to select the exact arrangement that will come about, or the course that things will take.
*** Emmet Fox - The Sermon On The Mount - Chapter 4
Paraphrased for my own personal understanding and practical use. Take what you like and leave the rest.
It is Blessed to be Persecuted as the Result of Our Right Thinking
This exerpt is worth sharing on this day of Thanksgiving. As we give "thanks" and "giving" attention today I am reminded of how many may not see the wonderful things all around them. Their minds are flooded with self-defeating emotions of worry, fear, excuses, gossip, self-pity, hopelessness, comparison, complaint, criticism, selfishness, negative thoughts and words that reflect all the pain they suffer with needlessly....If they only knew....read on...
"It is Blessed to be Persecuted as the Result of Our Right Thinking...All this is indeed very startling, and it is perfectly correct; only we have to understand that the source of all this persecution is none other that our own selves. No outside persecutor, but only our own lower selves.
When we find rightousness or right thinking very difficult - when we are very strongly tempted to hold the wrong thoughts about some situation, or some person, or about ourselves; to give way to fear, or anger, or despondency - then we are being persecuted for rightousness' sake, and this is for us an extremely fortunate or blessed condition, for it is in such moments that we are really advancing.
Every spiritual treatment or scientific prayer involves a tussle with our own lower self, which wishes to indulge the old habit of thought, and, in fact, persecutes and reviles us - if we like to put the thing dramatically in the Oriental way. All the great Prophets and Enlightened Ones of the race who ultimately overcame, did so by just such struggles with themselves, when they were being persecuted by their own lower natures, or the Old Adam.
Jesus himself, "who was tempted in all respects like as we are," had to meet this "persecution" more than once; especially in the Garden of Gethsemane, and, for a few moments, on the Cross itself. Now, since these combats with the lower self have to be fought out sooner or later, and so, relatively speaking, they are great blessings.
Note carefully that there is no virtue or advantage whatever in being persecuted or annoyed by other people. Nothing can come into our experience unless it finds something in us with which it is attuned: and so, to have trouble and difficulty is only a sign that our own mentality needs clearing up; for what you see at any time is nothing but your own concept.
We get only what belongs to us at any time, and nobody can prevent our getting that; and so all persecution and hindrance are absolutely from within.
-- Sermon On the Mount by Emmet Fox
May you find peace in your heart to enjoy yourself completely in the lifetime.
Dr. Susan Duve
A Happy Soul
"It is Blessed to be Persecuted as the Result of Our Right Thinking...All this is indeed very startling, and it is perfectly correct; only we have to understand that the source of all this persecution is none other that our own selves. No outside persecutor, but only our own lower selves.
When we find rightousness or right thinking very difficult - when we are very strongly tempted to hold the wrong thoughts about some situation, or some person, or about ourselves; to give way to fear, or anger, or despondency - then we are being persecuted for rightousness' sake, and this is for us an extremely fortunate or blessed condition, for it is in such moments that we are really advancing.
Every spiritual treatment or scientific prayer involves a tussle with our own lower self, which wishes to indulge the old habit of thought, and, in fact, persecutes and reviles us - if we like to put the thing dramatically in the Oriental way. All the great Prophets and Enlightened Ones of the race who ultimately overcame, did so by just such struggles with themselves, when they were being persecuted by their own lower natures, or the Old Adam.
Jesus himself, "who was tempted in all respects like as we are," had to meet this "persecution" more than once; especially in the Garden of Gethsemane, and, for a few moments, on the Cross itself. Now, since these combats with the lower self have to be fought out sooner or later, and so, relatively speaking, they are great blessings.
Note carefully that there is no virtue or advantage whatever in being persecuted or annoyed by other people. Nothing can come into our experience unless it finds something in us with which it is attuned: and so, to have trouble and difficulty is only a sign that our own mentality needs clearing up; for what you see at any time is nothing but your own concept.
We get only what belongs to us at any time, and nobody can prevent our getting that; and so all persecution and hindrance are absolutely from within.
-- Sermon On the Mount by Emmet Fox
May you find peace in your heart to enjoy yourself completely in the lifetime.
Dr. Susan Duve
A Happy Soul
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The Mastering of Manifestation
This article written by my mentor Peter Ragnar is worth sharing.
How many times have we become so attached to the outcome or time table of events that we actually sabotage the experience? I know I have done this on many occasions. It is neither good nor bad but merely a life lesson that has not been learned yet.
Read the article and see my comments at the end..... Dr. Susan Duve
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"The Master of Manifestation"
by Peter Ragnar
When my friend Kevin Trudeau asked another master of manifestation how he felt about making important decisions, this billionaire replied, "I care, but not too much." This harmonizes with what John Berry wrote, "The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." When you truly understand the art of manifestation, you realize that everything in your life is a result of flow.
"By flow, I mean a steady state of vibrations that you emit as a result of the things you think about most of the time."
Think it and you will feel it. Feel it and you'll vibrate and magnetize identical vibrations in return. Once you've accomplished this satisfactorily, you need not concern yourself with the when, why, or how. Oh yes, you care, but not too much. The reason being, you never doubt the outcome.
"Having a burning desire doesn't mean a willful coerciveness, attempting to force the universe to comply with your time table."
The more you relax, the faster the manifestation. Your sole responsibility is to encourage the exhilarating, electrifying, galvanizing, and thrilling emotions which charge your mental template and transmit the impression to the universal force field. It is from this that manifestation occurs.
There is a great scientific truth behind classic works like James Allen's As A Man Thinketh, Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, and others penned on this theme. According to quantum physics, the universe is a simple reflection of a far deeper order. The celebrated physicist David Bohm received a shattering insight from watching a BBC television program. The show demonstrated a drop of ink being placed in a jar full of glycerin and a cylinder inside the jar turned, at which point the drop appears to spread out and disappear. However, turn the handle in the opposite direction and the drop reappears. From this, Bohm developed his theory of enfolded and unfolded realities.
Or simply stated, the manifest reality we live and work in, and the invisible matrix from which all things come.
"If Bohm's research is correct, then as he concluded, consciousness is a subtle form of matter."
It's another step beyond the subatomic world of electrons, etc. While physicists were confounded by the electron being both a wave of vibration and a particle, and shape shifting according to the impact of the observer, they discovered an electron can "feel" the presence of a magnetic field - even if the scientist could not locate the electron.
Do not overlook the fact that every thought you think is electromagnetic, and the more emotional "juice" you apply to your thoughts, the more you become the master of manifestation. Your emotions are like sound waves in a deep ocean. The more intensity, passion, and fervor you apply, the more e-motive power is applied. The ocean of manifestation now has its handle turned and the enfolded or invisible now manifests as an unfolded reality.
"According to physics' new revelations, the mind is instantly everywhere."
Even to say "instantly" is incorrect. That implies travel. Consciousness doesn't travel; it is only accessed by degrees. The famous Dr. Wilder Penfield wrote, "To suppose that consciousness or mind has location is a failure to understand neurophysiology."
We're unconscious simply because we match the measure of our habit groove. Our mental habits determine how the mind interprets reality. Mind is the world of quantum reality. The mind is the bow, thought is the arrow, while the pounds of pull are determined by the degree of emotion applied. Once released, there's nothing much to do. So when the billionaire said, "I care, but not too much," he knew beyond doubt that if his aim or intention was on target - meaning he cared about his aim - once he let it fly, it was now up to the universe. So, why care too much?
"Our job is to focus our attention on what we choose to have happen."
We internalize and emotionalize and thus, we make intention conscious. We then draw the people and conditions we sought to manifest into our lives. According to the earlier writings of Hill, "It is the author's belief that the mind is made up of the same universal 'fluid' energy as that which constitutes the ether which fills the universe.
It is a fact as well known to the layman as to the man of scientific investigation, that some minds clash the moment they come in contact with each other, while other minds show a natural affinity for each other. Between the two extremes of natural antagonism and natural affinity growing out of the meeting or contacting of minds there is a wide range of possibility for varying reactions of mind upon mind."
"These reactions of 'mind upon mind' led Napoleon Hill to understand the power of the Master Mind."
When two focused, like-minded individuals come together with a vision, a goal to accomplish, they create by mental energy a third mind, considered by some to be a conscious entity, a magical genie or the mastermind. The incredible wealth and success the master of manifestation receives is almost always because he or she has become a member of a mastermind alliance. If two minds create a third, how many minds does it take to change a world? Personally, I care, but not too much, since the vibrations have been set and the end is reflected by the means. We have incredible power as masters of manifestation, thereby creating a universal mastermind for the good of all.
The view from the mountain as I see it today!
With you in opportunity and love,
Peter
www.roaringlionpublishing.com
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Comments by Dr. Susan Duve
What is the saying about "doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome"....not sure if I got that exactly right, but that could be a great definition for INSANITY!
When we force situations or become anxious about how things will play out in our experience, are we not creating the block to that experience by repelling it with the opposite energy that causes manifestation? YES we are.
When we continue to hope, try, and plead for the end result to be a certain way, are we not supporting the notion that the outcome may not turn out the way we want it, therefore we are expecting that we will not get what we desire? YES we are.
My advice and my mantra........
Breathe, Relax, Desire, Believe, and Expect to Receive
Be Well,
Dr. Susan Duve
www.duvewellnesscenter.com
How many times have we become so attached to the outcome or time table of events that we actually sabotage the experience? I know I have done this on many occasions. It is neither good nor bad but merely a life lesson that has not been learned yet.
Read the article and see my comments at the end..... Dr. Susan Duve
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"The Master of Manifestation"
by Peter Ragnar
When my friend Kevin Trudeau asked another master of manifestation how he felt about making important decisions, this billionaire replied, "I care, but not too much." This harmonizes with what John Berry wrote, "The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." When you truly understand the art of manifestation, you realize that everything in your life is a result of flow.
"By flow, I mean a steady state of vibrations that you emit as a result of the things you think about most of the time."
Think it and you will feel it. Feel it and you'll vibrate and magnetize identical vibrations in return. Once you've accomplished this satisfactorily, you need not concern yourself with the when, why, or how. Oh yes, you care, but not too much. The reason being, you never doubt the outcome.
"Having a burning desire doesn't mean a willful coerciveness, attempting to force the universe to comply with your time table."
The more you relax, the faster the manifestation. Your sole responsibility is to encourage the exhilarating, electrifying, galvanizing, and thrilling emotions which charge your mental template and transmit the impression to the universal force field. It is from this that manifestation occurs.
There is a great scientific truth behind classic works like James Allen's As A Man Thinketh, Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, and others penned on this theme. According to quantum physics, the universe is a simple reflection of a far deeper order. The celebrated physicist David Bohm received a shattering insight from watching a BBC television program. The show demonstrated a drop of ink being placed in a jar full of glycerin and a cylinder inside the jar turned, at which point the drop appears to spread out and disappear. However, turn the handle in the opposite direction and the drop reappears. From this, Bohm developed his theory of enfolded and unfolded realities.
Or simply stated, the manifest reality we live and work in, and the invisible matrix from which all things come.
"If Bohm's research is correct, then as he concluded, consciousness is a subtle form of matter."
It's another step beyond the subatomic world of electrons, etc. While physicists were confounded by the electron being both a wave of vibration and a particle, and shape shifting according to the impact of the observer, they discovered an electron can "feel" the presence of a magnetic field - even if the scientist could not locate the electron.
Do not overlook the fact that every thought you think is electromagnetic, and the more emotional "juice" you apply to your thoughts, the more you become the master of manifestation. Your emotions are like sound waves in a deep ocean. The more intensity, passion, and fervor you apply, the more e-motive power is applied. The ocean of manifestation now has its handle turned and the enfolded or invisible now manifests as an unfolded reality.
"According to physics' new revelations, the mind is instantly everywhere."
Even to say "instantly" is incorrect. That implies travel. Consciousness doesn't travel; it is only accessed by degrees. The famous Dr. Wilder Penfield wrote, "To suppose that consciousness or mind has location is a failure to understand neurophysiology."
We're unconscious simply because we match the measure of our habit groove. Our mental habits determine how the mind interprets reality. Mind is the world of quantum reality. The mind is the bow, thought is the arrow, while the pounds of pull are determined by the degree of emotion applied. Once released, there's nothing much to do. So when the billionaire said, "I care, but not too much," he knew beyond doubt that if his aim or intention was on target - meaning he cared about his aim - once he let it fly, it was now up to the universe. So, why care too much?
"Our job is to focus our attention on what we choose to have happen."
We internalize and emotionalize and thus, we make intention conscious. We then draw the people and conditions we sought to manifest into our lives. According to the earlier writings of Hill, "It is the author's belief that the mind is made up of the same universal 'fluid' energy as that which constitutes the ether which fills the universe.
It is a fact as well known to the layman as to the man of scientific investigation, that some minds clash the moment they come in contact with each other, while other minds show a natural affinity for each other. Between the two extremes of natural antagonism and natural affinity growing out of the meeting or contacting of minds there is a wide range of possibility for varying reactions of mind upon mind."
"These reactions of 'mind upon mind' led Napoleon Hill to understand the power of the Master Mind."
When two focused, like-minded individuals come together with a vision, a goal to accomplish, they create by mental energy a third mind, considered by some to be a conscious entity, a magical genie or the mastermind. The incredible wealth and success the master of manifestation receives is almost always because he or she has become a member of a mastermind alliance. If two minds create a third, how many minds does it take to change a world? Personally, I care, but not too much, since the vibrations have been set and the end is reflected by the means. We have incredible power as masters of manifestation, thereby creating a universal mastermind for the good of all.
The view from the mountain as I see it today!
With you in opportunity and love,
Peter
www.roaringlionpublishing.com
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Comments by Dr. Susan Duve
What is the saying about "doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome"....not sure if I got that exactly right, but that could be a great definition for INSANITY!
When we force situations or become anxious about how things will play out in our experience, are we not creating the block to that experience by repelling it with the opposite energy that causes manifestation? YES we are.
When we continue to hope, try, and plead for the end result to be a certain way, are we not supporting the notion that the outcome may not turn out the way we want it, therefore we are expecting that we will not get what we desire? YES we are.
My advice and my mantra........
Breathe, Relax, Desire, Believe, and Expect to Receive
Be Well,
Dr. Susan Duve
www.duvewellnesscenter.com
Sunday, January 24, 2010
So Life Throws Some Lemons Your Way....Promptly Make Your Lemonade!
We have all had our share of adversity at one time or another, I am sure.
When you are faced with challenging times that do not seem to fit the pretty little picture your life is supposed to look like...
When you are shocked because what happens to you does not match what you cut out of a magazine and pasted on your vision board...
When you are sure you are viewing someone else’s drama and life crisis, but not your own...
When you parade around giving advice to everyone about staying positive and being hopeful in spite of the circumstances that could never happen to you...
When you act as if the changes necessary are to be made by someone else and not you...
When you think that if you ignore it for a while it will go away or just miraculously work itself out...
When you ask for forgiveness for your bad behavior and cannot seem to forgive another...
When you look at your neighbor and think 'thank god I am not them' but return to your home which is just as bad or worse...
When you are in denial, in denial, in denial...the safe place where nothing is required to change or shift and you accept that nothing will change or shift, yet you stay there and complain, criticize, and control...
When you know that you CANNOT take what you have created or enabled for one more second...
THAT IS WHEN YOU CAN
BREAK FREE and BEGIN AGAIN
No one can get you there but YOU...
Find your Breaking Point...there is beautiful CHANGE waiting for you.
Lemonade Anyone?
Susan
When you are faced with challenging times that do not seem to fit the pretty little picture your life is supposed to look like...
When you are shocked because what happens to you does not match what you cut out of a magazine and pasted on your vision board...
When you are sure you are viewing someone else’s drama and life crisis, but not your own...
When you parade around giving advice to everyone about staying positive and being hopeful in spite of the circumstances that could never happen to you...
When you act as if the changes necessary are to be made by someone else and not you...
When you think that if you ignore it for a while it will go away or just miraculously work itself out...
When you ask for forgiveness for your bad behavior and cannot seem to forgive another...
When you look at your neighbor and think 'thank god I am not them' but return to your home which is just as bad or worse...
When you are in denial, in denial, in denial...the safe place where nothing is required to change or shift and you accept that nothing will change or shift, yet you stay there and complain, criticize, and control...
When you know that you CANNOT take what you have created or enabled for one more second...
THAT IS WHEN YOU CAN
BREAK FREE and BEGIN AGAIN
No one can get you there but YOU...
Find your Breaking Point...there is beautiful CHANGE waiting for you.
Lemonade Anyone?
Susan
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
YOUR SUCCESS SHOULD NOT BE TRIUMPHANT
My friend Tony hit the nail on the head here. I have said this time and time agian....your message matters....it really matters....check out my BLOG posts for more...
http://www.messagematters.blogspot.com
Be sure your message is EXACTLY what you want to experience!
To your happiness,
Dr. Susan Duve
http://www.polarismediagroup.com/freedom4me
http://www.knowforyourself.com Use Coupon code: 135297
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It might be. It could be. But it absolutely doesn't HAVE to be. Nor "should" it be.
I've been reading some member profiles and forum posts this morning and it's interesting to me that -- right here in our own Liberty League community -- there are some people who seem determined to hold views and thoughts like:
-- "I know it's going to be hard work"
-- "I know that I've got a lot to learn to be successful"
-- "I'm very worried about my retirement"
-- "I haven't made my training sales yet but I'm excited about the business"
-- "I'm enjoying the challenges that Liberty League offers"
-- etc.
Let's be clear on this. You don't get what you want in this business; you get what you ARE. And if you're determined to focus on what you don't have instead of what you want....then you'll continue to get more of what you're currently experiencing.
-- If you think it's going to be hard work....it'll be hard work.
-- If you think you've got a lot to learn to be successful.....then you'll have to learn a lot.
-- If you're worried about your retirement...life will make sure you get to keep worrying about it.
-- Why would someone actually identify themselves as someone who "hasn't made any sales yet"??
-- If you adopt the mindset that you enjoy challenges, you'll always have a lot of challenges to enjoy
Some reading this will think I'm being harsh. And perhaps I am. But it's because it's so tiring to see people invalidating themselves!
It's irritating! It's frustrating! It's aggravating! And it does absolutely NOTHING to move you forward to your goals.
Too many people have adopted the idea that massive success requires one to overcome huge obstacles and to break through massive barriers. While that might be true for some other people, that doesn't mean that has to be your experience. In fact, the TRUTH is that your success could be as easy as a walk in the park. But only if you'll allow it.
Watch your language. If you're still talking like you did before you came into Liberty League, then you've missed out on a LOT of lessons. Pay attention to how top earners in this community speak. There are certain words you'll rarely (never?) hear them use. There are certain phrases you'll never hear them say. And you'll never hear them invalidating themselves or their ability to succeed!
If you want what leaders have, do what they do. Learn to speak with strength and confidence.
Evict ANY words or language from your life that disempower you.
And this is especially true on the Internet. Everything said here is here for a long time. Years. Do you really want to make a permanent record of a mindset that's keeping you stuck?
Think about it.
And, again, if this sounds brash, it's because there's often a difference between what people want to hear and what they need to hear. If you find that this article is causing you to be angry, frustrated or hurt........then why not stop and ask why that is. Is it possible that you've been holding a mindset that's not serving you? Is it possible that you've been talking about yourself in a way that's disempowering?
Your success doesn't have to be "triumphant". It can be as simple as changing how you see yourself, talk about yourself and move in your business.
Think about it.
Tony Rush
EMC, LLI
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http://www.messagematters.blogspot.com
Be sure your message is EXACTLY what you want to experience!
To your happiness,
Dr. Susan Duve
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It might be. It could be. But it absolutely doesn't HAVE to be. Nor "should" it be.
I've been reading some member profiles and forum posts this morning and it's interesting to me that -- right here in our own Liberty League community -- there are some people who seem determined to hold views and thoughts like:
-- "I know it's going to be hard work"
-- "I know that I've got a lot to learn to be successful"
-- "I'm very worried about my retirement"
-- "I haven't made my training sales yet but I'm excited about the business"
-- "I'm enjoying the challenges that Liberty League offers"
-- etc.
Let's be clear on this. You don't get what you want in this business; you get what you ARE. And if you're determined to focus on what you don't have instead of what you want....then you'll continue to get more of what you're currently experiencing.
-- If you think it's going to be hard work....it'll be hard work.
-- If you think you've got a lot to learn to be successful.....then you'll have to learn a lot.
-- If you're worried about your retirement...life will make sure you get to keep worrying about it.
-- Why would someone actually identify themselves as someone who "hasn't made any sales yet"??
-- If you adopt the mindset that you enjoy challenges, you'll always have a lot of challenges to enjoy
Some reading this will think I'm being harsh. And perhaps I am. But it's because it's so tiring to see people invalidating themselves!
It's irritating! It's frustrating! It's aggravating! And it does absolutely NOTHING to move you forward to your goals.
Too many people have adopted the idea that massive success requires one to overcome huge obstacles and to break through massive barriers. While that might be true for some other people, that doesn't mean that has to be your experience. In fact, the TRUTH is that your success could be as easy as a walk in the park. But only if you'll allow it.
Watch your language. If you're still talking like you did before you came into Liberty League, then you've missed out on a LOT of lessons. Pay attention to how top earners in this community speak. There are certain words you'll rarely (never?) hear them use. There are certain phrases you'll never hear them say. And you'll never hear them invalidating themselves or their ability to succeed!
If you want what leaders have, do what they do. Learn to speak with strength and confidence.
Evict ANY words or language from your life that disempower you.
And this is especially true on the Internet. Everything said here is here for a long time. Years. Do you really want to make a permanent record of a mindset that's keeping you stuck?
Think about it.
And, again, if this sounds brash, it's because there's often a difference between what people want to hear and what they need to hear. If you find that this article is causing you to be angry, frustrated or hurt........then why not stop and ask why that is. Is it possible that you've been holding a mindset that's not serving you? Is it possible that you've been talking about yourself in a way that's disempowering?
Your success doesn't have to be "triumphant". It can be as simple as changing how you see yourself, talk about yourself and move in your business.
Think about it.
Tony Rush
EMC, LLI
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Facing Times Of Uncertainty
In facing times of uncertainty it is easy to jump on the wagon with the rest of the crowd and head to Doomsville, especially with the media pouring their fear ladden suggestions to panic and shiver in your shoes about what is coming next.
I say WAKE UP PEOPLE and stop playing the victim role.
Start taking control of your thinking!! Do you really think for yourself or do you follow the media hype? Are you really convinced that filling your mind and thoughts of fear of the future is best for your success in life?
MAKE A CHOICE....are you going to follow the masses and choose to live in fear or are you going to create something bigger and more fulfilling.
Why not?
My good friend Jennie Marlow talks of this uncertainty (blog post below)and how to overcome it by focusing intentions in each moment on creating joy! Choose joy in every moment and see what happens....more joy is found!
En-joy,
Dr. Susan Duve
Intentional Focus on Joyfulness
September 3rd, 2009 by jenniemarlow
“Everywhere, people pray to be relieved of their suffering. There is an antidote. It is to overcome any fears that are standing in the way of the full expression of what is joyful for you, no matter what happened before this moment, or what you believe will happen in the future.”
— Grandfather White Elk
Grandfather White Elk teaches us that most of the suffering we undergo is self-induced, a figment of the imagination that paints scenarios of what it fears. He says it is certainly possible to create wealth based on fear; people do this all the time. He reminds us, however, that what is created with fear as its foundation will generate and support more fear-based thinking, and this will rob it of its potential to be joyful and freeing. Fear of the future and regret about the past are what cause most of the suffering we endure. We prejudge the moment, without allowing its true meaning and full potential to emerge. The path of joy is thereby lost to us. It is also the case that if we are riding a wave of excitement over a belief we have in a certain outcome, the consequences are the same. In fact, Grandfather White Elk says there is no energetic difference between the motives we hold based on fear and the motives we hold based on excitement. Both motives are based on what we imagine about the future. The path of joy is one forged in what is real and true for us in any present moment, even if that moment is painful. In every now, our access to what is joyful is fully available to us. Every present moment beckons us with this very simple choice: will we choose based on our fear of uncertainty, or will we choose based on what is real and actualize-able now? If what we choose to bring into our lives is to deliver freedom, fun, ease and delight, it must be created from an intentional focus on these important essences.
I say WAKE UP PEOPLE and stop playing the victim role.
Start taking control of your thinking!! Do you really think for yourself or do you follow the media hype? Are you really convinced that filling your mind and thoughts of fear of the future is best for your success in life?
MAKE A CHOICE....are you going to follow the masses and choose to live in fear or are you going to create something bigger and more fulfilling.
Why not?
My good friend Jennie Marlow talks of this uncertainty (blog post below)and how to overcome it by focusing intentions in each moment on creating joy! Choose joy in every moment and see what happens....more joy is found!
En-joy,
Dr. Susan Duve
Intentional Focus on Joyfulness
September 3rd, 2009 by jenniemarlow
“Everywhere, people pray to be relieved of their suffering. There is an antidote. It is to overcome any fears that are standing in the way of the full expression of what is joyful for you, no matter what happened before this moment, or what you believe will happen in the future.”
— Grandfather White Elk
Grandfather White Elk teaches us that most of the suffering we undergo is self-induced, a figment of the imagination that paints scenarios of what it fears. He says it is certainly possible to create wealth based on fear; people do this all the time. He reminds us, however, that what is created with fear as its foundation will generate and support more fear-based thinking, and this will rob it of its potential to be joyful and freeing. Fear of the future and regret about the past are what cause most of the suffering we endure. We prejudge the moment, without allowing its true meaning and full potential to emerge. The path of joy is thereby lost to us. It is also the case that if we are riding a wave of excitement over a belief we have in a certain outcome, the consequences are the same. In fact, Grandfather White Elk says there is no energetic difference between the motives we hold based on fear and the motives we hold based on excitement. Both motives are based on what we imagine about the future. The path of joy is one forged in what is real and true for us in any present moment, even if that moment is painful. In every now, our access to what is joyful is fully available to us. Every present moment beckons us with this very simple choice: will we choose based on our fear of uncertainty, or will we choose based on what is real and actualize-able now? If what we choose to bring into our lives is to deliver freedom, fun, ease and delight, it must be created from an intentional focus on these important essences.
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