4 posts tagged “belief”

When my clients write down their visions of a dream life, they often leave themselves out.  They list the material items, the places they'll go, the money they'll have, and so on, but they don't describe how they will feel when it will all comes true.  If you are stressed now, will you want to be stressed in your dream future?  If you feel badly about yourself, do you think it would make any difference if you had all the money in the world and wore a size 0?

If you give yourself a hard time on a regular basis, I can assure you that your dream life will take longer to create.  This emotional misalignment creates drag on your forward motion.  Treasuring yourself in the now will prepare you to be treasured and well-loved in the future.

To help you begin treasuring yourself, I suggest the following: write yourself a love letter.  Tell yourself everything you admire and cherish about you.  Make some promises about how you will treat yourself from now on.  Tell yourself that it's okay not to be perfect.  Use this opportunity to break through the old messages and crap that you've been beating yourself over the head with and replace them with new, more loving thoughts.  By doing so, you will also be producing nurturing chemicals in your body, rather than the harsh and damaging chemicals of anxiety and stress. Do it today!

If you care to share your love letter to yourself, I'd be honored to read it. 

Ezequiel Perez is a lucky man.  In 1995 in Cuba, where his situation was economically dire, he applied for the U.S.'s visa lottery.  20,000 visas a year are awarded to Cubans and their families.  Although his friends and family made fun of him, he remained certain that he would be selected.  He was, and he came to the U.S. with his family.

Three weeks ago, Ezequiel won $33 million in Florida's state lottery. 

Prior to winning, Ezequiel had some hard times.  He and his wife were divorced, and he lost his job.  He moved back to New York to try to find a job there, but ended up back in West Palm Beach, making a tiny wage and doing odd jobs.  And then he watched The Secret.

According to the instructions in the movie, Ezequiel made a vision board, gluing pictures of the things he wanted on a poster.  He studied it regularly, visualizing his new life.  The certainty that seems to be a part of his character surfaced again.

"I had a peace of mind that scared me," he says.  A "quick pick" ticket delivered his vision to him.

So, what do you think?  Do you think that Ezequiel created his opportunity by getting serious and detailed about what he wanted and needed in his life, and then believing that he would have it?

I do.  Because Ezequiel is not the only lottery winner I know who used a vision board to turn possibility into reality. Years ago, a lifelong friend of mine used the same technique, only she drew her vision instead of sticking pictures on a poster.  She did share Ezequiel's certainty, though.  She said that she had developed "an air of expectant anticipation."

Have you developed such an air? 

If not, when will you begin?

Yes, you read that right.  The title of this post was a headline in my local community newspaper recently.  The article itself was about cold medications, but the head of the person doing the page layout was somewhere else. 

Or maybe not.  Because a lot of the advice in the column, which was indeed about medication, still applies to meditating.  Meditation is a powerful tool in amplifying possibility into reality.  If you're stuck on your way to your goals, feeling like you've got a virus in your belief system, you might try some of the following suggestions from the column (with a dose of my editing):

•  Treat individual symptoms with single-ingredient meditations. Narrow, focused meditations are often better than the "one-med-fits-all" approach.  The doses in a combo meditation may be too potent for mild symptoms, or not strong enough for severe symptoms.  With focus, you can better control the dosage.

•  Choose the right meditation for the right symptom.  Are you trying to energize yourself, or shift gears?  Do you need healing, or calming?  Are you afraid, or pissed off? Understanding the root cause of your symptoms will help you to better focus your meditation. 

•  Go ahead and use more than one meditation if you're experiencing more than one symptom.  Luckily for us, there aren't a lot of side effects to doing multiple meditations.  Just be sure that your meditation doses don't get so large that they begin to interfere with your ability to act.

•  Check with an expert if you have questions.  It's okay to not know what ails you.  Seek the advice of someone you trust if you need help sorting out your thinking.

And remember, some meditations may cause drowsiness, but a little nap might be just the thing your brain needs to make sense of it all.

Wishing you every possibility!

...gets reported on a lot of blogs!  In town for the Newspaper Association of America marketing conference.  Well, actually, I'm not attending, because I'm no longer in the newspaper business.  I just left my job as vice president of new initiatives for the Miami Herald to go back into business for myself.  And yet I find myself here because my boyfriend is still in the newspaper business, so it was a great excuse to come and see all my friends.

Are you considering stepping off the treadmill?  It's kinda scary and exciting all at the same time, isn't it?  If you really have a dream, some of the steps to getting there are really big, aren't they?  For some time I've felt like I've been in two different universes, one foot in each.  Finally now I've got them both planted in one universe, a new universe, and it feels really good.  It took me a couple of months to get here, and sometimes I feel the other universe tapping on my shoulder, whispering job offers in my ear, promising regular paychecks and health insurance.

But I believe that what I'm doing is the right thing, that what I believe I can create, I can.  One of the techniques I'm fond of for stablizing belief is acting as if it's already so.  Here's why: as Dr. Bruce Lipton, author of the Biology of Belief, told me in my recent interview with him, the subconscious mind is just a computer.  It sees everything.  It has perfect knowledge of all of the possibilities.  The conscious mind applies filters to all of that information, and sometimes not to our benefit.  The more we facilitate the subconscious mind's ability to compute by lining up our conscious mind with what we want, the easier it is for the subconscious mind to get it done.  

Stay focused!  Don't let anyone steal your belief in yourself!

If you're in transition, too, I'd love to hear about your adventures.  Leave me a comment here, or drop me a note at kim@kimmarcille.com.