The moment you shift how you think about yourself and your circumstances both you and those circumstances will begin to change. Be it negatively or in a positive way.

I’m sure you’ve heard the idea that our thoughts somehow shape the reality we experience, that negative thoughts influence the world around us and bring about negative circumstances; while positive thoughts somehow bring about positive circumstances. Like attracts like, your thoughts create feelings and emotions that in turn vibrate out into a physical manifestation.

Well an entire industry of motivational speakers has been created around this premise. Bob Proctor, Rhonda Byrne, Dr. Joe Dispenza just to name a few. Almost all of us have been exposed to the tenets of positive thinking but if it works so well, then why isn’t everyone who attends these seminars and reads these books rich and successful and most of all happy?

If all we need to do is to think positive thoughts we should be able to create a positive world almost overnight. This is where you have to think it and feel it, the latter being the most important. You have to feel it in your heart and gut, truly believe it otherwise it will not work. In other words you have to connect your thoughts to your heart and raise your mood, vibration, frequency.

Here is a discovered philosophy that I’ll share with you along with a set of tools and practices I think will not only be a tremendous benefit but will literally allow you to become your potential and derive the maximum pleasure out of life. But before you just jump in you have to have and practice gratitude on a daily basis for the rest of your life. To do this I have always said that the techniques that I discovered in, “The secret,” by Rhonda Byrne are the best that I have used and continue to use. So to change your mindset I highly recommend that for 28 days you get yourself a gratitude journal and start writing ten things each day that you are grateful for. The reason it is best to do this is so that it starts changing your natural negative thinking into a more positive mindset. I know because it has changed my life for the best.

Much of what I’m about to share with you will seem simple in concept, the best ideas usually are and so I should warn you that there’s a tendency to view these simple ideas from a surface level without really internalizing and practicing them. Therefore I recommend that you set time aside for yourself and practice these techniques at least three times a day. Each time you practice these ideas rather than using your rational intellectual mind which analyzes things to death, use your playful risk-taking side and make the effort to incorporate these tools into your daily life. The reason I’m asking this of you is because I know that most of you will read this once and you’ll never really use the knowledge and that’s ok it just means you are not ready yet. I want you to use this stuff to practice it and internalize it. You see it takes a commitment, a conscious commitment to make positive change occur on a subconscious level. The tools and reprogramming processes must be used to make them work.

Look here’s something I want you to realize right now the old you will do everything in its power to prevent change it will come up with excuses for not carrying out these practices, it will procrastinate and make excuses for not using these ideas and programs. Even if they’re good for you and the reason why you’ll do that to yourself is because the old you is comfortable it has a built-in survival mechanism to protect the status quo. That’s why change is so difficult and it’s also why positive thinking on a surface level always fails millions. Millions of people attend positive thinking seminars or buy books and courses each year. Yet very few derive lasting benefits from them. If you’ve ever attended any of these seminars or read any of these books you’re usually high from the motivational uplift for about two days then you go back to your old self again. Listen it isn’t that the material isn’t valid or doesn’t work it does, it’s just the positive thinking and motivational stories deal only with your conscious mind. That conscious mind is not the engine that powers your life rather it’s the subconscious or the unconscious portions of your mind from which your behavior and attitude spring going directly into the unconscious and rewiring how you think about yourself. Your future is the key to permanent and lasting change and that’s precisely what we’ll be addressing in this blog.

Ok let’s begin first off let me give you the philosophy behind this program and also answer the question of just how our thinking and beliefs on a subconscious level affects our wealth, our health and our success or failure. In any undertaking let me tell you something that sums up rather nicely the point of all of this.

“What we believe determines what we make true.”

Let me say that again to you,

“What we believe determines what we make true,” our perceptions of reality, how we think about ourselves and the world around us, what we look for and what we take to be true is determined by our beliefs.

Believe you can change reality or at least the reality that you experience I’m saying is it through your beliefs you form your reality. Here is a story to emphasise the point;

A very successful and very wealthy real estate entrepreneur started without a single penny in his pocket and he was able to amass a great fortune in only a few years with a simple philosophy of faking it until he made it. He convinced himself on a subconscious level that he had already acquired a great fortune when in fact he was really broke; in his mind he became a millionaire the circumstances that brought about that reality then followed.

Now I’m sure that you’ve heard similar stories what we take to be true on a subconscious level becomes our reality now does that mean that skill and luck don’t play a role in wealth and prosperity, well money-making skills are learned and begin with a desire and a belief that it’s possible. Remember what we believe is based on our perceptions and what we perceive depends upon what we look for and what we look for depends upon what we think. We all know of those people who seem to be exceptionally lucky it is created out of a core belief that good things should happen; it’s an expectation. Expect to be lucky and you will be it’s as simple as that.

Now you’ve probably seen this happen to you all the time but in Reverse you know when you tell yourself that you’re having a bad day and sure enough you do what we believe determines what we make true and that’s the entire premise of this idea. What I’m telling you here is nothing new in fact it’s very old, philosophers and great thinkers have been saying it for thousands of years the Roman philosopher, Marcus Aurelius said,

“Our light is what our thoughts make of it.”

Napoleon Hill said exactly the same thing in, “Think Grow Rich,”everyone’s sense has said the same basic idea but that doesn’t necessarily help you make it work better. See you’ve got to break through an encrusted mind script that’s made up of years of negative programming that’s why we’ve created mind development tools. The purpose of these tools is to deal with the issue of beliefs and behavior at the deepest levels of your being and to anchor these new beliefs into your subconscious.

Where your beliefs are formed and reinforced by your perceptions and thus made true to create lasting change you must Re-program the core set of beliefs that forms how you think and perceive your reality inside our subconscious minds we have scripted what we see as the truth. It is difficult because the first seven years of your life you are like a computer gathering information from all around you, your environment, your experiences so that you then know how to conduct yourself to survive in your environment or more importantly your society.

Remember what we accept to believe as true is true or becomes true. Any evidence contrary to our core beliefs is discarded or perceptually modified by our brains. So if you’ve been told all your life that you’ll never amount to anything or believe that being wealthy is something beyond your grasp then that is the mind script, mindset; it is welded into your subconscious and then that’s the reality you will experience.

Now enough talk about that let me give you now a very simple and very powerful tool that you can use to create the reality that you’d like to experience, to attract wealth and prosperity to bring forth loving, positive relationships, to make you shine, glow and achieve in every area of your life.

It’s a process I call visionary.

What is it?

Well it’s a program of mental rehearsal of future events that anchors successful images to positive emotions through a simple visualization technique. I use this every morning, to plan out my day so that it is a positive experience, because no one wants to have a bad day, week, month or year.

It also programs the subconscious to bring forth a desired goal into reality. Now you’re probably familiar with visualization techniques and perhaps you’ve experimented with them in your life. That’s good most people try it for a while but then they give up; usually for two reasons;

The first is that the old you creeps in again with excuses for not changing also because you may not have been doing it right so you never really noticed any positive feedback to justify continuing doing it.

Well I’m going to give you a super simple solution that’s going to work incredibly well, but it’s up to you to use it and there are three steps in the process before I give them to you let me give you a bit of a tip you must set up a regular time each and every day for your visionary session. We’re talking about five minutes a day, five minutes and you can achieve any worthwhile goal that you desire, morning or night, it doesn’t really matter. Just give yourself the five minutes you’re worth it.

Now this five minutes must be exclusively devoted to the visionary process. Be excited.

Okay are you ready for a session;

Get into a comfortable position close your eyes and with your eyes closed roll them upwards slightly as if you’re trying to see the center of your forehead.

Listen to yourself breathe, focusing your attention on slowly taking deep breaths and on the sound of the air coming in and out of your lungs.

Feel yourself relaxed. Do this breathing exercise five times; it will only take 45 seconds or so.

As you focus on your breathing this is a simple relaxation exercise that will immediately alter your consciousness putting your brain into an alpha state. In fact if you were to hook yourself up to an EEG machine while doing a simple procedure you would see an increase in alpha wave production emitting from your brain in only 45 seconds.

There are five basic types of brain waves that range from very slow to very fast. Alpha waves fall in the middle of that series of waves. Your brain produces these waves when you’re awake but not really concentrating on any one thing.The waves simply indicate that you are in a state of wakeful rest.

You know there are seminars that charge a lot of money to teach you this. Okay so you’ve learned how to induce an alpha brainwave state in 45 seconds the next step is;

To pick out an image of a past memory where you were extremely happy really get in touch with that experience it doesn’t really matter what it is or when it happened the point is to conjure up a winning feeling or a positive emotion that you can then use to connect with your image of a future event.

Perhaps this is an image of the moment you remember falling in love or receiving a standing ovation during a high school play. Go back into your past and pull out a very specific event that you will relive in every detail. Feel the paths on your back, the loving adulation, remember the voices, the smells, the colours as you recreate this scene. let yourself re experience all of those winning feelings. What you’re doing here is bringing forward into your consciousness a positive emotion that will psychologically become connected with a future goal in your subconscious. This has the effect of anchoring that desired goal into the subconscious mind, so that it’s energized, it becomes a subconscious reality.

Now making it happen is really quite easy because if the subconscious mind believes it, it will alter your perceptions and will look for it to make it into a reality. I’ll talk more about that a little bit later. Okay once you’ve relived that positive moment and felt those winning feelings welling up inside of you the next step is;

To envision the future goal that you want to achieve as vividly as possible it can be through a mental picture, a word, a musical note, a taste in fact any sensory image that you can think of.

Each person is different, some people respond better to pictures while others to words. The key point here is to see yourself as if you’ve already achieved that goal. Whether it’s in the form of a picture, of feeling, or words. If it’s money, see yourself as already having it perhaps the images are of you going to the bank with a big deposit or you’re sitting at your desk at work piled high with hundred-dollar bills. Smell the money, roll in it, throw it in the air, see yourself walking down the street wearing the finest clothes, driving your dream car, hearing the whispers and comments of your friends, wondering how you ever got so successful.

If you’re a student taking a test see that big red mark across the top of your exam, if you’re a salesperson see yourself actually closing the sale, if you’re giving a speech see the audience clapping for you and telling you what a wonderful job that you’ve done. Let’s say you want a vacation home on Cape Cod or in Malibu, picture yourself walking through the front door noticing the colour, the texture of the walls, the lawn, the roof, the reception area. Go ahead and walk through the entire home in your mind filling in the details exactly as you would like them to be in your reality, give your images as much richness and detail as you possibly can and don’t worry if at first your images are a bit fuzzy the process improves with practice. Tie-in sounds smells and touch; in fact the more senses and the greater the specificity the more ammunition that you’re giving your subconscious mind to believe it and then to act on it. Nikola Tesla use to visualise all of his ideas and inventions down to the very smallest of details and this avoided countless prototypes they just seemed to work from the start, amazing.

Okay you get the idea now let’s review the steps here;

First you get comfortable, close your eyes and roll them upward focusing your breathing for five breaths.

Second recreate a winning feeling by bringing forth a positive image from your past and reliving it for a minute or two.

Three envision your future goal as if you’ve already achieved it and do a mental rehearsal of that event or objective with as much colour and detail as possible.

Now there’s one last thing that I want you to do at the end of every session that may seem a bit strange at first but it’s very powerful and very important. When you open your eyes I want you to say the following out loud,

“I now allow myself to have………” and then fill in the blank with whatever it was that you want, then say so be it. This simple statement to yourself affirms the goal that you’ve just programmed and releases it.

Why release it?

What you want to do after affirming it is to release it and not dwell on it. Dwelling on something is like telling your subconscious mind that you don’t really believe that it’s possible. It’s like wanting something so badly you know when you want something too much and that you’re afraid that you’re not going to get it. This is what I call choke syndrome or blocking. When you try too hard you choke/ block on it and it’s a very easy thing to do. People who wish for something fall prey to this all the time; however if you visualise it you’ve already created it. Now release it and let it go, by letting go of it you’re actually programming in your subconscious the belief that you expect it to happen and dwelling on it only creates mental doubt that you believe it’s really possible.

There’s something else too, you must believe that you deserve it and not feel the least bit guilty about it. For many of us we have an unconscious guilt about being happy. You need to remove those feelings from your subconscious once and for all.

Why would we feel guilty about being happy?

Well it’s because somewhere along the line our parents, our schools, our churches, our cultures or our friends have programmed into us that we have to suffer to be happy or pay a price for happiness or that just when things are starting to get good they all turn bad. Well that’s all a lot of rubbish, people say those things because they themselves have a belief system of limitation and lack.
They believe at a core level that they don’t deserve success in happiness, so why should anyone else.

Most people think that happiness comes out of being successful or having good health, when in fact the reverse is true. Happiness is not something that’s earned or deserved happiness is simply a state of mind. By which our thinking is positive, a good share of the time. If you wait until you feel deserving of having pleasant thoughts about your life you’ll end up convincing your subconscious that you’re undeserving of happiness and the result is you’ll be unhappy and unsuccessful in most of your undertakings. It’s not selfish or wrong to be happy, regardless of where you are in life, so be happy. Happiness is a means to an end, success, well-being and it’s also an end, we all desire happiness. It is not something that happens to you, it’s something that you cultivate, that you determine and control. If you’re waiting for happiness to happen to you you’re going to have a long wait.

Instead leapfrog to it right now.

How do you do that?

Well it’s really very simple by being and acting happy even when you’re not it’s what all winners do and it’s what you should do and do it now. Here are the three components that will allow you to create the mental habit of being happy the majority of the time and winning in every circumstance that you encounter.

The first aspect of this is to not allow any outward experiences to influence you, about how you think about yourself you do this by changing the way that you react to circumstances; instead of being a participant in a circumstance be apart from it.

Let’s say you’re a salesperson and you make sales and you create commissions for a living and you just spent the last three months of your time and money putting together a major deal and it’s just getting ready to close, when your prospect backs out at the last minute. Your commission was big and you see it all going down the drain before your very eyes and you say to yourself, “I just knew this was a lousy business. Why did I ever go into this business in the first place? People are rotten now I have to start all over again.”

Whoa wait a minute, timeout stand outside of this picture for a moment the circumstances are that the deal fell through but how you react to it will have everything to do with your happiness and the success of future deals instead of moaning and feeling helpless make a conscious habit of reacting aggressively and positively towards threats and problems. Don’t let it affect you personally it’s just another deal in a world that’s full of deals; move on to the next one.

When you can mentally control the circumstances and never see failures as failures you’ll be amazed at how much easier life will become. Every human being that’s alive is presented with challenges and obstacles it’s only how we perceive them that makes them negative or positive. As the 14th His Holiness The Dalia Lama says, “It is always better to be optimistic, because it feels better.” Stay in a positive mindset as much as possible because it does feel better.

The second component of this concept is to consciously practice living your life in the present not the past nor the future. Stay in the now.

You can envision the future, the way that you want it to be in your visionary sessions but don’t make the mistake of living in it. The secret of being alive and always happy is to experience the present. Think back for a moment of the happiest times in your life. I’ll bet those were moments that you were totally absorbed and focused in the present and you were happiest because you felt so alive, so in touch with the experience of living. You weren’t thinking about the past or the future because you were too busy living in the now, this is one of the secrets of truly happy people; they’re absolutely absorbed in the feeling of being alive. Taoism and Ekhart Tolle always tell us to focus on the now the present because that is your life, the now.

Let me give you an example that almost anyone can relate to making love is perhaps one of the most physically and psychologically satisfying things you can do.

Why?

Because your energy is so focused, so concentrated in the moment that the feeling of being alive is incredibly intense for you.

By living your daily life with focus and concentration you will not only perform at your best but the intense pleasures you will derive from just living will dramatically increase and there’s a simple way to go about doing this. The famous author Ray Bradbury to help him focus his daily writing he had a sign and he put on his desk that said,
“Don’t think, don’t try, just do,”

That’s really what it’s all about thinking and trying to give your subconscious the wrong message just by doing your subconscious autopilot will automatically steer you in the right direction. Wim Hof, also when he talks about his cold water therapy and nature it is all about that moment, the now, about allowing the body to do what the body does. You don’t think about the past or the future you are focused on the now, it really is quite liberating and that is why I personally practice cold water therapy as well as other benefits.

The third and final point I want to make here is for you to make happiness a habit.

Link it in with your self-image regardless of your fears, anxieties and circumstances, make happiness the choice that you pick and see yourself as happy. Focus on the details of the moment and take the time to love and appreciate the magnificence of the world around you by affirming life and moving forward through life’s experiences with an attitude that says yes to all the circumstances that you encounter. You’ll program your subconscious to deliver a meaningful and joyful existence, it’s true and it’s not that difficult if you don’t think or try; but just do.

You know science is just now catching on to the immense powers of the mind; powers to spontaneously heal disease, powers to overcome extreme handicaps both physical and psychological empowers to live a life filled with joy and happiness. You know we spend hours in a gym conditioning our bodies to look and feel their best but very little time developing our most valuable resource, our minds and the more you condition your mind for success the more you will have.
Computer programmers have a term they use called garbage in and garbage out. A badly programmed computer is doomed to spit out bad information and that’s the same with your mind. Make a point of using these techniques on a regular and consistent basis and do the visionary exercises on the little things as well as the big things that you want. You’ll be amazed at how effortless it will make your life and finally why not just for the heck of it create a habit of being happy all the time. Make a conscious decision to take aggressive action in the circumstances of your life and resolve to become the best that you can be. If you are not feeling happy a really good way to raise your vibration, your mood is to sing out loud, or do a positive thing that makes you happy and not detrimental to your health.

These simple things will have a dramatic effect on your reality. follow these techniques, join A Better Way Facebook page and one year from now I guarantee you’ll be totally amazed at the transformation and a positive direction that your life takes.

Be happy, strong and healthy.