By Alvin Loh
Are you completely satisfied with your life? Which part of your life would you like to see improvement? If you are completely satisfied with your life, then this article and goal setting may not be suitable for you. However, for most of us, usually there are some parts of our lives which we wish to see changes. Perhaps some of us will like to get healthier and fitter while others will like to attain a level of financial wealth in their lives. Being human, everyone is undoubtedly aiming at something at some point in their lives. This is because we have a thinking ability and we have emotions. With this ability to comprehend and think, we will certainly always have the drive to do better and live better. However, because of this ability, we also have the tendency to resist the effort need to bring about the changes, even if the changes are beneficial to us.
So can we then change for the better and reach our full potential and live a more purposeful life? The answer is simple. Just give our brains something to aim for and we will almost immediately be more focused. The human brain is an amazing computer. It can comprehend patterns and some things far more efficient and faster then the fastest computer on earth. The human brain is also the main driver for our body actions. By giving it an instruction or a task to accomplish, it will find ways and means to complete the task. This is because our mind has a habit to complete things. Unfinished puzzles and questions or task creates an imbalance in our minds and our brains will try its best to solve this imbalance. For example, think about the last thing that you wanted to remember but for some reason, you just cannot recall what it is. A few days later, the answer just popped up in your mind when you least expect it. In this example, when you first wanted to recall something, you gave your brain an instruction. Your brain processed the instruction and it doesn't stop until it has finished even thought you are not actively thinking about it.
This process is made possible by the portion of the brain that also controls our emotions and feeling. Its called the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is the powerhouse portion of our brains. While the conscious mind controls logic, the subconscious part works silently in the background, controlling how we behave and influencing our habits. Why is the subconscious mind more powerful then the logical, conscious mind? Its because emotions and feelings are always more powerful then logic. When people mention their will power is very strong, what they are referring to is the power that comes from the subconscious part of their minds.
How does this subconscious part of the mind helps with achieving our goals? For one, the goal setting process specifically taps on the powerhouse portion of the mind to help us achieve our goals. Techniques in goal setting like setting up a plan and writing down the goals imprints our goals in our mind. During the goal setting process, you involve your emotions and feelings and these factors gives motivation for you to achieve your goals. When you draw up a plan on the steps that you will be taking to achieve your goals, you give your mind an imbalance and the need to complete the task. Each small milestone that you achieve in your plan provides you with a positive feedback loop which fires up your enthusiasm and motivation even more.
Goal setting, without doubt, gives us direction and provides us a platform and a structured way to achieve our goals. In that, it gives the control and power to reach our maximum potential in all areas of our lives.
Alvin runs a Personal Goal Setting website that deals with issues on goal setting, time management and other essential life skills at LifeGoals.
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Get Your Mind Into the Success Groove with Hypnosis
By Kevin Sinclair
Imagine trying to tear a piece of paper in half. If you want the tear to go along a clean straight line, it's best to crease the paper first. In fact, the more times you crease it, the more likely the paper will tear exactly the way you want. It will tear right along the groove.
Imagine trying to tear a piece of paper in half. If you want the tear to go along a clean straight line, it's best to crease the paper first. In fact, the more times you crease it, the more likely the paper will tear exactly the way you want. It will tear right along the groove.
Your mind works in a similar way. The subconscious is a natural goal-seeker. It strives to create whatever goal is set for it. You can be sure that unless you program your subconscious - bend it the way YOU want it to bend - external influences will program your subconscious for you. And those external forces may create a groove toward ill health, conflict, financial loss or failure.
So why not program your brain with a goal of your choosing? Once you give it a positive idea, this amazing goal-seeker will direct all its power and energy toward accomplishing your desires.
What the Subconscious Perceives, It Achieves.
Be the one to control what your subconscious perceives. That way you ensure that what it achieves is something you really want. The first step, then, to getting your mind into the success groove is to decide what success looks like to you. What do you want from life? Do you want to achieve a certain financial level? Do you desire a specific position in your career? Is success marital bliss and a happy family? Your subconscious wants to be guided. If you point it in the direction of a specific goal backed by a strong desire, your subconscious will do whatever it takes to get you there.
Creating the success groove - pointing your subconscious in the direction you want - is relatively easy with hypnosis. However, there are two guidelines that you need to follow in programming your subconscious:
- You must be specific. Rather than saying "I want financial success," describe what financial success is. For example, "I want a business of my own, making $350,000 a year."
- You must be realistic. That doesn't mean you have to dumb down your dreams! It simply means taking into account certain realities. For example, don't say you want to be a prima ballerina by next week if you are a 75-year-old woman with arthritic knees. DO be optimistic, because your subconscious can create the seemingly impossible.
Because the subconscious reasons deductively, you also must use care in how you word your hypnotic suggestions. By its very nature, the subconscious mind must obey suggestions as though they were orders. Hence, if you construct your suggestions carefully, your goal-seeking subconscious will carry out those suggestions without the need of willpower or conscious effort on your part.
How do you construct suggestions for maximum success?
1. Have a strong desire
If you direct your subconscious to create greater wealth in your life ' and that is something you really want - your subconscious will work 24/7 to grant your wish. (If you direct it to create something you think you SHOULD want but really don't want, your subconscious will know you're lying and won't work to create the goal for you.) So choose a strong motivating desire and start your suggestion with that desire. "Because I retire from my job with plenty of money for travel..." etc.
2. Be positive
Your subconscious does not understand negatives like NOT or NEVER. If you say, "I will not drink anymore," your subconscious hears "I will drink." You are actually suggesting to your subconscious the very idea that you want to eliminate! So frame your suggestions positively: "I am always satisfied with a single glass of wine. I enjoy a glass of wine only at dinner." Never mention the negative idea you intend to eliminate. The subconscious can only respond to mental images, so repeat and emphasize the positive new image.
3. Use the present tense
Your subconscious is an emotional, feeling mind that responds to the present. Don't say "I WILL feel good," but rather "I feel good." Say the words. Think them. Imagine them. See yourself acting out the suggestion because imagination enhances your ability to influence the subconscious. Visualize your goal as already accomplished.
4. Set a time limit
I know; I just said that when dealing with the subconscious, you must picture your goal as already accomplished. But you still have to deal with your CONSCIOUS mind, which knows some things cannot be done overnight. If you want to play the trumpet, even your subconscious can't make you play like Wynton Marsalis in 24 hours. So find out how long it usually takes to become adept at playing the trumpet and set your goal at HALF that amount of time. Then let your subconscious go to work! Once programmed, your subconscious won't stop until it achieves the goal.
5. State an action
Never say, "I have the ABILITY to play the trumpet." Be direct and forceful: "I PLAY the trumpet easily and well."
6. Focus
Choose something you want to accomplish and focus on that one idea. Never work on more than one suggestion during a given session.
7. Keep your language simple
Remember that your subconscious understands things literally. So speak as though your subconscious were a bright 10-year-old. Create your suggestions with words that the average 10-year-old would understand.
8. Use exaggeration and emotion
Because your subconscious is the seat of emotions, descriptive words have powerful influence. Don't be afraid to use exaggeration in your suggestions. Use words like fabulous, magnificent, beautiful, exciting, thrilling, gorgeous, stupendous, awesome. And back up those words with feeling!
9. Repeat
Find different ways and different words to express the same suggestion. Embellish the suggestion with convincing adjectives and repeat, repeat, repeat. Use the suggestion as often as necessary during your hypnosis sessions. Repeat the suggestion daily until it becomes entrenched in your subconscious.
Remember, your subconscious is a natural goal-seeker. It wants to create/achieve whatever goal you set for it. And it will work 24/7 to realize your dreams. So decide what you want in life and use hypnotic sessions to bend your subconscious in that direction. Then watch with delight as your subconscious moves you inexorably into your personal success groove.
Article Source: http://www.ArticlesAlley.com/
About the Author: Kevin Sinclair is the publisher and editor of my-personal-growth.com, a site that provides information and articles for self improvement and personal growth and development.
Imagine trying to tear a piece of paper in half. If you want the tear to go along a clean straight line, it's best to crease the paper first. In fact, the more times you crease it, the more likely the paper will tear exactly the way you want. It will tear right along the groove.
Imagine trying to tear a piece of paper in half. If you want the tear to go along a clean straight line, it's best to crease the paper first. In fact, the more times you crease it, the more likely the paper will tear exactly the way you want. It will tear right along the groove.
Your mind works in a similar way. The subconscious is a natural goal-seeker. It strives to create whatever goal is set for it. You can be sure that unless you program your subconscious - bend it the way YOU want it to bend - external influences will program your subconscious for you. And those external forces may create a groove toward ill health, conflict, financial loss or failure.
So why not program your brain with a goal of your choosing? Once you give it a positive idea, this amazing goal-seeker will direct all its power and energy toward accomplishing your desires.
What the Subconscious Perceives, It Achieves.
Be the one to control what your subconscious perceives. That way you ensure that what it achieves is something you really want. The first step, then, to getting your mind into the success groove is to decide what success looks like to you. What do you want from life? Do you want to achieve a certain financial level? Do you desire a specific position in your career? Is success marital bliss and a happy family? Your subconscious wants to be guided. If you point it in the direction of a specific goal backed by a strong desire, your subconscious will do whatever it takes to get you there.
Creating the success groove - pointing your subconscious in the direction you want - is relatively easy with hypnosis. However, there are two guidelines that you need to follow in programming your subconscious:
- You must be specific. Rather than saying "I want financial success," describe what financial success is. For example, "I want a business of my own, making $350,000 a year."
- You must be realistic. That doesn't mean you have to dumb down your dreams! It simply means taking into account certain realities. For example, don't say you want to be a prima ballerina by next week if you are a 75-year-old woman with arthritic knees. DO be optimistic, because your subconscious can create the seemingly impossible.
Because the subconscious reasons deductively, you also must use care in how you word your hypnotic suggestions. By its very nature, the subconscious mind must obey suggestions as though they were orders. Hence, if you construct your suggestions carefully, your goal-seeking subconscious will carry out those suggestions without the need of willpower or conscious effort on your part.
How do you construct suggestions for maximum success?
1. Have a strong desire
If you direct your subconscious to create greater wealth in your life ' and that is something you really want - your subconscious will work 24/7 to grant your wish. (If you direct it to create something you think you SHOULD want but really don't want, your subconscious will know you're lying and won't work to create the goal for you.) So choose a strong motivating desire and start your suggestion with that desire. "Because I retire from my job with plenty of money for travel..." etc.
2. Be positive
Your subconscious does not understand negatives like NOT or NEVER. If you say, "I will not drink anymore," your subconscious hears "I will drink." You are actually suggesting to your subconscious the very idea that you want to eliminate! So frame your suggestions positively: "I am always satisfied with a single glass of wine. I enjoy a glass of wine only at dinner." Never mention the negative idea you intend to eliminate. The subconscious can only respond to mental images, so repeat and emphasize the positive new image.
3. Use the present tense
Your subconscious is an emotional, feeling mind that responds to the present. Don't say "I WILL feel good," but rather "I feel good." Say the words. Think them. Imagine them. See yourself acting out the suggestion because imagination enhances your ability to influence the subconscious. Visualize your goal as already accomplished.
4. Set a time limit
I know; I just said that when dealing with the subconscious, you must picture your goal as already accomplished. But you still have to deal with your CONSCIOUS mind, which knows some things cannot be done overnight. If you want to play the trumpet, even your subconscious can't make you play like Wynton Marsalis in 24 hours. So find out how long it usually takes to become adept at playing the trumpet and set your goal at HALF that amount of time. Then let your subconscious go to work! Once programmed, your subconscious won't stop until it achieves the goal.
5. State an action
Never say, "I have the ABILITY to play the trumpet." Be direct and forceful: "I PLAY the trumpet easily and well."
6. Focus
Choose something you want to accomplish and focus on that one idea. Never work on more than one suggestion during a given session.
7. Keep your language simple
Remember that your subconscious understands things literally. So speak as though your subconscious were a bright 10-year-old. Create your suggestions with words that the average 10-year-old would understand.
8. Use exaggeration and emotion
Because your subconscious is the seat of emotions, descriptive words have powerful influence. Don't be afraid to use exaggeration in your suggestions. Use words like fabulous, magnificent, beautiful, exciting, thrilling, gorgeous, stupendous, awesome. And back up those words with feeling!
9. Repeat
Find different ways and different words to express the same suggestion. Embellish the suggestion with convincing adjectives and repeat, repeat, repeat. Use the suggestion as often as necessary during your hypnosis sessions. Repeat the suggestion daily until it becomes entrenched in your subconscious.
Remember, your subconscious is a natural goal-seeker. It wants to create/achieve whatever goal you set for it. And it will work 24/7 to realize your dreams. So decide what you want in life and use hypnotic sessions to bend your subconscious in that direction. Then watch with delight as your subconscious moves you inexorably into your personal success groove.
Article Source: http://www.ArticlesAlley.com/
About the Author: Kevin Sinclair is the publisher and editor of my-personal-growth.com, a site that provides information and articles for self improvement and personal growth and development.
Monday, December 17, 2007
The Secret Of Law Of Attraction & Your Subconscious Mind
By Stephen C Campbell
The basics of Goal Setting is an open secret known by top-caliber athletes, successful businessmen and businesswomen and all types of achievers in all the different fields from politics to acting. Accessing the subconscious mind and firmly implanting your goals there is critical to ensuring you will achieve those goals. Getting to grips with setting goals and invoking the law of attraction will give you short-term and long-term motivation and focus. They will help you set focus on the acquisition of required knowledge and help you to plan and organize your resources and your time so that you can get the best out of your life.
Consider this : the one thing high acheivers and self made millionaires have in common is the mastery of their minds - the most direct path to developing such mental mastery is to get to grips with your subconscious mind, Each one of us have billions and billions of brain cells at our disposal to aid us with our goal setting, our subconscious mind is at work twenty four hours a day controlling our digestive systems as well as our breathing - we should take advantage of this knowledge to get the law of attraction working for us.
There has been a lot of attention being given to the law of attraction recently and how it relates to goal setting. With advances in neuro science and the understanding of human behaviour we now understand how important it is to take control of our subconscious mind and use it as a tool to aid us in achieving our goals. Consider the following points and how they related to your life and your quest for achieving the life of your dreams.
1. Use a formula of recognize, reevaluate, restore in place of the should have, would have, could have formula used by the majority of the population. The former is based in increased knowledge, abundance using the law of attraction and your subconscious mind while the latter focuses on scarcity and lack. As you face people or tasks that may seem harder than scaling the summit of the Himalayas, allow yourself to realize that the task is just as important as giving out orders to your subordinates.
2. Keep humor at the forefront of thought, laughing at and with yourself when possible. You may find yourself quite entertaining when you loosen up! I am yet to see a comedian ever go hungry even though his jokes are as 'old as great-grandma'. Life has so much to offer to allow you to mope around in self pity. Humor is very attractive, very passionate: life-giving.
3. Believe that you are the architect of your destiny. No one can take your passionate future from you except for you! Create your life authentically - use tools such as subliminal recordings to assist you. As long as there's still breath in your body, there is no end to how much you can accomplish in a lifetime. The concept of thinking big is all about enjoying your work, which would lead to celebrate a discovery that is born within your hands. Watch everything flow into place with perfect, passionate precision.
Consider this : One neuron in your brain may be linked to as many as 50000 others; the brain is estimated to contain over 100 trillion connections. The total number of connections is higher than the number of atoms in the universe. Why not take advantage of this resource invoke the law of attraction and use your subconscious mind to aid in your goal setting ?
The law of attraction works in conjunction with your goal setting in the various areas of your life and with the use of subliminal recordings you can get your goals firmly implanted into your subconscious mind and propel yourself towards the life of your dreams.
About the AuthorStephen C Campbell (Master NLP Practitioner) has published more information on using the Subconscious as a Goal Setting tool at http://www.subconsciousmind101.com/
Article Source: http://www.my-articles.com/psychology/the-secret-of-law-of-attraction-and-your-subconscious-mind.html
The basics of Goal Setting is an open secret known by top-caliber athletes, successful businessmen and businesswomen and all types of achievers in all the different fields from politics to acting. Accessing the subconscious mind and firmly implanting your goals there is critical to ensuring you will achieve those goals. Getting to grips with setting goals and invoking the law of attraction will give you short-term and long-term motivation and focus. They will help you set focus on the acquisition of required knowledge and help you to plan and organize your resources and your time so that you can get the best out of your life.
Consider this : the one thing high acheivers and self made millionaires have in common is the mastery of their minds - the most direct path to developing such mental mastery is to get to grips with your subconscious mind, Each one of us have billions and billions of brain cells at our disposal to aid us with our goal setting, our subconscious mind is at work twenty four hours a day controlling our digestive systems as well as our breathing - we should take advantage of this knowledge to get the law of attraction working for us.
There has been a lot of attention being given to the law of attraction recently and how it relates to goal setting. With advances in neuro science and the understanding of human behaviour we now understand how important it is to take control of our subconscious mind and use it as a tool to aid us in achieving our goals. Consider the following points and how they related to your life and your quest for achieving the life of your dreams.
1. Use a formula of recognize, reevaluate, restore in place of the should have, would have, could have formula used by the majority of the population. The former is based in increased knowledge, abundance using the law of attraction and your subconscious mind while the latter focuses on scarcity and lack. As you face people or tasks that may seem harder than scaling the summit of the Himalayas, allow yourself to realize that the task is just as important as giving out orders to your subordinates.
2. Keep humor at the forefront of thought, laughing at and with yourself when possible. You may find yourself quite entertaining when you loosen up! I am yet to see a comedian ever go hungry even though his jokes are as 'old as great-grandma'. Life has so much to offer to allow you to mope around in self pity. Humor is very attractive, very passionate: life-giving.
3. Believe that you are the architect of your destiny. No one can take your passionate future from you except for you! Create your life authentically - use tools such as subliminal recordings to assist you. As long as there's still breath in your body, there is no end to how much you can accomplish in a lifetime. The concept of thinking big is all about enjoying your work, which would lead to celebrate a discovery that is born within your hands. Watch everything flow into place with perfect, passionate precision.
Consider this : One neuron in your brain may be linked to as many as 50000 others; the brain is estimated to contain over 100 trillion connections. The total number of connections is higher than the number of atoms in the universe. Why not take advantage of this resource invoke the law of attraction and use your subconscious mind to aid in your goal setting ?
The law of attraction works in conjunction with your goal setting in the various areas of your life and with the use of subliminal recordings you can get your goals firmly implanted into your subconscious mind and propel yourself towards the life of your dreams.
About the AuthorStephen C Campbell (Master NLP Practitioner) has published more information on using the Subconscious as a Goal Setting tool at http://www.subconsciousmind101.com/
Article Source: http://www.my-articles.com/psychology/the-secret-of-law-of-attraction-and-your-subconscious-mind.html
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