Develop Your Intuition

Honing your intuition can help you in making better choices in life because the more information you have about something, the better decisions you can make, the faster you may be able to reach your goals, and enable yourself to live more fulfilling life.

Intuition is defined as the power or ability of attaining direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference. Intuitive knowledge is considered to be knowledge which cannot be gained either by inference or observation, by reasoning or past experience. As such intuitive knowledge is thought of as independent, original knowledge.

Many years ago I was in a coffee shop where I overheard a man having a spirited and very loud conversation with someone about the nature of intuition. He argued that intuitive knowledge is based on observational skills. While the information obtained through observational skills is excluded from the above definition about intuition, many times people do acquire tremendous amount of information purely through observation and then they appear to be "psychic". Many "fake psychics" simply rely on their observational skills. These skills are also known as "cold reading" and are employed by stage magicians.

Our subconscious minds register all information from our surroundings and most of that information is gathered outside our conscious awareness. When some of that information emerges in our conscious awareness, it may seem that it came from higher realms because we had no awareness of ever acquiring it consciously.

People who are working on developing their intuition often practice different ways of improving their observational skills. Honing one's observational skills is one of the essential skills in the practice of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), where you learn to pay attention to minute changes in skin color, pupil dilation, slight changes in lip size, referred to in NLP as "minimal cues". These skills come in very handy when people play poker, for example. Since poker players have vested financial interest in the outcome of the game, they pay attention to "minimal cues" of other players, in order to notice when other players may be bluffing or when they might have a winning hand.

NLP Practitioners sometimes engage in the following exercise, which I believe started with Dr. Milton Erickson. One person would hide an object, and the other would play the role of a "psychic" by holding the wrist of the person who hid the object. The "psychic" would rely on slight changes in the pulse of the person who hid the object, to guide him toward the recovery of the hidden object.

Some people are more "intuitive" by nature. Some are intuitive in a way that they find it easier to absorb the information from their environment through what seems like osmosis. They may have difficulty focusing on one thing and may be labeled with attention deficit disorder, yet their way of processing information may be perfectly suited to certain occupations. For example, I have a friend who is an extraordinary private investigator. He excels at what he does perhaps mainly due to his ability of being aware of the information that other private investigators miss. He naturally absorbs information from the environment as if thorough osmosis. From the perspective of brainwaves, people with this talent have predominant theta brainwave activity.

Some people are more naturally intuitive in a way that they can access the information related to different times, places or dimensions of experience, which are clearly not in any way associated with where they may be physically. On the level of the mind, there is no time and no space and we are all free to access the information about anything we greatly desire to know, from any dimension of existence, from past, present or future. The only obstacle in this process are the "filters" we have placed in our subconscious minds.

The secret in acquiring this kind of information is in allowing it to emerge into your conscious awareness, in having your mind blank, open and receptive like a crystal clear glass, so that the information gained is not colored by your preconceived ideas or emotions. Genuine spiritual masters, who have no more any self-interests, who have nothing more to emotionally protect and have fully opened themselves to the infinite, can access the information that to the rest of us borders on miraculous. On the other hand, there are so many people who may be "channelingl" the information from different realms, however the information that comes through is polluted by their own preconceived ideas and is no better than any guess they might have made based on their rational understanding. True spiritual knowledge is always rooted in love and in the principle of oneness - there are no exceptions.

We are all intuitive to a greater or lesser extent and whatever your level of intuitive ability, you can develop it further. Developing intuition is based on learning to pay attention to the information within you. For example, if you were trying to decide between two job offers, as you imagine yourself working in one position and then in the other, the right choice would look brighter, it woul feel more joyous, it would make you feel lighter and it would bring with it a great experience of inner peace and contentment. If you were picking lottery numbers or stocks in which you desire to invest, or winning horses at the racetrack - again through experience you would learn to distinguish between the information that comes from your intuitive knowledge and the one that comes from your rational mind. As a general guideline, when this information comes from your rational mind there is a sensation of tension, a sensation of your energy shrinking and condensing as you are subconsciously trying to protect your financial self-interest. When you are in a state of mind where you are trying to protect your ego-based self-interests, you are closing the door of your intuition. What opens you to your intuition is getting into a state of love, into a state of giving, into a state of relaxation and expansion, where you feel at-one-with-everything and particularly at-one with the subject of your intuition., where you become it inwardly.

One simple way of practicing intuition on daily basis is choosing for practice subjects in which you don't have any vested interest and the outcome is not important for you. This makes it easier for you to maintain an open state of mind necessary for practicing intuition. You may try to intuit what someone you are going to meet is wearing, or if the phone rings who may be calling you, or if you are going to some new place, try to intuit how does that place look like before you go there; or you can pick a magazine with pictures and try to intuit what picture or information will you find several pages ahead. In this way you will condition your subconscious mind to provide you with the information that is not ordinarily accessible to you through your physical senses.

Instant Healing - Magic Eraser Technique

All of us make mistakes. That's part of a learning process and learning is a life-long experience. As long as we live and breathe, we're bound to keep on learning something new and we're likely to make some mistakes along the way. Mistakes are not so much of a problem in themselves. They become a problem when we hold onto them, when we get fixated onto them, when we become attached to them as if they were great treasures, until they become so deeply embedded in our minds, emotions, and bodies that they prevent us from fully enjoying the present moment.

Perhaps you can think of some experiences in your life that you wish never happened - experiences from the past to which you still feel in some way mentally and emotionally attached, and even though they may be long gone, they are unsettling you or even causing you some pain when you think about them. The pain may be mental, emotional or physical (it may have even expressed in a form of physical illness). It's nice to know that you have the power to erase it - from your mind, emotions and body, from your energy field as a matter of fact, as if it never happened, allowing you to more fully enjoy the present moment.

The technique which I like to call "it never happened" or "magic eraser" is the essence of all spiritual practices and plays a major role in shamanic and esoteric practices. Sometimes it is labeled as the "practice of forgiveness", sometimes as the "practice of emptiness". After all it's much easier to build something new, something you'd desire to experience now, starting with a clean slate, than upon undesirable leftovers from the past.

There are varying degrees to the practice of this technique. They depend upon your purpose for using this technique, upon your perception of the world and therefore upon what you may feel is safe for you to let go of.

At the very basic level of application, what you are doing is letting go of emotional attachment to some specific experience, which seems to be the source of greatest pain and obstacle in your life. Some of the applications may deal with healing some pain from broken relationships, or from any other kind of loss, getting rid of addictions, and even recovering completely from illnesses which are believed to be "incurable". "It never happened" technique is the essence of "instant healing".

On a higher spiritual level of practice, for example, you'd practice letting go of emotional attachment to everything that is "manifested", everything that is not the "Source" itself. The feeling of safety in letting go of everything in the material world comes from being aware (experientially, not just intellectually) of the Source and shifting your sense of identity from your physical body to your spiritual self, to the Source itself.

I will write more about forgiveness later on, but for now I'd like to mention that forgiveness is not about encouraging or condoning hurtful behavior, nor is it about shoving it under the carpet and forgetting about it. Forgiveness is about letting go of the emotional attachment to the situation, behavior or person that has caused you pain. If something or someone is causing you repeated pain and you don't know how to deal with the specific situation, you may completely remove yourself from it. Forgiveness is not about letting yourself getting hurt over and over again. It is about letting go of the ties that bind you to the past, about freeing the energy that is stuck in the past, so that you can more fully enjoy your life now.

And in the same way, "it never happened" technique is not about shoving unresolved issues under the carpet. It is about resolving them. It is about clearing them, washing them away, dissolving them into nothingness, so that you can use the freed energy to build the life you'd enjoy living now. The resolution is ultimately about liberating your emotional energy.
If you just attempt to forget about the painful event, to hide it from your awareness, to shove it deep inside you where you won't be aware of the pain it's causing you, sooner or later it will seek to be expressed in some way - and one of the most likely ways may be through some form of physical illness. That's why when people suffer from some chronic health problems, the moment they let go of past hurts and resentments, they often experience spontaneous recovery. It is useful to know that any hurtful feelings you hold onto are not doing damage to anyone else as much as they are dragging you down. That's why it's important to let them go.

You may have learned from your past experiences what you like to experience in life, what you'd rather do without, what makes you feel more alive, what drains your energy, who and what contributes to your sense of wellbeing and happiness and who doesn't and you can arrange your present life in accord with all that which you believe contributes to your greatest sense of wellbeing. And as you do, you can just let go of your emotional attachment to everything and everyone that doesn't contribute to your sense of wellbeing. Fill your mind and heart, and surround yourself as much as possible with that which makes you feel good, and let go of the past.

The ways of practicing "it never happened" technique are as varied as your imagination may allow. You may imagine a brilliant white light or a violet fire blazing through the situation you desire to dissolve. White or violet light will dissolve all inharmonies from the situation, leaving only that which is lovely, beautiful and harmonious. You can use them to heal any condition. You will know when you are done because your feelings toward that situation will change, the pain will be gone, sometimes even within just a few minutes of practice.
You can also imagine having a "magic eraser" and erasing the problem - this has worked well for some people working with addictions.

You can scan your body, by moving your awareness through your body from the top of your head all the way down to your feet and noticing any tense areas where blocked energy may be and imagine them dissolving into nothingness. You may also just breathe through those parts of your body, until the tension (or the pain) is gone.

This technique is sometimes used with physical injuries due to accidents in a way that you repeat the motions that lead to the injury, but with an alternative - desired ending. For example, if you accidentally cut your finger with a knife while chopping vegetables, you may repeat the motion with the knife, but where it was intended to go in the first place, without touching your finger. This will re-imprint the event in your subconscious mind and may instantly stop bleeding.

If you desire to change some life-long condition, you can go back in your memory all the way to the time before that condition happened for the first time (even to the time of your birth or before) and re-live your entire life in your mind as if that condition never existed in your life. You can at the same time replace it with desired experience and re-live your life as if you had the desired condition throughout your life. You should repeat this process as many times as necessary until the desired condition has been firmly impressed upon your subconscious mind and the effect is obvious in your outer experience.

For example, if you are using this technique for healing of "incurable" illness, you should keep repeating it for half-an hour, few times a day, every day, until the problem is gone. If you really get wholeheartedly involved in this process, you should notice visible improvement after each half-an-hour session.

This method of incorporating "it never happened" technique with "timelines" is one of my favorite as it has helped me to get rid of some apparently impossible to heal conditions in a very short period of time. If you need more help to go through this process, you can use New History Generator recording. Remember that the secret of the rapid success with self-hypnosis is in your willingness and ability to experience your desired condition as if it were real for you now, in your inner world, in your subjective experience. Your outer experience merely reflects your subjective experience.

Hypnotic Power of Music

Music is intimately related to the subconscious mind because it stirs our emotions. Perhaps you can recall listening to a jingle and finding the tune and the advertising slogan replaying in your mind over and over, even if you disliked the jingle. It just stuck in your mind.
Sometimes we may be consciously aware of the suggestions which are becoming impressed upon our subconscious minds. Many others times we may simply act unconsciously upon those suggestions - without any conscious awareness of why we feel propelled to act in a certain way. Big corporations spend billions of dollars on advertisements in order to create exactly that effect - to get you to purchase specific product or to act in a certain way.
Knowingly or unknowingly, all of us get affected by music we listen to. Here is one example from an email I have received:

"I want to tell you a story that you may find interesting. About two weeks ago whenever I walked on the streets, people would stare at me. I am not used to it, so at first I thought that there was maybe something odd about my outer appearance on that day. I looked in the mirror and there was nothing strange about either my clothes or my hair - I was totally normal. This lasted about a week - day after day. I must say that I was quite amused by all this, particularly because sometimes I would notice that these strange gazes were in fact gazes of admiration.

Later, however, I have discovered the possible cause of all this - a song. An ordinary pop song called "Superstar" by Jamelia. Basically, during that week I used to listen to this recording with my headphones while being engaged in other activities (such as working) sometimes without even noticing. One of the main phrases of the song which are repeated over and over again in the song are "You've gotta be a superstar, 'cause you've got eyes on you no matter where you are." My subconscious mind understood the lyrics literally and wherever I would go I "had eyes on me".

I later decided to stop listening to the song and noticed that gradually people stopped staring at me. Isn't it amusing?"

I suppose you can imagine what happens to people who listen over and over to music with words such as "I am a loser" and similar. Perhaps you want to pay closer attention to the lyrics of the songs you are listening to. It's also good to remember that when we watch TV, we are in a state of hypnotic trance and what we watch and listen to in that relaxed and entranced state does get into our subconscious minds to a lesser or greater extent - so you may want to choose your listening and watching menu wisely.

Another aspect of music, is the music itself. Some music helps you to feel more relaxed, some music makes your body move, maybe even dance, some music puts you into a sensual and lovemaking state of mind, while other types of music makes you feel unsettled or perhaps inspire you to engage in some form of combat or on a more positive note, jump up and plunge yourself into a vigorous physical exercise.

When you are practicing self-hypnosis without hypnosis recordings, you may want to pick some music that by itself elicits within you the emotional state that is most appropriate for the goal you are working on. The music does not have to be slow and relaxing - it may be quite energizing. If you feel like moving and dancing, rather than lying down, it is OK to use your body and dance your self-hypnosis outcome. There may also be times when you would prefer to relax into your self-hypnosis outcome, and there may be times when you feel more like getting into physical action. Rhythmic, repetitive movement is trance inducing.

One of the main reasons for using music for self-hypnosis is to help you maintain mental and emotional focus on your outcome. The music that helps to elicit within you emotions which are appropriate for your self-hypnosis outcome, will take care of the focus. Your intention can then ride of the wave of music, making focusing an effortless process.

If you are working on increasing sex appeal, the appropriate music would be the one that makes you feel sexy. If you are working on increasing financial abundance, the appropriate music would be the one that brings feelings and images of opulence and wealth. If you are working on healing, the appropriate music would be one that helps you to feel relaxed and peaceful, allowing your body to rest, regenerate and heal.

Two Worldviews

How you choose to look at a world will determine what you will be able to accomplish with hypnosis, because your perception will influence your belief system. How you perceive yourself and your relationship to the world will determine what will be possible and what will be impossible for you to accomplish.

Traditional (therapeutic) hypnosis emerged from obscurity and gained popularity in the west primarily through its acceptance by medical practitioners. Medical science, even as practiced today, is still based on the worldview which goes back about 300 years ago. It is the worldview of classical, Newtonian, physics, which looks upon the universe and the human body as consisting of separate parts, solid objects, which are just part of the machinery. We even use the metaphor of computer hardware and software to describe workings of the subconscious mind - but, there is one major difference between computers and subconscious mind: computers don't have feelings, desires and fears. Subconscious, on the other hand, is the realm of emotions. The supreme ruler of the subconscious is Love. Fear is that which creates obstacles and roadblocks, Love is that which opens the way.

A couple of centuries ago, Descartes made contribution to philosophy and science by suggesting that mind and body are entirely separate and have nothing to do with each other. Incredible as it may be, our modern medical science still firmly holds to this worldview. For a medical doctor, claiming that your mind is more powerful than your body, claiming that your mind can entirely restore the health of your body, that your mind can alter your body, may represent a professional suicide.

If you accept this limited worldview of classical physics which only applies to four dimensional objects (three dimensions of space and one of time), great many things which you could otherwise accomplish with hypnosis, will be simply impossible to accomplish, not because you do not already possess all that you may possibly need to express greatness, but because the worldview which you adopt will influence your belief system, your expectations and what you will allow yourself to experience, what you will feel comfortable to experience without shattering your belief system and your comfort zone.

You are not a robot, you are not an apple falling down from a tree, you are not a ping-pong ball. You are much more. Not only are you a multi-dimensional being, but you have the power and the ability to act from a higher dimension, from a dimension of your mind, from a dimension of your consciousness, and create changes in your physical reality. You are the one who chooses from which dimension you want to live your daily life. It only takes one little shift in consciousness, one little shift in perception to find yourself traveling along the highway of the future that may yet be beyond your wildest imaginings. I have had experiences that were far more wonderful and powerful than anything I could've ever imagined even possible for a human being to experience because I opened myself to them and allowed them to happen. And so will you, if you open your mind and your heart and allow yourself to be guided from within you.

The greatest treasure and the greatest power which many have been chasing in the outer world, are right within you. You don't need to fight for it or to chase it. You merely need to bring it out and use is consciously and intentionally every day. If you do, each day you will be able to accomplish greater and greater things. You owe it to yourself. Why in the world would you settle for a few crumbs you can find in the outer world, when you can create anything you desire from within you? The entire glorious road-path is already within you. You don't have to wrack your brains. You only need to bring it into your awareness. Why settle for a mediocre life, when you were destined to have an exquisite life?

I have been amused over the years at the reactions of those who would have experiences that don't fit in the worldview of classical physics - the worldview we use to separate what we consider "real" and toss out the window the rest as "unreal" because we don't have eyes to see it - yet rather than attempt to understand what made such experiences possible, they would just deny them and they'd keep on repeating - "yes, that happened, I have experienced it, but I still don't believe it, I don't believe that it is possible". And so do most other people. That which they don't understand, they decide that it's "unreal", "impossible", and often they project their own ignorance upon the rest of the world by boldly stating "nobody knows". And the reason I felt compelled to write this particular article is because many people in helping professions (and many hypnotists and hypnotherapists among them) are so unaware of the true power of the mind (it's a shame, really) and instead of teaching and helping people to unfold into greatness, instead of liberating people from limitations, they are binding them with more chains into powerlessness – by laughing at people's dreams and telling them that this or that is impossible. What kind of a favor is that and to whom?
I am also amused when I watch programs by "scientists" who seem to consider that something is alive only if it looks like them. According to the classical science, which we have been taught in school, something is considered alive only if it moves in some way and if you can perceive it with your physical senses or with equipment that has been invented up to date. There are many other things and beings very much alive and moving about, yet they reside on a different vibratory level, in a different dimension and some of them can shift their vibration enough to become visible to your physical senses or to become invisible. I have seen some of them and perhaps you have too. If there's anything strange to this, it's only how blind we can choose to be, or how ignorant or arrogant by pointing to our bodies and saying "that's the greatest thing in the universe". There's just more to us and to this world than what we call physical dimension, more than that which we can perceive with physical senses.
While the worldview of classical physics has contributed to the development of different sciences which relate to physical dimension of experience, it has taken life out of life. It has separated matter from that which gives it life. It has separated matter from the intelligence that governs it. In this worldview of classical physics you are practically a victim of circumstances, your fate and fortune depends on something outside of you over which you may have very little, if any, control. As a human being, you are essentially dis-empowered, left at the mercy of the circumstances and you are bound to feel very lonely and pretty scared because a possible danger lurks around every corner. When you adopt this worldview, life seems rather hard, you have to struggle and fight and buy a lot of insurance to compensate for any possible losses. If you haven't noticed, insurance doesn't protect you from losses, it merely provides, often inadequate compensation. Insurance feeds on and thrives on your fears. When you buy insurance, you are actively proclaiming your faith in fear and you're programming your subconscious with expectation of some disaster yet to happen. I am mentioning this just to bring into your awareness the fact that you program your subconscious mind not only with a few phrases you may repeat as affirmations or listen to daily through hypnosis or subliminal recordings, but with a way you live your life on day to day basis. The actions in your life are based either on love and trust or on fear. With your daily thoughts and actions you are constantly affirming your allegiance to Infinite Loving Power within you or to fear and powerlessness. Who do you trust? Who do you give the power to rule your life?
With the worldview of classical physics you get to live a life of fear, filled with an assortment of anxieties. Is it any wonder that so many people are stressed out of their minds? Is it any wonder that so many people are swallowing an assortment of pills, drugging themselves into oblivion and doing whatever they can think of to escape from it? With this worldview you live to survive, to win at any cost, because it is the survival of the fittest. With this worldview you get to fight against the entire world until you run out of fuel and you die from exhaustion, boredom or meaninglessness of such life. You get to play the game of the grand illusion, where you always feel that something is missing, but you don't know exactly what. You don't even care to look for what is missing, because most people out there will try to convince you that that is a "normal" life and the only thing you can do is accept it - because those who say so don't know any better than you do.

Then, there is another worldview - a worldview in which the entire universe is filled with a living, loving intelligent energy, with one life that connects everyone and everything. It is the worldview of quantum physics, of metaphysics, and the essence of all spiritual traditions. They may use different words, but they say the same thing.

In a life of every individual a time comes when they hit the place some call "the pits" - when something apparently so dreadful happens, that life doesn't seem to be worth living any more. It is one of the greatest blessings, because then the person has an opportunity to awaken to the fact that whatever he thought of the world before, whichever way he lived his life, doesn't work - and that nothing will change in one's outer reality until the person is willing to change from within in a radical way. If your worldview doesn't embrace all life, then you are living like a living dead - then no matter how many possessions you may have acquired, you have not learned what it means to live and feel alive.

Sometimes I get emails from people who wallow in self-pity. They wallow in self-pity because they have rejected life. They are sort of like black holes, going around and looking where they can find people upon whose life-force they can feed, like "energy vampires". They walk around always hungry and unfulfilled, because they are unwilling to see that to have life and fulfillment, to experience happiness, they have to give it first. Happiness is brought out from within, through sharing it. Getting out of self-pity and depression is the easiest thing to do. All it requires is that you go out and do something wonderful for someone else. That's how you bring wonderful things into your life, by bringing them from the inside out.

Everything in the universe is made out of this energy and your thoughts and emotions influence this energy. In the worldview of quantum physics, metaphysics and spirituality, you are not just another ping-pong ball, you're not a vegetable, you're not just a number, you're not just a statistic. You are a grand cosmic being. You are a creator. You create your reality with your thoughts. Quantum physicist will say "the Observer determines the outcome of the experiment", metaphysicist will say "energy follows thought and what you think you bring into manifestation". In this worldview you have the power to create whatever you desire, if you care to use your mind consciously and intentionally. If you don't care to use it, to cultivate it and develop it, to bring it out, you may just as well end up like a powerless vegetable. You were created with much greater destiny, you were intended to make a contribution, a positive difference in this world, you were created with a mission which is up to you whether you want to accept or reject.

Newtonian physics says - you are the effect of external circumstances and you are at the mercy of them. Quantum physics says - you are the cause of your circumstances, you are the creator of your circumstances, and therefore you have the power to change anything you desire to change simply by changing your thoughts.

You thoughts do not count as far as Newtonian physics is concerned, because, as I mentioned (in part 1), it was intended to study the movement of ping-pong balls and such, and therefore according to that worldview telepathy, remote influence, psychokinesis or altering your body are considered simply impossible - and if you choose to look upon yourself as just another ping-pong ball, the conscious and intentional use of the extraordinary abilities will remain close to impossible for you to accomplish, too.

And perhaps you're willing now to think back about the experiences in your life, and perhaps you can remember a time when you just thought about something and another person voiced that same thing, or when you heard the phone ring and you knew who was calling you before you even picked up the phone, or perhaps there was a time when you and the other person said exactly the same thing at the same time. These are not weird or unusual happenings - they are normal happenings because we are all interconnected - we are all part of one infinite life, we are all part of one infinite mind. Our bodies, though, are like miniature universes and each person and being is like a cell in this body. What we do to others, what we think and feel toward others, will reflect in our own bodies. If you feel resentment or hatred either for the circumstances in your life, or toward someone else, your own body will release poisonous chemicals that will make your body cease to function properly and begin to fall apart. That is why when you rejoice in the wellbeing, happiness and prosperity of another, when you bless the world, you are truly blessing yourself. When you feel love and gratitude for your own life and for the life of others, you are the one who benefits - on all levels of your being.

Once more - the universe, including your body, is made out of energy. Energy moves in circular motion and creates a vibration. Your body is a mass of energy that has a specific vibration. Your thoughts and emotions determine the vibration of your body. Your body appears solid only because your physical senses perceive certain vibratory frequencies as solid. You have the power to alter the vibration of your body with your thoughts and emotions. If you raise the vibration of your body to a frequency higher than what appears to be a solid object, you can pass through it, or if you prefer, it will not affect you, because you will be resonating at different frequencies.

If you cultivate thoughts and emotions of the highest vibration - love for yourself and for all life, all that which resonates at the lower vibration will pass by you and will not touch you. If there's anyone or anything in your life that is tormenting you, send them love and one of two things will happen - you'll either develop a harmonious relationship or they'll leave your life. Those who are temporarily still committed to low-life, to low vibration, simply won't be able to withstand the high vibration of love. By sending them love, I mean wish them happiness and wellbeing, see them as happy and content. No one who is truly happy and content will ever wish another anything bad. Truly happy and content person has only one wish for everyone else - may everyone be happy. If you need a reminder of how that feels - just think of a time when you were deeply in love with someone and when there was nothing else in your awareness other than love. When you looked at the world through the eyes of love, what could you have possibly wished for anyone else other than love, because nothing else existed for you.

If you adopt Newtonian worldview and hold onto the view that your body is solid and unchangeable, and you desire to create a radical change in your body, you'll have a very hard time. You'll be fighting against the wall that you have placed in front of you. There is absolutely nothing stopping you in altering your body, whether for the sake of improving health or for esthetic purposes, other than the beliefs which are primarily tied in to your worldview. It doesn't matter what genetic condition you may want to change. All that it takes to open the door to desired change is a shift in perception, shift in worldview. To create a change, you must be willing to leave behind the worldview of classical physics - it does not contribute to your wellbeing in any way. The only way that you will be able to create radical changes in your body is if you accept the fact that your body is an effect and that the cause is in your mind; that your body is neutral of itself; that it is made out of energy which re-arranges itself according to the pattern you establish with your thoughts.

Wouldn't you rather live in a world where there is nothing to fear because you know that your thoughts are creative, that your thoughts act upon the infinite ocean of energy and that as you focus your mind upon that which you desire to experience in your life, the energy will gather and take shape of that which you desire to experience, for your own pleasure and enjoyment? Wouldn't you rather live in a world where you know that you have the power to create anything you desire to experience, where nothing and no one has power over you, where you can happily co-exist with all life, where you have a perfect place, your own wonderful place under the sun and that you matter, that you are an important part of the puzzle that is called life - that your thoughts influence everything within you and around you, including weather? Wouldn't you rather live in a world where you are aware of your connectedness with all life, knowing that you never are and can never possibly be alone? Wouldn't you rather live in a world where you know that no calamity or disaster can strike you unless you create it with your thoughts first? Wouldn't you rather live in a world where you can never experience lack of any kind unless you have created it with your thoughts first?
These are not fantasy musings. These are facts which you can prove to yourself simply by playing with your thoughts, by first paying attention to what you have been thinking, what kinds of thoughts and emotions you entertain on daily basis and noticing how they have affected your life, and then creating what you desire with intention and focus. Focus means that you become so deeply absorbed in the experience which you desire to create that during the time you are focusing upon the idea you desire to bring into manifestation, nothing else exists for you. The only thing you allow to be present in your awareness is the experience of that which you desire to create in your life.

If it is abundance you desire to create then you spend an hour every day, focusing totally and completely on abundance. The form of abundance is not important. The feeling of abundance is what is important. How does it feel enjoying infinite abundance now? That's the only thing that should be present in your mind, in your emotions, in your awareness. Practice living your daily life with awareness that you are living and moving and having your being in an ocean of infinite abundance, allowing it to flow through you, through your life freely. That is easy to do. It merely requires willingness. Then, whatever leaves your life will not matter because you'll know that there will always be more coming your way, that whatever you desire to create and experience is as close to you as your next thought. Then, you will never again have to fear for your job. And by the way, you did not come into this world to have a job. You came here to create a miraculous life, so go and create something beautiful with your life. What would you like your life to stand for?

Here is, in short, how the process of transformation occurs from the perspective of quantum physics and metaphysics. Your thoughts act upon the energy of that which you desire to alter. Your focused thought raises or lowers the vibration - depending on what you desire to accomplish.

If you desire to create something, apparently out of nothing (there is no such thing as nothing - there is only intelligent energy, life-force), by focusing upon its manifested form, you lower the vibration until it becomes visible to physical senses.

If you desire to raise the vibration of something, imagine that something filled with, or made out of, light and love. Love and light are the highest common denominator / vibration of everything that is manifested. It's simple and straightforward. Focusing upon light and love will harmonize you with all Life, with Infinite Love, Power and Wisdom. Love and Light are the magic wand that will open all doors for you. Love and light will make possible for you to accomplish that which previously might have seemed impossible.

It is through your own experiments and experience that you'll get better acquainted with your creative power and in time you will be able to do more and more. If you desire to experience a radical change in your ability, then you must first experience a radical shift in consciousness - and to do so, you have to open yourself to it.

And always remember, the greatest treasure of the entire world is right within you. You may use all the tools and devices you like from the outer world to help you access the Infinite Power and Intelligence, but they are and always will be with you and within you. No human being can give you anything greater than that which was already given you, but some can help you to bring it out. Life was given you to create a wonderful, beautiful, unique, piece of art with it. No greater treasure will you find anywhere else. Love it and use it well.

The Power of Gratitude

Gratitude is not some mushy feeling. It is a powerful way of conditioning your subconscious mind for success. So many people focus on what they do not have and in this way further program their subconscious minds with the idea and feeling of lack and loss. And guess what? That is exactly what they keep on enhancing in their lives. In time, this turns into a habit of expecting lack and fearing loss. Some people then embark on a journey of looking for further proofs that life is a dreadful thing, filled with meaningless struggle, so they abandon all effort to make something out of it and begin acting in ways that actually invite more losses and dismal experiences. Then they wonder why they feel depressed.

Step 1

While gratitude does include saying "thank you" to others, it really begins within, by appreciating things, people and circumstances we may have taken for granted - even if all we have is the air that we breathe, food, clothing, shelter.

Perhaps you can think of some things that have been beneficial to you and which you might have taken for granted. If you stop now, for a moment, to appreciate what you already have in your life, you will already begin to feel happier and wealthier.

Step 2

More challenging for most people, is feeling gratitude for dismal experiences in our lives, for those people and situations in our lives that brought us even some pain and discomfort and in that way pushed us to challenge ourselves, to reach deeper within and discover incredible resources within ourselves, untapped powers we did not even know we had. Or perhaps they pushed us to develop some new skills, skills that have tremendously enriched our lives.
Maybe the skills we have learned have enabled us not only to emerge victorious out of our own struggle, but also to be of greater service to others.No one may be better equipped to help a person going through a challenging experience than someone who has already been there, experienced it, and knows.

Think now about some of your life experiences that you wished you did not have to go through at a time and consider what have you learned from those experiences, and how have they actually enriched your life.

The benefit of this new perspective of looking upon seemingly dismal situations from your past is that once you have learned what you needed to learn from your experiences, you would not have to go through them again - you will set them free, and you will be able to move on. You will feel lighter and happier. By transforming this emotional baggage, you will open new space in your life for new and wonderful things to come your way.

Step 3

Now, go one step further and think of all those things you would like to have in your life - feel how would you feel having them right now and express gratitude for them as if you already have them. Gratitude is the fastest way to draw those experiences into your life.

When you feel gratitude for something, you acknowledge that you have already received it. You program this desirable experience as your reality into your subconscious mind, you expect it to happen, you begin looking for proofs that it is a part of your life, you begin acting as if this is true for you now and you begin to experience what may be nothing short of miracles.

Remember that you program your subconscious mind by what you FEEL to be REAL for you NOW! When you express gratitude for something you would like to experience as if you already have it now, you acknowledge that this desired experience is REAL for YOU now, you CLAIM it as YOUR OWN and you open the way for it to come into your life! The Power of Gratitude

5 Secrets of Successful Self-Hypnosis

1. KNOW WHAT YOU WANT

In this step you need to consider what you want vs. what you don’t want and you need to be able to distinguish between the form and the essence.

Instead on focusing on what you don’t want, it’ important to focus on WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE to experience instead, because your subconscious mind says “YES” to whatever you focus upon.

If you don’t want illness focus on perfect health, if you don’t want lack, focus on abundance, if you don’t want to experience stress, focus on experiencing peace, etc.

Sometimes people focus on the “form” - the physical thing - instead on the “essence” - the feeling they would like to experience. If you desire to create or attract a specific thing into your life, ask yourself what feeling do you believe this thing would give you. By focusing on the “essence” of what you want, you expand your options.

You may find that there are many other ways to experience that desired feeling even now, and by experiencing that feeling now, you further open yourself to attract the thing you desire.

Many times we chase certain things, only to discover that they didn’t give us the feeling we expected to get by having them. And even if the thing you originally had it mind does indeed bring you the desired feeling, this process may bring you further insight into many different ways to enrich your life, to open yourself to many different opportunities that will allow you to experience even more of that desired feeling.

2. CLAIM IT AS YOURS

Once you know what you want, imagine and FEEL that you already have it. Engage as many of your senses as you can and while in a trance state (in a state of hypnosis) vividly imagine yourself as if you are already enjoying the desired state, thing, circumstances. You may also re-live your life, in your mind, imagining that you have always had this resource, quality, thing you’d like to experience.

The whole point of the “depth” of hypnosis is to allow you to put your conscious mind and the awareness of the outer world aside, long enough that you are able to fully experience your desired experience as REAL for you NOW.

It is good to remember that your subconscious mind does not distinguish between what is outside of you - what you may interpret as “real” - and what you experience only in the realm of your mind. Your subconscious mind accepts as REAL whatever FEELS REAL to YOU … NOW.

3. CLEAR THE OBSTACLES

Successful self-hypnosis is very much alike planting seeds. You decide what you would like to grow, you plant the seeds by imagining and feeling that you already have the desired outcome. You don’t have to concern yourself with how is the plant going to grow – it is endowed with intelligence to fulfill its purpose. What you do need to do is pull out the weeds if you notice any.

When you plant seeds of your outcome in your subconscious mind, your doubts, fears, anxieties, conflicting beliefs etc. are weeds you have to uproot. If you believe that it is impossible for you to reach your goal, but you just want to try it, forget about it – it’s not going to work.

If the goal seems to overwhelming, cut it down into smaller, achievable goals – goals you believe are attainable for you now. It doesn’t matter what anyone else has accomplished. The only thing that matters is what you believe is possible for you. Other people’s accomplishments may inspire you – but whether you’d be able to accomplish the same, or less, or more, depends only on what you believe to be possible for you, and on the action you're willing to take.

Sometimes people look for “proofs” and assurance outside of themselves, asking other people for their opinions as to whether something is possible or not, yet this only tells their subconscious minds that they are still filled with doubt – they don’t really believe that they can experience the results they desire, so they usually don’t.

The best place to look for “proofs” when using your subconscious mind is in your own experiences – conducting your own experiments.

There is a way to get and create absolutely anything you may ever want to create through the power of your mind. However to overcome your own limitations you either have to have limitless faith, or even better, to do some research and gain understanding why YOU CAN be or have whatever it is you set your heart upon.

This also brings me to the POWER OF DECISION. If you have ever DECIDED to experience something and if you can recall how that feels, you may become aware that at such times your mind was fully focused on your GOAL and even though you might have been aware of possible obstacles on the road, they have not prevented you in reaching your outcome. When you truly DECIDE that you want something, you “cut yourself off” any other possibility and you COMMIT yourself to having the experience you desire.

You may be already familiar with a poem by Goethe:

Until one is committed
there is hesitancy,
the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness.

Concerning all acts of initiative
there is one elementary truth
the ignorance of which kills
countless ideas and endless plans:
That the moment one definitely commits oneself,
then providence moves, too.

All sorts of things occur to help one
that would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision
raising in one’s favor all manner of
unforeseen incidents and meetings and
material assistance which no man
could have dreamed would come his way.

Whatever you can do or
dream you can, begin it!
Boldness has genius, powerand magic in it.

4. LET GO AND TRUST

This is probably the hardest step for most people – and it may take some practice to totally and completely trust in the wisdom and power of your mind, universe, God, your Higher Self (pick the term you prefer) to be able to bring into your experience what you asked for.
You may notice that sometimes when you think about something and then you completely forget about it, not even giving it a second thought whether it’s going to pass or not – the thing you thought about, just happens. That’s because you have spontaneously let go – by forgetting about it, your subconscious mind was able to take over and create that experience in your life.

Other times you may feel that you want or need something really badly, so badly as a matter of fact, that you can’t let it go – and as much as you want it – you are not allowing it to manifest for you.

When something is really important for you to have and you have no idea where what you need is going to come from, trusting may feel as if you were walking on a tight-rope. With practice, it does get much easier.

Practicing gratitude – expressing gratitude for what you need and/or desire as if you have already received it will help you to get your mind off the worry, and keep it focused on your goal.

Gratitude will dramatically cut the time it takes to get what you desire, and it will dissolve a lot of obstacles toward getting the results you’d like to create using self-hypnosis.

You can thank your subconscious mind, your unconscious mind, God, universe – or whatever you like to refer to the power and intelligence within you and all around you that is able and knows how to bring into manifestation every one of your heart’s desires.

5. RECOGNIZE WHEN YOU GET WHAT YOU ASKED FOR

Sometimes what you ask for may come into your life in a slightly different form than what you envisioned. It is important to notice and acknowledge that what you asked for has in some form manifested for you.

Sometimes what you ask for may be even better than what you asked for (vividly imagined in self-hypnosis).

Sometimes what you ask for may be a far cry from what you wanted. It may be just a signal that what you asked for is on its way. Now is not the time to give up, but to keep on thanking that what you desire or even something better is on its way.

You may also want to re-examine your beliefs, doubts, worries, insecurities, feelings that you don’t quite deserve what you asked for, that it would be too good for you, or perhaps that after all, you don’t really want what you asked for.

Remember that your outer-world experiences only reflect what’s in your mind, so if you don’t like what you’re experiencing, all you need to do is change your mind about it. If you expect only the best in life, and keep on thanking your mind and the universe (God) for giving you the best, in joyful expectation of these experiences – your outer-world experiences will reflect this.

Acknowledge that everything that happens in your life is forever moving you toward the realization of your goals.