Choose Your Thoughts

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Everything in nature is unique.

Thoughts have their own unique energy. Are you using the power of your words to create only that which is positive for you?

Positive thoughts vibrate at a higher frequency than negative thoughts, just as light vibrates at a higher frequency than what we perceive as darkness.
Realize the power behind your intentions by being consciously aware of self-defeating actions and directing your thoughts in constructive and healing ways.

As you meditate every day, you can choose a positive word or phrase and repeat it in rhythm with your slow and steady breath. Examples are:

I am loved

All is well

I am at peace

I am happy

Peace

Meditation is the tool by which you remain true to your Self, untouched by comments and the actions of others. It strengthens your resolve to not let yourself be affected by detractors or to give up following your chosen path, shows you how to keep feeling the joy of love inside, and live each moment of every day with purpose and peace.

My inner glow is not dulled or discolored by what is happening around me.

I am a beacon of pure energy radiating on the world helping others by the brightness and power of my light.

Look and see where you’re resisting change which could help you evolve your life.
Meditation will help you self-generate power and self-discipline by the use of intention to effect change and forge new pathways within the brain.

Whoever tries nothing will get nothing; you won't reach your objectives if you don't make necessary efforts.

Transform yourself through minding your thoughts and by exchanging your patterns of thought for a state of mind that is continually excited by, and in love with, life.
Expect more and get more out of your day-to-day interactions and activities by reinforcing positive images and behavior.

Allow meditation to help release that which drags you down and fill you instead with energy to complete all your daily activities and live in a constant state of fulfillment.

The words and actions that you send out will manifest the life you really want so open your mind and heart to the untapped possibilities that lie within you.

Om Peace

Guided Meditation: Awareness

Meditation helps you create a mind that is still

and thoughts that drift by like clouds against a blue sky.

The subconscious mind uses memories and learned behavior patterns to react to many everyday events. On a simple level, this means that when you wake up, you don’t have to be re-taught everything that helps you in your day-to-day life such as putting on your clothes the right way or tying your shoes!

On the other hand, this ability creates problems when past events that you have forgotten about leave a lingering impression that manifests whenever you are exposed to people or events that bring an immediate response that you were unaware of.

Power of the Imagination
Illusions are powerful and play easily with the mind, impacting everything, from your imagination to your actions.

Your mind can and will continue to replay powerful emotions as long as you permit the input from memories to influence what you do with your life. However, this can only occur with awareness; and what's the easiest method to develop awareness? Meditation.

Power of Meditation
Meditation enables you to rewire your thought patterns by changing the way you think and feel. Gradually you notice positive changes as your brain lays down new neural pathways enabling you to observe and act in a manner that you desire.
Previous attitudes, beliefs, and points of view that no longer work for you are replaced with a perspective that empowers and strengthens you.

Meditation also helps you to let go of the shadows and imprints of the physical world by taking control of the body and mind in order to transcend the inner stillness of a mind and life that is at peace, and tap into the knowledge that exists in your spiritual world.


In the beginning of your practice, meditation is a tool, or coping mechanism, that helps you to generate a positive frame of mind. As you continue to enter into your practice with ease, you not only promote a healthy state of being, you respond differently to the world because your thoughts are different and your self-esteem and self-worth becomes balanced as ties to negative emotions and feelings are severed.

Guided Meditation
Relax and focus on an object of meditation that you prefer, such as the breath or a candle flame.
Observe without any judgment.
If the mind moves away from this object, return to it when you become conscious of it.
Notice any feelings of relaxation that occur such as the breath slowing down, muscles relaxing,
Notice the growing space between thoughts and your meditation object
Stay with your growing awareness of inner peace
If any other feelings occur, allow their energy to flow through you.
Notice what rises up through your meditation
Release what you no longer need.
Allow the focused attention to dissolve into awareness
Enter into the space between the thoughts.
Draw the inner stillness to you and fill yourself with tranquility and silence.

When you conclude your awareness meditation, know that you can return to the feelings of peace simply by returning to the flow of your breath. Awareness and self-knowledge grow with each meditation enabling you to think with precision and from a source of love.

Meditation and Beliefs

 

Vicki and Emma successfully completing a full marathon race.

Beliefs
What do you believe about yourself, your relationships, and the world around you?
Where does the information come from that enables you to form these beliefs?

All of your past experiences, and your perception of your experiences, create physiological changes in the brain in response to new information that is received. This occurs on a continual basis via images, words, sounds, smells and a myriad of other information that the brain constantly absorbs, including data received from your own thoughts and emotions.

Creating a quantum shift
Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to restructure itself depending on how your mind chooses. Combined with meditation, this ability of the brain to reform itself helps you transform your mind to make beneficial life changes. By becoming aware of and adopting healthy thoughts and behaviors, you can create a quantum shift away from habits that are destructive and in doing so, experience the world and yourself from a different perspective.

Beliefs shape our world whether we are aware of them or not. Unfortunately, strongly-held beliefs that are detrimental can create havoc with any desire that you have to live a peaceful existence or achieve your goals and aspirations, simply because these beliefs are so powerful that they spur you on to keep repeating similar actions with different people in different situations.

Without awareness we will not be able to address these deep-seated beliefs nor alter them.

Believe you can change
Beliefs are often ingrained over years of reinforcement but they can be altered. Meditation will bring about a transformation in not only your thoughts and words, but also in the way that you behave. With a regular meditation practice you will develop an understanding of the different layers of consciousness that will in turn enable you to shed all beliefs that are limiting, such as fear, pressure, or worry while adding those that build and sustain you.
This will not occur in one sitting though. It will take time for awareness of your Self to develop, for beliefs to be identified, and for a new attitude to what you know to be TRUE about your Self and what you want to KNOW is possible to achieve in life to be adopted.

During your regular meditation practice you will reinforce beliefs like love and altruism that strengthen and sustain you and enable you to be a positive force to the world around you. Practitioners of meditation state that they become more aware of how they react to other people and it helps them to work on not only thinking about their actions but helps them make a commitment to create positive changes.

There are many guided meditations and affirmations on the blog page that you can use to help you begin the process.

Affirmations
In addition to your meditation practice, you can help the subconscious mind work on your behalf, rather than sabotaging you, by the use of affirmations that reform your belief patterns.
Writing down your affirmation and placing it where you can see it daily and then committing it to memory helps develop the right frame of mind to be open to change. Repeating your affirmation in an earnest and heartfelt manner helps you to re-set your belief system to one that works for you.
Over time, you will see yourself feeling and reacting differently to all that happens in your life.

I acknowledge the wisdom within me

My new reality exceeds my previous limiting beliefs

I am free to achieve what I believe I can