Friday 31 October 2014

MJ


Friday 24 October 2014

How to Find Inner Peace: 5 Timeless Thoughts

Re-published from 28 Magical Practices

“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
Marcus Aurelius<p> </p>Finding peace within is a wonderful. It is easy to go looking for it in the wrong places.<p> </p>So here are 5 timeless thoughts to help guide you to the places where you can actually find it.<p> </p>1. Simplify.<p> </p><p>“The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life.”</p>Peace Pilgrim<p> </p>Making thing simpler has certainly brought a lot of inner peace to my life. So, a few of my favorite suggestions on how to simplify your life:<p> </p><p>Use a limited to-do list. Only 2 or 3 of the most important things.</p><p>Set limits. Set limits for daily checking of inboxes. I do it only once a day. Set time limits for small decisions and make them within seconds after you have thought about them to avoid procrastination and overthinking. Set time limits for tasks such as 15 minutes each day for answering emails or for using Twitter. Set a limit for commitments and say no to be able to feel less stress and produce better results.</p>Remember to “keep things extremely simple”. I have written down that sentence on my white board and it is a daily and constant reminder that helps me when I lose my way.<p> </p>2. Accept.<p> </p><p>“Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquility – instead of anger and resentment.”</p>Unknown<p> </p>When you accept what is you stop feeding energy into resisting what is. You don’t make a problem more powerful and sticky in your mind. Instead, somewhat counter intuitively, when you accept what is it loses much of its power. It just is.<p> </p>And you feel stillness inside. Now, accepting what is doesn’t mean to give up. It just means that you put yourself in a better position take action if necessary. Because now you can see more clearly, you can focus your energy towards what you want and take the appropriate action to change your situation.<p> </p>3. Forgive.<p> </p><p>“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.”</p>Gerald Jampolsky<p> </p>By accepting what is it is much easier to let go of things and to forgive what has happened.<p> </p>Forgiveness is important because as long as you don’t forgive someone you are linked to that person. Your thoughts will return to the person who wronged you and what s/he did over and over again. The emotional link between the two of you is so strong and inflicts much suffering in you and – as a result of your inner turmoil – most often in other people around you too.<p> </p>When you forgive you do not only release the other person. You set yourself free too from all of that agony.<p> </p>One thing to keep in mind is to not just forgive others but also yourself. By forgiving yourself – instead of resenting yourself for something you did a week or 10 years ago – you make the habit of forgiveness more and more of a natural part of you. And so forgiving others becomes easier too.<p> </p>Also, what you think is a question of forgiving others you may sometimes – after some time and inner struggle – discover is just as much, if not more, about forgiving yourself rather than the other person.<p> </p>4. Do what you enjoy.<p> </p><p>“Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you’ll have more success than you could possibly have imagined.”</p>Roger Caras<p> </p>When you do what you enjoy there is a natural peace that arises within. You are in alignment with your outer world. This also leads to a lot more success than if you have a lot of inner turmoil and really don’t care that much for your work.<p> </p>One of my favorite tips for finding things you enjoy or love doing is simply to explore life. To be curious and try things out and see what you think of them. This can bring many insights both about yourself and about how things really are when you do them rather than when they are just theories floating around in your head.<p> </p>5. Be careful with your inner peace.<p> </p><p>“Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.”</p>St. Francis de Sales<p> </p>By using the tips above and by living in the present moment you can find a lot more inner peace. Not only during days when things go as planned. But also on days when your world is upset and things aren’t so easy. On such days your inner peace will be very useful to help you make good decisions and to get things done. So be smart, stay calm and be careful with your inner peace.

Tuesday 21 October 2014

Lovely Story

Re-Published from thesecret.tv

By Sindhu
from India
Dear Readers ,

I thank Rhonda and the entire team of The Secret for changing the lives of so many people.

I am actually good at writing poems so I sent my poem to one of the leading weekly journals.

I imagined each day how my poem would get published and how would I feel after that. But when I got the new edition of the journal, my poem was not published.

I didn't worry, instead I trusted the universe.

Then yesterday I got a call from the editor of the journal telling me that the poem was really good and it will published very soon!

I am so happy and thanked the Universe with all my heart.

So friends, please trust the universe fully. Whatever happens, trust the universe.The Universe loves us completely and is waiting to give us everything we want, but we have to have trust in it.

Trust the Universe. Have Faith. You will get everything you want .

Soon I will be back with stories about my job, about my hair and skin and relationship.

lovingly,
Sindhu
About Sindhu from India:
A firm believer of The Secret and The Magic.

Monday 20 October 2014

The Vibrational Ladder – How To Feel Better In 4 Simple Steps

Re-published from 28 Magical Practices

The basic concept
Imagine a ladder (didn’t see that coming, did you?) At the very bottom, is where you are right now on whatever subject you want to work on. You have some negative beliefs you’d like to release. Each rung on the ladder represents a slightly better feeling thought, evoking a slightly better feeling from you. And at the very top, you’ll find the goal: a thought about this subject that feels completely joyful. This is where total happiness lives.
The basic idea is to incrementally work your way up the ladder until you’ve completely released all negative emotion on any given subject

Let’s look at an example
I’m going to use the example of weight loss here, because I know that many of you are eager for more information on this subject.
Jane Doe (cause I’m creative like that) wants to lose 20 pounds.
Step 1: Find your current place on the ladder.
Jane sits down and begins to evaluate her current thoughts and feelings around her weight and weight loss. There are generally many beliefs which need to be shifted when it comes to this issue, but it’s best to focus on one at a time.
One of her thoughts is: “I’m never going to lose weight. I’m going to be fat forever.” And she’s feeling fear.
Note: You don’t have to identify the exact emotion that your thoughts correspond to. This exercise only requires you to tell the difference between bad, better and good. In other words, it doesn’t matter where you’re at right now emotionally. Your only goal is to move upwards.
So Jane has identified her current thought and it feels awful. She draws a ladder on a piece of paper and writes “I’m afraid that I’ll be fat forever” at the bottom.
Step 2: Find a thought that feels a little bit better, regarding that same subject.
The problem with finding a better feeling thought is that we often try to make too big of a jump, or a quantum leap. In Jane’s case, if she tries to move from her current thought to “I love my thin and beautiful body”, or something along those lines, she’s going to get frustrated. Fast. This is what goes wrong with a lot of affirmations. If Jane stands in front of the mirror now, chanting “I’m thin! I’m thin!”, she’s going to feel like a fraud. It’s a fake statement that she’s nowhere near believing. The vibration of her current thought and the vibration of the joyful thought are too far apart.
We only have access to the frequencies that are somewhere in range of our current vibration. So, if Jane is currently vibrating at fear, she simply doesn’t have access to a thought that vibrates at enthusiasm or joy. If she tries, she’ll fail, and will then probably feel even worse for her efforts.
But Jane does have access to thoughts that feel a little bit better than her current ones, and this is exactly where the Vibrational Ladder comes in. We don’t want to try to jump from the bottom to the top rung. Instead, we’re going to move up one rung at a time.
So, Jane begins to feel around for a better feeling thought. Since she’s been focusing on this negative thought for a while, the Law of Attraction has been bringing her more thoughts like it. She’s going to have to extend a little bit of effort to find a more positive thought.
Attempt  #1: “I hate my big fat body”. That feels worse. Next!
Attempt #2: “Lots of people are fat. I’m not alone.” That doesn’t really feel any better. While it’s always nice to know that we’re not suffering alone, this thought only underscores Jane’s fear. If all those people are struggling with weight loss issues, what chance has she got?” Next!
Attempt #3: “Lots of people have lost weight. Some people have figured this out, so a solution does exist.” Whew! That thought does feel a bit better. If a solution exists, then not all hope is lost.
Step 3: Recognize the better feeling
Once Jane has found a slightly better feeling thought, she’ll want to recognize that it does, in fact, feel a little bit better. She has deliberately focused her way to a slightly better feeling place – a new, higher vibration. And if she can make this small shift, she can make another and another, until she feels not only slightly, but A LOT better.
This is what the Law of Attraction work is really all about. It comes down to our ability to make one tiny shift after another. We can move mountains with one small shift at a time. Let’s keep going.
Step 4: Incrementally work your way up the ladder.
Now that Jane is feeling the relief of a slightly better feeling thought, she can reach for the next rung on the ladder – a thought that feels even better than the last one.
While everyone’s progression is going to be unique, I’m happy to provide you with an example of what Jane’s ladder might look like on this particular belief.
Remember to read from the bottom (starting point = negative belief) towards the top (better feeling beliefs).

Each time Jane shifts from one thought to a better feeling one, she’s actually raising her vibration on that subject. Now, she might be able to move from the bottom to the top in one go, or it could take several sessions over the course of a few days. It’s also quite possible that one “issue” could be tied to many different beliefs (the big, insidious issues generally are). But the beautiful thing is that as Jane does this exercise and begins to pay attention to how she feels, those other beliefs will become more apparent. She’ll notice them by the way they feel.
Also, as Jane works her way up the ladder on belief after belief, she’s going to raise her collective vibration, which will make it easier for her to access better feeling thoughts on any subject. And one by one, belief by belief, subject by subject, Jane can use the Vibrational Ladder to change her entire life in whichever way she wants.
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