Your subconscious mind determines what happens in your life.

First I should explain that when it comes to the processing power of your brain, about 97% of it resides within your subconscious. That’s a lot of processing power!

Second, your subconscious mind doesn’t make decisions. It’s more like a tape player that just keeps playing the same few tapes over and over again. Imagine you had a video playing on your computer or DVD player that was stuck on repeat and you couldn’t turn it off. That’s exactly what your subconscious mind is doing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

If you combine the processing power of your subconscious mind with the constant repetition of certain thoughts, stories, and images, that equates to a very powerful creative combination.

Your thoughts are creative, and since your subconscious mind does most of your thinking in a repetitive manner and with such processing power, that explains why you’re probably having the same type of experiences in your life over and over again. A creative combination that just keeps creating the same thing over and over and over…

So what can you do to break the cycle?

You need to change those videos that are stuck on repeat.

How do you do that? Well there are lots of different methods. This is a short list of some of the most widely used methods (click here to read more about them)…

• Hypnosis
• Positive Affirmations
• Visualization
• Meditation

Whatever method you use, the key is repetition. If you repeat something often enough, for long enough, the subconscious mind will eventually accept it as truth.

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Whenever you’re doing any mental reprogramming work like affirmations or visualization, it’s going to be much more effective if you can first get yourself into a very relaxed state both physically and mentally.

Having a relaxed state of mind and body makes it much easier to program your subconscious mind

There are 4 general states of mental activity…

• Delta = Deep sleep
• Theta = Drowsiness
• Alpha = Relaxed but alert
• Beta = Highly alert and focused

Most of us spend our days stuck in the Beta state. For the majority of the tasks that we perform on a daily basis, this state works well. But it doesn’t work very well when we’re trying to change our thinking patterns or imprint new ideas on our subconscious mind.

When your brain is in an Alpha state, it opens up a doorway to your subconscious mind. This doorway allows your affirmations and visualizations to sink in much better then if you work at the Beta level.

Take a few minutes to purposefully relax and do some deep breathing before you begin your mental reprogramming. You’ll see better results in a shorter period of time.

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The Universe abhors a vacuum.

Try digging up some grass and watch how quickly that space fills back in with new plants. Take a cup of water out of a pool and watch how quickly the rest of the water moves in to fill it’s place.

Whenever a space is cleared, the Universe rushes to fill that space.

You can probably even see this law at work in your own life. If you clear out all the junk and clutter from your home, do you find that new stuff quickly seems to fill it up again?

This is that law of vacuum at work! Clear some space physically, or even mentally/emotionally, and the Universe will quickly fill that space again.

Use this law to your advantage. If your trying to attract something into your life, make sure that you’ve made room for it’s arrival.

• Looking to get a new wardrobe? Trying clearing all of your old clothes out of the closet.
• Trying to attract a mate into your life, make room in your home like you’re expecting someone to move in.
• Would you like to get a new vehicle? Clear out space in your garage so you have a place to park it.
• Want a new rug or curtains? Get rid of the old ones now.

Make room in your life for the things you desire and watch how quickly they come to fill that space!

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Whenever you catch yourself feeling or thinking negatively, try using this question to quickly raise your vibration…

Wouldn’t it be nice if…?

Your vibrational rate dictates what experiences you’re attracting into your life. Negative thoughts and feeling have a low vibration and attract negative experiences. Positive thoughts and feelings have a high vibration and attract positive experiences into your life.

If you catch yourself feeling or thinking negatively and want to quickly turn yourself around and get your vibrational rate up, try asking yourself… “Wouldn’t it be nice if…(you fill in the blank)?”.

For example, let’s say you’re facing some financial struggles that are really bringing your vibration down. If you stop and ask yourself, “Wouldn’t it be nice if I had a lot more money coming in?” Asking yourself a question like that will quickly get your mind thinking about what it would be like if you had a lot more money coming in. Presto, suddenly your thoughts and feelings have shifted from thoughts of lack, to thoughts of prosperity.

Whatever negative state you find yourself in, it’s easy to come up with a “Wouldn’t it be nice if…” question that will quickly shift your vibrational rate to a higher one.

Give it a try for yourself and leave a comment below letting me know how it works for you. I’d love to hear from you! .

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When you give of yourself, your time, your money, your talents, or anything else that you have to share, you open yourself up to receive more blessings into your own life.

When you give freely and happily, you are putting positive energy out into the world. This energy will always come back to you and usually it comes back many times bigger than what you gave out. It must, it’s a Universal law. Just keep in mind that the Universe is the One that will decide how that energy is returned to you. So when you give, give freely and expect nothing in return from those you give to.

Start the receiving process in your own life by making a regular practice of giving!

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“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

Changing the world begins by changing yourself.

Your thoughts, feelings, and actions have an incredible effect on the world around you as a whole. Traditional religious teachings have been saying this for thousands of years and quantum physics is beginning to prove this to be true.

If you want to change the world, begin by changing yourself. If you want to see more peace in the world, create this change by being more peaceful yourself in both thought and action. If you want to see the world be a more loving place, be and feel more loving yourself.

You are not powerless! You can make a difference! Don’t wait for somebody else to do it, it can begin with you .

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“I am always finding reasons to be grateful.”

Nothing opens you up to receiving abundance like gratitude can.

Imagine you have a friend that you gave a gift to and they did nothing but complain about how it was good enough. Would you want to give that friend another gift? Probably not.

Now imagine you had another friend that you gave a gift to and they gushed and gushed with gratitude over that gift. Do you think that might cause you to want to give that friend even more gifts? I know I certainly would.

The Universe isn’t really isn’t all that different. Take time every day to look for things to be grateful for in your life. Then, spend some time genuinely feeling thankful for them. By doing so, you’re going to encourage the Universe to give you even more things to be grateful for.

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Here’s is today’s affirmation to help you think more positively…

“I now choose to only imagine positive outcomes for all areas of my life.”

When you think about future events, how do you imagine they’ll turn out? Most of us have a habit of worrying and picturing some of the worst possible outcomes.

If you’re going to spend time and energy imagining some sort of outcome, why not imagine a good one? Remember, what you choose to focus your energy towards often comes true, so imagining positive outcomes can go a long way towards making your life easier and more enjoyable!

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Here’s a cool way to ramp up make your visualizations more effective and help you manifest your goals and dreams.

The key to creating positive things in your life is all based on how you feel emotionally. You see, it’s your emotions that either allow, or repel the good that you desire.

Basically, as you improve your emotional state, what you attract into your life experience improves as well.

If you want to use this to your advantage, tap into a higher emotional state when you do your visualizations (you are visualizing right!?).

One great way to do this is when you first sit or lie down to visualize, think about something that brings you great joy or something or someone that you feel great love for. Hold onto that thought until you feel yourself being overwhelmed with the emotion of joy and/or love. Appreciation is another strong, positive emotion. So if you prefer, you can also think about something in your life that you are extremely grateful for.

Once you’ve locked onto that strong positive emotion, hold onto it and start visualizing what you would like to create in your life. The combination of a strong positive emotion coupled with images of what you desire to create will cause a strong attractive force within you that will help pull your visualizations into your life experience.

That’s it, short and sweet!

Give it a try, and please share your results. I’d love to hear about them!

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