The Power of Imagination

I am a great believer in imagining, and an example of this is is one of my previous posts http://theattitudequeen.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/your-unconscious-mind-at-work/. 

I came across a short and very effective speech by Garion Bunn on You Tube which I absolutely love – it’s about imagination.   If you click on the link below you can watch it and then let me know what you think.  By the way, Garion does a bit of singing at the beginning and the speech is just after that – about 1 minute and 5 seconds into the start of the video.  Enjoy

 

 

Three very simple steps to improve your life and have total freedom

Today I thought I’d have a bit of fun and do an entry that is different.  I come across people who live like this and am constantly amazed by that attitude! 

Three very easy ways to have total freedom (?)

1/  Blame everyone or everything else for anything that happens and you will never be at fault!!!  I mean it is not your fault that you didn’t get to the job interview on time – the trains were late and the traffic was bad – how were you supposed to know that.  

And it wasn’t your fault you got the sack – if your boss hadn’t been nasty you wouldn’t have told him off.  Your parents were awful to you and favoured your brother and that is why you find it hard to accept criticism; and that last boss you had had no right to criticise you anyway because it wasn’t your fault that the other company got the contract.  Your colleague wouldn’t help you when the deadline was nearly up – talk about lack of team-work, and it wasn’t your fault you were running late with that contract because…..

2/ Procrastinate. I mean how else can you make an informed decision if you don’t wait and see what else is available.  Besides, it is not good for your health to get stressed about stuff; you need to have a balance and take it easy, right?  Procrastination is also good because you can’t go wrong – that’s right – if you keep putting things off, you will never make any mistakes again!!  How good is that?   Now you can just chill out and relax………………….

3/ Negativity.  Be negative and you will never be disappointed.  If you look for the worst in everyone and everything you can be right nearly all the time – imagine how much more happier you will be if you are nearly always right.   Your job (well the one you had before getting sacked) was awful; you never got any recognition for your work and your colleagues were unfriendly.  When you go for job interviews the interviewers don’t know what they are talking about and ask you stupid questions…….. I mean, you are always right, aren’t you!  Who are all these people anyway, and what do they know?  Now, I could give you more advice on the three steps, but why should I?  I probably have got it all wrong and you will know more than me about this. So,………………………………..

 follow the above three very easy and very simple steps and you will never, ever have to take responsibility for your life and decisions again, leaving you total and utter freedom!!!!

I am sure you have heard some other ways from people you know, or have met, on how to achieve this lifestyle so, please share them with me – I’m really curious to know more about this type of attitude.

 

Abundance

Abundant thinking is a form of positive thinking.  It is about creating a mindset of positive values that allows you to see your life as one of abundance, not one of deficit.  It allows you to flip your mental attitude from negative to positive and appreciate how much you have in your life to be grateful for.

Abundant thinking is all about changing how you view your personal circumstances so that you can change how you view the world at large.  It is realizing that you can be the cause of your happiness and achievement in life through your focus on what you have, rather than on what you don’t have.

However, it does not mean that you to stop striving for more and just accept your lot in life; rather it teaches quite the opposite: that by acknowledging how abundant your life is already, your mind will embrace the concept that the good things in life are potentially unlimited.  The following quote is attributed to Kabir:

“Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert,
when all around you there is nothing but water!”

With an abundant mind-set, you start to notice opportunities where once you saw none, you may even realise that you already have that which you desired.

 

Abundant means to be richly supplied; to be overflowing, to have plenty.  This means that you should have no fear of asking for more.  Nor should you fear giving in case you may run out of whatever it is that you have.  Abundance is a store that never runs out of its goods, however, is not about greed.  It is taking what you need and not more just in case you may run out.  Wanting and taking more that you need is having the attitude of scarcity, the opposite of abundance.  It creates fear and limits around what can be achieved.

Abundant thinking is a life philosophy that encompasses your belief about yourself.  It is about expanding your comfort zone and getting rid of limiting beliefs about what it is possible to feel, to say and to do. 

Where money is the issue, it is viewed as a tool that allows a better quality of life, freeing you to do other things such as volunteer work, helping those who are less fortunate, spending time with you children, partner, friends, mentoring someone, providing employment to someone to do that which takes up your time better spent doing above.

How can you have an abundant lifestyle? 

Where can you find more time to do the things you enjoy the most?

How can you spend more time with the people you love?

What can you change in your life to live it the abundant way?

I’d be very interested in hearing your thoughts on this

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The law of attraction: what it can mean

The Law of Attraction – what is it really?  Some people think that if you think something, positive or negative, enough times, it will just happen.  One of my friends believes that.   

This morning she had a go at me about a statement I made – I said “I’m broke”.   I had a few unexpected bills come along – medical expenses – and I need to have them paid up shortly.   Coming so soon after Christmas, and I still haven’t got back on track after my holiday in France, Spain and Istanbul, I have put in place a fairly strict budget.  I didn’t mean that I had NO money, I do.  I want to make sure I am able to pay the bills and still have some left over (and I want to go away again in May).  So, I made some plans.

My friend was concerned about my statement as I had mentioned it once before.  She really believed that just by uttering the words “I am broke” I would attract some bad financial luck, that my finances would suffer.

That blew me away!  My idea of being “broke” and hers are probably very different.  I use “being broke” as a way of making sure I spend only that I need - no mindless consumerism (now, that’s got to be a good thing, don’t you agree?). 

I believe in positive thinking but that is not enough - action needs to be taken.  Hey, if you are standing on a beach and you see a tsunami coming, no amount of potitive thinking is going to prevent that wall of water from washing you away – you need to RUN, get out of there (as soon as you see the water recede!!!!!)

Planning for things , even worst case scenarios is not attracting negative events into your life.   Read my blog for 12/07/10 – I created this lifestyle I have now.  However, there was a point during that time when I left the only permanent job I had – it was part-time - and took on a full-time one that was on a temporary 6 month contract.  That was a real gamble – I had no idea at the beginning of that 6 months where I would be when I finished that contract.  So, I planned for the worst case scenario - being unemployed after the 6 months.  I made some financial decisions so I would be able to pay my bills etc,  in case there was a gap before I found more employment.  And I did -  the job I have now which I got just as my contract was finishing up – no gap at all -   the job that gives me the lifestyle I love.

It’s about risk assessment, a bit like mindfulness.  It is not about ignoring or avoiding thoughts and emotions that are negative, it is acknowledging what is happening, dealing with it, not getting attached to the supposed consequences of a perceived negativity. 

To me, the Law of Attraction is taking action to get the results you want. Think all the postitive thoughts you want; think and dream about your desires………..and then TAKE ACTION. 

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do”.    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

your unconscious mind at work

I was listening to someone talking recently about the importance of creating a vision or picture of how you want your life to be, daydreaming.  I thought to myself that while picturing what you want is important, nothing will happen if no action is taken; and how does that action happen when you tell yourself it’s too fantastic, it won’t happen when you’re stuck and are not sure how to go about it?

Not long after that I watched a documentary called “Finding My Mind” (6 July 2010, 7.30pm, SBSONE).  One of the experiments was around consciousness and unconsciousness where the subject was undergoing a brain scan & asked to make a couple of very simple decisions.  The result was that the scan showed that certain parts of the brain were activated for one decision and other parts for the alternate decision up to 6 seconds BEFORE the subject actually consciously decided.  That meant the researcher was able to predict what the subject was going to decide before he consciously decided and acted on that decision. 

The person carrying out the experiment explained that there is unconscious brain activity that is determining our decisions and that unconscious brain activity is “in harmony with your beliefs and desires”. 

Then I took my mind back to “daydreams” I used to have, daydreams about how I wanted my life to be, my desires….   

My Daydream Back Then

Back in 2002 I was living in country town about 4 hours drive from the coast, drought stricken area (still is), only employed part–time, broke, in a house with no view of anything, at the end of a cul-de-sac which veered to the left as you drove out of the street (yes, that detail is important)

I used to spend my Saturday mornings reading a Sydney newspaper.  One of the sections I loved was the real estate section – properties on the coast, views of the ocean.  

At that time I used to imagine that I was living somewhere on the coast with the water just around the corner, where my cul-de-sac met the other street.  I knew the housing prices on the coast were well out of my reach and decided that it was all just fantasy. 

My Life Now

Well, as I was thinking about what I had heard about the importance of visioning, and the daydreams I had in the past, I realised that the ‘fantasy’ I had back in 2002 had come true – I am living in a property with the water, the ocean, just around the corner!!  To the left!!!  (told you that detail was important) AND I have been here since 2005!!  

So, the vision was in my unconscious mind, my desire, was there all along & possibly influenced every decision I have made in the past several years.

• The decision to leave a permanent part-time job,
• the decision to accept a temporary full-time position,
• the decision to apply for a permanent job with that particular employer even though it meant leaving everyone I knew, family etc. 
• the decision to move down the coast and commute for 2 years

All of that was influenced by my UNCONSCIOUS mind.

I didn’t move straight here either – I lived in a couple of other areas & apartments before I moved to this area.  My UNCONSCIOUS mind hadn’t forgotten that daydream, hadn’t forgotten that desire AND it only took me 3 years!!! 

I am living the lifestyle I had dreamed about !!!!

What can you now create for yourself from your daydreams, your desires? 

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.”
– Buddha

 

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