How to use mirror to power your mind.

Not that I am ashamed of my rather not very good looks but still, I don't look at the mirror more than once a day. Immediately after a shower in the morning I stand before the mirror to dress up. That's all.

Recently I happen to go to a counseling session along with one of my students who sought psychological help to overcome her fear of driving a car.

The counselor didn't take long. He advised a simple technique called 'mirror technique' to overcome the fear and boost the self confidence.

He asked my student to stand before a mirror and affirm her intention of driving a car fearlessly on a crowded road. He insisted that she take a few deep breaths before saying out the affirmation aloud.

Any feedback on this technique friends?

10 Incredible Health And Wellness Blogs You Haven't Heard Of.

Health and wellness blogs can entertain and educate. The science of health is always evolving and is often disputed so new perspectives should be considered. Here are some of the best blogs for that.

Dr. Weil

The Dr. Weil blog approaches medicine from both eastern and western points of view. Understanding that both sides can contribute to better health care allows you to take the best of both. Dr Weil's blog helps you do this.

eDrug Search Blog

The eDrug Search blog concentrates on medications and the wealth of information and differing perspectives that surround them. It also possesses a drug database so that you can look up any medication you wish to learn more about.

Half Of Me

The Half of Me blog comes from the perspective of someone who has been there. The author lost over 190 pounds from when she started and shares her insights. Because she went through the process, she can connect with those at various points of a weight loss journey.

The Health Care Blog

The Health Care Blog is written by someone with more than 14 years of experience working in the healthcare industry and communicates the many lessons he learned in this time. Demonstrating his considerable knowledge base and expertise, this blog give you the inside scoop on the healthcare industry.

WSJ Health Blog

The WSJ Health Blog is located on the Wall Street Journal website and contains the credible and current information that you would expect from such a site. This blog covers a range of topics in the health care field and has multiple contributors.

Balanced Health And Nutrition

The Balanced Health And Nutrition blog is written by Rebecca Stritchfield. Her knowledge of nutrition with over a decade of experience in the health and wellness field allows her to educate her readers on these topics. This blog began as her effort to share nutritional information with those closest to her.

Medicine World

Medicine World is a blog that informs its readers about a number of common health conditions. Because not everyone begins their interest in health and wellness because they are already healthy, this blog teaches about various health conditions, how to avoid them, and how to deal with them.

Deepest Health

The Deepest Health blog explores traditional Chinese medicine. The author shares what he learns with his readers.

WakoWa Wellness Blog

The WakoWa Wellness Blog is from a certified acupressure practitioner and teaches you all about this alternative form of medicine. The information presented on this site comes largely from traditional Chinese medicine.

GruntDoc

The GruntDoc blog is from a doctor who works in a trauma center. He relays his experiences to readers and the issues that many doctors and patients face when trying to operate in the health care system.

These health and wellness blogs are exceptional. Each can teach you about health and wellness in its own way. And each is just trying to educate you on how to live a better, healthier life by sharing the author's unique perspective and knowledge base.

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How big is the universe?

I remember reading this interesting piece of conversation between a man and the God:
Man: See, we don't need you any more. We have technology with which we can grow a 100 foot oak tree in 24 hours!
God: Is it so? Tell me briefly.
Man: We plant the seed in the soil, pour a tea spoon of water, apply the technology and bang! You see the 100ft tree the next day. Then the man started digging the soil.
God: Wait! Do it in your own soil.

Got the point?

We, on our own cannot animate a single grain of sand. Who we are after all when we watch this superb video clip?

How to attract a better future?

When I expressed my shock at the rumor about 2012, I was branded as a non-believer.

When I refused to see the movie Avatar, I was considered a snob.

When I became a fan of Joe Vitale and Dr.Wayne Dyer, people dumped Harry Potter books on me.

I didn't care for all the rebukes. If they dare and care to see a world of peace, prosperity and happiness, I tell them to at least read the blog of Joe Vitale once.

I just read his latest blog post titled,"How to attract a better future".

http://blog.mrfire.com/how-to-attract-a-better-future/

I reproduce a few points from it.

* The United States explodes out of the current recession by harnessing several new technologies

* We anticipate a price of $1.90 per gallon of gas

He is encouraging us to visualize such positive happenings only instead of becoming a fan of doomsday predictors.

The most simple visualization tool.

Image via Wikipedia

How do you draw a figure of anything?
For example, can you draw a figure of Zimbo bird?

No! Because, you have not heard or seen such a bird-right?

Can you draw the picture of Donald Duck?
Yes! You can because you have seen it in movies, magazines, websites and on labels. It's image is embedded in your memory clearly.

Ok, now, you want to live in your own house by a lakeside. How to you build it?
First, you draw the picture on a paper, get it drafted by professional draftsman, procure the building materials, hire workmen and start giving shape to the picture on the paper.

In other words, you have first visualized the object, put it on paper and gave its real shape finally.

It is the act visualizing that made you acheive your desire.

But not all can visualize creatively; even if they do, if they are not focused on their mental picture, they tend to keep changing the image on their mind and this leads nowhere to realize the end result.

For such people, there is an online tool called 'Vision Board'.
It helps you to keep inspired and focused on your goals by displaying them on your computer.

So if you are committed to achieving your goals, and are looking to stay focused and inspired to achieve massive success in your life, click here now to your own Vision board to learn more about this exciting new tool and take advantage of the power of visualization.

A divine favor is awaiting you in Mexico.

And this divine favor is available for all who wishes to take a relaxing holiday at Riviera Maya.

The Riviera Maya beckons only those who are fond of eating because the Karisma Hotel’s (meaning “divine favor” in Greek) riviera maya family vacations offer the much talked about Gourmet-Inclusive concept.

Don’t take this offer lightly folks. The spread of food and drink at the buffet table is not just an ordinary dinner that you find in every other sea side resort.

The standard of cooking that is offered in the Karisma Resorts is something that has no equal anywhere in the world. You must eat there at least once to believe it.

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What will happen if we cling on to..?

Freedom-the most wonderful feeling for any living being but human beings alone are capable of understanding its meaning because we are the only species that get tied or imprisoned for illegal activities.

Forget about getting landed up in prison as that is applicable to all of us.

But the other way of getting tied to material, beliefs, emotions, career, home, place of living applies to one and all irrespective of getting punished for illegal activities.

Man's obsession for clinging onto everything that enters his life will never make him feel the true freedom. Things such as material and human relationship, career and beliefs should give us pleasure and meaning for life but they should not weaken us when they leave us.

We should let things go instead of clinging onto, to make way for new things to come into our life. Nothing should ever stay with us that weakens us.


Attaching oneself to everything will make us to do anything to cling on to. I am sure you understand what I am implying!

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Don't be afraid to say or do things.

Don't be afraid to say or do things which are generally considered as taboos but of course never infringe on others' security and property.

What I mean to say is live by your heart and not by certain rules you are taught. After all, haven't we all seen how etiquette have changed over the centuries? What was considered as indecent is now accepted by the society.

And what is a society but a group of individual with varied educational levels and cultural background?

Let us all examine our personal life with a sense of self honesty. * Don't we hide our true selves from the world?
* Don't we feel a sense of shame or guilt that I would say is misplaced?
* Aren't we constantly afraid of social rejection?

What sort of pseudo identities we project?

See, only these things will lead us to depression and we allow a semblance of dissatisfaction set in permanently.

I have put my points rather mildly here. Read Steve Pavlina and he has driven his points sharply.

Why haven't you attracted the money you want?

Ask someone like me who firmly believes in the law of attraction, "Why haven't you attracted the money you want?" and the reply will be definitely "I don't know, can you tell me the answer?".

Consciously I may be practicing the law of attraction and would have seen some results in other areas of life but still I am not happy with the results when it comes to attracting money.

Why?

I have some limiting beliefs about money hidden safely in my subconscious mind. It is the case with all those who are not happy financially.

How to clear these limiting beliefs?

Do I have to meditate?
Do I have to pray?
Do I have to do penance in a forest?
Do I have to consult a hypnotist?

No! I don't have to do none of the above.

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There is no point in condemning anything or anyone.

Look, there is no point in condemning anything or anyone. Mind you, the thing or the person you want to be changed so that you will like, will remain the same or a little more of the same and you will continue to nurture your dislike which will be ultimately detrimental to your peace of mind.

Let me explain my present living condition that will throw more light on what I am saying.

Since last 50 days, my house is surrounded by lot of rain water and because of this, my freedom of movement is restricted. I keep spending money to improve the situation but the water doesn't recede.

Do you know why I am facing this condition?

The house in which I was living previously also faced the same situation and I cursed everyone and everything for my owes. I moved to the present house in order to escape the bad conditions and look at where I am now!

Why this happens?
It is because of the fundamental law of universe."Whatever you focus on, expands."

How to stop complaining?

There is no point in labeling anyone as a complaining type. We all without exception should be boldly labelled "Type-Complaining; Advise: Stay Away"

But the degree of complaining might vary based on the person's attitude and ability to forget. Yes, people with strong memory are vulnerable to be labelled as mentioned above.

Some of the common complaints on:
* weather
* World economy
* Unpunctual transportation
* Corrupt politics
* Disobedient children
* Bad cooking
* Poor quality groceries

To know how to stop complaining, you should know why you are complaining.

It is our resistance to 'what is' that is the prime cause of our complaining nature. We expect everything and everyone to be like us and to agree with our life values.

For example, if we don't take things easy, we want everyone around us to be the same.

If we like only classical music, we don't tolerate any other kind of music and we judge them as people with poor music taste.

We simply don't permit others to differ from us.

I think you have already found the answers to title of this blog post.

How to filter 60,000 thoughts a day?

We all know our mind drifts. But do you know how much the drifting is? We are said to think as many as 60,000 thoughts a day! And the mazing thing is 90% of them are repetitive!

Unbelievable but true.

Is it really possible to filter the thoughts, push the repetitive thoughts away that won't help us in anyway?

Yes but it takes to practice but once we do that, there is untold benefits for us.

*We can focus on thoughts that bring us joy and peace

*We can say 'no' to negative thoughts

*We can easily practice visualization

*We can master the art of attention

I came across a short video that will describe a small breathing exercise to help you to quiet the mind and increase your visualization power.

I once read a book titled,"An idiot's guide to creative visualization'. It was an eye opener for me. Excellent guide.

Steps to achieve inner peace-part 1.

Inner Peace-as the name suggests, there are no external factors to feel at peace and there is no such thing as external peace.

What we call as world turmoil, lack of peace around us is nothing but lack of peace with in us.

Let me explain.

A few moments make an hour. And hours make days. In order to have peaceful days, we need to have peaceful hours and they contain peaceful moments.

Life is nothing but string of moments.

Similarly, if you are at peace, you radiate peace around you and that makes a few more people at peace. This can develop a group of peaceful persons and several such groups form a peaceful community and so on.

Doesn't it make sense?

Now, let us examine briefly the steps to attain inner peace.
* Introspection
Whenever you notice a restlessness in you, ask yourself what is bothering you. I a 100% sure you find nothing of significance and you will wonder did you put up with thus far.
*Slow down
I read this somewhere: "In order to access high speed frequency, you have to slow down". Very aptly said I would say. By slow down I mean, don't try to rush up things. Let them take their own sweet time to evolve fully and bring fruits.

In fact, when you realize you are walking faster, eating at a pace that is not healthy, it means you are literally fighting to keep the inner peace away.
*Appreciate
Just pause to stop thinking or doing anything for only 5 minutes. Think about what are all things you used to appreciate and look for the same around you now. You will be surprised to more number of things than the past, to appreciate.
*Stop criticizing yourself
Over analyzing your actions, thoughts and possessions will lead you to criticize yourself and end up at an inner turmoil. How else can you attain inner peace?
In fact, if you spend that valuable time in comparing your life with many others, you will be amazed to realize that you are really doing very well.
*Be lazy
Lazing around for a minimum of 15 minutes a day can do wonders to your spirit. Just be inert to your thoughts, commitments and external sound.

I will discuss more steps in the next part of this blog post.

Just a thought away from being wealthy.

So, after reading articles on law of attraction of money, you have started thinking about wealth but still don’t get out of the hand-to-mouth rut-right?

What have you done wrong? Why the financial situation doesn’t improve at all?
I can reason out but correct me if I am wrong.
1. You try to push things to make it happen as per schedule
2. You are thinking about prosperity but at the same time you are focusing on why it has not come.
3. You sincerely don’t believe that money can be attracted
4. You have not acted on new opportunities because you were afraid

As Laurie Brenner said, “it takes the combination of three things to bring wealth in your life: thought, feeling, and action.” But you only thought and neglected on the other two components.Think back and you will realize what I am saying.

Another beautiful point of my friend Laurie is “wealth is a relative thing and you need to find a way to feel wealthy, right now in order by comparing with people who don’t have anything that you do have and that includes a decent meal a day and shelter at least in the night.

A nice example is cited by Laurie here:
There are roughly 350 million Americans in the United States. Equal number of people in India out of 1 billion population, are very poor, living on the streets. When compared to them, if you live in America, have a job, a house, a car-you're wealthy!

Now, tell me, are you wealthy? If you say yes and don’t change your mind, you will become wealthier. This is the law of Universe.

Being irrational is beneficial.

If someone says to you "Being irrational is beneficial", what will be your reaction? Will you react or act? There is a difference between acting and reacting. But it is not the issue of this blog post.

There are times in our life when we have to keep aside thinking or analyzing rationally to do or understand certain things. But, the curse is that we don't because we now have head that we assume thinks like a genius.

But children, under the age of 8, accept things as they see and are told. They don't have the capacity to insert rationality in their observance. That is why they experience more miracles.

Are you begging to read between the lines? Here, read this blog post titled, "Rationalize or revolutionize-the choice is yours."

The causes and effects of our limiting beliefs.

I would like to examine the causes of certain beliefs in our life that act as mental blocks leading to a life of dissatisfaction and stunted growth.

If you think limiting beliefs are harmful, you are mistaken. It is much more than harmful and can really lead to stunted growth. Limiting beliefs are usually latent-I mean we are not even aware of them and what they do to us. They dictate our thoughts and attitudes that are detrimental to our growth.

Limiting beliefs-how and when they are formed.
Limiting beliefs settle in our subconscious mind starting from our early childhood days till our conscious mind starts evolving. While the minds of most of the human beings start waking up after 40 years, they cannot be generalized. For many, their mind remains the same till their death.

* We observe our parents and conclude certain things that are etched deeply in our subconscious mind.
* We act and the results remain in our memory for a long time.
* We read and assimilate things that don’t change our thoughts easily.
* We decide that might not have brought results as expected leading to form certain beliefs.

Overall, our thoughts and attitudes are shaped based on our beliefs that we take them as true. Such beliefs won’t let us look at future opportunities and experiences with a different perspective, thus tying us to a chain which hinders exploration of life with a positive frame of mind.

A few examples that form our limiting beliefs:
* When our parents favor their new born child that takes their attention away from us
* When our appearance is scorned
* When our academic performance is criticized
* When we are rejected by opposite sex
* When our choice of higher education is not approved
* When our marriage fails to blossom
* When we lose our investments
* When our advice to others bring undesired results

All these beliefs prevent us from taking the same actions that we took before because of fear of failure or rejection. We firmly (falsely) believe that the past results are the only absolute parameters of life. We are not interested in listening to our inner voice that continues to goad us with positive suggestions and we live a life of stunted growth. This deprives us of the true pleasures of a full life.

How my limiting beliefs were removed:
My limiting beliefs were dug out when I started thinking with self honesty. Whenever I was afraid to take action, I used to ask myself this question: “If he or she can do it, why can’t I”.

Also, Joe Vitale, who has authored several books on spiritual development, played a major role in my life transformation. His slogan which changed me inside out by acknowledging and removing my limiting beliefs: “Change your beliefs and change your life”.

Intuition. Who said what?

I give below some of the famous personalities on intuition and its related words which are:
* Hunch
* Inner voice
* Gut feeling
* Insight

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
- Albert Einstein

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
- Florence Scovel Shinn

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
- Alexis Carrel

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
- Robert Graves

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
-Rene Descartes

Do you know how to unlock your intuition and how to accurately and reliably access your most valuable resource?

Do you want to know about Practical Intuition?

Wait for my series of blog posts on "Intuition-what is its power and how to develop your intuition."

Quotes from Thinkexist.com

What are you thankful for?

Time and again, I have blogged about the power of feeling grateful for as many things as possible and how gratitude can bring you the very things that you feel grateful for.

As I have told, the cosmic forces will shower on you the things,people, circumstances, places that you sincerely appreciate and say thanks for bringing them into your life experience.

If you are like that way, isn't it wonderful to meet like minded persons online to share your thoughts and experiences?

Go toThankfulFor – register and answer this one question: “What are you thankful for?” You can post small personal thanks, share it to the community, and then read what others are thankful for today.

Today I thank Flickr and Zemanta for showing me the picture of this rare colored flower.

Image by aussiegall via Flickr

22 tools to live a life free of fear.

Fear-man’s one and only foe and in fact it is totally man made. Every negative emotion that man entertains is stemmed from the one basic emotion-fear.

Fear is the most destructive force in us and very unfortunately, we all have built in within us, myriad forms of fears.

Fear is not given to us when we are born! There is no external force that instilled the fear in us! Then, how did we allow us to be enshrouded in all sorts of fears?

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