Why You Should Pray For Problems
There is only one group of people that I know of who don’t have problems and that is the group of people who permanently reside in the cemetery. If you’re alive then you will have problems. So if problems are a natural part of life then what is their purpose?
Problems have a very important role in our life and the best way to understand that is to draw an analogy to weight training.
When you lift weights your aim is to push the muscles a little harder than they have been pushed before. What actually happens when you do this is that you start to breakdown the fibers in your muscles. The body, in its wisdom, then decides that the fibers aren’t up to the job so it rebuilds them a bit stronger than they were. Which is why you should wait a couple of days before training that particular muscle again; in order to allow the rebuilding process to work.
The art of weight training is to put the muscles under enough stress to initiate this breakdown and repair cycle but not to put those muscles under so much stress that you damage them to the point where the body can’t repair them in the couple of days before you train those particular muscles again.
If you master the art of putting your muscles under the right amount of pressure and of consolidating the gains you are making, then you can achieve massive strength increases over a 12 month period.
Life problems are to your spirit what weight training is to your muscles.
If you take on a life problem that is a little tougher than the problems that you have successfully handled before then working through that problem and solving it will strengthen your spirit just like weight training strengthens your muscles.
Once you have mastered a problem then it is time to challenge yourself again with a new, slightly tougher problem. If you keep up this “weight training for the spirit” then you will become a better, stronger person who is capable of achieving things that a year or two before would have seemed totally impossible to you.
If you don’t challenge your muscles then they don’t get any stronger. If you just lift the same weight that you been lifting for years then you only maintain the same strength that you have had for years and you don’t improve. If you avoid working the muscles altogether then they start to wither and get weaker and weaker.
If you don’t challenge your spirit then it doesn’t get any stronger. If you just feed it the same old problems that you’ve feed it for years then it stagnates and doesn’t improve or strengthen. If you avoid problems altogether then your spirit withers and you become less and less able to achieve in life. If you were to keep up the problem avoidance strategy then you would eventually become so useless emotionally that you would be totally dependent on others.
People who want to strengthen their muscles don’t sit around and wait for weight training to come to them. They enroll at a gym and they put aside an hour or two a few days each week so that they can go to the gym and train. If they want good results then when they get to the gym they work toward finding that balance between pushing the muscles hard enough for gains without overdoing it and hurting themselves.
People who want to become more in life, who want to open the door to all that life has to offer, don’t sit around and wait for it all to turn up at the door. They go out into the world and set goals, and take on challenges and work their way through those challenges. Just like the weight trainer, they constantly look to challenge themselves a little more without going to the point where they become overwhelmed.
If you frequent a gym regularly you will see some new arrivals who turn up, massively over-train and then disappear never to be seen again. They probably woke up the next day so sore and sorry for themselves that they decided that weight training was a form of torture that they didn’t need.
But the regular gym goers learn to strike the right balance. They continue to get stronger and they learn to love the challenge of training. The joy of training, for them, becomes as big a reward as the gains that they are making.
In life you find people who set a goal, leap in, take on too much and burn out. Just like those foolish beginner weight trainers, they disappear never to be seen in the success stakes again. They settle down to a life of mediocrity and never even guess that they hold inside themselves the seeds to greatness.
The people who succeed time and time again are the people who find the balance of challenging themselves regularly without going over the top and burning out. These people enjoy the challenge of taking on and conquering problems as much as they enjoy the rewards that come with winning. They build their spiritual muscles bit by bit until they are living the life that others only dream about.
James Delrojo would like to help you by giving you his
ebook "Unleash the Success Power of Your Mind"
(valued at $27) completely FREE.
Go to http://www.YourSuccessMind.com
Positive Thinking Doesn’t Work
Recently, a client told me about a conversation she had with her brother. She shared the personal transformation work she was doing with him and how it was helping her business. He responded with, “You know…this positive thinking stuff doesn’t work.” And then he went on to say that no matter how “positive” he had thought in his past, he still experienced limitations in his career.
My reaction was to feel sorry for this poor man who obviously doesn’t “get it”. I discussed it with my client and we completed our call. The next day, I had an epiphany as I realized that my client’s brother was absolutely right. “Positive” thinking doesn’t work. And, not only does positive thinking NOT cause transformation but it could actually be a root cause of people living life in a vicious cycle. The act of thinking positive to overcome negative thoughts adds a layer of confusion to a person - taking them further away from personal clarity which is one of the keys to manifesting what you desire. And in turn, positive thought to overcome negative thought leads to positive action to overcome negative action causing a person to take two steps forward and three steps back not leading to anything but frustration, irritation, stress and more confusion.
Many people are looking to the Law of Attraction as the answer to fulfilling their desires. The Law of Attraction says that by thinking positive you create a positive vibration and attract positive things in your life. What most people don’t realize is that if you are thinking a positive thought to overcome a negative thought or are trying to change your life out of need or fear, your efforts are cancelled out. Your mind weeds through all of this effort and puts out a vibration aligned with the source, which is fear and thoughts about what you don’t want. In addition, most people aren’t prepared for the fact that when you try to change undesired thoughts and break free from what your mind has determined a safe and familiar place, your so called negative or non-desired thoughts get louder and louder. People like my client’s brother can’t take the self-induced mental abuse and give up trying to improve their thoughts.
So, what DOES work if positive thinking DOES NOT? The real secret is connecting with your desires in a way that they are not something you think, they are actually who you are and a foundation for how you live. So how do you connect with your desires? Shifting from thinking to creating is the key. During the act of creating there is no place for positive or negative thoughts. Creating connects you with your desires and puts your mind to work in a different way. Creating propels you forward and negative/positive thought patterns fall away. When you are creating, you naturally connect with your inner self so your mind is active but it is free of pre-conditioned thought.
Positive thinking does serve a purpose. Revealing your positive thoughts can reveal your negative thoughts and revealing your negative thoughts can reveal your fears and revealing your fears can reveal your desires and revealing your desires can provide the foundation for shifting from the unproductive negative/positive thinking cycle to creating. By revealing these layers of thought, you welcome them rather than resist them allowing you to let go and create something new. The more you shift to creating the more your thoughts will follow what you are creating -replacing the vicious cycle with manifestation of your desires.
Here’s a three-step process for shifting from the negative/positive thinking cycle to creating a life that fulfills your desires:
Step 1: Let your thoughts reveal your fears.
You can start by writing down either your common negative thoughts or positive ones – knowing that most positive thoughts are tied to or intended to overcome negative thoughts. Don’t judge them or even try to understand them, just write them down. Read your thoughts and ask yourself, “Because I think this, what am I afraid of? Write the answer down. These are your fears.
Step 2: Let your fears reveal your desires.
Now read your fears and ask yourself, “If I wasn’t afraid of this, what is it I would want?” The answer to this question is what you desire and what you want to create in your life. Spend some time with this and try to pinpoint 3-5 key desires. Allow yourself to expand on your desires and describe in detail what you really want.
Step 3: Create from your desires.
Sit quietly and take at least 10 deep breaths. See yourself in a safe place and imagine that you are all that exists. See yourself stripped down of all that you have. Let your business, obligations, goals, to-do list, house, kids, pets and everything else other than you go. Let them drift away from you allowing you to be quiet within yourself. All that is left is you and the infinite potential to create anything you desire. You have the power to create a new life from nothing. Let yourself feel your body. Then ask yourself, “What are my deepest desires?” What is it I really want? What do I want right now? When you awake from your meditation, begin with the words “I am” and write down what it is you heard, saw and felt in this meditation. Continue writing in present tense and create now what it is you want to experience in your future.
You can access this aspect of yourself anytime to create your life from this point forward. And, you can use this technique as often as you like. Soon it will become habit to create what you desire every day.
© 2007 Bring U to Life, Inc. For more information on how to create the life you desire, visit www.bringUtolife.com.
Get What You Want – NOW!
What if you could have anything you wanted right NOW? Knowing what you want is essential but your intention determines when you’ll get what you want. What is your intention for when you will get what you want? Do you think about it happening some day, or expect it will happen five years from now because that’s how long it should take? Perhaps deep down you really don’t believe it will happen at all but you humor yourself and dream about it anyway?
Something magical happens when you set out to get what you want right NOW. It’s the difference between setting a goal to occur sometime in the future and fully aligning all of your faculties in one single moment. The energy you create and the magnitude of the vibration you put out increases dramatically when you set your intention to get what you want right NOW.
I first experienced this in a seminar where I learned how to break a board with my hand (I know a-typical of 1980s motivational techniques but hang with me). The first time I tried, I failed miserably and felt a lot of pain. On my second try, I gathered myself in the present moment and "POW" I broke the board with ease and no pain at all. I can’t say how I did it. All I know is that I was not in my normal way of thinking or being - I stepped outside all that I knew to be true or realistic. Well, that seminar was a long time ago but today as I cultivate my ability to create, I see a parallel relationship between my first painful try of breaking the board and my old approach to getting what I wanted. I use to set big goals with high expectations for achievement and then painfully judge myself as I tried to achieve them. I also see a parallel between my second try at breaking the board and the approach I use to get what I want NOW! by creating in the moment and joyfully experiencing the process of creating and what I actually create.
You can experiment with this technique on small things first like feeling better, hearing from a friend, or having a great day at work. As you begin to see results, you can apply it to bigger things like getting that ideal job, meeting that special someone or getting the right idea for that business you’ve always wanted to start. Remember it’s not about the result; it’s about aligning all of your power and intention to create in the present moment.
Here are five simple steps to getting what you want NOW:
1. Take total responsibility for everything. Consider that you’ve created everything in your life thus far including who you are, your family, friends, health, job, and wealth – everything. If you’ve created everything you’ve experienced in your life so far, you can create anything you want now and in the future.
2. Realize that everything is created in the present moment - not last week, yesterday or even five minutes ago but in the now. Take a few days and observe life as if you are a detective in search of the present moment. Notice where it exists, what it feels like and how to get there. Begin to notice what you want NOW – not an hour later, not tomorrow or five years from now - but right NOW.
3. Let go of what is realistic. When you create in the moment, time and what is realistic has no place. Allow yourself to remove all restrictions of what is realistically possible to create right NOW. Notice how what you want changes when you realize time has no relevance and you let go of what is realistic.
4. Leave the “how” up to powers outside of yourself. So often people limit what they can create to whether or not they can figure out how to do it. Real manifestation happens when you release your mind of the laborious task of “how” you will get what you want. Worrying about the how also robs you of enjoying the synchronicity that occurs when you leave “how” up to the Universe or what you believe your higher power to be. Notice how what you want expands when you let go of the “how”.
5. Create what you want. Open your journal to a blank page or get a blank piece of the paper and at the top write, “What I want right NOW.” Find a comfortable place, reread Steps 1-4 above and get centered. Take 10 or more deep breaths in and out until you can feel you are in the now. During your meditation, allow yourself to see, feel and experience what you want right NOW. See yourself receiving it, feel what it’s like to have it and allow yourself to breath in the experience of what you want right NOW. When you are ready open your eyes and make your list of what you want right NOW. Post the list somewhere that you can see it. And, continue to practice these steps, especially this step as often as possible.
© 2007 Bring U to Life, Inc. For more information on how to create the life you desire, visit www.bringUtolife.com.
Problems have a very important role in our life and the best way to understand that is to draw an analogy to weight training.
When you lift weights your aim is to push the muscles a little harder than they have been pushed before. What actually happens when you do this is that you start to breakdown the fibers in your muscles. The body, in its wisdom, then decides that the fibers aren’t up to the job so it rebuilds them a bit stronger than they were. Which is why you should wait a couple of days before training that particular muscle again; in order to allow the rebuilding process to work.
The art of weight training is to put the muscles under enough stress to initiate this breakdown and repair cycle but not to put those muscles under so much stress that you damage them to the point where the body can’t repair them in the couple of days before you train those particular muscles again.
If you master the art of putting your muscles under the right amount of pressure and of consolidating the gains you are making, then you can achieve massive strength increases over a 12 month period.
Life problems are to your spirit what weight training is to your muscles.
If you take on a life problem that is a little tougher than the problems that you have successfully handled before then working through that problem and solving it will strengthen your spirit just like weight training strengthens your muscles.
Once you have mastered a problem then it is time to challenge yourself again with a new, slightly tougher problem. If you keep up this “weight training for the spirit” then you will become a better, stronger person who is capable of achieving things that a year or two before would have seemed totally impossible to you.
If you don’t challenge your muscles then they don’t get any stronger. If you just lift the same weight that you been lifting for years then you only maintain the same strength that you have had for years and you don’t improve. If you avoid working the muscles altogether then they start to wither and get weaker and weaker.
If you don’t challenge your spirit then it doesn’t get any stronger. If you just feed it the same old problems that you’ve feed it for years then it stagnates and doesn’t improve or strengthen. If you avoid problems altogether then your spirit withers and you become less and less able to achieve in life. If you were to keep up the problem avoidance strategy then you would eventually become so useless emotionally that you would be totally dependent on others.
People who want to strengthen their muscles don’t sit around and wait for weight training to come to them. They enroll at a gym and they put aside an hour or two a few days each week so that they can go to the gym and train. If they want good results then when they get to the gym they work toward finding that balance between pushing the muscles hard enough for gains without overdoing it and hurting themselves.
People who want to become more in life, who want to open the door to all that life has to offer, don’t sit around and wait for it all to turn up at the door. They go out into the world and set goals, and take on challenges and work their way through those challenges. Just like the weight trainer, they constantly look to challenge themselves a little more without going to the point where they become overwhelmed.
If you frequent a gym regularly you will see some new arrivals who turn up, massively over-train and then disappear never to be seen again. They probably woke up the next day so sore and sorry for themselves that they decided that weight training was a form of torture that they didn’t need.
But the regular gym goers learn to strike the right balance. They continue to get stronger and they learn to love the challenge of training. The joy of training, for them, becomes as big a reward as the gains that they are making.
In life you find people who set a goal, leap in, take on too much and burn out. Just like those foolish beginner weight trainers, they disappear never to be seen in the success stakes again. They settle down to a life of mediocrity and never even guess that they hold inside themselves the seeds to greatness.
The people who succeed time and time again are the people who find the balance of challenging themselves regularly without going over the top and burning out. These people enjoy the challenge of taking on and conquering problems as much as they enjoy the rewards that come with winning. They build their spiritual muscles bit by bit until they are living the life that others only dream about.
James Delrojo would like to help you by giving you his
ebook "Unleash the Success Power of Your Mind"
(valued at $27) completely FREE.
Go to http://www.YourSuccessMind.com
Positive Thinking Doesn’t Work
Recently, a client told me about a conversation she had with her brother. She shared the personal transformation work she was doing with him and how it was helping her business. He responded with, “You know…this positive thinking stuff doesn’t work.” And then he went on to say that no matter how “positive” he had thought in his past, he still experienced limitations in his career.
My reaction was to feel sorry for this poor man who obviously doesn’t “get it”. I discussed it with my client and we completed our call. The next day, I had an epiphany as I realized that my client’s brother was absolutely right. “Positive” thinking doesn’t work. And, not only does positive thinking NOT cause transformation but it could actually be a root cause of people living life in a vicious cycle. The act of thinking positive to overcome negative thoughts adds a layer of confusion to a person - taking them further away from personal clarity which is one of the keys to manifesting what you desire. And in turn, positive thought to overcome negative thought leads to positive action to overcome negative action causing a person to take two steps forward and three steps back not leading to anything but frustration, irritation, stress and more confusion.
Many people are looking to the Law of Attraction as the answer to fulfilling their desires. The Law of Attraction says that by thinking positive you create a positive vibration and attract positive things in your life. What most people don’t realize is that if you are thinking a positive thought to overcome a negative thought or are trying to change your life out of need or fear, your efforts are cancelled out. Your mind weeds through all of this effort and puts out a vibration aligned with the source, which is fear and thoughts about what you don’t want. In addition, most people aren’t prepared for the fact that when you try to change undesired thoughts and break free from what your mind has determined a safe and familiar place, your so called negative or non-desired thoughts get louder and louder. People like my client’s brother can’t take the self-induced mental abuse and give up trying to improve their thoughts.
So, what DOES work if positive thinking DOES NOT? The real secret is connecting with your desires in a way that they are not something you think, they are actually who you are and a foundation for how you live. So how do you connect with your desires? Shifting from thinking to creating is the key. During the act of creating there is no place for positive or negative thoughts. Creating connects you with your desires and puts your mind to work in a different way. Creating propels you forward and negative/positive thought patterns fall away. When you are creating, you naturally connect with your inner self so your mind is active but it is free of pre-conditioned thought.
Positive thinking does serve a purpose. Revealing your positive thoughts can reveal your negative thoughts and revealing your negative thoughts can reveal your fears and revealing your fears can reveal your desires and revealing your desires can provide the foundation for shifting from the unproductive negative/positive thinking cycle to creating. By revealing these layers of thought, you welcome them rather than resist them allowing you to let go and create something new. The more you shift to creating the more your thoughts will follow what you are creating -replacing the vicious cycle with manifestation of your desires.
Here’s a three-step process for shifting from the negative/positive thinking cycle to creating a life that fulfills your desires:
Step 1: Let your thoughts reveal your fears.
You can start by writing down either your common negative thoughts or positive ones – knowing that most positive thoughts are tied to or intended to overcome negative thoughts. Don’t judge them or even try to understand them, just write them down. Read your thoughts and ask yourself, “Because I think this, what am I afraid of? Write the answer down. These are your fears.
Step 2: Let your fears reveal your desires.
Now read your fears and ask yourself, “If I wasn’t afraid of this, what is it I would want?” The answer to this question is what you desire and what you want to create in your life. Spend some time with this and try to pinpoint 3-5 key desires. Allow yourself to expand on your desires and describe in detail what you really want.
Step 3: Create from your desires.
Sit quietly and take at least 10 deep breaths. See yourself in a safe place and imagine that you are all that exists. See yourself stripped down of all that you have. Let your business, obligations, goals, to-do list, house, kids, pets and everything else other than you go. Let them drift away from you allowing you to be quiet within yourself. All that is left is you and the infinite potential to create anything you desire. You have the power to create a new life from nothing. Let yourself feel your body. Then ask yourself, “What are my deepest desires?” What is it I really want? What do I want right now? When you awake from your meditation, begin with the words “I am” and write down what it is you heard, saw and felt in this meditation. Continue writing in present tense and create now what it is you want to experience in your future.
You can access this aspect of yourself anytime to create your life from this point forward. And, you can use this technique as often as you like. Soon it will become habit to create what you desire every day.
© 2007 Bring U to Life, Inc. For more information on how to create the life you desire, visit www.bringUtolife.com.
Get What You Want – NOW!
What if you could have anything you wanted right NOW? Knowing what you want is essential but your intention determines when you’ll get what you want. What is your intention for when you will get what you want? Do you think about it happening some day, or expect it will happen five years from now because that’s how long it should take? Perhaps deep down you really don’t believe it will happen at all but you humor yourself and dream about it anyway?
Something magical happens when you set out to get what you want right NOW. It’s the difference between setting a goal to occur sometime in the future and fully aligning all of your faculties in one single moment. The energy you create and the magnitude of the vibration you put out increases dramatically when you set your intention to get what you want right NOW.
I first experienced this in a seminar where I learned how to break a board with my hand (I know a-typical of 1980s motivational techniques but hang with me). The first time I tried, I failed miserably and felt a lot of pain. On my second try, I gathered myself in the present moment and "POW" I broke the board with ease and no pain at all. I can’t say how I did it. All I know is that I was not in my normal way of thinking or being - I stepped outside all that I knew to be true or realistic. Well, that seminar was a long time ago but today as I cultivate my ability to create, I see a parallel relationship between my first painful try of breaking the board and my old approach to getting what I wanted. I use to set big goals with high expectations for achievement and then painfully judge myself as I tried to achieve them. I also see a parallel between my second try at breaking the board and the approach I use to get what I want NOW! by creating in the moment and joyfully experiencing the process of creating and what I actually create.
You can experiment with this technique on small things first like feeling better, hearing from a friend, or having a great day at work. As you begin to see results, you can apply it to bigger things like getting that ideal job, meeting that special someone or getting the right idea for that business you’ve always wanted to start. Remember it’s not about the result; it’s about aligning all of your power and intention to create in the present moment.
Here are five simple steps to getting what you want NOW:
1. Take total responsibility for everything. Consider that you’ve created everything in your life thus far including who you are, your family, friends, health, job, and wealth – everything. If you’ve created everything you’ve experienced in your life so far, you can create anything you want now and in the future.
2. Realize that everything is created in the present moment - not last week, yesterday or even five minutes ago but in the now. Take a few days and observe life as if you are a detective in search of the present moment. Notice where it exists, what it feels like and how to get there. Begin to notice what you want NOW – not an hour later, not tomorrow or five years from now - but right NOW.
3. Let go of what is realistic. When you create in the moment, time and what is realistic has no place. Allow yourself to remove all restrictions of what is realistically possible to create right NOW. Notice how what you want changes when you realize time has no relevance and you let go of what is realistic.
4. Leave the “how” up to powers outside of yourself. So often people limit what they can create to whether or not they can figure out how to do it. Real manifestation happens when you release your mind of the laborious task of “how” you will get what you want. Worrying about the how also robs you of enjoying the synchronicity that occurs when you leave “how” up to the Universe or what you believe your higher power to be. Notice how what you want expands when you let go of the “how”.
5. Create what you want. Open your journal to a blank page or get a blank piece of the paper and at the top write, “What I want right NOW.” Find a comfortable place, reread Steps 1-4 above and get centered. Take 10 or more deep breaths in and out until you can feel you are in the now. During your meditation, allow yourself to see, feel and experience what you want right NOW. See yourself receiving it, feel what it’s like to have it and allow yourself to breath in the experience of what you want right NOW. When you are ready open your eyes and make your list of what you want right NOW. Post the list somewhere that you can see it. And, continue to practice these steps, especially this step as often as possible.
© 2007 Bring U to Life, Inc. For more information on how to create the life you desire, visit www.bringUtolife.com.