A lot of people have been using EFT to help release their limiting beliefs with great effect and I wanted to explain a little about how to use it.  This video is a very brief look at EFT and how you can use it to change your life for the better.

I first discovered it over 12 years  when I signed up for the manual and have been receiving emails from Gary Craig ever since.  It is one of the tools which has helped me in my life and I think you will love it if you start using it as well.

I am not affiliated in any way with the company.  You can download the manual at www.emofree.com and the other ebook I mentioned in the video can be downloaded here Attracting Abundance with EFT

The video is by no means a comprehensive look at EFT it is a very brief introduction and to really get you thinking about it and trying it out for yourself.

If you have any stories about using EFT to help in your life I would love to hear about them in the comments below.

You’re already using visualization every second of every day, so why not take conscious control over it and start creating the life you want? Visualization is essential if you want to get what you want and make your dreams come true.

Most people dwell on the negative and constantly stress, worry, fear and hate. This only creates more of the same and makes you feel bad. You are the master of your life and only you can decide how it will play out. You are the only one that can take responsibility.

When I started reading about visualization, I thought I couldn’t do it, because I didn’t see anything when I closed my eyes. I had read about people being able to see vivid images and colors.

I have since then discovered that this is a very common problem. The truth is that you don’t have to have your own high-tech LCD monitor in your brain. When I visualize I mostly see black, red and other colors, but I FEEL what I see.

We’re all different, so let whatever you “see” be okay. The most important thing is to feel the visualization and invoke the feelings of having what you desire. With all that said, let’s look at how you can make this happen. This is deceptively simple, so read on…

Clarity

Before you start, you have to get clear on what you want, and I mean what you truly want. Visualization is effective, but if you’re visualizing money, cars and things you don’t really need, it’s not going to work as well, at least that has been my experience.

So what should to visualize? I’ve found that visualizing who I want to be and how I want to help people works amazingly well. I believe we all have something to share. We all have to ability to help someone.

Get clear on what you want. What would you do if money wasn’t an issue? The more you follow your passion, the happier you’ll be. There is no need to make money just for money’s sake, not in today’s world.

Relaxation

Once you’ve gotten clear on what you want, you can lie down or sit, whichever you prefer. Start to relax and go through your whole body beginning with your toes and working your way up to your head, slowly.

Usually when I’m done with this exercise I take it a step further and count from 10 to 1, telling my body that with each number, my relaxation doubles. You can do this as many times as you want and use whatever commands you desire.

Visualization

Now that you’re completely relaxed, start visualizing and see yourself already having what you want. If you want a new job, see yourself in that job. Include every little detail you can imagine. What does it smell like? Who do you work with? Do you have to commute?

Add anything that is important to you. Imagine it as vividly as you can. Try to feel, smell, see and hear everything. If you aren’t getting a strong enough feeling, it’s time to supersize. Make everything bigger, brighter and louder. Use the operative system of your brain.

What I do is I ask my brain questions while I am visualizing, such as:

• What would this feeling feel like two times stronger?
• How would this feel like with the picture ten times bigger?
• How would it feel to have everything I desire?

Your brain automatically answers questions, so make sure you ask the right ones. For example, avoid negative questions, such as “what should I avoid.”

Letting Go

I’ve identified a pattern in my life. I have no trouble attracting smaller items, but when I go for the big stuff, it gets harder. The bigger it is, the more emotional charge it has. We’re often very attached to the outcome if we want to attract something significant, like a house or a relationship.

This is why it is so important to let go once you’re done visualizing. This can be done through many different ways. I personally like to use EFT, which helps neutralize resistance and bad feelings by balancing the energy in your body.

Conclusion

Visualization is not rocket science. You were born with an exceptional imagination. Use it. You can visualize as often as you want for as long as you want. There are no rules. Experiment and figure out what works for you.

It may take some practice until you get comfortable, so give it time. Visualization is a powerful tool that allows you to get what you want faster, at least that has been my experience. your mileage may vary .

This video is about ‘Crossing The Lines’ in your mind to change an aspect of your life.  To change anything in your life you have to believe, perceive, think and emotionalise the person you want to become.  If you can’t believe in the person you want to become, you will not become that person.  If you can believe in the person you want to become and you can think like the person and perceive the world like the person and have the emotions of the person you want to become you will eventually become the person you want to be.

This video will explain it a little better and I tell you a little about ‘Crossing The Lines’ which I am working on just now.  I am putting my heart and soul into this to make it the best product ever, and it promises to help change your life to where you really want to be in your life.

Cutting down on your negative thoughts might seem like a daunting task to some readers but the benefits make it well worth the time and the effort.  This article will look at only 5 methods of changing your thoughts and making and turning them into a thought virus whereby your positive thoughts spread to affect all of your thoughts.

Our days are filled with thousands of thoughts and a lot of these thoughts are negative or self critical in nature.  These are the thoughts we are looking to target.  I have read somewhere that 40% of our thoughts are negative (I don’t know where so take that statistic with a pinch of salt).  So if we have 60,000 thoughts each day, 24,000 are, on average, negative thoughts or self critical thoughts. These thoughts can stem from what we hear on the news, the radio, read in the newspapers, etc so I believe that the figure of negative thoughts is much higher than 40%, but we’ll stick with 40% just now.

5 Methods to Cut Down Negative Thinking

Infusion

This method looks at introducing new, positive, thoughts at a conscious level.  This means that they are not naturally occurring thoughts, rather thoughts that you have pre planned and introduced to your conscience by way of thinking about them at planned times throughout the day.

For example, if I want to lose weight I tell myself my target weight throughout the day and any time I feel like a biscuit or a cake.  So as soon as I get up in the morning I repeat to myself  ”I am 13 stones” (182 pounds), this immediately wakes my mind up to the fact that I am watching what I eat and it starts working to lessen the urges and cravings I get.  Then throughout the day I simply state to myself  “I am 13 stones”.  Whenever I see a cake  - “I am 13 stones”, when I see a biscuit “I am 13 Stones”, when I see a dog – taken that too far! You get the picture.  You are infusing positive thoughts and positive images which will spread to some other thoughts and change the way you think, over time, about your life.  You can try this with any are of your life.

Diffusion

A lot of the times we act on our negative thoughts which leads to more negative thoughts which leads to more etc.  Diffusion is a process of acknowledging your negative thoughts. This is changing the relationship with the negative thoughts that arise during the day.

For example, you are going about your business and suddenly the thought comes up:

“I hate this job”, you then acknowledge that that and say “I hate this part of the job, but there are other aspects I like, such as doing the accounts.”

Bombarding

This is similar to the infusion method described above except that you are repeating phrases in your mind over and over again, much like Émile Coué’s autosuggestion techniques such as “Every day, In every way, I am getting better and better”.  This was one of the first self help methods I used when I first started out and still use it today, although nowhere near as much as I used to, and this is because I am now naturally a positive person because of the techniques I am describing here.

Acceptance

This is a method which lets you accept all your incoming thoughts.  Whilst you are accepting of the thoughts you do not necessarily react to them.

For example you might have the incoming thought of “I’m hopeless at writing new posts.” You acknowledge this thought, keep on writing and say something like “That is how I feel right now, but not necessarily all the time.” You accept the thought and move on with what you are doing.  Pretty soon as you catch a lot of your negative thoughts you will develop a habit of thinking more positively in a natural way.

Reversal and association

This is a method used to reverse the incoming negative thought using recalled emotions and feelings.  It is particularly powerful as you are actively engaging more of your senses and feelings.  An example of using this would be:

Incoming thought: “I Can’t do a presentation, they will all laugh at me.” You then remember an event when you stood up and spoke about a topic you knew well, you remember feeling great and everyone congratulating you at the end of your talk, you felt fantastic after it.  Then you replace the original “I can’t do that…” thought with a new image, of standing up in front of everyone and it going great and you see everyone congratulating you and you feeling great.

There are many more methods for cutting down on your negative thinking habits and turning into a more positive thinking person naturally.  We can’t eliminate negative thinking, and nor would we want to as it can serve us well in some situations, however we do want to cut down on a lot of negative thinking.

Change – According to Merriam Webster, one definition of the word is to undergo transformation, transition, or substitution. Another is to make different.

As humans, it’s common for us to resist change in any form or fashion. If you study the lives of people throughout the world, you will find they’re deeply seated in a ton of ritualistic, routine-based functioning.

In light of the evidence, the old saying ‘we are creatures of habit’ is infinitely factual.

Now most of us are resistant to change. In general, I’ve yet to find a single person who is completely fine with changes in life, whether they be large or minute. We are resistant to change because it makes us uncomfortable; and no one wishes to revel in discomfort.

However, aspects of our lives are going to change whether we like it or not. We age, lose loved ones, change jobs, get fired, etc. Nothing in our world will be consistent forever. Change, in general, is usually a struggle against every fibre of our being. We’d rather live comfortable, meaningful lives without any disruption to our daily routine.

The great part about change, though, is our ability to learn and grow as a result of having to adapt. In fact, change is really the only thing we will ever experience on a consistent basis. So, while our struggles with change may seem cumbersome, we must accept and learn from them.

Embrace All Aspects of Change

From the time you entered this world, you’ve experienced a multitude of changes and you will continue to experience them until you return to the earth. What we must learn is that while change is inevitable, we don’t have to be so full of resistance. Change can be a great thing, if your perception is altered a bit.

In order to do this, we must first look at our struggles that pertain to whatever changes you may be experiencing in life. The struggles are there for a reason – to teach you something. If you never struggled, you’d never develop into a better person.

Think about any previous adversity you may have experienced and eventually surfaced from. If you cannot claim to have learned something or at least know yourself better as a result, I would like to take your pulse.

Therefore, every time you are presented with a major change in life, you must learn to embrace the struggle for all it’s worth and know without a doubt that the discomfort associated with the change will not last forever. It’s imperative to understand that you do have control over how you view the situation and if you learn to embrace the struggles for what they’re worth, you will learn and grow as a result of said change in your life.

Your Discomfort Is Only Temporary

Everything happens in seasons. The winter always springs and the summer always falls. New life and opportunity abounds for those who can weather the storm. If you are dealing with a rather difficult change in your life such as the loss of a loved one, a financial disaster, or a shaky break-up, remember that the pain associated with such a change is only temporary.

The most important aspect of the process is accepting that change is going to come; you must embrace the way you feel and all the struggles you experience as a result of your feelings. It’s okay to be mad and upset; the most important aspect of dealing with unwanted changes in life is to remember that the discomfort is only a season and it too shall pass.

Take Note Of Right Now

Right now is all we’ll ever have. Yesterday is gone forever and tomorrow is never promised. All we have is this moment in time. My grandmother once told me that nothing else matters except how you feel at any given moment. Now, of course we have to realize we only ever really feel (in the present tense) anything right now, not tomorrow or yesterday. All we ever have conscious control of is the now.

Stop for a second and recognize what’s going on right now. What is it that you can appreciate and be thankful for at this very moment?

What can you learn from the struggles you’re currently facing? What can you discover about yourself by choosing how to feel and by dealing with the changes that weigh so heavily on your mind?

Remember, changes are consistent with the daily lives of everyone in the world. No one will live and die without experiencing plenty, if not many drastic changes during their existence. The only way to cope with your struggles is to embrace them for all their worth and gain as much knowledge from each experience.

Change is never an easy thing to do in our lives. What is even more difficult is making the decision to change when we are unhappy about a certain aspect of our life but it is not so bad that it would cause us to take action to change.

In this video we will look at getting dissatisfied to make the change and why it is important.  Many people are stuck between satisfied and dissatisfied, but won’t make the change because the hassle is not deemed worth it.  If you want to be happy in all areas of your life – get dissatisfied with the status quo.

There’s a lot of talk about positive and negative thinking, and why just thinking positively does not change our lives.  When we first step out onto the road of changing our lives by changing the way we think we are aware that shitty things are still going to happen to us, no matter if we are thinking positively or not.

What we also have to be aware of is that thinking negatively will only exacerbate our problems and add to them.  When this happens our problems seem to multiply many times over and we say to ourselves things like:

“I was born unlucky..”

“It always happens to me…”

“Why do I always get the raw deal…”

“Good things never happen to me…”

So you’ve had all these bad things happen to you in the space of a few days: your washing machine’s flooded the kitchen and it’s now not working, your car needs repaired, the boiler has broken down, the hoover has gone bust, your partner is losing his job and the bank want to speak to you about mortgage payments. And then you meet a happy guy like me saying “never mind, every cloud has a silver lining” – Swift punch toward my face ensues.  Has all of the above happened because you weren’t thinking positively: of course it hasn’t.  However, neither has it happened to you because you’re an unlucky person, or because these things always happen to you – they don’t, that is called irrational thinking.

Why thinking positively helps

This is where positive thinking comes into it’s own.  If you are thinking within a positive frame of mind you will be able to deal with all the problems I described above.  You won’t get morose and start feeling sorry for yourself and look for the next disaster to happen, you will deal with each problem in turn until everything has been sorted out, knowing that nothing much else can go wrong.  You wouldn’t be expected to skip around the kitchen singing ‘happy days are here again’, but you will hopefully think ‘It’s only a setback and I can deal with this.’

Think of positive thinking like a camp fire, the more wood you add to the fire the less cold you will be.  If you let the fire run out you will be freezing cold and that cup of coffee you were looking forward to before getting into your tent will not happen.  Positive thinking keeps the negative thoughts at bay: you can’t think two thoughts at the same time so if you are thinking positively it is keeping a negative thought out.  So don’t think that positive thinking alone will change your life rather it will keep the motivational fires burning and keep you taking action toward the things you want in life.

There are lots of different ways we can change our lives, but one of the fundamental ways is to change our perceptions: of the world we live in and of ourselves. If we concede the fact that everybody has a different perception of the world then we have to concede the fact that we are able to change our perception of the world, which basically means we can change our life.

This video is a brief look at perception and what it means in our daily life.  In the video I speak about being manipulated but I don’t mean it in a malicious way, I mean it as a matter of fact kind of way, so if you have any questions about that please let me know.

If you have any questions in general about the video and it’s contents please leave a comment below and we can get a conversation going.

There are two types of mind: The unconscious mind and the conscious mind and we use them in different ways to go about our daily lives.  All is well with the world, but what if we could learn to harness the power of the unconscious mind as well, and cross the line between the unconscious and the conscious? Well, here is a 3 minute task you can do to show you that this is entirely possible.

We’ll come to the task in a second, for now I wanted to discuss the unconscious mind.

Unconscious Mind

We all know we use the unconscious mind every day for essential tasks such as driving, walking, working, and as I type this article, my unconscious mind tells me where the keys are on the keyboard and I don’t have to look for them every time I want to type.  So the unconscious mind is a the guide that makes living easy, if you know what a macro is you’ll know that is how we sometimes go about our life: as if we have pressed the macro play button and we just get on with it.

What if we could access the unconscious for much more than going about our daily lives.  What if it was possible to reach out to other minds and connect with them, we don’t put names to these other minds we just connect and go with the flow.  They are not just ordinary minds we are connecting with they are more spiritual, more energetic, purer, for the sake of argument we will call this the Over-Mind.

The Over-Mind

The over-mind connects us with an energy that is not yet known and we can dip our toe in the river of energy to receive insight. You have more than likely experienced this at various times in your life without knowing it.  It’s the moments when there is a sudden flash of inspiration or clarity and it happens at the strangest times. I have experienced it when looking at the beautiful architecture  in Glasgow City Centre, I have experienced it when looking at my wife and children laughing together, I have experienced it just after a meditation session.  It’s untouchable and it’s hard to recreate at will but we will try it today.

Am I an expert on this over-mind? Absolutely not! I haven’t a clue, all I am doing is putting these feelings and thoughts into my own words and labeling them.

Exercise

To connect with the over-mind, very briefly, I am going to give you a phrase.  Try not to think about it, just let the words sink in and let them go, you will start to notice that you get images, thoughts and just start writing these down or automatically write down what comes without thinking too much about it.  The phrase is:

To be able to live the life I want, I need to ..

It might only be a few words that come up, it might be a novel that comes up, just write it down in the comments section and let me know how it felt, if your felt anything, were you connected? Anything at all that comes up just let me know.

If after doing this exercise you are thinking ‘I don’t want to be the first to comment’ just be brave and go for it, there is no right or wrong way to do this.

We can have a discussion after a few people try this.

This is the first video of the year as I want to try out more videos and I am still learning.  Sharon bought me some lighting equipment and green screen for my Christmas and my sons bought me a video camera which was fantastic.

If you would like more videos on CYT let me know by leaving a comment.  I realise that the video I have made just now is not fantastic but they will get better, honest ! if you persevere with me.

I have spoken a little about beliefs as a topic for the first video and called it ‘The Magic Pill’