5 Feel Good Tools to Stay on the Path to Flourishing:

Power Words – Speak to yourself in the positive. Instead of saying “I don’t want to feel stressed,” say “I am relaxed.” Replace “I don’t think this will happen” with “I am believing for my best outcome.” When you change your words to positive affirmations, the mind will begin to accept them. Eliminate the word “try” from your vocabulary. When you say “try,” your mind believes that it will have a less than favorable outcome. Say “I will!”

Positive People – Surround yourself with those who believe for your success and who find joy in witnessing you in your blessings. Jesus’ three were John, James and Peter because they were not doubtful or naysayers when he performed miracles. Good friends will be present to show support and encourage you. Great friends are ones you can call on in your most trying times. Be willing to shed those who are not suppose to remain on your journey. Be thankful for the time they had in your life and know that not everyone is meant to continue on your path as you may not be part of theirs.

Breathing – Anxiety, stress and emotionally charged actions can lead you down a path of sadness, depression, inactivity, loneliness and even health issues. Adrenaline and cortisol levels increase, inflaming organs, diabetes, heart disease and chronic ailments. You have a potent tool, BREATH. Whenever you feel the onset of fight/flight emotions, take three long breaths. Hold the breath for a few seconds, then slowly release. The goal is to place space between the thought and action or reaction. This will enable you to get back into logical control, gain clarity, reach a state of homeostasis and the body will respond down to the cellular level that all is well.

Self Love – Create a ritual of self care. 20 minutes of mental relaxation through prayer and meditation will set you up to handle your day well. Treat yourself to massages, therapeutic sessions, bubble baths, journaling or escaping into your favorite novel. Do not make this a passive event like watching television as the benefits are not the same. Self love is expressed effectively through nurturing self-talk. Say out loud to yourself, “I am enough” or “I like me” throughout your day. You are most suggestible to yourself, meaning what you say to yourself, even inwardly, is what you will believe. Turn your suggestions into advantageous mental deposits.

Forgiveness & Release – Every night before bedtime, forgive the people and/or situations that upset or hurt you, from those who cut you off in traffic to those who may have stolen from you. Release out from the body the negativity you do not wish to store. Your body records every experience. Begin storing the good and dump out the toxic energy. Then state what you appreciate and hit the sack with a smile. You will rest better and your sleep time will be used for what your body was intended to do, to replenish and refresh you. You will awaken with a positive state of well-being.

Meditations For Self Care

Does the heart have a stronger magnetic field than the brain?

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Does the brain have a stronger magnetic field than the heart?

Your heart’s electromagnetic field is 5000x stronger than your brain!

 

How Does The Heart Communicate?

Science now proves the heart has its very own brain that processes information separately from and faster than the brain. Because the heart has a much stronger magnetic energy field reaching 5 to 8 feet away from the body, it can influence what is around it. It happens without our being even conscious of it. Studies show when a mom and her baby smile at each other, their heartbeats synchronize. Feelings of joy and love aligns their heartbeats within milliseconds into a harmonious flow.

For a very long time, science supported that the brain was in control and now we know that is simply not true. The heart communicates with the entire body. When the heart is in a positive state, its rhythmic pattern is one of order and balance. When the heart is in a negative state, its rhythm is off balance, jerky and inconsistent. This can lead to a rise in blood pressure or blood vessels constricting leading to cardiovascular disease.

How Can the Heart be used to restore, rejuvenate and reboot the system?

When the heart is in pain, the brain is incapacitated. Care for your heart with positive thoughts, meditation, praise, thankfulness, meaningful exchanges and spiritual fueling so as to communicate with every cell that all is well, functioning cohesively and at optimal capacity. This restores a healthy heart rate and reboots the system. The mind then clarifies enough to see options. This is what fuels hope and evolves tragedy into clarity and pain into gain.

How can you empower yourself with your natural gifts?

Tony Robbins says, “If you get in your head, you’re dead.” I say, “If you pace your heart you won’t fall apart.” You have five seconds to STOP a negative emotion to hit RESET. Breathing in and out slowly will activate the parasympathetic response (your inner nervous system that informs the body that all is well and restores a sense of calm). Adding in a dose of APPRECIATION by focusing on love received unconditionally with no strings attached like from a parent, a pet or God will lead to the heart slowing down and the muscles ridding of tension, reinforcing a fluid state of mind.

Did you know that in expressing care for even strangers, stress hormones diminish silencing your fight/flight mechanism? YOU are the one who actually receives because your heart can synchronize with a stranger’s in milliseconds. Your body becomes attuned within itself. Because the heart is the most powerfully attracting organ, the rest of your body falls right into the same pattern. Your heart is the strongest muscle.

This is Entrainment, when the body and the mind are in union and operating at their ideal capacity. Imagine what you can attract and influence around you? Imagine the spirits you will lift and the hope you will inspire just by your heart’s power when you are positive, joyful, encouraging and loving. This is your gift that keeps on giving.

Begin and end each day like this. Close your eyes. Place your hand over your heart. Take a few deep, slow breaths in. Exhale very slowly nurturing that which is the most valuable part of you. Become attuned with the pacing of your heart. Exercise its powerful magnetic field. Use your imagination to experience how your heart’s positive vibrational energy can influence even a stranger’s physiological response. Isn’t it a wonder, is it your heart or theirs that leads your heartbeats to synchronize?

Eyes Open.

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Awaken your Beast Mode

“GET THE INSIDE RIGHT. THE OUTSIDE WILL FALL INTO PLACE” – Eckhart Tolle

Live out what you dare to imagine. Children have a limitless imagination. They take chances, believe in the unseen and live out their creative minds. It is why a kid can wear a superman costume and believe he has supernatural powers. There is no filter between logic and belief. Children simply believe their imagination is truth. It is why child actors are exceptional at their craft. You can be too. Do not allow your adult filter, the critical mind, to hinder you. Tap into your creative mind as you did when you were a kid to believe that whatever you dream is possible.

Your subconscious mind cannot tell the difference between fantasy and reality. It is your logical conscience brain that gets in the way. When athletes are in the “zone,” they are on automatic pilot not allowing the critical filter or negative self talk impact their game. They are unstoppable because they are operating from a limitless mindset despite the odds before them that “it is possible.” Beast Mode became NFL’s Marshawn Lynch’s nickname because of his superhuman plays when he was in this state of mind. Researchers think this may be attributed to gamma brain waves where focused attention and abilities are at their optimal state just like advanced meditators have proven to access.

Think of a time you were unstoppable. What was different? What was your belief system then? What feelings come to mind? What did you do to make that happen for yourself? Write down this narrative in as many colorful details as possible. Read it out loud to yourself to further reinforce your connection to when you were at peak performance.

To supercharge your abilities, follow these strategies for peak performance:

1. List your greatest skills and talents.
2. Imagine or visualize yourself applying your best skills to the utmost, awakening the learning state brain waves. Have fun with this. Become that child again that was bold and courageous or use a superhero’s traits you admire. Employ as many senses as you can to connect these impressions with your physical body.
3. Get in touch with the feelings of being the best YOU, savor each step you walk through. You may find yourself laughing at the freedom you experience again. How refreshing?!
4. Anytime you are about to do something you need the best YOU to show up, close your eyes, get back in touch with the feelings you experienced during your imagination prep time (step 3).
5. When you feel that smile or boost of confidence, it’s time to awaken your beast mode for peak performance.

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Create a vision board by accessing the deeper mind. Many of us have been told to simply think positive and positive things will come our way. That is actually true. Why isn’t it full proof then? Why is it that what we place on our vision boards remains just a vision?

When we come up with goals and place the things we strive for onto a board, it is an action that predominantly uses our conscious minds. In the moment, we are believing for these things to show up in our lives. What happens after the feel good feelings of creating that board begin to waver during the days that follow? Doubt begins to seep in. Previous life experiences start to edit or adjust the vision. A circumstance comes up that sets us back and the whole vision drifts further and further away until it’s time for a new board.

This happens because most humans cannot help themselves but to allow judgment, fear and doubt to creep in. Let’s call these three creepsters! They enter the mind so secretly, so passively, so effortlessly without you even trying hard to invite them in yet they are incredibly potent in wiping out your entire vision. It stems from fear, past pains, loss, or the inability to take a step forward until there is some kind of guarantee that equates to safety. That false sense of security becomes an inhibitor that keeps the vision far out of reach.

You may be thinking that sounds easy to control. Think again. It happens on the subconscious level where we typically lose control, where our will power goes right out the window. The goal of earning more money is limited by a subconscious belief that perhaps “I am not capable of carrying that level of responsibility” or the desire to be in a meaningful relationship is edited by the subconscious belief that “I grew up in a household in which being undervalued seemed normal” or “my past experiences inform me that relationships cause me to be jealous or unable to be vulnerable.”

In order for a vision to take root, you must take your vision from a conscious fantasy to a subconscious reality.

It is essential that the part of your mind that is emotionally driven, BUY INTO the goal you wish to achieve. Here’s the challenging part for many. Throw out the “how” as in “how will this happen?” After you’ve created your list of goals, do not for one minute get into your conscious head to work out the process of “how” it will happen. Why? Because by nature most people’s mindsets limit their potential. Hence, on accident, without even knowing it, you will taint your vision and limit the capabilities and resources that will come your way because you just can’t see how it will unfold. The creepsters, judgment, fear and doubt, will set in and back into your old ways you go.

The beauty of releasing the “how” is that by letting go of the process, you get to take a load off. You gain the freedom to enjoy being surprised by what your life attracts.

Your key tools are called Visualization and Imagination. You must access these gifts to actualize the gifts that await you.

In order for the emotional part of your mind, the subconscious, to accept the fantasy of a vision board or a goal list as truth, you must have an “experience.” You must feel something. That’s how our minds buy into things. Since it has not happened yet, you must use the power of visualization to imagine it and fully experience your vision tapping into all of your senses.

An effective way to make your vision board happen is by accessing the deeper part of your mind, alpha-theta state. Begin with slow, deep breathing.

Enter into a meditative state using alpha music as it aides you to experience inwardly what you desire outwardly.

Create through your imagination the joy of having, of coming from abundance and receiving rather than from lack or wanting. Relish in the emotions you are feeling because that means you are experiencing it. Because like energy attracts like energy, you are now ready to attract that which you project.

Now let it go! That’s right, when you conclude your visualization journey, release it. Trust what is to come.

You may not be able to control what is outside of you, but you can control your inner reality. The powerful thing about that is the quality of your inner life, your inner thoughts and your inner emotions are what determine the quality of the life you live.

Preserve it, nurture it, seed it, and it will SPROUT!

 

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