To Succeed... Just Let Go

Do you not like your boss? Do you hate your job? Are you stuck in a dysfunctional relationship? Do you feel there's no way out?

Are you afraid of doing what you need to do to bring about change in your life?

Well, the fear you're feeling is just the fear you're thinking. The challenges with which you're confronted are magnified by what you think about them.

And the solution to all your problems requires neither bravery or courage on your part.

It requires just a little something that will completely change your life.

What kind of fool would think about the unthinkable, judge the unjudgable, evaluate the unevaluatable?

Meditation is practiced to enable us stop thinking, stop judging, stop evaluating and, in the process, free ourselves from the thoughts that facilitate the process of how we, ever so negatively, judge ourselves.

What kind of fool wouldn't bring the clear mind that the have developed through their regular practice of meditation to the cut and thrust of everyday life?

Meditation is practiced to enable us be in and experience flow during the highs and lows, peaks and troughs, rough and tumble of everyday life... that's when it really makes the difference.

In this episode, we roll our sleeves up and get practical on the whats, hows and whys of meditation.

You have a thinking mind - it will "enable" you trudge your way through today. And you have a doing mind - it will enable you do just what you need to do with the least possible effort to enable you dance your way through today on the journey of a lifetime... your's.

In this episode, I explore what happens when you let your doing mind do what it does best.

We're talking about things "occurring" to you and "Aha Moments". We're talking about spontaneity and being the right person in the right place at the right time.

We're talking about how to recognise opportunity and how to behave in a way that enables you create opportunity.

And the great thing is that all this comes naturally... when you just let go.

Do you love yourself... unconditionally? Or, like most people, would you like to be more self-confident? Do you "suffer" from low self-esteem? Or, like few abnormal people, do you know the power within?

How do you become acquainted with that power within? How do you meet the real you?

You already know that there is something "more" within - because we all have seen flashes of our true capability... in a crisis, under pressure or simply when a little voice says "do this" or "don't do that".

There is a passionate power within simply waiting to make an appearance in your life - and, when she or he does, your life will never be the same again.

Generally speaking, how we think falls into three buckets - the 70k repetitive thoughts that enable us make it through each day; the specialist knowledge or skills we bring to what we do "for a living" and - most importantly - the third way.

Picasso called it inspiration, Edison knew exactly how to tap it, you've got it within, in this episode we explore how you can let it loose... and it will change your life.

Imagine you didn't have to wait for an accidental "Aha Moment". Imagine if inspiration didn't have to wait to strike you "Out of the Blue". Imagine if you could tune in so that your inspiration and creativity were available to you on tap in, what the University of Chicago calls, Flow.

Imagine no more. In this episode you'll learn how to do it.

You might think you know what this episode is about and you might just be wide of the mark!

What's the problem with positive thinking? What about the power of positive thinking? What about your own inner power?

What about leaving the shadowlands of thought behind for the reality of the here and now for it is only in the here and now that you can be the best you that you can be and live the kind of life you'd love to live.

That's what this episode is actually all about.

To some extent, we're all depressed. For starters, our own vital energy is suppressed by the impediment of ordinary everyday repetitive thought... our own thoughts disable us.

The efficiency of our cardio-vascular, digestive and immune systems is depressed by the hormones triggered by those everyday repetitive thoughts. And we "live" on autopilot - a shadow of who we really are.

Who are you really? Well, if you reflect upon the noise in your own head, you'll realise there are two of you: you and the conceptual you. Which one do you think is real?

We constantly create and recreate our own lives - this is a fact of cognitive psychology, not some fanciful concept.

When we use our minds normally, we constantly recreate the same life - that's why we find it so difficult to change our lives or any aspect of them - that's a fact of cognitive psychology too.

To change, we need to make a choice: it's a binary choice between action or reaction, a binary choice between mindfulness and mindlessness.

Automatically - yes, psychology actually explains that our lives are daily created on autopilot - we are mindless. That's why mindfulness is not a "nice to have" but a necessity... assuming you want to live the life you'd dearly love.

On autopilot, the normal mind is so divorced from the reality of the moment that it could very easily be said that, normally, we are demented... "living" a half-life.

The solution is horribly simple: turn off the autopilot! This is what we do when we meditate. But, very often, the more we engage our minds through meditation, the noisier our minds become. Of course, that is not true - it's just that we become more aware of how noisy our mind was in the first place.

And that is a very good thing - that awareness is a major leap forward in understanding how we can live our lives to the full.

What we do in life echoes in eternity. OK - it's a quote from Gladiator but it emphasises a key point... when we talk about the so-called Law of Attraction... it's all about Attr-ACTION!

We've got to do what we've got to do, moment-to-moment, to get to where we want to go in life.

And the first thing we must do, before we can even attempt to do anything else, is turn up to your own life: here and now.