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Gratitude and the Law of Attraction

Gratitude or appreciation of what you already own is necessary for using the law of attraction to attract things you want. Every day when you wake up, give thanks. Think about the good things in your live and feel grateful. Appreciate your job (even if you don’t like it).

Feel gratitude for a place to live, for your food, your friends or anything else you can find to appreciate, appreciate it. A lot of people don’t experience enough of basic things like food, water and their own place to live. It’s natural that you want more, that you want to improve your standard of life, but first you need to feel gratitude for what you already possess.

Gratitude An Important Step In Activating The Law Of Attraction

If you start your day with feelings of gratitude you will feel good and you can keep that feeling all day.

But you should also write down something like this: "I am so happy and grateful that…" and then write what you would like to have. For example: "I am very happy and grateful that I make $1 million per year; that I have wonderful and loving wife…etc." Use the present tense, visualize the things you want, be grateful for them, and think about them as already yours. When you achieve them, you can add new things to your list. When you write about money, start first with amount you believe is possible and then increase the amount when you got the amount you’d written down. Be specific. Write something like this: "I choose to double my income this year and feel grateful for the opportunities to make it happen."

When you start writing gratitude affirmations, at first you might feel strange using present tense for the things you want in the future. It’s important to train your subconscious mind to think about them in present tense. After some time of playing such "mental ping pong" your subconscious mind will obey and will help you attract the things you want.

Cheers

Feeling Safe While Changing Your Subconscious Programming

by Ann Rusnak

Yesterday I woke up feeling lost, doubtful and anxious. It’s important to always acknowledge your feelings, both positive and negative. My usual methods of relieving these feelings after acknowledging them didn’t work. These inner stirrings just wouldn’t calm down.

I knew I could trust and count on my dear friend, Stephanie Rainbow Bell – PlusSizeInnerPeace.com.

Stephanie played a big role these past few years in helping me reach an inner peace and acceptance of my true self.

I Skyped her and shared my experience and asked if she could offer any suggestions. (Thank goodness for Skype ™)

She replied with the words:"allow them [the feelings] (which I did). Comfort them like you would a small child and love them/you. "

She went on to say "Understand that you are making/taking massive actions and parts of you are concerned about where that will leave them."

I also shared that I felt like crying and is it okay. To which Steph responded,"YES, ABSOLUTELLY!"

She added "let ‘everyone’ know that it will all be ok. That they won’t be abandoned because you [my Divine Self] are here now and so is the Universe supporting everyone. That this may be new territory, you will make it SAFE territory."

The comfort thing never occurred to me. The safe reference made total sense.

What I didn’t share with Stephanie in the beginning was I’ve been doing some self hypnosis to make big changes to my subconscious… never thought about adding "it will be safe" to the self-hypnosis statements.

Given my background and abuse issues, feeling safe is very important to me. It wasn’t something I experienced until my late 30’s.

Stephanie replied "All that sub conscious stuff means you are ‘messing’ with the status quo of what they are ‘used to’…so they will perceive ‘messing with’ as a THREAT."

Your subconscious is where your belief system resides. Your subconscious protects your current belief system. If your current belief system/beliefs are holding you back or no longer serve you for your good, you need to change them.

Only one problem, your subconscious will do everything it can to protect your current beliefs.

This is often why lasting changes don’t take hold and why we often step back into self sabotaging behavior and or self destructive patterns.

3 Ways to Change Your Belief System in Your Subconscious

1. Effective Affirmations. Affirmations work to change your subconscious mind by using positive, personal, present tense statements to override the embedded negative thinking. By repeating these positive thoughts, you can create new pathways in your subconscious.

It takes a lot of repetition for the affirmations to breakthrough. Your subconscious installed a "gatekeeper" to keep things out. Every once and awhile the gatekeeper will get distracted and an affirmation will slip through. Many repetitions are need to create a new pathway in your brain for your new belief.

2. Visualization. Your subconscious can’t tell the difference from reality and imagination. Visualization is the act of creating detailed mental pictures that depict a desired outcome so you can see success for yourself. These images stimulate the subconscious into accepting them as reality, which then directs behavior accordingly. Top athletes around the world use this technique during game-time.

Visualization will get through the gatekeeper more often than affirmations alone. The combination of visualization and affirmations is very effective.

3. Self Hypnosis. Self Hypnosis works by easing you into a state of extreme relaxation. Once you’re in this state, the gatekeeper releases its grip, and the subconscious mind is easier to access.

While under hypnosis, it’s much easier to reprogram the subconscious into accepting new thoughts as reality.

Feel Safe And Calm While Reprogramming Your Subconscious

Stephanie went on to say "that the subconscious can’t help but feel change is a threat. Creating these feeling is its way to keep you safe — and the easiest way to do that is to keep you standing still."

"And when you refuse to stand still, it has to figure out what else it can do to protect you.

When you do all that sub conscious and conscious shifting, there’s no SOLID GROUND anymore. Everyone feels like there’s an earthquake all the time."

Stephanie continued with "Just do some general EVERYTHING IS OK when you are doing so much shifting.

You have to allow PAUSES as in days/weeks/months for INTEGRATION", she concluded.

I just started using Dr. Robert Anthony’s Deliberate Creation Self-Hypnosis program. Even he mentions allowing time for integrations as well.

I wrote out a big bodacious statement following his instructions. During my self hypnosis session, I give my subconscious my intention statement as directed. Also I included instructions that since it knows the best way to accomplish it, show me the best way to get started doing this and I accept this or something better.

Yesterday evening , I went into my "safe" room or what I call my hubby calls the "zen" room and followed the advice of my dear friend.

I did a self hypnosis session reassuring "everyone" that they are safe and protected. Using visualization, I allowed them to experience the outcome of that big bodacious statement.

I woke up this morning feeling refreshed, energized, calm and my inner peace restored.

Self-Hypnosis is a simple but powerful tool that allows you to bypass the Gatekeeper and rewrite our Subconscious programming. Learn more and get Dr. Anthony’s FREE Audio Now!

You can learn more about Stephanie’s awesome coaching at http://plussizeinnerpeace.com/

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Mind Power Secrets – Power of Your Subconscious Mind

by Ann Rusnak

Let’s get going on a fascinating discussion on the Power of Your Subconscious Mind.

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
~ Unknown

Your subconscious is very sensitive to your thoughts.

That’s why watching your thoughts is critical to changing your money mindset.

Your mind works at two levels… the conscious level and a subconscious level.

Meet Your Conscious Half

Let me explain how the conscious and subconscious mind works. This knowledge of the interaction between your conscious and subconscious will enable you, to not only change your money mindset, but to transform your whole life.

You think with your conscious and it’s the rational half of your mind. You make all your decisions with your conscious mind. It’s the part of your mind that makes your choices.

The conscious mind gathers knowledge and experience through the senses. It learns from books, conversation and experience. It reasons and forms conclusions. Thoughts generate at the conscious level and finally passes its thoughts down into the subconscious mind… What you habitually think about all day long sinks down into your subconscious.

Meet Your Subconscious Half

Your subconscious level is the cradle of your emotions and creative center in your mind. It’s also where your habits take up residence.

Think of the subconscious mind as the storage room of everything that is currently not in your conscious mind; it stores all your previous life experiencesyour belief system, your memories, you skills, all situations you’ve been through, and all images you’ve ever seen.

Your subconscious mind runs on auto pilot and will process whatever information enters it. It’s always working. It is active night and day, whether you act upon it or not. Through ceaseless, tireless action of your subconscious mind controls all the vital functions of your body without the help of your conscious mind.

Can you imagine if you had to think about breathing, make your heart pump… thank goodness for the subconscious mind.

Your subconscious mind is far more powerful than your conscious one. When you learn how to train and use your subconscious mind, you can control your behavior, break bad habits, get rid of unwanted emotions ;and fix your belief system.

How the Conscious Affects Your Subconscious

Your subconscious is subjective to your conscious mind. It takes orders your give it based on what your conscious mind believes and accepts at true.

Your subconscious mind will begin to execute an idea once it accepts the idea impressed upon it. It will not make comparisons nor does it reason or thinks things out for itself. That job belongs to the conscious mind.

It will accept what ever the conscious mind believes whether it’s true or false.

The subconscious mind learns by repetition and not by logic. It learns by the conscious mind establishing deep grooves from habitual thinking… thinking the same thoughts over and over.

The longer the subconscious mind believes something, the harder it will be to alter this belief in any way: If you have a longstanding belief, it will definitely be more difficult to alter than a recently formed one.

Soothing Conflicts Between Your Conscious and Subconscious Minds

While you may want to change the way you think… your conscious mind will often reject your new thoughts because they are in conflict with your current belief system. The more ingrained the belief… the harder it will be to alter it. Your belief system resides in your subconscious.

The subconscious accepts what you really feel is true. Fortunately,The subconscious mind does not differentiate between visualizations and real situations. You can use this to your advantage and soothe things over between your two minds. Visualize your life with the new beliefs and associate genuine feelings and emotions to your new beliefs. Your subconscious more readily accepted the new thoughts because it really felt they were true.

You might also enjoy this related article Unleash Your Subconscious Mind.

Subconscious Mind: Unleash Your Subconscious Mind Power

by Ann Rusnak

Your subconscious mind is the maker of all the great ideas you have ever had, and is also the seat of your intuition and creativeness.

If you want to learn the true art of mind power then it is of the greatest importance you understand 2 functions of your mind, and also how they interact with each other…

You only possess one mind, but it has 2 totally different functions – and the names generally used to distinguish these 2 different functions are as follows.

1. The Conscious Mind
2. The Subconscious Mind

There are many other terms used. But the 2 listed above, are the ones used most to represent the 2 main functions of your mind.

To help us better understand the conscious and subconscious mind, they may be compared to a tree and its roots…

You’re conscious mind being the tree, which helps you with daily situations like, decision-making, rational thinking, or just simply figuring out what to do and how best to do it.

When we think of "me" we think of our conscious mind, the mind of which we are fully aware. This part of the mind makes decisions for us and directs our activities; it also analyzes, criticizes and even commands us.

You’re subconscious mind being the roots; it deals mostly with the repetitions of learned behavior. This can be very helpful for you, as it enables you to deal with situations much more easily the next time they arise.

Whatever we see, hear, smell, taste, touch or feel passes through the conscious mind and reaches the subconscious mind where it is stored.

How Information Gets Stored In Your Subconscious Mind

Once you have learned how best to deal with the situation you find it much easier the next time around… this is because you are using information which is already stored.

For instance, once you have learned to ride a bike you don’t have to consciously think about it anymore. This is because the stored information will come to you automatically the next time you get on your bike to ride it.

Just as if you were to learn where each letter on your keyboard is – you can now type without looking because you have formed a mental picture in your subconscious mind, of what the keyboard actually looks like.

The above are only two instances (of how the subconscious mind stores up relations of learned behavior) and we are sure you would be able to find many more examples of this in your everyday life!

Information from the conscious mind gets past into the subconscious mind, and there is a very strong link between the two. It is said that everything you have ever seen, heard and experienced is perceived by your conscious mind, and then stored away into your subconscious mind as a memory.

Not only is this memory stored as the incident itself, but also any feelings which went with it at the time are also stored.

How Your Subconscious Mind Uses the Stored Information

Your subconscious mind goes beyond storing your memories and feelings. It also generates all the great ideas you have ever experienced, and is also the seat of your intuition and creativeness.

Your subconscious also keeps you going without you even being aware of it. It takes care of your bodily functions – your heart beat, and automatically runs such activities as, movement, language, visual perception and a whole host of other processes of your mind and body for you.

It also scans your mind for conflict and distress; assesses your environment for danger and threats, and relays and interprets perceptions, sensations, and feeling… last but not least it is also the storehouse of all your experience and decisions – everything which makes you the person you are.

Mind Power Secrets | The Law of Repetition

by Ann Rusnak

Path Of Repetition

Have you heard the old saying, "a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth?" This happens because repetition is the secret to developing a powerful belief.

And the more powerful your belief, the more powerful your results will be… negative or positive.

All changes in your beliefs, especially limiting beliefs, take place upon the application of the law of repetition.

The Law Of Repetition and How Your Minds Works

How often do you tell yourself and try to convince yourself that you can accept change? Only later to find yourself readily get stuck in past memories, frameworks, and schemas?

Until you make the changes at the subconscious level, those changes will not stay in place. Your deep subconscious is the very place where change happens. You’ll find a full article on the here: Power of Your Subconscious Mind

When you have a better understanding of the brain’s inner workings, the subconscious, you stand a better chance to develop a skill set or change a belief system that can enable you to make lasting changes in your brain.

Like a person finding a well worn path through a meadow, each thought, feeling, and behavior is associated with a path through your brain.

Would you choose to take the established path or would plow through the field to create a new one? Most people would choose the path already there… it’s much easier and less work.

Your brain does the same thing. It is more likely to engage in familiar patterns rather than try new ones. The flow of energy through the brain tends to go through established paths and circuits, which is partly makes our minds appear stable and predictable.

Throughout your life, your brain will always find it easier – but not unavoidable – to go back to these earliest patterns of operating in the world.

Your experiences shape how your brain will grow. Therefore, any plan you want to follow to be happier, successful and more fulfilling, must also address the pathways in your brain in order to have lasting success.

How To Rewire Your Brain For Lasting Success

Repetition will input habits in the nerve cells in you brain, This consequently governs your thoughts and behavior. That well-worn path in the meadow happened by people repeatedly walking it.

The reason why repetition on positive thoughts is so powerful, and necessary, is that we live in a world where thoughts and images of lack and limitation are everywhere.

It requires discipline of repetition to change your deepest thoughts and beliefs about the nature of the world — and that is exactly what you must do in order to change your limiting beliefs that hold your back.

Repetition can be a powerful tool for learning and acquiring skill sets too. There is a kind of strength achieved through the power of repeating oneself. Repetition, repetition, repetition. It works. It works. It works.

Daily Repetition Can Develop A New Habit To Change Paradigms.

A paradigm is our perception of reality, our view of the world. It is our interpretation of events based on previous teaching we have received. Those teaching and experiences shape your belief system.

Paradigms controls your lives. Think of paradigms as a multitude of habits. Those habits formed through repetition.

We can ultimately break down old paradigms holding you back through a desire to change.

One Tiny Step Repeated Result In Big Changes

The key is to change these habits of limiting beliefs one at a time to allow the flow of what you want to enter your life.

Consistency is very important in using the Law of Repetition. Changes will happen through daily increases of awareness, time and patience.

Repeating a set of effective affirmations three times each day will begin to create a new path in your brain. Just pick one belief… one habit you want for a new path.

Habits are made and broken in a span of 21 to 30 days as a rule. Repetition for that length of time can greatly increase the odds of making permanent change

Remember that your paradigms can be changed and you can do it a little bit each day through repetition.

Cheers

P.S.
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7 Truths to Creating Effective Affirmations That Work – Part Two

by Ann Rusnak

Using Affirmations

Yesterday I mentioned seven truths around how the mind works using affirmations. With the first three, I shared the biggest obstacle to why affirmations fail and gave a strategy to make your affirmations effective.

Today, let explore the four remaining truths and really get into releasing the power of your subconscious in using affirmations.

These remaining four truths create more powerful and faster acting affirmations

Truth #4 – Your subconscious mind can’t tell the difference between reality and imagination.

There is no future or past in your subconscious mind. Even if your subconscious mind replays something, it believes it’s happening all over again in the present. The subconscious only know the present.

With this in mind, you want to make sure your affirmation is something you really really want. You want to make it very specific and always state it in the present tense.

I’m going to continue to use yesterday’s affirmation, "I choose to earn $500,00."
For example purposes, this is something you really want.

Make it specific….
Instead of saying "I choose to earn $500,00", you say "I choose to make more money."

The word "more" isn’t specific. What does "more" mean? While the word more may seem believable and would eliminate the inner conflict obstacle, it indirectly calls your attention to a negative situation.

By asking for more money, implies you don’t have enough. Your subconscious draws attention to the very thing you want eliminate… not enough money. This defeats the whole purpose of the affirmation.

State it in the present tense…
"I choose to earn $500,00 this year."

Truth #5 – Your subconscious mind responds to three things:

Verbalization, feelings & emotions (the most powerful) and visualization.

Verbalize your affirmation…
What you say to yourself determines everything you do. Keep your affirmations positive.
Avoid negative affirmations like I never have enough money or I never earn enough money. Vigilantly monitor your self-talk or you’ll cancel out your positive affirmations by creating confusing in your subconscious.

Add feeling and emotion…
Your subconscious thrives on feelings and emotion. You’ll turn the power up on your affirmations when you include emotion in your statements.

"I choose to easily, constantly and enjoyably earn $500,00 this year by adding value to peoples lives."

Visualize your end result…
Remember Truth #4? Use your imagination and picture and experience in your mind the end result while saying your affirmation.

If you read your affirmations, picture the end result and feel the emotions of what you are picturing, you can expect a 100% success rate.

Truth #6 – The subconscious mind learns by repetition not logic.

This is why verbalizing your affirmation once or inconsistently doesn’t work. You need to consistently say your affirmation over and over. The repetition repatterns your thoughts.

Psychological studies show saying your affirmation out loud and/or with music increases the impressing of the information on your subconscious 85% faster.

Start your day off with your affirmations and right before your go to bed at night.

The more the repetition the better. I like using The Think Right Now software program on my computer. It briefly flashes, on your computer screen, visible statements of affirmations.

You can use theirs or your own affirmations with or without music.

Truth #7 – Your subconscious will achieve anything you believe to be true for you.

Affirmations work through your subconscious. So you need to keep them personal by using "I" in your statements.

Persistent repetition of your affirmations, especially creating around the seven truths, conditions your mind to see things differently.

Affirmations eventually install themselves as consistent dominate thoughts…
dominate thoughts control your behaviors… your behaviors become habits… your habits create your reality.

Dr. Robert Anthony created a simple formula to help you remember when creating effective positive affirmations.

Affirmations + Imagery + Emotion = Success

We’ll wrap tomorrow with something called an "Affirmation Insurance Policy" and how to use to it to insure best results.

To Your Unstoppable Success,

Ann Rusnak

P.S.
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7 Truths to Creating Effective Affirmations That Work – Part One

by Ann Rusnak

Affirmations

Do affirmations really work? Maybe you just think they are useless and never tried them. Perhaps you thought about trying them but never heard of anybody seeing results or you tried them but they didn’t deliver on their promise. Maybe you fall into the fourth category; You tried them and the results were so sporadic and rare that you felt they weren’t worth the time doing.

Personally, I fell into the fourth category. Since some affirmations worked occasionally, I wondered what was different on those occasions for them to produce the desired results.

So I did some research. My ineffective affirmations resulted from leaving out critical pieces of information. The problem is creating affirmation around the way your mind works.

During this research, I discovered seven truths around how the mind works using affirmations. When generating an affirmation around these seven truths, you’ll experience the desired outcome.

Interestingly, it didn’t matter if the affirmation was positive or negative.

Daily affirmations are one of the most effective and easiest actions you can take for your subconscious to release your inner success. Let’s look at these seven truths and how you can utilize to create powerful effective affirmations.

Truth #1 – Your subconscious mind is more powerful than your conscious mind.

Scientific research shows that the subconscious mind is not only way faster, it is over a million times more powerful than the conscious mind.

Your subconscious mind works for your benefit 24 hours a day, seven days a week—literally 100% of the time. Read more about how your subconscious mind works.

Truth #2 – Subconsciously we only believe what the conscious mind accepts as real.

This is the barrier that stops affirmations from working. Affirmations won’t work when an inner conflict arises between the conscious and subconscious mind.

Truth #3 – Your conscious mind chooses what it believes to be true and your subconscious mind accepts without question whatever the conscious mind dictates.

To get to the subconscious level for your affirmations to work, they need to be believable. Unfortunately, the conscious mind doesn’t believe the affirmation, it won’t accept it as real.

Basically you’re lying to yourself, not intentionally, your conscious mind recognizes your not stating the truth. Until your conscious mind accepts the affirmation as truth, it will not become part of the subconscious mind.

I want you to say the following affirmation out loud:

"I earn $500,00"

You made this your goal. You "truly" want this to happen. When you said it out loud what happened?

Did you feel some resistance to the statement? Did it feel truthful? Did you start arguing with yourself about "how" you would accomplish this? Did you hear your self-talk echo back these words "Who are you kidding?"

You won’t achieve the result of your affirmation while an inner conflict exists between the conscious and subconscious mind. You’ll need to neutralize the conflicting self talk.

The best way I learned to counter this resistance is to use the word "choose" in the affirmation.

Let’s try this again expect, you’ll use the word choose in the affirmation statement. Yeah… you need to say it out loud.

"I choose to earn $500,00"

Did you notice a difference between these statements when you say them to yourself? Did it feel more convincing?

By including "I choose" in your affirmation, you’re using a very effective and successful strategy to offers no resistance for acceptability.

Tomorrow I’ll share the rest of the truths to make your affirmations more powerful and fast acting.

In the meantime, pick three of your affirmations or create three using the "I choose" strategy.

To Your Unstoppable Success,

Ann Rusnak

Gratitude An Important Step In Activating The Law Of Attraction

3 Ways to Change Your Belief System in Your Subconscious

Feel Safe And Calm While Reprogramming Your Subconscious

Meet Your Conscious Half

Meet Your Subconscious Half

How the Conscious Affects Your Subconscious

Soothing Conflicts Between Your Conscious and Subconscious Minds

How Information Gets Stored In Your Subconscious Mind

How Your Subconscious Mind Uses the Stored Information

The Law Of Repetition and How Your Minds Works

How To Rewire Your Brain For Lasting Success

Daily Repetition Can Develop A New Habit To Change Paradigms.

Truth #4 – Your subconscious mind can’t tell the difference between reality and imagination.

Truth #5 – Your subconscious mind responds to three things:

Truth #6 – The subconscious mind learns by repetition not logic.

Truth #7 – Your subconscious will achieve anything you believe to be true for you.

Truth #1 – Your subconscious mind is more powerful than your conscious mind.

Truth #2 – Subconsciously we only believe what the conscious mind accepts as real.

Truth #3 – Your conscious mind chooses what it believes to be true and your subconscious mind accepts without question whatever the conscious mind dictates.

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