For years pro athletes have kept a secret. What you think you can do has an enormous effect on what you are able to do. What you feel you cannot do keeps you from doing what you are actually capable of doing. They would never be able to rise to the highest level of their sport without having an edge over the ordinary person on the street. Even guys that eat three pound steaks with mud under their nails and sweat dripping from their brow know the power of positive thinking. You don't need to drive a hybrid car to a yoga studio to use the power of your mind. Oddly enough not believing in this makes it not work so if you think it won't work than you are correct. In fact most people have so much doubt that for the most part it is a bunch of baloney. But if you think that it will work then it does work so you are also correct. In fact the stronger your belief is the more powerful it becomes. The fact that so few people have a strong belief in their ability to effect change with their mind is exactly why so few people ever rise above the fray. So there is no sense in arguing with someone who differs in opinion about whether positive thinking works or not because whatever you believe about it is true for you. Obviously if you want to have a more powerful mind and rise above the fray than you need to believe that it will work and practice it with a great deal of effort.
The first thing that you need to understand is that there are basically two levels of thought lets call them awareness and sub-awareness. If you think and and act on something then you are using your awareness. If you feel it, dream it, or it happens on its own, its sub-awareness. You don't need to think to breath or make your heart beat but if something scares you or makes you relax it can change how fast your heart beats and how quickly you breath. So obviously things that effect your awareness have an effect on your sub-awareness. So the trick is to use this to your advantage. Think about your dreams. Dreams are the thoughts of your sub-awareness. You don't dream in words but in images. You see a motion picture of actions that pass before your minds eye while you're asleep. This is the way that your sub-awareness thinks. So if you want to tap into the power of the sub-awareness you must create a visual image of what you want. Some people can close their eyes and see an image of what they want but others can't. If you are a person that can get a visual image then do that. If you are not a visual person then form your thoughts with words. But you have to remember that you create an image with your words. So you must keep the words all positive or you will spoil the image with negative thoughts. That sounds complicated until you hear an explanation of it. Lets say that you break your leg and you want to heal up. If you say please heal my broken leg you have put an image of you with a broken leg into your sub-awareness. But if instead you say I have a strong and healthy leg. You have only put in a positive image. Did you notice I used the end state by saying I have a healthy leg. If you say I will have a healthy leg that provides an image of you recovering but not fully recovered. So always state your desire as an end state of what you want. You don't want just to work at it ultimately you want to get there.
So how do you use this? The first thing is to really think about what you want and be very specific. For instance in the case of the broken leg you want a healthy leg. If you just ask for good health and you just brushed your teeth your mind may work on good dental health. Remember it's sub-awareness you really don't know what you are thinking on that level. So you always want to be very specific. After you have created a specific desire all in positive terms you need to energize your mind somehow. Oxygen is fuel for the brain so you need to draw in a larger than normal amount of oxygen but not to the point of hyperventilating. If you do some deep breathing while concentrating your mental focus on energizing your mind you will in fact increase your mental energy. Exhale all of the air from your lungs and breath in allowing your stomach to expand. If you breath using only your chest you are not using your full lung capacity and you are wasting energy by not breathing efficiently. Take in a full breath and hold it for a one count and exhale. Do this for ten breaths and resume normal breathing until you feel you can start again. If you try to do more than ten breaths you may start to hyperventilate and get light headed. Do four cycles of ten breaths resting about thirty seconds between each cycle. Now you are supercharged and ready to go. Visualize or speak your image to yourself. Try to spend a minute or two on it by either repeating it or seeing it. Once you have done the visualization let it go and don't think about it again. You have to trust that its there in your sub-awareness. Its sub-awareness you will not know that it's there but it is. Did you ever go on a train or car trip and see yourself traveling in your dreams when you go to bed that night? Things you see are in your sub-awareness you just don't know what you think on that level. The next step is to relax your mind to the point where you are not using your awareness while remaining awake. Just like you can't dream unless you're asleep you can't direct the energy of your sub-awareness with without relaxing your awareness but you need to remain awake in order to maintain control. When you do this you are meditating. Meditating is not some far out thing its simply clearing your mind of awareness enough that sub-awareness takes over while retaining enough awareness to stay awake. It's much simpler than that explanation sounds. After you did your breathing, created your image and let it go, sit with your eyes closed. Concentrate your mind on breathing in, now breathing out. Think in and out, in and out... Keep doing this until the thoughts of the day clear from your mind. If you catch yourself thinking about anything don't let it bother you just go back to thinking about your breathing. You don't have an on off switch on your mind. You drift into the correct state of mind slowly. If you daydream and allow cluttered thoughts to come in you will fall asleep. If you drift off to sleep when you wake up realize that this was your mistake and try to correct it by not allowing yourself to think about anything but your breathing. After awhile you will reach a point where its clear that your mind is relaxed enough were you no longer have to think about breathing. At that point simply relax and feel the energy flowing and hear the subtle sounds that are around you. If you find that you begin thinking again go back to concentrating on your breaths. Do this for twenty minutes once or twice a day. The more often you do this the more power you create.
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