Hi Success Friend,
Welcome to week three!
The Power of Relaxation
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At this point you will have gained some experience of relaxation and meditation. You will have gained a measure of control over your thinking and felt the benefits of relaxing the body.
For some of you this will be a new experience and for some of you it will already be a daily practice.
Personal discipline is something that has to be earned step by step. The ego would prefer to watch the television, read a news paper, have a sleep or do almost anything
rather than something it perceives to be of little value.
Eckhart Tolle in his “Power Of Now” book suggests that by observing the minds chatter (as the watcher) we begin experience moments of being, where we become the watcher
and in those moments of being we experience peace and oneness with all things.
It’s the kind of presence where your attention comes fully into the present moment and you begin to hear the wind in the trees, the birds chirping, the dogs barking.
Both Eckhart Tolle and Deeepak Chopra call this “The Gap” where you enter into the “Now”and this is the space that Charles Haanel suggests that we seek each day.
This is the relaxation and the space where ideas may come to you. Just observe them.
Focus and Concentration
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This week Charles Haanel begins to teach us to focus our minds on a desired positive outcome as opposed to allowing our minds to run wild and lead us with the conditioning from the past.
To build this focus and concentration he suggests that we choose something that we desire. It could be an object or a situation. Choosing what we desire to experience in our lives is a task that for most people is daunting, primarily because unconsciously and consciously they don’t believe they can have what they truly desire. They may believe that they can have a secondhand car because it seems feasable but very few people believe they can have a new car.
For the purposes of this exercise he suggests that we “Use Our Imagination” to work out one thing that we desire the most.
He knew that this in itself would be a real task for most people as most of us have a list as long as our arms of things we would like to be, do or have.
He knew that it would also build our focus and concentration to be able to discard all but the most desirable choice at this point in time.
This is the first step.
In the well known movie The secret, it is suggested that if we cannot manage to feel aligned to and believe that we can achieve a BIG goal we should simply start with a little one and learn to build the “goal achieving muscle.”
If you are going to go for something big, then make sure that it is a desire that will get you up early in the morning and excite you througout the day until you finally fall asleep at night.
If you are going to go for something smaller, make sure that the achievement of it will have significance for you.
Choosing and defining your desire.
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To choose one desire you wish to experience you could make a list of goals and take that to your meditation place. Once you are relaxed you could set the intention that the purpose of you meditation is to choose one desire. Then close your eyes and try to experience what it would be like to have achieved each desire on the list one by one.
The one that you ultimately want to work with is the one which gives you the most powerful positive feelings.
If you want to take this process to the “Next Level” you could then use the following method which I have found to be most powerful in defining your desire.
The more detailed your desire, the more likely it is to materialise in the quickest and most harmonious way possible.
Over all of the years that I have been studying and using personal development tools there are two methods that I personally use which are streets above all others.
I’ll give you the info on the first one now as it is inexpensive and easy to use. The other one is a course over a period of weeks and I’ll let you have the details for that in a subsequent email.
The first is by Stuart Lichtman and is a process called Cybernetic Transposition. You can read about it here: http://tinyurl.com/5ayuld
Stuart tracked the results of people doing using his method and they showed that for buisiness “Targets” (he calls goals targets) 100% of the targets were achieved by his test group first time.
In other areas the results were I think around 80% first time.
The link again is: http://tinyurl.com/5ayuld
The Next Step
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Charles Haanel suggests in his instructions to student’s that if you have not completed this weeks lesson and exercise, invest a little more time before you move on.
The message is clear…
Take your time and prepare yourself thoroughly this week as the groundwork you are doing now will set the foundation for the following weeks.
If it takes you more than a week, perhaps two, to do this weeks work, thats OK. This is a big week.
I hope that this weeks email has been of use to you and I highly reccommend that you invest in Stuart Lichtmans book as it will profoundly assist you.
Have an awesome day Success Friend !!!
Carl Bradbrook
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