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Can you turn off your thoughts and just be?
Posted by: | CommentsHow did you sleep last night? Did you find yourself waking up and not being able to go back to sleep? Were there thoughts and feelings going through your mind that kept you up? When you tried to stop thinking about whatever was on your mind, were you able too?
So many people today are so filled with so much going on in thier mind each day they can not slow it down and stop processing. You know the mind justs keeps going and going.
Is this you? If it is try this idea. Stop reading this and for the next 15 seconds practice quiting your mind for 15 seconds. Ok go.
If you said to yourself I can not take 15 seconds I am to busy. Ok, ask yourself are you worth 15 seconds? You know do you love yourself enough to pause and give yourself a break for just 15 seconds to just be.
If this was hard how can I invite you to the next level, if this one was hard? If you did take the 15 then try this. The next time you find yourself not able to quite your thinking put your feet on the floor to ground yourself and breath in through your nose and out through your mouth. Close your eyes and visualize a calming place or scene in your mind. A visual of a calming, peaceful scene that slows you down and helps you “be” in the moment. So try it and watch what happens.
Let me know how it works for you. Respond back with your other tips.
Additional one thing comments
Posted by: | CommentsWe continue to receive great ideas. Here are some more for your review:
To me the greatest concept you teach in your course is the principle of self image vs. self esteem. Before attending your course, those two phrases were just words and they had almost the same meaning. Now I understand what it truly means and the power it has to have great self esteem instead of a great self image.
Before, I was trying to keep up a self image that I and others thought I should be. It was a culmination of events and people throughout my life trying to put me in a box or label me. Thus forming an image that I believed I needed to uphold. And by doing so, I was lying to myself and others to maintain that image.
Now, I know that self esteem is what is really important. Once I began to build self esteem by loving myself and others unconditionally, all the self image stuff no longer was of any importance. And that was achieved by learning how to live in the moment and not get lost in the past or what is to come in the future. It is truly a life changing process.
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