Does everything really happen for a reason?

It was always my belief that things happen for a reason. That life hits us with events that we have no control over but when we look at the bigger picture there was always a reason for it happening, a lesson to learn.

Then last month I read something in the local paper that shocked me. A mother had lost her daughter. Her daughter threw herself off a building to her death. Why? Because she was mourning the loss of her sister. Two years before her young teenaged sister had been raped and then stabbed to death.

It made me think. Could I stand in front of this mother and tell her everything happens for a reason? The answer is no I could not. It made me question whether I had taken on believing something I read in a book that sounds great in theory but  doesn’t always fit in practise.

I still believe that when an event happens to me personally I can take a look at that event and see how dealing with it will help me transform my way of thinking, feeling or behaving.  But I have to admit that if something happened to my children I don’t think I could be that charitable.

I have become a woman who knows her place

I live to serve. I always knew that but now I realize that’s it is more than just that. I live to be of service to people, I really don’t need to be in the limelight, on the stage, out in the front. My place is in the back!

I tried discussing this with friends and their opinion seems to be that I am side stepping my role as a leader. That I don’t want to lead so I am stepping back but it isn’t that at all, I have become a woman who knows her place

The thing to always remember is that being behind someone does not mean you are “less than” they are – in fact it is the complete opposite because it takes strength to serve and be in the back without the recognition and limelight of being in the front!

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Finding Myself in Me

[RE-POSTED] This is an old blog post that I wrote back in August 2006 but I loved it so much I thought I would save it again today.

I can still recall the “AHA!” moment I had a few years ago when after years of searching for something and never knowing what it was I was searching for, after years of personal development seminars, books, CDs, and videos I finally realised all that time I was searching for myself!   And this is a great story to illustrate that very fact.

An old Hindu legend tells of an ancient time when all human beings were gods. But the people so lacked appreciation of their divine nature, however, that the other Gods decided to take it away from them. Brahma, the supreme God, wanted to hide human divinity where people would never find it again, and asked his fellow gods to help him find the best place.  One God suggested that they bury human divinity deep in the Earth, but Brahma thought they would surely dig deep enough to find it again.  Another God wanted to sink it into the depths of the greatest ocean, but Brahma thought that humans would eventall learn to dive deep enough to find it and take it up again. Another God suggested they store it at the top of the highest mountain, but Brahma knew that people would eventually climb high enough to conquer every peak on Earth. Frustrated, the council of Gods decided that there wasn’t a single place on Earth that humans wouldn’t know and conquer, eventually. So Brahma himself began to think of ways to hid human divinity. He thought for a long time. Finally, he said “We cannot hide their divinity on Earth, for they are determined to own all the planet. But if we hid their divinity within their own being, they will never think to look for it there.”

We humans have been looking for our divinity ever since!

That extract was taken from the book Invisible Acts of Power by Caroline Myss

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This is my year of letting go and clearing out!

No it’s not because Spring is on the way (although today’s cold high winds and pouring rain made me doubt that too) but because I am in the year of completion according to my numerology chart! I have been clearing the way for something new since November 08 to be honest and it felt really great a few months ago to get rid of a lot of stuff that was cluttering the house.

Now I am on to selling my house and ending that cycle too before I start a new cycle that involves moving to another country. It’s major and still to scary to talk about right now but I am ready to go do something different.

I am also busy writing so apologize for not sending a newsletter out recently but I have another great free ebook on it’s way that I have learnt about manifesting my intentions. I won’t spoil it for you but will say that God on His own doesn’t work. Me on my own doesn’t work but co-creating and working with God to bring what I want into my life is producing fantastic results!!!

Yes, this is a year of letting go, clearing out, shipping off and co-creating with God.

Tap Into Your Subconscious Mind Power With Brainwave Entrainment Technology

by Greg Frost

How do you tap into your subconscious mind and change the way you use your brain? Brainwave entrainment technology is the new rage to hit the personal development industry of late, and the results are telling. Never has it been that more and more people, on a daily basis, experience an almost life changing metamorphosis when they expose themselves to this entrainment technology. To say that it gives you superior mind control by tapping into your subconscious mind is just a statement, the reality is far, far more definitive.

This technology came about as a natural evolution of applications like self hypnosis CDs and subliminal CDs. Brainwave entrainment is a much more delicate instrument in brain development and mind improvement, because it is a much more exact science that most other applications. How? Simply put, hypnosis, affirmation and subliminal messages rely totally on the subconscious mind and the power of messages (as well as other stimulant) to effect a change in the mind and improve its overall ability.

Now, while this has been quite a strong point for mental augmentation for a long time, as science has proved essentially that our human psychological structure is run by messages and associations, circulating in the subconscious mind and affecting everything about us. Now this is all good, but it also is a bit of a presumptuous science. There are no measures to this and there is no way for us to table and graph the effects of these messages. Not everyone will get the same benefits, and the level of resistance is different for everyone. Brainwave entrainment uses the frequency in the brain, naturally produced by the neurons through chemical reactions necessary for communication within the various spheres and areas in the cortex.

However, another interesting fact was discovered. The brain also exists in latent frequency states, which change over time, depending on the current state that we are in. Lower frequencies are associated with states that are close to or within a deep sleep, and they have been measured to give effects like a higher memory retention, a state where the subconscious is much more pliable, better growth hormone levels and accelerated healing. Higher frequency ranges come naturally when we are awake, or within an activity (exercise, sport), where we naturally have increased focus, but also have higher levels of creativity, better co ordination skills and can deal with problems at a much more efficient level.

These are just a sampling of some of the abilities that we can induce by evoking the necessary brainwaves within the cortical of the brain, which will then fire the neurons at the appropriate frequency and this give us the peak ability that we need. With this technology, we can also tap into the subconscious mind at the lower alpha levels and reprogramme the mind with suitable stimulation. Gain a much more superior mind and free yourself from limitation from this brainwave entrainment technology and you will that your life will never be the same again.

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Give yourself permission to discover your greatness and succeed

When you embark on the journey towards discovering your greatness it is important to give yourself permission to succeed not only through words but also subconsciously.

Your subconscious mind is a powerful tool for allowing or not allowing the very thing you desire and you know whether yours is working towards helping you experience what you want (or don’t want) based on your results.

If you do not have what you want in life I would avoid thinking your subconcious mind is “against” you because what bad experiences work towards doing is teaching you a lesson of some kind. Always remember that in order to know and experience what you do want you have to understand what you don’t want too. In order to know who you truly are it helps to have some experience of who you are not!

If life is less than happy right now acknowledge and thank it as a lesson of what you don’t want and start turning that around by looking at what you do want. It really is that simple!

Self-Sabotage

I thought I had cleared out everything I needed to in order to succeed and experience wealth yet my results were still very poor. I had put myself in debt and I was looking at having to sell everything I owned to clear it off.  Then I had a powerful realization that I had put myself in that position so I could get myself out of it and that is when things changed.  I also believe it is why I am so passionate about teaching it too because I can only teach what I have experienced (or I make a better teacher if I do that) and sharing what I know works towards helping others.

“Focus on what you want not on what you don’t want” became my mantra and I invite you to do the same no matter where you find yourself right now.

If you are saying affirmations (which do work by the way), meditating, praying and nothing is happening take a look at how you might be unconcisouly sabotaging your own success.

Find Your Team Supporters

Another thing that really helped was having “team supporters” a group of people who could all see how great I am. They all saw something in me that I was having trouble seeing in myself.  I am blessed to have family members and a number of friends who believe in my ability to succeed

We dont always see how great we are but other people do and it will help you to discover your greatness if you focus on how people see you, especially when the image of how you see yourself isn’t great.

Who are your team supporters? Who believes in your ability to succeed? Can you spend some time looking at you from their eyes so you can see what they see which is just how great you truly are?

Why we need team supporters

How long will a football team last without supporters? If the team is losing a game and the supporters are shouting encouraging words in unison willing them to win it makes a huge difference to their morale.  Similarly, if the supporters are frustrated by the fact that the team are losing and begin to shout negative comments and profanity the team find it difficult if not impossible to improve the way they are playing.

What we hear about ourselves is just as powerful as what we think about ourselves so while you are working on improving your thoughts add some extra “juice” to the whole thing by finding people who believe in you.  Spend time around people who can already see your greatness.

A word of caution

While team supporters are a great addition to your tool belt in the steps towards discovering your greatness I would caution you on only relying on other peoples opinion of you all the time!  Everything you do must work in balance.

It is good to experience and seek out people who believe you to be great but you cross the line when you become dependent on it, or it is the only way you can make yourself feel better about who you are!

What you are doing here is finding a team to support you when you don’t feel able to support yourself but ultimately the team of YOU is the best one you can have.

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Spend some time thinking about and writing down who your team supporters are!

Who are the people that support you no matter what position you are in? Even if you only have one supporter that is a start.

If you don’t already spend more time with your team supporters so that you can experience the feeling of being with people who already believe you are great.

Take that feeling that being with them gives you and remember it. Use that feeling whenever you are not feeling great about yourself or you are feeling nervous about anything.

Also use it as you say affirmations about yourself. Affirmations work when you not only say the words but also use your emotions as you say the words. Take that feeling of being great and say your affirmations. You will find a huge difference to your results.
Three Instant Supporters For Your Team

If you are open to believing in something bigger than yourself then you have an instant supporter right there. Your biggest team supporter is God. No matter what you have done He will always be there with love and compassion and if you can turn to Him in times of trouble He will support you. Building my relationship with God (outside of religion – this is not about religion for me) has been one of the greatest gifts I have given myself. The sense of senerity and strength that comes from just connecting to Him is amazing.

Your second biggest team supporter really can be You and that is the journey you are on as you discover your own inner greatness. You can help by being open to supporting yourself.  Here’s an affirmation that might help

“I am willing to look towards becoming one of my biggest supports of all time”

Repeat that affirmation often because by acknowleding your willingness you are already on your way to succeeding.

Your third supporter is ME! I may not even know you but I already know you are great because I believe there is greatness within us all. The difference between you and someone who may never discover theirs is your willingness to do the work that is needed to succeed at this. In my book that already makes you great. You are not passively accepting life as it is now but you are actively looking to make it better. That too makes you great in my book and I acknowledge you for being willing to do that. So put me down as one of your greatest supporters!

Giving yourself permission to succeed is essential in the journey towards discovering your greatness. Having a loving team of supporters who already see how great you are will also help to lessen the effects of the negative things you say about yourself. Building a relationship with God will help to add to you experiencing your greatness at a level that no man can match but ultimately your own thoughts, words and actions will determine what you will experience in your life.

Life really is simple. Either we experience what we don’t want or we experience what we want. Our job is to discover how we move from one to the other.

Detox Your Mind, Body, and Soul With Positive Affirmations

by Greg Frost

What are these social and emotional toxic elements that have seeped into us? A frightening percentage of the world’s population are unaware of the fact that they walk around in this existence diseased, encumbered by toxins that leave their mind, their body and their soul in a state of spiritual decomposition. One look around at the world today and why would anyone be surprised at the endemic that is affecting the human race.

We are living in a world that is rife with bad news, bad events, potential wars, nuclear cold war, tense and hatred between countries, acts of terrorism and worse – and they are enforced to us every time we turn on the television and watch the news. This is a world that is laid on the foundation of attrition and tragedy, and there is very little we can do about it. We are breathing in an environment that is filled with deadly toxins, with a potential for global meltdown at the turn of every CFC laced spray can.

And just recently, we are experiencing the crash of the very economy that controls the lives of every consumer in the world today. The pillars of our existence are slowly crumbling down as days go by and the effect it has on the mind, body and soul is quite frightening. It is a three-pronged attack that is both debilitating and the worse thing is that, we are not even aware of it. It is this ‘gloom; that is slowly seeping into our minds and casting a shadow on everything we think about, storms riding on our ambitions, our hopes, our dreams, our attitudes and the outlooks that we have in life.

It is this gloom that is behind every sense of depression, dread, hopelessness and the cause that magnifies our stresses and traumas in life. Something must be done and it must be done early. Spiritual and mental depressions are toxic things that can readily and just as easily affect the body. Depression can cause us to lose our appetites, lose our health and our will to live. Stress can be the cause of migraines, high blood pressure and in some worst cases – loss of vision and temporary mania. We need something positive on the horizon, a rainbow after the storm, a silver lining in the cloud to give us hope, to give us back our ecstasy in life and to give us joy in the world.

These are not products of television cliché’s but very real solutions to a very real problem of these toxins in our mind, body and soul. Positive affirmations have been around for a very long time and they are just what you need to maintain light in your life and side step the tell tale signs of stress and depression. Never accept how the world looks, always view it through a prism of positive thinking and happiness and you will be amazed at the sights you will see and the things you will uncover in life.

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Brainwave Entrainment – Improve Mind Power Easily

by Greg Frost

Brainwave entrainment is the new technology of the 21st century that will propel the science of personal development and improvement. While it is not relatively new, the distillation of the various technologies within brainwave technology to the consumer level is and that has allowed average consumers who are struggling with debilitating problems to improve their lives and even unlock their true potentials.

Everyday, more and more people – numbering even in the thousands, are able to realise the full power of their mind with the use of this technology. You can be one of those people as well and once you understand what brainwave entrainment is and how you can leverage on its amazing power, you will be able to be the person you have always wanted to be.

Achieve a new drive in life, get back that energy and that ambition and fulfil the dreams that you have always had – all with brainwave entrainment technology. So how does it work you might be wondering. Well the science behind it is that the brain exists in different electromagnetic waves, which can be measured from as low as 0.1 Hz to as high as 30 plus Hz.

Each of the different states, named Alpha, Beta, Theta etc. have different functions and are able to evoke certain characteristics in the brain. For example, the Alpha wave states (8 – 12Hz) are linked to aspects of an increased immune-response system, relaxation, stress relief and even moments of accelerated learning.

So would it not be useful if we could evoke these brainwave states whenever we needed them? This is what brainwave entrainment is all about and once you are able to do this, can you unlock the full power of the mind. It is literally going in and pushing the buttons in the mind and activating states of superior mind power. One of the best ways to do this is through the use of binaural beats.

These are beats that have been sculpted through sound engineering and embedded into tracks played by a CD. These are then played through a CD player or even an MP3 player and the sound is transmitted to the ears at differing frequencies. The difference in frequencies will correspond to a cortical response in the brain, which then initiates a brainwave entrainment that matches the difference between the two frequencies.

Almost immediately you are then entered into a state where you can invoke states of super learning. The good news about this is that this technology is available as a wide variety of CDs and mp3 files that can be either ordered or downloaded from the internet. Many companies are offering this technology for the end consumer and it has given personal development the boost it needs.

Especially for those people who have no time to attend special classes or even gain the advantages of advanced methods like autogenics and biofeedback. With brainwave entrainment technology like binaural beats, anyone is able to improve mind power as easily as just logging on and waiting for the order to arrive.

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10 motivational affirmations you can use to improve your mood

Motivational affirmations are a great way to lift our mood when things aren’t going our way. Our mood is controlled by our internal dialogue which can be our best friend or our own worst enemy. It can limit us from doing what we want to do resulting in a lack of confidence even though we know that other people believe in our abilities.

It doesn’t have to be that way because we all have complete control over the way we think and feel (whether you believe that or not!) and can regain control by using a variety of methods, one I recommend is affirmations.

Negative self-talk can be a roadblock to doing your best, pursuing your dreams, and enjoying life. On the other hand, positive self-talk – especially when using positive affirmations – can spur you on to do great things and live an exciting life full of passion!

Using affirmations can change how you think about yourself and how you view the world around you. These positive statements can bring you the motivation you seek, as well as happiness, joy, and passion.
When you’re feeling negative or down, repeating affirmations can immediately improve your mood. Even though affirmations can work immediately don’t think of them as a quick fix. Positive affirmations are most effective in the long-term so you can get what you deeply desire out of life.
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