The Creative Process

Creative Process
The law of attraction states that what we think about and focus on most, we will bring about into our experience. This is a conscious process, where you are co-creating your experience with the universe or your Higher Power. There are three steps in the creative process of creating your own experience.

Step 1: Ask
The asking step means that you ask the universe or Higher Power that which you are wanting. What do you really want?

Step 2: Answer
This step is the answer step, the universe or Higher Power will do this step for you. You will not know how or when your wish or desire will be delivered to you. But trust and have faith that the universe will rearrange itself to bring your wish into your experience.

Step 3: Receive

In order for your wish to happen and for the universe or Higher power to bring you your wish, you must put yourself in alignment and a state of being open to receive. You must bring yourself into a higher frequency of vibration and be open to receiving. You can do this by feeling good. If you are feeling good, feeling grateful, joyous, optimistic, happy, hopeful, you will receive what you are asking for. However, if you have a mindset of negativity and are vibrating at the lower frequencies and pushing back, that which the universe or Higher Power is trying to bring to you, it will not come to you. That means is you are in a chronic way of thinking in a negative way and feeling bad, as in feeling anger, despair, frustration, lack, depression, you are not in alignment with what you really want, and the universe or Higher Power cannot bring you that which you are wishing for.

In order to manifest your wish into your existence, you must become one with your wish. You must become in alignment with your desires.

“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
-Colin Powell


Creative Process Exercise
Step 1: Asking:
In chapter one, the goal setting exercise required that you list, in detail, that which you really wanted. Review your list now. This is what you are asking the universe or Higher Power for. Remember spell it out, be specific, pay very close attention to your thoughts and feelings when you finalize your list. If this exercise is difficult for you, start by writing down what you do not want and then rephrasing that list into a positive list that is detailed and the opposite of your do not want list.
(List from chapter two)
1) I wish to spend 3 hours a day, one on one time with my family, playing, laughing and having fun together at the park.
2) I wish to exercise for 30-60 minutes 3-5 times a week, including walking, bicycle riding, weight lifting and swimming.
3) I wish to work in an environment that allows me to strive, not just survive, I wish to be successful and promoted to manager within the year.
4) I wish to meet my soul mate and be involved in a loving, caring, sharing and passionate relationship with this person and partner.
5) I wish to make “$ XX” dollars a year.

Step 2: Answer
This step the universe or Higher Power does for you. The universe or Higher Power is very creative, far more than we can even imagine. Your task is to figure out what you desire, what you really want, and let the universe or Higher Power bring it to you. The universe or Higher Power figures out how and when, that is not your decision. You may have in mind how you would expect what you want to come to you, but if you focus on the how and when, you are limiting the universe or Higher Power in its ability to bring your desires to you. Do not fixate in your mind the how or what; let the magic of the law of attraction work for you. It may come from a source or way you never imagined. Miracles do happen.

Step 3: Receiving

This is the receiving step. The way you change the way you think, feel and speak can greatly improve your likelihood of receiving that which you desire. Emotions play two key roles in the creative process. First, emotions feed your desire. If you really want something and it makes you feel good, you are more likely to maintain your focus and act when necessary in order to bring the thing or experience to you. Secondly, emotions raise your energy vibration of good or desire. Energy attracts like energy, if you emit strong vibrations of positive energy, the universe or Higher Power will respond with the same in return. Emotions can be heightened and ingrained into your desire by using an acute sense of imagination. The more you focus and imagine your desires with emotions, the more likely you are to receive your wish.

In this part of the exercise, take one of your wishes, what you are asking for and imagine that wish with emotional clarity, using all five senses. It is very important that you really feel what that experience would be like.
1) I wish to spend 3 hours a day, one on one time with my family, playing, laughing and having fun together at the park.
Now imagine yourself in the park, playing with your family and children. Imagine the breeze on your face. Feel your self pushing your children on the swings. Feel the sand in the sand box. Smell the freshly cut grass. Hear the park noises, dogs barking, children laughing, lawn mowers churning. See the park layout in your mind; imagine the tiny details, the blades of grass, the gravel, and the chain links on the swings. Hold onto that thought!

Act as if it is true
Once you have a pretty good idea of exactly what you want, you have let go and have faith in the universe or Higher Power to worry about the how and when, and you have imagined what the desire would look like to every last detail, now; believe as if it has already happened. Once you have your ask list, believe you can have it, believe you deserve it and act as if it already true.
Go out and do what ever you can to put yourself into the feeling place of having it now. For example, it is a new car you are wishing for, go test drive that car and remember that feeling. Do not let go of that feeling until it manifests into your experience.

If it is good health that you are seeking, hold an image of you with a healthy body, imagine every detail, using all five senses. Imagine yourself doing all of the things that you want to do in this healthy body, feel it, feel good and get into the feeling place of having it now. Hold this image as you are walking your dog and feeling good, imagine your healthy body walking your dog every day, for longer and longer distances as your body heals and recovers. Imagine your body replacing the sick and diseased cells with new healthy cells and focus on the final outcome, a health body, one that feels good and can do many things! Hold that image; remember that feeling as often as you can during your day and the act as if it is already true. Use your imagination and believe it!

“Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.”
-Lauren Bacall

If you are feeling that this is all impossible, and are feeling stuck in your current situation or health status and you cannot imagine what it would be like to feel good or health, remember, anything in our universe is possible. You can begin to change your current reality and begin to change your health and your life when you learn, accept and practice the creative process. If you are imagining yourself only in your current situation and health status, and offering your thoughts only on what you are observing, your illness or disease, you will only get more of that. Find a way to focus on what you really want, feel it, imagine it and act as if you already have it. It is up to you to imagine, then co-create it with the universe or Higher Power, just the way you want.

“Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it arises out of the needs to life and is dedicated to life’s further developments.”
-Lewis Mumford

Study and Practice of the Creative Process
Once you decide what you want, stick to it until you have received it. The more detailed and consistent your message the universe is, the faster it will be delivered to you. Let us say you are wishing for the strength and ability to walk with your dog for two full miles. Then a few weeks later, you still cannot walk this distance, your wish has not yet arrived, so you figure that you have asked for too much, or even worse you lose your faith in the process. If you then change your mind to ask for something less, like being able to walk one mile with your dog, or you let thoughts of doubt enter your mind, the universe or Higher Power becomes confused as to what you are really wanting and what to bring to you, or reads your thoughts of doubts, the end result is that the universe or Higher Power will not bring you either one.

“True miracles are created by men where they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.”
-Jean Anouilh

Excerpt from "Acquired Hope: A Journey of Advanced Recovery and Empowerment" and " 365 Days of Abundant Hope" see also www.AcquiredHope.com

Guiding Your Emotions: Feel Good!

Humans have feelings, these feelings result from our thoughts. They are a feedback system to tell you if what you are thinking about makes you feel good and is alignment with what you really want. Or, if what you are thinking about makes you feel bad and is not in alignment with what you really want. We have many feelings, so our body designed an Emotional Guidance System to help us understand what we are thinking.

Truly, there are only two emotions that we need to be concerned with. All feelings will fit in one or the other category. One emotion is good; this emotion makes an individual feel good. These are feelings of love, joy, happiness, optimism, passion, faith and hope. These feelings tell us, that what we are thinking is alignment with what we really want. The other emotion is bad; this emotion makes an individual feel bad. These are feelings of anxiety, fear, depression, guilt, envy, anger, rage, hatred, despair, pain. These feelings tell us that what we are thinking is not in alignment with what we really want.

So when you are thinking about what you are attracting, ask yourself, how do you feel? Do you feel good? Then keep thinking those thoughts! If you are feeling bad, then immediately guide your thoughts to an item, object, person, pet or idea that makes you feel good. Do what you can to keep you mind focused on only good feelings. You will then attract only good into your experience. The better you feel, the more in alignment you are with what you really want, the worse you feel, the further you are from what you really want. So do only things and think only things that make you feel good, as your thoughts are creating and forming your future experience.

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
-Buddha

Feel Good Exercise
Everyone needs to have a “feel good place”. When they are having a bad day or bad experience, feeling upset, sad, fearful or doubtful, immediately turn your attention to your “feel good place”. This will raise your body’s vibrations from the lower frequencies to the higher frequencies and bring you into a state of receiving, as opposing to pushing back. Create a “feel good place”, make it detailed so that all five senses are involved. Here is an example, close your eyes, hold the image for at least 30 seconds, or as long as it takes for the good feeling to take over the bad feeling.

Imagine that you are at the beach, it is a hot sunny day, you feel the heat of the sun on your skin, you feel a drip of sweat roll down your back, you walk on the beach feeling every tiny piece of sand on your feet and between your toes. You can smell the ocean, the salt water and the sun tan oil. You are so relaxed and peacefully happy. In the distance you see a dolphin gracefully glide and jump out of the water, doing a summersault for you and only you. You suddenly hear the tropical Caribbean steel drum band playing island music. You reach for your glass and taste the sweet tropical drink. You feel good.

The practice of guiding your feelings and shifting your emotions can transform your life. Stay focused on things and thoughts that make you feel good, do not let anything change your good mood. If you have a bad day or bad thing happen to you, hold strong to your good mood. You will then continue to attract only good experiences, and people that will help you to keep that good mood, bringing you up higher and higher. Whatever your previous thoughts and actions have done in your life and brought around your current situation, such as your condition or disease, it can be undone by learning how to shift your awareness to manifest only health and positive experiences in your life.
“You create your own universe as you go along.”

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-Winston Churchill

Universal Law: Law of Vibration

The Law of Vibration
This Universal Law states that everything in the Universe vibrates, it moves and travels in patterns, nothing rests. Everything that exists in our universe, whether seen or unseen, broken down into and analyzed in it's purest and most basic form, consists of pure energy or light which resonates and exists as a vibratory frequency or pattern.

The same principles of vibration in the physical world apply to our thoughts, feelings, desires, and feelings. In fact the conscious awareness of vibration is manifest in what we call feelings. When your thoughts are vibrating in a high vibration, you feel good, when your thoughts are vibrating at a low vibration, you feel bad. You know when you are feeling the flow of the Divine Power going through you when you feel excited, passionate, loving, caring, inspired, which literally means “in-spirit” and creative. On the other hand, lower vibration feels result in anger, frustration, envy, grief, sadness, depression.

Every thought, every idea, every light wave, every sound wave, every thing has its own vibrational frequency, unique unto itself. Realize that it is our thoughts that control our paradigms and what we attract to us, therefore it is our thought vibrations that bring about our results.

The Law of Vibration is the Universal Law which determines the various vibratory patterns or frequencies. When vibrations are in harmony, they resonate and become more powerful Love is said to be resonance, meaning when two people meet and connect and are on the same thought/feeling vibration, they can feel that energy; that is resonance; that is power. It is this Law of Vibration that actually activates the Law of Attraction. It is this Law that ensures that a particular projected energy (thought, feeling, belief or action) can only harmonize with energies that vibrate or resonate at a similar harmonious vibratory frequency; this in turn is what determine and create your physical results.

Living in harmony with the Law of Vibration requires that you become consciously aware of your thoughts and feelings and when you are not feeling good, recognize that your thoughts are vibrating at a relatively low vibration and that you need to think of something that will make you feel good.

“Things are not happening to you. Things are happening because of you.” -Anonymous

Universal Law: Law of Gratitude

The Law of Gratitude
The Universal Law of Gratitude states that the more grateful you are for what you have the more you will receive. Gratitude keeps you close to the Source, it is through gratitude that we stay connected. It is the Law of Gratitude that allows those who practice it to receive more and the same Law that takes away from those who do not practice it. If you want to stay connected to the flow of abundance, you must practice gratitude.

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.” -Albert Schweitzer

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."-Brian Tracy

To live in alignment with this Universal Law, you should be grateful for everything in your life. Everything and everyone is there for a reason, be grateful for the opportunity to find that reason.

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"Regardless of your particular spiritual or religious background, for most of us it is undeniable common sense that somehow, in some way, everything is connected with everything else - that there is a powerful source in the Universe from which everything flows. Your key to manifesting your desires in your life is learning how to effectively connect to and harness this incredible power and put it to work for you.

Everything in the Universe is composed of Energy of one form or another, including your thoughts. According to the discoveries in Quantum Physics, all forms of matter and energy are attracted to that which is of a like vibration. As it applies to the Law of Attraction, you attract what you put your energy and focus on, consciously or unconsciously - whether wanted or unwanted. As you'll learn, it's a bit more involved than that - but that's the basic idea.

"Within each life lies the cause of whatever enters it."-- F.W. Sears,

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Because everything in the Universe is composed of energy, and is therefore connected, each thought that you have has a direct effect on your physical reality. You may find this concept hard to accept at first, especially if it is new to you. Most of us go through our lives feeling as if we are at the mercy of external events – we believe that things ‘happen to us.’ We find ourselves in situations not of our own choosing, people treat us unfairly, or life itself treats us unfairly. But what I have come to believe, to know really, is that things don’t just happen to us - WE ATTRACT THEM.

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You have lungs that have 550,000,000 pockets of folded flesh for you to breathe with.

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Facts:
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Likewise, different sounds have different frequencies. Your ears pick up the frequencies, and your brain decodes them into sounds. That’s how you hear.

Hungarian biophysicist and Nobel Prize winner Georg von Békésy demonstrated that your skin responds to frequencies as well, which are also decoded by your brain. That’s how your sense of touch works.

Facts:
Your eyes cannot see infrared and ultraviolet light. But still, everyone knows that infrared and ultraviolet light do exist.

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Facts:
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Law of Attraction: Powerful Universal Law!

The Law of Attraction is the Universal Law which states that whatever energy is broadcast out into the universe is joined by (or attracted to) energies that are of an equal or harmonious frequency, resonance or vibration. In other words- that which is like unto itself, is drawn.
This Universal Law demonstrates how we create and attract the specific circumstances, things, events, and people that come into our lives. Since our thoughts, feelings, words and even actions are waves of energy, when we send out a thought or energy wave, we attract like energies back to us in the form of physical manifestations. Negative energies attract negative energies and positive energies attract positive energies.

To live in harmony with the Laws of Vibration and Attraction, we must first become aware of our thoughts and the vibrational energies that accompany them. We must then carefully choose our thoughts in order to create higher energy vibrations. This means thinking and feeling only good things, independent of what is going on around you or what life struggle you find yourself in. Take responsibility for you current situation and results and know that you can change them. But it all starts with your thoughts. Learn to choose your thoughts, always finding the silver lining in order to stay with higher energy thoughts and you will attract good things back to you.

“A man is what he thinks all day long.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

According to Deepak Chopra’s spiritual laws of success, Kharma, each of us make a choice at every moment of every day what we will attract or allow into our lives. Learn to master this Law and use it with the Law of Polarity; understand that every situation just is. Where you are right now is not necessarily good or bad - it just is. What you are dealing with right now it neither good nor bad- it just is. Every situation, every circumstance in your life, every result, just is. The Universe doesn’t understand good and bad, and it does not have an opinion on what you choose to draw into your life. The Universe simply delivers to you what you consciously or unconsciously focus on with strong emotion and intense belief – always and every single time, whether you are aware of it or even agree with it, or not.

According to this great Universal Law, form follows thought, especially when filled with deep-rooted emotions and intent. But understand that if your paradigm and primary thought patterns are those of lack and limitation, fear and loss, then the Law of Attraction goes to work to bring to you situations of lack and limitation and your worries, fears and concerns become your reality. On the other hand, those individuals who work with this law seem to have a life where nothing goes wrong. Whether consciously or not, these individuals are able to turn adversity into opportunity, they turn disasters into blessings, they turn apparent failures into success understanding that a failure is a stepping stone to success, they see the opportunity to learn and grow instead of feeling defeated. They are bigger than their problems. They do not let their circumstances and problems control their thoughts or their results. They have a paradigm that reflects the ability to go inside and create their own thoughts as opposed to being controlled by the outside. No problem is too big to handle with the proper mindset.
What these people are doing is shifting that perpetual energy from a bad form into a good form, energy is always changing from one form into another form, we dictate what form it takes by the nature of our paradigm and our thoughts. Focus on creating your thoughts from the inside in order to attract good to you and manifest physical forms that work for you, not against you. Your thoughts will move into physical form, whether you believe this or not, it is law.

Decide, declare that you will study this law and use this knowledge so that the law works for you, not against you.

Congruence: A Must Have for Optimal Health& Well-Being

“Have in your mind that which would constitute a miracle for you. Get the vision. Suspend disbelief and skepticism. Allow yourself to take the journey toward real magic.”
-Dr. Wayne Dyer

Some people will read this post and spend a lot of time and energy focusing on good health and they will seem to do just about everything right-set goals, practice positive thinking, be thankful, practice the creative process and visualization, and still not see results. In order to manifest an abundance of health, one must achieve congruence. Congruence is the condition that all parts of you are in alignment. You must align these three key parts.

· DESIRE: The first key part is desire. You must want it. You must want good health so badly that you are willing to make changes. You must want good health in every cell and fiber of your being.

· DESERVE: The second key to becoming perfectly aligned and congruent is to deserve it, this is self-acceptance. This is also your self esteem, you must believe that you deserve good health and that you are deserving of all the abundance of life when good health is apparent.

· BELIEVE: The third key part is belief. You must believe, with faith and purpose that you can achieve a full recovery and good health.

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Surviving and Thriving with Chronic Illness

Return to work is a challenge that most individuals who have become chronically ill, are coping with an addictive disease, or have sustained an injury, encounter at one time or another or potentially on an ongoing basis. There is ample literature available that documents that the longer an individual is out of work following an illness or injury, the less likely he or she will return to work. In addition, the individual who does not return to work is often found to have increased disability and medical costs, increased emotional and financial stress, poor self esteem, higher likelihood of depression and lower levels of function. All of these factors are negative and can lead to a life focus of disease and disability. This can lead to a snowball effect of cascading health problems.

“Nothing is more fatal to our health than an over care of it”
-Benjamin Franklin

Therefore, unless you are finically secure, the important thing is that you do try to work. Working will bring about a change in your mind and thoughts to bring about positive feelings of accomplishment, optimism, hope, confidence, strength and joy. Working provides an opportunity to turn feelings of self-pity, boredom, loneliness and depression into positive energy. We can improve our health by return to work and experiencing positive emotions as opposed to focusing on our situation.

“Self pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to is, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
-Helen Keller

Striving, not just Surviving
It is important to have a work-related goal, whether it is related to finances, success, promotion or finding work that you enjoy and feel fulfilled while doing. It is important to strive, not just survive at work. The more passionate and fulfilled you are in your work or career, the more successful you may become. Here are some tips on striving in the workplace when coping with a medical condition.

1) Don’t let your illness define who you are. You define who you are. The message you want to portray is that your condition is just a card in your deck of cards. Having a chronic illness or condition is neither a source of shame or pride.
2) Focus on what you can control. You may not be able to control the disease or symptoms, but you can control the direction you take and the choices you make regarding working and your condition. Shape your work environment to meet your needs and to fit your limitations.
3) Don’t consider your condition an obstacle. Consider it a challenge, an opportunity.
4) Be honest. Do not hide your illness, do not be ashamed. But if your illness impacts your work, know your rights. Don’t take on an unnecessary burden of pretending you do not have a chronic condition. Be as public or as private as you need to be.
5) Thrive in your environment. Work with your abilities to achieve success, raise the bar, go for satisfaction not just survival. Use visualization to imagine the work environment that you need and want, stay focused and intend it.
6) Focus on the positive. Workplace success when dealing with a chronic illness or condition can be strengthening and transforming. Many new strengths, skills, qualities and confidence we were not aware we possessed evolve or blossom as a result of our illness.


Definition of Disability
Federal law defines a "Disability" as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits or restricts the condition, manner, or duration under which an average person in the population can perform a major life activity, such as walking, seeing, hearing speaking, breathing, learning, working, or taking care of oneself. However, an impairment or diagnosis, in and of itself, does not necessarily constitute a disability: it must "substantially limit" these activities.” Another definition describes disability as any restriction or lack (resulting from an impairment) of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being.
Many of us shun at the term or label of being “disabled”. Disability infers that we have an “in” ability to do something, or we lack the ability to do something, that the person is not able or less than whole. When outwardly and inwardly we know we are capable of many wonderful things, sometimes we just need to do things differently or with accommodations. Personally, I consider myself “Difabled”.

Definition of Difability
A Difability means an individual can perform specific functions or activities, but does them differently than a normal person would. That such an individual requires accommodations, but with these accommodations is equally effective and productive as a normal, health individual. Difabled individuals have different abilities, not a lack of abilities.

If you are coping with a serious condition, in order for you to succeed, it is critical that you do accept your limitations, identify them, be open about them and work within them. We must be hopeful in our approach to function and change our thoughts that focus on our “lack of ability” or “Disability to our “different ability” or Difability. That is the difference between continued limitations and possibilities. Once you accept your difabilities and learn to work within them, you can achieve success and thrive in any environment that supports you. You can achieve things that you thought were impossible.

“Sometimes what we think is so impossible turns out to be possible after all.”
-K.O’Brien

This is an excerpt from "Acquired Hope: A Journey of Advanced Recovery and Empowerment" see also www.AcquiredHope.com

Stress? Tension Headaches? Check Your Posture

Common Causes of Tension Headaches may be posture related!

You may experience chronic tension headaches if you.....

You work all hunched over at your job: (See Computer Posture Tips to immediately improve your computer set up)

You continue to practice poor posture at home:This posture tightens your neck, shoulders and upper back

After awhile, this tightness causes muscle spasms:These spasms restrict blood flow to the back of your headThese spasms also irritate nerve endings in the back of your neck and head

Read more about Chronic Tension Headaches, how they develop and how to manage them in this great resource..

60,000 Thoughts per Day?!?!?

"The Average Human Thinks 60,000 Thoughts Per Day"

Replace those negative thoughts with good ones! Here are some great quote to ponder"

"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decisions, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"When The Student Is Ready, The Teacher Shall Appear"-Chinese Proverb

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not quite, the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours" --Ann Rand

"Take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking...."-David Joseph Schwartz

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it... You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." -Albert Einstein

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive." -Harold Whitman

Levels of Awareness: Where is Your Consciousness?

I have recently come across some interesting findings on success. I used to think extremely successful people had some sort of “success gene”, that they were born with some innate know-how on how to achieve great things. However, with a lot of reading and studying I have come across some principles of success and have come to realize that these people, these extremely successful people are not born with this knowledge, they acquire it! This means that success and the science of creating success is something that we can all learn, study and master. The study of success is a science, it has predictable outcomes. What you put in to it comes out in the tail end.


Here are some interesting definitions of success:

“Success is not just being important, it is being significant.” –author unknown

“Success in life is becoming what you truly want to be”. – Wallace D. Wattles

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.” -Earl Nightingale


So how does one learn to become successful and achieve the results their desire? They learn and study the science of success; they learn and study the habits of successful people. In most cases this practice involves raising your awareness, habituating the practice of goal setting and planning and learning to focus on the present.

Did you know that it has been said that most individuals only spend 1% of their life focusing in the present? Most people do not focus on their current tasks and activities. They are thinking about their past; the fight they had last night with their significant other, the children’s soccer game after work, the weekend plans, etc. They do not allow and demand of themselves to actually fully be and act in the present. Did you know that it has been said that only 2% of the population actually thinks creatively? In addition, 3% of individuals think that they think, and 95% of the population would rather die than think? Since thought has been linked to results and understanding that mental activity does not constitute as thinking, this means only a small percentage of the population really understand and uses the power of creative thinking to fast forward to their goals and realize their ideals. These are the people that are extremely successful, they choose their results.

So how does one become more aware and learn how to work at their full potential and realize their goals? They progress through the seven levels of awareness. These levels are as follows:

Our first level of awareness is our animal awareness, this level is innate, we are aware of ourselves and others, we are aware of the needs to sustain life.

The second level of awareness is the mass level. This is where an individual's awareness remains quite limited. Their decisions are based upon what everyone else is doing, they do not think for themselves. They conform, they follow the masses. The majority of people, more than half are at this level and stay at this level their entire life time. These individual do not use creative thought. Most of them are not happy with their current results. The third level of awareness is aspiration. This is where an individual becomes aware of deep feelings and desires that may be different than that of what everyone else is doing and they start to explore these feelings, desires and thoughts. They are wanting more, they want further growth and development professionally and personally, they aspire to be more. This is when they want to break away from the masses and become an individual. This is when we aspire to learn more, to become better people, to serve our family, friend and community better.

The fourth level of awareness is the individual level or stage. This is where a person uses creative thought to create their own identity statement; this is the who, what and the why, their ultimate purpose in life, their own personal “because”. This is the level where they figure out their passion, their goals, their dreams and their plans, and this purpose is unique to that individual. These are the individual reasons and purposes that drive us.

A fair percentage of individuals make it to these 3rd and 4th levels, unfortunately for many, limiting beliefs, poor self esteem, lack of confidence, feelings of doubt or other negative emotions keep many people here and they are unable to break free to the next levels of awareness. These individuals who remain in these levels never really quite get the results they desire or reach their goals efficiently or timely.

The next level of awareness is discipline. This is where an individual becomes aware of how to use thought, goals, planning, and desire to manifest the outcomes and results they want. Those with discipline to stay on course, steadfast towards their goals, no matter what is happening around them or what other people (the masses) are saying to or about them, those that learn, study, practice and habituate the science of success and wealth reach this level. Many drop out here and fail to progress beyond this point due to lack of discipline, or give up too soon before their results manifest, often times just before they reach their goals. Those that move on to the next level of awareness practice these habits of success are rewarded.

Stop a moment and take an opportunity to think about why we want to aspire for more, it is to better serve others and to live a fuller life. Those individuals who have a strong desire to do things better move forward through the various levels of awareness. The 6th level of awareness is experience. Through the study and habituation of the skills and knowledge of how to become successful and wealthy, and through steadfast discipline, one will begin to see how the process works. When they see the results they desire manifest, they will become stronger in how they practice and do more of the same. When they do not see the results they desire, they will change what they are doing, practice with discipline until they see the results they desire.

The 7th level of awareness is becoming a mastermind. Only a very small percentage of the population reaches this point. These individuals have learned the science of success, they understand how the science and process works, they have fine tuned their practices and habits based on their experience and are extremely effective at attracting success, resources, people and even wealth. They are very effective and efficient in reaching their goals, receiving their desires and manifesting the results that they want. They choose their results.

Think of the capacity of helping others, serving others better and achieving your desires, when you can choose your results. Think of the positive impact you can have on your life and other peoples' lives when you are a mastermind. Every one of us reading this article has the mental facilities and capacity to become a mastermind.

Changing the personal effects and your patterns of success at work is more important than you might think. The cost of negativity in the workplace is around $3 billion annually, according to an estimate by the U.S. Department of Labor. Not only are negative work environments costly for your company -- they're also taxing on your health and quality of life.