Everyone has experienced fear. Some fears are a good thing, like when you’re about to cross a busy street. You look both ways because you fear being hit; you want to stay safe and still cross the street. But sometimes a fear can grip you and seemingly not let go. Seemingly. Really it’s you hanging onto the fear and not letting go. So how do you let go?
You must be willing to face your fear in order to let go. This is the only way to clear a new path for your self. Often what you fear is something that is NOT in your life: the perfect relationship, job, or the right amount of wealth (billions!). You fear these things will never come to you. But when you think those thoughts of fear, you sink deeper into the very thing you want to avoid: more of the same instead of the new and improved wish!
By facing your fear, you clear up space to let new things in that couldn’t get in before now. You face your fear by asking yourself, “What am I afraid of?” and “What’s the worst thing that could happen?” and then noticing what comes up for you. The trick is to keep it about yourself and not about someone else.
In other words, look at your behavior, your feelings, and your thoughts. Pinpoint your own fear. You can’t control anyone else, and besides, no one but you is responsible for you and how you feel. My father once told me, after I’d accidentally done something I felt badly about when I was 15 years old, that the difference between a child and an adult is that an adult can ultimately choose how he or she wants to feel. Ultimately, you get to choose how you want to live your life, and a large part of that is about how you feel.
So facing your fear and naming it will help you to clear some space and open you up to discovering more about you. This can feel quite scary at first, and sometimes even unfair. But giving yourself this space will allow you to begin receiving whatever it is you’ve been missing or wanting! Stop yearning for it and start loving it.
When you stop searching outside of yourself and realize that all you want is within you, you will recognize that most of what you thought you wanted is really not a good match for you. Give thanks to your fear, because it will have opened your eyes to something even greater than what your fear had previously lead you to believe was true. Once you shed the light on fear, it can't stick around. Your fear will subside due to the fact that you truly know who you are and you can always count on that. You will realize what is truly important to you and march straight for it with confidence and love. The fear will melt away!
Kim Markison for Hypno-Freedom.com
Kim Markison is a Hypnotherapist, Life Coach and Intuitive dedicated to creating a more expansive reality in this world. She helps executives, entrepreneurs and other successful people to create their own expanded and abundant lives in joy and freedom. Kim can be reached at kim@hypno-freedom.com for more information and to schedule a free consultation.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Connecting with Intuition
There are many ways to connect with your inner knowing. Taking a walk or star gazing or holding a loved one can serve to powerfully support reconnection with the conviction of your inner knowing. How many times have you known what to do only to ignore that inner voice and regretted not listening after the fact?
There are many times every day we are given the opportunity to heed our internal guidance system and too often too many of us ignore the clarity of our knowing. What a world it would be if we all listened to our own guidance and listened less to a world that often seeks to guide us to conformity and demands we give our power away to “experts and gurus”. We live in a world that in large part trusts anything outside the scope of intuition. How is it we have come to distrust our own powerful guidance in favor of a degree on someone’s wall?
Reconnecting with the inner voice, your source of true power is the best thing that you can do to be a positive change in this world. Take the time to do something relaxing and distracting. A simple distraction that inspires joy and quiets the mind briefly enough from the onslaught of to do lists, daily chores and other demands can help you gain traction in the present moment and to actually hear that inner voice. When you hear that voice once…try asking a pertinent question and await a reply. Acting on these “soul responses” enough will show you that you can trust yourself. When you trust yourself you can trust others and the universe at large. Trust begets love. We know what love can do to make this world a better place. Listen to that guidance, love and trust yourself and the world will respond in the most amazing ways. Reconnect now and be the powerful creator you came here to be.
Love long and prosper,
Shawn of Hypnofreedom.com
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There are many times every day we are given the opportunity to heed our internal guidance system and too often too many of us ignore the clarity of our knowing. What a world it would be if we all listened to our own guidance and listened less to a world that often seeks to guide us to conformity and demands we give our power away to “experts and gurus”. We live in a world that in large part trusts anything outside the scope of intuition. How is it we have come to distrust our own powerful guidance in favor of a degree on someone’s wall?
Reconnecting with the inner voice, your source of true power is the best thing that you can do to be a positive change in this world. Take the time to do something relaxing and distracting. A simple distraction that inspires joy and quiets the mind briefly enough from the onslaught of to do lists, daily chores and other demands can help you gain traction in the present moment and to actually hear that inner voice. When you hear that voice once…try asking a pertinent question and await a reply. Acting on these “soul responses” enough will show you that you can trust yourself. When you trust yourself you can trust others and the universe at large. Trust begets love. We know what love can do to make this world a better place. Listen to that guidance, love and trust yourself and the world will respond in the most amazing ways. Reconnect now and be the powerful creator you came here to be.
Love long and prosper,
Shawn of Hypnofreedom.com
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Drama and Reality
It's easy to get caught up in the drama that abounds in this world. But is drama reality? It's real enough when you are going through it, but is drama or heartache really how Spirit sees things? I would venture that drama is not reality; it's not who we truly are.
Here's an old story that's a great example of drama, reality, and a wise man who realizes what they really are.
A father and son lived on a farm. In their "reality" they had one horse to help them with planting the crops. The son's "reality" was that they did not have enough horse power to plow the fields fast enough, but the father was patient. One day, the son found a wild horse and was able to break her and use her to help with the plowing. Now the son's reality was filled with "good" drama. The father said, "Who knows if this is good or bad?" He knew that in true reality, there is no good or bad, and that drama is only in this dimension.
The next day, the son was happy in his "reality," plowing the field with the new horse, when the horse reared up throwing the son in the air and breaking his back. The son, in anguish, believed this drama to be his reality, while the father asked, "Who knows if this is good or bad?" The son was depressed and lamenting his "reality," creating more drama in doing so.
The following day, the son was in bed recovering, when the army came by looking to enlist all healthy young men. But because he had broken his back, the son did not have to go!
So why would we experience drama? Drama is a car accident, a child falling and scraping his knee, a missed appointment, a death of a loved one, and so on. These things are a part of our world and they are "reality" in this dimension that we live in, but they are not who we are. They are only the circumstances of any given moment.
Reality is who we are at our core; it's our essence. In reality, we are happy, healthy, and whole. Of course, there would be people who disagree with my definition and say that drama is reality. And I would say that, yes, drama is one level of reality, but which reality? Drama is from this three-dimensional reality and it does exist, but our Source sees it through different eyes. Source sees it as love.
I truly believe that we can reduce drama in our lives. We don't have to experience reality with drama in daily doses. Take the wise father's example and see "reality" through Source's eyes. Realize that drama comes and goes, but in reality, we are happy, healthy, and whole.
I would also venture that drama can be beneficial, because it's part of the nitty-gritty that we are experiencing and it is for a reason. It may not be a reason that we are aware of, but the underlying theme would be about helping us along on our path. Maybe that missed appointment we thought was reality is really a way of getting us to slow down. Maybe we are supposed to release the drama.
I like that idea. Let's release the drama and wake up to an even better reality!
Kim Markison for Hypno-Freedom.com
Kim Markison is a Hypnotherapist, Life Coach and Intuitive dedicated to creating a more expansive reality in this world. She helps executives, entrepreneurs and other successful people to create their own expanded and abundant lives in joy and freedom. Kim can be reached at kim@hypno-freedom.com for more information and to schedule a free consultation.
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Here's an old story that's a great example of drama, reality, and a wise man who realizes what they really are.
A father and son lived on a farm. In their "reality" they had one horse to help them with planting the crops. The son's "reality" was that they did not have enough horse power to plow the fields fast enough, but the father was patient. One day, the son found a wild horse and was able to break her and use her to help with the plowing. Now the son's reality was filled with "good" drama. The father said, "Who knows if this is good or bad?" He knew that in true reality, there is no good or bad, and that drama is only in this dimension.
The next day, the son was happy in his "reality," plowing the field with the new horse, when the horse reared up throwing the son in the air and breaking his back. The son, in anguish, believed this drama to be his reality, while the father asked, "Who knows if this is good or bad?" The son was depressed and lamenting his "reality," creating more drama in doing so.
The following day, the son was in bed recovering, when the army came by looking to enlist all healthy young men. But because he had broken his back, the son did not have to go!
So why would we experience drama? Drama is a car accident, a child falling and scraping his knee, a missed appointment, a death of a loved one, and so on. These things are a part of our world and they are "reality" in this dimension that we live in, but they are not who we are. They are only the circumstances of any given moment.
Reality is who we are at our core; it's our essence. In reality, we are happy, healthy, and whole. Of course, there would be people who disagree with my definition and say that drama is reality. And I would say that, yes, drama is one level of reality, but which reality? Drama is from this three-dimensional reality and it does exist, but our Source sees it through different eyes. Source sees it as love.
I truly believe that we can reduce drama in our lives. We don't have to experience reality with drama in daily doses. Take the wise father's example and see "reality" through Source's eyes. Realize that drama comes and goes, but in reality, we are happy, healthy, and whole.
I would also venture that drama can be beneficial, because it's part of the nitty-gritty that we are experiencing and it is for a reason. It may not be a reason that we are aware of, but the underlying theme would be about helping us along on our path. Maybe that missed appointment we thought was reality is really a way of getting us to slow down. Maybe we are supposed to release the drama.
I like that idea. Let's release the drama and wake up to an even better reality!
Kim Markison for Hypno-Freedom.com
Kim Markison is a Hypnotherapist, Life Coach and Intuitive dedicated to creating a more expansive reality in this world. She helps executives, entrepreneurs and other successful people to create their own expanded and abundant lives in joy and freedom. Kim can be reached at kim@hypno-freedom.com for more information and to schedule a free consultation.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
The Respect of Your Soul
What does it take to gain the soul's respect? If you are the type who promises more than you can possibly deliver and time after time fall short of the big goals you intend then there may be a slight disconnection between your conscious mind and your higher self or soul.
For years the author did his best to accommodate each and every request for help. Wanting to please people and make the world a more harmonious place was the motivation that always encouraged a yes no matter how absurd the request. It was not out of malice that I would agree to terms that a part of me knew was impossible to accomplish...it was out of kindness, chivalry and a desire to please everyone.
It took years to come to grips with my less-than-super-man abilities. I wanted to be everywhere at once and help everyone. When I did learn that my abilities did have some limitation I became more peaceful and relaxed in my life. For years I was running around like some headless chicken and rendered myself less useful. I was ever in a mode of catching up with life and all my obligations. Creating healthy boundaries between me and that which life was asking was the best thing I ever did for myself.
For now I can calculate exactly how much time it will take me to do all I need to in one day with time to spare for rest and rejuvenation. Stress is a thing of the past. All I did was realize that I cannot please everybody and do not have to. The more I acquiesced to the needs of others the more I lost myself and less effective and more stressed I became. Wanting to please others and take some of each person’s “load” I became over-loaded and miserable. I had lost the respect of my soul.
In order to have a stress free life one must be in constant contact with your higher “soul” self. If you are unhappy in anyway there is a slight disconnection. The underlying motivation of all life is joy. Any lack of joy indicates a lack of rapport and respect between your conscious mind and your soul which ever promises joy and love.
If you find your joy in any moment you are gaining the respect and power of your soul. It is this simple. Find your joy and be in rapport with the one who will honor and respect you the most…yourself.
Love long and prosper,
Shawn of Hypnofreedom.com
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For years the author did his best to accommodate each and every request for help. Wanting to please people and make the world a more harmonious place was the motivation that always encouraged a yes no matter how absurd the request. It was not out of malice that I would agree to terms that a part of me knew was impossible to accomplish...it was out of kindness, chivalry and a desire to please everyone.
It took years to come to grips with my less-than-super-man abilities. I wanted to be everywhere at once and help everyone. When I did learn that my abilities did have some limitation I became more peaceful and relaxed in my life. For years I was running around like some headless chicken and rendered myself less useful. I was ever in a mode of catching up with life and all my obligations. Creating healthy boundaries between me and that which life was asking was the best thing I ever did for myself.
For now I can calculate exactly how much time it will take me to do all I need to in one day with time to spare for rest and rejuvenation. Stress is a thing of the past. All I did was realize that I cannot please everybody and do not have to. The more I acquiesced to the needs of others the more I lost myself and less effective and more stressed I became. Wanting to please others and take some of each person’s “load” I became over-loaded and miserable. I had lost the respect of my soul.
In order to have a stress free life one must be in constant contact with your higher “soul” self. If you are unhappy in anyway there is a slight disconnection. The underlying motivation of all life is joy. Any lack of joy indicates a lack of rapport and respect between your conscious mind and your soul which ever promises joy and love.
If you find your joy in any moment you are gaining the respect and power of your soul. It is this simple. Find your joy and be in rapport with the one who will honor and respect you the most…yourself.
Love long and prosper,
Shawn of Hypnofreedom.com
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Focus Away The Stress
The best way to combat daily stress is proactively. With a busy schedule one is more likely to forgo a morning routine such as yoga, breath work or meditation and begin the day ungrounded. Additional oversights like missing breakfast or failure to hydrate in the morning create the worst-case stressful scenario.
All this “oversight of preservation” brings the body to a tipping point where stress overwhelms and few things can now bring us back from the abyss and dread of work.
If you find you are already stressed out of your mind you must learn to meditate, quiet the mind or direct the mind toward thoughts that feel better and allow a moment for your inner guidance to come forth. Utilize these powerful moments for yourself to rejuvenate and maximize joy and energize your passion.
To mitigate the long-term effects stressful moments have upon one’s well-being do yourself a favor now and write down the ways you know how to relieve stress. Your list may include listening to music, taking a walk, drifting off to sleep, holding someone’s hand. The list can be as creative and harmonic as you wish. Now the trick is to have this list handy at all times. Carry it in your pocket, purse or wallet. When the moment of stress comes…at your earliest convenience pull out the list and apply one of your stress-reducing tricks to stave off stress. You will find that simply taking a moment to stop and pull out this list will ultimately have a calming effect. The list is an anchor point of consciousness that is linked with your ideals of harmony and strength and will always help you to begin feeling better.
Your list should be comprehensive and must include stress-reducing techniques both long and short. If you should find yourself stressed and unable to stop running this way and that…you will need some QUICK and POWERFUL techniques to make healthy space among the chaos.
Now if you have nothing but time and want to deepen your awareness of bliss, your list will serve you ever-increasing creative ways to slow down and experience yourself now as a divine being.
However your life is begin now to realize that you have all the tools to achieve the balance, peace and clearness of mind you desire. Realize all the ways you know how to relax and find your center and you will remember your unshakable strength and connection with the divine.
Thank you for being here now,
Shawn of Hypnofreedom.com
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All this “oversight of preservation” brings the body to a tipping point where stress overwhelms and few things can now bring us back from the abyss and dread of work.
If you find you are already stressed out of your mind you must learn to meditate, quiet the mind or direct the mind toward thoughts that feel better and allow a moment for your inner guidance to come forth. Utilize these powerful moments for yourself to rejuvenate and maximize joy and energize your passion.
To mitigate the long-term effects stressful moments have upon one’s well-being do yourself a favor now and write down the ways you know how to relieve stress. Your list may include listening to music, taking a walk, drifting off to sleep, holding someone’s hand. The list can be as creative and harmonic as you wish. Now the trick is to have this list handy at all times. Carry it in your pocket, purse or wallet. When the moment of stress comes…at your earliest convenience pull out the list and apply one of your stress-reducing tricks to stave off stress. You will find that simply taking a moment to stop and pull out this list will ultimately have a calming effect. The list is an anchor point of consciousness that is linked with your ideals of harmony and strength and will always help you to begin feeling better.
Your list should be comprehensive and must include stress-reducing techniques both long and short. If you should find yourself stressed and unable to stop running this way and that…you will need some QUICK and POWERFUL techniques to make healthy space among the chaos.
Now if you have nothing but time and want to deepen your awareness of bliss, your list will serve you ever-increasing creative ways to slow down and experience yourself now as a divine being.
However your life is begin now to realize that you have all the tools to achieve the balance, peace and clearness of mind you desire. Realize all the ways you know how to relax and find your center and you will remember your unshakable strength and connection with the divine.
Thank you for being here now,
Shawn of Hypnofreedom.com
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Right or Happy: It's Your Choice
What matters most to you: to be right or to be happy? Sometimes is comes down to a choice. Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?
Does this sound familiar? You've told someone that they are wrong about something, because you know you are right due to specific experience, so you warn them against the impending doom. You also know that their actions will personally affect you negatively as well, but you are glad to see them struggle, because you are RIGHT. The problem with this scenario, after all was said and done, is that now you are right, but not happy.
Some people will say, "But maybe being right makes you happy!" Well, you must search deep within and ask yourself how you truly feel after the fact. Yes, being right may make you temporarily happy, but after that fleeting triumph, you're still left with an unpleasant situation, and truly, you are not happy.
One of the most profoundly complex yet undeniably simple laws of the universe is the law of free will. You actually do have the power of choice in your life. Every thought is a choice you choose to think. So when you think in terms of "right" or "wrong," it really comes from how you are thinking about it. You can choose to change that thinking around.
When being right is more important to you, then you have the overwhelming urge to say, "I told you so!" Your choice is to hold on to being right, not happy. But what if you gave it some thought and made another choice? What if your choice was to be happy, and let being right go? It would mean that your conscious choice would be to step back from the attachment of being right, let it be OK that your "right" advice is not heeded, and move into being happy and at peace.
It's your choice. Being happy is one of life's great pleasures --- a natural gift, really. Whether or not you choose to use it is up to you.
Kim Markison for Hypno-Freedom.com
Kim Markison is a Hypnotherapist, Life Coach and Intuitive dedicated to creating a more expansive reality in this world. She helps executives, entrepreneurs and other successful people to create their own expanded and abundant lives in joy and freedom. Kim can be reached at kim@hypno-freedom.com for more information and to schedule a free consultation.
Copyright 2009. If you would like to reproduce the content contained in this article, please reference: http://www.hypno-freedom.com.
Does this sound familiar? You've told someone that they are wrong about something, because you know you are right due to specific experience, so you warn them against the impending doom. You also know that their actions will personally affect you negatively as well, but you are glad to see them struggle, because you are RIGHT. The problem with this scenario, after all was said and done, is that now you are right, but not happy.
Some people will say, "But maybe being right makes you happy!" Well, you must search deep within and ask yourself how you truly feel after the fact. Yes, being right may make you temporarily happy, but after that fleeting triumph, you're still left with an unpleasant situation, and truly, you are not happy.
One of the most profoundly complex yet undeniably simple laws of the universe is the law of free will. You actually do have the power of choice in your life. Every thought is a choice you choose to think. So when you think in terms of "right" or "wrong," it really comes from how you are thinking about it. You can choose to change that thinking around.
When being right is more important to you, then you have the overwhelming urge to say, "I told you so!" Your choice is to hold on to being right, not happy. But what if you gave it some thought and made another choice? What if your choice was to be happy, and let being right go? It would mean that your conscious choice would be to step back from the attachment of being right, let it be OK that your "right" advice is not heeded, and move into being happy and at peace.
It's your choice. Being happy is one of life's great pleasures --- a natural gift, really. Whether or not you choose to use it is up to you.
Kim Markison for Hypno-Freedom.com
Kim Markison is a Hypnotherapist, Life Coach and Intuitive dedicated to creating a more expansive reality in this world. She helps executives, entrepreneurs and other successful people to create their own expanded and abundant lives in joy and freedom. Kim can be reached at kim@hypno-freedom.com for more information and to schedule a free consultation.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Walking Your Walk, Trimming Your Tree
If you are like most people who have difficulty following through with your "to-do list" of life then you must read this carefully.
Imagine that by some strange (or not so strange) twist of fate that you are a farmer tending to a farm. On the farm that is like your life subsists a once majestic and beautiful tree that you're wise great, great, great, great grandparents planted on the farm of your ancestry. The regal tree is in the far corner and your mind knows that it is there and it still goes ignored and neglected. Now and again an inexplicable sadness comes over like a cloudy day and your mind asks, "why so glum"...but you don't know that the answer is that majestic tree, that genius tree that calls out for love and is not heard. So your "to-do" list gets done every day and as time goes by you feel something missing from your life.
And the tree sits.
Continuing along a few more years pass and the person you remember yourself as has become slightly edgy and a bit cynical around the edges. And you continue with your to-do list that sees you doing just what is necessary for your perceived survival...and all the while the tree is wilting.
Now a man comes along and you stop running just long enough and the guy seems kinda strange yet somehow important so you find yourself actually slowing and hearing what the man says. The mind begins to jump back and forth from doubt to trust and the man goes on to tell about a memory he has of the time when he could see the tree all the way from the street.
"It always looked so far away yet was right there and when you approached it felt like you were safe and somehow know everything is all right".
He said the whole county came because your ancestors were so kind and wise and oh that tree of theirs. Although he could not see the tree from the street anymore he knows it is still there. And you say "Of course it is still there...I would not cut down such a beautiful thing".
And the man asks, "But why would you save the tree only to neglect it and hide it from sight"?
"The tree was a gift to all the county and now it is hidden just beyond sight. What will it take for you to uncover your gift and let it show for the benefit of the world"?
"For the benefit of yourself and the benefit of the world will you now attend to your beautiful tree?"
"If you want to be the greatest benefit to this world you must be brave enough to take care of that tree." "The rest takes care of itself."
Shawn of Hypnofreedom.com
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Imagine that by some strange (or not so strange) twist of fate that you are a farmer tending to a farm. On the farm that is like your life subsists a once majestic and beautiful tree that you're wise great, great, great, great grandparents planted on the farm of your ancestry. The regal tree is in the far corner and your mind knows that it is there and it still goes ignored and neglected. Now and again an inexplicable sadness comes over like a cloudy day and your mind asks, "why so glum"...but you don't know that the answer is that majestic tree, that genius tree that calls out for love and is not heard. So your "to-do" list gets done every day and as time goes by you feel something missing from your life.
And the tree sits.
Continuing along a few more years pass and the person you remember yourself as has become slightly edgy and a bit cynical around the edges. And you continue with your to-do list that sees you doing just what is necessary for your perceived survival...and all the while the tree is wilting.
Now a man comes along and you stop running just long enough and the guy seems kinda strange yet somehow important so you find yourself actually slowing and hearing what the man says. The mind begins to jump back and forth from doubt to trust and the man goes on to tell about a memory he has of the time when he could see the tree all the way from the street.
"It always looked so far away yet was right there and when you approached it felt like you were safe and somehow know everything is all right".
He said the whole county came because your ancestors were so kind and wise and oh that tree of theirs. Although he could not see the tree from the street anymore he knows it is still there. And you say "Of course it is still there...I would not cut down such a beautiful thing".
And the man asks, "But why would you save the tree only to neglect it and hide it from sight"?
"The tree was a gift to all the county and now it is hidden just beyond sight. What will it take for you to uncover your gift and let it show for the benefit of the world"?
"For the benefit of yourself and the benefit of the world will you now attend to your beautiful tree?"
"If you want to be the greatest benefit to this world you must be brave enough to take care of that tree." "The rest takes care of itself."
Shawn of Hypnofreedom.com
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
How To Reach Any Goal
Have you ever had a dream or an idea that you were really excited about, but was so big, it stopped you dead in your tracks? Those big, lofty goals are a necessary ingredient to success, yet so many of us let them weigh us down instead of propel us on. The absolute key to attaining any goal, and especially those big, lofty ones, is focus. Take one step at a time, and focus mainly on the present.
But how exactly does one go about focusing mainly on the present? It's true that, at the same time, it's important to know (and, therefore, focus on) your ultimate goal. I equate it like this:
Let's say you're about to hike up a small mountain (a large hill, really). You know where you want to go — to the top of the mountain (your goal and focus) — but you can't see it yet. Still, you know it is there. There is no doubt in your mind that the top exists. Your first focus is on the larger goal of the top of the mountain. So what is the next step?
The next step is to take a step! Your focus instantly comes back to the details — the first step, then the next, and so on. Your eyes scan the path for any obstacles, but you know you can easily overcome them, because your focus is in the present and on the current steps you are taking. Your goal is still there, it's just not the center of your current focus.
Have you ever been so absorbed in what you are doing that time flies by? This is an example of present-moment focus. If you concentrate on the step at hand, you'll very soon find yourself at the end result! You got there, not by concentrating on the goal, not by anguishing over the goal, not by stressing out about it, but by your clear and consistent focus in the present moment.
The paradox of attaining a goal or manifesting a big dream is that you must want your goal so much, AND be willing to let it go. In other words, your focus must not create an unhealthy attachment to the outcome (the ultimate goal). You always know when you are detrimentally attached to your goal or dream, because a negative emotion will be present when you think of your goal (like hopelessness, despair, anger, guilt, blame, angst, anguish, etc.). Any negative emotion linked to a goal is telling you that you must change your perspective and look at it from another angle.
So when you think of a current goal, allow yourself to know that your goal it is possible, and that it is there for you. Then turn your focus on the present moment and the next small step that you could do to get you heading purposefully in the best direction to your goal. Remember, it's simply a chain of many small steps that lead to the top!
Kim Markison for Hypno-Freedom.com
Kim Markison is a Hypnotherapist, Life Coach and Intuitive dedicated to creating a more expansive reality in this world. She helps executives, entrepreneurs and other successful people to create their own expanded and abundant lives in joy and freedom. Kim can be reached at kim@hypno-freedom.com for more information and to schedule a free consultation.
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But how exactly does one go about focusing mainly on the present? It's true that, at the same time, it's important to know (and, therefore, focus on) your ultimate goal. I equate it like this:
Let's say you're about to hike up a small mountain (a large hill, really). You know where you want to go — to the top of the mountain (your goal and focus) — but you can't see it yet. Still, you know it is there. There is no doubt in your mind that the top exists. Your first focus is on the larger goal of the top of the mountain. So what is the next step?
The next step is to take a step! Your focus instantly comes back to the details — the first step, then the next, and so on. Your eyes scan the path for any obstacles, but you know you can easily overcome them, because your focus is in the present and on the current steps you are taking. Your goal is still there, it's just not the center of your current focus.
Have you ever been so absorbed in what you are doing that time flies by? This is an example of present-moment focus. If you concentrate on the step at hand, you'll very soon find yourself at the end result! You got there, not by concentrating on the goal, not by anguishing over the goal, not by stressing out about it, but by your clear and consistent focus in the present moment.
The paradox of attaining a goal or manifesting a big dream is that you must want your goal so much, AND be willing to let it go. In other words, your focus must not create an unhealthy attachment to the outcome (the ultimate goal). You always know when you are detrimentally attached to your goal or dream, because a negative emotion will be present when you think of your goal (like hopelessness, despair, anger, guilt, blame, angst, anguish, etc.). Any negative emotion linked to a goal is telling you that you must change your perspective and look at it from another angle.
So when you think of a current goal, allow yourself to know that your goal it is possible, and that it is there for you. Then turn your focus on the present moment and the next small step that you could do to get you heading purposefully in the best direction to your goal. Remember, it's simply a chain of many small steps that lead to the top!
Kim Markison for Hypno-Freedom.com
Kim Markison is a Hypnotherapist, Life Coach and Intuitive dedicated to creating a more expansive reality in this world. She helps executives, entrepreneurs and other successful people to create their own expanded and abundant lives in joy and freedom. Kim can be reached at kim@hypno-freedom.com for more information and to schedule a free consultation.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Start Stress Free
There are some great techniques you can perform in the morning that will assure your daily battle against stress will have a positive outcome. The series of stress reduction exercises is best performed and most efficacious before leaving your bedroom in the morning.
Begin with a stress dissolving breathing technique: Sit up tall with your spine and neck straight and perform alternate nostril breathing. Close the left nostril and breathe in the right; close the right and breathe out the left…in the left, close, out the right. Do this 20-30 times. Finish with 5-10 deep and full breaths that fill your belly and your lungs.
Next envision your chakras (chakras are colorful wheels of energy within the subtle body) of which there are seven. Using your imagination you will begin at the first chakra located near the level of the pubic bone. The first chakra is red so see it as a red wheel of light. Moving up the centerline of the body the second chakra is right below the navel and is orange. Above the navel is chakra number three which is yellow. Now move up to the heart chakra which is green. At the throat is the fifth chakra which is light blue. The next chakra is between the eyes and is dark blue. Now move to the crown of the head and the seventh chakra which is violet.
This quick meditation of the chakras helps to create a subtle awareness of the body. You will learn to feel the body from the inside out and in this new awareness can better discern the feelings associated with the body. This awareness is key to learning to mitigate and eradicate stress. As you focus on the body in this manner you may feel areas of stress. As awareness is held so the energy flows. This flowing of awareness and energy is a necessary key to living a stress free life. The flow of energy moves through any blockages and helps to create abundant health.
Stress reduction is about awareness. Become aware of your feelings physically, emotionally and mentally and the energy of your focus will shed new light and realizations of your innate power. Keep up the focus and let your love shine on!
Love long and prosper,
Shawn of Hypnofreedom.com
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Begin with a stress dissolving breathing technique: Sit up tall with your spine and neck straight and perform alternate nostril breathing. Close the left nostril and breathe in the right; close the right and breathe out the left…in the left, close, out the right. Do this 20-30 times. Finish with 5-10 deep and full breaths that fill your belly and your lungs.
Next envision your chakras (chakras are colorful wheels of energy within the subtle body) of which there are seven. Using your imagination you will begin at the first chakra located near the level of the pubic bone. The first chakra is red so see it as a red wheel of light. Moving up the centerline of the body the second chakra is right below the navel and is orange. Above the navel is chakra number three which is yellow. Now move up to the heart chakra which is green. At the throat is the fifth chakra which is light blue. The next chakra is between the eyes and is dark blue. Now move to the crown of the head and the seventh chakra which is violet.
This quick meditation of the chakras helps to create a subtle awareness of the body. You will learn to feel the body from the inside out and in this new awareness can better discern the feelings associated with the body. This awareness is key to learning to mitigate and eradicate stress. As you focus on the body in this manner you may feel areas of stress. As awareness is held so the energy flows. This flowing of awareness and energy is a necessary key to living a stress free life. The flow of energy moves through any blockages and helps to create abundant health.
Stress reduction is about awareness. Become aware of your feelings physically, emotionally and mentally and the energy of your focus will shed new light and realizations of your innate power. Keep up the focus and let your love shine on!
Love long and prosper,
Shawn of Hypnofreedom.com
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Relief From Stress
What form of stress relief works best for you? So frequently we reach out across space and time outside of ourselves for forms of stress relief that will give us the keys to a life that is free of stress. We read blogs, self-help books, take classes and every one of these methods is moving toward the same goal...to relieve the tension that builds up within us during hectic days of living this not so simple life.
I hope by now you have discovered the power of stress reduction that is hypnofreedom. Humans are imbedded with the power to reduce any type of stressful incident to a distant memory. The sooner we can assimilate the vast amount of information that comes to us in a daily bombardment the sooner we can live stress free.
In every person lay dormant the tools to assimilate the events of the day and the power to become harmonious and empowered with the new learnings. We are made to adapt. We are a species that has become capable of exponential leaps in intelligence and are blessed with the ability to apply our intelligence to glorious ends. With every advancement of man comes the abilities to assimilate and adapt to the new demands that the world requests of us. Watch closely how quickly parents are able to adapt to the incredible speed that their children assimilate new information. Just when we think that we are being left behind we too are capable of quantum leaps in computing power.
So it stands that stress relief is proportionate to ones ability and eagerness to adapt to whatever life throws at her/him. Being mentally agile is the best form of stress relief. Hypnotherapy teaches us to tap into the innate power of our adaptable mind and move into higher realms of being. Hypnotherapy can take the ordinary mind and unleash it’s extraordinary abilities of adaptation, relaxation and peace toward such a place that no stress can touch. Find out for yourself the power that rests inside your mind. Practice the techniques advised on hypnofreedom.com and awaken the stress melting power of your connected mind. Graduate from stress once and for all and join the majority who has learned that life begins where stress ends.
Love long and prosper...Shawn of Hypnofreedom.com
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I hope by now you have discovered the power of stress reduction that is hypnofreedom. Humans are imbedded with the power to reduce any type of stressful incident to a distant memory. The sooner we can assimilate the vast amount of information that comes to us in a daily bombardment the sooner we can live stress free.
In every person lay dormant the tools to assimilate the events of the day and the power to become harmonious and empowered with the new learnings. We are made to adapt. We are a species that has become capable of exponential leaps in intelligence and are blessed with the ability to apply our intelligence to glorious ends. With every advancement of man comes the abilities to assimilate and adapt to the new demands that the world requests of us. Watch closely how quickly parents are able to adapt to the incredible speed that their children assimilate new information. Just when we think that we are being left behind we too are capable of quantum leaps in computing power.
So it stands that stress relief is proportionate to ones ability and eagerness to adapt to whatever life throws at her/him. Being mentally agile is the best form of stress relief. Hypnotherapy teaches us to tap into the innate power of our adaptable mind and move into higher realms of being. Hypnotherapy can take the ordinary mind and unleash it’s extraordinary abilities of adaptation, relaxation and peace toward such a place that no stress can touch. Find out for yourself the power that rests inside your mind. Practice the techniques advised on hypnofreedom.com and awaken the stress melting power of your connected mind. Graduate from stress once and for all and join the majority who has learned that life begins where stress ends.
Love long and prosper...Shawn of Hypnofreedom.com
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