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Universal Truth Of Attraction

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Simply put, Attraction Mantra Secrets is the ability to use one's thoughts and intentions to attract things they want. The theory behind the Attraction Mantra Secrets is that we create our own realities. We are the magnet that attract our reality. It uses the power of mind to translate whatever is in our thoughts and materialize them into reality. This explains the significance of focusing on the positive things that you want to attract.

The power of the Attraction Mantra Secrets lies in the fact that whatever you think about and believe will ultimately become the reality you experience.

On the other hand, if you choose to focus on the negative doom and gloom you will remain under that cloud. Therefore, starve the negative thoughts by removing your attention.

By transforming your mindset to focus on what you want, rather than what you don’t have, you will come to view the world in a different way.

Each thought you have will bring you closer to your goal, rather than bringing you down and focusing you on what you might never have.

Once you understand the power of your thought and direct this powerful tool in the direction of things that you desire, then you will discover that the action part of your life is the way you enjoy what you have created through your thoughts.

Although the theory behind the Attraction Mantra Secrets is very simple, putting it into practice on a conscious level takes work. Negative and limiting belief systems are buried deep inside us. They are the ones which stop you from succeeding, achieving, and manifesting. Changing or ridding yourself of ideas and old habits that defeat you at every turn is possible. Are you up to the challenge?

Start by learning how to activate the "Attraction Mantra Secrets ". The activation process involves three steps to eliminate limiting beliefs and attracting all your desires.

Here are the 3 powerful tips to activate the Attraction Mantra Secrets:

1) Empty Your Mind

(i) Meditate - Get a place that's quiet to meditate. Avoid noisy places where dogs are barking or individuals talking. This may distract you from focusing and too many distractions may prove too much to manage and you might stop meditating as soon as you begin.

Get a comfortable, peaceful place with pleasant temperature to settle down. You don't want to meditate under the hot blazing sun or have all kinds of insects flying by, landing on you, biting you, and so forth. Initially these things may greatly distract you.

Once you have settled down, all you need to do is to sit cross-legged, relaxed and have yourself meditate undisturbed up to an hour.

(ii) Breathe - Observe your breath. There are a lot of things to observe… pace of taking a breath… the consistency of the tempo of breathing does it always remain the same as you sit?

The smoothness of the breath or the abnormality of it. The depth or shallowness of breath… and, does it alter over time or is each breath a carbon copy of the last? Where do you sense the breath? Your nose? Your throat? Your mouth? Your lungs? Your tummy? Do you observe your diaphragm muscle beneath your ribs contracting and decompressing to enable you to breathe?

Truly, only 2 things are required for excellent changes to happen inside your brain… a focus on the breath and mindfulness during the day when not meditating.

Begin your common sitting session with getting comfy in your sitting posture and watch all the matters going on with your body and brain… attempt to unwind and calm the brain down…Observe the physical sensations happening…

Observe the breath.

Watch the breath.

(iii) Exercise - Regardless of age or fitness level studies show that making time for exercise provides some serious mental benefits. Studies also show that it is very effective at reducing fatigue, improving alertness and concentration, and at enhancing overall cognitive function. 

Working up a sweat can help manage physical and mental stress. It is one of the best ways to clear your mind, lift mood and boost energy.

Spend 20-30 minutes doing your workout. Shoot for at least 2-3 times per week. Once you begin to exercise regularly, you will discover many more reasons why exercise is so important to improving the quality of your life.

2) Create Your Own Reality

The Wright brothers wanted to fly, and people considered them lunatics.

Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Bill Gates were considered as daydreamers, when actually, they were visualizing and imagining their vision.

Whatever they were imagining years ago, is now a solid reality..

Your imagination is a gateway to the possible and a bridge to your unconscious mind. It is your preview of life's coming attraction. It's the limitless palate with which you craft your world and a built-in key to manifesting your hopes.

Your subconscious mind doesn't recognize the deviation between what is genuine and what is imaginary. Your reality mirrors what goes on in your mind.

When envisioning your desire, engage your imagination by using all

of your senses. Imagine not only the visualizations, but also the sounds, textures, smells and tastes of your dreams coming true. Even more significantly, think of the feelings of the outcome you look for as these contain the strongest magnetic force for drawing in your desires. How you feel about what you imagine will decide whether you'll successfully draw it in or not.

Feelings are the language that talks to the Divine Matrix (the Universe). Feel as if your goal is completed and your prayer is already responded.

Rehearse the future you want to attract in your head on a regular basis. What sort of future do you desire? How would you look, act and feel?

Whatever you are grasping on from your past is what you are bringing into your present reality.

And whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can accomplish.

A different key element to drawing in and allowing the realities you look for is a sense of worth.

If you do not feel that you deserve the truth you want, you'll block its manifestation or undermine it once it arrives. Your sense of worth reflects your level of self-value and is meddled by guilt, dishonor, self-judgment and negative self-concepts.

Self-love and self-forgiveness always increase your sense of worth.

3) Adopt An Attitude Of Gratitude

Science tells us that an "attitude of gratitude" is a good health choice. Being more grateful more often makes us happier and more optimistic.

Gratitude attracts what we want. The universal truth of attraction says that we will attract into life the things we think about and focus on.

It can immediately transform all areas of your life.

The fastest way to attain an "abundance mind-set" and align your emotional vibration with the flow of prosperity and joy, is to adopt an attitude of gratitude.

Gratitude will positively shift your energy instantly and clear out any negativity thoughts that have been accumulating throughout your day.

Counting your blessings is one of the fastest ways to improve your mood or outlook.

And focus on what you do what attract even more. What you focus on expands. When you are grateful for what you have, even when it is not enough, you’ll attract more of the good things in your life.

Bear in mind that no matter how bad your situation or life may be, there is always something to be grateful for.

As soon as you find it, your life will significantly improve!

Self-Enhancement Mantras

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There’s a popular saying…

"I ought to change, but I've attempted and failed."

Does this seem familiar?

There’s no doubt about it: change is hard. But, it is essential for your growth and development as a person.

Frequently, altering habits does seem insurmountable. A lot of us merely don't have enough motivation to alter our habits - all of our foul habits - in a way that would really affect our life. We hold them tight as we view them as rewards. But your habits determine your life.

To break a bad habit, it's helpful to reward yourself for engaging in the positive behavior.

Although the hardest part of any new habit is pulling through the first month, particularly the 1st several days. When you've made it through those first thirty days, it's much simpler to continue as you've overpowered inertia.

When we consider changing a habit for good, we frequently psych ourselves out before we start. Believing we have to give something up for a lifetime is too overpowering to even think about. Rather than making a huge change all at once, you aim to take one little step in the proper direction. When you have gotten comfy with that change, take a different little step.

Go forward taking little steps one at a time till you sooner or later reach your goal.

To replace the bad habits with great habits is a really good idea. Here you will find some really great habits to start that will benefit your personal development.

Construct a fresh habit by tacking a job onto one of your habits you already have. Water the flowers after you have taken your lunch. Send off thank-you notes after you check your inbox

Work out daily. Supercharge your metabolism, concentration, and mental clarity in half-hour a day.

By choice make the job harder as challenging jobs are more engaging and motivating than ho-hum ones. Do physical chores like filing or cleaning with your non-dominant hand. Draw up poetic e-mails to answer other emails.

Figure how long a job will take to finish. Then start a timer, and press yourself to complete it in one-half that time.

Discover individuals who are already acquiring the results you want; question them; and adopt their mental attitude, notions, and behavior.

Finish an otherwise dull task in an uncommon or crazy manner to keep it fun and intriguing. Make routine calls utilizing fake foreign accents. Take notes in wax crayon.

Interpose one task into the middle of some other. Study while eating lunch. Return calls while traveling back and forth to work. Listen to audio programs while shopping.

When somebody does you a good turn, refer a thank-you card. That's a true card, not an e-card. This is uncommon and memorable, and the individuals you thank will be eager to bestow more opportunities.

Cast out the negative people from your life; and affiliate with positive, happy individuals instead. Mentalities are catching. Be loyal to reality, affection, and might, not to pity.

Investing in yourself may be the most profitable investment you ever make. So invest more time in yourself. The effort you put into consistently investing in yourself plays a large role in determining the quality of your life now and in the future.

Explain your most ambitious issues to several others, and ask for all the advice, feedback, and constructive critique you are able to handle.

On a sheet of paper, jot down twenty originative ideas for bettering your effectiveness.

Study books and articles, listen to audio programs, and go to seminars to soak up fresh themes and inspiration.

When an undesirable task is assigned to you, re-delegate it to somebody else.

Name the item on your job list that frightens you the most. Muster up all the bravery you are able to and tackle it at once.

When an apparently senseless job is delegated to you, bounce it back to the individual who assigned it to you, and challenge them to rationalize its functional necessity.

Quit clubs, jobs, and subscriptions that consume more of your time than they deserve. Declutter for more personal time.

Hold up non-critical jobs as long as you potentially can. A lot of them will die and won't need to be accomplished at all.

Switch off the television, particularly the news, and recapture a lot of available hours.

Hire a personal coach to remain motivated, centered, and accountable.

Unlocking Your Ultimate Potential

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Every speck of scientific research on the subject of human potential says that we all have much more potential power and ability than we are currently using.

Do you know your true potential?

Have you reached your full potential?

Most of us are unaware of the accomplishments we can achieve in our lives. We become tied down to the daily routine that seems to be working, (for the most part) and settle in for the long haul. We either choose not to or do not have time to look deeper in to our true potentials.

It is of paramount importance to unlock your ultimate potential...

Not realizing your true potential is probably one of the bigger regrets as people get older; realizing that you could’ve been more is one of the biggest emotional upheavals you can experience in your life.

That is why it is quintessential that you do not let opportunities fly away; for those fortunate enough to live in a society where there is free will to do and be pretty much anything you want, you must capitalize the opportunity to self-actualize, to be the best you can be.  

To be the best you, here are things you can do to realize and unlock your ultimate potential:

1) Discover Your Full Potential

No matter what innate talents you were born with, what family you were born into, the money you have made or lost, or the times of difficulty or lucky breaks, nothing will get you to where you want to be better than understanding your full potential.

It’s the breaking factor in every successful story. The popular poor man get’s lucky story, or the how I changed the world with my bare hands tale comes from one important factor- the people who succeed are the people who learn how to tap into something innate inside them, and live and breathe their dreams.

Each one of us has potential lying innate inside of us. The brilliant part is each one of us has a potential that is uniquely ours. The potential to become a better person, to gain more respect, to be more successful, to find happiness, to achieve anything we want.

It’s a mad mix of our genetics, our environment, the way our body has been designed and the talents we were born with.

Of course, the first step is discovering just what that is.

It can be very frustrating to go on with life not knowing what you are supposed to achieve…

The world is a negative place and the forces are pulling us from every direction, learning to avoid the negativity is like learning to walk on a minefield.

For some this is an instinctive process, often helped by a watchful parent or teacher that spotted something in us from an early age and called it into being.

For others, it’s a struggle to identify. It has been proven that we absorb most of the negativity through our unconscious mind, not even realizing it is happening.

Being weighed down by your own or others negativity can destroy your chances of reaching your true potential so learn to control other peoples energies as you control your destiny.

Environment can also play a part. We often learn about what we are good at through trying new things. If you lived in an area where there weren’t a lot of options, or you didn’t have a lot of money to pay for classes or for travel, then you may have not experienced the things you are naturally good at.

The most direct way to live smarter is to evaluate your current alignment with all of the things up to now.

Take a moment and ask yourself…

What are my gifts and talents?

What am I good at?

Where can I use my strengths?

Where can I exercise my values?

Where can I make a difference?

What makes me comfortable in life?

What is it that you can do even when you are not being paid? If we all concentrated in what we love doing, we would be happier and more fulfilled.

Loving what you do gives you the strength to weather personal setbacks, face and address your weaknesses, overcome adversity and work the long hours typically needed to reach your full potential.

Once you identify your values, passions and strength, it is easier for you to grow as a person and reach for your full potential. There is a connection between reaching your potential and being aware of your passions. And more often than not your passions will flow from your values and strengths.

When you connect with your passions it allows you to act every day from your heart; it gives you the energy to propel you toward your goals, while overcoming setbacks and failure.

2) Unlock Your Mind Power

You may not realize it, but the mind is very powerful. It is unlimited in potential.

Once you begin to understand the power of the mind, and learn the laws of the universe, you can reprogram your subconscious so you can obtain anything you want in life and live life to the fullest.

Every person on this planet has the same capacity in their brain but not everyone uses it.

It is really the programming that we received from birth to the present that shapes who we are and what we do.

Your mind is the projector of your current physical reality that you experience through your 5 sense reality.

The subconscious mind is like your magic genie and it will accept anything that you feed to it and it will carry out your every wish.

So whatever you consistently think about whether it is real or imagined your subconscious mind will accept it is as the truth and it will work with us and for us to help us reach our goals.

Once we unlock the keys our mind holds, we have the opportunity to do the following:

Learn to override the fears of failure and not being good enough. To let go of social phobias and the hold of limiting beliefs.

Discover the talents and gifts we were given and how we can develop them.

Learn how to spot new opportunities to develop personal growth and learn new skills.

Set goals you had always thought were the goals of dreamers, and then meet those goals.

Develop a strong sense of purpose and direction. Learn the value of your life in this world and what a difference your new life can make.

Become someone who loves to face a challenge and then meet it, and overcome it. You’ll discover the fun in conquering the mountains of challenge in your own life and not taking the status quo as an acceptable standard anymore.

Learn the benefits of a balanced life where your physical, emotional, spiritual and financial health lives in harmony with each other and you feel fulfilled and satisfied with your life.

No longer be someone who's happy to be just comfortable. You’ll instead want to live in the zone of the outrageous, fulfilled and achieved.

By investing in time to unlock your own potential, you have the opportunity to discover all that you were created to be. Part of that process is identifying what your purpose is.

To do that you need to first look at what makes you feel passionate.

A life lived with passion is a life lived fully.

3) Find Your Passion

The most important ingredient in achieving your goals is passion.

Intelligence, connections and courage may all help, but nothing can trump passion. The truly successful person is almost always one who is extremely passionate about his or her endeavor.

"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion" - Georg Hegel, German Philosopher

If you want to succeed in life, you first must find your passion, then harness it and use it to focus your dreams and vision.

The more you follow the path your passion leads you down, the more you achieve the goals you desire, and your life starts to fall into place.

One of the best parts of living a life of where you develop your own potential is its infectious. People want to be around someone with direction. It’s like a contagious drug. You finding your passion and purpose will affect everyone else in your life - without you even planning on it.

When you’re passionate about your work, whether building a company or investing in real estate, others see that passion and are drawn to it.

Good things come from that attraction.

Think of the five or ten people you spend most time with. What are these people doing? How passionate are they? Do they inspire you?

Find what it is that expressly drives you and there you have your chief purpose. For instance, though you may want a lot of money - ask yourself what is it for?

Is your chief goal to create a museum of your belongings? Is it to provide for your family?

Or is it to have the freedom to spend your life serving a cause you believe in? All of these indicate a vastly different purpose, even if all require a large sum of money.

If your purpose seems completely unrelated to making money don’t worry at all! Finding purpose isn’t just about finding wealth.

Not everyone is wired to make money as part of their purpose. Whatever your purpose, it may not be the same as anyone else in your family or among your friends. This is about what you want to do, what you want to achieve. Allow yourself to dream your own dreams and reach your own goals.

Are the dreams you have any better or worse than another’s? No. All each of us should do is live our live by the purpose we hold deep inside us. Imagine how different the world would be if that was what everyone did. What an exciting and fulfilling way to live.

4) Find Your Ultimate Purpose

As we are all different, we will all need different paths to help us find our passion and purpose. If you’ve struggled to find the direction you need to complete your destiny, if you’ve always felt you were made for something, but a little unsure what t was that try some of the following ideas to explore what your purpose may be.

Every one has a purpose, and there is potential in each of us. It’s just a matter to exploring and investigating a little to discover it.

What terrifies you?

It’s an interesting concept but what you don’t like, or what you fear may be the very thing pointing to your destiny. It’s like the concept of yin and yang- there are two sides to each coin.

The fear may originate from blocking off an early passion that you were unaware of.

Write a list of your fears and the negative feelings that come from them. Then look at that list and see if there is an opposite charge to the fear.

For example, if you are terrified of public speaking, but love to share your ideas, then you may be well suited to expressing yourself through the written word.

When are you scared of failing?

Those things that are important to us hold a great deal of weight to how we see ourselves and our success.

If you are scared at failing at something, you’ll often avoid it at all costs. But those things we are scared to fail at are often the very things we most want to do.

Explore the times you’ve said no to something, or avoided something because you’ve been scared of showing yourself to not be good at it.

Who energizes you?

Stay away from people who tear or wear your down..

Align yourself with people living a full life and their enthusiasm rubs off and affects your own passion.

Go for people you respect, and work underneath them- serving them. That is the very best way to learn. If you can’t find anyone like that around you, devour books about people you admire and learn by proxy.

(i) When Will You Get There?

Each journey starts with one small step in front of the other.

The end destination isn’t the only thing you need- you need to break it right down into manageable chunks.

You may start with a small passion in something really simple that you don’t think much of, and then it explodes and evolves into something else entirely. Enjoy that process, and trust it.

Write out a list of more baby steps you can take later today, tomorrow, the next day and each day for the rest of your life. 

Notice how you feel as you take each step.

Notice how your life is changing for the better.

Find other people who want to join you on your journey.  Yes, they’re out there. 

Just like babies taking their first steps, sometimes we need some help and sometimes we fall down.  Just like a baby does, get up and keep trying until you’ve mastered that step.  We’ve all been there before and know how hard it can be.  The most important step is to decide to take that first step.

If you are naturally visionary, having to wait it out sometimes can be incredibly frustrating.

Don't get upset if you deviate from your intended destination. Sometimes diversions lead to more exciting places and experiences. Sometimes plans change. Be flexible. Be open to new experiences...

By learning to temper your impatience and lay it aside helps you get there faster.

Have faith in yourself that everything you work on will eventually pay off. Faith and belief are the keys to trigger the universe signal so that it knows what you truly desire...

(ii) Who Are You Now?

Before you start to move forward you need to first make peace with the person you are today, right here and right now. The person you are today is the person you started to become five or ten years ago.

We are all a product of our own past and the place we are in today is of our own making. To move forward we need to accept the person we are, with all our foibles and limitations.

Love yourself now; accept yourself now and where you have been, and then move on. Our purpose can begin from any circumstances. No matter what has gone before, we have the choice to change our life now, today.

One person in themselves can be hugely effective. Dream big and don’t underestimate your ability to get there - many people have dreams up a purpose that on paper looked impossible, but was not only achieved but surpassed. Breathe life into those big visions.

(iii) What Will You Do?

Make a list of all the dreams and thoughts you’ve had – all the things you want to do in your life. Once it’s down on paper, make a plan of action to follow. Sometimes the first step is to consolidate, to regroup and spend some time learning or preparing. This is an excellent time to give your time to work under people who are working towards a similar purpose, to learn alongside them.

Don’t worry if the times get a little rough sometimes. See the difficult times are periods of growth, where you are learning the next important lessons to succeed. There is a well-known Chinese proverb that says “When things are going good the business grows, when things are going bad, you grow.” No experience is ever wasted as long as you grasp any circumstance as an opportunity to grow.

5) Commit To Your Ultimate Purpose

Once you have established what your purpose is, write it down. Keep it as simple and as clear as possible. A three pager probably indicates you are still trying to find your purpose.

Then break your purpose down. Say for instance you felt your purpose was to become a talk show host.

Consider the steps you need to achieve that.

What qualifications would you need?

Would you need to alter your appearance at all?

How would you go about lifting your profile so people know who you are and believe you can do what you do?

Write these mini goals down on a piece of paper.

Read these goals aloud every morning and night, to help you stay on track. This is your personal journey and you don’t need to share it with anyone else.

The ability to harness your mind and control your thought processes is one that successful people through the ages have used. It’s the common denominator of all successful people whether they are business owners or world class athletes. Research in the ability to drive past our own concept of limiting belief has shown that if we get the mind on track, the rest will follow.

Turn your life into the life you want by discovering the purpose you were born to live and then change the way you think of yourself living that life to get there. Remember the place you are now is the place you got to by the thoughts you’ve already had- even if it was not a conscious decision.

Start to take your future place in this world into both your conscious and subconscious mind, learning to turn around and more ahead to reach your purpose. It won’t take long to enjoy the fruits of your endeavors.

Empty Your Mind

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When you think, hear, speak, cry out, engage in something physical or stressful the waves are produced. With meditation everything stops. Your brain may be totally still, unmoving. It’s really possible. When the surface of the brain quiets and becomes still we begin to see and feel what is underneath. We wouldn’t know there's anything much underneath our consciousness except what we may see from the surface.

The basic truth about meditation is simple that you could learn it in just five minutes and you can readily engage in it anytime and anywhere. Yet you should constantly engage in it to improve on it. Likewise, it could also be developed into a habit wherein it becomes natural or second nature to a person to engage in it. The more one practices meditation the higher the level of meditation one can achieve.

Empty Mind Meditation is a meditation technique in which the mind is gradually emptied of all thoughts which interfere in the process of meditation. Buddhists call this method Vipassana or Anapanasati.  They devote themselves to years, sometimes an entire lifetime, of dedicated practice to achieve the state where thoughts disappear completely or no longer arise.

In the ancient times, spiritual greats had used the Empty Mind method to attain enlightenment. The reason why “Empty Mind Meditation” is commonly used lies in the fact that the ultimate purpose of meditation is to attune oneself to the universal will by emptying oneself of the “ego” or the self. The mind is a powerful tool which sometimes hinders us from achieving the inner peace which we all seek.

Empty Mind Meditation helps them find some relaxation from the highly demanding and hectic lifestyle in which most modern people find themselves.

The mere practice of emptying the mind enables a person to free the mind from the anxious thoughts which clutter the mind throughout the day. By achieving a relaxed state, one can de-stress the body and consequently achieve healing of some ailing body parts. The constant practice of Empty Mind Meditation is beneficial to the holistic development of oneself.

The five areas of life improved by the regular practice of Empty mind meditation are: the Physiological Aspect, the Social Aspect which involves the way we relate with other people, the Intellectual Aspect, Emotional and, the Spiritual aspect.

The Stages Of Empty Mind Meditation

An empty mind is a mind that is free from selfish thoughts. It is the primary goal of meditation to attune oneself to the universal mind by freeing the mind from any selfish thoughts.

This is a simple process that most people find difficult to achieve.

This is because as human beings, we tend to cling to what we have learned, striven for, and have achieved.

This is exactly the opposite of letting go of all thoughts. In meditation, we will learn how to let go of these clingy thoughts.

There are numerous procedures or ways to achieve and complete a meditation.

The most experienced meditation practitioner uses the simplest step-by-step procedure which is shown here:

1) Be seated comfortably

The first thing that a practitioner should do is to find a suitable place to meditate.

Sitting is basically the most widely used position in meditation. Even Buddha himself, in most figurines and pictures, is commonly depicted seated in a cross-legged manner. You can sit on a chair, at floor, or in your bed. You can sit anywhere but what is important that you are seated comfortably with your back straightened so that your back muscles will not readily strain.

Likewise, you can use a pillow for back support and for comfort. There are several traditional sitting positions that are widely used by meditation practitioners such as the Burmese position, the Quarter Lotus, the Half Lotus, and the Full Lotus positions. These positions are popular because they can be used for long-duration meditation. When conducting lengthy meditation, it is extremely important to be in a quiet place to avoid any kind of distraction.

2) Relaxing The Body

The next step in the meditation process is the closing of one’s eyes and the relaxing of the body by tensing, stretching, or curling one part of body repeatedly until you feel relaxed.

While you are seated, push your hips forward, and then push your stomach out while tensing up all your stomach muscles for a couple of times and relaxing between to relieve the tension.

Tuck your stomach in until the muscles of your lower back and buttocks are tensed enough, and then arch both your shoulders and push your chest in, tensing all your upper back muscles repeatedly. Then, slacken your muscles in between exercises. And then, reversing the exercise by pulling your shoulders back and pushing your chest out, tensing all your muscles and then slackening the tension.

This exercise relieves the upper body of stress and tension. Repeat this process until you are feeling relaxed. Then, you can start arching your neck forward and placing your chin on your chest, tensing neck and jaw muscles, then momentarily relaxing to reverse the action by pushing your head all the way back while raising your chin up high, and tensing your throat and jaw muscles. Move your head back while looking up; then, open your mouth wide and screw your face up face, tensing your facial and other muscles in your head, and tensing and relaxing.

Likewise smile widely as possible, while screwing up your face and tensing all facial muscles. Frown deeply while screwing up your face; then tense all your facial muscles. This exercise relieves our muscles and joints of the stress and tensions that accumulate every day.

3) Breathing

The third step in the meditation process is to be aware of your breathing. Breathe deeply but silently. Use your abdomen while breathing. Feel your abdomen expands and contracts while you inhale and exhale. Inhale through your nostrils and exhale through the mouth. Moderate your breathing and give it a regular pacing until you reach a point of almost non-breathing. This will further relax the body and mind and set your being in a meditative mood.

4) Clearing Your Mind

As you find yourself with the correct, relaxed breathing, observe the thoughts passing through your mind. Don’t interfere with these thoughts; just observe them and you will notice some gaps between two thoughts. Gently focus on the gap where there is no thought. Try to expand this thoughtless gap. Let it last longer until there is no thought anymore. This is the traditional method used by Gautama Buddha in achieving enlightenment. Another empty mind meditation procedure is by emptying the mind of any thought by thinking nothing and doing nothing. Normally thoughts suddenly come out of nowhere; just ignore them. Revert back to thinking of nothing. Just close your eyes and observe the blackness or whiteness regardless of any thoughts which may crop.

Attracting Your True Calling

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“There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.” Oprah Winfrey

There are many different people in this world. The amazing thing is the fact that each one of us has our own specific purpose in life that we are supposed to fulfill. It is very important that we find this purpose and live it. This is the key to true happiness.

If true happiness is what you are seeking in life, it is not more money that you need or to become more popular. You need to discover what your true calling in life is.

Therefore to get the best out of life itself, the individual would be required to spend some time and effort to actually explore the possibility of understanding his or her true calling and working on fulfilling this call. Once you discover your purpose, you will see your life in a whole new light.

1) Identify True Calling

Have you discovered your calling? The reason you are alive. Your personal mission in life. If you do not have a clue what I am discussing, take a couple seconds to complete this quick quiz:

What do I really, really want in life?

Am I doing precisely the kind of work that makes me want to jump out of bed every morning?

Am I doing what I love?

If I achieve all my goals, what would it look like?

If you have a clear answer to all of these questions, congratulations!

There is a good chance that you've achieved what the Buddhist’s call “Right Livelihood.”

If you have not yet found the work you were meant to do, keep reading. You are about to find your true calling – and when you find that calling that is uniquely yours, your life will be transformed.

2) 7 Tips To Finding Your Calling

Most people go through life doing a job just to get the pay check at the end of the month. Most spend nearly all of it on bills and rarely do something they actually like. Others are happy at work and have large amount of money. However for the vast majority this is but a dream yet to be fulfilled.

Have you realized that the most successful people are invariably those people who spend the most time thinking about who they are and where they are going, and then constantly evaluating and re-evaluating their progress in light of who they are and what they really want?

Hence, the starting point of great success is for you to realize that you are truly extraordinary! You were put on this earth to do something wonderful with your life. There has never been anyone in the entire universe just like you. You have remarkable skills, aptitudes, abilities, insights and ideas that make you different, and in some way, superior to all other people who have ever lived.

And it is your job is to find out what that wonderful thing is and then to throw your whole heart into doing it extremely well. Your life may have a single purpose, like that of Mother Theresa of Calcutta, or your life may have multiple, sequential purposes, one after the other as you evolve and grow and develop into a higher and better person.

The path to our calling is an evolving process.

To get the best out of life itself, the individual would be required to spend some time and effort to actually explore the possibility of understanding his or her true calling and working on fulfilling this call.

Being able to deal positively and honestly with the feelings and thoughts will help the individual better identify the inner voice that is so in tune with the true calling meant for him or her. Taking the time to stop and think really hard about what really excites, stimulates and interests you will help to narrow down the quest to finding the true calling you were designed to embark upon.

(i) What Am I Good At?

Everyone is born with innate gifts and talents. Everyone of us has different skills that help us to become successful at one thing or another. What’s something you’re good, dare I say, amazing at?

Things you can do so easily that you hardly notice them. It could be things like…

Understanding how to bring a group of people back into harmony

Great at organizing events and connecting with others

Picking the right stocks to invest in

Being able to quote movie dialog word for word

Sensing how to comfort someone

Create great marketing proposals

Great at money management

When you are looking for your true calling in life, you must sit down and determine what these skills are. You need to know what you are good at, as it will help you to look in the right direction. Pay attention to the compliments people around you give as it is a clear message of your skills and will help you know which path you should consider pursuing.

(ii) Do Some Reflection On Past Callings

"We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience."- John Dewey

Acknowledge what you learned from acting on older callings, and see if anything from those experiences remains alive for you. Remember not to dwell on your old callings to rest if they are no longer alive for you, so you can open space for new callings to arise.

You can also do some reflection over your life and find out what you did that brought you success.

-What are the things you have done that have brought you success?

-What have you done that has brought you some great rewards, and personal satisfaction?

- What elements of your past success came from times when you cared the most about what you were doing?

Analyzing your past success can bring you great rewards in the future, as it helps you learn from your mistakes and success so you can find your true career path in life.

(iii) Stay In The Present

While trying to discover what your calling in life is, it is extremely important that you make sure that you keep your mind in the present. Do not focus on the future. Everything we do today will affect our future and that is why it is so important that we are always focused on the here and now. Life is lived one second at a time so there is no reason to stress about five years from now.

(iv) Try Different Things

You have to get out of your comfort zone or your “safety bubble”. Staying in your comfort zone will not give the opportunity to try new things. The problem with this is the fact that you will never be able to discover what your true calling is if you do not ever get the opportunity to try it. Do not be afraid to try something new. Finding your true calling often involves trial and error. Take a chance and launch out into something you suspect might be your true calling. You may just succeed and discover greater satisfaction and purpose for your life. Even if you fail, you can learn more about yourself and which avenues you should pursue in the future.

(v) Track Challenges

Track the challenges in your life and unravel the common threads. You will definitely feel like what you are doing with your life is purposeful when you are constantly challenging yourself. Your challenges are your instructors. They show you the places you need to heal and grow so that you are able to become who you are meant to be.

Are you struggling with:

- Finding your sense of self-worth?

- Trusting the Universe and trusting others?

- Feeling bombarded by life and like nothing works out for you?

These clues tell you

- What you need to work on

- How are you going to inspire others

- What you have chosen to master in this life time

(vi) Talk To Those Who Listen

Share your dreams and desires with those that you trust and listen to what you are saying. Also try and speak with people who offer real feedback and ideas and stay away from those who simply agree with what you are saying or give you one word responses. Other people can have some very valuable insight, especially the elderly so it may be a good idea to ask them for advice on discovering your calling in life. They may notice talents that you have that you are not aware of.

(vii) Live Your Own Dream

Learn how to live and create your own dreams. Do not look at others and envy them for what they have or wish that you could have their life and their blessings. You need to figure out what your true desires are in life and what you truly want.

No one else is going to pursue your dreams for you. Everyone has their own dreams and their own goals for what they want to achieve in life. If you don’t go for it, no one else will.

By this I do not mean material objects, I mean what you want from life and what you want your life to be. Stop trying to live someone else’s dream… Discover your true purpose and find the courage to live your own dream!

3) 7 Tips to Help You Follow Through

When we have goals, we have our destinations in each period of our life. Whether we will get to those destinations depends on our actions. In order to have the right actions, we need to have a plan. It is however difficult for many individuals to follow through their plan despite the need to accomplish their goals. What are the reasons why they cannot follow through?

When we have goals, we have our destinations in each period of our life. Whether we will get to those destinations depends on our actions. In order to have the right actions, we need to have a plan. It is however difficult for many individuals to follow through their plan despite the need to accomplish their goals. What are the reasons why they cannot follow through?

One of the most common reasons that make individuals do not follow through is that they are not willing to be out of their comfort zone. Humans are creatures of comfort. Being in one’s comfort zone implies familiarity, safety, and security. It describes the patterned world of our existence, keeps us relatively comfortable and calm, and helps us stay emotionally even, free from anxiety and worry to a great degree. 

We need to realize how important it is to step out of comfort zone.

The disadvantage of remaining in your comfort zone is that you will never grow within it. You have to start living outside your comfort zone to grow physically, mentally, spiritually, financially and on the relationships with other people. We must practice our mind to get used to working our way towards our goals despite feeling uncomfortable. The following seven tips will assist you in following through with your plan.

(i) Acknowledge What You Want And Why You Want It

You need to know what you want out of your actions and the reasons why you want it. I see many people around me who don’t get what they want, precisely because they don’t even acknowledge their desires to begin with. These are the self-deniers.

You will not be prompted to do what you are supposed to do if you are not clear on what you want. Clarity is your power to go to your target. Be clear on your goals. Without goals you lack focus and direction. Goal setting not only allows you to take control of your life's direction; it also provides you a benchmark for determining whether you are actually succeeding.  You have to decide what you want and then make the dedication to achieving it.

(ii) Decide What You Love To Do

Your actions to your goals will have to be repeated it again and again. If you do not love what you do, it is very hard to continue doing. Your brain will tell yourself that you have no fun doing it. This is why individuals give up a lot easier than they are supposed to.

Many individuals said they do not have option. On the contrary, they do not really decide to do what they love. Rather, they let themselves in doing what they do not like. It is up to your decision to stop what you think you must do and go to the area that you love most.

(iii) Take Action

Another thing that happens to many individuals is that when they want something, they do not even bother to begin doing something. Absolutely nothing is more important than being proactive. You must take action and begin by doing something.

Action, the process or state of acting or being active, is what makes it all happen. So whether a person is trying to be happy, be wealthy, lose weight or even start a new business, it all starts with an action. The process of being in a state of action is irreplaceable; action is that one thing that makes it all possible.

You are able to do anything by beginning to doing something that is aimed at your goal. The most difficult part is always the first step. Once you have the first step, other steps will be a great deal easier for you.

(iv) Keep Your Momentum

To have great success, momentum must be created.  Once you begin doing something, do not let your actions die afterwards. Keep doing what is in your plan. Do not let your mind fly away while you take action. But to maintain your momentum through the year, you need to set powerful, crystal-clear goals. Set goals that are specific with progress measurements along the way. You are able to reward yourself for your hard work. Avoid beating yourself up if you fall short. Take baby steps, one at a time. You are also able to make a vision board or some goal vision note to see as often as you want.

If you're setting about the job of producing a vision board you might discover yourself taking steps that will open you up mentally and let you relax and feel originative in order to discover those inner wants. It helps to ignite clarity.

By selecting pictures and writing that charges your emotions with feelings of passion, you will begin to manifest those things into your life.

(v) Value Your Actions And Results

What separates a person from achieving their goals and not achieving their goals is staying focused and being persistent in following through. Review your actions and see if you need to correct anything. Make sure you keep track of your progress and measure it constantly. Keep your statistic and compare with the standard. Change your approach if you need to but never change your goals.

(vi) Perseverance

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie

Perseverance is one of the key qualities that you need to reach success. Frequently this factor alone is the difference between failure and success. Perseverance is also a personal value, because it gives shape and strengthens your character which allows you to keep your focus on your goal.

Not giving up is one of the best qualities of successful people. You need to make sure that you also have that quality. Commit to yourself that you will not give up no matter what happens.

(vii) Visualize Your Success Regularly

Visualization will make your subconscious mind attract what you want into your life. This is according to the Attraction Mantra Secrets. You can attract all situations and attributes favorable to your goal achievement by visualization daily.

Visualize in your mind as if you are achieving your goals in front of you. Feel it and absorb what happens. You may want to add the background audio while you are visualizing. It will enhance your attraction.

4) Putting it all together

Is there something you already love doing? Do you have a hobby, or something you loved doing as a child, but never considered it as a possibility? Whether it’s reading comic books, collecting something, making something, creating or building, there is probably a way you could do it for a living.

Open a comic book shop, or create a comic book site online. If there’s already something you love doing, you’re ahead of the game. Now you just need to research the possibilities of making money from it.

Brainstorm. Nothing comes to mind right away? Well, get out a sheet of paper, and start writing down ideas. Anything that comes to mind, write it down. Look around your house, on your computer, on your bookshelf, for inspirations, and just write them down. There are no bad ideas at this stage. Write everything down, and evaluate them later.

Ask around, and surf for possibilities. Ask other people for ideas. See what others have discovered as their passions. Look all over the Internet for ideas. The more possibilities you find, the more likely your chances of finding your true passion.

Do as much research as possible. Know as much about your passion as possible. If this has been a passion for a while, you may have already been doing this. At any rate, do even more research. Read every website possible on the topic, and buy the best books available.

Either find other people, in your area or on the Internet, what do you want to do for a living, and quiz them about the profession. How much do they make? What training and education did they need? What skills are necessary? How did they get their start? What recommendations do they have? Often you will find that people are more than willing to give advice.

Never quit trying. Can’t find your passion at first? Give up after a few days and you’re sure to fail. Keep trying, for months on end if necessary and you’ll find it eventually.

Found your passion but haven’t been successful making a living at it? Do not give up.

Keep trying, and try again, until you succeed. Success does not come easy, so giving up early is a sure way to fail. Keep trying, and you will get there.

You also want to keep you health in very good standing. It definitely always helps to keep your stress levels down. Health is important because you feel better about the things you are doing, which lead to finding your true calling.

Being stress free has to be the most important though. The reason being is you have a clear mind. Your head is not cluttered with things that are mundane and tedious. If you get rid of that stress, it is easier to focus on what you’re really want, your true calling.