This Is Why You Live In The Feeling Of Your Thinking And Experience Life From Inside Out

Experience Life From Inside-Out

The late Scottish born philosopher Sydney Banks stated: "Someone once said to me, 'Are you telling me that chair isn't real, that it's only thought?' I said 'Of course the chair is real. But it comes to you via Thought'."

Banks went onto discover The Three Principles of Mind which influenced the practice of psychology and psychiatry in the years to follow.

The Three Principles of Mind are:

1. Mind: The universal intelligence behind life which is the source of all.

2. Consciousness: The awareness of life unfolding and what we create.

3. Thought: The ability to create, through thinking.

How does this relate to you?

Stay with me a moment as I unpack this further.

Many people subscribe to the outside-in paradigm whereby circumstances out there are responsible for the way they feel.

And that makes sense.

I don't disagree because I've experienced such moments until I became aware of my thoughts.

The point is, you create your experience of life from inside-out, not the other way around.

American sports psychologist Garret Kramer says: "You're never feeling your circumstances. You're always feeling your thinking, which, independent of your circumstances, is constantly in flux. This explains why a circumstance can look troubling one moment and okay the next."

No one or no event can make you feel what you don't already believe. I may try to impose my thoughts or reality on you, but if you don't believe it at the level of thought, you don't experience it emotionally.

It was the Cuban born essayist Anaïs Nin who said: "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

Your reality is the sum of your past conditioning. It has to be, because no two people share the same view of reality, even twins differ in the way they perceive the world.

This is empowering for several reasons, not least because it confirms we are in control of how we respond to life's circumstances.

                          

The Four Noble Truths

Life does not happen to you, but develops through you.

Moreover, life is happening for you.

I know it may not seem that way and I didn't believe it until I upgraded my perception of reality.

When you allow life to be what it is without attaching a narrative to it, suffering is diminished because you cease to oppose what is.

Consider life being akin to water instead of a rock. Since water is malleable, it will flow around the rock and erode it to find its own level.

By embracing the same attitude, you abandon your storyline of how life should develop in a certain way and allow life to advance in its own way. Your thinking is a mind-made narrative and not the reality you experience.

The Japanese writer Haruki Murakami writes in What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

Pain and suffering are important tenets espoused in Buddhism and encapsulated in The Four Noble Truths:

1. The Truth Of Suffering

2. The Truth Of The Cause Of Suffering

3. The Truth Of The End Of Suffering

4. The Truth Of The Path That Frees Us From Suffering

The point worth emphasising is that suffering is a state of mind. This is illustrated in Viktor Frankl's personal experience as a Holocaust survivor in a German concentration camp.

Frankl writes in Man's Search For Meaning: "Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."

Similarly, the evangelical Christian pastor Charles Swindoll said: "Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitude toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I've come to believe that life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it."

The connecting theme lies in our response to events outside of us, not the circumstances themselves.

"Knowing that your feelings come from the inside (your thinking), and not the outside (your circumstances), is what allows your state of mind to self-correct when you are troubled," affirms Garret Kramer.

You Live In The Feeling Of Your Thoughts

I often hear my young nephews cry out when their playing together turns sour: "He made me feel this way." In that instance, I'm reminded how naïve their perception is, albeit given their age.

However, I've heard the same conversations in adults who subscribe to the same thinking. Curiously, these same people endure intense pain and suffering, since they concede other people or life's circumstances are the cause of their suffering.

They are not wrong, nor are they right. They are simply unaware of the inside-out paradigm and respond to life based on their level of awareness.

Can you see how misleading and painful this line of thinking can be?

No one outside of you is responsible for the way you think and feel, if you don't already act that way for the most part.

They may try to impose their beliefs on you and succeed because you already subscribe to those beliefs and so they become active in you.

You also needn't follow the Buddhist Eightfold Path to overcome suffering, but just realise you live in the feeling of your thoughts.

When you become aware and awake to your thoughts, you are less attached to the meaning they carry.

You become an outsider looking in on your thoughts. You are the witnesser and observer, rather than the person whose thoughts are being imposed upon them.

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If It Is Possible For Someone Else, It Is Also Possible For You (By Mark Huddleston)

I have found that anyone can do anything someone else has accomplished and more. In 1998 I experienced a quantum shift in paradigms. I went from disbelieving to believing. This took place due to me changing my philosophy. I shifted my pessimistic thinking to optimistic thinking.

It is not my intention to attenuate anyone's personal continuity. It is my intention to help everyone recognize the many things that may be impeding their growth, success, and happiness. There are many motivational speakers that educate people all over the world to becoming structured and successful.

Motivational gurus have helped millions of people find their inner power and purpose. There are many books out there that show people how to construct their dreams and make them a reality. There are other books that show people that their number one adversary would be themselves. The only competition people have in their life would be the competition they create for themselves.

Most people have no Idea how fortunate they are to be living in the United States right now. You are at the right place at the right time. This is still the land of opportunity, but you must become acclimated to new thoughts and ideas if you are to recognize the opportunities that surround you each and every day.

When motivational speakers address audiences from all around the world, they find that they all have the same thing in common, they all want something more in life. I feel at one time someone that they respected highly told them that it was not OK to dream any longer and they bought into it. This is a crime, for most of us use to dream of being doctors, nurses, race car drivers, police officers, firefighters, astronauts, Presidents, baseball, and football players. So, what happened? I feel that our parents stopped dreaming and since they never achieved their dreams they felt it was safe telling us that dreams are for the chosen people. The truth of the matter is that we are all considered the chosen people and we all were given the highest power ever given to a living creature on the planet. We were all given the power to CHOOSE! Now that you are aware of this fact, what are you going to do with your life. You can choose to stay the way you are, or you can choose to do something extraordinary with your life. It is never too late to make your dreams come true.

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3 Innovative Ways To Attract Money To You

It's no secret everyone yearns to have more money in their wallet or bank account. Developing a healthy relationship with money is essential if you want to have more of it.

Money is, after all, just another energy. Yet so much emphasis has been placed on it.

We are told as children that money doesn't grow on trees.

We are pushed to 'keep up with the Jones' and over and over we are told 'money is what makes the world go 'round.'

All of this gives money an inordinate amount of power.

If you have an unhealthy relationship with money, you will never create the abundance you wish you had. In order to change your financial world, you need to change your feelings and paradigm about money. You need to change the way you think, feel and act about money.

If you believe you will never have enough money, you will never have enough money. What you focus on the most gives you exactly what you focus on the most.

These fun and practical little tips will magnify your energy and get the Law of Attraction sending more prosperity your way.

1. Learn to pick up coins from the ground: Ask my friends and family how many times I find coins on the ground and it will blow you away. I always pick them up, hold them to my heart (Thanking The Universe) and then put them in my pocket. Even if it's just five cents, make sure you bend down and pick up the money! You'll show the Universe that you are open to collecting abundance. When you feel like you'd be embarrassed or self-conscious about doing this, I want you to re-frame it so that you are looking after the money. You are a conscious custodian of cash making sure that money feels loved. This generates the energy of appreciation.

2. Write Yourself A Check: Do you know the story about Jim Carrey? Jim Carrey was a struggling young comedian trying to make money in Hollywood. He was just about to give up his dream of becoming a professional actor and comedian when he was booed off the stage at an open mic session in an LA nightclub.Jim sat by himself at the top of Mulholand Drive contemplating his success or failure. He then pulled out his check book and wrote himself a big fat check for $10 million dollars and made a note on it: "for acting services rendered."He then carried that check with him in his wallet everywhere he went from that day forward.By 1995, after the success of his blockbuster movies: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Dumb and Dumber, and The Mask, his contract price had risen to the price of $20 million dollars.Write yourself a check for a specific amount and place it in your purse or wallet.

3. Learn to love your bills: Sounds crazy right? Hold on as I explain. When bills land in your e-mail inbox or your mail box make sure that you mentally send them love and say thank you to the Universe for the services you have received in exchange for the bill. Draw little hearts on them and use the bills as an affirmation that prosperity flows into your life in many forms in order for you to pay your bills on time. Whatever you do, don't send the bills negative energy. Try and re-frame your perspective. Remember that more than 80% of the world's population survive on less than $10 per day. There's something to think about.

Developing a healthy relationship with money is critical if you are someone who wants to attract more of it. Continuing your unhealthy relationship is a choice and quite honestly a bit of a cop out. Even if you just want enough to survive and occasionally take a little vacation, adopting a healthy relationship with money is imperative to achieve that.

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How Your Thoughts Really Become Reality

Often, people ask me where does the term 'gut feeling' come from, and this is a very interesting question. We tend to forget that actually we have three minds. Yes three. We have our conscious mind, then we have our subconscious mind, and then, we have our abdominal mind.

What is our abdominal mind? 

Better known as the solar plexus, this the point on your body where your nerve system is complex. In Hindu texts, this is the point of your body where your spirituality and self-power is generated. It is the most sensitive part of your chest. It sits within the area of your stomach (at the back) and your just before your diaphragm. It is where the celiac trunk, renal arteries and superior mesenteric artery is split away from the abdominal aorta. Of course, once we start to think about this area, we get an immediate understanding about the feelings of 'butterflies' we get in anticipation of something and other similar sensations experienced in the gut area.

It is an intricate web of nerves, tissue and blood vessels. It is where we get our instinctive drive from. When we fear something, we experience a shift in emotion in this area. It is also the area of the body where we feel anxiety, excitement, apprehension and stress. Actors feel stage fright here. Athletes feel their power surge here before the start of a race. It is the place in our spiritual body where we experience will, self-development and action.

In Chakra, this is the most important area in meditation. We associate it with the colour yellow and the stone, Amber. Our feelings of self-belief come from here.

Our thoughts about our image, confidence and ability also derive from here. This is why when this Chakra isn't in balance, we feel anxiety, depression and guilt. When it is fully active and balanced, we are more likely to make powerful decisions, take risks, step out into the unknown. When we do this, we experience growth both spiritually and emotionally.

So how does this fit into turning things into reality? 

First, we generate an idea in our conscious mind. This might be an idea that's given to us from an external source or it might be one that appears when we are given some information to think about. Ideas are vibrations that are all around us. When we expand our knowledge of a subject, we expand our awareness, thus attracting ideas into our conscious mind.

Next, this idea now in our conscious mind shifts vibration. For an idea to 'stick' the vibration of the idea needs to be IN EXACT FREQUENCY as our paradigm (the selection of thoughts and beliefs we have about ourselves and about the world around us.) If the idea is NOT, then we reject the idea and shift our conscious thought onto something else. Don't forget, the conscious mind has the ability to accept or reject ANYTHING. This is why it is highly important to change your belief system first if you want to change your thoughts and change your results.

So what happens if we want to hold onto this new idea? 

This new idea you want to accept, you need to impress onto your subconscious mind for it to stick. Of course, this doesn't come naturally to you. It shifts your thinking onto a new vibration.

One you might not have felt before and the result of this new vibration is a sensation of worry, doubt, fear and anxiety. You feel uncomfortable. You toy with this new idea and worry about it. This fear comes from your paradigm because your conscious mind WANTS you to throw out the idea. It simply doesn't fit in with your existing belief system.

What happens next to make the idea stick? 

This is the hard part. You want this new vibration to stick. So, you ignore your worries and your doubts and you go for it. It will make you feel uneasy but once you have turned that idea into action, your behaviour will shift and the idea will become reality. You probably won't know how you're going to get to your goal, but don't worry. (This is the point where 95% of the population with back away and go back to their old ways again) Go for the desire, reach the goal.

Your subconscious mind will guide you there. Your subconscious mind controls your actions and your physiology. It will show you the way. All you have to do is trust the infinite knowledge you have in your solar plexus. Trusting this is the second hard part. It feels unnatural to you and your immediate feeling is to turn back. Fight through the barrier of beliefs that always stop you in your tracks.

That is how your thought becomes a thing.

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New Paradigm Power Games

Power Games

Again, it seems, we're collectively going through a seismic shift. Momentous changes are happening. People are being rocked to their core. There are strong reactions on one side or another.

What the heck is going on? And what can we do about it?

There's an increase Consciousness happening. We know that. It's been happening, it continues to happen, why does it feel like such a big, frickin' deal right now?

As we each experience an expansion of our vibration coming into form, we become more sensitive and aware. Some of us are experiencing our psychic abilities going through the roof. We're having dreams that turn out to be premonitions, we're thinking of people and then they show up in our lives, we even feel more telepathic and imagine we're going nuts.

What's been happening on an unseen level is our energy bodies are being upgraded. Some try to explain this as our DNA changing. I see us going from gasoline powered to hybrid to Tesla.

We're used to gasoline power - it feels dense, it has a residue. Some of us a currently hybrids, we have moments of effortlessness, mixed with sluggishness. Fasten your seatbelts when you wake up one morning to find your vehicle is Tesla powered.

The old power games aren't working in the world. They are the familiar forms of power. Dominance and manipulation. Physical strength, and mental acuity. Material wealth. If you're a narcissistic bully billionaire, people are going to think you're very powerful. In reality, you're the least powerful of all.

However, the old powerless games aren't working, either. Resistance, victimhood, self-pity, never got you what you wanted in the first place, but are especially setting folks back now.

We've been through some powerful movements, Occupy Wall Street, that have shone light on the old paradigms, and protests seem to create change in the moment. But when you look closely at them, they are merely the opposite of what they resist. They reflect the illusion of powerlessness.

We're being called to stand up and own our power. To stand senior within our own space. To act empowered. To be our own authority.

Consciousness is infinitely powerful. And we are Consciousness. As Consciousness comes more into form, we feel our omniscience within us. Anything that isn't in alignment with our magnificence, is going to feel uncomfortable. Is going to be reflected in the world around us.

The opportunity is arising for many of us to de-energize our old power games. We're revisiting old issues that use to disempower us. It does not mean you are stepping backwards. It's a chance to behave differently with these issues.

Nothing outside of you is more powerful than you. If you admit that you are powerless over people, places, and things, it really means you have taken your focus off them. You've withdrawn your power from them. You've taken your power back from the illusion. You've reclaimed power from the story you have been playing in.

Real power, like a Tesla engine, doesn't feel loud or heavy. It is effortless, clear, and fast. It changes you, or you change yourself, instantaneously. It does not change others. They can change or not change themselves. If you perceive others changing, it's because you have shifted yourself into a reality where they are different. It's you walking off of one sound stage and onto another. The cast looks the same, but the outcome is different.

Whatever is happening in the outside world does not affect your internal power. Even if you feel powerless, even if your storyline says you have no measurements of power, as Essence you are Consciousness and therefore infinitely powerful. As Essence you transcend time and space. As Consciousness you are creating everything in your reality down to the smallest detail. Even feeling powerless.

Your body and your personality contain all sorts of beliefs and concepts that aren't true. When you bring your higher frequency into your body, it can feel like it's dying. Your concepts are dying, but you are. Things you've held onto that are lower, denser, energy, are disintegrating. It feels like your personality is falling apart when these things disappear.

When you get quiet, when you take deep breaths, you realize that what feels ungrounded, what feels unsettled, is actually immense freedom. You are bringing freedom into your life, into your storyline. It's what you're really asking for when you pray, or play with manifesting. You're asking for financial freedom, you're asking for expansion of money, or love. Consciousness is the ultimate expansion. Consciousness *is* love. Consciousness *is* abundance and prosperity. *You* are Consciousness, so you are all these things.

When you relax into your life, the things you've been asking for show up. They spontaneously happen, or you realize they've been in your life all along. You don't have to do anything, you just have to have them, appreciate, recognize, acknowledge them.

You already are all the things you want.

Stop trying to drive your life as if it's a diesel powered engine. You don't need sixteen gears to get up a steep hill. You just press a button and there you are. Actually, you just touch the point where you feel you are now, and touch the point to where you want to be, and collapse the wave between them.

It's a new way of navigating. It's a new power game.

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7 Things to Start Doing Today to Be Happy

1. Decide to be happy.

Make a decision today to be happy. Then start doing things that will make you happy.

Stop settling for what others expect of you and start going after what really matters to you.

Have the tenacity to get over fear barrier and really chase after those things that matter to you.

Most of all, don't just decide. Really decide. You'll know it when you feel it in your guts. You've made decisions like this before, where you will do whatever it takes to make things happen because you're committed and able.

Decide. It really is as simple as that.

2. Practice affirmations daily.

What's the difference between an affirmation and the negative talk that goes on in your mind constantly? Nothing.

Affirmations are no different than the negative thought patterns that pop up whenever you're about to do something that scares you and excites you.

So, start off small, with just one affirmation. Recite it at least a hundred times a day for the next week, until you start to reflexively say it in your mind whenever something comes up that would have normally had you going to negative thoughts.

Most of all, make sure that you're at least slightly emotionally invested in your affirmations. You'll have to feel good about it in order for this affirmation to become your new paradigm. You might even find yourself in disbelief the first few days or weeks that you start reciting it.

As long as you can get to the point where you start believing it and start feeling good about it, you're on the right path.

3. Practice gratitude daily.

Start being grateful for what you have rather than what you lack. When you practice gratitude, you put your mind in a different vibration.

Gratitude reframes our mind and starts helping us see what's possible and what's abundant rather than what's impossible and scarce.

Most of all, even practice gratitude for the things that you do not have but want. When you start thinking on this wavelength, invariably your mind will start coming up with creative ways to help you get what you really want.

4. Meditate daily.

I have to admit that affirmations are hard when you are first starting out. A big part of the challenge is just generally lack of belief and investment. Being in a positive frame of mind is such a shift when you have been living a life of lack and scarcity your entire life. So, it does take quite a while for your affirmations to take hold.

You, however, can help yourself along by practicing meditation. Meditation not only sharpens your focus, it also quiets the mind and helps you to become impartial and non-judgmental to the random thoughts that enter your mind. I've heard somewhere that we have about 30,000 to 50,000 thoughts a day! Imagine trying to control it all.

Here's something that will surprise you about these thoughts: Many of them occur at the unconscious level! By being able to dismiss these thoughts without judgement, you stop feeling bad about things.

5. Stop blaming other people and start being more proactive.

Successful and happy people learned a long time ago that ultimately the only person that they can blame and subsequently change are themselves.

Everything they have in their lives is a result of themselves, both the good and the bad. When you realize that you yourself are ultimately the only one to blame for your circumstances, you also realize that you alone have the power to change those circumstances.

There's another word for blaming other people and the environment for your problems: It's called the victim mentality.

And here's something that will shock you about victim mentality. It comes fundamentally from poor self-esteem and self-hatred.

6. Make time for yourself.

While life is best lived in the service towards others, you have to ultimately make time for yourself. You have to eventually face the music.

By making time for yourself, you learn more about yourself. Do things that make you happy. Work on your affirmations. Daily, write out ten things for which you are grateful. Meditate to help you focus and be more successful in reciting your affirmations.

7. Start a Journal of Healing.

When you have time to yourself, consider writing into a Journal of Healing. Simply put, you write down the things that are bugging you.

When you are able to concisely and clearly put your thoughts into words, you can exactly define what's bugging you.

After you've ranted and vented, start another section in your journal called Healing. In this section, discuss some of the things you can do to start the healing process. It could be to verbalize your problems, think of how different people perceive the problem and potential solutions, talk to a friend, just write more later to vent (believe it or not, this one actually helps over time in helping you to let go), or perhaps go hiking or do something physical to help you take your mind off these thoughts.

Conclusion

So, start doing these 7 things today to be happy. First, make the decision--really make the decision--to be happy. When you feel it in your guts, you know that you have really decided. Next, practice affirmations and gratitude daily. If you need to, write down your affirmations on a small card and carry it in your pocket so that every time you put your hands into your pocket, you'll feel it and pull it out to read it.

Next, stop playing the victim and start taking responsibility for the things that happened to you in your life. You alone have the power to change things. Make time for yourself and start a Journal of Healing to help address some of the past issues that are keeping you from being happy.

So, you see. Happiness is a decision you have to make. Then, you have to start doing things to get you towards that happiness.

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