What Stops You........????? Part 2

As I said in Part One of this Blog, we are creatures of habit. If we are prone to thinking negatively or pessimistically most of the time, that state of being becomes a habit. If we think that life is always positive, positive, positive and everything is just wonderful most of the time, this also becomes a habitual way of thinking, of being.

Dr Joe Dispenza in his book, "Evolve Your Brain....." says "...every time we fire a thought in our brain, we make chemicals that produce feelings and other reactions in the body....We do nearly everything we can to ensure we maintain those feelings and to restore the familiar chemical balance your body has become accustomed to whenever there is a challenge or an interruption in the regular, consistent and comfortable level of our body's chemical makeup that results in discomfort!"

So, whenever you feel a sense of discomfort about thinking and doing things differently,

this discomfort is due, in part, to the fact that your body's chemistry is telling you - "no, this is not what I am used to!!" Your body will do everything it can to maintain the familiar and comfortable level of it's chemical makeup even though it may be detrimental to your moving forward and doing something different. Whenever you feel RESISTANCE to change, know that your body's chemistry is insisting on maintaining what is familiar.

What can we do to alter a habitual state of being?? It takes awareness, self-discipline and a

commitment to change a pattern of thinking that releases a particular concoction of chemicals.  Be clear about what you want and think it, rehearse it in your mind. 

Aristotle said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an action but a habit."

Feel into your desired thoughts by quieting your Mind to enter new information into the sub-conscious Mind; do this repeatedly with absolute certainty that this is now the You, you want to be. Think it, Do it and Be it. Be pro-active. Take action to master your Mind and you will alter your state of being as your inner neuro-chemical world assists you to build a new paradigm!!

Enjoy!

Lilly Fitzgerald

What stops YOU.......??

This is PART ONE of this particular blog. I decided to divide it into two parts simply because there is a lot of information to take in.

It is true that if you understand SELF you will find it easier to understand others. Judge SELF less, you will judge others less etc.

These words are true ONLY WHEN you take ACTION to understand SELF and ONLY WHEN you take ACTION to open SELF up to expanding your Mind to alter your perceptions. You cannot understand yourself and claim to know yourself just by talking about it. You cannot alter your life merely by talking about it or reading books or by theorizing, intellectually analyzing or just by attending seminars and workshops etc. 

However, many people do this!

How often does the conversation go, "Oh yes, that's something I read about in such and such a book...." Or, "Oh yes, I went to a conference and heard......talking about this. It resonated really strongly!"

My question is:
"What have you done differently since?"

It is well-known that only about 2%-5% of people actually take ACTION following a seminar or a workshop they may have attended. Most people become enthused on the day but once they leave and return to their familiar lives - their workplace, home, relationships etc - all that enthusiasm goes!

It is true that we are creatures of habit. We are hardwired

neurologically to become creatures of habit. As Neuro-Scientists continue researching the human brain and how it works, more and more information is available to each of us to really understand how we operate, how we learn, behaviour and the chemistry of that. 

Great information but useful only if applied in a practical sense to create different responses and outcomes in your life!

To become less judgemental takes practice and results in part from being less judgemental with SELF. If you are your harshest critic then in order to alter that pattern of thinking requires dedication and commitment, persistence and knowledge. It requires ACTION.

Sounds easy enough - yet it is more complex. 

Part Two of this Blog explains more.

Enjoy!
Lilly Fitzgerald

WORRY - A CURSE ON THE BODY'S PHYSIOLOGY!

Being constantly anxious and worrying affects our physiology; it affects the heart, circulation, the nervous system. It unsettles us and creates internal imbalance, often manifesting in reactive behaviour. Anxiety, worry and doubt can knock you around and attack your sense of self and your self-worth.

A great definition of worry is:

"........ a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained."                                                                                     Arthur Somers Roche

Worry is fear and fear is often an incomplete picture or a perception from a past experience believed to be true. Fear is emotion based on incomplete awareness.
 

Fear can be described as 'false expectation appearing real'. Associated worry or anxiety is based on a story that you have told yourself and have repeated over and over to yourself so that it has become a way of being for you.
 

Anxiety then becomes a negative habit of thinking that serves to reinforces a negative sub-conscious message and if allowed to continue, 'worry' really does 'cut a channel' in the brain by way of myelinating neuronal pathways over and over. It blocks us from allowing a complete awareness to emerge.

Constant worry, anxiety depresses the immune system.
 

So here's a suggestion: 

• find what the action was that triggered the fear or worry or angst.

• Write down as many ways as you can think of that, that very same action (that triggered you to feel anxious), actually assists you or someone else in some way. - WRITE all those things them down - don't just think about them - write them down in order to get a complete awareness.

Your perception will alter, your worry / anxiety will decrease.

Your physiology will thank you. You will begin creating different neural pathways in your brain.

 

TRY IT! 

 

 

 



PERCEPTIONS

what the thinker thinks, the Mind proves as correct - your subconscious Mind filters all incoming perceptions to make what you think, true. When you constantly say something like, "I can't do this" you prime your Mind to

make it true and of course, you won't do whatever it is you say you can't do. However, the converse is also true. When you prime your Mind towards "I can do this" or "I will do this" YOU give YOURSELF a better chance to accomplish it. In this situation YOU are internally congruent with that which YOU want to accomplish externally. In the first situation, YOU experience inner conflict - YOUR internal speak is incongruent with that which YOU wish to accomplish. This often leads to a negative state of being which, if it continues over a prolonged period of time, affects your physiology - dis-ease in the body. The thing to remember is that YOU are in the DRIVER'S seat. What is also true is that if you merely say "I can do this" without taking action towards doing it and without an attitude of Mind that supports it emotionally, you will again experience frustration and a state of incongruence. Having Clarity, being Specific and focusing on the outcome you want and not straying from that position cognitively primes your brain and Mind to work together to bring you the results you desire! Most of us, however, focus on all the reasons why we can't or won't and then wish for the desired outcome! Won't Work! Doesn't Work!