In 1982 during the war between Lebanon and Israel, a group of researchers were running an experiment. Using transcendental meditation they trained a group to concentrate on peace. To feel peace in their bodies.
These individuals were positioned in different areas amongst the fighting in the middle east and began concentrating on peace. During the times they were concentrating, terrorist activity stopped and crimes rates dropped. Even emergency room visits and traffic accidents declined. When the participants stopped concentrating on peace everything returned to normal chaos.
The data was so consistent the experimenters were able to come up with an exact formula to determine how many people needed to concentrate on the experience peace and see its effect in the world. The amount came to the square root of one percent.
This actually shows you only need a small group of individuals concentrating to affect a large part of the population. Based on that calculation you would only need about 100 individuals to see a change in a population of 1 million. That would mean you would only need about 8000 individuals to influence the entire world.
How encouraging is that?
We don't need the entire world to change. We just need a small portion of the world to stand up and believe in the change to make it happen. Just 8000 out of the entire world population could do it.
It almost sounds too good to be true. But the evidence clearly shows that is all it would take.
Let's prove it to be true.
Start concentrating on peace. Find something that brings peace to your heart. Having no children myself, I use a picture of my little one year old niece. The mind can't hold a positive and negative emotion at the same time. When looking at a picture of my adorable, innocent, little niece I can't help but smile and feel good.
Let's take it a step farther.
We if we chose a time such as 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time and all decided to concentrate on peace as much as we could throughout that hour. Would we see something happen? Would we see a change?
The only way to find out is to try.
Join us at http://www.paradigmshifttoday.com/signup.html and join our experiment. We will keep you informed concerning how many are participating and you yourself should actually be able to see if there are any results.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Segment Intending
It’s been awhile since I heard of the concept of segment intending. I first remember reading about it when I read The Law of Attraction by Esther and Jerry Hicks. Most people today seem to have heard of the law of attraction, whether they believe it or not. Basically the law of attraction says that whatever we think about, combined with emotion, we bring into our lives. It doesn’t matter if it is good or bad. If we concentrate on it long enough it will make its appearance.
Segment intending can help you put the law of attraction to work for you. I personally think it is an easier way to keep our thoughts on things we want and off things we don’t want.
We have over 50,000 thoughts a day. How in the world could we ever keep track of those thoughts? We can’t. But we can let our emotions guide us. Stop and notice your feelings. What are you feeling right now? If you are feeling good then you can be assured good things are coming. Are you feeling bad? Then you might want to do something to change that.
Segment intending can help. It helps you from becoming overwhelmed. We don’t have to deal with all 50,000 thoughts. We can break our day up into segments and deal with each segment one at a time. It helps us to become more present and enter the NOW.
Our daily lives can be broken into many segments. For example you awake in the morning, you shower, you get dressed, you have breakfast, you brush your teeth, you drive to work, etc…
Segment intending involves becoming aware of these segments and knowing when you are entering into a new segment. As you enter a new segment become aware of how you feel and what you want from this segment in your life. Some may be simple such as brushing your teeth, others may be harder such as dealing with something at work.
Be diligent. Stay aware of each segment. Perhaps some segments are not as you would like them to be. Use that moment to focus your thoughts on how you want it to be. Picture it vividly in your mind. Feel the positive emotions of having this segment manifest itself to your liking. What you will be doing is paving the way for future segments. Future segments you have created.
Try this for just one month and you will be surprised at the outcome. An incredible life is out there just waiting for you to create.
Paradigm Shift Today
Segment intending can help you put the law of attraction to work for you. I personally think it is an easier way to keep our thoughts on things we want and off things we don’t want.
We have over 50,000 thoughts a day. How in the world could we ever keep track of those thoughts? We can’t. But we can let our emotions guide us. Stop and notice your feelings. What are you feeling right now? If you are feeling good then you can be assured good things are coming. Are you feeling bad? Then you might want to do something to change that.
Segment intending can help. It helps you from becoming overwhelmed. We don’t have to deal with all 50,000 thoughts. We can break our day up into segments and deal with each segment one at a time. It helps us to become more present and enter the NOW.
Our daily lives can be broken into many segments. For example you awake in the morning, you shower, you get dressed, you have breakfast, you brush your teeth, you drive to work, etc…
Segment intending involves becoming aware of these segments and knowing when you are entering into a new segment. As you enter a new segment become aware of how you feel and what you want from this segment in your life. Some may be simple such as brushing your teeth, others may be harder such as dealing with something at work.
Be diligent. Stay aware of each segment. Perhaps some segments are not as you would like them to be. Use that moment to focus your thoughts on how you want it to be. Picture it vividly in your mind. Feel the positive emotions of having this segment manifest itself to your liking. What you will be doing is paving the way for future segments. Future segments you have created.
Try this for just one month and you will be surprised at the outcome. An incredible life is out there just waiting for you to create.
Paradigm Shift Today
Friday, September 25, 2009
Stop Playing The Game
You are playing a game with the entire world. Sometimes it can be enjoyable and fun, but most of the times it’s hard and complicated. Sometimes it can just be sadistic and cruel.
Your ego loves playing the game. It loves comparing itself to others to see who is winning. To see who has the most money. To see who has the most power. To see who is the best. To see who is happier. To see who is making the most out of their life.
Every person you meet your ego is sizing them up. Deciding who is ahead in the game.
But here is the catch. We may make the comparisons but we constantly feel we are losing. We know there is something out there we don’t have. We may not even know what it is. We just have that empty feeling that tells us it is missing.
Guess what? That empty feeling isn’t going to go away. If we look out into the world to fill the void, the empty space may actually get bigger and bigger. We are chasing something we can never catch.
We are playing a game in which there can be no winner. Yet we keep playing the game and sometimes the game flies completely out of our control.
Your mind has over 50,000 thoughts a day. Are you going to tell me you are in control of all those thoughts? Do you even know what those thoughts are? Most are repetitive and useless. The same thoughts that you have over and over every day, but accomplish nothing. Most just bring worry and misery.
Even though you aren’t consciously aware of all the thoughts you know they are there. You can feel them. There is that underlying current of unease that is in all of us. Sometimes we feel it more intensely. Sometimes in moments of intense anger or grief it can overwhelm us. But even in moments of relative peace we can still feel it lurking in the background.
The game keeps us searching, comparing and fighting for relief but there is none. Perhaps brief flashes of liberation, but they are always fleeting.
So is there anything we can do?
Yes!
Quit playing the game.
Surrender. Just give up. Decide you are not going to play the game anymore.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying give up on life. I am saying end the game. Now watch what happens in your life.
Turn your life over to your higher self. Trust in the part of you that is infinite. A part of you that, believe it or not, is omnipotent – all knowing. Why in the word would you want to limit yourself to your finite mind? A mind so cluttered and full of lies and deceit that it really can’t even see the world for what it truly is.
Accept that you are more than this jumbled mess of thoughts and emotions, walking sometimes aimlessly in a trap of flesh and bone. Realize that you have the ability to access infinite possibilities. Understand there is no need for competition, because everyone has this ability. Everyone is pure unlimited potential. You can coordinate the universe so precise that anything you desire is possible.
How?
Embrace the unknown and uncertainty. Know that everything you could ever want is yours for the taking. Just don’t get caught up in the “how” and “why” anymore. Find the joy in yourself. What makes you feel good? Let that feeling guide you. If you are having fun in what you are doing, everything else will take care of itself.
But most won’t believe it. Most are just going to continue playing the game. For them the struggle is never going to end. Sad.
Stop playing the game.
Paradigm Shift Today
Your ego loves playing the game. It loves comparing itself to others to see who is winning. To see who has the most money. To see who has the most power. To see who is the best. To see who is happier. To see who is making the most out of their life.
Every person you meet your ego is sizing them up. Deciding who is ahead in the game.
But here is the catch. We may make the comparisons but we constantly feel we are losing. We know there is something out there we don’t have. We may not even know what it is. We just have that empty feeling that tells us it is missing.
Guess what? That empty feeling isn’t going to go away. If we look out into the world to fill the void, the empty space may actually get bigger and bigger. We are chasing something we can never catch.
We are playing a game in which there can be no winner. Yet we keep playing the game and sometimes the game flies completely out of our control.
Your mind has over 50,000 thoughts a day. Are you going to tell me you are in control of all those thoughts? Do you even know what those thoughts are? Most are repetitive and useless. The same thoughts that you have over and over every day, but accomplish nothing. Most just bring worry and misery.
Even though you aren’t consciously aware of all the thoughts you know they are there. You can feel them. There is that underlying current of unease that is in all of us. Sometimes we feel it more intensely. Sometimes in moments of intense anger or grief it can overwhelm us. But even in moments of relative peace we can still feel it lurking in the background.
The game keeps us searching, comparing and fighting for relief but there is none. Perhaps brief flashes of liberation, but they are always fleeting.
So is there anything we can do?
Yes!
Quit playing the game.
Surrender. Just give up. Decide you are not going to play the game anymore.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying give up on life. I am saying end the game. Now watch what happens in your life.
Turn your life over to your higher self. Trust in the part of you that is infinite. A part of you that, believe it or not, is omnipotent – all knowing. Why in the word would you want to limit yourself to your finite mind? A mind so cluttered and full of lies and deceit that it really can’t even see the world for what it truly is.
Accept that you are more than this jumbled mess of thoughts and emotions, walking sometimes aimlessly in a trap of flesh and bone. Realize that you have the ability to access infinite possibilities. Understand there is no need for competition, because everyone has this ability. Everyone is pure unlimited potential. You can coordinate the universe so precise that anything you desire is possible.
How?
Embrace the unknown and uncertainty. Know that everything you could ever want is yours for the taking. Just don’t get caught up in the “how” and “why” anymore. Find the joy in yourself. What makes you feel good? Let that feeling guide you. If you are having fun in what you are doing, everything else will take care of itself.
But most won’t believe it. Most are just going to continue playing the game. For them the struggle is never going to end. Sad.
Stop playing the game.
Paradigm Shift Today
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Is Pain Addictive?
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It seems as if some people are actually addicted to the pain in their everyday lives. It is almost like they get an adverse pleasure from the pain. That may sound extreme but for most of us our pain is hard to get rid of.
When something bad happens in our life our mind wants to dwell on it. The harder we try to ignore it the more intense it becomes. It becomes a huge struggle. We want to free ourselves from the pain but we can’t.
Believe it or not a big part of the problem is our ego. We make the pain part of us. And our ego wants to viciously hold onto anything it sees as part of us. It is as if we lose the pain then we will lose a part of ourselves. Our ego does not want that. And subconsciously we will do anything to prevent that even if it means doing things to hold onto the pain.
So what do can we do?
Don’t fight it. Accept it. Experience the pain. Observe it and let it run its course. Depending on the severity of the pain it may become very intense at times but keep observing. Pay attention to the thoughts running through your head. Pay attention to the emotions that you are feeling.
Don’t try and fight the pain. Just surrender to it. Let it take you over.
This may seem extreme. So counter intuitive to what we are taught.
But guess what is going to happen?
As you continue to just be an observer to the pain you will eventually notice the pain diminishing. Once that happens don’t stop. It may seem easier to fight the pain now since it is not as strong, to just forget it and go on. But don’t. Keep observing the pain. Again don’t fight. Just keep staying in a “surrender mode.” Eventually you will notice the pain will stop, just disappear. It has run its course.
It may come back later. But it won’t be as strong. When it comes back again just accept the pain, surrender and observe. The pain will eventually disappear forever.
Paradigm Shift Today
It seems as if some people are actually addicted to the pain in their everyday lives. It is almost like they get an adverse pleasure from the pain. That may sound extreme but for most of us our pain is hard to get rid of.
When something bad happens in our life our mind wants to dwell on it. The harder we try to ignore it the more intense it becomes. It becomes a huge struggle. We want to free ourselves from the pain but we can’t.
Believe it or not a big part of the problem is our ego. We make the pain part of us. And our ego wants to viciously hold onto anything it sees as part of us. It is as if we lose the pain then we will lose a part of ourselves. Our ego does not want that. And subconsciously we will do anything to prevent that even if it means doing things to hold onto the pain.
So what do can we do?
Don’t fight it. Accept it. Experience the pain. Observe it and let it run its course. Depending on the severity of the pain it may become very intense at times but keep observing. Pay attention to the thoughts running through your head. Pay attention to the emotions that you are feeling.
Don’t try and fight the pain. Just surrender to it. Let it take you over.
This may seem extreme. So counter intuitive to what we are taught.
But guess what is going to happen?
As you continue to just be an observer to the pain you will eventually notice the pain diminishing. Once that happens don’t stop. It may seem easier to fight the pain now since it is not as strong, to just forget it and go on. But don’t. Keep observing the pain. Again don’t fight. Just keep staying in a “surrender mode.” Eventually you will notice the pain will stop, just disappear. It has run its course.
It may come back later. But it won’t be as strong. When it comes back again just accept the pain, surrender and observe. The pain will eventually disappear forever.
Paradigm Shift Today
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Two Mind Exercises
EXERCISE ONE
Can you listen to your thoughts, the voice in your head?
Do you know how many thoughts you have a day? About 50,000!
Can you become aware of the emotions you are feeling right now?
Do you have control of those thoughts and emotions?
Concentrate on your thoughts and emotions right now.
Okay, now you’re observing your thoughts and emotions.
Doesn’t observation imply TWO separate things? The observer and that being observed.
Which one is you?
Do you know what will happen if you just observe an emotion or thought long enough?
EXERCISE 2
What do you need right now?
Don't project yourself into the future. The future is a phantom in your mind that doesn't exist.
What do you need right now?
Not tomorrow. Not an hour from now. Not even a minute from now.
What do you need right now?
Is there anything in your life so pressing that you just have to have it right now, you can't wait one more second?
Paradigm Shift Today
Can you listen to your thoughts, the voice in your head?
Do you know how many thoughts you have a day? About 50,000!
Can you become aware of the emotions you are feeling right now?
Do you have control of those thoughts and emotions?
Concentrate on your thoughts and emotions right now.
Okay, now you’re observing your thoughts and emotions.
Doesn’t observation imply TWO separate things? The observer and that being observed.
Which one is you?
Do you know what will happen if you just observe an emotion or thought long enough?
EXERCISE 2
What do you need right now?
Don't project yourself into the future. The future is a phantom in your mind that doesn't exist.
What do you need right now?
Not tomorrow. Not an hour from now. Not even a minute from now.
What do you need right now?
Is there anything in your life so pressing that you just have to have it right now, you can't wait one more second?
Paradigm Shift Today
Monday, September 14, 2009
Don't Be Infulenced By How Others See You
When you are trying to accomplish a goal, something big, do faces pop into your head as a reason why you won’t achieve that goal? It’s kind of strange isn’t it? Do we even know why those faces appear? But they seem to be negative, even if the face is a positive person in our life. For some reason that face represents a reason we can’t accomplish that goal.
Do we look at that person as an opposition to our goal?
Do we look at that person as one who just would never expect us to achieve a goal like that? If that is the case are we going to let their belief shape our world?
How many times do we let other’s beliefs about us shape us into who we are? Or at least who we think we are. It’s crazy when you think about it, but we do it all the time. We react certain ways around certain people because that is who they believe we are. And we accept it.
We let others expectations of us influence what we accomplish. That is just un acceptable!
What is your reputation? How do people see you?
Did you know you have as many reputations as people who know you? No two people are going to see you exactly the same.
When you interact with someone it is actually like there are four distinct personalities.
1. How you see yourself.
2. How the other person sees you.
3. How you see the other person.
4. How the other person sees themselves.
Is it any wonder relationships can be so confusing?
No one knows who you are and what you are capable of. And quite frankly you are capable of anything!
Do not let one single person’s single interpretation of you influence what you want.
That is up to you. And if you want it you got it.
Paradigm Shift Today
Do we look at that person as an opposition to our goal?
Do we look at that person as one who just would never expect us to achieve a goal like that? If that is the case are we going to let their belief shape our world?
How many times do we let other’s beliefs about us shape us into who we are? Or at least who we think we are. It’s crazy when you think about it, but we do it all the time. We react certain ways around certain people because that is who they believe we are. And we accept it.
We let others expectations of us influence what we accomplish. That is just un acceptable!
What is your reputation? How do people see you?
Did you know you have as many reputations as people who know you? No two people are going to see you exactly the same.
When you interact with someone it is actually like there are four distinct personalities.
1. How you see yourself.
2. How the other person sees you.
3. How you see the other person.
4. How the other person sees themselves.
Is it any wonder relationships can be so confusing?
No one knows who you are and what you are capable of. And quite frankly you are capable of anything!
Do not let one single person’s single interpretation of you influence what you want.
That is up to you. And if you want it you got it.
Paradigm Shift Today
Saturday, August 8, 2009
We are always in the NOW
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I will be using this blog to make sense of my thoughts, to preserve and keep them, to remind, for perhaps I might lose them.
One of the best books I have ever read is Eckhart Tollee's The Power of Now. In the book he shows how there is no past or future there is only NOW. Past and future are just an illusion constructed by our mind. The key to happiness is to free ourself from our ego dominated mind, to stop dwelling on the phantoms of the past and future and just enjoy being in the here and now.
But our ego won't let us. Our ego want's to keep control of us through our mind. Constantly keeping us in a stuggle with the past and future. Keeping us separate from everyone and everything in the world. Almost like a huge competition where we most show ourselves superior.
Only by learning to free ourselves from the mind can we actually become happy. We need to try and stay as present as we can. Put gaps in the thinking of our mind. Concentrate on the task we are doing. Concentrate on our breathing. Go inside our bodies and learn to feel the true energy that is us.
During moments of relative minor stress, for there is almost constantly an underlying current of unease and tension in all of us, we must concentrate on keeping ourselves aware and in the present and free of our mind. By doing this we put ourselves in a high level of vibration and just like darkness is expelled by light nothing bad can enter when we are truly vibrating at a high level.
By living in the now we learn that everything we can possibly need we already have. There needs to be no worry about needs of the future. Just like the universe supplies for all its creations so it will for us. What we need will make its appearance when the need arises.
Running my own business I have always found myself in that mind trap. As is the norm for any business there are going to be up cycles and down cycles. Sometimes a down cycle may seem to last for a long period of time, bringing about worry concerning how future needs will be met. But it has always amazed me in over twelve years of business the needs have always been met. Sometimes it seems like magic. Sometimes just about at the last moment. Which makes me sometimes wonder why it couldn't have come a little faster. But the need has always been met.
It has to doesn't? If all we really are is in the now, then it is already here.
But what I find interesting is I still fall back into the trap of worry. You would think after a need always being met for over twelve years the worry would end. But the mind won't let it. Again showing we need to free ourselves from our mind.
Quoting from The Power of Now, "All you really need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with youself."
www.paradigmshifttoday.com
I will be using this blog to make sense of my thoughts, to preserve and keep them, to remind, for perhaps I might lose them.
One of the best books I have ever read is Eckhart Tollee's The Power of Now. In the book he shows how there is no past or future there is only NOW. Past and future are just an illusion constructed by our mind. The key to happiness is to free ourself from our ego dominated mind, to stop dwelling on the phantoms of the past and future and just enjoy being in the here and now.
But our ego won't let us. Our ego want's to keep control of us through our mind. Constantly keeping us in a stuggle with the past and future. Keeping us separate from everyone and everything in the world. Almost like a huge competition where we most show ourselves superior.
Only by learning to free ourselves from the mind can we actually become happy. We need to try and stay as present as we can. Put gaps in the thinking of our mind. Concentrate on the task we are doing. Concentrate on our breathing. Go inside our bodies and learn to feel the true energy that is us.
During moments of relative minor stress, for there is almost constantly an underlying current of unease and tension in all of us, we must concentrate on keeping ourselves aware and in the present and free of our mind. By doing this we put ourselves in a high level of vibration and just like darkness is expelled by light nothing bad can enter when we are truly vibrating at a high level.
By living in the now we learn that everything we can possibly need we already have. There needs to be no worry about needs of the future. Just like the universe supplies for all its creations so it will for us. What we need will make its appearance when the need arises.
Running my own business I have always found myself in that mind trap. As is the norm for any business there are going to be up cycles and down cycles. Sometimes a down cycle may seem to last for a long period of time, bringing about worry concerning how future needs will be met. But it has always amazed me in over twelve years of business the needs have always been met. Sometimes it seems like magic. Sometimes just about at the last moment. Which makes me sometimes wonder why it couldn't have come a little faster. But the need has always been met.
It has to doesn't? If all we really are is in the now, then it is already here.
But what I find interesting is I still fall back into the trap of worry. You would think after a need always being met for over twelve years the worry would end. But the mind won't let it. Again showing we need to free ourselves from our mind.
Quoting from The Power of Now, "All you really need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with youself."
www.paradigmshifttoday.com
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