Creating and Maintaining All Round Health

Now in this day and age of so much information being free to hand how do we know what works the best for us? The answer to this problem is to trust you know what's best. That being said to be open to an expert isn't going to harm you? Or is it?

That depends. Again so many people are an authority on what works 'for me' only are they merely projecting their own opinions and patterns of thinking out to you as they don't really have a clue what else to do?

For yourself to gain in health in all areas of your life not just physically but mentally, emotionally, spiritually and even financially you have to learn to trust your own wisdom from inside your own mind.

We all have it, this internal place that speaks only with truth and wisdom and brings clarity from you to you. The fact is until your logical mind is at peace it is extremely hard to access that region of your own thinking and thus the higher brain functions but not impossible. When you live in the world of truth you will soon start to realize nothing is actually impossible, but that's for another time.

So in keeping with developing and maintaining excellent health let me give you some advice:

1. Never trust anyone over and above yourself. Listen yes, follow guidance but only if it works for you. Put it to the test. This will develop strong bonds of trust inside of yourself which in turn allows you to create less stress in your everyday decision-making, actions you are taking as well as the relationships you are building. Less stress creates less ill-health and thus increases productivity naturally

2. Be at one inside of your own mind. You are a lot more complex than you might think. Yet when you stop and take a look beyond any logical thoughts your mind is a vessel for facts and information that is simply inside of you. To clear your own thoughts try sitting quietly and focusing on your breathing. Let any insignificant thoughts pass you by. On average most people have 50,000 to 70,000 logical and unnecessary thoughts daily, so you can see how clearing your head can really help access your own truth, wisdom and clarity. Set aside time to do this for a few minutes each day with absolutely no interruptions. With practice and no effort you will soon be able to 'tune in' to your own highest wisdom and guidance

3. Believe you are not the ONE. You are however a wonderful unique individual that has their own thoughts, beliefs, memories, emotions, body, skills and capabilities and money. You are not any more important or worthy than anyone else is. When you fully understand this you realize you are the most important person in your life but no one else's. Thus you can only control what is yours and be at peace that other people have the right to control what is theirs. This means delegation of anything you no longer wish to do becomes easy for you and can relieve a build-up of tension and pressure. Remember there is always someone who is just as capable as you, if not better at doing it. This is particularly helpful if you struggle to 'save' people or the world. That isn't what we are here for. We are here to live our lives and respect others to live theirs. This respect will also build up strong boundaries and remove all need for defences to getting your own needs met. Boundaries are less harmful to the physical body as they do not involve the 'fight or flight' mechanism or encourage aggressive barriers inside of you or in other people. The power of NO is amazing. Start using it more often.

4. Let yourself speak. No one can ever make you feel one way or the other. If you take nothing else from this article than this, then you will be a lot more assertive in getting your own needs met and a lot less intimidated or scared of speaking your truth, regardless of anyone else's believes. Repressed and unfulfilled people aren't as healthy as people who are freely able to express themselves vocally, physically and emotionally. If you don't think anything is in your control then just be open to your own emotions, the way you feel is always in your control. Equally the way someone else feels is in their control not yours. Take a step back and learn to respect not blame yourself for how you feel at any given time, particularly if it involves what other people have done around you or to you. Forgiveness is only worthwhile if you start to understand that you have the choice of how you interact with others and with whom.

5. Foster self-belief as this builds self-esteem. When you are strong in self-esteem, the need to prove yourself as this or that falls away and you become better equipped to handle difficult people until eventually you stop attracting them but that's a book in its self. For now, just trust that as you have more self-respect so do the people you encounter. Try it don't just take my word for it. Set an intention to be respected by everyone and respect them and let it sink in then go out and notice the change that you as an empowered person have created in your life, health and well-being.

6. Wait. Sometimes the need to do or offer more has us running around in circles so just wait. The clearer your thinking becomes the less you waiver off the focus and forward movement that we all naturally gravitate towards. This in turn builds up less haste which creates less waste. This also means you age less quickly as fewer cells are produced and fewer cells are wasted. Ever wondered why you end up with colds on holidays? It's almost as if you can't find the time to be ill when you are at work but a holiday is an idea opportunity to get that obligatory cough/cold and recover before going back to the daily grind. Well it is as it says. You can't afford to have it whilst at work so you wait and then you create. You can't be that different to the neighbour or your children different to the neighbours children so as they get it like that and so to do you.

Am I right? If I'm not then well done you have broken the evil spell that we all have to be the same to belong and if you are still copying someone else's beliefs and therefore body ill-health, all be it blindly, then don't worry there is still hope for you yet. By waiting you actually end up creating only what is in your best interest to create based on truth rather than what happened in the past and that uncovers more than you realize to do with your own physical health. But I'll leave it at that as that is part of the fun of self-development it's up to you to get clear on your own intention professionally and personally after all you're the one creating your own health and life not me

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Is Meditation the Same Thing As Yoga?

The word meditation is often used as a synonym for yoga.

The word 'meditation' purports to be the translation of Hindi words yoga, dhyan and samadhi. The spiritual practice of yoga, dhyan and samadhi was discovered by the ancient Indian sages-rishis- thousands of years back.

The truth is that these spiritual practices were alien to western civilization and hence there is no exact version for them in English language. The word 'meditation' is, therefore, only an approximate expression for yoga.

According to dictionary, the word meditation means thinking, mulling, rumination, deliberation, musing, reflection and words with similar meanings. You may meditate over a problem that may make you sad, unhappy and tense. Of course, you may also meditate over a situation that may make you happy and relaxed.

But meditation in the sense of yoga, dhyan or samadhi never makes you sad. On the other hand its objective is to eliminate sadness and tension and make you relaxed, peaceful, happy and blissful.

Meditation in the literal sense is only a preliminary or a facilitating step to achieve a state of yoga, dhyan or samadhi.

We need to explain the meanings of the words, yoga, dhyan and Samadhi.

Yoga is actually a mathematical term. It means addition, one of the four most fundamental mathematical processes. The word 'yoga' meaning addition in mathematics acquires a higher connotation or significance in the realm of spirituality. It is that you add your spirit or soul-called aatma in Hindi-- to that of supreme soul called paramaatma in Hindi or God in English. In literal sense, you try to add, integrate your soul-aatma to the soul of the supreme entity, i.e., God or paramatma.

You experience supreme happiness when you are in a state of yoga-addition, integration or merger of consciousness- with the highest source of blissfulness.

But how does this 'addition' take place between the two souls?

The answer can be approximately explained in mathematical terms. When you add a two with a three, it becomes five. This addition becomes a kind of merger where at least the smaller digit two loses its identity and becomes a part of five.

This, ideally, is the aim of meditation or yoga. When you perform meditation in its true sense, you are so lost in the process that you lose consciousness of your body or existence. You are immersed into a spiritual experience.

This kind of loss of consciousness of body is often experienced by the great yogis, saints, sages, thinkers, philosophers, artists or scientists. Remember Archimedes, the great Greek engineer, mathematician, astronomer and inventor who came running out of the bathroom into the street shouting Eureka, Eureka. So ecstatic he was that he forgot that he was naked. That point of time is known as Eureka Moment, the moment of supreme bliss and forgetfulness of the body and its surroundings.

How did Archimedes arrive at the Eureka moment? Of course, he might have started by meditating-thinking upon the issue. Gradually he concentrated, focused so deeply on it that he acquired a state of yoga with the goal of his meditation. He was so ecstatic that he lost awareness of the consciousness of his body when he achieved that goal.

An extreme focus or attention brought through the process of yoga is called dhyan. Samadhi is a perennial state of spiritual ecstasy. Yoga and dhayan are the first two stages of spiritual pursuit to reach the ultimate state of samadhi. Great souls such as Christ, Buddhha, Mahavir and many others acquired that ultimate state of blissfulness. Christ did not feel the pain of crucifixion since he was in a state of samadhi

The objective of yoga is to achieve those moments of ecstasy when you lose consciousness of your physical identity. It, of course, cannot be denied that the process of yoga leading to dhyan or samadhi starts with meditation. Meditation is only a path that, if followed accurately, may lead to a state of yoga.

True spiritual phenomena cannot be explained adequately through mundane processes or examples like mathematical additions or subtractions. These are only pointers to spiritual situations that are too deep for words. They can be understood only when they are actually experienced.

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How Your Unconscious Anxiety Affects The Law of Attraction

As a young child, I was led to believe that I couldn't say, do, have or think whatever I wanted. Now that I'm an adult I've been able to untangle from that past conditioning, but not without a touch anxiety along the way.

Let's consider this idea of anxiety as it relates to the Law of Attraction because it's something that we all face at some time in our life. Anxiety is often the result of our attempt to stay small, not upset parents and teachers, be 'good', be 'reasonable' and so forth.

Most of these goals are not good, reasonable or OK to start with. Whoever came up with the idea of being poor, without need and being OK with whatever we have, just didn't understand the Law of Attraction!

At times, it's appropriate and wise to be meek, to be humble and to be gracious. However, many times we in fact need to ask for what we want and expect it to appear. This is what allows us to move forward and grow.

Being meek, humble and gracious does not actually mean to live in lack or fear.

What it means is acceptance of the fact that everything has a timeline. Sometimes we can't force things we want because the universe knows more than we do-- or more than our minds allow us to know! Sometimes there is a longer route to the thing we're asking for, than what we had anticipated.

During my childhood, there were so many times that I was told I couldn't have whatever I wanted in that moment. Somewhere deeper down I just knew that life was meant to be more fun than these adults were trying to tell me. I knew that I was meant to be whatever I wanted, or more specifically whatever my heart and soul were telling me.

The adult way was suffocating and serious... dull and frustrating to me!

In the end it seemed I just had to conform, because no matter how I went about living my own life, someone would be wanting to drag me down! I had to give up because the struggle of a child in an adult world was just too big. And they won, for a while...

Reflecting on the journey of the past few years, I can say that it has been a struggle of overcoming that pressure to be small and limited, to not ask for what I wanted-- and therefore to not 'attract' any more than I had in that moment.

I had to ASK for it-- success, stability, authenticity, trust, faith, wealth and more.

To step out of that childhood box, means to step into the unknown. Unconsciously, after so many years of limitation and being told we can't be who we want to be, the mind is trained to push faith, passion and focus into the background.

Our unconscious anxiety, the very thing we've used to keep it all at bay-- "don't go there, they'll get upset with me, and that means trouble for me"-- comes rushing up, yelling at us to STOP NOW!

The fear of being true to ourselves, and what might happen to us if we do speak our minds and go after what we truly want, can be really big.

And when the resultant anxiety floods our minds we can assume that we are on the wrong track or that our ideas are just not meant to be. When in reality our idea IS exactly what we need to act on to create real joy and fulfillment. It's just that we've told ourselves to stay small, to stay out of trouble for so long that our subconscious mind goes into chaos.

An expectation of punishment or pain of some kind tells us that it's not safe and that we should retreat. It tries to push us back into that smaller space where there's no trouble.

To rise up to this challenge, we can remind ourselves that we are no longer that child, under the guidance and care of parents who saw the world so differently to us. We have to remind ourselves that if our parents love us, they will love us regardless of the success we are creating for ourselves by following our dreams!

And to be honest, if they chose not to love us for that, then we need to make a decision about how much time and energy we will put into trying to keep them happy.

Life is not always easy, but I'm not sure that it's meant to be.

Right now, our world is constructed in this way, with hardship and teachings that limit us-- and yet, each and every day all over the world, people are finding empowerment, building their lives with gratitude and creating abundance. One step at a time, they are overcoming and releasing their anxiety.

A little patience with our old anxiety and a little more determination to follow our hearts will get us a long way. No person is ever empowered by following those who don't understand their dreams. It's time to get on with the job of being happy.

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