Watch out for twisters

October 23, 2011 By 3 Comments

This is a tornado warning. Beware the twister that sucks you in and taints your good attitude, your smile, and your happiness.

Tornados that have this capability are around us all the time. They tend to whip up at a moments notice. These tornados will appear in the form of the nightly news, daily headlines, co-workers, parents, teachers, and people in general who spout nothing but doom and gloom. These tornados are bad for your mind, heart, and soul. Avoid them at all cost.

We will name this tornado Victim. Victim wants you to get close and be sucked into their lie. Victim feeds on negative talk, bad news, and low self-esteem. Victim wants to feed on you. Those who live in this tornado want to steal your art and talent, bring you to their level, and jail your mind. This is a downward spiral of nothingness.

Here is how the Victim tornado works.

You watch the nightly news. Everything you watch is based in fear or tragedy. That is what sells the news. These are little pixels of Victim reaching out and programming your mind for failure.

You go to work and listen to co-workers ramble on about their bad day, their bad luck, or listen to them point fingers at others to make themselves feel more important. Listen to their tone dive into a lather of dispair. Watch their body slink. Look into their eyes and you may quite possibly see bars in the retina of their eyes that have their mind jailed.

You are bombarded daily with negative people, words, and actions.

These are Victim tornados spinning all around you. They are spinning close to you. Don’t jump in. Avoid that tornado. Run away as fast as you can and…

Jump head long into a different tornado. This tornado is named Visioneer. Inside of Visioneer live light, good attitude, good fortune, positive thoughts, and happiness. This is the tornado you want to get sucked up into.

If you have been sucked into Victim and need to escape, there is hope. The first evidence of hope is that you recognize the need to bail out of the darkness. And here is how you can do just that…

Grab a spot where it is quite and you will not be disturbed and a sheet of paper. You are going to engage in the “Gratitude Exercise.”

Ask yourself, “What am I grateful for in life?”

Capture everything you can think of on that sheet of paper. This begins a positive thought pattern and opens a vein of gold inside your mind. You are now aligned to goodness and not the darkness of that tornado named Victim.

After you are done writing everything you are grateful for in life on that sheet of paper, read it out loud to yourself, let the images burn into your conscious and sub-conscious mind. Feel the emotions of knowing you do have things to be grateful for in life.

Now…

Fold up that sheet of paper and put it in your purse, your wallet, or where ever you can get to it daily. Every time one of those Victim tornados begins to whip up and spin next to you that sheet of paper is your sword to fend off any Victim who acts to infect your life with doom and gloom.

Be happy and prosper. You are powerful beyond measure. Live the life you were intended.

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The past has no power

October 22, 2011 By 4 Comments

Blast the past away.  It’s done. It’s over. It’s long gone history.

Looking backward will only allow you to take your eye of the road forward. We can agree that the past was interesting territory. It molded who we are based upon the lessons we learned. And it is history. Leave it in the dust.

I say this because what most of us learned in the past were lies, mis-truths, or deceptions taught to us by those we trusted. Our parents, teachers, and elders told us to be safe, don’t take risks, get a job because that’s success, leave your art alone and get your heads out of the clouds. Those and many other damaging statements can be found in our past. They still ring around in our heads today. We continue to visit and give power to those statements. That is only keeping us mentally jailed up so that we never break the fictional bounds and live free, successfully, and happy.

Try this as an exercise. Grab a sheet of paper and write down all those limiting belief and thoughts that have been recorded in your mind like a hard drive in a computer. I believe before shifting our mindset we need to honor what lives inside of us. We need to acknowledge that these things, statements affected us then and still have a grip on us today, and then set them free forever.

List everything you can think of…

Don’t do that because you might fail.

Get your head out of the clouds.

Only rich people have that, or can do that, or be that.

Just get a job like everyone else.

You are just not smart enough.

What you write could be anything. Your limiting beliefs come from your experiences, those we entrusted to tell us the truth, schoolteachers, and trusted elders. Maybe, that set of wise ones had no clue about success. Yet, we gave them power. We listened with all ears open. We followed blindly hoping they were telling us the truth and filling our heads with information that was for our own good. They were helping us to be safe and avoiding any risk that cause us to fail… or potentially succeed.

Have you captured your list of crap? Now, I want you to go straight to your shredder and run this list right through those teeth. These things you captured were from your past. They no longer have any power to sway you. You are in control of your mindset from this point forward.

Stay tuned. Tomorrow…

Shifting our mindset. Catch you then. Please forward this article if you found it interesting or helpful for you. You family and friends will love you.

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