Comments on: Concentrative Meditation (Part Two)

By: Cloud Melting

Cloud Melting — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:34:48 +0000

[…] You often hear people talk about using creative visualization to bring about changes in your life. As I said in Concentrative Meditation (Part Two), a creative visualization is a belief in visual form, a positive visual embodiment of something you want to exist in your personality or life. You may pooh-pooh the idea that wishing can make it so. You’re right. Wishing won’t make it so. For a belief to be effective, you have to know it is true. Then you may say, “Okay, if I believe something that strongly, it will be real for me, but not in the exterior world. What I believe and know in my heart can affect me and my own mind, but not the physical world.” You’re wrong. […]

By: Nine Obstacles to Completing Your Goals and Four Ways to Overcome Them

Nine Obstacles to Completing Your Goals and Four Ways to Overcome Them — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:13:34 +0000

[…] Concentration on a single truth. This is the most important thing we can do. Most, if not all of the obstacles are our current beliefs trying to keep us from changing. One of the laws of motion is that a body in motion tends to stay in motion. This has a psychological corollary in that we avoid change whenever possible. Change is frightening. Change is upsetting. Our mind will play all kinds of tricks to keep us from changing, even with a goal we consciously want. We have a goal. We have to focus our concentration on the goal. When find ourselves facing one of the obstacles, one of the best things we can do is renew our focus on our goal. Effective tools for this are creative visualization of our goal and affirmations. I’ve talked about these in Concentrative Meditation (Part Two). Jason Clegg has an excellent article on creative visualization on his site. […]

By: Nine Obstacles to Completing Your Goals and Four Ways to Overcome Them

Nine Obstacles to Completing Your Goals and Four Ways to Overcome Them — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:41:05 +0000

[…] Concentration on a single truth. This is the most important thing we can do. Most, if not all of the obstacles are our current beliefs trying to keep us from changing. One of the laws of motion is that a body in motion tends to stay in motion. This has a psychological corollary in that we avoid change whenever possible. Change is frightening. Change is upsetting. Our mind will play all kinds of tricks to keep us from changing, even with a goal we consciously want. We have a goal. We have to focus our concentration on the goal. When find ourselves facing one of the obstacles, one of the best things we can do is renew our focus on our goal. Effective tools for this are creative visualization of our goal and affirmations. I’ve talked about these in Concenrative Meditation (Part Two). Jason Klegg has an excellent article on creative visualization on his site. […]

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