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A theme that continues to come up on Sedona Retreats is the idea that you can allow the path to serenity to be easy. We all have a tendency to want to make it complicated. During a session with a client, I asked, “Could you allow how you discover what you are looking for to be easy?” She was struck by this simple question; it seemed to really penetrate her. It surprised me too. I thought this is the essence of what gets in the way of clients crossing from an intellectual spirituality to a knowing. They aren’t aware that there is a thought inside them that knows finding serenity is easy!

Let me write that again! There is a thought inside you that knows it’s simple! That’s what I call a “default thought”. How do you access positive default thoughts? How do you give them life? Two ways: one, have faith they are inside you; and two, quiet your negative thoughts. Just allow them to float by and without you even trying those powerful empowering default thoughts will rise up in you. They are the default and will lead to incredible beautiful feelings. Remember you will always have a thought before you have a feeling.

For me I had to be a student of history. All the enlightened people from the beginning of time consistently say two things: “Go within” and “It was much simpler that I thought.” So, if they continue to say the same thing, maybe there is to something to it! For me this created faith. Or it sparked me to take a leap of faith and experiment.

Here is the trick: You can’t understand or receive “simple” thru the personal mind! The mind will automatically reject simple! It’s only programmed for complicated. But if you learn to listen thru your heart, to listen for a feeling, you will be able to receive “simple”. I bet you’re asking, “What does that mean, listen for a feeling?” Have you been in a bad mood and a little child smiles at you and you suddenly feel better? What got communicated in that moment was a feeling, a feeling of love. It raised your level of consciousness and you suddenly saw your bad mood for what it is.

Stop trying to figure out how to get enlightened thru your head! One thing you can conclude, like I did, is that this process hasn’t seemed to work! So let’s try something else! When you quiet your thoughts you naturally listen deeply or listen for a feeling. That’s why I am always going on about listening! I truly believe it’s the key to enlightenment. That kind of listening will open the door to moments of touching your own wisdom.

When I am in the office with clients, I sometimes ask, “What feeling do you see me projecting right now?” They will reply, “Excitement, hope, humor, enjoyment.” Then I tell them, that’s what you want to listen for! That will open the door to an insight. They reply,” But, Greg that doesn’t make sense!” I say, “I know because you are trying to figure it out what I just said with your head!”

Brothers and sisters, there are powerful positive thoughts inside you, you don’t have to go out and find them, you don’t have to try and think positively. They are already there waiting for you to give them life, that’s the great and awesome gift you received: the gift of free will and choice. Believe in that healthy part of you, have faith in it! Use it! You can do it!

And whatever you do, don’t try and figure it what I just wrote! Did it make you smile? That’s what you are looking for!

Gregory Drambour is the author of THE WOODSTOCK BRIDGE, the well-acclaimed book
about Native American Spirituality. He is the owner of Sedona Sacred Journeys; a spiritual retreat business in Sedona,Arizona. For moreinspirational stories go to:http://sedona-spiritual-vacations.com

Fear can be a very strong influence of human behavior especially when it comes to success in network marketing. Some of us are described as secret agents because we do not advise others about our businesses. Most fear is manifested in self-esteem issues.

Self-esteem is defined in terms of how we evaluate ourselves and our characteristics, the “personal judgment of worthiness that is expressed in the attitudes individuals hold toward themselves,” in the words of self-esteem pioneer Stanley Coopersmith. A fear of failure can result in procrastination and inaction which equates into how successful one can be personally and professionally.

Dr. (Col) Rajinder Singh, a Chandigarh-based psychiatrist, says most of our fears are unfounded, have no basis and are not reality-oriented. When attending an interview, changing a job, traveling alone or making cold calls to prospects become much-feared tasks because we perceive them to be so in our minds. It just stands to reason that most of our fears are being self-generated.

Fear of incapability or failure is the strongest of fears that plague us. These fears keep us from improving our lives, accomplishing our dreams and rising above mediocrity. It stops us from experimenting, taking risks, making choices, setting deadlines, changing for the better, exploring new avenues and even making new friends. This lack of confidence can restrain us from undertaking rewarding and profitable network marketing activities.

Fear of failure and leaving one’s comfort zone compliment because both lead to inaction or being stuck at a certain place. The anxiety occurs because the person is aware of the necessary behavior to obtain a favorable outcome but due to their anxiety a successful out usually escapes them.

After getting to a point of facing your fears, what happens if you succeed? Is this reinforcement of subconscious negative self doubt or is it reality after all? For the person fearing success, in their mind, the wise thing to do is to avoid having to deal with the expectation of failure and the anxiety that comes with it.

How does one combat fear? We need to change our self talk and replace negative thoughts with positive thoughts. A person can go so far as to even change the frequency they are around negative people. Replace them with positive friends and family members. These people just feed your self doubt and fear.

Focus on success, positive self talk and taking action. Make positive outcomes a goal and keep a written record of your accomplishments. Some other ways to combat fear are:

Acknowledge it: you can’t change what you don’t acknowledge. It’s tough to realize your fear of failure especially when you’re involved in network marketing activities that are designed to lead to your success. That alone can be stressful, but it can be done and it is the first step to working out your fears.

Face Your Fear: Come up with solutions to your worse fears. Ask yourself what will be your course of action when faced with your fear in certain type of situations. Have some idea on how to handle the situation and for yourself to be relaxed while doing so. Begin to look at these scenarios as a training exercise for yourself. Grade yourself and be honest about your actions and behavior.

Question your fear: Question the validity of your fears. There is a saying about the word FEAR: false evidence appearing real. I think fears are like perceptions, they become one’s reality. The evidence the person believes is false, it’s not real but their imagination or perception of what is going on is real to them. Basically, self sabotage.

We invent our fears and we sometimes think others share our same beliefs and attitudes regarding who we are as a person. This is not true, but can be very difficult to dispute if you’re the person experiencing the anxiety associated with fear. I’m not sure questioning your fears will make them less real, but consistent positive self talk and making a conscious effort to exceed the limitations can help in diffusing fear.

Challenge your fear. This takes courage and the willingness to experience some awkwardness at times as you practice on positive behaviors that will assist you in overcoming your fears. Remember, you have control over your fear and the outcome you wish to accomplish.

Practice courage: Exercise your courage. Acknowledge your fear and understand most people would feel the same, but this time work through your fear and take action. Afterwards bask in the knowledge that you conquered you fear without any painful repercussions. You continue to do this and you will begin to build confidence in the areas where your fear shows up the most.

Leave your comfort zone: Slowly begin to move out of your comfort zone in a manner that is not stressful to you. Sometimes you have to do things on your own time frame. You will realize with practice, courage and new found positive self talk that your comfort zone will expand to include other accomplishments which you may have considered otherwise impossible to achieve.

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You don’t have to look anywhere outside yourself for your answers.

Once you can come to believe this fully, with every fiber of your being, circumstance will guide you to just the right person or place or line on a page of a book, or in whatever perfect form it comes, at just the right time to give you the answers you seek. All of them. Always. Without fail.

You don’t have to know, consciously, in your head, every answer to every question you have or may ever have in order to “have all the answers”. Henry Ford, maker of one of the most popular automobiles and founder of one of the biggest auto companies today was considered a genius by everyone who knew him, including himself. Because he knew that his genius lied in surrounding himself with the smartest people he could find, in each field where he needed expertise. That way, Mr. Ford himself didn’t have to come up with any of the answers himself in order to have them at his fingertips. All he needed to come up with were the questions. The resources he’d gathered around him gave him the answers.

You can do this too, and without all the effort (and money) of Henry Ford gathering the smartest minds around him. You simply have to trust the answers to all your questions will come, and fix on the question. Then keep your eyes (and mind) open as circumstances inevitably steers the perfect resources (people, places, things) your way - often in the form of seemingly random coincidences.

This is a point worth fixing on - coincidence. All too often we brush aside the coincidences we encounter as meaningless, when actually they are each and every one a direct answer to a question we had previously asked. We just to have stay tuned to know which. To keep in mind the questions we seek answers to so that when they inevitably come in the form of coincidence, we can make the connection. It’s all about paying attention: to what you ask, and to the answers given.

All you need to access these answers you already have, then, is to be open and receptive to them. And the more you respond to them positively - the more the Universe recognizes you finally “getting” its messages and responding accordingly, the more pronounced and responsive the Universe’s future messages to you will be, in other words the “louder” the messages will be and the “faster” they will seem to come in reply to your questions.

The belief and trust comes first - another word for this is ‘faith’. Whether it’s in a higher power or your inner power, this faith is the same: that all your answers will be revealed to you, are already being revealed to you all the time. It is a law of the Universe; it is true and it is happening whether you believe and trust it or not. But if you believe and trust it, then you will see it. You will know it. You will have all your answers.

So what do you want to know?

Lee Celeste is a law of attraction expert, blogger and entrepreneur. Watch free law of attraction videos, read more killer tips on manifesting abundance and download a free copy of the best-selling classic The Science Of Getting Rich. Go now to Law Of Abundant Attraction

Do not stop just before you get the goal.

In The NEW Think and Grow Rich there is a story about a man who had plenty of tangible evidence of riches, but lost it, because he stopped three feet short of the goal he was seeking.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.

The New Think And Grow Rich book would have saved these men from making an error. If they had known how to think around a problem and not be defeated at the first sign of difficulty.

An uncle of R.U. Darby was caught by the gold fever in the gold-rush days, and went out West to dig and grow rich.

He had never heard that more gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the Earth.

He staked a claim and went to work with pick and shovel. The going was hard, but his lust for gold was definite. After weeks of labor, he was rewarded by the discovery of the shining ore.

He needed machinery to bring the ore to the surface. Quietly, he covered up the mine, retraced his footsteps to his home in Williamsburg, Maryland, and then told his relatives and a few neighbors of the strike. They got together money for the needed machinery, and had it shipped to location. The uncle and Darby went back to work the mine.

The first car of ore was mined, and shipped to a smelter. The returns proved they had one of the richest mines in Colorado! A few more cars of that ore would clear the debts. Then would come the big killing in profits.

Down went the drills! Up went the hopes of Darby and Uncle! Then something happened! The vein of gold ore disappeared! They had come to the end of the rainbow, and the pot of gold was no longer there! They drilled on, desperately trying to pick up the vein again, all to no avail. Finally, they decided to quit.

The lessons learned in The New Think And Grow Rich would again have given these men a different outlook on their problem, therefore ending the feelings of wanting to quit and go home.

They sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundred dollars, and took the train back home. Some junk men are dumb, but not this one!

He called in a mining engineer to look at the mine and do a little calculating. The engineer advised that the project had failed, because the owners were not familiar with fault lines. His calculations showed that the vein would be found just three feet from where the Darbys had stopped drilling! That is exactly where it was found!

The junk man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine, because he knew enough to seek expert counsel before giving up.

Perhaps he had the insight found in The New Think And Grow Rich book, but came upon it in the form of wisdom that was passed along to him from his family . He would not have read the book yet so I would say that there was a desire and knowledge of human nature to help him make the right moves in the business world that would lead him and those associated with him to success.

Most of the money, which went into the machinery, was procured through the efforts of R.U. Darby, who was then a very young man. The money came from his relatives and neighbors, because of their faith in him. He paid back every dollar of it, although he was years in doing so.

Long afterward, Mr. Darby recouped his loss many times over, when he made the discovery that desire can be transmuted into gold. The discovery came after he went into the business of selling life insurance.

Remembering that he lost a huge fortune because he stopped three feet from gold, Darby profited by the experience in his chosen work, by the simple method of saying to himself, I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because men say no when I ask them to buy insurance.

The life lessons of people who went on to become successful in future endeavors are the lessons we now are learning when we make a decision to study the book The New Think And Grow Rich.

Darby is one of a small group of fewer than fifty men who sell more than a million dollars in life insurance annually. He owes his stickability to the lesson he learned from his quitability in the gold mining business.

The NEW Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and Ted Ciuba is now available. It is a complete rewrite of the classic Hill title, Think and Grow Rich, known as the book that launched a million millionaires.

Andrew Cocks is a Certified MasterMind Consultant studying ‘The NEW Think and Grow Rich’ directly from the author. To claim your FREE access and learn how you too can earn thousands of dollars giving away FREE Think And Grow Rich MasterMinds, visit http://www.ThinkAndGrowRichMasterMind.com today!

You are psychic. You can use your psychic awareness to improve your daily life and you can share your psychic gift by helping others! How do I begin?

Tip #1

Connect to Intention. Dr Wayne Dyer is a great inspiration to me. I love his book, “The Power of Intention”. Through intention, I created an affirmation that I suggest you write down on a 3 X 5 card and read upon rising in the morning and before going to sleep at night to imprint this goal into the unconscious part of your mind. The affirmation is “Every day, I am becoming more and more psychic”.

Tip #2

You have to believe that you are psychic. When I first began psychic reading, I wondered if I was making up the information for my clients. I thought that perhaps I had a wild imagination! Fear would creep in for me because I wanted to get it right. Internally I felt paralyzed when I shared the things I was seeing, hearing, feeling. I focused on accessing the quality of TRUST. I connected to the small quite voice within that said “Joanna, it’s okay, give the information and all will turn out well.” When I heard the other voice “You’re making it up. Don’t say it, you’ll look stupid!”

Tip #3

PRACTISE! PRACTISE! PRACTISE! The way I overcame my fear was to keep psychic reading. After each reading, I received confirmation that the information was correct. The more I read, the more confident I became and so now over 1,000 psychic readings later, I still hear the voice of doubt inside however the voice of trust is more strongly developed inside me. I acknowledge the voice of doubt and I do not follow its instruction. Do not give up, the psychic pathway is a rich and rewarding experience!

Tip #4

Open your heart and your mind to being a receiver. Visualize the top of your head as a “radio antennae” that can pick up psychic transmissions through the airwaves. Radio waves are invisible to the human eye yet we know they exist or how would we hear people and music on the radio? Let your senses pick up on the unseen energies that exist around you.

Tip #5

Breathe! I cannot stress this enough. As you awaken your psychic senses, you will notice that you become more sensitive. You may experience these feelings because your mind, body and soul will be attracting more energy than it is used to feeling. By the simple action of deep focused breaths, you will clear any excess energy enabling you to remain calm and centered.

Tip #6

Meditation! I do some form of meditation every day. You may like to try a guided meditation CD to help you focus. Many of my clients have told me that they find it hard to sit, be still and meditate, too many thoughts arise for them and they feel bad that they cannot be perfect at meditation. There is no such thing as a perfect meditation! You could try “Soul Abundance” my guided meditation CD. It takes you on a powerful inner journey through visualization that will definitely heighten your psychic senses!

Tip #7

Listen! Do you notice how much inner chatter is constantly active inside your head? Are you aware of the thoughts you are having? I suggest you practice active listening. It is amazing how this simple action brings your focus inwards. As you hear your thoughts, observe them, do not judge. You will be able to assess how positive or negative your thoughts are and that you can have positive and negative occur simultaneously. This exercise will better prepare you for clairaudience, known as the ability of psychic listening.

Tip #8

Focus! Do you find yourself easily distracted? Are you fully conscious and aware in your environment right now? Focus upon being present in your environment. Observe what surrounds you. Listen to the multitude of sounds. Feel how the air touches your skin. Close your eyes for a moment and watch from an inner stance the activity that is occurring within you. With this knowledge, your psychic ability will strengthen!

Tip #9

Tone “Om” several times or sing your favorite songs in the shower. This is an excellent way to clear the body of any blocked energy. Not only does it open the throat chakra for psychic reading, you will fine tune your energy field in preparation for receiving psychic information effortlessly from your guides!

Tip #10

Exercise! The more psychic you become, the more energy is channeled through your body. Yoga is a wonderful way to release any blockages from your mind, body and soul. When I started the practice of yoga, it opened my third eye, the space between my eyebrows to clairvoyance meaning to see things psychically. I would see colors dancing in my inner vision. It was amazing! You can do it to!

Madame Figaro Magazine chose Joanna Garzilli as “The psychic to see in Los Angeles”. She has given over 1,000 successful psychic readings including celebrity Goldie Hawn. Joanna shares her insider psychic secrets in “Synchronicity News” a FREE bi-monthly ezine. Learn more http://www.joannagarzilli.com

This is one of my first ventures into article writing and so I thought that I would explain how I got into working from home.I am a widow aged 60 and I nursed my husband through terminal cancer.We had been marrird since 1970 and wasn’t just my husband,he was also my best friend my mentor and my carer.

In 1993 I was diagnosed with an incurable and progressive neurological disease which though it would not kill me would make me more and more incapacitated and the future for me was a wheelchair. However I was referred to the National Hospital for neurology in London and offered pioneering brain surgery which might improve my physical symptoms. I decided to go ahead and had the surgery at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth. Unfortunately within a couple of months of my surgery my husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer and died just under 12 months later,I am proud to say that my daughters and I nursed him at home until the very end.

The stress of my husband’s illness and death meant that the surgery was ineffective and my condition actually got worse. I was under the care of an amazing Neurologist by the name of DR.Nick Fletcher at Walton hospital in Liverpool. Dr. Fletcher tried everything to control my erratic movements and tremors, he regularly injected massive doses of botulinum toxin into my neck and spine to paralyse some of my muscles.

Along with anti-parkinsons drugs this improved things for a few years, until I developed a resistance to the toxin. Luckily for me a second toxin was developed however it was excruciatingly painful and many patients could not tolerate the pain. Bad as it was I managed as I had no alternative until a couple of years ago when DR.Fletcher put my name forward for a new procedure called Deep Brain Stimulation. This entailed some pretty drastic brain surgery to place two rods through the top of my skull deep into the base of my brain and wired under the skin in my head to a battery box in my abdomen.

The idea was that every time my muscles worked to jerk my body about the stimulator would give a small jolt of electricity to paralyse the nerves causing the involuntary movements. This worked well for me, it does not cure the disease but it helps to control the symptoms. The only small downside is that I have to have surgery every twenty months or so to replace the battery and I also have to remain on the anti -parkinsons drugs for life. To me this is a small price to pay to be able to do so much more.

Just when I thought nothing else could go wrong I had a couple more kicks in the teeth. Firstly I had to sell my house as I could not afford the upkeep. I moved to a small village outside Chester and bought myself a small house, unfortunately for me I inherited the neighbour from hell and things got so bad that I had to sell up and practically give the house away, leaving me with no equity to buy another property.

I was however lucky to be allocated a house on the William Ewart Gladstone Estate in North Wales. For those who don’t recognise the name he was a British Prime Minister in the 1800s. He was also a great benefactor to the village that I live in and his family still run and own most of the properties in our village. I am very fortunate to live in a lovely grade two listed house.

Again when I thought that things couldn’t get any worse a couple of years ago I was diagnosed with a facial cancer. Once more I was fortunate as the surgeon who removed it did a fantastic job in getting it all out but even more so in the plastic surgery that she performed, leaving me today with barely a mark to show where the growth was.

As you can appreciate I needed to earn a living and though I was a Registered Nurse with a teaching qualification there was no way I could do a job outside the home and most home based jobs were very labour intensive and paid a pittance.
Luckily for me I came across a guy on the Internet who introduced me to a system which really opened my eyes to the potential of working from home using the Internet. I started off with a free site and then had a much bigger and better site built for myself.

My message to everyone is despite any lack of knowledge or any physical disability you can succeed especially with the help of a structured system and I am living proof of this.

I hope that I haven’t bored everyone to sleep .So my advice is give it a go and see for yourself what you are capable of, you might amaze yourself.Good luck in your venture,remember if you don’t try you will never know how successful you might have been.

I am a 60 year old ex Nursing Sister with a progressive and incurable neurological disease. I lost my husband of over 30 years a few years ago and needed to earn a living for myself and because of my health problems neded to work from home:See what I achieved