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is also one of the best exercises to improve your concentration if you are weak in this key area.
The essence of the exercise is to inhale to a count of two, hold your breath for a count of eight and exhale fully to the count of four.
Alternate Nostril Breathing
Practice this alternate nostril breathing for five minutes every morning and the benefits will come fast.
The Early Riser
There is nothing quite as good for your mind, body and spirit as a beautiful walk through the woods or along the sea in the early morning.
Be sure to breathe deeply while you are walking (inhale two counts, hold eight and exhale four).
Green Fog Breathing
lay down on your back in a place of quiet and shut your eyes. Repeat aloud the following phrase slowly, "I am serene, strong and focused." Then, while you inhale, visualize the air as deep green fog
entering your body through your nostrils, moving slowly into the depths of your abdomen. The green fog then moves through the limbs and throughout the body. Next, when the calming green fog has travelled through the body relaxing every muscle, exhale it along with any tensions that may have accumulated. Keep doing this deep breathing exercise for 5 to 20 minutes daily
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The above breathing exercises reflect the very best breathing conditioners for the mind, body and spirit.
feeble body enfeebles the mind."
The Magic of Positive Thoughts & Dreaming
your thoughts control your world.
If you firmly stand guard at the door of your mind and let only the very best thoughts enter, you will be happy, healthy and serene.
Be a firm guardian of each and every thought that enters your mind and make certain it is of the highest quality.
Everything is created twice - first in your mind and then in the outside world.
Just as a builder first designs a building on paper before he starts to build it, you must create all that you desire in your mind's eye. If you do this, if you dream great dreams and good thoughts, forces which you never understood will be activated to bring you to your goals.
Think of perfect health and you will undoubtedly have it. See yourself as a confident, strong and passionate person within your imagination and you will soon transform into this vision.
See yourself as a wealthy person, think this thought for twenty or thirty minutes daily with true belief in its attainment and you will have it.
Thoughts combined with the emotion of faith and belief yield ...
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You are responsible for your thoughts. With practice and discipline, you will reign supreme over each and every thought in your mind.
Master your thoughts and you will master your mind; master your mind and you will master your body; master your body and you will feel as you have never felt before - you will feel perfect health.
Master your thoughts and you will soon become the master of your inner world. And once you master your inner world, exceptional personal effectiveness, greater peace of mind, far more productivity,
ideal health and lifelong success will await you.
If you want to lead a company, learn to lead yourself first. If you want to manage a family or a team, learn to manage yourself first. Self-mastery is the DNA of life mastery.
starting point is, as always, with your thoughts.
You are responsible for everything that happens to you in your life. You can make your existence a shining example of personal and professional excellence or you can make your life miserable.
The quality of your life is determined by your interpretation of what happens to you.
proactive means that you no longer cry over spilt milk and complain about the hand this world has dealt you. You are "pro-active": for action.
They have come to understand that pain is a teacher and there are no negative events in life, only outcomes which you can choose to view in a positive light if you wish.
Being proactive means you shape circumstances and they do not shape you.
You have the choice of interpreting any event that has happened in the past or that will unfold in the future according to your wishes.
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if someone is par...
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insulting to you, you have a choice as to how you interpret the event. The average person becomes angry and repeatedly asks himself why someone would do this - pushing himself into a negative, fully unproductive state. The person who has developed proactivity appreciates ...
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"no one can hurt you without yo...
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Gandhi put it another way: "they cannot take our self-respect if we do...
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Everything happens for a reason and something positive will come out of this situation.
I must see myself as an orange - when squeezed, only what is inside will come out. If I have truly cultivated serenity, kindness and self-control, only these wonderful qualities will appear. If negative qualities come out, I still have some work to do on my journey to personal mastery.
Do not let the snakebite of another person release any venom inside of you. You can control its entry and you are responsible for every thought in your mind. You can make every day an extraordinary celebration once you control the thoughts you allow into your mental garden every second of every minute of every day.
There is no such thing as an unpleasant experience. Every experience has the potential to improve an element of your character or to present a challenge to you which may lift you to a higher level spiritually, physically, mentally and professionally.
True winners see problems as great opportunities.
Proactivity is the first step to personal mastery. It is really nothing more than self-control. And self-control, like all essential mastery qualities, can be developed through patient and consistent perseverance and regular conditioning.
your mind is like any of the other muscles of the body: you must use it or "lose it".
Not only must you use it, but if you do not push it and challenge it daily, it will grow weaker.
If you are not going forward, you are going backward. And if you constantly feed your mind with wonderful treats and condition it for excellence, you will certainly meet with su...
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mission statement concentrates your mind on those actions which are most important to success in your life.
You become proactive rather than reactive.
