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November 27 - December 5, 2017
“He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.”
The more you start to open up to love, empathy, and acceptance of the uniqueness that you and each person of this planet has, the more it becomes your default way of being.
The lesson he learned was that at the end of the day what’s important to know is what you truly want from your own life, have the clarity, and make the choices that lead you toward what you truly desire.
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
Fundamentally the Law of Attraction boils down to whatever you consciously concentrate your thoughts on you increase the probability of seeing in your environment.
“your body is a mirror of your consciousness.”
If your mind was your house, write down how you would like it to be. Is it busy with lots of things lying around collecting dust, or is it clean and clutter free?
Be curious and observe the way you think throughout the day. If something does not feel right, explore it, and go deeper.
Recycle anything that does not support you. Free room for new thoughts, beliefs, and metaprograms.
Determine what you will see, hear, and feel with each choice. From this sensory experience, choose which anticipated outcome you want most. Immediately, take some action toward that choice. Do something. As you continue to act toward your preferred outcome, relate what you see, hear, and feel with what you want. If you like what you are getting, continue doing it. If you don’t like what you are getting, do something else!
Making conscious choices helps build your self-esteem.
To make appropriate choices on an ongoing basis, you need to know what is truly important to you. What the overall outcome is for your life. You need to know your values.
accept that you will always face challenges, obstacles, and make mistakes. It is not the challenge itself that is the problem here, it is your attitude. The way you think about the problem, and how you face it plays a big role in your life.
Your brain is chemically designed to find solutions to life’s problems;
life. If you question your thinking and start planting new empowering thoughts, negativity naturally disappears. You don’t need to do anything about it.
Your highest values determine the way you experience life.
Every experience you have ever had is the reflection of your beliefs, thoughts, and the values that are unique to you.
By improving your mental faculty you can easily see more patterns, combinations, relationships and connections which improve your innate problem-solving abilities.
self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills.
Plutchik, another psychologist, suggests there are eight basic emotions grouped in four pairs of opposites: joy/sadness, acceptance/disgust, anger/fear, and surprise/anticipation.
A main challenge you might have is getting to grips with your emotions as they have a massive control over you.
Emotions have the power to turn your world upside down. They affect the way you see the world, and the way you treat your body.
As you accept and master the art of balancing your expectations, perceptions and emotions, you learn to live in peace.
The level of joy and success employees experience is directly proportional to the level of trust present in an organization.
The conscious leaders realize that if they want to go fast in life they need to go alone and if they want to go far they have to go together with the people they choose to co-create with.
inventory of the eight key areas of his life: spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, career/business, money, relationship, and love.
Asking for help can be humiliating, embarrassing, and you might feel you are a failure, although at some point in your life you must seek help.
Imagine what would happen if you made happiness and/or fulfillment your highest value. How would your life change if your priority was always on your mental and emotional well-being?
The best way to describe this mindset change is when someone has a near death experience, or when someone finds out they’re terminally ill, and all of a sudden the things they thought were so important before feel empty and meaningless.
As I helped him increase his self-worth, his net worth started to increase.
“Truth is, I’ll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candor.”
Building a relationship with yourself and others is the fun and the complicated part of your life.
No one taught you how to relate to yourself and gain clarity on how your body, mind, emotions, heart and spirit communicate with you and what they are trying to tell you. You cannot blame your parents, your society, or anyone for that matter. What you can do is take ownership of you, no matter what.
You spend most of your time communicating externally. No wonder as time passes you stop paying attention to your relationship with yourself.
True fulfillment comes from you acknowledging both sides of yourself.
I have not heard of or met any person who can claim 100% that they are happy, fulfilled, joyful, trustworthy and loving. Not even the likes of the Dalai Lama or people like him that you might imagine have something you don’t. It is an illusion to think this way. Everything in this world has two sides.
Your relationship with others is a mirror reflection of your relationship with yourself. As you accept yourself for who you are, increasingly you start accepting each and every being on this planet for the authentic self that they are.
In each one of us there is a parent, a child, and an adult.
When you were a kid, you were completely absorbed in the moment and totally unselfconscious. You did not know how to be anything but perfectly authentic. No facades. Simply you were being you.
Your journey to build relationships that bring you back to you is the most wonderful adventure you will ever have.
emotion does not equal reality.
Your vision, your purpose, and the value you bring to this world also determine the relationships you need to build to help you get there.
Fulfillment comes both from being supported and from being challenged.
If you’re a couple, your objective is discovering how to open and maintain a flow of love by effortless shifts of consciousness, not by doing more of what already hasn’t worked.
Let me tell you something: even for people whom you perceive to be extremely enlightened, it’s not always easy to love.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives courage.
When you love yourself deeply and completely, you open your heart to love others genuinely. You start to love the funny little things about you and you appreciate this about them. You start to reassure yourself in the same way you would reassure someone you love.
You have to love yourself for who you are, this will help you love someone for who they are.
while I agree with you that you are the one who knows what’s best for you, I also know and believe that each one of us also serves by being a mirror through which we can reflect and see our inner world.
the body you have is the most sophisticated piece of technology known to human kind.
