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Mantra Meditation: What & Why

“Meditation is not what you do to get into meditation. Meditation is dropping into the present fully aware. Dancing, yoga, watching breathing, Zazen, mantras are all ‘techniques’ to help you drop into the moment. You are not meditating while you are doing these.

Meditation begins when the doing ends. When one becomes the doing one may be meditating. Still, it is useful to have a variety of approaches or practices to drop in. Rest, relax, refresh. Breath, chant, be still or move. It is all good and can lead to meditation.

We erroneously call it meditating when we are preparing ourselves to enter meditation. No worries but one is journeying to get there, the other is being there. Mantras can be useful to help quiet your mind. Repeat it silently over and over. Return to it when distracted.

Meditation Is Non-Doing – Meditation Is Awareness – A Knack

It helps you learn to move back to source, move back to the mantra, move back to the stillness from the thought, feeling or distraction. Chanting it creates a mental vibration helping you become more aware. Learn to let go. Chant the mantra and discover stillness.

I enjoy Sanskrit phrases or syllables. You may enjoy these as well or even words in your native tongue. Release effort and simple repeat it silently. Breathe, relax, let go. Notice when you have forgotten the mantra and are lost in thoughts, then return to repeating the mantra. Go ahead and do it for 15 or so minutes. When comfortable extend the time. Enjoy the process. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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You Are Where You Are Because Of Where You Were

“Whatever your current situation, whatever it is good or not so good, is one you’ve brought into being through your thoughts. You are where you are because of your previous thinking. Thinking leads to feeling, feeling to behaviors and behaviors lead to results. Get it?

It may not be what you want, but you still created it. Your predominant habitual thoughts and feelings determine the results you get. Your circumstances are created by the thoughts you think most often. You get what you focus on. Thoughts become things.

When you finally realize this, and take responsibility for being a powerful creator you’ll understand how you created your current circumstances and how to create future ones you’d rather have. You have been creating from unconscious thought habits. Get it?

You Become What You Think About Most Often – Focus Anew

Your unconscious runs the show. In order to make changes you first need to begin to create what you want, consciously! Then enlist your unconscious mind through reprogramming. You can’t keep doing the same things repeatedly and expect different results.

You need to take charge and design what you want consciously and create new powerful positive thought habits that get you what you DO want. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Why You Need To Hear This Again And Again!

“Why do I post on the same things again and again? Because things bear repeating. You don’t hear it until you hear it. You don’t wake up in the morning until you wake up. The keys to success are simple and few, but people miss what is right in front of them. Become aware.

Until one is ready one doesn’t notice. We aren’t aware of what we aren’t aware of. Billboards and advertisements are used to help you keep brands in mind. Repetition is how we learn everything. Getting exposed to a good idea over and over again IS a good idea!

Go back and review. Re-reading the same positive, inspirational material helps wire it into your brain. Getting the same positive message repeatedly begins to make a dent. The key is to open up and allow the message in. You won’t until you are ready to, but I keep planting seeds. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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How To Stop Feeling Bad And Start Feeling Good!

“Sometimes we feel down and out, sad, fearful, frustrated, anxious, confused or simply negative. We all have those moments or those days. For some it seems to last longer. Interestingly, research suggests the feeling only lasts 90 seconds but we keep it lingering.

We feel bad and then think about how we feel bad and then feel worse. In other words we perpetuate the bad feelings after the initial bad feeling has left us. Instead of moving on, we keep the experience alive. We can learn to change this and feel better.

In my last blog I shared about practice and repetition. If we make mistakes and repeat the mistakes, think about the mistakes and feel a failure, we perpetuate the mistakes and those feelings. We spiral down and keep negative things going. There is a way out.

What We Want To Do With Ease We First Must Do With Diligence

Remember, feedback! The negative thought or feeling or mistake is feedback. It is an alert. Instead of focusing on the alert signal or the mistake we adjust, we correct and we shift. Then, we focus on the shift. We move from negative to positive and repeat the positive.

By repeating the correction we make and validate the correction. By focusing on what we want instead of what we don’t want we get more of what we want! Yes, you actually have to make the shift. You may or may not feel like making it but that is what you must do.

If you want to change you can’t keep repeating the things that keep you stuck. You must practice new thoughts, feelings, self-talk and behaviors. That is how you get out of the funk states and problems. Notice the alert, become aware. Then shift. Focus on the opposite.

What You Focus On Expands – Thoughts Become Things

The alert was there to draw your attention to it so you could correct it. Remember, guidance machines, rockets, aircraft, GPS operate off of feedback. They continually correct to stay on the right course. We can do the same. That is how we develop skills and abilities.

Winning breeds more winning. Focusing on failing brings more failure. You have to make a decision as to where you will put your attention and energy. Then you must follow through. Repeat the correct behavioral shifts enough to make them new positive habits. Get it? I’m sure you do. celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Why We Practice: How We Must Practice To improve: The Myth Of Repetition!

“Why do we practice anything? Why does one practice skiing, swimming, surgery, or basket weaving? To improve obviously. To get better. How do we practice? By correctly repeating what it is we intend to improve. Obvious, again, right? But there is a point here.

Skill comes of doing. Repetition is the mother of skill. However, we don’t repeat simply for repeating. When we throw darts or go bowling if we simply repeated what we do while playing we’d improve our errors. We would suck better! Get it? It’s true.

Think about it. You get better through practice and repetition because when you repeat you correct what you did. You take feedback from your gutter ball, or throwing your dart into somebody’s back and make adjustments. You correct what you do.

Confidence Comes With Competence – Skill Comes From Doing

You improve because you attempt it, get results, make adjustments, do it again, adjust, on and on. Get it? Anything you improve at, riding a bike, driving a car, knitting, public speaking you get better at through this process of repetition, feedback and correction.

The same is true with your mindset. Some talk about positive thinking and are down on it. Others, are annoyed with affirmations. Still, the same process applies to your thinking. If you want to improve your thinking you practice thinking new thoughts.

If you want to improve your attitude you practice new attitude. You get feedback for your thoughts, attitudes and beliefs along the way. You either see, hear or feel it within, or you get certain results outside. You make adjustments as necessary until you improve it all.

The More We Do The More We Become Capable Of Doing

Get it? A guided rocket ship or airplane is off course much of the time but continues adjusting to incoming feedback to get to the intended destination. Practice your mindset, your attitude, your feelings, self-talk and behaviors successfully! Use feedback.

You start off missing the mark, the dart, the bowling pins, the positive attitude, but your brain learns from feedback as you make corrections. Your misses become fewer, your hits become more frequent. Your skills improve. Shift from negative to positive!

Adjust and repeat. You’ ll get better and better along the way. This is why we practice. This is how we improve. We attempt, get feedback, correct and redo. We continue to do correct practice (this process) repeatedly, for long enough, consistently, until we develop an automatic, reliable, supportive positive habit! Get it? This IS how it works. Success brings more success. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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How To Move Out Of Your Comfort Zone And Transform

“Continuing blog from yesterday: you can transform but you must be willing to leave your old way of doing things, your comfort zone, and learn to do some new things. For your life to change YOU must change some things in your life. You must learn new positive things.

Then you must be consistent. You apply the new learning and practices. If you don’t do what you claim to know, you really don’t know it. You’re deceiving yourself. The proper fruit of knowledge is action. You must repeatedly, consistently practice the new things.

Practice the new thoughts and feelings. Practice the new principles and behaviors. Practice thinking and speaking only positively. You have to wire these new thought, feeling, self-talk and talk behaviors in. You need to make them habits. Habits are reliable and automatic.

What We Want To Do With Ease We First Must Do With Diligence

Baby steps taken consistently, in the right direction, can take you to the top of Everest. Many people wish to change, but don’t do what is necessary to change. That too, is part of the old conditioning and the survival mechanisms of the brain to keep us alive.

The brain is designed or evolved to keep you alive, the same and within an accepted, habitual comfort zone. So you have to decide to leave it and then do whatever is necessary to promote the positive changes you desire. Then, you must keep at it until it’s a new habit.

If you wanted to get from one side of your town to another you must keep walking or driving. When you stop you aren’t progressing toward where you want to be. If you get distracted or delayed you will only get there if you resume moving towards it. Get it?

The More We Do The More We Become Capable Of Doing

You must keep at it. You don’t eat once and are done with eating. You didn’t try it and find it didn’t work. No, you eat daily for health. The same is true about a new mental nutritional conditioning program. You must apply it daily. Routinely. Often enough, correctly for long enough to wire it in AND you must realize you can change, right from where you are. It is absolutely possible. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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The Will Must Be Stronger Than The Skill!

“Successful people know something those who haven’t succeeded don’t know. People who have gone further in their pursuits than others know what got them there. They know what to do and what not to. They may have learned by trial and error, but they know.

How many successful people do you know who had it easy all the way? Sure, there may be some, but most have known incredible hardship and odds stacked against them, yet they persisted and made it happen! They know what gives them the edge.

Last post, I shared some quotes that are important! Reflect on them. I share a few more now. Keep these thoughts in mind. The people quoted reached the top of their game. They tell it like it is. Listen and be willing to learn from them. Develop a champion mind. Listen!

All these quotes in this blog post are from Muhammad Ali:

‘I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.’

‘It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.’

‘Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them—a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.’

Your mindset makes all the difference. Your mindset determines how far you will go. It determines your passion and commitment, you will and enthusiasm. It determines your persistence and whether or not you quit. If you aim high and keep going without stopping, adjusting as necessary but keeping the faith, you can make it happen. You only need to do the right things often enough for long enough. Do it. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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How To Create New Positive Supportive Habits

“Habits are reliable. They’re dependable. We do them without thinking. Habits are part of us. We never forget to do a habit. Our unconscious mechanisms are consistent. Because of this, habits are difficult to break. This is both a blessing and a challenge.

People, think of ‘bad’ habits such as smoking, eating or drinking to excess, too much TV or computer games as negative and unhealthy versus ‘good’ habits like eating right, exercising and being optimistic. ALERT: Your brain doesn’t care if something is positive or negative.

Your brain doesn’t care if it is good or bad, right or wrong, healthy or not. Your brain doesn’t judge. It just reliably carries them out. It’ll engage in destructive or positive behavior. That’s what it’s designed to do. How you behave depends on the habit you formed. Get it?

Skill Comes Of Doing – Repetition Is The Mother Of Skill

It’s similar to planting a seed. You harvest what you nurture or cultivate. The soil doesn’t care whether you plant nutritious food or poison. You’ ll reap whatever you planted and helped grow. Just as you nurture the seeds, repetition nurtures the habit. Get it?

Habits form over time by what we repeatedly do, consistently. The brain delivers the habit you planted and nurtured, or repeated, over and over again. That’s why, ‘we become what we think about’ is so true. We habitually think certain thoughts. We are our habits!

What fills our mind, and occupies our attention, over and over is what we get. Our thoughts become things, feelings and behaviors. We become whatever we habitually think about. We feel whatever we routinely feel. We behave whatever we habitually do. Got it?

What We Want To Do With Ease We Must First Do With Diligence

Want to change habits? You do it the same way you created them. It’s a bit different now. Many of the habits you have, you weren’t aware of creating. Now, you will be. So that’s different. You do it by rehearsing the new habit you want. You keep repeating it!

You rehearse it again and again. Just as actors rehearses their lines and movements, to wire them in, you rehearse the new habit you want to develop. Just as a ballplayer rehearses playing the game. Rehearse the positive thought, feeling and behavior habits.

Rehearse repeatedly, correctly, consistently, for long enough and you WILL condition yourself to acquire the new, reliable, automatic, supportive, and positive habits. That IS how it works. You condition yourself successfully for success. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Learn The Basics And Transform Your Life

“The novice learns the basics. The beginner begins at the beginning. We all start somewhere. The new learner may not understand the value of the basics. It depends what they are exposed to, who they listen to and whether or not they are ready.

When they are ready then the learning can occur. Remember you can’t push a rope. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. It is what it is. Too many want to learn the advanced things before mastering the basics. This is a huge mistake in thinking.

True masters in any art or discipline first and foremost master the basics. That is what makes them masters. Check out any champion or pro golfer, athlete, martial artists, boxer, dancer. They use and continue to use the basics they have mastered all the time.

Skill Comes Of Doing – Repetition Is The Mother Of Skill – Repeat

The novice, and sometimes even the more advanced student needs reminding of this, at times. They need correction and inspiration. They need feedback and encouragement. Then more correction and more of the same. Then more reminding. Rinse and repeat.

Mastery is a process. It is not a linear progression. There are breakthroughs and backslides. There are hills and plateaus. Learning happens through steady conditioning and in leaps and bounds. Through it all the student should continue to master the basics.

Master the basic mindset, moves, and principles. In earlier times there were apprentices who studied with the master, who decided when it was time to test and move on. They instilled in the apprentice the need for mastery of the basics. A great appreciation.

Correct Repetition – Consistently – For Long Enough Builds Habit

The Blackbelt now begins to practice what they had been learning in all the other belts or degrees. They have learned to blend the basics together. As the saying goes, ‘I don’t fear the 10,000 strikes you practiced once. I fear the one strike you practiced 10,000 times.’

The novice actually has great opportunity available. They are new. The key is to stay new and stay fresh. Stay open and enjoy the mastery process. Sometimes the more advanced can become jaded, cynical or even egotistic. Stop. Keep it simple. Keep it fresh. Stick with the basics. Master the basics wherever you are. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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Masters Know This Novices Do Not. Do You?

“Masters continue to master the basics. Novices want advanced tricks and techniques. They mistakenly think those will help or rescue them BECAUSE they didn’t and don’t master the basics. It is all basic to a master. To master the basics IS to know.

To know and not do is to not know. The basics are the foundation. Without a strong foundation there is nothing to build upon. MASTER THE BASICS! You can’t build your house on sand. You need to build on a strong foundation. From the foundation you build up.

At one time in history the master tested or determined if the student, the apprentice or the disciple, moved forward or advanced up a level. Today, times have changed, and people think they should advance just because they think so. They want to rush it. STOP!

You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

Humans haven’t changed that much. In olden days, and today, people face the same issues. That is why masters required students to ’empty their cup’ of knowledge and trust the master for guidance to determine when the student is ready.

This is the reason the statement is as it is, ‘when the student is ready the teacher appears,’ because we don’t know what we don’t know. We miss the forest for the trees because we don’t have the depth of vision a master does. I say, ONLY when the student is ready…

It is for this same reason you can read the same material again and again and extract new meaning from it each time. It is because you change between readings. YOU are a different person.Still you don’t see it until you see it. ONLY when the student is ready… Get it?

You Need A Strong Firm Foundation In Order To Build Higher

It is similar to those stereoscopic books and pictures where you are not able to see the image until you LEARN how to adjust your eyes and see. Once you know how to see them, then you see more. The same is true with learning anything. Only when you learned how…

A chess master notices more than a novice. The novice can’t even see the moves or opportunity when it is directly in front of the student Learn from a master and learn to master the basics. Everything you need will unfold as you stick with the basics.

Watch athletes prepping for a game or sporting event. What are they doing? Basic moves. Passing, kicking, throwing. Warming up. Putting, shooting, swinging. They are warming up. They aren’t doing their most advanced tricks. They are setting their mind and body.

Skill Comes From Doing – Repeat The Basics – Learn And Master

Don’t be in a rush or seek the next newest advancement until you are able to notice what is important and apply the basics. It is a sure signal you are not ready if you are in a rush. Without that firm foundation you are wasting a lot of your time because it always comes back to this. Get it? We shall see. Meanwhile, celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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