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How You Travel The Success Road Determines How You Get There

“Always remember that the journey IS part of your destination. How you travel can determine how you are when you get there. You want to arrive at your destination refreshed and prepared to enjoy it fully so make it a point to enjoy and delight in all of it. Each second of each day is a gift. Each gift of each day passes and we can never have them again to live over. It makes the most sense to take full advantage when we can. So live fully. Be present. Live now!

When you have desires and dreams your destination is what you want. But don’t put it off. Do not NOT live incredibly while waiting to make something happen. Don’t sacrifice now for then. The journey and destination are part of the same trip. Enjoy all of it completely.

For example, if you want to go biking or hiking or skydiving, or scuba diving, it is the journey you really enjoy. When you reach the destination the ride, or the hike, or the dive is over and completed. You feel great but it was the journey that you actually enjoyed. You got to the end of it feeling delighted and exhilarated because of the how you journeyed. That was the fun and the true enjoyment.

Of course, some people are so insistent on getting to their destination, they miss everything along the way. That seems a very sad and disappointing way to live. The goal is to live now! Feel marvelous now! The present will give way to the future anyway, so while you are focused on what you want, don’t forget what you now have that you can revel in.

The idea behind eating a fabulous meal is not to finish it and push away from the table but to savor it while it lasts. You ultimately will complete it. Enjoy it, don’t rush it. Notice it! Celebrate it. Feel how delicious it is and how good it is to be alive.

Yes, your destination IS important.

It is true you focus on getting there and pursue it passionately. You want to reach it that is the point and the reason to have a future dominant purpose. You put your energy into making it happen but do not wait to live. In order to experience the fullest life, the bliss, the delight, the joy you must live it now. Always enjoy your journey.

If you want to go to Paris that is a destination place. It will take a certain amount of time from wherever you are at. That time can seem short or long depending on how you spend it and what you pay attention to.

Did you, as a child, ever ask an adult, ‘Are we there yet?… are we there?…how much longer?’ We wanted to get home or to our destination so badly it seemed to take forever. Our focus wasn’t on the joy of the journey it was JUST on ‘get me there now! I can’t stand waiting’.

Most of our life is spent journeying. Consider that. Most of our time is spent along the way. Make all of it delightful. Savor the seconds, make marvelous the moments and delight in everything. Know where you are headed and why and enjoy moving towards it.

During your travels make it a point to experience these in plenty; love, harmony, joy, happiness, bliss, exhilaration, ecstasy, peace, contentment, serenity, relaxation, fun, comfort, confidence, strength, security, passion, pleasure, acceptance, patience, gratitude, curiosity, wonder, fascination, amazement. Find fun, smile more, laugh more, enjoy your family, friends and even strangers. Feel awesome, incredible, magnificent and every wonderful feeling you can invite and allow. Celebrate!

If the journey gets tough and circumstances are bad keep focus on where you are headed and why. Find the good in the present circumstances and be grateful too for everything you have and can do. Don’t let less than glorious circumstances spoil your travels. Keep the faith, keep moving forward, adjust your route if you must, but don’t give up. You can make it. You will make it. BE patient, not anxious.

Pretend for a moment you had such an incredible journey. More wonderful than you could ever imagine or plan. Sheer delight. Top of the world travel excitement. You lived the dream all along the way! BUT you never arrive at the destination. WOULD you care? Probably not. Because you have been and are so absolutely fulfilled you learned that wherever you are IS the destination and you live with joy.

Feeling this way, living from this reality means you are MUCH more likely to get to your destination because every fiber of your being is involved with feeling incredibly wonderful and alive. You are filled with positive, powerful, passionate radiating energy. Imagine what it would be like to live like this because it is entirely possible for you.

So, remember you want to arrive feeling incredible. Make it a point to enjoy the trip, come what may, and you will. Enjoy the journey and enjoy the destination!” Rex Sikes

Where can you put your attention today that will bring you the most delight?

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How To Feel Better, How To Feel Incredible, When You Don’t

Are their times when you just feel lackluster? You know you could and should feel better but you don’t? Perhaps, you are frustrated, angry, sad, anxious or fearful and want to shake it. Ever feel like that? Maybe you simply feel bored? You could be upset with yourself, others, events or circumstances but whatever it is you just want some relief right? What to do?

I’ll paraphrase a quote attributed to Einstein which states essentially, the solution is never found at the same level that the problem was created. By this it is meant we have to seek elsewhere for the resolution. This is an outstanding point to keep in mind! We rarely, if ever, solve the problem by constantly focusing on it. You have to stop and turn your attention elsewhere.

He did say, and I use it to make this point, ‘…we must realize that we cannot simultaneously plan for war and peace’. We can not focus on two things at once. We are not able to hold two thoughts at one time in our mind. It is not effective to be negative and positive, we need to choose which one to make dominant. If you are feeling less than glorious you won’t feel any better by continuing to focus on it. So you need to move away from those feelings toward something else, but how?

You know the ‘tip of the tongue’ phenomena. You know what you want to say, that person’s name, or that place, that you know YOU know, but can’t summon it up, right now. You can’t recall it for the life of you and the more you try to get it the more it eludes you. YOU cannot force it no matter how hard you try. SO what do you end up having to do? You give up, you forget about it, you go on to something else AND then what happens? Later, it pops into your head!!!

You had to shift your attention away from what you wanted to recall in order to recall it. The same is true with problems and feeling less than glorious. We have to shift our attention and get out of our own way. Focusing on why we feel bad doesn’t bring us good feelings. We have to look outside ourselves or elsewhere and let go.

Let go! Just as we had to give up searching for that name or place. We knew we knew it we just couldn’t access it. SO know that when you ‘let go’ and shift your focus and energy in other directions the answers, and feelings, and thoughts and behaviors you were trying ‘to get’ will ultimately become available to you in positive ways. They actually will when you get out of your own way and allow it!

Many creative geniuses who have struggled to create, solve or invent something and put their energy into it fully, know to take a nap and ‘sleep on it’. Archimedes solved the problem of weighing the king’s crown, by displacement of water while sliding into the bathtub. ‘Eureka!’ he exclaimed and ran off naked to tell the king. The Archimedes Principle indicates that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially submerged, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces. It took his body getting into the bath for the idea to ‘pop’ into his head.

In order to feel better RELAX! Let go! Shift your focus. Put it on anything other than yourself and your issue in the moment. Distract yourself by doing nice something for someone else. This is a great way to begin to feel better nearly instantly.

Are you able to find things in your life, family, friends, work, play, yourself for which you readily feel grateful? Some people can list hundreds of things right off the top of their head. Others seem to struggle to find a few. If you have difficulty looking at your life and finding all the wonderful reasons to celebrate and be thankful for then you can do a ‘compassionate comparison’.

You can look at all those millions of people who have it rougher and tougher than you have, who have less than you could ever imagine and be thankful you are, at least, better off. I mean really, most of us are well off beyond belief compared to many, MANY others. We have a roof, food, transportation, we have the basic necessities and then some!

When you make this comparison hopefully it does two things. You look into your own life and find a lot more reasons to be grateful. It stimulates your thinking and your sense of appreciation to celebrate what you do have. Your eyes and being open up and you begin to realize you are better off than you may have thought you were. You discover many new things that make you feel better. As you take inventory and celebrate and truly feel grateful your entire persona transforms. Your energy shifts. What you put your attention and focus on expands and you begin to feel even more wonderful. It is incredible!

Second, it helps you to be aware that there are people without access to what you have and it sensitizes you to their plight. It fills you with compassion and the idea that you might help ease some of the suffering of others. You can do many things small and large to assist them. Whatever action you take will be significant.

It is good to focus on helping others and to take the attention off yourself at least once in awhile. When you help others solve their problems frequently you resolve your own. While attempting to make the ‘me’ successful remember the ‘we’ who actually will help you get there. There is not a single person who ever lived who became successful without the help or co-operation of some others. Sadly, some forget this or just don’t care. Please don’t be one of those. Rise above selfishness.

You might volunteer, in some way, locally or elsewhere. You might donate whatever you can. You might give a neighbor a ride when needed. You might simply be nicer and more positive in your thoughts and actions to ALL others. Once your awareness is raised that others can benefit from positive actions, perhaps, you can share that awareness with family and friends, even strangers. Transform the world around you AND start by transforming yourself.

Thanksgiving is coming up. A day when we are suppose to count our blessings and give thanks. Many people do not have homes or family or friends. What could you do to help out? Could you put some food cans in a drive? Could you serve holiday lunch at a shelter? What might you do? There are any number of options available to do. Your generosity is for you to decide.

Helping others is an incredible way to help ourself. It makes us feel good to know we are a benefit to others. It can make us smile and warm our hearts when we see someone else smile.

When you give to others in need, wherever and whenever you find them, it can make you feel fabulous because you did something kind and sincere. You elevate yourself when you lift up others. The Golden Rule applied makes your life more marvelous when you go first and hold others in high esteem in thought, word and action even if they can’t or won’t return the same to you. You give because you want to not because they will like you or return the favor. When you give from your heart everyone benefits in positive ways, and perhaps, you the most.

‘I had the blues because I had no shoes. Until the day I walked the street. I saw a man who had no feet.’ Dennis Waitley

Really do count your blessings daily it will transform your life. Take the time to do this. Once you begin you won’t want to stop. It will make you feel good. Take a daily and nightly inventory. Let your mind return to positive thoughts of gratitude throughout each day. As you do this life will become a real celebration!

Decades ago in my live workshops (and today) I had students make it a practice to find no less than 25 things they were grateful for every night before they went to bed. They could also do it upon arising. There were those who groaned at the initial suggestion. Some would come back into the seminar room the following day or two and exclaim they could not get to 25. But within days miracle of miracles occurred. Without fail all the students would find more than 25 and then ask if they could write down more than the 25 assigned. OF COURSE THEY COULD!

In my Mind Design programs we practice gratitude, laughter, finding the good and new in each moment, adding novelty by doing routine things, habitual things, in new ways. I encouraged these and many more simple, little things that have a profound effect. We do contralateral movements known as cross crawling, some breathing and movement exercise, and we dance, we learn to ask and utilize Directed Questions to get better results. The key is to learn to approach everything in a relaxed, carefree, stress free way with positive expectations.

Lives were transformed and continue to be transformed doing little things daily. I share many of these with you in this blog. I hope you will take them to heart.

Everyday you, and only you, can make the decision to be happy and have a great day no matter what circumstances appear. When you feel good most of the time you begin making happen your dreams, goals and desires. You can easily transform your entire experience when you keep your focus on the positive. Remember the reasons to be thankful. Think well of yourself and others. Expect the best at all times no matter what. Make this a daily practice and you will be amazed.

You begin attracting and getting what you want because you radiate and reflect that kind of positive energy. When you feel marvelous you accept and are able to allow what you want in life to come to you. You more easily recognize opportunity. You attract to yourself quality people, events and circumstances because you make these happen. YOU actually attract quality! When you feel good everything you desire can come into your life.

Feel good right now. That is the goal. Choose to feel great in the present. Today, I’ve mentioned two methods you can do to immediately start to begin feeling better, and to begin feeling good. When you feel good now you open the flood gates of the future! Life is truly exciting and wonderful! Life becomes grand! ” Rex Sikes

What can you do today to make it incredible for yourself and someone else?

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How To STOP Negative Goal Setting And Be Free

“It has been said that fear and anxiety, worry is negative goal setting. When you worry you are planning to have the very thing you don’t want. STOP! Once you discover yourself doing this STOP IT.

Stop planning for negatives, stop attracting what you don’t want and change it to what you do want. Recognize that you were behaving a certain way, stop it, and begin to behave and think in a new way.

Awareness in the moment is the key. Once you recognize you are acting in less than productive ways you can decide to stop and change it. As long as you are ignorant of the fact there will be no difference. Be thankful when your feel bad because that is a signal you can use to make the change. It is a signal alerting you that you have the opportunity to make a choice.

Either continue to do what you have been doing and keep getting what you do not want OR take charge and make a change right this moment to get what you want to have. You can change in this very instant. Be thankful you recognized the signal. Be thankful it got your attention, finally!

You can’t eliminate negative thoughts BUT you can transmute them into positive, productive, powerful thoughts. When you transform your thinking you transform your life. Now is your opportunity.

Whenever you are thinking less than gloriously stop and begin to think about what you are grateful for. Make a list and write down who you love, like and appreciate. Consider when and where you are lucky to have certain people in your life; your family, friends, co-workers, boss, employees. Remember who appreciates you too!

Take an inventory of the things you do have and the things you do that you feel glad about. Look around at all the reasons you have to feel thankful. Look for love, peace, harmony, well-being, health, friendship, relaxation, pleasure, confidence. Anything and everything!

Change your focus. Stop worry, fear, anxiety, depression, feeling sorry for yourself and transform it. Steer yourself gently back to feeling better bit by bit. Focus on what you have and what you want in your life. Imagine the better future. See yourself already in possession of what you want, living the life you dream. Visualize it vividly and often. Feel wonderful as you do. Enjoy theses feelings. Be enthusiastic!

You can’t move forward thinking backward thoughts. You need to place your attention, your concentration and your energy into what you do want and keep it there. You don’t get healthy by thinking unhealthy thoughts. You don’t get rich by thinking how broke you are. You move forward by determining where you want to end up.

Some people may use ‘bad times’ and ‘lack’ to motivate them. They say ‘Never Again!’ or ‘I won’t be poor’, and then they turn their back on the negative. Then they put their energy into creating and moving toward what they do want. They shift their focus from the painful stimulus to the positive prize and go after the prize. They keep their focus consistent. They do not let anything prevent them, no matter what.

The difference between those born to privilege, the silver spooners, and the rest of the population, is that the silver spoon mindset never considers that they can’t, or that they won’t succeed. If they want something they feel entitled to it. The born wealthy assume they can and will have it. They don’t doubt or fear not getting it. Yes, they are raised this way! Yes, they may even feel superior and snobby.

YOU can begin to think this way without being a snob. You can begin to realize if you want anything in this world you deserve it. You are as much entitled to it as anyone else. We all are! There is a legal, healthy way to make it happen for yourself when you first start believing that YOU can make it happen. Develop a positive, productive, powerful, CAN DO mindset!

As you do these things consistently you form a positive habit. Do these, when you don’t need to do them, so that when you do need them you are prepared. Do these things repeatedly and you will build a habit that works automatically and reliably for you. Learn to face hard times with a smile knowing you can get through anything you are presented with AND YOU WILL! Become unstoppable.

Appreciate the present! Celebrate everything. Seek to feel wonderful each moment. Set your positive goals and make them happen. The more you do this the easier it becomes and the more time you will spend living this way! You will shift the balance of your thoughts, feelings, behavior and life to the positive. Your life will become so much more wonderful! Enjoy it, delight in it. Start now.

It all begins with thought. It begins with your own personal power and energy. Stop giving attention to what you do not want and give your attention and energy to that which you do. Create and attract what is good for you. ” Rex Sikes

Find fun, humor and laughter whenever and wherever you can today!

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The Power Of Thinking Positive! PT 10 You Are The Power!

Remember, your unconscious servo-mechanism doesn’t care. It will give you back whatever you give it to do. Give it poor or mixed thoughts you will get those back. Give it grand wonderful thoughts you will get grand and wonderful results.

Continued from: The Power of Thinking Positive! How To Make Your Thoughts Work For You Parts 1-9

There’s a reason Napoleon Hill titled his book ‘Think and Grow Rich’.

He did not say work hard and grow rich or anything like that, he said ‘Think and Grow Rich’ because that is what he meant. That is what it takes.

Everything begins with the thoughts you think. If you want to enjoy incredible wealth, health, happiness and well-being then it’s critical you learn how to manage your thoughts and think in the ways that make things happen.

You need to learn how to think yourself into what you want. IT is absolutely possible.

You have to know exactly what you want to become, do and have. Specifically define it. Picture whatever you are going to be, do and have as already finished. Picture it as an already finished act before you even begin to pursue it. See it in your mind as accomplished. In your mental movies imagine what it’s like to already have fulfilled your desires. See yourself as being it, doing it and having it.

Live it in your mind with great enthusiasm. Live with the feelings or positive certainty and expectation for you to accomplish it. Celebrate having achieved it. On the inside, mentally act as if all of it has already come true. Spend a few uninterrupted minutes concentrating in this fashion. The more time you spend feeling this and imagining this, the quicker you get what you want. The more you do it the better you get at it.

Believe you will make it happen. Know that you have already made it happen. The feeling of certainty is important. Even when you don’t yet know exactly how to do it or to get it, expect to discover ‘how’ as you go along. Have faith. Faith comes from repeating these feelings, imaginations or visualization daily as often and vividly as you can. Attach great wonderful feelings. Celebrate it. Give thanks. When you repeat these things daily you build positive habits.

No matter what your present circumstances are like, they have nothing to do with the manifesting of your desire. Keep your attention on your desires and off the circumstances. Live with gratitude and appreciation no matter what’s going on. Know in your heart that regardless of people, events, circumstances and challenges of any kind you will make your dream come true. In your imagination you ALREADY have. Get this. Affirm it repeatedly.

Do this consistently. Do this daily. The more fun, delight, the more faith you have, the more you keep your eye on the prize, the quicker you will manifest it. You will to bring it into being. It already exists. You transmute the energy from the invisible thought to the tangible outer reality. Never give up. Expect it to come to pass. Stay focused on what you want and that you will prevail no matter what!

Fully engage in this process and your unconscious mind will help you formulate plans and action steps. You may not entirely know how you’ll make your dream come true and that is totally okay.

Focus on what you want and ‘the how’ will take care of itself as you continue to affirm what you make/made happen. At some point, your entire being will become involved in going after it. You will feel this congruently. You will KNOW it is happening. You’ll take right action and you will act in your own best interests.

Be patient. Everything will happen in time. Trust. When you plant a seed it takes time to grow and show up above ground. During the time it is germinating you can’t see it growing. In the same way, your dreams are germinating but you may not witness any present results for some time. Stay with it. Be patient. Expect them to happen. Have confidence and never give up. You will make your dreams come true.

Live with passion! Feel great. Concentrate on feeling wonderful and positive most of the time. Fill your moments with joy and happiness. As you do these things your life will seem to magically transform. BUT it won’t be magic it will be YOU making it happen! You are the power and you are the creator. You are the magnetic attractor. Once you learn this. you will continue to make your life more and more wonderful!” Rex Sikes

Make each moment marvelous! Delight in this day!

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The Power of Thinking Positive! PT 8 How To Get Unstuck

“If you’re in a canoe in the middle of a large river or lake and suddenly needed to be on the shore you know you can’t teleport. You can’t jump that far either. You also know you need to keep an eye on where you are headed. Negative self-talk and staring at the canoe bottom won’t get you there any faster. You have to navigate to where you need to and want to be.

Continued from: The Power of Thinking Positive! How To Make Your Thoughts Work For You Parts 1-7

So you paddle. Each stroke gets you there bit by bit. With consistent effort, you get there eventually. The time will go by quicker if you are in a good frame of mind rather than a poor frame of mind. We all know about feeling good or bad and the passage of time. The worse you feel the slower time seems to go by. The point is you can’t jump. You can’t make that large of a leap. You have to get to the shore incrementally. You get closer with each paddle you make.

Sometimes, we discover we’re in a funk and we want to feel better. We want to feel ecstasy but that’s too big a leap from where you’re at. You have to incrementally move toward ecstasy one paddle at a time. First, maybe you need to take a walk. Calm down. Talk it out to dissipate the energy. Use some relaxation methods or NLP technique to chill and get some distance.

You need to get into neutral and from neutral move forward toward ecstasy. Think of driving a stick shift. Each time you shift gears you go from park through neutral to drive. From drive you go through neutral to reverse. Get it? You always move from the not so good to neutral. And from neutral to the much better feelings. Remember, you move forward one paddle stroke at a time.

For example: Eventually, you move from devastation to okay. Then, from okay, to not so bad. Then on to feeling better. From better you move to amused. Then, you move from amused to calm, well-being AND and from there toward subtle happiness. From happiness, you move to exhilaration. From there move to ecstasy. You do it in steps or stages, moving only as fast as you can change from one feeling to the next better one. Don’t rush. Take your time.

Some form of this process occurs when when we do nothing. When you don’t actually seem to do anything. This is what happens anyway when given enough time. ‘Time heals all wounds.’ The healing occurs as we move from the one stuck state, bit by bit, to other emotional states. We eventually move on and leave the less than glorious feelings behind.

This IS what happens when we say, ‘time heals all wounds.’ You begin to get free so you can behave in other ways. Actually, you participate in the process but very, very slowly and mostly outside of consciousness. It just seems as if time is the great healer but, in is not. Time heals nothing but in time, or through time you change your feelings and thinking. You shift. Time is only a record.

To take charge of your feelings means you become aware and recognize where you’re at. Acknowledge where you are and accept it. Allow it, even thank it, because IT’S a signal. You may not feel total gratitude at first but go through this process enough times and you’ll get better at it. Through correct, consistent, spaced repetition, it will become automatic eventually. Get it?

Be grateful when you recognize you’re stuck or resisting. It could be your own thoughts, feelings or behaviors you resist. You could be resisting another person who presents a challenge, or events or circumstances that aren’t to your liking. Whatever it is, once you recognize it or become aware of it in the moment, feel thankful you’re moving into the freedom to feel and be anything else.

From stuck (which you know you don’t want) you choose what you’d rather feel instead. It should be different from what you’re currently feeling and just a little bit better or more positive than what you were just feeling. If you’re depressed, anger could be a more positive step because when angry you tend to do things. You’re active and engaged when angry. Get it? You don’t wallow, you act.

Choose baby steps back toward feeling awesome. There are signals that accompany each step. If you take too big a leap and you feel frustrated, or saddened or worse, go back and make a tiny step. Don’t t get caught up in thinking about things too much. Let go. If you can’t easily decide on what the next baby step is just take a guess. GUESS! Guess whatever feeling state might be more appropriate to move to. THEN Try it! JUST friggin’ do it. Don’t sit there. Do it. Try it. Get it? ACT!

If you get a signal that what you tried isn’t the right one, guess again. Repeat this until you get the relief. When you do this you learn a great many things and train yourself to be much more resourceful. I’ll address more of this later. When you can’t consciously pick a more resourceful state trust your inner wisdom by taking a guess. Both work! You can be delightfully surprised.

Anytime, ANYTIME, you encounter negative feelings or feel stuck or resistance JUST course correct. Move into neutral and then back toward positive. This IS what a guidance system does. This IS what happens in autopilot. This is what you would do if you were driving to another city and you discovered you went off the course. You would turn around and course correct. You course correct so that you’ll end up where you want to end up.

This is what I mean by controlling your emotions. When you take charge of your thinking and feeling you don’t force yourself to feel other than you do. What we feel is important and we can feel many things. You don’t invalidate your feelings all of them are valuable. You recognize them, validate them, appreciate each of them and move on. All feels are resources and can be signals.

This is an incredible skill to learn. As with all skill you learn by doing. The more you have an opportunity to do this and repeat it, the faster you’ll make correct actions and the faster you make it a positive habit. Be grateful when ‘shit’ comes up because it’s an opportunity to let go and transform. Get this and you win. Get this and you’re ahead of the game.

You learn how to let go and accept what is whenever it’s necessary. You validate all emotions. Pain is an indicator that something needs attention in the body or the psyche so that it can be healed and resolved. We may not like the sensations but the signals are there for VERY important reasons. The signals are there to get our attention so we engage in the correct actions to remedy what’s wrong.

If you hurt yourself of feel ill the signals are their for you to seek attention, stop activity that might further injure you and to seek to rest, relax and recover. Pain serves a very useful and important function. Many people tend to fight and ignore the signals until the problem is larger than it would have been had they caught it early on.

If we’re able to catch it at the beginning point of the emotion we can prevent what is called ’emotional flooding’ where we get saturated with feelings from the chemicals surging inside us. When the sensations are wonderful we don’t mind and we enjoy them. BUT if they’re painful we don’t like it and resist it. Resisting makes us hurt all the more. Imagine a snowball on the top of a huge mountain. As it rolls down it gathers snow and becomes very large and practically unstoppable. The more it travels and the larger it becomes the more momentum it has. It can devastate everything in its path.

In order to stop the negative feelings we have to catch the feelings when they are only a tiny snow ball atop the mountain. If we can catch them when we first get the signal we can prevent them from becoming too large. This opportunity presents itself each time we feel less than glorious. Each time we successfully catch it and redirect it we are learning something of great importance. We are training and rewiring our brain to do what we want it to do now and in the future, instead of what it used to do we didn’t like.

The signal’s there for us to pay attention to. The signal’s there from the onset. What we need to do is learn to recognize it and acknowledge it. Accept it. Be grateful we got the signal and then nudge ourself to feel something a little less ‘bad’. Get it. Nudge yourself toward feeling a little more positive. This IS how we can prevent the snowball from crushing the village below. We circumvent the disaster by learning to redirect the feelings AND do things a new way. We don’t resist. We redirect.

You can do this. It’s possible. It gets easier and easier. Trust me. You don’t have to find times to do this exercise they will seem to appear all on their own. You simply want to take advantage of them as they occur. You may make mistakes. That’s okay. You may have been doing things another way for much of your life. When you begin to learn to do things in a new way there’s a learning curve so be gentle with yourself. Whenever you notice yourself thinking or feeling less than glorious, give yourself a gentle nudge.

For more than 30 years in my live seminars, I have taught this and other powerful processes that countless students have used with great success. It works. They did it. So can you! Here’s some very good news. If any one human can learn to do anything, all the rest of us can too. While it’s true some may be naturally better than others ANYONE can learn to do what another person has learned to do.

If you’re 4’6 you may not get to play basktetball with the giants but you can become the best 4’6 basketball player to ever hit the courts. You have to know that the potential resides in you. It lies dormant until it’s awakened. You awaken it by determining what you want, defining your goal, and pursuing it passionately. It doesn’t matter how young or old you are, tall or short, fat or thin, the color of your skin, your nationality, your religion or politics.

Within you is great potential! Don’t let it go to waste. Do not let anything stop you. Never let a ‘negative’ thought or feeling prevent you from living the life you deserve. Pursue your passions and make your dreams come true. Get this. You have the power within but you must find it and use it. When you do everything changes. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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The Power of Thinking Positive! PT 7 How To Stop Bad, Negative Feelings

‘What do I mean when I say we take charge and control our emotions? I mean this; our emotions are all valuable and part of us. Each and every emotion is valuable and meaningful. Whether we consider an emotion positive or negative all of them are what being human is about. They’re all wonderful even the not-so-wonderful ones! Why is that you ask? You may not believe it. You might even disagree, but all of our emotions are useful and necessary.

Continued from: The Power of Thinking Positive! How To Make Your Thoughts Work For You Parts 1- 6

Our emotions are valuable because they’re indicators. Each one is a signal for us as to where we are and what we’re experiencing. They signal us what direction we’re moving in. They let us know whether we’re moving closer or further away from our goals and desires. When we feel good we’re open and allowing, we’re permitting and inviting, we’re attracting wonderful thoughts and feelings.

When we feel happy and joyful we’re on the right track to getting what we want. We’re available and receptive. The goal is to feel this way most of the time. When we feel poorly or bad, we’re either stuck or resisting. Either we’re not moving forward but stuck somewhere on the pathway or we’re resisting letting anything come to us. We’ve shut down the flood gates.

We’re moving away from our goals and desires. We’re stuck or we have blocked the flow. We’re attracting or creating more of the same because we’re thinking and feeling the negativity. Once we understand this we can better monitor where we are on the path. If we get off course we can make the necessary adjustments to get back on track.

Those feelings are a signal we need to return our focus to the positive. Whenever you feel less than glorious you have an opportunity to recognize something’s amiss. The feeling you have is THE signal. Use the signal. Explore and examine what you’re thinking about. Shed light on it. Perhaps, you’re resisting some thought, some person, or performing some action?

What were you focused on right before the feelings alerted you? What are you focusing on as you have the feelings? Whatever we resist, persists. SO, when you become aware that you’re feeling less than glorious you want to change it. You want to nudge yourself back into neutral and then into feeling good so you can get back on track.

If there are blocks, worries, fears or any negativity you have the opportunity to release those and move forward. This is great news and it is easy to do.Negative emotions are great in that they let us know we need to change something right now. If we change it then we can get right back on track to feeling good and continue to move positively and powerfully toward what we want.

A negative or bad circumstance is a blessing! It lets you know instantly what you do not want. Once you know what you don’t want, it’s important to focus on what you DO want instead. Since you don’t want negative events (something bad happens) use it to clarify what you do want.

Define what you want instead. Put your energy and attention on what it is you want and keep it there. Let go of what happened. Let go of what you don’t want and focus on what you do. For some people a problem or a disaster is the impetus for them to become successful. (Success may mean wealth, health, family, relationships anything at all). Bad news often precedes great change.

There are countless examples of very wealthy, healthy, successful people who overcame great challenges, horrible life events, failure, bad family and upbringing and the worst of all possible situations who used the negative to propel them into the positive. They closed the door on disaster and sought success because they knew precisely what they wanted to have.

Our less than glorious emotions and circumstances, negative events and people can be the trigger for us to decide to move from what we want to avoid and toward what we want instead. They help us clarify. Some people have trouble stating what it is they want. They say, ‘I don’t want to be broke!’ These same people think they ARE thinking positive.

When they say ‘I don’t want to be broke’. They aren’t positive. When they think, ‘I don’t want to be broke’, BROKE is the focus. They’re focused on lack. You don’t get rich focusing on not having money, lack, and disappointment. What they need to focus on and hold in their mind is not thoughts of being broke but thoughts of having plenty.

Because of circumstances they now KNOW what they don’t want. NOW, they need to turn their back on it and begin to think and focus on what they DO want. They need to think, ‘I am financially free. I have plenty of money to do whatever I want, whenever I want.’ or similar thoughts to these. Most people are not aware when they are thinking less than glorious thoughts.

Hooray! This is why we have those negative feelings! They let us know when we went from thinking positive to not thinking positive. They signal us that we changed something inside us and are off track. They alert us to opportunity to shift back to the positive. If we are thinking ‘I don’t want to be broke’ and feel bad, that’s THE signal to focus on wealth creation instead.

The bad feeling is saying ‘HEY HUMAN!! This isn’t working to get you what you want. YES, YOU! I AM TALKING TO YOU! FEEL THIS’ And the human feels worse and then thinks worse thoughts and feels worse even more because the unconscious servo-mechanism goes. ‘Okay this is what you’re feeling strongly about – BROKE – okay, we’ll bring you more broke and more feelings.’

‘Happy to oblige!’. The servo-mechanism doesn’t know you don’t want BROKE, it can’t tell you don’t want broke, because, after all, BROKE and powerful feelings are what is occupying your attention. SO you get even more of it. Do you understand this, yet? You attract and create whatever you want AND whatever you don’t want, based on what you are thinking and feeling most frequently.

If you’re feeling bad most of the time, guess what? You get to feel bad even more of the time! THIS is why the GOAL is to feel good MOST of the time. Feel alive, delighted, positive, joyful and ecstatic. Then the servo-mechanism obliges AND you create more good feelings and positive energy! We will always have negative and positive thoughts BUT you can have far more positive one!

We’ll never eliminate all negative thinking (most likely) but we can replace the negative thoughts with more positive ones. We become mostly positive and mostly feeling good MOST of the time. When we feel otherwise, it’s that signal to get us back on track. So, be grateful to that signal. Say, ‘thank you for showing me I was off base’.

When your car breaks down and one or two things are wrong, keep in mind that most of it’s fine. 98 percent of it works well! Once you fix what needed attending to you can move ahead again. When you find yourself encountering something you don’t want or don’t like, keep in mind there’s so much more going on in the world around you that is fine and going well!

Continue moving forward and you’ll find a solution. Don’t get caught up in the drama of circumstances. Look for something to be grateful about instead. No matter what’s going on. When things are crumbling around you what you can’t see in those moments are all the great wonderful things that are simultaneously occurring.

Because you’re looking at the negative circumstances you are missing all the positive ones. Train yourself to turn and look at those things you appreciate, that you are thankful for. When you’re fighting the battle with the negative circumstances you are resisting and blocking. You need to open the flow and the blessings. In order to flow, you have to shift back toward feeling good.

This is the easiest means of shifting focus and feelings. You can also take a walk. Get some exercise or a massage. Do something you enjoy like singing, dancing, golfing or… whatever it is that is positive and helps you feel better. Helps you feel good. Bad people, events and circumstances, your own negativity are fingers point at the moon. Keep your eye on the moon, not on the fingers.

These are signals to get you to turn your attention to where you need to place it to get what you want. You cannot get safely to your destination driving while focusing on the gear shift. You have to keep your eyes and mind on where you want to go AND on what you want to create. Don’t let anything distract you or stop you. Instead, use the signals to get unstuck or release blockages.

That way can continue to focus on good AND allow good things to come your way. This is incredible news! It helps us understand how marvelous we are as humans. Keep this in mind. You have a monitoring system to help you stay feeling wonderful. Most of us don’t know how to use it. Now you’re learning to train your mind to see the good in any situation.

Find what there is right now in the present moment to be grateful for and focus on that. Any moment of the day you’re either feeling wonderful or you aren’t. Your feelings let you know. They tell you if you are feeling good or not-so-good. If you’re down and not feeling so good, change it! Recognize the signal and make the adjustment and keep moving forward positively. Get this?

Train yourself to feel good. Just like any skill you practice you will get better at it and it will get easier. Repetition is important! You must do it correctly, repeatedly, consistently for long enough. How long is long enough? Until it becomes habit! One day it will be a reliable, automatic habit and you will consistently delight and amaze yourself. So celebrate now because this is the only moment you have. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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The Power of Thinking Positive! PT 6 How To Recognize Opportunity As The Wealthy Do

What is an affirmation? It could be an accurate observation of the current moment. It could be a statement of fact. It could be an opinion. It is a declaration and an assertion. It is positive and to use the word itself it is affirming. It promotes well-being and positivity. It’s designed to encourage and support.

Continued from: The Power of Thinking Positive! How To Make Your Thoughts Work For You Parts 1- 5

Abundance is a current buzzword that some enjoy and some are growing tired of. I think it’s worthy to use for examination. Try this on: ‘We live in an abundant universe. Abundance flows to me and through me. I deserve riches and all good things. I am wealthy in every way. I give to and I help others from my abundance’.

Some people will say, ‘nope we live in a world where resources are being depleted and there are too many people’. That may be. Still, there is at this time, plenty of air, sun, darkness, food, water, money and everything else needed for everyone on the planet to thrive.

The biggest problem for us is not that these things are scarce but that people don’t have access to them. That’s sad. Very sad. It’s unfortunate and people should act to rectify it. It’s horrible when the political powers in charge allow or force people to go without. Yes, it’s sad because food, water and resources are plentiful but people are prevented. Everyone deserves health, wealth, well-being and the pursuit of happiness. This, however, is a discussion for elsewhere.

There is plenty to go around. There is plenty of power and electricity, all types of necessary goods, frivolous items, and money. There is so much money. Money is everywhere! Some have much more than others. Many of those who do have money attempt to thwart other’s access to it. Still, there is more than enough money everywhere. There are scores of wealthy people everywhere. Many millionaires and beyond have made their money in the best and the worst of times. Money is plentiful always.

Consider that none of the statements regarding abundance might be accurate. Or they all could be or just some parts of them could be true. After all, the statements are just sentences. You either agree with them or you don’t. You decide what to agree with or disagree with. You have your own reasons or excuses.

You will experience the lifestyle that accompanies your beliefs about those simple sentences. You’ll either have more than enough, enough, just enough or not enough. You determine it all by what you think, believe and where you place the cause of the lifestyle you live. You either accept yourself as the cause of it all or you put it off onto others or circumstances or both.

If you put it off onto others there’s probably little you can do about it. Unless you learn how to better communicate with them regarding your needs so you can improve your lot. If it’s circumstances holding you back then either you give up and allow them to dictate your life or you find a way to legally alter them for your benefit. If you accept responsibility for yourself and your lifestyle you can change whatever you need to change in order to change your lifestyle.

Let’s briefly examine some of the example statements and find out what the upside and downside to thinking that way is. We live in an abundant universe. Of course, someone could object stating that everything is limited and that we are wasteful. They could assert that if we aren’t vigilant we will run out. There’s not enough for everyone and there are people in poverty.

This is not an illogical nor necessarily false statement. It’s a view of current circumstances. The person who embraces this view may embrace the idea they ought to be helping others because they believe it’s important. They may practice conserving their money or they may give away their money OR they may do nothing but live in fear and worry. Anything is possible.

The person who believes there’s abundance could be a pig and a hoarder and consume wantonly without regard for others. This is possible. On the other hand, they could see the world as a friendly place with enough to go around for all. This may inspire them to work so all people have access to resources. They may be inspired to create all manner of wealth, beautiful experiences and good things.

Few, if any, people get rich focused on poverty. Those who get rich make their riches because they turn their backs on poverty. They don’t focus on scarcity and what they don’t have. Instead, they focus on creating what they want. They know what they want and where they want to get to. They are driven to accumulate.

To declare a war on poverty, while well-meaning, places the emphasis in the wrong place. Instead of wiping out poverty let’s create and utilize abundance. Let’s make sure people have all they need and not just basic necessities. To create wealth and well-being for all should be the goal but it isn’t.

To declare war on anything seems a less than optimal way to make changes in our world. It focuses on what we want to eliminate, but does not give clear picture or indication what we want to build and have instead. This has been proven over and over again.

The goal isn’t to eradicate poverty but to ensure all people have more than enough. The person who thinks and believes the world is plentiful finds examples to support that point of view. Just as the person who thinks scarcity is the state of the world, finds examples to support their viewpoint.

There is more that I don’t know than I could ever possibly know. If I err, I prefer to err on the side of what can be done and what is positive and hopeful than otherwise. I could be wrong about the world being abundant but I know it feels better to believe it is. Do you get this?

One point of view is not more right than the other in my world, but some make us feel better than others. There are some people who extract great joy in feeling bad but most people seem to want to feel good. In order to feel better, we need to think the thoughts that make us feel better. Feeling just okay is not an option.

We need to choose what makes us feel the best and put our attention on that. The goal is to live fully and joyfully feeling wonderful as much of the time as we can. Years ago, I declared this world my garden paradise. I claimed ownership. I realized I could either have an ecstatic life or I could have something else. I opted for an ecstatic life. I realized that there are also plenty of co-owners I share this planet with and determined we could all celebrate. If we only would.

I prefer to include everyone in my abundant world. Not everyone will gain or have everything they need or want. There are poor. I don’t blame them. It’s not my place to judge. I prefer to operate from the Golden Rule and what great religious leaders, philosophers and visionaries have had to say about compassion, understanding and ministering to those. I believe givers get but that is not the reason to give. Give simply to give.

Some people will agree completely with each of these statements I used as examples. Others may not. ‘The universe is plentiful. I deserve and attract all good things. I am wealthy in every way. Because I am wealthy I help others.’ Some may not feel that they deserve riches. They may not feel like they attract good things.

If you don’t feel that you deserve riches, if you don’t feel wealthy now, most likely you won’t be or become wealthy any time soon. This is because wealth, just like health and well-being is a mindset. It’s the adoption of and the adherence to certain attitudes and principles. The wealthy look at themselves and the world differently than those who don’t enjoy it. We’ll examine this more later.

In order to HAVE wealth (or anything; a relationship, health, a parent) one must first BE the kind of person who can have it. In order to have things you need to BE AND DO FIRST. In order to be rich, you need to think rich thoughts. In order to be healthy, you need to think healthy thoughts. In order to attract a loving partner, you need to be a loving partner first.

You can DO everything right and work hard but if your attitude and mind set, if your thoughts and beliefs don’t support and encourage you, it’s unlikely you will have wealth, health or much happiness. Unless you get really lucky and inherit it or win the lottery, etc. ‘As a man thinketh in his heart so he is’ is a nice Biblical saying that says, ‘You are your thoughts’.

The wealthy don’t think impoverishing, lackluster, deprecating thoughts. They may or may not practice affirmations as we discuss here but they certainly think differently than most of the rest of the world. They most assuredly feel they deserve to be wealthy and that money is plentiful, easy to make and grow. They see opportunity all around them because they’re primed to see it. If they loose money, they’ll just make some more. Money is to enjoy life. Abundance is wonderful!

Their thoughts, their attitude is primed to help them advance. We can adopt the good components of their mind set to advance ourselves as well. The same is true about people who have healthy loving relationships, are great parents, athletes and are successful in any other ways. Attitude is everything. Attitude determines your altitude! AND if it is possible for one, it is possible for all.

Affirmations help us to look for examples in the world around us and find them. People erroneously think ‘Seeing is believing’ but it’s actually reversed. ‘What we believe determines what we see’. This is verified over and over again by research. Also, we tend to live up to the expectations placed on us by others and by ourselves. Our mind set is critical to how far we’re able to go and what we’re able to be and do.

When you begin to look for good things around you instead of bad things you will find them. The affirmation is an organizing principle around which you wrap your perceptions. You will find reasons to be joyful, happy, healthy and whole. If you look for the negative, the hurtful, the unfair you will find those too. What you seek you will find. What are you seeking most of the time?

Affirmations filter and organize your thoughts and determine what you pay attention to. Look for and notice that which helps you feel great. Look around and notice what’s good, great, and wonderful! Notice what you’re thankful for and delighted in more and more during your day. Stop paying attention to the negative, the less than glorious and what makes you feel bad. What do you spend most of your time doing?

Start validating the good things. Don’t put energy into the bad things. It’s NOT about wearing rosy-tinted glasses and ignoring needs and problems. It’s about being in a positive and productive place to meet those needs and solve those problems. Much more is possible and probable when you feel better. You’re far more resourceful when you feel good.

Don’t let yourself get bogged down in negative or bad feelings when facing difficulty.

When you think abundantly you begin to realize everything is an opportunity. When all of your energy is the highest and in the most positive form you attract other like-minded people to you. Your mind opens you up to possibilities and you’re more readily able to recognize opportunity and positive circumstances and events as they occur.

As you invest in yourself and grow your stock in yourself, your confidence and your sense of worth soars. You’ll move differently in the world and travel to different places too. You’ll have the mindset to find advantages and to act resourcefully. It all begins within you! Unfortunately, too many people think it comes from the outside. That’s why there are so many not living the life they want to live. Your thoughts make it so!

Affirmations help you organize your thoughts so you are able to see what else is possible in you and around you. They’re positive thoughts and statements we can embrace and operate from to feel better and do better. I would rather fill my mind with thoughts of encouragement and support than anything otherwise. Wouldn’t you?” Rex Sikes

We will continue to discuss this further in upcoming posts.

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The Power Of Thinking Positive PT 5 How To Stop Wasting Your Time And Energy

“In the buffet line, you choose what you want and pass over what you don’t want. What you do not want and don’t like you don’t give another thought to. Instead, you select from what you want to enjoy. You focus on what it is you like and exclude the rest. You don’t beat yourself up because there are items on the buffet that are not for you.

Continued from: The Power of Thinking Positive! How To Make Your Thoughts Work For You Parts 1- 4.

It’s the same in everyday life. You need to keep your eye and mind on the good now in your present and the good future you want to create. This is where you keep our attention and your energy.

Do not get distracted by present circumstances no matter what they are. Even if everything around you is crappy, still focus and concentrate on the very best you can find now and in the future.

Your goal should be to feel good. You should feel the best you’re able to at any given moment. When you’re feeling joyful, happy and confident, you’re in a better place to make your dreams come true. You actually vibrate at a higher level. You’re more powerful and attractive. Well-being radiates from you. When you move through the world with power like this, you attract others of like mind and energy.

Here’s another analogy. Imagine you want to build a house. You design it. Plan it. You get it just the way you want it. It’s your dream home. You get everything in place to build it. Even though there may be problems with the land, the contractors, and the money, you still keep your focus on what it is you want to build.

Don’t let the other things take your attention away from what you know you want. Keep your eyes on the home you intend to build for yourself while you work to get it built. Don’t get caught up in the everyday events and forget about your dream home. Don’t let any circumstances shift your focus from what you want to build and have for yourself.

There are always difficulties and challenges. It’s part of life. Don’t make them bigger or more important than what you want. Don’t get hooked or distracted or caught up by mundane or terrible circumstances. Do not focus on what you don’t want and what the problems are.

People think they have to focus on or deal with what they don’t want in order to make things better. You don’t! Yes, you may have to solve present circumstances but don’t let whatever less than glorious events or people take you away from what you want. Do not give your energy to the problem! Give it to the solution. Keep it on what you want to have.

You will NOT get what you want by paying attention and giving energy to what you don’t want. It doesn’t work that way. In all likelihood it’s not going to happen. You will only waste your time and your energy and remain pretty much in the same stuck place.

Yes, you can notice the problems but you know you don’t want them. You can acknowledge them but don’t give your energy to them.

Turn your attention back to what you do want and keep working to make that happen. Remain positive, optimistic, dedicated and focused.

Do this and you use the positive force of your mind and being instead of accepting the negative circumstances. Choose to prevail instead of succumb. Live as a victor and not a victim.

Most people get caught up in an endless array of details and lose sight of the goal. They go back and forth. They live wishy-washy. They drift like a ship at sea without a captain. They hope and then doubt and then hope again. They try and then get frustrated. They are positive, then fearful. Eager, then anxious. This IS what confuses the unconscious. The back and forth of emotions sends mixed messages so we produce mixed results. If you think wishy-washy, you get wishy-washy.

Remember the principle of garbage in garbage out (GIGO). Whatever you put in the brain is what you get back out. If you write a bad software program you get poor results from the computer. You can’t run your engine on anything but the appropriate fuel. In order to get what you want, you must do what it takes.

I’m not suggesting that you have to work physically harder or longer, either. It’s a mistake to think that. You need to work smarter and wiser. It begins inside your head where everything begins. It begins with the thoughts you have. It begins with the seeds you plant. You can only reap what you have sown.

I am not suggesting you sit alone in your room and concentrate on having material goods magically shower down on you either. That’s not going to happen. It doesn’t appear to work that way.

What works is to organize your thinking first. This helps you organize your behaviors. The results are you work smarter, wiser and more efficiently to get what you want. You make it happen because you’re at cause. You are in charge. You are in control. You create and you attract what you want.

You accelerate your potential to make it happen because you align your entire being in that mission. You’re congruent, devoted, dedicated, focused, concentrated and passionate about making it happen. You become a person who is able to get what you want.

It’s evolution. You evolve yourself. You make yourself into the kind of person who gets what you set out to get. In order to be that kind of person you must send a single clear, powerful message!

Positive Thinking is the ability to know exactly what it is you want, maintain your focus and your attitude, and stick with it until you make it yours. Troubles may come and go but you adjust your plans because you expect to win no matter what. You focus on the good, the solutions, what can be done and you do it.

Positive Thinking training is learning how to focus your mind like a laser and target what you want so that you get it. When you aim at the target you focus where you want to hit. You don’t worry about the rest of the target or what is off the target. Youu put your concentration where you want the projectile to land.

I’ve provided some analogies for consideration. The point is this: it’s all about where you put your attention. Energy flows where attention goes! Keep your attention where it’s most useful and let go of the rest.” Rex Sikes

Enjoy making moments magical today. Look for good things!

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The Power Of Thinking Positive PT 4 Repetition: What You Need To Understand

Our world functions repetitively. Day becomes night. Seasons come and go. You wake up, follow a routine, work, play, watch the same TV shows and do it all over again and again. Our lives are based on repetition and habit. Repetition can be powerful. You can expect results when you correctly repeat exercises. When you repeatedly practice any skill you get better at it.

Continued from: The Power of Thinking Positive! How To Make Your Thoughts Work For You Parts 1- 3.

Advertisers know that repetition and repeated exposure creates awareness and brand identity. It’s been said and demonstrated that ‘a lie repeated long enough and often enough becomes substituted for the truth’. Governments and advertisers have prospered and benefited from propaganda. So, a lie constantly stated can become believed and accepted as truth.

An affirmation isn’t a lie. It’s an accurate statement. It may feel like or seem like a lie because you don’t think it applies to you. It may not be in your thinking or view of yourself or the world’s to accept it as a fact. So, for you, it may not seem true. But it can be true for you.

It can become your truth! Advertisers, media, politicians and all governments know (and they have invested billions in researching this area), that if you constantly present a notion, by repetition, to people, many of them will gradually come to accept it. Researchers also discovered that people will usually become more tolerant when repeatedly exposed to other people, other ideas and practices.

We become less afraid and more accepting of that which is familiar. We find areas of commonality or overlap and become more accepting. We allow more and are more willing to entertain notions the more we see or hear them. This is why radio, TV, magazine, billboard and all media advertising is effective. It’s through repeated exposure that ideas become more acceptable to us.

Do you think all the billions would be spent if it didn’t work? Even fears and phobias can be overcome by the appropriate practice of repeated exposure to what is feared. Systematic Desensitization is a method of safely exposing the person, bit by bit, to what they fear most. The practice works. People get over life-long fears by getting exposed to the stimulus bit by bit.

Studies suggest, we tolerate more televised violence when we repeatedly watch violent and horrific shows and news. We become less sensitive to it. Lies become accepted as true, violence becomes less horrible, people and concepts become more familiar when exposed to them enough times. It works.

So when you repeat affirmations over and over again your resistance to these ideas breaks down. Gradually, you begin to accept and believe them. Ultimately, you embrace these new thoughts and begin to operate from them. You make them your own thinking and your new beliefs. You do this by constantly exposing your mind to the positive ideas!

Repetition works and there is a way to make sure it works even better. Advertisers, media, military and governments know that to make this process maximally effective you have to emotionally hook or involve the person. YOUR emotions are the key. YOUR strong emotions are the mechanism that makes this work faster and efficiently.

So while repeating an affirmation such as, ‘everyday in every way I am getting better and better’ lifelessly may transform you, it may take a a very long time. It can work, but there is a more effective way to ensure success. You do want success, don’t you?

To get the most powerful results you pair your affirmation with tremendous positive energy while you think and say them. For affirmations to work the best and the swiftest they need to be repeated with dynamic energy and enthusiasm. The stronger your feelings the more you reinforce whatever is going on.

Do you understand this process? Your life already works this way. You have unwittingly engaged in this process again and again. Sometimes, you got good results. Sometimes poor results. Sometimes wishy-washy results. What you did not get is consistent positive results. You used this process haphazardly and without conscious determined awareness. AND You’ve been doing this all along!

Your emotions paired with your thoughts have already programmed you. Your emotions lock in your thinking. Now it’s time to take charge and deliberately control what you think AND what you get back. To use an analogy, your ship has been drifting and now it’s time for you take control and steer it to where you want to go. You choose the destination and you get it there!

There’s good news! You don’t have to learn to do anything new. You’re already doing what works but you have been using it to get crappy results or result you don’t want. You’ve been effectively using this process, without awareness, over and over again to get what you didn’t want. Now, begin using it purposefully to get what you DO want!

All you have to do NOW is begin to make a few adjustments and you can get on track to get what you want. You’ll use what you already do naturally, but you’ll use it in a NEW way. Now start emphasizing the positive most of the time and let go of the negative. Accentuate the positive and fill yourself up with positive powerful energy. Keep your positivity banks full.

Keep your positivity banks more full than the negativity bank. Go for 70% 80% 90% positive and you will experience great changes. So what to do? First, decide YOU want to make the change and that you will begin. You choose! Then you aim your mind toward what is good and new and delightful. Aim your mind at what you want and focus on that intently. Concentrate your energy.

Stay focused on the positive and let go of the negative. One key to finding positive energy and enthusiasm is to look at what you’re already grateful for in your past and present life. Take an inventory of all you are thankful for and all that feels good. Whatever you’ve accomplished, anything and everything, and everyone and accentuate it. Do this everyday!

Do it morning and at night. Do it during the day. Focus on thankfulness. Stay with the appreciation. Look around at everything that’s good and uplifting. Remember, what we focus on expands. We get and become what we think about most often. What we hold in our mind, we can some day hold in our hand. Read inspirational material everyday. Fill your mind with strong positive messages.

Make it a habit to feed yourself positive food for thought daily. Commit to reading at least a page. You can do at least one page! Certainly, you can do more if you want. Make the commitment to never go a day without at least reading one page of positive, inspirational, motivational, nutritional messages. You can do this! Listen to audio programs and watch motivational videos.

There’s plenty of good free material on the internet. Turn your drive time into inspirational and educational time. If you’re typically dour, or unable to find anything good, then you may have to pull yourself up using your own boot straps. Take a walk, and emphatically with powerful determination chant an affirmation. Repeat it while exercising. Do jumping jacks or something.

Do something that gets all of your being, inside and out, moving. Move vigorously. Remember what the military does to train troops. Find a buddy to partner with if that helps. Share your inspiration and enthusiasm! Put a program of action to work for yourself. Add delight, enjoyment, enthusiasm, eagerness, positive feelings, happiness, and excitement when you think and chant affirmations.

Do this morning and night and throughout the day. Sing them, chant them, shout them in your car with a smile. Add uplifting energy to your affirmations. Make each of your moments count. Write them out and put them where you will see them. I’ll share more next time. One of my favorite thoughts I use as an affirmation is a biblical saying I know you’ll love. I sure do.

‘This is the day the lord has made, rejoice and be glad in it’. It reminds me to be thankful, and to look for the good. I want to begin the day with gratitude and rejoicing. I keep this in mind and remember to practice it frequently throughout the day. AND especially at times when difficulty presents itself. I think, ‘It is all good. Good is always happening even if I don’t realize it.

Good things are always happening even though I don’t know what they are, yet. Everything always works out for the best. Everything will work out because this is the day the lord hath made, rejoice and be glad in it.’ When you’re glad and rejoice it makes all things better. Try it and discover it.

Remember, the more you do, the more you are able to do. The more you feel good and think positive the more you will make that fell good and think positive. Get it. Appreciation, appreciates! As you get better it get’s easier. As it gets easier you get better. What at first seems impossible you discover you can now do with ease. You benefit because you took action and start the process.

Train yourself to feel good and to look for the good and that IS what you will find AND have. If you get off base, nudge yourself back to the positive. When you steer yourself back to what you want, when you steer back to the positive, you begin to send a clear single powerful message to your unconscious servo-mechanism that THIS is what you WANT more of.

I repeat: YOU focus on what YOU want. Concentrate on it and fill your mind and being with good thoughts and feelings. If you get off base steer back to the positive. Course correct and get back on course. Always aim at your target and nowhere else! When you maintain this practice you inform your unconscious servant that this is what you want ALL the time. Program your brain.

Program and condition your mind and being for success. Determine what you want. Forgo what you don’t just as when you’re at a buffet table. As you do this repeatedly, through time, you are developing positive habits which work will automatically. These are the seeds you plant. Expect to reap good things when you plant good strong seeds. You WILL reap, if YOU first plant them.

This is necessary to understand. PLANT positive seeds and NURTURE them to fruition. They will grow and flower and you will benefit again and again as they do. EXPECT a great harvest. When the time comes you’ll REAP even more of the benefits. Actually, you’ll benefit all along the way. It IS a very enjoyable process once you begin Enjoy today. Amaze yourself with what wonderful moments you can discover. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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The Power Of Thinking Positive PT 3 How To Start Getting What You Want!

“Quantity is one thing. How much, how often, for how long is necessary to consider. It is important. But, quality matters too. It matters a lot! Some people lifelessly repeat an affirmation thousands of times expecting it to somehow transform them. It usually doesn’t. It may, but rarely. Listless repeating of a phrase is not the correct application of this practice.

It is not the words that make the difference but the energy behind the words. Energy or feeling is the ‘special something’ required that makes it work. We continue from The Power of Thinking Positive! How To Make Your Thoughts Work For You Parts 1 and 2.

Since we get back whatever we are thinking about and feeling strongly about now’s the time to consider choosing what you want instead of allowing anything to happen. When you’re angry or fearful, you’re thinking and feeling powerful thoughts which the unconscious mind receives as a message to deliver more of the same. It gets the signal from the energy of the thought-feeling.

Stop perpetuating that type of negativity. Decide to change it and begin creating and having the life you desire. Start getting the things you want. This is why it’s necessary to choose to focus on what you want. Make it what you want the most. To make this shift, chose positive powerful thoughts

and ideas to think. Choose to affirm instead of deny. Choose affirmations you want to focus on. Direct your attention to those aspects of life you want to include and get for yourself. This means means directing your attention so you PAY ATTENTION and concentrate on these. Whatever you hold most prominently with feeling in your mind is what you get and become. Everything is Energy!

Choose an affirmation and put power behind it. To create or manifest requires energy and enthusiasm. Use these when you think and utter affirmations. Emotion and energy IS what makes the difference! Sadly, that’s what most people leave out of affirmation training. Yes, I said training because just like exercise or dieting it means adhering to the program. Energy and enthusiasm!!

Big emotions are what capture the attention of the unconscious servant mind. Everything is energy! When you feel bad you’re feeling that energy and that energy is creating what you’re thinking about. Get this! You endorse that energy. When you feel good you’re feeling and endorsing that energy. Whatever energy you experience most often determines what your life is like.

Everything is energy! Positive Thinking Training is to train your mind to see the good things in everything. When you focus on the positive energy you find more of it. The military understands how to transform a human’s thinking. They make troops chant, scream, sing what they want to instill in them during all different forms of physical activity, stress, exhilaration and exhaustion.

They want their training to stick so that lives are saved. Troops train rigorously so that when the troop needs to react without thinking the troop will. If someone yells ‘hit the dirt’ they must without hesitation or thinking about it. Therefore, they undergo intense physical, mental and attitudinal training to wire in what’s crucial to survival. They need it to work automatically and reliably.

Stay with it. Never give up! IT will get easier as you go along. Your skills and abilities increase with practice in time. You will get better and it will get easier. BUT even if it never got any easier you should stay with it. When you make having it a necessity, you will get it. Passion drives everything.

When you feel ‘YOU MUST’ is when doors open. Wimpy and shallow doesn’t make it work. Nor does wimpy win. Think Olympic contenders. Look at how train and condition themselves for years for the opportunity to compete for seconds every 4 years. Their attitude and their training is rigorous.

Their attitude and training determines how far they can go. Even if they fail to win the gold they are in the top tier of world-class athletes. Get this. It is their dedication. It is their commitment to the process. It’s their persistence to train and continue to improve no matter what, that matters most!

Use affirmations. Learn to embrace the practice. It can be a whole lot more fun and less stressful than military training. It can be wonderful, but there are lessons to learn from that military style of training immersion. Troops undergo an intense process. It’s highly emotional. There’s little letup.

Keep in mind the military is attempting to break the habitual thinking the troop has when they arrive at camp. The military wants to instill and install a new one. Frankly, it’s brainwashing. Whether you agree or disagree with the practice or the military is for a different discussion. I’

m not agreeing nor disagreeing with it but emphasizing and utilizing aspects from it to make a point.

Brains could use a good washing from time to time. If you have habitually a bad attitude and aren’t getting the results you want then a change is in order. If you want to transform and if you want it to be different, IT absolutely can be. But there’s a price for that change. The price is what you’re willing to do to get what you want. Legally of course. This doesn’t mean we become what we wish.

Rather, we become what we obsess about, what we are passionate about AND what we feel strongly about. It includes the good feelings and what we fear, loathe and are angry about. We become whatever we hold in our minds most strongly with strong feelings. We get back whatever we give the energy to. This IS why it’s important to realize positive thinking is a choice.

It means begin the program and stay with it for however long it takes. If it took 3 months, 1 year, 5 years or longer you stick with it. You decide to dedicate yourself to yourself! Chose to do everything you can to be the person you want to be no matter how long it takes. Don’t dabble or drift! Pursue it passionately. Passion fuels everything! Passion is the fire and you need the fire!

We will continue next time. For now, know that learning to be more positive can be one of the most joyous and delightful journeys you ever take. I use the examples of the military and athlete training as examples of how far people are willing to go to get what they want. Certainly, you can train hard. Just as you can work hard. OR you can learn to be smart and wise.

You can learn how to enjoy and delight in the process. The art and science of getting what you want in life doesn’t need to be arduous or difficult, but it’s not pie in the sky either. You can find and have more fun than you ever thought possible. You’ll celebrate and discover all sorts of marvelous feelings and experiences along the way. It can be like a buffet wonderful and delicious.

You can’t give up along the way and still get to your destination. If you quit but still expect to get there, you won’t. BUT you can make the journey so incredible and so marvelous that giving up would never ever occur to you. So, get everything you deserve to get and start on the way today! Look for good things all around you and enjoy making today marvelous. Celebrate everything! Rex Sikes

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