For years I've been studying the power of positive thinking. I won't start listing everything I've studied - and it has all helped. I started with "Think and Grow Rich" a few years ago. I was feeling glum and I saw the title from a streetcar window, on a heap of sale books outside a bookstore. I jumped off the streetcar and bought it for $.25. CDN. It helped move me forward.
In the meantime I kept up with the new and fashionable.
Then 10 days ago I found an older book, "The Power of Alpha Thinking" by Jess Stearn. This edition was printed in 1976.
With the mental overloading and rollercoaster ride of learning internet marketing, I needed some help to best use my 'down time', meaning the time I run away from my computer, screaming. I wanted to do something that would help me absorb all the new data quickly, and give me the courage to keep going!
I also found this book in a second hand store, but a few years having passed since my last thrifty purchase, it was double the price - $.50. US even.
I must say it has helped. I don't know if it is the specific techniques, my personality, or what. But my focus has sharpened, much of the distraction around me has been happily shelved as "background noise" and .....the next few weeks will tell.
The actual steps of the meditational technique were only partially divulged in the book, but you can guess where it is all found.
http://www.the-synergy.com/alpha/alpintro.html
If you are so inclined, it is good stress handling and can go beyond that.
Just wanted to share....
Dianne
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Business Goals and Opportunities
If you are just beginning to learn about marketing on the internet , so that you can stay at home with the kids, or supplement the income from your day job, it can be overwhelming going into this learning curve. You can start by searching "internet marketing" and you'll be deluged with sites and ads. And there will be a lot of opportunities for the "INSTANT AUTO-PILOT" type of business.
How do you get through all that data? How do you invest your time, money, energy and get the best results? Can you find a safe business with any guarantee of the outcome? There are obvious hypemasters with bright banners and hard-sell pages. It doesn't hurt to subscribe to a list offering a newsletter, free course or report, because you can always unsubscribe. Your patience and perseverance will be needed, in reading and sifting through all the information that can be accessed.
A really excellent business guide that will save you a lot of headaches in learning internet marketing is by Holly Mann. It's not expensive, it's loaded with information, and it is well organized in describing different approaches to making money. You can check it out at this link - http://www.linkbrander.com/go/28408
How do you get through all that data? How do you invest your time, money, energy and get the best results? Can you find a safe business with any guarantee of the outcome? There are obvious hypemasters with bright banners and hard-sell pages. It doesn't hurt to subscribe to a list offering a newsletter, free course or report, because you can always unsubscribe. Your patience and perseverance will be needed, in reading and sifting through all the information that can be accessed.
A really excellent business guide that will save you a lot of headaches in learning internet marketing is by Holly Mann. It's not expensive, it's loaded with information, and it is well organized in describing different approaches to making money. You can check it out at this link - http://www.linkbrander.com/go/28408
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Communication and Connection On the Internet
I heard from someone I haven't seen for many years in a comment. Hi! Wonderful to hear from you. I love the internet because over the past few years I've found people I taught, I hear from them, I get to see where they're working, dancing, directing and all of that. From York University and the National Ballet School too. I've also found people who taught me... still being brilliant in their new places of work...
Thanks for leaving that message M. I am thrilled to hear from you. Still accompanying dancers?
I love to hear from people!
Thanks for leaving that message M. I am thrilled to hear from you. Still accompanying dancers?
I love to hear from people!
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
RetainingEnthusiasm and Removing the Barriers to Succeeding
A friend told me an interesting story about himself Monday morning. He is pursuing similar studies to my own, and also had started a blog. He e-mailed some friends, they read his posts and gave him warm and positive feedback.
The next day he had writers' block. In fact, he spent the whole weekend working on other projects, he found he had SO MUCH he had to do right then. He felt a lack of interest in writing anything. He felt emotionally removed from his recent enthusiasm and determination, to write once and maybe twice a day. This is a very disciplined person here. He was a little puzzled at his feelings, but kept too busy to think about it much.
After he got to work Monday morning, he had time to sit and think, and he reflected on the lapse of interest in his blog and article writing. He did an exercise I had learned from a Paul R. Scheele course, to feel what you are feeling and acknowledge it. This we often don't do, we keep a feeling hanging around in the background, in our mental waiting room. A faint anxiety may remain, because the message being presented by our feeling is being ignored.
My friend felt that he could not do much better than the writing he had recently done, and discovered that he was operating on a programmed idea that he should always improve upon the last thing he did. If it wasn't going to be better, then he could not proceed.
Having already put forth true effort to write good articles and posts, he just stopped.
This all came to him in a bubble of thought and popped silently, and the various components of the situation orbited around his mental sphere as he examined them. He suddenly remembered a few other projects he had abandoned in the same way, drifting away from them with the same loss of interest.
He felt very invigorated at viewing his syndrome. He now realizes that he doesn't have to follow the rule of improving EVERY time he writes, and that he will improve at a reasonable rate just because of the volume he is putting out.
He has now removed a barrier to his persistence toward success.
I have come to think that many feelings that are less than enthusiastic may be from some old program, and are to be dealt with only for the purpose of moving forward. No labeling is required, just acceptance of them, and observation. Then can come a decision as to whether they have any present relevance.
I am not talking about overwhelming post-traumatic emotion here. I am talking about writers' block and similar conditions such as organizational blocks, time mismanagement habits and that kind of thing.
I thought this was an interesting story, and how he could have just given up his dream of internet marketing, working a business from home, good results, and eventual financial comfort. Instead he gave himself a little time to feel, without judgment, and had a good outcome.
The next day he had writers' block. In fact, he spent the whole weekend working on other projects, he found he had SO MUCH he had to do right then. He felt a lack of interest in writing anything. He felt emotionally removed from his recent enthusiasm and determination, to write once and maybe twice a day. This is a very disciplined person here. He was a little puzzled at his feelings, but kept too busy to think about it much.
After he got to work Monday morning, he had time to sit and think, and he reflected on the lapse of interest in his blog and article writing. He did an exercise I had learned from a Paul R. Scheele course, to feel what you are feeling and acknowledge it. This we often don't do, we keep a feeling hanging around in the background, in our mental waiting room. A faint anxiety may remain, because the message being presented by our feeling is being ignored.
My friend felt that he could not do much better than the writing he had recently done, and discovered that he was operating on a programmed idea that he should always improve upon the last thing he did. If it wasn't going to be better, then he could not proceed.
Having already put forth true effort to write good articles and posts, he just stopped.
This all came to him in a bubble of thought and popped silently, and the various components of the situation orbited around his mental sphere as he examined them. He suddenly remembered a few other projects he had abandoned in the same way, drifting away from them with the same loss of interest.
He felt very invigorated at viewing his syndrome. He now realizes that he doesn't have to follow the rule of improving EVERY time he writes, and that he will improve at a reasonable rate just because of the volume he is putting out.
He has now removed a barrier to his persistence toward success.
I have come to think that many feelings that are less than enthusiastic may be from some old program, and are to be dealt with only for the purpose of moving forward. No labeling is required, just acceptance of them, and observation. Then can come a decision as to whether they have any present relevance.
I am not talking about overwhelming post-traumatic emotion here. I am talking about writers' block and similar conditions such as organizational blocks, time mismanagement habits and that kind of thing.
I thought this was an interesting story, and how he could have just given up his dream of internet marketing, working a business from home, good results, and eventual financial comfort. Instead he gave himself a little time to feel, without judgment, and had a good outcome.
Monday, January 22, 2007
The Metaphysical Autoresponder Uses Code - Sometimes Encrypted
I don't mean html. Although the theme of my thoughts this past week has everything to do with the internet, and business. And our great successes.
Recently focusing on synchronicity, the output of thoughts that are about the outcome we want, and the various traditions and new schools of thought that are about US creating OUR lives as we wish, I found myself driving behind an SUV which had a license plate "I MK BLEV".
I have no way of knowing whther the driver was an author of fantasy stories, movies, or a metaphysical minister of some kind. I enjoyed seeing that idea refelcted back to me.
In the holographic mirror/reflection of the physical universe, we need to survive in many ways. Surviving, thriving, succeeding, flourishing, prospering, are most people's goals.
Start where you are and feel it. If you have a feeling of just surviving, not quite thriving, feel the best things about that. List them out loud. And then add to it a little. Okay, you are pretending, you are thriving now. What does that mean to you? Maybe your tedium and grunt work is a little more comfortable, because you are used to it and faster at it. Or, you've accepted it, so you have energy from your former resistance to put into your work, and your play.
Resistance means you just don't want it to be that way. It should not be. You can tell when you are resisting - you're tense, not liking to have to do it. That takes energy, it changes your biochemistry so that you are poisoning yourself with the wrong chemicals, and that perpetuates the resistance, because it actually messes your brain up and everything takes more effort.
Accepting just means that you know the tedium and grunt work is temporary and it's no big deal. When you get into the next stage you will have a new and different tedium, a little more complicated grunt work, but you get the prize of GREAT RESULTS! MONEY!.... And much personal fulfillment "I did that!".
Your thoughts, vibe, and the frequency at which you are transmitting into the Void, (Mind, Universal Field, Quantum Etheric Ocean, The Force) is your code. And you will get code back. Before you see the big results you are looking for, acknowledge the little ones. They matter. They are the signs.
It may just be seeing some of the things you want - material stuff. You are noticing the ads,peoplpe with your wished-for stuff, it'll stand out in the movies. You really notice it now. You don't have it yet. But you can look at it and go "oooohhh.... yeah I love that stuff. It's mine. I can just feel the texture of it, feel its weight, look at that glossy color". Or whatever, according to you.
It sure is better than worrying and resisting. And you get a lot of energy out of it, and it's "just thought". Hah.
Recently focusing on synchronicity, the output of thoughts that are about the outcome we want, and the various traditions and new schools of thought that are about US creating OUR lives as we wish, I found myself driving behind an SUV which had a license plate "I MK BLEV".
I have no way of knowing whther the driver was an author of fantasy stories, movies, or a metaphysical minister of some kind. I enjoyed seeing that idea refelcted back to me.
In the holographic mirror/reflection of the physical universe, we need to survive in many ways. Surviving, thriving, succeeding, flourishing, prospering, are most people's goals.
Start where you are and feel it. If you have a feeling of just surviving, not quite thriving, feel the best things about that. List them out loud. And then add to it a little. Okay, you are pretending, you are thriving now. What does that mean to you? Maybe your tedium and grunt work is a little more comfortable, because you are used to it and faster at it. Or, you've accepted it, so you have energy from your former resistance to put into your work, and your play.
Resistance means you just don't want it to be that way. It should not be. You can tell when you are resisting - you're tense, not liking to have to do it. That takes energy, it changes your biochemistry so that you are poisoning yourself with the wrong chemicals, and that perpetuates the resistance, because it actually messes your brain up and everything takes more effort.
Accepting just means that you know the tedium and grunt work is temporary and it's no big deal. When you get into the next stage you will have a new and different tedium, a little more complicated grunt work, but you get the prize of GREAT RESULTS! MONEY!.... And much personal fulfillment "I did that!".
Your thoughts, vibe, and the frequency at which you are transmitting into the Void, (Mind, Universal Field, Quantum Etheric Ocean, The Force) is your code. And you will get code back. Before you see the big results you are looking for, acknowledge the little ones. They matter. They are the signs.
It may just be seeing some of the things you want - material stuff. You are noticing the ads,peoplpe with your wished-for stuff, it'll stand out in the movies. You really notice it now. You don't have it yet. But you can look at it and go "oooohhh.... yeah I love that stuff. It's mine. I can just feel the texture of it, feel its weight, look at that glossy color". Or whatever, according to you.
It sure is better than worrying and resisting. And you get a lot of energy out of it, and it's "just thought". Hah.
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