In this post you will learn to fastest way to develop a new behavior or characteristic.

I mentioned in my busting and building beliefs ebook how “acting as if” is a great way to install new beliefs. If you haven’t got my complementary guide yet then I encourage you to click here to get a copy.

 To Act As If

To “act as if” means to act in a way as if you already posses the behavior or characteristic you desire. However to be able to do that you must know how people with the behaviors you want actually behave. One way to do this is through imagination, but in this video I will share with you the other way to do this which is a strategy called modeling.

Modeling 

Modeling occurs when we watch someone else and then begin to mimic their patterns of behavior and characteristics.

This is one of the most power ways you learnt what behaviors to display during your upbringing – unfortunately, this process was unconscious during this period and so the behaviors you mimic today may not of be as life enhancing as other behaviors you could display.

However there is nothing stopping you from consciously mimicking the people who posses the behaviors and characteristics you also want to display.

To do this involves a technique called modeling success which comes from Paul McKennas new book called – “I can make you smarter.”

Modeling Success

STEP 1) The first step is to choose the behavior or characteristic you want to make your own and identify someone who exhibits it.

STEP 2)  Study the person who you have identified as having the thing you want. If you can’t get direct access to them read about them or watch videos or listen interviews. If you can interview them yourself then ask them questions that elicit answers that tell you what the thoughts they are thinking when they exhibit the thing you desire.

STEP 3) Now you have a good sense of everything about the role model, find a place to relax, close you eyes and imagine you are in a movie theater. Picture your role model on the screen perform the behavior or characteristic you want perfectly. Keep repeating the mental movie over and over until it is vividly clear

Step 4) Imagine yourself onto the screen and into your role models image. Now repeat the mental movie again but this time from your role models perspective so you are seeing through their eyes, hearing through their ears and feeling what they a feel. Keep repeating this mental movie over and over until you get a real sense of what it feels like to perfectly display the your chosen behavior or characteristic.

STEP 5) Find as many opportunities each day to act as if. I suggest you start acting in your new ways with strangers at first since you wont be judged for these new ways of acting unlike with people you are familiar with, because they will have set expectations of the ways they expect you to behave

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Do you know how Adolf Hitler got such an unshakable belief in himself that it fueled his path to power and world to the brink of destruction?

In this post you are going to learn the awesome power of belief and how you can utilize the psychology of belief to transform your life.

First of all to is important to define the term belief so we both understand what the term “belief” actually means. In Kerry Spackman’s book – the ant and the Ferrari he defines the term belief into one of two categories.

The first category for belief is:

Having a belief in something 

and the second category is for belief is that:

it a set of ideas you think of as true.

This post will deal with the “having the belief in something” category.

Firstly we are going to define exactly what “having belief in something” means. Before going onto explore how these type of beliefs form. This post will finish by sharing a little known incident from Adolf Hitlers life, that sent his life in a completely different direction and consequently also the worlds. This little known tale fully exhibits the true power of belief.

Now lets begin by defining the “belief in something” category of beliefs.

Having a belief in something corresponds to having confidence in something, and if you have supreme confidence in the thing you believe in, then it becomes an unshakable belief.

The most important thing about having an unshakable belief in something is that it is the driving force that will keep you going even if you results and experiences don’t coincide with the strength of your belief.

If you truly believe that an outcome is inevitable then any failure just becomes a signal to try harder.

Having such faith in something invokes the self fulling prophecy for two reasons.

Firstly:

the more persistent you are at something the better you become at that action.

Secondly,

the more attempts you have at an activity the greater the chance there is at succeeding at that activity.

For these two reasons your chances of success increase due to having an unshakable belief in something.

Interesting, having such belief in something is the determining factor in the perseverance, but it is perseverance itself that is the causal factor of success.

Their are countless things that people put their faith everyday because they believe their belief in an object promises in someway to enhance or protect their life in some way.

The object of belief varies throughout history and from place to place. The belief is often an:

• idea,
• an object
• or even themselves.

The most interesting thing about belief is that there is rarely any evidence that the thing
that is believed in has any real power to provide a benefit to the believer at all.

Kerry spaceman’s uses this diagram to display the feedback loop of belief and success

So how do these beliefs form in the first place ?

There are many ways these these type beliefs form, but one of the most prevalent ways is through superstitious thinking.

A study In 1948 by a man named B.F Skinner that involved pigeons gives us an insight into how this category of belief form through superstitious thinking.

Skinner’s experiment involved placing pigeons in glass boxes. These boxes delivered food to the pigeon every 15 seconds through feeders which were attached to the boxes. Interestingly, the scientist observed the pigeons developing some interesting behaviors. Depending on the what action the pigeon was performing when the first food was given to the pigeon, this action became the basis for their future behavior. That is to say that even though food was fed to the pigeons every 15 seconds independently of their behavior, the pigeons still believed their actions influenced the food delivery in some way.

Some of the superstitious behaviors these birds developed were bobbing their heads, pecking in corners and walking around in circles.

If you think these superstitious behaviors are unique to the animal kingdom then you would be wrong, because further studies using humans as the subjects also resulted in similar superstitious rituals around receiving a reward.

In fact it only takes one or two times for an object to be present when a desired outcome is received for the linking of the object to the positive result to take place.

This phenomena explains how a basketballer’s new pair of undies coinciding with a career high points haul become his lucky undies, why a student uses the same pen every exam because the first time she used it they got top marks in the class. Or even how a persons heartfelt prayer precedes receiving their desired outcome and thus becomes evidence of the existence of God.

ADOLF HITLERS SECRET INCIDENT 

Now lets turn to a little known story from Adolf Hitlers life that truly exhibits the power of belief. What Hitler learned to believe in is the most powerful thing you can believe in if you want to get the best results in your life - yourself!

At the time of WW1, Adolf was simply a solider on the front line, fighting for Germany with no authority or even leadership potential.

However after months of combat and inhospitable conditions, Hilters mental wellness started to deteriorate significantly. In todays terms be would have been described suffer from a nervous breakdown. The term used during the 1920′s though was shell shock.

Hysterical blindness was one of the more serve conditions associated with shell shock. This type of blindness is totally psychological, which means their has been no damage to the brain or eyes. And for a young Adolf, this is exactly what he was experiencing when he was admitted to the military reserves hospital. Attempting to coax Hitler out of his psychological illness, Dr Edmund Forster, the hospitals psychiatrist, planted an powerful belief in Hitlers mind.

Dr Forster told Hitler that he believed it was Hitlers destiny to save the German people, and that if he really focused his mind on this belief we would be able to see the chair in the corner of the room. After some concentrated effort the chair did in fact start to come into view, cementing the new unshakable belief in his mind. And as they say “The rest is history.”

Interestingly when Hitler came to power he ordered the execution of Dr Forster, in an attempt to suppress this chapter of his life.

If you take this lesson to heart, you can really see how important it is to have your beliefs in alignment to your goals.
In fact this is the number one reason why people can’t get to where they want in life. You may have your big goals all vision boarded up, your plan perfectly prepared with step by step instructions to follow, but if there is internal conflict in your mind between your goals and beliefs you will sabotage yourself every time.

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Today we are going to explore a popular NLP technique called the swish pattern. The swish pattern is a very simple technique to perform, yet it produces powerful results.

What does the Swish Pattern do?

In essence what the swish pattern does is it uses an old unresourceful pattern you run internally as a trigger to produce an more empowering pattern. A pattern that is better aligned to the goals you want to reach.

This means that whenever the mind produces a negative pattern it will automatically switch over to a positive pattern as long as you have associated the two together using the swish pattern.

The way we run patterns in our minds is through the process of thinking. More specifically the modalities of thinking which most influenced our moods and perceptions are the internal pictures and auditory sounds we make in our minds.

When we play negative images and sounds over and over in our minds they restrict us in the areas of life that they represent. Therefore it is important we find ways to quickly run patterns that are life enhancing because as the saying goes - ”what you focus on you get more of.”

The ultimate benefit of using the swish pattern is it keeps you focusing on what you do want and therefore manifest it in your life. Also it is a simple but effective method that will run on autopilot once you have installed it.

The 5 step  Swish pattern

Step 1) Choose an aspect of your life you want to change or that you have trouble in. It maybe a behavior, a life situation or troubling belief. It can be anything as long as it can be made into a mental image that represents it. See these images from the 3rd person perspective – just like you would watch them at the movies.

Step 2)  Create the mental picture of the negative thing you want to change in your minds eye. If it is a behavior you want to change then create a still image in your mind that represents you performing that negative behavior. If nose picking is your downfall then a good image would be seeing yourself with a finger up your nose.

The same goes if it is a life situation. For example if it is your job then picture yourself at work. If it is a negative belief then get the belief down to a single word that most represents it. Then write the word in your minds eye. For example the belief ”I always make mistakes” becomes “failure.”

Step 3) Create the empowering internal representation that we want to have instead. In the above examples you could picture your smiling face without the finger in it if you wanted to stop the nose picking behavior. You could picture yourself traveling, checking out the coolest destinations instead of at work. To change a negative belief think of one word that encapsulates the belief you now want. The word successful would be a good one to change to from failure.

Step 4) Swishing the picture – Now picture the original image you want to change in your minds eye. Next put the image you want to change it to in the bottom right hand corner of the original image so it is just a thumb nail. Now as fast as you can grow the new image so it expands to explode the old image out of the way.

Step 5) Repeat – The key to success in getting the swish pattern working automatically is to repeat it for at least 5 times when you do it. This sends a clear message to your brain – when you think of this (unresourceful image) do that (think of the empowering image).

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Today I am going to share with you an ancient spiritual technique called karma yoga.

If you have ever been to an ashram or seen movies like eat pray love then you will probably be familiar with this technique even though you may not of understood it.

Karma means to take actions and yoga means to merge with the supreme consciousness. Therefore karma yoga is a spiritual practice where you take certain actions that are designed to merge your individual consciousness with the divine. The key to making this happen is focussing your attention 100% in the present on the simple physical activity that you choose as your karma yogic action.

To understand why a spiritual practice such as karma yoga is required to bring your attention into the present we first have to look at the normal state of consciousness.

Normal State of Consciousness

Most people are locked into patterns from the past. During our early upbringing we are impressed with all of the beliefs and ideas that later become the patterns we repeat throughout life. To survive our upbringing we also had to bury certain emotions in our psyche because if we expressed them then those expressions may have got negative reactions from those around us. To our child like mind these expressions would have threatened our survival.

What Causes This Normal State Of Consciousness?

When we enter adulthood we still contain all of this unresolved material within our psyche. The way we keep this material buried in our psyche is by becoming egocentric. This is characterized by thinking about me, myself and I. The mind does this because if the mind puts its focus on something outside of itself then the lid its taken off all the buried sub conscious material. This material then rises to consciousness to be integrated so you can become a fully conscious human being. Because you experience the same emotions when this unresolved material comes back into consciousness as you did when it was first got buried into the unconscious then there is always a pull by the mind to stop it arising.

The fastest way to put the lid back onto the rising material that wants to be integrated is to take attention off the outside world and enter the internal realm of thoughts, feelings and imagination. This is why it is so hard to be present in everyday life because being in the present means you have your attention outside of yourself. Therefore the lid is off all of the unprocessed negative subconscious material which means you are going to be re experiencing certain emotions and feelings you tried so desperately avoid all of those years ago.

Taking Responsibility

The responsibility when you enter adulthood is to clear out all the negative patterns of the past. Otherwise your life will simply be a repeating pattern, which result in feeling cut off from the creativity, joy and happiness that is experienced when you access the higher realms of the mind.

The aim of all spiritual practice in one way or another is to force the mind into the present so that the personal consciousness can be integrated with the divine.

Karma Yoga – A Guided Mindfulness Meditation Technique

Karma yoga is one such practice that has been one of the main practices in spiritual communities throughout the centuries. If you have seen the movie eat pray love then you will recognize this practice when the main character stayed at the ashram in India and had to wash the floor everyday.

The first thing you need to do is to choose a simple physical activity that requires little to know thinking since the aim of this practice to to force your attention outside of the mind and onto the activity itself. Therefore avoid things like reading and writing.

Sports and daily activities like cleaning, driving and walking are great things to use for your karma yoga practice. The best thing about this technique is it can be used anywhere at any time. However in the beginning I recommend you practice it for a specific amount of time on a daily activity.

It is important that you maintain a natural breathing cycle because the breath will help you process the negative material that will start to arise.

Karma Yoga Example

The easiest way to explain karma yoga is to go through an example together so you can get a clear grasp on how it should be practiced.

Imagine you decide that driving is the activity you use for this practice. First turn off any distractions such as the radio and don’t do this practice if you have passengers in the car. Also check your mirrors and gas gage before you begin so that you can have unbroken concentration throughout your practice.

Once you are driving first of all become aware of your breathing, the natural in and out cycles your breath takes. This is important because as i said early the breath is the key to helping you process whatever may arise.

Next start pushing your attention outside of yourself onto the driving activity. Feel your hands on steering wheel and your foot on the accelerator. Listen to the nosies of the motor and the cars driving by. Focus you sight on the images all round you and check your mirrors constantly.

Beware that the mind will try drag you back into the internal realm of egoic thought, when you start to feel this to happen just realign with your breath than then repeat the process of pushing your attention outside of yourself.

And there you have it!

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We cover the 3 P’s – projects, people and Priorities.

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In this Video I discuss the how the world was made from ACIM point of view.

I go through the 4 splits that occur in the mind and why each of them happen.

With this understanding it makes the teachings of forgiveness and guilt more understandable.

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