What Makes for a Successful Life?

Succeeding at creating the life of your dreams is dependent on many factors, but all of which emanate from the same, single place: You.

If you research any successful person for example, you will find a consistent common ground with all of them and that is there attitude. There is a difference between a winning attitude and a losing attitude. What may seem unfortunate is that there are many ways do apply a losing attitude, but pretty much only one winning attitude, but the truth is that this is fantastic news.

If there is only one winning attitude then all you need to do is identify it, adopt it and apply it. If you keep that up then you can be assured of success on your chosen path. What we’ll look at here is the winning attitude as directed towards creating the life you want based on who you are and what you want to express through it.

It is actually really simple in theory, but what makes it difficult to adopt a winning attitude for many is the fact that over years of your life you have developed your attitude, whatever it is and if there are parts (or all in some cases) of that attitude that need to be changed then you have to put in some work to change what have become automatic, habitual patterns of thinking and acting.

An Inside Game

In short, the work you need to do starts with watching your thoughts and identifying dominant thought patterns that you apply in any situation. Once identified they can then be neutralized, transformed or converted to something more serving of your intentions and goals. It is the only place you can start to have any lasting improvement ion results because everything outside of you is only the way it is because of your perception and interpretation of it. Become more aware of your perception and interpretation processes and you will then begin to see everything outside of yourself in a more positive and supportive light. That is when you can start being a person who sees opportunity and "Makes things happen", just like those successful folks you wish to emulate.

In fact that is another great tip to developing a successful mind set. Think of a successful person you admire, aspire to emulate or respect. You may even know that person. The research what they have done to get where they are and model your plan of action on theirs. Their system worked for them, so it is a good place to start creating your own system, based on something that works.

The other way that is pretty crucial to achieving success is to have a mentor or coach, which is rather similar to modeling yourself on somebody else, except you have their input and feedback to your situation to go along with their methods. If you start working on your mind set and awareness you will meet somebody who will provide this valuable contribution to you. I have met several people since bravely stepping out into the new world of what I am pursuing in life and I can tell you it makes one hell of a positive difference.

A Place to Start

Write your goals down – Listen to the song embedded in this post and let me know if you found it helpful in inspiring you. Once you get a clearer picture of how you want to, say create your own dream business that frees up your time to live the life of your dreams you will start having ideas as to how you can bring it into existence and with that awareness and your developing plan of action, you will start to encounter opportunities and people who can and will help you.

Real-Life Report from Month 5

After nearly two years of Holosync I paused my use of it. The reason was that I was very keen to try out the Brain EV System due to the amazing claims by the creators of the program. In order to report on something that I thought could be of great value and benefit I decided to try it out for myself. Here are the results.

Month 5 came and went in a flash and the effects have been subtle. I spent most of October, whilst meditating with CD5 falling asleep or at least feeling like I had fallen asleep. Time to do a comparison with earlier stages in the series:

Every session using CD1 had the effect of feeling like I had enjoyed a good night’s sleep although I was definitely more conscious than simply being asleep and using the other CDs as I progressed through the program, at times I have experienced a sense of an absence of time, which could have been due to the fact that I had fallen asleep except it did not feel like that at all. I was more consciously aware of the depth of the state I was in, especially the rising up back to normal, waking consciousness as the CD drew to a close. I’m not talking about waking up after the CD has finished (that happened a couple of times). I am talking about being taken deep into a meditative state, at times akin to sleeping, but with some level of consciousness as if I was watching myself sleep.

With CD 5, this was very apparent, although for the first time during the program I was left feeling rather lethargic after the meditation session. As each stage increases in intensity of brain stimulus I was not alarmed or surprised by this. In past months the sessions were making me feel refreshed and wide awake. I soon realized that this CD worked much better if I used it late in the day, before going to sleep at night. The feeling of being so tired and sleepy after listening to CD5 was getting in the way of my productivity a little bit, so once I switched the time of the session to night time it worked much better for me.

I can only speculate of course, but I imagine the stimulus of this Brain EV installment was pretty strong and pretty deep, which I conclude was taking me deeper into meditation than I have been before.

So after the descriptive details of the experience, were there any results or insights from month 5. Yes!

Again it is only fair for me to stress that any conclusions I make are speculative, based on my own perception of experience. I could have had the same results without ever doing any meditation, but then life could just be a series of co-incidences that either you happen to walk into or not and I don’t believe life is as random as that.

My Results

Ideas! Loads of them, but not just flaky or absurd ones. I mean very real ideas for things I want to do with my life, big ones that I can see have potential for providing me, my family and my friends with many life-benefits and fulfillment if they were to be pursued and a very real connection to the resources in my awareness that will help me realize these ideas and intentions. I do come up with ideas a lot of the time, but they normally come and go, get forgotten about or just present me with the perception that I can’t realize them because they are too big for me. This time I am instinctively saying to myself ‘Sounds like a big one, bring it on. I’m ready for ya!’. This sounds like somebody else and it excites me. I am definitely discovering that many things I wished I could be but never believed I was are actually true and growing before my eyes.

This time however I am not focused on how I can make such big intentions happen, but instead focused on the fact that it is going to manifest one way or another, in some form because it is an intention, rather than just a nice idea. I am relishing the prospect of playing a totally different role in my life to the one that I have remained comfortable but stationary in for years.

‘Who I am’ started to change a couple of years ago and I broke through a huge barrier to become what I needed to become in order to experience being the person I wanted to be, which I believe was helped tremendously by meditation (I started Holosync in Aug 2007). Now I have outgrown my old role, whatever it was and I can feel a more natural process of growing into a new and bigger one, rather than feeling the need to and fearing whether I am able to or not.

Much of those less confident feelings and fears have slipped away and I am at peace with the fact that the rest of my life from now on is full of challenges because I know I am becoming more capable of meeting those challenges all the time no matter how big they get.

I am now beginning the final CD – number 6 ‘Fusion’.

Whatever the outcome of any of this and whatever happens to be the case I can tell you that the benefits of meditation, any meditation are huge. I encourage you to meditate, whatever way you feel inclined to do it. A friend of mine goes running every morning and that is his meditation. It doesn’t have to be sitting crossed legged holding crystals, going ‘Ommmmm’.

Tips on Developing a Healthier Mind Set

I am about to start work on an extensive, free series of tips that will help you to change your habitual ways of thinking in the areas where you desire change. Of course, where we desire change is only what we are actually conscious of and I have found that simply by engaging in the process of applying a deliberate awareness of my day to day thoughts and internal dialog I have discovered other habitual thought patterns that I see are slowing my progress or blocking my well-being, so I can then tend to those.

We all have many unconscious beliefs and habits that are not doing us much good, or at best are at odds with the direction we are actively trying to steer our lives in. So many in fact that it is just too much to expect to be able to change them all at once.

This is the reason I am constructing a series of Neural Recon Report Tips to help you focus on one at a time- whichever one you happen to be more aware of in that moment.

The tips will delivered by email, be deliberately short and to the point, making them as quick as possible to read and to start implementing. This should hopefully make the process more fun, taking the focus away from study and hard work and onto making progress. I hope this will be of benefit. Weekly tips will be sent out to subscribers of the NRR Tips Newsletter who will also be automatically notified of new posts made here at the Neural Recon Report.

I would love to hear any opinions, ideas and feedback regarding this project. For example, would you like more than one tip per week or less?

At Your Service.
Rob

After nearly two years of Holosync I paused my use of it. The reason was that I was very keen to try out the Brain EV system due to the amazing claims by the creators of the program. In order to report on something that I thought could be of great value and benefit I decided to try it out for myself. Here are the results.

23rd October 2009

Again, another month flew by almost without me noticing. This year seems to be going quicker than any other, but I always refer back to the old saying "Time flies when your having fun"! My life is currently rather challenging, but still fun nonetheless.

A little later than usual, this update is a report on CD 4 of the Brain EV program and it has been pretty interesting seeing what has transpired in terms of things going on outside of and around me. August and CD3 seemed pretty calm compared to July, which brought with it a lot of upheaval and September, along with CD4 was also fairly calm, but with some awesome occurrences.

To put things into terms of Universal laws like the Law of Attraction etc… I saw some significant appearances, synchronous with my desired path in life and it is really exciting! After some time focusing on what I want to achieve, mostly things that are very ambitious I have started to see some very encouraging signs as to how possible my ambitious goals are. What is significant and it is something I believe is the biggest (not so) secret in achieving anything is the people you meet and become acquainted with.

Over the last month I have become acquainted with some really talented, interesting and, well, epic people and with that a feeling of immense possibility. In fact nothing but possibility. I have spent less time online in the last month or so after becoming so immersed in the internet I have found the limit to my online tolerance and rediscovered the joy of face-to-face interaction with like-minded people.

What I am discovering as I progress with the Brain EV program is that I am getting to know who I really am on a deeper level and that is great news, seeing as that means I am more aware of what is really important to me and with that comes the realization of a really big secret. Want me to tell you what it is? OK

The more you get to know who you truly are, the more you will realize that everything you ever wanted to do, be or have is right under your nose and everything you feared is not actually real. This gets more and more apparent and empowering as long as you keep up the discipline of deepening your self awareness. With or without CDs, meditation is essential for this level of growth and will help you unlock the door to a bigger life.

I have been on CD5 of the Brain EV program for 3 weeks now and I should have an interesting and quite different report next month.

How do you know intuition from doubt?

Interesting question I think because it is one area where we can completely fall apart in our attempts to create the results we want. Example: You start out on a new venture, it is challenging and the possibilities are exciting. However a little way down the line you start to have doubts, you lose some interest maybe and then you start really wondering if you are doing the right thing or if you are heading for a seriously troublesome dead end. Do you get out now and change direction or do you tough it out because this may just be some resistance to you getting out of your comfort zone?

Tough call. Well sometimes it’s tough because it raises the question:
How can you tell your intuition from your doubt or fear?

Your intuition, your heart, your higher self or intelligence – whatever you want to call it (I’ll refer to it from now on as heart), it has mind of it’s own. It’s not a mind that thinks in reason or time, nor does it think in dialogue or logic, but it has a mind that is an extension of whatever it is we are a part of, collectively. The universal mind if you like.

This universal intelligence is what we are connected to via heart and it is heart that relays the signals from our deep subconscious to our conscious mind in order to steer us in the direction we need to go in order to reach our chosen goals. This may sound a bit washy to you, but this is pretty straightforward. I bet you have on occasion had a feeling that something was right or wrong about a particular situation and even though it may have been against seemingly obvious logic and reason at the time you acted on that feeling… and guess what? You turned out to be right.

This is intuition and it is always speaking to you. The fact that we are mostly asleep to it is the very reason that we find any talk of it as being a bit ‘out there’. So lets go back to that situation that you just felt was right or wrong, whatever it was and the decision you made based on that feeling turned out to be wrong. What is the difference. Is it just random, like everything else?

Well I don’t think so. The big difference is that the first scenario is a feeling, the second is a thought. Intuition is a feeling not a thought. The feeling leads to thought, which leads you to make a decision, but even then that can happen so quickly thought can be bypassed. If you suddenly saw a tiger leap out at you from behind a bush, you wouldn’t stop to think about what you need to do would you? Doubts and fears arising because you are feeling uncomfortable in the face of new challenges and those challenges are challenging your own self image especially are thoughts that eat away at you until you decide you cannot live with the discomfort any longer and back down, turn back or give up.

So now there is distinction between the two, namely feeling or thought, how do we tell which is which?

There is a line in the Matrix movie by the character called the Oracle (She’s my favorite). "nobody can tell you you’re in love. You just know it balls to bones" I love that quote because it sums up intuition perfectly. If you have to think about whether you love someone then it’s not true love. Love is not a thought, it is a feeling because Love is the energy that gives us life and despite the power of thoughts as we’re always being told these days; thoughts are no match for feelings – Ever.

If you want to become a master at tuning into intuition and being able to determine whether your heart is screaming at you to stop because it really is in your best interests or if you are simply creating thoughts that will try to draw you back within your current, self-imposed (ego-imposed) limits then you need to do some work.

Let me tell you though, this work is great, it’s fun, it’s challenging, sometimes uncomfortable, but it is what makes you feel ten times more alive than normal. It is what brings you ridiculously good opportunities that seem to fall out of the sky and how you meet the most outstanding people of your life – the people you are destined to meet if you would only be who you truly are. It’s about self awareness to the point of simply knowing how to be yourself instead of creating a self that you think people want to see.

Self awareness is what it is all about. I have gained a huge amount of it (of course I can only make a comparison to how I was a few years ago) and for me the biggest change in my ability to hear or feel intuition much more robustly has been meditation. I’ve read great books, attended some super-intense programs, caught a glimpse of that total stillness and oneness that I just cannot find the words to describe adequately, but meditation is the nuts and bolts of self awareness and that is free!

You can pay for meditation CDs like I have because I definitely feel the need for the assistance they provide my easily distracted mind, but all you really need to meditate is a quiet, undisturbed spot and some discipline.

Take a look around this site and you might find something that points you in the direction that feels right for you. In fact I would dare suggest that just reading this article will help you become more attuned to your intuition, even if only for a little while, but that’s still progress.

You can even hop on over to my music website Boy at Heart and subscribe as a VIP member, which will enable you to receive my book and album "Mind over Matter Heart over Mind" for free. I call it The Radio Station for your Heart. You will find inspiring music that focuses mostly on the subject of following your heart, intuition and overcoming challenges.

It rocks too. Thanks for reading.

How do I do That?

It seems the real secret about how you create your own reality is not the fact that you do and not even how you do because we have access to enough teachings and information, both available for free and paid for that tell us what we need to do in order to create the life we want.

What the real secret is then, you could say is how? How do you actually apply the principles of changing your thoughts and your feelings in order to become more tuned into the reality that you desire?

This is the one thing that, if it could be bottled and sold as an instant remedy then it would sell more units than Microsoft Windows and Coca Cola put together.

It is a stumbling block for most people when purposefully trying to find their hidden beliefs that are working against the achievement of their goals and replacing them with new beliefs that assist and take you with the flow rather than against it. Affirmations are made day in, day out and nothing changes. Vision boards are made and gazed at longingly for hours on end and nothing changes.

I can understand you thinking in such a situation. "What kind of goofy logic is this. It doesn’t work!". I have a suggestion, which I hope will help.

STOP TRYING! Forget the goals, forget the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The truth is that all the while you are focusing on what you want (well done that’s good) if nothing is happening (and it won’t happen in an instant, most of the time) it is likely because your focus is not where you think it is. Any tiny amount of emotion-charged thought or feeling that hints at the realization of your goal not being already achieved RIGHT NOW is slowing down the realization of it or stopping it completely.

Yes you can make your affirmations and you can keep them in mind as often as possible, this will help you more naturally develop the feelings you require to activate source energy into doing the rest of the job for you, but here is the key. Mind set is one thing, but it is useless without Heart Set. I got that phrase from Dr. Robert Anthony, so it’s only fair to credit him with that.

How many times do you hear people say they have their heart set on something? That is what you need. If you know with certainty what you desire then you can forget about how to achieve it. Instead work daily on how you feel, right now like your goal is achieved already and you have the feelings you want due to that achievement. The feeling always comes first. It is the feeling that is the request and maybe the request needs to be made a few times before the message is clear, made clear by the robustness of the feeling.

So my advice for today is to get "The Feeling" That’s what I call it. You know what it is and you know why you want it, so get into it and stay with it for as long as you can and as often as you can because that is what your job is in manifesting your desires.

In fact focus on this and forget action for now. If an opportunity arises that is a match for your achievement of your desire then you’ll know if and what action to take. You’ll even know when to take it because getting the feeling not only sends out the signal to the Universe in you it also opens the channel of communication between you and your intuition, which always knows better than your head does.

Try it. The results can be amazingly effective and fast!

…Is the Hero You Are

It is important to remember that if there is anything you want to be in life, whatever it is, say you are inspired to be like somebody you admire or respect then to some degree that is a reflection of who you really are and that feeling of inspiration you have to be like that person is actually a message from your heart reminding you of the fact that you have that capacity yourself. So with that in mind what can you do about that?

Well how about starting out pretending?

Did you have heroes as a child? Probably a silly question because we all did. We all wanted to be somebody, either on the TV, in the movies or on the cover of a magazine or a record. So with that in mind, do you remember how fun it was to stand in front of the mirror and be that person? I used to imagine that I was on Top of the Pops (a UK music chart show and an institution in itself, which ran on TV for nearly 40 years).

I don’t remember ‘being’ any one particular pop or rock star, but I used to have pictures of it in my mind as I went to sleep at night, but I can see how those thought have shaped who I am today. I am a musician and a songwriter combining the desire to inspire you to create more choice in how your life unfolds whilst fulfilling my own passions of making music, which I am doing through my work at my Music website – Boy at Heart. This brings me to my main point.

In order to achieve something you have to believe you can achieve it right? Also in order to believe it, you may have to apply some discipline for your mind, so you can maintain a state of confidence and certainty in your achievement being realized.

As kids we found it easy, in fact natural to act out the roles of our heroes in front of a mirror or in our minds, so what’s wrong with doing that now? Only instead of wanting to be Brad Pitt or Madonna, imagine the YOU that you want to be yourself. It’s a lot easier to imagine what it would be like to be living the life and being the person you want to be and the feelings you create within yourself you imagine it, which I would assume are the feelings you desire to have will prevail as long as you exercise the discipline of focusing on that feeling as often as possible, until it is automatic, by which time you may be surprised (or not) to notice that you have become the person you want to be and all that comes with it.

It doesn’t have to take a lifetime to achieve that.

Real-Life Report

After nearly two years of Holosync I paused my use of it. The reason was that I was very keen to try out the Brain EV system due to the amazing claims by the creators of the program. In order to report on something that I thought could be of great value and benefit I decided to try it out for myself. Here are the results.

10th September 2009

Quite extraordinary, what happened to August? It just flew by, but looking back actually it was quite eventful. I spent much of the month redesigning the Boy at heart website, which is developing into a musical, interactive place that you readers here will most likely find interesting.

If you don’t already know I am a songwriter. Music is a huge passion of mine and I have been applying my passion for music in the area of inspiring people to listen to and follow their heart and create their life they desire. So far I am pleased with the results. The idea to apply my music in such a manner came about because of what writing songs did for me in terms of inspiring me and keeping my intent and motivation strong, even on days where I felt less than capable or if my enthusiasm dipped.

This all conveniently leads me to what this post is supposed to be about – My progress using the Brain Evolution mediation program.

Since starting to meditate regularly in 2007 I have noticed that my creativity has soared. This is no exaggeration, it has happened like magic. Just a few months after starting with Holosync I developed an ability I thought I didn’t have before, which was to write complete songs by myself and I went on to write over 100 songs to date.

With the decision to focus on building an audience for my music online not too long ago I got involved in the process of redesigning my inspiring music site – Boy at Heart. I wanted a design that totally eclipsed anything I had done before, just using Wordpress. Until recently, this website is an example of about the best I have got. I didn’t know how I was going to do it, but I ended up surpassing all expectations and I created something that is just on a whole new level for me.

In order to achieve this I had to become more proficient at php programming and to my surprise I found out that I was starting to implement it in ways I had never been able to comprehend before. I have since realized that I have become much better at marrying creativity with logical, practical thinking. This is the secret of design really, an ability to create something beautiful that functions intuitively and practically.

So if you are still lost as to what any of this has to do with an entry in a meditation diary, let me explain:

After CD number 3 (month 3) of the Brain Evolution System I wasn’t sure if I had anything to report. I didn’t have the kind of upheaval I had the previous month where I went through the chaos that led me to great clarity and boosted self-confidence, but then I looked at my new website design this morning and looked at how the positive feedback I am getting and taking a step outside of myself to look at it objectively I realized just what I have gained over the last month.

As is described in the product literature of the Brain EV system, the program is like a workout for your brain. The benefits of using it are more creative, intuitive thinking, better problem solving abilities, greater ability to come up with ideas and to turn those ideas into reality.

All I have to go on in order to make comments about these claims is what I experience with it and I have to say that my personal results reflect this almost to the letter and I am only half-way through the program.

So my ability to solve technical problems has stepped up a level and the ability to combine that technical side with a more intuitive feel for aesthetics and an artistic element is more apparent too. I’m loving this!

Real-Life Report

After nearly two years of Holosync I paused my use of it. The reason was that I was very keen to try out the Brain EV system due to the amazing claims by the creators of the program. In order to report on something that I thought could be of great value and benefit I decided to try it out for myself. Here are the results.

After my second month using the Brain EV System I have experienced some massive shifts in my personal development. After a turbulent few weeks during July, the chaos and the storm cleared to reveal a whole new world to me. One which I knew existed, but couldn’t see.

What I believe is going on here is that I have broken into a new level of self awareness and this has resulted in me attracting exactly the opportunities and situations I require to take me where I want to go. It’s very difficult to explain rationally because I still feel like the same person and I haven’t changed from the outside. The difference is that I have lost a lot of fear and doubt that I was not even aware of before, holding me back and that has been replaced by a certainty of what I am doing and a certainty of success, whatever comes my way.

It feels good and I want to share it.

Real-Life Report

After nearly two years of Holosync I paused my use of it. The reason was that I was very keen to try out the Brain EV system due to the amazing claims by the creators of the program. In order to report on something that I thought could be of great value and benefit I decided to try it out for myself. Here are the results.

“Why?” You may ask. Is there a problem? Is Holosync not working? Have I found something better? Am I giving up meditation?

Ok, ok, let’s slow down a bit here and be clear that I have no problems with Holosync and I am certainly not giving up on meditation. I have decided, for reporting purposes and as a personal research exercise to try another meditation program. That program is:

The Brain Evolution System

I came across Brain EV, as it is often referred to some time ago and I was intrigued by the information on their website, which was very extensive. However, at the time I just was not prepared to interrupt my Holosync meditation for the sake of something new and unproven, despite the credibility of the information on the site.

It is pointless to use more than one brainwave-entrainment, meditation tool at once, so it was out of the question to have a Holosync session and a Brain EV session every day. Besides that may actually have had an adverse affect on me, at least an overwhelming amount of stimulation I should imagine and I meditate to gain the benefits of meditation, not to sabotage them!

So after finishing Awakening Level 2 near the end of May and having Awakening level 3 ready and waiting in its box I decided that it was time to give the Brain EV an assessment and I started on June 1st 2009.

It’s a solid plan: The Brain EV program lasts for 6 months, which consists of 6 CDs, 1 month each, progressing to the next one in the series. That’s it. It is a 6-month long program, so I figured I could give the Brain EV a thorough assessment and return to Holosync, which, if I complete the entire program will last another 6 or 7 years.

So now I have been meditating using Brain EV for 1 month and I am now on CD number 2 called Lucid Echoes. The first CD is called Transcendence and this is what I have to report:

Sleep? What a Waste of Time!
Ha ha! Just a light-hearted little outburst, but this reflects one of the most noticeable effects since using this product. I seem to require much, much less sleep. I don’t know if this is simply a reaction or if it is a benefit, but apart from a couple of evenings, when I actually wanted to sleep, but found it difficult, it has been the most productive and effective, sleepless time over this last month that I’ve ever had.

In short, I had a huge amount of stuff to do to complete a vital stage in my latest project: Mind Over Matter – Heart Over Mind and I spent at least 16 hours a day for well over a week working on this. Not only that, but these hours were focused, productive and efficient hours. I think I got done what I would normally have taken about 3 weeks to do. It took me just 10 days!

The meditation sessions are 30 minutes each and during that 30 minutes I am put into a deep meditative state that feels very different to Holosync, not better, just different. In fact after just that 30-minute session I have invariably felt as refreshed as having had a good nights sleep. I normally meditate in the early afternoon – siesta time and it’s a great way of breaking up the day. I have two working days in a day and I feel much less guilty about having days off from doing any work, because I have got so much more done on most days than I would normally.

Going by the information on the Brain EV website these benefits should remain permanent.

My conclusion at this stage is that I will be in great shape to continue with Holosync Awakening Level 3 after this.