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Enlightenment – A state of Bliss
Enlightenment – A single word which can give path to Human beings who are searching for true happiness. Every human being has their own thought process and likings. They are bound in their own environment and feel themselves as an individual and thus become busy in fulfilling their own desires. Once they achieve one dream, they start dreaming of something else. The ultimate goal of every desire is to get happiness. But fulfillment of one desire does not give them the ultimate happiness and then they start working on other. They search for true happiness in their surrounding and forget to look for it inside him.
Enlightenment is realization of oneself. It is self – actualization stage. It means to free oneself from the illusions of the world and to know the real reason why one has taken birth. Enlightenment is that achievement after which human being don’t crave for more happiness. They come to know that the thing for which they are fighting with this universe is within him only. They realize that they are part of this universe. One cannot remain happy by hurting a part of him. Enlightenment is a state of oneself with this universe, it is a state where people forget their selfishness and have a more holistic approach.
Enlightenment is a light which removes all the darkness of illusions surrounding a man. Illusion is something which is not real and does not exist. It is a state of darkness which separates one from the light of enlightenment. People have the illusion that by pampering their body and loved ones can give them true happiness. Fact is that the happiness which they get from this is temporary. By taking the path of selfishness, people get deviated from the right path – a path which can take to the state of bliss where they can get true happiness.
Enlightenment shows us the true path. It is an art of finding God within oneself and God is never partial to anyone. Enlightenment is the stage when one is fully satisfied and don’t want anything else.
Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler published a book named “Art of Happiness” in 1998. Howard Cutler was an American psychiatrist. This book talks a lot about how to get never lasting happiness. It says that happiness is something which all men are working for but he forgets that no situation can give him happiness unless and until he removes all the negative feelings inside him. True happiness is that which comes from within. The outer surrounding however nice cannot give long lasting happiness. The materialistic achievements cannot give happiness at par with mental achievements. We have to be compassionate and kind to everyone. Positive attitude, compassion, kindness, goodness and forgiveness are the only ways which can give mental satisfaction to a person. These are repellent for removing hatred and negative feelings. Spiritual approach towards life can only help in gaining enlightenment i.e. true happiness. The book Art of happiness is full of motivation for adopting positive attitude and spirituality in life.
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Sanjay Joshi is providing SEO Services to MK Ettington Books. Welcome to the website on the paranormal Books, Enlightenment Books – An overview of the subject of enlightenment. A step by step review of history includes lots of personal stories of enlightenment as examples and much more.
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How To Get Motivated – 5 Simple Techniques
Learning how to get motivated is something that would save many a lot of wasted time and would definitely help boost their feeling of well being. There is no doubt the sense of accomplishment helps boost your spirits but often a lack of motivation keeps us from experiencing this euphoric feeling. Normally what motivates you is the anticipation of the results you will experience from the efforts you put forth. The biggest obstacle however seems more times than not to be just getting started. Therefore in order to be motivated to take the first step towards many undertakings we must develop or learn new habits.
Here are 5 simple techniques you can use to overcome that lack of motivation that limits your productivity and often robs you of the sense of accomplishment.
There Is No ‘Perfect” Time
There is no better time than the present to begin on that new project you have been putting off for months. Many wait for the ‘perfect’ time in which to start on something and this is nothing more than an elaborate way of procrastinating.
In fact the most perfect time for you to tackle a new project is when you finally overcome your lack of motivation to simply take the first step. Conditions will never be any more perfect than at this point in time.
Just Do It!
Another factor that inhibits us from taking action is we spend far too much time thinking about what it is we want to do. The problem here is that this ‘thought process’ can raise several questions as to why the project should be delayed. Whether we have ‘created’ doubt due to time constraints or even our own abilities we are now on the road to procrastinating.
The best approach here is to simply get involved with this new undertaking immediately and as you see progress being made this motivates you to continue your efforts.
Put Your Thoughts in Motion
Your thoughts are the plans you intend to put into motion to realize a desired outcome. Well what good are these thoughts if you never take action on them? As you develop your plans in your mind allow yourself to be motivated by the anticipation of the outcome and start immediately implementing these plans. Once again the first step is always the hardest but after that it is all ‘downhill’ from there!
Overwhelm Fears by Taking Action
Another common reason for ‘putting off’ projects or tasks is due to a fear of failure. As strange as it is many people feel that doing nothing is better than trying and failing. The fact of the matter is that in most cases our fears of failure are not justified except in our own minds. By taking action and becoming more familiar with the task at hand our confidence soars and this motivates you even more.
Do Not Delay – Start Right Away
Get down to business immediately once you have decided to take action. It is all too easy to first check email or perhaps the news before getting deeply involved in your work. Both the news and your email can and will wait for you to check them. It is more important to take advantage of the time and your energy level while you have plenty of both to use.
Learning how to get motivated to undertake many projects is more than half the battle of successfully completing them. In most cases what motivates you to pursue any worthwhile goal is the anticipation of the results you will experience from the efforts you invest. A common obstacle for many however is just getting started. Fortunately it is possible to learn new ‘habits’ that will enable us to be motivated enough to overcome this ‘getting started’ barrier. The 5 techniques we spoke of above can be easily learned and adopted into your ‘mode of behavior’ allowing you to accomplish more and enjoy life to the fullest.
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Tags: better time, thought process, no doubt, time constraints, lack of motivation, perfect time, desired outcome, point in timePositive and Negative Thoughts – How the Subconscious Really Works
Higher Selves Quote:
The Thought Form Body is an invisible body that contains realities that have been created through every thought generated by any individual at any point in time. Within this envelope [energy field] dwells many different ‘yous.’ There is the ‘you,’ for example, who lives in this altered reality as an actual energy identity who is poor, who has no money. This altered reality has been created by you based on every thought you’ve projected dealing with a state of financial lack.
This altered reality that is the ‘you’ in a state of financial lack actually seeks to reinforce and empower itself, the altered reality that it has become. This then, quite outside of your conscious thought process, allows that altered reality to continue to grow and manifest its power and its authority over you in the physical form in the physical reality.
Imagine what it would be like to hold on to every thought you have ever had from the first moment you were born. Imagine that each thought was actual energy that did not disappear but hung out in some energy field surrounding you. And imagine that this thought energy had some magnetic qualities so that every type of thought you’d had over the years drew all other similar thoughts to it, like magnets with the same polarity. Then imagine that all these thoughts, or energy identities, have created actual altered realities in the space around yourself. And as you grew up, these energy identities, and the altered realities they created, became larger and larger with each thought.
To illustrate, let’s begin with an example of how thoughts create energy identities and how these, in turn, create altered realities.
Perhaps you’re someone who has focused on your weight throughout your life. Maybe as a small child you went through a chubby stage, and sometimes people around you would suggest that you refrain from a second helping. At first you paid it no mind, but then your consciousness took it in. You began to think that you were bigger than your cousins and friends the same age. You started thinking thoughts of needing to eat less candy and desserts. You found yourself rating how some friends or family members looked based on their weight. The issue built slowly for you as you went through being teased in school.
As an adult, you’ve struggled with your weight, trying diet after diet with limited success. And all this time, you’ve been harboring thoughts about being overweight. These similar thoughts are magnetically attracted to each other, building thought forms such as “I’m too fat,” “I eat too much,” “I’m a failure at losing weight,” and/or “I’m unlovable because I’m fat.” All these thought forms tirelessly develop an altered reality of your struggling with your weight.
Thought Form Body
Thoughts of every type have created thought forms in each of us. They come in all sizes—some tiny and some huge, with many in between, depending on the degree of thought put into them. As the Higher Selves stated in the above quote, the invisible envelope (energy field) around us, the place where these positive and negative energy identities call home, is the Thought Form Body. It isn’t actually a physical body but is instead held in an etheric energy field everyone carries with them. It contains all the thoughts of joy, fear, love, hate, hurt, illness, wealth, poverty, and ideas of the self, others, relationships, work, play, and on and on. All thoughts are held here, magnetically attracting similar thoughts from many sources, thereby building and strengthening all of our thought forms. They create all the altered realities that live with us in our Thought Form Body.
Suspending disbelief for a minute, let’s take this a few steps further by looking at how our mind works. Do we tend to think more positively or negatively as we go throughout our day? Most of you know the answer to this already.
For example, if we wake up feeling good, having had a good night’s sleep, we might think, “Oh, I feel great today! I have so much energy; I’m sure this will be a good day.” And then we go on our way and may never think of it again. Despite feeling really good, we actually tend to spend little time thinking about it. Feeling good helps us focus on the things we have to accomplish that day, resulting in thoughts geared toward those activities other than the state of feeling good.
But what happens if we sleep poorly and wake up with a backache, headache, or stiff neck? Don’t we often express a litany of complaints about it to friends or co-workers? And if a repairman or deliveryman comes by and politely asks, “How are you,” what do we say? If we feel good, we most likely just say, “Fine, and you?” But if our neck still hurts, we say, “Well, since you asked, I am having a bad day, starting with . . .”
The tendency to dwell on the negative outweighs our tendency to think positively, and every day we do so we strengthen those misery magnets. This means that when we look at the balance or the ratio of negative energy identities to positive ones, the scale weighs heavily on the negative side. This serves none of us well.
Drive to Manifestation
Thought forms are soulless and mindless. They lack consciousness. However, they carry the power of magnetic attraction. This magnetic energy is working 24/7. In fact, it does not just attract our own thoughts but all similar thoughts from many sources, including other people. This is not a conscious act any more than an actual magnet consciously attracts. What is the result of all this attraction?
The result of magnetic attraction is that the energy identities (and the altered realities they create) continue to build in strength. At the point that they’re strong enough, they manifest into our physical reality. In fact, their sole purpose is to manifest. The manifestation process from all of our energy identities is what forms our outer expression or, in other words, our lives.
For example, if it is cold and rainy outside, we may think throughout the day that we have to keep warm and dry so we don’t get sick. We see ads on TV about various cold remedies, which remind us to check what we have on hand just in case. We remember the time last year when we got the worst cold ever and had to miss work. Flu season is here and we plan to get a flu shot. We believe that all schools are breeding grounds for illnesses and have no patience for parents who send their children to school with a cold. We also believe that we are susceptible to every germ with which we come in contact. In this way, we are empowering our illness thought form (one that we already have) over and over again. And what do you know? Despite all our efforts to prevent it, we come down with a massive cold two weeks later and blame it on the time we spent helping out at our daughter’s pre-school.
In fact, getting sick was a result of the altered reality of illness gaining enough strength to manifest itself in our physical reality as a cold. It attracted the opportunity when you were asked to volunteer to read to your child’s pre-school class. This then triggered and empowered your beliefs (based on your thoughts) that you were now exposed to the germs that you were convinced would make you sick. And they did.
Isn’t it just that colds are contagious? No. If that were the case, every teacher, parent, and student who came in contact with children would get sick. Each individual responds to each situation based on what thought forms he/she is creating for him/herself. That is why some children/teachers have perfect attendance and others are chronically sick or somewhere in between. Of course, this process is more complex than I have presented. But the basic principles are the same.
Other examples are: If you have a large victim thought form, it will magnetically attract conditions that will make you a victim once more. If you have a failure pattern, the thought forms will bring in situations that will again result in failure. If you bring in mates that make you crazy with their infidelity, the thought forms may keep you in a cycle of betrayal. Thought forms are the source for the patterns we have in our lives.
Habit Body
In addition to the Thought Form Body, we also carry a Habit Body. The Habit Body is another invisible envelope of energy (field) surrounding us that contains imprints of every thought and every action. Thoughts create energy identities and habit imprints simultaneously. And as the imprints of similar thoughts get deeper and deeper, they become our most ingrained habits. As we smoke/worry/procrastinate/and so on, the imprints/ruts are reinforced again. In other words, the depth of a habit imprint in the Habit Body is relative to how often we have thought the thought and/or acted—the deeper the rut, the more automatic and intense the habit. There are no energy identities in the Habit Body, but the habit imprints empower the thoughts and vice versa.
Have you ever noticed that you wake up five mornings out of seven at the exact same time? Or that you get a cup of coffee without thinking before you start any project? Or that you put on your left shoe before your right one every morning? These are simple, repetitive habits that are easy to see and are relatively harmless in the scheme of things. Of course, we all have deeper and more complicated ones, so it is very important that we pay attention to all our habits. These habit imprints work with Thought Forms to reinforce our patterns. These two working together are in part what makes it so difficult to change things about ourselves with which we are unhappy. The more ingrained a habit, the more we act on it and think about it. The thought form gains power and then manifests again – and then again.
One of my habits for over ten years was to sleep only three or four hours a night. Once I’d wake up, I would never be able to go back to sleep, resulting in chronic exhaustion. Fortunately, by doing the exercises that the Higher Selves taught us, I was successful at changing this pattern, and those sleepless years are now a distant memory. Now I sleep at least five to six hours a night with few exceptions. I still wake up many nights, but the difference is I go back to sleep. Of course, five or six hours are not enough. Fortunately, I have continued to improve, sleeping seven plus hours a night at least three times every week. Habits can be changed, and you can do it too.
The Overall Picture
Remember that we live as humans in a Free Will Kingdom, that we choose how our lives unfold. If something happens that changes our thought patterns for a day or week, we will empower different energy identities and habit imprints and will, therefore, manifest differently than we did in prior weeks.
One example many can relate to is the unexpected death of a young friend or family member. The new vulnerability we now feel may make us realize that we have been complacent about life. As a result, we decide to focus more on preventing illness by eating healthy food and exercising. We also become more open to telling our family every day how much we love them and perhaps resolve to work harder to be a better person so that there are no regrets if we die young. Were we thinking this way before? No, but we are now. So our energy identities and habit imprints are changing as a reflection of the changes in our thought patterns.
What is more significant, however, is how often we are determined to change only to find our old habits return. How many of us with great intentions find ourselves back in the same place within days/weeks/months? How many times have we had to use the same New Year’s resolution because we didn’t accomplish it this year or the prior years? Why are there so many new diets on the market, multiple no-smoking aids, a myriad of solutions for depression, insomnia, etc? Why are there so many self-help books? Because for all our grand efforts and deep desire to change, we predictably find ourselves back in the same place, having made little lasting forward movement. This does not feel good. There are reasons why change is so hard and there is more to it than just thinking positive thoughts. Let’s take a look at the Law of Attraction.
The Law of Magnetic Attraction Clarified
Higher Selves Quote:
Thought forms are what carry the impact of what you will outwardly manifest. This is not a process that will be reached through affirmations or through consciously speaking words. For the process of thought forms is one that goes very, very deep. Thought forms are carried from lifetime to lifetime so that the buildup of these “altered realities” is very intense and very powerful.
What exactly is the Law of Attraction? It seems to be the basis of many metaphysical self-help books (including The Secret) and even has its place in some religious teachings. Simply stated, it posits that thoughts are energy and are magnetic in nature. They attract to you situations and people that match your predominant thoughts, whether conscious or unconscious. The bottom line, therefore, is like attracts like. The more positively you think, the more positive your life will be. Every individual is responsible for what they bring into their lives. Is there more to it than this? Yes.
There needs to be more than positive thought to create real change in your life. Of course, there are people who have changed their thoughts from the negative to positive, who have brought more good into their lives than before. But what does it mean for those of us who didn’t find success by thinking positively, yet worked as hard or harder than the others who did? What about those who achieved results but didn’t recognize that what they got was either the exact right result (even if unexpected) or that it was only the first step in a process that would lead them to the final goal? What about the patterns that keep recurring in life despite the efforts to change them? Or the emotional upheavals that make us behave in ways we’re not proud of?
What has been missing in the prior teachings on the Law of Attraction is the fact that it has not been fully understood. The Higher Selves didn’t change the Law. They explain how it works. And there are two misconceptions that need to be cleared up. The first one is that a positive thought does not negate or replace a negative thought. It only empowers the positive energy identities while the negative ones remain to also magnetically attract negative situations, conditions and people into our lives. Because we harbor so much more of the negative, the positives we empower through our thoughts are still extremely weak compared to the powerful negatives.
The second misconception is that even if you never think a negative thought ever again, it doesn’t mean that the negative energy identities go away. Once created, the thought energy exists forever. Leaving those negative altered realities in place is what makes it so difficult for us to change. Whether negative or positive, the energy remains in place in our etheric bodies as thought forms and habit imprints. When these are positive, we can rejoice. When they are negative, we are concerned with what we do about them. What we must do is to neutralize the negative energies to render them harmless and incapable of magnetically attracting anything that could hurt us. Neutralizing the negatives and using that energy to empower our light is the key to change. Again, the Higher Selves didn’t change the Law of Attraction but added details about how it functions.
The Shift From Victim to Taking Charge
Once we accept that we are living in a Free Will Kingdom, and that we are making both conscious and unconscious choices that create our experiences, we can find our way to take responsibility for what happens to us. So the shift goes from blaming someone, something or some event for our problem/s to looking at ourselves and asking, “Why did I bring this into my life?” “How can I change this reality?” Or “How can I prevent it from happening again?”
There is no judgment here. We are not all screw-ups who just can’t get it right. Instead, we acknowledge that we are all experiencing the human condition. Everyone has challenges to face, joys to experience, moments of wonder and moments of despair. What will be explained is the way to be actively involved in how your life unfolds. There is no magic pill to take and presto . . .you have changed. If it took years and lifetimes to develop our patterns, undoing these patterns won’t be instantaneous. However, with consistent effort, we can change our patterns, find what was hidden and untapped, and definitely improve our lives significantly.
In a year from now we will all be one year older. We can still be in the same place, coping with the same issues. Or we can use the simple Higher Self techniques and make this year and every year a witness to us becoming much more of what we want to be. We understand our conscious choices. And now we understand how our own thought forms and habit imprints, through the process of magnetic attraction, work with our conscious choices to create the outer expression we call our lives. Someone else isn’t creating our lives. It isn’t Mother Nature, your jerky boss, or a vindictive god picking on you. We are busy making and playing out our patterns consciously and unconsciously, then, taking what life gives us and handling it as best we can. Now is the time to be in charge but it is wrong to just focus on the positive and neglect the negative. There are techniques available to enable us to do the neutralizing we need to do. We are not doomed. We are not stuck. We are not powerless.
An author and personal coach, Janet Richmond’s book: “Choices-Neutralizing Your Negative Thoughts and Emotional Blueprints” details a process which allows each individual to find they have the power and the ability to break the patterns that keeps so many people stuck in the same place year after year. Richmond successfully coaches (on a one-on-one basis) and also teaches (to groups) the life-changing technique of how to neutralize the negative thought forms everyone carries.
Janet Richmond can be reached via her website at http://janetrichmond.com/
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Starting New Habits is Unconfortable…But Necessary for Success!
Well I survived my first day of my new commitments, and you know what?
It wasn’t that bad!
I’m not saying that it was easy. If I did … I’d be lying!
Every time we start new habits it is very uncomfortable, but if we continue to do things the same way over and over and follow our old habits … we can expect to live with the uncomfortable feeling of never achieving more. In my opinion, the second we stop striving to become better, we begin to die.
You tell me … What could be more uncomfortable than death? 
With this little experiment of mine I’ll be tracking my thought process and my progress toward the achievement of my goals over the coming 30 days. I won’t be talking specifically about the action goals I set. If you are interested in knowing what those are you can follow me on Twitter.
I will, however, be discussing the challenges I bump up against and how I fight my way through them. I figure by doing this, you will be able to relate. Especially if you are coming along on the journey with me, and we might just be able to assist each other.
If you haven’t decided to participate, I am guessing either there is nothing in your life left to accomplish, or you just haven’t gotten around to it.
Whatever the case, I’d love to have you jump on board so we can create as many success stories over the next 30 days as possible!
Anyhow, when I set my three action goals I struggled with what goals to set since I already stay quite busy. I was in pretty good shape though since one of my goals had been accomplished by simply launching the experiment to the public.
I was feeling great … one down and only two to go! This was going to be a breeze … or was it?
I completed a portion of my second action goal and human nature kicked in. I began to attempt to come up with a valid excuse so I could get away with not quite completing this goal. I came up with the same excuses I believe most people would.
I began to rationalize with myself that it was only the first day and since I started it mid morning I really didn’t have to count bed time as the end of the first day.
I then attempted to convince myself that my true action goal was something I needed to accomplish over 30 days and therefore as long as I averaged my daily goal by the end of the month, I’d be fine. Sounds like a very popular excuse for a procrastinator like me. 
Then I got home from work late and was planning on using that as an excuse since I obviously didn’t have the time necessary to get it done.
These are all very common thoughts that all of us have when we are attempting to start new habits. We are accustomed to doing things a certain way and modifying that behavior, no matter how much good will come … it just plain sucks!
That’s when the accountability trap I set for myself kicked in. I started to realize that I already put my action goals out there into the universe and I was sure that there were the normal negative people lurking, waiting for me to fail. There was absolutely NO WAY I was going to let those people succeed through my failure. Because of this I found the motivation to accomplish the remaining tasks in my second goal.
As I finished I began to feel great! I had accomplished two of the three action goals I set for myself and only had one to go. That’s when those little voices came back. They said …
“Come on Pete! You just finished goal number two three hours later than you planned. It is only the first day and two out of three isn’t bad. Come on … it’s late. You should go to bed.”
Again, I almost succumbed to the pressure of negativity, but again I thought of the naysayers that I was sure were lurking out there waiting for me to not follow through.
Alright, now before you think I am a schizophrenic that has voices in their head, you better look inward. Everyone experiences these little battles centered around what you know you should do, and what you really do. If you say you don’t, then I am sure you lie about a bunch of other stuff also.
I completed the last of my three action goals at exactly 11:43pm last night and it felt great! One day down and only twenty nine more to go! I awoke this morning a little tired, but ready to plow through the day and knowing I am going to accomplish my three action goals for a second consecutive day.
Feel free to leave any comments or thoughts you may have on the process of starting new habits. If you’ve decided to join me on this journey, I’d love to know that as well.
Pete Brand is a businessman.
He created a successful distribution business throughout the United States, which grew to a network of 2,500 sales people, under his supervision. He also acquired substantial sales and marketing experience with a local telecom company, and helped them to become the number one distributor of the product they marketed.
He was introduced to the Internet in 1998 and was fascinated at the possibilities. Although he didn’t know how to design or program a website, he saw the incredible opportunities the Internet presented in reaching people around the world quickly and efficiently. This motivated Pete to start a website development company which has since helped hundreds of companies around the world create well over $100,000,000 in online revenue.
Pete has a passion for Internet marketing and teaching individuals and companies the exact ingredients required for starting and running a successful online business. His expertise covers both “business to business” and “business to consumer” areas of online marketing.
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