|
|
|
|
|
|
Change your life in seven days! I want to offer you something I wrote many years ago which might help in understanding this process, take your time to read it, apply it if you will, experiment with it for it might be all you need at this point. Would you like to alter your life? I bet you would. Here's a seven-day programme that will help you to re-focus your thinking and alter your attitude. In fact, altering your attitude is all it takes to create a better future for yourself and it can be done in a relatively short space of time. Follow the simple instructions below for the next week and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at the changes that will take place in your life. Once you have completed your seven-day programme, go back to DAY ONE and repeat the process. Slowly but surely you will begin to take charge of your life and become more confident in creating your own reality. DAY ONE: From the moment you awake in the morning until you retire in the evening you must accept responsibility for everything you do and say. You must monitor all your actions and reactions and take control of your life. From this day you should begin a deep breathing programme, inhaling and exhaling to the count of four. If you've allowed yourself to become sluggish then it's time to get some exercise. Take a walk in the fresh air or, open the windows and let the world in. During this day reflect upon where you are in the scheme of things, what do you think you have achieved in your life? Do you feel a success or a failure? It's time to consider your level of debt (credit cards, personal loans, etc.) and, from this day to rid yourself of societies modern form of slavery. During this day you must learn to laugh at yourself and the life you have created for yourself. Laughter is the best medicine and it's time to stop taking yourself and everything in life so seriously. Life is for living and if you're constantly worrying about your burdens you "sure as hell ain't living." So, from this day it's time to accept total responsibility for this life you have created. No one gave this life to you, you and only you chose it and having chosen it you can choose to change it. All it takes is a change in attitude and the world will respond accordingly. Laugh and the world will laugh with you; worry and you'll worry alone. Life is neither good nor bad; it's neither heaven nor hell. Life is all about attitude.
DAY TWO: It's now time to expand your horizons, to talk to your neighbours, to smile at those you meet on the train, bus, ferry or tram. Don't be concerned if others don't return your smiles just be happy. Try and do something for a stranger, open a door for someone, let someone take your place in a queue. Make a positive comment to your bank teller, postal worker or public servant, anyone, most important of all, smile, smile and keep smiling. During this day listen to your INNER SELF, so find somewhere quiet and listen for this voice coming from within. If you haven't been to Church or Chapel lately why not pay a visit today? If you haven't been to your local park why not do so today? Find somewhere (anywhere) where you can be quiet and reflective. Maybe visit the beach or take a walk in the bush. It's important on this day that you listen for the voice of the INNER SELF. When you hear this voice there will be no mistaking its message, so listen. It is your choice whether you are happy or sad. It's your choice whether you believe the headlines in the newspapers or not. It's up to you to broaden your horizons to expand your thinking, to free yourself from the trap of letting others determine how you feel and how you should think. It's time to begin living your life according to YOUR rules and not the rules laid down by others. It's time to break free from the past, to look forward to a brighter future and the only way to predict a brighter future is to create one for your Self. Beginning NOW. If you accept total responsibility for this life you have created and you listen to your INNER VOICE then you will be offered clues as to how you can earn more money, make more friends, and lead a happier, healthier life. Life will, if you listen, guide you towards a better way of living, to acquiring the skills you need and to benefit from the opportunities that are abundant in the universe. If you expect you will receive. If you doubt you only have yourself to blame.
DAY THREE: Concentration is the keyword for today. If you listened yesterday you were given ideas, encouragements, insights then it's now time to FOCUS your attention on achieving whatever ideas, insights, encouragement's you were offered yesterday. In order that you may bring about your desires you must concentrate with all your being on whatever it is you desire. Today you're being asked to concentrate. Every feeling of desire you have ever expressed or ever repressed has set in motion a chain of events which has led you to be where you are in your life right now. Think about it, you are where you are today because you thought about it or feared it yesterday. You thought about it, no one else. Miracles don't happen; they are strictly do-it-yourself. It is now time to create a few miracles for YOU. Sit down and think about a job which needs doing, a cupboard, which needs cleaning, a letter which needs writing, any job, no matter how large or small, a garden, which needs weeding, a desk which needs organising. It's up to you to FOCUS all your attention on any task, which you can complete today. Go to it; don't make excuses make a start right now. Not tomorrow but right now. When you have completed your task you will discover a TRUTH. When you've completed any assignment (no matter how large or small) you're actually in touch with the SOUL, feeding it, nourishing it, acknowledging it. Before you retire tonight you should sit down with pen in hand and in 25 words or less write down what goals you would like to achieve in the coming year. No matter what you write you must be specific. If you've written that you would like to win the lottery then you've not learned anything from your programme. Go back to DAY ONE and start again. Be specific with your words and in concentrating all your energies you will accomplish your goal within (or even before) the time limit you have set yourself.
DAY FOUR: Today is all about imagination. You are now asked to imagine with all your might whatever you wrote last night as already being in your possession. Feel yourself surrounded by whatever you wrote. Like an artist you must now put colour, texture, shape to whatever you wrote down. It's time to give your thoughts, your feelings, and your imagination some dimension. Let your mind run wild if need be, allow it to roam where it will. Don't censor your thoughts, let your imagination take you where it will and never forget, imagination is the most powerful energy in the universe. All you can imagine will be yours. All you ask for you will be given, of this law you can be assured. All that is asked of you is that you imagine you have already received whatever you have written. This day is the day which will alter your life as you come to realise YOU are the creator of your own universe. The world you live in has been created by your thoughts, your imaginings. Think about this statement for a while for you are exactly where you are NOW because you either thought about it, imagined it, or even feared, yes feared it, yesterday or the day before or the day before that. The creative mind responds to any thought, emotion, and fantasy, pleasant or unpleasant. No questions asked. It then proceeds to attract or create whatever you have imagined. Whatever you have desired, feared or fought against your creative self will endeavour to bring you. There is no other way. Look at yourself in the mirror and if you like what you see then enjoy your vision. If you don't like what you see then do something about it. If you don't like or love yourself how can you expect others to like or love you? If you don't feel deserving of a better life how can the Universe bring all it has to offer? Whether you agree or disagree you are a part of the universe not apart from it. The entire cosmos exists because you exist. Think about this statement for it is TRUTH. From this day onwards it's up to you to create a better world for yourself and in doing so, for mankind. The only person you can change is yourself and in doing so the world will respond accordingly. All it takes is a change in attitude. The outer world always reflects the inner world; there is no other way.
DAY FIVE: When you awoke this morning did you feel filled with wellbeing and if not why not? Today you are being asked to clear out any deadwood in your thinking and to set the wheels in motion for a better life for yourself and family. I ask you (in your mind) to go over the past few days of your programme and make any necessary adjustments to what you have or have not done. Today you're being asked to work up a sweat for whatever it is you desire. No one said it was going to be easy, there are no short cuts. Today you're going to increase the pressure. There's a saying: God helps those who help themselves. Today you will come to understand this TRUTH. Today, you are going to set your sights on your target and work up the necessary enthusiasm to achieve your goal. It's now up to you to set the wheels in motion. Like an athlete training for a competition you must now practice, to hold in your minds eye your objective. Begin to build a positive image and hold it firmly in your mind's eye. No matter what this image may be (and practice makes perfect) it will, one day, become a reality. As long as you hold this image in your mind's eye and are expectant of receiving it, you will. If you imagine yourself winning the pools or the lottery then you are escaping into the world of fantasy and are wasting valuable energy for as long as you remain there. No, you are being asked to be specific with your goal and to expend your energy into achieving it. Step by step, slowly at first, you will soon see your goal becoming a reality. Keep your goal(s) in sight, don't scatter your energies; keep sight of your objective. If you lose sight of your target you have lost the battle and your INNER MIND will assume the battle is over and bring about your defeat. At all times keep your mind's eye on your goal. No one goes into battle without some kind of plan, so imagine yourself going to war on your negatives. From the moment you awaken in the morning you should have a definite plan of action, something you can accomplish today. Sure, there will always be the unexpected crop up but I ask you is it really the unexpected or, are you fragmenting your energies? Remember, no pain = no gain.
DAY SIX: Well, today is the day of reckoning, today you will find out whether you've really put into practise your seven-day-programme or not. During this day you'll soon discover if you've really altered your thinking or if you've only been paying lip service to what you have read. Today is the day you will judge yourself for old habits die hard and it will be today that you'll discover if they have died or not! Let's face it; you have been attempting to change your life by altering your thoughts. If your EGO has, in any way, felt threatened or challenged along the way it will have created all sorts of excuses, set backs, problems, etc. Your EGO will attract or create situations where it will seem as though others are trying to hinder you in some way, saying how foolish you are to change. Have you noticed any of this? This is the Ego's way of preventing any changes in its control over your life, all of which allows you off the hook. Make no mistake about it, life is constantly in transit and if you won't allow or create changes you will find yourself swept along by them and, if you don't learn from them you are doomed to repeat them. If you can't (or won't) distinguish the difference between where you have been and where you are going to where you are now then who does? Of all the days in your programme this is the one where you might give up and think it all too much effort. Well, if you do you will only regret it later and find yourself back at the beginning, wondering if this is all there is to life. Old habits take time to die and the only way to change them is to replace them. On DAY ONE you took responsibility, on DAY TWO you became more selective, on DAY THREE you concentrated. On DAY FOUR you imagined, on DAY FIVE you became more positive. Today, on DAY SIX it's time to look forward.
DAY SEVEN: Yes, you are special, you are unique, you are fascinating, wonderful, a bundle of fun. This is your life, not a joke. Over the past six days you've haven't been asked to be BORN AGAIN as someone different, to be someone you are not. No, all you've been asked is to change your thinking. You've been asked to rid yourself of old ideas, to change your attitudes, to look at yourself and your life in a totally different way. This means forgetting all the nonsense about being different and enjoy being who you are. From this day onwards your life will be filled with more fulfillment, more joy, more wonderment, more contentment, as you begin to see and understand the wonder of the world around you. The world you and you alone have created. Over the past few days you have learned to put your life in order, to accept responsibility for your actions and reactions. You have, in effect, begun to live a more complete, more aware, more spiritual way of life. You have learned to have fun with this wonderful world that you have helped to create. Yes, you have helped shape this world more than you know and must never forget this TRUTH. To become a CHILD OF THE LIGHT you must first discover this Light within yourself. This has got nothing to do with ascending to some astral plane or some spiritual realm but a simple exercise in building your self-esteem, of establishing your self-worth. Believing that this is your life and only YOU have the power to change things. You've been asked to attempt this on a day-to-day basis, to build yourself up instead of pulling yourself down. In accepting responsibility for this life you have created you are NOT responsible for the famines, wars, earthquakes, disasters that happen in the world at any given time. Make no mistake, you are not responsible for them but you are responsible for how you respond to them and this seven-day-programme will allow you to set the example so that others may follow. Not with you constantly telling them what they should or should not do but by your actions show them, share your life with those around you but first of all give yourself some credit. This is the life YOU chose and once you have begun to live your life in the moment you'll soon see a chain-reaction in others, who by responding to your example, turn your life into a happier and healthier place, never forget this simple truth. (c) Thomas Muldoon The entire contents of this website is © Thomas Muldoon and provided for your enlightenment, empowerment and entertainment. |
|
