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Changing Your State of Being Can Change Your Life

Posted by on June 24, 2010 · 1 Comment 

Change Your State & You Change Your Life

Hey Internet!

Do you ever find yourself just in a funk? Woke up on the wrong side of the bed or just having a bad day? You know you need to pull out of it because you still have a day to get through and a life to live but you just don’t know how.  I’m sure you have, we all have, or I’d seriously have to question if you’re human. Anyhow, IF you want to get out of it (some people don’t. They just enjoy wallowing in it) I’ll share with you what has worked for me.

Essentially, you are in a paralysing STATE of sadness, despair, confusion, etc which all give off certain energy and you need to change your “state” to an enabling state of confidence, joy, power and ultimately change to a different energy level.

State change is usually a very scientific term.  Essentially, when a substance changes from one state, or phase, of matter to another we say that it has undergone a change of state, or we say that it has undergone a change of phase. Each change of state is accompanied by a change in the energy of the system. These changes of phase always occur with a change of heat. Although the heat content of the material changes, the temperature does not.

So, in changing your state you are actually changing your heat (energy) even though externally the temperate (situation) is still the same. You’re changing your reaction to your environment.

There are a few ways to change your state. One of which is with your body. This is called Physiology – the way you breathe, hold your body, posture, your movements, and actions determine what state you are in. Seriously. Try this: take a minute and allow your body and mind to mimic a dressed person. How is your body?…Slumped? Where is your head?…Down? How is your breathing?..Shallow? So your physiology affects your mood/state.

Another is your mind. Changing your thoughts through affirmations, prayer, meditation, and faith application is a great way to change your state.

One thing I found that worked really well for me (because I’m a little too shy to just up and scream “yes” while walking down the street) and I find kind of incorporates the two is music. I love music and I find certain songs just have a way of getting me really excited, inspired, spiritual, powerful etc. As I listen to these songs, I see myself in my mind, dancing, laughing and acting the fool. I can actually feel my limbs wanting to actually take part, a smirk comes on my face and instantly, I’m in a different state! Its best to make actual physical movement but my visualization when these songs are on are so real that, like I said I can actually feel my body wanting to participate. I start standing tall, my head goes back. It’s crazy!  Music, just music and I feel completely different.

We all have songs like this. Songs we’ve heard from our childhood up to today. These songs have a way of igniting something in us (joy, excitement, gratitude, inspiration, powerful, unstoppable, or just plain giddiness) no matter what’s going on.

Some songs that really move me to pure state ob bliss are:

Kirk Franklin – Still In Love

Troop – Spread My Wings

Stevie B – I Wanna Be The One   (Don’t judge! You know you secretly LOOVE Stevie B! Tell the truth and shame the devil, lol!)

I have two state change CD’s. One is for spirituality. When I’m having a hard time connecting to God because my Spirit if distracted, I pop that in and the songs I’ve chosen really move me to praise and deep love and appreciation. When I need a pick up, some excitement, joy etc I pop in my other CD. I also have both as playlists on my MP3. Even when I don’t NEED a pick up I’ll listen to it anyhow because I love the way these songs make me feel and the state they move me to. Especially in the morning, it kind of sets my excitement and energy for the day.

The reason music works so well is that somewhere in your life, your song associated that song with a particular emotion. Maybe something great was happening in your life at the time and you felt powerful. Now your brain has linked that song with feeling powerful. Or that popular love song that was playing when you broke up with someone…your brain has linked pain with that song. Nothing wrong with the song.  The song may be great and someone else may link that song with passionate love but your circumstances at the time has made an association.

If don’t already have the albums but you know what songs you want you can save  money and time buying the mp3 versions on Amazon.

If you can change a state, you can change a behavior

Live on PURPOSE!

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Failure is Impossible

Posted by on June 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Hello Internet!

Never QuitHello Internet!

Let me share one of my epiphanies with you. In my journey through life I’ve come gratefully to learn that failure is actually NOT POSSIBLE. You either succeed or learn something to make your next step a better one.

In my former life I was a REALTOR….for a minute. I went through so much preparation, aced the exams and joined a amazing brokerage with a laid out plan for success. But, because of what I know realized was a lack of confidence (the key ingredient in any thing you do) I made NO money. As time went on, the savings dwindled and the debt mounted and I did what I thought was my only option, I quit. And that was my fatal error.

Mind you Real Estate wasn’t my passion but if making money was the goal, quitting was my “failure”. I took so many lessons from the experience and learnt so much about myself, who I was and what I wanted that in reality it only made me a better and more focused person.

When working through your plan, your business, your passion and something happens that has you felling like you’ve failed or just has you feeling down on yourself, remember that the train is still moving. Life is still moving and you have the choice to continue riding this train or jump off and end up stranded…nowhere. If you’re walking in your purpose, in your passion, I encourage you to stay on the train and remember this situation is actually just a setback and a setback is a setup for a comeback! Learn from the setback and go forward.

When you find you’ve hit a setback:

  1. Take time to think about your goal, the intended end result
  2. Consider the steps you’ve taken thus far
  3. Now reevaluate and create new plan based on the lessons you just learnt and PRESS TOWARD THE MARK
  4. Stay FOCUSED on the end result. The prize.

You have to stay focused on your goal. Focus means: Follow On Course Until Successful. The saying “keep your eye on the prize” has really been thrown around but that’s what you need to do, always keep a mental picture of that beautiful prize. You can’t stop. Your victory, your success is just on the other side of this. Keep going.

And don’t beat up on yourself. It’s easy to look at other people and think that everyone else has it together but you. We are our biggest critics but I’ve come to learn that you never really know what’s going on with people, you just see what they display. The reality is we all deal with setbacks and disappointments. The key is, as I’ve kept saying, is to keep going with forward positive movement.

The great thing about life is you create it and in the case of failure, you set the parameters on what failure is. For me, failure is giving up. I have set in my spirit that the only way I can fail is if I give up. As long as I don’t give up there is always a way and a chance for reaching my mark. The only way I won’t get there, is if I stop pressing. But I’ve also added the caveat that no matter what, if I quit or it quits me, if I learn valuable lessons to apply towards my next step, I’ve succeed as a person.

Live on PURPOSE

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