You have been given your own exclusive abilities to accomplish anything you can dream of in your life. Many folks waste time focusing on someone else's abilities without stopping to realize their own. The key in making your own discovery comes from transferring that energy back to the source at hand. The true discovery is found within.
You have been blessed with a specialty that makes others step back and take notice even if you have not made the discovery of what your gift is yet. Take the time to look at what you do well and you will soon discover that unique gift or gifts that you possess that no one can do quite like you.
Once you come to the understanding that everything you need to succeed in your chosen field of expertise is already lying dormant inside of you waiting for recognition.
When you think about yourself and your life, what are the first things that come to mind? Do you think about how closely related your own gifts and talents are to making your dreams come true?
Perhaps you need to afford yourself a little break so that you can think about it. You may make an amazing discovery about yourself! You may realize that you have a number of gifts and talents which none of your friends or family members have. You may also realize that these gifts and talents are your keys to your success.
When you begin to develop your own abilities, you will make another important discovery. You will see how deeply your own unique characteristics can affect your life. Not only is success within your means, the keys to success are within you yourself.
Everyone has some unique gifts. When you discover what your particular gifts are, this is the very first key in applying your special talents to your own life. Your dreams will become much more than dreams, because you will see that you have it within you to make all of those dreams come true. You can look at success as something that is well within your ability to achieve. No matter what your particular focus may be, realizing this is the first step on the ladder to success.
While making this discovery may come as a surprise, it is likely that you have always noticed their existence. You probably just didn't know how crucial they really are. When you have special strengths, they can have a profound influence on how you view yourself, the choices you make, who you are, and your amazing potential.
Even if you have not thought of it yet, you have the potential for greatness. The factor which will help to clarify how far you may go is how far you reach. When you make the discovery that you have the special gifts and talents to achieve whatever you desire in life, nothing but the sky is the limit.
Author: Anthony K. Wilson, Sr.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Understanding the symptoms of a panic attack
There are more and more people suffering with panic and anxiety attack than ever before. This is due to a number of factors; however, the primary factor for the exponential growth of panic disorders is that we are more and more exhausted. When we are tired, run down and overworked we are at our most vulnerable. At this point of vulnerability is the birthplace of our anxiety. Anxiety is our minds defense mechanism to warn us of danger and to promote self preservation. Most panic treatments revolve around medication or relaxation techniques. These outdated and incomplete panic treatments only address the symptoms, they don’t address the cause. Without treating the cause we can never be set free of this disorder.
In order to implement reliable and effective panic treatments, you have to understand why you are manifesting the emotional, mental and physical symptoms of a panic disorder. As I had said, you find yourself very exhausted and life is taking its toll on you and everything that could go wrong does go wrong. Your sympathetic neurological system senses that you are extremely vulnerable and understands that consciously you are doing nothing to combat this. It believes you are defenseless and reacts by activating your self preservation instincts to kick start your recovery. The method to fire off this effect is to increase your anxiety levels so high that your sub conscious believes you are in imminent danger. Your body then goes into self defense mode in preparation for a fight or flight reaction to this perceived danger. This is when the physical symptoms occur.
In regards to the fact that your body is defending itself, it will increase the blood supply to the necessary limbs. This often violent heart pounding is interpreted as a potential heart attack. Coupled with the fact that your blood is drained from weak areas to prevent blood loss from the skins, toes and fingers, this often leaves tingling feelings in those limbs. Breathing is escalated to oxygenate the muscle tissue, which often results in the sufferer trying to counteract this breathing and this conflict results in choking and feelings of suffocation.
Once you understand the context of these symptoms it becomes much easier to implement panic treatments. Your panic treatments can now deal effectively with the attack by virtue of the fact that your panic treatments are not opposing your bodies’ natural desire to protect yourself. Think carefully about the panic treatments you have had or undergoing and then think about what you felt like before your attack. If you felt over run, vulnerable and exhausted then your panic attack was probably a defensive reaction. This means that your panic treatments need to help you cure your vulnerabilities and you will get your anxiety under control.
Author: Vincent Jeffries
In order to implement reliable and effective panic treatments, you have to understand why you are manifesting the emotional, mental and physical symptoms of a panic disorder. As I had said, you find yourself very exhausted and life is taking its toll on you and everything that could go wrong does go wrong. Your sympathetic neurological system senses that you are extremely vulnerable and understands that consciously you are doing nothing to combat this. It believes you are defenseless and reacts by activating your self preservation instincts to kick start your recovery. The method to fire off this effect is to increase your anxiety levels so high that your sub conscious believes you are in imminent danger. Your body then goes into self defense mode in preparation for a fight or flight reaction to this perceived danger. This is when the physical symptoms occur.
In regards to the fact that your body is defending itself, it will increase the blood supply to the necessary limbs. This often violent heart pounding is interpreted as a potential heart attack. Coupled with the fact that your blood is drained from weak areas to prevent blood loss from the skins, toes and fingers, this often leaves tingling feelings in those limbs. Breathing is escalated to oxygenate the muscle tissue, which often results in the sufferer trying to counteract this breathing and this conflict results in choking and feelings of suffocation.
Once you understand the context of these symptoms it becomes much easier to implement panic treatments. Your panic treatments can now deal effectively with the attack by virtue of the fact that your panic treatments are not opposing your bodies’ natural desire to protect yourself. Think carefully about the panic treatments you have had or undergoing and then think about what you felt like before your attack. If you felt over run, vulnerable and exhausted then your panic attack was probably a defensive reaction. This means that your panic treatments need to help you cure your vulnerabilities and you will get your anxiety under control.
Author: Vincent Jeffries
Do You Set Yourself Up to Succeed?
We recently brought a wild horse into our family and my mate has been applying a training method called Natural Horsemanship.
This method encourages the trainer to observe where the horse is at in their understanding and begin the teachings from there. For example, our new charge had never been touched by a human so the first step was to attach a stuffed work glove to a long stick and gingerly touch Cricket with the surrogate “hand” as she walked by. It startled her at first but she gradually got used to it and the lessons increased from there.
The process was slow at the beginning, there were days the “hand” was no big deal and other days where she responded like she’d never seen such a scary thing before in her life. But my mate’s patience and consistency created an amazing trust between the two, so future learning came at increasing speeds.
I’ve been giving myself a hard time lately about learning something new. I’ve expected myself to just “get it” even though it’s a pretty foreign concept to me considering how I was raised (how most of us were raised). Instead of applying the gentler approach of natural horsemanship I’ve just made my lessons harder and harder and then wondered why I became flustered and confused.
The concept I’ve been incorporating into my life is this idea of how we create our own experience or reality. I have no quarrel with the concept; I’ve seen way too much evidence of its effects on my life and in lives of others around me to turn back now, but there are still some areas in my life where I have enough resistance to this new philosophy that nothing (in that area) really shifts for me and my task has been to go back and find out “where I’m at” on these topics so that I can start to change things at an internal level.
The process is about uncovering hidden beliefs. Now this is not about doing huge excavating in your life and tearing apart old memories and dissecting conversations, it’s just about taking the time to become aware of what you believe about certain things. Whether you know it or not you have been influenced by your family, religion, culture, the media and society-at-large. This is the stuff that plays in the background and contributes to you sabotaging certain aspects of our life.
For example if we were taught that “money is the root of all evil” then acquiring money can encourage feelings of guilt or it can even prevent us from ever having any money in the first place so that we can continue to be “good” people. Many of us have underlying beliefs that play out in love, in our careers, in our family dynamics, in our health and in our Sense of Self. And we can choose to alter those beliefs at any time!
I’ve been reading a book called the Brain That Changes Itself by Dr. Norman Doidge, MD. It speaks to a new science called NeuroPlacticity and it’s all about how we can change how our brain functions by setting up new expectations for it. But the conclusions of the book speak to our need to UNlearn behavior before we can apply NEW learning.
UNlearning is a process that one needs to allow time for. You simply can’t make a new connection when the old connection is still in place.
So, I’ve been encouraged to explore more areas of my life where ineffective beliefs are still playing out (and holding me back). I can actually “set myself up to succeed” by understanding that I’ve got some programming running in the background and being aware of it is the first step in letting it go. Replacing that belief with what I’d prefer to believe is the next step and practicing the new thought is step three. Step three can take some time or it can just be a “click” and everything falls into place. However it unfolds, its worth the effort!
I’ve learned a lot in the last few years – I’ve changed some of the BIG beliefs about Money, Love and my Sense of Self and now it’s time for the next layer, the subtler beliefs, it’s time to understand where I’m really at and begin building the learning from there.
At this very moment - I’m encouraged by the effectiveness of this method as I witness my mate riding Cricket passed the window as I write. Her head is high, she is completely comfortable and her rider has a grin from ear to ear.
I’ve simplified this process (above) for the space allowed in a short article, it’s important to note that this is often the biggest challenge for most people and I’ve designated much of the www.RubyShuze.com curriculum to give you tools and resources to UNlearn the unconscious beliefs that are standing in your way.
If you are aware of areas in your life where you keep getting the same (undesired) results? Ie: Different jobs but the same tensions, different relationships but the same problems, new friends but the same expectations? I would encourage you to begin there and pick up some helpful tools that you can make use of in your exploration.
Author: RubyShuze
This method encourages the trainer to observe where the horse is at in their understanding and begin the teachings from there. For example, our new charge had never been touched by a human so the first step was to attach a stuffed work glove to a long stick and gingerly touch Cricket with the surrogate “hand” as she walked by. It startled her at first but she gradually got used to it and the lessons increased from there.
The process was slow at the beginning, there were days the “hand” was no big deal and other days where she responded like she’d never seen such a scary thing before in her life. But my mate’s patience and consistency created an amazing trust between the two, so future learning came at increasing speeds.
I’ve been giving myself a hard time lately about learning something new. I’ve expected myself to just “get it” even though it’s a pretty foreign concept to me considering how I was raised (how most of us were raised). Instead of applying the gentler approach of natural horsemanship I’ve just made my lessons harder and harder and then wondered why I became flustered and confused.
The concept I’ve been incorporating into my life is this idea of how we create our own experience or reality. I have no quarrel with the concept; I’ve seen way too much evidence of its effects on my life and in lives of others around me to turn back now, but there are still some areas in my life where I have enough resistance to this new philosophy that nothing (in that area) really shifts for me and my task has been to go back and find out “where I’m at” on these topics so that I can start to change things at an internal level.
The process is about uncovering hidden beliefs. Now this is not about doing huge excavating in your life and tearing apart old memories and dissecting conversations, it’s just about taking the time to become aware of what you believe about certain things. Whether you know it or not you have been influenced by your family, religion, culture, the media and society-at-large. This is the stuff that plays in the background and contributes to you sabotaging certain aspects of our life.
For example if we were taught that “money is the root of all evil” then acquiring money can encourage feelings of guilt or it can even prevent us from ever having any money in the first place so that we can continue to be “good” people. Many of us have underlying beliefs that play out in love, in our careers, in our family dynamics, in our health and in our Sense of Self. And we can choose to alter those beliefs at any time!
I’ve been reading a book called the Brain That Changes Itself by Dr. Norman Doidge, MD. It speaks to a new science called NeuroPlacticity and it’s all about how we can change how our brain functions by setting up new expectations for it. But the conclusions of the book speak to our need to UNlearn behavior before we can apply NEW learning.
UNlearning is a process that one needs to allow time for. You simply can’t make a new connection when the old connection is still in place.
So, I’ve been encouraged to explore more areas of my life where ineffective beliefs are still playing out (and holding me back). I can actually “set myself up to succeed” by understanding that I’ve got some programming running in the background and being aware of it is the first step in letting it go. Replacing that belief with what I’d prefer to believe is the next step and practicing the new thought is step three. Step three can take some time or it can just be a “click” and everything falls into place. However it unfolds, its worth the effort!
I’ve learned a lot in the last few years – I’ve changed some of the BIG beliefs about Money, Love and my Sense of Self and now it’s time for the next layer, the subtler beliefs, it’s time to understand where I’m really at and begin building the learning from there.
At this very moment - I’m encouraged by the effectiveness of this method as I witness my mate riding Cricket passed the window as I write. Her head is high, she is completely comfortable and her rider has a grin from ear to ear.
I’ve simplified this process (above) for the space allowed in a short article, it’s important to note that this is often the biggest challenge for most people and I’ve designated much of the www.RubyShuze.com curriculum to give you tools and resources to UNlearn the unconscious beliefs that are standing in your way.
If you are aware of areas in your life where you keep getting the same (undesired) results? Ie: Different jobs but the same tensions, different relationships but the same problems, new friends but the same expectations? I would encourage you to begin there and pick up some helpful tools that you can make use of in your exploration.
Author: RubyShuze
Feed your mind with positive ideas and you will reach your goals
I have been reading many biographies about successful people and the ways they achieved the success in their lives. I found that many of the successful men and women from the past had clearly set goals and reviewed them daily. They began achieving success when they started getting up in the morning and spending time alone.
I found that I need to feed my mind with positive ideas.
Supposedly, this is called the Golden Hour. The first hour sets the tone for the day. The things that I do in the first hour prepare the mind and set me up for the entire day. During the first half an hour or so of the day, I spend time to reflect on my present and future plans and goals.
There are some things that everyone can do on daily basis during that quiet time in the morning. Every time you write your goals again, you write them as if they already happened. This way you could write "I have made X amount of dollars"; "I have accomplished X"; "I weigh a certain number of pounds." I have found that this exercise of writing and rewriting your goals everyday is one of the most powerful things I ever learned. It keeps me focused and keeps me in the positive mind set throughout the day.
Everyone's life will start to take off at such a speed that they will have to put on your seatbelt. Everything is about building up and developing belief system until you finally reach the point where you are absolutely convinced that nothing can stop you from achieving what you set out to achieve.
No one starts out with this kind of an attitude, I did not. But I developed it using the law of attraction. Everything counts. No efforts are ever lost. Every accomplishment is the result of many small accompishments which go often unrecognized, but they are all attracted to you. The greatest challenge of all is for anyone to concentrate their thinking single-mindedly on the goal. Through this anyone can inevitably draw into their life the people, circumstances and opportunities they need to achieve their goals.
I have come to a conclusion that as you master yourself and your thoughts, you will start attracting ideas and opportunities to your life to help you to become wealthy and successful. It's worked for me and for many successful people I know. It will work for you if you'll begin today, now, this very minute, to think and talk about your dreams and goals as though they were already a reality. You will change you life once you change your thinking. You will put yourself firmly on the road to success and independence.
I am not saying that every wish, every thought will be granted to you. But this process will change the outlook you have on the world, on your circumstance and on your life. This will start attracting the positive into your life.
Here are two things I do every single day to keep my mind focused on my success goals:
First, I get up every morning a little bit earlier and plan my day in advance. I take some time to think about my goals and how I can best achieve them. This sets the tone for the whole day.
Second, I reflect on the valuable lessons I am learning each day as I work toward my goals. I need to be prepared to correct my course and adjust my actions. I need to be absolutely convinced that I am moving rapidly toward my goals, no matter what happens temporarily on the outside. I just need to feed my mind with positive ideas!
I would like to leave you today with one of my favourite quotes by Michelangelo: "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
Author: Helena Syptak
I found that I need to feed my mind with positive ideas.
Supposedly, this is called the Golden Hour. The first hour sets the tone for the day. The things that I do in the first hour prepare the mind and set me up for the entire day. During the first half an hour or so of the day, I spend time to reflect on my present and future plans and goals.
There are some things that everyone can do on daily basis during that quiet time in the morning. Every time you write your goals again, you write them as if they already happened. This way you could write "I have made X amount of dollars"; "I have accomplished X"; "I weigh a certain number of pounds." I have found that this exercise of writing and rewriting your goals everyday is one of the most powerful things I ever learned. It keeps me focused and keeps me in the positive mind set throughout the day.
Everyone's life will start to take off at such a speed that they will have to put on your seatbelt. Everything is about building up and developing belief system until you finally reach the point where you are absolutely convinced that nothing can stop you from achieving what you set out to achieve.
No one starts out with this kind of an attitude, I did not. But I developed it using the law of attraction. Everything counts. No efforts are ever lost. Every accomplishment is the result of many small accompishments which go often unrecognized, but they are all attracted to you. The greatest challenge of all is for anyone to concentrate their thinking single-mindedly on the goal. Through this anyone can inevitably draw into their life the people, circumstances and opportunities they need to achieve their goals.
I have come to a conclusion that as you master yourself and your thoughts, you will start attracting ideas and opportunities to your life to help you to become wealthy and successful. It's worked for me and for many successful people I know. It will work for you if you'll begin today, now, this very minute, to think and talk about your dreams and goals as though they were already a reality. You will change you life once you change your thinking. You will put yourself firmly on the road to success and independence.
I am not saying that every wish, every thought will be granted to you. But this process will change the outlook you have on the world, on your circumstance and on your life. This will start attracting the positive into your life.
Here are two things I do every single day to keep my mind focused on my success goals:
First, I get up every morning a little bit earlier and plan my day in advance. I take some time to think about my goals and how I can best achieve them. This sets the tone for the whole day.
Second, I reflect on the valuable lessons I am learning each day as I work toward my goals. I need to be prepared to correct my course and adjust my actions. I need to be absolutely convinced that I am moving rapidly toward my goals, no matter what happens temporarily on the outside. I just need to feed my mind with positive ideas!
I would like to leave you today with one of my favourite quotes by Michelangelo: "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
Author: Helena Syptak
Half Ways to Make New Years Goals Stick
Don't get me wrong, I love achieving things that are important to me. Without goals, I couldn't have gotten this far. But I needed a new way of looking at goals that didn't make me tired already. So, I came up with my four and a half ways to make my goals stick and be fun. Use them for yourself and make 2007 your best year yet!
1. KNOW WHAT GOALS STAND FOR: Go Out And Love Someone/Something!
That's right, LOVE!! Achieving stuff isn't worth your time and energy if you're not passionate about it. We desperately need to get excited again about our careers, our businesses, and our lives. If you're not, forget any other goals; they really don't matter. Figure out what it is that you really care enough about to get up in the morning.
2. DREAM BIG
Everyone I know, I mean EVERYONE I know, is turning one year older this year. So, I say dream BIG, allow yourself to imagine what you'd really like to be true about your life. Because one day time's up and you can't dream at all.
Why the heck not dream big? If not now, when? If not you, who? What other rhetorical question do you need? As women we constantly hear that small is beautiful. Forgetaboutit! BIG is BEST!
3. MAKE GOALS FUN & EASY TO REMEMBER
For example, if your goal is to "lose weight", phrase it another way that's positive, fun and memorable. Try "become a sultry goddess" or "be a calendar girl". How can you not grin when you say those words?! You're already getting your smile into shape!
Even business goals can be put into fun terms if you allow yourself to loosen up and play a little. One of my goals this year is to continue to expose even more women to the Bodacious Way. (Psst! You can help me by sharing this with a bodacious friend!} So, you know how I've phrased this goal? "More Cleavage!" Get it, more exposure. I laugh every time I say it! And, believe me, I'm not forgetting it!
4. WRITE ‘EM DOWN
Ok, you've heard this a bazillion times. The fact is when you write something down your brain registers it. To make goals stick even more I suggest that you ADD IMAGES to your words because that's what the brains remember even better. Cut a picture out of magazine, put up a photo of yourself that reminds you of your best self, or draw a funny stick figure. I know it sounds a little goofy, but just DO IT! You'll be glad.
4 and a Half. THRIVE ON SHIFT & CHANGE
The one big problem with goals is that they can easily be a setup for feeling like a failure. You dreamed big and wrote down fun, easy to remember goals, but if you don't see yourself achieving them you're more bummed than if you didn't set any goals at all!
My solution: We need to set goals and focus our efforts, but we also need not be rigidly attached to them. What I mean that as you're taking actions to fulfill your goals, be alert and open to what's happening in and around you. Be open to new, better ways to get from Point A to Point B. You may even realize in the process that the goal itself needs to be changed. If so, you're not a failure. The first goal was simply a way to get you to the new goal. You may not have realized that otherwise.
Author: HARNEET KAUR
1. KNOW WHAT GOALS STAND FOR: Go Out And Love Someone/Something!
That's right, LOVE!! Achieving stuff isn't worth your time and energy if you're not passionate about it. We desperately need to get excited again about our careers, our businesses, and our lives. If you're not, forget any other goals; they really don't matter. Figure out what it is that you really care enough about to get up in the morning.
2. DREAM BIG
Everyone I know, I mean EVERYONE I know, is turning one year older this year. So, I say dream BIG, allow yourself to imagine what you'd really like to be true about your life. Because one day time's up and you can't dream at all.
Why the heck not dream big? If not now, when? If not you, who? What other rhetorical question do you need? As women we constantly hear that small is beautiful. Forgetaboutit! BIG is BEST!
3. MAKE GOALS FUN & EASY TO REMEMBER
For example, if your goal is to "lose weight", phrase it another way that's positive, fun and memorable. Try "become a sultry goddess" or "be a calendar girl". How can you not grin when you say those words?! You're already getting your smile into shape!
Even business goals can be put into fun terms if you allow yourself to loosen up and play a little. One of my goals this year is to continue to expose even more women to the Bodacious Way. (Psst! You can help me by sharing this with a bodacious friend!} So, you know how I've phrased this goal? "More Cleavage!" Get it, more exposure. I laugh every time I say it! And, believe me, I'm not forgetting it!
4. WRITE ‘EM DOWN
Ok, you've heard this a bazillion times. The fact is when you write something down your brain registers it. To make goals stick even more I suggest that you ADD IMAGES to your words because that's what the brains remember even better. Cut a picture out of magazine, put up a photo of yourself that reminds you of your best self, or draw a funny stick figure. I know it sounds a little goofy, but just DO IT! You'll be glad.
4 and a Half. THRIVE ON SHIFT & CHANGE
The one big problem with goals is that they can easily be a setup for feeling like a failure. You dreamed big and wrote down fun, easy to remember goals, but if you don't see yourself achieving them you're more bummed than if you didn't set any goals at all!
My solution: We need to set goals and focus our efforts, but we also need not be rigidly attached to them. What I mean that as you're taking actions to fulfill your goals, be alert and open to what's happening in and around you. Be open to new, better ways to get from Point A to Point B. You may even realize in the process that the goal itself needs to be changed. If so, you're not a failure. The first goal was simply a way to get you to the new goal. You may not have realized that otherwise.
Author: HARNEET KAUR
