The statistics that 98% of all New Years Resolutions fail is nothing new or startling. I am sure we all know people, who have resolved after a heavy Christmas to do one of three things, give up smoking, give up alcohol and lose weight. How many people do you know that have undertaken these resolutions but by Easter they were back to their old ways. Well, if you are a believer of the statistics, 98% of them have failed by Easter, leaving just 2% continuing to succeed.
Which side of the fence do you sit on? The side of success or failure!
There are many reasons why people fail to succeed. In reality there are thirteen core reasons why people do not have the resolution to achieve success when it comes to their New Years resolutions. In the 1930's Napoleon Hill wrote a book called Think and Grow Rich, which focused on teaching the principles of success in business and making an obscene amount of money.
The interesting aspect of this book is that the principles or 13 secrets he teaches for being financially successful are the same ones that you must know to be successful in giving up smoking, alcohol or losing weight.
The four core principles we will focus on from Napoleon Hill's playbook of success are -
1. Desire
2. Faith
3. Autosuggestion
4. Persistence
Without these four core principles it will be virtually impossible to achieve success.
The first principle of Desire is really easy to understand. For you to lose your weight, you must have that over whelming Desire to lose weight, THAT BURNING PASSION OF DESIRE. In reality when most people make a New Years resolution they certainly have the DESIRE to want to complete their resolution, but after a number of months that DESIRE can wane.
Faith is the second important principle of Napoleon Hill's book Think and Grow Rich. To be successful at achieving your New Years resolution, you must have an unresolved faith that you will achieve your objective. For example if you want to lose 20 kilograms, you must in your mind, see that you are that weight. You must have an unmoveable faith that you will meet that weight objective. You must believe you are that weight.
The power of Autosuggestion is one that psychologist to this day; still do not have a total grasp on. Napoleon Hill defines autosuggestion as programming your mind to totally believe that you will achieve your objective. Programming you mind involves you knowing that you will succeed. Autosuggestion allows you to visualize your success, so each day you need to see in your mind, you not smoking, you at the weight you want to be or you not drinking. If your mind does not believe you are going to achieve success then how do you ever expect to achieve it.
In his book Think and Grow Rich, he provides a number of activities to help you in visualizing that success. The activities he requires you to do must be completed on a daily basis or you will never overcome the power of the negative mind.
The last principle we will focus on is Persistence. If you do not obsessively commit to your New Years resolution then of course you will fail. You must be obsessively persistent in achieving your New Years resolution, you must think about it and act on it every single day or you will never succeed. Once again Napoleon Hill in his book has practical exercises for you to do each day to help you maintain your persistence but ultimately it is up to you.
The bottom line is this, you will only achieve your New Years resolution when you truly commit to changing your life. There are in fact 13 principles you must follow to make this change but to get started you must master the four core principles of -
1. Desire
2. Faith
3. Autosuggestion
4. Persistence
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How Crystal Singing Bowls Work as Tools For Healing
Crystal singing bowls are one of the most powerful,
beautiful and easy to utilize healing tools available today.
They are made from 99% silica sand (quartz) and are
literally spun into being in a centrifugal mould which is
heated to 4000 degrees and an electric arc in the centre
fuses the individual grains into one whole. This is why the
inside of the bowls is smooth and the outside granular and
sparkly like tiny quartz grains. When they come out of the
mould they are then tuned. This is done through a process
similar to sanding down the bowl on the outside or by
trimming the bowls height until the required note is found.
The outside rim of the bowl is then played by pulling a
suede mallet or a beater with a large rubber ball on the end
around it which causes a friction and the sound is then
produced. Think of how a sound is produced when a wine
glass is rimmed with a wet finger. They may also be lightly
taped to create a more bell like ‘dong’.
Crystal singing bowls were originally a by product from the
computer industry, quartz can be heated to high temperatures
so quartz ‘crucibles’ were use to grow computer chips and
other components within them. I am not sure when crystal
bowls first came into being as healing tools but I have been
aware of them for about 15 years or so. Tibetan ‘7’ metal
bowls which work in a similar way have been in use for
centuries. More recently the quartz bowls have been infused
with other gemstones such as Ruby and Rose Quartz aswell as
precious metals such as gold and silver. Crystal bowls are
so powerful as they combine several healing modalities;
sound healing, crystal healing and healing through light
and colour. These properties can be further enhanced by the
power of focused intention.
Sound healing works on the principle that everything in our
universe is energy which has a vibration. Everything in
existence within the universe is in a vibrational state. The
frequency at which we normally vibrate is called resonance.
Certain sounds therefore will resonate with different organs
and parts of the body. Sound has been scientifically proven
to have an effect on our autonomic, immune & endocrine
systems as well as the neuropeptide transmitters in our
brain. Sound healing practitioners’ look at their clients
from this perspective and seek to balance their clients
‘dis-ease’ through correction of vibrational imbalances in
their energetic system i.e. their aura or electromagnetic
blueprint. When an organ in the body is not functioning at
its optimum its sound pattern will be off, yet by re
introducing the correct sound pattern this will help it to
heal and return to health through the law of resonance. This
law states that when one energetic system encounters
another, similar system, their vibrations must come into a
state of resonance or harmonic vibration.
It has also been documented how sound can effect matter. 80%
of our bodies are water and the effect that sound has on
water has been photographically demonstrated in Dr Masaru
Emotion’s book `The Hidden Messages in Water’. Different
sounds produced different types of geometric shapes within
frozen water. Playing ‘Mozart’ produced beautiful
symmetrical snowflake like crystals whilst discordant sound
had no clear structure. You can imagine then the power of
sound on the Water within our bodies! Dr Hans Jenny
demonstrated how matter responds to sound using Cymatics.
Cymatics is the use of ‘Pure Tone’ or ‘sine waves’ within
the audible spectrum to produce physical patterns on a
medium such as liquid or sand. A good example of this is how
the ‘Shri Yantra’ pattern is produced by the ‘Aum’ sound.
Crystal bowls are unique in sound healing as they produce
‘pure tones’ when played. When we produce a sound with our
voices or other instruments the note waivers and varies.
With crystal singing bowls the note does not waiver. This
produces a wave of energy known as a ‘sine’ wave that
spreads out for a kilometre from the bowl in all directions
and lasts for several minutes. Sine waves appear in nature
in ocean waves and light waves. At higher frequencies sound
converts into colour which is within the spectrum of light.
Sine waves have the same energetic pattern that occurs in
our brain in alpha state. In the alpha brain wave state
the brainwaves run at about 8 to 12 cycles per seconds or
hertz. This is a calm meditative state where the person is
still alert and the is more receptive to learning, focusing
and suggestion.
Crystal healing also works with vibration. Scientifically
Quartz crystals have been shown to have high piezoelectric &
pyroelectric properties. The piezoelectric effect is
produced when a quartz crystal is compressed, which causes
it to release a voltage of electricity and sometimes light.
With Crystal bowls this compression of the crystalline
structure occurs when the bowl is played. Pyroelectricy is
caused by variation in temperature of the crystal and causes
the energy within the crystal to expand when heated and
contract upon cooling. This cooling would then store the
energy within the crystalline structure. In my experience
the crystal bowl ‘warms up’ when played. Even very small
changes in temperature have been shown to produce this
pyroelectric effect. Quartz crystals have the ability to
take in energy, store it, redirect it and amplify it. Quartz
absorbs white light and therefore has every colour frequency
within it. Our bodies also contain silica and some of our
glands are said to oscillate like crystals. Glands like the
pineal gland are even crystalline in shape and structure as
are cells right down to the molecular level. So quartz
crystals will resonate with these structures. The bowls that
have other gemstones fused with them will also have the
metaphysical properties of that stone. Colour plays a part
in
this as does the individual mineral content of the stone.
For
example the gemstone turquoise is good for helping with
joint
pain and problems such as arthritis. Turquoise is a mineral
rich in copper; copper bracelets have been used for
centuries
to bring sufferers relief from these ailments, so the stone
will thus have a similar effect.
Crystal bowls work as a synergy between all of the above
mentioned modalities. As quartz has the ability to take in
energy and vibration and as our thoughts are waves of energy
or vibration the bowls will absorb these ‘thought
vibrations’ and amplify them. Carlos Castaneda said there's
an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamans called
"intent" and absolutely everything that exists in the entire
cosmos is connected to it. When we focus our thoughts with
laser like clarity and precision we are connecting to the
vibration of that which we seek to manifest. Quartz bowls
will hone our thoughts and make them clearer. Through the
law of attraction these clear thoughts then magnetize those
things to us. The film ‘The Secret’ clearly documents how
and why positive, clear thought brings those things that we
focus on into being. It also demonstrates how we create our
reality by our thoughts and the vibration that they and we
as individuals hold. Positive thought has been shown to
produce positive changes in out physiology. Therefore the
more we ‘intend’ and believe the crystal singing bowls will
effect those and others the more they will.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ursula Avins of Aphrodite's Rocks has been involved with
using crystal singing bowls aswell as gemstones for
healing for 14 years. She runs http://www.mindbodysoul.ws
where various bowls can be viewed and purchased.
Pump up your Self-esteem, it’s Easy.
The way you feel about yourself, your self-esteem, drives your thoughts. These thoughts transform into actions. The actions that you take are the key factors in getting what you want out of life. If you are not achieving your goals, take some time and evaluate how you feel about yourself.
Achieving your goals takes repeated action and you can't give up too early. High self-esteem can give you the drive, determination, and personal power necessary to take these actions and be persistent until you achieve success.
However, if you are constantly critical of yourself, then these feelings will lower your self-esteem. If you have low self-esteem, then it will be more difficult to take the right actions to enable you to achieve your goals. This link between thoughts and actions is what keeps you from getting started or what causes you to give up.
So what can you do to conquer self-doubt and energize your actions? It all starts with positive thinking. Start off by spending some time congratulating yourself for what you have already accomplished in life.
Everyone has had his or her share of wins. Make a list of these accomplishments and what actions you took to make them happen. Think about the obstacles that you overcame or what special actions you took to reach each goal. This is a great way to acknowledge your successes and give your self-confidence a boost. Your list of wins will be the foundation that you build on for your future successes.
Remember that there is a link between thoughts and actions. It's time to take control of your thoughts. Whenever you start having doubts, pull out your list.
Negative thoughts are the greatest dream killer known to man! Telling yourself "I can't" will lower your self-esteem, reduce the effectiveness of any actions that you take, and prevent you from achieving your goals. Your list of wins is something that can reassure you whenever negative thinking tries to take over your mind.
Instead, tell yourself "I can". Positive thoughts bring confidence, optimism, and focused action, which give you a much better chance of achieving your goals. "I can" is a great way to plant seeds in your mind for positive thoughts. The resulting high self-esteem will provide the extra edge that you need to drive away your fears and eliminate any doubt that keeps you from accomplishing your goals.
