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Stress & Personal Development: When Navel-Gazing turns Nasty!
Posted by pintpuller in Personal development on December 7, 2009
Generally speaking, the more we develop ourselves personally, the lower our long-term stress levels. After all, discovering our life purpose helps avoid the stress of pointlessness. Developing better communication skills avoids many relationship problems. Improving time management helps avoid feeling overcommitted in day-to-day work. On the surface, stress management and personal development seem to fit together perfectly.
There are times, however, when personal development itself can get a little out of control – when it starts adding to your stress, rather than helping manage it. When that happens, you can start to find yourself showing more of the signs of stress (for more information on these, ask for a copy of our free stress audit questionnaire), instead of less.
So should we totally avoid personal development altogether if we want to keep a handle on stress? Not necessarily, but we may need to look at what development we’re doing and how it’s affecting our stress levels.
SO HOW CAN PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT INCREASE STRESS?
All personal development involves change on some level, and change is a major source of stress for many people. This means that, even if you’re trying to improve something that will eventually lower your stress level (e.g. time management or communication skills), it can sometimes act as a short-term.
There are four main reasons for personal development work causing, rather than curing stress:
- Too Many Areas
- Lack of Balance
- Unrealistic Expectations
- Going it Alone
TOO MANY AREAS
Personal development can be addictive – who wouldn’t want to be the best person they can in every area of their lives? With so many areas we could work on, we often try to improve in multiple areas at once. For some people, this isn’t an issue. For others, however, the old adage “chase two rabbits, catch neither” applies.
If you’re working on improving two or more areas of your life and your stress levels rise, consider asking yourself, “Which area is most important right now?”, or, “Which area would improving make the most difference for me right now?” and then focussing on that area. Everything else will still be there waiting for you when you’re finished with the first one!
LACK OF OVERALL BALANCE
Personal development takes commitment and willingness to act. Sometimes, however, we exaggerate the importance of a particular improvement to the point that nothing else matters, and other areas get neglected. For example, if you want to develop spiritually, you need to take time out to do this. If you start ignoring friends or work demands so you can meditate to for hours each day, it may start causing stress.
Note that you’re the only one who can say what the right balance of “personal development time”. Some people might want to take weeks, months, or years out from the world for self-improvement. Most of us, however, want to integrate our development with our current lifestyles. If that’s the case for you, examine how much time you spend on personal development, and consider cutting back if appropriate.
UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
It can be hard to create a mental image of how we want to be, then acknowledge how far we are from it now without blaming or getting angry with ourselves. In the same vein, once we have that clear image, it’s easy to believe that we’ll suddenly be able to act in accordance with it. If only it were that easy!
In reality, that habits take time to change, new skills take practice to implement, and little that happens overnight will last. If you’re frustrated because you’re not seeing progress (or not seeing it fast enough), remember self-improvement is a little like building a house. The first part of the work always happens beneath ground level – digging and then laying foundations. On the surface, it would seem absolutely nothing was happening. Yet if those foundations aren’t laid properly, the house itself will collapse. Personal development can be a lot like that.
If you’re frustrated by an apparent lack of progress, take a step back and ask yourself how realistic your expectations are. Talk to others who’ve made the same change – how long did it take them? What stages did they go through? While everyone’s journey is unique, you may find that hearing from others helps put things into perspective for you.
DOING IT ALL ON YOUR OWN
Of course, personal development is personal – no-one can do it for you. But you don’t need to deal with it alone. There’s enough support out there – in the form of communities, mailing lists, forums, and trained experts – that no-one should feel alone. Type “personal development” or “self improvement” into your search engine of choice and see what comes up. Alternatively, consider consulting a stress management coach.
Think Big – the Personal Development Way to Goal Achievement
Posted by pintpuller in Personal development on December 5, 2009
Have you ever tried to achieve goals in the past and failed? If you have then I am betting you have fallen into one or both of the pitfalls that I am going to show you how to avoid!
There is one simple personal development technique that can keep you motivated and ensure that you will keep moving forward toward you goal. Let me share it with you.
Do you recall when you were a child and had all the wonderment that only a child has? Do you remember any of your replies when adults asked you, as a child, what you wanted to be when you grew up? If you were like most people your answers would have changed from week to week depending on what interested you at that particular time. Never once did it enter your head that you could not be what you wanted. You held the strong conviction that anything was possible. You had the belief that you could be, do or have anything you wanted.
When you grew from childhood to adulthood these positive beliefs were replaced by limiting beliefs as you listened to other people around you. You have allowed your mind to become conditioned with negative beliefs. You have been brain-washed into believing that you cannot achieve your dreams because it is just not possible to do it. This mindset leads to the biggest pitfalls of setting and achieving goals – procrastination and giving-up!
When you were a child you were not afraid to dream big dreams. You gave no thought to how you were going to be an astronaut or how you could possibly learn to fly a multi-million dollar fighter jet – you just knew you could do it and knew it was going to happen! You were not afraid to think big. As you grew older and the world grew smaller for you, your view of your position in life and what was possible for you grew smaller also. Your dreams and aspirations became subdued to practicalities and what you believed was possible for you.
Now that you have reached adulthood you have bought into all the negative programming offered by others, the media and the education system and also formed some damaging negative views of your own based on some negative life experiences that you now think are common place. You have forgotten that you have the capability of thinking big.
Back in ancient times when Rome and Carthage were the two strongest powers in the world a Carthaginian leader called Hannibal told his generals he wanted to take his army and 80 elephants across the Alps to fight the Romans in their own terrority. His generals told him there was no way this could be done as in many places along the route even a solitary man would find it difficult to pass. Hannibal responded confidently, “We will find a way or we will make one!”. Hannibal’s response was swift and to the point, “We will find a way, or we will make one!”
Hannibal had a big dream. He wanted to defeat Rome and make his city of Carthage the strongest and only super-power of the ancient world. He had a big goal and a big dream. He wasn’t about to let some mountains stop him!
In order to achieve your goals you must re-learn to think big!
Having a big dream that offers big rewards and life changing results when it is achieved is the only way to stay motivated enough to tackle any challenge or obstacle that stands in your way. When you have a big dream that offers you big pay-offs you will be much less likely to allow fear to get in your way and thus you will develop persistence.
There is no such things as failure only giving-up. All you can gain is experience. When he was asked what it felt like to fail 9,999 times when trying to invent the electric light-bulb Edison replied,” I haven’t failed 9,999 times. I have just found 9,999 ways that don’t work!”
Stop setting your goals based on practicality or what you think is expected of you. Dream big! With a big dream you will take big action and you will experience big results!
The Personal Development Key That Brings Success
Posted by pintpuller in Personal development on November 30, 2009
Embarking on a personal development or self improvement program can be exciting and rewarding. However, many people try many different personal growth methods in an attempt to improve their life and although they gain much from their efforts they fail to reach their life goals. Self improvement and personal development can create disillusioned seekers or self improvement junkies (seeking that one program that will do it all) because they fail to deliver fully on their promises.
Have you recieved the results that you were promised from the personal development tool syou used.? Did you get the full benefit of the self improvement programs you diligently followed? If not take heart for I am going to share with you the reasons why and the solutions!
The great majority of personal development programs, CDs, techniques, books and seminars teach very valuable and life changing information. The methods they promote do work. It is unfortunate though that they are missing a very vital and essential truth. It is this missing information that is the key to achieving unparalleled success with these programs. This key is not only the launching pad for success and a guaranteed method which will allow you to gain anything you desire if it is put into practise but it is also the reason behind your failure because you have not known nor applied it before now!
Have you ever noticed that there are certain things in your life that seem to be on auto-repeat? You keep getting jobs that are unsatisfactory; have bad bosses; irritating co-workers; financial problems; painful relationships, etc?
Have you tried hard to change certain situations in your life just to have the same outcome every time no matter what actions you take?
The reason behind this phenomenon lies in your mind.
Anyone who has studied self improvement or personal development and even those of you who have merely touched on the subject will know that everything begins in the mind. Without the right mental attitude you can achieve nothing worthwhile in life. Nothing of major importance has ever been achieved without the achiever having had a clear mental image of the outcome already in mind before success ever came. This is where many people go wrong. They think that if they create a positive mental picture of what they want and then take actions to get it, everything will fall into place easily – they are missing the key!
The only reason people fail to achieve their goals is because of negative mental beliefs. Most times these beliefs are hidden deep in the subconscious mind. In order to achieve the success you desire it is necessary to evaluate your belief system; resurface these beliefs and then eliminate them!
By holding a strong image in your mind of what you want and backing that image with clear and purposeful action you begin to set in motion some very powerful universal forces that work to aid you in making that mental image solid in the real world. However, many times these mental images are hindered by the negative beliefs that you hold which are contrary to what you actually want. These beliefs are always active and running like computer programs in your subconscious mind ‘ sending out the opposite mental images to that of your desire.
It is imperative to your success to find and eliminate these negative programs. This is the whole point of personal development.
There are many great methods for eliminating negative programming. However, I have found that the hardest thing to do is not removing these negative beliefs but finding them in the first place. So this should be your first goal ‘ to seek out your negative programming. Before beginning this bare in mind that it doesn’t matter how you got these beliefs, or who gave them to you. All you want to do is find them and remove them. Leave blame out of it!
Begin by creating a goal. Write it down as though it has already happened. Read this statement aloud and then close your eyes. Create as much positive emotion around this mental picture as you can. Now just enjoy this imaginary scene until you begin to have doubts that it is real. Take a blank piece of paper and on it begin to scribble down all the negative thoughts that enter your head. Don’t judge them, suppress them or get annoyed at them, just let them flow.
Now once you have a list of all the negative thoughts connected to your goal you can begin to remove them.
Look over your list and analyse all the statements you produced. Really think about them. Are they true? Is there any basis for them? Evaluate each one in turn and think of ways to overcome each belief. There are hundreds of great self improvement tools designed to help you do this but here is a simple one to get you started.
Take one negative statement and think about what that means to you. Identify the underlying belief behind that thought. Is it a lack of self-worth, low self-confidence, insecurity, feeling not-good-enough or just a lame belief you picked-up from someone else that you have never given any real thought to?
Challenge the belief. Ask yourself questions every time you recall that belief. Question the authenticity of the belief. Identify the emotion that you feel when you think about that belief. Allow that feeling to fully surface. When you allow this to happen you will find that the negative emotions you are feeling get very strong just before they leave. When you allow the negative emotion, which is driving the negative belief, to fully express itself and dissipate you will find yourself much more positive and without the negative thoughts you had previously.
So everyday speak aloud your goal statement in the morning and visualize it as being reality. Evoke strong positive emotion around this image. Then, at night, repeat this procedure but use a blank piece of paper and write down all the negative thoughts that surface. Then take each one in turn and give it some real thought. Feel the negative emotions related to it and allow them to surface fully ‘ do not try to suppress them. Then allow them to fully express themselves in your mind and body and they will dissipate. This can be hard to do as we have been taught to suppress our emotions and have probably been doing it for many years. When you begin to feel the emotions getting stronger you will have a strong urge to suppress them but don’t! When the negative emotions behind your beliefs are allowed to fully surface and express themselves they naturally dissipate. As they dissipate so do the thoughts and beliefs behind them.
You will find that you become much more positive in a very short time and find it much easier to achieve your goals.
Be Grateful for Things you Have and Develop Happiness
Posted by pintpuller in Personal development on October 5, 2009
There are 3 basic element to change your life, you need to ask, believe and receive the new life, you also need to live your new life, just don’t imagine it but really believe and feel that your life has changed, you should set specific goals, create plans, but the most important is to always stay positive and be grateful for the things you have. This science proves beyond any doubt that what the success scientists of the 20th century were teaching us is absolutely true. These experts coach and educate those who want to become a success in life and those who want to become a success in business.
When you create your life’s new plan remember it is a journey and you need to act like you are living this journey using your thoughts and imagination, and see the vision as if you are there in this new life. To stop the negativity you need to think of something positive quickly, think of a pet, listen to music, start thinking of the opposite of the negative thought.
When planning a personal development plan you need to alter your life style and career path. Defining a personal development plan would mean altering the career path life cycle. If you develop a personal plan and believe in it, and practice this and see yourself in this new plan it will be only a matter of time before in comes in reality. will be only a matter a time. A good plan will also act as a performance assessment tool and a blueprint of all your day-to-day operations.
The personal development plan will only work if you truly are motivated and believe in this new life. Without the unpredictable variable such as luck, coincidence and the like, to rely on an emotional impulse such as motivation to drive us forward is like waiting for food to appear in your cupboards without going to the store to buy it. And the most convenient source of motivation comes from these books and seminars.
The problem is 99 percent of success psychology can’t provide the guarantee that 95 percent of the population needs in order to be convinced it works. These experts coach and educate those who want to become a success in life and those who want to become a success in business.
Everybody has one or another personal aspect to improve and better and hence a personal development coaching business could be a good idea as not only will you be making money, you will be helping so many individuals develop and improve their skills.
There are lots of self declared gurus on the internet as well as in the book stores who want you to follow such rigid routines and they are not actually interested in helping you but want you to continue following them so that you become dependent on them and thus, be able to use you as a predictable source of income. Oh sure, I liked to believe that I was in control of myself, but why then was I not able to motivate myself if I did indeed have so much control. The speaker is able to tap into your emotions.
You get so caught up in “what if” that you end up not doing anything. Furthermore, they have the nerve to complain and cry about it when they are doing nothing to try to better their situation.
Personal Development – Break Through Barriers and Achieve the Impossible
Posted by pintpuller in Personal development on October 3, 2009
Grow revenues, increase profits, develop more products, improve customer service, reduce costs, increase prices…and you must work on all these items in your business at the same time. Do any of these items bear resemblance to your 2008 goals?
The first quarter of the year is ending, and now is a good time to reflect on the progress you have made toward reaching your business (or personal) goals.
Right now, do they seem impossible to reach; are you losing your grasp on them? How about considering a new approach to your goal planning?
I have found over the years that many people don’t like planning. They don’t even like mention of the word! Planning means work; hard work. People mean well, but it’s so easy to get distracted by the daily challenges of our work and home lives.
Maybe there’s something deeper at work if you haven’t made satisfactory progress toward reaching your goals. Could it be that your goals aren’t exciting to you? Maybe they’re too abstract, or perhaps you’re not the type of person that’s passionate about “profits”, etc. You might even harbor self-beliefs that it’s impossible to achieve your goals.
Most goal planning programs suggest you set a probable goal with interim milestones to keep track of your performance (think monthly or quarterly). Even though I emphatically condone this method of achieving outcomes, I want you to stretch yourself and think about accomplishing something that you currently think is impossible. Is that exciting to you? Does it make your heart race? Good!
Now, I’m not talking about doing something humanly impossible, like flying off a building with mechanical wings. What I am asking you to do is look at areas in your life where you’ve become resigned that your ideal desired outcome or “way of being” is impossible. These places could be your business, your job, or even personal issues. You might think the task is physically or mentally impossible for you to achieve, you’ve made up your mind this just can’t be done (by me)! Examples of such things are:
1. Double your sales or income this year.
2. Lose 20 pounds
3. Go on a 4-week vacation
Before you can achieve the seemingly impossible, you must break through the barriers of resistance that tell you can’t achieve something. This powerful “shadow belief” is sabotaging your ability to successfully achieve your goals. So, let’s eradicate them!
To break through the barriers of resistance you are feeling, you first have to do some simple research about what you want in your life, in a business or personal sense. Ask yourself the following questions:
1. “If I had more time, I’d…”
2. “If I could I’d…”
Finishing those statements gives some substance to things you want to accomplish, but may seem impossible because of current circumstances in your life. The actual activity on the surface may not seem impossible, but, if I asked you about making plans to do them, you’d stammer something like, “There’s no way I could do that!” But, other people do these things, right? Somehow, they accomplished the same things you desire, and I bet you’ll agree with me it probably wasn’t simple or easy for them. Undoubtedly, they first had to have a vision of what they wanted their life to look like, and they had to overcome the internal barriers holding them back.
ACTION POINT
Describe your ideal vision about what you want your business or personal life to look like in the next year, how you want to “be”. Describe it in as many ways as you can see it. What changes will you see in your life when you accomplish your vision?
This is a great first step to take, because it helps you become aware of what you want. It’s almost impossible to achieve your dreams and visions if you haven’t articulated them clearly in your mind. By creating a clear vision of what you want, even if you think it is impossible right now, helps to set you on a path toward accomplishment. Why? Because half the battle is breaking through the resistance, you may currently feel about the impossibility of your goal and vision.
Even if you don’t achieve your goals exactly as you defined them in the next year, by playing the game with passion, and a desire to win, you’ll certainly make progress toward achieving your dreams. After all, a championship tennis player doesn’t know if he will win every major tournament. But, like any champion, when they lose a game, they continue to play and reap the rewards.
What do you think is impossible? Go for that in 2008.
Copyright 2008 Bonita L. Richter. All rights reserved.
Personal Development and Pma
Posted by pintpuller in Personal development on September 25, 2009
The life you have now is in direct proprtion to your attitude towrds your life, yourself and others. Attitude is everything. People with an exteremly negative outlook on life tend to live lives that are dissatisfactory and unhappy. People who complain and moan about things in their life tend to attract more things to moan about!
If you have a recurring problem in your life you should take a very close look at your attitude towards it. Do you complain about it? Do you resign yourself to it? Do you EXPECT it to keep occurring? The following personal development technique can help.
Take a close look at the things in your life that are not working. Are these not the very things that you complain about? Are these not the things that you expect to be not working. When you focus on the problem and direct your mental efforts towards it you are in fact re-creating the problem and maybe even creating more problems. Without even going into the universal law of attraction, from a very practical viewpoint you are projecting to others what you expect from them and life. People tend to respond to this, albeit unconsciously, and give you what you expect!
Asking yourself appropriate questions is the fastest and easiest way to completely transform your life and attitude. When you encounter a recurring problem you will find that you make statements such as “not again!”, or “this always happens to me”, or “I just knew that would happen!” You also find that the questions you ask yourself also reflect the problem itself and not the solution. You may ask questions such as “why does this always happen to me”, “when is this going to stop happening”, or “how long do I need to keep going through this”, or “why can’t I get past this”, or “why can’t I find a decent partner (job, home, career etc.).
These questions focus your mind on the problem and your mind is forced to answer the questions in a negative way. You may then have thoughts such as “because it’s my bad luck”, then your mind goes into a spin and recalls all the bad luck you have had. You may answer “there are no good men/women left” so your mind goes into a spin recalling just how many good people are married and how many “bad” people are left. The subconcious part of your mind then looks for things that will reinforce your beliefs and statements. When it finds them, which it always does, it immediately alerts your conscious thinking mind to them.
The key to reversing this downward negative cycle lies in the way you speak to yourself and others. Turn your outlook on its head by creating statements that are more positive about the situation. Don’t make statements that reinforce the situation as it is but make them so they reflect how you would like it to be or that it is changing in that direction. Tell yourself “things are getting better” no matter how unrealistic this seems at first just keep telling yourself this. Instead of saying things such as “this always happens to me”, or “I just knew that would happen!” tell yourself “everything happens for a reason” or “I will learn from this and move forward”.
Do not say things like “this will never happen again” or “I am through with this problem” because you are still focused on the problem! Keep your focus always on the solution!
Ask yourself questions in a positive way that supports the outcome you want and not the problem itself. This is a very powerful yet extremely easy thing to do that will dramatically transform your attitude and your life!
Try asking positive questions that require a constrctive positive answer such as “do I need to learn something from this experience and if so what is it?”, or “what is the very best way for me to overcome this and create the results that I want to experience?”, or “where should I look and what should I do to attract the right partner for me?”
Asking yourself the right questions will change how you view the situation and force your mind to search for answers. If your subconscious mind finds that it cannot supply you with the correct answers then it will diligently and tirelessly look for those answers through your life experiences, people you meet and siruations you encounter until it can answer what has been asked of it. Making statements that things are getting better forces the subconscious to look for things that reinforce that belief and alert you to them.
Believe it or not this approach will alter your entire perception of the world and your role in it. Before long you will find yourself becoming a much more positive person. You will gain insight into situations that in the past where perplexing and a constant irritation.
Try it and see!
NLP A Personal Development Tool
Posted by pintpuller in Personal development on September 24, 2009
Like many personal development innovations, NLP – which stands for neuro-linguistic programming – is a product of the 1970’s when the idea of cognitive patterns creating a subjective form of reality that by virtue of its ability to be manipulated, could be slated into personal development tools.
The goal is to align perceptions – usually of the individual self – with desired outcomes, such as behavioral changes. A large number of proponents of NLP have come forward with an array of techniques and theories which all sought to put this new tool into the proper service of the individual desiring a shift in personal self image and a boost to personal
development.
Of course, no theory will remain unchallenged for long and soon an equally dedicated number of opponents to this new tool were quite vociferous in their allegations that NLP was an unworkable concept that oversimplified rather complex processes within the human mind.
Whatever the case may be, NLP is here to stay. Noted motivational speakers, such as Tony Robbins, have subscribed to the tenets of NLP and thus introduced them to the eager mainstream.
People visiting these seminars or purchasing the materials being sold there are always on the lookout for working concepts, and it seems that NLP fits the bill.
Just like many other innovative ideas in the field of personal development, this one – too – was soon embraced and taken further by many noted authorities in the field who found many new approaches to the subject.
Of course, the application of NLP principles is a highly subjective field of study and application, and it has often been shown that what will work for one person may not actually have any results – beneficial or otherwise – for another.
Thus, many critics have chalked up this tool to the New Age craze of the 1970s, while others have instead opted to integrate its precepts and techniques into their self-help curricula and publications.
The goal for many a person using the tools and techniques is to overcome performance diminishing aspects of their own characters, such as fear of failure, fear of speaking before groups, or simply a lack of self esteem.
All these are viewed as being in direct opposition to the character traits that must be possessed by someone who will succeed in business, and anything that will help a person to get rid of these performance busters is considered well worth its cost.
If you take the time to visit the self help section of any bookstore, or if you simply veer off and visit the professional development section, you will find copious books that employ NLP techniques and tools in order to help the interested reader to overcome a large number of issues themselves, without the need for professional intervention.
Who knows, it might be well worth your time to take a closer look!
How to Realize Personal Development Goals
Posted by pintpuller in Personal development on September 11, 2009
Personal development goals are designed to facilitate the desired changes or improvement in one’s life. Like any other goals, it is important that you continually aspire for change within one’s self while also aiming to achieve whatever it is you need to accomplish. However, it will require time, discipline, and effort on your part in order to realize your personal development goals.
Setting Personal Goals
Properly setting your personal development goals require a lot of discipline. Since it can be compared to making a personal commitment, it is easy to be negligent and fail to fulfill that promise to yourself. Your goals can be as simple as waking up early for work, or as complex as earning a promotion. Hence, you have to create a mindset that will enable you to understand the importance of your goal and what you need to achieve it.
Here are some questions you can ask yourself for better understanding of your personal goals:
-Will the achievement of this goal affect my life?
-What do I need to achieve it?
-Is there anything that can block my progress?
-What knowledge or information will help further my goals?
Improve Your Mental Attitudes
Most grown ups today no longer believe in dreams or setting goals. They like to believe that ambitions or dreams are only for kids who do not have a clear grasp of how the “real world” functions. Once exposed to the harsh realities of life, most people are reduced merely to settling down and having a job to pay for your sustenance.
Hence, it is important that you remove these conditioned attitudes or perceptions. Instead of focusing on the negatives, create a positive stamp into your goals. When you possess a negative attitude towards your goal, it is useless. Once you have gotten rid of all these negative emotional patterns, it is easy to focus on working towards your goal. Furthermore, it relieves yourself from the stress that you often encounter in your day-to-day lives.
Staying positive will help your progress in your personal development goals since it creates a healthier condition of mind and body. After all, your attitudes and mental state affect your actions. So, when you have a healthier state of mind, you can be more productive in whatever you aspire to achieve.
Steps To Succeeding In Your Goals
Your mind is a very powerful tool. With a right mindset, you are able to accomplish whatever it is you have envisioned for yourself. Here are steps that will bring you closer to the desired outcome:
1. Constantly think of the outcome.
This is only to be able to keep your focus on what your goal is. However, you should not focus on it too much to a point that you fail to consider the steps you need to take to get to where you want to be. Instead, it will only serve as your motivation.
2. Make the goal yours.
When you believe in your goal, you will be able to disregard all the negative thoughts that hinder your success. As you do this, keep going forward until you have realized the goal.
3. Develop abilities.
There are two factors involved in your quest for personal development goals: the goal and yourself. While keeping your focus on the goal, never forget about the more essential factor, which is yourself. As you continue to motivate yourself towards the desired outcome, work on improving your ability since it is the main tool that will ensure success.
Learn to recognize the essential factors when accomplishing personal development goals because this will serve as blueprint to your success.
The Science of Personal Development and Religious Cencepts
Posted by pintpuller in Personal development on September 11, 2009
Personal development has moved forward in the last few decades. In past times we looked to our religions to give us spiritual insights. Not long ago we placed our gaze on science for the answers. However, in the last few decades many of us have started to look within for the answers and personal development seemed like the best starting point.
Personal development has, in the past, been a luxury pursuit of the rich, famous or dedicated seeker. However, as we find ourselves firmly planted in the 21st Century personal development is becoming more of a necessity than a luxury.
The term Personal Development has historically been a lose term used to describe the development of yourself in some area or field of expertise. However, in this day and age, it really refers to creating the type of self improvement at a mental, emotional and spiritual level that can create real positive physical changes in character and life experience.
As the fear-mongers and financial elite continually drive home the concept that we are entering the worst recession in a hundred years it is now more than ever that we need to launch ourselves on the personal development trail. It is your responsibility to rise above the controlled collective consciousness of lack and embrace the truth that we are all connected and have access to unlimited supplies of everything!
Quantum physics is continually pushing past the old boundaries imposed by outdated science and showing us the way. It is being shown that the quantum world is composed of just one enegery field. Quantum physics is discovering, through scientific experimentation, that this field exists and is the building block from which everything in existence is made.
How does this discovery connect to personal development?
Well religious, metaphysical and esoteric texts have always told us that we are all connected and that there is only one God who is spiritual in nature. We have been told that we are given dominion over life itself. Jesus told us that we are the temple of the living God. Buddha became conscious of his connection with God. We are told that God is spirit and permeates all things. Now if there is only one God and he is spirit and he resides within each one of us, and everything else, it stands to reason that there is only one true consciousness – God!
Personal growth and self improvement begins with the premise that we are all connected within one mass of vibrating energy. Most self Improvement tools begin with this premise and mould their approaches around it. However, we always remain a part of the whole and cannot escape that, no matter how hard we try.
Science is now confirming that all these beliefs are true. Quantum theory postulates that this energy field, or divine matrix, is the starting point of all matter. In fact matter, or material objects, are just small packets of energy, within this one energy field, that group together to form things!
There is growing evidence to suggest that this one field of energy is electromagnetic in nature. This means the very fabric of material objects are electromagnetic in nature. It is also being shown that our thoughts are composed of the exact same electromagnetic properties as the very energy field in which we live, move and have our being!
Electromagnetic properities are similar to other forms of magnetism – magnetic! Therefore, if your thoughts are magnetised to this matrix of energy, which is the fabric of reality as we know it, and physical objects are part of this matrix then you can use your thoughts to attract things! Thoughts become things!
It is the aim of personal development to allow you to use this knowledge to change your life by giving you practical tools for achieving your goals. The reason why it is so hard for most of us to grasp this concept, never mind use it to our advantage, lies in the fact that most of our life experiences and material objects are created and attracted to us by our subconscious thoughts. It is the automatic thoughts you think that are responsible for creating your life! Most of these thoughts are negative in nature.
To truly elevate yourself above the collective consciousness and become the master of your own life you must fully embrace this axiom. It is necessary to find and then eliminate the negative thoughts and beliefs you hold that have held you back from achieving your dreams. Personal development is just a tool to achieve this. Use it to alter your automatic thinking. Then you will be free to consciously think yourself into any life you desire!