The Power of The Mind

             
  “The most powerful things in the world are the human mind,
                prayer, belief in yourself, and confidence.
   Always believe in yourself, and no matter who is around you
    that is being negative, or thrusting negative energy at you,
  totally block it off; because whatever you believe you become.”

         – Michael Jackson

The Miracle Brain System

As someone who has a keen interest in the personal development industry, I have seen my fair share of self help programs and books to know what does work and what does not. Sadly most that I have come across has always been lacking in some way or another. In fact, I have done reviews of such products, but I am rarely blown away by any of them.

Until now that is.

When I first heard about the Miracle Brain System, I scoffed. I wasn't convinced that it could set itself apart from everything else I had already seen. But with the 60 Day Triple Guarantee I thought  why not, I will not have anything to lose. If it was not up to par I could always ask for a refund before the 60 days was up.

So I gave the Miracle Brain System a chance. And I was glad that I did.

You might have come across books whose authors go into a long rhetoric of esoteric jargon, but you will be glad to know there is nothing of that in Miracle Brain System.

The Miracle Brain System is the quintessential program that anyone who is looking to change the way they live their lives should get. There is no complex jargon, no fancy language, just plain and simple advice and techniques that you need to incorporate into your life if you want to have a better quality of living.

Here is a review of the system:
Miracle Brain System consists of 18 detailed lessons explaining how you can take advantage of a thing called the "Miracle Mind Magic Stimulator" (which I think is just their way of referring to their proprietary mind power technique). Each lesson addresses different aspects of your life and various techniques on exactly how you should apply the "Miracle Mind Magic Stimulator" into your life.

You get techniques that enable you to use your mental power for leverage, help you overcome "confused thinking", give you powers over wealth, influence, health, and so much more. You'll even find tips on how you can use the "Miracle Mind Magic Stimulator" to dramatically enhance your sex life.

The one great thing about the Miracle Brain System is that it really does not leave any stone unturned. You get great techniques for practically anything you can think of under the sun, and you get it all in one comprehensive yet brain-dead simple resource that even a self help newbie can benefit from right away. The complementary workbook is a tremendous aid in keeping you on track and ensuring that you apply the techniques taught correctly.

The Miracle Brain System also includes additional bonuses, collectively called "The Success Compendium", which is basically a collection of Napoleon Hill's best works. Specifically, you're getting the all-time best seller Think And Grow Rich book and audio program, The Laws Of Success In 16 Lessons package, and Napoleon Hill's Success Philosophies audio program.

Now, a physical set consisting of several CDs and hardcover books will typically cost you a pretty penny, but this brilliant program is provided in pure digital format, so you get the convenience of portability (since you can download the book and audios into pretty much anything).

In fact, that is another thing I loved about the entire Miracle Brain System program. Everything is provided in an instantly downloadable format, so you do not have to wait (and pay for) shipping to get my hands on the product.

If you're looking for a self help product that works, the Miracle Brain System is definitely the one to get.

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Turn Attitude Into Action

One of the most important steps you can take toward achieving your greatest potential in life is to learn to monitor your attitude and its impact on your work performance, relationships and everyone around you.

 If you are going into a meeting or a seminar what attitude do you take into the meeting? In truth, people generally do not have a high level of attitude awareness. They will know if they are hungry or if their feet hurt, but they usually do not have a good handle on their attitude. That is a mistake because attitude is everything. It governs the way you perceive the world and the way the world perceives you.

We all have a choice. We can choose an inner dialogue of self-encouragement and self-motivation, or we can choose one of self-defeat and self-pity. It is a power we all have. Each of us encounters hard times, hurt feelings, heartache, and physical and emotional pain. The key is to realize it is not what happens to you that matters; it is how you choose to respond.

Your mind is a computer that can be programmed. You can choose whether the software installed is productive or unproductive. Your inner dialogue is the software that programs your attitude, which determines how you present yourself to the world around you. You have control over the programming. Whatever you put into it is reflected in what comes out.

Many of us have behavior patterns today that were programmed into our brains at a very tender age. The information that was recorded by our brains could have been completely inaccurate or cruel. The sad reality of life is that we will continue to hear negative information, but we do not have to program it into our brains.

The loudest and most influential voice you hear is your own inner voice, your selfcritic. It can work for or against you, depending on the messages you allow. It can be optimistic or pessimistic. It can wear you down or cheer you on. You control the sender and the receiver, but only if you consciously take responsibility for and control over your inner conversation.

Habitual bad attitudes are often the product of past experiences and events. Common causes include low self-esteem, stress, fear, resentment, anger and an inability to handle change. It takes serious work to examine the roots of a harmful attitude, but the rewards of ridding ourselves of this heavy baggage can last a lifetime.

Here are 10 strategies to improve your attitude:

1. Self-Coaching Through Affirmations Affirmations repeated several times each day, every day, serve to reprogram your subconscious with positive thinking. An affirmation is made up of words charged with power, conviction and faith. You send a positive response to your subconscious, which accepts whatever you tell it. When done properly, this triggers positive feelings that, in turn, drive action.

2. Self-Motivation Through Discovering Your Motives What motivates you to take action to change your life. Basic motives include love, self-preservation, anger, financial gain and fear. Self-motivation requires enthusiasm, a positive outlook, a positive physiology (walk faster, smile, sit up), and a belief in yourself and your God-given potential.

3. The Power of Visualisation Studies of the psychology of peak performance have found that most great athletes, surgeons, engineers and artists use affirmations and visualisations either consciously or subconsciously to enhance and focus their skills. Nelson Mandela has written extensively on how visualisation helped him maintain a positive attitude while being imprisoned for 27 years. “I thought continually of the day when I would walk free. I fantasised about what I would like to do,” he wrote in his autobiography. Visualisation works well to improve attitude.

4. Attitude Talk for Positive Internal Dialogue Attitude talk is a way to override your past negative programming by erasing or replacing it with a conscious, positive internal voice that helps you face new directions. Your internal conversation—that little voice you listen to all day long—acts like a seed in that it programs your brain and affects your behavior. Take a closer look at what you are saying to yourself.

5. The Power of Words—WOW Once released to the universe, our words cannot be taken back. Learn the concept of WOW—watch our words. What we speak reflects what is already in our hearts based upon all the things we have come to believe about ourselves. If we find ourselves speaking judgmental and disparaging things about our circumstances or those around us, we know the condition of our hearts needs to change. You can create a direct path to success by what you say. 

6. The Power in a Positive Greeting When people ask you how you are doing, say, “Super-fantastic.” Most people enjoy working and living with others who try to live life for what it is—a beautiful gift.

7. Enthusiasm: Vital Tool for Staying Motivated Enthusiasm is to attitude what breathing is to life. Enthusiasm enables you to apply your gifts more effectively. It’s the burning desire that communicates commitment, determination and spirit. Enthusiasm means putting yourself in motion. It is an internal spirit that speaks through your actions from your commitment and your belief in what you are doing. It is one of the most empowering and attractive characteristics you can have.

8. Connecting to Your Spiritual Empowerment The ultimate level of human need extends into the spiritual realm. Just as we feed our bodies in response to our primary need to survive physically, we need to feed our spirit because we are spiritual beings. Many people find powerful and positive motivation in their faith.

9. Lighten Up Your Life with Humor Humor is a powerful motivator. The more humor and laughter in your life, the less stress you will have, which means more positive energy to help you put your attitude into action. There are also health benefits to lightening up.

10. Exercising Will Help Keep You Motivated One of the best ways to move to a more positive and motivated frame of mind is to exercise. A regular exercise routine can provide relatively quick positive feedback in the form of weight loss, muscle development and a sense of doing something positive for yourself.

Copyright with thanks to Keith Harrell
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Gratitude - Live A Happier Life

In America, besides sharing time with family and friends over food, the primary ingredient of the Thanksgiving holiday is gratitude. While it’s certainly good to have an annual holiday to remind us to express gratitude, there’s much to be said for the benefits of cultivating the spirit of thankfulness year-round.

People who are thankful for what they have are better able to cope with stress, have more positive emotions, and are better able to reach their goals. Scientists have even noted that gratitude is associated with improved health.

Published in the Harvard Mental Health Letter,1 "expressing thanks may be one of the simplest ways to feel better:"

The word gratitude is derived from the Latin word gratia, which means grace, graciousness, or gratefulness (depending on the context). In some ways gratitude encompasses all of these meanings. Gratitude is a thankful appreciation for what an individual receives, whether tangible or intangible.

With gratitude, people acknowledge the goodness in their lives. In the process, people usually recognize that the source of that goodness lies at least partially outside themselves.

As a result, gratitude also helps people connect to something larger than themselves as individuals — whether to other people, nature, or a higher power.

...People feel and express gratitude in multiple ways. They can apply it to the past (retrieving positive memories and being thankful for elements of childhood or past blessings), the present (not taking good fortune for granted as it comes), and the future (maintaining a hopeful and optimistic attitude).

Regardless of the inherent or current level of someone's gratitude, it's a quality that individuals can successfully cultivate further."

The head of biologic psychology at Duke University Medical Center once stated that: "If [thankfulness] were a drug, it would be the world's best-selling product with a health maintenance indication for every major organ system."2

One way to harness the positive power of gratitude is to keep a gratitude journal or list, where you actively write down exactly what you're grateful for each day. In one study people who kept a gratitude journal reported exercising more, and they had fewer visits to the doctor compared to those who focused on sources of aggravation.

Studies have shown that gratitude can produce a number of measurable effects on a number of systems in your body.

Ways to Cultivate Gratitude

Cultivating a sense of gratitude will help you refocus your attention toward what's good and right in your life, rather than dwelling on the negatives and all the things you may feel are lacking.

And, like a muscle, this mental state can be strengthened with practice. Besides keeping a daily gratitude journal, other ways to cultivate a sense of gratitude include:

• Write thank you notes: Whether in response to a gift or kind act, or simply as a show of gratitude for someone being in your life, getting into the habit of writing thank-you letters can help you express gratitude in addition to simply feeling it inside.
• Count your blessings: Once a week, reflect on events for which you are grateful, and write them down. As you do, feel the sensations of happiness and thankfulness you felt at the time it happened, going over it again in your mind.
• Pray: Expressing thanks during your prayers is another way to cultivate gratitude.
• Mindfulness Meditation: Practicing "mindfulness" means that you're actively paying attention to the moment you're in right now. A mantra is sometimes used to help maintain focus, but you can also focus on something that you're grateful for, such as a pleasant smell, a cool breeze, or a lovely memory.

Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude

Three years ago, the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California  launched a project called "Cultivating Gratitude in a Consumerist Society." This project aims to:

• Expand the scientific database of gratitude, particularly in the key areas of human health, personal and relational well-being, and developmental science;
• Promote evidence-based practices of gratitude in medical, educational, and organisational settings and in schools, workplaces, homes and communities, and in so doing…
• Engage the public in a larger cultural conversation about the role of gratitude in civil society.

Previous research has shown that employees whose managers say "thank you" feel greater motivation at work, and work harder than peers who do not hear those "magic words. Being on the receiving end of a person's gratitude can boost a subjects' sense of self-worth and/or self-efficacy. It also appears to encourage participants to further help the person who offered the gratitude but also another, unrelated person in an unconscious 'pay it forward' kind of connection."

Cultivating an Attitude of Gratitude as Part of a Healthy Lifestyle

Starting each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for is one way to put your mind on the right track. Also, remember that your future depends largely on the thoughts you think today. So each moment of every day is an opportunity to turn your thinking around, thereby helping or hindering your ability to think and feel more positive in the very next moment.

Most experts agree that there are no shortcuts to happiness. Even generally happy people do not experience joy 24 hours a day. But a happy person can have a bad day and still find pleasure in the small things in life.

Be thankful for what you have. When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, remember the 1,000 reasons you have to smile. Face your past without regret; prepare for the future without fear; focus on what's good right now, in the present moment, and practice gratitude. Remember to say "thank you"—to yourself, the Universe, and others. It's wonderful to see a person smile, and even more wonderful knowing that you are the reason behind it! 

With thanks to Dr Mercola

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Be Humble Do Not Let Success Go To Your Head

These stories are all too common: After years of hard work pursuing the Dream, these self-motivated high achievers reach the pinnacle of success that is so richly deserved. And — you guessed it; they let success go to their head. Whatever happened to being humble?

These people think they are so special. They buy expensive “toys” to show how successful they have become, and they push aside colleagues who have helped them achieve success. They abandon the values and principles that have made them successful. And worse yet, because they are successful in one area of their life, they come to think they are experts in everything. Why? They are so enamored with their own PR that their ego hardly fits in the room. Unfortunately, a swollen ego can cut short the payoff that these people worked so hard to attain.

The simple truth is that not everyone treats success the same. Some people who achieve success remain humble, never forgetting who they are and where they came from. The others? Well, we can learn from their mistakes:

From Humble Beginnings

Success is temporary. Success is a journey, not a destination. When you become successful, do not rest on your laurels. As soon as you take your eye off the ball, you risk losing your edge.

Stop feeding your ego. Do not isolate yourself from reality by building relationships with people who stroke your ego. Surrounding yourself with “yes people” is just like talking to yourself.

Compete against yourself. When you compete against others, it is easy to emphasize winning over self-improvement. However, when you compete against yourself, you both win.

Even experts have room to learn. Never stop growing. Know your limitations and admit when you do not know something. It will help to keep you grounded.

Listen up. Discover what others have to offer and ask for their opinions before opening your mouth. It shows that you value their opinions as well as their insight.

No one is perfect. Do not let success go to your head. Be quick to apologise for your mistakes. You will never learn anything or impress anyone by making excuses and diverting blame. And a little humility will remind you that you are human.

Share your success. You may be successful, but there is a good chance others helped you along the way. Find creative ways to share the credit and pull people up the ladder of success along with you.

Remember your roots. Remember where you came from and what you have learned along the way. Help others by mentoring them.

Get off your high horse. Treat everyone with dignity and respect. You may be successful, but that does not make you better than anyone else.

Bragging is ugly. There is a difference between excitement and bragging. We know you are thrilled about your new “toy,” but others may be cutting back on their basic needs — be sensitive. As John Wooden said, “Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”

Trust me. Money and success cannot buy a person’s trust or guarantee a good reputation. You earn these through your words AND actions. There is nothing more valuable in life than integrity. Trust me.

In My Humble Opinion

Many of us come from humble beginnings. We make something of ourselves through pursuit of knowledge, integrity, hard work, and a bit of good fortune. Yes, people have every right to be proud of the success that they have earned. But that does not give them the right to be rude or disrespectful to others.

Some people get a big thrill from boasting about their accomplishments or showing off their possessions. They have convinced themselves that they are better than others. The fact is, some people let success go to their head, and they gain a weird satisfaction from pushing people around. That is wrong. On the other hand, just as it is disgusting for the “haves” to look down on others, it’s equally disdainful for “have-nots” to resent those who’ve worked hard and have rightfully earned their success.

The truth is, all the money in the world does not make you a better person. It simply means that you have more money. Real wealth is achieved by appreciating what you already have in life. After all, money cannot buy everything. It can not buy a close-knit family, good friends, a clear conscience, work-life balance, a happy home, a second chance in life, or good karma, among other things.

So, do not let success go to your head. Be humble. Humility is a sign of strength, not weakness. People with humility possess an inner peace. They are modest about their achievements, grounded in their values, and they have nothing to prove to others. They are down to earth, comfortable in their own skin, and quietly proud. Humble people shift their focus from taking to giving, from talking about themselves to listening to others, from hoarding the credit to deflecting the praise, and from being a “know-it-all” to knowing there’s so much more in life worth learning. There is no ego, no pretense, and certainly no gamesmanship. Humble people are authentic. As C.S. Lewis said, “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”

Copyright with thanks to Frank Sonnenburg

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