Posts Tagged ‘meditation’

What separates the top income earners from the rest?

Listed are 3 distinctions that you must have in order to be capable of achieving high financial success.

1. Attitude: It all starts with your thoughts.  If you continually have thoughts of lack and scarcity then that’s all you will continue to receive.  Your thoughts lead to having the right attitude.  An attitude of abundance and that there’s plenty to go around is the universal truth.  However, that’s not all, you also must understand that you are worthy of attracting money and that it provides the ability to do good in the world.  (more…)

How powerful is the magic of believing? Before 1954, no one had run a four-minute mile. Roger Bannister changed all that with his thinking, first and foremost. He said, “Fueled by my faith in my training, I will overcome all obstacles. I am brave! I am not afraid to face anyone on the track. I believe this is not a dream. It is my reality.”

What’s strange is that his record was broken 46 days later, and within two years, nine sub-four-minute miles gained the same fame. It seems astounding that we could go through history without ever cracking the mile in four minutes and then all of a sudden 9 athletes succeed at it within two years of Bannister’s record-breaking time. How on earth could that be? (more…)

Mediation has enormous benefits.  Studies of meditation have proven to greatly reduce stress, improve health as well as control negative thoughts.

In a report by “Psychology Today“  Neuroscientists have found that meditators shift their brain activity to different areas of the cortex-brain waves in the stress-prone right frontal cortex move to the calmer left frontal cortex. In other words, they were calmer and happier than before.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, recorded the brain waves of stressed-out employees of a high-tech firm in Madison, Wisconsin. The subjects were split randomly into two groups, 25 people were asked to learn meditation over eight weeks, and the remaining 16 were left alone as a control group. (more…)

We live in a society marked by the noxious effects of pollution - of the air we breathe, the lakes and rivers we swim in, our very soil… And let’s not forget that constant barrage of sounds around us: intermittent, constant, ultra-loud, etc. Our environment is getting increasingly noisier by the day, to the point where some are willing to actually pay for quietness.

Do you ever feel you just want a break from all the ambient noise around you - phones ringing you up at work and home, on your cell, people chatter, traffic rushing by your home? How is all this noise affecting you? (more…)