DESIRE AND BELIEF

Author: Desire and Belief

  • The Great Little Book Of Afformations Review

    I know I have written about Noah St. John before and about his Book “The Great Little Book of Afformations.”  However, I don’t believe I have given the book a formal review.  The book has impacted my life so much I decided a review is in order.

    As I have written before I was first introduced to Noah St. John through his book “The Great Little Book of Afformations.” The book made such dramatic changes in the way I think that I have been a fan ever since.

    “The Great Little Book of Afformations” is about learning to afform rather than affirm.  What is afform?  In a nutshell, it is asking yourself powerful questions.  By doing this your mind begins to search for the answer.

    It is very refreshing to afform rather than affirm.  When you make affirmations, as Noah’s book points out, you don’t necessarily believe them, most of the time.  An example would be to affirm that you are thin when in reality you believe you are fat.

    By afforming instead of affirming, your mind can come up with numerous answers to questions, many of them being positive.  Afforming releases resistance because you are now asking questions and searching for answers, rather than frustrating yourself with thoughts you do not believe.

    I would fully recommend Noah St. John’s book “The Great Little Book of Afformations” to anyone trying to improve their lives.  Also, now you can get the first three chapters of Noah’s book FREE by going over to his site which you can find here.

  • Five Steps For Stopping Procrastination

    Have you ever felt bad or had undo amounts of stress and were unsure of the cause? Many people have and if they would look at the tasks they have to do they will often find the answer.

    Procrastinating on anything you need to do will fester inside you whether you are aware of it or not. Many people put off what is uncomfortable or too time consuming to do and the next thing they know they are a pile of stress and depression. Luckily, there are ways to avoid these horrible feelings and one answer is to stop procrastinating.

    Here are 5 keys that one can put into practice to avoid the procrastination killer:

    1. Do It Now! – By getting the dreadful things out of the way, there will be no chance for stress to creep in.

    2. Assign Duties – If there is a task that you do not necessarily need to take care of yourself assign it to another, and as in step 1 do it right away.

    3. Avoid Avoidance – Avoiding a problem or task at hand will prolong your agony so become aware of when you are avoiding.

    4. Picture and Feel Success – Imagine how good you will feel when the job or task is done.

    5. Afform – Using Afformations is probably one of the most powerful ways to avoid procrastination. A few you could use would be “Why am I so on top of everything?” or “Why do I feel so good when I finish a job?”

    Procrastination is deadly. The amounts of stress, strain, and confusion, that it adds to your life is completely unnecessary. Start using these keys and releasing the strain.

  • The Law of Attraction Does Not Mean Lack of Responsibility

    The Law of Attraction is of course a very powerful law; however, many may believe that because of this law there is no need for personal responsibility. What I mean by this, is that just because one desires a certain something, it does not mean one can do whatever they want in the present that may hinder that manifestation.

    For example, if someone wanted good health or continued good health, they should not smoke or do drugs in the meantime. They can go ahead and still expect good health and that health may still manifest, however it would be very difficult to fully ask and receive good health while doing such things.

    When one is bombarded with all the information of the dangers of cigarettes, drugs, or whatever it may be, it is difficult not to be effected by that information. The information of the dangers involved may creep into one’s mind while desiring things such as good health and slow down or eliminate the manifestation.

    To look at it a different way, if one was to desire money, and spend frivolously, then feel bad about the money spent, the manifestation is negated. Feeling bad about lost money is not the place one should be in order to receive the money expected.

    So how does one balance the asking and receiving while still doing things they enjoy? The simplest answer is to continue doing the things you enjoy, if they are healthy for you, but not in excess.

    For example, smoking is not good for your body so perhaps you should consider quitting in order to receive the health you desire. With regards to spending, you should spend and get what you want in moderation and if it is affordable. If not affordable, one should imagine that they have purchased it and already have it.

    Personal responsibility is an important factor when using the law of attraction. It must be balanced and evaluated in regards to asking, desiring, or wanting.

  • Living in the Now

    I have not written here for awhile and felt compelled to write this post because of the reason I have not blogged here lately. I have been very sick and realized even more then I did before how important your time is and where your mind should be.

    During my illness, I read Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now” and it could not have come at a better time. While sick I realized how important each second is because you may not see the next. I say that not to sound grim but just the reality of we never know when our time will come.

    Living in the now, is not an easy process, at least not for me. In Tolle’s book, he describes living in the now as somewhat easy to achieve but I have been having problems doing so. We are so busy thinking about the future and past that, often, we miss the precious now. I will put this idea in relation to my recent illness.

    While being sick (which I still am a bit) I found it hard not to think about if I would get better. It was from fear that I could not live in the now. The fear of not knowing what was going to happen to me or if I would get better.

    I was also stuck in past thoughts, such as remembering my hospitalization and knowing I did not want to return there. Fear in itself kept me paralyzed from enjoying the moments I had now.

    If you take a good look at what you are thinking about most of the day, it will usually include either past or present thoughts. The now is perfect as Tolle describes and the brief glimpses I get when I realize the now it is so very true.

    Some people may have an easier time than others connecting with the now but for me it takes practice and at times monitoring my thoughts. I fully recommend reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle and welcome any advice from the reader’s how well they have been able to stay present in the now.

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  • OUR LIVES ARE ALL ABOUT LOVE

    By Nick Ralls

    I see love everywhere… I know that there is nowhere where love is not…and I know that I need to keep my heart open even when it can be tempting to close it. Each time the door to my heart has been closed, love has been knocking strongly so that it opens again.

    LOVE is everywhere.

    And so love does not pass us by.

    Therefore, love is not missing from this life and not that life.

    And love always enters our life… and love also always comes back to us when we feel it has left or is missing.

    In other words, it is absolute truth and not rocket science to understand that love is always present in our life.

    It is just that sometimes we are so fixated with feelings of isolation, disconnection, hurt, sorrow and fear that we do not grasp the love that is in our reach.

    It is a sort of blindness.

    We just do not see what so often is right under our nose.

    Love is the glue that holds together the universe… it is the meaning of life and the reason why planet earth came into existence in the first place.

    All other reasons, scientific, rational or irrational, are illusions created by the ego mind which drags us all screaming and kicking into a veritable hell of disunity and loneliness.

    So is there anywhere where love is not?

    Of course not.

    It is only deluded and fearful thinking that ever tries to deny that love is not pivotal to our experience and our way of living.

    Whenever our mind, through hurt, resentment, anger or a feeling of being rejected or misunderstood, breaks from the connection with all that is, was and ever will be, love is still not far away.

    It will become our saviour.

    It will become our healer

    It will become our reason to carry on down our own yellow brick road which will return us to that place from where we came… and which we might know clearly, perhaps for the first time.

    When we close our hearts, we might feel that we are shutting love out for fear of being hurt again or hurt again and again but love is struggling and pushing to re enter our lives.

    You never keep love down.

    You can never really push love away.

    It is like a boomerang.. each time you throw it it will be wanting and willing to return to your hands.

    And it does.

    So whenever we feel that we are not loved, unpopular, will never find a soul mate, will always be alone, will always be at the end of meaningless or unfulfilled relationships we need to work out what are the patterns of our past that are causing us this mental obstruction.

    Of course, we are not excluded from love.

    Of course, love will not escape us when it does not escape others.

    And of course we all deserve love and if we think we are not good enough for love then this is again a product of our bad conditioning and the sort of beliefs we still carry around us.

    Each of us has our own love story.

    Sometimes, we are just not in it.

    We need to start seeing love everywhere… we can see it in ourselves… we can see it in others through their acts of kindness and compassion… we can see it in nature.. we can see it in beauty all around us… we can see it in smiles.. we can see it in our conversations… in our connections.. and in those around us who are just crying out for us to make contact or make communication in their lives.

    Sometimes we are just so transfixed on the door that has closed… the heart that has been shut off or hearts even… that we do not see those who are reaching out to us, those who want us so much and those who are opening their doors and inviting us in.

    We cannot open another’s heart… either to the world or to ourselves.

    But we can open our own heart and let in loving people, loving experiences and take loving choices.

    What happens when we knock on the door of love?

    Yes, love answers us! It always does.

    So dear and beautiful friend… do open your heart and share what is going on for you on this subject or any subject