Transforming Your Life Into What You Truly Desire
December 2, 2010 by AMA
Filed under Meditation
Has your life been all that you wanted, and have you fulfilled your long-held dreams? If you answer isn’t yes, then you need to take a moment to believe it will happen. Where you envision your life, is exactly where it will be.
Bob Procter and Mind Movies have been coaching people in just these kinds of principles for quite some time. The power to change your future lies in your mind. Visualize what you want and how you want it and it can become real. Of course, the process is a bit more complicated than that. You can get more details and a better idea of how it all works by watching the videos at Mind Movies.
You see, you present was created in connection with your mind. Every piece of your life is manifested by the thoughts you have and how you perceive it will be. For instance, it is necessary for you to convince yourself intellectually that you will have prosperity, in order for prosperity to become evident to you. Do you want to realize riches in your life? Then you would concentrate your attention on living a prosperous life, which is possible through an open mind that knows no boundaries.
All of your thinking manifests itself in life outcomes, and thus if you immerse yourself in thoughts about what you really want, you can make things happen. If you want a successful career, then you must begin by thinking of yourself as being successful. Your mind contains the only real obstacles, but only if you let it.
For example, think about the thing that means the most to you, go ahead, try it. Does it have to do with professional advancement, wealth creation, or finding a life partner? Immerse yourself in thoughts of those things, and make them come alive. What feelings will you have while living the thing you want the most? When you open your eyes, release it to the universe, and it will, in turn, happen.
It is then that you have the power to construct the life you desire. Grab hold of this opportunity to harness your inner power which will bring on this life alteration.
Chanting As A Tool To Develop Your Powers Of Concentration
September 15, 2010 by AMA
Filed under Meditation
Chanting in a spiritual context is the repetition of a mantra, sound, word, phrase, verse or entire song. Chanting is a practice that many of the worlds spiritual and religious traditions uphold.
A chanting practice can hold many purposes. Depending on what the tradition is or what the actual practice is, will have a relation to what the actual purpose of the chanting practice.
A commonality amongst all the chanting traditions is that chanting facilitates the development of concentration.
On the chanting of that mantra, all of your attention is focused. All your energy, your attention, your emotions are directed to that mantra. Your sound is directed to that mantra. If your mind wanders, it has to wander back in order to perform the chanting.
All of this helps to develop concentration. This is called “one pointed concentration” in the Vedic and Yogic traditions of India.
What is the purpose of concentration?
Developing the ability to concentrate the mind gives many benefits. There are the obvious benefits that can be applied to everyday life.
The ability to stay focused. A capacity to remain with the task at hand and finish it. The capacity to remember and develop your memory.
New neural connections in the brain are created when you practice chanting on an ongoing basis. This is laying down new neural pathways of concentration.
In modern times there is the rise of ADD and all attention related disorders. Unfortunately the human mind is becoming something of a mess. The capacity to focus, concentrate, remember and actually retain information is become a lost art in todays age.
This situation is not assisted with the information overload that we consume as our diet and the various media we choose to surround ourselves with such as the TV, DVDs, film, mobiles etc etc.
A chanting practice helps the brain to regain and develop concentration. Once this concentration is developed, it is naturally and can be consciously integrated into your life to assist you in performing all the tasks you need to do that require focus and concentration. All this from a chanting practice!