10 Steps to Self-Confidence

10 Steps to Self-Confidence: 

1. Make a commitment
2. Be proud of who you are
3. Become an optimist
4. Believe in yourself
5. Reprogram your belief systems into winning belief systems’
6. Stand up for what you believe
7. Expect the best
8. Respect yourself
9. Be self-reliant
10. Have the courage of your convictions 

From Dr. Barnet Meltzer in his book The Best Kept Secret of Permanent Weight Loss

The Magic of Changing Your Perspective

The Magic of Changing Your Perspective

For most of us, dealing with changes and events that take us out of our comfort zone instantly takes us to a place of fear and negative thinking. It is the rare person who doesn’t emotionally invest the experience with anxiety and assign a negative value to it. 

Yet the truth is that all things are neutral, they just are—until we bring our perspective to them and assign value. More importantly, every experience brings with it an opportunity for growth, for greater wisdom, for new knowledge, for redirection from the Universe, for expansion in some way, shape or form.

 The task for us as Conscious Creators is to retrain ourselves not to immediately go to that dark place, but instead to seek the light. To assign POSITIVE value to every experience. The best way to do that is to learn new perspectives, and to apply them to each situation. You can magically turn a perceived problem into a blessing by asking the right questions or applying the right filter.   

So this article is designed to give you many options on new ways to look at things. By having these “tools” in your tool kit, testing the ones that work best for you and then applying them through practice many times over, you will be able to change your knee-jerk negative pattern of thinking to a welcoming and positive perspective that raises your frequency. And eventually will become your new permanent pattern of perspective. 

Here are some really insightful questions that will lead you to look at your perceived challenges, problems and issues as your next opportunities, gateways and gifts: 

• What is the joy to be found here?
• What is really great about this?
• What can I learn from this experience?
• How can I apply this in the future?
• How does this ultimately serve me?
• What is the upside to this experience?
• What is the “take-away” here?
• What message is the Universe offering me?
• How can I turn this experience into something positive?
• What is the underlying truth about this experience–what is the reality without my emotional charge?
• What is the good that can come from this?
• Who can I help with this wisdom, knowledge and experience?
• Where is this experience directing me?
• What is the invitation here?  
• What new opportunity does this open up?
• How can I grow from this?
• Where is my expansion in this?
• What is this calling me to let go?
• What burden is being lifted through this experience?
• What deep calling within me wants expression through this change—even though it may be subconscious?

You undoubtedly know that everything happens for a reason. Here’s an opportunity to look at that reason as Source does. You would not be offered this experience if there was not purpose here for you, your life and your spiritual growth. But the Universe gives you these experiences out of its desire to help you reach your own truth and highest good. Use these questions to be open to seeing a more objective view of what is in your highest good.

Book Review

The Art and Practice of Creative Visualizationby Ophiel 

This a very strange book, but if you are looking for the mystical underpinnings of manifestation, you might find some really intriguing information and approaches. Ophiel, who has since passed on, has a very esoteric approach to creative visualization, which includes fixing on specific symbols to help open the doors for “advanced” manifesting. He offers 10 Laws of Creative Visualization that frame this process in a completely unique way. It’s a quick read for someone looking for a different “take” on the process of creating your reality. 

You can find this book at www.Manifestbooks.com

Manifest Message

Conscious Creation Tip

Disconnect Your Anger Buttons

Imagine that you are wearing a breastplate full of buttons. If people “push your buttons” and activate your anger, change your response by deactivating your buttons. Disconnect the button in your imagination. Then, if someone pushes the button, it won’t work. Remember that they will probably try another one. You can learn to deactivate your buttons ahead of time so that you are ready when someone tries to push one.

  — Dean Van Leuven from his book Life Without Anger

Manifest Message

Deliberately bring into your life socially other people who think and believe as you do.  They can be constructive friends to you.  Stop compromising with the types of people you allow in your world socially.by Catherine Ponder, "Open Your Mind to Receive"

Note from Jackie