A Clean Slate

The ending of 2010 brings with it a new beginning or a clean slate to start living our own lives. We usually jump out of the starting gate with great intentions, excitement for the newness, open minded to possibilities and yet we flounder, trip, and fall back to old habits within a month. Why does this happen? Do we set ourselves up to fail by setting our goals to high or unrealistically? Are we attempting our transformation all on our own? Do we really have a clean slate or is our conditioning still with us? This conditioning is the habits created in the past and will continue until those habits are replaced with different habits. The toughest habits are those that have been charged with emotion, therefore a habit created to deflect from feeling emotional discomforts will have the most power over our ability to change them. Thus when we want to make a real change we will undoubtedly feel uncomfortable. These uncomfortable feelings are not really happening because they are only a memory of the old feelings that have been suppressed, self medicated or sugar coated in order to just get by. If you understand that these feelings and/or thoughts are the old conditioning then you might be in a better position to take that next tiny little step towards your goal. Make that phone call, say yes when you would normally say no, step away from the coffee, cigarette, booze, and other hedonistic instant gratification that leads to emptiness. So, how do you do it? Awareness! Awareness that you are feeling the uncomfortableness-even just thinking about making the change. With awareness, you access your power of free will and the power of choice. Yes, you now have conscious control of your mind to make the choice that will create transformation. Transformation is conscious change. Change is always occurring but transformation is optional and requires your conscious efforts through the power of choice. The power of choice becomes much easier when you have firmly and tangibly established and written out your goals along with the bit size milestones to reach along the way. A great example of this is a professional football team. Their Goal is to win the Superbowl. A bit size milestone is to win the weekly game. Furthermore, they break down the milestones into daily tasks. So the formula is GOALS-MILESTONES-DAILY DOABLE TASKS-REASSESS GOALS-MILESTONES-DAILY TASKS, REPEAT...

In this process it is reasonable to consider that our old habits will be hard to break. If we remain persistent with our daily tasks then success is inevitable. If we fall of the wagon and into habits of distraction then read your goals, contact your mentor/coach or get the phone out for moral support from people who will kick you in the ass or give you a big hug in order to move through the emotional turbulence. Sometimes doing nothing helps while screaming violently out loud also helps! There are many tools to assist you here are couple that might be useful:

Emotional Response Technique: write for 10 minutes only. Then re-read each sentence out loud. If it is a negative statement then flip it into a positive statement. Read it out loud 3-5times. Then move onto the next sentence. If it is a question, then take the time to answer that question by writing for 2 minutes only. Then go through the answer to determine if there is a negative statement to be flipped into a positive statement. Read that out loud and return to your original draft. Continue until you have processed all negative statements into positive ones and answered any questions. This will raise your vibration through the element of mind.

Toning: Using your voice to tone the letters of the alphabet A E I O U also OM and AH Toning is a form of singing yet is powerful way to get back to your inner voice and raise your bodily vibration quickly. Do this for 10-15 minutes. Here you will be utilizing the element of Earth.

Conscious Breathing: Get comfortable and focus on your breath for 15minutes. Make an effort on the inhale and then just let the exhale go. Keep your conscious awareness on the movement of your breath. There are many types of breathing exercises that can work equally as well. This is the Air Element.

Laugh: Laughter can move anyone into a stat of high vibration because it is reflective of internal Joy. Laugh out loud! Smile, make silly faces, etc... Look up some jokes online or a video on comedians. Comic relief can move us through emotions very quickly and without any pain. In fact you are telling yourself that Joy is much more important than the old conditioning of 'no pain no gain'.

So you want to transform or manifest something in 2011? Start living as though you have already transformed or manifested that which you desire. Where it appears there is an ending there is always a new beginning. Each day that ends bring a new beginning tomorrow. Just reassure yourself that you did you best today, the very best you know how within your own level of humanness. Be kind, compassionate, and aware this year and celebrate the small victories.

Until we meet, keep your body tuned up and your soul tuned in,

Dan