Jennifer

Reprogramming Your Subconscious Mind

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* Be the guardian of everything that enters your mind - Know that everything you see hear and feel goes directly into your subconscious mind and you must manage the information you allow in. Eliminate negative information as much as you can by limiting the amount of news you read, stop seeing violent movies, read only positive information. Keep the positive information flowing into your mind and your subconscious will naturally become more positive.

* Set aside time for you - Everyone needs time to reflect. Whether you pray, meditate, practice yoga, or just read positive information. Set aside an hour each day for yourself. Your subconscious mind needs to know just how important you are and nothing shows this importance than having time for yourself. Many believe there is not a free hour in the day for themselves. Whether you have to wake an hour early or go to bed an hour later having an hour of peace is an important way to clear your mind and open yourself to the possibilities your subconscious mind can offer.

* Speak kindly to yourself - When you look in the mirror do you like what you see? Do you compliment yourself on your most outstanding attributes? Stop all negative talk to yourself immediately. You are a perfect creation of God and you have beautiful traits that need recognizing. Remind yourself of your great eyes or your winning smile-whatever sets you apart from everyone else in a positive way. Your subconscious will thank you.

* Project Yourself into The Future - The late, great Earl Nightingale created a whole new industry (self-improvement) after a 20-year study on what made people successful. The bottom-line result of his research was simply, “We Become What We Think About.” Whatever thoughts dominate our minds most of the time are what we become. That’s why goal setting is so critical in achieving success because it keeps us focused on what’s really important to us. He then said that the easiest way to reach our goals is to pretend that we had ALREADY achieved our goals. That is, begin to walk, talk and act as though we are already experiencing the success we seek. Then, those things will come to us naturally through the power of the subconscious mind.

* Surround yourself with positive people - Negative people can quickly lead to negative thoughts. Make sure your group of friends are those that love and admire you for the great person you are. Eliminate any time spent with anyone who brings you down. You can’t afford the hit to your subconscious mind simply to maintain a negative friendship.

* Use affirmations to your advantage and the optimum times when your subconscious mind is listening - Immediately upon waking and immediately upon going to bed are the times when your conscious and subconscious mind are closest. It is at these times when you get the biggest bang out of your affirmations. Use positive affirmations at these times to super-program the subconscious. Say affirmations before sleeping and apon getting up - it is when we are closest to our subconscious.

* Write Down The 10 Things You Want This Year - By making a list of the things that are important to you, you begin to create images in your mind. It’s been said that your mind will actually create chaos if necessary to make images become a reality. Because of this, the list of ten things will probably result in you achieving at least eight of them within the year.

* Be Grateful - Oprah Winfrey has done a magnificent job of reminding us all how important it is to have gratitude in our lives. Having gratitude allow us to realize the blessings we already have and keeps us open to receive so much more. Make a list of everything you are grateful for and grow this list as time goes on. On any day when it seems that nothing is going your way refer back to this list and remind yourself of all the blessings you already have. Your subconscious mind needs to know what you are grateful for so it can manifest more of the same for you.

* Write Out an “Ideal Scenario” - Pretend that you are a newspaper reporter that has just finished an interview about the outstanding success that you’ve achieved and the article is now in the newspaper. How would it read? What would be the headline? Write the article yourself, projecting yourself into the future as though it had already happened. Describe the activities of your daily routine

* Maintain a lighthearted/happy spirit - Never allow the pressures of the day to bring you down. Make it a point to be light hearted and happy as much as humanly possible. Dwelling on the negatives of life badly affects your subconscious mind. Keeping a positive spirit will keep your subconscious mind well programmed and open to wonderful possibilities.

* The Three Most Important Things - Decide on three things that you want to achieve before you die. Then work backwards listing three things you want in the next twenty years, ten years, five years, this year, this month, this week and finally, the three most important things you want to accomplish today.

* Make A List Of Your Values - What’s really important to you? Your family? Your Spiritual Life? Your leisure time? Your hobbies? Decide on what your most important values in life are and then make sure that the goals you set are designed to include and enhance them. now that are very successful. Don’t forget the headline. (Example: “Jane Doe Wins Top Network Marketing Award of the Decade.”)

* Ask Yourself Good Questions - As you think about your goals, instead of WISHING for them to come true, ask yourself HOW and WHAT CAN YOU DO to make them come true. The subconscious mind will respond to your questions far greater than just making statements or making wishes.

* Surround yourself with your favorite things - Begin today placing your favorite things in full view in your home. Whether these be family pictures, treasures from your travels or sport memorabilia, always keep these things visible. You should be completely comfortable at home and your subconscious mind will benefit your renewed feeling of comfort and the peace you will have at home when you have your favorite things around you.

* Focus On One Project At A Time - One of the greatest mistakes people make in setting goals is trying to work on too many things at one time. There is tremendous power in giving laser beam focused attention to just one idea, one project or one objective at a time.

* Learn lucid dreaming… Once You Learn Lucid Dreaming, You Won’t Be Able To Wait Until Bedtime
If there was a way you could experience your desires before you actually achieved them wouldn’t that be exciting? Well, there is, and it’s called Lucid Dreaming. Now I’m not going to mislead you. This is not something you can go home this evening and experience but with practice you can experience anything you desire in your dreams. A Lucid Dream is simply dreaming while you know you are dreaming. Many people can remember having Lucid Dreams but, there is a difference between having a Lucid Dream and being able to control your dreams. You need to accomplish the first before you’ll be able to accomplish the second.

*Free Your Conscious Mind for Subconscious to Work
By Enoch Tan Platinum Quality Author
You can be happy to know that to be successful, it is really essential to take more time for enjoyable diversion, instead of working longer and harder. Working smarter means working with your whole mind. Don’t do more work with your conscious mind than is necessary or you are wasting energy. Hold your mind on what you intend to manifest and then go do something else.

Had to share.  :)  Can’t be peachy-keen happy all the time, but it’s my job to live this life to the fullest so the choice is always mine…even if it means a little reprogramming.

some clarity.  The mind is a wonderful and mysterious organ.

An explanation with Oscar because this may seem confusing - Oscar has allergies gallor or somethng and is a bit unique.  And there are many who think that people and domesticated animals have the health problems they do because such a huge change in their diets (now very processed) and lifestyles.  So, I find I get as stressed out at times with Oscar’s issues as I would if I had a human child.  So what does one try to do, re-create a diet that is rich in raw food?  Well Oscar laughs at sushi - I have tried.  :)  I am a wierd-O but this is me.  I just love him to bits.  And I over-feel this world to the point where I must take steps back, breathe and release……

I also find myself at a crossroads in life and it is like, what is my purpose at this time?  Don’t normal people just JUMP for godness sake!

I want to be a jumper and not a nervous cat.  *recalling what I said a couple blogs ago… I am not at all a caged animal and I can do ANYTHING.  I can do this.*   I need to do and I need to break off that part of my brain that is soaked in disbelief.  I need to remember and find my source of power!!!  Where other Earthlings have not been able to, I can.

Well first things first…… do well on the comprehensive test and go from there.

I am maintaining wonderfully.  The shape is definitely better the second time around.

So, I wrote a blog after I saw Earthlings and kept it as a draft, ahh why?  It was all about my mindset during and after the documentary.  It really affected me as I knew it would.  It was really hard to watch.  It was kind of like Shindler’s List the first time I saw it only 100 times worse.  

So, I did not eat for a long time after this.  Just did not have an appetite and then I fed myself and my emotions a little.  The food was down on paper.  But I wanted to write out the pros and cons of my day with food to keep some not so clear perspective, CLEAR.

Pros: I made the choice to have extra protein, even if it was whey protein, when I had more sugar then normal.  Good job.  High sugar and low protein is NOT good for the body!!! So good job me.  Milk is worse for me at this time then the much simpler amino acids of the whey, so, so what.  :)  I also took all my vitamins and enzymes, so, kudos.   I did mostly feed my hunger except for a sugar treat.  Ok.  I will  not be eating past 6:ooPM… Great!

Cons: I had more simple sugar/carbs then I would normally and that is ok, but will aim for a healthier day tomorrow.  I had portions of some off-my-list-foods.  I feel fine as I have been pretty good with the elimination diet, still need to be careful and get back to it.

More perspective:  Checked out Sparks and I did not do so bad at all.  Only 250 cal over for a Saturday at 2000 and over with the fat.  Under with the carbs but way more then usual and more protein the usual which is good for the day - 68 grams, awesome!  It was worth the time to check things out because I might have had a wrong view of my day.  And that kind of thinking never leads to good things for me.  Nipped in the bud and ready to have a little workout to keep my attitude optimum…. In a world where things are not ideal, I can still make the best of my moments, my life.

Ahh Oscar wants attention and so I am his beotch  ;)

Not so coherent right now.  I am also cold and shakey and I have spots on my glasses, but it is me and a computer now.  I really should get out and do something interesting on this Saturday afternoon.  I will be making myself go for a walk at some point.  Just finished watching Earthlings.  And this is the inside of my shakey mind….  How did this all start?  How does anything happen?

I like hockey and I eat animals and their products (not dairy and eggs at the moment, but that is for MY health.)

Watched TSN because I like to see what is going on in the world of sport.

A former Oiler, Georges Laraque was on talking…. gotta catch that.  George is a vegetarian??? What?

He became a vegetarian after watching ‘Earthlings’ and plans to go vegan.  WHAT???

*checks out the site* - ‘Earthlings’  - ok, I know what this movie is about and I am fearful.  Intrigued and I feel the need to watch.

I must wait.  David is going away to a confernece and I do not feel the need to share this.  It is not my intention to change him or anyone!

I also need to prepare myself for this film, which I now know was not possible.

Watching, frequently pausing, 2 trips to the bathroom (did not vomit, just voided), more pausing….

Find myself tuning out and looking at my sweet pea.

“Look what I have done”, I say to myself… I received Oscar when he was 8 weeks old from a farm outside of Saskatoon.  I was lonely and sad at the time and wanted to feel something in my life.  So a cat.  I took Oscar from a farm where he either would have went to another home or stayed the farm.  If he stayed on the farm he would have experienced freedom and would have died likely early as many wild farm cats do.  Anyways, he could have know freedom.  Instead, I selfishly chose to seek companionship.  My first and last pet.   Maybe I am the crazy cat lady, but I love him more then words can say. All choices in the moment are with long term consequences and I am feeling this really I am feeling this.  Some will say get a grip and do not be so serious.  Well the Truth is often difficult to embrace so we make up the lamest bullshit to make ourselves feel better.  This is the life.  This is our brains.  Comfort at it’s best.

[I wonder if Oscar, if he had a choice, would have chosen this life or a life on a farm?  Frequent food or hunting?  Well if he is like a human, which he is somewhat, he would chose FOOD I think.]

Through out the movie, I look at Oscar as he sleeps because at times I can not watch what I am seeing and yet I know to stop it would be A LIE, MORE SELFISHNESS, and MORE IGNORANCE.  Ok… keep watching.

I will not convey what I saw as it is not my purpose to change anyone, but I am changed.  I knew I would be, but I had no idea.  Reading is so different from images.

*sigh*  Movie is done.

Who are we to inflict such destruction and chaos on any living being and on this Earth?

Most people will never get what I am speaking about because THEY HAVE NO CLUE.  Words pass by eyes and out of brains like it never was there, so images might be The Thing that helps with understanding.

Ignorance is still bliss!

Disrespect!

Change?

I wish I did not see this world!  ISN’T THAT TYPICAL !  We live like this everyday!

Blindness…

I am glad I watched the movie.  The next damn time I think that life is difficult and I do not know what to do with it, I will hopefully recall how lucky I am to not have lived in Nazi Germany, to have never been brutalized by a man or to have not been a captured or caged animal.  It would be a much better world if people went to play their blood sports willingly in an arena, left the defenseless to exist in the wild and did not drain and torture animals for our need.

Keep adding to the world’s population.  More mouths to feed.

How I convinced myself what I need and what I do not need.  It is all me, me, me…..it is…

Needs and wants…. This is where I am at.

Happy to not be a Nazi (I think killers and those who inflict pain MUST suffer), happy to not be hunted, thankful for what I have in my life and on my plate…

Even as I was, and even how very little will change with me seeing this documentary, life is still good when you can feel and then vent.  Maybe even move away from the discomfort for awhile.  That is something.

It’s the Earthling experience - feeling and releasing…. And what a release when the heart finally stops beating.  And now this is something I would genuinely pray for.  Freedom from human grasp.

Peace.

So I am awake.  Oscar has waken me up and for what, I do not know.  He has food.  Maybe it’s the rain.  My heavens it smell wonderful!  I feel weird today ??  but I am liking it.

I love it when I opt for a different breakfast and just enjoy the new flavor.   Even if it’s simple, it’s perfect.  A drizzle of agave and salted organic butter on brown rice bread toast was yummy with my 1/2 banana.  I woke up craving almond butter and it’s so weird, but I have noticed that when I crave something I often do not eat it slowly enough.  I thought a change was good and it was!  Most enjoyable! And no thoughts until after that maybe I did not get enough protein.  Why NOT chose the almond butter?  It’s a better choice right?  Well maybe not.  I should avoid most nuts.  The protein thing has been a problem, thinking I need more and more protein when infact, my body might have been saying less and less.  I reason this out since doing this diet and getting a little less protein I feel better.  And well I was so wrong, I can still lose weight and eat around 45-50 grams of protein.  Some days a little more.  Whatever I feel….

I thought I’d be irritable not having this large list of foods on this diet, but I feel clear and usually quite content.  There were times before I think I knew what it felt to be a drug addict…wanting, wanting, needing?  I would lie if I said I did not miss cheese and eggs…. I DO.  But my goal is about getting my intestinal health back into good shape….. just like the rest of me.   I have had soy and feel okay and I feel this must be because I have not had it really so much.   I am not going to start having it a lot either.  I am keeping it extremely moderate.  Like last night.  I made a small chocolate soy sundae with a couple cherries and a 1/4 of a banana…YUM.   Speaking of which I enjoyed that treat like I can not even tell you.  It was heaven!   I was slightly hungry, but I do need to watch out for the mindless night time eating.  I do not need it to creep back in.

The neatest thing about this diet, is there are times I want to eat something for shear boredom and NOTHING appeals.  Those former go to foods (corn, dariy, wheat, peanut) are the ones I can not have on this elimination/allergy diet.  So this is working out REALLY well for my weight loss.  *big smiles*  So many times I have just sat down realising, I was not hungry anyways!  Then there are times I am really hungry and I just eat something on the Can-Have-list.  All good.

Exercise is going well.  No more muffin top!!  Hip hip horray!!!  And my waist is back down to the low 30s instead of the mid 30s.  My legs are toning up and are down 1 whole inch.  LOL.  Well it’s progress.

One thing.  I want to see the documentary with Joaquin Phoenix called Earthlings.  The craziest thing is, it has been out since 2005!! Where have I been???  It’s about the treatment of animals by the world’s food producers. My problem is I feel better eating a diet that is best described as the Paleo-diet (hunter- gather, veggies, fruits, meat protein, seeds) + a vegan diet (I would normally say vegetarian because I would eat dairy and eggs, but not at the moment).  This works best for me I find.  Paleo and vegan are opposite but this is what my meals look like and I feel healthy.  But it has been brought to my attention in a very upset manner, you know who, my Big Sweet Pea, hehe, that if I watch the documentary I’ll be eating all vegan again….No!  That was not healthy for me!  Last time I changed our eating habits (though I still cooked my sweetie his meat sometimes : )  after I read Skinny Bitch and was inspired by the written text descriptions of animal treatments.  For god sakes if a hockey player goes vegetarian/soon to be vegan maybe (he says) after seeing Earthlings, well how am I suppose to resist when morally I already struggle sometimes with meat?  The fact is, I do feel better physically with a little meat.  Two to three ounces is usually enough most days out of the week.  But I really want to see it!  It’s like how they describe people gawking at a car wreck, only I can not do that.  So…….what to do.   I am at a loss.  I know I believe in the correct and human treatment of animals and this is achieved on some farms but NOT the massive farms where the majority of our animal protein comes from.  I feel conflicted.  I want to see it………………………………..  But David knows me and I do too.

Ahhh….. 7:35 AM  time to workout.  *deep breathing*

What would a day look like with out scales, sizes, points, calories?  Would it look hopeful or like I was feeling out of control?  I too have taken up a preoccupation with my size (I have clothes that do not fit, but are perfectly new) and the scale.  Well, today I close my eyes to Sparkpeople and the flip flopsey white beast on the floor.  *pushes the scale under the couch*  Ahh, one has to make an enemy to feel good yes?  Well not today.  Not usually.  No calorie counting at Sparks and no scale!  Just being real with myself and focussing on accomplishing some personal goals that are not weight related and believing in my self.

What will believing in myself look like?  Will answer later when I am able….

Special thanks for some sweet surprises.  When this place is treated as a vessel for giving gifts of thoughtfullness without the expectation of anything, this is one of the best places around.   I use to just read blogs regularly (a long time ago, actually) and be inspired in the most interesting places, in peoples minds and hearts, and then I stopped… I had some moments lately of poor intention (in all parts of my  life), I was moody with bouncing hormones lately and I was thinking things of others that I should not.  Anyways, nothing beats giving a booster to a total stranger with the thought that it might share with them that their words meant something for me.   I will enter the land of Buddyslim blogs again, but only when I have that sign inside to do so.

It always works out best when there’s a calling inside and not a need to fill my boredom.

Today: this lotus is a symbol of compassion, for myself.  Gentle, gentle, gentle……..

Strength contract is going well….