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Sat 6 Mar 2010
Day 40 of 50 ideas in 50 days is Your Erroneous Zones by Dr. Wayne Dyer. This was Wayne’s first book and it is packed full of wisdom for taking control of your life and not letting negative thinking dominate it. The main idea of Your Erroneous Zones is self-reliance, in other words, we don’t need approval from outside to know that what we feel inside is right. Wayne says, “using yourself as a guide and not needing the approval of an outside force is the most religious experience you can have.” Wayne has certainly learned this from life experience, growing up in an orphanage after his father left and his mother couldn’t afford to care for him and his siblings. Self-reliance was a matter of survival for him. If he had settled on the viewpoint of being a victim of his circumstance and sought his value from an outside source, his life would have been a completely different story.
Wayne says, “if you believe in yourself fully, no activity is beyond your potential. The entire gamut of human experience is yours to enjoy, once you decide to venture into territory where you don’t have guarantees.” If you set limitations and truly believe that you can’t go beyond them (consciously or unconsciously) then you won’t. Change and transformation happens when we venture outwith our comfort zone. The belief you have about what is happening and what lies ahead will shape that transformation. Wayne stresses the importance of having a fountain of strength that comes from inner security. He says, “this is the only lasting security, the only real security. Things can break down, a depression can wipe out your money, your house can be repossessed but you, you can be a rock of self-esteem.” Wise words from someone who knows because he has lived it.
Wayne urges us to take action and begin the process of what we wish to achieve by doing it now. No procrastination necessary here. He says, “the only thing holding you back is you and the neurotic choices you have made because you don’t believe you are as strong as you really are. How simple…just do it.” Advice that echoes many self-development authors, action cures all worries, doubts and negativity about your abilities. For the vast majority of the time that we worry about doing something causes far greater internal suffering than actually doing it. Trust in your guidance and inner resources, they are a source of never-ending strength.
Tue 2 Mar 2010
Day 37 of 50 ideas in 50 days is The Power of Intention by Dr. Wayne Dyer. This week is turning out to be quite an amazing one, there are two Wayne Dyer posts this week (the other is on Friday) what a treat! Dr. Dyer is another of my favourite writers, he is an incredibly learned man and is a strong individual who lives his methods 100%. I read The Power of Intention a few years ago and I particularly love listening to the audio programme for the sole reason that I love his beautiful voice!
Wayne gives us 4 steps for connecting to The Power of Intention:
Exercise your discipline by building strong habits. Do the things you know that you should be doing and live with the connection to your intention/ideal.
Develop wisdom every day, your greatest classroom and teacher is your day to day life and you.
Open your heart and learn to love more and more, love who you are, what you do, everyone and everything around you. Practise unconditional love.
Surrender to the force that’s bigger than you. Life can be an uphill struggle if you fight against it instead of connecting to the flow that is intention.
And to help us along the way, Wayne suggests another of my mind fooling tricks, ‘acting as if’ - until you are! He says, “act as if everything you desire is already here…treat yourself as if you already are what you’d like to become.” What happens as a result? You’re brain is fooled into believing that what you are imagining is actually reality and the more you focus on it, the more your psychology and physiology is adjusted. Importantly, with the Law of Intention, you must be in alignment with that which you are seeking. Wayne says, “this is a universe of attraction and energy. You can’t have a desire to attract a mate who is confident, generous, non-judgemental and gentle and expect that desire to be manifested if you are thinking and acting in non-confident, selfish, judgemental or arrogant ways.” What are you projecting? Remember that the universe always finds a vibrational match. Act as if, truly believe it and you will notice the changes in your experiences, your appreciation and the people that come into your life. Dr. Dyer details the seven faces of intention as, “creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, unlimited abundance and receptivity.” Intend to have each of these in your life every day by practising and incorporating them into your day to day experience.
Wed 20 Jan 2010
Day 8 in 50 ideas in 50 days is the wonderful Wayne Dyer with Real Magic. Wayne Dyer is one of my all time favourite writers and I particularly love hearing him speak. I own many of his audio books and seminars on mp3 because of his gentle, peaceful voice and he tells many amazingly powerful stories. In this inspirational work, he lists 7 steps for manifesting what he calls, Real Magic.
1. There is an invisible but knowable life force within you. You can feel it when you are truly connecting with someone or when you are in perfect flow with life, sometimes before something happens.
2. Your thoughts are something you control and they originate within you. The realisation of this is very powerful if you really think about it and it’s worth re-reading this many times. You have the power to change your thoughts and your life.
3. There are no limits. This is all about how we have been conditioned to think. Consider how people thought about the Earth hundreds of years ago, that it revolved around the sun and was flat. New discoveries are made every day, that is science and who knows what may be fact tomorrow.
4. Your life has a purpose. Wayne says, “everything has a purpose, indeed the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.”
5. You overcome weaknesses by leaving them behind. You are in control, your weaknesses are not in control of you, they are not you.
6. When you examine what you believe to be impossible, you can then change your beliefs. Your beliefs are not set in stone, they do not have to be ‘facts’ about your life. Allow your mindset to change to a truer alignment with your dreams.
7. You can go beyond logic. Reminds us that nothing is impossible and miracles can be achieved. ;D
Wayne’s ideas have a timeless spirituality that is perfect for our time. His words about appreciation of the happiness of others have resonance with many spiritual ideas concerning gratitude and joy. We should not harbour negativity toward the prosperity of others in the form of envy, contempt and jealousy. He says, “rejoice in the prosperity of others…negative inner mindset keeps you from being on purpose. You cannot be fulfilled and envious at the same time.” This is a beautiful quote to end on. It comes from a place of love, keeping your mind and heart open. Always a wonderful thing.
