Using Contrast To Achieve Success
I am currently visiting Canberra – the cold Capital of Australia – and thinking about how contrast helps to achieve success. In the week that I have been here the temperatures have bottomed out with the coldest September day for 40 years and snow falls just 30 kilometres away ranging up to a very warm 24 degrees yesterday. I am used to a fairly stable tropical temperature of 20 to 30 and have now realised just how that has left me with little variation. Now don’t get me wrong, I love the tropics. However I have discovered once again that contrast is pretty exciting.
But how do you use contrast to achieve success? Most of the elite writers about personal development, whether writing from their own experience or channeling the wisdom of others, write about contrast or duality as it is sometimes called. Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch is deals with this subject throughout the series. These writers are referring to the learning gained from knowing one side and then the other of an experience. So how can you know happiness if you have never known sadness. How can you know courage if you have never known fear. The way that I am thinking this through at the moment is that it is very much about feelings and getting familiar with your own feelings; being able to detect constantly how you are doing.
Feelings have a great deal to do with the path to achieve success. Esther Hicks writings on the Law of Attraction and almost any book that you choose to read on this subject will refer to the ability to get to know and understand your feelings and the ability to change those that you do not like. My own professional colleagues use this on a moment by moment basis. Feel something that they do not like – they simply reach for a better feeling thought. Getting used to and interacting with contrast/duality is one way of experiencing your feelings on that particular situation. This week I have found that the deep contrast in the weather has heightened my sense of feeling around a number of matters and reminded me to welcome such contrast into my life.
So instead of finding the weather a nuisance, I am now looking at it as a beautiful way to experience contrast and therefore my feelings. I am sort of back in the zone a bit, dragged away from the constancy of business and back to the real business of life. If I use this experience well, I will be in a state of great vibrations and definitely attracting into my life those things that I desire. Still in the zone to achieve success.
Do you have any special tips and tricks that keep you in touch with your feelings and the way that you are vibrating at any given moment?
Compassion Across The World
Today I am thinking about how grateful I am to be safe and secure with my family here in Australia and I send thoughts of compassion to all of those people and their families who are affected by the earthquake in Indonesia and the Tsunami in Samoa. In this time of turmoil of nature, it is important to generate positive and compassionate thoughts and energy.
So I send warm compassion, generosity and love across the world.
Having Fun and Enjoying Success in Canberra
I am reminded today that life is like a box of chocolates – variations of sweet and fun. And there is nothing sweeter than time with my daughters. This week has been a spectacular catch up with two of my daughters when we met up in Canberra. It has been a time to remember that happiness and success is about many things and for me, it is about holding on to that lovely experience of family connections, friendship connections and the freedom to work and play just as I wish.
What does success mean to you?
Laughter Makes You Feel Good
According to the Law of Attraction, you monitor your feelings on a moment by moment basis and when you are feeling great you can attract into your life those things that you desire. That being the case, the aim is to feel good and there are lots of ways to do that. If you are not already, then it is important to get in touch with how you feel so that you know when something does not feel so good. You can also learn to understand your feelings by doing things that you like and then noticing what it feels like. Now I say these things because not everyone knows what the various feelings feel like or has felt joy recently.
Laughter makes you feel good, it has a beneficial effect on a variety of diseases such as heart disease and high blood pressure and reduces stress. It is just straight up good for you and that is why a whole industry has been created around it. No, I am not talking about the comedy arts, I am talking about laughter workshops and so on that help you learn how to laugh! But you can have your laughter free or at least at a very low cost.
Watch a funny video, read a funny book (free from the library) or play with your kids or dog. Laughter is guaranteed with a bit of play. If all of those fail, then lock up your house and just laugh yourself silly until you are laughing at your self. Doesn’t matter how you get it, a good laugh makes you feel good and when you feel good you are attracting good things into your life.
Prosperity On My Mind
One of the essential ingredients to success is to truly believe that you can and will be prosperous; that this is possible and in fact, that anything is possible. I don’t know about you but I grew up in a time when prosperity was just a dream and only the lucky few were rich and would be rich. Coming from that background, it has been quite difficult to cast aside that limiting belief and create a new belief for myself that prosperity is not only possible for me but is within my grasp.
One of the principles of the Law of Attraction is that of abundance; there is more than enough of everything in this world for all of us, if we so desire. However, accepting this as a truth and then seeking one’s own abundant lifestyle can be a little tricky. It certainly was for me. It took me quite a while to believe that such abundance exists. I use the following tool every day to assist in affirming my belief about abundance and prosperity.
Just keep a little note book with a log of the abundance and prosperity that you have in your life right now and add to it every day with the gifts that you receive. These gifts might be very small – for example your friend buys you a coffee or shouts you a drink. Someone pours you a glass of water and brings it to you, the bus driver gives you a huge smile and welcomes you aboard or a friend whom you have not heard from for ages calls to say hello. These are all of the little gifts in life that we sometimes do not notice or take for granted. They bring joy to us and cost us nothing – gifts! Be sure to add to your prosperity list at least once a day, it is fun and only takes a moment.
After a little while of doing this; keeping track of these daily gifts, it just gets easier and easier to believe in prosperity and the abundance of the Universe. With that belief you can then set out to accept that some of your larger dreams and desires are absolutely possible. And they too will arrive. In the meantime you can enjoy the prosperity that you have right now.
