BEWARE OF 'ENERGY VAMPIRES'

Energy Vampires. This seems like a new seductive coinage. Okay, exactly who are the energy vampires? These are the people who sap all your energy and leave you with nothing but to whine about something that is not in your control. You can always avoid such people, right? You would easily know them right? Not very often. These people may be the closest person to you, the only person whom you trust. Worst, these could be your parents as well.

You can classify these people into two categories--
1) Malign
2) Benign

Those who are malign are usually jealous or they hate us for reason sometimes known and sometimes unknown. Known reasons can be we are better looking, we are much more talented, we are the attention getter, we are good at something. Basically, when they say something, that is usually not in our best interest. They would bully us, insult us so that they can hurt us and they can seek transient happiness. This is one kind called the malign energy vampire.

There is also a class called benign energy vampires. These could be your best friends, your relatives, your parents, your spouse etc. These people whenever they think, they think of your good interest. So it shouldn't be a problem right? But unfortunately, they can pose a worse threat than the malign ones. Often, they stifle you with their thoughts saying that they are thinking in your best interest and that whatever they think will think for our best. They will stuff you up with so much negative thoughts that you will take years to get rid of the after effects.

Have you ever seen that when you go for an examination and say you have prepared for it to a great extent, still some one from your family tells you to revise well and check out if you have missed something lest that is the topic that you have to answer and you fail? Have you seen parents following their children everywhere in their important projects in order to discipline them?

Seriously, this is an example of how our dear ones become an energy vampire .When you are bound to succeed and you leave no stone unturned to attain it, there is no scope for failure. When at this point you start to think about failure, it comes your way. Some people call it ' Law Of Attraction ' and some call it ' Like Attracts Like'. The point is when you tend to invest your time and energy in avoiding bad stuffs, the bad stuffs come your way. Basically, whatever you put your time and energy to, you tend to attract it. Try to avoid some person, and he inevitably shows up that day. This is no coincidence but law of attraction. You attracted that particular event into physical manifestation.

I will talk about two theories of physics:
1) The theory of matter and energy being inter convertible
2) Multiverse theory

If you have read about antimatter, you would know that when antimatter come together then it goes off as radiation and on the other hand, a radiation can also be disintegrated into antimatter. That means energy can be converted to matter. Although unstable :-) Now if say, our thought was a kind of energy, then it can also be manifested into transient matter.

Hugh Everett suggested a theory that the universe that we see is one of the infinite number of parallel universes and these parallel universes constantly interact and interfere with one another. We are mere spectator there. This is the multiverse theory.
There can be one universe where we have passed an exam and one where we have failed it. Just an example. ;-)

Let us assume that these parallel universes vibrate with a certain frequency and our thought an energy. If we think positively, then our thought would also have a frequency and cause our universe interfere with the parallel universe with which our frequency matches, and would create the positive outcome of that parallel universe interfere with ours and we tend to create a positive outcome in this universe. Why? because we focused on positive. However, the energy vampires tend to bring our energy down to a level so that we can attract negative outcome.

Hence, to be happy you need to focus on positive outcome and not let yourself bogged down by if you fail, what if lectures.

It will take a lot of time to convince that they are wrong. It took me five years. :-). After all, you love the person due to their positive traits. Although it is necessary for you to keep them from affecting your thoughts, it is also necessary to get them rid of their internal demons.Otherwise, they will find another prey to sap the positive energy from.

If they love you, you will be able to convince them.

Till then lots of love.

BIG ROCKS OF LIFE

One day an expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students. As he stood in front of the group of high-powered overachievers he said, “Okay, time for a quiz.” He then pulled out a one-gallon, wide-mouthed Mason jar and set it on the table. He produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them one at a time into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, “Is this jar full?” Everyone in the class said, “Yes.” Then he said, “Really?”

He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel. Then he dumped some gravel in and shook the jar causing it to work down into the space between the big rocks. Then he asked the group once more, “Is the jar full?” By this time the class was on to him. “Probably not,” one of them answered. “Good!” he replied.

He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand and started dumping the sand in the jar until it filled the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked the question, “Is this jar full?” “No!” the class shouted. Once again he said, “Good.”

Then he grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim. Then he looked at the class and asked, “What is the point of this illustration?”

One eager beaver raised his hand and said, “The point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard you can always fit some more things in it!” “No,” the speaker replied, “that's not the point.”

“The truth this illustration teaches us is that if you don't put the big rocks in first, you'll never get them in at all. What are the 'big rocks' in your life? Your children, your loved ones, your education, your dreams, a worthy cause, teaching others, doing things that you love, your health; your mate. Remember to put these BIG ROCKS in first or you'll never get them in at all. If you sweat about the little stuff then you'll fill your life with little things and you'll never have the real quality time you need to spend on the big, important stuff.”

This story has been told by Stephen Covey in 1996.

FEAR OF SUCCESS : SELF-SABOTAGE

Thats weird isn't it? There is a particular term for this phobia in psychoanalysis-- Self-sabotage. Have you often heard your parents and your mentors say, "I am happy that you are successful. However, do not let success get into your head." On one hand, they are happy that we are successful but on the other hand, they are scared of the same success. They subconsciously make us fear success. What if success changes our routine? What if we do not spend enough time with those with whom we spent time? What if our routine is disturbed? Well, isn't is obvious part of being successful?

One interesting question is : What will happen if your dreams come true? A five second answer that "I will be happy" will not do. What will you do then? Think about it for 15-20 minutes. How many of you people can tell me what you will do? I am sure most of you will come up with answers like "Let me become successful first"," Lets not count chicken before they hatch". Most of you will just find any excuse to avoid the answer. But why?

The answer lies in our subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind executes our habit. If you have a habit of taking a certain route home, even if you are engaged in some serious thought, you will correctly head home. Sometimes, during these serious thoughtful session, we have often heard our friend holler at us "Hey, are you walking on air? I am calling you for the last 5 minutes. Which world are you living in?" Then our conscious mind processes this distraction and we simply say that we were thinking about something. But even in midst of all this we have correctly headed home. The psychology lies in our behavior. Success brings some change. Changes do have consequences -- some positive and some negative. If we continuously ponder over something most often the thoughts of negative consequences outweigh the positive ones. That is the reason of procrastinating a decision even though we know it can bring us tremendous success.

Let us analyze some consequences when we think of success.

1) People adore me because I am the best. If I change to attain more success, many will become jealous. Friends will turn foe. What if people do not like me anymore?
What if I am left alone? What if people wish bad for me?

2) I am shy and reserved. I love my alone time. I hate crowd. I hate disturbances. If I become successful, I will be herded. I will not be able to get a moment of peace. Even those who liked me will start acting weird( like I am a star)

3) What if I become successful? Where will be the excitement. I want my graph to be on the high side. What if I lose interest?

4) What after success? I have a long life to lead. What after that?

5) What if people think that I am very lucky? What if they spread the rumor that I did not have to struggle to reach that place?

6) I do not deserve so much better. What if there are others better than me? What if they outwit me? What if they displace my record if I eventually do not perform?

Seems familiar. Isn't it? Just that none of us knew that this fear had a name.

This fear originates indirectly from our fear of failure and fear of change. Well, what if someone proposed that you will get a holiday for two if you win a competition which involves the subject that you hate the most? The answer would be "Not possible. I cannot. I am just not good for that." Well forget this analogy. Ok,how many of you tried to run away from the subject that you hated at school? well, I did at a time. It was history(Though some of my friend who know me would say that you said that history was one of your favorite subject). I would procrastinate the task in history till the last moment. The result? Well I was awake the night before the exam and I would cram up and go to the exams. Got a tremendous headache. I put the blame on it. When the marks did not turn up as expected, well, the reason was simple. Put the blame on history. The fact the history was bad and should be removed from the school curriculum altogether. I had the fortune to meet a wonderful history teacher who had a wonderful equation for history
History = His + Story
History is someone's story. When you hear a story, how much information can you recollect? 10%. When you read it for the second time, you would recollect 20% and the total recollection will go on increasing every time you repeat reading. Thats a reason people associate history with cramming. The fact is that you cannot digest all the information in one go. You have to be patient. Once the story becomes part of your conscience, you recollect it even without thinking hard :-). that was the turning point and moving forward I begun to love history because it was his story.What I want to point in terms of my teacher's analogy is

Fear of success is directly proportional to the fear of failure+ fear of change

If
Fear of change=0
Fear of failure=0

Then fear of success will be proportional to 0.
That time our subconscious is ready to accept success in whatever way it comes.

How do we eradicate this fear. The answer is in the equation.
For diminishing the fear of change, we have to keep on looking at the opportunities instead of just security( I mean take calculated risks not ad hoc one).
For reducing fear of failure, we have to first understand our fear. What are we scared of. After that, we have to accept that fear. Unless we accept that we are scared of something, we spend unnecessary time and energy on the avoidance instead of working on it, so our condition is like a trapped wild animal which would struggle hard driven by fear and unnecessarily tighten the noose inflicting more pain on ourselves. If we accept, only then we can work on the particular thing. We will think of ways to eradicate the fear. We would actually take some action.

Once we channelize our subconscious out of the unnecessary fears, we will be able to overcome this.

Caution the process is long and would take a lot of sacrifices. In the process, some other fears will also make way, but again we will eradicate them.
Note for those, who fear success due to boredom or the end, you have a competition for a lifetime. So enjoy the challenge. :-)

I have read up many articles on this particular fear. If you want to know more, you can always search it on the internet. For those seeking all information in one place, you can always refer the below links

* http://www.livestrong.com/article/14659-handling-fear-of-success/
* http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/12/fear-of-success-what-will-happen-if-you-succeed/
* http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200312/the-fear-success
* http://sourcemaking.com/antipatterns/fear-of-success

Please leave comments if you want to share something. Suggestions are always welcome.

Be happy :-)

WE ARE ALL MOTIVATED-- EITHER POSITIVELY OR NEGATIVELY

I read the story of two brothers. One was a drug addict and a drunk who frequently beat up his family. The other was a very successful businessman who was respected in society and had a wonderful family. How could two brothers raised by same parents, brought up in the same environment, be so different?

The first brother was asked, "What makes you do what you do? You are a drug addict, a drunk, and you beat your family. What motivates you?" He answered, "My father. My father was a drug addict, a drunk and he beat his family.What do you expect me to be?That is what I am."

The second brother was asked, "How come you are doing everything right? What is your source of motivation?" And guess what he said?" My father. When I was a little boy, I used to see my dad drunk and doing all the wrong things. I made up my mind that this is not what I wanted to be."

This excerpt was taken from Shiv Khera's "You can win"

SELF-ESTEEM

A beggar was sitting at a train station with a bowl full of pencils. A young executive passed by and dropped a dollar into the bowl, but didn't take any pencils. He then boarded the train. Just before the doors were to close the executive suddenly exited the train and went back to the beggar. He grabbed a bunch of pencils, and said, " I will take some pencils. They are priced right. After all, you are a business person and so am I," and he dashed back on to the train.
Six months later, the executive attended a party. The beggar was also there, dressed in a suit and tie. The beggar recognized the executive, went up to him and said," You probably don't recognize me, but I remember you." He then narrated the incident that happened six months before. The executive said, "Now that you remind me, I do recall that you were begging. What are you doing here in a suit and tie?"The beggar replied, " You probably do not know what you did for me that day. Instead of giving me charity you treated me with dignity. You grabbed the bunch of pencils and said," They are priced right. After all, you are a business person and so am I." After you left, I thought to myself--what am I doing here? Why am I begging?I decided to do something constructive with my life. I packed my bag, started working and here I am. I just want to thank you for giving me back my dignity. The incident changed my life."

THE BRIDGE BUILDER

An old man, going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening, cold and gray,
To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,
Though which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The sullen stream had no fears for him;
But e turned when safe on the other side,
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim, near,
"You are wasting strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again must pass this way;
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide--
Why build you the bridge at the eventide?"
The butler lifted his old gray head:
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today
A youth, whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm, that has been naught to me,
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him."

--Will Allen Dromgoole

Children learn what they live

If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns confidence.
If a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship,
he learns to find love in the world.

LUCK

He worked by day
And toiled by night.
He gave up play
And some delight.
Dry books he read,
New things to learn.
And forged ahead,
Success to earn.
He plodded on with
Faith and pluck;
And when he won,
Men called it luck.

RISKS

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.

But risks must taken, because the greatest
hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has
nothing, and is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they
cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, or live.
Chained by their attitudes, they are slaves,
they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.

This excerpt is taken from Shiv Khera's "You can win"

Don't quit

When things go wrong,
As they sometimes will,
When the road you are trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have yo sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit--
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow---
You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out--
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit.

Taken from Shiv Khera's "You can win"

If You Think

If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't!
If you like to win, but think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't.

If you think you will lose, you're lost;
For out in the world we find
Success begins with A FELLOW'S WILL;
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger and faster man,
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.

The excerpt is taken from Shiv Khera's "You can Win"

To have succeeded

To laugh often and love much;
To win the respect of intelligent persons
and the affection of children;
To earn the approval of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give of one's self without the
slightest thought of return;
To have accomplished a task, whether
a healthy child, a rescued soul, a
garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with
Enthusiasm and sung with exaltation;
To know that even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived;
This is to have succeeded.

This excerpt is taken from Shiv Khera's book "You can win"

Create your own reality with your beliefs

In 1633, an aging Italian astronomer named Galileo Galilei was taken before the Roman Inquisition, tried, convicted of heresy, and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Galileo's crime? He endorsed the idea, proposed a century earlier by the great Catholic astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, that the earth is not the center of the solar system. In fact, said Galileo, it is the other way around: The sun sits at the center, and the earth is simply one of a handful of planets that revolve around it.

This idea was judged as being diametrically opposed to the position taken by Holy Scripture. Galileo was forced to publicly recant his views, and his book containing the offending idea, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, was banned. The old man's sentence was later commuted to house arrest, and he lived out the rest of his days confined to his villa outside Florence, where he eventually went blind.

Still, Galileo's views persisted, and the meticulous experiments and mathematical models he used in his search to understand nature set the stage for all the developments of modern science that followed. Three centuries later, a German physicist named Albert Einstein called him “the father of modern science.”

From Galileo's time onward, scientists' precise observations contributed to a picture of the world that looked very much like a massive piece of mechanical clockwork; they had little practical use for such ideas as soul, spirit, or consciousness.

The French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, a contemporary of Galileo's who is today regarded as “the father of modern philosophy,” declared that the best way to understand how the world works would be to divide existence into two parts: the objective or material world, governed by the principles of science, and the subjective world of the mind and the soul, which would be the province of the church.

Descartes is especially famous for the statement I think, therefore I am. But the truth is, the think part of that declaration puzzled Descartes, much as it has puzzled scientists for centuries since. Just how is it that we think? Where do our thoughts come from? How do the bits of physical matter that constitute our brains generate consciousness? The answers to those questions open up a tremendous new world of possibility for what we can achieve in our lives, and they form a central part of The Answer.

A World Inside the Atom

In the generations following Galileo and Descartes, Sir Isaac Newton took the idea of nature-as-machine much further, detailing the precise laws that govern how that machine operates. All of classical physics, and in fact, all of modern science, has been built upon the foundation created by Newton. His laws of motion made possible the advance of modern technology, from simple steam engines to the space probes that have analyzed soil samples on Mars.

But scientists eventually reached the limits of the Newtonian worldview. As their tools grew more sophisticated, their explorations of the physical world took them deep into the heart of the atom, where the nature of reality proved to be something quite different from anything Descartes or Newton ever imagined.

At the dawn of the twentieth century, scientists began looking into the world within the atomic nucleus, and they were shocked to discover that on the subatomic level, the physical world did not behave at all the way Newton said it should. In fact, the “atom” itself turned out to be a sort of illusion: The closer scientists looked, the less it really appeared to be there.

And when our vision of the atom fractured, the foundation of classical physics fractured along with it. Our view of how the world works was in for a radical transformation.

Everything Is Energy

When we say the name Albert Einstein, what comes to mind? Perhaps you think of his wild mane of white hair, or that famous picture of the distinguished physicist sticking out his tongue. Or maybe you think simply, “Genius.” But whatever picture you have, you will also probably come up with “E=MC2.”

Why on earth would a mathematical equation for a sophisticated theory be so famous that even nonscientists recognize it immediately? Because with that simple equation, “Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared,” Einstein shattered centuries of thinking and radically altered our view of how the world works.

One reason Einstein's idea was so transformative was that for the first time ever, it described how energy and matter are not only related, but can be transformed back and forth into each other. Now the elegant, clear-cut world of classical, Newtonian physics would be forced to move over and make room for the fuzzy, strange, nearly unimaginable world of quantum physics.

Quantum physics is the study of how the world works on the smallest scale, at a level far smaller than the atom. And as scientists studied the nature of reality on a smaller and smaller scale, something strange began to happen: The deeper we went into reality, the more it seemed to dissolve from view. The search for the smallest known particle of matter had instead turned up distinct yet elusive little packets of energy, which physicists called quanta.

The Einstein breakthrough comes down to this: Everything is energy. A rock, a planet, a glass of water, your hand, everything you can touch, taste, or smell - it's all made of molecules, which are made of atoms, which are made of protons and electrons and neutrons, which are made of nothing but vibrating packets of energy.

This is where quantum physics intersects with what I found inside that cardboard box. What physicists found has everything to do with how you are going to create the life of your dreams by building your dream business. For once we know that everything is energy - that there is no absolute distinction between matter and energy - then the boundaries between the physical world and the world of our thoughts start to disappear as well.

Reading the Mind of God

In the decades that followed Einstein's theory of relativity, the new quantum physics began to reveal some very strange things. The tiny packets of energy known as quanta exhibited some very peculiar behaviors, including an unexplainable ability to influence one another, a property called entanglement.

In his book Science and the Akashic Field, physicist Ervin Laszlo describes a series of experiments conducted by lie detector expert Cleve Backster. Backster took some white blood cells from the mouths of his subjects and cultured them in a test tube. He then moved the cultures to distant locations, more than seven miles away. He attached lie detectors to the cultures and then performed a series of experiments on his subjects.

In one of his tests, he showed his subject a television program depicting the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. This man was a former navy gunner who had actually been present at Pearl Harbor during the attack. When the face of a navy gunner appeared on the screen, the man's face betrayed an emotional reaction—and at that precise moment, the lie detector's needle seven and a half miles away jumped, exactly as it would have had it been attached to the man himself, and not just to a test tube of his cultured white blood cells miles away.

How is such a thing possible? In the language of quantum physics, the particles of the gunner's body are still connected or “entangled” with one another, and no matter how far apart they are separated in space, they will continue to influence one another. In fact, this effect appears to occur at speeds faster than the speed of light, which violates one of Einstein's basic rules.

Scientists dubbed this mind-boggling capacity for instantaneous interconnection nonlocality. Einstein had a somewhat less technical term for it. He called it spooky actionat a distance.

A Bizarre Discovery: Thought Influences Matter

Within twenty years of Einstein's radical work, another revolution in worldview occurred, just as cataclysmic as Einstein's. It started with two of the early pioneers of the quantum world, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr and his protégé Werner Heisenberg.

Bohr and Heisenberg studied the puzzling behaviors of these tiny subatomic particles and recognized that once you look deep within the heart of atoms, these “indivisible particles” are something like tiny packets of possibility.

Each subatomic particle appeared to exist not as a solid, stable “thing,” but as the potential of any one of its various possible selves. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle stated that it was not possible to measure all of a subatomic particle's properties at the same time. For example, if you record information about the location of a proton, you cannot pin down its speed or trajectory; if you figure out its speed, now its precise location eludes you.

Bohr and Heisenberg's work suggested that at its most basic level, physical matter isn't exactly anything yet. At the subatomic scale, according to this new understanding, reality was made not of solid substance but of fields of potentiality - more like a set of possible sketches or ideas of a thing than the thing itself. A particle would take on the specific character of a material “thing” only when it was measured or observed.

In fact, even more bizarre, it was soon found that the mere intention of measuring particles, even without carrying out the actual act itself, would still affect the particles in question!

Suddenly subjectivity - the action of consciousness upon a piece of “matter” - had become an essential component in the very nature of reality.

The Zero-Point Field

As scientists continued pursuing their explorations on staggeringly small scales, they eventually found themselves staring at something truly confounding. They termed it the zero-point field (ZPF), because at this most infinitesimal of levels, some sort of force appears to be present even at a temperature of absolute zero, when all known forms of energy vanish.

Here, beneath the level of energy itself, exists a still more basic level. The field at this level is not exactly “energy” anymore, nor is it a field of empty space. It is best described, physicists realized, as a field of information.

To put it another way, the undifferentiated ocean out of which energy arises appears to be a sea of pure consciousness, from which matter emerges in clustered localities here and there. Consciousness is what the universe is made of; matter and energy are just two of the forms that consciousness takes. Ervin Laszlo calls this field that underlies and connects all things the A-field, in deference to the ancient Vedic concept of the Akashic record, a nonphysical repository of all knowledge in the universe, including all human experience.

The psychologist Carl Jung called it the collective unconscious. It has been intuited and described for thousands of years and in a multitude of terms and images throughout human history. Only in the last few decades has science caught up to what we always sensed but could never fully explain.

Says Laszlo: “The ancients knew that space is not empty; it is the origin and memory of all things that exist and have ever existed. . . .[This insight] is now being rediscovered at the cutting edge of the sciences [and is emerging] as a main pillar of the scientific world's picture of the twenty-first century. This will profoundly change our concept of ourselves and of the world.”

In fact, it has already profoundly changed our picture of ourselves and our world—and it will radically change how you approach your life and your business.

Thought Creates Everything

So what are we saying here, that everything that is, is made of thought? That thought creates the physical world? Yes, that is exactly what we're saying.

Your thoughts not only matter, they create matter. Thought is where everything comes from. And your thoughts are where your business comes from.

In the chapters that follow, we're going to walk through the process, step by step, of building your dream business by first harnessing the most powerful force in the universe: your beliefs.

The Most Powerful Force In The Universe

If the idea that the universe is made of thought seems amazing, here is the truly amazing thing about it: The scale of power we're talking about here is staggering beyond comprehension.

The universe appears to be structured as a series of layers or levels, much like an onion or Russian nesting dolls: Inside of organisms, we find cells; inside cells, molecules, then “indivisible” atoms, then electrons and protons, then quarks, bosons, mesons, photons, leptons . . . and the smaller the world, the greater the amount of force we find wrapped inside it.

The deeper in nature you go, the more dynamic nature becomes. In other words, the more fundamental the level to which you penetrate, the greater the power you'll find.

For example, chemical power, the force of chemical interactions, operates at the level of molecules and atoms. Nuclear power operates at the level of the atomic nucleus, about a million times smaller - and it is a million times more powerful. Yet even the nuclear level pales in comparison to the deeper levels today's quantum physics is exploring. According to Laszlo, the zero-point field has an energy density of 1094 ergs per cubic centimeter - that's ten thousand billion, billion, billion, billion times more energy in a single cubic centimeter of “empty space” than you have in all the matter in the known universe.

And that's just one cc of empty space. Imagine what you'd have in a quart.

How Quantum Science Helps You Build Your Dream Business

In 1902, two years after the physicist Max Planck first coined the term quantum to describe the core reality of light, a young British writer named James Allen penned a little book entitled As a Man Thinketh, which drew its title and its message from the biblical verse “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

At the time, few would have associated the two men and their work, but with the hindsight of a century's discoveries, we can now see the connection. While scientists spent the rest of the century pursuing the horizon set by pioneers such as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Heisenberg, which would ultimately lead to the quantum vacuum, philosophers like Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, and Bob Proctor worked to articulate its application to the practical world of human accomplishment.

This idea, that our thoughts have a direct, causal impact on our reality, has been observed, but it always seemed like something that rational people couldn't buy into, an idea that created more questions than answers. Now science has given us that set of answers.

Remember the mind-boggling amount of power in that cubic centimeter of “empty space,” or consciousness? When Victor Hugo said, “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come,” we now know that this was more than a metaphor. He may not have fully realized it at the time, but he was giving us a literal description of how reality works.

Thought is the most powerful force in the universe. Our thoughts are the controlling factor in what we manifest and create in our lives.

The idea precedes the thing.

That is at the heart of how my dream house showed up, as well as every business I've built, and the same thing happens to every businessperson who has a vision and applies these strategies and tactics. It started as a picture, an idea in my mind, and before I knew what had happened, I was living in it.

Science tells us that underlying what we know as the world is a field of pure consciousness, billions upon billions of times more powerful than any measurable energy, and that this field of absolute consciousness knows everything that happens, anywhere and everywhere in the universe, instantaneously and with absolute accuracy.

This is not so different from the kind of descriptions people have given for millennia in their efforts to grasp the ultimate nature of our universal source, what some of us call God. Whatever you call it, the picture that emerges is of a world bounded by an infinitely large, omnipotent, omniscient intelligence, which lies behind everything in the phenomenal world as its source, author, and ultimate destination.

This is the dream world we live in, you and I, and it is the clay from which you will shape and give life to your dream business.

This article is taken from http://www.mindpowernews.com/QuantumBusiness.htm and is authored by John Assaraf

Why forgiveness is the way to divinity

Forgiveness is the most powerful tool for healing and transformation and the most gracious gift we can give both ourselves and another. Forgiveness returns us to a place of truth and love and liberates us from toxic emotions and draining attachments. It's the ultimate mind-body-soul detox.

In our life, we face a lot of things that we consider unforgivable. But doing this we are not harming the person whom we cannot forgive but inflicting unnecessary pain on ourselves and sapping ourselves of happiness.A lack of self-forgiveness can also stand in the way of receiving love, success and abundance and lead to sabotaging patterns, self-punishment and the trappings of guilt.

We human beings pray God as someone whois watching us from top. But we hardly pay attention to the God who is within and is constantly monitoring our soul. We are a confluence of dark and light, bad and good, Ahriman and Ahura Mazda. These are different aspects of our mind. One harbours positive emotions and one propagates the negative emotions.

If we let our hatred, guilt, shame consume us, we will actually descend into Hell. We would end up punishing ourselves.

Forgiveness heals and releases whole clusters of negative emotions and is a gateway to love and freedom, and a key to letting go of the past and who you are not, so you can embrace more of who you truly are.
Allow yourself to own and acknowledge your inherent innocence, worth and value, and give yourself the gift of forgiveness.
Forgiveness cleanses and blesses you and your world. It is an immensely powerful force and a vital key to new and brighter levels of success and happiness.

Some of the excerpts have been taken from Aine's newsletter. These newsletters are very inspiring.