Mental Leverage

Twists for Energy, Mobility & Cleansing

Posted on07. Apr, 2010 by admin2.

Enjoy this video with 3 easy twists that you can easily do in the morning, afternoon, or night.

Benefits of Twists:
* Stretches and maintains flexibility in the spine
* Cleanses and massages internal organs
* Improves digestion
* Stimulates the seven chakras
* Alternately stretches and compresses each side of the chest improving respiratory function
* Helps you find emotional balance and stress relief
* Stretches neck, shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles (depending upon the specific twist)

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7 Elements To Permanent Change

Posted on06. Apr, 2010 by Administrator.

How come making a change is so hard, difficult and challenging?

I believe it’s because we simply haven’t been given the process to make effective,      permanent change.  Without identifying these 7 elements, you’re likely to sabotage your success.

Here’s the 7 Elements to Change:

1. Identify and clearly state your goals. I love the SMART formula, Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time Measurable

2. Desire: How motivated are you in attaining your goal on a scale of 1-10 (10 highly motivated).  If it’s less than a 8, I recommend working on your motivation first.

3. Belief: Create a future vision of yourself already attaining your goal.  What are you doing in this vision? What do you hear yourself saying to yourself? What are others saying to you?  How do you feel?  Include all of your senses in how you’re thinking, feeling, seeing, tasting and hearing.

4. Identification: Who do you currently identify with the same problem or challenge?  Also, who do you identify who’s successful at your goal?

5. Self Sabotage: What are you self sabotaging behaviors?  What new actions are you choosing to take instead?

6.  Repetition: What habits are currently holding you back from reaching your goals?  What new habits are you creating to reach your goal?  Remember, it only takes 21 days to create a new habit.

7. Self Talk: What are you currently telling yourself about reaching your new goals?  Is your self talk negative?  Or positive and pumping you up?

I’ll be going into more detail of each element in the next blog.  Until then, a great resource to jump start you into learning the elements of change is an blog talk radio show by Anastasia Netri who interviewed  Andrea Spence on April 5th 2010.

How to End the Self Sabotaging Cycle

Here’s to YOUR Successes!

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Illusions of the Mind~

Posted on11. Mar, 2010 by Administrator.

Is your reality an illusion? Or are illusions your reality?

How is it possible that you and I can look at the same picture and see two different things? Take a look at the picture below, what is the age of the woman? What is the age of the woman in the picture?

Can you see the young lady? Can you see the older woman? Can you see them both at the same time? Why or why not?

Perhaps we see exactly what we’re looking for.

Look around your room and notice everything that is red. Then close your eyes and name everything that is green. I bet you found half as many green items as red, since you were not originally looking for it.

It’s the same in life, if you’re looking for doom & gloom, I bet you can find lots of evidence to support that. If you’re looking for the good, you’ll more easily find that too.

Here’s a fun activity to do everyday before you go to bed, list 5 successes that you had today, whether it’s big or small. As you focus your mind on success, it will be easier for your mind to create more successes.

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The Power of the Subconscious Mind!

Posted on10. Mar, 2010 by Administrator.

“In each of us, two natures are at war –the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of the must conquer.  But in our hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.”  Jekyll and Hyde Restaurant

The subconscious mind operates our body and mind, automatically.  It is where all habits reside and where all of life’s programming and imprints take place.

The conscious mind is the seat of will power, which is a function of the decision making capability.

If we attempt to create any change, it has to be done on the level of the subconscious mind where memory, programming and habits reside.

The hypnotic state is the tool that we use as a vehicle to communicate with the subconscious mind.

When we do things on the subconscious level we do them automatically, quicker, more efficiently and more accurately.  It is a great advantage that we can relegate many tasks to the subconscious so as to free our conscious mind.

To demonstrate the functionality of the subconscious mind, try the following exercises.

Exercise #1: The A-B-C’s;

Say the entire alphabet as fast as you can, and notice how long it takes.

Next, say only every other letter.  That should be easier and quicker right?  Well try it by saying every other letter.

The first time around you were reciting something you already knew on the subconscious level, and thus it was easy, fast and accurate.  The second time around you had to think consciously about what you were saying so, of course you found that to be a much slower process, fraught with mistakes.

Exercise #2:  The hand clasp

Clasp your hands (interlacing the fingers) three times as fast as you can.  Notice how comfortable, quick and easy this action is.

Now clasp your hands with the other thumb on top (interlace the opposite way).

Do it three times fast as you can and notice how uncomfortable and slow it is compared to the way you are used to doing it.  Again, when you do it habitually and subconscious, it is easy and fast contrasting with the slow and cumbersome conscious way.

Exercise #3: Typing

If you know how to properly –i.e. with all fingers and without looking at the keyboard – you know how fast you can go when you ar in the flow (typing subconsciously).  However, when you do stop to look at the keyboard and spell out the words (typing consciously), you find that it is much slower and you are prone to making mistakes.

Exercise #4 Driving

Remember learning to drive?  Remember how difficult it was?  You had to remember to place your foot on the brakes, insert the key ,start the car, use your blinkers, put it in gear, step on gas pedal etc.  Then you had to deal with the traffic!  Everything was done consciously thus slower and with effort.  Now you can drive in rush hour without blinking an eye, with your radio on, coffee in one hand, cell phone in the other.
Learn to be more productive with less stress, solve problems quicker and easier and eliminate the blocks that are preventing you from reaching for your highest potential in your business and personal lives!

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How to Avoid Going Brain Dead…

Posted on10. Mar, 2010 by Administrator.

In your spare or ‘boredom’ time you can stimulate your brain with fun, easy, creative exercises.  With as little as a minute of time for each exercise, you can easily increase your reading, writing, comprehension, spatial coordination, arithmetic and much more.

1. Ear Rub

Technique: Massage your ears for 1-2 min.  Rub in the inside, outside and all around your ears.

Benefits: Improves listening comprehension and enhances ones focus.  This technique helps with public speaking, singing and playing music.  This is also great to help restore one’s equilibrium, especially in moving cars.

2. Double Doodle

Technique: Begin with your arms out in front of you and begin mirroring your arm movements.  Then take 2 pens to a piece of paper while you mirror your arm movements.  Begin with simple doodles and work your way up to writing your name.

Benefits: Helps with math, spelling and writing by enhancing the blood flow to your left brain.  Also, it stimulates the right brain to encourage creativity, play and innovation.  This technique increases hand-eye coordination in both visual fields, great to improve ones sports abilities.

3. Cross Crawl

Technique: Alternatively move one arm to the opposite leg and the other arm and its opposite leg in slow motion.

Benefits: Improves spelling, writing, listening and reading.  This is an ideal warm-up exercise before learning since it stimulates both the right and left hemisphere.

4.  Crazy Eights

Technique: Extend your arms in front of you; clasp your hands together with interlocked fingers and your thumbs pointing up towards the ceiling.  Move your arms first up to the top left and continue in a sideways figure “8” motion.  Make sure to come upwards through the middle of the “8”.  As your arms move through the figure “8”, your eyes should follow your thumbs through the motion.  Be sure to move only your eyes and not your head as you do this.

Benefits:  This exercise stimulates the right and left hemisphere simultaneously, increasing the communication to each hemisphere. Reading comprehension and long term memory are improved with this technique.

5. Balance Poses

Technique: Take a moment to get centered on your feet by shifting your weight to the front of your feet, then shift the weight to the back and then side to side.  Feel your feet well grounded and planted on the floor.   Then lock out your left leg and lift your right foot a couple inches off the floor.  Repeat with opposite leg.  Allow your gaze to be soft as you stare at something standing still.

Benefits: Be working on ones balance it helps one become more centered, focus and improves concentration.  It also helps ones patience with oneself.

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