Personal Development Strategies from Personal Development Expert David Cameron Gikandi

Vipassana Meditation is one of the most ancient techniques of meditating in India. It was rediscovered by Gautam Buddha more than 2500 years ago. Vipassana meditation focus is mainly to promote conscious lifestyle changes and even works towards enhancing concentration of mind. It teaches human beings to see life just the way it is in all its reality without being affected by it. This meditation also helps in providing deeper psychological introspection and ultimately results in certain behavioral changes that are long lasting.

The following are the basic steps to practice Vipassana meditation:

1. Sit in a quiet place dark room
2. No disturbance for at least 20 minutes
3. Make your head and spine straight
4. Two options - sit on the floor or on a chair as per your requirement
5. Close your eyes to avoid outside influences
6. Now start focusing on your breathing
7. Study the length of each breath - whether short long or heavy
8. Do not judge or try and control your breathing
9. Be neutral with your breathing
10. Thoughts will come up, naturally. Just watch them, let them go, and return your attention to breath.
    
11. You might get distracted by itches, emotions, sounds, etc. That is OK. Don’t fight the distraction - simply notice it, let your attention land softly on it, and it will pass sooner or later, and return to the breath.
    
12. If you keep practicing you will be able to focus on the breathing for long periods without distraction
13. There should be zero disturbance during the meditation, do not attend any questions or thoughts arise during the meditation

Vipassana Meditation is one of the best technique that works towards bringing out full transformation of the human personality. No wonder this meditation technique is usually described as a technique of purifying the mind of the habits it has developed long back. This leads the individual in exhibiting the true qualities of a human being such as peace, joy, bliss, tolerance, equanimity, kindness, sympathy, forgiveness and a lot more.

Tagged as: meditation, vipassana

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Tagged as: facebook, goal setting, goalbees, success

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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. - Calvin Coolidge

Moral of the story? Take it easy. Chill. Let go. Don’t sweat the small stuff. And most of it is small stuff (even if you don’t think it is). And as the 80/20 rule proves, 80% of your worries are unfounded (and the remaining 20%, unfounded or not, need not be worries about because if you can do something about an issue, then there is no point worrying about it and if you can’t do anything about an issue, there is also no point worrying about it).

And for any situation, walk in with optimism and confidence. Optimism is seeing the bright side of things and confidence is knowing that you will stand your ground and handle the downside, even if you may be afraid.

Enjoy your day!

Tagged as: achievemnt, goals, problems, success

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We know that results come from action. But what exactly is action, and what is its mother? For in knowing a thing, we can master it.

Lou Holtz once said that ‘Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.’

Let us focus on that for a moment.

Ability. What are you capable of doing? Think about that carefully. You have a heart, legs, mind, arms, eyes… and even if one or two of those are missing, your human potential is immense! I don’t think there is anyone on this planet currently actualizing more than 10% of their ability. The potential ability is immense! Yes, the realized ability may be tiny, but the potential is insanely immense! Have a look at my Capability article for more on this.

Motivation. The energy, drive and desire to actually act is what will select, from your vast infinite potential, the VERY few specific things you will actually do. So how do you influence motivation? Simple. You control or position yourself appropriately in line with the three major motivators of humans. And these are financial (or similar) reward, ethics, and morals. Financial (or similar) reward is what you will get out of it, your potential perceived payoff for your effort. Morals are what YOU think and feel about yourself in terms of good or bad. Ethics is what OTHERS think and feel about you in terms of good or bad. Of course, you are creating your reality all along, so in truth, all these three are figments of your perception of life, and not concrete things in and of themselves. So you might as well imagine them as you wish!

Attitude. Now this is key! Your attitude is what you think and feel about yourself, not so much in terms of morality although it does touch on it, but in terms of the inner dialog you have with yourself and the feelings you generate within you. This will determine everything else! Attitude is being, and being is first cause. So start here! Fix this first. And the best advice on this is from my favorite book on this subject (yes, I am probably biased but I love this book) called ‘The Power of Your Subconscious Mind’ by Dr. Joseph Murphy. Get it and read it today!!! It is that good. And read it more than once.

Now. Moving on.

Zig Ziglar, the famous great salesman, once said that ‘You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win’.

Again, you see the elements of ability, motivation, and attitude in that statement. But there is more…

As I mentioned in one of my previous articles on the Law of Attraction, the only way to get results is via the Be-Do-Have formula (and not Do-Have-Be). In other words, being is the mother of doing, but many people make the mistake of approaching it the other way around. Being (attitude) is the mother, the first cause. The actions you take, their kind and caliber, will follow from the kind of attitude you bring to the table, who you have chosen to be in that moment.

Being can further be broken down to several components, which include knowledge and vision. You need to know what to do (knowledge) and then use that knowingness to create a vision. The vision is the finished blueprint in your mind, and later on paper, and that will guide your actions towards the manifestation of your vision. As above, so below.

So we all have an amazing potential ability. But the catalyst that unlocks that ability and makes the difference between one person and the other is who we have chosen to be in the moment (attitude/beingness), what we have sought and attracted in terms of knowing what to do, how we have motivated ourselves, and the vision we have constructed carefully and with clarity. Action will follow automatically from these ingredients and the results will hatch automatically.

So, if you agree with the above, then the path to great (or little) achievements is as follows:

1. Sort your attitude out first, your state of being. Auto-suggestion is one way of doing this. See the book I mentioned above for excellent guidance on this.
2. Seek out and attract the knowledge your require. This will come as insights, advice, books, people, etc. You will find that because you have sorted out your attitude, the law of attraction will start to bring to you the knowledge and you all you have to do is digest it and use it.
3. Create your vision.
4. Sort your motivation out. Manipulate your perceived and believed potential rewards (financial or similar, moral and ethical). This will give you the energy to act.
5. Take action one step at a time, maintaining the right attitude.
6. Enjoy the results!

Please. Try this at home J

Enjoy a beautiful day!

David

Tagged as: action, attitude, auto-suggestion, autosuggestion, being, goals, knowledge, motivation, success

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Frustration… hard work… and skimpy results compared to what is possible. This is the plague of much of the world. And then there are those few who seem to flourish, to work at what they love, work when they want, enjoy it all, and achieve great results.

The difference is vast. And the reason for the difference is easily traced right back to lifestyle design and inner game. The Inner Game is the mindset and emotional mastery. The outer game is the lifestyle design. The work of this manifesto has been to show you how the mastery of these two can easily and surely enable you to create the lifestyle of your dreams, regardless of your present circumstances.

For more information, click here .

Tagged as: amazing life style creation formula, financial freedom, goals, home business, law of attraction, money, success, The Secret, time freedom

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Begin to structure your application of the Law of Attraction ! The structure is what puts in place deliberate creation. The Law of Attraction is always working, but by structuring its application, you “herd ” it into a well-targeted flow . The Law of Attraction says that you bring about what you predominantly think about and feel. So, whatever you think about most often, whatever you feel most often, dictates the results you create and experience. It is always working. The question you ought to ask yourself is, what will be the difference in results between a person with powerful knowledge applying the LOA, and one with powerful ignorance applying the LOA? The beauty of the LOA is that it can be used to attract the right knowledge as well, which is why you are now reading this. It is in line with what you have been wondering about, isn’t it? Use the LOA always to attract new knowledge, then apply that knowledge, that will move you ahead more, then repeat the cycle from your new vantage point!

Use the Law of Attraction to attract …

• · The right people …
• · The right strategies …
• · And the right processes …

And use the Law of Attraction in line with …

• · The right people …
• · The right strategies …
• · And the right processes …

That’s it!

Tagged as: amazing life style creation formula, financial freedom, goals, home business, law of attraction, money, success, The Secret, time freedom

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I just bumped into a rather interesting website (you know the way I like to explore and report back on my findings)…

Really, this one cracked me up at first but once I got in I did find it to be rather powerful and rich in good content. In fact, as amusing as it was in the beginning, I realized it is probably more solid, serious and richer (content-wise) than most others.

Why was it amusing?

Because it features…

1. The Clint Eastwood of personal growth (seriously, I am not kidding – have a look for yourself)
2. The Charles Bronson of Holistic Health
3. The John Wayne of Manifestation

The point is, this is some pretty hard-hitting, straight-shooting stuff… and that’s sometimes what we need to achieve the REAL breakthroughs in life.

Anyways, have a look for yourself, I am sure you will enjoy it as much as we did!

Warmest wishes,

David Cameron Gikandi