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Issue No: 068 - February 8, 2010

This Week's FREE Self-Help Seminar

Today's Reflection

You Don't Need No Self Help Gurus!!

How's Your State of Mind Today?

The "self-help industry" is in the news for all the wrong reasons with the arrest of James Ray on three charges of manslaughter. But this publicity masks a deeper problem where so-called self-help gurus help themselves at the expense of vulnerable souls. The key point is that no one needs a guru. Self help means what it says - you need to help yourself. Sure, you need pointers, signposts. Yes, you need to be armed with the appropriate facts. But, in the end, it's up to you - and the great news is that you can do it...

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What have you done so far today to ensure that you are in a clear and present state of mind – to ensure that your subconscious mind is not tying your laces together whilst you’re trying to run life’s race – to ensure that you’re open to opportunity and closed to wasting your energy, be it on useless thought or the “energy vampires”?

A client once told me that he meditated every single morning. On further investigation, it emerged that he claimed he was meditating in the few minutes between when the alarm went off and when he got out of bed. That’s dozing, not meditating. You can’t exercise your mental muscles lying down. So, when I ask the above question, I’m talking enquiring as to whether you have deliberately and consciously done something formal about getting your mind in shape today.

It could be something as enormously effective as twenty, thirty or even sixty minutes meditation. Meditation disciplines the otherwise wayward and self-destructive mind. It could have been something as simple, yet effective, as brushing your teeth with the other hand or shaving with the other hand. It could have been something as effortless as sitting on the train or bus watching the world go by (deliberately, not simply staring blankly).

Truth is, however, many of even those who should know better start their day in a mental fog and do nothing to clear it. They then wonder how come their day is not going well, how the challenges that they have to rise to in business, relationships and life in general overwhelm them. Fools! There’s no need to go searching for an explanation to why your life is not all that it should be. If it isn’t it’s your own stupidity – you couldn’t be bothered to take five minutes to make the other twenty three hours and fifty five minutes better.

So, what have you done so far today to ensure that you are in a clear and present state of mind? If you’ve done nothing – just add “yet” to that! The day is not over ‘til it’s over.

This Week's Recommended Read - Perfect Health

Personal Development Article

by Deepak Chopra - ISBN 0-553-81367-6

Fusing molecular science and ancient Eastern mysticism, Chopra proposes an action plan for “Perfect Health” – can be heavy going but, in my view, Chopra’s always worth reading - Willie Horton

The Publisher says: Although we experience our bodies as solid, they are in fact more like fires that are constantly being consumed and renewed. We grow new stomach linings every five days, for instance; our skin is new every five weeks; each year, ninety-eight percent of the total number of atoms in our bodies is replaced. Ayurveda gives us the tools to intervene at this quantum level, where we are being created anew each day. It also reveals how freedom from sickness depends on contacting our own awareness, bringing it into balance and then extending that balance to the body. Perfect Health provides a complete step-by-step programme of mind-body medicine tailored to individual needs. A quiz identifies the reader’s mind-body type – it is the body type that forms the basis of a specific Ayurvedic programme of diet, stress reduction, neuromuscular integration, exercise, and daily routines. The result is a total health plan that will re-establish the body’s essential balance with nature, strengthen the mind-body connection and use the power of quantum healing to transcend the ordinary limitations of disease and aging.

first published March 30 2009

Strategies for Effortless Business Success

by Willie Horton

Too often, business planning and strategy follows a predictable line of normal thinking - whereas, psychological research proves that normal thinking is completely ineffective! Not only that, normal people - and, consequently, business teams are dysfunctional. Here are four simple ideas - that have worked for senior business people over the last thirteen years - to enable you adopt a business strategy that will see you achieve abnormal success...

Read the full article on why, in order to achieve abnormal business success, you have to behave abnormally...