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Issue No: 080 - March 22, 2010

This Week's FREE Self-Help Seminar

Today's Reflection

It's Monday and It's Great

Positive Doing

So you don't like Mondays - join the gang (the gang of normal crazy people). Monday, like every other day of the week, offers you teh unique possibility of you being all that you can be - today. But you can only grasp this unique one-off opportunity (each day's a new one-off) if you've set about it in the right fashion. That means that you need to make sure that you're mind is not set ono "stand-by", the way the normal mind is. You've got to turn yourself on, wake yourself up to be clear enough and present enough to start taking real action to change your life...

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It is quite amazing the number of times that I get asked about the benefits of positive thinking. Sure, positive thinking is better than negative thinking, but it’s still just thinking. And most of the thinking that we do exercises our conscious mind – that small part of our mind that plays little part in the creation of our everyday lives. It is our programmed subconscious that creates our automatic behaviour as a result of which our version of reality unfolds before our very eyes. It is our subconscious that creates stress and anxiety and the fear of taking the brave and courageous decisions that we need to often take if we are, indeed, to follow up on our positive thinking. (Of course, the kind of decisions that I’m talking about are only “brave” or “courageous” to normal, crazy people.)

Even though positive thinking is better than the negative alternative, thinking stops doing. Or worse, recent work in the US indicates that positive thinking has blinded otherwise well-informed business people from the obvious pitfalls of pursuing a certain course of action – senior figures in the banking world get a particular mention! That aside, at very best, too much thinking is a dangerous thing.

You’d be far better of indulging in a little positive doing – or a lot! In other words, actually doing just the important things that need to be done to fix whatever part of your life that you’re not entirely happy with. If you’ve financial worries or your business is going down the toilet, if you feel inadequate in certain business or social situations, if your relationship is on the rocks or if your health is deteriorating, if you hate your job or hate your life – you’ve got to take action. Not reaction, not more of the same – if you want something different, you’ve got to do something different.
How will you know what positive doing needs to be done? Well, you can’t do anything without a clear and present mind – take five minutes to watch today’s “5Minute” Seminar – the video just to the left!!

This Week's Recommended Read - Introducing Quantum Theory

Personal Development Article

J.P. McEvoy & Oscar Zarate ISBN 1 84046 577 8

This week - something completely different! This book provides an insight into quantum mechanics, in something approaching comic-book format! Highly accessible, it will add to the understanding of those wishing to explore the sometimes inaccessible world of modern quantum theory. But, if you’re not into this area, simply don’t bother! - Willie Horton

The Publisher says: Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which upset the logical edifices of classical physics. At the sub-atomic level, one particle seems to know what others are doing (so-called ‘non-locality’), and according to Heisenberg’s ‘uncertainty principle’, there is a limit on how accurately nature can be observed. And yet the theory is amazingly accurate and widely applied, explaining all of chemistry and most of physics. Introducing Quantum Theory takes us on a step-by-step tour with the key figures, including Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrödinger. Each contributed at least one crucial concept to the theory. The puzzle of wave-particle duality is here, along with descriptions of the two questions raised against Bohr’s ‘Copenhagen Interpretation’ – the famous ‘dead and alive cat’ and the EPR paradox. Both remain unresolved at the beginning of the 21st century.

first published February 16 2009

Dealing with Fear, Stress and Anxiety

by Willie Horton

Fear, anxiety and stress are all very "real" experiences of modern living. These emotions are nothing other than useless thoughts which disable us from dealing with the stresses and strains of life. If we allow our minds to play tricks on us, by "entertaining" these thoughts, then we open up the floodgates of suffering. The very real alternative is to take control of our minds and put to them to use in creating the life that we really want.

Read the full article on fear and stress...

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