How A Clear Mind Changes Your Life

Copyright (c) 2011 Willie Horton

One of my readers has just told me that she has just realized how she can completely change her life. Every Monday morning I send out a Free Personal Development Video to my readers worldwide. They also get a couple of quick tips – simple things that they can do straight away. Last Monday I decided to include a five minute guided meditation – and that is what my reader was referring to. In five minutes, she experienced the difference between being all over the place and being clear and here. As she told me, she now knows how she’s going to start the day – every day.

There's any number of things that can mess up our day - like getting into the office and discovering that something's come up that we hadn't anticipated, like others trying to pass on their problems to you, like a screaming match at home just as you were flying out to work or even something like someone at the creche or the gym who just annoys you. In the course of a normal day, these things are there to test us - and, unfortunately, as normal people, we simply fall short. But we allow our attention to be dragged all over the place - anywhere other than where it should be. The result is that we're never present enough, during the course of the day, to do our best.

All this stuff comes from other people, outside events, the stuff that ordinary everyday life is made of - the little things that come and go. However, on top of all that, you're also your own worst enemy - how often are you distracted by your own random thoughts? Have you ever noticed how the stupidest thoughts cross your mind at the most inappropriate moment. Did you realize that thinking that you'd like to be at the beach instead of stuck in this boring meeting will not teleport you to the beach?! In fact, that kind of thought will just make the meeting more boring! Maybe you don't realize that wishing it was Saturday morning when you're supposed to be working makes what you're doing more difficult and more annoying so that, in the end, you prove that you were right to not like your job! This is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Follow it and you'll wake up feelling miserable every single weekday! How's that for living?

You've got to realize that life's difficult enough without us making it even more difficult. Psychology tells us that we have 50,000 random thoughts every day, none of which have anything to do with what we're supposed to be doing while we're thinking them! So you've external noise and internal noise - with all that noise it is very difficult to focus. Obviously, if you just start the day normally, without making any effort to get your head focused, what do you honestly think that chances are of you suddenly becoming miraculously focused during the day. Would you even think about leaving the home nude? (If you would, what we're talking about in this article is the least of your worries!) Now, if you physically prepare yourself for the day ahead, why wouldn't you mentally prepare yourself too? Maybe it's never occurred to you that you can be in charge of your own head.

What you've got to realize is that you can. But, if you don't, your life will never change. It starts with doing what's needed to clear your mind - turning off your own inner noise. If you don't do this first thing in the morning, you've simply given up on the day ahead before it's got going. However, if you do, your day starts off with you being fully focused. A clear mind is one that's fully focused. Focus simply means that you're paying attention to what is happening. A focused mind is better equipped to handle all the rubbish that other people will try to heap on you during the day. When you're focused you will automatically be more productive, more effective - you'll be far more productive and that will make you feel better about life in general and yourself in particular. And most important of all, when your focused you will be fully alert to the opportunities of life that are all around you - you were just too hassled by all the noise - so you never noticed.

Focus will clear your path the success - and happiness. Neuro-psychology proves that a focused mind is in a completely different zone to the normal mind - the peak performance zone. When we're focused, our brain's electrical activity is on a completely different level than when we're in our normal, all-over-the-place, state of mind. The fact is that your ability to focus directly impacts on your ability to be happy and successful. In short, if you don't succeed in focusing your mind, you will simply never achieve anything worthwhile - and you'll never be happy. But, if you do know how you focus, the world is your oyster.

Focus starts with clarity. To completely clear your mind, you pay full attention to what is actually happening in the present moment. And that's how meditation did it for my 'eziner' - meditation develops your innate ability to focus your attention on what your five senses are saying to you - not what all the noise in your head is trying to push on you. If your day is started by you deliberately deciding to focus on the reality of the here and now, you'll set yourself up for all of the day ahead. And that means that, as the day progresses, you'll be able to notice when you're focused or when you're being dragged into other people's parallel universes. As a result, you'll be able to maintain your focus.

So, have you now thought about how you should you kick off tommorrow morning?

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