You tend to filter current situations through your beliefs. If you tend to believe that nothing good happens for you, you probably overlook opportunities that come your way. This means you don’t take action on them, because you don’t realize there’s any action to take. But you can change those beliefs and filters. Here’s an exercise to practice turning negative beliefs around in your daily life.
Most of consciously would love more good in our lives. But some people unconsciously restrict it, based on fear of offending others. Here are a couple of reasons why you might avoid accepting good, and some new attitude possibilities to resolve them.
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Setting an intention is a powerful way to make changes in your life. And it’s actually a promise to yourself. But if you tend to break promises to yourself, your subconscious will not believe that you’re willing to do what’s necessary to achieve your goal. If you’ve had a habit of falling short of your goals, you’ll have to gain its trust again. Learn one way to begin gaining its cooperation when you really want to make a change.
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Change isn’t easy. If you don’t find a strong motivation and reason to make the effort to improve, then you’ll fall back into old patterns. Here are some tips of what you can do to empower and intensify your motivation to follow-through on your intention.
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Being aware of your true intention is important in all areas of your life. It’s not only vital when you set goals for yourself, but also when you’re communicating with other people. Here are four examples of how the underlying intention of communication can help or hinder you.
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You can always ask your inner self for guidance, but you can also ask it for help. After you do, dismiss it to let your creative mind work on it. Listen to any inner promptings that could lead you to your answer. You can also ask a couple of questions that can help you along the way. As you ask and listen to your intuition more frequently, the more reliable it will become.
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Whether we’re aware of them or not, we’re always making choices. Some of them are made unconsciously, as habit, and without considering the long range consequences. But we can always become aware, choose wisely, or change our decision. It’s not easy to become that conscious and change, but the results for long term benefits are immeasurable.
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You have the power and the choice whether to let someone else decide your fate, or to do so yourself. If someone makes demands on your time or energy, you have the right to decide if it’s appropriate for you or if it’s not. When you decline their invitation, you don’t have to explain why. By taking your power back, you’re letting your inner self know that its needs are important.
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It’s a sad truth that most people only treat you as well as you treat yourself. If you don’t respect yourself, set boundaries and take care of your self-interest, other people won’t do it either. They take their cue from how you treat yourself. When you take care of your own well being, then you train others to respect you.
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In any challenging situation, you can either fight against it or accept it. When you resist it, you waste valuable energy. However, by accepting it and using that energy, you have a much better chance of a beneficial outcome. The challenge will always have something to teach you, and that lesson can deepen and broaden your strength and inner resources.
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