William Michael Forbes
Your heart is that place inside you which can never die, never be born and will always create and recreate. wmf
A Well Known Fact: You can never be created or destroyed…you can only change…just like all else that is.
Change…it is happening to all of us…it is occurring in all of us at each and every moment. Even now your food is digesting…your mind is thinking…thoughts are constantly flowing from your conscious to your unconscious in a marvelous dynamism. We are all dynamisms…forever changing consciously or unconsciously…for better or for worse. Most people do not even recognize the changes that are occurring in their lives…unless they are really obvious…those who are aware delicately pay attention to the subtle, incremental changes as they lead them to higher levels of perception and growth.
Today for 2 minutes every hour, for the next 7 hours, allow yourself to feel the changes as they occur both within and around you…you may observe the obvious physical and sensorial changes…but also, pay attention to the changes in your feelings as they occur too and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Live mindfully
William Michael Forbes
The range of expressions that humans can produce for themselves; from a bum on the street to the thousand pound man, to the Sages, Artists and poets, dictatorial madmen and politicians…fills my mind with sadness, wonder and joy wmf
A Well Known Fact: Without knowledge life seems like a problem, accident or a mistake…Reason is the first breath of happiness.
When you wake up in the morning…do your thoughts and feelings take you immediately to joy and the possibilities of another amazing day? Or does your mind track into familiar, redundant and painful thoughts of drudgery? Do you even know that you have a choice to think the thoughts you want? Do you even believe that you are thinking your own thoughts? Today’s blog is a chance to become a little more conscious of what you are thinking and to have the opportunity to change them as they occur…and with this in mind for two minutes of each of the next eight hours…make sure the thoughts you think are thoughts that will incline you to feel better about yourself and then allow yourself to act according to those thoughts and
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
The range of expressions that humans can produce for themselves; from a bum on the street to the thousand pound man, to the Sages, Artists and poets, dictatorial madmen and politicians…fills my mind with sadness, wonder and joy wmf
A Well Known Fact: Without knowledge life seems like a problem, accident or a mistake…Reason is the first breath of happiness.
When you wake up in the morning…do your thoughts and feelings take you immediately to joy and the possibilities of another amazing day? Or does your mind track into familiar, redundant and painful thoughts of drudgery? Do you even know that you have a choice to think the thoughts you want? Do you even believe that you are thinking your own thoughts? Today’s blog is a chance to become a little more conscious of what you are thinking and to have the opportunity to change them as they occur…and with this in mind for two minutes of each of the next eight hours…make sure the thoughts you think are thoughts that will incline you to feel better about yourself and then allow yourself to act according to those thoughts and
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Stand up and open up
William Michael Forbes
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People only have a difficult time with themselves and when they cannot see these…they will blame wmf
A Well Known Fact: Emotion does not come from out there.
Today is very simple and it is called stand up. Wherever you are…for 2 minutes for each of the next seven hours…Stand up and spread your arms wide wherever you are. Notice if any part of you feels uncomfortable…does any part of you worry about what others think? Does any part of you want to stop before the two minutes is up because of those feelings? While doing this activity…try and get to a place where you feel good just being as you are, irrespective og what your mind might tell you about what others think, feel or believe. Avoid doing this in places where you will easily feel safe…do this in places where you will be able to connect to and then love any negative aspects of yourself…in other words…if you feel fearful, guilty, silly, like you “shouldn’t” be doing this…let those parts of yourself know that you really love them…even if you don’t think you believe it…
Life is about being all that you are fearlessly and sometimes even with the fear and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
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People only have a difficult time with themselves and when they cannot see these…they will blame wmf
A Well Known Fact: Emotion does not come from out there.
Today is very simple and it is called stand up. Wherever you are…for 2 minutes for each of the next seven hours…Stand up and spread your arms wide wherever you are. Notice if any part of you feels uncomfortable…does any part of you worry about what others think? Does any part of you want to stop before the two minutes is up because of those feelings? While doing this activity…try and get to a place where you feel good just being as you are, irrespective og what your mind might tell you about what others think, feel or believe. Avoid doing this in places where you will easily feel safe…do this in places where you will be able to connect to and then love any negative aspects of yourself…in other words…if you feel fearful, guilty, silly, like you “shouldn’t” be doing this…let those parts of yourself know that you really love them…even if you don’t think you believe it…
Life is about being all that you are fearlessly and sometimes even with the fear and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Loving your fear
William Michael Forbes
One of the biggest misconceptions about life is that our emotions are an effect of what is outside of us....when in fact they are always existent only within us wmf
A Well Known Fact: The world around us stimulates that which is already within us or not.
How often have you tried to overcome something you were afraid of with sheer willpower?
Whether you have fear of relationship, a fear of bugs, a fear of snakes, a fear of heights...any kind of fear...willpower can only take you so far because you are trying to force one part of yourself to submit to another and this isn’t much different than using fear as a means to acquire co-operation from someone...it doesn’t work well and it alienates others from you. Fear has historically been used by barbaric individuals to control others...tools such as superstition, religion, dictatorships, the projecting of guilt and shame and ultimately when these do not work, physical force. Today’s blog is about guiding you beyond your fear by loving it.
The process for overcoming any fear in a healthy and positive way is love. Love is the ultimate perception of good that any human individual can conceive of at whatever stage of development they exist at...therefore any internal perception of “good feeling” is a degree and expression of love for the individual...it is what I teach people to become aware of within themselves and this awareness naturally and positively inspires growth. With this idea in mind here is your activity for how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
During this day, for two minutes in each of the next seven hours, recognize fear when it is happening...notice anything that makes you anxious, nervous, uncomfortable and when you do take a deep breath and become aware of where you feel that fear in yourself...it might help to close your eyes and feel the fear more internally...then as you become more aware of the fear think or say to the fear in a tone of voice that sounds like you really mean this...”I Love you...I will take care of you...” You are perfectly safe with me and then notice and feel how the feeling inside you changes. If you are dealing with a fear of heights or insects or people...close your eyes feel the feat on the inside and repeat the same statement to the fear as either a thought or feeling...” ”I Love you...I will take care of you...” it is most important that the way you present these words to yourself be in a tone of voice that sounds like you really mean it...then notice how the feeling changes and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
One of the biggest misconceptions about life is that our emotions are an effect of what is outside of us....when in fact they are always existent only within us wmf
A Well Known Fact: The world around us stimulates that which is already within us or not.
How often have you tried to overcome something you were afraid of with sheer willpower?
Whether you have fear of relationship, a fear of bugs, a fear of snakes, a fear of heights...any kind of fear...willpower can only take you so far because you are trying to force one part of yourself to submit to another and this isn’t much different than using fear as a means to acquire co-operation from someone...it doesn’t work well and it alienates others from you. Fear has historically been used by barbaric individuals to control others...tools such as superstition, religion, dictatorships, the projecting of guilt and shame and ultimately when these do not work, physical force. Today’s blog is about guiding you beyond your fear by loving it.
The process for overcoming any fear in a healthy and positive way is love. Love is the ultimate perception of good that any human individual can conceive of at whatever stage of development they exist at...therefore any internal perception of “good feeling” is a degree and expression of love for the individual...it is what I teach people to become aware of within themselves and this awareness naturally and positively inspires growth. With this idea in mind here is your activity for how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
During this day, for two minutes in each of the next seven hours, recognize fear when it is happening...notice anything that makes you anxious, nervous, uncomfortable and when you do take a deep breath and become aware of where you feel that fear in yourself...it might help to close your eyes and feel the fear more internally...then as you become more aware of the fear think or say to the fear in a tone of voice that sounds like you really mean this...”I Love you...I will take care of you...” You are perfectly safe with me and then notice and feel how the feeling inside you changes. If you are dealing with a fear of heights or insects or people...close your eyes feel the feat on the inside and repeat the same statement to the fear as either a thought or feeling...” ”I Love you...I will take care of you...” it is most important that the way you present these words to yourself be in a tone of voice that sounds like you really mean it...then notice how the feeling changes and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Friday, May 21, 2010
With no past to hold you.
William Michael Forbes
Many of our mistakes are unconsciously made and supported by the past view of ourselves...a now view of ourselves would will liberate us from our past. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Sub-atomic and quantum particles of energy respond instantly to our thoughts and ideas.
Our past is not who we are...it is a record of what we have experienced and created. What we have created and what we create is based on what we have been told to think and believe and also a result of what we choose to think independently of what we have been taught. Operating exclusively from what you have been taught will result in a consistent resurrection of the past in your present...operating from the now, independent of past influences will result in creative results that reflect who and what you choose to think, feel and believe.
Moving ourselves out of the past and into the present of who we are as a living Soul, requires that we do two things consistently;
1. When we make choices and take action to question what, if any, influences from my past am I allowing into this process? And
2. Do I feel unique and empowered thinking and doing the way i am at this time?
This brings us to today lesson on “How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.”
For two minutes for the next seven hours, any task or job or social interaction you find yourself in today, ask yourself these questions;...Am I doing this activity in a fresh and dynamic way? Do I feel excited by what I’m doing? Is there another way I can do what I’m doing and feel even better about it?
Notice how your body and mind responds as you ask those questions...allow yourself to change what you are doing based on your responses and observe how the world around you responds as you do...are you afraid or excited? Try to respond from your present and not your past and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Many of our mistakes are unconsciously made and supported by the past view of ourselves...a now view of ourselves would will liberate us from our past. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Sub-atomic and quantum particles of energy respond instantly to our thoughts and ideas.
Our past is not who we are...it is a record of what we have experienced and created. What we have created and what we create is based on what we have been told to think and believe and also a result of what we choose to think independently of what we have been taught. Operating exclusively from what you have been taught will result in a consistent resurrection of the past in your present...operating from the now, independent of past influences will result in creative results that reflect who and what you choose to think, feel and believe.
Moving ourselves out of the past and into the present of who we are as a living Soul, requires that we do two things consistently;
1. When we make choices and take action to question what, if any, influences from my past am I allowing into this process? And
2. Do I feel unique and empowered thinking and doing the way i am at this time?
This brings us to today lesson on “How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.”
For two minutes for the next seven hours, any task or job or social interaction you find yourself in today, ask yourself these questions;...Am I doing this activity in a fresh and dynamic way? Do I feel excited by what I’m doing? Is there another way I can do what I’m doing and feel even better about it?
Notice how your body and mind responds as you ask those questions...allow yourself to change what you are doing based on your responses and observe how the world around you responds as you do...are you afraid or excited? Try to respond from your present and not your past and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Goals help make you whole.
William Michael Forbes
Without the concept of goals you have nowhere to go. wmf
A Well Known Fact: The body will react to the imagined as if it is real...because in reality all that is real was once imagined.
Even when we have an intuition to say, do, go or be...the intuition is a goal that universal intelligence gives to us either because we are ready to receive it or we have asked universal energy for something. When we set goals we are also placing and order both to our subconscious mind and to Universal energy through our Soul. Our mind cannot ask for anything new as the mind is only a storage container for our past...ONLY YOU, AS THE SOUL, can ask for something new and when you ask for something that would have real meaning and value for you, you naturally feel better at the idea of having it. This brings us to today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
I want you to write five goals on a piece of paper that if these were fulfilled right now, you would be happier than you have ever been. As you write down each goal spend a full minute contemplating what your life would be like when each of the goals is true. Five minutes for each of the next three hours will enable you feel and imagine each of these goals more fully as it works out that you will be spending three minutes in total on each of the five goals...you may spend more time on these goals if you can and want to...just remember to let yourself feel what you feel as you imagine your life with the goals already fulfilled and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Without the concept of goals you have nowhere to go. wmf
A Well Known Fact: The body will react to the imagined as if it is real...because in reality all that is real was once imagined.
Even when we have an intuition to say, do, go or be...the intuition is a goal that universal intelligence gives to us either because we are ready to receive it or we have asked universal energy for something. When we set goals we are also placing and order both to our subconscious mind and to Universal energy through our Soul. Our mind cannot ask for anything new as the mind is only a storage container for our past...ONLY YOU, AS THE SOUL, can ask for something new and when you ask for something that would have real meaning and value for you, you naturally feel better at the idea of having it. This brings us to today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
I want you to write five goals on a piece of paper that if these were fulfilled right now, you would be happier than you have ever been. As you write down each goal spend a full minute contemplating what your life would be like when each of the goals is true. Five minutes for each of the next three hours will enable you feel and imagine each of these goals more fully as it works out that you will be spending three minutes in total on each of the five goals...you may spend more time on these goals if you can and want to...just remember to let yourself feel what you feel as you imagine your life with the goals already fulfilled and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Breathing in the Beauty as yourself.
William Michael Forbes
Whether you realize it or not...the world around you is a projection of your deepest held truths and convictions. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Thought waves leave the body faster than light and adhere to anything in resonance with them thus giving matter form.
Today’s Blog on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about knowing your beauty. This activity is gracious and simple and if you get yourself into the spirit of it...you will go beyond being happy into bliss. Enjoy this and remember to breathe deeply and deliberately as you do the following;
Can you see beauty where you are right now? Is there something beautiful that you can put your attention on right now? Look for something that is beautiful for you to either and see, hear, smell, touch, taste and feel....put all of your attention on whatever it is that represents beauty to your senses right now...allow the feelings you have about it to be completely felt by you...allow those feelings to fill your entire body as you breathe...then allow all of your thoughts to come from this feeling and then make the following statement slowly and deliberately as you feel the feelings of beauty in your body;
“I am the beauty I see...the beauty I see is a part of me...I am beauty.”
Repeat this statement several times slowly and deliberately as feel the feelings of beauty and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Whether you realize it or not...the world around you is a projection of your deepest held truths and convictions. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Thought waves leave the body faster than light and adhere to anything in resonance with them thus giving matter form.
Today’s Blog on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about knowing your beauty. This activity is gracious and simple and if you get yourself into the spirit of it...you will go beyond being happy into bliss. Enjoy this and remember to breathe deeply and deliberately as you do the following;
Can you see beauty where you are right now? Is there something beautiful that you can put your attention on right now? Look for something that is beautiful for you to either and see, hear, smell, touch, taste and feel....put all of your attention on whatever it is that represents beauty to your senses right now...allow the feelings you have about it to be completely felt by you...allow those feelings to fill your entire body as you breathe...then allow all of your thoughts to come from this feeling and then make the following statement slowly and deliberately as you feel the feelings of beauty in your body;
“I am the beauty I see...the beauty I see is a part of me...I am beauty.”
Repeat this statement several times slowly and deliberately as feel the feelings of beauty and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
A little thoughtlessness
William Michael Forbes
Now cannot be described...only experienced...it is described only after the fact wmf
A Well Known Fact: A mind that is silent is more aware and without distraction.
What is silence really? How do you experience silence within yourself? How does silence affect your body? It is said that when a person truly reaches a state of meditation that their is no thought...no judgements...just being. Mediators’ that have been monitored have shown remarkable changes in the functioning of their bodies and people who have no experience meditating when introduced to this process have all experienced better health and peace of mind. And with this in mind i want to suggest that for five minutes of each of the next three hours, that you sit comfortably somewhere, breathe in deeply and slowly and relax your body and focus your mind onto seeing one or all of the following
1. A calm still lake or pond.
2. A pure white space.
3. A pure dark space.
4. Your body sleeping peacefully in bed.
Do this for at least five minutes over any three hour period and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Now cannot be described...only experienced...it is described only after the fact wmf
A Well Known Fact: A mind that is silent is more aware and without distraction.
What is silence really? How do you experience silence within yourself? How does silence affect your body? It is said that when a person truly reaches a state of meditation that their is no thought...no judgements...just being. Mediators’ that have been monitored have shown remarkable changes in the functioning of their bodies and people who have no experience meditating when introduced to this process have all experienced better health and peace of mind. And with this in mind i want to suggest that for five minutes of each of the next three hours, that you sit comfortably somewhere, breathe in deeply and slowly and relax your body and focus your mind onto seeing one or all of the following
1. A calm still lake or pond.
2. A pure white space.
3. A pure dark space.
4. Your body sleeping peacefully in bed.
Do this for at least five minutes over any three hour period and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Golden Moments
William Michael Forbes
To be in the moment is to really be alive. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Perception give matter, time and space the form that appears before our eye’s.
Being happy is a choice….having hope is a choice…experiencing the moment is a choice too. The moments of our lives are a unique as the every blade of grass…a precious as a first heartbeat of your body as mysterious as the life that animates ALL LIVING THINGS and so today’s blog on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about staying present of the moment and appreciating it as fully as you can.
Wherever you are for one minute each hour of this day, take a deep breath and feel the meaning and life in that breath as you take it…then exhale and feel the meaning of releasing your breath…then notice whatever you can see, hear, smell touch and taste around you for the rest of the minute and allow yourself to appreciate what you observe. The goal here is to become grateful for each moment and all that it contains, for at least one minute for the next fifteen hours…remember no two moments can ever be the same as all that is, is in a state of perpetual, dynamic change.
And…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
To be in the moment is to really be alive. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Perception give matter, time and space the form that appears before our eye’s.
Being happy is a choice….having hope is a choice…experiencing the moment is a choice too. The moments of our lives are a unique as the every blade of grass…a precious as a first heartbeat of your body as mysterious as the life that animates ALL LIVING THINGS and so today’s blog on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about staying present of the moment and appreciating it as fully as you can.
Wherever you are for one minute each hour of this day, take a deep breath and feel the meaning and life in that breath as you take it…then exhale and feel the meaning of releasing your breath…then notice whatever you can see, hear, smell touch and taste around you for the rest of the minute and allow yourself to appreciate what you observe. The goal here is to become grateful for each moment and all that it contains, for at least one minute for the next fifteen hours…remember no two moments can ever be the same as all that is, is in a state of perpetual, dynamic change.
And…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Stop, look, listen and feel.
William Michael Forbes
Life is magical...it is everywhere around us...it is beauty...it is poetry, it is people...it is! wmf
A Well Known Fact: To step away from what is all too familiar gives the mind and soul a fresh start.
Wherever you are...whatever you are doing, there is no substitution for you...God made only one you to share with the rest of his creations and he intended that you learn what it is to be loved and to be loving. Loving and being loved are natural states of giving and receiving without effort; our energy flows out and ebbs back into us, dancing with the light of all the life that is all around us at any given moment. In the course of learning how to give love and how to receive love, we often experience its opposite...fear, in order to make a discernment about which one is best for us to express and experience and sometimes there is a lot of confusion about what is right until the hand of experience and knowledge guides or pushes us back on a course that is compatible with who and what we are.
As we face the opposite of love we can sometimes get caught up in the belief that life is wrong, bad....a merciless punisher extolling its price from us for our sins and such a belief is exists only when we have forgotten that we have the power to choose and express and think on love and goodness...that’s right we have the experiences we do so that we may learn to CHOOSE LOVE or CHOOSE FEAR...but first we must learn to choose. Everyday...every moment of our lives we have the power to choose to live in love or live by fear and the quality of our current circumstances is a reflection of where we are in that process...each moment a chance to move closer to or further from love.
Today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is fun and simple, all it requires is that you find a place where there are trees...birds and water if possible. Find this place and for fifteen minutes listen and feel the natural world working effortlessly around you...notice clouds, sky, birds, bugs, grass, trees...anything that is natural and just listen, watch and feel how it works effortlessly around you. Breathe deeply and release tension from your body as you observe and experience. Breathe deeply and release the thoughts from your mind and just feel nature’s effortless being. Breathe deeply and sense and feel your organs in your body effortlessly doing what nature around you is also doing. Feel only...keep your mind quiet and feel the sounds, see the sights, smell the smells...nature effortlessly being and doing. Keep your attention on the feeling of what you are observing and at the end of fifteen minutes quietly say out loud...THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! and
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Life is magical...it is everywhere around us...it is beauty...it is poetry, it is people...it is! wmf
A Well Known Fact: To step away from what is all too familiar gives the mind and soul a fresh start.
Wherever you are...whatever you are doing, there is no substitution for you...God made only one you to share with the rest of his creations and he intended that you learn what it is to be loved and to be loving. Loving and being loved are natural states of giving and receiving without effort; our energy flows out and ebbs back into us, dancing with the light of all the life that is all around us at any given moment. In the course of learning how to give love and how to receive love, we often experience its opposite...fear, in order to make a discernment about which one is best for us to express and experience and sometimes there is a lot of confusion about what is right until the hand of experience and knowledge guides or pushes us back on a course that is compatible with who and what we are.
As we face the opposite of love we can sometimes get caught up in the belief that life is wrong, bad....a merciless punisher extolling its price from us for our sins and such a belief is exists only when we have forgotten that we have the power to choose and express and think on love and goodness...that’s right we have the experiences we do so that we may learn to CHOOSE LOVE or CHOOSE FEAR...but first we must learn to choose. Everyday...every moment of our lives we have the power to choose to live in love or live by fear and the quality of our current circumstances is a reflection of where we are in that process...each moment a chance to move closer to or further from love.
Today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is fun and simple, all it requires is that you find a place where there are trees...birds and water if possible. Find this place and for fifteen minutes listen and feel the natural world working effortlessly around you...notice clouds, sky, birds, bugs, grass, trees...anything that is natural and just listen, watch and feel how it works effortlessly around you. Breathe deeply and release tension from your body as you observe and experience. Breathe deeply and release the thoughts from your mind and just feel nature’s effortless being. Breathe deeply and sense and feel your organs in your body effortlessly doing what nature around you is also doing. Feel only...keep your mind quiet and feel the sounds, see the sights, smell the smells...nature effortlessly being and doing. Keep your attention on the feeling of what you are observing and at the end of fifteen minutes quietly say out loud...THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! and
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Launch your day well.
William Michael Forbes
A day builds from the moment we open our eyes...every thought and action either supports us or weakens us wmf
A Well Known Fact: Psychologically happiness is a combination of focus, though and action...each is a skill to be developed...the quality of which will build us up or tear us down.
Where, when and how do you begin your day? What are the first thoughts and actions you perform? Are the motions you go through consciously chosen and experienced? Or are they a rote that just keeps you going monotonously along the same path? Life is meant to be an adventure that we live consciously...an experience to be savoured like a fine wine...every moment priceless and precious and unrepeatable.
Today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about starting your day out in a way that makes you feel awake, alive, alert and conscious. Before you even get out of bed spend five minutes thinking about all of your positive attributes...i.e. you’re polite, you care about people, you dress well, you are honest, dependable, reliable...focus only on your positive aspects for five minutes...take in the feelings that are generated by this focus. Then get out of bed and do the things you normally do and acknowledge the positive effects each action you do for the next ten minutes will have upon your life and how this can positively influence others. Really be conscious of the positive effects that the activities you are doing will and are having upon your life and feel the meaning and value of this recognition and....
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
A day builds from the moment we open our eyes...every thought and action either supports us or weakens us wmf
A Well Known Fact: Psychologically happiness is a combination of focus, though and action...each is a skill to be developed...the quality of which will build us up or tear us down.
Where, when and how do you begin your day? What are the first thoughts and actions you perform? Are the motions you go through consciously chosen and experienced? Or are they a rote that just keeps you going monotonously along the same path? Life is meant to be an adventure that we live consciously...an experience to be savoured like a fine wine...every moment priceless and precious and unrepeatable.
Today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about starting your day out in a way that makes you feel awake, alive, alert and conscious. Before you even get out of bed spend five minutes thinking about all of your positive attributes...i.e. you’re polite, you care about people, you dress well, you are honest, dependable, reliable...focus only on your positive aspects for five minutes...take in the feelings that are generated by this focus. Then get out of bed and do the things you normally do and acknowledge the positive effects each action you do for the next ten minutes will have upon your life and how this can positively influence others. Really be conscious of the positive effects that the activities you are doing will and are having upon your life and feel the meaning and value of this recognition and....
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
A good start.
William Michael Forbes
The power and influence of our prolonged attention on a single positive idea is life changing. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Whenever our attention goes onto any person, place or thing a flow of electrons between the observer and the observed is detectable.
In every moment of our lives there is a continuous flow of energy and consciousness within us and around us, this energy is in constant and perpetual movement in either a positive direction or a negative direction. Most of the time peoples’ energy flow is random, where thoughts just kind of jump around in their minds. Other times it is focused where a particular activity, like driving, requires more attention. Occasionally it is concentrated, similar to anyone playing sports, doing detailed studies and analysis or someone performing a task that requires alert attention. On rare occasions we see meditation in action, for example when a person is in the “zone” and they seem to be unstoppable and utterly successful in their actions. Reaching different stages of attention requires training, patience or an emergency…almost everyone faced with an emergency will become at least concentrated in their behaviour unless drugs or alcohol keep the soul detached from its body.
I called this Blog A good start because in order to accomplish what we must some degree of conscious awareness is required and there must be a starting point for developing this awareness naturally and easily with whatever circumstances that we find ourselves in. With today’s activity the first two minutes of each hour, regardless of where you are or what you are doing, is to be started with a clear intention of what it is that you would like to accomplish and the result that you want to have at the end of that hour. Take a few slow deep breaths and release all of the tension from your body, notice how your body feels. Take two more slow deep breaths and clear all of the thoughts from your mind, notice how your mind feels. Next bring into your awareness what it is you would like to have accomplished in the next hour and imagine it already done…hold a picture or feeling in your mind of having it already done. Notice how this makes you feel and with this picture and feeling of having it already done…begin doing what it is you’ve imagined completing…and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
The power and influence of our prolonged attention on a single positive idea is life changing. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Whenever our attention goes onto any person, place or thing a flow of electrons between the observer and the observed is detectable.
In every moment of our lives there is a continuous flow of energy and consciousness within us and around us, this energy is in constant and perpetual movement in either a positive direction or a negative direction. Most of the time peoples’ energy flow is random, where thoughts just kind of jump around in their minds. Other times it is focused where a particular activity, like driving, requires more attention. Occasionally it is concentrated, similar to anyone playing sports, doing detailed studies and analysis or someone performing a task that requires alert attention. On rare occasions we see meditation in action, for example when a person is in the “zone” and they seem to be unstoppable and utterly successful in their actions. Reaching different stages of attention requires training, patience or an emergency…almost everyone faced with an emergency will become at least concentrated in their behaviour unless drugs or alcohol keep the soul detached from its body.
I called this Blog A good start because in order to accomplish what we must some degree of conscious awareness is required and there must be a starting point for developing this awareness naturally and easily with whatever circumstances that we find ourselves in. With today’s activity the first two minutes of each hour, regardless of where you are or what you are doing, is to be started with a clear intention of what it is that you would like to accomplish and the result that you want to have at the end of that hour. Take a few slow deep breaths and release all of the tension from your body, notice how your body feels. Take two more slow deep breaths and clear all of the thoughts from your mind, notice how your mind feels. Next bring into your awareness what it is you would like to have accomplished in the next hour and imagine it already done…hold a picture or feeling in your mind of having it already done. Notice how this makes you feel and with this picture and feeling of having it already done…begin doing what it is you’ve imagined completing…and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
That little feeling inside.
William Michael Forbes
It’s inside us all a; limitless intelligence changing matter and form from consciousness to unconsciousness…from visible to invisible…effortlessly wmf
A Well Known Fact: Thoughts create instantaneous changes in electromagnetic fields which in turn manifests change in physical matter.
Our senses give us information from the environment…sights, sounds touches, tastes, feelings and smells. This information flows into our brains where it is interpreted into the representations that we’ve had put into our minds though our upbringing. At a certain point in the development of our self awareness we begin to differentiate ourselves from this information in our minds and also learn to differentiate from our physical mechanism thus accessing another degree of consciousness that exists just slightly beyond the perception of our senses and emotions, in the realm of feeling also known as direct energy perception. Martial artists know this energy feeling…it is a substance that moves faster than time space or thought, which is why a martial artist can “sense” your moves before they actually occur as the subtle wave generated by the electrons displaced by our thoughts goes out from us even before the thought wave does. The same is true in reverse, in that we can know things before they become apparent to our senses and mental faculties.
This feeling energy is available to everyone and only consciously known by a small number of people. Those people that know this feeling are considered highly intuitive and often say and do things before they are told or know, which brings us to today’s lesson on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less spend three minutes for each of the next five hours on this activity. Consider a situation or several situations for which you are seeking solutions….or consider sensing what is through a wall or around a corner before you see or look…become aware of the feelings you have around whatever it is that you want to resolve or know…only think to put your awareness into a position of perception about the subject matter and ask yourself what it is that you feel you can do and know, then stay alert and notice if you have and urges, perceptions, senses or compulsions to say do and know anything. i.e. let’s say you decide to sense what is on the other side of a wall, imagine that you can feel what is on the other side…do you feel a person, place or thing, can you feel what it is…write down what your perceptions are on a piece of paper then go and look. If it is a solution to a problem you are seeking, bring the problem to your mind and ask yourself what feels like a solution to this…then write down whatever comes to your awareness about it and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
It’s inside us all a; limitless intelligence changing matter and form from consciousness to unconsciousness…from visible to invisible…effortlessly wmf
A Well Known Fact: Thoughts create instantaneous changes in electromagnetic fields which in turn manifests change in physical matter.
Our senses give us information from the environment…sights, sounds touches, tastes, feelings and smells. This information flows into our brains where it is interpreted into the representations that we’ve had put into our minds though our upbringing. At a certain point in the development of our self awareness we begin to differentiate ourselves from this information in our minds and also learn to differentiate from our physical mechanism thus accessing another degree of consciousness that exists just slightly beyond the perception of our senses and emotions, in the realm of feeling also known as direct energy perception. Martial artists know this energy feeling…it is a substance that moves faster than time space or thought, which is why a martial artist can “sense” your moves before they actually occur as the subtle wave generated by the electrons displaced by our thoughts goes out from us even before the thought wave does. The same is true in reverse, in that we can know things before they become apparent to our senses and mental faculties.
This feeling energy is available to everyone and only consciously known by a small number of people. Those people that know this feeling are considered highly intuitive and often say and do things before they are told or know, which brings us to today’s lesson on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less spend three minutes for each of the next five hours on this activity. Consider a situation or several situations for which you are seeking solutions….or consider sensing what is through a wall or around a corner before you see or look…become aware of the feelings you have around whatever it is that you want to resolve or know…only think to put your awareness into a position of perception about the subject matter and ask yourself what it is that you feel you can do and know, then stay alert and notice if you have and urges, perceptions, senses or compulsions to say do and know anything. i.e. let’s say you decide to sense what is on the other side of a wall, imagine that you can feel what is on the other side…do you feel a person, place or thing, can you feel what it is…write down what your perceptions are on a piece of paper then go and look. If it is a solution to a problem you are seeking, bring the problem to your mind and ask yourself what feels like a solution to this…then write down whatever comes to your awareness about it and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
The endless bucket list
William Michael Forbes
Without the target of a goal there is nothing for the soul. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Every living creature has a purpose without which it would not and could not exist.
I ran into a client I hadn’t seen for awhile and she excitedly told me how everything that she wanted to accomplish through my Navigating The Soul Program had occurred except one thing. I asked her to tell me what it was that she thought was holding her back; she said she didn’t know, and then I asked her the following question…
“Besides the one remaining goal, what other goals do you have?” Without missing a beat she said;
“Just the one…I have everything else that I want.” I smiled knowing that she would not achieve her “last goal” I told her that she would be unlikely to achieve her last goal because the nature and function of the human soul is such that it is purpose driven…without purpose…we have no reason d’être…achieved goals are the resting point in the purpose of living, being and doing…so long as we have goals, our soul has a purpose. She asked me;
“What should I do?” I smiled at her quick reply and said…write down another fifty goals …add more to the list later and as you like, whenever an existing goal is completed, cross it of the list and add least one new one whenever you can, which brings us to today’s activity on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
For two minutes of each of the next seven hours, write down some goals you’d like to achieve and consider how you would feel if each goal was already accomplished…notice how the idea of the goals being already accomplished makes you feel and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Without the target of a goal there is nothing for the soul. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Every living creature has a purpose without which it would not and could not exist.
I ran into a client I hadn’t seen for awhile and she excitedly told me how everything that she wanted to accomplish through my Navigating The Soul Program had occurred except one thing. I asked her to tell me what it was that she thought was holding her back; she said she didn’t know, and then I asked her the following question…
“Besides the one remaining goal, what other goals do you have?” Without missing a beat she said;
“Just the one…I have everything else that I want.” I smiled knowing that she would not achieve her “last goal” I told her that she would be unlikely to achieve her last goal because the nature and function of the human soul is such that it is purpose driven…without purpose…we have no reason d’être…achieved goals are the resting point in the purpose of living, being and doing…so long as we have goals, our soul has a purpose. She asked me;
“What should I do?” I smiled at her quick reply and said…write down another fifty goals …add more to the list later and as you like, whenever an existing goal is completed, cross it of the list and add least one new one whenever you can, which brings us to today’s activity on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
For two minutes of each of the next seven hours, write down some goals you’d like to achieve and consider how you would feel if each goal was already accomplished…notice how the idea of the goals being already accomplished makes you feel and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Just love…only love
William Michael Forbes
When you find yourself in fear, remember to focus on love. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Love and fear are different degrees of energy.
As we grow and our lives change so to does our perception of who we think we are. If we become too attached to who we think we are, then the changes that we experience may be perceived as a threat to that which is already established as the self. However if change is perceived as the primary process in the development of the self, the change will be embraced as the natural development of the self without a final result.
Resisting change will cause fear…embracing change will lift the soul and develop joy as a conscious expression of the self. For three minutes for the next five hours notice if you are resisting changes or embracing them and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
When you find yourself in fear, remember to focus on love. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Love and fear are different degrees of energy.
As we grow and our lives change so to does our perception of who we think we are. If we become too attached to who we think we are, then the changes that we experience may be perceived as a threat to that which is already established as the self. However if change is perceived as the primary process in the development of the self, the change will be embraced as the natural development of the self without a final result.
Resisting change will cause fear…embracing change will lift the soul and develop joy as a conscious expression of the self. For three minutes for the next five hours notice if you are resisting changes or embracing them and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Stepping forward
William Michael Forbes
What is sometimes needed is a good change. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Nothing else here but changes.
Take a look at your life right now…the people, the events the circumstance that you find yourself in…are they empowering, inspiring and uplifting you? Are you involved in a project and find yourself stuck somewhere in the middle? Have you completed a project and excited about starting the next one? Today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about next steps. When we complete a project or job we feel good…when we leave things unfinished we feel it. A variety of ways such as, anxiety, irritation, nervousness, frustration even anger, if we feel or experience or efforts as fruitless or incomplete. Human nature thrives on completion…on the growth that comes through the experience gained through new and exciting challenges…our Soul needs to change in order for our minds and body to evolve…if change and growth are neglected and thwarted…the human Soul can go into unhappiness. The primary roadblock to many changes is fear…fear is the single biggest resisting element to changes in our mind, bodies and developing healthy self expression.
Today’s activity is simple I’m going to suggest that you take five minutes right now, and write a short list of some activities, chores or projects that you are still left incomplete. Then for two minutes in each of the next five hours pick something on the list that you can put some effort towards doing…and do as much of it as you can for those two minutes…afterwards if you want to add more time to complete the activity you started…notice how you feel and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
What is sometimes needed is a good change. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Nothing else here but changes.
Take a look at your life right now…the people, the events the circumstance that you find yourself in…are they empowering, inspiring and uplifting you? Are you involved in a project and find yourself stuck somewhere in the middle? Have you completed a project and excited about starting the next one? Today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about next steps. When we complete a project or job we feel good…when we leave things unfinished we feel it. A variety of ways such as, anxiety, irritation, nervousness, frustration even anger, if we feel or experience or efforts as fruitless or incomplete. Human nature thrives on completion…on the growth that comes through the experience gained through new and exciting challenges…our Soul needs to change in order for our minds and body to evolve…if change and growth are neglected and thwarted…the human Soul can go into unhappiness. The primary roadblock to many changes is fear…fear is the single biggest resisting element to changes in our mind, bodies and developing healthy self expression.
Today’s activity is simple I’m going to suggest that you take five minutes right now, and write a short list of some activities, chores or projects that you are still left incomplete. Then for two minutes in each of the next five hours pick something on the list that you can put some effort towards doing…and do as much of it as you can for those two minutes…afterwards if you want to add more time to complete the activity you started…notice how you feel and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
What the truth is.
William Michael Forbes
If you are living “the truth” you will be happy. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Uncontrolled happiness is called manic, uncontrolled sadness, depression. The imbalance is caused by not knowing how to direct our energy where it will be most effective at producing what we want consistently.
A few good friends are a greater blessing than many acquaintances…
I’ve been very challenged emotionally lately, trying to deal with a situation that is outside my normal scope of experience. I’m usually the guy with “the answer”, and in my present situation…I haven’t been able to find the proper answer and it has led me to some very dark and scary places in my mind. I’ve felt like a wet shirt inside a washing machine, being churned mercilessly through the wash cycle.
Yesterday I had a good friend call me when I had reached the lowest point in my mind that I’ve been in in over thirty years. He listened to me talk about what I was thinking and feeling and then asked me a simple question, which will lead us into today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less. He asked me this question;
“What would you say describes the worst part about how you feel?” I thought about it for a moment then said;
“I feel like I’m completely worthless and helpless to do anything.” His first response to my statement was;
“William, it’s not true.”
I paused as I felt my mind take in the meaning of those words…’it’s not true that I’m worthless’ I felt myself beginning to laugh at his reply…then he said;
“If you feel bad it is a lie…if you feel good it is the truth.”
I repeated the statement to myself…and suddenly we both found ourselves laughing for the next twenty-five minutes, during which I’d occasionally stop and see if I still felt “bad” and when I felt or noticed bad…I realized it wasn’t true and we’d laugh for another while. I’ve been chuckling every five minutes since. Which brings us to today’s activity on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less. For one minute each waking hour today, notice any negative feelings that you have inside and make this statement
“If I feel bad, it’s a lie.”
And also during each minute notice any positive feelings that you have and make the statement;
“If I feel good it is the truth.” Notice what you feel before, during and after each statement…and….
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
If you are living “the truth” you will be happy. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Uncontrolled happiness is called manic, uncontrolled sadness, depression. The imbalance is caused by not knowing how to direct our energy where it will be most effective at producing what we want consistently.
A few good friends are a greater blessing than many acquaintances…
I’ve been very challenged emotionally lately, trying to deal with a situation that is outside my normal scope of experience. I’m usually the guy with “the answer”, and in my present situation…I haven’t been able to find the proper answer and it has led me to some very dark and scary places in my mind. I’ve felt like a wet shirt inside a washing machine, being churned mercilessly through the wash cycle.
Yesterday I had a good friend call me when I had reached the lowest point in my mind that I’ve been in in over thirty years. He listened to me talk about what I was thinking and feeling and then asked me a simple question, which will lead us into today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less. He asked me this question;
“What would you say describes the worst part about how you feel?” I thought about it for a moment then said;
“I feel like I’m completely worthless and helpless to do anything.” His first response to my statement was;
“William, it’s not true.”
I paused as I felt my mind take in the meaning of those words…’it’s not true that I’m worthless’ I felt myself beginning to laugh at his reply…then he said;
“If you feel bad it is a lie…if you feel good it is the truth.”
I repeated the statement to myself…and suddenly we both found ourselves laughing for the next twenty-five minutes, during which I’d occasionally stop and see if I still felt “bad” and when I felt or noticed bad…I realized it wasn’t true and we’d laugh for another while. I’ve been chuckling every five minutes since. Which brings us to today’s activity on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less. For one minute each waking hour today, notice any negative feelings that you have inside and make this statement
“If I feel bad, it’s a lie.”
And also during each minute notice any positive feelings that you have and make the statement;
“If I feel good it is the truth.” Notice what you feel before, during and after each statement…and….
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Tickled Yellow
William Michael Forbes
Laughter and happiness are synonymous. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Laughter is good no matter who is doing it.
I had a client who was very unhappy and angry. A few events had triggered the sadness and foreboding and they called me and asked what I thought they could do to end their funk. What popped into my head was a big yellow happy face and I knew that this is what they had to focus on to shift their state. Our imagination can stimulate an unlimited number of responses in our body and environment and it is what you are going to experience today in a good, fun and easy way by doing the following activity;
For two minutes over the next seven hours, first make your body comfortable by breathing deeply a few times and releasing all the tension from your body as you exhale and then imagine each cell in your body is a happy face, giggling and jiggling with joy for the remainder of the two minutes, while noticing how you feel afterwards from before and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Laughter and happiness are synonymous. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Laughter is good no matter who is doing it.
I had a client who was very unhappy and angry. A few events had triggered the sadness and foreboding and they called me and asked what I thought they could do to end their funk. What popped into my head was a big yellow happy face and I knew that this is what they had to focus on to shift their state. Our imagination can stimulate an unlimited number of responses in our body and environment and it is what you are going to experience today in a good, fun and easy way by doing the following activity;
For two minutes over the next seven hours, first make your body comfortable by breathing deeply a few times and releasing all the tension from your body as you exhale and then imagine each cell in your body is a happy face, giggling and jiggling with joy for the remainder of the two minutes, while noticing how you feel afterwards from before and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Recompense
William Michael Forbes
Return good. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Do unto others and it will be done onto you.
We cannot think a thought without it affecting us…even our actions, which originate from within us have an effect upon us and those with whom we are connected. If people truly understood this fact…they would weigh carefully all of their action, thoughts, words and deeds before engaging in them. Today’s blog is about correcting errors we recognize that we’ve made and making amends…it is also the eighth steps in the twelve step program…to make a list of those we harmed and to make amends to them all.
So pull out a pen and paper…and for the next three minutes, write down the names of people you believe you’ve harmed. Then for one minute during the next twelve hours, hold each person in your mind and imagine making amends to them right now…you may, if you feel so inclined…physically communicate with those on your list in person and do it directly also, if this is appropriate to each situation and
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Return good. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Do unto others and it will be done onto you.
We cannot think a thought without it affecting us…even our actions, which originate from within us have an effect upon us and those with whom we are connected. If people truly understood this fact…they would weigh carefully all of their action, thoughts, words and deeds before engaging in them. Today’s blog is about correcting errors we recognize that we’ve made and making amends…it is also the eighth steps in the twelve step program…to make a list of those we harmed and to make amends to them all.
So pull out a pen and paper…and for the next three minutes, write down the names of people you believe you’ve harmed. Then for one minute during the next twelve hours, hold each person in your mind and imagine making amends to them right now…you may, if you feel so inclined…physically communicate with those on your list in person and do it directly also, if this is appropriate to each situation and
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Friday, April 30, 2010
Loving you.
William Michael Forbes
What you do in the mirror strengthens love or invites fear. wmf
A Well Known Fact: If we act against our own best interests…there is likely to be some discomfort.
What do you do each day to love you…by love I don’t mean that you just pleasure your taste buds with chocolate…I mean what do you do to feel good for being? What do you do? Meditation? Go for walks? Exercise? What do you do to feel like you care about you? Today spend at least two minutes per hour for the next eight hours do one of the things that you do when you want to let yourself know you care about you, remember to reflect on the feelings that the activity generates for you and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
What you do in the mirror strengthens love or invites fear. wmf
A Well Known Fact: If we act against our own best interests…there is likely to be some discomfort.
What do you do each day to love you…by love I don’t mean that you just pleasure your taste buds with chocolate…I mean what do you do to feel good for being? What do you do? Meditation? Go for walks? Exercise? What do you do to feel like you care about you? Today spend at least two minutes per hour for the next eight hours do one of the things that you do when you want to let yourself know you care about you, remember to reflect on the feelings that the activity generates for you and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
William Michael Forbes
To love.
Even the smallest act of love has the fullness of love. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Love is an energy that alters time, space and matter.
Today’s blog is called to Love because that is what you are going to be playing around with…love. What is love to you? How do you feel it? Where in your body do you feel it? In what ways do you act love out? Do you love one person differently than another? Do you love yourself as another? Whatever you think love might be…for today I want you to recall the feeling of love as you understand it to be and for two minutes over each of the next eight hours and imagine that you can send that feeling to anyone, anywhere…you can even just fill the space directly around you with that feeling for each two minutes per hour and….
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
To love.
Even the smallest act of love has the fullness of love. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Love is an energy that alters time, space and matter.
Today’s blog is called to Love because that is what you are going to be playing around with…love. What is love to you? How do you feel it? Where in your body do you feel it? In what ways do you act love out? Do you love one person differently than another? Do you love yourself as another? Whatever you think love might be…for today I want you to recall the feeling of love as you understand it to be and for two minutes over each of the next eight hours and imagine that you can send that feeling to anyone, anywhere…you can even just fill the space directly around you with that feeling for each two minutes per hour and….
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Your purpose is...
William Michael Forbes
One thing is for certain...a part of you always knows. wmf
A Well Known Fact: On the physical plain of consciousness motion is life...on the plain of pure energy...it is too...its actions are determined by the force of intention behind it.
In my coaching practice many of the people that come to me are searching for their life’s purpose....and what they mean is the job that will let them communicate their love into living action. Developing an awareness of what we love comes easily to some; others have to search for it. Those that know what they love do it...those that know they love to do are exploring different avenues of experience to discover it; others love more than one activity and are always having fun.
Practicing, discovering or even rediscovering a passion or a purpose are fun ways to get us in tune with what can give our life more meaning and value....doing is the key to knowing what is right for us or not right for us experience is our only teacher. I have discussed the concept of discovering purpose and today I represent an earlier tool to facilitate another way you might have in consciously knowing more of what you like.
Today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, only requires that you have a small notepad that you carry around with you and for three minutes each hour put all of your attention only onto things, events and circumstance that get your attention positively and....
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
One thing is for certain...a part of you always knows. wmf
A Well Known Fact: On the physical plain of consciousness motion is life...on the plain of pure energy...it is too...its actions are determined by the force of intention behind it.
In my coaching practice many of the people that come to me are searching for their life’s purpose....and what they mean is the job that will let them communicate their love into living action. Developing an awareness of what we love comes easily to some; others have to search for it. Those that know what they love do it...those that know they love to do are exploring different avenues of experience to discover it; others love more than one activity and are always having fun.
Practicing, discovering or even rediscovering a passion or a purpose are fun ways to get us in tune with what can give our life more meaning and value....doing is the key to knowing what is right for us or not right for us experience is our only teacher. I have discussed the concept of discovering purpose and today I represent an earlier tool to facilitate another way you might have in consciously knowing more of what you like.
Today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, only requires that you have a small notepad that you carry around with you and for three minutes each hour put all of your attention only onto things, events and circumstance that get your attention positively and....
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Feats of YES!
William Michael Forbes
If you step away from what you want it will get further from you. wmf
A Well Known Fact: The power to control gravity is in your hands.
Growing up is about learning how to be and do in the world in a way that satisfies all our needs while also being respectful of the reasonable needs of others. As we grow and change, make new decisions and experience the effects that those decisions can have upon our lives we either grow in knowledge, wisdom and personal power or we pull back in fear of the changes that our decisions may set in motion.
When you make a decision and take action to improve your life from what it is into what it is you want, change is going to occur, you are going to experience change; this is as inevitability as gravity on Earth and something you must learn to live with if you want to experience what you want to. Some of the changes you initiate might appear to be scary, but ultimately if your goal is to improve your life...then this is what will happen as long as your thoughts feelings and action stay congruent to the goal. You are free however to choose to remain where you are doing what it is you do and being as you are being...STOP COMPLAINING ITS WHAT YOU’VE CHOSEN...BE HAPPY! If you want change then continue reading...this Blog this is for you.
There are five feats of YES!” The first Feats of YES! Is to decide what it is you want...whether you want a new job, a new partner, a new vacation or a new set of clothes,...this is the first feat of yes...choosing what you want. Once you make a choice about what you want, you can move on to the second Feats of yes, which is how do I get what I want. You start looking for it. The third Feats of yes is trying it out for size...new job, new partner...whatever it is you want, try it out and see if the experience matches what you want it to be. The fourth Feats of yes is dealing with others’ responses to what you want. Chances are that the people that love you will encourage you and support you in having what you want, because people that love you and know how to love want you to be happy. People that discourage you from what you want are to be avoided...do not try convincing other people that it is okay for you to have what you want...people who discourage you can never live in your shoes, they will not be able to experience your life for you and those people usually head for the hills when something goes awry, leaving you alone...people who love you will always try to help.
The fifth and Feat of YES! Is KEEP GOING AND STAY FOCUSED ON YOUR GOAL NO MATTER WHAT. This last element is the hardest because when you make a change from where you are to where you want to go many other elements in your life; your thoughts, your feeling, your actions must and will change. Also, when you make a change the people closest to you, will naturally have to change and they may be afraid of and not understand the meaning and value of the change that you’ve set in motion. Try explaining what you are doing and why to the people involved...if they cannot or will not understand...do not try to force them...just carry on towards your goal...if your goal or objective is to be happy...they will see it in time...keep inviting them to participate...but do not force them...just keep going and continue being happy and enjoying the journey knowing you are on the way to your goal(s).
This brings us to today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, and will take one to three minutes each hour for the next five to eight hours. Breathe deeply and release all tension from your body, then write down one thing down that if it had already occurred, would make your life more like you’d like it to be and spend the one to three minutes each hour imagining how your life is, right now, with this change. Feel and imagine everything that you can...what you do...where you go...how you look...who you see, how you live, how you feel, what you think and the kinds of people you are surrounded by and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
If you step away from what you want it will get further from you. wmf
A Well Known Fact: The power to control gravity is in your hands.
Growing up is about learning how to be and do in the world in a way that satisfies all our needs while also being respectful of the reasonable needs of others. As we grow and change, make new decisions and experience the effects that those decisions can have upon our lives we either grow in knowledge, wisdom and personal power or we pull back in fear of the changes that our decisions may set in motion.
When you make a decision and take action to improve your life from what it is into what it is you want, change is going to occur, you are going to experience change; this is as inevitability as gravity on Earth and something you must learn to live with if you want to experience what you want to. Some of the changes you initiate might appear to be scary, but ultimately if your goal is to improve your life...then this is what will happen as long as your thoughts feelings and action stay congruent to the goal. You are free however to choose to remain where you are doing what it is you do and being as you are being...STOP COMPLAINING ITS WHAT YOU’VE CHOSEN...BE HAPPY! If you want change then continue reading...this Blog this is for you.
There are five feats of YES!” The first Feats of YES! Is to decide what it is you want...whether you want a new job, a new partner, a new vacation or a new set of clothes,...this is the first feat of yes...choosing what you want. Once you make a choice about what you want, you can move on to the second Feats of yes, which is how do I get what I want. You start looking for it. The third Feats of yes is trying it out for size...new job, new partner...whatever it is you want, try it out and see if the experience matches what you want it to be. The fourth Feats of yes is dealing with others’ responses to what you want. Chances are that the people that love you will encourage you and support you in having what you want, because people that love you and know how to love want you to be happy. People that discourage you from what you want are to be avoided...do not try convincing other people that it is okay for you to have what you want...people who discourage you can never live in your shoes, they will not be able to experience your life for you and those people usually head for the hills when something goes awry, leaving you alone...people who love you will always try to help.
The fifth and Feat of YES! Is KEEP GOING AND STAY FOCUSED ON YOUR GOAL NO MATTER WHAT. This last element is the hardest because when you make a change from where you are to where you want to go many other elements in your life; your thoughts, your feeling, your actions must and will change. Also, when you make a change the people closest to you, will naturally have to change and they may be afraid of and not understand the meaning and value of the change that you’ve set in motion. Try explaining what you are doing and why to the people involved...if they cannot or will not understand...do not try to force them...just carry on towards your goal...if your goal or objective is to be happy...they will see it in time...keep inviting them to participate...but do not force them...just keep going and continue being happy and enjoying the journey knowing you are on the way to your goal(s).
This brings us to today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, and will take one to three minutes each hour for the next five to eight hours. Breathe deeply and release all tension from your body, then write down one thing down that if it had already occurred, would make your life more like you’d like it to be and spend the one to three minutes each hour imagining how your life is, right now, with this change. Feel and imagine everything that you can...what you do...where you go...how you look...who you see, how you live, how you feel, what you think and the kinds of people you are surrounded by and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Inclined to love
William Michael Forbes
If the purpose of life is to obtain maximum Pleasure...then Love is the winner of my heart and mind. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Love has been proven to be a vibration capable of inducing immediate positive changes into spaces places and times that can completely alter and transcend negative conditions and circumstances, when intentionally directed by any individual.
Fear, anxiety, doubt, guilt have their beginnings in a irritation. This irritation can come from ourselves or others...it can come from a sigh a sound a touch, a taste and even a smell...we’ve all experienced the process...sometimes forgetting the beginning and finding ourselves in the aftermath, scratching our heads saying or thinking...”What the hell..!?!”. Indeed the many facets of fear are the cause and root of most of humanities ills...fortunately there is a powerful remedy for any condition that fear may produce...that remedy is called Love.
Unlike fear, love is a vibration that is completely the opposite of Fear...it is a vibration that will immediately begin reducing and eliminating the effects of fear...in fact the vibration of Love will completely immunize anyone who has cultivated it from the effects of fear before the effects of fear can even begin to make their presence felt in our lives. Today’s blog on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, is called inclined to Love as I view Love and fear as choices that we can make consciously. However in order to reach a place where we have the awareness to make a choice between these two diametrically opposite states, we must know how to recognize the differences of each and then learn to choose what will be most conducive for our growth and happiness.
In order to distinguish the differences between Love and Fear we need to know the attribute of each in order to know. Let’s begin with the symptoms of fear as these are often most easy to identify.
Symptoms of fear include and often begin with the following;
1. Annoyance
2. Irritation
3. Frustration.
4. Disappointment
5. Upset.
6. Feelings of guilt.
7. Feelings of shame.
8. Self doubt.
9. Avoidance.
10. Procrastination.
11. Anger.
12. Criticism.
13. Condemnation.
14. Anger.
15. Rage.
16. Hate.
These symptoms cause a wide array of problems both in the body and in the mind of any person experiencing them and when they are detected we can choose to be subjective to them or we can decide to choose to identify with any of the symptom of love, which include but are not limited to the following;
1. Gentleness
2. Calm demeanour.
3. Patience.
4. Soft spoken.
5. Friendliness.
6. Compassionate.
7. Willingness to help.
8. Positive attitude.
9. Solution orientated.
10. Joyfulness.
11. Playfulness.
12. Harmoniousness.
13. Peaceful.
14. Determined.
15. Acts that complete good outcomes.
16. Purposefullness.
17. Imaginative.
18. Wanting to inspire.
These lists are not meant to be complete as each state has an infinite number of shade across the spectrum of human interrelations, but rather as general information for the purpose of assisting the reader in identifying when they are in one particular state or another.
I called this inclined to love because in reality every single human soul is naturally designed to express and experience love, once a state of self awareness is developed by the human soul, a state of love or fear can be chosen. If you are aware of any of the above symptoms, if you are experiencing any of the above symptoms than you can make a choice between one or the other, the power to choose is available to everyone...when they are in a state of reason...it is often the lament of people who have not learned to reason who find themselves in difficult situation to say: “I don’t know how or why this happened.?!” However today activity is designed to assist you in being inlined to Love versus fear, which brings us to today’s activity, which will take about one or two minutes out of each of the next eight hours. Print out the above list, and bring it with you today. When you find yourself acting as if you are in the fear column, ask yourself what can you do to act out one of the symptoms of love. For example, you may find yourself feeling irritated about something and you may tap your finger, make an annoying face or begin talking badly about someone...then take out the list and look at the symptoms of love and choose to act out a symptom that appeals to you...and notice what happens to your feelings and actions as you choose to act out the Love symptom and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
If the purpose of life is to obtain maximum Pleasure...then Love is the winner of my heart and mind. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Love has been proven to be a vibration capable of inducing immediate positive changes into spaces places and times that can completely alter and transcend negative conditions and circumstances, when intentionally directed by any individual.
Fear, anxiety, doubt, guilt have their beginnings in a irritation. This irritation can come from ourselves or others...it can come from a sigh a sound a touch, a taste and even a smell...we’ve all experienced the process...sometimes forgetting the beginning and finding ourselves in the aftermath, scratching our heads saying or thinking...”What the hell..!?!”. Indeed the many facets of fear are the cause and root of most of humanities ills...fortunately there is a powerful remedy for any condition that fear may produce...that remedy is called Love.
Unlike fear, love is a vibration that is completely the opposite of Fear...it is a vibration that will immediately begin reducing and eliminating the effects of fear...in fact the vibration of Love will completely immunize anyone who has cultivated it from the effects of fear before the effects of fear can even begin to make their presence felt in our lives. Today’s blog on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, is called inclined to Love as I view Love and fear as choices that we can make consciously. However in order to reach a place where we have the awareness to make a choice between these two diametrically opposite states, we must know how to recognize the differences of each and then learn to choose what will be most conducive for our growth and happiness.
In order to distinguish the differences between Love and Fear we need to know the attribute of each in order to know. Let’s begin with the symptoms of fear as these are often most easy to identify.
Symptoms of fear include and often begin with the following;
1. Annoyance
2. Irritation
3. Frustration.
4. Disappointment
5. Upset.
6. Feelings of guilt.
7. Feelings of shame.
8. Self doubt.
9. Avoidance.
10. Procrastination.
11. Anger.
12. Criticism.
13. Condemnation.
14. Anger.
15. Rage.
16. Hate.
These symptoms cause a wide array of problems both in the body and in the mind of any person experiencing them and when they are detected we can choose to be subjective to them or we can decide to choose to identify with any of the symptom of love, which include but are not limited to the following;
1. Gentleness
2. Calm demeanour.
3. Patience.
4. Soft spoken.
5. Friendliness.
6. Compassionate.
7. Willingness to help.
8. Positive attitude.
9. Solution orientated.
10. Joyfulness.
11. Playfulness.
12. Harmoniousness.
13. Peaceful.
14. Determined.
15. Acts that complete good outcomes.
16. Purposefullness.
17. Imaginative.
18. Wanting to inspire.
These lists are not meant to be complete as each state has an infinite number of shade across the spectrum of human interrelations, but rather as general information for the purpose of assisting the reader in identifying when they are in one particular state or another.
I called this inclined to love because in reality every single human soul is naturally designed to express and experience love, once a state of self awareness is developed by the human soul, a state of love or fear can be chosen. If you are aware of any of the above symptoms, if you are experiencing any of the above symptoms than you can make a choice between one or the other, the power to choose is available to everyone...when they are in a state of reason...it is often the lament of people who have not learned to reason who find themselves in difficult situation to say: “I don’t know how or why this happened.?!” However today activity is designed to assist you in being inlined to Love versus fear, which brings us to today’s activity, which will take about one or two minutes out of each of the next eight hours. Print out the above list, and bring it with you today. When you find yourself acting as if you are in the fear column, ask yourself what can you do to act out one of the symptoms of love. For example, you may find yourself feeling irritated about something and you may tap your finger, make an annoying face or begin talking badly about someone...then take out the list and look at the symptoms of love and choose to act out a symptom that appeals to you...and notice what happens to your feelings and actions as you choose to act out the Love symptom and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Friday, April 23, 2010
With good reason.
William Michael Forbes
Thinking can happen automatically by resonance or it can be a choice! wmf
A Well Known Fact: Birds of a feather flock together.
The human mind is a wonderful instrument of both energy and consciousness. Once it is programmed with an idea it can carry that idea out automatically, like walking or driving a car, tying our shoes and eating our food, behaviour once acquired becomes a functional part of our lives. Throughout our childhood we were given all kinds of ideas and thoughts about what was right and wrong, what was good and what was bad. Unfortunately children do not normally begin to develop conscious reason until around age five and often by that time many of the limiting ideas and beliefs, that were given to us unexamined, can operate throughout our lives.
Fortunately we have a faculty called REASON, which can, through patience and effort be developed to function, is a way to help us move towards even more positive life conditions. Developing reason means we must learn to become conscious of our values and the thoughts emotions and feelings that occur in our minds in order to remove, replace and repair any beliefs or ideas that do not support an ideal image for our lives. Which brings us to today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, activity, which is about uncovering and replacing negative ideas about your life. Today’s activity will take about one to two minutes per hour for the next eight hours and you’ll need to keep a piece of paper and a pen or pencil handy.
For one minute every hour make your body comfortable, breathe deeply in and out exhaling all tension from your entire body as you do...let your thoughts become quiet for this minute and ask the following question in your mind and write down the responses that come for the remaining time.
“What are three things I do that hold me back from what I want?”
After you write down your answers...turn the page over and go back to what you were doing till the next hour passes. At the end of the day look over your list and ask yourself the following question for each thing you wrote down;
“What thoughts and actions would change this for me?” and write down your responses...what you have now are a few action steps to help you move forward with whatever it is you want and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Thinking can happen automatically by resonance or it can be a choice! wmf
A Well Known Fact: Birds of a feather flock together.
The human mind is a wonderful instrument of both energy and consciousness. Once it is programmed with an idea it can carry that idea out automatically, like walking or driving a car, tying our shoes and eating our food, behaviour once acquired becomes a functional part of our lives. Throughout our childhood we were given all kinds of ideas and thoughts about what was right and wrong, what was good and what was bad. Unfortunately children do not normally begin to develop conscious reason until around age five and often by that time many of the limiting ideas and beliefs, that were given to us unexamined, can operate throughout our lives.
Fortunately we have a faculty called REASON, which can, through patience and effort be developed to function, is a way to help us move towards even more positive life conditions. Developing reason means we must learn to become conscious of our values and the thoughts emotions and feelings that occur in our minds in order to remove, replace and repair any beliefs or ideas that do not support an ideal image for our lives. Which brings us to today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, activity, which is about uncovering and replacing negative ideas about your life. Today’s activity will take about one to two minutes per hour for the next eight hours and you’ll need to keep a piece of paper and a pen or pencil handy.
For one minute every hour make your body comfortable, breathe deeply in and out exhaling all tension from your entire body as you do...let your thoughts become quiet for this minute and ask the following question in your mind and write down the responses that come for the remaining time.
“What are three things I do that hold me back from what I want?”
After you write down your answers...turn the page over and go back to what you were doing till the next hour passes. At the end of the day look over your list and ask yourself the following question for each thing you wrote down;
“What thoughts and actions would change this for me?” and write down your responses...what you have now are a few action steps to help you move forward with whatever it is you want and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Contemplating Joy
William Michael Forbes
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To give thought to joy will lighten the load and brighten your day! wmf
A Well Known Fact: Laughter has been known to reduce and help eliminate, disease from the body.
Joy is a word we have all experienced at one time or another, during special occasions, holidays, and birthdays. Joy is a state of being, not a state of mind...it is an experience for the human Soul to know who and what it really is. When Joy is expressed your whole being is involved, from the tips of your toes to the top of your head...we’ve all had moments like this. Joy can come to us through sights, smells, touches, tastes and sounds. Joy can come through intimacy and lovemaking...it is what we all yearn to experience more of each day of our lives, which brings us to today’s How to be Happy in fifteen minutes or less.
Whatever we focus our attention on begins to cause immediate state changes in our body’s Glands, nerves, organs, muscles and eliminative systems. Also the stronger a state is the more pronounced its influence is upon our behaviour towards the world. This is true with both positive and negative states. For the next five hours spend three minutes contemplating only ideas, thoughts and images that would only give you joy if you were experiencing them right now. If possible make sure you will be undisturbed for those three minutes. Remember to breathe and relax for about thirty seconds before you begin and once you have your mind flowing with joyful images, ideas and thoughts...let yourself become aware of how the joy affects your body...notice too if people and events around you begin to change also and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
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To give thought to joy will lighten the load and brighten your day! wmf
A Well Known Fact: Laughter has been known to reduce and help eliminate, disease from the body.
Joy is a word we have all experienced at one time or another, during special occasions, holidays, and birthdays. Joy is a state of being, not a state of mind...it is an experience for the human Soul to know who and what it really is. When Joy is expressed your whole being is involved, from the tips of your toes to the top of your head...we’ve all had moments like this. Joy can come to us through sights, smells, touches, tastes and sounds. Joy can come through intimacy and lovemaking...it is what we all yearn to experience more of each day of our lives, which brings us to today’s How to be Happy in fifteen minutes or less.
Whatever we focus our attention on begins to cause immediate state changes in our body’s Glands, nerves, organs, muscles and eliminative systems. Also the stronger a state is the more pronounced its influence is upon our behaviour towards the world. This is true with both positive and negative states. For the next five hours spend three minutes contemplating only ideas, thoughts and images that would only give you joy if you were experiencing them right now. If possible make sure you will be undisturbed for those three minutes. Remember to breathe and relax for about thirty seconds before you begin and once you have your mind flowing with joyful images, ideas and thoughts...let yourself become aware of how the joy affects your body...notice too if people and events around you begin to change also and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
My cup of tea.
William Michael Forbes
The way we will treat others is indicative of how we treat ourselves. wmf
A Well Known Fact: In order for behaviour to express through an individual it must already exist within them either as a genetic precondition or as behaviour learned directly through the surrounding environments.
Finding activities and things we enjoy doing can sometimes get overlooked when we are caught up in the business of our live...and yet fun is one of the reasons we have for being. What do you like doing when realize you have nothing else to do? Do you play games? Do crosswords? Go for a walk? Watch a favourite show? There are countless activities for all people as long as we are aware of what it is that we like and dislike and take the time to identify what it is...we can keep our time positive and fun.
For a two-minutes of each of the next seven hours Write down at least two activities that you enjoy doing...remind yourself of how you feel doing them...imagine how it would feel doing them again and allow yourself to feel those feelings, post the list you have created on your refrigerator at home and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
The way we will treat others is indicative of how we treat ourselves. wmf
A Well Known Fact: In order for behaviour to express through an individual it must already exist within them either as a genetic precondition or as behaviour learned directly through the surrounding environments.
Finding activities and things we enjoy doing can sometimes get overlooked when we are caught up in the business of our live...and yet fun is one of the reasons we have for being. What do you like doing when realize you have nothing else to do? Do you play games? Do crosswords? Go for a walk? Watch a favourite show? There are countless activities for all people as long as we are aware of what it is that we like and dislike and take the time to identify what it is...we can keep our time positive and fun.
For a two-minutes of each of the next seven hours Write down at least two activities that you enjoy doing...remind yourself of how you feel doing them...imagine how it would feel doing them again and allow yourself to feel those feelings, post the list you have created on your refrigerator at home and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
It’s already done.
William Michael Forbes
Emotions are motivating or debilitating depending on how we choose to respond to them. wmf
A Well Known Fact: In test subjects, scientists found that body chemistry and muscle movements were very similar whether a person performed and activity or only imagined it. The only differences were the degree and intensity of the reactions in the body.
You’ve been thinking of doing something to the extent that you feel excited about the idea whenever you ponder it. Maybe you’re thinking of a vacation or having more money, maybe you imagine a new relationship, a new job, or going into politics, participating in a global food initiative. There are many times throughout our lives that we’ve thought about doing a lot of different things, many of them we may have already done and many more still await our arrival. It is true for most of us, that we all have ideas about things we want to experience, say and do. Today’s how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about the art of imagination. It is a subject that I’ve touched on in a variety of different ways and yet I find it useful to revisit this process every day in some way, shape or form, in order to keep creative energies moving in my life.
Our imagination is only effective at generating energy when it is actively engaged, which means we allow ourselves to go into the imagining, the same way we might lose ourselves in a good movie or a conversation with a friend or lover or an exciting activity. When we can fully engage our imagination the energy generated can decrease the physical time and energy required to produce desired, tangible results. With this in mind let me take you forward into today’s activity, which will require that you use about two minutes every hour for the next eight hours. Pick one experience that you’ve been hoping to have and write it down on a piece of paper. Make a verbal statement that sounds like you mean it as follows; “I am so grateful that I have this dream in my life, it enriches me and the people I know.” Repeat this statement three times deliberately and meaningfully, then take two slow deep breaths, exhaling tension from your whole body then hold the image and feeling of the experience that you want to have, what part of your body reacts to your image and idea…what emotions does you image evoke in you as you picture yourself doing it…put your attention on the positive feelings and imagine those feelings becoming strong throughout your body, then imagine those feelings radiating out from your body…take another deep breath think or say Thank you and go back to what you were doing. After each two minute period notice how you are feeling and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Emotions are motivating or debilitating depending on how we choose to respond to them. wmf
A Well Known Fact: In test subjects, scientists found that body chemistry and muscle movements were very similar whether a person performed and activity or only imagined it. The only differences were the degree and intensity of the reactions in the body.
You’ve been thinking of doing something to the extent that you feel excited about the idea whenever you ponder it. Maybe you’re thinking of a vacation or having more money, maybe you imagine a new relationship, a new job, or going into politics, participating in a global food initiative. There are many times throughout our lives that we’ve thought about doing a lot of different things, many of them we may have already done and many more still await our arrival. It is true for most of us, that we all have ideas about things we want to experience, say and do. Today’s how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about the art of imagination. It is a subject that I’ve touched on in a variety of different ways and yet I find it useful to revisit this process every day in some way, shape or form, in order to keep creative energies moving in my life.
Our imagination is only effective at generating energy when it is actively engaged, which means we allow ourselves to go into the imagining, the same way we might lose ourselves in a good movie or a conversation with a friend or lover or an exciting activity. When we can fully engage our imagination the energy generated can decrease the physical time and energy required to produce desired, tangible results. With this in mind let me take you forward into today’s activity, which will require that you use about two minutes every hour for the next eight hours. Pick one experience that you’ve been hoping to have and write it down on a piece of paper. Make a verbal statement that sounds like you mean it as follows; “I am so grateful that I have this dream in my life, it enriches me and the people I know.” Repeat this statement three times deliberately and meaningfully, then take two slow deep breaths, exhaling tension from your whole body then hold the image and feeling of the experience that you want to have, what part of your body reacts to your image and idea…what emotions does you image evoke in you as you picture yourself doing it…put your attention on the positive feelings and imagine those feelings becoming strong throughout your body, then imagine those feelings radiating out from your body…take another deep breath think or say Thank you and go back to what you were doing. After each two minute period notice how you are feeling and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Love versus fear
William Michael Forbes
The birth of dreams begins with the death of fear wmf
A Well Known Fact: Fear can threaten our physical, mental and emotional well being and wreak havoc on our lives, however when it is exposed to the light of reason, directed by love, it is as a cube of ice exposed to intense heat and it dissolves.
There are fears that are natural fears, like reacting to a sudden sound, or a physical event occurs that threatens our body in some way. There are emotional fears that come from imagining or thinking thoughts that are fear inducing, there are fears of failure, fears of success, fears of losing, fears of being alone…whatever it is we fear will like the time on a clock pass away. There are psychological conditions that appear to cause fear, panic and terror in the lives of many, negative cyclical thinking that has become so automatic that the original cause to the fear is lost to the awareness and all that is left is the ongoing simmering emotional volcano that the forgotten thinking drives. Psychology and psychiatry alike seek to ameliorate mental and emotional conditions through a wide array of tools, techniques, drugs and therapies in order to restore balance to the awareness of the individual. These therapies have proven helpful to many and also fruitless in the results for others. What could be missing from modern mental sciences that could improve its efforts towards the evolution of individuals past certain emotional roadblocks? The answer, I believe, is LOVE.
Love is a vibration that can be communicated without words…it is a feeling that makes us feel valuable, whole, complete and purposeful. Love is a feeling that moves us beyond judgement into appreciation, understanding, patience, compassion and acts that uplift, support and empower others to grow and become all that they can be. When we experience love within ourselves, it lets our reasoning faculty function at a level beyond Ego into an intuitive state of knowing, without necessarily knowing how. Love lets us see and know truth as it relates directly to our experience of life and all of us know this innate feeling in varying degrees; one might say that the dance between the states of love and fear are what give humans the vast spectrum of diversity that appears as our own individuality.
There are some teachings that say that love is life…that love is the very essence that enables our hearts to beat, our food to digest and our solar system to spin. Some schools of thought suggest that without awareness of the pulls and pushes of fear and love individuality cannot grow or evolve beyond the state of instinctual behaviour and that reason could not flourish without the awareness of these seemingly opposite states. I though today would be a good day to experiment with love and fear, which brings us to today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
For two minutes over the next eight hours think of one fear that you have and how that fear exists in your life right now. Then write down an example of what you could say, think and do to experience the opposite. For example, I might have the fear that I’m going to fail at a writing today’s blog and it won’t be posted…I write down that fear and then opposite to that I would write, I’m going complete my blog successfully and easily by writing it now and posting it immediately. Once you’ve written the opposite to the fear…take some action no matter how small towards your opposite of the fear. Write and complete one per hour over the next eight hours, remembering to breath slowly and deeply whenever you notice tension as you do this activity and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
The birth of dreams begins with the death of fear wmf
A Well Known Fact: Fear can threaten our physical, mental and emotional well being and wreak havoc on our lives, however when it is exposed to the light of reason, directed by love, it is as a cube of ice exposed to intense heat and it dissolves.
There are fears that are natural fears, like reacting to a sudden sound, or a physical event occurs that threatens our body in some way. There are emotional fears that come from imagining or thinking thoughts that are fear inducing, there are fears of failure, fears of success, fears of losing, fears of being alone…whatever it is we fear will like the time on a clock pass away. There are psychological conditions that appear to cause fear, panic and terror in the lives of many, negative cyclical thinking that has become so automatic that the original cause to the fear is lost to the awareness and all that is left is the ongoing simmering emotional volcano that the forgotten thinking drives. Psychology and psychiatry alike seek to ameliorate mental and emotional conditions through a wide array of tools, techniques, drugs and therapies in order to restore balance to the awareness of the individual. These therapies have proven helpful to many and also fruitless in the results for others. What could be missing from modern mental sciences that could improve its efforts towards the evolution of individuals past certain emotional roadblocks? The answer, I believe, is LOVE.
Love is a vibration that can be communicated without words…it is a feeling that makes us feel valuable, whole, complete and purposeful. Love is a feeling that moves us beyond judgement into appreciation, understanding, patience, compassion and acts that uplift, support and empower others to grow and become all that they can be. When we experience love within ourselves, it lets our reasoning faculty function at a level beyond Ego into an intuitive state of knowing, without necessarily knowing how. Love lets us see and know truth as it relates directly to our experience of life and all of us know this innate feeling in varying degrees; one might say that the dance between the states of love and fear are what give humans the vast spectrum of diversity that appears as our own individuality.
There are some teachings that say that love is life…that love is the very essence that enables our hearts to beat, our food to digest and our solar system to spin. Some schools of thought suggest that without awareness of the pulls and pushes of fear and love individuality cannot grow or evolve beyond the state of instinctual behaviour and that reason could not flourish without the awareness of these seemingly opposite states. I though today would be a good day to experiment with love and fear, which brings us to today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
For two minutes over the next eight hours think of one fear that you have and how that fear exists in your life right now. Then write down an example of what you could say, think and do to experience the opposite. For example, I might have the fear that I’m going to fail at a writing today’s blog and it won’t be posted…I write down that fear and then opposite to that I would write, I’m going complete my blog successfully and easily by writing it now and posting it immediately. Once you’ve written the opposite to the fear…take some action no matter how small towards your opposite of the fear. Write and complete one per hour over the next eight hours, remembering to breath slowly and deeply whenever you notice tension as you do this activity and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Consistent focus.
William Michael Forbes
Concentration has a way of working itself out... wmf
A Well Known Fact: From the ant to the spider, to the flower and the tree...all life has the tenacity to continue to be.
One of the benefits of How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is that every day you are required to consciously and intentionally use your ability to concentrate your attention on a specific task that may be outside of the scope of your normal routine, which can refresh your mind and keep you sharp. Concentration is essential in order to do and accomplish anything. There are some tasks that are easier than others and therefore the amount of concentration will vary in accordance with the amount of focus required for a specific task...however...if concentration hits near or about one hundred percent, results can occur in miraculous ways.
What we focus on expands...whether what we focus on is positive or negative it will expand as long as it receives attention from us. Concentration is like the point of friction between a match-stick and a striker and when the match (concentration) and striker (goal or objective one is seeking) come together correctly there is a flame (result produced). It is important to concentrate correctly on the results that we want while continuing to do everything we can to bring about our desired effect. We are all concentrating in some degree all the time, unfortunately most of us concentrate sporadically a little here and a little there. With no consistent or sustainable effort disappointment can be a frequent visitor in the lives of many.
Today’s How to be Happy in fifteen minutes or less is about concentrating on what you really want...and so for the next three hours for five minutes pick something that seems simple to have and for five minutes imagine that you have with you right now. How would having it feel, what would having it now make you think, what would having it now make you want to do....really play deeply with this one for the next three hours...be mindful over this day next few days as to any event or circumstance that comes up in relation to what you want and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Concentration has a way of working itself out... wmf
A Well Known Fact: From the ant to the spider, to the flower and the tree...all life has the tenacity to continue to be.
One of the benefits of How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is that every day you are required to consciously and intentionally use your ability to concentrate your attention on a specific task that may be outside of the scope of your normal routine, which can refresh your mind and keep you sharp. Concentration is essential in order to do and accomplish anything. There are some tasks that are easier than others and therefore the amount of concentration will vary in accordance with the amount of focus required for a specific task...however...if concentration hits near or about one hundred percent, results can occur in miraculous ways.
What we focus on expands...whether what we focus on is positive or negative it will expand as long as it receives attention from us. Concentration is like the point of friction between a match-stick and a striker and when the match (concentration) and striker (goal or objective one is seeking) come together correctly there is a flame (result produced). It is important to concentrate correctly on the results that we want while continuing to do everything we can to bring about our desired effect. We are all concentrating in some degree all the time, unfortunately most of us concentrate sporadically a little here and a little there. With no consistent or sustainable effort disappointment can be a frequent visitor in the lives of many.
Today’s How to be Happy in fifteen minutes or less is about concentrating on what you really want...and so for the next three hours for five minutes pick something that seems simple to have and for five minutes imagine that you have with you right now. How would having it feel, what would having it now make you think, what would having it now make you want to do....really play deeply with this one for the next three hours...be mindful over this day next few days as to any event or circumstance that comes up in relation to what you want and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Be happy instead of right.
William Michael Forbes
Oh boy, happiness saves a lot of heartache wmf
A Well Known Fact: From the world of animal consciousness man has inherited the desire to be right by might.
You want the best for yourself and others...you want to live in harmony...sometimes the harmony isn’t there...and it’s usually because someone is trying to be right...and being right usually comes at the expense of being happy and everyone ends up being unhappy. Two questions that people rarely ask during a disagreement or debate...two question that can make a meeting of souls fun and consistently exciting...this if what How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is for today.
With as many encounters as you can (for the fifteen minutes), approach them with the following questions; What do we both want from this meeting? And; What is the truth about what we want to accomplish together? The first question establishes the shared goal the second question puts the focus on what is going to make both parties happy. Finding and supporting the interests of both parties will always protect the identities’ of both and liberate the expressions of one another without forcing either to be the way the other wants. Make sure that you only spend fifteen minutes in total for this activity...seeking the truth of what an encounter is for will liberate all parties concerned...provided that the truth and not the separate interests of either are the goal of any encounter...successful communication is inevitable.
This is a skill to be developed and is designed on the premise that the interests of all parties in any encounter are equally as valuable as the other and therefore makes any interaction an opportunity for greater joy and fulfillment for all and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Oh boy, happiness saves a lot of heartache wmf
A Well Known Fact: From the world of animal consciousness man has inherited the desire to be right by might.
You want the best for yourself and others...you want to live in harmony...sometimes the harmony isn’t there...and it’s usually because someone is trying to be right...and being right usually comes at the expense of being happy and everyone ends up being unhappy. Two questions that people rarely ask during a disagreement or debate...two question that can make a meeting of souls fun and consistently exciting...this if what How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is for today.
With as many encounters as you can (for the fifteen minutes), approach them with the following questions; What do we both want from this meeting? And; What is the truth about what we want to accomplish together? The first question establishes the shared goal the second question puts the focus on what is going to make both parties happy. Finding and supporting the interests of both parties will always protect the identities’ of both and liberate the expressions of one another without forcing either to be the way the other wants. Make sure that you only spend fifteen minutes in total for this activity...seeking the truth of what an encounter is for will liberate all parties concerned...provided that the truth and not the separate interests of either are the goal of any encounter...successful communication is inevitable.
This is a skill to be developed and is designed on the premise that the interests of all parties in any encounter are equally as valuable as the other and therefore makes any interaction an opportunity for greater joy and fulfillment for all and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Receive it easy.
William Michael Forbes
Be willing to recieve. wmf
A Well Known Fact: An beautiful space invites.
You cannot ignore yourself, your body, your mind...they require your attention in order to work correctly just like a car or any machine. In other words you need to feel loved too. For today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, you are going to do one of two things, each hour for 5 hours...you are going to either ask for something or say yes to something. It will require that you be mindful of when someone offers you something or an opportunity comes along to ask for something. Either way today is about you getting some needed attention...good luck with this one...it can be a lot of fun getting what we want and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Be willing to recieve. wmf
A Well Known Fact: An beautiful space invites.
You cannot ignore yourself, your body, your mind...they require your attention in order to work correctly just like a car or any machine. In other words you need to feel loved too. For today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, you are going to do one of two things, each hour for 5 hours...you are going to either ask for something or say yes to something. It will require that you be mindful of when someone offers you something or an opportunity comes along to ask for something. Either way today is about you getting some needed attention...good luck with this one...it can be a lot of fun getting what we want and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Random happiness
William Michael Forbes
A good surprise is a good surprise. wmf
A Well Known Fact: A strong enough positive idea will overcome a negative lingering idea.
Okay...maybe your bred...been doing the same thing for too long...today...lets throw a little curve into the mix. For Today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, you will need one to two minutes per hour for seven hours and here is what you are going to do...
Write down the names of the first eight people you can think of. Now once you have this list, once every hour, call each person on the list and tell them at least two things you appreciate about them. Spend no more than two minutes per call. If the person on your list is deceased or inaccessible at this time, hold a mental image of them in your mind and tell them the two things you appreciate about them. Notice how you feel before each call or visualization, notice how you feel during and after each call and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
A good surprise is a good surprise. wmf
A Well Known Fact: A strong enough positive idea will overcome a negative lingering idea.
Okay...maybe your bred...been doing the same thing for too long...today...lets throw a little curve into the mix. For Today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, you will need one to two minutes per hour for seven hours and here is what you are going to do...
Write down the names of the first eight people you can think of. Now once you have this list, once every hour, call each person on the list and tell them at least two things you appreciate about them. Spend no more than two minutes per call. If the person on your list is deceased or inaccessible at this time, hold a mental image of them in your mind and tell them the two things you appreciate about them. Notice how you feel before each call or visualization, notice how you feel during and after each call and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Stay your course
William Michael Forbes
There is success in not quitting. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Even in the worst storms...a steady ship will not sink.
How often each day to you consider what your goals and dreams are? How much time do you give to them? Do you spend time imagining yourself already being in the result? Do you feel as if what you are aiming for has already happened? Dreams and imagination are inseparable...we cannot have one without the other...if like a sailor or airline pilot, a rock climber of hiker, we have a destination an idea of where we are going...even if things get rough at time the very idea of our goal, as long as we stay with it, will literally draw us through any and all challenges or difficulties we might...as long as we remember that our lives flows where our attention goes.
Stay your course is what today’s blog on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about...and the activity will take about three minutes for each of the next five hours. Find a comfortable place where you can relax your body and be undisturbed. Get your body comfortable by breathing in slowly, and exhaling the tension from your body...take at least three breaths like that and pay attention to how the tension leaves your body as you exhale. On the fourth breath as you exhale release all of the thoughts from your mind that you can and do two more breaths like that, the imagine seeing yourself as you know you will be once you’ve reached the result that you are seeking. Just imagine how you physically look and dress. Imagine what it looks like where you are living. Imagine how good you feel being where and how you know you want to be and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
There is success in not quitting. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Even in the worst storms...a steady ship will not sink.
How often each day to you consider what your goals and dreams are? How much time do you give to them? Do you spend time imagining yourself already being in the result? Do you feel as if what you are aiming for has already happened? Dreams and imagination are inseparable...we cannot have one without the other...if like a sailor or airline pilot, a rock climber of hiker, we have a destination an idea of where we are going...even if things get rough at time the very idea of our goal, as long as we stay with it, will literally draw us through any and all challenges or difficulties we might...as long as we remember that our lives flows where our attention goes.
Stay your course is what today’s blog on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about...and the activity will take about three minutes for each of the next five hours. Find a comfortable place where you can relax your body and be undisturbed. Get your body comfortable by breathing in slowly, and exhaling the tension from your body...take at least three breaths like that and pay attention to how the tension leaves your body as you exhale. On the fourth breath as you exhale release all of the thoughts from your mind that you can and do two more breaths like that, the imagine seeing yourself as you know you will be once you’ve reached the result that you are seeking. Just imagine how you physically look and dress. Imagine what it looks like where you are living. Imagine how good you feel being where and how you know you want to be and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Keep at it.
William Michael Forbes
Never doubt the power of simple. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Knowing the whole of all things is in the moment of their comprehension.
I want to keep today’s blog very simple. If you have a goal or a dream that you believe you are on the way to fulfilling, if it is not yet complete it is because it is not completed, because you are still working on it. Today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, will require two minutes from each of the next eight hours and will assist you in building more faith in what you are aspiring to achieve so that you may continue moving forward knowing you are still on track...no matter how things may appear at this point in the process.
Take one of each minute and relax your body and mind by attentively breathing slowly and deeply. At the end of the first minute begin putting your attention sincerely on this idea;
“I am actually on the way to fully completing my dreams and goals.”
Speak or think these words over and over as if they are true facts for the remaining minute from each hour, then repeat this for each of the remaining seven hours and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Never doubt the power of simple. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Knowing the whole of all things is in the moment of their comprehension.
I want to keep today’s blog very simple. If you have a goal or a dream that you believe you are on the way to fulfilling, if it is not yet complete it is because it is not completed, because you are still working on it. Today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, will require two minutes from each of the next eight hours and will assist you in building more faith in what you are aspiring to achieve so that you may continue moving forward knowing you are still on track...no matter how things may appear at this point in the process.
Take one of each minute and relax your body and mind by attentively breathing slowly and deeply. At the end of the first minute begin putting your attention sincerely on this idea;
“I am actually on the way to fully completing my dreams and goals.”
Speak or think these words over and over as if they are true facts for the remaining minute from each hour, then repeat this for each of the remaining seven hours and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
From here to now.
William Michael Forbes
Here is often anywhere but here...it usually refers to some other time and space that one remembers or hopes will be. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Now engages the truth, when it is truly engaged, for what is now has no interpretation only the knowing of what is...therefore now cannot be described to be known...it can only be experienced as it is.
Most of the time in my adult life was what I call re-experienced time; time remembered as something and thought to be experienced as if it were now. In other words my now’s have often been coloured by what I remember about life and what I would like my life to be like...which are merely coats of paint over the truth of now. Almost everyone live frequently in this not now...and yet all of us also have real now`s that we experience. Laughter for example is a now experience, that may have been stimulated by a past thought or future consideration, yet the feeling of the laughter is a NOW state that is both future and past free as it is experienced. A physical orgasm is a NOW experienced as NOW with no past or future attached to it and so too is the act of sneezing, as is a moment of being startled and even an intense sudden itchiness. These experiences and many others can take us into NOW and out of the past and future.
Being in the now has been viewed as profound mystical moment, a communion with the divine. Jesus spoke of the kingdom of God as being `Here NOW`, Buddhism refers to now as the eternal present. As well there are sciences like Gestalt, books like Ekhart Tolles `The power of NOW` and statements like `seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all else will be added unto you.` that seem to support that there is great value in now, in that Now seems to figure prominently in the realm of ultimate happiness and should be considered as an important tool in the discovery of, How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
How can you, if you haven`t been trained in a Buddhist temple, have no itchiness, no sneezing and aren`t having an orgasm, get into a state of now? Today’s activity on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is an exercise in returning to the now. As children we all had to be taught about time. We had no thoughts of tomorrow or even yesterday...we had memory in terms of previous experiences, but these only became influential in our behaviour after repeated exposure to specific and related events and activities. As we grew and learned about time, we formed ideas about the future and could review our past...and what then became of now? Where is your NOW? What would happen to you if you stopped thinking of the future and ceased dwelling upon the past? And these questions bring us to the activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
This is a simple and fun activity and will be a snap to do. Wherever you are at this moment and for at least one minute every half hour...I want you to do one of the following actions. First take a deep breath and relax your body...then take not of what is going on in your mind...what is your mind doing? Wondering about what is next? Remembering what you did this morning or what happened at another time? Is your mind concerned you won’t have time to do this or anxious about something? Whatever it is your mind is doing at this moment, I want you to do either one of the following actions either snap you fingers or clap your hands and pay full attention to what happens to your thoughts in the moment you snap or clap. Where did your thoughts go when you snapped or clapped? And what do you experience in yourself at the moment of the snap or clap?
Our minds can only analyze one thing thought or act at a time and at the moment the snap or clap occurs the sound can be heard but not analyzed as analysis requires that you remember. Listen intently to the sound of the snap or clap as it occurs...what do you feel as it occurs? It is the feeling at the moment the snap or the clap occurs that I want you to experience as fully as you can...not the sound...the feeling. If at any time during the day you find your thoughts and emotions get a little busy...try snapping your fingers or clapping your hands and notice what happens to the thoughts and emotions at the moment you do either of those and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Here is often anywhere but here...it usually refers to some other time and space that one remembers or hopes will be. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Now engages the truth, when it is truly engaged, for what is now has no interpretation only the knowing of what is...therefore now cannot be described to be known...it can only be experienced as it is.
Most of the time in my adult life was what I call re-experienced time; time remembered as something and thought to be experienced as if it were now. In other words my now’s have often been coloured by what I remember about life and what I would like my life to be like...which are merely coats of paint over the truth of now. Almost everyone live frequently in this not now...and yet all of us also have real now`s that we experience. Laughter for example is a now experience, that may have been stimulated by a past thought or future consideration, yet the feeling of the laughter is a NOW state that is both future and past free as it is experienced. A physical orgasm is a NOW experienced as NOW with no past or future attached to it and so too is the act of sneezing, as is a moment of being startled and even an intense sudden itchiness. These experiences and many others can take us into NOW and out of the past and future.
Being in the now has been viewed as profound mystical moment, a communion with the divine. Jesus spoke of the kingdom of God as being `Here NOW`, Buddhism refers to now as the eternal present. As well there are sciences like Gestalt, books like Ekhart Tolles `The power of NOW` and statements like `seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all else will be added unto you.` that seem to support that there is great value in now, in that Now seems to figure prominently in the realm of ultimate happiness and should be considered as an important tool in the discovery of, How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
How can you, if you haven`t been trained in a Buddhist temple, have no itchiness, no sneezing and aren`t having an orgasm, get into a state of now? Today’s activity on how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is an exercise in returning to the now. As children we all had to be taught about time. We had no thoughts of tomorrow or even yesterday...we had memory in terms of previous experiences, but these only became influential in our behaviour after repeated exposure to specific and related events and activities. As we grew and learned about time, we formed ideas about the future and could review our past...and what then became of now? Where is your NOW? What would happen to you if you stopped thinking of the future and ceased dwelling upon the past? And these questions bring us to the activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
This is a simple and fun activity and will be a snap to do. Wherever you are at this moment and for at least one minute every half hour...I want you to do one of the following actions. First take a deep breath and relax your body...then take not of what is going on in your mind...what is your mind doing? Wondering about what is next? Remembering what you did this morning or what happened at another time? Is your mind concerned you won’t have time to do this or anxious about something? Whatever it is your mind is doing at this moment, I want you to do either one of the following actions either snap you fingers or clap your hands and pay full attention to what happens to your thoughts in the moment you snap or clap. Where did your thoughts go when you snapped or clapped? And what do you experience in yourself at the moment of the snap or clap?
Our minds can only analyze one thing thought or act at a time and at the moment the snap or clap occurs the sound can be heard but not analyzed as analysis requires that you remember. Listen intently to the sound of the snap or clap as it occurs...what do you feel as it occurs? It is the feeling at the moment the snap or the clap occurs that I want you to experience as fully as you can...not the sound...the feeling. If at any time during the day you find your thoughts and emotions get a little busy...try snapping your fingers or clapping your hands and notice what happens to the thoughts and emotions at the moment you do either of those and...
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
The fear and the joy of change
William Michael Forbes
The fear and the joy of change
Sometimes like a welcome friend, sometimes like my greatest foe, change the dance of life that goes ever on. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Without change nothing would or could ever be...even a rock is imperceptibly changing and so change must be so you too can.
Routines can be wonderful for giving us a sense of order and structure that we may rely and depend on, however everything that happens between our routine enables us to define and appreciate the structure that our lives have. There are many types of changes with many shades and qualities to them, yet they can be broken down into two basic categories;
1. Positive changes
2. Negative changes
There are only positive and negative changes in our experiences of life and we may feel many different degrees of intensity of positive and negative...these are the only changes that any of us will ever experience. Changes can be initiated by ourselves and others, changes can be brought about naturally through the interactions of the environment with itself yet there will only be positive changes and negative changes for us to experience. All matter requires an ongoing and dynamic movement of energy, an exchange of energy from one state into another that enables a constant birth and rebirth of time, space and matter. In the natural world there is no judgement as to whether or not change is good or bad, it just is...in the realm of humanity, where we consciously and directly experience change as pleasure and pain, the tendency is to avoid pain at all costs and to seek and only experience pleasure...however all of nature has to go through the experience of the opposites in order for changes to occur and so too must human beings...in order to become changes must happen...will happen...even if we try to avoid them. When we learn to not only embrace change but to actively seek it out, we become an active player in the life dynamic that we are all a part of...we can experience the highest highs of life and the lowest of lows and still grow, develop and evolve ourselves to higher and ever higher expressions of life...we can become a worker in a factory or an Einstein in a laboratory, we can become a miner or an astronaut, we can become a storyteller or a story writer...we can be whatever we might choose to be...as long as we are willing to change...and even if we are unwilling to change...life will mercilessly continue the process whether we participate or not, which brings us to today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
I want you to ask yourself the following question;
If I could change anything about my life, what would I change?
No matter what your answer is anything is possible. If you want to change your body in some way, there are many ways to change your body that can make you feel better about it. If you want to change your financial circumstances, there are many ways to do that too. Relationships too can be changed, enhanced, improved...life is a big etch-a-sketch. Today’s activity will take five minutes from each of the next three hours...so pick an area of your life that you want to change most right now and write down on paper how this change will impact your life and the lives of your loved ones in a positive way. And when this is completed take at least one full minute of the five for each hour and imagine seeing, hearing and feeling yourself as if the change has already occurred...remember to breathe and relax as you do this and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
The fear and the joy of change
Sometimes like a welcome friend, sometimes like my greatest foe, change the dance of life that goes ever on. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Without change nothing would or could ever be...even a rock is imperceptibly changing and so change must be so you too can.
Routines can be wonderful for giving us a sense of order and structure that we may rely and depend on, however everything that happens between our routine enables us to define and appreciate the structure that our lives have. There are many types of changes with many shades and qualities to them, yet they can be broken down into two basic categories;
1. Positive changes
2. Negative changes
There are only positive and negative changes in our experiences of life and we may feel many different degrees of intensity of positive and negative...these are the only changes that any of us will ever experience. Changes can be initiated by ourselves and others, changes can be brought about naturally through the interactions of the environment with itself yet there will only be positive changes and negative changes for us to experience. All matter requires an ongoing and dynamic movement of energy, an exchange of energy from one state into another that enables a constant birth and rebirth of time, space and matter. In the natural world there is no judgement as to whether or not change is good or bad, it just is...in the realm of humanity, where we consciously and directly experience change as pleasure and pain, the tendency is to avoid pain at all costs and to seek and only experience pleasure...however all of nature has to go through the experience of the opposites in order for changes to occur and so too must human beings...in order to become changes must happen...will happen...even if we try to avoid them. When we learn to not only embrace change but to actively seek it out, we become an active player in the life dynamic that we are all a part of...we can experience the highest highs of life and the lowest of lows and still grow, develop and evolve ourselves to higher and ever higher expressions of life...we can become a worker in a factory or an Einstein in a laboratory, we can become a miner or an astronaut, we can become a storyteller or a story writer...we can be whatever we might choose to be...as long as we are willing to change...and even if we are unwilling to change...life will mercilessly continue the process whether we participate or not, which brings us to today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
I want you to ask yourself the following question;
If I could change anything about my life, what would I change?
No matter what your answer is anything is possible. If you want to change your body in some way, there are many ways to change your body that can make you feel better about it. If you want to change your financial circumstances, there are many ways to do that too. Relationships too can be changed, enhanced, improved...life is a big etch-a-sketch. Today’s activity will take five minutes from each of the next three hours...so pick an area of your life that you want to change most right now and write down on paper how this change will impact your life and the lives of your loved ones in a positive way. And when this is completed take at least one full minute of the five for each hour and imagine seeing, hearing and feeling yourself as if the change has already occurred...remember to breathe and relax as you do this and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Cancel, Cancel
William Michael Forbes
All negative thinking creates negative behaving...unless you can let it go or change it. wmf
A Well Known Fact: your body’s chemistry can change in an instant from toxic, to healing and then from healing to toxic...it all depends on what we eat, dring and think.
Okay...it’s a rare day and I’ve slept in by eight minutes longer than I wanted to...the effects are a change in my morning routine, yet I remain aware of how the thoughts in my mind are responding to my thinking about being a little behind...even the slightest negative thought creates emotions that move my consciousness towards a negative emotional state and this interferes with the building of positive momentum.
All of us have done this...hit the snooze button, watch that little bit if extra T.V., stay on the computer a little longer than we need only to and then find we’ve gotten a little behind in our schedule. Depending on what we do with that little change in our schedule, it can help us move along and hook us back up with our positive vibes, or we can continue in a downwards spiral of expletives and complaints about how the world isn’t working the way we’d like it to....and most of the negativity started out as a little negative thought that we paid little or no attention to and yet when allowed to go on automatically can grow into an insanity that causes us to scratch our heads and go “What the...?”
Today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about a simple and easy way I learned how to short circuit negative thinking in its tracks. It was something one of my mentors, Dr. William Curry, whom I called Bill, taught me years ago. He said whenever you get a negative thought coming into your mind...before it gets an emotional response from your subconscious mind just think or say out loud the following words with authority....”CANCEL, CANCEL”...say it as many times as you need to until the negative thought is cancelled, then move your attention to the thought that you would like to see expressed in your life at that time. For me the thought that I was going to be late and miss my morning coffee, was causing irritation and so in my mind I began thinking, cancel, cancel, cancel...then I spoke out aloud saying, I’m perfectly timed, everything is in perfect order, and as I shifted focus traffic began to move faster and smother, and I reached the destination on time. Which brings us to today activity on, How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
Today spend one or two minutes each hour during the next seven hours, and when you catch a negative thought or idea that would be something that you’d rather not experience, take a slow, deep breath and as you exhale think the thought; “Cancel, Cancel” with conviction and authority, then inset a thought or idea that best reflects the result that you would like to get.
For example, you have a thought it won’t work out, think cancel, cancel, with authority and conviction and then choose the thought, this is going to work perfectly and positively. Or you might think so and so is going to give me a hard time, then think, cancel, cancel with authority and conviction and then choose the thought; we are going to work in a way that makes us feel good together. These are examples I thought of now to help out, you can use these and make up a bunch of your own to match the circumstances of where you are at any moment throughout your day and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
All negative thinking creates negative behaving...unless you can let it go or change it. wmf
A Well Known Fact: your body’s chemistry can change in an instant from toxic, to healing and then from healing to toxic...it all depends on what we eat, dring and think.
Okay...it’s a rare day and I’ve slept in by eight minutes longer than I wanted to...the effects are a change in my morning routine, yet I remain aware of how the thoughts in my mind are responding to my thinking about being a little behind...even the slightest negative thought creates emotions that move my consciousness towards a negative emotional state and this interferes with the building of positive momentum.
All of us have done this...hit the snooze button, watch that little bit if extra T.V., stay on the computer a little longer than we need only to and then find we’ve gotten a little behind in our schedule. Depending on what we do with that little change in our schedule, it can help us move along and hook us back up with our positive vibes, or we can continue in a downwards spiral of expletives and complaints about how the world isn’t working the way we’d like it to....and most of the negativity started out as a little negative thought that we paid little or no attention to and yet when allowed to go on automatically can grow into an insanity that causes us to scratch our heads and go “What the...?”
Today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about a simple and easy way I learned how to short circuit negative thinking in its tracks. It was something one of my mentors, Dr. William Curry, whom I called Bill, taught me years ago. He said whenever you get a negative thought coming into your mind...before it gets an emotional response from your subconscious mind just think or say out loud the following words with authority....”CANCEL, CANCEL”...say it as many times as you need to until the negative thought is cancelled, then move your attention to the thought that you would like to see expressed in your life at that time. For me the thought that I was going to be late and miss my morning coffee, was causing irritation and so in my mind I began thinking, cancel, cancel, cancel...then I spoke out aloud saying, I’m perfectly timed, everything is in perfect order, and as I shifted focus traffic began to move faster and smother, and I reached the destination on time. Which brings us to today activity on, How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
Today spend one or two minutes each hour during the next seven hours, and when you catch a negative thought or idea that would be something that you’d rather not experience, take a slow, deep breath and as you exhale think the thought; “Cancel, Cancel” with conviction and authority, then inset a thought or idea that best reflects the result that you would like to get.
For example, you have a thought it won’t work out, think cancel, cancel, with authority and conviction and then choose the thought, this is going to work perfectly and positively. Or you might think so and so is going to give me a hard time, then think, cancel, cancel with authority and conviction and then choose the thought; we are going to work in a way that makes us feel good together. These are examples I thought of now to help out, you can use these and make up a bunch of your own to match the circumstances of where you are at any moment throughout your day and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Releasing assumptions.
William Michael Forbes
The mind has a memory that causes some people to forget who they really are.. wmf
A Well Known Fact: The Ego only sees what it remembers...not what is real. To see what is real one must forget to remember in order to be in the truth of any moment.
My Bluetooth earpiece had gone missing for four days. On the fourth day it had cooled somewhat and the rain was falling and we decided to take the dog out for a walk. Tika and I stood by the front door waiting for NJ to put on her boots...first the left and then suddenly she screamed...
“aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!” and leaped onto my body becoming an instant part of me....”there’s something in my boot....I think it’s a mouse!” We were looking down at the boot on its side both anticipating a furry grey resident scurrying away...nothing emerged. NJ gently uncoiled herself from my body and stood beside me. I moved cautiously towards boot, lifted it up and looked carefully inside and began to laugh as I pulled my missing Bluetooth from within the boot...then NJ and I were laughing hard for a good minute, then began to wonder, how her mind could interpret the sensation of the Bluetooth in her boot as if it were a mouse, which then caused the behaviour of NJ leaping onto my body. First there were the obvious similarities, a mouse is small...sometimes grey, with small legs and paws. My Bluetooth was small, grey and has a long slim arm that fits around my ear.
Other than those similarities...a mouse and my Bluetooth are nothing at all like one another...one is alive one is inanimate, one is furry one is hard plastic, one plugs in the other eats food...NJ’s memory and not what was occurring in the moment was what had caused the misperception that caused her behaviour. Had she had the information of plastic, hard, she would have simply reached into the boot, pulled out my Bluetooth and said...”Here’s your Bluetooth William. Information was missing from the moment and therefore conclusions and actions followed from what was available a the time. The same is true in any moment of our daily lives...if we are operating under limited, inaccurate and incomplete information...then our behaviour will be governed by that information, unless we choose to, which brings us to today blog on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
For two minutes out of each of the next seven hours...(more if you like) notice when you or others around you are making decisions, based on either limited or preconceived beliefs ( a tip for identifying when this is occurring is when there seems to be a hint of conflict or something doesn’t feel right...an awkward silence)...especially notice if find yourself behaving negatively or others are behaving negatively towards you...chances are there are preconceived notions going on in the mind(s) of those involved in the current situation. At such points ask yourself the question...what thoughts am I thinking right now, and what can I ask to find out if they are true? Often miscommunication happens not because anyone intends it...but because we are coming from a mindset of preconceived ideas about the situation and people involved. Remember to breath, relax and smile before and after each two minute period and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
The mind has a memory that causes some people to forget who they really are.. wmf
A Well Known Fact: The Ego only sees what it remembers...not what is real. To see what is real one must forget to remember in order to be in the truth of any moment.
My Bluetooth earpiece had gone missing for four days. On the fourth day it had cooled somewhat and the rain was falling and we decided to take the dog out for a walk. Tika and I stood by the front door waiting for NJ to put on her boots...first the left and then suddenly she screamed...
“aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!” and leaped onto my body becoming an instant part of me....”there’s something in my boot....I think it’s a mouse!” We were looking down at the boot on its side both anticipating a furry grey resident scurrying away...nothing emerged. NJ gently uncoiled herself from my body and stood beside me. I moved cautiously towards boot, lifted it up and looked carefully inside and began to laugh as I pulled my missing Bluetooth from within the boot...then NJ and I were laughing hard for a good minute, then began to wonder, how her mind could interpret the sensation of the Bluetooth in her boot as if it were a mouse, which then caused the behaviour of NJ leaping onto my body. First there were the obvious similarities, a mouse is small...sometimes grey, with small legs and paws. My Bluetooth was small, grey and has a long slim arm that fits around my ear.
Other than those similarities...a mouse and my Bluetooth are nothing at all like one another...one is alive one is inanimate, one is furry one is hard plastic, one plugs in the other eats food...NJ’s memory and not what was occurring in the moment was what had caused the misperception that caused her behaviour. Had she had the information of plastic, hard, she would have simply reached into the boot, pulled out my Bluetooth and said...”Here’s your Bluetooth William. Information was missing from the moment and therefore conclusions and actions followed from what was available a the time. The same is true in any moment of our daily lives...if we are operating under limited, inaccurate and incomplete information...then our behaviour will be governed by that information, unless we choose to, which brings us to today blog on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
For two minutes out of each of the next seven hours...(more if you like) notice when you or others around you are making decisions, based on either limited or preconceived beliefs ( a tip for identifying when this is occurring is when there seems to be a hint of conflict or something doesn’t feel right...an awkward silence)...especially notice if find yourself behaving negatively or others are behaving negatively towards you...chances are there are preconceived notions going on in the mind(s) of those involved in the current situation. At such points ask yourself the question...what thoughts am I thinking right now, and what can I ask to find out if they are true? Often miscommunication happens not because anyone intends it...but because we are coming from a mindset of preconceived ideas about the situation and people involved. Remember to breath, relax and smile before and after each two minute period and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Friday, April 2, 2010
To love and be loved.
William Michael Forbes
Every human interaction is based in the fulfillment of needs. wmf
A Well Known Fact: If a need is thwarted...the individual will adapt.
I’m going to make today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less simple and fun. It’s all about loving or being loved, which is a basic human need and behaviour....it is a need when we require it and a behaviour when we give it. Love is in abundant supply once it is engaged consciously by us as what we think, say and do. And so for two minutes out of each of the next seven hours, think, say and do only with a feeling of love behind and within your behaviour...remember to relax yourself before you start, notice how you feel before, during and after each two minute period and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Every human interaction is based in the fulfillment of needs. wmf
A Well Known Fact: If a need is thwarted...the individual will adapt.
I’m going to make today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less simple and fun. It’s all about loving or being loved, which is a basic human need and behaviour....it is a need when we require it and a behaviour when we give it. Love is in abundant supply once it is engaged consciously by us as what we think, say and do. And so for two minutes out of each of the next seven hours, think, say and do only with a feeling of love behind and within your behaviour...remember to relax yourself before you start, notice how you feel before, during and after each two minute period and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
From I can’t to I can part two.
William Michael Forbes
Can’t is the voice of fear, can is the voice of Your Soul. wmf
A Well Known Fact: I can’t causes measurable constrictions in body functioning...I can creates expansion, flow, increased health and prosperity.
The words “I can” are a powerful set of words when there is a force of action behind them. The action behind the words “I can.” might be the intense physical actions of football players clashing while one team is aiming to score a goal as the other team is defending. The action behind I Can could be the intensity of a single stroke from an artist’s paintbrush, it could be the effort of a breath or the dialling of a telephone...I can always translates into an action of some kind in order for a result to occur...without the actions the life of I can has no heartbeat. To truly give our dreams and aspirations life action is imperative...movement is life...inactivity is decay, at least where living organisms are concerned.
If you have followed the steps in part one of I can’t to I can, you now have a hot list of things that your mind believes that it can’t do, that if you have accepted these beliefs then you haven’t done what you have yearned to do with your life. Today we are going to have you shift your mind towards “I can” by using the I Can’t list. Yesterday you were requested to ask yourself the following question with regards to each “I can’t” you wrote down; “If I didn’t have this belief how would it make my life better?” and you wrote down at least one answer for each I can’t. These answers are your keys to unlocking yourself from your past-mind.
Let’s say that one of my “I cant’s” is: “I can’t find the right publisher” and in response to the question... If I didn’t have this belief how would it make my life better? I wrote; I would know that I just have to keep looking until I find one. The answer actually gave me an action step that I can take now, i.e. keep looking for a publisher. Let’s say another of my “I cant’s” is, “I can’t get along with Mike.” in response to the question... If I didn’t have this belief how would it make my life better? I get the idea that I can try talking with him differently than I have. Another action step for me to take, emerged from my answer to the question.
For Today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, you will need about a two minutes for each of the next seven hours. Start each two minutes off by relaxing your body, by taking a few slow deep breaths and relaxing your mind by imagining hearing only silence. Then look at one of your answer and ask yourself this question; “What action does this answer indicate that I can take right now?” If you get an answer take the action as soon as you can...and notice what you feel before, during and after you take the action. Try and complete one action every hour for the next seven hours and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Can’t is the voice of fear, can is the voice of Your Soul. wmf
A Well Known Fact: I can’t causes measurable constrictions in body functioning...I can creates expansion, flow, increased health and prosperity.
The words “I can” are a powerful set of words when there is a force of action behind them. The action behind the words “I can.” might be the intense physical actions of football players clashing while one team is aiming to score a goal as the other team is defending. The action behind I Can could be the intensity of a single stroke from an artist’s paintbrush, it could be the effort of a breath or the dialling of a telephone...I can always translates into an action of some kind in order for a result to occur...without the actions the life of I can has no heartbeat. To truly give our dreams and aspirations life action is imperative...movement is life...inactivity is decay, at least where living organisms are concerned.
If you have followed the steps in part one of I can’t to I can, you now have a hot list of things that your mind believes that it can’t do, that if you have accepted these beliefs then you haven’t done what you have yearned to do with your life. Today we are going to have you shift your mind towards “I can” by using the I Can’t list. Yesterday you were requested to ask yourself the following question with regards to each “I can’t” you wrote down; “If I didn’t have this belief how would it make my life better?” and you wrote down at least one answer for each I can’t. These answers are your keys to unlocking yourself from your past-mind.
Let’s say that one of my “I cant’s” is: “I can’t find the right publisher” and in response to the question... If I didn’t have this belief how would it make my life better? I wrote; I would know that I just have to keep looking until I find one. The answer actually gave me an action step that I can take now, i.e. keep looking for a publisher. Let’s say another of my “I cant’s” is, “I can’t get along with Mike.” in response to the question... If I didn’t have this belief how would it make my life better? I get the idea that I can try talking with him differently than I have. Another action step for me to take, emerged from my answer to the question.
For Today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less, you will need about a two minutes for each of the next seven hours. Start each two minutes off by relaxing your body, by taking a few slow deep breaths and relaxing your mind by imagining hearing only silence. Then look at one of your answer and ask yourself this question; “What action does this answer indicate that I can take right now?” If you get an answer take the action as soon as you can...and notice what you feel before, during and after you take the action. Try and complete one action every hour for the next seven hours and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
From I can’t to I can.
William Michael Forbes
The only thing that separates can’t from can is a little t. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Life is only an appearance of events and circumstances that were imagined before they happened.
When I was in grade school a mantra that many of the teachers would have us say went like this; “Never say; I can’t” always say, “I’ll try.” In the nineteen eighty episode of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, the character Yoda says: “No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.”
I’ll “try” implies that there is a chance of not succeeding...whereas with DO or DO NOT...there is a clearly a distinction in that you have already decided, one way or another, to succeed or fail. Either success or failure requires a commitment and the commitment to either is equal in both its strength and intensity...there is no more or less effort required for either a successful outcome or a failure...although the effects of one may be experienced as drastically different.
Today’s how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is going to be in two parts...part one is going to be called “I Can’t” and will require that you keep a pen a pad handy, because you are going to write down as many of the I can’t moment as you can catch yourself thinking today. These will become a template for tomorrow’s blog which will give you an opportunity to move from I can’t to I can in a very conscious way. It doesn’t matter where or who you got I can’t from...it only matter that you identify what your I cant’s are in order to let them go. I cant’s can happen quickly or slowly and as long as you can catch them...you can let them go just as easily with actions and words that contradict your I cant’s. But for today all you need to do is recognize and write down whatever it is you think or believe it is you think you can’t do.
The benefit to getting as many I cant’s down as possible is that you will have half of the solution to overcoming them in your hand and available to your conscious mind. Take about a minute every hour to relax your body, relax your mind and then examine the I cant’s you’ve written down...and ask yourself this question for each I can’t;
“If I didn’t have this belief how would it make my life better?” then write down at least one answer. Towards the end of the day you may wish to ask this question for every I can’t you’ve written and put an answer by each one. This will prepare your conscious and sub-conscious mind for tomorrow’s blog as well as get your attention shifting towards I CAN and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
The only thing that separates can’t from can is a little t. wmf
A Well Known Fact: Life is only an appearance of events and circumstances that were imagined before they happened.
When I was in grade school a mantra that many of the teachers would have us say went like this; “Never say; I can’t” always say, “I’ll try.” In the nineteen eighty episode of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, the character Yoda says: “No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.”
I’ll “try” implies that there is a chance of not succeeding...whereas with DO or DO NOT...there is a clearly a distinction in that you have already decided, one way or another, to succeed or fail. Either success or failure requires a commitment and the commitment to either is equal in both its strength and intensity...there is no more or less effort required for either a successful outcome or a failure...although the effects of one may be experienced as drastically different.
Today’s how to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is going to be in two parts...part one is going to be called “I Can’t” and will require that you keep a pen a pad handy, because you are going to write down as many of the I can’t moment as you can catch yourself thinking today. These will become a template for tomorrow’s blog which will give you an opportunity to move from I can’t to I can in a very conscious way. It doesn’t matter where or who you got I can’t from...it only matter that you identify what your I cant’s are in order to let them go. I cant’s can happen quickly or slowly and as long as you can catch them...you can let them go just as easily with actions and words that contradict your I cant’s. But for today all you need to do is recognize and write down whatever it is you think or believe it is you think you can’t do.
The benefit to getting as many I cant’s down as possible is that you will have half of the solution to overcoming them in your hand and available to your conscious mind. Take about a minute every hour to relax your body, relax your mind and then examine the I cant’s you’ve written down...and ask yourself this question for each I can’t;
“If I didn’t have this belief how would it make my life better?” then write down at least one answer. Towards the end of the day you may wish to ask this question for every I can’t you’ve written and put an answer by each one. This will prepare your conscious and sub-conscious mind for tomorrow’s blog as well as get your attention shifting towards I CAN and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Action, action!!
William Michael Forbes
Where words traverse time, action can accomplish much more . wmf
A Well Known Fact: You cannot view the world standing still...unless you have mastered the art of projecting your soul out of your body...still, what would actually get done that way?
The fulfillment of our dreams and goals require four specific things to occur;
1. An imagined outcome,
2. Clear objectives and goals to be reached towards the outcome.
3. A plan that details the resources required and the way in which those resources are to be implemented.
4. ACTION, ACTION, ACTION AND MORE ACTION.
Every idea, hope or dream that has ever been fulfilled has had all of the above elements in varying degrees in order to produce the results that any individual or group has ever striven for.
An imagined outcome is the result seen before anything has occurred and every inventive person whether the invention was mechanical or social, had an idea before they even started. All human creations go through the above four steps and ACTION is the most important step and brings the efforts of the other three together into a unified outcome. Not every idea conceived of succeeded, its time may have passed or the idea simply could not work under current physical circumstance like DaVinci’s helicopter...too early in time to make it work. So there are a few considerations, rules if you like, on the path to creating a new life and circumstances. Make sure the idea you choose is one you want to experience. Make sure that it will be good for your mind your body. Lay out a plan for achieving it...and go for it!
This is what today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about and it will take five minutes every hour over the next three hour, to get the ball rolling Wherever you are, think about something you’d like to do or acquire and already imagine that you already have it...notice how you feel about the idea that you already have it. Consider the practical steps you’d need to take to fulfill your idea, from where you are at this moment. Write down a short plan to get it and picture yourself going through all of the steps, until you see the result again. What would you need to complete your idea? Money? Time? People? Equipment? Now the most important step...take action...do something, even if it is a very small action...action is imperative; make a phone call and get the information you need. Make a space somewhere to receive whatever it is you want...just take some type of action no matter how small it may be at this time. Notice how you are feeling as you go through the process and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Where words traverse time, action can accomplish much more . wmf
A Well Known Fact: You cannot view the world standing still...unless you have mastered the art of projecting your soul out of your body...still, what would actually get done that way?
The fulfillment of our dreams and goals require four specific things to occur;
1. An imagined outcome,
2. Clear objectives and goals to be reached towards the outcome.
3. A plan that details the resources required and the way in which those resources are to be implemented.
4. ACTION, ACTION, ACTION AND MORE ACTION.
Every idea, hope or dream that has ever been fulfilled has had all of the above elements in varying degrees in order to produce the results that any individual or group has ever striven for.
An imagined outcome is the result seen before anything has occurred and every inventive person whether the invention was mechanical or social, had an idea before they even started. All human creations go through the above four steps and ACTION is the most important step and brings the efforts of the other three together into a unified outcome. Not every idea conceived of succeeded, its time may have passed or the idea simply could not work under current physical circumstance like DaVinci’s helicopter...too early in time to make it work. So there are a few considerations, rules if you like, on the path to creating a new life and circumstances. Make sure the idea you choose is one you want to experience. Make sure that it will be good for your mind your body. Lay out a plan for achieving it...and go for it!
This is what today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is about and it will take five minutes every hour over the next three hour, to get the ball rolling Wherever you are, think about something you’d like to do or acquire and already imagine that you already have it...notice how you feel about the idea that you already have it. Consider the practical steps you’d need to take to fulfill your idea, from where you are at this moment. Write down a short plan to get it and picture yourself going through all of the steps, until you see the result again. What would you need to complete your idea? Money? Time? People? Equipment? Now the most important step...take action...do something, even if it is a very small action...action is imperative; make a phone call and get the information you need. Make a space somewhere to receive whatever it is you want...just take some type of action no matter how small it may be at this time. Notice how you are feeling as you go through the process and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Climb the mountain.
William Michael Forbes
What can sometimes appear daunting and insurmountable can have a simple solution. wmf
A Well Known Fact: When a new state of mind is reached changes will inevitable occur in vista called your life.
Okay, you’ve been living in a certain mindset for days, months and even years. The pattern is established and nothing seems to be changing...it feels like nothing is ever going to change...what can you do? Where do you start?
Today in How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less I will give a simple and easy starting point for the gentle disassembly of the (or those) old pattern, process, behaviour and habit. In case you’re wondering, I started this blog because after years of unconscious suffering I finally started realizing that happiness, peace of mind, excitement and joy could actually be fun and easier for other’s achieve for than it was for me...if I just simplified what I had learned on my own.
Here is the most important lesson I’ve learned after all my years of self abuse and neglect;
IT’S EASIER TO BE HAPPY THAN IT IS TO BE UNHAPPY, EVEN WHEN THINGS SEEM TO BE AT THERE WORST!
Once you know how to be happy and you know how to do it consistently, you can enjoy what life has to offer. You can go back through the last couple of months of blogs and have fun growing from those....they all point you in the direction of Happy.
The key starting point of happy is BREATHING...if you are breathing...you can learn to be happy...if you are not breathing, you are likely not in a living body. Breathing feels good and every molecule of your body loves it! If you consciously take one minute for every waking hour and just feel the sensation of breathing in and out...you will be making your body happier. Another stop along the way of happy, is learning to put your mind and your attention only on good thoughts, memories and ideas, while you are breathing for that minute every waking hour. One additional ideas on the path of How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less it to focus on activities, events, and images of what you really would like to be experiencing every day, also during that minute of breathing; Breathing, good thoughts and good images. And this is your activity today...for one minute every hour...stop what you are doing and feel your breathing for about a minute...feel the life flowing into and out of your body...realize that your lungs are doing what you ask them to for that minute...and during that minute of breathing think good thoughts like...I love breathing, I can be happier, I can be loving, I can be lovable....and hold pictures in your mind of your face smiling, of being in places you’d love to be, doing things you’d love to do and of having the things you want to have....for one minute every waking hour today do this for yourself and notice how you feel during and afterwards If you do this one activity every waking hour for at least a week, you will inevitably feel better and better every day and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved
What can sometimes appear daunting and insurmountable can have a simple solution. wmf
A Well Known Fact: When a new state of mind is reached changes will inevitable occur in vista called your life.
Okay, you’ve been living in a certain mindset for days, months and even years. The pattern is established and nothing seems to be changing...it feels like nothing is ever going to change...what can you do? Where do you start?
Today in How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less I will give a simple and easy starting point for the gentle disassembly of the (or those) old pattern, process, behaviour and habit. In case you’re wondering, I started this blog because after years of unconscious suffering I finally started realizing that happiness, peace of mind, excitement and joy could actually be fun and easier for other’s achieve for than it was for me...if I just simplified what I had learned on my own.
Here is the most important lesson I’ve learned after all my years of self abuse and neglect;
IT’S EASIER TO BE HAPPY THAN IT IS TO BE UNHAPPY, EVEN WHEN THINGS SEEM TO BE AT THERE WORST!
Once you know how to be happy and you know how to do it consistently, you can enjoy what life has to offer. You can go back through the last couple of months of blogs and have fun growing from those....they all point you in the direction of Happy.
The key starting point of happy is BREATHING...if you are breathing...you can learn to be happy...if you are not breathing, you are likely not in a living body. Breathing feels good and every molecule of your body loves it! If you consciously take one minute for every waking hour and just feel the sensation of breathing in and out...you will be making your body happier. Another stop along the way of happy, is learning to put your mind and your attention only on good thoughts, memories and ideas, while you are breathing for that minute every waking hour. One additional ideas on the path of How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less it to focus on activities, events, and images of what you really would like to be experiencing every day, also during that minute of breathing; Breathing, good thoughts and good images. And this is your activity today...for one minute every hour...stop what you are doing and feel your breathing for about a minute...feel the life flowing into and out of your body...realize that your lungs are doing what you ask them to for that minute...and during that minute of breathing think good thoughts like...I love breathing, I can be happier, I can be loving, I can be lovable....and hold pictures in your mind of your face smiling, of being in places you’d love to be, doing things you’d love to do and of having the things you want to have....for one minute every waking hour today do this for yourself and notice how you feel during and afterwards If you do this one activity every waking hour for at least a week, you will inevitably feel better and better every day and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved
Friday, March 26, 2010
Mini meditations.
William Michael Forbes
A moment of checking in with ourselves can make a world of difference. wmf
A Well Known Fact:
Our attention affects the structure and chemistry of our bodies and the clarity of our minds..
Maybe you’ve had to rush; maybe you’re feeling irritated, annoyed or tired. Perhaps your body is feeling stressed and you haven’t been getting enough sleep. Today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is called Mini Meditation because meditation isn’t necessarily sitting for a prolonged period of time in a pretzel-like posture or chanting sonorously until bliss is reached...though these can be done to achieve an inner state of joy and union with our source. Mini Meditations are exactly that short concentrated periods of giving attention to a desired outcome or state, over one to five minute periods several times a day. Mini meditation are simple, fast, easy, reduce tension and increase focus and performance.
Regardless of where you are, as long as you are not operating any heavy machinery, equipment or motorized vehicles, then you can safely and easily do this. Find a comfortable seat somewhere and relax your body by taking a few slow deep breaths. With each exhale, let the muscles in your body relax and allow the thoughts in your mind go silent...then consider what you want to alter or change at this time and begin thinking and imagining the alteration you’d like i.e. If I’m tired I’m going to put my attention the idea that my body is being refreshed, reenergized, rejuvenated and revitalized and I’ll say those words with power and authority. If I want to have a clearer focus I might say, “my mind is becoming clearer, sharper and more perceptive with each passing moment.” You can choose any idea or thought that you want to begin experiencing, the key points are this...spend only one to five minutes each time you choose to do this, get relaxed, quiet your mind, think upon your idea (s) with authority and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
A moment of checking in with ourselves can make a world of difference. wmf
A Well Known Fact:
Our attention affects the structure and chemistry of our bodies and the clarity of our minds..
Maybe you’ve had to rush; maybe you’re feeling irritated, annoyed or tired. Perhaps your body is feeling stressed and you haven’t been getting enough sleep. Today’s How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is called Mini Meditation because meditation isn’t necessarily sitting for a prolonged period of time in a pretzel-like posture or chanting sonorously until bliss is reached...though these can be done to achieve an inner state of joy and union with our source. Mini Meditations are exactly that short concentrated periods of giving attention to a desired outcome or state, over one to five minute periods several times a day. Mini meditation are simple, fast, easy, reduce tension and increase focus and performance.
Regardless of where you are, as long as you are not operating any heavy machinery, equipment or motorized vehicles, then you can safely and easily do this. Find a comfortable seat somewhere and relax your body by taking a few slow deep breaths. With each exhale, let the muscles in your body relax and allow the thoughts in your mind go silent...then consider what you want to alter or change at this time and begin thinking and imagining the alteration you’d like i.e. If I’m tired I’m going to put my attention the idea that my body is being refreshed, reenergized, rejuvenated and revitalized and I’ll say those words with power and authority. If I want to have a clearer focus I might say, “my mind is becoming clearer, sharper and more perceptive with each passing moment.” You can choose any idea or thought that you want to begin experiencing, the key points are this...spend only one to five minutes each time you choose to do this, get relaxed, quiet your mind, think upon your idea (s) with authority and...
Have a great day!
William
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
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