Internet marketing is a highly competitive means of doing business.  The number and types of products available is endless.  To be successful the internet marketer has to be able to develop strategies and techniques that convince consumers that their product is the one they want.  There are many effective methods available to the internet marketer to accomplish this.  The use of mind control marketing has proven to be an effective technique to improve sales.  

Just what is mind control?  Basically, it is the use of various methods to influence the human mind.  The use of these methods will influence the thinking of an individual in unconscious ways.  The effects upon the unconscious mind will then result in changes in the individual’s behavior and emotions.  This subvert manipulation will effect the way one’s decisions are formed.

There is present day thinking that mind control is negative in that it effects an individual’s freedom and independence in making choices and decisions.  Actually, mind control is a neutral concept that merely attempts to communicate with one’s own mind to develop abilities and potentials to their maximum level.

The works of mind control effect the human mind.  With the use of these techniques it is very easy to make a person believe something is as it is presented.  Mind control is used in various instances and for various purposes.  It is present in something as simple as influencing a child not to eat foods that are not healthy for them.  Mind control is not something bad at all.  It has, however, become a powerful tool that can have a very positive effect upon life and living.

Mind control has been found to be very effective in the field of marketing.  It is, after all, the brain that decides whether or not to buy a specific product.  Marketers can benefit greatly from the knowledge and skills of mind control in their work on the internet.  While there are those who consider mind control to be an infringement upon their freedom and independence, there is no proof that would render mind control to be illegal or destructive.

In the field of marketing, visualizations appear to be the most effective and least invasive of the techniques.  The positive aspects of this technique will simply bring about good things about the specific product.

This mind control technique is very effective in every sense of the word.

Mind control can be a very powerful tool in any if not all fields in life. It should, however, be used only in a positive manner.  Remember, with great power comes a great responsibility to use it wisely.

If you are interested in mind control and other forms of covert persuasion, please visit my website.  There is no better place to learn what works, and what does not. See below.Bill Froning’s website provides reviews of products, with ratings of the top products in various niches.  He also includes top articles designed to help customers in performing their research. Currently, he is providing Articles and ratings of the best software for persuading others to purchase your products.

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What is the greatest sales tool a salesperson can use?
What is the best way to meet men and women in bars and in life?
What is the best way to win an argument?

For each of these questions, you can likely come up with hundreds of different answers. But it turns out that there may be one answer for all of them – Hypnosis.

Hypnosis: Learn How to Control People’s Minds

The actual art of hypnosis is the art of verbal mind control. There are extreme types of hypnotism such as psychological hypnosis and those parlor tricks you see on TV, but the true art of hypnotism itself is simply the ability to manipulate the thought processes of others in order to control their actions.

That is the key to hypnosis. Learn how to talk to others, and you can control their behaviors. You can sell your products to prospective buyers no matter how much they need it. You can meet men and women wherever and go on as many dates as you want. You can win every argument by convincing the other person that they are wrong even if they are nowhere near wrong.

When it comes to hypnosis, learn how to talk to people and you learn how to not only affect their minds, but you end up changing your own life as well. You gain a power that will help you succeed at almost anything, giving you more control over the outcome of your behaviors, rather than leaving so much of it up to chance.

That control is something that everyone searches for, and that is why more people should learn hypnosis – learn how to take control of your life in ways that you have always wanted, and find yourself much happier in the process.

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When I first tried to combat my excessive sweating, I got nowhere. I’d walk into the local pharmacy and buy up every antiperspirant I could find off the rack only to be disappointed with my results days later. It was a painful cycle of trial and error and I remember, after the ninth or tenth brand of deodorant I tried, I started to think there was just no product out there that could solve my sweating.

Anyway, it took some time but I’m here to tell you that there ARE products out there that work. And after much exploration and testing, this article will show you the 7 best deodorants for excessive sweating, giving you fast and effective results.

After all my failures buying up the shelves at my local drugstore, I finally wised up and spoke candidly with my dermatologist about my excessive sweating woes. She told me I suffered from a fairly common condition called Hyperhidrosis. It caused me to sweat uncontrollably from the hands, armpits, face and feet no matter what temperature I was exposed to.

The reason the average store brand deodorants weren’t being effective was because they didn’t contain enough of the active sweat stopping ingredient, Aluminum Chloride.

This is pretty important for you to know…

Aluminum Chloride is the active ingredient which blocks your pores from sweating profusely.

Although there are numerous options for excessive sweating sufferers, the first one your should learn about is choosing the right deodorant.

Here I’ll be giving you the 7 best deodorants for excessive sweating that packed just enough punch to get my perspiration under control. Bear in mind, most of them can be applied to your hands and feet as well as your armpits to minimize the sweating. I also mention specific facial sweating deodorants as well.

1. Certain Dri – This is the weakest of the 7 deodorants in the list. However, it is a crucial first step. You don’t want to just grab the strongest antiperspirant off the shelf when you’re starting out or you’ll end up with irritated skin in no time. Certain Dri contains 12% Aluminum Chloride and is considered clinical strength. It’s a great first step when escalating to a stronger solution.

2. Drysol – This prescription strength deodorant usually requires your Dermatologist’s approval but there are online stores where you can get it without the inconvenient doctor’s note requirement. Drysol contains a whopping 20% Aluminum Chloride and starts working after the first application. It’s not like regular deodorant though. You only apply Drysol once a night before bedtime. During the day, you may not want to apply a regular deodorant as irritation can occur with such a powerful topical in place.

3. Deodorite – DeodoRite is a 100% safe and effective internal natural remedy for treating the underlying causes of body odor. The formula has been specially manufactured to improve the elimination of toxins from the body, promote healthy liver functioning and reduce excessive perspiration. It’s not a regular topical like most deodorants. You take it orally and it goes to work (Again, safely) regulating the toxins out of your body and decreasing your overall sweating.

4. Maxim Facial Wipes – These are a facial sweating sufferer’s best friend. Maxim wipes are convenient wipes that contain topical deodorant mild enough to apply to your face. Just wipe them all over your face and the astringent goes to work, blocking sweat pores and solving your problem fast. I loved the results using these things.

5. Secure Wipes – If Maxim wipes aren’t doing the trick for you, then Secure Wipes are your best bet for facial sweating. They come in degrees of strength with their medicine ranging from 1% – 4%. There are two warnings though with Secure Wipes. First, if you choose too strong a formula, you will have redness, rash and irritation occur. Start with 2% if Maxim Wipes don’t work for you and then scale up from there. Secondly, they are a bit more expensive than the Maxim Wipes but you get your money’s worth. The results are palpable.

6. Driclor – This is a strong beast of a deodorant. Although it contains the same level of Aluminum Chloride as Drysol (20%), many people claim it dries them out where Drysol won’t. Here’s a very honest review. The itching, soreness, stinging and dry rash that I got were all terrible. You have to grit your teeth through the discomfort to get the results. That said, it definitely works!

7. Odaban – I saved one of my favorites for last. Odaban is less abrasive than Drysol and Driclor. Plus, you can apply it to your face in small doses. It’s a topical that comes in spray for (Drysol and Driclor are roll-on topicals). Somehow, I found that is conditioned my body to stop sweating rather than shocking it into submission. You’ll need to use it for a week to feel the optimal effects.

This is really just the Tip of the Iceberg. You NEED to check out the FREE Sweat Tactics video I’ve posted on my site http://www.Prevent-Sweating.com. It shows you how to stop hand, foot, face and armpit sweating using natural treatments that actually condition your body not to sweat – rather than temporarily block the sweat like the deodorants above. Check out the video right now and end your excessive sweating for good. You’re going to love it!

Jason Ellis

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Jason Ellis has been helping people overcome their excessive sweating for years. His expertise deals with controlling the symptoms of hyperhidrosis by applying proven, natural treatments for excessive sweating that bring results in days. You can find all of Jason’s natural treatments for excessive sweating exclusively at http://www.Prevent-Sweating.com

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So, how mentally tough are you?

If you have experienced and overcome hardships in your early years than these will have helped you to build your mental toughness. Helped to shape your character. Helped you to manage life’s stresses and strains. Yet you must still learn to block out the negatives. Get rid of the squeaky mouse voice. Instead be the mouse who roared like a lion. He frightened the cat out of the house.

You must learn to back yourself. We have so much more physical and mental strength than we consciously use. Especially if our lives or the life of a loved one is at stake. A mother will summon every nerve, bone and sinew to protect her young baby. Perhaps you have done something similar. Have you worked all night to get a job done? Or perhaps slept under the desk and started again at first light. Have you been heart-broken and yet still lived on?

Struggle is good. It makes you tough. Nothing will ever be perfect. Do the best that you can with what you have got now! Don’t say I’ll wait until things get better. Or I’ll wait until I am better. Learn to be better right now. Yes, you will have moments where the world will completely knock you over. But you must pick yourself back up, dust yourself off and continue on.

I remember a client who lost everything in a bad deal. Lost the business, the house, the car and other assets. So he took on a job as a toilet cleaner. He said his life had literally turned to excrement. Yet he turned cleaning toilets into a learning experience. He saw it like martial arts for life. Cleaning each cubicle was like a training round where he practiced his techniques. Except there was no opponent. Just himself. He faced and smelt some bad stuff. Yet he just knocked it all out with some strong scrubbing action and powerful detergent. He slowly turned his life around for the better and is now no longer cleaning toilets.

So find ways in which to build up your mental toughness. Here are some short steps you can use.

1. How To Turn It On Or Off.

You need to know how to turn your mental toughness on and off like a switch. Some people can confuse mental toughness with physical strength. Or being rude, pushy and aggressive. Nah, some of the toughest soldiers or survivors I know are really nice, unassuming people. They are not physically impressive to look at yet in a crisis they flick on a mental switch. They become like men and women of steel. So imagine you have a switch that you can flick on or off when you need to.

2. Use Your Fear As A Tough Teacher.

Fear is a tough teacher. It will grab your mind and body and twist both out of shape very quickly. So you must learn to to manage all the knots and twists. This is called courage. Fear teaches you courage. Without fear, you cannot test your courage. So use your fears to practice being courageous. This is part of being mentally tough.

3. Practice Between Performances

Another key point is to practice your key skills under pressure. Just like any great musician, actor or athlete practices between performances. Not wait for the actual performance to test your skills. You might want to test your decision-making under pressure. So that you can keep a cool head and make wise choices when it is needed.

4. Use Common Sense.

Being mentally tough also requires a bit of common sense. No point in showing great willpower and determination if you are driving on the wrong side of the road. That is just plain stupidity.

So find ways to improve your mental toughness. The simplest way is to use the big challenges in your life right now as tough teachers.

Hirini Reedy

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Hirini Reedy is a Maori metaphysicist, former military officer, martial arts founder and eco-business coach. He combines Maori warrior teachings with modern insights at http://www.maorisecrets.com

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Even before the boom of the current economic depression, numerous people had already suffered from terrible situations because they were literally jobless. Does the secret law of attraction apply to this circumstance? The answer is YES!

An Understandable Situation

Not all bosses are kind and generous. Thus, not all employees are lucky enough to spot a good boss. There are several of them who feel uncomfortable in their respective workplaces. Add to it the fact that there are bosses who play favorites! This leaves you without any other choice but to quit your job. Now, your grudge against your boss is very understandable.

On a yearly basis, thousands of students graduate from different universities all over the world. They have one main goal and that is to land on their dream jobs. With this big number of graduates, only a handful of them are absorbed by the existing companies. Less than half of the total number enjoys competent wages and benefits while several of them receive meager salaries. What a torture!

People flock in companies to apply but only a few of them are hired. The main reason is that the firms don’t have much of a need for rookies. They still have their long-time employees. The retirement age is around 60 so that only emphasizes why the problem on unemployment continues to escalate.

The Law of Attraction in Action

This universal law reiterates that good and bad things happen as the outcome of one’s thoughts, feelings, and actions. If you decide to align your energy with the negative force, then, you are likely to suffer from sorrow and depression. Meanwhile, aligning your energy with the positive force means inviting good vibes into your system. Simply put, you are the one who creates your own realities. If you believe in the possibility of one thing, you will get it. However, if you limit your vision because you have doubts or you simply don’t feel like believing in it that much, then, you just receive limited wealth.

Unemployment is pretty much a consequence of your own behavior. It is normal for human beings to become too ambitious to the point that you crave for the moon, the sun, and all the stars. People easily get turned off and are too picky by nature. It often happens that in search of a good paying job, they let go of the simple opportunities and jump from one company to another. When things get too tough and the challenges get out of hand, many employees just give up. They wait for the right moment without exerting any effort to find that great chance.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

With the theory stated above, avoid committing any of these three mistakes:

1) Don’t think that the theory of attraction works like magic. You don’t just wake up with an expensive car parked outside your gate or as the president of a company. If you want to be promoted, you should know the value of hard work.

2) Don’t wait for the most ideal situation. There is never a perfect situation. If you wait for it, then you will have to wait forever to no avail.

3) Don’t rely on lottery. Life is not a lottery. You don’t succeed by chance. You succeed through perseverance.

Unemployment is simply the result of committing these mistakes. Hence, direct your focus on the right use of your positive energy as indicated by the secret law of attraction.

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You need specific goals

To succeed in any field, you need to have a main purpose. Define a certain goal for your online home business, otherwise you will jump from one task to another without get anything done. The majority of all people don’t have a main

purpose with their actions. On the other hand, all successful business owners have a outlined goal in their life.

You must learn how to use your education

Many of the most successful online home business owners are self educated. Doesn’t matter if you have five college degrees, if you don?t use it. To develop your business, you have to apply your knowledge with a plan of action.

Acquire self discipline

Discipline can be defined as self control. Control yourself and remove your negative habits and qualities. If you don?t conquer yourself, you will be conquered.

Whatever it takes, avoid procrastination

It is one of the main reasons of failure. Don’t wait for opportunities come to you, actively look for the best business ideas. You can’t wait for everything to be right before you act. That right time will never come.

Develop your ability to be persistent

It’s not enough to get of to a good start, just to stop at the first obstacle. Obstacles give you a great chance to improve your skills. If you quit you can’t hope for any kind of success.

Always look at bright side of life

If you are negative your whole world will be negative. Your subconscious mind will inform you that you can?t do it. Stay positive, and you can achieve anything you want.

Learn how to calculate and take risks

There will be some risks when you start your online home business. If you are not able to take any risks, you can?t expect to make a difference. There are many genuine business ideas waiting for you. If you’re not willing to jump the

fence, you’re doomed to stay in your enclosure.

Be Selective when you pick your associates

You can’t do everything yourself. Successful and intelligent partners are one of the keys for your own success. Do your homework, research your presumptive associates before you choose who to work with.

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You dream about your own online home business! To be able to avoid failure, you’ll need to have or develop some qualifications. To clarify this in some matter, here is a list of things for you to keep in mind :

You need specific goals

To succeed in any field, you need to have a main purpose. Define a certain goal for your online home business, otherwise you will jump from one task to another without get anything done. The majority of all people don’t have a main
purpose with their actions. On the other hand, all successful business owners have a outlined goal in their life.

You must learn how to use your education

Many of the most successful online home business owners are self educated. Doesn’t matter if you have five college degrees, if you don?t use it. To develop your business, you have to apply your knowledge with a plan of action.

Acquire self discipline

Discipline can be defined as self control. Control yourself and remove your negative habits and qualities. If you don?t conquer yourself, you will be conquered.

Whatever it takes, avoid procrastination

It is one of the main reasons of failure. Don’t wait for opportunities come to you, actively look for the best business ideas. You can’t wait for everything to be right before you act. That right time will never come.

Develop your ability to be persistent

It’s not enough to get of to a good start, just to stop at the first obstacle. Obstacles give you a great chance to improve your skills. If you quit you can’t hope for any kind of success.

Always look at bright side of life

If you are negative your whole world will be negative. Your subconscious mind will inform you that you can?t do it. Stay positive, and you can achieve anything you want.

Learn how to calculate and take risks

There will be some risks when you start your online home business. If you are not able to take any risks, you can?t expect to make a difference. There are many genuine business ideas waiting for you. If you’re not willing to jump the
fence, you’re doomed to stay in your enclosure.

Be Selective when you pick your associates

You can’t do everything yourself. Successful and intelligent partners are one of the keys for your own success. Do your homework, research your presumptive associates before you choose who to work with.

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UK cPanel Hosting Services Profit Your Online Business

UK cPanel Hosting service is also available online and enables you to organize your email accounts and to add domains besides effectively creating and managing your blogs conveniently.

Have you just introduced your business online and are looking for ways in which you can make your company’s website flourish? Are you worried because running web-hosting server is prohibitive? If these are the causes of your worry, then UK cPanel Hosting, is certainly an effective solution for all your problems. cPanel is one of the ways to relieve this transition. It enables you to begin web-hosting very easily. UK cPanel Hosting is also very helpful when you are adding some new features like the message boards and blogs to the sites.

cPanel is very advantageous as an online facility of web hosting. You can simply access the UK cPanel Hosting by merely hooking your cPanel-enabled computer with the Internet. UK cPanel Hosting allows you easy access to the stored files on the server or the website. You can thus edit, delete or add files very conveniently with the help of the user-friendly cPanel. In fact, you can also edit the CGI-scripts and easily locate the website’s statistical information like how frequently does your site get viewed. Moreover, UK cPanel Hosting also allows you to create the anonymous FTP user-profiles and to manage all the FTP information and data.

The best part of the UK cPanel Hosting is that it ensures the file backup if your system crashes down unexpectedly thereby preserving your website’s integrity. The UK cPanel Hosting also provides with the facility of monitoring of the website’s statistical information. The information concomitant to error logs owing to the dropping of the connecting, raw-log files and AW stats can also get received if you use the UK cPanel Hosting services.

When you run a website, the security of the website is of utmost importance. UK cPanel Hosting also has a lot of safety features. It can prevent the hacking of your website efficiently as it has incredible security features as the hot-link blocking and password protection. If by chance any error occurs, you can be easily redirected to some other part of your website and will be stopped from FTP server’s access till your problem has been successfully rectified.

UK cPanel Hosting has another very lucrative feature that it allows you to run the CGI scripts very easily by the accession of the CGI-script editing-program through the cPanel. That implies you can conveniently and very quickly install brand new features like chat, blogs and message-boards on your website. You can also add some of the very interesting shopping options online like the shopping carts so that your customers can easily make their purchases online.

If you are interested in furthering the profits of your business online and to make it flourish, you can also avail the lucrative and benefiting services of the UK cPanel Hosting companies that can be found online easily. These online UK cPanel Hosting companies have a lot of exciting offers such as cheap, secure and reliable hosting services. They also have the facility of domain registration, web hosting and email hosting.

The best part is that these online companies give priority to the search engine ranking for your business and also avail you with the money-back guarantee if you are not satisfied with their services within a month’s time.

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Healing of the hidden self will better all aspects of our lives, both the professional aspects as well as the personal aspects. Self-control is one of the crucial lessons of self-development and healing the hidden self, since it will lead us to becoming had better people overall. If we are able to show self-control in many situations, we will be able to overcome them and avoid the associated stress. It is crucial that we adapt and grow in life and become individuals that are more self-controlled.

Self-control is developed through the processes of healing the hidden self. In dealing with receptivity, the need for self-control is of the utmost importance. It is vital that we are all able to control ourselves when faced with situations in life. Receptivity is one of the components that prepare us with the mental attitudes that are needed for the control of our concentration and the control of our will. We are able to exhibit self-control when faced with many problems in life. It works to aid in the directing of our attentions, the withholding of our judgements and many other aspects of our self-control. We learn to accept the things that we cannot change and change the things that are within our power. We learn to act in a controlled manner and change our behaviour to suit situations that we face.

We all have to be receptive to change. Life is dynamic and does not remain constant. If we are trapped in the mindset where we cannot adapt to change then we are directed along a path that leads to the lost of self-control. We all have to wake up to the reality that when we show self-control we avoid many problems in life. We are made better overall and are able to handle anything that the world throws at us. We are able to face all the issues that arise in living head on.

The fact is that we all have our own unique mannerisms that are used in the handling of situations. We are not able to be normal all the time and this is a factor that contributes to the need for self-control. There are times we will let our emotions get the best of us but when this occurs the end result can be worst than the previous situation. It is here that we all see the apparent need for self-control. We need to be able to face our problems head on and logically rather than emotionally. Logic can provide us with the best reaction to the situation. Yet to build logic, we must learn to analyze and continue to heal the hidden self.

When we are stressed and cannot see our way through a problem, it is often because the subliminal mind hinders us from seeing. Once you start to explore this mind you, can control you and work easily through the process of healing the hidden self. We can redirect our thoughts to the positive aspects of our lives and fulfil our lives. If we always focus on the stresses in our lives, we will be soon overburdened. In order to progress well we have to open up our minds and hearts and be in control of our emotions and physical reactions. It is quite possible at times to forget about the important things in life and to focus only on the negatives. This is not the best attitude and it we are in control of our thoughts then we will be able to redirect ourselves to action that is more positive.

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Alphonso Sirtle is the Editor and Publisher of Article Click. For more FREE articles for your ezine and websites visit – www.articleclick.com

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We have all seen hypnotism on television. Someone waves a pocket watch back and forth, and suddenly the other person is asleep and bending to their will. But the truth about how to hypnotize someone is that, while anyone can learn it, it takes a great deal of training ? there are certain words you must use, a tone of voice that is necessary, a way of speaking ? even background noise.

Hypnotism takes a great deal of education. However, one of the things that makes hypnotism such an interesting field is that although it takes a lot of training, anyone can learn how to hypnotize someone and that learning does not need to take place in a school.

Learning Techniques

Hypnotism does not require a formal education. In other words, you do not need to sign up at your local community college for a hypnotism class. But it does require very in depth learning, which is why there are a number of online techniques that people are starting to use, in order to save money.

- Audio trainings have been recorded and are actually one of the most common ways to learn how to hypnotize someone today. Audio training helps you focus on the tone of the instructor, and how they use the words in context rather than reading them on paper.

- Online guides are another method. The benefit of online guides is that they can be printed and read anywhere, so you can take your learning with you to work and read it in your spare time. The only real downside is that you have to make sure you have the motivation to pay attention, because there are a great deal of subtleties that make hypnotism so effective.

When you learn how to hypnotize someone, it becomes very important to understand all of the techniques involved and how to implement them together, rather than simply learning a few interesting parts about how to hypnotize someone and assuming you can now enact all of the methods. Every part of your mind and body must be involved in the hypnotism, and so as long as you are willing to dedicate the time you need to learning it, you will find that it has the ability to change your life.

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“The more tranquil a person becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.” –James Allen, 1864-1912, Author of As A Man Thinketh

Of all the challenges in life, calmness of mind is probably one of the greatest challenges for many people, especially in our busy urban society.

One of the reasons for this is that most of us have been far more trained to think from our left-brained programmed mind than from our holistic, spiritually connected, creative right brain. Our programmed ego mind is deeply devoted to controlling our own feelings as well as others’ feelings and actions and the outcome of things. It likes to think non-stop about how to have control. But the challenging thing is that this programmed part of our mind often thinks negatively – thinks about all the bad things that can happen, worries, ruminates, judges, blames, projects, analyzes, and so on. All of these are ways our ego – the programmed wounded part of ourselves – tries to control feelings, people, and outcomes. And the ironic thing is that it creates the exact opposite of a calm mind – the exact opposite of what is needed for wisdom and success.

Our ego mind is our default setting. It is where we will automatically be focused unless we consciously choose an intention other than to protect/avoid/control. When we choose the intention to learn about truth and about what is loving to ourselves and others – what is in our own and others highest good – then we move out of our default thinking and into our right brain.

Moving into the calmness of our right brain takes much practice. Many people meditate for years to attempt to achieve this calmness. The problem is that, while they may achieve calmness of mind during meditation, what happens to the calmness when their intent shifts into wanting to control?

It is our intent that governs whether or not we are able to have a calm mind throughout our day – not just during meditation. Our ego is deeply addicted to thoughts that create fear, anxiety, depression, anger, hurt, and agitation. As long as we unconsciously choose the intent to control, we will automatically think the thoughts that create these painful feelings. We cannot consistently change our thoughts without changing our intent. When we consciously choose a deep intent to learn about truth and love, our thoughts will follow this intent.

What can you do when your ego mind is going full force and you feel stuck in anxiety, depression, panic, fear, and so on? How can you stop these negative thoughts and move into the calmness of your right brain?

Perhaps we can learn something from Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, author of “My Stroke of Insight.” Dr. Taylor’s left-brain was completely off line due to a stroke. As it gradually came back online, she decided that she didn’t want to continue with some of her old negative thinking patterns. Not only does she tell her “Peanut Gallery” – her name for her ego – to “Knock it off,” she says it out loud “while waggling my pointed finger in the air, or standing firm with my hands on my hips. A scolding mother is more effective when she says what she means with passion and communicates her message multidimensionally.”

I often see my ego voice like a child or adolescent who is acting out. After becoming aware that my intent is to control and accepting what I can and can’t control, I might say to her, “If you can’t be quiet, you will have to go to you room!” But this works only when I have consciously shifted my intent from controlling to learning about loving myself. Once I do that, I immediately move back into calmness of mind.

Margaret Paul

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