The Life Skills Approach

Using Your Mind Instead of Your Mind Using You

During difficult times our mind can either evolve us to a higher level or it defeats us. We have to learn how to preside over our mind or we become victims of how we were conditioned in the past. When you accept the power you naturally have, you will never be a victim to your past conditioning.

Think about this thought for a moment. Your body responds to the thoughts and images in your mind. Every person has changed their mind in the past and has learned that changed their way of looking at the world. Imagine a young child, David rushing home on his birthday. He is excited because birthdays were important in his family and this was a big one for him: He was going to be ten years old.

After running home from school, he opens the front door expecting his family’s love, but what he finds is an empty room with the TV running and no body home. He goes into another room and found nobody home. He was disappointed, thinking that they all forgot his special day. He sits down feeling rejected and then all of a sudden, the door to a room they never used opens and his entire family comes out singing Happy Birthday.

Instantly his rejected outlook changed and his heart filled with joy. His body received different messages from his mind. He unknowingly just learned an important lesson about life: The thoughts in your mind create your body’s experience. So why can’t we use that principle to change depressing times in our life?

The only way we change is when we change what we identify with. So if we exclusively focus on the issues before us, we may miss the issues within us that determine if we change.  

Here are 5 prime reasons we resist change.

• We hold on to our mind  made reality as though it was real.
• We value what we create more than we value life.
• Our consciousness is committed to flow with our thought patterns, so it is difficult to find new ideas.
•  We identify with the creations of our mind, thinking that is who we are. We don’t value “who” listens to our thoughts.
• The quality of life is found beyond what we conceive or perceive, connecting to that inner wisdom uncovers powerful inner resources needed to accomplish your goal.

Learn to connect to the Wisdom of the Body in a Tele-seminar. “Finding Quality of life Using the Wisdom of the Body”. Go to http://lifeskillsinc.com to enroll. If appropriate download my e-book “A Healthy Way to be Sick.”

© Marc Lerner 2007

A Healthy Way to be Sick Without compromise

There is probably no better way to free yourself from your past than to consciously deal with a health challenge. To deal with that challenge it is essential to connect to the Wisdom of the Body, which exists beyond your conditioned mind. This inner wisdom is home of powerful inner resources that create the quality of your life. You can either focus on thoughts about your health challenge or connect to the part of you that can do something to improve your health. Tap this inner wisdom & become a partner with your Dr. using inner & outer resources. Challenges evolve you when you're not a victim & you can better deal with your challenge..

When you face a situation that has no easy solution, you naturally search in the Unknown for solutions or you accept the situation you are in as reality. I have multiple sclerosis and if you search all the medical records you will find no cure for MS, but there are ways to slow the progression down. That doesn’t cure you; it just gives you time to search deeper  within.

If I only look outside for my solution to my problem I would be forced to accept there is nothing that can be done for me. That is not the solution I find deep within me with the Wisdom of my Body. I have been given an opportunity to explore beyond the consciousness of thinking (either mine or the world of modern medicine) and it is in that silence the quality of life is found.

Thinking about my handicaps of MS is not a pleasant thing to do. Entering the silence beyond those thoughts (without the mental noise of thinking) is where I connect to the Wisdom of my Body. That inner wisdom has a profound spiritual connection with a tender touch to an Ultimate reality. You can call that what you want, but at that depth names are not that important. Just as in the most intimate time with your lover, their name is not as important as the touch. I find comfort at that depth without anxious thinking.

I feel that tender consciousness touch is the best way to deal with any health challenge; for in that tenderness you are connected to the depths of your being and your inner wisdom. That consciousness can use external resources the best; that is where you participate with your whole heart and all of your inner resources. Of course the conditioning of your ego can limit your efforts; but when you are conscious, ego’s limitations can be corrected.

Knowing how to consciously correct ego’s past is the role of anyone in a health challenge. Do you feel you accept that challenge?

 

Consciously condition your mind so you deal with health challenges from inner wisdom instead of your past conditioning. Go to http://lifeskillsinc.com and to get a copy of the e-book enroll in a Tele-seminar that develops the life skills needed for that inner journey. Free e-book also to view.

(c) Life Skills Institute 2008

 

How to Benefit From That Which Challenges You

A challenge forces you to go beyond what you are comfortable with, to venture into the unknown. We all have habits that we can easily fall back on, but we can do that without being conscious in the moment.

                I don’t consider that a challenge because you were not forced to grow. Let me give you some points that create challenges for me.

·         A challenge requires you to be conscious in the moment

·         No thought in your mind or habit you have is more important than being alive in that moment.

·         Without protecting your heart you face that challenge wide open to totally be there with love

·         The degree of your heart’s expression is not defined by choice; it comes from a higher consciousness, where your deepest wisdom responds instead of your idea of yourself.

·         Your breath brings your inner power present. The flow of your breath indicates letting go.

·         The ability to let go allows your deepest wisdom to express.

·         That pure expression is how love is expressed, how healing happens and how your own wisdom speaks to you.

                Now face your challenges with this state of mind. The results of your challenge are not as valuable as the “you” that get developed. When this character becomes who you identify with, you will appreciate your challenge deeply. These points can become habits that defines how you will face every challenge you face.

Now ask yourself one question; are the results you get from your challenge as important as the growth experienced? The “you” that experiences your challenge is far more important than winning or losing.  

Learning how to grow from challenges requires life skills training. Go to http://lifeskillsinc.com & enroll in a Tele-seminar that develops that “you”. A Healthy Way to Be Sick develops strength in facing challenges.

© Marc Lerner & Life Skills 2009

How to Benefit From That Which Challenges You

A challenge forces you to go beyond what you are comfortable with, to venture into the unknown. We all have habits that we can easily fall back on, but we can do that without being conscious in the moment.

                I don’t consider that a challenge because you were not forced to grow. Let me give you some points that create challenges for me.

·         A challenge requires you to be conscious in the moment

·         No thought in your mind or habit you have is more important than being alive in that moment.

·         Without protecting your heart you face that challenge wide open to totally be there with love

·         The degree of your heart’s expression is not defined by choice; it comes from a higher consciousness, where your deepest wisdom responds instead of your idea of yourself.

·         Your breath brings your inner power present. The flow of your breath indicates letting go.

·         The ability to let go allows your deepest wisdom to express.

·         That pure expression is how love is expressed, how healing happens and how your own wisdom speaks to you.

                Now face your challenges with this state of mind. The results of your challenge are not as valuable as the “you” that get developed. When this character becomes who you identify with, you will appreciate your challenge deeply. These points can become habits that defines how you will face every challenge you face.

Now ask yourself one question; are the results you get from your challenge as important as the growth experienced? The “you” that experiences your challenge is far more important than winning or losing.