What’s the Law of Attraction and how does it work?

The Law of Attraction essentially states that “like attracts like” and that the thoughts you are having right now are the first steps in creating your reality.  In other words, your thoughts create outcomes in your life. Your reality today is a result of what you have been consistently thinking (and feeling) up to this moment. Read the rest of this entry »

The Power of Positive Thought

In the early 1950s when a book entitled ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’ was published in America, elements of the scientific community rushed to discredit it and its author, Methodist minister Normal Vincent Peale. At the time, Peale was running a clinic with a respected psychiatrist Smiley Blanton and apparently even Blanton distanced himself from Peale’s work. Peale was criticised for promoting autosuggestion and self hypnosis. Read the rest of this entry »

Turning off the Negativity of the Conscious Mind

Imagine how much more you would achieve if you were able to simply ‘turn-off’ the negativity tap?

Ok, it is a little easier said than done, but here are a few things to be aware of that will help to boost your ability to attract the things you want in your life:

Our conscious mind is bombarded with varying degrees of negativity during any normal day – there are all the challenges of family life or work, often followed by half an hour of mostly unpleasant television news, and listening to our loved ones as they recount the frustrations of their day.  If we filter out all the negative thoughts and replace them with positive ones, it will create profound improvements to our daily reality. Read the rest of this entry »

Meditation, Hypnosis, and the Conscious & Unconscious Mind

The popularity of hypnosis and meditation as a pathway to healing, relaxation and self improvement, is evident from the proliferation of reading material, both online and offline.  To some, the practices of meditation and hypnosis seem mysterious and ‘new age’, yet they are neither.

Meditation and hypnosis have been practiced for centuries. Some eastern religions consider meditation to be the pathway to enlightenment.

Meditation and hypnosis share a common goal – to quieten your conscious mind. They operate on the same principle – that quietening the conscious mind opens the door to the unconscious. During meditation you quieten your conscious mind to receive peace or enlightenment. Under hypnosis, you open the pathway to the unconscious (sometimes referred to as the subconscious) to alter your beliefs or retrieve repressed information.  Both hypnosis and meditation strive to improve our conscious lives by accessing the unconscious.

To understand how meditation and hypnosis work, it helps to understand your different levels of consciousness.  We all understand what our conscious mind is, but when we attempt to define the unconscious we get a little lost.

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