My friends Alan Hickman and Jan Stringer turned me on to this video today and I thought you might enjoy and benefit from it.
Like Vishen Lakhiani suggests in this video, I find that certain ritual practices in my life help keep me on a more even keel. The trick, when I find myself in a place of feeling crummy, is to remember to engage the practices!
Enjoy the video and then let me know what you think — or what rituals you practice — in the comment section below.
In the first 5 min. of my day I try to get in a brainwave entertainment on concentration and creativity. Because of my fibromyalgia, my concentration levels will faulter and I am unable to focus enough to get anything done or even just complete one project. But when I listen to my Brainwave Entertainments I am able to finish several projects in less time. What normally takes me four hours to get done, will take me just an hour or two after Brainwave Entertainment.
I love this video! He does a great job of explaining why most people never achieve the change they are searching for in their life. Very good tips here, love it!
Bernice
http://bernicewood.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/can-you-please-turn-down-the-noise/
Thanks, Bernice for your comment here. As I grow daily, I’m discovering more and more the place of ritual in my life. Glad you enjoyed this.
You’ll have to tell us more about Brainwave Entertainment, Angie. I have an idea of what you are talking about, but would like to know more. I would certainly like to get more projects done in less time especially first thing in the morning. Thanks for commenting here.
Hi Marty. (Is Bernice talking about “brainwave entrainment”? Lots of info comes up when you google it.) Thanks for sharing that video! Really liked the explanation about the path to mastery. About meditation: I just yesterday rediscovered The Silva Method, which I’d learned years ago from a set of TAPES narrated by Jose Silva. And voila, he’s mentioned in this video. (His daughter Laura Silva is the president now. Check out her Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/LauraSilvaQuesada.) A free course and audio is available online at http://www.silvalifesystem.com. I listened to the audio yesterday (original tapes are long gone), and I was refreshed and so energetic that I accomplished tons of work for the rest of the day. Told my husband it was better than a nap! So I highly recommend the program. I will be making it a part of my daily ritual, which I’ve noticed tends to change with the seasons.
Thanks, Judy, for the great info you’ve provided. I’d totally forgotten about the Silva system and will check that out.
I’ve noticed, too, for myself, that my rituals also change with the seasons. We’re in Oregon at the moment and the mornings are quite cold. Too cold to sit outside comfortably and that’s where I like to do my Morning Pages and sip my coffee. So sometimes, even if the ritual itself doesn’t change, the location for doing it does. And I find that the location makes a big difference to me. Glad you brought this up because that helps me in understand what happens with my inner-mojo as the season’s change and I hadn’t really thought about that before.