RichThinking Way Week 2 Notes

Your Thoughts and Success

NOTES & INSPIRED ACTIONS

Useful quotes

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. Buddha

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

It doesn’t matter how long we’ve had a negative pattern, or an illness, or a poor relationship or lack of finances, or self-hatred. We can begin to make a shift today – your problem no longer needs to be the truth for you. Remember you are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world. Louise Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

What is a belief?

A belief is a repeated thought that has become a set pattern. But it is still just a thought and as Louise Hay says, it’s only a thought and a thought can be changed. Sometimes takes time, but not always.

A belief is a thought or series of thoughts we hold and deeply trust about something. Usually without realizing it. We seldom question beliefs; we hold them to be truths, as they are so familiar we think that is the way the world is.

“If we want a joyous life, we must think joyous thoughts. If we want a prosperous life, we must think prosperous thoughts, If we want a loving life, we must think loving thoughts.” Louise Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

2 Parts to Affirmations

1. Use them to uncover the negative thoughts you do have, so you can air them and let them go; unearthing beliefs that are getting in the way of you getting what you want.

2. when you’ve let go of all the negatives, objections, justifications etc you get to state the affirmation as if it were true right now – this is the LOA in practice. You don’t have your thoughts in the way so much (or if you do, you can let go of them), and so you are free to focus simply on the good feelings associated with that aff. Now using them as energy medicine where you are matching up your thoughts and feelings.

A common difficulty with affirmations is that a mismatch between the new thought being said and the emotion being expressed while it is being said.

Affirmations and LOA

It is the feelings that are the point of attraction within the LOA. When you shift your thoughts, you shift your vibrations, and vice versa. It is too easy to say an affirmation such as I have plenty of new clients over and over and at the same time be vibrationally in a place of lack, for instance, if you don’t feel good while you’re saying that affirmation, or you’re actually remembering you’ve only got one client at the moment, then you’re cancelling out the work you’re doing. Now you may not believe that affirmation in the moment, but you can be working towards that becoming a belief, AND feeling good about that process. Or you can be criticising yourself for taking so long, or worrying about money, or berating yourself for not having charged more, or whatever. So what’s impt is work with the aff which you can feel good about. How do you do this? Step by step.

View Step by Step Rich Thoughts on the website (click here)

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step’. Martin Luther King

Exercise: Attitudes to success.

Note what your response is to the statements below. Notice any thoughts you have in response, and any feelings in your body. Useful to do this exercise regularly, say every three months, to check out how you are progressing.

I’m an excellent therapist, practitioner, consultant

I run a really successful business

Exercise: Success Seat Vision

Be clear about what you want for your business success.

Move into another seat, if possible do it physically right now. If not, just do it in your imagination.

This is your Success Seat. As you sit in this seat, you are the owner of a successful and very satisfying business.

Now notice what that means:

• Where are you? How does it feel to be where you are? What are you doing? What can you see around you? If you’re in an office, what’s on the walls?
• How does it feel to be sitting there? What can you hear?
• Who are you working with? What kind of clients do you have? What is your income? How does it feel having that in your bank account? What profit are you making?

Really let yourself feel what this place of success is like – what can you hear, how do you feel, what can you see, what are you touching? Become very familiar with this place, because this is the place where you belong. This is who you truly are in your business, This is you being successful, right now. Inhabit this right now, make this place your friend.

Exercise: Monitoring

What you measure you can manage. Peter Drucker, (author of management books).

Monitoring results brings confidence. View an example below plus a blank record sheet for you to print out and fill in.

Inner Actions and Outer Results example

Inner Actions and Outer Results Record

Message from Louise Hay about the Abraham-Hicks books:

I continually study to learn more and there’s a teacher that’s very influential in my life right now: Abraham. Esther and Jerry Hicks have countless tapes of Abraham’s words, which you can find at their Abraham-Hicks Web site. You can also get their book, Ask and It Is Given by Hay House. The main message is how to live your life in joy. The goal is to feel good about yourself all the time. I think of Abraham as an advanced course of Louise Hay. I listen to their tapes almost everyday and their book is beside my bed for late night reading. Many of your favorite teachers are also students of Abraham. I think of Abraham as the teacher of teachers.