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My Secret Formula Revealed!
Hi there!
In this article you’ll find a very helpful formula that we have used for years to shoot for excellence in everything we do!
(Didn’t see “Part I”? I’ve posted it at The Hot Yoga Doctor here ...)
>> http://www.hotyogadoctor.com/index.php/site/comments/setting-your-2010-intention-with-yoga/
OK, so here we go ...
A very useful formula to ‘resolve’ your wishes into real results
Attention + Intention + Skill
Attention (the first part of the equation) is not a ‘Secret’
Placing attention on what you want (or having a Resolution) is a great start. Tension exists between what or who you are now and what you don’t have or who you would like to become. ‘The Secret’ gave us a great tool but it was only a tool. It tells you to constantly put your attention on wishing to have something.
Without any other action on your part, your unconscious mind will create a perpetual state of WISHING to have something and not creating it for you. This attention is good for motivation but it can be a trap. This tension, or what psychologists call “cognitive dissonance” (the difference between your present and desired state) won’t make things magically appear, but it probably IS the first step!
You need INTENTION and SKILL too
Intention is the energy you use to keep renewing your commitment and your activity around your chosen outcome. But you also need to have the skill to take yourself to a higher level and make the shifts necessary.
For example, it is one thing to put your ATTENTION on being a great tennis player. You may even have the INTENTION to practice. Life can get in the way and as you know, attention can get diverted and our best efforts get sabotaged for any number of reasons.
You will probably improve with practice but your wish could be thwarted if you don’t have the right SKILLS required to take you a higher level. You need to learn, develop or seek the skills that you don’t have, so that you can get ‘there’.
So what’s YOUR intention for 2010?
- Do you have a goal for 2010?
- Is it written down?
- Do you see it every day in a prominent place?
- Is it a yoga goal?
- Or is your goal outside of the yoga room but your plan is to practice yoga to achieve it? (For example: Stress reduction; weight loss; overcoming injury or illness)
- Do you have a goal for which practicing your hot yoga is the skill that you need?
- Maybe your goal is to get your emotions under control.
- Maybe you want to get into physical shape, mental shape or become emotionally healthy.
- Maybe it is about creating the conditions around finding your ideal job or life partner.
- Millions of things!
There are practical actions that you can take to make 2010 a really wonderful time for you. You probably have some ideas already.
Robert and I routinely sit together and give each other the opportunity to talk and to be listened to without interruption.
- We review what was the worst and the best of our year.
- Then we talk about the future. In addition to our own personal goals that we display prominently (!) we have goals as a couple and partnership that are family, personal, wealth and health related goals. Things that we can incrementally achieve with committed and recommitted action.
In the next article I’m going to follow up with a list of the free resources available to registered members at Hot Yoga Doctor and show you how these can transform the start to your year by focusing your ATTENTION, your INTENTION and your SKILLS ... and it won’t cost you a dime!
Purchasers of The Hot Yoga MasterClass in January will receive a free Video Training ” Make This Your Best Year Yet” - to show you the steps to take to bring your desires into reality. Click here to check out this special offer.
Namaste
Gabrielle
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