WHY COMMITMENT TRANSFORMS YOUR LIFE - DAY 1
WHY COMMITMENT?
Shift Your Focus, Change Your Habits, Transform Your Life, in Just 30 Minutes a Day for 21 Days.
REMEMBER YOUR HEAD PHONES
Ask yourself. Am I Awake?
Awaken the Observer and Come Present to Now as You Explore the Art of the Breath and Light Meditations.
With great gratitude, appreciation and praise we welcome you to the creation space of self love, courage, inspiration and the peace of mind that comes from gently balancing and lowering your brainwaves.
Listening to this ALPHA wave will assist you in creating a transformative meditative state, that will quiet your mind, relieve tension in your body, soothe your spirit, and help you remember how good it feels to be fully present in this beautiful moment of now.
Put on your head phones and listen to this ALPHA brainwave as you study the following lesson.
Introduction and agreement
When you ask the questions; “Who Am I?” “Am I Present?” ”What Is My Purpose?” “Can I Have Enlightening Success?” “Does my soul deserve love and happiness?” you embark upon an inward journey of personal and professional growth of awakening the Observer. It is a rewarding yet difficult journey. You will be asked tough questions throughout this course. If you are to benefit fully from this process, you must have the utmost personal integrity in and for yourself when you ask the question:
Will I commit to 30 minutes attention each day while completing each of the 21 days work and exercises thoroughly and honestly?
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then one’s Providence (your dream team) moves in your favor too.
If you take the process we disclose in this website seriously, you will discover things about yourself that lead to significant changes in your life. People report of a profound heightened awareness, business deals coming through, a new job offer call, a contract signed, a land deal coming together, long needed talk with a loved one occurring, a forgiveness of the past, attracting a loving relationship, their mind surrendering to the eternal Now and deeper more fulfilling meditations.
The process we lay out in this website is extremely challenging. Though you will complete all the exercises that follow and the lessons will come to an end, your growth and passion will continue for the rest of your life.
If you are willing to face yourself at this intimate level of NOW, we will support you in your journey, committed to your enlightening fulfillment in life.
Love Your Now,
The Transformation Team
I Consciously commit to the Terms of this Agreement
The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With the First Step…Enjoy the Ride! -Sage
First, may we suggest that just like reading a great book, become familiar with the material by scanning the 21-day, step by step, executive coaching and meditation system to get a feel for the contents.
Next, review the Enlightening digital audio Library of Brainwave and Guided Meditations.
Next, review the 60+ transformative eBooks that will be used throughout the 21 Day Executive Coaching and Meditation Program.
The other 21 Day lessons can be accessed from the SIDEBAR for any lesson day.
Finally, begin the 21 day by day journey by revisiting the past days and the library as necessary for greater depth, balance and clarity.
Now settle back, have fun and enjoy your journey and begin to become aware of you falling in love with your Self. Yes You, in concert with your (Dream Team, the Mind, Body, Spirit and Universe). Your Dream Team is meditating, breathing and connecting with you seamlessly. It is listening and experiencing you in your entirety.
Which is why it is so important to nourish the Being, and stay present in the now, as the conscious observer.
Your Dream Team works with you based upon your beliefs and commitments. Until one is committed there is hesitancy, always a chance to hold back…however, once one is committed all providence moves in ones favor that no one could have imagined (thank your Self, the Dream Team).
Ideally, awaken the conscious observer, come present to this moment of now, and know yourself as being one with the space of life. This is the very energy essence of life before it takes on form, and that is who you truly are.
We are here for you every step of the way.
Love Your Now,
THE TRANSFORMATION TEAM
Do you believe you can change your life for the better in 21 days? Well you can. It's a well-known fact we can positively shift our life in only 21 days.
We are all creatures of habit and habits determine what we think and feel and what we do and have. It is this simple.
Some habits are deeply implanted in our subconscious and when we seek to change our lives old habits pull us back into the same situations, and conditions, repeating the same old experiences. Because of this, many give up believing it is not possible to be, do, or have what they desire.
Success is a habit and so is failure. Happiness and misery is a habit. Enthusiasm, dejection, negativity are all habits. Wealth is a habit and so is poverty.
Science tells us it takes only 21 days to change our thoughts and feelings from being a smoker to a non-smoker or to change any addiction and bad success habit.
The object of this 21 Day, Executive Coaching and Meditation Program is to help you and all those who seek it, to learn the art of changing their beliefs from low Self esteem, deprecating FAILURE CONSCIOUSNESS to high Self esteem, growth SUCCESS CONSCIOUSNESS.
We have the power of presence to control, feed or not energy feed, our thoughts.
The energy essence in which earth floats in and which the aliveness of our being lives, is a form of energy moving at an inconceivably high rate of vibration, and that energy essence is filled with a form of universal power which adapts itself to the nature of thoughts we hold in our mind; and influences us, in natural ways, to transmute our thoughts into their physical equivalent.
This power (in concert with our dream team) makes no attempt to discriminate between destructive thoughts and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality thoughts of poverty, just as quickly as it will influence us to act upon thoughts of riches.
In other words, our Dream Team, the mind, body, spirit and universe, will provide us with what we hold in our beliefs of thoughts and feelings. It doesn’t make a distinction between destructive thoughts and constructive thoughts.
If we hold thoughts of poverty in our mind, the universe will return poverty to us. If we hold thoughts of wealth in our mind, the universe will return wealth to us. If we hold thoughts of enlightenment in our mind, the universe will return enlightenment to us.
Why only 21 days? Read on and see the research. It just takes that long before your Dream Team, your mind, body, spirit and universe, firmly accepts your new idea and way of believing and being. Knowing this, we can work with it and use this phenomenon for our benefit. You can do this. Believe in yourself.
Love Your Now,
The Transformation Team
The Man Who Started it All
Maxwell Maltz (1899 – April 7, 1975) was an American cosmetic surgeon and author who developed Psycho-Cybernetics, a system of ideas through which, he claimed, one could improve his self-image and, in turn, lead a more successful and fulfilling life. He wrote several books, among which Psycho-Cybernetics (1960) was a long-time bestseller that influenced many subsequent self-help teachers.
Maltz graduated with a doctorate in medicine from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1923.
Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living out of Life was first published in 1960 by Prentice-Hall and first appeared in a pocket book edition in 1969.
The book introduced Maltz's view that a person must have an accurate and positive view of one's self before setting goals, otherwise he or she will get stuck in a continuing pattern of limiting beliefs. His ideas focus on visualizing one's goals: a simple idea which some cognitive-science research in the area of priming has validated under certain conditions. He believed that self-image is the cornerstone of all the changes that take place in a person. If one's self-image is unhealthy, or faulty, all of his or her efforts will end in failure.
A LIFE CHANGING 21-DAY EXPERIMENT
Many years ago a laboratory experiment was set up to test the transforming power of 21 days.
The objective was to know what people could accomplish by living in a positive, supportive, healthy, spiritual, and life-affirming environment for 21 days. A brochure inviting people to come for 21 days and participate in what was called the 21-day experiment.
Twelve people responded. Everything was set up for the participants to become fully alive and enlightened in every way, physically, mentally, and spiritually. They were to be enveloped in a loving environment in which they would be served the most wholesome vegetarian food, attend classes, meditate, exercise, do crafts, express their creative talents, take nature walks, share and communicate, dance, do yoga, fire walk, pray, swim, sing and engage in various life affirming activities meant to bring forth their true vital divine selves.
Each participant was leaving behind an old world and people they knew to enter into a new world with new people for the purpose of attaining their goals. The day arrived and the van from the airport drove up the long driveway to the back porch of the lodge. Out they climbed each looking worn out from the struggles of life.
One woman, who brought her aged mother, had given up on life and was deeply depressed besides suffering from emphysema. She could barely walk from the car to the lodge, a distance of only a few yards.
One man just lost his life's partner to a disease. Even though highly talented he had lost his will to work and perform and suffered greatly from loneliness and depression.
Another man was addicted to antihistamines.
A retired university professor sought to find her life's purpose. She didn't have a clue as to what she was going to do for the rest of her life.
There was a man who had been a very successful spiritual counselor and teacher, but because of some set-backs and the loss of his wife, who had left him for another man, he was totally dejected having lost any remnant of self-esteem.
Another woman came with her two small children, as she had just run away from an abusive husband. She had no idea of how she was going to support herself and her children, but was certain that in this 21 days she would get a new lease on life and discover her life's work.
There were a few more and each was at the end of their rope and at the bottom of the pit of despair. In truth each was a victim of their habits of thinking, feeling, speaking, believing, and behaving.
You Cannot Change a Habit by Trying to Get Rid of It. But You Can Make a New One. For whatever you place your attention on, your energy and consciousness will follow and you will attract more of what you and your energy are focusing on.
As explained each was being controlled by unconscious habits, and to have a new and more wonderful life they would need to change their habits. Changing our environment is one way we change our habits. Changing our associations is another way. The principle behind this whole 21-day experiment is you cannot get rid of a bad habit. God knows people try to get rid of what they do not want, but for the most part they are unsuccessful.
We all know people who keep losing the same twenty pounds over and over and yet can never keep them off. Perhaps you are stuck in a lonely place and desire to be married to Mr. or Mrs. Wonderful, but you have tried and all seems hopeless. There is hope, and the hope is in first knowing what you want, and second in building the consciousness and habits of thinking, speaking, relating, and behaving that will automatically attract to you the right person. One of the major secrets of life is the art of making new and life-affirming habits. As new habits take over and become dominant, old habits fade away and the person is liberated to live their dreams and achieve their topmost goals.
Twenty-one days later the group, one by one, began shedding the old consciousness of despair, dejection, poverty, sickness, and fear. They took on the mantel of enthusiasm, positivity, beauty, health and vitality, confidence, and prosperity. Every person, without exception, had remarkable positive changes in health, stamina, attitudes, use of talents, relationships, eating habits, weight loss, perceptions and general well being. On day twenty the woman who could barely walk on the first day took a five-mile nature walk with the group on Mt. Rainer.
Each person was clear about their life's work and purpose. The addict no longer had any taste for antihistamines and was free of this bad habit. A couple of the participants quit smoking. A number had lost weight and were well on their way to regaining their vibrant health. Each was radiant and brilliant as if an inner light was shining brightly, and it was. The man whose wife had left him fell in love with one of our visitors and he forgot all about the woman who had left him. Our professional singer was busy on the phone booking many upcoming singing engagements and was enthusiastic about the songs he had written during the retreat.
Yes, it took only 21 days for people to drop the old and take on the new. Not everyone can step out of their world for 21 days or can afford to attend this kind of a retreat, but they can change their lives for the better with my 21-Day plan.
HOT TIP - Observe your thoughts, for they become your words. Carefully select your words, for they become your actions. Direct your actions, for they become your habits. Examine your habits, for they will become your character. Improve your character, for it becomes your destiny.
Start right now! Over the next 21 days: make a commitment to yourself to identify one new habit that you can create successfully--and start doing it! Explore ways to integrate your goals for your new habit with your current obligations, and take those first steps into the New Year with renewed desire and commitment. You'll soon discover that a new habit can change your life.
Experts agree it takes 21 days to break a bad habit and form a new one.
Daily Activities To Help Change Habits
"I should change, but I've tried and failed." Does this sound familiar? Often, changing habits does seem insurmountable. Many of us simply don't have enough motivation to change our habits - all of our bad habits - in a way that would truly affect our health. We cling to them because we see them as rewards.
But your habits determine your health. Below is a strategy and focus on daily activities to help you change and eliminate bad habits.
It Takes 21 Days To Break A Bad Habit
To begin with, choose unhealthy habits you wish to eliminate or change that group together, as more times or not, it’s one faulty program causing the negative behavior. Or, choose healthy habits you want to adopt as part of your behavior that over rides the old negative ones. If it is a habit to eliminate, you may wish to go "cold turkey" or have a gradual tapering off. Caution: If it is a drug or chemical habit you are planning on eliminating, be sure to obtain an expert's opinion as to whether you need to taper off usage as opposed to quitting cold turkey.
Now that you have decided which unhealthy habits to eliminate, or new habits to adopt, decide on the date you will begin your behavior change. Give this date a good deal of thought and then write it down. For example, "On February 25, 2025, I will become a non-smoker."
In order to ensure behavior change, experts agree that it takes a minimum of 21 days to change a behavior. Again, look at the date you are planning on changing your habit. Count ahead 21 days and mark that date down. Now, make a commitment that you will follow your plan for 21 days.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle
Guidance and Suggestions
Your target date has arrived. It is the first day of your 21-day cycle. Here are some helpful suggestions for habit change:
Write down your goals and intentions below. You can use the space at the bottom of this page to create a record that will be emailed to you. There is magic in the written word when it applies to you. Experts recommend stating your goal in positive terms, such as "I want to be lean and physically fit," instead of "I've got to get this flabby body out there huffing and puffing." So, begin with writing down, as a positive goal, the habit you will change.
List your reasons for changing or eliminating your habit. Writing it down will force you to think out in specific terms what this habit represents in your life and the meaning you believe your life will hold for you upon changing the habit. This will also help with your commitment toward taking positive action.
Find substitute routines. For example, if you are changing eating habits and you have identified a particularly difficult time of the day when eating habits are poor, create an activity, a new routine for that time.
Talk to yourself. Tell yourself you're making progress. Remind yourself that you are moving closer to your goal.. Talk to yourself throughout the day about how you are going to avoid triggers that can get you off track and make healthy substitutes.
Recruit helpers for support. Explain to them why you are making this change. Ask for their support. Their support may be needed encouragement.
Be prepared for people who may sabotage your change. Be assertive and tell them what they are doing.
“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”
Sustaining Motivation Through Self Confidence Affirmations
The following are some affirmations to follow each day in order to sustain motivation and determination:
I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself the persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.
I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality. Therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for 30 minutes a day, on the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person.
I know that through the principle of auto-suggestion, any desire that I persistently hold in my mind will eventually seek expression through some means of attaining the object back of it, therefore, I will devote ten minutes daily to demanding of myself the development of self confidence.
I have clearly written down a description of my definite chief aim in life, and I will never stop trying, until I shall have developed sufficient self-confidence for its attainment.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects. I will succeed by attracting to myself the forces I wish to use, and the cooperation of other people. I will induce others to serve me, because of my willingness to serve others. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.
Review your list of reasons for quitting or changing.
Create mental pictures of yourself as having already succeeded with your habit change.
Make affirmations, positive self-statements about your habit change. For example, "I am filled with so much health and vitality now that I exercise four times a week."
Reward yourself. Make up a list of self-rewards. Reward yourself verbally.
Remember to take one day at a time. If you do backslide, don't label yourself as having failed. Get out your list or reasons for quitting or changing and begin again.
Fatigue, boredom, depression, stress can all make it difficult to stick with your program. But having a relapse isn't as important as how you deal with the relapse. If you are so devastated by failure that you call your good intentions into question that will make habit change harder for you. But, if you allow for an occasional relapse and treat it as nothing more than a slight misstep that teaches you something, then you're on the right track.
Follow these suggestions, adopt the more helpful attitude of evaluating your progress and accepting relapses, and you will find yourself reaching many of your goals. You will have achieved true behavior change.
Behavioral change experts generally agree on several tips for habit-changers from 18 to 100.
Figure out why you want to change. An internal motivation is preferable to an external one (my doctor told me to lose weight). But to start with, even cosmetic goals will do.
Use your life experience to your advantage. Catalog the attempts you’ve made at change and why they’ve failed. Then apply what you’ve learned. Don’t plan to work out at six each morning if you haven’t risen before eight for the last five decades.
Substitute a new behaviors for the old ones. Exercise is a great replacement for smoking or eating. And even a less-than-virtuous substitute is better than a plainly bad habit.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. If the prospect of trying to lose 20 pounds paralyzes you, start small. Walking for 20 minutes a day and consuming just 100 fewer calories daily—that’s one tablespoon of mayonnaise—adds up to a 20-pound weight loss over the course of a year for an average-size person.
Get support. Having friends and family on board is critical for most successful behavior change. Let those close to you know what you’re planning to do and how it might affect your behavior. Conversely, stay away from people (including spouses!) who have an interest in undermining your efforts.
Anticipate obstacles. Develop a plan for what you’re going to do when the bread- basket arrives at the restaurant table. Take a walk, order a veggie plate, or ask the waiter to take it away once others have been served.
Don’t quit trying. Most people don’t succeed in changing on their first try, says Wilkins of Cedars-Sinai. “You never want to give up because you don’t know if it’s the third time, the fourth time, or the fifth time where you will succeed.”
How Change Happens - Awakening the Observer Within:
Self-examination, then Pre-cognition. Become the observer, step outside yourself and look in. When you begin to look at the patterns differently, you have the opportunity to recognize more positive ways to interact. In time, you also begin to recognize what you’re thinking about right before you step into the pattern again. Here you can see where your automatic subconscious mind thinking is incorrect, and seek to correct those old programs with more positive beliefs and thoughts. Now you can shift your commitment and stop feeding the thoughts with your energy and attention.
Cessation, then more Self-realization. Next time, you recognize the thoughts that precede the pattern, and you begin to stop just before you repeat your pattern. When you’re stopped, you have the opportunity to truly choose differently. You recognize more positive ways think about the problem and better ways to interact. At this stage, you attempt to do it better, though it’s often clumsy at first.
New Patterning and Practice. As you find the beliefs and actions that work much better for you, you establish a new pattern by practicing it every time the situation presents itself.
More Practice, then True Change. By practicing your positive response over and over again, you transform yourself from within.
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
Memorize the following quote.
“Whatever you can vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.”
Now break down the quote into 5 parts and write down at least 5 things for each part.
Half a Dozen Things To Do Daily
1) Make a decision to commit to discovering your greatness. When one commits, then all providence moves in your favor. "I choose to commit, explore, and to know that I am an evolving, unlimited Being."
2) Meditate daily and listen to brainwave meditations. Set up a schedule and stick to it. (listen to the “Awaken the Space Between Us” at least once a week)
3) Read and complete each day of the 21 day program. Read 10 pages of a supporting eBook for that day.
4) Find time to be IN silence often, and at least weekly. (No TV, Internet, radio, telephone, or conversations of any kind) while observing a practice of non-judgment. Really try to have NO preferences or opinions and say cancel, cancel, cancel to any inner contrary conversations.
5) Daily review the work you've done in this course. Check your email, review your journal. Begin each day, after your meditation, by writing down your top 10 positive intentions again.
6) Spend time daily thinking, fantasizing, and seeing yourself having already accomplished these goals in this eternal moment of NOW.