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Are you ready to break through your fears? With all the negative news and press today with global economic and security challenges to wall street and bank failures what does it all spell,”FEAR” (What is FEAR -False Evidence Appearing Real).

If we allow it and give in to fear it will surely paralyze us. If we do not change our thinking and put positive scripture based thoughts in to our minds we will easily be devoured by the enemy. We will take a look at what is FEAR, what are some of the Fear Barriers we all face and what are some fear busters actions we can take to head off the enemy before he gets a strong hold. You see it all starts with one thought and God has given man dominion over all creation with the ability to reason to choose our thoughts. The choice really is ours. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe we can achieve.” W. Clement Stone Some FEAR Barriers:

Uncertainty – We better get use to uncertainty and change. It is the one thing you can count on Impossible Odds- No light in sight.

Risk- Must take a lead to steal second

The opposite side of FEAR is faith, so the question will be how strong is your faith. How do we come through the adversity which will always be present in our life’s. How will we handle uncertainty and risk that we can surely count on in our lifetime. You see God wants us to seize uncertainty and allow him to do the impossible.

If we look at some of the stories in the Bible where God came through in the bottom of the ninth he always shows up and shows out. I think of Gideon and you know he had to be thinking God you want me to cut my troops down to 300 against thousands. Oh, and you want us to go into battle with trumpets and clanging symbols and jars. No weapons?

You have to be kidding me. Or think of David and Goliath. Forget the armour King Saul, I will go it light and fast.and my weapon of choice, 5 stones and a sling shot. So why does God love the impossible? Why does he call us to trust him with insurmountable odds…so he can get all the glory. There is no way we can even say we had any part in the miracle.

And by the way he is still in the miracle business. Need your marriage put back together, your finances fixed, maybe you need a new job or healing in your body? Give it to God , he may just surprise you. Yes, we will always face adversity in our life’s but the question is how will you react to it and more importantly who will you call on to handle it?c

By: By: Len Strickler

Len Strickler is best described as a motivational coach, teacher and speaker who is unquestionably passionate about building, training, and leading remarkably successful sales teams that deliver fast-to-market results. As a sales executive, he has spent more than 25 years helping high-tech, global companies capture revenue to support product innovation activities, seize a competitive advantage, and generate profit fast. Check out his website:www.breakingthroughthebarriers.com.

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Just last week, my husband and I stopped at our local market to grab some coffee on our way down the hill to shopping. Living in the country like we do, we know most everyone and as I was waiting for him to check out, I ran into a friend. She’s the kind of friend that I know I would be really good friends with, but our circles don’t intersect so we rarely see each other.

We became friends when we built our house, her husband dug the septic, her son graded our road and our construction pad. That was ten years ago this year. We’d heard that the man her son worked with when grading our foundation, had recently died in a freak accident, but what she told me next, blew me away.

Her son, a 37 or 38 year old good looking and vibrant young man had an accident himself and he broke his neck. She said the doctors had told them that he would be paralyzed from the neck down for the rest of his natural life. That happened six months ago.

Then she told me something funny. She said she knew that he was going to walk again. He’d been going to an acupuncturist, and then she gestured with her hands to her face and starting tapping, “and he’s doing this tapping thing,” she said.

“EFT!” I said excitedly, “Emotional Freedom Technique, I use it myself and have for the last four years — I’m so very relieved to hear he is using it.”

She told us to stop by the house after our shopping venture because she knew her son would be glad to see us.

We did.

He rolled out in his wheelchair under his own power. This from a man that six months ago was declared a “quad”, quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down. He broke C-6.

He then proceeded to show us that he had complete movement of his arms and his right leg.

“It’s just a matter of time before I walk again,” he said, “though I’ll accept whatever happens.”

Now some could say that it’s the acupuncture that is allowing the nerves to regenerate, but I’ve been using EFT, the emotional freedom technique and EFT tapping for four years now and I’ve experienced it’s miraculous results.

I think it’s the EFT that he’s doing that’s healing his spinal cord and his nerve endings. I’ve used EFT for everything, anger, emotional healing, health, to calm me down, all sorts of things.

If EFT can help a paralyzed man heal, what can it do for you?

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Laurie J. Brenner
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In the spirit and tradition of the Warrior, regardless of the culture or era, there has always been a common thread – a common ideology – which has guided the men and women who have chosen this path. Through all of the philosophical expressions and explanations about “engaging the world,” “overcoming limitations,” or “protecting self and loved ones,” the path of the warrior has always involved one very special quality: the giving of self for the benefit of others.

Of course, there are those who call themselves warriors, and certainly live up to common perception and simplified definition of the term which implies “engaging in war, or conflict.” But, the true warrior sees beyond their own ego-centric sense of self to the greater good and always uses the skills of violence and destruction as a last resort. Only after all other options have been exhausted, or the situation dictates that it is the only course of action, does the enlightened warrior fight.

Let us always be reminded of a long history passed to us by those who have given the ultimate gift, the gift of life, so that others may live in peace and comfort. Use the life stories of those who sacrificed the easy road of lackadaisical living for one of service. For, as the Japanese warrior teacher and 33rd Grandmaster of Togakure Ninjutsu, Toshitsugu Takamatsu once said, “No one would willingly choose to be a warrior – to choose to get up early in the morning and train for hours in cold, chafing armor, while others lie warm and sleeping next to a lover…” It is a heart-felt drive to do what must be done. To do what others can not or will not do.

This gift, or sacrifice, is rarely given with an expectation of a return or reward for the warrior. No, he or she gives of themselves, not for reward but, because they can. It’s what they do. It’s who they are.

At my own dojo (“training hall”; lit. “place where enlightenment takes place”), as with many other traditional martial arts academies that focus on this warrior ideal, we have an established set of beliefs and values that, together, express the heart of a warrior. It defines “us” and is a reminder for our staff, students, family members, and others. It is who ‘we’ are and what ‘we’ hold to be important in our world. Here are our Belief’s and Values:

Without loyal clients, friends & family, nothing else matters

Our most valuable assets are our staff and our vision

There is great strength in numbers & what the world needs is more individuals who are powerful, confident and in-control of themselves and their lives

We are experts in the field of self-protection and personal development. That’s it. That’s what we do

We will strive to constantly improve our products, facilities, programs and services

We provide a support group and central meeting place for like-minded individuals seeking to unlock their untapped potential

There is enough lying, illusion and self-serving manipulation. We will always be honest with ourselves, our clients and our world

There is no purpose for warrior skills aside from the protection and security of life

Warriorship is much more than fighting for trophies or the job
of a soldier – it is a mindset and a way of life

Our corner of the world will be a better place because we arehere
Not only will our client’s lives, homes & families be safer and happier, but our community as well because we enable our staff to serve with compensation

Life is Short

Dream Big – Play Hard – Laugh Often – Live Free – & Be Happy!

A moral code of action – a set of beliefs and values, when driven by and expressing the warrior’s heart, is not only a set of beliefs or rules to follow, it is a promise. A promise to not only achieve one’s goals, but, to help others and to leave the world a better place than we found it.

So, what are your belief’s and values? What guides your Warrior’s Heart?

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Jeffrey M. Miller
Jeffrey Miller is an internationally sought-after self-defense expert. He is the creator of the unique EDR: Non-Martial Arts Defensive Training System and teaches individuals, security professionals, companies, and organizations how to be more safe in Today’s often unsafe world. Visit his web site at => http://www.warrior-concepts-online.com

There is a saying that “Everyone likes to know their place.” I have found this to be very true!
Some time ago I went to a party where I did not know many people.
I was apprehensive about this party because I had not been told much about it. For example, I did not know what type of party it would be (e.g. dinner or disco), what dress standards were expected of me, what time to arrive, what to bring, or really anything very much at all.
I guessed at the clothes I should wear, (something nice and safe to cover the maximum number of possibilities), took along a bottle of quite good wine (just good enough for dinner but not too good for a disco), and arrived at a fashionably safe eight o’clock.
I took this opportunity to examine how my subconscious mind was working – and I was really amazed! (You have to be very alert to catch your subconscious mind in operation because it acts very quickly.)
I walked into that room, (clutching my bottle of wine), and my subconscious mind was ALIVE and RACING in an effort to evaluate the social position as rapidly as possible. So DESPERATE was I to work out my social position in this strange group, that for a good ten seconds I just stood in the doorway, soaking up data.
My eyes raced around the room examining a cross-section of the people there; men first, then women. (Had I been a woman it would have been the other way round.) In under two seconds I had scanned twenty people and worked out an average standard of dress, compared it with my own, and filed away the difference.
(Not too significant, I was about right.)
My subconscious mind breathed a small sigh of relief!
Then my eyes flitted round the room and evaluated the whole ’scene’ as one entity. Within less than a second I had evaluated the ‘type of party’, and compared it with the complete list of every other party I had ever been to in my life, before filing it away under the heading which fitted best -’Smart disco/buffet’.
Since I had been to many such parties, I also attached an anxiety level to this information – (low anxiety).
My subconscious mind breathed a slightly larger sigh of relief.
IT WAS STILL ONLY THREE SECONDS SINCE I HAD WALKED THROUGH THE DOOR!
I was a bit more relaxed by now, so I took a leisurely two seconds to examine the groupings of people. Since I was on my own, I was looking to see if people were mainly in couples, or if there were quite a few obviously single people.
I could relax again; there were quite a few single people.
After this, I took three seconds to evaluate the average CLASS of the people at the party. This incredible feat involved scanning about thirty people at random and making value-judgments about each one’s clothes, hair, posture, face, voice and manner; then averaging the whole lot to arrive at an ‘average class’ of the party, (chosen from an internal subconscious scale of about 100 sub-classes). I compared this average with my own class (a deeply held PSI-belief), and worked out if I was higher or lower class than most of the people there.
The subconscious mind didn’t really care if I was higher OR lower class so long as I was ABOUT THE SAME as most of the people there. What it feared was the UNKNOWN situation of spending an evening with people of a very different class.
I could relax! My subconscious mind was not being forced to re-evaluate its World View. My level of fear diminished and I walked into the room with confidence.
Total elapsed time? Under ten seconds!
In America, and other nearly classless societies, an identical process would be carried out, but with wealth as the criteria rather than class. In Britain, despite what anyone says, it is definitely CLASS which people evaluate first, THEN their comparative wealth.
Do you see how my subconscious mind was DESPERATE to know where it fitted in? It was REALLY SCARED about that party, until it had evaluated the data collected by the conscious mind and worked out exactly where the party fitted into its World View.
Had I walked into that room to find everyone dressed in funny blue uniforms and doing a dance which I had never seen before, I would have been REALLY ANXIOUS, almost to the point of turning and running! I would have spent the first few minutes FRANTICALLY trying to work out where I fitted into this party, and how I related to these people.

Living with abundance and prosperity sounds like a dream come true, but it also sounds like about the complete opposite of how most people live. Have you ever wondered why some people seem to be able to have an abundance of almost anything that they desire in their lives and others seem to lack so much? I mean even people that live next door to each other can have this disparity and there has to be a reason as to why this is.

For years, people in the self help community have preached about how having a positive attitude about life can make all of the difference, but there are PLENTY of positive people out there that still do not seem to experience an abundance in more than a couple areas of their life.

If you want to be able to experience both abundance AND prosperity, then you have to know exactly how to make the things that you want to manifest in your life actually manifest themselves.

And this is where most people kind of wind up at an end pass with no idea on where they should turn or what they should do.

What can you do so that YOU experience a life that is filled with abundance AND prosperity?

1. You have to know what exactly it is that you want to experience in life. Without really knowing what you want to have in abundance in your life, how are you going to be able to get there? You have to have a detailed image of what you would like to have an abundance of, be it happiness, money, health, friendship, or anything else that you might desire.

2. You have to realize that you MUST take action. A person does not come about prosperity merely through chance. It happens as a result of the actions that they take in their lives and so, YOU, must become a person of action. Though you have to keep in mind that any action will not do the trick. It has to be an action that comes to you through inspiration.

3. You have to see the opportunity where other people do not. During this past year, while everyone was so worried about the stock market, I and many other people made quite a bit of money, because there was an opportunity almost everywhere that you could look. Sure, the people on the news were saying how bad it was, but in reality, a LOT of people made a lot of money.

The point is, you have to be able to see those opportunities when other people do not.

Want to know how YOU can experience a life that is filled with prosperity and abundance?

Go ahead and get Your FREE Report and learn how to manifest a life that you are HAPPY with…

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Bryan Appleton
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Do you have any dream or goal that you would like to accomplish in your life? If you do, this will be the perfect article for you. What you are about to discover here are the 3 simple strategies how you can achieve what you really want in your life.

Becoming successful in life is not something difficult. However, you must have the persistence to do it until you achieve your desired results. Once you have the persistence, follow through these 3 simple strategies below…

1. Be clear about what you want in your life. Do you really know exactly what you want to accomplish in your life? Make sure you are as specific as possible. Many people fail to be successful simply because they are not clear about what they want. They want to be rich, but they never really know how much that they want.

2. Harness the power of goal setting. Once you knew what you want, put them down into paper. You want to make your dreams and your goals as tangible as possible. And include a deadline for every of your goal so that you will know when to achieve them. What you can do next is to constantly remind yourself about your goals by reviewing them often. You want to condition your goals into your subconscious so that you will take action automatically without your conscious effort.

3. Use affirmation and visualization to help you manifest your dreams. These two powerful techniques are very useful in helping you to achieving what you want in your life. Repeat your affirmation whenever you free and try to visualize the achievement of your goals every night before you sleep. If you do this everyday, you will transform and improve the quality of your life.

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Shawn Lim
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For example, most cars have four wheels. If you saw one which had five wheels you would look at it for some time and try to evaluate it. Eventually you would be prepared to consider the possibility that five wheeled cars do exist, but this change is unlikely to cause you major problems.
However, it is interesting to note that even such a minor change as this is likely to cause you to comment on it to friends and associates: “Hey, you’ll never guess what I saw today….”, because the subconscious mind is SEEKING RE-ASSURANCE on even this minor point. It wants other people to say: “Haven’t you seen a five-wheeled car before? They’re getting really common now!” Then it can RELAX and stop worrying about this irritating unknown event.
Let me tell you in four simple sentences how the subconscious mind operates in this instance:

IT BUILDS A CONSISTENT WORLD VIEW (Mainly in the early years)

IT ACCEPTS SMALL ALTERATIONS (But grudgingly)

IT FEARS AND REJECTS LARGE ALTERATIONS

IT TAKES INCREDIBLE EFFORT TO CHANGE LARGE PIECES OF THE JIGSAW

Obviously the subconscious mind is vastly more complex than this, and has been the subject of many books and a great deal of scholarly thought, but this simple explanation will suffice for our purposes.
I have told you a little about how the subconscious mind likes to build a physical picture of the world around it. This is essential if you are to survive. However, in addition to building a nice, cozy picture of the physical world around you, the subconscious mind also likes to build another picture which is equally as powerful.
This is the picture of WHO you are and HOW you fit into the society and environment around you. It it this facet of the World View which is important to our discussions.
Here is something very interesting:
The subconscious mind works in EXACTLY the same way when it comes to defending its views about WHO you are and WHAT you are, as it does to defending its picture of how the outside physical world should behave.

In other words, the subconscious will KICK HARD against any attempt to change your beliefs about who and what you are.
And the pay-off is…………. SECURITY!
To the subconscious mind, SECURITY is everything. It will vigorously oppose any attempt on your part to change the World View, and it will do this DESPITE ANY EFFECT ON YOUR ‘HAPPINESS’!!
As I said earlier, it couldn’t care less about your happiness, but it DOES care about SECURITY – the security of a consistent World View.
This was the answer to the question which had been puzzling me for so long. Here was the secret of WHY a lack of PSI prevented you from achieving all of the things which you deserved.
The subconscious mind is SCARED of changing main pieces of your jigsaw just as it is of changing main pieces of your physical jigsaw. Once it has worked out where you fit into the social scale, IT IS MOST RELUCTANT TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THIS PICTURE.
Your earliest experiences affected your PSI-belief until your subconscious mind had built up a nice, solid picture of WHO you were, and HOW MUCH YOU WERE WORTH as an individual. During the first few years of your life, your Positive Self Image (or lack of it), became firmly established in the subconscious mind; it became, (along with many other things), one of the CENTRAL pieces of the jigsaw; remember this, not an OUTSIDE piece (where the jigsaw can grow), but a CENTRAL piece.
This social picture covers many topics, for example it defines:

Your ‘Class’.
How you feel about yourself.
How you think others feel about you.
How much you feel you are ‘worth’.
How lovable you are.
How much you feel you deserve.

And many, many more things.
All those positive and negative strokes received during your formative years, helped the subconscious to build a firm level of PSI-belief, which was then added to the rest of the social jigsaw to form a nice, cosy World View. Whilst the subconscious mind is happy to tinker around with the edges of this picture, it HATES to touch the main body of the picture because of the INSECURITY which this will bring.
That is why the methods which I will share with you are so powerful! When you alter your PSI-belief you swap some pretty large pieces of jigsaw puzzle. This will cause FEAR and INSECURITY in your subconscious and you must be prepared to deal with these whilst your PSI is being overhauled.
Believe me it is a small price to pay for the lasting happiness and success which my method will bring you.

 Here is something which happened to me recently: One night I walked into my bedroom without bothering to switch on the light. I nearly died with fright! There, lurking in the corner, was the shadow of a horse!
 My World View was being hit hard! How could a horse be in my bedroom? It wasn’t possible! My subconscious mind didn’t believe it either, and asked me to look again. Closer examination revealed, not a horse but a crane. A crane? That was just as daft! The subconscious again refused to start tinkering with the jigsaw and asked me to check more carefully. I went through several other possibilities in my mind before I realised that it was the new bookshelf which I had installed that very day, casting a strange shadow on the wall.
 All this happened in the space of less than one second!
 This fascinating experience gave me great insight into how the subconscious mind works. It FEARS changes in the World View and it will desperately try to fit a known explanation onto the unknown event, in an attempt to make it CONSISTENT with its existing World View. It will try every combination of ideas to explain the unknown, until it comes up with one which fits. If, despite trying everything, it is still confronted with the unknown, then it will often PANIC and run a mile! This has great survival value.
 Obviously the World View can, and does change. The subconscious is not set in concrete! However, pieces of the jigsaw which are considered inviolate require a great deal of effort to change. Other pieces of lesser importance require less effort to change.

What is Intuition, and can you cultivate it? Part One

The subject of these articles will be

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Peyton Quinn
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What happens if you try to change one of the main pieces of the puzzle?
The answer is that the subconscious mind will respond strongly with FEAR and RESISTANCE to the change. It will ask the conscious mind to examine the data again and again to see if the change is real, or whether it can be squeezed into the existing World View.
It will effectively ask: “ARE YOU REALLY SURE ABOUT THIS???”
If the change is a really big one then a mental breakdown could result, such is the strength of the subconscious resistance to changes in the main body of the picture!
For example: Supposing you walked into a room and saw a man suddenly rise up from the floor and hover, suspended in mid-air, six inches from the ceiling. This event would seriously undermine a major piece of your World View puzzle. (The piece which says that people cannot defy gravity without artificial means.)
Your first response would be SHOCK. Shock at such a basic piece of the jigsaw being violated. The conscious mind would attempt to change the World View of the subconscious mind by saying: “Look, a flying man!” The subconscious mind would respond with, “NO WAY!”
Such would be the reluctance of the subconscious mind to change the World View, that it would INSIST upon the conscious mind examining the facts very carefully again.
So you would dutifully examine every detail of the floating man. You would check carefully for ropes or wires, mirrors or other foul means of deception. Then you would pass this summarised data back to the subconscious mind; effectively saying, “Sorry, but it really is a floating man!”
The subconscious mind would STILL REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS, and certainly would NOT start to alter the basic World View. It would suggest that the conscious mind look yet again! It must be a joke, surely? Or a trick; yes, someone was playing a trick! It wasn’t a real man up there, probably a hydrogen-filled balloon in the shape of a man.
In short, the subconscious would try ANYTHING, no matter how wild, to convince itself that what was being experienced could be fitted into the EXISTING World View. It would FIGHT and SCREAM and KICK against making any alterations to that World View.
If, despite everything, the conscious mind could find no trickery, deception or illusion; would the subconscious then grudgingly accept that men could, under certain circumstances, float up to the ceiling? NO WAY! NOT A CHANCE! Instead, you would run out of the room screaming with terror! Anything rather than change such a basically-held belief.
Later on, you would go over the incident and think up some logical explanation for the event; something you had missed at the time, some reasonable method which would account for what you had seen. It was probably a publicity stunt; the man MUST have been supported somehow, after all, it was no different to those conjurors on the television, they were always doing things like that weren’t they?
When your subconscious mind had seized upon an explanation, no matter how bizarre, it would breathe a BIG SIGH OF RELIEF at not having to change the World View! Everything would be back to normal, it could relax.