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Carlos Marin | Empowering People
to Achieve Success and Freedom
In our last article I spoke about changing limiting beliefs. You identified what the major ones were that were holding you back from having the life you desire and deserve. One of the key elements you need in order to change those beliefs is to decide what you want to change them to.
The biggest problem people have in life is that they are unhappy or dissatisfied where they are and want to be someplace else but they haven’t decided where that place is! One Universal Law you must be aware of is that the Universe abhors (hates) a vacuum and will immediately rush in to fill the empty space. An important point to understand is that if the space you just cleared was a negative or limiting belief or assumption then an equally negative one will replace it unless YOU decide what POSITIVE belief or assumption you will replace it with.
So you must get some positive references to uphold your new idea or concept that you desire to turn into an empowering belief…
The big question is… Where do you get these references? One way is from your own memory banks, from your own past experiences, from other people’s experiences—people you’ve seen succeed, get rich, have great bodies, enjoy perfect health, have great relationships, experience love and joy.
This is why reading inspiring stories, watching videos and listening to audios that describe other people’s success stories, strategies and mindset is so powerful. You get to borrow them and use them as a model to create your own on purpose.
You can even pull them out of the future by imagining or visualizing yourself having those experiences or references. That’s the purpose of your imagination; to create whatever end result you desire to achieve, just like magic. It’s the most powerful tool you have, it doesn’t cost you anything to use, it’s the thing that can set you free from all limitation and lack and I’m going to teach you how to use it masterfully in my programs!
Our imagination is the most powerful tool we have to create the lives we desire. With it we can imagine what we would like to experience in our material world and feel that we actually have it. When we get into that feeling of actually having it we are in the spirit of the thing! The feeling is the spirit of whatever it is that we want to possess or experience and that is what brings it into reality!
There is a very powerful and yet misunderstood scripture that states “Not by power or by might but by my spirit, says the Lord”… its all about the feeling of already being, doing and having which is the will of God because God’s desire for us is that we continually expand and express ever greater levels of life, love and beauty!
Let me ask you a question. How did Columbus discover America? Where did he get his references or sense of certainty that the world was round and not flat? He had to pull his references out of the future, something no one had seen before in the physical realm. He saw it in his mind, in his mental theater.
He believed it so strongly that he was willing to risk his life and reputation. He believed it so much that he actually influenced others (including the Queen of Spain) to back his mission!
Now it’s your turn: So now look at your limiting beliefs and determine the new beliefs that will take you where you truly want to be in life. Start using your imagination to see where that will put you in life and actually feel what that would be like. Imagine how your life would be like if you were already the person you want to be, doing and having the things you desire in your life.
What beliefs did you create in your mind that got you where you wanted to be in your imagination? Take these new empowering beliefs and write down all the benefits you and your loved ones will gain by living with these new beliefs now and in the future. Take a few minutes and actually do this exercise right now!
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Understand that the only things holding you back from achieving your greatness and all the riches you desire in life are your limiting beliefs and your resistance. And, your resistance comes from memories, traumatic experiences and suppressed feelings which consciously or unconsciously you have labeled and given negative meaning to. This boils down to a conflict of beliefs, usually regarding your worthiness or deservingness. The Law of Life truly is the Law of Belief. As you believe it shall be done unto you!
I’m sure that Bill Gates’ parents told him that for a bright boy like him, getting a great education would take him far in life. But, when an opportunity came up to produce the software for the first personal computer, that dream caused him to change his beliefs.
The rest is history. One of the richest men in the world doesn’t have a college degree. So what’s your excuse?
That is why a lot of times when people give me excuses saying, well I can’t be, do or have this because of this or that… I say BS.
You might think, that’s kind of rude Carlos, but BS doesn’t just stand for bull poop, it also stands for Belief System. And a limiting belief system is way nastier and smellier than the biggest pile of bull poop you’ve ever seen in your life.
Please take the time to create the empowering beliefs that will transform your life today. In my next article I’ll teach you a very powerful strategy to change limiting beliefs and convert them to empowering ones immediately so you can attain your desires and dreams in life.
Please leave me your comments and questions below and share this post with everyone you care about. Also become a partner in my empowerment community at http://facebook.com/carlosmarinlive and promote it to everyone you love and care about and I’ll give you all some very powerful free content to transform your life. The world needs YOU and your contribution so we can help millions of people raise their consciousness and be free! God bless and live your passion!
Before we begin the all-important work on changing limiting beliefs and releasing emotional blocks, I want to share a story with you.
Betty was a skeptical attendee at one of my seminars. She was an attractive woman but it was her eyes that drew my attention because they conveyed a deep sadness. During the first day she came up to me and said she was having trouble with the exercises because she didn’t know what she wanted. I told her to pretend that she knew and do the exercises acting as if she did. On the second day, we began teaching release techniques (in this case meridian tapping) to remove emotional blocks and after several hours of watching other people release on major issues, she came up to the front of the room and said she needed to go next. As soon as we started applying the technique, she started crying and talking a mile a minute about her emotional scars.
It turned out she had been raped at the age of four and consistently sexually abused by her stepfather from the ages of eight to fourteen. Then as a young woman she had been date raped twice. As you can imagine, she was buried under years of guilt and fear as, unfortunately, abused women are made to feel in our society.
That day, as she released the feelings of unworthiness, self-blame and guilt, Betty’s countenance began to change in front of our eyes. She looked ten years younger! She forgave and accepted herself and experienced an incredible transformation. She began getting clear on what she wanted for her life. Today she is accomplishing her goals and has a highly successful business that brings her tremendous satisfaction and happiness.
That is the power of releasing emotional blocks!
In the last article you identified quite a few limiting beliefs and energy blocks that have been conditioned in you from an early age. Now we are ready to work on those blocks and transmute them into empowering beliefs and programs that will automatically take you where you want to go. In order to change a belief you must become aware of the limiting belief and also believe that…
1. Something must change
2. I am the one who must change it
3. I can change it
4. I must choose what to change it to
5. The new belief must be empowering and congruent with my
Point B.
What empowering beliefs do you need to have in order to achieve your dreams and intentions? What beliefs do you need to have in order to be a Point B person who automatically attracts those riches?
The key is, your beliefs must be congruent with your desires. Remember, we’re creating a consciousness or state of mind that will automatically manifest what you desire, and the secret to doing that is in your beliefs.
It is not enough to identify what you want to change; you must decide what to replace it with and the easiest thing is to replace it with its positive opposite.
To give you a jump-start, let me give you some examples. These are positive opposites of the old beliefs in the previous chapter:
1. With age comes wisdom. Youth is Power.
2. It’s not how much you know, it’s what you do with what you know that creates massive success.
3. If my dream is clear and big enough, the facts don’t count.
4. The past does not equal the future if I’m willing to learn from my mistakes.
5. I deserve success for I am a child of God and he doesn’t make junk.
6. I make the time for what’s important to me.
7. The biggest fortunes were created in so called bad economies.
8. To make money you just need a big dream!
9. My success is the best example for my kids/spouse, etc.
10. I am pure potential and God supports me.
11. Whatever I believe I achieve.
What you need to do to change those limiting beliefs is: Link enough pain to them to destroy them and link sufficient pleasure to the new, empowering beliefs to establish them in your life.
What you are looking to do is destroy the references that are upholding the limiting beliefs. Sometimes simply the realization that you have a false belief limiting you is enough to eliminate it. Oftentimes, when you realize that fear is False Evidence Appearing Real, it’s enough to dissolve the illusion. But many times you must create enough pain on purpose to get the leverage to break the limiting belief.
Let’s take the limiting beliefs you discovered in the exercises in the last article and write down what each of them has cost you in the past, is costing you right now and will cost you in the future if you don’t change it.
Ask yourself these questions to get clear:
- Is this belief really true? (Every belief is false in some context; failing in one area doesn’t mean you’ve failed in all areas. Don’t generalize against yourself.)
- Is this belief serving me? Is it helping me be, do or have what I desire in life?
- Is this belief serving my loved ones and helping them have a better life?
- Is this belief serving mankind?
- What is ridiculous, absurd or funny about this belief?
- Does the person (or people) who taught me this belief have the results in their life that I desire in mine in this area?
- What will it cost me financially, physically, emotionally, in my relationships, and with my loved ones if I don’t change this belief
Once you’ve got some serious leverage, take the new empowering beliefs that you want and create enough references to ingrain them as your new beliefs.
Please take the time to create the leverage required to make true and lasting change. Sometimes the leverage alone is enough change many of the things that have been blocking you from having your success and dreams, and in my next article we’ll move on to how change your limiting beliefs so you can attain your desires and dreams in life.
Please leave me your comments and questions below and share this post with everyone you care about. Also become a partner in my empowerment community at http://facebook.com/carlosmarinlive and promote it to everyone you love and care about and I’ll give you all some very powerful free content to transform your life. The world needs YOU and your contribution so we can help millions of people raise their consciousness and be free! God bless and live your passion!
It’s been a while since my last blog post. As some of you may know I have been accelerating my knowledge of Internet marketing strategies, studying under Brendon Burchard for the past 9 months. I also did a Spanish Market launch of my Millionaire Mindset Online program (my first one) and did a Facebook Fanpage campaign to achieve over 100,000 “Likes” which kept me very busy throughout the past 6 months.
However, I’m very excited to be back here and to keep providing greater value to all of my friends through this medium. I am ready to resume posting on my blog regularly every week once again so keep an eye out for a new article (sometimes even two) every week!
In order to get the most out of this week’s article I highly recommend that you go back and read the last two articles entitled “How to Direct the Power of All Powers” and “How to Know What Beliefs are Blocking Your Success.” It will only take you a few minutes to do so but will enhance your ability to get maximum impact from this week’s article. Enjoy!
Now… Lets talk about money. You have been learning about my Ultimate Success Formula and, although it can be used to obtain a lot more than money, you probably want more money too, right? So, what beliefs do you have about money? Unless you are tremendously wealthy and have more money than you can spend, you have some limiting beliefs about money, or your worthiness to have more of it than you now have.
We covered a few of the many potentially limiting beliefs a person could have in this area in the previous articles, but I want you to really think about it. What did you hear your parents say about money, what was the general feeling in your home while growing up pertaining to money, what did you hear religious leaders, teachers and coaches say about money, what clichés did you hear repeatedly, what did your parents tell you when you asked for things, what did you experience in your past regarding money, wealth or lack?
Do you honestly believe that there’s enough money for everyone? Do you believe that if you have more, somebody else has to have less? Do you believe that there’s a limited amount of money that everyone has to divide? Are you afraid that there won’t be enough left for you after everyone else takes their share? Do you believe that if you have a lot of money, your friends won’t like you or will try to take advantage of you or will only want to hang around with you because of your money?
Do you believe that money corrupts people? Do you think money is good or is it evil? Do you believe you have to take advantage of other people to be rich? Do you think rich people are evil? Do you believe that all rich people are going to hell? Would you feel guilty about having a lot of money? Do you think it’s wrong to be materialistic? Would you feel guilty about having a luxurious home, exotic automobiles, taking luxury vacations, buying designer clothes, buying expensive jewelry and watches? What limiting beliefs do you have buried in your subconscious regarding money, wealth and riches?
Take a few more minutes to brainstorm all of the limiting beliefs, thoughts and ideas you have about money. Don’t hold back. If there was ever a time to let all the negatives hang out, it is now. It will definitely serve you to find them so we can transform them to empower you!
In addition to beliefs that we can actually pinpoint in our lives, many times things happened during childhood before we could even speak or understand. This is what happened in my story about leaving Cuba. I was not intellectually aware of what I believed, yet it was very real in my experience and it affected me for many years. This is energy stored in our bodies, in our subconscious mind, and we may not even be aware of it other than through a feeling of discomfort in certain situations.
When intense things happened, they might have caused extremely strong feeling or emotion that we now label “trauma.” These intense emotions create intelligible sensations that move us in ways that seem unreasonable to the logical, conscious mind. Nevertheless, they are very real in our inner world and their effects can be certainly felt in our outer world.
It is important that when we feel negative feelings or emotions, we acknowledge and release them in order to center our energies and maintain our alignment. They are our signals that there is some fear, belief, trauma, emotional scar or negative program playing in our subconscious mind. If not addressed, these emotions can cause us to self-sabotage and not achieve our desires or goals.
Please take the time to discover many of the things that have been blocking you from having your success and dreams, and in my next article we’ll move on to how to deal with those blocks and remove them so you can attain your desires and dreams in life.
Please leave me your comments and questions below and share this post with everyone you care about. Also become a partner in my empowerment community at http://facebook.com/carlosmarinlive and promote it to everyone you love and care about and I’ll give you all some very powerful free content to transform your life. The world needs YOU and your contribution so we can help millions of people raise their consciousness and be free! God bless and live your passion!
What limiting beliefs do you have that you need to change in order to achieve what you want out of life?
The key to changing limiting beliefs is to understand that your beliefs must be congruent with your desires or you will be psychologically reversed and self-sabotage. You need to create a mindset that will automatically produce what you desire. The secret to doing that is in your beliefs.
This is why after explaining the Cycle of Life and the Fundamentals of Conditioning to you I began with the “end in mind,” by immediately getting you to define clearly your most compelling desires. All of the changes you need to make in your life and the motivation you need to make them are contained in the dreams and intentions you have defined.
Just as your identity must be congruent with what you desire, your belief systems also need to be congruent with your desires. To have Point B results you must think, believe and act like a Point B type person.
What beliefs do you need to change now in order to be congruent with your desires and dreams? Maybe it’s something like:
1- I’m too old/or too young
2- I don’t have enough education/the right education
3- I don’t deserve success because of my past mistakes
4- People are against me/are out to get me
5- I’m black, Hispanic, white (I don’t have the right ethnic background)
6- The economy is so bad that you can’t make money today
7- You have to have money to make money
8- My duties as a mother/father (whatever) hold me back
Take a few minutes to identify three to five limiting beliefs that are not congruent with what you desire out of life. So stop reading and do this now…
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Now that you’ve figured out several beliefs that have been limiting you from achieving your success, set them aside so I can help you change them in the next article and read on…
Beliefs are organized into giant sets or generalizations in certain areas of life and give you a sense of certainty as to how things work and how things should be. These giant sets constitute your Philosophy of Life. The key to remember is that your beliefs not only represent what reality is to you but they continue to manifest current and future realities in your life. That is why the Law of Life is the Law of Belief. As you believe, it is done unto you.
This is the Law of Attraction at work but when “bad” things happen, we resist the idea that we have attracted them into our lives. It’s not that we want to attract the bad stuff, it’s that we have conflicting beliefs that we are unaware of that are creating resistance and that is what attracts the bad stuff. Until we clear the conflict (which is why you’ll hear me talk about “clearing”) your subconscious does not have precise instructions and will continue to produce results based on the old unconscious belief.
Psychologists sometimes call this being psychologically reversed, which simply means you have conflicting desires or beliefs. Your conscious mind wants one thing while your subconscious wants the opposite. As we’ve already seen, when this occurs, who wins the battle? The subconscious wins 100% of the time!!!
Let’s use an example so you fully understand.
An example many people can relate to is the desire to lose weight. You may have set a goal or made a New Years resolution many, many times to lose those unwanted fifteen – twenty pounds, which may have turned into thirty, forty or fifty by now. Consciously you want to lose the weight, but unconsciously there is a belief or a series of beliefs that are keeping you from achieving your objective. It may be that as a child you were told to make sure you cleaned your plate because there are a lot of hungry people all over the world with nothing to eat. Perhaps as you were growing up, whenever you felt bad or had a problem, one of your programmers (I mean teachers) would give you some chocolate or candy, or cookies or ice-cream to cheer you up and make you feel better. And so that developed a pattern that whenever you felt badly, some candy, etc. made you feel better.
It can be as complex as being in a relationship with somebody you really thought you loved and being terribly hurt when they left you. You gained weight from any combination of beliefs from the past, including, eating makes me feel better. As you got heavier, your subconscious began using the extra pounds as a protection mechanism to keep people away. Now every time you try to lose the weight, your subconscious says, Oh no, you are forgetting that time we got really hurt. Consequently, it keeps you from losing the weight you desire to lose, in order to “protect” you.
This is what resistance is and it can happen in any area of your life. You may ask, how do I know if I have resistance? And my reply to you is: is there anything you desire in your life that you currently don’t have? Unless your answer is, it’s on its way to me right now, and you say it with absolute certainty… you have resistance.
Any time that you don’t have what you desire in your life, you can be sure that you have resistance. You have conflicting beliefs and your subconscious is keeping you from having what you desire. Until you release the resistance or get clear, you will not have what you desire.
In my next article we will go into depth on the topic of money blocks and then proceed to how to break through and transform them so we can get what we truly want in life…
Please leave me your comments and questions below and share this post with everyone you care about. Also become a partner in my empowerment community at http://facebook.com/carlosmarinlive and promote it to everyone you love and care about and I’ll give you all some very powerful free content to transform your life. The world needs YOU and your contribution so we can help millions of people raise their consciousness and get free in 2012! God bless and live your passion!
Our buried emotions, fears, beliefs and programs are just energy infused with information. That’s what a thought is, a representation of an ideal or concept which is essentially energy infused with information.
A thought that you think many times becomes a belief and beliefs are causes. Beliefs put the Law of Attraction into operation, create our vibration, and therefore they are what create our success or failure, our wealth or lack, our happiness or sorrow. We need to really dig into this topic, so please pay close attention.
A belief is nothing more than a sense of certainty about what something means. It’s an idea that has so many references behind it that you feel certain it’s true.
The important thing is… It is not necessarily true. It could very easily be an absolute lie. It could go totally against the truth, but since we have the belief that it is true programmed, our subconscious (our inner power that is working all the time to produce results) will make it true for us in our experience!
Think of a belief as a table. The top of the table is an idea or a thought. The legs are the references, distinctions and concepts that, through repetition, have given you a sense of certainty regarding the idea or thought.
The table top without the legs would only be a flat piece of wood or glass or whatever material your table is made of. A belief without its legs (which are references and distinctions) is just an idea, which may or may not be true or even relevant in your life.
It is the legs holding up the flat piece of wood that make it a table. The idea or thought without the references would not be a belief, just an idea or thought. So it’s the references and the repetition of those references that create the sense of certainty that makes the idea a belief.
The Law of Life is the Law of Belief. Whatever you believe is true is the reality that you will create for yourself. Having beliefs that serve us and empower us to attract what we truly desire is the key to having riches in every area of life.
Sometimes our beliefs have absolutely nothing to do with our current reality. I know people who fight and act like children when they get around their siblings at holiday time and they are now in their 40s and 50s! It’s amazing how many of us are limited by traditions, which are just collective beliefs, and we never question them.
What would you have to do to take a belief you currently have that is limiting you and change it?
There are many ways to change beliefs and in this training program I’m going to teach you powerful technologies to do just that. One way to change beliefs is to question the validity of the references that uphold that belief or associate enough pain to the belief that it causes you to question the references. If you remove the validity of the references, you change the belief or remove it altogether.
Let’s start learning these strategies by using a very simple example. One of my old, limiting beliefs, a belief that kept me from a high level of success for a long time until I changed it was: “I don’t deserve success.”
I had that belief because I was in a hurry to grow up and was trying to bite off more than I could chew. My parents, grandparents and teachers were always telling me to “slow down, you’re still young, you still have a lot to learn and you have to pay the price for success.”
When I acted impulsively or missed the mark, they would say, “Remember, you’re still young and have a long way to go and a big price to pay before you are ready to achieve real success.” Consequently, I became really sensitive to the fact that I was too inexperienced and not good enough to attempt big things. The message I heard in my subconscious mind was “I don’t deserve success because I haven’t learned everything I need to or paid the price yet”
Later when I started working in sales and would call on people, they’d say, my gosh you’re so young to be a financial planner or insurance expert. Even when it was a compliment, I was so self-conscious that it set off an unconscious trigger to my feelings of being undeserving and the belief I had developed that, “I’m not good enough yet so I don’t deserve success.” As ridiculous as this may sound to you, this belief affected my level of confidence, self worth and my feeling of worthiness to attain high levels of success.
It wasn’t until I began questioning my beliefs that I realized that I could change this. And then I went and replaced that belief with a really strong and empowering one… “I am as successful as I decide to be.”
I began to realize that my success was a function of directing my mind towards my goals and maintaining a positive mental attitude, while executing my plan of action in the faith that it is already done.
I changed my references by realizing that my limiting belief had been formed when I was young and wasn’t even valid in the new context where it was affecting me, namely business success. I also realized that if I kept this belief, it would have very negative consequences in my life. It was keeping me broke!
I linked enough pain to the old belief and enough pleasure to the new one that once I came to this realization/revelation I turned it into an empowering belief. It’s really as simple as that in most cases, unless its something deep-seated from a very early age or something so painful that you’re suppressing it, but I’ll even show you how to dig those up.
The bottom line is that our beliefs can lead us to either create the life of our dreams or destroy our dreams and leave us with a life of misery and dullness.
In my next article we’re going to dig deeper into what is blocking you from having the things you really want and show you how to change your limiting beliefs into empowering ones, so until then…
Please leave me your comments and questions below and share this post with everyone you care about. Also become a partner in my empowerment community at http://facebook.com/carlosmarinlive and promote it to everyone you love and care about and I’ll give you all some very powerful free content to transform your life. The world needs YOU and your contribution so we can help millions of people raise their consciousness and get free in 2012! God bless and live your passion!
While I’ve always been a big proponent of turning desires into burning intentions and focusing on their attainment until they become physical realities, it is important to understand that we have limiting beliefs and programs running in the background of our subconscious mind that often block their achievement.
As you learned in previous articles we have all been conditioned by well-meaning people who tried to protect us, teach us and guide us. Remember, they couldn’t give us what they didn’t have and they didn’t know what they didn’t know. They did the very best they could, according to their level of awareness. However, that doesn’t change the fact that we all have painful emotional scars, traumas, limiting beliefs and negative programs running in our subconscious that keep us from having the results we desire.
My own life offers a good example of this. I’m sharing it with you so you can see how negative programming comes about and understand how important it is to overcome it.
I was born in Cuba, the day after Fidel Castro went into the Sierra Madre Mountains to begin the revolution. The mood in the country, and in my family, was one of apprehension. My parents we so concerned about guerilla fighting breaking out, they went to the hospital early. Would the fear and instability that surrounded my family when I was born affect me later in life?
Castro took over the country in December of 1959, when I was three years old. Shortly thereafter he started taking people’s homes, land, belongings and property. In my parents’ neighborhood, the military came to take one of their friend’s houses and when he refused, they just shot him dead, right in front of his family.
Imagine the turmoil, negativity and violence that happened during the first years of my life. I was surrounded by uncertainty and fear as my parents tried to figure out what to do.
They applied for visas to Spain, the United States and Costa Rica, intent on getting out as quickly as possible. The visa from Spain came first, so they prepared to leave.
My parents, my sisters and I left everything behind and fled from Cuba with only the clothes we were wearing, one suitcase and a $1000 bill my father had smuggled out in his shoe. We began a new life in Spain and subsequently came to the United States a year later.
I’ve interviewed my parents in the past several years because I wanted to get to the bottom of all the “garbage” in me. I could see the effects and wanted to know the cause, so I asked them to go back in their memory banks and dig it all up.
My mother said that as soon as the airplane left Cuba, I started throwing up liquid bile. I understand now that my body was reacting to all the fear I felt coming from my parents, all the worry I was absorbing but, being a little kid, didn’t know how to release.
These experiences affected me negatively for years and years without my realizing it. I was too young to understand but I knew I had to leave everything behind and move to a strange place. My parents saw everything they and my grandfather (who had labored for over 50 years) worked for taken from them, literally overnight. This sense of insecurity became part of my consciousness, although I didn’t realize how powerful this deep-seated fear of loss was until years later.
Those fears were a motive for my working hard and striving to get ahead in life, but at the same time produced an unconscious sensation of fear that somehow I could lose my wealth the same as my grandfather and my parents had. They believed—and unknowingly taught me to believe—that no matter how hard you work, or how much wealth you are able to accumulate, someone can come along and take it all from you.
As you’ve probably guessed by now, I experienced that type of loss in my life because I was conditioned and unconsciously trained to expect it.
I had attained all of my success in business by totally focusing my attention on my dreams and excluding everything else from my view. But, as I attained more and more financial success, I still felt an emptiness inside, which prompted me to seriously start searching for my true purpose in life. As I became more dissatisfied, I allowed myself to focus on what was wrong with the situation, again using the old familiar fear of loss to motivate myself as I had done in the past. The results were disastrous…
After having made many millions of dollars in business, I went through a time where I experienced tremendous financial losses from things seemingly beyond my control. I lost millions from foreign currency devaluations, dishonest business partners, bad investments and malicious attacks on my businesses. I lost my multi-million dollar house on the water and my wife, daughter and I were actually homeless for almost a month.
What I couldn’t fathom back then was how I could create so much value for others, and still lose so much. In hindsight, it is evident to me that I didn’t understand how much buried fear I had. Knowing what I know today, I realize that a series of events triggered these deeply buried fears. Drastic political and governmental changes in various countries affecting my global businesses activated my hidden fears and fear-based advisors influenced me to make poor business decisions.
The fear of loss engrained in me during my formative years was sparked and blended with my current fears, creating a financial whirlwind in my life. Ironically, I used the very same power I’d used to create success and wealth (the power, consistency and intensity of my focus)—except now in reverse (focusing on what I didn’t want to happen)—and the fears that were buried deep in my subconscious mind attracted what I was fearful of into my life.
Remember that thoughts, beliefs and emotions are the cause of all experiences and conditions, even if they are buried in your subconscious (this is how the Law of Attraction works… every time). However, once I realized I had this unconscious limiting program, it actually started me on a whole new path of learning at a much higher level of consciousness.
In my family’s case, the one thing they didn’t focus on was the fact that if you created success once, you can do it again. Thank God my study of principles led me to create a belief system that said: You might take my material goods but you can’t take what created my success, which is my mindset and faith in my unlimited Source, which is God within me. My attitude was, I’ll just recreate it, only this time it’ll be bigger than ever and built on an unshakeable foundation!
In actuality, it was a blessing in disguise because it made me realize that although I knew many powerful principles, there was still something lacking, still something I needed to learn in order to be able to fulfill my purpose of empowering people to know their inner power and use it to be free and live their dreams.
Finding and living your true purpose can be very challenging because most of us were taught that we must work hard to make money and then, if there’s time left over, we can have fun. The presupposition here is work is something difficult that you hate to do and cannot have fun doing. The reality is that making money is really not a problem once you learn that money is just a measure of the value you are providing, and then giving more value than you’re paid for. Making money when you live your passion is actually easy and fun. Consequently, from that time forward I have been on a search to truly master the universal laws at the deepest level in order to live my purpose in life.
In my next article we’re going to dig into what is blocking you from having the things you really want so you can eliminate them (and by the way… just like with me… they’re not your fault!) so until then…
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Let’s look at the exercise we did in the article on Designing Your Life on Purpose. You should be very motivated right now because you are truly starting to design your life on purpose. With what you’ve just learned on the power of commitment, you are in a position to turn those desires into intentions and turn them into physical reality right now.
We did this brainstorming in order to get to a point where we can identify the main goals, or what I prefer to call Intentions, that you have in the key areas of life—Financial, Physical, Relationships and Emotional.
Look at your four lists of intentions, (Be, Do, Have and Give) and pick out your top one- or two-year intentions from each list. Figure out which are your top short-term intentions for each of these areas. It can be several (three to five) things in each area that really compel you.
I will help you construct a Positive Intention Declaration in each of the four areas that you can read every day in order to attract your desires into your life automatically.
The purpose of this exercise centers on the Law of Attraction, which states that what you focus on continually you attract into your life. When you’re continually focusing on whatever the ideal picture is for you, wouldn’t you be excited if you had already achieved all of those things? Of course you would, so this is creating a mental attitude of success, positive expectancy, appreciation, happiness and confidence, which is the vibration you are sending out into the world. Like attracts like, so by the Law of Attraction this is what you are drawing to yourself automatically.
The thing is… you’re not going to write your declarations stating: In one or two years I will Be that, Do that and Have that.
That would always keep these things one to two years in the future.
Most people, however, have a problem with stating things in the first person, present tense. In other words, due to your previous conditioning, if you state, I am this, I have that, I am doing this, your sub-conscious mind will sit there and go BS, BS, I’m broke, I’m sick, I’m miserable, that’s a lie and you will self-sabotage because of a conflict in beliefs.
The key is to state the declarations in the first person permissive, which is: I allow myself to be, do, have and give. Unless you already have successful experience with the use of affirmations and declarations and have already achieved some important successes in your life with “I Am” statements, stick with the first person permissive. Otherwise, your subconscious mind will not respond because of psychological reversal.
To clarify, the exercise is this: For each key area in life (Financial, Relationships, Physical, Emotional) create a very powerful and impacting paragraph that fires you up! You want to be descriptive enough, yet concise, so that when you read it, it fires your positive emotions, faith and expectancy. You’ll develop a mindset of positive expectancy and confidence through a process of reviewing these declarations daily at specific times during the day, so that you stay perfectly focused and intent on them.
For example, maybe one of your BE goals, is to be a millionaire. And maybe some of your HAVE goals are to earn $500,000 a year, live in a 5,000 square foot home on a couple of acres near a lake and have a BMW 750Li. Maybe traveling around the world with your family is one of your DO goals. So, take and construct from these areas a Financial Intention Declaration of who you’re being, what you’re doing, what you’re having and what you’re giving, and make it into a paragraph.
Here’s an example of a Positive Intention Declaration (PID) for each area.
Financial PID: I allow myself to be (I am) a multimillionaire, earning $500,000.00 a year, living in a 5,000 square foot Mediterranean home on a lake, driving a BMW 750Li, traveling to Tahiti with my family, and living my passion in life while creating a better world by helping to raise the collective consciousness through my Global Spirituality Foundation…
Relationship PID: I allow myself to have (I have) a loving, romantic relationship with my life partner and soul mate, sharing all the joys and adventures of life. My relationships with my children are full of happiness. I allow myself to have harmonious win-win business relationships with principle-based people who share my vision. I’m attracting into my life like-minded, spiritually enlightened friends, etc.
Physical PID: I allow myself to have my ideal body. I’m lean, trim and fit. People are always telling me I look great in my bathing suit. I allow myself to have a laser-sharp mind that continually serves me. I allow myself to have perfect, vibrant health, full of energy and vitality, feeling powerful and full of life constantly, I allow myself to be a great __________ (fill in the blank… tennis player, swimmer, athlete, dancer) etc.
Emotional PID: I allow myself to be a “state master,” continually directing my emotional states, focusing on what I desire consistently and feeling that it’s already mine. I give empowering meaning to everything that happens in my life and I’m continually releasing all negative feelings, emotions and memories as they come up. I allow myself to have a belief system that serves me and empowers me and I allow myself to live in happy, cheerful powerful states, manifesting the life of my dreams on purpose.
Now that you have these descriptive examples, find your top Intentions in your BE, DO, HAVE, GIVE desires and create a compelling declaration that, by your commitment, converts desire to intention. Do it Now!
In order to change your life, conditions and circumstances, you have to change your state of consciousness or mindset! The best way to do that is to get clear on what really moves you and drives you and inspires you to go to new heights of awareness and use your imagination to feel as if you already are, have and do this, and then use it as a lever to automatically produce these results.
Whether you like it or not you are already doing this to produce the results you’re getting in your life right now… automatically! If you don’t like these results, could it possibly be that you didn’t specifically decide what results you truly wanted? And, if you didn’t clearly ask life for what you wanted and additionally sent life mixed signals… how could you get what you desired?
Your assignment is to read these declarations first thing in the morning when you wake up and last thing before you go to sleep at night and imagine yourself as already being that person, having and doing what you desire.
Remember that just reading all of this will not create the changes you want in your future. You must put these principles to work in your life! Apply these strategies and do what you’ve never done before. Step out of your comfort zone and as Nike says “just do it!”
In my next article we’re going to explore what could be blocking you from having the things you really want so you can eliminate them (and by the way… they’re not your fault!) so until then…
Please leave me your comments and questions below and share this post with everyone you care about. Also become a partner in my empowerment community at http://facebook.com/carlosmarinlive and promote it to everyone you love and care about. The world needs YOU and your contribution so we can help millions of people raise their consciousness and get free in 2012! God bless and live your passion!
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