I just wanted to say… thanks so much for being a subscriber or client and sharing this journey with us!

Here’s a gift from Kevin, myself and the rest of the Team here at The Mind-Body Training Company. Please download yourself a copy of our ‘Future Visioning’ meditation. This short meditation is great way to manifest anything you desire. I use it all the time and it’s great fun! So here you go…

Download The ‘Future Visioning Meditation’ Here
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Remember to treat yourself this Christmas too! Create something special for yourself, ok?

Enjoy!

Matt, Kevin & The Team
The Mind-Body Training Company

P.S. The meditation download above is extracted from the video presentation I sent you last week. You probably saw it? The video demonstrates the ‘Future Visioning’ technique before telling you about the other 8 meditation in the ‘Meditations For Manifesting’ program.

Yesterday, we began exploring the mental skills we need to fulfill our deeper purpose and realize our soul’s desires. The first skill we identified was “staying focused,” being persistent in the pursuit of our goals. What differentiates those who succeed from those who don’t is that they don’t give up on what they are here to do.

The second skill is self-observation—the ability to step back and witness your own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

No matter what you want to do in this life, to do it well, you need to become aware of how you are thinking, feeling, and acting. You need to be able to see what you are doing that moves you forward and what you are doing that holds you back. This practice is elusively simple, yet challenging.

To begin, take note of what your mind tells you when you go to pursue your goals and dreams. What words float through your head? What thoughts come up when you run into obstacles? What does your mind tell you about yourself and the world? What does your mind tell you about what is real and possible? Is your mind a cheerleader or an inquisitor?

Second, how do these thoughts make you feel?

Third, what do these thoughts and feelings prompt you to do?

In tomorrow’s post, we’ll talk about what to do with what you discover—especially if you don’t like what you find. There’s one simple skill that will help you move through those things that hold you back.

Kevin

Kevin Schoeninger

P.S. Meditation is a powerful practice to develop your self-observation skills. Learn more here: “Secrets of Meditation”

Does it seem like you live in two different worlds? There’s the world “out there,” the material world of tasks, responsibilities, bills, deadlines, cold hard facts, and survival. Then, there’s the world “inside” where you experience your intentions, thoughts, feelings, relationships, dreams, and deeper purpose.

These worlds sometimes seem to have different rules which cause them to conflict. For example, the material world “out there” runs on strict schedules, written rules, and hard and fast definitions of what is real according to what can be measured and calculated.

The inner world is more fluid, difficult to define and measure, and subject to forces that are hard to get a firm handle on, such as your intent, your ever-changing thoughts and feelings, and the infinitely complex networks of relationship.

If you take your primary residence in the material world, you may dismiss the inner world as less real and less valuable than what you can clearly define and measure out there in the “real world.” If you make that move, you may find yourself cut off from what gives you a deeper sense of connection, peace, love, inspiration, and value. Also in a materialist view, there is a fixed quantity of resources which naturally leads to competition to gather as much as we can for ourselves. The material world lends itself to a “me-centered,” consumer approach to life and the fears and anxieties that come with that.

If you take your primary residence in your inner world, you may find that, initially, it feels messy in there. You may find yourself bewildered by the endless chains of conflicting thoughts and feelings. However, if you allow these to pass by, if you settle into silence, if you go deeper underneath it all, you may discover an abiding peace, abundance, and harmony.

In your inner world, you can experience something just by imagining it. You can dream something and bring it to life. You can love someone or forgive someone and witness how that changes your whole experience—and theirs. Your may find a deeper sense of value not in what you gain for yourself but in what you contribute to the Whole. You may discover that you see everything and everyone as expressions of One Life.

Maybe the answer to stress is not so much in micromanaging the details of the material world, but in getting underneath it all to a more primary experience in which everything is connected. If you live in the material world while “coming from” this deeper place of inner peace, appreciation, and love, the outer world changes before you.

The outside is then seen to reflect the inside. There is no longer a division between worlds but an expression of one in the other. You live in the material world but you see it as an effect of a more essential realm.

In the next three days, we’ll talk about three specific actions you can take to bridge the two worlds and experience the infusion of matter with its deeper spiritual essence.

As the great teachers always tell us “you are a spiritual being having a human experience.”

Kevin

Kevin Schoeninger

P.S. This week on Spiritual Growth Monthly we’re practicing a powerful meditation to connect with our Loving Essence and bring that experience into life