The Expression of Your Power
Are you frustrated because you’re stuck somewhere between your current circumstances and your dream, and yet you know you’re capable of accomplishing so much more? The only thing that stands between you and all the good that life can offer – happiness, health, prosperity, wealth – is the expression of your power.
It is uniquely human to dream and to seek greater expression. When relaxed, you have no doubt had mental images of who you see yourself becoming and what you see yourself doing. These visions of beauty are a source of powerful energy that is often suppressed by limiting beliefs or a lack of understanding about your true potential.
As a spiritual being, you have unlimited potential. With a definite vision, firm purpose, steady faith, and deep gratitude there is nothing you can’t accomplish. However, if the results you’re seeing in your life are less than desirable, then one or more of your vision, purpose, faith or gratitude is lacking. What we all need is a good strategy and process for uncovering our limitations and unleashing the full expression of our power.
I developed the Creative Strategic Process (CSP)™ with Bob Proctor to specifically help you to fully express your power. At the heart of our process is an understanding of how your mind works. Your thoughts alone can propel you to incredible success, or bury you alive in your own creation.
Your thoughts consist of conscious thoughts (reasoning and free will) and unconscious thoughts. Your unconscious mind expresses itself through your feelings and actions and is conditioned by past experiences, beliefs, and repeated thoughts. The unconscious mind knows no limits, leaving you acting repetitively on the basis of old, limiting beliefs that undermine your dreams. Your mind is the key that opens or closes the door to success.
William James, a visionary and renowned psychologist said, “Believe and your belief will create the fact.” With this in mind, millionaires take charge of their minds, reducing the “noise” and negative thoughts that inhibit success and focus on thoughts, beliefs, and actions that are the full expression of their power.
To use your mind to fully express your power:
1. Rigorously examine your current thoughts and beliefs, exploring their origins and how they manifest in your life today.
2. Take charge of your mind and your life by eliminating the noise and integrating new beliefs and behaviors into your daily expression.
3. Expand your capacity and create balance in all areas of your life.
Rigorously examine your thoughts and beliefs
Most of our beliefs were learned in childhood from adults or books we trusted. We’ve carried those beliefs into adulthood without questioning their validity. Perhaps you learned that you had to work hard to scrape out a decent living, or that you and your family are inherently unlucky.
These beliefs become ingrained in your unconscious, causing you to feel unlucky, stupid, or inadequate and act accordingly without conscious consideration. We are often controlled by programmed messages about money and our potential that are antiquated and flat out wrong. This cycle that can’t be broken until you begin to understand what you unconsciously believe and why you believe it.
The clue to understanding your predominant beliefs is to examine your current results. For example, you may be struggling to get new clients for your business. The struggle may result from a belief that “I’m not good at marketing”. Marketing feels uncomfortable and your actions, or lack of actions, produce meager results, adding to your beliefs about your limited marketing abilities.
If you’re not getting the results you want, either your beliefs and behaviors are not congruent, or they are congruent and it’s your beliefs that are wrong. To examine your current belief system and reprogram your unconscious, follow this three-step model:
1. First look to your childhood. Describe your early environment and the people who surrounded you. Think about their lifestyle, the kind of work they did, and the messages you received from them about money, success, or your potential.
2. Second, look to your present. What don’t you have that you want? Examine the thoughts that hold you back, and the beliefs that govern those thoughts. For each desire you have, write at least one recurring thought that is holding you back.
3. Third, create an affirming thought that is in alignment with your vision. Begin the affirmation with the words “I am so happy and grateful now that…”, and fill in the rest. Repeat this affirmation to yourself often, regardless of how awkward or ridiculous it may feel.
Take charge of your mind and your life
To take control of your life and properly engage in the creative expression of your power, you must reduce the amount of “noise” in your mind and effectively learn new, more powerful behaviors.
Noise consists of the excuses, blaming, confusion, rationalizing, procrastinating, and distractions that interfere with the results you want. Noise constitutes about 85% of the mental activity of most people. Your goal is to exercise your mind to reverse that ratio. First, examine the nature of your mental activity. When you are confronted with an obstacle, what do you do? What thoughts run through your mind?
These thoughts are a result of the ineffective way most of us were taught. Our learning was based primarily on collecting information, not on the expression of new ideas. We collect information, act on the information, and experience results. Future thoughts, feelings, and actions are then based on the information and results of the past. This is why people often find themselves in familiar, and undesirable, situations around money, work or relationships.
A more effective model for learning involves listening with our minds, bodies, and emotions, learning based on new information, and doing something about it. That is, you consciously entertain a new idea, get emotionally involved with the idea, step out and act on the idea, and experience the new end result. Always stay current by continuously acting immediately on new ideas and new learning. This is what we call experiential learning.
Expand your capacity and create balance in all areas of your life
As you form new, more productive beliefs and reduce the amount of noise you will naturally gain more control over the results you see. Now, you are ready to expand your capacity and create balance. Big ideas and big dreams are what expand your capacity.
Your capacity is your mental ability to conceive or perceive, internalize and act on a concept until it is expressed in material results or circumstances. For example, you conceive of an idea for a new housing development. You perceive and visualize the idea, forming a very clear picture of what you want to create. Internalize the concept, and take consistent actions toward your conceptualized vision until it is expressed in material results, such as the architectural plans or the development itself.
Developing your capacity requires a belief system consistent with a definite vision, firm purpose, steady faith, and deep gratitude. The results you get are always a reflection of your mental capacity, so you are guaranteed bigger results by expanding your capacity.
Two keys to expanding your mental capacity are maintaining a “Motivational Gap” and bringing order to your life.
The Motivational Gap is the psychic bridge that spans the distance between where you are, who you are, and who you see yourself becoming. Like any bridge, if this gap is not engineered properly it will never serve the purpose it was designed to serve. Design your motivational gap by first understanding what really motivates you. You must be motivated to bridge the gap between who you are and who you see yourself becoming. Too large a gap, and you’ll lose steam. Too small a gap, and you’ll lose interest.
To bring order to your life requires that you take responsibility for your thoughts, beliefs and actions. Then, focus on your target, set a clear direction, think and act strategically and with a clear purpose, and make a binding commitment to spend time every day strengthening your mind and mental capacity.
Finally, bring all of this focused attention to all areas of your life. One area that is out of balance will affect all other areas of your life, so it is vitally important to pay attention to your whole life. Money is at the center, or hub of this wheel of life, as it is both effected by and effects each of the spokes.
Living in Freedom
By taking control of your mind and starting from new ideas instead of any present inadequate results you can begin living in freedom. These new ideas create feelings of excitement and expectation that result in inspired actions. The inspired actions produce new results that close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. As you learn from these new experiences, you will continue to grow and create a cycle of wealth from which it is impossible to ever go back.
Expression of Your Power 6 CD and Workbook Set
Teaming up with her longtime mentor and friend, Bob Proctor, Loral designed this interactive audio program to help you explore the concept of Live Out Loud, emphasizing expression vs. suppression of your vision, your purpose, and your beliefs. These 6 CDs and workbook can be yours for only $199. Check it out here >>
This creative strategic process for financial and personal independence and freedom introduces you to:
* The Creative Strategic Process, where better results come from better behavior
* Developing the calmness and relaxed state of those at the top of their game
* Opening up to inspiration, information and power
* Freely and effectively expressing your creativity
* Turning your dreams into a new way of life
* Pursuing the Wealth Cycle with your values and vision firmly intact