Creating Mindset Awareness

4 Steps you can take to help to strengthen your Mindset Awareness in less than 60 seconds!

How to create an awareness of your mindset / thinking patterns and how these may affect emotional, spiritual and physical responses.

We all think constantly, thousands of thoughts can filter through our minds in an hour. When the thoughts are happy, hopeful, nice things we can feel lighter, happier and joyful where as when we are thinking anxiously, reflecting on future fears, or painful life events from the past, we can feel utterly miserable. If we are suffering and in pain, then the pain can dominate everything else.

The following exercise is to simply help to set up an awareness of your thought patterns and will take you less than a minute or two to set up and complete.

You will need a notebook, diary or even just a post it and a pen before you start and just 2 x 2 minute blocks of time a day for a week.

Step 1 Make a declaration that you will take 2 minutes out of your day to do this for a week.

Step 2 Stop what you are doing, sit down, and write for just 30 seconds every thought that arises during that time . Don’t skip anything … don’t judge … don’t analyze.. just write.

Step 3 When your time is up then count - How many thoughts did you have in this 30 seconds ?

Step 4 Read them and notice – how relevant or helpful were they ? If there is something amongst all of these that you feel you need to take action on, highlight it and follow that through, otherwise just notice, and become aware of the types of things that are coming up in your thoughts.

After a week, you may find that you are starting to become more aware of your thought patterns. You may even start to notice how some of your thoughts trigger emotional responses, annoyance, frustrations, stress, physical responses, tapping the pen, tense fingers, foot tapping. You may find that you are no longer having as many thoughts in the 30 seconds and this could be because you may be consciously starting to notice your thinking at other times, not just when you are specifically writing them down.

And that is the purpose of this exercise.

The latest research is now showing that more than 95 % ( even up to 98% ) of what we know lies deep within our subconscious with less than 5 % being in our conscious awareness. Mindset awareness however, can assist us to connect to our silent place, the place where we can slow our thoughts as we breathe, and become more aware of our inner calm, our own deep soul space where the ego of our mind is calmed by the knowing of our hearts hidden power, our spiritual connection to something so much bigger that lies deep within us, but also connects to our Source, our Creator, to the Love of All That Is.

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I've just been updating my Introducing Glo page on this website and as I was doing it I was reminded of why I am doing what I do.

In the past I have often asked myself why I can't just do an 'ordinary job' and live an 'ordinary life'. How and why have I ended up working as a healer, a coach. But then I asked myself - so what is an ordinary life ?

Perhaps my life is as ordinary as everyone else's in some ways and not in others.

My life didn't begin as an ordinary life with the usual joy at the birth of a new baby. I spent my first Christmas in an orphanage or somewhere similar. I'm not entirely sure where. But I was adopted a few months later which was an absolute blessing and helped me to become kind of ordinary for a while. I was so extremely attached to my parents as a little girl, and I was terrified of being away from them. I recall my Mum taking me to Kindergarten and me clinging to her as she tried to leave me, and then taking me back home again promising not to leave me there again. When It came time to start school however there was no choice. I had to go and I had to stay.

I recall my first day, feeling terrified but gradually I began to relax and settled down. I wasn't to know that within a couple of years I would experience deep trauma which would have a huge impact on me for most of my life affecting not just myself but my parents and my future family.

That is why I do what I do now. Because I have found a way through that has helped me to find what I never ever dared to dream was possible.

And I know that there are so many other's who have had lives that haven't always been 'ordinary' either, and if I can help just some to find their way out of the traps of being dominated by the past instead of embracing the present, and creating a magical future then I believe that has to be much more beneficial than being 'ordinary'.

I have found that one of the biggest hurdles we need to get over in life is that of achieving self discovery, self acceptance, self forgiveness, self love.

Without it, we are unable to be truly authentic, to truly know ourselves, our strengths, our weaknesses, and to love ourselves unconditionally.

If we can't love ourselves unconditionally, we will surely struggle to do the same for others and will miss out on experiencing one of the most amazing gifts of this human existence.

We spend our lives growing up with the need to meet the expectations of others, to please, to keep others happy, to follow the rules that are imposed on us. In other words we are trained to look outside of ourselves rather than to look within ourselves.

By looking outside ourselves we find a someone to measure ourselves against. Some have attributes that we wish we had and who can leave us feeling less than them, while others give us the opportunity to stroke our wounded ego as we find we can judge those who leave us feeling more than. It helps us to feel superior when others fall off the wagon or fail at something. “I would never do this, or do that. How could they?”

The news media thrives on feeding us information to keep us outwardly focused. Talk back shows where everyone has their opinion about someone else’s life choices.

One group supports the subject, and another rubbishes it. Yet as long as we are looking outwardly at the events around us, at other peoples choices, we don’t need to have a look at ourselves. At our own strengths and our own weaknesses.

At the end of the day, we are all here on this earth for a finite period to live a very brief life on earth before we leave. From the moment we are born our body is destined to die.

We can spend our whole lifetime focusing on other peoples lives, choices, good and bad.

Or we can spend some time focusing on discovering who we really are, what our deepest strengths are, overcoming the fears and the beliefs that hold us back from achieving the dream that lies deep within our hearts.

Ego will always try to keep us outwardly focused !

Spirit takes us within, to unearth our true identity, our true life purpose, where we can identify our true passion and reason for being alive on this earth at this time for this brief time.

Ego raises the voice of overwhelming Fear. Fear of failure, it creates obstacles, buts, doubts, it get's sad, it gets scared. It rages, it blames, it thrives on self pity, poor me, and can eventually become very angry and destructive.

My own life journey has encompassed so many of these steps. The highs and the lows. But that is ok. That is the journey. It takes nothing away from who I truly am.

Spirit offers us courage and whispers You are not alone, Let go, Trust, and Never Give up !

Hope says There is always a rainbow after a storm, and spring will always follow the darkest coldest winter.

Faith says Yes You Can! You can choose to create what your heart is longing for you to bring into your life.

Love says I Am, I am in you and You are in me and together we can be an almighty and powerful force for change.

Namaste'

Glo