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The Secret to Success is Stillness

The Success that Comes from Knowing Still Silent Consciousness

Beyond the mind exists a still silent consciousness that holds within it the solution to any mind-made problem. By solution I don’t mean an answer that comes from clever or positive thinking but a way out of the box of the thinking mind altogether.

until I knew still silent awareness and the pristine peace, limitless love, joy and unbounded abundance that it contains, I never felt totally satisfied with the life that I’d worked so hard to build. Always feeling like ‘there must be more to life than this’, I chased goal after goal in the hope that the next tick on the list would bring me true satisfaction. I thought I wasn’t happy yet due to my life not being how I thought it needed to be. I simply hadn’t ever considered that my discontentment could be coming from the fact that I was living lost in my pendulum-like mind – swinging from judgement to judgement – and as a result of this unseen habit, inadvertently missing a huge aspect of my life and my Self.

None of my achievements could ever relieve the eternal itch that something was missing. I was simply looking for fulfilment in places that it couldn’t be found.

No amount of money can buy you the inner peace and connection, fulfilment and happiness that you naturally and immediately experience when engaging present moment awareness. All these wonderful things are built into the fabric of your conscious awareness. Available to you now, no matter how positive or perfected you make your thoughts, emotions, body and life. Does this sound too good to be true? Keep with me and stay open-minded!

Having been involved in this field of work for a decade, I’ve worked with a whole spectrum of individuals; some of them almost broke, others multimillionaires. Irrespective of the size of their bank balances, however, everyone is equal when it comes to having the same abundant awareness living inside them. The richer folk haven’t necessarily been any happier; they’ve just had different problems to deal with. It’s become clear to me that true success is not measured by external means, but by how calm, contented and connected to your real Self you are on the inside.

During this journey to a new way of experiencing your mind, your Self, and life, I hope you will clearly see that the secret to success is stillness.

Miracle or Method?

DISCOVERING THE POWER OF MAKING PEACE WITH THE PAST

A FEW YEARS AGO I WAS INVITED TO WORK AS A THERAPIST ON A DETOX HEALTH RETREAT IN SOUTHERN SPAIN. With no idea of what to expect (at that time I thought detox was only for drug addicts!), I packed my bag and headed off for a week in the sun. It rained heav- ily the entire time! I’m not sure if it was the lack of sun that week or what, but my therapy schedule quickly became fully booked.

In more ways than just the location, I found myself in unfamil- iar territory. Many of the detoxers were investing in their health because they were suffering from physical problems. That week I was to meet people suffering with migraines, irritable bowel syn- drome (IBS), infertility, bulimia, obesity and psoriasis. This meant that not only was I suddenly working in the field of ‘health’, but also, due to my schedule, that I only had a couple of hours with each of them.

A Fortunate Coincidence

Two weeks prior to going to Spain I had been invited to a talk by a specialist in the mind–body connection called Dr David Ham- ilton. During that inspiring talk (come to think of it, on another very wet day, this time just outside Glasgow), he shared many scientific studies that have investigated the power of the mind, including the mind’s ability to heal the body.

With his message springing to the forefront of my own mind that day in Spain, I knew I had to update my therapeutic ap- proach, fast. I suggested to my first client that we explore wheth- er there might be any mental or emotional issues from their past that could be causing their physical problems today. With their agreement we proceeded.

Hmmm, To My Next Question...

I had no idea what to ask! I remember looking down at my blank notebook and then up again to meet the expectant eyes of my client. I decided to keep it simple by asking if there was an event in her life that might be causing her health condition, such that if we were to resolve it, the body would heal.

To both of our amazements, she immediately had an answer; a specific event had just “popped into her mind”. With only a few more questions, we could see a possible link between the past emotional event and the current physical condition. Once we had established the possible cause, we worked on releasing any negative emotions associated with it and the session was done.

The Healing Power Of Peace

Time after time, in session after session, this happened with great success. Over the coming months I regularly witnessed instantaneous remissions from health conditions; I saw skin conditions clear up, chronic pain vanish, and digestion prob- lems disappear, to name but a few. Along with this, I also witnessed the healing of many other emotional issues and life problems – all from helping people to make peace with their past.

Lucky Break

News about my method, which by this point was becoming known as “Mind Detox”, then spread internationally when I was shown on three separate television series documenting people going through a mind–body detox retreat. The TV exposure and subsequent book deals led to the opportunity of working with hundreds of people at my clinics, workshops and retreats around the world.

It’s a Miracle! (Or Is It?)

Over time I became curious. Was I bearing witness to miracles? Was I some kind of gifted healer? Or had I simply stumbled across a method of healing that could be transferable and used by others?

For the next year I started using the same therapeutic ques- tions when working with clients at my clinics and retreats. Very quickly it became clear that the power of the method was the method itself, and the possibility of training others was real. Soon after I had realized this, I ran my first Mind Detox Mas- terclass and Practitioner Certification Course and started train- ing people from around the world via my academy.

Using the Mind Detox Method to Heal

The Mind Detox Method is a very effective way to discover and heal the hidden causes of physical, emotional and life problems. Quite simply, if something negative is happening in your body or your life and you don’t know why, then this method can help. By making peace with your past, chronic stress is reduced, allow-ing the body to heal, and by clearing your self-limiting beliefs, you can use your mind as the incredible tool that it is to create the life you want. It’s a genuine win-win. So be courageous and go for it. The possibilities are truly infinite!

Your Body Is Not Against You

Symptoms most people consider to be physical problems can in fact be your body’s best attempt at staying alive.

SURVIVAL IS THE PRIMARY GOAL OF THE HUMAN BODY. It is not designed to just break, malfunction or get “sick” without good reason. Instead it is constantly doing everything in its power to adapt to, and sur- vive, the inner and outer conditions it is experiencing during daily life. This happens because your body follows the orders given to it by your mind. More specifically, the individual cells that make up your body are so intelligent they are constantly adjusting them- selves to the environment in which they think they exist.

Adapting to the Chemical Climate

It works like this: your mind interprets whatever is happening in the external environment and then your brain re- leases chemical messengers of your thoughts (neuropeptides) into the blood, which tell the cells what adjustments they need to make in order to best survive the perceived environment. So, in the same way you would adapt to a change in the weather when it rains by putting a rain jacket on, your indi- vidual cells adapt to their chemical climate and the different chemical messengers they are flooded with on a daily basis. Your mind–body is communicating this way now. The millions of cells that make up your body are listening to your mind and re- sponding accordingly. This means that if you are, for example, be- ing loving, your heart is quite literally experiencing love. If you feel unsupported, your knees feel it physically. Or if you’re feeling fear, your entire body is on physical red alert, with the fight-or-flight response working overtime. Physical symptoms are often highly symbolic of issues at the mind level; the body does a brilliant job of speaking the mind.

LET’S EXPLORE Your Body Speaks Your Mind Consider how your body may be speaking your mind through the creation of your current physical condition. Just for now, let go of any medical labels you may have been given, and instead, explore the physical condition from a fresh perspective. Very useful ques- tions to consider are:

What is happening within my body, i.e. what is my body actually doing?

How might the physical conditions be an attempt to adapt, be safe and/or survive my past or current life circumstances?

If the physical condition was trying to send a symbolic message to me, what might it be saying?

If the physical condition was a negative emotion, what emotion would it be?

How might my body be mirroring my life?

Taking account of what’s happened in my life, how might my body today be a physical manifestation of my past?

What was happening in my life during the 12–18 months leading up to when I first noticed the physical condi- tion? What bad things were happening? What good things were happening? What problematic situation was resolved?

This is an awareness-raising exercise; it gives you the opportunity to explore whether there may be any possible mind-based causes for your physical condition. If you think you’ve found a possible cause, then hopefully the rest of this book can help you take positive steps towards self-healing.

Resistance is bad for your health

RESISTING LIFE IS A BIG HIDDEN CAUSE OF PAIN, NEGATIVE EMOTIONS AND HARMFUL FORMS OF STRESS.

The Result of Regular Resistance

Although short bouts of stress can actually boost immunity and raise levels of cancer-fighting molecules, being in a perpetual state of stress is a very different story. Your body ends up turning off long-term building-and-repair projects, and instead speeds up the aging process and weakens its immunity. Not only that, numerous scientific studies have also found evidence that firmly links negative emotions with the onset of arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and other problems.

According to Stanford University Medical School, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta (CDC) and numerous health experts, the main cause of health problems on the planet is stress. Pointing to one very simple strategy for self-healing: To increase health, we must reduce stress.

The Root Cause of Stress

However, in my opinion it is neither the stress nor negative emotions that are the ultimate cause of many physical and emotional problems. Rather, it’s a person’s resistance to life that is the problem. Resistance not only causes the body stress but is also highly instrumental in whether or not a person feels negative emotions.

Experiencing anger, sadness, fear, guilt or grief is only possible if you resist something in your past, present or future. Anger or sadness is usually the result of resisting something in your past, whereas resisting the possibility of something bad happening in the future usually causes fear and anxiety. Irrespective of the emotion, resistance is the underlying cause.

What makes things worse for the body is the fact that most people would prefer to not experience negative emotions, and so end up resisting not only life but their emotions too! I often see this leading to a never-ending vicious circle of a person resisting more and more day by day, putting their body under ever-increasing levels of stress. No wonder this compounded stress often ends up with people experiencing physical disease!

Fortunately, it is never life events that cause you stress or make you feel bad, but rather your resistance to what’s happened/happening. Which ultimately means that you have a choice. If you can learn to let go of resistance, you can massively reduce stress and persistent negative emotions. They can be immediately replaced by feelings of inner peace, gratitude and contentment; which are, incidentally, emotions that have all been found to aid the healing process.

Extract from HEAL THE HIDDEN CAUSE (Findhorn Press)

The Ultimate Love Affair

How do you know you have a mind? You are aware of it, right?

By that rationale, within you now exists a mind and something that is aware of your mind. This book is about becoming much more interested in, and attentive to, the conscious awareness that is aware of your mind, instead of going to any great lengths to fix, change, manage, manipulate or improve it. Mind Calm gives you a new relationship with your Self, which can be the determining factor in whether you experience what can be described as a hellish life, full of stress, struggle and suffering, or quite literally nirvana now.

Conscious awareness is still, silent, spacious, peace-filled presence; it is not otherworldly, but as real as you can get. Consciousness is the calm context of every thought, feeling, action and circumstance in your life – whether they appear to be positive or negative. Knowing and directly experiencing the conscious awareness that is present within you is the silent solution to any stressful situation that you may be facing and the secret to enjoying a truly successful life; free from fear, problems and limitations.

Full of potential, creativity, happiness, and grace, getting to know the conscious awareness residing within you offers the ultimate love affair – oneness with your Self.

What if you are not what you think?

ARE YOU HAVING AN IDENTITY CRISIS?

One of the main reasons why so many people miss out on the exquisite experience of their conscious awareness is that they’re having an identity crisis. Quite simply, they think they are someone or something they’re not. They think they are the voice in their head and, as a result, rely on what it says too heavily for defining who they are and what they’re capable of. They think they are what they are feeling emotionally. They think they are their body, having identified with it from an early age. Or they think they are their relationship status, job title, religious affiliation or the long list of other labels that they’ve found to help define who they are.

It is normal to be on the search to find meaning from all of the potential sources listed above. Whether aware of it or not, there’s a big chance that you, too, have been exploring the answer to life’s big question: Who am I? Without guidance it is extremely easy to fall into the understandable assumption of thinking that you are the temporary and transient traits that so many others think they are, too:

I must be the voice in my head because it sounds like me.

I must be my emotions because I feel them inside me so intimately.

I must be my body because it’s been with me since I was born.

I must be my job title because that’s what I tell people I am when asked what I do.

I must be my relationship status because my marriage certificate says so.

I must be my religion because it is what I believe in so strongly.

The list goes on and on. But none of these things are ultimately you. Yes, they contribute to your personality and what you tend to do with your day, but that does not make them you. Why? They are all temporary, come and go and change. Therefore attempting to find your Self in these transient labels is a bit like trying to stay still in the ocean without an anchor. It’s not going to work and you’ll find yourself drifting. Moving from one mental construct to another can be very confusing – not to mention highly stressful – if you attempt to define who you are from the things in your life that constantly change and are, to a large extent, outside your immediate control.

What if you are not who or what you think? Are you willing to explore a new way of perceiving and experiencing your Self?

The Secret to Success is Stillness

The Success that Comes from Knowing Still Silent Consciousness

Beyond the mind exists a still silent consciousness that holds within it the solution to any mind-made problem. By solution I don’t mean an answer that comes from clever or positive thinking but a way out of the box of the thinking mind altogether.

until I knew still silent awareness and the pristine peace, limitless love, joy and unbounded abundance that it contains, I never felt totally satisfied with the life that I’d worked so hard to build. Always feeling like ‘there must be more to life than this’, I chased goal after goal in the hope that the next tick on the list would bring me true satisfaction. I thought I wasn’t happy yet due to my life not being how I thought it needed to be. I simply hadn’t ever considered that my discontentment could be coming from the fact that I was living lost in my pendulum-like mind – swinging from judgement to judgement – and as a result of this unseen habit, inadvertently missing a huge aspect of my life and my Self.

None of my achievements could ever relieve the eternal itch that something was missing. I was simply looking for fulfilment in places that it couldn’t be found.

No amount of money can buy you the inner peace and connection, fulfilment and happiness that you naturally and immediately experience when engaging present moment awareness. All these wonderful things are built into the fabric of your conscious awareness. Available to you now, no matter how positive or perfected you make your thoughts, emotions, body and life. Does this sound too good to be true? Keep with me and stay open-minded!

Having been involved in this field of work for a decade, I’ve worked with a whole spectrum of individuals; some of them almost broke, others multimillionaires. Irrespective of the size of their bank balances, however, everyone is equal when it comes to having the same abundant awareness living inside them. The richer folk haven’t necessarily been any happier; they’ve just had different problems to deal with. It’s become clear to me that true success is not measured by external means, but by how calm, contented and connected to your real Self you are on the inside.

During this journey to a new way of experiencing your mind, your Self, and life, I hope you will clearly see that the secret to success is stillness.

Seven Self-Healing Secrets

In chapter 2 of HEAL THE HIDDEN CAUSE: Using the 5-Step Mind Detox Method (Findhorn Press), I share SEVEN SELF-HEALING SECRETS... Here's a quick summary: Self-Healing Secret No.1 - Your Body is Your Mind Evidence of the mind can be found throughout your entire body, meaning that it is scientifically accurate to say that your body is a physical manifestation of your mind. As a result, your physical well- ness is very much linked with your mental and emotional well-being. Self-Healing Secret No.2 - Your Beliefs Become Your Body Beliefs impact upon how you relate to your life, and therefore the stress you experience. Your beliefs also determine the messages sent between the mind and the body, which in turn can impact upon the body’s physical functioning. Self-Healing Secret No.3 - Your Body is Not Against You Symptoms many people consider to be physical problems are often in fact your body’s best attempt at adapting to survive. By changing how you perceive life, your body can adapt again, this time by starting to function in a more desirable way. Self-Healing Secret No.4 - Regular Resistance is Bad for Your Health Chronic stress, caused by chronic resistance, is a major cause of problems. By learning to resist life less, you give your body more opportunities to rest and heal. Self-Healing Secret No.5 - Cure the Hidden Root-Cause Reasons By changing your unconscious unhealthy beliefs you can help your body heal, let go of stored emotional baggage, change unhelpful behaviours and enjoy enhanced well-being. Self-Healing Secret No.6 - Unhealthy Beliefs Can be Easy to Heal It is a myth that beliefs are hard to heal. Beliefs can be changed because they are never absolutely true, are fuelled by feelings not facts and are based upon limited and often wrong information. With new insight you can come to new conclusions any time you want. Self-Healing Secret No.7 - Being Present Helps the Body to Heal Much physical stress arises from thinking about the past and future. To be present is to be beyond your mind, resting in the still conscious awareness that is your Real Self. When the mind rests, the body heals. Naturally, you enjoy better health, more peace of mind and more happiness. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Heal-The-Hidden-Cause-Method/dp/1844096149/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388225805&sr=8-1&keywords=heal+the+hidden+cause

13 things 2013 has taught me

1. Be in harmony with ‘what is’ – even if you don’t always like it

- By far the quickest way to enjoy more peace and love is to stop resisting life.

This year I got to see more clearly that I can either resist people, places, events or things in my life or be in harmony with what is. It’s become very obvious that when I resist life I experience tension, stress, discomfort and negative emotions, and when I rest into being in harmony with what the moment brings, I enjoy immediate calm, contentment, love and engage in a delicious dance with life that reveals the majestic grace within which everything constantly occurs.

2. Say ‘Yes’ to intuitive impulses - even if you don’t always know why

- Doing one thing always leads to the next thing and the next thing is often why you did the first thing!

This year I began by launching a form of meditation called Mind Calm and then went on co-created a technique called the ReAwakening Protocol. Initially I had my doubts about whether I should be offering either of them, but it ended up leading to a meeting with Hay House publishing, who then offered me a book deal that I’d wanted for 10 years. I’ve also witnessed such beautiful transformations within the people I’ve taught the techniques too that it is now very evident why I needed to offer these two new methods.

3. Say ‘No’ – even if the person you’re saying no to might not like it

- Although the other person might not initially like hearing no, it doesn’t serve them either if you say yes to things not aligned with your heart.

This year I said ‘no’ to moving into a new place that on paper and with limited options available seemed like the thing that I ‘should’ do. However, when I said ‘no’ to what didn’t feel quite right, I then found the perfect place to live that ticks all the boxes and is a joy to be.

4. Face challenges by giving your best - even if you don’t see the point

- Some tasks seem so high and mighty that they appear to be out of reach, however, you can never go wrong if you give it the best with whatever you’ve got.

This year I had 7 weeks to write the first draft of my new book – staring at the blank screen with tens of thousands of words to write, I learnt what it means to raise to a challenge, despite my mind saying it was an impossible task.

5. Reach out before running out - even if you don’t want to ask for help

- It is easy to get into the cycle of trying to do everything yourself that you don’t see when the universe is trying to give you a helping hand – reach out before you run out of resources.

Being willing to accept help has been a big deal for me. I’ve always wanted to be self-sufficient, not need to rely on others and be independently successful. I’ve discovered though that all successful people are really good at sharing the responsibilities and by letting others help it actually brings joy to their lives that you would have deprived them of if you didn’t include them in the fun.

6. Be humble when your wrong – even if you don’t like not being right

- Allowing yourself to be wrong and being gentle on yourself when you are can turn conflict into clarity and an embarrassing situation into an enlightening one.

This year I learnt that my judgements towards some people were totally off and as a result of being willing to be wrong, I’ve made better friends and massively enhanced the levels of my inner peace, love and joy.

7. Be willing to step up - even if it feels scary and you want to shy away

- The universe is always encouraging you to evolve and be more than what you have been. Accept the invitation to be more.

This year I learnt that it is tempting to move away from things that are unfamiliar, apparently outside your capabilities and you might fail at. However, if you trust the universe will only ever bring you what you are capable of being a success in then you might surprise yourself as to just how amazing you really are.

8. Think abundantly to live abundantly – even if life looks limited at times

- Rather than focusing on how you can save, focus on how you can create.

This year I spent the summer in California when I was writing my new book. After 10 days I discovered I’d spent most of the budget for the summer (!!!) and started thinking about ways to save. However, then another choice dawned on me that I’d never considered before – if I require more money then I just need to make more. This lead to new ideas for new ways to serve that I would have never thought of before with a more limited and lacking mindset.

9. Look for the best in others – even if on the surface they appear bad

- Everyone is unique and special and if you ignore or judge people to soon you miss out on seeing the seed potential in other blossom into brilliance.

This year I learnt to give time and attention to everyone that crosses my path. Instead of rushing by the beauty of the beings I meet and hang out with, it has led to a greater appreciate of humanity in general.

10. Be happy where you are – even if you wants you to be somewhere else

- You are always where you need to be to learn what you need to learn and make the impact you are here to make.

This year I’ve learnt that it was a habit of mine to believe the grass was greener somewhere else. Almost like there was a party happening in another place and I wasn’t invited! However, having seen this previously unseen thought I have played with being content wherever I am. This has led to a deeper peace within myself and a wonderful connection with the places and people I’m with that I had previously missed.

11. Don’t be a loner – even if you think you’d prefer to go it alone

- Although we are all one, it is more fun to share the oneness with others.

This year I’ve learnt at a deeper level the importance of surrounding yourself with a group of likeminded, inspiration individuals and set thing up in your life that encourages regular connection. For example, I’ve recently added a ‘meditation countdown’ to my website so that even if I’m not around fellow meditators, we can all meditate at the same time. Check it out.

12. Close your eyes often – even if you mind says you’re too busy to meditate

- Meditation helps you to be present and fully show up for life so it’s even more important during periods when time appears to be limited.

Due to the health and wellbeing benefits of meditation, I’d suggest that regular practice is up there in importance with eating, drinking and sleeping. You wouldn’t dream of not making time in your day to eat, drink and sleep, so why would you deprioritize meditation? Living without present moment awareness, you risk missing your day because you are distracted by your mind. You risk rushing around, from one thing to the next, while never fully enjoying and experiencing the precious life you’ve got. I highly recommend you fit your day around meditation instead of trying to fit meditation into your day. This shift in priorities is the level of commitment you need to transform your relationship with your minlifed, for good.

13. Keep going – even if you don’t know how you’re going to get ‘there’

- ‘There’ is here so the only time you can do anything is right now. If you keep going you massively increase the likelihood of you getting what you want.

Commitment turns the possibility of you getting what you want into an inevitability. If you commit to persist until you success it allows for no if’s but’s or maybe’s and leads to a one-pointed focuses that is incredibly powerful!

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