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There are times when our focus goes to the current state of our government, employment and economic issues. It seems difficult to avoid the news stories and not feel affected by what they could mean for our lives personally. So how do you continue to live a passionate life when your mind gets stuck on negative situations or fearful thoughts distract you from a joyful life experience?
What you put your attention on grows stronger in your life.
In The Passion Test book we shared feedback we’ve received from Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mark Waldman, leading neuroscientists, as they describe how the neural connections in our brain are affected when we give attention to a particular belief.
“Putting attention on negative beliefs about yourself or your environment will result in stronger neural connections, and those beliefs, in turn will become more and more true for you. It literally becomes your inner reality, and that, of course, is going to influence the outer reality as well.”
More importantly, they state that the reverse is also true. The more we focus on positive aspects of our life, the stronger the connections and the more true those beliefs become to us. So which would you rather choose? While it may sound easier said than done, it is possible and will dramatically improve your experience of life.
We are all constantly creating our lives out of those things that we put our attention on. If your attention is on all the things you don’t have, all the problems in your life, and all of the bad things that are happening, then you are creating more of that. By putting your attention on joyful, passionate and fulfilling areas of your life, you bring more of the same into your life.
Fear is vividly imagining exactly what you don’t want to happen, happening.
Fear is what causes us to focus on the things we don’t want. If you have ever had those early morning or middle of the night thoughts that you may lose your job, that you won’t have enough money or that you will lose the things that make you feel secure, you can help yourself through it.
We all have habits and you can replace a bad habit with a good one so long as you are willing to make a shift in your thinking and make it stick through repetition. Let’s take a minute now to begin a new habit that will reduce your fears and make you more aligned with a passionate life.
Just for a moment, imagine something you fear happening to you. As soon as you have a clear image of it, say “cancel” aloud and shift your attention to the opposite of that fear. What makes those negative thoughts create fear in you is the belief that what you fear is possible. When you shifted your focus to the opposite, isn’t that just as likely and possible? Just as you shifted your attention, so can you shift your life.
When you culture the habit of shifting your thoughts to positive possibilities, new neural pathways will be created and your experience will change. You may still have some fearful thoughts for a while, but just keep canceling them and replacing them with their opposites.
Start by doing this for an entire day, then commit to working on the shift for an entire week. As more time passes and your ability to cancel out fearful thoughts improves you will see a noticeable difference in your inner and outer reality.
We would love to hear from you so please share your experiences in the comments section below.
As you are working to cancel out fearful thoughts and make the shifts, it always helps to have support with your efforts. That is why we have created weekly lessons and action steps towards living your passionate life with our Passionate Life Secrets program. Take a few minutes now to hear the video in which Janet shares the secret that will guarantee you a passionate life, and then accept her challenge to build your own personal passion habits over the next six months. http://bit.ly/csmpEA
If it has been a while since you took the free Passion Test Profile, or if you have never taken it, now’s the time. Invest 3 minutes to find out how passionate you are, where you are blocked and what you need to do next. http://bit.ly/dehPJZ
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