It’s no secret that we are living in a very challenging time in the history of the world. At times it can feel quite hopeless. With that hopelessness can come a whole plethora of other emotions like sadness, despondency, anxiety, fear and anger.

Here are 4 Powerful Ways To Process Your Anger In Turbulent Times

Personally, I have felt most of these emotions regularly lately, and still do at many moments throughout my day to day life. I live in Sydney, Australia and I have been in lockdown for almost 10 weeks. I have felt the energy of anger moving in me many, many times throughout the ups and downs of the past year and a half since the Covid19 pandemic began. 

This isn’t an article about the pandemic though. This is an article about being human. I want to talk about anger – a human emotion often misunderstood and labelled as ‘negative’. 

Why do we do that? Why do we label some emotions as ‘good’ and others as ‘bad’? Emotions are neither. They just are.

What can be challenging is the behaviour that comes from an inability to be with our emotions. This can mean we express them in ways that are harmful to ourselves or others.

4 Powerful Ways To Process Your Anger In Turbulent Times

Many of us have not learned how to correctly process our emotions in life. This can lead to the suppression of those emotions. 

Suppression is particularly common with the emotions that we perceive as painful, or those that we feel unsafe to confront – perhaps because we fear being judged or even outcast by our peers, friends or even our family.

This can happen to both men and women. Suppression of anger for women could be due to a woman not wanting to seem “too emotional” or even “crazy”. For men, they are labelled as weak for expressing emotions – the saying “man up” comes to mind.

This conditioning is more damaging than any emotion.

And here’s the other thing. Emotions are smart – they know what’s what and they do not appreciate being ignored. Emotions (aka the wisdom of the body) are so smart they will even allow you to THINK you have pushed them away – at least for a while. 

Eventually, though, those emotions you tried to hide from that are intimately connected with the deep wisdom of your physiology, will show up in your life. 

It could be hours, months or even many years after an event.

Suppressed emotions or trauma can show up in many different ways, such as physical illness, mental illness and even as an excess of whichever emotion that was suppressed.

So now that we understand the importance of processing our emotions – how do we do it?

Well, each emotion is different – and each human being is different, too. We all process emotions in different ways. These are the ways that have helped me.

4 Powerful Ways To Process Your Anger In Turbulent Times

1- Therapy.

If you don’t first know that you have trapped emotions, or where they come from, how will you ever know to start processing them? If you are reading this article, you have some idea that you have anger and that you need to process it.

Speaking with a qualified counsellor or therapist can be powerful in helping you to uncover where your anger stems from so that you can set about learning to process it healthily.

2- Movement.

When emotions are trapped in our physical body we need to use our body to move them through us. There are many ways to do this. One way I love is perhaps a little surprising – it’s dancing! Yep, when I feel like there is some anger I need to let go of I put on some music and shake it out like nobody’s watching. It is incredibly therapeutic.

I have also found boxing to be helpful. Using my hands to punch through my anger was cathartic. And as an added benefit, it’s awesome cardio.

3 – Setting Healthy Boundaries.

Whatever your emotions are in a given moment are a message from your body. Sometimes that message is letting you know that a boundary of yours has been crossed. Boundaries are what separates you and your feelings from that of another person.

When you feel a boundary has been crossed – be that through a disrespectful comment or someone crossing a line physically with you, emotions will show up to let you know.

Learning to determine what your boundaries are and setting them with the people around you allows you to better understand yourself and your relationship to the world around you.

4 – Acceptance. 

This one is probably the toughest of all – and perhaps the most important. Your feelings matter. Read that again.

Whatever you have been told by those around you or even perhaps from the nasty inner critic, you are important and your experiences are real. Learning to accept yourself in all of your emotional glory is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.

Feeling anger isn’t bad. Emotions are the messengers of the body. When we learn to deal with them in healthy ways, they can help us to evolve closer to the truth of who we truly are.

The post 4 Powerful Ways To Process Your Anger In Turbulent Times appeared first on Fearless Soul - Inspirational Music & Life Changing Thoughts.

This Is Why We Suffer (and This Is How We End Suffering)

Speaker: Peter Crone

Transcript – Peter Crone on Suffering and How To End Our Own Internal Suffering:

The way life occurs to us is that there’s always somewhere to get to, until you realize that there isn’t

…Similarly suffering is always present until we realize that there isn’t suffering. And that to me is the beauty of the human experience.

So, suffering is unavoidable by virtue of we’re here, but nonetheless, the opportunity, the possibility that it is to be human is to transcend suffering.

And it’s such a beautiful design again, because if it weren’t for the previous suffering, we don’t get to experience the latter freedom.

As an adult, I got to see myself in a picture and all black and white of me as a child and my cute little onesy, whatever it is running with my arms out, my mother is sort of very gently ushering me from behind. So you can see that she’s sort of directing me towards somebody who you can’t see because they’re off camera. They’re out of frame from the picture. But I know because of the setting, it was set at a Harbor at a dock where the boat had just, you know, come to birth and we’ve probably come off the boat and I’m running towards my dad because my dad worked on the boats. And as I looked at that photo and it’s this whole black and white, and this adorable little child, which you know, is running towards his father, who he loves his dad. And what had occurred to me is at that moment, one of the most important parts of love is the energy of missing somebody.

We often think that love is I’m with someone I’m sharing a dinner with them, I’m going to bed with them, or it could be a family member who I’m living with or I’m sharing time with constantly. But that denies the flip side of the same coin, which is one of the most beautiful aspects of love is what feels like the absence of the experience of love. And we can call that missing somebody… and why it was so profound for me is to see that little child run towards his dad with the excitement of the fact that for a minute, for minutes, maybe a day, maybe a week, it could be longer…. We experience the separation from that, which we love.

And if it weren’t for the experience of separation, we would not appreciate the joy of love.

And so why I use that example as it relates to suffering and freedom is because separation is hurtful, it’s painful, and that is suffering. And in this case, suffering is where we become separate from the knowledge, from the true wisdom of our true essence, whilst freedom is the remembrance and the awakening to the essence of who I am at my core, which is freedom.

So the two are inextricably connected and simultaneously necessary in order to experience one or the other.

If it weren’t for the experience of missing, I don’t get to go to the depths of the joy of love and equally, if it weren’t for the pain and the seeming inconvenience of human suffering, then I wouldn’t get to experience the elation and the joy of liberation that is true freedom.

When you really understand that dynamic…. it’s so beautiful to see the duality of everything. And I would actually take it a little deeper, which is to say the freedom really is the container. Like the love is the container that holds both.

We have the joy and we have the misery, we have the happiness and we have the sadness. And this is where if we can be big enough, expanded enough as human beings that we make space for all of it… it would be as nonsensical.

You know, for people who think they just want to be positive and happy, that is like asinine. It would be like me saying, no, no, no. All I want to do is inhale. Cause that’s so good. You get oxygen. If you’re like, what the hell? Like if it weren’t for the fact that I get to exit and let go of, you know, in this case, obviously physiologically biologically the toxins of carbon dioxide and stuff that no longer serves me because it’s already served its purpose in my body. Then I wouldn’t get the joy of having that cyclical process of inhale exhale that keeps me alive.

So similarly, the actual nature of duality, both parts are flip sides of the same coin that are an inherent experience of being human. And the degree to which we can embrace both is the degree to which we are truly free to allow all aspects of what it means to be human.

So suffering is really one aspect, but it is an aspect where there is ultimately a form of ignorance. And I don’t mean that as a judgment. I mean, it truly, in the fact that we don’t know something.

We suffer because we don’t know how extraordinary we are. We suffer because we don’t know that we actually are loved. We don’t, we suffer because we don’t feel safe. And it is in that ignorance than not knowing the absence of knowledge that we suffer.

And the process of awakening is realizing, Oh, these are lies. And as I transcend lie, I expand into my bigger nature, which then is the experience of liberation, which is contained in the safety that we are held and beneficiaries of life, because we are fundamentally loved.

The way I look at it is that this dimension that we are in as human beings to me is a revelatory dimension. What does that mean? Life will reveal where you yourself, as a being do not experience freedom.

Life will present you with people and circumstances to reveal where you’re not free.

So why is that a completely different perspective or different way of looking at the experience of life? Because most people are playing the human game. What is the human game they’re trying to accumulate, right? Accumulation of status, accumulation of possessions, accumulation of finance. And they’re trying to play the game of I’m becoming a better human by virtue of what I have usually… now that’s not wrong, but it’s also, to me, it’s a powerless game to play.

Whereas the awakening process of who I am as a being who is limitless, who is in its infancy and its true inherent nature, nothing but love peace, power, freedom.

That is to me, the game, that’s really at foot for human beings. That is the opportunity that it is to be a human is to awaken to the true essence of who I am rather than being defined by the persona that has been conditioned over time. That is now founded in the essence of survival. That is two entirely different approaches to the human experience. One is linear and one is vertical, right? So linear is okay, hopefully over time I’m going to improve. I got a promotion, I got a corner office. I got a bigger home. I’ve got a nicer car. I’ve got a little bit more money. That is, you know, there’s again, no judgment, but it is a futile dead end method of trying to find internal value by using external and exogenous means to bring some sense of worth.. versus discovering. Wow. My inherent nature is freedom.

My inherent nature is love. My inherent nature is peace and life is constantly giving me the opportunity to awaken to those qualities by virtue of presenting to me ironically, where I don’t experience that.

So that’s why, again, I said, life will present you with people and circumstances to reveal where you’re not free.

We often look as those circumstances as frustrating as things we don’t want, but that’s precisely why they’re being given to us because we’ve yet to see how powerful and extraordinary we are that we have yet to integrate those experiences and see that I can truly be with whatever is occurring and maintain my inner sense of peace and freedom and love.

We arrive as beings, but shrouded in constraint, we arrive as souls, but constrained by fear and the game of this particular dimension of planet earth and being human is Oh, awesome. We are set here so that we can reveal where we are confined, constrained and have some sense of separation and limitation. And so life is the process of sloughing by virtue of these trials and tribulations. And these sort of confronting circumstances really is a form of resistance, which just like polishing a diamond is allowing us to recognize where we still feel constrained or we arrived with our bucket of fears. And as I say, you know, the “ winner of the game” is who can get rid of their fears the the fastest, not that there is any urgency, but we could say, and I would assert the true liberation and true freedom, which is my main product is when we have confronted all of the fears that we arrived with to recognize that in fact, there is nothing to fear itself whatsoever. And that was always just a narrative that was part of our persona or our ego. That was just simply the cocoon in which we found we needed to live in order to stay safe. When in fact it’s quite the antithesis of that, which is true. Security is when I no longer need the illusion of external security.

If the experience I have with another person is of some form of disharmony, of judgment of hostility. Then that really is a reflection of what’s going on inside of me.

So as I say, as we express, so we experience, right. So if I’m expressing anger towards whoever or whatever the circumstance may be, then I am experiencing anger, right? So this, this water travels through say a garden hose. If the garden hose was sent in today, I had a feeling internally, it would feel the passage of the water when it was cold or hot, or how fast it’s moving. So likewise as we express our emotional state, we’re under the impression that it’s by virtue of what’s going on outside of us, but whether it is or not in terms of our interpretation when nonetheless experiencing all of that.

So then why wouldn’t I, if I know that correlation, if I’m, if I’m actually aware of that formula, then why wouldn’t I, wherever possible, bring an experience of love and joy to whoever it might be, because then I’m equally the beneficiary of it. And this is why exercises like gratitude journals or going and being a volunteer and being of service to a community feels good. Why does it feel good? Because what I’m actually doing is I’m bringing the experience of my true self is what I would have saw and I’m sharing to another, I’m giving to another. And therefore I am equally the beneficiary of my own active contribution.

You know, Einstein said, you either, you look at the universe in one of two ways, everything is a miracle or nothing’s a miracle, right? And so really when you get, we are beneficiaries of life, even though again, I’ve been through a ton of what felt like unnecessarily hardship that at the time, my little persona was like, I don’t want this. This sucks, but really in hindsight is often the case we’ve recognized. Wow. If it weren’t for those events, if it weren’t for those hardships, then I wouldn’t have discovered that expansiveness of what I’ve just stepped into and why I use the expression that smooth seas never made a good sailor, right? So we need adversity itself is the catalyst for growth. It is. Life is the greatest teacher by virtue of the fact that it gives us challenges so that it can, as I said earlier, slough off anything that is confining us, anything that is holding us back a constraint that is in some way, limiting ourself expression, we need some resistance to get rid of that.

And that is at times a very difficult pill to swallow, but it is nonetheless the catalyst to discover that really we are held eternally.

It’s like the metaphor of the image of these trapeze artists, right? The experience for anybody who goes up on a trapeze from the perspective of the ego is fear. If there’s no net, right? You, you would feel such trepidation of letting go of the trapeze bar to transition maybe to your partner and be caught in the absence of knowing there was some safety net and that’s the ego’s experiences. It goes through life. It feels that at any turn its existence is in potential danger. Everything can come across as a potential threat, and that’s an exhausting place to live from.

Conversely, if we can tap into this deeper essence of understanding the nature of life and particularly the nature of who we are, then at every turn, there is always a safety net. It might not feel like it, but we can drop, we can fall. We can miss the grip of the partners. We transitioned from trapeze bar to trapeze bar and it’s okay. And that we could say our errors and mistakes are failures and it’s okay.

The post Peter Crone: This Is Why We Suffer (and This Is How We End Suffering) appeared first on Fearless Soul - Inspirational Music & Life Changing Thoughts.

Deepak Chopra – You Suffer Because You Don’t Know Who You Are (Amazing Speech)

Transcript Deepak Chopra Interview with Tom Bilyeu

So, suddenly I saw the connection between mind, body, and spirit. But then I was also actually intrigued by the fact that you can have two patients who had the same illness, saw the same doctor, got the same treatment, and had completely different outcomes. One could survive, one could die. And in between, there was a wide range of outcomes.

And it did give me the insight that our normal everyday experience or what we call reality is the hypnosis of social conditioning that actually in reality shifts as your consciousness shifts.

A correlation is not a causation as we know. If the rooster crows in the morning, and the sun rises at the same time, we don’t assume that the rooster cause the sun to rise, okay? But they’re correlated. So your mind, your brain, and the physical world are correlated experiences in a deeper realm of existence, which is not in space or time.

The purpose of all healers and ultimately, of all physicians should be to alleviate suffering. Now, we’ve done a pretty good job with alleviating what we call suffering that had cause acute illness. You break your leg, you get an orthopedic surgeon to fix it. You get pneumonia, you take an antibiotic. So we’ve done a good job on what we call the physicalist level for acute illness. But then there’s something called chronic illness diabetes type II, inflammation, cancer, heart disease, autoimmune illness, accelerated aging, propensity to infections, and we haven’t done a good job there.

Because what we are realizing right now that only 5% of disease-related gene mutations are fully penetrant, which means they guarantee the disease. 95% of gene mutations that cause illness are related to lifestyle. Sleep, managing stress, and whether you mediate or not, you exercise or not, maybe you do yoga or not, breathing techniques, the quality of your emotions, nutrition, personal relationships, social interactions, environment, connection with nature influence your gene activity. We call it epigenetics.

Let’s say you got rid of all chronic illness and acute illness. Would humans still suffer? And the answer is yes because unlike other species, we have something, which is actually quite bizarre, it’s called existential suffering.

We wonder why we exist. We wonder why we get old and can we prevent that? We wonder why we get infirm and lose our memories as we get old. Can we prevent that? But we also are afraid of death. Can we prevent that? And the answer is biological death is based on a false premise, which is you are your biology. And you are your body and your mind. You are not your body, you are not your mind, you are not the experience of the world.

You are the consciousness in which all this experience occurs. To observe a thought is to know that you are not a thought. To observe an emotion is to know that you are not the emotion. To observe the body is to know that you are not this bundle of sensations and perceptions.

So who are you? What is it that knows a thought? What is it that knows a perception, the color red? Is there a color red anywhere in the physical universe, or is it just an experience? I guarantee you no scientist can tell you that the color red exists as a physical entity in the universe. It’s an experience in human consciousness, not in the consciousness of a bat who doesn’t see colors but experiences the echo of ultrasound. So what is the color red to a bat?

When you realize that everything you thought was real is not real, when you also realize that who you think you are is not real, or when you realize that all your name, your form, and everything you see is provisional to things happen to some people they have immediate, what we could only metaphorically call, the dark night of the soul. They go into a deep depression because everything they thought was real is no longer real, including their own name, form, body, and mind. Some people cross that threshold and discover Nirvana or enlightenment. And they say, “Wow, I thought I was squeezed into the volume of a body in the span of a lifetime, but I’m a timeless being that can morph myself into any experience including the human experience, which is amazing.

But the human experience is also that which causes existential depression. So the causes of human suffering, since you brought it up, are brought up are brought up in Eastern wisdom traditions as, number one, you suffer because you don’t know who you are. You confuse yourself with your body, mind, experience.

Number two, you grasp and cling at experiences which are evanescent and transitory and dream-like. You say, what happened to your childhood? It’s over. What happened to yesterday? It’s over. What happened to five minutes ago? It’s over. What happens to these words by the time you hear them? They don’t exist. So Wittgenstein, the German philosopher said, “We are asleep, our life is a dream, but once in a while we wake up enough to know that we are dreaming.”

So what do you wake up to when you cross this threshold? You wake up to your true self, which is not body or mind but the awareness in which that experience is happening. So grasping and clinging at a dream is the second cause of human suffering.

The third is being afraid of anything that’s unpleasant. Pain, abandonment, being treated by someone not respectfully. So there’s a version to certain experiences. Third cause of suffering.

Fourth is identifying, which is related to your ego identity. And fifth is the fear of death. Now they’re all connected. They’re all the same fear and they are not knowing who you are. This is the biggest question that humans, or everybody should be asking. Who am I? What am I?

Am I the changing experience of this body, which is a perceptual activity. Am I the experience of the changing mind or the changing personality? But then you don’t have the same personality when you were a kid or maybe even 10 years ago. What is it at the basis of this? When you start that reflective self-inquiry, ask yourself: Who am I? What do I want? What is my purpose? What am I grateful for? Going to the stillness of the meditation you have what wisdom traditions have called revelation. Revealed truth.

Now, that sounds very grand. I would say just call it insight. Meditation, mindfulness, awareness of body, awareness of mind, awareness of mental space. Awareness of the web of relationship, awareness of that which we call the universe. It leads you, ultimately, to the awareness of awareness. And when you discover that, that’s nirvana.

Is there anything behind consciousness? No. Now, everyday experience is modified consciousness. So right now what you’re experiencing is what we call the waking state of consciousness, okay. What do you mean by that? The awareness that I’m aware? No, the awareness that is experiencing a physical body and the physical world with eyes open is called waking state of consciousness. Okay. So awareness is modifying itself every time you open your eyes into this experience, right? And you call it the physical world. Now if you close your eyes, you have another state of consciousness where you don’t actually experience the physical world. You experience sensations, images, thoughts, emotions, stories. It’s like a dream.

As soon as you close your eyes, you’re experiencing, you might call it daydreaming. But there’s no difference between a daydream and what you dream at night. Now physical world has disappeared, there’s only a mental world. Then you go deeper at night, even the mental world disappears in what we call deep sleep. Now, that is the highest intelligence, by the way, because in deep sleep there’s unconscious processing going on, there’s creativity going on, there are correlations being made, there are toxins being removed, there’s a whole resetting of your memories and consolidation of that. So, in deep sleep, even though there’s no experience of a physical or a mental world, it’s a very intelligent, highly, highly correlated state in which unconscious processing is occurring.

Get rid of the idea that the world is physical. What we call of the world as physical, even your physical body, is a perceptual activity. And that perceptual activity for you and me is a human perceptual activity through human consciousness, not through bat consciousness, not through mosquito consciousness, not through plant consciousness. Go beyond that.

There’s only one consciousness that is differentiating. Undifferentiated consciousness differentiating into these different species of consciousness that form a matrix of conscious beings that are collectively projecting this universe.

If I ask you what is this? You’d say it’s a cup, right? Well, if you were a baby, you wouldn’t know this is a cup, this is a shape, this is a color, this is a form, this is sensation. This is a taste and it’s noise. The rest is a story. It’s a human story we created, just like we created money or Wall Street or nation states, or colonial empires. And we take that for reality. So when you have time to be still, question your habitual uncertainties, you’ll realize that, actually, we know nothing. Nothing!

Everything we know is made up. It’s a human construct and once we are embedded in that human concept, we call it reality.

We don’t question what is the source of this experience? So taking retreats, practicing mindful awareness of body, of mind, of mental space of the web of relationship, the mystery of existence, it takes you slowly, deeper to your true self. As Rumi said, “God’s language is silence, everything else is poor translation.”

Full Interview:

The post Deepak Chopra – You Suffer Because You Don’t Know Who You Are (Amazing Speech) appeared first on Fearless Soul - Inspirational Music & Life Changing Thoughts.

The luxury of being able to spend time alone is becoming rare.

We live in a world where we are constantly being exposed to people. Whether it’s in person, over the phone or online, we are constantly “in touch” with the people in our world.

And in lots of ways, this is a great thing! Being connected to our tribe is a fundamental human need. We need to know that we have a community around us in order to feel safe, loved and supported.

But when we do this continuously we can actually forget how to BE without the influence of other people.

This is why learning to love your own company is so important.

Watch the video on YouTube:

When You Learn To Love Your Own Company These 4 Things Will Happen

1. Your Mind Will Clear

Our minds are in a constant state of chatter. Sometimes it can feel like a jungle in there! When we take time to be in our own company, we give ourselves the opportunity to clear out a lot of that mental chatter and tune into our inner voice, our intuition. From this place, we can make better decisions and overall achieve a much greater sense of peace and clarity.

2. You’ll Remember What You Love

When you spend time alone without the influence of other people you are able to reconnect to the things that you love and make you happy! This can mean doing something creative like painting or drawing, or even a hobby you love that you can’t do with other people. Indulging in your creativity without the influence of others is a beautiful way to connect to your self.

3. You Will Feel At Peace

When you spend time alone, you give yourself a gift. Sometimes, the people around us can cause us stress. Family friends, work colleagues can all put pressure on us, whether they mean to or not! When we are alone we have an opportunity to rest and renew.

4. Your Relationships Will Improve

It’s interesting to note that by spending time alone we actually get better at relating to others. This is for a couple of reasons, the first being that when you spend time alone, you then value the time with others more highly. Rather than feeling overwhelmed by peoples presence, you embrace it!

Secondly, when we take time alone to understand and value ourselves, we are better able to understand and value others. We build our empathy, compassion and patience. 

While it’s true we all need to spend time with others, its clear that time alone is just as important.

Do you like to spend time alone? I’d love to know what you have gained from it! Share your experiences with us below.

The post When You Learn To Love Your Own Company These 4 Things Will Happen appeared first on Fearless Soul - Inspirational Music & Life Changing Thoughts.

There can be times in life when the world just seems to be against us. Maybe you lost your job, or you got a divorce, maybe you just feel like your life has lost all meaning.

Whatever the cause, the feeling of overwhelm and the sadness is pretty much the same.

When we hit these moments in life when we feel like we simply cannot take any more, there is one sure-fire thing that can lift your spirits.

Give.

When we give to others, we take the focus off our own problems, and as an added bonus, we boost our self-esteem too!

Research has proven this. In one study, university students took a trip where they helped the poor. The students on the trip were assessed some months later and were found to manage stress and adversity much better than their peers.

It’s all about perspective.

By looking at the challenges that others face, you can gain a new perspective on your own life’s difficulties.

When you help others, your oxytocin level goes up, which helps you relieve stress.

Acts of service and kindness add a sense of belonging to your life, which triggers the brain’s reward centres, producing chemicals such as feel-good chemical dopamine and encourages the release of endorphins.

When You Can’t Take Any More, Give. A Simple Step For Creating Instant Happiness

There are many ways that we can give back to others. Here are a few examples to help get you started..

1. Volunteer Work | Instant Happiness

Volunteering allows you to connect with your community and make it a better place. The social interaction you experience also boosts your immune system. It’s a win-win.

2. Plant a tree | Instant Happiness

Giving back to the planet that supports you every day is a great way to feel good and give something back. Not only that, you are forced to get out into nature. Getting outdoors reduces anger, fear, and stress and increases positive feelings.

3. Give a compliment | Instant Happiness

Giving someone a compliment is as easy as breathing. All you need to do is just look at a person and whatever you think is good about them, say it out loud! You could turn their entire day, even their whole life around.

No matter what you’re going through, giving your love, energy and time to others is a brilliant way to increase your own personal happiness.

Have you ever tried anything like this yourself? I would love to know your thoughts. Share them in comments!

The post When You Can’t Take Any More This Simple Step Will Create Instant Happiness appeared first on Fearless Soul - Inspirational Music & Life Changing Thoughts.

One of the most enlightening experiments ever conceived showcases the power of your thoughts, how positive words and thoughts like ‘gratitude’ that are directed toward water actually cause it to form into stunningly beautiful crystalline shapes, while negative, unkind ideas cause the molecules to become ugly, misshapen, and disjointed.

In 1994, Japanese researcher Dr. Masaru Emoto set up investigations that revealed how water, which makes up 60% of the human body, is greatly influenced by the mindset and feelings of the people who surround it:

Dr. Emoto’s groundbreaking research helped uncover 3 amazing secrets to manifesting the life of your dreams.

1. Speak Your Ideas Out Loud | Power of Your Thoughts

Sound creates form and as the water experiments reveal, what you speak out loud influences the exact material form that will unfold before your eyes. Many other researchers have also replicated the impact of sound on material objects. Such as the sand experiments conducted by physics researcher John Stuart Reid and Grammy-nominated sound healer Steven Halpern. These studies and demonstrations highlight the power of creating your reality based on the words you speak. This is why making a conscious effort to choose your words with care can have such a profound impact on your success.

2. Hold a Clear Intention | Power of Your Thoughts

“Love and gratitude: This crystal is as perfect as can be.” – Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water

An intention bridges in both feelings from your heart and thoughts from your mind to give your words maximum impact. For instance, if you say the word ‘Love’ while feeling that emotion and also thinking about who or what you are sending love to, you can influence the makeup of the magnetic field that surrounds you. This energetic field is not some hocus pocus idea, but is in fact scientifically documented and operates much like the Earth’s magnetic field.

Every time you think a thought or experience an emotion, your mind and heart each send out a magnetic ‘resonance’ or ‘vibration’ via your magnetic field. When you focus on uplifting thoughts and feelings, the vibration you send out is likewise more positive.

Our heart has been shown to be the first place that perceives resonances or vibrations that come into our magnetic fields from others. So when you send out a positive resonance, it will be recognized and accepted by those who aspire to interact with someone of that same vibration. This is how you magnetically attract the people and situations into your life who are emanating positive vibrations that support your goals.

3. Make Thought Control a Priority | Power of Your Thoughts

Once your heart perceives resonances or vibrations that come into its magnetic field, it then sends a signal to your brain. Your brain stores most of your memories and beliefs in your subconscious mind. Here’s where things can sometimes get mixed up: your brain’s perceptions about outside vibrations can be unduly influenced by old programmed patterns of thought that are based on past experiences with that vibration.

For instance, if you ever fell love in the past and it didn’t work out, your heart still experiences the vibration of love and sends that signal to your brain. However, your brain’s subconscious mind remembers that love equals pain. Your thoughts then begin forming around the vibration of pain. Instead of thinking welcoming thoughts about getting to know the person, you become fearful or sad. You may come up with all kinds of reasons why things will never work out.

The key is to consciously catch your thoughts at this stage of the process and change them. Many people actually attract the people or situations into their life that they want, but then subconsciously reject them. Then subconscious thoughts manifest themselves via our actions. Consistently check in with your thoughts throughout the day – in other words, by thinking about, what you are thinking about – you will be more successful in taking control of your subconscious mind and shifting into the driver’s seat so that you can enjoy a beautiful life filled with everything you desire.

Use these positive and inspiring affirmations to help influence your thoughts and empower your dreams…

The post This Amazing Experiment Reveals The True Power of Your Thoughts & Manifesting appeared first on Fearless Soul - Inspirational Music & Life Changing Thoughts.

Do you have trouble sleeping? Is it because you find yourself anxious as you go to bed and spend more time thinking than actually sleeping? Sleep relaxation techniques can help.

If you have trouble sleeping, you are not alone. Stress and worry have a strong connection between insomnia and anxiety. If you’re stressed it’s probably affecting your ability to fall asleep.

Anxiety is one of the most common reasons people have trouble going to sleep. Trying to go sleep anxious makes it easy to feel fear and a general feeling of being overwhelmed with the responsibilities of life.

This anxiety makes you wake up feeling groggy, tired, and frustrated. It can also lead to irritability, lack of energy, and you might find it difficult to concentrate.

It can be a vicious cycle to break. But, with these four proven sleep relaxation techniques, you can learn how to fall asleep faster and rid yourself of anxiety related stress.

1. Progressive Relaxation | Sleep Relaxation Techniques

Progressive relaxation can help you sleep better and also help you learn more about your body in the process. With this sleep relaxation technique, you work one area or set of muscle groups at a time. First, you tense them, then you relax them.

This tensing and relaxing of them will show you where you hold the majority of your tension and help you remove it before bed. This exercise tends to start at the feet and work your way up as you drift off to sleep.

Some of the benefits also include:

• Improve mood disorders including PTSD, depression, and anxiety
• Minimize daytime fatigue
• Reduce bodily pain

Try it before you got to bed, only spending 5-7 minutes on your entire body.

2. Guided Imagery | Sleep Relaxation Techniques

Guided imagery is a visualization technique that lets you engage all the senses of your imagination. This tool can help you connect the subconscious and conscious mind together to guide your mind toward the outcomes that you want. In this example, your goal is reduced stress and better quality of sleep.

Spend a few minutes before bed imagining a calm, peaceful, and soothing environment. There are a ton of great mindfulness apps that can also guide you through the experience before bed as well.

3. Breathing Techniques | Sleep Relaxation Techniques

A simple breathing practice before bed can help you reduce stress and fall asleep much faster. If you are feeling anxious or stressed, try different types of breathing techniques to rid your mind and body of negative emotions.

The 4-7-8 technique is a very useful one that you can try right now.

• Inhale for four seconds
• Hold the inhale for a total of seven seconds
• Exhale your breath for eight seconds (very slowly)
• Do this exercise 3-4x when you feel stressed or anxious

4. Nighttime Meditation | Sleep Relaxation Techniques

There are man similarities between meditation and sleep so it makes sense to use meditation as a sleep relaxation technique. Meditation can help you relax, reduce stress, worry, and anxiety as well. Try a Guided Meditation from our friend Jess at Rising Higher if you want to have someone walk you through the process.

Hopefully, these four proven sleep relaxation techniques will help you fall asleep faster and get the rest your mind and body deserve. If you’re struggling with falling asleep don’t accept it, take action with these tips to figure out something that works for you. The more quality rest each night, the better your mind and body will perform the following day.

The post 4 Sleep Relaxation Techniques to Help You Sleep Better Than Ever appeared first on Fearless Soul - Inspirational Music & Life Changing Thoughts.

We live in a fast-paced, intense world, there’s no denying it. Everywhere we look there seems to be something or someone trying to grab hold of our attention and move us away from the present moment.

Advertising, social media and mainstream media are all laced with the energy of momentum. There is a sense of being constantly encouraged to BE more, DO more and CONSUME more. We have become so focused on where we are headed. Most of us forget to celebrate the present moment.

Is there a point in your life where you get to stop and allow yourself to reflect upon and celebrate all you have already achieved?

When is enough, enough?

In a world which pushes us to be constantly achieving. The importance of self-acceptance is huge. To embrace this mindset of self-acknowledgement is to practice self-love at a fundamental level. Ironically, it is through this process that we gain clarity over our lives that allows us to move forward in a healthy and functional way.

On the other hand, when we strive and push ourselves out of fear, panic or lack of awareness, we become dysfunctional and disconnected.

Once we truly accept who and where we are. We create a connection to ourselves. This means celebrating the good aspects of who we are and acknowledging the parts which we would perhaps like to improve.

So how do we learn to practice self-acceptance?

Write a list. | Accept Yourself

A great way to practice self-acceptance is by simply writing a list of 3 things you have achieved this year. They don’t need to be ‘big’ achievements either.  Often we acknowledge the big achievements in life, like getting married or getting a promotion.

But it’s likely that you have had many little wins along your journey that you have overlooked. This could be something as simple as an act of kindness like helping someone carry their groceries or the time you spent last week reading your child a bedtime story.

Celebrate. | Accept Yourself

Once you have your list. Choose a simple way in which you can celebrate the ways in which you have created success for yourself. You could share the list with a friend or loved one, or you could even buy yourself a small gift. Do something that makes you feel acknowledged and happy.

Life is in a constant state of flux. Constantly evolving and changing. The goal posts are always moving. Learning to acknowledge, celebrate and embrace the space in-between where we are and where we want to be is a fantastic way to boost your self-esteem and create a new habit of self-awareness and self-love.

The post How To Acknowledge And Accept Yourself – No Matter Where You Are In Life appeared first on Fearless Soul - Inspirational Music & Life Changing Thoughts.

What is self care? Self Care refers to the activities individuals undertake with the intention of enhancing health, limiting illness, reducing stress and improving overall wellbeing.

When we are asked do you take care of yourself? Our natural response is ‘Of course’ but it’s when we are further investigated with HOW do you take care of yourself? we struggle to answer.

Self care is an intentional planned action to improve your own wellbeing.

Below we list some great self care strategies so that you can improve your own quality of life.

11 Top Tips For Self Care – Reduce Stress & Increase Wellbeing

Wake Up With Intent

Each morning you have two choices run the day or let the day run you.. It is very important to wake up with intent have a plan and know what your aiming to achieve for that day.

Know what time you want to be up by and stick to it.

Spend some time on yourself. Allocate a minimum of 15 minutes every morning that’s just for you, whether you exercise, meditate or go over your plan for the day.

A small amount of you time each morning can make a huge difference and there’s an endless list of successful people that practice the same habit.

Deep Breathing – Get Those Lungs Working

Another habit practiced by many successful people, Tony Robbins for one always includes deep breathing into his morning routine. Deep breathing has been scientifically proven to affect the heart, the brain, digestion and the immune system.

Research has shown that breathing exercises can have immediate effects by altering the pH of the blood, or changing blood pressure.

Some of the wide ranging benefits of deep breathing include;

Calm stress & anxiety.

Promote better blood flow.

Increase energy and alertness.

Decrease heart rate & blood pressure.

Detox your body (70% of toxins are released through via breathing.)

Improve digestion(of breakfast) improved nutrient utilisation.

So practise some deep breathing techniques in your next morning routine and start the day ready for for action.

Practice Gratitude

An often overlooked and underestimated activity. Practicing gratitude has the potential to be the most powerful activity you complete each morning.

Keep a journal beside your bed, and every morning write down (even a quick scribble is fine) things that you are grateful for. It can be anything some examples would be;

Happy to have a roof over your head.

Happy to be healthy.

Grateful to have family in your life.

Grateful for the friends you have.

Happy with how far you’ve come in life & the challenges you’ve already overcome.

Happy with how you look / improving health or fitness.

Before you know it you will start to realize just how lucky you are. That realisation can really light your inner spark. So remind yourself what your grateful for and you’ll start the day more positively than ever before.

Listen To Music

Whether it’s some relaxing instrumentals or even a motivational speech to start the day. Music can really bring you to life! You can even change your alarm to some music or a speech that really perks you up and you’ll wake up ready to take on the world.

Exercise To Energize

Stretch, swim, run, do yoga, hit the gym or whatever physical activity you enjoy. Exercise is a key part of self-care.  The benefits of exercise are often only thought of as being aesthetic. But exercise has the potential to change your life entirely.

If you want more energy and to feel like you’re ready to jump out of your skin each day, exercise is for you! It doesn’t really matter what kind of exercise but just doing a small amount of exercise a few times a day will have you feeling like a new person in no time.

Meet With A Counselor/Coach/Mentor

This could be a psychologist, therapist, spiritual mentor or even your most positive friend! No you don’t need to have ‘problems’ to talk to someone. Just the very practice of speaking about your life, your goals and concerns, is a great way to lay out and organise your thoughts. Resulting in a much clearer sense of direction.

As Bill Gates said “Everyone needs a coach.” Even one of the most successful men on Earth has a coach. He recognises the power of having someone to discuss you thoughts with and being accountable to someone for your problems and challenges.

So find someone you can speak openly with, you’ll be surprised by the outcome!

Taking Time Out

Take the day off! I mean the entire day! and make sure you announce it to everyone ahead of time, so everyone knows that your switched off for that day.

Go somewhere calm and beautiful or do whatever you see as the best way to recharge your batteries. Knowing that everyone knows it’s your day off will reduce anxiety and allow you to unwind fully.

So give yourself the day off! You might find you’re stronger because of it.

Treat Yourself To A Healthy Meal

Do ever head out and consider indulging in some Oysters but think it’s a bit too extravagant or maybe it’s a healthy smoothie you’ve had your eye on. Give your self permission to just think about yourself for once and enjoy a generous nutrient rich meal.

When you are craving something, it can be a sign that your body is yearning for a specific nutrient that food contains! So trust what you’re craving and treat yourself once a week to that meal you really enjoy.

Wear Blue Light Blocking Glasses At Night

If like many, you find yourself using your phone or kindle late at night. Consider buying some blue light blocking glasses. For a much better sleep.

You might be asking what do they do? Well I’m sure you’ve noticed that your phone keeps you awake, well the blue light blocking glasses are designed to block the light wavelengths that keep you awake.

So you can look at your device but it won’t affect your ability to fall asleep!

Do All Of Your Chores In One Day

Hold on a minute what do chores have to do with self care? Well the idea is to set a day that you will do the majority of your chores, blast your favourite tunes, jump around and get your heart pumping.

Not only are you getting active, you will feel a sense of accomplishment once you are done & it will make the week ahead much less stressful as you’ll feel on top of things.

Read Something Powerful

There are so many life changing books out there. A great book can transform your entire perspective on life! It will also give you a sense of peace being able to relax and immerse yourself in the books contents.

So pick up a good book today, It just might change your life!

What go to self care techniques do you swear by? We would love to hear your suggestions so share in the comments below!

The post 11 Top Tips For Self Care – Reduce Stress & Increase Wellbeing appeared first on Fearless Soul - Inspirational Music & Life Changing Thoughts.

Within every cloud, there is a silver lining. From every patch of rain, somewhere there is a rainbow to be found.

Have you ever had days, weeks or months in your life when it seems as though the clouds won’t pass and the rain just won’t stop falling?

Try To Be A Rainbow In Someone’s Cloud – Inspiration From Dr Maya Angelou

It’s safe to say that at one point or another most of us have experienced this kind of difficult season. Perhaps you lost a lover or friend, or you experienced the pain of death, or maybe life just threw one too many curveballs at once and you just felt sad for a while.

No matter how it happens, we can all appreciate that life’s moments are not always filled with sunshine.

With this knowledge in mind there is a simple yet incredibly powerful perspective that we can all choose to embrace; that each person you come across is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Whether it’s internally or externally, every person you meet is dealing with something that is challenging for them.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good. Maya Angelou – Try To Be A Rainbow In Someone’s Cloud

While we certainly can’t save people from their pain, we all have the power to influence one another in positive ways.  We each have the power to give to one another in a way that is meaningful and impactful.

To be the rainbow in someone’s cloud means to cultivate loving kindness as a daily practice in your life. It means tuning in to your heart, practicing empathy and using that empathy to connect to the people around you in a meaningful way. We all have the opportunity to be someone’s rainbow.

Probably the greatest part of adopting this practice, is that our efforts do not need to be overwhelming. Something as simple as a smile or a phone call can greatly help someone who is going through a difficult time.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou – Try To Be A Rainbow In Someone’s Cloud

To choose to live from a place of loving kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can give to the world, and to yourself.

Not only will you impact others in a positive way but you also give yourself a purpose outside of your own needs, which brings fulfilment and ultimately happiness for you too. When we are kind to others we learn that we matter, that we are powerful, and what we do on a daily basis really does have an impact on the world around us. 

So how can you practice more kindness in your life today?

Share your ideas in the comments below.

The post Try To Be A Rainbow In Someone’s Cloud – Inspiration From Dr Maya Angelou appeared first on Fearless Soul - Inspirational Music & Life Changing Thoughts.