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Category: Personal Empowerment
Today when I was reading my Master Key Master Mind Alliance reading, I ran across a phrase that reminded me of something I learned a few weeks ago. (That the only difference between the word passive and passion is ACTION!) If I get into action, passion can come! If I am lacking passion, I need to find the catalyst to get into action. What is the catalyst? Desire!
The sentence I read today said: “Desire is the strongest mode of action.” I’d never thought of desire as an action before! Have you?
It’s dawning on me as I write – why I seem to have quite a bit of non-action in my life (and lack of passion as a result). As a child with five children in our family, when I had a desire, I learned to squelch it, because I knew I really couldn’t have what I desired to have, because there wasn’t enough money.
So squelching my desires became a habit. (This translated to squelching action in my life, because remember “Desire is the strongest mode of action.”) So as I write here, I’m getting very emotional – realizing what the cause of inaction in my life is. The cause is that I have squelched my desires from early in my life. This squelching of my desires results in squelching of action on an unconscious level, and squelching of action means no passion – because part of passion is action! Even the last part of the word passion has part of the word action because you can’t have passion without action. This moment of realization as I write is HUGE. 
I know now what I need to do. I need to let myself experience every desire I’ve ever had. I will start from when I was a child and remember what I wanted. If there is any grief about not having it, I will experience it. Then I will write it down and experience that desire and visualize what I would have done to acquire it. Then I will experience having it in my visualization. This process will change the perception of desire in my subconscious mind, and bring me to today where I can allow my desires to come to the surface and then be empowered to act to change them into a passion that will bring fruition to my life.
The video below is what I watched that brought me to the place of writing this evolving realization that just now took me from ignoring my desires (inaction) to knowing how to get myself to know and act on my passion. I’m so grateful.
This month’s Scroll in the Master Key Master Mind Alliance (MKMMA) brought a breath of fresh air to me. It’s always helpful to know you’re not the only one in the world who has a certain challenge! Now I know that the rise and fall of my moods from one day to the next is normal, just like the tides of the ocean.
Normal or not, it’s one thing I’ve long wanted to be able to change.
After reading this scroll I’ve decided to stop wishing to change what is a fact of life and do what it says in this scroll (and I added two at the bottom)
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge forward (after doing this technique to release fear)
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.(I know it is mine already, because “I always keep my promises!”
If I feel incompetent I will remember past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
If I feel unfocused, I will ask myself “What would the person I intend to become do next?”
If I feel unworthy I will remind myself that I am good enough to succeed BECAUSE I’m doing my best!
TODAY I AM MASTER OF MY EMOTIONS! I celebrate every day I wake up and I am alive! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
I’ve also been running on mini trampoline while quickly saying yes, yes, yes; yes, yes, yes; and feeling what that feels like. It feels awesome! I’m saying yes to everything life has to bring to me, because I have put my order in for what is coming!
Really? I had no idea that my ‘negative’ emotions are effective at keeping me in my comfort zone!
Well, that’s what Mark J said in this week’s MKMMA (Master Key Master Mind Alliance) training video. He also said he would be teaching us how to use those negative emotions (like guilt, anger, hurt feelings, fear and unworthiness) as tools to be courageous and change our actions. I’m anxiously waiting for next week, because that’s when he will be telling us how to do that.
In the meantime, I’ll be the observer of myself (without judgment of course) and see if I can figure out for myself how I could use those emotions as something that could empower me to go outside of my comfort zone so I can really have what I’ve decided I want.
It’s free, but it can’t be banked to use it later. We receive the same amount every day. We actually spend it even if we don’t decide how we’re going to spend it!!
TIME. We all have the same amount. We spend it every day whether we decide how we’re going to spend it or not. Yes, I repeated that, because it was such a big aha for me. Until I read our Master Key Master Mind Alliance lesson (scroll V) I was under the impression that it was safer to not make a decision than to make one and wish I’d done something different. If I didn’t know what to decide, it always seemed “safe” to just delay the decision. But with TIME, it’s the biggest losing game I’ve ever put myself into to delay or simply not make the decision of how I’m going to spend my time that day. Big Lightbulb! 
If I was an investor and I invested like I’ve often invested my time by default, I wouldn’t be happy with my results!
We were instructed on our Master Key Master Mind Alliance call to ask ourselves a question every day several times.
Here is the very valuable question:
What would the person I intend to become do next?
This question is changing my life. I’m engaging with the question, and making the decision in the moment. The results will become evident, and I no longer allow myself to believe the illusion that it’s safe to not decide. The only empowering thing is to decide in the moment – and I know I’ll love the results of the on-purpose investments of my time!
Moved to tears….and new purpose. Tears that will create world-changing ripples. A ripple never stops.
I’ve been riding in the cart, taking it easy, not getting where I’m capable of getting by being complacent. It’s easy. But is that what I want out of life? NO. This man’s story put a new appreciation to the word courage and commitment within me. What am I committed to? A life of ease or a life of helping others? A life of making excuses, or a life of commitment to helping others and making the difference in the world I came to make? My answer now is different. I’m committed to making the difference I came to make. No excuses, only determined action and love for others motivating me to be the change. I’ll be watching this video every few weeks. It’s in my planner to do it, so I’ll remember…..
There are universal laws of the mind, and I’ve found that when it’s a universal law I’d better pay attention! These laws are within the Master Key System written by Haanel. I’d never noticed it before….but after starting the ‘mental diet’, I realized that the way we regularly speak is totally against the first of the Seven Laws of the Mind. No wonder we haven’t gotten the results we want in our life in the past! Let me explain by way of giving an example. It’s very common to say something like; I’d love to live in Florida, BUT I’m not thinking it will ever happen, because my job is here. First of all, the word BUT cancels out what was just said. So the desire to live in Florida is cancelled, and the subconscious mind will not pay any attention to it. Secondly, the word BECAUSE reinforces what was just said. So it reinforced that you think it will never happen!
Is that what you meant to say? Using the Universal Law of Substitution, you’ve just done some negative subconscious reprogramming! Let’s cancel that!
We can use the same words in a different order to be in harmony with the Law of Substitution, and it will help us have what we want. For example, we could say it like this: I’ve always thought it was an impossible dream for me to live in Florida, BUT ever since I started the Master Key Master Mind Alliance (MKMMA) it seems like it is a very likely thing that I will be living in Florida, because I love warm weather and I deserve to live where I love it! By saying it in that way, you’re letting your subconscious mind know what you want and reinforcing it with a reason that you believe you can have it. So…the subby will go to work on helping you get it!
To empower ourselves with the Law of Substitution, we can purpose to be aware of our thoughts. That’s step one. Then when we find ourselves thinking a negative thought, we can say BUT, ever since this happened, or that happened, I’ve started to believe that I could have that. Then you’re substituting the new thought for the old thought and retraining your subconscious mind! You can even add “because xxxxx” and reinforce the new thought! You could even repeat this several times to even more effectively accomplish the subconscious reprogramming needed.
It takes practice, but it is so totally worth it, as you’ll see when the results start happening in your life!
Last week I wrote about feeling like making a dream board was such a chore – and not even allowing myself to do it in the past, because I couldn’t decide what I wanted. Why? Because if I didn’t get it, I would feel very disappointed, and I was afraid I couldn’t have the things I wanted. So the response in my mind seemed to be that I couldn’t decide what I wanted! I worked with myself my using this technique to overcome my fear, and then I became so excited to make my dream board!
Well, I did it! I spent some time one day making my dream board, and it was so fun! In the past, it was so hard to do. As a matter of fact, last time I was supposed to make one it didn’t get done. This time I was enjoying my time doing it, and by the end of the day I felt like I was on top of the world!
What changed my perception and experience of making my dream board? I eliminated fear. By eliminating my fear, I eliminated procrastination and simply did it! Happy Dance! 
I feel like I’ve had such a huge victory! Now I have my dream board to help program my subconscious mind for the things I really want, and it makes me feel great to look at it!
The first step to changing a habit is to be aware that something you’re doing IS a habit that might not be serving you. Sometimes the most terrible thing about a habit is that there is lack of awareness that it’s even affecting your life in a way that you’d rather it didn’t. When you’re habits are running you, it can cause you to run on the same track of failure or substandard conditions in your life over and over and OVER.
We could think that a habit can’t really be all that bad, but as it says in scroll one of the Greatest Salesman in the World written by Og Mandino, “In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.” It goes on to say that all men and women are slaves to their habits, and that our bad habits have already marked out a path which threatens to imprison our future. Then, “Therefore, if I must be a slave to habit, let me be a slave to good habits.” But how are we supposed to accomplish the feat of changing our habits? We need to choose a new habit to REPLACE the habit we want to release and let go of – one that we know will be key to our success, and practice it every day 3 times per day for 30 days (and beyond) until it is a habit and some subconscious reprogramming has taken place! To believe we can commit to something that ‘big’ we might need to accomplish it first in another way that isn’t directly related to our success. I suggest reading the book by OG Mandino and following exactly his instructions of reading. This will give you the confidence you need to allow yourself to become aware of habits that might not be serving you, and the confidence to select a habit to REPLACE with a new habit and do it. Let me tell you, it is so totally worth it! For encouragement, please feel free to subscribe to my blog on the right, so you can have the support you need to continue what you are inspired to think you want to do now. Take my hand and come on the journey…my hand is reaching out to yours…..
As the Master Key by Haanel says, “The Solar Plexus has been likened to the sun of the body, because it is a central point of distribution for the energy which the body is constantly generating.” This energy is being distributed by the solar plexus nerves to all parts of the body, and is thrown off in an atmosphere which envelopes the body. If this radiation is sufficiently strong, the person is called magnetic; he is said to be filled with personal magnetism, and all with whom he comes in contact experience a pleasant sensation.”
If there is any interruption of this energy, the flow of life and energy is stopped, and personal magnetism is decreased, because the connection between the subconscious mind and the universal mind is being interrupted. The KEY is to make sure the connection between the subconscious mind and the universal mind isn’t interrupted.
What interrupts it? In a word, FEAR. We may fear that what we want is something we can’t have for some reason. On a conscious level we don’t even know we’re fearing, because it’s a fear we’ve had at a subconscious level for a very long time, or fear that only comes to us when we define what we want. Maybe we fear we’re not worthy to have everything we want, or simply that we don’t know how to get it. Whatever it is fear about, it’s fear. I have found such great value in using This Technique to allow myself to release any fear that stops the flow in my solar plexus. When the flow is stopped in the solar plexus, our personal magnetism leaves as well, because the energy isn’t flowing out. When I use This Technique, what I want seems to magically be allowed to come in, and I get what I want, as well as feeling empowered and flowing that energy out! What does this have to do with magnetism?
Nothing and everything! The Solar Plexus must be allowing the energy to flow for personal magnetism to be felt. Conscious choosing to let the energy flow is Key. To facilitate that, The Tool I use has done it for me. So thankful I can share it with you, because I know it will change your life and enhance not only your personal magnetism, but your ability to have what you want as well! Here is a video that may help you increase your magnetism as well:
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