You Have the Power to Realize Your Dreams

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You Have the Power to Realize Your Dreams
We are what we think. All that we are arises
with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make
the world. -Buddha
GROW Gaining Real Opportunities for
Women MIIS September 24, 2005 Kim Stemler,
Mindshop Unlimited
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GOALS

• At the end of this session You will
• Be Reminded
• Be Inspired
• Be Empowered
• Possess practical tools
• Create your dreams

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Our deepest fear is not that we are
inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure.. - Nelson
Mandela
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10 Steps to Creating Your Dreams

• Be Brave
• Take Responsibility
• Know What You Want
• Commit
• Change the Way You Think
• Set Intentions
• Develop Your Skill Knowledge
• Attention Awareness
• Practice Daily
• Celebrate Successes!!!!!! Celebrate you!!!

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1. BE BRAVE

• The greatest glory in living lies not in never
  falling, but in rising every time we fall
  -Nelson Mandela
• I learned that courage was not the absence of
  fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is
  not he who does not feel afraid, but he who
  conquers that fear. - Nelson Mandela
• Courage doesnt always roar. Sometimes courage
  is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying,
  I will try again tomorrow. -
  Mary Anne Radmacher

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2. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY - Everything In Your
Reality Is Created By Your Beliefs

• It is my believing
• that makes
• it so

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• "We don't see things as they are, we see them as
  we are." - Anais Nin
• Man is what he believes. - Anton Chekov
• As a Creator, I am 100 responsible for
  everything I create. It is not possible for
  anyone, nor anything, other than me to be
  responsible for my experiences if I am the only
  one who can create in my reality.

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3. KNOW WHAT YOU WANT

• Out of touch - real needs / desires / dreams
• Continually ignored, rejected, shamed for
  expressing them as a child
• Bury them
• Motivated by fear not dreams
• Low Self-Esteem unworthy of love, success,
  money, having what we want dont believe our
  needs dreams are worth pursuing
• Woman never asking for what they want
  supporting everyone else's needs above own

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Practical Exercises for Visioning

• 1 Year, 60 Days, 2 Week Exercise
• Complete the Perfect Day fantasy
• Make a list of 101 wishes
• Visioning Exercise
• I Want Repeating Question Process

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4. COMMIT

• Make a commitment to yourself do whatever it
  takes to create your dreams
• Commit to yourself to show up, to be present to
  fully participate in your daily practice.
• Success isnt a result of spontaneous
  combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
  -Arnold Glascow
• All who have accomplished great things have has
  a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal
  which was high, one which sometimes seemed
  impossible.
• Orison Swett Marden

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5. CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY CHANGE THE WAY YOU
THINK

• Change the way you think  - Intention
• When you learn how to think differently, you
  create differently, because all creation begins
  with thought. 
• The creativity inherent in the universe is also
  within us
• "Everything can be taken from a man but ...the
  last of the human freedoms - to choose one's
  attitude in any given set of circumstances, to
  choose one's own way."
• - Viktor E. Frankl

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What is Intention?

• Involves directing the mind with purpose and
  efficacy toward some object or outcome
• Its not about doing its about believing
  holding that belief in your mind
• Practicing intention represents both challenges
  opportunities for deepening our understanding of
  how we create our days

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Intention -Internal Orientation

• Adjust perceptual / behavioral filters
• Act or react in ways that make day seem better,
  but in any objective sense, nothings really
  changed
• Positive attitude better than negative
• Psychological shift

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Internal Self-Directed Intentions

• Our intentions influence our bodies minds.
• I never hit a shot without having a very shard ,
  in-focus picture of it in my head. - Jack
  Nicklaus
• Visualizing every stride of the race ,
  correcting weaknesses in every step I took. -
  before the race
• -Lee Evans - Olympic Running Champion

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• In one moment I realized that this universe is
  intelligent. It is proceeding in a direction and
  we have something to do with that direction. And
  that creative spirit, the creative intent that
  has been the history of this planet, comes from
  within us, and it is out there it is all the
  same. Consciousness itself is what is fundamental
  and energy-matter is the product of
  consciousnessIf we change our heads about who we
  are and can see ourselves as creative, eternal
  beings creating physical experience, joined at
  the level of existent we call consciousness
  then we start to see and create this world that
  we live in quite differently. - Astronaut Edgar
  Miller (6th man to walk on moon) on view of earth
  from space

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Intention - External Orientation

• Thoughts literally influence the world so that
  events that might have happened dont, and other
  that wouldnt do
• Basic - Intention to do the dishes, eventually
  you do dishes, the dishes are physically changed
• Placebo Effect
• Continuously affect the world
• Requires a radical change in conventional views
  of reality

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Scientific Evidence

• Current evidence - mind does matter in ways that
  neurosciences cannot yet adequately explain
• Some theoretical support for mind-matter
  interactions within quantum physics mind
  matter might be complementary research
  premature
• Do you remember how electrical currents and
  "unseen waves" were laughed at? The knowledge
  about man is still in its infancy.- Albert
  Einstein

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Intention on Living Systems

• Scientific study of Intercessory Prayer
  (8/82-5/83)
• 393 patients - SF General Hospitals Coronary
  Care Unit
• Assess therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer
• Results
• Patients who had received prayer - healthier
  than those who had not.
• CPR performed (less need)
• Mechanical ventilators (less need)
• Diuretics antibiotics (less need)
• less occurrences of pulmonary edema
• fewer deaths.
• These results attributed to power of prayer

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• "What physicists are saying to us right now is
  that there is a realm of reality which goes
  beyond the physical, where in fact we can
  influence each other from a distance."-Deepak
  Chopra

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6. Set Intentions

• Practice
• Put your mind at ease peaceful state
• Make a clear simple statement of intention
• Let your intention come in your own words from
  your heart.
• Don Juan always told me, Make a gesture. A
  gesture is nothing more than a deliberate act.
  (or thought)
• - Carlos Casteneda

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Tips on Setting Intentions

• The key is to believe you already have it! Not
  to simply want it.
• Frame in the positive
• Unreasonable optimism and the sense that the
  chosen reality is already real.
• Note, for example, the present tense "I am
  experiencing..." We're not talking wishes or
  dreams the plan is feeling the improved reality
  in the presence.

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WARNING

• May devoutly believe that if you drive the wrong
  way at 90 miles an hour down a one-way street,
  some force of nature is going to keep you from
  having a head-on collision.
• Belief does not alter realities of physics...or
  realities of rush-hour traffic.
• Within limits of the laws of nature, you can
  choose what to believe alter own "reality."
• You can believe negative things about reality
  too.

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7.DEVELOP YOUR SKILL KNOWLEDGE

• Develop your skill internally of paying attention
• External - develop skills and knowledge that are
  practically related to your dream

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8. Attention Awareness

• Bring your attention Awareness to your daily
  thoughts and actions
• You will be able to consciously decided what
  works for you what doesnt and then be able to
  change

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9. PRACTICE DAILY

• Develop a daily, disciplined practice
• Attention awareness throughout your day
• Warrior Zap negativity old thought patterns
• Set an intention make a clear simple statement
  of intention
• Create Your Day - Upon waking up every moment
  reflect on what you want to have manifest today

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Other Tips

• Have someone you know trust help you determine
  what habits or actions of yours will keep you
  from creating your new reality.
• Write out a list of things you need to change,
  based on what this friend tells you.
• Concentrate on one item from the list and work on
  it until you can change it, then move on to the
  next.
• Work on the principle of replacing a bad habit
  with a good one. If you want to quit smoking, for
  example, substitute strenuous exercise.
• Remember the three rules of successful change
  perseverance, and perseverance, and yet more
  perseverance.

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10. Celebrate Successes

• Don't forget to reward yourself every time you
  drop an element of your old reality, or pick up
  an element of your new reality.
• Celebrate your self, your life, your power to
  create your own dreams.

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It truly is possible to alter the pattern, or
paradigm, of your reality! To make your dreams
come true. You have the Power within you.
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10 Steps to Creating Your Dreams

• Be Brave
• Take Responsibility
• Know What You Want
• Commit
• Change the Way You Think
• Set Intentions
• Develop Your Skill Knowledge
• Attention Awareness
• Practice Daily
• Celebrate Successes!!!!!! Celebrate you!!!

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Did we Reach Goals?

• Are you
• Reminded?
• Inspired?
• Empowered
• Do you
• Possess practical tools?
• Will you
• Create your dreams

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• "Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning
  of his life is, but rather must recognize that it
  is he who is asked. In a word, each man is
  questioned by life and he can only answer to
  life by answering for his own life to life he
  can only respond by being responsible."
                                                   
  -Victor Frankl

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• We feel and know that we are eternal.- Edmund
  Spenser
• Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!-
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau