Seeds of Change

When I started dance lessons my teacher told me that I would first have to learn the basic steps, and practice until I developed muscle memory... which means I could do the steps without "THINKING" about the steps. This allowed me to learn additional techniques, and work on body position and styling.

If you have to THINK about your steps, it is very difficult to focus and work on the other elements will enable you to become an elegant dancer.

What is Your muscle memory composed of? Are you stuck in doing the steps (dance) that were given to you as a child, by religious leaders, or other teachers? The ones that prevent you from becoming your authentic self?

Here are some ways to understand the power of what you believe -

"Your difficulty is not contained, primarily, in the situation which gave rise to it, but in the mental state with which you regard that situation and which you bring to bear upon it." - Byways of Blessedness

I know so many people who work very hard and diligently and sacrifice greatly in an effort to create what they want. But they haven't changed who they are, and until they begin to think and act like the people they want to be, they'll never attract what they seek.

Wealthy people don't think and act the way they do because they have wealth. They have wealth because they think and act that way.

How many people are on a diet today who don't stand a chance of losing (and keeping off) any weight because they're still the same person who gained all that weight to start with.

Let me repeat again, so you'll grasp how important this is:

Slim people don't think and act the way they do because they're slim. They're slim because they think and act that way.

That seems simple, and most people read it, and immediately move to the next subject, without spending the time to understand the power of that statement. To be able to fully integrate it requires a desire and intention to move out of where you are and towards growth and change.. these are the seeds of change.. they begin small, but will bloom in time, with care, nurturing and practice.

To get what you want, you change who you are, and you change who you are by simply changing the way you think and act. And one technique for doing that which is promoted by a lot of wise teachers is to "act as if". If you "act as if" you're slim long enough, then one day you will attract slimness even though you may be 100 pounds overweight today.

If you act as if you're wealthy long enough, then one day you will attract all the wealth you can imagine even though you may this moment be destitute and homeless.

Bob Proctor says, "Act like the person you want to become. For as Goethe, the German philosopher, once wrote, 'Before you can do something, you first must be something.'"And that's worth thinking about.

This seems so basic and yet the average person cannot achieve it.

In order to ACT a certain way, you first have to know and understand what that feels like, If you don’t have that experience to bring into your conscious mind, it is challenging to maintain the action of “Acting” that way.

Often the mind says - "Forget this, I don't feel any different" and shortly after starting you quit.

So how is it possible to create a new experience and be able to “Act as if” easily and consistently?

This is where our work begins…where coaching and teaching are essential.. where you have to find the vibration that speaks to you and uncover the muscle memory that is driving your Story.

Few people have the resources, tenacity or the understanding to do this work alone, including myself. I have had to employ many teachers, guides and coaches in order to achieve my current state of mind and productivity. Because it is a very individual process, there is no magic meditation or mantra that can shift this. It requires you doing the work, with or without a guide, that is your choice.