'I am' Megan, hear me roar!

I’ve been working on some of this month’s Things to Achieve for about a week, and I’m finding them quite interesting.  My particular favourite so far is “...begin to use the two most powerful words, I AM, to your advantage.”

The reason I’ve been finding this so interesting is that it’s only now that I’m aware of these words that I realise how often during a day I’ll say ‘I am’ in relation to how I’m feeling.  If I’m at work, I’ve discovered I’m often saying ‘I am tired’ or ‘I am bored’.  So really, it’s no wonder I find my day’s slow and dull when I’m constantly telling myself to feel that way.

The other day I was almost falling asleep at my desk.  I was taking some very long blinks and thinking about how I felt so very, very tired, when I remembered something that I’d read in The Secret that says “all power is from within and therefore under our control”.  It occurred to me that I am in control of me, and that if I didn’t want to be tired then I didn’t have to be tired.

All I said to myself was “I am awake” (in my head of course; my boss already suspects I’m nuts, I don’t need to add evidence to his theories).  And just like that I really did feel awake.  I wasn’t expecting the effects to be so instantaneous, and it took me by surprise.

So this technique is one that I’ve been using a lot lately.  Every now and then I’ll stop and ask myself (once again, in my head) how am I feeling?  And regardless of how I might really be feeling, my response will always be a positive one.  It’s definitely one of the most effective methods I’ve discovered so far for switching my mood around.

No Moan Zone

Seriously, it’s June already?  Where is the time going?! Well, as it is now June, that means it’s time for me to begin the next chapter of The Secret: The Secret to You.  In a few days I’ll post my new things to achieve, but first I want to reflect on how last month went with The Secret to the World.

At work last week, we had a talk by Dr Tom – a doctor who specialises in the benefits of healthy thinking.  As a practising medical doctor, Dr Tom’s talk was more about the scientific, physical benefits of thinking healthy thoughts, rather than the ability to manifest items by focusing your thoughts in a certain way.  What struck me throughout this talk was that there is a very physical connection between brain health and physical wellbeing, and thinking positively.

The Secret states that thinking positively will allow us to create the life that we want, and while Dr Tom takes a medical point of view, he is effectively stating the same message.  Dr Tom has a method for turning a negative situation into a positive one, which I particularly like.  The Secret tells us that we must not dwell on the negative, or we will attract negative things back to us, but I have always had difficulty switching from negative to positive. 

Dr Tom says we should look at negative situations as opportunities.  For example, if I dropped my toast on the floor one morning, instead of seeing it as a negative situation where I have lost my breakfast, I could see it as an opportunity to try something new for breakfast.  Or as an opportunity to go out for breakfast.  Or as an opportunity to eat the toast and see how clean my floor is.

I felt like this talk was particularly relevant to my Secret project this month, particularly in relation to one of my things to achieve: “Learn to become still, and to take your attention away from what you don’t want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place that attention on what you wish to experience.”  Looking at all the opportunities takes the attention away from the negative situation, and places it on all the positive opportunities the situation has given me.

There was one final aspect of Dr Tom’s talk which I particularly liked, and that was his concept of a ‘No Moan Zone’.  He makes up posters to put up around the workplace to discourage people from complaining about things, because complaining has a bad impact on people’s health.  The Secret tells us that we shouldn’t listen to people complain as it will bring us down with them, and we will attract depressing and negative things.

So from now on I live in a permanent No Moan Zone.  If you’ve got any complaints, please send them elsewhere.