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 A Coffee Break For Your Mind

3/6/2016

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I was asked recently, ‘how do I meditate?’ and, ‘why. What will it do for me, and how will I benefit?’
 
I’m not a great supporter of the word ‘meditation’, it puts some people off. In the frenetic world we live today, it can smack of some discipline our mind immediately complains it hasn’t time for!
 
I prefer to think of it as a little time out, like a coffee break for the mind… a little time each day just to rest it… with no hard and fast rules for what we must, or must not do. I’m sure there will be those who practice meditation that’ll bulk at my description, my approach. But I’m also certain they will agree, that the benefit of even a modest about of time spent relaxing the mind will give to each of us is enormous.
 
So, what I’m going to ask you to do is give yourself five minutes to sit in a chair. Now, it is entirely up to you to decide how you’ll experience those five minutes sitting in your chair… Will you spend it with a mind full of worry, or a mind full of peace? With a mind thinking of all you could or should be doing, or with a mind marvelling at how the weight of your body feels pressed against the seat, a mind that constantly creates tension in the way the energy flows through your body or a mind that is relaxed and at ease?
 
You might like to practice this. How about five minutes sitting in a chair playing with the idea that you are the creator of your world. What would that be like? I will let you decide how you will experience it, but that is all it will take, just five minutes every day, flooding your mind with quality thoughts that serve your desires… and to completely change your life you must do this without fail.
 
You see, the YOU that sat down in your chair with whatever was going on in your mind, with whatever feelings you were having, whatever was happening in your relationships, how your breakfast or lunch is digesting in your system, all of it, the whole of your experience right now as you sit in your chair, as you’ve sat a million times to be with yourself in a thousand different chairs… you are the only one who creates your world. Perhaps right now you won’t completely believe that, but stay with me for a moment.
 
I don’t know about you, but sometimes my mind has a rush on and it’s at this time I most need to do my five minutes. But I don’t think of relaxing, I think only of whatever I’m allowing to stress my mind.  So to jog my memory… I use sitting down in a chair as a hint or a reminder for preparing my mind for its coffee break. Think of it as, like dropping a beautifully rounded pebble into your mug, from which will reverberate the ripples, the vibrations that will surround, and ultimately become you, become your future life.
 
Your mind is constantly sending out these ripples of thought energy… science will prove that. So it is much nicer to surround yourself with feelings of happiness, of laughter and play. Thoughts of your unlimitedness as they come back to you, rather than those you want to run from, hide from, that create fear and worry. It all begins with five minutes a day sitting in your chair! Five minutes acknowledging you have the ability to recreate who you are, to create anything in your life, and eradicate any problem that you currently see and feel.
 
You sit now in your chair waking up to who you really are. Do you know who you really are? You are the one, the only one who creates your life. Can you take the responsibility of knowing that? Of course you can. Can you accept you have been responsible for every single thing that has happened to you from the moment you were born, right up to this moment NOW? You will have to.
 
Your mind right now may be denying that, blaming who you’ve become on some circumstance beyond your control. But STOP right NOW, change your perception of who you really are.
 
YOU ARE THE CREATOR OF YOUR LIFE!! You always have been!
 
You have manifested your life right up to this moment from the persistent thoughts you have, and now sitting in this chair, in this tiny corner of this dimension of creation, how amazing is this exact moment! Because now you can begin to recreate who you are.
 
How about thinking this… ‘You know I think I will just sit here and feel my heart beating, the breath flowing in and out of my nostrils. The sound of that bird, I’m glad I’ve stopped long enough to quiet my mind and listen to that, and to the rustle of the wind in the trees outside my window.’
 
What wonderful thoughts can I think of right now, who can I send love to without uttering a word or lifting a finger. I AM unlimited… forever, and I AM FREE.
 
Do you think you would like to have an experience like that for five minutes? Well, you can. Start today, start NOW!! It will change your life!
 
So many of us are looking for a miracle that will come along and change our lives, some sort of magic that will instantly transform us from who we have been to who we would so dearly love to become. But you can’t go out and find someone to give you that, and if you do it will only be temporary. You can only become aware of how you are using your own thought energy, how you are using those ripples you send out from yourself. Once you take responsibility and control of these, then you will start to create your own miracles, your own magic. And the changes will be ongoing, permanent and forever.
 
Do you know that saying, ‘wherever you go, you are?’
 
You are your own creation, you can be in that place you choose, the one you think is only a dream right now, your own heaven… Heaven is not a place, it is a state of mind. And so is hell… How often have you created that, what has your balance been? Has it been more heavenly or more of that hellish place in your mind?
 
You see again I bet you are thinking you may well have been to that hellish place far more often, and that’s simply what your life is… The hell that surrounds you makes you feel miserable, that is why you feel so bad most of the time, that is why you distract yourself with a glass of wine or even a whole bottle, or you switch the telly on far too often, or go out to buy things that will make you feel better. But has that ever worked for you? Perhaps for a moment, then you slip quickly back into your hell.
 
You created all of that, all the good and all of the bad through your persistent thoughts, those ripples of energy you send out. Do you know what? You will easily uncreate them too by changing those thoughts… You can recreate whatever you choose to become your heaven…
 
Remember we talked about you being responsible for your life and where you are right now, experiencing what you are experiencing? It is all in your creative self, you draw everything to yourself by the thoughts you have. Every single thing. And you know what, five minutes a day sitting in your chair, deciding which of those thoughts serve you and eradicating those that don’t will transform your life. Everything in it. You can and will eventually change everything. EVERY THING!!
 
So why not be someone who practices being in the presence of your own heaven! And if that thought is too awesome for you in the beginning, too far beyond your comprehension, then just begin to play with it, just for five minutes a day, and I promise you will become a better thinking you pretty quickly.
 
Trust me. You will!!
 
And if you want to spend the rest of the twenty-three hours and fifty-five minutes you have each day thinking you are unloved, unlovable, feeling that everything is against you, that you are a victim of your circumstances, then go right ahead. That is your free choice. But please begin with those five minutes a day thinking of your own heaven, and I promise soon you will be very pleased you did.
 
For five minutes today, and every day I want you to experience yourself as your own creation, like a masterpiece that’s uniquely you. Plop yourself into your chair in this totally neutral corner of creation that is yours, and have the experience of sitting blissfully at peace in the perfection of who you are at this moment… And you know what, you might even find yourself daring to have thoughts like this… ‘Well, since I am the infinite creator of my life, what do I choose for all of my tomorrows?’
 
And if during those five minutes sitting in your chair there is a knock at the door or the telephone rings or you hear voices outside, remember you are sitting here, this is your time, all for you, just for you. Turn your mind back to the beauty of the world you are creating for yourself, because it is the path that leads to the future you.
 
It is not enough to just embrace your five minutes as an idea, as a concept that you are the creator of your own life… you must do it. YOU must put it into practice and it takes just five minutes, that’s all! And when you feel you can easily fulfil your five minutes, then make it ten, then fifteen and then twenty minutes. It will be like a drug being your own creator, knowing you are in total union with who you really are, free to begin creating different ripples you’ve never experienced before, knowing they will bounce back to you and become the world you see forming around you. There is no doubt about it. You just have to be persistent with the thoughts you choose to experience the future you.
 
This is you now coming off autopilot. There is no more flying blindly. It is you becoming confident that now you can take the controls and have a clean and level flight to where-ever you choose to go. 
 
© Simon Lawrence
 
Inspired by the way to mastery.



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 Wisdom and Teaching

5/5/2016

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How often do you find your mind wandering off to another place, to one of contemplation, of thinking, to a spot inside you that asks all those searching, even awkward questions…? It’s a place I inhabited nearly all the time I was at school. My teachers just thought I was staring out of the window, but to me it was much more than that. I was in a part of my imagination whose power I was yet to discover. Now with the benefit of hindsight I realise I seldom came back having paid any attention to the inspiration I was given, and even more rarely acted on it.

Unfortunately we think of imagination as something for the children, and then as they grow into school age we accuse them of daydreaming, to stop and get on with their learning. But what we are doing is impairing their greatest faculty, when we should be encouraging them to explore it more. Everything we see, everything we hear all started as an idea, a thought in someone’s imagination.

But I have found that when I do listen to that little voice inside my head, the inspirational one, the Mr truthfully me... the answers come to me in many different ways; as a sign, maybe simply a word someone completely unconnected with my own conversation may utter to their friend; someone just saying something that at first seemed completely out of context to the chat they were having, but resonates with the essence of the question I had asked in my mind sometime earlier. And sometimes it just appears in my mind as a flash of inspiration, like it’s been dropped in from somewhere external; from a place much bigger than me.

Being a writer can be a solitary occupation and it’s very easy to become disengaged from life, to lose the art of conversation, of the simple joy of mixing and enjoying the company of your friends and family or acquaintances. Typing one word after the last you created is, in fact, more arduous, more demanding than you might think. So to give myself the break I felt I needed and to rekindle my conversational and basic humanistic skills, I decided a spell teaching those things I knew well enough to pass on to others with the same enthusiasms would be a challenge for me, and as it turned out in part, a very enjoyable experience too.

Once there as inside every large organisation I realised there is a hierarchy and a tightly specified way of doing things, things I felt were all too often created by someone simply justifying their job. I know how cynical that sounds, but that was my interpretation, and having never had a proper job before I was very used to doing things in my own way.

I was often hauled before my superiors for not doing things the correct way, for creating my own curriculum, for having conversations about life and living rather than sticking rigidly to my photography lesson plan.

'But why do we not teach these children about awareness, honesty and responsibility?’ I would ask, ‘in preference to encouraging competition, where being the best and learning the most is given priority. We reward them for that, and we record and grade their entire performance while barely considering each of them in their own place and at their own pace.’ They would all sit there judging me with a critical eye, their Bic pens poised above the fire him without delay tick box. After a difficult moment of silence they would all nod at each other in agreement; and I was sent on my way with another warning; that I must do things the way they had always been done, using the methods that had proved to be the best teaching model they could come up with.

A week later in the staff room drinking my coffee and staring out of the window again, I would hear my name called ‘Errrr… Mr Lawrence would you like to make your way to the office please for your next appointment with the principal. His teams are waiting for you,’ his secretary would announce awkwardly but loudly enough for everyone else to hear as a warning, that stepping out of line would not be tolerated.

‘We do not enjoy having to do this Mr Lawrence, I’m sure any more than you like being asked to come and explain yourself,’ the principal’s principal speaker would say in a firm but sincere way. 'Please take a seat.'

I stood... looking down at the row of inquiring eyes watching me. ‘What is wrong with teaching these wonderful children about logic and critical thinking and problem solving in the context of my subject?' I asked. 'What is wrong with teaching them about self-creation and learning intuitively, using their deepest inner knowing, in preference to memorising rules and systems and ideas about our society that continually proves it’s wholly inadequate, entirely inept and unable to evolve beyond what we see all around us?’

’Because Mr Lawrence, this is the way we do things here,’ said the principal’s principal speaker.

‘Have you looked out of that window recently?’ I asked, pointing at the window covered entirely with a translucent blind. ‘We should be teaching concepts not just subjects. But you think this is some crazy whacko idea, but there has to be a better way! You don’t want these children to draw their own conclusions; you want them to come to the same conclusion as you do. There is always more than one point of view about everything. We are dooming them to repeat the same mistakes we all made. When did you last say we need to learn from that experience so we don’t do it again? And we think if we allow our children to do that, to analyse it… critically I mean and as part of their education then we run the risk of them disagreeing with how we created our part of history!’
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‘That is a subject perhaps we do not have time for Mr Lawrence!’ I quickly resigned before I was fired, and have since gone back to the arduous task of putting words into long lines.
















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Life's Like That...

18/4/2016

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An extract from Words to Live By Volume 2
Out soon in a Printed Edition and via Apple iTunes as an ebook. 

I was in town earlier, in Costa.. it was busy; full of exasperated mothers - their children forcibly at home I guess... I asked an elderly lady if I could share her table, she nodded without looking up from her newspaper... then took a sip from her tea...

'Life!’ said the women at the next table, ‘is a permanent headache!' Her companion agreed, they talked about the looming doctors strike and pensions and contributions... and tax... then getting summer flu again and the cost of running her Range Rover...

The little old lady at my table looked up as she folded her paper neatly down it's middle... 'I must admit,' she whispered, 'I rather enjoy my life!'

'So do I!' I said in my quietest voice…

'When I enjoy things,' she smiled, 'Like drinking tea for instance, or eating with my friends, a sunny day, or even another day!' She laughed... 'Or my hot water bottle in bed at night. Other people always seem to be thinking of unpleasant things... you know, it makes a difference,' she added as she got up to go...

'It makes all the difference in the world!' I said...

Simon Lawrence
 
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Riding High

3/3/2016

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An extract from Words to Live By Vol 2
Out soon in print and an ebook

​RIDING HIGH
‘We are currently running on empty’
John Zerzan

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'Ancient Images of Australia' was the title of a book my sister gave me for my eleventh birthday. During the 1970's, anything to illustrate Australia pre-1900 was considered prehistoric, and my new book chronicled the Colonial days of this remarkable country. It thrilled me with tales of those intrepid and heroic early explorers, men like Burke and Wills who in 1860 were the first to traverse the continent from south to north. When the English colonised Australia in 1788 very little was known about what lay further than the coastal regions and the Great Dividing Range, and many men died finding out what was there. I loved the colourful pictures illustrating the heady days of the gold rush, the inventiveness of new agricultural ideas in a hostile place, and how the fledgling economy had brought prosperity to so many seeking a new life in this far-flung corner of the kingdom.
 
When I was at school there were very few lessons about Aboriginal cultural history and only a modest acknowledgement of their existence in many of the books we read. In my colourful birthday book, there was nothing to perceive they existed at all. The first fleet of British ships sailed into Botany Bay in 1770, to a place apparently devoid of all human life. Captain James Cook stepped ashore, stuck a flag in the dusty soil and claimed sovereignty on behalf of the British people.
 
Someone somewhere had forgotten to introduce us to the indigenous Aboriginal Australians and write it into the school curriculum. Here was a civilisation that had colonised this huge continent for sixty thousand years, one of the longest surviving societies in human history, and they had been overlooked. Australia already had a unique identity, heaving with their wonderful artistic, musical and spiritual traditions.
 
However, despite my early education deficient in what really bordered my limited cultural ideas, I did love that book, and recently I found it again in my attic. Now it sits proudly on my bookshelf for a second time.

Its cover shows a lavish early painting of a Melbourne street my Father walked along every day to work. Unfortunately by the 1970s it had become a frenzied tarmac city road, flanked either side by high-rise buildings and lined at street level with department stores and busy restaurants. Sadly all the trees had long disappeared too. I often wish we could retain more than just a snapshot of how these places once were. I’d love to know what they smelt like and felt like to live in.

But then, pre-history is all around us. If you don't believe me, get up right now and go look out of the nearest window… Just for a moment, turn the TV off, or your computer, put your phone down or whatever is distracting you, and imagine the same landscape as it might have been one hundred, or even one thousand years ago. What would the lives of the people living there have been like? Picture what it must have been like living in a more sustainable and socially harmonious world. 

Perhaps like me, you might agree with the writer John Zerzan when he said, 'we are currently running on empty,' He also had the courage to ask… ‘how did we come to dedicate our lives to maintaining this mad tangle of supply and demand  that we call civilisation?’
 
When I look at the world outside my own window I sadly have to agree with him... but then, what can I do about it. What can any of us do?
 
Well, perhaps I have a trump card, and so do you. Like John Zerzan, I am a writer too, and I tend to dream, not only at night-time but all day as well. In fact, I daydream for a living, it’s what writers do… We quiet our minds into a trance like state, wait for the words to form and then write them down… Perhaps, in essence, that makes me a professional dreamer? Maybe we should all become practiced dreamers, full-time fantasists, because the biggest adventure we can take is to live in, and out, of a life full of our greatest imaginings. It is our imaginings, the thoughts we have and our dreams especially that create worlds. Together they change our view of what we see, what we perceive and how we deal with life and living. That allows us to then reconstruct a new humanity, a new world, one jam-packed with our own new and empowered experiences, and one for us all to share with each other.

Maybe if we all do that, now and forever… together, then in another thousand years from now or even just one hundred, when someone else looks out on the same scene you are right now, they will be very pleased you did, and that you helped to recreate something that eventually became wonderful again. 


© Simon Lawrence


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
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​Sight Unseen

3/2/2016

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An extract from Words to Live By Vol 2
Out soon in print and an ebook

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‘I think therefore I am’

The philosopher Descartes wrote those wonderful words ‘I think therefore I am.’ I recently gave a lecture to a group of dedicated and experienced amateur photographers. We talked about suitable angles, appropriate lenses, choices for deciding depth of field, proper colour balance, correct compositional techniques, geometric balances, effective crops, ephemeral gestures and decisive moments. But this group was different, distinctly unlike my usual gathering because, whilst a few were visually impaired, the remainder and by far the majority were completely blind… each of them suffering the physical handicap of not seeing what was directly in front of them or at best a blurred interpretation of what the rest of us could fully appreciate.

When my phone rang asking if I’d like to talk to them, I have to confess the first question I asked myself was… ‘if photography is the art of capturing a visual moment’ then how could someone who is blind appreciate what they had recorded and be a successful photographer? It seemed a contradiction. But after a wonderfully enlightening day together I now realise that for them, it’s as much of a pastime as if they had the benefit of sight. Their intention is the same as for those of us with full vision, each of us trying to catch essences, elements and moments. Perhaps it’s these blind photographers that prove Dorothea Lange the brilliant American portrait photographer’s statement when she said… ‘The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.’

Even though most of my students had absolutely no sight, what they did have was the ability to perceive something visual by building a mental image before capturing whatever they wished to photograph… walking around it, interacting with the subject to get a feel for what the lens would eventually record.   They were photographing what they imagined, the scene from a perspective free of sight-driven selection and self-censorship. The results were pure, unfiltered, and inherently conceptual.

We sat and chatted afterwards, over tea and later some beers too. ‘I can’t stop wondering what it must be like to live in the world without colour, without shape and form.’ I said. But it seems from our conversations that the physical handicap was not an essential part of their being, or of whom they were… lacking the ability to see was not in any way a part of their mind.

These five emphatic words… ‘I think therefore I am,’ was visible in each of them, they understood that a brightly enthusiastic mind was their tool for happiness and joy… bridging the dark unseen.

This wonderfully enlightening day taught me that it’s entirely possible for each of us to create light inside of us no matter what calamity might happen in our inner world.
 
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Words to Live By Free Giveaway

26/1/2016

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Simon

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True or False

24/4/2015

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I was mooching along a busy Brighton street this afternoon when a nice-looking young woman met me head-on, ‘I’m from the BBC’ she said earnestly, ‘can we ask you a question for tonight’s news?’

Her smile suggested that her offer of celebrity, albeit on the local news channel was just too enticing… that I'd not be able to help myself, that I'd immediately say, 'yes of course,' as I tripped over myself trying to get closer to the camera.

I’m sure you know what it’s like, during those moments you are pulled from your own private world and instantly hurled into someone else’s needs. My mind went promptly into somersault mode, trying to find something to get a hold of.

For a mere twenty seconds of celebrity, from the two and three-quarter billion of ordinary living I hope to accomplish during my entire life, I began to wonder if it was worth my already questionable reputation to say exactly what I felt about whatever she might ask?

I’m far more balanced in my opinions on a written page than articulating them at a moments notice, especially with a camera only inches from my nose; so probably not!

‘What’s the question?’ I asked. I sounded keen but really I wasn’t… ‘It’s about the UK supporting America in the fight against ISIS!’ she said enthusiastically. ‘Well,’ I said and smiled back as her colleague hoisted his camera to his shoulder and the sound-man lowered his boom just above my head…

‘I can’t really answer… I’m sorry! I’ve not got much of the story in here,’ I said tapping the side of my head, ‘to base a truthful opinion on!’

When I got back to my computer I began to think more of the consequences had I proffered my view… and that when I hear someone expressing theirs… about anything, what is it really based on, actual fact or on hearsay! Is it their belief, or simply an emotional response they have… with no foundation on any truth or real knowledge.

Do I ask the question… ‘How do you know that?’ Very rarely… or, ‘where did you get that information from, how do you know that’s true?’ Again it’s an uncommon ask from me because it puts our conversation immediately into an awkward place and I don’t like the feeling of that. So I tend to say nothing, just smile and nod as if I agree or change the subject to something I prefer.

But maybe sometimes I should be more daring, ‘are you acting on a guess, your assumption or perception of the facts?’ I should ask. Or, ‘how do you know that’s not someone else’s fiction, where are the facts? Is that opinion just based on your own bias, your own prejudices, intolerance and ignorance!?’

Perhaps that might lose a friend, be too harsh those words, get me a punch on the nose, wipe the smugness from my expression!

But I have found on my journey through life that I prefer those who don't offer wild, unjustified opinions about anything, especially other people… we are all on a journey to somewhere, and we all trip up regularly… it is called life.


I like people who stop and help those who have stumbled, give them a hand up again… especially if it’s moral support, rather than those who just stand and ridicule, deride… so often based solely on their own experiences of others having done the same to them.

We must remember it is our birthright… the privilege of having our own thoughts and we must treat these as our divine gift, to delight in them, give them the respect they deserve, but we must never let someone else do our thinking for us, or influence our thinking without first knowing what the real truth is.

It was just a thought.






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The Mistress of LIFE...

24/4/2015

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An extract from 'Words To Live By' Vol 1 
By Simon Lawrence



Our happiness, that great mistress of our dance through life, guides us in its meanderings… but leads none of us by the same path.

There is no single way to find happiness, so we must each find it in the way that most appeals, makes us smile that broad smile; we must follow our passion even and especially if those around us are telling us we’re crazy for trying it.

 If someone is telling you that now then don't listen. Their voice of caution knows nothing of real joy.

What joy is there doing something  you can easily do, where's the excitement in that?

Today try something that you could fail at… because that's really living… that is where you'll find your happiness. That is how you will grow into a better version of you.

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The Power of Believing (part 2)

24/4/2015

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An extract from 'It's All About YOU!' 
By Simon Lawrence
'The Power of Believing' 
Chapter 3





Part 2


Possessing a positive belief system is just the first step to creating a more successful life. Let’s take an example… you might have a positive attitude about money; you believe there are plenty of ways to make money, yet you only ever seem to have enough to get by.

Money comes in, and money goes out again, there never seems enough to create a more relaxed feeling about having plenty. That’s because somewhere deep in your subconscious you may be saying the opposite, that you will never have enough money, or who are you to think you deserve so much more.

Many of us have been brought up not to ‘believe’... society surrounds us, envelops us in believing life is tough, that we have to fight to get ahead, or even stay afloat. We are taught that if you can’t see it, touch it, then it’s not real, non-existent and that it is an unacceptable way of going about our lives to think otherwise.

Believing something is trusting that your deepest desires can and will happen. Believing is leaving no room what-so-ever that what you want will happen. So many of us in the rush and confusion of modern life are missing this element. Each day is taken up entirely at the beck and call of others, leaving little or no time for ourselves, time necessary to create our own future and fulfil our greatest ambitions.

If you truly believe that you can be happy, and achieve the dreams you have, then you will transform your life. That is all it takes... to believe! I’m going to ask you three questions.

•Do you believe, without a moments doubt that you can and will have exactly the life you desire?

•Do you believe wholeheartedly you will be guided to those goals, those desires those right situations to get where you want to be?

•Do you believe there is always a way to achieve your goals, even when you have setbacks?

If you wavered at any moment, then you don’t ‘believe’, and you won’t achieve the life you want.

To ‘believe’ is to trust entirely that everything will work out, that you have it in you to find solutions and a way of achieving your goals. Let me give you an example of true ‘believing’. If you have been fortunate enough to have had a beautiful son or daughter, or perhaps more than one, think of the first
time you saw them... did you ever doubt for a moment that they would not grow up; be able to walk and to talk to you, it was only a matter of time. Yet when you first held your child in your arms, it was incapable of doing anything. It couldn’t feed itself, tell you what it wanted, or how it felt; it couldn’t walk, it couldn’t do anything for itself. But did you ever doubt it would not develop these skills? The answer is no; not for one moment did you not believe that this beautiful child would grow up, unable to walk, and talk and communicate with you and the world.

Now, that is the sort of belief I’m getting at, that is exactly the belief structure you need in place to achieve your goals. You have to BELIEVE that what you most desire will come to you, without a doubt, you must trust that it is within you somewhere to create everything you wish for.

Ok you might be saying, I see some truth in what you say Simon, but how do I get that belief structure into my psyche. Well firstly you will get there by taking small steps. By setting small goals for yourself, even goals that you know will happen, then you must trust and let go – let go of doubt, just let go and let these things happen.

Sounds a bit too simple? Right, then lets take a simple scenario; going to work... driving, taking the train or bus, however you travel, simply trust you will get there on time, then let go… even and especially if you think you are going to be late and it is making you feel stressed... just relax, believe you will arrive on time, and then let the thought go. You will find you arrive on time, with no stress, you have had an easy trip. If you are late you will find that for some unfathomable reason it does not matter. Perhaps the person you were meeting was late too and you both arrived at the same time.

Try this... Next time you lose something, your car keys perhaps; tell yourself you know where they are, trust you will find them, then let go; do something else for a moment even if you are already late, and see what happens. I bet you find them!

Your subconscious knows exactly where you left them. When you relax and trust, a vision will come into your conscious mind reminding you where you left them. When you have a tough decision to make, in fact any decision you are not too sure about, tell yourself that you will come to the right conclusion, believe you will find the best result for you and those involved; then let go. That is the key, learn to let go, trust and let go, believe it will happen, disengage for a while. After a time you will discover the answer to your question, any question.

Worry is the reverse of trusting and believing, by worrying you are saying ‘I don’t believe,’ but at the same time trying to convince yourself that you can make it better, but you can’t, so disengage, trust, believe and see what happens. Develop small goals into your daily life, and then when you need to make the big decisions, you will trust the process and know it works – you will ‘BELIEVE’ that great things can happen for YOU and they WILL!

© Simon Lawrence





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Anything You Like...

24/4/2015

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An extract from 'Words To Live By' Vol 1 
By Simon Lawrence




Can we restart our lives from any moment?

What a simple question, yet one that might take a lifetime to prove! I can remember dark moments when I just wanted the world to stop… I wanted to get off. I didn’t think for a second what might come after that, or where I might end up!

Of course, I couldn’t stop the world, but that thought did became a recurring mantra for a few lingering years until I decided it was thinking that did not serve me.

I have a wonderful quote, but unfortunately, I don’t know who the author was. It is what brought closure to that part of my feelings. It goes something like this… ‘our lives are like reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite...’ I keep it pinned on the wall nearest to my computer as a reminder that tomorrow can be anything we choose to make it.

So many of us think of the future as being the same as we have always experienced it in the past, we will just be older and perhaps less able to cope. Anything else we call a dream.

But that is just a lazy, fearful place our mind is used to being, it is comfortable there. But what if we can take the mysterious, hazy future and turn it into anything we can imagine… into that dream?

We are all gardeners… we plant seeds, our seeds are the thoughts we have and we are precisely where we are right now, with every element of what is happening in our lives because of the thought-seeds we have planted in the past.

By planting first-class thought-seeds, we reap an excellent harvest, but by planting poor quality thought-seeds we get a useless crop. If we plant nothing at all then we have nothing to harvest!


When we choose to create a future that is better than the experiences of our past, then we must not contaminate the thought-seeds with the blunders we may have made before.

Who we think we are right now does not define who we can be, it is simply a reflection of who we have been. Our poor harvest is the result of our poor thought-planting, so we must begin to plant only the best-selected thought-seed and our future will be a reflection of that instead.

We will spend all of our lives living NOW, whilst NOW is always the planting season for what will come… every thought we have will affect our future and that is the beginning of creating a life of anything you like.

© Simon Lawrence

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