Your Need To Know

How happy are you?  You may think you know, but this little test will help you keep score. The Satisfaction with Life Scale was devised in 1980 by University of Illinois psychologist Edward Diener, a founding father of happiness research.  Since then, this scale has been used by researchers around the world.

Read the following five statements.  Then use a 1-7 scale to rate your level of agreement with a score of 1 meaning  not at all true, 4 meaning moderately true and 7 meaning absolutely true.

A.  In most ways my llife is close to my ideal.

B.  The conditions of my life are excellent.

C.  I am satisfied with my life.

D.  So far I have gotten the important things I want in life.

E.  If I could live my life over I would change almost nothing.

Scoring: 

31-35 = Extremely Satisfied

26-30 = Very Satisfied

21-25 = Slightly Satisfied

20 = Neutral

15-19 = Slightly Dissatisfied

10-14 = Dissatisfied

5-9 = Extremely Dissatisfied

Polls have shown that Americans are overwhelmingly happy and optimistic people.  One poll of over 1000 adult Americans revealed that 78% are happy most or all of the time.  Need to improve your happiness score? Here are a few simple things you can do everyday to help you be happy. As Happy as You Wanna Be

Gina

Part II – Limiting Beliefs - This is the second installment in a series of articles on the Law of Attraction and how to make it work in your life. Read Part I Here.

Limiting beliefs are simply those beliefs we hold that prevent us from seeing all the possibilities.

Our beliefs are very powerful things. We live by what we believe and we fight for what we believe. When someone attempts to change our beliefs, we resist. To us, our beliefs are the facts. And we can’t change the facts, right?

The fact is the world is flat!

Something heavier than air cannot fly!

No man could ever walk on the moon!

All these statements have been proven false, but before they were proven true, they were seen as foolishness. Conventional wisdom dictated these things could never happen.

On a personal level, you may have some limiting beliefs concerning yourself. You may think you are not talented enough to accomplish a certain goal. You may think you don’t have the knowledge, the education, or the personality, or the money, or whatever it is to do what you want to do. You may have “I can’t because…” limiting beliefs about yourself.

The limiting beliefs you have of yourself represent an accumulation of experiences acquired throughout a lifetime. Since 95 per cent of all people lean toward the negative side, it is most likely that you have a negative impression of yourself.

Sometimes our beliefs are not true. We just think they are. And certainly you don’t have to believe in something for it to be true.

Are the Laws of the Universe not true for everyone simply because we don’t believe in them?

We probably all know people who have achieved extraordinary things in their life. Have you ever wondered why some people seem to sail through life effortlessly but most don’t? Or, why some people always seem to be confident, at ease, and fulfilled but most don’t? Or, why some people standout as charismatic achievers but most don’t? Are you one of these people? Do you suppose that maybe these people just have a different system of beliefs about themselves and the world around them?

Our system of beliefs (conscious and unconscious) is a learned system. We learned it, and we can just as easily unlearn it. We unlearn it by replacing it with a new system.

Science is now catching up with what great healers, visionaries, and spiritual leaders have been telling us for years. It is now proven that our life is a reflection of our focused thoughts. You are what you think.

It‘s necessary then to change our limiting negative beliefs to positive thoughts. Offering these new positive thoughts to our subconscious will create a new belief system instead of the belief system our parents and our environment have taught us.

We only see what we believe is possible. If we would just open our minds to the possibilities, we just might see them….to be continued

Stay tuned for Why the Law of Attraction Doesn’t Work - Part III – Changing our Limiting Beliefs

Gina

Part I - This is the first installment in a series of articles on the Law of Attraction and how to make it work in your life.

The Law of Attraction and the power of positive thinking certainly are getting a lot of attention these days.  The release of  the book and movie “The Secret” has spawned hundreds of web sites, books, television shows, etc. Why do you suppose such a positive film about attracting positive things in your life, by focusing on the positive side of things, attracted so much negative controversy?

The problem with the Law of Attraction is that most people don’t believe it.  We don’t believe in our own power.  We don’t believe in our own abilities. 
We don’t believe that there is simply nothing we cannot be, do or have.  Most people scoff at that idea. 

So the question is: Why don’t we believe in the Law of Attraction?

We have been programmed not to.  For the most part, we believe what our parents believe.  We believe what we have been taught.  We’ve been taught to be “realistic”, that some people are just lucky, what we should be afraid of, that we should learn discipline, try harder, work harder, study more….and on and on.

We have also been taught through our experiences.  Everything thing we have been taught, have done, and have experienced since childhood has combined to create all of our beliefs. The idea of repeating affirmations that you will become rich, and then sitting back and waiting for it to happen is just not “realistic.”

The bottom line is that we have limiting beliefs about the Law of Attraction. 
Throughout your life, you have been taught all kinds of things. You were taught how to walk, how to talk, how to read, how to write, and how to tie your shoes.  But no one ever taught you how to use the Power of Your Mind and your Subconscious mind to really achieve your goals in life.  Before “The Secret” book and movie, who ever heard of such a thing?  I suppose not many.  After all, it was a “secret.”

The fact is, whether we believe it or not, the Law of Attraction is constantly at work in our lives.  Working both to our benefit and to our detriment.  Most people are simply living their life on auto-pilot accepting what comes to them.  Most people live their entire lives without ever understanding anything about their subconscious mind.  And because of that, their lives may be unhappy, unfulfilled, mediocre and generally missing any real meaning.

The key to making the Law of Attraction work DELIBERATELY in your life is to eliminate or change the limiting beliefs.  It is simple.  But it’s not easy. It takes discipline and desire.

And NO, you can’t just repeat affirmations that you will become rich and sit back and wait for it to happen.  It doesn’t work that way….to be continued.

Stay tuned for Why the Law of Attraction Doesn’t Work - Part II - Limiting Beliefs

Gina