Once you have relaxed physically it's time to relax mentally. The best way to do this is to think of a place that is peaceful and serene. For example, close your eyes and conjure up a picture in your minds eye of a sunlit meadow and imagine lying down in warm grass with gentle sounds of nature all around you. Or a secluded, sun-kissed beach with sound of waves gently lapping shore and seagulls calling as they fly overhead could be your idea of perfect idyll. Whatever it is, imagine it as vividly as you can and relax into good feelings this process engenders. By time you've done this you'll be in perfect, relaxed state for second part of process.

So how do you use relaxed state you're now in to achieve everything you could possibly want? By using self-suggestion. Just decide what it is you want and phrase it in simple, positive sentences.

I'll give you an example. A common lack for a significant number of us is self-confidence. If this is something you could use an improvement in, mentally say to yourself (or speak out loud, if you'd prefer):

'From now on your self-confidence will grow at an ever-increasing rate. You have boundless self-confidence to draw upon whenever you need it. You are happy with who you are and have a tremendous feeling of self-worth. You know that you have within you all of power and confidence to achieve everything you desire. From now on you will handle every life situation with perfect ease and confidence'.

You can phrase new affirmations for anything that you want to achieve. Just make sure that they are positive in tone (NEVER have negatives in there - don't phrase them around what you don't want, or want to get rid of, phrase them around positive qualities you wish to manifest). Just use above as a model.

The more you use above technique (and I would advise you to get into habit of using it for at least fifteen to thirty minutes a day - preferably twice a day - morning and evening), easier it will get. If you have perseverance to make this technique a part of your life it really will bring you everything you desire.

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I enjoy that kind of work a lot. Touching things with my hands, physical labor. It's a nice change of pace for me. I work with my head, with people, with ideas, and with computers.

We were a human assembly-line and I thought of people who do that kind of work for a living. Maybe you do. We were able to talk, and were outside on two beautiful, sunny, breezy days. And it was only for 3 hours. I wondered what it would be like 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Abruptly it was over. “No more,” they yelled, and we passed it on down line. As we workers scattered, I gazed over sunny scene. The pumpkins, which had grown on ground were back there, only clean, and arranged orderly by size this time. Ashes to ashes, I thought, to same place returneth, but then scene became dynamic. The pumpkins had a lot in store for them. Already some were being used as backdrops for family photographs, while others were being carted off to become a jack-o-lantern, lawn pumpkin, or pumpkin pie.

My job, now completed, was part of a much larger scenario, yet from it I had harvested much. At Thanksgiving time, a time of harvest and bounty, I invite you to reflect on your work and your life -- mission and meaning side of it. The planting of seed part of it. The reaping what you have sown part of it. Have you? Will you?