How are you feeling? It's more of a brain question than you think.

Written by Andrew Abernathy


How you respond to How are You reveals a great deal about you.

"Hi! How are you?" "Not bad, you?"

How many times have you started a conversation this way? I'll bet you do it nearly every time you say hello. We have been trained torepparttar cultural activity of inquiring of our friends and acquaintances well being, even if we don't really care. It'srepparttar 123008 civil thing to do. But I'm going to focus on your response to this ubiquitous question.

Last month I introducedrepparttar 123009 PINT concept (Put It iN Thought), now I'm going to expand this concept to how it can begin to really make a change in your daily life. If you remember, PINT makes thoughts reality. When we extend what we say asrepparttar 123010 reflection of what we are thinking PINT becomes our reality.

Now if I respond torepparttar 123011 ever present "how are you?" question with something like "OK, I guess" then I am reflecting indecision or even negative thoughts about how I feel or even who I think I am. If I respond with "Man, my shoulder is really killing me this morning. I must have slept on it wrong again." Then I am letting my physical condition rule my mental condition. Hurt and pain are negative impulses made to inform us of a dangerous or inappropriate activity. It is negative response to a negative activity. You body is saying 'Quit that, it hurts!'

I'm going out on a limb here for a bunch of you, but I have proven this over and over again in my own life. Overrepparttar 123012 past two years I have purposefully changed how I respond to this simple question. I always answer with a positive. I'm not just great, I'm Fantastic, Happy, Gigantic or even Awesome. You see when I overcomerepparttar 123013 physical and emotional aches and pains with a positive response I begin to feel better. It's just putting PINT into practice. Thoughts become reality after all. Your non-conscious brain doesn't knowrepparttar 123014 difference.

To Be is to Become

Written by Andrew Abernathy


To make change effective, you have to BE what you want to BECOME.

There is a concept that I'll bet you have heard about most of your life. It goes something like this-"You can do anything, if you put your mind to it."

Some of us have learned that there is more to this than just a quaint old saying or proverb. In fact it isrepparttar basis for all successful people I have ever met. I know it isrepparttar 123007 basis of allrepparttar 123008 success I have ever known. Before you can receive success you must see and BE that success. I likerepparttar 123009 word believe for one reason--it holdsrepparttar 123010 secret to all your success. BE-LIeVE or BE - LIVE.

When you believe something is true, that fact becomes a part of you. You become what you believe.

Believing first pavesrepparttar 123011 way for success in all areas of your life from your spirituality to family relationships, work, and relationships with others. Accumulations of experiences, money, power or authority do not bring happiness or success in any area of your life.

Do you have to belong to a group or do certain outward acts to gain vitality? No. In fact, in many cases people have learned that activities and belonging to groups often make them more miserable. They feel like they are obligated and don't understand why when they were toldrepparttar 123012 activities wererepparttar 123013 pathway to personal growth.

Do you have to have money to obtain freedom or independence? No. There have been stories of people who have giving away most all their possessions (do not possessions usually wind up POSSESSING us?) and obtained more freedom and independence. I have known many successful people and each of them have experienced significant losses and setbacks that would make you think they would give up because they had "lost everything."

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