I am going to ask you to something very weird right now. First of all, I want you to listen to your thoughts. Now tell me, what thoughts fill your head? Would you label them as positive, or negative?

Now let’s say you are walking down the street with these thoughts. Do you think anyone who would meet you would be able to tell you what’s on your mind?

The answer to number one is up to you. But, the answer number two can be pretty generic. Although people will not be able to tell you exactly what you think, they will more or less have an idea of how you are feeling.

Here’s another question. When you enter a party filled with friends, do they all fall silent as if something terrible had happened? Or does everybody there perk up as if waiting for something exciting to happen?

You know what? The answer to all these depends on your frame of mind.

Thoughts are very powerful. They affect your general attitude. The attitude you carry reflects on your appearance, too – unless, of course, you are a great actor.

And it doesn’t end there. Your attitude can also affect people around you.

The type of attitude you carry depends on you. It can be either positive or negative.

Positive thoughts have a filling effect. They are admittedly invigorating. Plus, the people around the person carrying positive thoughts are usually energized by this type of attitude.

Negative thoughts on the other hand have a sapping effect on other people. Aside from making you look gloomy and sad, negative thoughts can turn a festive gathering into a funeral wake.

A positive attitude attracts people, while a negative attitude repels them. People tend to shy away from those who carry a negative attitude.

We can also define attitude as the way of looking at the world. If you choose to focus on the negative things in the world, more or less you have a negative attitude brewing up. However, if you choose to focus on the positive things, you are more likely carry a positive attitude.

You have much to gain from a very positive attitude. For one, studies have shown that a positive attitude promotes better health. Those with this kind of attitude also have more friends. projecting a positive attitude also helps one to handle stress and problems better than those who have a negative attitude.

A positive attitude begins with a healthy self-image. If you will love the way you are and are satisfied, confident, and self-assured, you also make others are around feel the same way.

A negative attitude, on the other hand, has, of course, an opposite effect. So, carrying a negative attitude has a twofold drawback. You feel bad about yourself, and you make others feel the same way.

If you want to have a positive attitude, you have to feature healthy thoughts. This is probably very hard to do nowadays since, all around us, the media feeds us nothing but negative thoughts. A study shows that for every 14 things a parent says to his or her child, only one is positive. This is truly a saddening thought.

If you want a healthier outlook in life, you need to think happy thoughts, and you have to hear positive things as well. So, what can you do? Well, for starters, you could see a funny movie, you could play with children, spend some time telling jokes with friends. All these activities fill you with positive stimuli, which in turn promotes positive attitude.

Although it is impossible to keep ourselves from the negative things around us, you can still carry a positive attitude by focusing on the good things, the positive things in life.

And this positive attitude you now carry can be of benefit to other people. Sometimes when other people feel down, the thing people mostly do is try to give them advice. But sometimes, all they need is somebody to sit by them, and listen to them. If you have a positive attitude you may be able to cheer them up without even having to say anything.

If positive attitude is really great, why do people choose to adopt a negative attitude instead? One who carries a negative attitude may be actually sending a signal for attention. Before you get me wrong, feeling sad, angry, or gloomy is not wrong itself. But dwelling on these thoughts for far too long is not healthy either. There is a time to mourn.

As always, if you are beset by troubles, even in your darkest hour, focus on the good things in life, you will always have hope. Problems become something you can overcome.

You do not have much to lose by adopting a healthy, positive attitude. Studies show that such an attitude actually retards aging, makes you healthier, helps you develop a better stress coping mechanism, and has a very positive effect on all the people you meet every day. So, what’s not to like about a positive attitude? Adopt one today.

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Though I dislike to dwell on the subject, I feel that I should call the attention of my students to the fact that selected teachers seek to produce the abnormal psychic condition by means of guided meditations online exhausting breathing exercises, which make the person dizzy and sleepy.
This is everything wrong. Even if rhythmic breathing exercises have a a number of value in psychic phenomena, and are harmless as properly practiced, nevertheless such practices when those to which I have alluded are harmful to the nervous system of the person, and too tend to induce undesirable psychic conditions. Again, a few teachers have sought to have their students hold their breath for comparatively stretched periods of time in order to bring about abnormal psychic states. The slightest knowledge of physiology informs one that such a prepare must be harmful; it causes the blood to become thick and impure, and deficient in oxygen.

It sure will produce a kind of drowsiness, for the same reason that impure air in a room will do the same thing—in both cases the blood stream is poisoned and made impure. The purpose of rational and normal breathing is to obviate barely this thing—so these teachers are reversing a natural law of the body, in order to produce an abnormal psychic state. With everything the energy in me, I caution you against this kind of thing.

Along the same line, I protest and warn you against the practices advised by a number of teachers of “psychic development,” who seek to have their pupils induce abnormal physical and psychic conditions by means of drugs, odor of certain chemicals, gases, etc. Such practices, whilst everything true occultists know, belong to the clans of the Black Magicians, or devil worshippers, of the savage races—they have no place in true occult teachings. Common sense alone free online meditations should warn persons away from such things—but it seems to fail a few of them. I assert without fear of intelligent contradiction, that no true occultist ever countenances any such practices as these.

All the true teachers are vigorous in their denunciation of such false teachings and harmful practices. In this same category, I place the methods which are taught by particular persons, namely, that of inducing abnormal physical and psychic condition of giddiness and haziness by means of “whirling” around in a circle until one drops from giddiness, or until one “feels queer in the head.” This is a revival of the practices of various fanatics in Persia and India, who perform it while a religious rite until they fall into what they be concerned about a “holy sleep,” but which is nothing more than an abnormal and unhealthful physical and psychic condition. Such practices are a downward step, not an upward one. It seems a pity that the necessity has arisen for such warnings when these—but my duty, when I glimpse it, is very plain. To everything who are tempted to “develop” in this way, I say, positively, “DON’T!”

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As I’ve mentioned, I set this site up to help people looking to help themselves. And properly using self help audio techniques can quickly get you where you want to go. But even with a program as simple and effective as Quantum Mind Power (what I use daily, as I’ve mentioned many times  ), there is one thing you have to remember:

CHANGE TAKES EFFORT!

Many people become extremely disenchanted with the gigantic promises that different self help audio programs offer, only to find out they aren’t nearly as magical as they claim to be. You still have to want to change, and believe that you can change. For some people this isn’t news, for others it can be very overwhelming.

So as an assist to the self help audio methods I recommend on my site, I also offer a free newsletter, Weekly Positive Affirmations. Each week I will send you a very simple affirmation to think about, reflect on, and take action with. Let me help you stay on the path you want. Sign up for my newsletter, and you will also receive a FREE ebook with even more information on my favorite self help audio technique, brainwave entrainment.

-Noelle

P.S. After you sign up for my newsletter, be sure to read Effective Affirmation Techniques, an amazing article that will help you get the most out of your affirmations.

Remember, self-help is all about taking action, so make sure you do!

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So we’ve mentioned that our brains produce sweeping electrical charges, known as brainwave patterns. And that altering those patterns can affect our life. But what does all that really mean, and how is this related to self help audio?

First off, there are 4 categories of brainwave activity: Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta. All brainwave patterns are measured by their frequencies or speed in a measurement known as Hertz(HZ). Now this isn’t a scientific blog, so I’m not going into the super technicals on that, but just know this is how brainwave patterns are described.

There can be some discrepancies on the absolute ranges for each category, but then again this is why these are general categories. So don’t be surprised if you find ranges slightly off from what I’m giving here.

Beta Waves, (around 12HZ to 30 Hz), are associated with regular waking consciousness. When you are active in a conversation, general work, or reading a book, your brain is operating with a strong amount of beta waves.

Alpha Waves (8Hz to 12Hz) are produced when you are relaxed. They’re generally grouped with enhanced creativity and accelerated learning. Those that practice light meditation are generally in an alpha state of mind.

Theta Waves (4Hz to 8Hz) generally occur when you’re in a “zoned out” place. Have you ever been driving a long distance and been startled to realize how much time has passed without you actively paying attention? You were in Theta mode. Theta waves are associated with deep meditation and relaxation.

Delta Waves (0.5Hz to 4Hz) are produced when you are in a state of unconsciousness and deep sleep. When you conk out into a deep dreamless sleep, you’ve found yourself in delta.

So how does this tie into self help audio? Well remember what we learned about brainwave entrainment; the brain is stimulated with a certain frequency or set of frequencies, our brainwaves will align with these frequencies. So let’s say you have a huge problem getting to sleep. Well, if you exposed yourself to a set of delta waves for around 30 minutes, your brain would sync up with those frequencies, produce delta brainwaves, and you’re off to sleep in no time.

Are you beginning to see the amazing power behind all this? Good. In the next article, I’ll discuss my absolute favorite brainwave entrainment audios.

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While searching online for self help audio solutions (hypnosis being the focus), I stumbled across the term “brainwave entrainment.” It seemed to have a huge buzz about it, and my curiosity was piqued. Looking further into this was probably the best thing I could have done for myself.

That’s great and all, but seriously what is brainwave entrainment? Well, brainwave patterns are “sweeping” electrical charges, produced by the brain, that create rhythms. Commonly grouped into four general patterns (Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta), brainwave patterns are associated with various states of mind. And the word “entrainment” is borrowed from physics and basically refers to the tendency for two vibrating bodies to lock into phase so that they vibrate in harmony. So brainwave entrainment, by reason of deduction, is getting your brainwaves to vibrate in harmony with another vibrating body.

Sound a little confusing? Ok, here’s an example. Imagine two tuning forks side by side:

See, Two Tuning Forks!

If you strike the one on the right hold it close to the one on the left, they will begin to vibrate at the same frequency. And essentially, this is what brainwave entrainment sets out to do. Listening to a certain set of frequencies for an extended period of time will enable your brain to synchronize with the frequency, thus changing your brainwave pattern.

Ok, this still sounds like a sci-fi fiction story. What’s the point?

As I briefly mentioned, each grouping of brainwave patterns (Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta) are associated with certain states of mind. Alpha waves, for instance, are associated with increased creativity, relaxation, and meditation. So you know those people that always seem to be calm no matter what’s going on? They’re brain produces a decent amount of Alpha brainwaves as a default.

In the next article, I’ll talk more about the varieties of brainwaves and how they affect our behaviors.

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