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Overcome Anxiety and Depression
The secret to overcoming both anxiety and depression is to be present.
When you are in the present moment it is impossible to create anxiety or depression.
Anxiety and depression are caused by chronic thinking.
When present, you can stop thinking.
Simply be present more often.
Meditations are arguably the best techniques for becoming and staying present and not thinking.
Love and gratitude are also great options.
However, you’ll need to fix your subconscious beliefs to overcome past chronic thinking.
How to Never be Lonely
Loneliness is the result of beliefs that you are separate.
You feel lonely because you have thoughts and beliefs that you are separate.
Eliminate or change those thoughts and beliefs to you and everything is connected.
When you stop thinking and believing that you are separate and that you are connected to everything and everyone, you will never feel lonely again.
If your mind just told you that this won’t work because it’s too simple, we should talk.
Flow State vs. Play
Flow State is a state of being often employed by extreme athletes.
Here’s the Wikipedia definition: In positive psychology, a flow state, also known colloquially as being in the zone, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.
It seems to me to be extremely similar to play.
Read my book The Secret to Happiness to see what I mean.
Better Problems
This is a happy mistake I personally experienced.
I thought it would be a good idea to have no problems. I was wrong.
You don’t want to have no problems, you want BETTER problems.
For example, I like the problem of having to choose again where I’m taking my next vacation.
Visualization
This is a great mind hack for getting what you want.
Simply visualize that which you want with as much detail as possible.
Imagination is the key.
Besides seeing, use smell, feel, taste, etc. Make it as real as possible.
The more “real” it is, the closer to actuality it becomes.
Very Simple!
The Easiest Mind Hack Ever
Arguably the easiest mind hack ever.
Simply spend as much time as possible each day in gratitude.
Do it before or after sleep, eating, activities, circumstances, events and experiences.
Do it more for what you are truly most grateful for and you’ll get more of it.
Again it starts with being conscious. Then take action and do it.
Better Self Talk
Unhealthy, unwanted, unnecessary, divisive, limiting, ineffective and disempowering self talk causes low frequency vibrations.
Low frequency vibrations attract negative, unhealthy and unwanted people, circumstances and experiences into your life.
This drains your energy and propels you downwards towards disease, destruction, decay and death.
Overly dramatic, maybe? True, definitely.
How to Meditate
The simplest, and arguably the best, way to meditate is to get comfortable, relax, straighten your spine, take several deep breaths then breathe naturally.
Then, simply observe your thoughts, wait and watch with no judgment. Nothing is to be done.
And, every time you find yourself distracted, bring yourself back to watching again.
The idea is to consciously stop thinking, or at least increase the gaps between thoughts. That’s it.
Rate Your State
This is a great mind hack to increase your awareness and become more conscious.
And this mind hack is really easy too.
Simply, multiple times a day, rate your state. On a scale of one to ten, how great do you feel?
Ten being the highest, feeling amazing, healthy, at ease and fulfilled. One being the lowest, feeling like crap, unhealthy, tired, frustrated, and suffering like nothing will ever go your way. That’s it.
Rating your state will help you become aware of how you are feeling and anything that can be measured can be improved.
This is a great activity to do before and after different activities like meditations and mind hacks but also works for the most mundane activities too.
Then, reduce or eliminate whatever activities decrease your state ratings.
The Power of Yes
This is one of the easiest mind hacks to implement.
Simply become aware of each time you say “No”.
Saying “NO” feeds the ego. Saying “Yes” expands your universe.
Start saying “Yes” more frequently.
I’m not telling you to be careless or unsafe, but be aware of how often you needlessly say no because of fear or some other excuse.
Start saying “yes” and watch all the amazing things that start happening in your life. That’s how easy it is!