#6 Stepping into your Future_The Art of Goal Setting & Achieving Series

 

Quote of the day:

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” \

– Nelson Mandela

You have chosen your goal, it’s time start working towards what you want. We have built the foundation (mental Faculties) and we will start building upon it. Let us step into the manifestation process of your desired good. The speed will be based on your intensity of application of both the mental and physical actions. 

Influencing your Thoughts:

According to scientists, the average person has between 18,000 - 50,000 thoughts a day!! Depending in your ‘default setting’/ personality or temperament, some of this thoughts will enter your unconscious mind without any resistance or evaluation i.e they will by-pass your ‘gate keeper’ or conscious mind without your knowledge. 

How do you protect your mind from the mental assault? 

Since you can not monitor all the incoming thoughts, you need an effective strategy. Interrupting your internal dialogue is one of the most effective way. The battle for your life is not physical but spiritual/vibrational in nature. Considering that the brain is a switching station and pick up information from our surrounding, you can redirect the energy flow by changing the running script.

• Speak - Your words curry vibrational power. When released, they influence the environment which returns to you what you sent

2 Cor 10:3-5 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For

 the weapons of our warfare are not [a]carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

 

Chose your thoughts carefully, if repeated frequently, they have power to change your destiny.

“Thoughts are language of the brain, feelings are the language of the body.” Dr. J Dispenza.

 

Understanding your Feelings - 

This is the language of the subconscious mind. They make us feel + towards or - from. What kind of feelings do you experience when you imagine your goal? If you have set a good goal that will stretch your capacity both mentally and physically, you will generate foreign uncomfortable feelings. This is followed by associating the feelings with either positive or negative past experiences.

Positive and negative emotion help orient you as you work toward achieving your goals. Your mind acts as a series of maps that specify a journey. These maps help you perceive goals and aims, understand where you are, and calculate a path forward. Positive and negative emotion function to help you understand your location relative to your goals and to motivate you toward or away from them. 

 

We perceive those emotions as a measure of how effective and valid the map is. We calibrate our emotions, both positive and negative, based on the emotions of those around us. The more you make progress towards your goal, you will increase positive feeling within yourself.

 

Prov 15:13 -  A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the  heart crushes the spirit.

 

By moving towards the new set goal, you will experience strange feelings in your body. This will come as a warning sign that you are moving away from the norm. It’s a sign of growth. You subconscious is telling you that you are entering new territory and you should be ware of risks. This is the place we either move back to safety or forward into growth.

Your feelings need to be updated in line with the emotions needed for the new destination. This will happen via your imagination. Since the mind doesn’t know reality from imagined ‘fiction’, we use our imagination faculty to produce the images and feelings of the new future. Your nervous system will log the new sensations in your body which will make it easier for you to repeat the imagined action in real life.

Automatic Action:

This is an indication of growth. The strange feelings are an indication that you are moving into the known/comfort zone into the unknown. It doesn’t matter if the action is imagined or real, it will feel strange. You are more likely to move forward into growth or backwards into ‘safety’. If you have ever made a sales call, attended the first interview or had to introduce yourself to a new person or crowd, you know that feeling. 

In order to take consistent action towards growth, you can start taking the journey mentally, record the feeling in your body and make it familiar to your nervous system. You will need to engage your imagination and be open to the possibility or the mental image becoming a reality. The intensity of reality and frequency of repetition you employ will determine how fast you can take real physical action without thinking to run back to safety. This is what it means to walk by faith and not by sight. 

 

Mark 11:24: Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

 

Understanding your Results:

The law of sowing and reaping dictates that whatsoever a man saws, he will reap. 

 

If you take actions, there will be corresponding and equal reaction. The results you get will not be as imagined. In fact, they are more likely to be way off. However, do not be discouraged. Know that it is working. Have faith and go into your ‘closet’ and pray - ask and receive in your mind and heart. Feel the waves of gratitude and then get back in the field and repeat the actions over and over again. 

 

Do not give up your vision of good until you receive. It is important to realise that the higher the quality of your goal, the higher the test. In the peruse of your goal, it will appear as if you are ‘loosing’ money, time sleep or even your mind. That is the point you need to recalibrate.

 

Calibrating Thoughts, feelings and actions:

The results you get initially will not be what you expect. In fact, they will be out of alignment with your goal. So before you get frustrated, remember that the road is not the destination. There are no straight roads in life.  

Remind yourself why is it so important for you to get the result you want. Are you making progress? Are you getting comfortable with the discomfort?

Could this be the way it is supposed to feel?

Summery - stepping out of the past into your goal:

• On average, your brain will process over 30,000 thoughts. Capture them with you spoken word.
• Your feelings are indicators if you are moving towards or away from your goal. Strange feelings will manifest if you are growing.
• If your results do not match your expectation, analyse them in relation to your goal and do what works. Seek help from a person who has manifested similar goals. 

 

Phil 4:8 

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

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