Achieving Your Dreams and Goals

By Remez Sasson 

Achieving your dreams and goals depends on several factors: 

1. You should have a specific goal. 
2. You have to be sure that you really want to achieve your goal. 
3. You need to have a clear mental image of your goal. 
4. You need a strong desire. 
5. You need to disregard and reject doubts and thoughts about failure. 
6. Show confidence and faith and persevere until you gain success. 

How many people fulfill all the above-mentioned requirements? Just a few! Most people do not know that there are laws governing success, which should be followed. 

It is so easy and simple to daydream and then say, "Well it is just a daydream. It will never come true". It is so easy to give up due to lack of faith. 

Achieving your goals shouldn't be a tough ordeal. In fact, it can be fun and pleasure, if you go in the right way. It is not hard physical work that brings success. Great success does not require hard physical labor. In fact, you need to do mental work. 

Visualization and repeating affirmations make up this mental work, and are important stepping stones to achieving success. When you visualize and affirm, you focus and channel your energies toward your goal. Your mind is geared toward finding solutions to bring your goal into manifestation. 

By thinking in a positive manner on your goal, and not letting any doubts enter your mind, your intuition starts working, you see opportunities, and you have energy at your disposal to follow your goals and dreams. 

Some people listen to subliminal messages, for programming their minds for success. There are many CD's available today, which implant subliminal messages into the mind, so as to activate its power. Some people prefer to use them, because this does not require any effort on their part. It is said that these subliminal messages, which go straight to the subconscious mind, bring faster results. Maybe they do, but then you have no control on what goes into your mind. 

When you visualize and affirm your goals, you gain much more than just programming your mind passively with subliminal messages. The attention, intention and energy you channel toward visualizing and affirming, develop in you inner strength, concentration, willpower and self-discipline. You actively develop your inner powers. 

One of the advantages of visualization and affirmations is that you can use them wherever you are, at any time, without the necessity of any external instruments. All you need is your mind. 

Success appears in various ways, sometimes in a miraculous way, sometimes in an ordinary way, and sometimes through an opportunity that appears. A door opens, but you have to get in and take advantage of the opportunity. 

Correctly following these methods will bring you more ambition, inspiration and motivation, which would enhance your chances of success. 

Remember, there are big goals and there are many small daily goals, which visualization and affirmations can make them easier and faster to achieve.

10 Steps to Contact Your Inner Being

Each of us is connected with the Divine. The Higher Self within us far transcends the understanding of our conscious minds. This is the power that all the great geniuses and teachers have ascended to. Also, it is the place of magic and miracles in our lives. Here are the steps to get it back:

1. The first step is to Believe that you have a Higher Being who communicates! Then expect that this communication will improve each day, as you focus diligently on inner growth. Without these two essential prerequisites, it is difficult to achieve anything in life, even at the physical level. These two qualities are essential to domestic growth. So set a Goal to achieve contact with the Higher Self, review that goal every day and keep your purpose with determination until success is yours.
2. Transform Your Worldview. We are primarily educated in a materialistic world view that denies the role of the Spirit. To establish a close contact with spiritual realms, we need our entire being - conscious and subconscious - congruent with our goal. In any activity or game, you have to set the rules and how you play. Contact with your Higher Self is the same. Therefore, written or teachers looking to expand your understanding of the universe, primarily as a realm of Consciousness and Mind.
3. Aloneness. Find time for yourself regularly, which can be totally alone. It is preferable to a quiet place. Just sit quietly with no expectations. Do nothing. This may seem awkward and strange at first. Persist. You are giving time and space to the inner voice for listening. It will either happen during that quiet time, or during the day's events. A synchronistic event might occur, someone telling you exactly what you need to hear, or you'll get a flash of intuition. All the great geniuses of history have been having a regular time of silence and solitude for themselves. You should too.
4. Meditation. In meditation, you work to discipline your mind and silence the internal chatter that always fills it. You create a pure vessel to receive the Higher Self. Following your breath is an excellent meditation discipline, as is gazing steadily in a flame (Tratak). Or visualize a golden ball of light in your Solar Plexus that fills your whole body with energy and healing. There are many practices that you can study and use.
5. Journal. Record your feelings, emotions, dreams and insights every day in a journal. This will help you get into closer contact with your deep intuition. You can ask questions to your Higher Self here, and then record any answers or insight you receive. If you do this regularly with belief and expectation, you will get the answers you need.
6. Internal Dialogue. Drive a regular inner dialogue with your Higher Self. Over the next 40 days, decide to stay in touch throughout the day. Tell your Higher Self "I know you're there and want to meet and get attention. Please guide my life." Do not worry if this dialogue is entirely one way at first. Remember that you've been out of contact for decades. It takes time to clear the cobwebs! Persist with this inner dialogue as if talking to a friend, talking, asking questions, sharing your hopes and begin to hear the answers.
7. Life Lessons. See life as a Mystery School. All your life events, situations and people, have been structured precisely in order to teach you exactly what you need to know now. Take life as if all creation were conspiring to your benefit! When something happens in your life, for better or worse, ask yourself what is the lesson for you. Even unpleasant people or situations have been deliberately placed there as a challenge to help you grow. When you start seeing your life as a work in which you're playing the lead role, the Higher Self will become increasingly evident in your life. Record your findings in your journal. 
8. Dreams. Expect your Higher Self to speak to you in dreams. Before bed have some stretch and relax your body completely. Ask your Higher Self something and wait for the answer. When you wake up, remember what you can from your dreams and write in your journal. If you're not used to remember your dreams, this will take time and persistence. However, with patience, you will begin to remember your dreams AND receive answers from your Higher Self. 
9. Consciousness. Focus on living more and more in the present, in the NOW. When you're eating, be aware you're eating. When you walk, know that you are walking. The only real moment is Now. The past is gone forever and the future has not yet arrived. Therefore, work on clearing your mind of concerns, illusions and extrapolations. Limit the chatter of the mind and create a space for the Higher Self.
10. Patience! Remember, you have spent your entire life without contact with the Source. Therefore, it takes time to learn how to re-establish contact. Everything worthwhile takes time and practice. Be vigilant and practice these steps every day, and you'll get the answers you need. Remember: The Higher Self wants to be in contact. In fact, just talking to him as someone separate from you is contradictory. The Higher Self is you! Your True Self. So get in touch with you!

Posted by brigid rose on August 30, 2011

Swami Sevaratna

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Life is About Letting, Rather Than Getting

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Meet the Real You!
Most people do not have an authentic sense of who they really are. They are not really certain where they have come from, or where they are going. And, most importantly, they do not understand why they are here on this planet Earth, and what their purpose is for being here.


There are ways for moving from an ego-based world-view to a more enjoyable and holistic perspective. There is nothing more exciting, or important, than learning who we really are and why we are here.


How to Live the Life of Your Dreams
Everyone has dreams, hopes, and desires for their life. Everyone wants to feel happy, fulfilled and loved. But many people do not know how to live the life of their dreams. There is a difference between living life from the conditioned ego-mind and living life from your authentic self. 


Your conditioned surface ego-mind may tell you that you need many things to be happy, an impressive plaque on the office door, a private yacht, a "trophy" husband or wife, and so on. Your authentic self knows what TRULY makes you happy. 


Often people who seem to have everything -- fame, success, beauty, a big bank account, exotic travels, and so on -- are STILL very unhappy and we read about their drug addictions, failed relationships, alcohol fueled excesses and so on in the gossip columns of the papers. The reason for this is that we can acquire many things, but if we do not love ourselves and know WHO WE TRULY ARE, happiness will continue to elude us. 


Life is about letting, rather than getting. There is nothing wrong with acquiring beautiful things, but joy, happiness and fulfillment always arise from within, never from any external circumstances. 


To begin to get to know the Real You, the You that the Universe intends you to be, the You that Universal Mind knows you to be, ask yourself these questions, “What are the things I love to do, that bring me joy and fill me with passion? What are the talents I am blessed with? What things come naturally to me? What skills have I developed that I enjoy sharing?” 


When we frame our questions in the larger context of Divine life, the answers come easily. Questions such as, “How can I be Love right here and now? How can I express the great Joy of God here where I stand? How can I reflect the Divine Creativity at this moment?” These are questions of soul purpose. Using affirmations, meditation techniques and positive visualization, you can start living your life from a position of authenticity, power, and inspired creativity.




Σουαμι Σεβαρατνα 
Λαοδικης 34, Γλυφαδα, Τηλ.: 210 - 96 81 793