Don’t Overthink It (WT696)

Don’t Overthink It (WT696)

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by Shirley Dalton | 27 Oct, 2023 | Blog, Mindset

WT 696 Don't over think it

Maybe this resonates with you.

The alarm went off and I hit the snooze button.

I was reluctant to get out of bed.

“I’m nervous”, I turned to Ross.

“How come?” he asked.

Today was the day I was to start going to a new gym.

Ross had been going to another one for about a year. I hadn’t been to a gym since we started travelling in the motorhome back in 2019.

I was anxious.

I had been waiting for a week for a personal trainer to get back to me because I wanted a program and to be shown how to use the equipment. I’m still waiting (that’s another business story).

I shared all my insecurities with Ross.

“Don’t overthink it, Shirl”, he said.

He was right. I was in my head, imagining all sorts of negative scenarios.

“I am old. I’m fat. I’m unfit. I don’t know how to use the equipment. I don’t want to hurt myself”, the list went on.

“You’re overthinking it.”

“Just get ready and we’ll go”, encouraged Ross.

I was surprised that a pair of my old gym pants actually fit. Well that was a positive.

I was still anxious as we entered the gym.

I got on the walker. At least I could manage that.

As I walked, I paid attention to the others in the gym, more to see what equipment they were using and how to use it.

I was encouraged. There were a number of people in Ross’ and my age group and they were doing their own thing.

They weren’t looking at me. They were more interested in their own workout and many had earphones in.

I started to relax.

I got on the elliptical and managed not to fall off.

I had a go at using some of the equipment, being mindful not to overdo it.

I started to enjoy it.

I could feel my body respond.

This isn’t so bad.

This is actually ok.

I’m happy to come back again.

How often do we psych ourselves out of something through fear and negative imagination?

How often do the things we worry about not even come to pass?

It’s a reminder to all of us to heed Ross’ advice – “don’t overthink it”.

If you find yourself in this situation, let go of the negative thoughts and just start.

Like me, you might find it’s actually pretty good and you wasted your time and valuable creative energy overthinking the negative.

P. S. This month we celebrated 17 years in business, so be on the lookout for a celebratory message in the next few days. There might just be something for you to celebrate too.

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Already Done Already Done (WT695)

Already Done Already Done (WT695)

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by Shirley Dalton | 20 Oct, 2023 | Blog, Mindset

WT 695 Already done, already done

This week’s thought is a doozy. Well, I think so.

Last weekend Ross was busy working with the referendum so I had the weekend to myself.

I planned big things.

There was sooooo much I was going to get done. I had a list of jobs I wanted to complete and the weekend came and went and I didn’t tick any off the list.

Rather than being disappointed with myself or beating myself up, I was energised and excited.

I sat down to read a few chapters of “The Divine Matrix” by Gregg Braden before starting my tasks and well …… Sunday night came and I picked Ross up and raced back inside to read the final 10 pages.

“So what?”, you may think. “You read a book. Big deal.”

Well it was a big deal because Braden is a physicist and he explains how our world of energy and vibration works.

This is so exciting because once we understand this, we can create anything we want.

Here’s a bit of a summary of one particular story that gave me goose bumps all over as I read it:

Western doctors diagnosed a middle aged woman with an inoperable and life-threatening tumour in her bladder. Rather than take medicine, she attended a hospital in Beijing China and in less than 3 minutes her tumour dissolved, all whilst she was conscious and with the operation being filmed in real time.

Braden explains how he watched the video of the operation and listened as the practitioners repeated a type of mantra, which loosely translates into English as “already done, already done.”

This case study was an example to show that “everything from the most horrible suffering to the most joyous ecstasy – and all possibilities in between – already exist…. We have the power to collapse the intervening space and bring those possibilities into our lives, through the silent language of imagination, dreams and belief.” (p.122)

As Einstein said, “Time is not at all what is seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.”

For us, what this means is that what you want already exists. All you have to do is to imagine, dream, believe and feel, really feel the feelings, that it is “already done, already done” and give thanks for what you have already received.

Test it out. Think back to a time when you absolutely knew that something you wanted was going to come to you and you didn’t know how and yet it did.

My new mantra and I invite you to use it too, thanks to Braden and the Chinese doctors, “Already Done, Already Done”.

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When You’re In Enough Pain (WT694)

When You’re In Enough Pain (WT694)

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by Shirley Dalton | 13 Oct, 2023 | Blog, Mindset

WT 694 When you are in enough pain

Have you ever bought an online program and then done nothing with it?

I have.

Plenty of them.

Over the past few weeks I’ve been focussing on growing the coaching side of my business. It’s a real passion of mine.

I love to see the transformation in people as they grow and evolve and move towards what they want.

Years ago, I purchased a program to help me grow my coaching business.

I listened to a few of the lessons but couldn’t bring myself to take action.

I forgot about the program and thought that my membership had lapsed. That was until, seemingly out of the blue, I started getting reminder emails for the group coaching calls.

What?

Wow!

I am so appreciative and grateful for how the universe, infinite intelligence, God, whatever you want to call it, seems to show up at just the right time.

I opened up my membership. There seemed to be even more programs there than I thought I had signed up for.

Thank you!

And now I’m ready.  I’m diving into the program like there’s no tomorrow.

Have you ever noticed that for most, it’s not until we’re in enough pain that we start to take action?

And when we do take action, the universe delivers.

This week, your mission is to take action.

Acknowledge the pain you’re feeling and decide to do something about it.

Don’t prolong the negative feelings that are holding you back.

Use the pain as your motivator and get going.

And if you think I might be able to help you with some coaching, then please connect with me.

My mission is to inspire, educate and support you to be, do, have and feel what you want.

Don’t waste another minute missing out on what you want.

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Just Because You’re Thinking It (WT693)

Just Because You’re Thinking It (WT693)

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by Shirley Dalton | 6 Oct, 2023 | Blog, Mindset

WT 693 Just because you're thinking it

This morning I awoke in a mood. A bad one.

“Don’t talk to me, I’m in a mood”, I snapped at Ross.

“I can see that”, he said.

We were about to sit down and do our “levels”. This is the term the Silva Method use for relaxing and visualising and manifesting.

“I can’t do it. I’m going into the bedroom and do some tapping.” With that I turned, picked up my phone and headed to the room.

I know, and I trust you do by now as well, that nothing good comes from being in that state.

I know that I have to get myself out of what David Bayer calls the Primal State and into the Powerful State.

The Primal State is the state of “fight or flight”. The Powerful State is a state of being relaxed, calm, peaceful and creative.

We can’t solve problems when we’re stressed and anxious and in a negative frame of mind.

I opened up The Tapping Solution app on my phone and chose a tapping meditation to listen to.

As I tapped along, following the instructions, Jessica Ortner said something that totally resonated with me. She said, “You don’t have to believe everything you think.”

Yes. Just because you’re thinking it, doesn’t mean it’s true.

In fact, how often do we create scenarios in our head and play out conversations where we’re imagining the worst or having stern words with someone who has upset us.

If we go deeper, in the 5 Primary Drivers by David Bayer, our thoughts come from our beliefs and can only ever be in alignment with our beliefs. Another “aha” for me.

Of course. If my thoughts are coming from my beliefs and my beliefs are limiting me and as David says, “If they don’t feel good, then they aren’t true”, here was another way of saying the same thing.

Just because you’re thinking it, doesn’t mean it’s true and you don’t have to agree with it.

Sigh.

Release.

Relief.

I trust this resonates with you too and that it will help when you next find yourself in a Primal State, thinking things that aren’t true. Simply say to yourself, I don’t agree. I don’t have to believe everything I’m thinking, then start thinking about something that you do agree with and that you do want.

Move yourself out of the Primal and into the Powerful State – quickly.

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Down a Long Dark Tunnel (WT692)

Down a Long Dark Tunnel (WT692)

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by Shirley Dalton | 29 Sep, 2023 | Blog, Mindset

WT 692 Down a long dark tunnel

I’m so blessed.

I have such great people in my life and community.

This week I was working with my accountant.

I was sharing my desire to travel to South Africa next year to complete the Silva Method Mind Control course again.

The training is being held in a game park and it has always been my goal to visit a game park. This would be an amazing experience, combining the two.

I expressed a little doubt about how I can manifest this and my awareness that this doubt is what will prevent the manifestation.

My accountant surprised me with his response. He said, “It’s like going down a dark tunnel, where you can’t see anything and you have to feel your way through and yet you know you’ll reach the end and get your goal.”

Exactly.

It’s the commitment, the determination, the faith and belief that you will have what you want.

In that moment, I realised I needed to decide; to commit to making it so and taking action.

I’m ready to walk into the long dark tunnel of faith and belief because I know I will emerge into the light.

How about you?

Have you got a long dark tunnel you need to walk down?

Is there something you want and yet doubt your ability to have it?

If so, I encourage you to get into that tunnel.

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You Don’t Have to Know (WT691)

You Don’t Have to Know (WT691)

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by Shirley Dalton | 22 Sep, 2023 | Blog, Mindset

WT 691 You don't have to know

This week Ross and I have been enjoying a road trip from Newcastle to Melbourne to Adelaide.

We attended a personal development workshop with Kachina Ma’an and I want to share one of the biggest takeaways for me.

We were discussing our limitations.

We talked about what holds us back.

One of those things is a belief or expectation that we have to know, that we have to analyse, that we have to truly understand what stops us from achieving or being what and who we want.

In one short sentence, Kachina dispelled that. She said, “You don’t have to know what’s in the garbage to empty it”.

Oh boy!

How liberating is that?

We don’t have to spend hours, days, weeks, months or years desperately trying to understand what holds us back. We simply need to empty the garbage.

Kachina gave us tools to do just this.

In less than 10 seconds a day, we can empty the garbage and start the day with a fresh new perspective.

This is similar to what Dr Joe Vitale talks about when he explains Ho’oponopono, in his book “Zero Limits”, where our aim is to clear the slate and get back to zero memories.

This may or may not resonate with you. That will depend on your beliefs and values.

For me, I’m all for an easy way to do things.  We don’t need to make it hard.

So, your mission this week is to become aware of your habitual thinking.

Become aware of your habitual expectations and if you find that they’re negative, be open to being able to release them.

Remember, you don’t have to know what’s in the garbage to empty it.

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