But, change is inevitable. With every breath that we take we are in fact embracing change in order to sustain life. Our lungs breathe in the air, changing carbon monoxide for fresh oxygen. Change is an essential component of life itself.

If change is indeed inevitable, then it follows that we would in fact make our lives more pain-free, more comfortable, by embracing change and accepting it as an integral part of our lives. Not to fight change, not to harbor fear or reticence towards change, would surely make our lives more peaceful, more tranquil.

Taking a more flexible approach, to ‘go with the flow’ of life, certainly makes sense. For the alternative is just as certainly doomed to failure, causing pain, fear and frustration.

If we want to improve ourselves and our lives we must embrace change. We must be willing to look at the areas of our lives that are unsatisfying, painful, or stressful.

No one can change our lives but us. We see our problems as coming from the outside, from people or situations, but the upsets are not outside, they are inside us. Have you ever noticed that other people are not upset by the things that upset you? That is because they do not have the same reactive energies inside themselves as you do. For us to effortlessly stop reacting we must change the energies inside us.

This is not something that we can easily do consciously, which is where A4M comes in. Once you change the upsetting energies inside we can understand the essence of ‘mind over matter’, which simply means that: If I don’t ‘mind’, it doesn’t matter!

If we have something wrong with us, physically or psychologically, then we know we need to do something to make ourselves well again. So embracing that change in those circumstances should be something that we can look forward to.

But in most cases, it still isn’t it. Even when the logical need for change is so obvious we still don’t embrace it! That’s why we put off that visit to the doctor or to the dentist. Why don’t we commit to the self improvement course that we know we should? We fear what they will tell us, or that they will blame us. We fear the costs involved, and in the process we neglect ourselves.

We know that change is good for us. We know that we will only improve through change. So what can we do if we are still reluctant to embrace the change we need? How can we help ourselves do what we know we should do?

7 Top Tips To Help You Embrace Change

1. Develop a Positive Mental Attitude. Think positive thoughts, become a ‘glass half full’ person as opposed to a ‘glass half empty’ one. Look on the positive in any given situation and expect good results. While we cannot always stop the thought that enter our mind, we do not have to accept them, not matter how ‘true’ they seem. You’ll amaze yourself how often your fear of change evaporates and good things follow.
2. Write Down Your Concerns. By writing down your inner thoughts and concerns you will often find that nothing seems as bad as first thought. Our psyche can work overtime on turning relatively harmless concerns into massive road blocks. Writing down what is causing you to worry makes you define it and many times this alone can put it into perspective and the fear of change fades away.
3. Provide Positive Motivation. If you really want what change will bring you, then you need to find the motivation to achieve it. Visualize yourself having achieved that change. Picture yourself after you’ve lost that extra weight you need to, feel the way you will feel wearing that dress or pair of trousers that you will then be able to wear with comfort and pride. Reciting some simple positive affirmations on a daily basis will soon have you looking more positively on things and looking forward to the new you.
4. Stay In The Here And Now. It’s all too easy to let our imagination take over and create weird and wonderful possibilities of what may go wrong when we embark upon change. But, we don’t know what is going to happen. We only know what is happening here and now. So focus on that, it’s all we have. Tackle what comes as it comes, and don’t waste valuable energy and time on dark thoughts on what may or may not be around the corner. Keep it positive and keep it in the here and now.
5. Break It Down To Bite-Size Pieces. If it’s a big change that you’re planning then breaking it down into smaller steps will make it seem less overwhelming. Often it is simply what appears to be the sheer enormity of the planned change that is causing the anxiety. Break it down into more manageable steps and the anxiety will subside. Remember, you can eat an elephant one bite at a time!
6. It’s Always The Right Time! Don’t keep putting change off. You can find a million excuses to delay, but are they really worth you missing out on and enjoying all the positive things that your up and coming change will bring you? Of course not! Do it, and do it now!
7. Make A Plan. If you don’t have a plan then you are leaving positive results to chance. Why do you think that the captain of an ocean liner plans his course before he leaves port? He wants to know where he’s going, and so do you. Making a plan removes the fear of the unknown, a major obstacle to embracing change. Include all the possible outcomes of your coming change – good and bad – and plan your response to each. Now it all doesn’t seem that bad any more, does it?

How Can A4M Help?

Well A4M can only help you once you’ve committed to making that change in yourself. A4M can help keep you on the right path to a newer better you but you’ve got to put yourself on the path to start with. A4M breaks problems and reactions into bite sized pieces that can be tackled one by one.

A4M gives you the tools to change that which you need to change. It will help you discover the better person inside and through the use of the same energetic system that acupuncturists have used for centuries, it will help you tune out the bad and the damaging thoughts that hold you back.

So yes, A4M will help you change, and change for the good. But you will still need to find the desire to embrace the change that A4M can deliver for each and every one of us.

Are you ready to embrace change?

Who Fears The Reaper?

Why We Fear Death

There may be a thousand reasons why we fear death, but most of all we fear death because we fear the unknown, and death is an unknown entity to most people. We fear that dying may be painful and we do not know what will happen to us at the point of death.

Some people fear death because they imagine the dying process to be very painful. Death is not painful. In fact, death is often very peaceful and silent even for those suffering from cancers or other terminal illness.

When the physical body is deteriorating day by day from a terminal illness, and pain arises from superficial wound such as bed sores, or deep pain such as bone or nerve pain, death may even be a welcome relief for the sufferer.

We need to distinguish the pain of the physical body from the process of dying. The dying process is a distinct process that is separate from the deterioration of the physical body. At the point of death, there is no pain.

What happens at death is the cessation of the breath and all other physiological functions of the physical body. The heart stops pumping and the blood circulation stops moving. The body stops generating heat, and thus progressively turns cold.

For those who believe that we are more than just a physical body, and that we are in fact spiritual beings, the dying process means much more than just physical death. Death is just a natural process that allows us to discard the physical body as we move into the spiritual realm.

Since our fear of death is due to the fact that we do not know or understand death, it makes sense to familiarize ourselves with it. The more we understand death, the less we fear it. We should therefore cultivate a friendship with death, and be totally familiar with it, just as we are familiar with our friends.

We can cultivate a friendship with death in three simple steps:

1. Establish a link with God.
2. Cultivate a habit of acceptance, instead of blame.
3. Be a blessing to others.

Establish a Link with God

By establishing a link with God, we touch base with our own spirituality. God can be whatever you perceive God to be. For Christians, Muslims and Hindus, that may mean an omnipotent God. For Buddhists, it may mean the Buddha seed within. Atheists may have to come to term with their own spirituality.

Establishing a link with God means re-gaining your spirituality. It leads you closer to the spiritual aspect of yourself. Whether we accept it or not, we are more than just this physical body. When we die, we leave this physical body behind and only our spirituality continues on. It is therefore essential for us to be familiar with our own spirituality. It is the only part of us that continues after death. This ‘fact’ is in accordance with all major religions.

Cultivate a Habit of Acceptance

It is funny how when good things come to us, we readily accept them as though we deserve them or we have worked hard for them, yet when calamities befall us we quickly look for an external source to blame.

This is especially so when misfortunes such as terminal illness befall us. We may blame God, and later blame ourselves or people around us.

We should cultivate a habit of neutrality regardless of whether good or bad things come our way. Otherwise, we can become very bitter about life when negative things happened.

Looking for someone or something to blame only serve to prolong our own suffering. Death is an enemy when we resist it, but the moment we accept it, it turns into an ally.

However, cultivating a habit of acceptance does not mean not doing anything to correct or improve our conditions. It does not mean, for example, that when we are diagnosed with a terminal illness we do nothing about it. It is only sensible to seek treatment, if it is available to us. On the other hand, it also means we must know and accept when curative treatment is no longer possible. We fear death only when we refuse to face it.

Unfortunately, there are unscrupulous people who would take advantage of our fear of death to sell their ‘cure’. In my experience with the terminally ill, I have come across countless stories of dying people being duped into parting with their savings and properties in the hope of achieving a cure.

Be a Blessing to Others

Dr Tim Ong

This is our greatest and most reliable ally at the time of death. Knowing that we have been helpful to others and that we have tried to live a blameless life takes away the fear of death. If our life has been an honest one, free of any conscious intention to hurt any living beings, we have nothing to fear when death approaches. Our mind will be at peace, undisturbed.

On the other hand, those who lead selfish lives, and harm others to get little advantages for themselves, find themselves imprisoned in tiny, dark cells when they move to the other side.

Therefore, while we still can, we should give our best to the world and to people around us. Lend a helping hand to others and help to lighten their loads. Bring joy to the joyless and comfort to those in need of comfort.

There are many who are less fortunate than us. Count our blessings and be a blessing to others.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Understanding that you can only recognize the truth within yourself, the Buddha never preached the truth, and warned of accepting anyone else’s truth.

While formalized religions have declined in influence, the process of formulating creeds and imposing belief and dogmas remains a characteristic of human consciousness. It is an energetic process that shapes and limits consciousness independently from other factors.

Krishnamurti points out that clarity of perception and thought is not the outcome of cultivating the intellect:

“To understand the misery and confusion that exist within ourselves, and so in the world, we must first find clarity within ourselves, and that clarity comes about through right thinking. This clarity is not to be organized, for it cannot be exchanged with another. Organized group thought is merely repetitive. Clarity is not the result of verbal assertion, but of intense self-awareness and right thinking. Right thinking is not the outcome of or mere cultivation of the intellect, nor is it conformity to pattern, however worthy and noble. Right thinking comes with self-knowledge. Without understanding yourself, you have no basis for thought; without self-knowledge, what you think is not true.”

and:

“Belief inevitably separates. If you have a belief, or when you seek security in your particular belief, you become separated from those who seek security in some other form of belief. All organized beliefs are based on separation, though they may preach brotherhood.” Clarity of thinking is only possible when we are free of the emotions we have attached to our thoughts and memories.” (Krishnamurti: The Years of Fulfilment)

How each of us weathers the current world economic crisis will be determined by the degree to which we operate from insight and clarity, rather than operating automatically by a preset formula.

Operating with the beliefs, judgements, perspectives and emotions of the past, will only perpetuate more of the same.

It cannot be any other way. As the saying goes, if you keep doing the same things you will keep getting the same results. Formulas inevitably lead to blind thinking, and sadly the use of formulas is universal.

Perhaps “thinking by the numbers” is inevitable; our systems of acculturation and education are based on teaching what to think, not on how to think. We have an abundance of formulas and patterns historically available to us.

We are brought up as Republicans, or Democrats, Christians, Moslems, Buddhists, or the Hell’s Angels. We are Americans, Spaniards, Czech, Hungarian, or Chinese. Our reaction to any life challenge is modelled from our past history.

Unless we change, we will use an old pattern in response to the new crisis we face. Our response will probably be off target, and certainly lack what is needed the most; newness and innovation. We will miss opportunities to make things different.

If you respond as a Catholic, a Buddhist, a Hell’s Angel, a Liberal, Conservative, or rebel, you are responding like an automaton, according to a patterned thought. What are your chances of succeeding?

In order to successfully meet new challenges we must strip ourselves entirely of the emotional attachments and reactions we have developed throughout our lives, we must let go of the past, and meet the challenge that is really in front of us. If not, like Don Quixote, we will forever fight windmills.

Belief in formulas and action in accordance with these beliefs cannot lead us to new solutions for our problems. It is only through creative understanding of our selves that there can be a creative world, a happy world, and ultimately a world in which the ideas and beliefs that are destroying us do not exist.

Huxley points out that “An education that teaches us not how but what to think is an education that calls for a governing class of pastors and masters.” (Preface To: The First and Last Freedom)

This is how our world is organized.  Within our system, those who seek to be leaders want power and wealth. Those who are willingly led seek certainty and security. In the end, if you are a follower, you substitute your freedom for the illusion of security. The masters and the followers each play their part, and each is entirely dependent on the other.

You have heard enough to get the picture. Like it or not, if you have a mind, you are a victim of the way your mind works.

You are not wrong or bad. You are not really crazy, but you are run by the automatic processes of your mind. You are not free to think without the distortion of your personal past.

You are limited by what you have learned and believe to be true. And finally, you are limited by your knee-jerk emotional reactions.

Your knowledge and your reactions are, in the end, all that you have available to deal with the world, aren’t they?

How else could it be?

Like it or not, no matter what contents (thoughts) fill your conscious mind, at a process level all minds are the same. The process is not conscious; only the effects of the processes become conscious.

The process is inherently limiting, stopping us from directly connecting with what is occurring right now. If you think you are in control of your thoughts, or if you think that you are different, you are wrong. Take the blue pill and stay as you are.

For those interested in the red pill of truth, the important question is how do you possibly change your mind if the problem is how the mind is wired? How do you stop the automatic processes that go on in your mind? How do you let go of your biases and beliefs and reactions from the past?

Some time ago I told you I would offer you the opportunity to wake up or stay asleep. Now is your moment of truth. I have found a way to change the mind in a way that you won’t believe. It won’t make any sense, and will break every rule you might expect. You must take it or leave it. I’ve said all that can be said.

I call the process Acupuncture4TheMind, A4M for short, because it uses a unique method of stimulating the body’s energy system. As it turns out, it can also change the energy of the mind.

It can stop the automatic processes that reference the past. It can clear the patterns and filters that you accumulated across time.

The mind is not in the brain as is commonly thought (but never proved). We have medically identified a sizable number of people who have fine minds, but no brains.

The mind is a nexus of energetic processes, which together focus our awareness into consciousness, not something between your ears. A4M can energetically free your mind to see things as they are, not as you think or believe.

I offer you the opportunity to take the first of 16 streaming audio steps that can change the automatic way you think and react, free of charge.  The only trick is that you have to do it, and as I said earlier, there are more fun things to do.

What A4M offers is a path to the space of neutral awareness that I refer to as “practical enlightenment”.  Consciousness is a process that always involves judgment. When judgment is present, comparison and condemnation follow, and open-mindedness is absent; there can be no freedom from the grip of symbols and systems, and no escape from the past and the environment.

The true liberation is an inner freedom of creative reality. A4M will not tell you how to think, it emotionally separates you from your past and it assists by freeing you from what you have already concluded.

Equally importantly, A4M will clear your mind, expand your perception, and allow you to land on your feet when the balloon goes pop.

If you are interested to find out if A4M can help you click here to get started.

Everyone has a mind, and although each mind is stuffed with different content and different beliefs, all minds work basically the same way.

Most people don’t think about their mind and how it works. They’re too busy doing what they do. The mind is the thing that focuses our thoughts, keeps us on track, and connects us to the world.

All minds do the same things, that is to say they all carry out the same processes. I am not going to talk about how minds do what they do, but rather describe some of the sources for our apparent insanity. What appears to be our insanity has to do with the underlying automatic processes that turn us into automatons.

For example all minds draw information and experience from the past. They use past information and experience to interpret the present, and predict the future.

They do this without our asking and they do it without needing to be taught how. It is part of the automatic processing that occurs before we become conscious of what we are thinking. On the surface it seems like a useful thing to have happen.

While it may seem useful, the process keeps the past always in mind, and it has deadly consequences. It makes us sheeple (sheep-people). It keeps us locked into approaching everything that we encounter in exactly the same way we have learned, been taught, or observed in the past.

We cannot step outside our own mind. We respond with the same emotions and with the same meaning we experienced in the past, and thus keep experiencing the past in the present. We anticipate how to react from the past.  We don’t change. We are locked into a loop.

Before we can move ahead one step, our mind takes a step back, and we wind up just where we started. Everything we know, we know through the past. Reacting out of past solutions robs us of insight, clarity, and innovation. To ensure that we survive tomorrow’s unknowns we can not allow ourselves be limited to yesterday’s solutions.

The mind’s automatic use of the past as a reference is not the only source of our apparent insanity.  Our thinking is both distorted and limited by our use and identification with symbol systems like language, religion, cultural norms.

The content of our symbols, drawn from the past, gives meaning to the present and sets our anticipation of the future. The combination is doubly deadly.

Symbol systems are the way you know and experience all of your beliefs and judgments, and judgments are the second big problem with man’s thinking.

Symbols were necessary for the development of civilization: the very words we use to communicate with are symbols. Symbols will always be a useful part of our daily lives.

But as has been pointed out by Aldus Huxley, the reliance and use of symbols can also be fatal.

“Consider, for example, the domain of science on the one and, the domain of politics and religion on the other. Thinking in terms of, and acting in response to, one set of symbols, we have come, in some small measure, to understand and control the elementary forces of nature. Thinking in terms of, and acting in response to, another set of symbols, we use these forces as instruments of mass murder and collective suicide.
In the first case the explanatory symbols were well chosen, carefully analyzed and progressively adapted to the emergent facts of physical existence. In the second case symbols originally ill-chosen were never subjected to thorough-going analysis and never reformulated so as to harmonize with the emergent facts of human existence.
Worse still, these misleading symbols were everywhere treated with a wholly unwarranted respect, as though, in some mysterious way, they were more real than the realities to which they referred.
In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary, things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.” (Preface To: The First and Last Freedom)

Huxley also correctly points out that throughout the ages, philosophers, theologians, and educators alike, have repeatedly erred in one of two ways. They have identified their words with facts, or they have committed the greater error of imagining that their words are somehow more real than the thing they symbolize.  We commonly confuse words and the truth.

Part Three – Insight & Clarity continued…

This article was written by Dr Kurt Ebert.

Dr R. Kurt Ebert is a licensed Clinical and Neuro Psychologist. He is also the world-renowned creator of both the Acupuncture4TheMind system and the Attractor Field Techniques (AFT). AFT is a system using sound technology and meridian stimulation to promote healing of hundreds of physical disorders.

Dr. Ebert was formerly Director of Clinical Neuropsychological Services, Department of Neurology, Temple University Hospital; Director of Research, Division of Family Study, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania; Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in Neurology, Thomas Jefferson Medical School.

Look just under the surface of things and you will see that there is virtually no area of human action, activity, or involvement that is free of problems. Everywhere we turn, in every government on the planet, in virtually every bank, corporation, and every enterprise we find corruption, duplicity, greed, and a disregard for life and the planet.

There are massacres; rape is used to intimidate, humiliate, and break the will; there is trafficking in flesh, and unimaginable debaucheries. If you take a moment I am sure you can add to the list.

What is it; as a species are we crazy? Eckhart Tolle clearly thinks so. He flatly states that the human species is both insane and very dangerous (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment ). I agree with him that man’s history looks insane.

Our insane behavior is nothing new. It has followed us since we emerged as a species. It is not stupidity, because the schemes we use to dupe and harm one another are too clever, or too cruel.

Whatever is going on, it appears to be universal and unchanging, something endemic to humanity, a basic thing in our minds that works to our individual and collective disadvantage.

In his biography, Jiddu Krishnamurti succinctly points out man’s fundamental problem:

“Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. Thought is ever-limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution.” (Krishnamurti: The Years of Fulfillment)

Our collective insanity is our collective undoing. It is the wellspring of our problems, both individually and collectively. It is why we do not learn or profit from history’s lessons. It is why the world is collectively bankrupt. It is why all governments are corrupt, businesses are rapacious, and why what is coming could be long and dark.

No one can accurately predict what is going to happen; no one, no how, no way. The only thing that seems clear is that things are going to change, and we all are going to be part of it.

Individually we must get our minds ready for what is coming or we will be swept along helplessly.  Let me show you why it is not likely that you will be ready.

It is easy to point to specific groups as being responsible for what keeps happening, bankers, lawyers, politicians, the IRS, or the Powers That Be (PTB), but that is not the case. It’s the easy cop-out to point the finger and say “They’re the problem!”

But that just can’t be.  There is too much of it, evidence of man’s insanity is everywhere. Actually I think that the PTB could not exist without man’s underlying insanity. They are a natural outgrowth of it. The PTB simply take advantage of human nature, our greed, our fears, and our consistent reactions.

If we want to stop shooting ourselves in the foot, individually and collectively, we must get rid of our own insanity. We must recognize that there is something fundamentally wrong with how our minds work; something that ensures that things keep turning out the same way, time after time.

I will tell you now that it is possible to be free, but when given the opportunity, just like in the Matrix, most of you will choose the blue pill. Tomorrow you will wake up, brush your teeth, and go to work doing whatever you do to make a living. Life will simply go on – until it doesn’t.

If you are tempted by the red pill of truth, read on. I will make the offer later after I explain the soup that mankind finds itself swimming in.

Part Two – The Soup continued…

This article was written by Dr Kurt Ebert.

Dr R. Kurt Ebert is a licensed Clinical and Neuro Psychologist. He is also the world-renowned creator of both the Acupuncture4TheMind system and the Attractor Field Techniques (AFT). AFT is a system using sound technology and meridian stimulation to promote healing of hundreds of physical disorders.

Dr. Ebert was formerly Director of Clinical Neuropsychological Services, Department of Neurology, Temple University Hospital; Director of Research, Division of Family Study, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania; Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in Neurology, Thomas Jefferson Medical School.

Dr Kurt Ebert

I have received quite a few questions in recent emails concerning the difference between AFT and A4M.

For those of you that have tried the AFT cd’s, and not experienced the concrete results you were looking for when you purchased them,  I wish I knew why.

But that is how it seems to work.  There will be a little shift in reactions, emotions and behaviors, but the overall pattern someone follows is the same. That is part of the reason A4M came into being.

Although the frequencies (tones) that are used in the AFT cd’s and the Acupuncture4TheMind program are the same, what they do is quite different.

Part of the difference is that the cd’s do not, and cannot guide you the same way that the A4M experience does. Secondly, the energy fields that are shifted by the tones are different.

The cd’s are geared to shift thoughts and feelings after they arise, and how they impact the body.  A4M is geared to shift the energies that are responsible for our thoughts showing up in the first place. You could think of A4M as preventative treatment.

Most people will find that they respond to EFT, which is a good thing.  EFT does help take the edge of things, but without isolating your core issues, tapping, and affirmations can only provide temporary relief.

Have you ever gone to EFT conventions, trainings, or seminars? I have, and I have always found it curious that so many of the seminar presenters, and EFT users in general, run around tapping themselves before and after “stressful” events.

As a band-aid or ‘quick fix’, EFT is the greatest, but long-term change appears to be very hard to find or maintain. Yet  another reason why A4M came into being.

By contrast A4M goes right at the core of the issue, either fixing what was wrong or preventing any problems occurring. And I’m sure we would all rather prevent something undesirable happening in the first place rather than have to try and clear it up after it had appeared.

You Want To Know If A4M Will Really Work For You?

Have you tried the free experience?

If you have not, you should do so.

If you have, go back and remember the thoughts, feelings, and experiences you were asked to focus on during the free experience.

Are your thoughts, feelings, and internal reactions the same or different than before?

Are you as upset with the people/situations/things in your life as you were before you took the free module?

Are you generally more relaxed and comfortable in your own skin?

If things are different, A4M works for you. Our experience is that over 90% of people who take our free experience do change, they don’t know why, but they feel and are different.

Some have found value in repeating the experience.  Every time you go through it you are a different person, and will get something new. It is always an interesting experience!

Good luck in whatever you decide.

Aristotle said that “Happiness depends upon ourselves”.

How accurate is that quote today? Pretty much on the money isn’t it, even all these centuries later?

Accepting that pre-supposes that we can determine our own levels of happiness, no matter what else is going on about us. After all, it’s easy to be happy where things are going well, isn’t it?

Then it stands to reason that we should also be able to learn this technique of “thinking ourselves” happy and there are numerous books on this topic to support this theory, many of them very good.

The The Art of Happiness by the Dali Lama an all-time classic and a tremendous read to help us identify what is truly important from that which is not. Happy for No Reason by Marci Shimoff, another good read on how we are able to control our own levels of happiness from within.

Dr Maxwell Maltz’s classic, Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life teaches that through our “creative mechanism” we can develop the correct responses to situations that result in positive habits.

In other words, without having to “think or decide”, we will respond automatically in a preconditioned way. In his chapter entitled ‘Acquiring The Habit of Happiness’, Dr. Maltz noted that “fully 95% of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual”.

He goes on to say that we need to understand that these habits can be “modified, changed or reversed simply by taking the trouble to make a conscious decision and then, practicing or ‘acting out’ the new response or behavior.”

Acupuncture4TheMind helps you to realign your reactions to unpleasant events and eases the way to accruing  ‘good habits’ without boring or repetitive hard work.

This has to be good news for us all. Well those of us that actually want to be happy that is!

If you truly desire happiness and are willing to consciously change your automatic responses in order to form a new habit, then you can actually “think yourself happy”!

Did you know that you can take a PhD in the study of Happiness? Dr. Martin Seligman at U Penn has been doing much research into the state and being of happiness for years in Penn’s Positive Psychology Center.

Dennis Prager has some very interesting observations on the subject of happiness in his podcast/radio show. His rather graphic analogy is that we would never consider inflicting our body odors or bad breath on people; so why should we inflict our bad moods?

His belief is that happy people make the world a better place, and do more good for humanity than unhappy people. While this may at first seem a corny or patently obvious statement, it has far deeper implications.

How many of us have experienced the mental drain of having a perfectly healthy good mood dragged down and polluted by somebody else’s negativity? It happens.

Happiness is both a decision and a skill-set. And as such we have the power and ability to affect our happiness. We can engrain automatic responses or habits that maintain a positive mind set when all around us may be not so rosy. We are able to learn to recognize when we are tempted to slip down into negativity and resist.

The choice is ours. To take the glass half-full or half empty analogy further, we can focus on that which we do not have or we can enjoy that which we do have. This counts for material possessions just as it applies to the spiritual.

Often we are initially excited and overwhelmed by new things that we acquire. We feel the uplift they give us and feel good.

“He who has one hundred wants two hundred.”
(Buddha)

But how often does that initial interest dwindle into indifference? Then the desire for some new toy or fad dominates our attention again, until we assuage that desire and acquire yet another item, soon to be doomed to the same fate?

Buddha spent a lot of time talking about the dangers of false happiness when chasing material goods. The Buddhist teachings help us to appreciate the things that we are apt to take for granted.

“Focusing on what you are missing makes you overlook what you have.”
(Buddha)

“Train your brain to become more mindfully aware of all that you can appreciate and enjoy.
Be mindful of your ability to see. Be mindful of your ability to hear.
Be mindful of your ability to talk. Be mindful of your ability to walk.
Be mindful about your ability to move your hands, and to lift, pull, turn, press, and hold things with them. This alone will transform your life.”

“The person who is mindful about these things will have a brain that is so full of appreciation and enjoyment that it will be free from many of the thoughts and pictures that create bad feelings.”

However undeniably wise and true these teachings are it is not easy for us to be so mindful. Our attention is sought by many different distractions every minute of every day and it takes a super-human effort to achieve this level of gratitude for and awareness of the simple things in life.

Acupuncture4TheMind helps you find the way to this level of contentment with the least amount of effort on your part. It is the extra help and assistance that makes this quality of life realistically achievable.

Eckhart Tolle & David Hawkins

Sages and mystics agree that enlightened perspectives are possible for everyone to experience.

Using different metaphors, they describe their experience, and their perceptions of man’s errors in our thinking that perpetuate strife, unhappiness, and discontent.

Contemporary sages, such as Eckhart Tolle and David Hawkins speak to us from the space within their experience, and like the Masters before them, they say, “follow this path”, dismiss the irrelevant and accept and embrace the differences and diversity that separate us from one another.

However, since enlightenment is an experience…

no words can teach it like mathematics, history, or bricklaying.

In the final analysis, one can only experience enlightenment or talk about it: there are no other possibilities. Talking about the wonderful taste of a ripe orange is no substitute for the real thing.

Hearing or reading about scuba diving is entirely different than being under the water breathing through a regulator, propelling yourself with fins, and witnessing the wonders under the surface of the water.

Life is an experience, and there simply is no substitute.

Acupuncture4TheMind will not talk to you about what or why you should change. Either the words of the sages have convinced you by now that changing how you look at things is beneficial to your experience of life, or they have not.

Using proprietary auditory tonal patterns, the Acupuncture4TheMind experience can energetically do what you alone have little chance of doing by yourself. It can energetically tune your mind out of the negative, release you from the grip of your past, and open your mind to possibilities you have only imagined possible.

No one can do it for you, and no one can guarantee you success. The Acupuncture for the mind process takes effort and a willingness to examine how you think and feel. If you are not willing to work at it, or to commit to the process, you have no chance of succeeding.

In life, there is no free lunch: you receive in relation to what you do. If you think that life should be a free ride at an amusement park, find another path.

If you are willing to invest your time, follow the narrated instructions, and examine the dark corners of your mind, the experience we provide will open your mind to the earliest stages of enlightenment, the place we call practical enlightenment.

Practical enlightenment is the space of emotional neutrality, acceptance of diversity and difference, and freedom from the past. Practical enlightenment is the space from within which one sees the world of possibilities rather than a world of limits and barriers.

Practical enlightenment is the space from which it is possible to step into loving kindness, the space that Jesus calls salvation. This is clearly a bold and provocative declaration. Jesus said that it is not only possible, but should be our goal in life.

The Buddha rightfully said that we should never trust the words of another, but rather we should only trust our own experience. We back our assertion with action.

Acupuncture4TheMind uses words to lead you on a path, but is really an experience that is beyond words, inspiration, and hope.

The path to a different life has never been easier.

Read what Acupuncture4TheMind is about, and try the first step at no cost.

You will not believe what can happen, how quickly it works, and how different you will feel, until you do.

The free experience we provide can quickly eliminate self-doubt and reduce both social and performance anxiety. This experience will not completely transform you, but it will make a noticeable difference in your experience and feelings.

Our free program is the first step. If you have the willingness to be honest with yourself, something that many do not have, you can achieve true peace and emotional harmony.

Never trust the words of another, but rather trust your own experience
(Buddha)

If you are only interested in being entertained, finding a magic potion, or the “trick” to a quick fix, join the millions who have tried. Join the millions who have read and been enchanted by the possibilities of The Secret. Join the tens of thousands who have tried brain entrainment.

Perhaps you already have, or know someone who has. Ask yourself some simple questions.

Of those you know who have tried these methods, how many are happy?

How many relate to people openly and are free from self-doubt?

How many say that they have gotten what they want from life?

When we change, others cannot help noticing that we are different. If you think that you can find happiness by focusing on the inspiring prose of sages and ignoring what Thich Nhat Hanh calls “our garbage”, remember that garbage can become the compost that grows beautiful flowers.

The process of looking deeply into our pain and upsets is necessary to get the transformation we seek. Transforming our garbage into compost transforms us.

Using “one size fits all” techniques, and repeating the mantra of “every day, and in every way I am getting better and better” only puts a coat of fresh paint on rotten wood. It is at best a temporary solution to a much deeper problem.

Every master has given the same message; the key to happiness and peace is to change what is inside, not run from it or ignore it.

To do this you must look deeply inside at the thoughts and feelings that you would rather ignore and hide from others.

It is all a matter of willingness.

Are you willing?

But Is Reliance On Drugs Really The Answer?

The side effects and long-term damage of such medications until recently remained for the most part unknown. Now, some of the drastic negative effects of such medications have come to light, much to the horror of patients and physicians alike.

Anti-anxiety medications and anti-depressants have been linked to addiction, severe withdrawal, weight gain, vertigo, and even suicide and death.

We know all too well the impact that stress, anxiety, and depression can have on us, as well as on those around us. The symptoms can affect every aspect of our lives – from work to family.

If you often find yourself struggling with the effect stress has on your physical and emotional well-being, it’s time to make changes.

But now that we are understandably wary of the known side effects that accompany the drugs specifically intended to treat stress, anxiety, and depression, where else can we turn?

Natural Remedies

Natural remedies to combat stress, anxiety, and depression, offer the very real benefit of successful treatment combined with avoiding unwanted side effects.

Yoga, meditation, relaxation, proper sleep, vacationing, and breath work can all help. But in Acupuncture4TheMind we have a solution that unlike medication, addresses the cause of stress.

Fundamentally, your reaction to the stress-inducing situations is the root of the symptoms that you experience rather than the situations themselves. Learn to control your reactions to avoid the raising of stress levels and you have learned to control your stress.

Acupuncture4TheMind teaches you to take control of your emotions, to control your reactions to previously stressful situations. The path away from stress and uncontrolled emotions leads to true happiness and contentment.

True happiness comes from being comfortable in your own skin and from being able to effortlessly deal with the world around you. The path that Acupuncture4TheMind provides will take you there.

The tones used in Acupuncture4TheMind stimulate meridian points to change the energy of the mind. The energy that does the work is not in the sound, and simply hearing the sounds will not change the energy of your mind.

Sound is the product of electromagnetic energy generated in the speaker. It is energy generated by the speakers that stimulates acupuncture points in your mind and re-tunes them.

The unruffable calm of the Tibetan Buddhist monks is an ideal we might all like to achieve. But that tremendous state of peace of mind and equanimity is achieved as the result of the years of dedication and practice.

They learned to let go of negative thoughts and think loving ones, through monitoring their thoughts (right thinking or mindfulness), prayer, meditation and trying to live in the present. They made their minds a beautiful place to be.

Most people are unable to follow these methods well enough or long enough to make any changes in their lives. They become disillusioned and go back to old habits with the same old results.

Acupuncture4TheMind treads the same path as the Tibetan monks, but with a different solution. Rather than taking years of effort to change, Acupuncture4TheMind changes the channel on your minds TV set.

Just like that!

In hours, you achieve a freedom that few have ever even imagined.

How Does This Work?

Think of life as a projected illusion, or to stay consistent with the analogy, a TV show, created in our minds. We each see our own interpretation of events, our mind relays them to us as it it is conditioned to. The fact that we all can have different reactions to, or interpretations of, any given event only goes to illustrate this point.

There is no right or wrong, we saw what our minds told us we saw. To a child watching a 1960’s horror film, it can be the most frightening event of their lives. Really petrifying! Can’t you remember how it felt? While to an adult, it may appear laughable.

The filters responsible for our interpretation of the illusion are energetic, as is the mind. These filters can be changed, changing perceptions, reactions, and experience.

The same actors and situations now appear different. Less threatening or upsetting, it is all a matter of our perspective.

If you recall our earlier observation, we have now explored the perfect solution. “Fundamentally, your reaction to the stress-inducing situations is the root of the symptoms that you experience rather than the situations themselves. Learn to control your reactions to avoid the raising of stress levels and you have learned to control your stress.”

Acupuncture4TheMind teaches you to control those reactions and it does it in a way that doesn’t require endless years of monastic dedication. It delivers now, in the real world, when and where you need it to.

You can try this life changing phenomenon for yourself, currently free of charge, just follow the link: Acupuncture4TheMind Instant Stress Relief

Imagine what kind of a world this would be if we all took the time to de-stress regularly.

We can’t control all of the circumstances of our lives and so we cannot eliminate all stressors. We may lose our jobs, our loved ones or our homes but we absolutely do not have to let the external circumstances disrupt the balance of this miracle of life and health.

Acupuncture4TheMind can make a world of difference!

In Acupuncture4TheMind we have a solution that unlike medication, addresses the root cause of stress.

Fundamentally, your reaction to the stress-inducing situation is the root of the symptoms that you experience rather than the situations themselves.

Learn to control your reactions to avoid the raising of stress levels and …

Take a moment to think about the week that just passed.

Do your first thoughts contain any of the following: driving your kids to every kind of practice imaginable, hurrying to make dinner, cleaning the house, doing laundry, vacuuming and washing dishes?

Maybe your mother’s just called for the fourth time this month to ask if you’re pregnant yet, or your son’s teacher called you in to discuss his new habit of peeing on walls.

Or maybe its long stressful hours at the office, followed by the endless drudge of sitting in endless queues of traffic, waiting to get home.

All that after a massive row with your boss over staff cut backs and the doom and gloom merchants have convinced you things ‘ain’t gonna get any better’.

And then when you get home you just know that you’re going to be arguing about stretching the budget just a little bit more to cover some new bill waiting to be paid.

Is it any wonder that in today’s busy world, more and more people suffer from stress-induced anxiety than ever before?

For many people, stress is so commonplace that it has become a way of life.

There are many kinds of stress including physical stress, emotional stress and psychological stress. Often the causes are different things for different people. When you’re stressed, even the smallest annoyance can be the trigger that tips you over the edge.

Whatever the cause, your body reacts in the same manner as if you were facing a life-or-death situation. The proverbial fight or flight reaction. Pulse races, heart pounds and you can feel the tension winding up your body like a tightly coiled spring.

A life full of responsibilities and concerns, means that your body’s emergency stress response may be active nearly all of the time. The more often you are in a state of stress, the easier it becomes to switch on and the more difficult it is to switch off.

Long-term exposure to stress leads to serious health problems as chronic stress affects nearly every system in your body. It raises blood pressure, suppresses the immune system, increases the risk of heart attack and stroke, contributes to infertility and can speed up the aging process.

Long-term stress can even rewire the brain, leaving you more vulnerable to anxiety and depression.

Unfortunately, millions currently suffer from the debilitating effects of stress, anxiety and depression. The stressful situations that we encounter every day are simply too much for many of us to cope with, and understandably so.

Nowadays, taking an anti-anxiety pill or anti-depressant has become as accepted as taking a vitamin supplement. In the pharmaceutical industry, anti-anxiety medications and anti-depressants are among the best-selling medications on the market.

But Is Reliance On Drugs The Only Answer?

Next week we will look at how Acupuncture4TheMind can offer a better and more effective solution.