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During my Bikram Yoga class yesterday I had my all time favorite\u00a0 instructor.\u00a0 At the beginning of class, he talked to us about a different way of approaching resolutions for the new year.\u00a0 He said that instead of making resolutions, you should set intentions.\u00a0<\/strong> In yoga, this is a common practice to get your mind ready for what is to come in class and also a way to make sure you get the full benefit of each posture.\u00a0 At the end of class, you are to also set your intention for your day.\u00a0 For example, “I intend to have safe travels today” or “I intend to have a productive day”.\u00a0 Setting your mind up is the first step in successful goal setting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am very much a believer in positive thinking and manifesting your best life, I have Shain to thank for that.\u00a0 I have always been a generally positive and happy person, but I often fell into the trap of\u00a0 ‘that’s not possible”,\u00a0 or “I wish I could do that”.\u00a0 During my senior year of college, I was having a bit of a rough go at life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Seeing the route I was going down, Shain forced me to watch this documentary that was based on the book, The Secret<\/em>.\u00a0 Some of you may have heard of it.\u00a0 Well, that documentary and book changed my life.\u00a0 <\/em>The idea of it is that your thoughts manifest your reality.\u00a0 For example,\u00a0 if you constantly complain as to how broke you are, you will never have money.\u00a0 If you constantly look at yourself in the mirror and hate your body, you will never love it.\u00a0 Not buying it?\u00a0 Well, I didn’t either at first.\u00a0 I mean, come on life is not that easy, you can’t just manifest whatever you want.\u00a0 If that were the case I would live off sour patch kids & Nutella and have six pack abs…oh and a million dollars too.\u00a0 Okay maybe that’s not what I REALLY want.\u00a0 Have you ever had en entire family size bag of SPK’s in one sitting?\u00a0 Does not feel good, right?\u00a0 Oh, you’ve never done that?\u00a0 Yea, me neither.\"spks\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Anyway, so I put this theory into practice.\u00a0 I started simple by visualizing how I wanted<\/strong> my day to go, then I started visualizing more before my soccer games for how I wanted<\/strong> to be able to play,\u00a0 did the same for my exams, etc.\u00a0 By golly, IT WORKED!\u00a0 So many things just….kept…happening.\u00a0 I cannot even explain it, it was like my wants started literally appearing out of thin air.\u00a0 I was busting out moves and making plays on the field I never thought I could ever even do.\u00a0 I was Acing my exams. I was getting job offers. \u00a0 So, then a really creepy thing happened.\u00a0 When I first read through The Secret, I went home and pondered the big things I really wanted to happen within the next year and wrote them down in my journal.\u00a0 Then a year later I went and looked back through them and they ALL HAPPENED.\u00a0 BOOM, just like that.\u00a0 I wanted a 2005 Chevy Colorado within my budget (which mind you, almost every car dealer told me was impossible).\u00a0 I wanted to land a position as an Admission Counselor.\u00a0 I wanted to be financially stable.\u00a0 I wanted to be able to let go of my past and be happy.\u00a0 I had no idea how I was going to attain these things exactly because at the time, they did not seem possible.<\/p>\n

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I am TELLING you, this works.\u00a0 Think really hard about what YOU want.\u00a0 Not what your neighbor wants, not what your mother wants, no not even what society tells you that you should<\/strong> want.\u00a0 What do YOU<\/strong> want?\u00a0 Money is no object.\u00a0 Time is no object. Location is no object.\u00a0 Heck, common sense is no object either.\u00a0 Write it down and believe in it.\u00a0 Does NOT matter how impossible it may sound.\u00a0 Pretend you already have it<\/strong>.\u00a0 Start throwing it out into the Universe and somehow, someway it will come to be.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It could be as simple as losing 5lbs or as complex as beating cancer.\u00a0 Does not matter.\u00a0\u00a0 What do you have to lose?<\/p>\n

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During my Bikram Yoga class yesterday I had my all time favorite\u00a0 instructor.\u00a0 At the beginning of class, he talked to us about a different way of approaching resolutions for the new year.\u00a0 He said that instead of making resolutions, you should set intentions.\u00a0 In yoga, this is a common practice to get your mind ready for what is to come in class and also a way to make sure you get the full benefit of each posture.\u00a0 At the end of class, you are to also set your intention for your day.\u00a0 For example, “I intend to have safe travels today” or “I intend to have a productive day”.\u00a0 Setting your mind up is the first step in successful goal setting. I am very much a believer in positive thinking and manifesting your best life, I have Shain to thank for that.\u00a0 I have always been a generally positive and happy person, but I often fell into the trap of\u00a0 ‘that’s not possible”,\u00a0 or “I wish I could do that”.\u00a0 During my senior year of college, I was having a bit of a rough go at life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Seeing the route I was going down, Shain forced me to watch this documentary that was based on the book, The Secret.\u00a0 Some of you may have heard of it.\u00a0 Well, that documentary and book changed my life.\u00a0 The idea of it is that your thoughts manifest your reality.\u00a0 For example,\u00a0 if you constantly complain as to how broke you are, you will never have money.\u00a0 If you constantly look at yourself in the mirror and hate your body, you will never love it.\u00a0 Not buying it?\u00a0 Well, I didn’t either at first.\u00a0 I mean, come on life is not that easy, you can’t just manifest whatever you want.\u00a0 If that were the case I would live off sour patch kids & Nutella and have six pack abs…oh and a million dollars too.\u00a0 Okay maybe that’s not what I REALLY want.\u00a0 Have you ever had en entire family size bag of SPK’s in one sitting?\u00a0 Does not feel good, right?\u00a0 Oh, you’ve never done that?\u00a0 Yea, me neither.   Anyway, so I put this theory into practice.\u00a0 I started simple by visualizing how I wanted my day to go, then I started visualizing more before my soccer games for how I wanted to be able to play,\u00a0 did the same for my exams, etc.\u00a0 By golly, IT WORKED!\u00a0 So many things just….kept…happening.\u00a0 I cannot even explain it, it was like my wants started literally appearing out of thin air.\u00a0 I was busting out moves and making plays on the field I never thought I could ever even do.\u00a0 I was Acing my exams. I was getting job offers. \u00a0 So, then a really creepy thing happened.\u00a0 When I first read through The Secret, I went home and pondered the big things I really wanted to happen within the next year and wrote them down in my journal.\u00a0 Then a year later I went and looked back through them and they ALL HAPPENED.\u00a0 BOOM, just like that.\u00a0 I wanted a 2005 Chevy Colorado within my budget (which mind you, almost every car dealer told me was impossible).\u00a0 I wanted to land a position as an Admission Counselor.\u00a0 I wanted to be financially stable.\u00a0 I wanted to be able to let go of my past and be happy.\u00a0 I had no idea how I was going to attain these things exactly because at the time, they did not seem possible. I am TELLING you, this works.\u00a0 Think really hard about what YOU want.\u00a0 Not what your neighbor wants, not what your mother wants, no not even what society tells you that you should want.\u00a0 What do YOU want?\u00a0 Money is no object.\u00a0 Time is no object. Location is no object.\u00a0 Heck, common sense is no object either.\u00a0 Write it down and believe in it.\u00a0 Does NOT matter how impossible it may sound.\u00a0 Pretend you already have it.\u00a0 Start throwing it out into the Universe and somehow, someway it will come to be.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It could be as simple as losing 5lbs or as complex as beating cancer.\u00a0 Does not matter.\u00a0\u00a0 What do you have to lose?        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[16,15,23,26],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-uncategorized","tag-fitness","tag-goals","tag-inspiration","tag-intention"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}