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Continuing My Commitment to Transform the World

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Like any of our commitments, we can make them, get inspired, begin to put them into action and then, just as easily, drop them, do not continue to follow though with that which we said we would do.  This is the fundamental reason why our integrity is constantly shifting.  What we say we are committed to in life is our integrity.  Not doing what we said we would do is a matter of our integrity.  Some like to make issues of integrity out to be about morality but, in my opinion, it is not.  My integrity is about my word and me making happen what I say or said I will do.  While not an issue of morality it is important as it is my word and that is important to me.

When I drop out of my commitment my work is to get recommitted back into my dream, the dream to transform the world with my music and everything that is involved in his process.  Doing the tasks necessary to make the dream a reality is easier than managing my thinking as I go through the process.  It is my thinking, my thoughts and beliefs, especially about myself, that tend to cause problems for me, not the tasks needed to fulfill on the dream.  For example, I tend to measure my identity and worth by the outcome of my work, and with that comes fear, fear that I may not succeed at the dream, and thereby be a failure, possibly in life.  Sometimes my work is driven by fear and at times I surrender to the fear and accomplish little if anything.  Once in the fear I just stop fulfilling on my word

As I continue to work on fulfilling on my dream I am getting back into my commitments, recommitting to them.  One of my commitments was and is to share in Facebook and my blog daily.  This I am taking on again, to contribute daily to both.  Being fully self expressed is about of my commitment to the world.  While I am committed to the transformation of the world through my music I am also committed to transforming the world through my word.

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Creating Possibility is a Moment to Moment Endeavor

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Creating possibility is about keeping oneself in the mental and emotional space where positive things continue to happen or show up in your life.  Doing this type of work takes a great deal of effort in the beginning as we quickly resort back to old habits, to old ways of thinking about our self and life in general.  Unless such an endeavor is made to be in the forefront it will soon fade and eventually disappear leaving us with how things always were.  It is very easy for us to be negative and judgmental, this we have done for a long time, being judgmental of people, places and things, including our self.  Recreating or reinventing our self to be able to generate a positive, healthy space or way of being is not only new but in some cases very foreign to us.

I have a tendency to slip back into my conversation of the past, one where I am in judgment, judging myself especially and conclude that nothing positive will happen to me, that I will not succeed in life, that nothing turns out good especially what I am doing at the moment.  This conversation I am very familiar with, as it has been one that has played a major role in my life, especially at crucial points in my life.  Taking on a new way of thinking, about myself and life, takes being committed, structure and discipline to being different.

One of the ways that I know I have instantly slipped back into my conversation from the past is that I feel bad, negative, whatever you want to call it.  Staying aware or focused on my feelings is key here, a must if I am to transform myself and my life.  How am I feeling now?  Questions like this are very important to continue to ask myself and on a daily basis, even throughout the day.  Once I discover that I am in a negative feeling space I must then recreate my possibility, give up the negative conversation and create a new one, one that is about possibility and being positive in life.  It takes the willingness and effort to give up the negative and create the positive even when there is a pay off to be negative.  Sometimes creating possibility is a moment to moment endeavor.

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Moving Through the Struggle of the Roller Coaster

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

As we begin to transform our life, as we start to create something new for ourselves and our life, we eventually experience the process or journey as a struggle.  The struggle appears when we start to doubt ourselves and the project that we are going about creating.  The struggle happens when we start to lose the motivation and drive that first started the transformation of self.

The struggle also gives us the opportunity to practice staying enrolled in the creation and not giving up. As we do the work there will be times when the struggle will be so intense that the tendency is to just give up, making up a story that the project is too hard or that I will eventually fail so why do it.  How we deal with the struggle once it appears is vital to continuing to stay in the process of transforming your life.

I believe that in the beginning the struggle is inevitable.  It will happen.  It is not a matter of if but when.  Sometimes the struggle will happen when you least expect it.  What I have found is that one of the best ways to deal with the struggle is to center oneself, to ground yourself in the moment.  From the moment, the Now, from our being there fully, we gain power.  Practicing meditation or some other form of relaxation technique designed to center oneself is so important if not vital to staying in the game of life, of managing the roller coaster ride of life.

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A Comment about the Power of Relaxation Music to Transform

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

In addition to my monitoring my body, to being aware of how I am feeling, and practicing the relaxation exercise that I have written about, I am also using the therapeutic relaxation music that I have created to help me relax even more.  I am finding that listening to the relaxation music repeatedly helps me to not only relax at the time that I am listening to it but also assists me in staying relaxed more during the day.  It is as though listening to the music helps to not only create a sense of relaxation at the moment but also begins to condition my body to be or exist in a relaxed and balanced state or way of being.  This relaxed state of being will help my body to heal from certain physical conditions that I have created over time from existing in a state of fear and survival but also will allow for the transformation of my mind and way of thinking.  When relaxed we are more open to suggestions, to new ideas, to ideas and beliefs that are counter to the primary beliefs that have been running the show, to my self limiting beliefs.  Being tense and stressed only restricts us, causes us to be defensive and less open to that which will truly transform us, a change in our thinking, a change in who we think we are, my self limiting belief and belief system.

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Positive Affirmations for Self Love.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

One way to create self love is to start to use positive affirmations that acknowledge and affirm you in a positive manner.  Much of our life, our daily self talk, is negative about ourselves, about our sense of adequacy.  Using the following positive affirmations can start to transform and recreate yourself as being a person of worth and value, to increase your self esteem and with it your life.

1.  I am perfect, whole and complete.

2.  I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.

3.  I love everything about myself.

4.  I love and approve of myself.

5.  I love who I am.  I love my life.

6.  I let go of the past, I live my life in and from the present moment.

7.  I joyously forgive others and myself and I set myself free from the past.  I am at peace.

8.  My body restores itself now to its natural state of good health.

9.  I always take good care of myself.

10.  I have and maintain my ideal, natural and healthy weight.

11.  I respect and always take good care of my body.

12.  My body is healthy and filled with energy.

13.  I have and maintain the weight that I want.

14.  I am safe and protected at all times.

15.  I can, I am able and I will.

16.  I am good enough just as I am.

When these positive affirmations are combined with therapeutic relaxation music they become much more powerful, hypnotic suggestions to transform your life.

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Positive Affirmations can Transform your Self Esteem!

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

One very effective way to improve self-esteem is through the use of positive affirmations.  Positive affirmations are very powerful for transforming how a person feels and thinks about himself, ultimately influencing how he views and acts within the world and towards others.  The fundamental reason why positive affirmations are so effective is that their nature or structure reflects what already exists in our mind.  Our identity or who we think we are, our current thinking patterns, is primarily a series of affirmations composed fundamentally of mere words or language.  Everything we think, all of the thoughts that we have, are merely affirmations.  Positive affirmations, when used consistently, begin to alter our prevalent internal language pattern, as negative as it may be, our inner self talk or dialogue that exists within us.  The end result of the consistent use of positive affirmations is the transformation of an inner negative language pattern into one that is positive in nature.

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Creating a New Self is the Way to Transform a Breakdown.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

The fourth component of Holistic Counseling involves creating a possibility or new self given the breakdown experience.  This powerful act of creation can be to develop a new view of oneself or get back into previously chosen possibility or goal of who you want to be in life.  Creating possibilities or a new self can be life transforming.  However, once we are convinced that we are being our self limiting belief, that the source of the breakdown is the self limiting belief and not that which the story tends convey, it is at that moment that we can develop a new self or possibility to be at that moment, a new self given the breakdown experience.  It is by creating a new self or possibility by our spoken word that the experience itself will begin to transform.  The breakdown only happens because of who we are being. It is by causing a new self to come into existence through our word that our inadequate way of being will begin to completely dissolve and with it the breakdown itself. It is with the creation of a new self or possibility that the person’s power and freedom are once again restored.

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Your Self Limiting Belief and Breakdowns.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

The third component or aspect of Holistic Counseling with respect to breakdowns involves becoming present to ones self-limiting belief, to the source, to that which actually created the breakdown.  Becoming present or aware of ones self limiting belief, to that which has determined ones life up until the process of transformation began to take place, is the first component in the process of Holistic Counseling.  Even though the awareness of ones self-limiting belief will create the space for the person to begin to create his life anew, it does not go away, become fixed or get cured. The self-limiting belief, much like a virus that has appeared in the human body, continues to exist.  As with any idea that we have or create about us, it is also a way of being.  We be or exist by what we think and more specifically by what we think about ourselves. What we are familiar with is being our self-limiting belief in the world. It is familiar for us to think and feel that the world is more powerful and real than we are and furthermore, that it is something that must be controlled and even survived. We will eventually experience a breakdown given our sense of inadequacy with respect to the world as this is how we have been in the community in the past. However, once the self-limiting belief is again distinguished the inauthenticity begins to weaken or be dissolved.

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The Work of Generating Positive Language and Words.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

The work of transformation is about creating a new life, about creating a new self.  This self, as we know, exists in language.  Who we are is our thought, our beliefs and what we say, our Word.  To transform, to alter our existence has to be done on the level of our Word, what we say and put out into the world, as that is what will come back to us, what will show up as our experience.

This work that I refer to is exactly that, work.  At first the work will be merely an idea that we are contemplating, not necessarily doing.  Then we will take on doing it, saying positive words, putting them out into the world.  Shortly after we generate positive words we will probably go back to what we did in the past.  The tendency in the beginning of the transformation is to keep what we have in existence, to not give it up immediately.  It is only through constant staying with this work of generating positive language, of continuing to generate positive words, even when we go back to being negative, that the work actually starts to happen, that actually starts to show up in our life.

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Reflections upon my Transformation.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

To transform my life is not about just changing it, the outside or external parts of my life.  It is about transforming my thoughts, my thinking, and more importantly, who I think I am.  This fundamental core belief about my identity, who I am in the world, is very difficult to alter, as it has been around along time and has been supported in a variety of ways.  For the most part, and for many, it is hidden from view, hidden from the individual who life it rules.

This transformation to which I refer is difficult as my core belief, my self limiting belief, attempts to stay in control.  It does not want to change, as it is my identity, who I think I am.  We must have an identity, even if it is negative one.  The transformation that will take place is slow and will require consistent and constant effort.  The intervention that I am using is the use of positive affirmations.  Saying and writing the positive affirmations everyday will eventually transform a person’s life and ultimately who he or she thinks they are in the world and in life.

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