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Change your States and you Change Your Life-



You can now change your state in so many ways, and they're all so simple. You can change your physiology immediately just by changing your breathing.  You can change your focus by deciding what to focus on or the order of things you focus on, or how you do it.  If you've been constantly focusing on the worst that could happen, there's no excuse for continuing to do that. Start now to focus on the best.

The key in life is to have so many ways to direct your life that it becomes an art. The challenge for most people is that they have only a few ways to change their state: they overeat, overdrink, oversleep, overshop, smoke, or take a drug - none of which empowers us, and all of  which can have disastrous and tragic consequences. The biggest problem is that many of these consequences are cumulative, so we don't even notice the danger  until it's too late. That's what happened to Elvis Presley, and that, unfortunately, is also what's happening every day to so many other people.

The journey to Niagara Falls begins when you don't control your states, because if you don't control your states, you won't be able to control your behaviour. If there are things you need to accomplish but you can't get motivated, realize you're not in the appropriate state. 

If you want to go on a diet, it's not going to work  if you're in a fearful state, or a worried state, or a  frustrated state. You've got to be in a  determined state in order to succeed.  Or, if you want to perform better in your job, realize that intelligence if often a factor of state.  

Since movement can instantly change  how we feel, it makes sense for us to create lots of ways to change our state, with one, singular movement in an instant. ....   ............


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