The easy way out

Someone is noted to have said that "if you can worry, then you can meditate". As we explore the ways of life and the best way to wake up to it on a daily basis, one question seems to pop up a great many times - this is the question of "the how" to get where one choses to go. Many times, people who are searching complain that the whole matter is made too simple till it seems like some gimmick that a few people are trying to sell. But wait a minute, everyone who has had any trials in life has heard these words at some time or the other;

• Only visualize yourself in the future state that you desires and you will convince your subconscious mind to bring it to pass.
• Affirm the positive to yourself and in this way build up the necessary passion and the rest will be easy.
• Have a positive mental attitude.
• Pray and give thanks for the state that you want to see yourself in. Act like you already have what you prayed for and it will come to pass.

The holy book, the bible is quoted as saying that "faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God". While elsewhere it admonishes us to "keep our hearts with all diligence for it's the wellspring of our lives". One best seller claimed the authority of suggesting that the only known way of passing a message to your subconscious mind is by 'auto-suggestion' - repeatedly affirming to yourself. Yet another encourages us to get into the habit of speaking positives things to ourselves at all times.

So, what are we saying? The simple truth is this - you cannot become or achieve anything that you cannot see on yourself. A further truth is - the clearer the picture the better the chances and the results. The suggested easy way out is to therefore dream. Dream it, see it, touch it, smell it over and over again until it becomes difficult to be convinced that it cannot become as you desire.

But we must always operate with a word of caution. The bigger the dream, the more the dreaming. More dreaming becomes more effective when we engage workable plans to achieve our dreams. The more meat we can put in the dream, the more definite we manage to make it.

Now you know how you can become the president of your country - much of the planning part will be consumed by fundraising!