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To be or not to be, that is the question

- Published in CONCHIUS Newsletter 7 September, 2010

Have you ever heard about Affirmations? Athletes call them visualizations, Priests call them prayers and Buddhist monks call them meditation on a topic.  So, what am I saying here exactly, what has praying got to do with affirmations and visualizations?

Focused meditation, praying, visualizations, affirmations are according to my experience all part of the same concept. They are all a part of getting ready to become what you want to be or get ready to achieve what you want to achieve. However, if you don’t get the energy and inspiration to get out of your couch in front of the TV and go out into the real world to MAKE IT HAPPEN – you are just wasting your time.

I know most self-help books today are telling you that thinking is all you need to attract the things you want. However, there are no substitutes to taking action. Taking action is - the only reliable way to give you the results you need and bring you the things you want. Of course our thinking can support or hinder our success. Taking action is however the only way to change or even maintain a present condition - this is built into our physical existence. Our affirmations are however the thoughts that put meaning, energy and direction into our actions to make something become real in the physical universe.

•    You can’t make anything happen without thinking about it first
•    You can’t scratch your arm unless you think about scratching your arm
•    You can’t get up and go to the store for a newspaper unless you think about it first

Affirmations are vital in that they are the thought that comes before the action. You can’t have a life of happiness if you don’t think you have a life of happiness first.

In my experience we always need to BE something BEFORE we BECOME something. Look at it. It is not an accident making a formation pilot sit in a plane making amazing patterns in the sky together with his other 8 wing mates. It is not an accident making a marathon runner cross the finish line first on a race at the Great Wall in China. It is not an accident making a top writer win the Pulitzer Prize for an extraordinary writing effort. All great achievements are always the result of a tremendous amount of actions. Usually small, normal actions when looked at one by one. But still, together they are building up to an extraordinary end result.

All actions are results of a previous affirmation; you always give yourself permission to do something before you actually do it.

 - Peter J Karlsson

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