It's the main piece of the puzzle that moves thinkers to doers.  It sparks action.  It's a realization.  It's a mind set.  It's a knowing that what you desire is a sure thing and NOW is the time for forward movement.  Thinking about making a change in your life may be excrutiatingly long and painful.  But when you reach that magical "turning point" in your mind, you just KNOW.  It's time.  And knowing that, change is instant.  It just happens.  If the change is something like re-shaping your body, it does take time to manifest--but the important change itself has already happened.  That snowball is rollin' down the hill!

 

Here's a simple technique to help shift your mind into "turning point" mode.  This technique convinces your unconscious mind that what you want (read my earlier "Monthly Trance" essay on goal setting and well-forming an outcome) is a "done deal" and therefore you find yourself doing what you must do to make it happen.

 

Think about your lunch yesterday.  Yesterday is in your mind.  Now, physically point to yesterday.  Where is it?  Is it in front of you, behind you, up, down, left, right?  Find yesterday in space.  There it is!  Excellent!  Now, find tomorrow!  Where is tomorrow in space?  Where is that located?  Now, connect the dots!

 

By the way, there are no right or wrong answers here. Everyone is different.  What we're doing here is eliciting a "timeline."  When you take the point of yesterday and the point of tomorrow, and connect those dots, you can imagine them forming a line.  A line representing your life.  Your past.  One direction.  Your present.  Where your body is right now.  Your future, another, possibly opposing direction.  It's not always a straight line.  It could be an arc, it could be a Vee-shape.  It could be something else.  Most common is a line!  My timeline has the past to my left, and the future to my right.  I'm sitting smack dab in the here and now.  I'm not actually IN my timeline, it sits in front of me, and I can see it.  (I like it that way!)  Find your timeline.  What does it look like?  It may resemble a beam of light, like a light sabre.  It may be like Dorothy's yellow brick road.  Mine is a beautiful ribbon.  Like satin.  It could be a rainbow.  Part 1.  Find your timeline.

 

Next, be sure you have a goal in mind.  You know what you want, when and where and with whom you want it, how it would look and feel and be and sound and taste to have it, that it's realistic and doable, that it's something you can initiate and maintain by yourself, that it makes sense for the whole of your life, for all aspects of your life.  Create an image, a symbol representing that goal.  Maybe it's a shape.  Maybe it's red triangle, maybe it's an etching on a slate tile, maybe it's a glowing sphere of energy, maybe it's a word floating in space, it can be anything.  Something that to you represents your goal.

 

Now close your eyes (after reading this through, and of course, when it's safe and appropriate to do so--not while you're driving your car or riding on a mowing tractor or cooking or playing with ginsu knives...) and imagine your timeline spread out in front of you.  Straightened out (if it's curvy) and placed on the floor.  Imagine yourself floating up, up over your timeline.  You can see it!  All of it.  Stretching like a beautiful ribbon or road beneath you.  Orient yourself facing towards the future.  Bring your goal with you, holding onto it.  Now imagine floating gently, comfortably, slowly forward in time as you move in the direction of your future.  At the precise moment when you want your goal to manifest, and your unconscious mind can guide you in this, drop it!  Let go of the goal and watch it fall and settle itself into your timeline!  Embed itself.  Become part of it.  Notice all the changes, including the ripples moving in each direction through time this causes.  Your goal is now a part of your future, inevitable.  Like taxes.  :)  It's coming!  Know that and feel good!

 

Now, orient your body back toward the present and past.  Float again, gently, towards the here and now.  When you are directly above the here and now location on your timeline, float down back into this moment, this place, wide awake and aware, alert, feeling GREAT, all systems returning to normal, sitting before your computer, or lying on your bed, on whereever you are doing this exercise.  If you had adjusted your timeline to a new orientation for this exercise, such as flattening it, allow it to "spring back" into it's preferred shape and location. 

 

Your unconscious mind will now guide and nudge you to do what you have to do to get your well-formed goal.  The turning point has happened in your mind, and the steps towards that goal become clear, and you find yourself not just seeing steps, but STEPPING.  Moving.  Taking action.  Enjoy your new success! 

 

To learn more about unconscious communication and "driving your own" bus in terms of choosing your own feelings, emotions, behaviors that lead to life success, visit:  http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.  I know you'll be glad you did!