The #1 thing you can do to improve your life, right now, and all the time, is… SMILE!

Why is it so simple? When you smile you trigger your body to release the chemicals that feel good: serotin, dopamine, endorphins… in short, the more you smile, the better you’ll feel and the more you’ll smile, creating an upward smiling spiral in your life. And when you feel good, you’ll just do better in all areas of your life, won’t you?

It only takes 90 seconds for a complete chemical changeover to occur in the body. That’s great news! That means that the very longest you ever have to feel bad is only 90 seconds! The only thing you have to do to feel good is smile for 90 seconds. If you just feel like you can’t smile for 90 seconds straight, use the pen trick…

Take a pen and hold it in your mouth lengthwise, so that it forces your face into the smiling position. Time yourself and keep it there for the full 90 seconds. You will feel good! Keep feeling good!

The only one who is in charge and controls how you feel is you. Choose to feel good! It’s the healthiest and most free choice you can make for yourself. I’ll see you, with a smile

We’ve all heard that attitude can make or break someone. But how does this apply in our daily lives? How can we cultivate an attitude that will propel us forward if our life seems hard or unforgiving sometimes? One attitude that can make a huge difference in your life is gratitude.

A naked life coaching group in Phoenix has put gratitude into action. One participant shared how gratitude repaired his relationship with his brother. For many years his brother had seemed to him to be very negative about everything that he was involved in, such as starting his own business. Through coaching he turned the situation around in his mind and started to cultivate gratitude that this brother really cared about him, even if that caring wasn’t expressed in the positive way he wanted to receive it. During Christmas he expressed thanks to his brother for all that caring, and the family dinner was more stress-free than it had been in a long time!

At one meeting each participant made a gratitude list and shared it, and as the list was read, the rest of the participants were reminded of additional things to be grateful for. The room lightened, and each went forth, knowing that life actually is good!

Why gratitude? Gratitude helps us in so many areas. Have you ever been angry with a person who was genuinely grateful to you? It would seem silly wouldn’t it? So, if you approach everyone in your life with an attitude of gratitude, their attitude towards you will certainly be welcoming! This attitude also creates an energetic state that allows the universe to shower us with blessings, putting the law of attraction to work to deliver new and better results in your life.

Be especially grateful around the things that currently bother you. Any worry, doubt, anger or fear can be turned into a gratitude. For example, a worry about bills could be turned into gratitude for a place to live, hot water, and electricity. Gratitude shifts us into being happy and peaceful. Try it! Make a list of everything you’re grateful for, today!

Read more about gratitude and see an example list.

The latest diet or the latest fitness craze, when you begin any definite plan of action you are in effect utilizing a tool that will allow your mind to accept the fact that you control your reality. The effect of will, mind over matter, is also the cause of the placebo effect.

Want to “lose weight”? Try “becoming slimmer” instead. Look at yourself in the mirror every day, and tell yourself “Wow, I am even slimmer today than I was yesterday!” It helps to set a deadline by which you’ll reach your goal weight. Your deadline should be semi-believable, but stretch your power of belief with it.

You can also start up a conscious connection with your subconscious, and give it directives to help you achieve your goal. Our subconscious automatically regulates every function of our bodies, so a good step to take is to sit privately, and address your subconscious mind, either speaking aloud or internally.

Say to your subconscious “I recognize that you have regulated my body always with the best of intentions for me, now I want you to realize that having my body in it’s current state no longer serves me in any way, and I hereby direct you to regulate my body in such a way that by (goal date) I will be at (goal weight), slim, fit and completely healthy. Thank you for cooperating with my intention to now be the best that I can be in all ways.”

If it is necessary for you to bolster your belief, you can use a small tool, such as David Douglas of Phoenix Arizona did. “Since I ‘knew’ that Mountain Dew was ‘bad’ for me, I told myself I could reach my goal weight if I just stopped drinking it. Within a few months I had slimmed down to where I wanted to be. Now I allow myself to drink all the Mountain Dew I want, with the knowledge that my body is capable of maintaining itself at my current level. Now I’m moving on to manifest the other things in my life I’d like to have,” says David.

As you can see, it’s ok to use a small tool if that helps you to accomplish your goal. Just make it a minute change, and make it something you enjoy. Whatever aids your power of belief and makes you feel good about what you’re doing will do the trick!

Forget about those self-help books that primarily focus on achieving your life goals and dreams. You can start applying metaphysical laws to any area of your life, today! Let’s focus on an area that at has (at least occasionally) frustrated most of us: traffic. If you’ve ever encountered rush hour, you know what I mean! How often have you experienced an unexplained slow-down or traffic back-up? Or you get to the end of the jam and traffic suddenly speeds up again, but there’s no visible reason for it to have slowed down in the first place?

I postulate that the phenomena of our experience in traffic is similar to that demonstrated by random number generator studies in which it has been discovered that an individual or group’s focused belief or expectation of result actually influenced the numbers being generated, therefore making it non-random.

So, is traffic random, or is it generated by sufficient belief? Do so many believe in rush hour that it is thereby created? Metaphysics creates a new belief set; that we can physically change our reality by our expectations. To change any reality we don’t enjoy, it is important to now create a new statement about our reality. As it says in the Bible ‘First there was the Word’.

I call these statements ‘Settings’ to reflect the fact that I am changing my reality just as easily as I would change the channel on the radio. The statement I currently use for traffic is ‘Traffic flows smoothly and quickly, and vehicles move out of my way’. Because the universe is reciprocal, I move out of other’s way as well.

So, since this is metaphysical creation, it can only be proven experientially, and in order to do that, you need to have faith in the powers of mind over matter. However, a few tips;

• Be expectant that it works
• If you see signs of a slow-down, proceed with due caution, but remind yourself of the fact that ‘Traffic flows smoothly and quickly and vehicles move out of my way’.
• Mentally disregard as unworthy any notices to expect any other reality, or other’s expectations of traffic conditions unless it aligns with your Setting.

We as a society are practically brainwashed to ‘expect the worst’, however, as research in quantum physics is showing, our expectations really do affect reality. So why not expect the best?!

Start expecting the best in every area of your life, especially the little things that you can now say ‘used to’ annoy you – like traffic – and see what happens!