Got Creative Imagination Yet?Navel, Belly-Button, and Umbilicus
1. For the past 2,500 years Buddhists have taught students that their center-of-gravity is located in a region just two-inches below the navel. Focusing your attention on your belly-button, also called your umbilicus and abdomen, centers us mentally as well as physically, and offers us the competitive-edge in learning and career.
In Zen training - using your Hara Japanese for stomach is critical. Zen Masters teach you must - visualize, breathe, and act - from your Hara. The navel is the center for ordering our mind and body; learning, memory and imagination occur here.
2. The Hara is also the center for personal growth and healing. It is the locus of the powers of a human being, beyond a physical location. To use our Hara for personal-improvement requires study and practice in focus and concentration.
Two points to remember: the Hara responds to the color Yellow, and gently touching your navel three-times daily develops a physical and mental acuity. Many Japanese scholars teach the use of the Hara for intuition and financial success.
Some esoteric teachings train students in reading the mind of their opponent through focusing their Hara.
3. While meditating for relaxation, touching our navel creates a powerful centering of our efforts through directed attention on our center-of-gravity. Westerners tend to be top-heavy focusing on their shoulders and are shallow-breathers.
Meditating on our navel magnifies personal-power, while straight posture enhances diaphragmatic breathing. Our goal is to expand the amount of oxygen we inhale, increase the production of glucose (energy), and eliminate the optimal amount of carbon dioxide.
We suggest you Google - Zen training, and hara for specific meditation procedures.
Stressbuster
4. Can you imagine yourself enclosed in a huge ten-foot bubble? Yes, you can breathe comfortably, and see lucidly because it is transparent. See your mental-bubble directly connected to your body at the navel. It is the link to your mental- visualizations and your emotions and feelings.
Remember seeing Star-Trek and their Force-Field used to protect the Enterprise from enemy attack? Now you got one, and your Stressbuster-Bubble is your personal defense against anxiety, panic, anger and chronic-stress.
It is bullet-proof and shields you from the negativity of your environment. Inside of your Stressbuster-Bubble are pure peace, celestial calmness, deep relaxation, and left and right brain consciousness.
5. Chronic stress bounces off your bubble, powerless to affect you, while inside, your mind is active and creative; you are enveloped in love by pure-spirit. Whenever you choose to enter your bubble realm, you are as safe as a baby in its mothers arms, and protected from all external pain, stress, and danger.
Here is the science of it your subconscious cannot distinguish between reality, virtual-reality or mental-visualizations. What appears consistently and emotionally on the movie-screen of your mind with your intent to appear in your environment is a target-affirmation, a command from you the ultimate programmer.
Your subconscious cannot question its programming, it exists to fulfill your orders if given in the proper code and acts as your computer.
Back to your readily available Stressbuster-Bubble: when you go for an interview, make an important presentation, sit for an entrance exam, or meet your significant-other at the beginning of a relationship wrap yourself in love and grace.
6. Sounds crazy, but what if it works to turn you into Superman/Superwoman? Be a scientist and create your own experiment. Use the power of your Hara (navel), to open your center your gravity to success in relationships, finances and career.
One last point include in your Stressbuster-Bubble the people you are communicating with at the particular time. If you are taking an interview or making a presentation to your team, or on a date wrap those folks in your bubble.
You will be amazed and delighted at the reaction of people to you when you psychological include them in your Hara-directed bubble.
7. We have offered this strategy to our graduates, and received accolades from CEOs, graduate-students, and professionals. Graduate celebrities tell us they value the Stressbuster-Bubble second only to speed reading itself.
Mysteries are scary only because they are associated with the unknown. Use your bubble for thirty-days and you will notice the difference in your sense of security, reduction in stress, and success in your personal relations.
Can you recall your initial fear in learning to drive a car, scan the Net, and type with your word-processor? It took practice and trial-and-error, but soon you were comfortable on the road, typing and using your computer.
The same thing applies to speed reading and anything new you try in the beginning there is both disbelief and frustration.
After 21 days of just 15 minutes daily speed reading practice you can triple your reading speed, double your memory, and read and remember three books, articles and reports, compared to your original one.
This is a major competitive-advantage that places you on the fast-track if you are willing to start it is your choice.
Consider the multitude of benefits in relieving chronic stress, and showing your echt (authentic, genuine and real) self to people in your environment.
You are on the verge of a major breakthrough, if you choose to take the Stressbuster-Bubble strategy and use it.
See ya,
copyright© 2006 H. Bernard Wechsler www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org
Author of Speed Reading for Professionals, published by Barron's Educational, business partner of Evelyn Wood, creator of speed reading, graduating 2 million, including the White House staffs of four U.S. Presidents.