As we approach the end of a year and the beginning of a New Year, we hope that the New Year will bring about some positive changes in our lives. People around the world are filled with hope and anticipation of dreams to be fulfilled and goals to be achieved. The tendency to only look ahead at the turn of the year can actually limit our ability to be successful in the future. Ask yourself how many times you have made New Year’s resolutions that you never kept. Quite a few, huh? Don’t feel too bad, since you are not at all alone. It is not a personal defect or anything like that! It just has to do with how you approach the New Year and the resolutions you make. The most important thing, even before planning what you want to accomplish in the future, is to look back over the past year and imagine what if you had done all of the things that you had planned on doing.
The 7 Circles Blog is devoted to the principle of Wu-Te, we practice our martial and healing arts for the purpose of mental, physical, spiritual, and social development and well-being, so let me focus my end of the year comments on your training. This time last year you may have been thinking about how far ahead you wanted to be in your training. You may have thought about techniques and forms you wanted to master, Qigong and strength goals you wanted to achieve, or health and wellness lifestyle changes you wanted to make. If you failed to achieve your goals in 2011, all is not loss. Those 2011 goals can still play an important part in helping you to achieve your goals for 2012.
Here is what you do!
Spend some time meditating on each of the goals you did not achieve for 2011. Allow you mind (which needs to have blanks filled-in) to ask the question, What if I had done what I said I was going to do? What if? Permit your imagination (which loves stories) to fill-in the blanks that your mind is seeking to fill.
As you imagine all of the positive changes that could have taken place your nervous system will be drawn into your imagined experiences. Don’t be critical, asking a lot of why you didn’t do it questions. What you want to dwell on is the positive ways that things could have changed. You want a joyful and positive experience of the past possibilities, not the negative experience of their loss. This process will allow your body/mind to actually experience the biochemistry of success and this will motivate you to seek that feeling and experience by actually being more successful in meeting your new goals for 2012. Remember, your nervous system does not know the difference between an actually experience and something that is vividly experienced in the imagination. You can use this to your benefit.
After spending some time drinking in all of that positive energy from your What If Meditation set your short-term and long-term goals for 2012. Goals are very powerful wisdom! They act like high potency fuel and a directional guidance system. Great minds and those who accomplish great things (large or small) have been guided by goals. It has been said that you should not expect to get a different result if you continue doing the same thing. That means if you want some different results in your life during 2012 then you need to set some goals to bring about change. Take the time to review the Training Tips from my January 2011 Post.
A number of you tested for your initial ranks this month and I was pleased with the performances. Congratulations on taking the test! I look forward to your continued progress in 2012.
A BIG THANKS to Seifu Andrew for all of his teaching and support to our students throughout the year. I plan on completing some more videos for Youtube this coming year especially the 7 Circles Short Staff Form and our 7 Circles Twin Swords Form. Look for them in 2012. One of my goals looking forward.
Have a Great 2012! I hope to hear from you!
Live Wu-Te
Seifu Sharif
Thursday, December 29, 2011
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