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Mental Discipline incorporates the full range of Mental Fitness Training.  Mental Discipline is not a rigid inflexibility of mind, but a quiet, consistent approach to cultivating your natural cognitive talents for ultimate personal, professional, social, financial, and spiritual benefit.  Mental Fitness Training is best approached as an integrated lifestyle, with the same (or superior) commitment that you would dedicate for improving your physical or spiritual health.  In fact, Mental Fitness Training instills such a high level of Mental Discipline that it makes a dynamic, congruent physical or spiritual life that much easier to achieve. 

Saturday, 27 February 2010 13:54

Real Estate Agent Needs A Strong Mental Boost

Written by T. Lavon Lawrence

Real Estate Agent Wants To Know If Mental Focus Training Help Her

“I’m a Real Estate Agent in Pensacola, Florida who got into this business because I want to make lots of money.  I’ve been studying successful agents around me and it’s pretty clear what I need to do, but when I think about how much work is required, it’s just overwhelming and I don’t get anything done.”—Betty R., Pensacola, Florida

            You’ve made the right decision to use strategic brain training for better mental fitness as your resource for getting the results you want for your career.  The good news is you have determined that there are specific duties and tasks necessary to make your dreams come true.  At least you have that part down, because many people never get to that clear, concise picture clarity in their thoughts.  So, now all you need to do is resolve the mental obstacles that are getting in the way of you consistently doing the duties required for career success so that you can swim around gleefully in that lake of money you want to earn.

            Let us review your situation from a mentally practical perspective.  When you walk away and leave the duties you need to do undone, what’s really happening is your brain is in the process of contradicting itself by way of thoughts and impulses that directly conflict with each other.  Thoughts generated in your mind (either willingly or that have been ‘fed’ to you from other sources) have promised you numerous wonders and glories upon the achievement of the objective, but when the time comes for action, it suddenly hits you with negative thoughts and feelings. 

The result is that you are either making no progress or moving in the wrong direction in relation to the path you sincerely want.  At the instant of your brain’s painful assault on your dreams, it offers you a distracting option that it claims will ease the pain.  When you take the bait and find yourself hooked by the distraction, your brain hassles you about it, causing more pain, which it promises to ease if you’ll only take more distracting bait.  This is an illogical and entirely natural effort on the part of ancient neural evolutionary biology to keep you safe by maintaining the familiarity of your life’s status quo, no matter how uncomfortable your current level. This biological self-protection is referred to as ‘HOMEOSTASIS’.

Amazingly enough, your fears are there to serve a self-sustaining purpose, to keep you from taking risks that your unconscious mind, wisely or unwisely, believes to be in some way harmful.  The problem with this ancient neural faculty is that, at this stage of human evolution, remaining the same is the same as moving backwards; this, because progressive change is a key process for survival, advancement, and expansion when it comes to modern human beings. 

The high level of intellectual capacity afforded you by an evolved cerebral cortex is there so you can reach out, do more and become more in this modern world.  Inspiring ideas and intentions are commonly sabotaged by homeostatically induced negative thoughts and fears, causing procrastination and avoidance of challenging tasks and necessary actions. Fortunately for us the higher intellectual capacities of the human brain have a most profound influence over your day to day destiny, but only for those who learn to use and apply that influence through proper training. 

The best athletes are those who are well-practiced in proper technique and execution, and the same applies to the mental performer, and the Real Estate Agent.  I suggest you train your mind to make the accomplishment of the duties you’ve set for yourself an easy, natural pleasure, and rebuild your thinking processes so that you can accept the greater rewards without feeling bad about it.  To accomplish this requires you become acutely aware of negative thoughts and feelings that rise and fall in your mind the very moment they occur, while at the same time mastering the ability to grow and remain psychologically immune to their effects so that they will never again cause you to hesitate when the time comes for doing what’s necessary to have what you want in your life.

                The same mental fitness training tools that provide you the psychological power to move through self-sabotaging mental roadblocks will also provide you with insights for overcoming the common discomforts that accompany intensive, lengthy mental concentration and focus.  When you feel the pain of ‘much to do,’ you’ll be able to either work through temporary fatigue, or clear it away from your mind and body by an easy act of willpower so that the tasks before you are more enjoyable.

  

ONE SIMPLE APPROACH BOOSTS WILLPOWER, FOCUS, AND CONCENTRATION!

     If you're looking for something you can do to give yourself a mental edge in accomplishing your personal, career, or financial goals, then you want to pay close attention to this advice on how to use a specific mental fitness approach to help you along.  

     Of all the brain training techniques that can be employed to boost the skill and effectiveness of your mental talents, only one mental exercise has the comprehensive influence on enough of your brain functions that it can enhance your mental concentration, your mental focus, and your power of will, simultaneously -   dynamic breathing concentration. 

      Special breathing methods have been used in spiritual practices for thousands of years to bring the mind under control and practitioners into better awareness of their environment, themselves, their thoughts, and their emotions, resulting in greater mental clarity and focus in preparation for even more enlightening personal development. 

      Today, Science is recognizing and acknowledging through expanding research the benefits of meditative breathing techniques in contributing to stress reduction, emotional well-being, and increased mental clarity.  Dynamic breathing concentration activates the higher self-management function of your brain in order to exert intentional control over parts of your physical activity that are normally automated by your unconscious mind. 

      Using your mind to willfully regulate the physical action of breathing processes results in your brain directing a significant percentage of its resources onto the task, which means your attention narrows onto the job at hand, your thoughts concern themselves with the necessary effort, and your resolve is called upon to maintain consistently successful action.  Therefore, as you continue using dynamic breathing mental fitness exercises, your brain enjoys a novel new demand upon its functions that mean more mental strength, endurance, and flexibility, all of which equate to better performance in all your pursuits.  The physical changes that happen as your brain begins to solidify, strengthen, and forge new connections among its brain cells is known as Neuro-sculpting.  So, let's introduce you to one dynamic mental fitness brain exercise that will get you started on the road to more brainpower. 

      Basic dynamic breathing concentration is a simple brain exercise for which you should set aside some personal time in which nobody will disturb you, and in a place where you can be alone.  You should also have a piece of paper along with a pen or pencil to use for making notes of what you experience during your training sessions.

       Slowly, comfortably inhale fully, then exhale fully, and repeat.  Begin with a count of just five breaths.  When you take the breath in, don't focus on your chest pulling the air; instead, with a relaxed torso, let the air fill from the bottom of your lungs near the lower sternum and fill upwards.   On exhale, release the air slowly so that it seems it's exiting from the top of your lungs on down to the bottom.  As an example, conceptualize the way a balloon fills from the bottom and then the top expands; when you let the air go from the balloon, the top air goes first and then the bottom.  See if you can try that a few times, but don't get too wrapped up about it.  Just make sure you breathe comfortably. 

     Thoughts will arise - you'll start analyzing - but NONE of that is of use to you as you direct your attention to remain targeted onto the breath itself.  Try five, although you may not be able to complete three full breaths before you get caught up in some thought or self-talk.  When you can do five fully attended breaths without thought or other distractions stealing your Attention away from the rich, full experience of breathing, then extend the number.  Do the exercise 20 to 30 minutes a day, twice a day for accelerated progress.  Make yourself a three week goal of 20 to 30 full breaths in a row without giving in to wandering thoughts or external distractions.