INCREASING WILLPOWER

Do you wish you had more willpower ... to stay the course ... to overcome temptations or bad habits ... to accomplish goals ... or to get through an unpleasant task?  Well, you can have it ...by training yourself.

How? Every day take on at least one task for the purpose of challenging and expanding your willpower. Choose something you’re reluctant to do or finding difficult staying focused on. If you have difficulty meditating or doing physical exercise or resist certain tasks at home or at work, these are the very things that can best help you increase willpower.

Willpower gets depleted as we push it to its limit. So to increase willpower, we need not just exercise it regularly; we need to make a special effort. It’s the extra effort we exert that expands our willing capacity. So, just at the very point we feel ready to give in, we need to go a little further. And that’s all we need to do -- just go a little further. As we do this, willpower expands.

nsufficient sleep, stress or weariness from physical overexertion weakens willpower. So be mindful of these will-weakening conditions and avoid them.

Willpower also appears dependent on maintaining certain levels of blood sugar. Brain cells use sugar as their main energy source, so when blood sugar levels drop too low, mental focus and willpower weaken.  Therefore, when in the midst of a challenging task and our willpower is weakening, a mini-snack of protein or complex carbohydrates can raise our blood sugar level and help our willpower persevere.

By following these simple guidelines you can increase willpower and become more in charge of yourself and your life.  Remember: If you don’t use it, you lose it ... and the more you use it, the more powerful you can become.    

Goodness and joy to all,  Joseph.

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CREATING REALITY

When science looks deep into the nature of physical matter, it finds only energy and empty space, with empty space comprising about 99.9999% of all matter.  Everything we experience and know has no actual material base, yet we experience it as tangible matter!  How can that be?

The answer lies in the fact that human consciousness has the special capacity to create a material world experience: every moment our sensory system conveys millions of signals to our brain, where it constructs mental experiences of a physical world. Without consciousness, energy and space are undifferentiated and no reality of any kind can be experienced.

For creatures with other forms of consciousness (such as a bee, parrot or dog) the same energy and space may be experienced differently.  Each creature’s consciousness has its own relationship to the energy and space of life, and thereby lives in its own kind of reality. The energy structures of life may be the same for all, but each consciousness shapes its own experience of them.

In each case consciousness creates reality! And each kind creates its own reality.

This is especially significant for humans ... for unlike other creatures, we can choose to be conscious creators and purposefully recreate ourselves, our world and our experience of life. Ability to do this with great satisfaction depends on connecting with a higher level of Self ... and following its wise guidance. 

Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.

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