Well everybody, I’m going to dive into something I’ve never done before as a blog post on my website. This is a subject so important, if you follow this practice it can focus all of your life’s thoughts, energy, and activity, leading you to the results that you really want.
For six months now I’ve been raving about diet/exercise, optimal health lifestyle guru, Bill Cortright. We met two years ago and since I’ve become a student of his work. I’m going to share one of my all-time favorite techniques of his, the Green Focus Power Hour. I highly recommend visiting his website, www.livingrightwithbillcortright.com, and joining his podcast on thestressmasterypodcast.com for some the best information I’ve ever heard on achieving your life goals and highest energy states through diet, exercise, and a practice he calls Stress Mastery.
I’ve been doing the Green Focus Power Hour almost everyday for the last four months and the results are above and beyond anything I would have imagined. I will include a synopsis here but for a more complete description go to this link www.livingrightwithbillcortright.com/free-e-books, download the free ebook “Real Energy” and proceed to page 9.
The Green Focus Power Hour (GFPH for short) is made up of six 10-minute steps that are designed to re-energize, re-program, and re-focus your subconscious mind on what you are really trying to do in your life. Set your timer for 10 minutes and when the timer goes off it’s important to stop (maybe finish the last thought) and quickly move to the next step. The steps must be done in order, there is a logical succession for this sequence.
Green Focus Power Hour (10 minutes each segment):
1) Read: Read a personal development or spiritual-related book. Use the same book until you finish. This step opens up your mind to allow for new possibilities and likely an improved direction.
2) Journal / Write: It’s essential that you write with pencil or pen and paper and not use a computer or type. You can write anything you want, you are releasing thoughts in your mind, many of which are searching for a safe outlet. You’re also keeping a record of the evolution of your inner thoughts over time.
3) Affirmations / Speak: Every word you speak is a direct order to your subconscious. Your subconscious orders determine the actions we take. Personally I like to write them and say these out loud. Start with “I am whole, perfect, powerful, and strong. I am loving, harmonious, and happy. I am peace”. Use this to open your affirmation section at minimum for the first 30 days. Another personal favorite touch of mine is, “Today is the first day of the rest of my life.” This reminds you that today is a clean slate, what happened yesterday is in the past. Next I like to say/write Bill’s Law of Mind: “What I think, I create; what I feel, I attract; what I imagine, I become.” This is a very powerful law which works both ways so we must be careful what we think, feel, and imagine because that is what our reality will become. Next I like a goal-setting method I learned from Brian Tracy (“The Miracle of Self-Discipline” free PDF, page 4). Write ten goals in the present, positive and personal tense. Begin each goal with the word “I” followed by an action verb (i.e. “I earn $xx,xxx by December 31, 20xx”). My personal final touch is ending this section with the statement “I feel gratitude for all of my life’s experiences”. I find this statement catapults me away from blaming others for my circumstances, helps me take responsibility for what I do and feel, and helps me to embrace everything that’s ever happened to me – the good, the bad, and the ugly – and celebrates the whole thing as one continuous life experience.
4) Visualization / See: Create (I like to write as well as visualize this part) a movie of a day in your life five years from now. Include the Five Life Categories of: Career, Finance, Health, Relationships, and Spiritual/Personal Development. Start from when you wake up, throughout your entire day, all the way to when you go to bed. Be as detailed as possible imagining what all five senses are experiencing and your feelings, as if you are actually 100% there and present.
5) Meditate / Relax: By the time you get to this section you will be very relaxed. Sit with a straight back (not leaning against a chair, as if the top of your head all the way down your spine were hanging from a string above your head – not rigid but straight for an optimal open air passage). Do not lay down as an open air passage for optimal air flow is an important key to meditation, plus you do not want to feel fatigue. Throughout this process you are totally aware and awake. There are many meditation techniques but a good beginner technique is to breathe through your nose keeping your mouth closed and just observe and notice the air slowly flowing in and out of your body. Take deep diaphragm breaths and focusing on the air movement will take your mind off of your everyday life and also help you feel more connected to everything around you.
6) Exercise / Move: No rules here. Just do some movement for 10 minutes or more. Take a walk, jog, in place or go outside, do push-ups, yoga, stretch, jumping jacks, jump up and down. Some people head to the gym or start a longer exercise routine. Just do something for at minimum 10 minutes to move around.
When I first started doing this I thought it was crazy for someone as busy as I am to find an hour a day to engage in something that wouldn’t even take an item off of my to-do list. Admittingly I started by doing two a month. Then two a week. Then four a week. Then daily. If things were really bad I’d do 5 minute sections instead of 10 minutes. Worst case scenario is to do 5 minutes on the first 3-4 sections (everybody can find at least 15-20 minutes). Doing something keeps the continuity on the busy days where an hour is just not going to happen. I found that I’d quickly get back to the full hour at the first available opportunity because I was missing too much when I cut it short.
I wanted to share this with all of you as this has been maybe the best “success technique” I’ve ever tried. I found over time I became less busy yet more effective because I was more focused. Also I encourage you to follow and listen to Bill Cortright as his mission is to create an upward energy shift in the planet through teaching health on all levels of being. He has many other teachings and “life hacks” that are of great value. I do hope you give this an honest try. Bill requires all of his personal students to do this as a condition of studying with him. I thought that sounded harsh until I tried it and now I know why. This is like “practice time” if you are a musician or athlete but it covers all the areas of your life, not just one. Let me know and hit me back if this works for you. I will be practicing this everyday myself until further notice. Enjoy!!
