Moving from Learning to Doing

Understanding the teachings is only half of the equation. You have to live them.

Daily Routine
Implementing these teachings into your daily life is simple but it takes dedication. Forming a routine, say at bed time helps with this. Here are some examples of how you might do this.

Bedtime Routine
Meditating prior to going to bed helps with winding down from the day, along with clearing your mind for sleep. Your body is like a computer, you need to log off. Meditating helps to center you. You only need to meditate to five minutes or so for it to be effective.  Add meditating, say after you brush your teeth. Adding this to your bedtime routine is easy, you just have to make it a priority.

Thoughts to Sleep on
The things that you think about whilst you are going to sleep marinate in your subconscious for the next 8 hours.  As you are dropping off to sleep don't spend that time going over your problems or things that irritated you. Instead use this time to concentrating on the wishes you made. The things that you want to experience. It is much better to marinating in positive, loving thoughts that make you happy for 8 hours. It takes discipline and yes you will gravitate back to the old thought patterns but gently remind your self that "you're doing it again" and replace them with positive thoughts.

Set Intentions as you are approaching the task
You may have heard of this as segment intending. As you are getting into your car to drive to work. Take 30 seconds to say I AM going to drive to work safely. The traffic is going to flow easy and everyone is going to be polite to each other. I AM going to arrive at work relaxed and refreshed. You should follow this for every situation as you come to it. If you are going into a meeting with someone that you know is just going to irritate you no end, act out the whole meeting going well with everyone being polite and respectful to each other. It does take practice and yes you have to keep it in mind as you go about your day. But keep doing it and it will become a habit very quickly. This will also help you prove to yourself that this stuff really does work. hahaha

Take it one step at a time
Add these changes into your life one step at a time. Don't set yourself up for failure but trying to make all these changes at once. Decide on what is the most important change to make and concentrate on that one. Then once you are comfortable with that one, add in the next one. You will be surprised just how quickly everything will fall into place.