Mental Bank Update Feb 15-21

Last week was an amazing one due specifically to one interesting happening.    I’ve been paying particular attention to what I think as well so this combined with my MB journaling seems to really increase my results.  So, here’s the update:

• This was the week just prior to my husband’s pay and I had decided to be a bit more generous with some bills (namely credit cards) and pay more towards each of them.  We’ve got a goal to increase our income by the end of 2010 so have implemented a few things to help us achieve this.  So, needless to say I over indulged in the paying off area and it was a rather squeaky week to get through as our available spending allotment wasn’t quite what it usually is.  Good news…we made it thanks to some repayments from some folks which left us with $20 to the good by Friday!  Whoo hoo. Again, my MB Journal is always annotated with the intention that money comes to us effortlessly.
• Wednesday was an amazing day (or should I say evening).  I had to take my youngest son to the doctor and while there my youngest daughter sat in the car listening to music.  In total I would say the car had sat for about an hour in the parking lot.  At one point I moved it to another spot closer to a pharmacy.  When we were ready to leave the car’s battery was dead!  We’ve known the battery would need replacement eventually considering it is about 5 years old and has served us well.  Long story short…as I sat there trying to figure out what I’d do because I wasn’t able to have my husband drive out to boost us because I couldn’t reach him…I thought, “it would be nice if a Good Samaritan would come by and ask if I needed a boost!”  Not even 2 minutes later there is a tapping on my window…a fellow is standing there and when I open my door he says, “Could you use a boost?”  Can I just say I did a lot of thanking both to this person and to the Universe!!  He’d heard the car trying to turn over and failing when he’d gone into the Pharmacy and decided to help us out when he came back out.   The car started immediately and I could not thank this Good Samaritan enough!  This event was and remains proof positive that when you ask and trust, you receive!
• Friday my husband’s pay was in the bank and unexpectedly I received funds that were owed to me but that I wasn’t expecting to see until March.  I also received money that comes into me every month but usually doesn’t arrive until the 23rd to 25th of the month…it arrived on the 19th, dated for the 15th.  Lots of thankfulness there too and again, we were flush with money!

Of course, as said before, we aren’t talking paramount events because I haven’t focused on those a great deal but we are able to get a true sense that how we think, what we think and what/when we are thankful for things definitely does have a place in our lives and frankly we need this.  I’ll finish this experiment off by reporting again next Sunday (28th) with a very nice development that came through for my husband and whatever is awaiting us the next few days.

For the experiment starting March 1st I found a perfect box!  Rather than decorating the outside, I think I will decorate the inside…if you are planning on following along and if you have a Michael’s Craft store near you…head over there and check out the boxes they have on sale right now.  I picked mine up for $2.59 and it’s perfect right down  to the sayings on it.

One more week with the Mental Bank system  and we’ll move on to the Notes in a Box…Check out my post from last week regarding the process involved in working with a Manifesting Box.    I have to figure out this new phone’s camera and uploading process so I’ll be ready for next week’s  viewing of  the box I’ve chosen for this.   😉

Have a superb day!

Lex

Monday MB Update (on Friday?) Tsk, tsk!

Yes, here is where I reveal all my sordid little secrets!  Ok, not really…as exciting as my life is, well that’s how lacking I am in secrets too 🙂  but on with the MB update shall we?

Now firstly I should say that this isn’t Monday of course…it’s Friday soon to be Saturday so I’ll be updating for the period 1st to 7th and then on Monday the 15th, I’ll update for the period of the 8th to the 14th. So, I’ll always update for the week that has just passed (of course).

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Stress in, Stress out

I began my Mental Bank journal on the evening of February 1, 2010 and tracked my progress (or not) up to and including February 7th.  The following are my observations thus far:

• After a few pretty volatile weeks on the business partnership front (husband’s) some rationale has finally seeped in and although hubby isn’t all together comfortable with his new attitude of “I can’t care or I’ll go crazy” for now he seems to have a handle on his emotions and there is a little progress. My entry the evening of February 1 into my MB Journal read, “My husband is dealing effectively with his business partner”.
• My youngest and oldest daughters both went through some pretty tough times the past few months.  The youngest with a boyfriend and the oldest with financial struggles.  Although things seemed to be settling down a bit they weren’t quite out of the woods yet.  Then, my oldest daughter informed me that things were looking up, she and her partner were bringing in money as her partner had obtained a job that paid quite well.  My youngest daughter was able to bring herself to realize that she was in an emotionally abusive relationship and after freeing herself from it totally  knew there was a future ahead of her that held happiness.  My MB Journal read, “My daughters are happy and enjoying their lives.”
• We began to receive money unexpectedly in small portions but none the less it was coming in and from sources that we’d not expected them to arrive from.  My MB Journal read, “Money flows to us from many unexpected sources.”

Everything isn’t instantaneous

Not everything is an immediate manifestation by any means and that the above situations began to turn around in an apparently quick fashion, in reality some of them had been in movement for awhile (my husband’s business partner issue and my daughters situations) but during the week of the 1st to 7th movement seemed to take on more positive effects and released each of them from burdens that had been weighing them down greatly.

There is something to be said about this particular ritual, and it is a ritual…a nightly one that takes all of a few minutes to complete but one that in reality will have you actually hating it every so often (the actual journalese can be a pain especially if you are all cozy in bed and then realize oops didn’t do my journal! :)).  It’s the actual proof that when you open your mind and allow your sub-conscious to do what it knows is best for you, and you see those things which you have written in your journal coming to pass…it is difficult to condemn or doubt the effects that keeping a Mental Bank journal really has.

A tip for those interested in keeping your own journal

I recommend that you place your MB Journal on your pillow in the morning so that it is there in the evening and the only way you can avoid it is if you sleep on top of it!  It’s an amazing thing to keep, seriously and there is no doubt that your life can and will be better for it – one pebble at a time.

Monday, I have further developments that again correlate with my journal entries and continue to encourage me to keep paying attention not only to my MB Journal every night before retiring, but also to the events that transpire after doing so because both remind me to express gratitude for all that I have in my life and am receiving….and the circle continues.

Happy Valentine's Day to Each of You!

I’ll see you again on Monday evening, February 15th…until then, enjoy your weekend and especially your Valentine’s Day!!

Lex

Surprising events – Mental Bank update

A few months ago I did a post regarding the Mental Bank process.  The idea of the Mental Bank is to keep a journal that can assist you in retraining your subconscious mind.  You determine a salary that you wanted to achieve.  Each day just before going to bed you  take 3 minutes to jot down various tasks you’ve accomplished during your day that meet with the  goals  that you would like to attain.   Then you  pay yourself an hourly wage for achieving those goals that will eventually get you to your ultimate salary level that you determined previously –  bringing in the amount of income that you have recorded initially in your Mental Bank (or any other achievements you have set out to gain for yourself).   After adding up your “salary” earned for the day, you jot this down in long hand and then proceed to write down events that have happened during the day ending your journal notes with two affirmations.  You then close your journal and retire for the night.  The idea being that your subconscious will work on the information and proceed to begin to bring you closer to your goals and your achievements by working out actions that will become a part of your daily conscious habits.

My salary target for my Mental Bank goal was $180,000 which meant that I ‘earned’ $180/hour or 10% of my goal.  Now, although the Mental Bank system is meant to help you to attain your own goals, my husband and I are in this together…my goals and his goals were united in this effort, first because hubby would likely not keep up with a journal and second because, well we have always worked together where our finances are concerned.

Although I didn’t know whether or not this would actually work…I am quite surprised (yes, I admit it) but also excited to discover that, coincidence or not, my husband has acquired $150,000 in funding to set up a business and he didn’t have to do anything except be the exceptional business person he is!  Would this have come about without the Mental Bank?  Perhaps, but oddly enough, shortly after I began this journal his partner took on another partner in another business that he owns.  That partner began to take an interest in my husband’s business.  Soon, that partner somehow made his way into the fray of things and ingratiated himself to the point where some pretty odd things began to take place which resulted in our deciding it was time my husband struck out on his own.  Thus the reason for the investment.

Was this meant to be or does the Mental Bank really work?

Before you decide that this was just a coincidence, let’s consider another happening.  I wanted to quit smoking early last year and although I had tried a few different methods nothing seemed to help me actually ace the situation.  When I began my Mental Bank journal one of the goals I wrote down was to quit smoking.  At the time my husband had no intention of quitting himself and I think perhaps that was why my success rate wasn’t that great.  Then one Friday afternoon (Oct 1/09) my husband came home and announced “I’m quitting smoking.  This is my last pack!”

Saturday, October 2, 2009 my husband and I began our trek into smoke free land – I decided to use hypnosis and I am very pleased to say that I am soon to be four months smoke free as will my husband be.  I can honestly say that I do not think of smoking and when I do, I have to force myself to.  When I wrote in my Mental Bank I would put as an affirmation every 2nd or third night prior to quitting “I am a non-smoker and I am healthy”.  Coincidence again?  Hmmm, don’t think so.

While using my Mental Bank, another intention was “I attract money and it comes to me from many different sources.”  It seemed we never worried about money during this time…it was coming to us from many different directions and some of those were totally unexpected including a $5,000 Dividend check which was definitely a surprise.

So what happens when you stop using your Mental Bank?

Interestingly enough, lots!  I stopped writing in my Mental Bank journal in November.  I wanted to see whether or not there was any correlation.  If there wasn’t,  things would continue as they had when I used the Mental Bank theory.

Shortly after I stopped, things began happening that we had not expected nor even dreamed of happening.  First my husband’s partner seemed to go wacko and there were a number of changes that took place which actually threatened my husband’s income.  As a matter of fact my husband actually handed in his resignation and my oldest son who worked with him did as well.

Our lawyer talked my husband out of walking away but my oldest son decided not to return.  He remained unemployed for a few months and found another job but was temp and didn’t last.  Our youngest son who had a steady job making great money was suddenly laid off  with the company citing ‘shortage of work’ – he had been through a temp agency and the company had promised to hire him full time once his three months with the agency expired.  Just two days short of the 3 months, my son was laid off and several other individuals where hired instead.

If that wasn’t enough, the car’s serpentine belt went leaving me stranded on the side of the road and more and more expenses seemed to come our way and a lot of this took place just prior to Christmas!

So what am I doing about it?

Well, I’ve definitely decided to return to the Mental Bank system – it might not have anything to do with anything but I’m just the type who actually believes strongly in the ability of the subconscious to be our driving force and our decisions and our progress are because of the actions that we take both consciously and subconsciously.

Now, here is the test…although is it fair to actually put the Mental Bank to the “test”?  Whether or not it is fair, I am going to return to it and see if our situation reverses itself.  Here’s what I’ll be tracking:

• Will money once again begin to come to us from many sources?
• Will our oldest son once again become employment or perhaps achieve the opportunity to go back to school for a degree that he has hoped to get for some time now?
• Will my husband be able to finalize the venture he is headed toward with his own business?
• Will I and my youngest daughter find success in a venture we are beginning?

Hard to say…but I’ll do my best to track the progress that takes place (yes, I’m expecting the best from this ;)).  I’ll be restarting my Mental Bank journal tonight, February 1, 2010 and will record what takes place both the good and the not so good if such is the case.

Feel free to follow along….and perhaps, if you haven’t already started your own Mental Bank journal, my little experiment may encourage you to do so….let’s wait and see what happens!

I’ll try to report every week…which means every Monday  my progress will be provided here on my blog. So stay tuned and if you choose to follow … thank you!  As a matter of fact, perhaps I’ll also include updates on Twitter!

Enjoy your week!

Lex

Mental Bank & Mental concentration training

For anyone who is interested in maintaining a healthy level of mental concentration while obtaining your goals, desires and  success, there are two things that may  go hand in hand to help you achieve your goals while also helping you to overcome that dreaded “procrastination”!

Achieving Goals, attain self-improvement with Mental Bank

Developed by John Kappas (HMI Founder), the Mental Bank Ledger can help you retrain your sub-conscious to accept and re-frame old goals, develop new goals, achieve them and grow from that achievement.  The Mental Bank concept is an extremely simple one  based on the premise that you “pay yourself” for those things you have actually worked on to achieve by adding them to your Ledger and then “paying yourself” for attaining them.  A  Free 2 hour seminar presented by George Kappas of HMI provides you with a far better level of understanding of what the MB is and how it can help you, so I’ll just leave the video do the talking.  Everything you need in order to set up your own Mental Bank Ledger is provided to you in detail during this video – even though you can purchase ledgers from HMI or Amazon.com, etc., this isn’t really necessary because any book with paper will do.  Just set aside a few hours to view the video and then give it a try – you just might be pleasantly surprised with what you find yourself able to accomplish that you “thought” you didn’t have time to do before.

The Premise behind MB and how it can help you

The Mental Bank program is one that retrains your sub-conscious in a very easy way that is almost effortless.  Your investment is about 3 minutes a night in a period of time that falls within a 30 minute time frame just before you go to sleep.  This time frame is important due to the fact that this allows your sub-conscious to “absorb” your actions applied to your Mental Bank Ledger.  Effectively what you are doing is feeding your sub-conscious information that will, over time, become part of your unconscious actions and attitudes and part of your every day life.

Combining Mental Bank with Mental Concentration training

An additional resource in your tool box is always a good thing to have and if you are finding that you “forget about your MB” exercise, what better way to improve that than by the Dynamic Mental Fitness site which offers a number of exercises that are designed to assist with mental concentration and focus.  You can sign up for a free course at the link above, but you also have access to a number of posts and information related to their techniques.  A search on youtube.com for mental fitness will also garner you several exercise videos provided by Dynamic Mental Fitness.  The exercises are extremely simple in concept and are designed to help you attain concentration levels that are improved over and above that which you currently may have.

Each exercise is designed to be done in increments building up to a 15 or 30 minute session, which is indicative of your improvement as you work through the exercises.

If you are interested in building your focus and attaining your goals, give these two resources a try.  Never know what you might achieve!  Just an aside – I use both of these resources and like many others who have also used these, I can say that they have definitely been well worth the investment of the little time each takes to accomplish.  Procrastination was my main reason for taking up the Mental Bank Ledger in particular and I am quite pleased with the level of progress I’ve achieved in such a short period of time (just a little less than 3 weeks).   I began the Mental Focus exercises about a week ago and can openly admit that I’ve not yet forgotten to do my MB 🙂 and I’ve even been able to retain a lengthy list of “stuff” that my daughter asked me to deliver to her – without even writing it down!  I didn’t forget a single thing either from over 17 different items – an almost unheard of success rate for me until now.   If you happen to try these out…I’d love to hear about your progress!  Enjoy.

Lex