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My Morning Meditation and Visualization

I learned how to meditate in college when I took a Transcendental Meditation class and have maintained a very serious practice over the past 11 years.

For some reason, I don’t remember doing it that consistently in the 90s. Most likely, it was the hard-partying lifestyle that got in the way.

Anyhow, my meditation practice is something that I cannot live without. It calms me down, centers me and gets me more focused. Nothing makes me more relaxed or present.

So, when I get up in the morning I sit and meditate for 20 minutes. The meditation is Transcendental Meditation, which uses a mantra as a way to keep the mind from wandering.

And after I finish meditating, I do something called Creating My Day.

I learned about Creating My Day from the movie, What the Bleep Do We Know? In my opinion, it is one of the most important movies ever made because it explains how our thoughts impact our reality, from a scientific standpoint.

Furthermore, What the Bleep Do We Know? was one of the three things that helped me recover from nearly 11 years of Prozac. It had that powerful of an impact on me.

What is Creating My Day?

Creating My Day is exactly what it sounds like. In my mind, I create my day and visualize exactly what I want to happen — the people I want to see, the things that I want to happen, etc. I tend to focus on the few most important goals rather than everything I want.

Furthermore, I try to imagine what it would “feel” like to have these things happen. How would it feel if I met person X and shook his hand. I try to tap into the emotions as much as possible since those serve as powerful attractors.

Once I have visualized what I want to happen, I then repeat the following out loud:

I am taking this time to create my day and I am infecting the quantum field.

The positive energy that radiates from my body and soul will attract amazing adventure, interaction with remarkable individuals and tremendous amount of joy, bliss, laughter, happiness and wealth, for myself and others.

I cannot wait for this day to unfold because today is a very, very special day.

For me, meditation is essential part of my life and I have had absolutely incredible experiences with Creating My Day.

What I have noticed about Creating My Day is the following. If I do not truly believe that something will happen, even if I visualize it, it won’t happen.

The key is not to be worried or nervous it won’t happen. If you truly believe something is going to happen, you don’t worry about it. And worrying about it means that your focus is on something that you don’t want to happen.

Try Creating My Day (use mine or write your own) for 30 straight days and watch what happens. You’ll be pretty amazed.

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“I Was Told My Brain Was Broken”

In November, I put up blog entry titled The Repercussions of Going on Antidepressants, and I received a comment on this post the other day that both disturbed me and confirmed what I already knew. I thought it merited its own discussion here.

The woman who wrote the comment calls herself NoRx4Me and left the following information:

I was put on an SSRI at 24 years old during a bad marriage. I needed guidance and support, instead I was told my brain was broken.

SSRI’s led to stimulants, mood stabilizers, SNRI’s, and lithium for a short time. I was a mess. I lost 13 years. I have little memory of those years (especially sad, because I was raising two boys). I didn’t grow as a person at all. I quit dating in 2003 and never developed knew friendships either. I didn’t even realize this was odd until I was off meds.

I probably would have responded like some others on here while I was still under the influence and told you the meds were great. With a clear mind and 20/20 hindsight, I know the facts, my life was destroyed.

And they do cause physical problems; I lost a ton of hair, and my teeth are a mess. I look like I’ve aged 20 years instead of 10.

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How I View Food

Yesterday, a journalist was interviewing me and wanted to know about my eating habits.

When I proceeded to tell her all of the organic food that I keep in my fridge and that I put into my body each day, she then asked the question “What are your guilty pleasures?”

Maybe I am an anomaly but I don’t have any guilty pleasures. I simply do not view that way.

First, I view food as medicine. This means that I want to put the most nutritious food (organic food) into my body, so that my body will be as healthy as possible.

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Depression and Antidepressants – What They Don’t Want You to Know

In the summer of 2001, after being on Prozac for more than a decade, I made the life-altering decision to go off of antidepressants.

Despite what doctors and nearly everyone else around me were saying – that I had a chemical imbalance and that antidepressants were essential to keep me going – I believed otherwise. Intuitively, I knew that there was a better way to live, yet almost no one in my support system was in agreement with this line of thinking.

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