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November 17 2009, issue no. 234 - Online Edition
Publisher: Remez Sasson
A weekly ezine on positive thinking, self improvement and spiritual growth.

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How to Increase Willpower

Willpower and The Brain

SuccessConsciousness Has Launched a New Forum

Spiritual Quotes

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.
Brian Tracy

Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher-mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind.
A.B. Curtiss

If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.
Napoleon

By Remez Sasson

Willpower is often associated with losing weight, quitting smoking or sitting down to read and study. Actually, it is useful and necessary in all walks of life, in sports, achieving goals, self improvement and in meditation. It is a skill well worth developing.

It is said that the imagination is stronger than willpower, and that what you imagine again and again, eventually affects your subconscious mind and turns into a habit. This is true, but when you possess willpower you can tell your mind what to think and what to imagine, and you can insist on acting in a certain way. Without willpower you just let passing thoughts and whims dictate to you what to do. By building willpower you gain the ability control your imagination.

Willpower helps you focus your mind on the goal and hold it there, without being sidetracked. How can you succeed, if you keep changing goals or changing your mind?

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By Robert Goodier

When healthy eaters choose broccoli over a Butterfinger, they use a small region in their brains that indulgers don't use.

That bundle of cells is a clue to the biology of willpower, a new study finds. Like a wagging finger in our heads, the region admonishes us to consider long-term benefits over instant rewards when we make decisions.

"This is the first time people have looked at the mechanism of self-control in people who are making real-life decisions," said Todd Hare, a Caltech neuroscientist who led the study.

To zero in on the nodule that imposes willpower, Hare and his colleagues scanned the brains of 37 people who called themselves dieters. During the scans, the subjects pored over 50 photos of foods. They rated the foods according to taste and healthiness.

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By Remez Sasson

I have news for you. SuccessConsciousness has launched a new forum, which replaces the old forum.

We had the same forum for several years, but now the time has come for a change, for a new forum, with a new look and many more topics

If you are a member of the forum, you will need to register again. You may use the same email address and username, as in the old forum, or choose a new email address or username. You will be able to participate and post messages immediately after registration.

As to the old forum, you will be still be able to access it and read the messages, but it is not possible to post messages or begin new threads. This is possible only in the new forum.

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You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there -buried under the 50,000 thoughtsthe average person thinks every day.
Deepak Chopra

Spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Susan Taylor

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