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"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." — Buddha

Dukkha often translates as "suffering", but it also means the quality of unsatisfactoriness and uncertainty related to change. According to Buddhists all the conditional states of life are dukkha. The alleviation or elimination of dukkha or the path to freedom is a very personal path which may include western psychotherapies and or spiritual practices.

Generally, Western psychotherapies are directed at strengthening the sense of self while spiritual practices are directed at self transcendence. Present centered awareness may be one practice which engenders both self fortifying and self transcending aspects and helps facilitate freedom from dukkha.

Present centered awareness is a practice and a technique where practitioners are present and aware for the experience of life. Present centered awareness has been used as a self regulatory mechanism and a self discovery process. Present centered awareness may facilitate peak experiences which can transform habitually detrimental tendencies.

Present centered awareness may also be instrumental in resolving inner and interpersonal conflict and engendering love or nonjudgemental acceptance. Moreover, present centered awareness may diminish dukkha because it helps align ones perception of one's self in accordance with the way things are or the truth. According to Buddhists the nature of the self is empty and insight into its emptiness, with present centered awareness, is intrinsically liberating.

As a successful professional trainer/coach I am often referred to as the Trainer Whisper in Hollywood, because my system of fitness and nutritional integration has lead so many to lasting lifestyle transformations by incorporating the teachings of Buddha. You see being present in the moment with centered awareness involves more than the freedom to experience the power of infinite possibilities of every moment, but also the power to feel that power by being emotionally available.

Being emotionally available allows one to acknowledging and honor their feelings, because experiences and expectations do, of course, influence one another, but while most of us may credit the logical and psychological idea that our beliefs are primarily shaped by our experience human emotion is the X factor.

To do this one must ignore victory, disregard past defeat, and seize this moment! By accepting that our history is why we are where we are, and our legacy is what we choose to leave behind. In psychology this is known as the self-fulfilling prophecy. Everything is a form of energy; our mind shapes that energy into manifest form and colors the filters through which we see the world. Almost since infancy, we have stored programmed sensitivities and expectations into our subconscious.

Or brains are made to store information, they do not create it and our minds are just like a computer program that is running based on the information the brain has stored, an automation of past experience. We achieve only to our expected or assumed limits. Energy follows thought; we move toward but not beyond what we can imagine. What we assume, expect, or believe. Colors and creates our experience; by changing our expectations, we change our experience of every aspect of life.

What we believe or expect, over time, at the deepest or subconscious levels, tend to shape our external reality. Without being present, it is impossible to know if our past experiences are coloring our present experience. Being present with centered awareness allows us to have a new experience to form new beliefs about ourselves and the world in which we live in.

Those of us who expect that, “People can’t be trusted,” find evidence that supports this belief. Even if we outwardly say that you can trust someone, the subconscious provides the key to creating experience. The key to changing these inevitable outcomes is to create new expectations, based on clear intention, not blind faith.

This helps to take us beyond our previously assumed limits, themselves generated by earlier beliefs, and expectations that may have been forward within the first months of life. What we expect tends to appear in our life, because we set in motion subtle psychophysical forces; like attracts like.

You may have heard of this referred to as "The Law Of Attraction" which is mankind attempt to explain quantum physics in lemans terms. Simply put, we feel what we focus on, and the manifestation of that energy draws in what we are unconsciously programming our minds to look for. If you are not getting the results you want, than retrain your brain not your body.

If you reshape you're thinking you will reshape your body, and your body will reshape your life, leading you to lasting lifestyle transformation not a yo yo diet or a life filled with extreme highs and intolerable lows, but one filled with balance and stability that bring with it more LOVE not FEAR.