Whenever I feel weak, I want to listen to someone who has tremendous strength like Nick. Then, I remind myself that the strength is within me too.

Whatever happens, it depends on me, depends on my strength within. There is nothing else I can rely on. The power, the strength is mine because they are within me.

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Is it that simple?

I would say yes. At the beginning, I wasn't sure. After studying from several teachers, my conviction now is strong enough to bet my life on it.

It is the time for the test. It is the time to confirm it. It is the time for me of no returning. When things get chaotic, the true is to be proven.

"It's easier said than done", you may say. I agree with you.

However, we can actually calm our mind whatever happens in our life. The togher the situation, the harder it gets though.

Our resistance to what is is based on our own premise, expectation, judgement, hope, model. If we notice it, we can change these things when needed. Then, we can calm our mind.

"What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. " 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

It is very true and it is very hard to practice it. Because we tend to seek comfort as a living thing. Nobody wants to challenge oneself unless they have to.

If you face hardships or difficulties, you have to overcome somehow. It's not a choice anymore. Once you overcome it, you are stronger than before.

If you are a student of The Law of Attraction, you already know that your thoughts create your circumstance. It's quite simple and easy to understand.

However, when the circumstance is getting tough, it is not easy to believe this simple law. And that is a test whether you truly believe it or not.

If the circumstance is so tough that you want to change your thought, you put energy on the current circumstance to enhance it.

The subconscious mind is totally deductive. Whatever it is told, it tries to manifest it with its full power and it is very powerful.

If this is true, you can manifest almost anything you want. Amazing!

However, it is not easy to talk to subconscious mind because it has a guardian. The guardian is your conscious mind. Your conscious mind analizes, judges, and chooses what it believes.

To bypass the guardian, autosuggestion is often used. Autosuggestion is to affirm yourself with an idea you want to manifest.

"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety" -  Abraham Maslow

Stepping forward into growth means getting into the unknown because growth always lies in the unknown. In other words, stepping back into safety means playing it safe within the known territory.

The situation you face doesn't really matter. With any situation, you always have a choice, getting into unknown or playing it safe with known.

I wanted to articulate the difference between faith and belief and checked several Youtube videos. This is the one that resonates with me the most so far.

Belief is an opinion or a judgement based on one's knowledge and experience. Which means it changes over time as we get more knowledge and experience.

Faith is a complete trust, total conviction because you know something at the deeper level. This inner knowing cannot be explained to others. So, it is quite individual and personal as the guy on the video points out. 

It is much clearer to me now that the key to success is to make mistakes. It sounds ridiculous and counter intuitive. But it is true.

Most people try to avoid mistakes because they are painful, hurting and humiliating. Nobody wants to make mistakes unless they have something big in their mind.

Making mistakes force you to learn something you didn't know at the point. You may need to make the same kind of mistake if you haven't learned the lesson.