Parts of our app was inspired by B.J. Fogg presentation at a TEDX Conference. It's excellent, and it's called, Forget big change, start with a tiny habit—a YouTube video. Of course, if I thought this video was enough for the Grok Wisdom Journey, I wouldn't write an app. I'd just keep this video linked to our system. For now, you can get great guidance from it. Watch it and follow its advice.
Incidentally, all links on this page open in a new tab, since you may want to use several of these links to create the change you're seeking in your life. So long as you don't directly close this tab, it will remain open as a reference.
Our Instant Habits app is also going to have elements from our app In a Journal, Complete your Relationships with People or Concerns, inspired by Jungian psychotherapist Ira Progoff. The Progoff app may be overkill for changing simple habits, but if you've got an important lifestyle change that requires new habits, it would definitely be helpful.
Once you've begun changing the habit you want to change, our app Conscious Evolution: Boost What You Will Become will assist you. Sometimes all you'll need is to try out the new behavior and then boost the change over and over, and the habit will stick. It's certainly worth a try.
If you're boosting a new habit, do so from the point of view of many different selves at separate times. For example, to start going to bed at a healthier time, boost the new habit from the point of view of your ideal body, your projects that you don't do because you're too tired, your future self, your inner nutritional coach, and so on. Each of these boosting sessions should be done at a separate time.
When I get around to programming this app, I'll be using the information and skills I already have, but if you have a suggestion of something to add to the app, please leave a comment on Instantly Create Permanent Habits—Sharing, Feedback, & Suggestions.
If other people have already made suggestions, you might even find some great advice on that page. You can help me out by trying the advice that others have left and providing me with feedback about their advice. That will help me in incorporating that advice into the app. Thanx.
For now, just try out some of these approaches. Then record your experiences and make suggestions on our suggestions page. Thank you.
Turn boosting into a automatic daily habit about by regularly practicing it in as many of these situations as you can. We suggest that you use the strategy described in the above section. This button links to the list that you will use to expand your boosting habits. It's not a complete list. As you work on your boosting practice, please suggest and describe other situations that you've productively used boosting in by clicking the Feedback and Sharing Page button listed at the bottom of this page.
When you're learned boosting, where will you put your attention next? This button provides you with additional links that will help you enhance your progress in a variety of ways. Select the option that fits your needs the best.
How would you change the direction of Clarity and the Grok Wisdom Journey? Read our ideas by clicking this button, and add your ideas to the comment sections below each page. If you comment, you will be invited to a Chrysalis that can take your ideas to the next step—if you're interested, of course.
Use this link to provide suggestions about making this tool better, to share your experiences with the tool, and to suggest new situations for practicing boosting in. Add your ideas to the comment sections at the bottom of the page. If you comment, you will be invited to a Chrysalis that can take your ideas to the next step—if you're interested, of course.
Throughout this practice, notice the how the nuances change when you use different words. What's the difference between "blessing" something and "embracing it with gratitude?" How is "supporting" something different than "nurturing" it?
With Verbose Boosting, you not only notice these different nuances, but you
describe what the difference is.
Make sure that you pause regularly to mentally grok these nuances. Doing so enhances your
understanding of them for every type of boosting. Pausing and thinking are required steps in all
boosting—and all the words you use in Verbose Boosting do not eliminate the need for
contemplation.
Using Verbose Boosting regularly and thoughtfully increases what you get from every other form of
boosting.
With Progressive Boosting, bring your intuition to bear on the
situation, allowing your focus to shift as you continue. Nuances are still important, but less so.
Emphasize your growing understanding of the quality as you focus in—deeper and deeper and deeper.
Summarize what you intuit with sharp, focused key words. Select new key words every time your
intuition changes.
The more you practice Progressive Boosting, the more often you'll use your intuition to shift your focus when
using every other form of boosting.
To allow your intuition to sharpen your focus, take plenty of time to tune in. If tuning into intuition is difficult, practice your skills using the app Focus In Deeply to Discern the Hidden Messages in Your Emotions. (This link opens a new tab, but be prepared to spend 30 to 45 minutes on that exercise.)
Before any form of energy work, please use psychic protection. There are as many negative energies in the psychic world as in the material world. Do you trust everyone you meet? Do you feel safe everywhere?
It's easy to protect yourself. Breathe deeply and imagine that your aura fills with protective white light from the sun. Then imagine that there's a reflective blue skin on the outside of your aura. Hold this visualization in place for a breath or two. That's it. You're protected.
I recommend learning Ujjayi breathing to bring extra chi energy into your body for boosting. Learn Ujjayi breathing from an Ashtanga yoga class or by clicking Ujjayi breathing on the Yoga Journal website. (Opens a new tab.) Use Ujjayi breathing throughout this practice.
Inhale and exhale slowly for at least four long, rhythmic breaths.
As you inhale, draw white yang energy from the sun down your spine and into the earth. Identify how the 'personality' of yang energy feels: strong, powerful, and energetic.
Enjoy the yang energy personality.
As you exhale, draw in blue yin energy from the earth up your spine and into the sky. Identify how the 'personality' of yin energy feels: receptive, foundational, resting, and intuitive.
Enjoy the yin energy personality.
When you notice that this step has had a positive effect on your energy state, click the button below.
After your heart chakra feels warm, full, and satisfied, send heart chakra energy into the quality, trait, or element that you acknowledged and appreciated.
Repeat the label that you created. This keeps you focused on meditating as you send energy for several breaths.
For Verbose Boosting, say aloud, whisper, or subliminally whisper what it means to you to be sending energy into this quality. Pause after every sentence to fully visualize what you just said.
I send energy into my commitment to personal growth, because if I can increase it,
I see it will help me develop many different skills and qualities.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize yourself evolving, however you mean it.)
I feel the energy of my heart flowing into this skill, and I see myself becoming more and more a
master of my life.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize achieving greater mastery.)
For Progressive Boosting, say, whisper, or subliminally whisper
briefly what it means to you to send energy into this quality. Repeat its
label every second breath.
After each repetition, focus deeply on the quality for several slow breaths. Watch for
for changes in what you sense about it. When your focus shifts, create a new label that
reflects your new intuition.
I send energy into my commitment to personal growth, because I really need to develop it.
(Pause for two slow breaths and focus on your commitment to personal growth.)
Commitment to personal growth. (Focus nonverbally on this for two slow breaths.)
Commitment to personal growth. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Commitment to personal growth. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Commitment to personal growth. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Commitment to personal growth. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
OMG! I see I'm actually feeling an undercurrent of deep pain, like I'm broken. So I really need to
focus on... releasing my deep pain. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Deep desire for releasing my pain. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
My intention to release my pain. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
If you're boosting a quality in you, point your palms point toward your body from a foot or two away. Imagine yourself as a healer who's sending healing energy into your whole body.
If you're boosting a quality in someone else or in a situation, imagine that person or situation in front of you, and point your palms toward him, her, or it. Imagine yourself sending healing energy towards the objective or individual you've chosen.
Continue sending energy in this manner until you feel the energy connect with your target.
If you have trouble focusing during this step, you may be feeling some emotional conflict about what you're trying to boost. You can either just keep going and see what comes up, or use an app to understand the conflict and work through it.
For 15 points, click Chase a
Whisper Through a Secret Door to Find Your Place of Power to move
forward with your goals or dreams or when feeling trapped in an unworkable or unpleasant situation.
This process opens doors into a more supportive reality. (Animated)
For 10 points, click Use Inner
Silence to Be More Thoughtful Throughout Life to transform automatic
patterns into conscious choices, to rethink and choose the wisest path, or when feeling upset,
trapped, or unempowered. (Animated)
For 18 points, Request a Chrysalis
session from a group of Clarity volunteers to achieve deep clarity about your issue. This is
our premier tool that enables each group member to access their deepest wisdom effectively and efficiently.
For 15 points, click In a Journal,
Complete your Relationships with People or Concerns to tune into your intuition and deepest
wisdom and to abandon false roles. Dialog with a person, an organization, an event, or our body
to tune into an energy that has a mind of its own. (Animated)
Repeat that label whenever you need to increase your focus. Continue to send this energy into this quality or achievement that you have chosen to boost. Aloud, say you're doing this to support it and nurture it.
Once again, do this slowly, so that you can fully grok the differences between this step and step of blessing it and embracing it. There's a progression from the last to this one.
Seek to grok the differences between what it means "to support it" and "to nurture it." Can you feel or sense how this meditation is moving to a higher level with each step?
Take your time. It's worthwhile to branchFlowTextly grok the energy you're sending with each breath.
Repeat the label, and send energy into the quality to boost it and help it to grow.
Take a whole lot of time to just keep watering the quality, boosting it, and visualize it growing, evolving, and changing.
Let this evolution process sink it and integrate. Keep visualizing and breathing until you feel you've fully grokked it.
Then release the energy so that it can do its work, unhindered by your conscious mind.
You do not need to release the white light psychic protection shields you erected. They will continue to serve you.
Say or whisper something like the following: "I send energy into _________ to bless it."
Verbose Boosting: As always, verbalize your words to help you keep focused. In other words,
express your thoughts aloud or by whispering. With practice, you can speak subliminally—without
using your mouth or vocal cords—but even subliminal verbalizing involves specific words in
the same way as speaking aloud does.
After speaking, pause to visualize the energy moving. Then verbally express the positive feelings that are
involved with blessing this quality.
If you've ever received a blessing from someone else who was practiced at it, what
did that feel like? Seek to speak your deepest understanding of what it means to you to
bless this quality.
Speak aloud for at least two or three sentences, pausing between each sentence to visualize the blessing fully.
I send energy into my commitment to my personal growth, instead of just getting depressed about what
just happened. I choose to bless it.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize yourself growing stronger, no matter what happens.)
It feels so much better to look at this experience in a positive way and I'm really glad that I'm
able to do so.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize achieving greater mastery.)
This is a part of me that I truly want to energize and grow, because it's such a more centered
way of living. I bless this part of me.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize blessings flowing in.)
For Progressive Boosting, say aloud, whisper, or subliminally whisper
briefly what it feels like to bless the quality. Repeat the
label for what you’re boosting after every second breath to keep focused.
After each repetition, focus on the quality you're boosting for several breaths.
Watch for changes in what you sense about it. When what you sense changes, create a new label that
reflects your new intuitions.
I send energy into my intention... No, it really is a commitment to move beyond
the pain I've dredged up.
I bless that commitment. (Pause for two slow breaths to send energy to bless this commitment.)
Commitment to move beyond the pain. (Focus nonverbally on this for two slow breaths.)
I bless that commitment. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
To move beyond the pain. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
I bless it. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Moving behond the pain. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Actually, I'm pissed. That was just not right! I'm pissed because it was so wrong.
Okay. I'll focus on... harnessing my rage. I bless the personal power that it invokes.
(Focus for two slow breaths.)
I bless my personal power. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
My inner power, my inner strength, my clarity.
Say or whisper something like the following: "I send energy into _________ to support it."
Pause to visualize, and then describe what it means to you support this quality, which might involve
actions, such as studying, making phone calls, or having a conversation. Sending heart energy into
whatever is realistic to you as a way of supporting this part of you is just as valid a part of an
energy boosting session as the energy work itself. Sending energy those other actions helps to make
sure that they happen.
Articulate your thoughts about what you can do to support this part of you for at least two or three sentences.
I send energy into this commitment to support it, and I know that there are things that I can do
to really build this part of me.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize yourself going to classes or studying.)
I'm thinking about a book I want to read, but I'm not sure it's really enough or even the right book.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize yourself finding the right book and being deeply inspired.)
I send energy into the impulse to make sure that I find a way to add to my understanding and
make sure I grow further.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize yourself growing wiser and more thoughtful.)
Hmm-m-m-. I'll have to think about it some more. (You don't have to be conclusive or know the answers
to boost a quality.)
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize all of the above images together as one image.)
After saying that you support this quality you've newly identified (and a sentence or phrase to describe it),
repeat the new label for what you’re boosting several times. After each
repetition, pause and focus deeply on the quality your focusing on for several breaths.
After each repetition, focus deeply on the new quality for several breaths. Watch for changes in what you
sense about it. When it seems to change, create another new label that reflects your new intuition.
I send energy into myself as a defender of justice. (Pause for two slow breaths to send energy. Visualize
yourself carrying within you the power of being such a defender.)
I support my self image as a defender of justice. (Focus nonverbally on this for two slow breaths.)
Defender of justice. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Defender of justice. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
I support myself as a defender of justice. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Defender of justice. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Strategic defender of justice? Or maybe an activist?(Focus for two slow breaths.)
I support my self-image as a strategic activist? (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Say or whisper something like the following: "I send energy into _________ to enhance it."
Then describe the different aspects of skill and growth that will arise as you nurture this part of
yourself. Consider how your skills grow when you practice the piano, listen to great pianists, and
begin to compose your own piano pieces.
The more things you do, the more it enhances your understanding and skill.
This is the kind of growth you are promoting when you enhance this quality. Just as you can promote
the growth of plans in your garden by sending heart energy into them, you can enhance your
personal growth by sending heart chakra energy into it.
Describe what this means to you for at least two or three sentences.
I send energy into my commitment to my personal growth to enhance it.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize an image of yourself as someone to admire—your future
or ideal self.)
My understanding of this part of me is growing more and more complete and send energy to enhance it.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize your ideal self and you in a respectful, fulfilling
dialog.)
It's becoming less like a single insight and more and more like a path with many new aspects as I
move forward.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize you and your ideal self walking together along a path.)
My understanding deepens and my clarity is developing in unforeseen ways.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize your ideal self flying invisibly above you as
you go about your day, advising you, warning you, and leading you to make the right decisions.)
This is a journey, and I'm discovering new elements about that journey as I go.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize all of the above images together as one image.)
After briefly describing what it means to enhance the new quality you've sensed, repeat the new
label that you’re boosting several times, always pausing to tune in on on the new quality that has just emerged
from your intuition.
After each repetition, focus deeply on this quality for several breaths. Watch for a new intuition before
moving to the next step.
I send energy into myself as a person who can lead by generating enthusiasm in others. (Visualize
yourself drawing a crowd of enthusiastic people around you.)
I'm enhancing my ability to generate enthusiasm. (Focus nonverbally on this for two slow breaths.)
Generating enthusiasm in others. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Generating enthusiasm. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Generating enthusiasm. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Enhancing the skill of easily generating enthusiasm. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Generating enthusiasm through effective communication. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
An effective leader who generates enthusiasm in others by being a really great communicator.
I'm enhancing that quality with my energy. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Say or whisper something like the following: "I send energy into _________ to boost it."
Think of how people boost one another—for instance, when kids can't climb over a fence, they will
ask their friends to boost them. Describe what fences you want help this inner quality to climb
over and what challenges you intend your heart chakra energy to help it overcome. Describe some
specific ways that you intend your heart energy to help this part of you to tackle.
Describe this process in sufficient depth to satisfy your heart.
I send energy into this commitment to growth to boost it.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize yourself as a kid who is boosting another kid
named "commitment to growth" to climb over a fence.)
I intend that it will help me find the inspiration and resources I need to guide this part
of me into taking greater control of my life.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize finding treasure and pleasure on the other side
of the fence.)
As I boost it, this part of me will do things that it's never had the freedom to do before,
such as _______ and ______.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize the kids running around and doing more
of _______ and ______.)
I'm boosting it to give it power.
(Pause for several slow breaths to visualize the two kids becoming muscular, like body
builders.)
After briefly describing what it means to boost the new quality, repeat the new
label several times, pausing to tune in on it throughout.
After each repetition, focus deeply on this quality for to allow a new intuition to emerge.
I send energy into myself as a trustworthy guide. (Visualize
yourself leading a small group through a forest.)
I'm boosting myself as a trustworthy guide. (Focus
nonverbally on this for two slow breaths.)
Trustworthy guide. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Trustworthy guide. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
I boost myself as a trustworthy guide. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
Boosting myself as a great guide. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
I'm a great guide because I empower others. (Focus for two slow breaths.)
I'm a trustworthy guide who empowers others, and I boost my skill at doing that.
(Focus for two slow breaths.)
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