Who believes in the Power Pause?

In other words, who endorse the Power Pause? This is an easy question to answer.

1. Dr. Joe "Mr. Fire!" Vitale
Bestselling author of too many books to mention here

2. Bob Scheinfeld
Author of "The Invisible Path to Success" and "The 11th Element"

3. Monique Harris
Co-author with Ken Evoy of "Make Your Knowledge Sell (MYKS)"

4. Dr. Audri G. Lanford, CEO, Lanford Inc.

5. Yanik Silver
A successful netpreneur

6. Rick Beneteau
Author of "The Ezine Marketing Machine"

7. Marlon Sanders
Owner of a successful net marketing company

8. Declan Dunn
Owner of a successful net marketing company

9. Bob Burg
Author of "Endless Referrals" and "Winning Without Intimidation"

10. Jonathan Mizell
Owner of a successful net marketing company


The Power Pause package

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Why do I need to take a Power Pause?

You need to take the Power Pause because you are just a normal being with your fair share of challenges. When you are really distressed though, you may even feel that it is unfair.

Firstly, empower yourself; acknowledge that it is your challenge(s) and it is your feeling(s) (that you are feeling). You own it (because you created it), not vice versa, and you are certainly not your feelings nor challenges!

You have created such challenge(s) for the purpose of advancing yourself.

Now how much you can advance, depends on your ability to respond to your challenge.

(At this point, would you cry, "unfair"? Wouldn't that be like walking backwards?)

When you take a Power Pause, you are aiding yourself. When you do that, others will naturally gravitate towards you to aid you some more.

Finally, no matter where you are, be grateful for the opportunity to experience the challenge. You may not know why or how it will unfold, but once you are past it, you will know why, if you wish to know.

Who believes in the Power Pause?



P.s : When you feel the pain, you may even plead, there is no doubt that you are sincere. Even then, know that it is for the betterment of yourself even if you cannot understand why.

How can you not be touched if all this (the good things that would otherwise not be made known to you, the pain and all) is orchestrated for the sake of nothing and no one else but you and you alone? You are that important.

Let your tears signify your gratitude to your self within you. You are tearful for you are so touched, how can the self within you not be?

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How can I take a Power Pause?

I think you agree that you cannot really understand something until you experience it. You may be aware of it but not really understand it.

So it is with the Power Pause. To be able to understand it, put the formula into practice. It is not called the Power Pause for nothing.

Take a break, but not another one of those breaks that makes you feel even more tired than before you took it. That is how you replenish your energy; that is why it is a Power Pause. And all it takes is 3 minutes of your time.

Why do I need to take a Power Pause?



P.s : Do not rush it or think it to be a chore, you are doing this for no one but yourself. Naturally, if you are desperate enough, this is not an issue.

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How can power pause help me?

The PowerPause is a 3-minute, 3-step formula for success

This is helpful if you do not have a lot of time to spare. You only have to be sincere and consistent. Do this once a day or more, during your spare moments(but do not rush it) or at the same time everyday.


This is really how you can get 'there' from 'here'. Remember that the thinking that got you here can't get you there. This is especially true if you find yourself stuck in a pattern and then often, despite your efforts, you still find yourself within the familiar pattern, (even if there is a little improvement).

Over twenty-five years in the making

This formula is not conceived overnight or on purpose at all. Not that you can't come up with this yourself either, yes, when one is tested, one is often forced to come up with solutions different from what one is used to, better known as thinking out of the box.

True 'thinking out of the box' is really a form of leveraging.

There is no competition

In case you have the scarcity mindset, ask yourself, "is there another person exactly the way I am?"


If you still find yourself in competition with someone else, rest assured that that person is you (or your ego).


How can I take a Power Pause?

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You create your reality

You live in your own world. Have you ever wondered what is it like for another person? It does not matter, though it may be true that we are related, we still live in our own world most of the time. Our worlds may only overlap at certain points.

And you determine what is on the outside, by what is on the inside. Certainly not the other way round.

But what is on the inside? Your feelings, and these make up your state of being. What highs or lows that you experience on the outside corresponds to rises or falls within you.

Decide to take back your responsibility. The best place to begin is where you are, right now.

Remember, you own all that you experience and feel, but you are not them. You have created them. How can the creator be the same as his creations? Wouldn't that stop you from creating some more? If you could not create any more, wouldn't you cease to be a creator?

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I can't help feeling bad

Feelings play a role. They give us a message. Feelings are a form of communication from our unconscious self.

Don't do something that makes you feel bad but, if bad feelings surface nonetheless, you are already containing it and it is now replaying in order for you to have a chance to release it. In other words, an opportunity to heal that part of you that has been hurt in the past.

This is good news because once this negativity is released, you are that much lighter and one step nearer to achieving your wishes.

The easiest way to do this is to do it with love. There is no competition and therefore, it is irrelevant to judge. There is only you and the outcome is feedback for you. This feedback is valuable for your next steps. Take a power pause and feel yourself empowered.

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Your feelings determine your point of attraction

What you see around you, you have attracted it. What you see is really what has manifested.

So how do you determine what you attract? You attract based on your feelings, so in effect, your feelings attract for you.

Shift your feelings and you have shifted your point of attraction, it is as simple as that. The best thing you can do for yourself is to feel good (or simply put, be happy), then you will always be attracting what you want.

Of course, you have to be true because if there is one person you can never cheat, it is yourself.

There are lots of options; you may need to shift your perspective, alter something, etc. It is not hard to feel differently. Don't trap yourself in a trap of your own making.

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Honor your feelings

Honor your feelings and your feelings will honor you. Why? When you are honoring your feelings, you are honoring yourself.

Your feelings really belong to the larger part of yourself (or your unconscious self). This expansive self knows things that your conscious self does not, and it communicates with you in the form of feelings.

Your conscious self ought to act on those messages (instead of feeding the unconscious one with worry so that it feels worse). Cooperate in the intended manner if you really want to resolve your challenge.

The easiest way to do this is to take a power pause. Now you are engaging your larger self, what fun and what a great idea!

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Clarify your feelings

Like I said you should not let your challenge get ahead of you, neither should your feelings.

If your feelings overwhelm you, you should certainly acknowledge them. They are bubbling up from your subconscious self and they are a message to you. Your feelings are your natural guide. So, allow yourself to be divinely guided.

You do already have the answer, your feelings accentuate this fact for you. What kind of answer? Depends on what kind of feeling you are feeling.

See? Even if you thought you had to do it alone, you would not be. Remember though that you are still the first cause.

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How can I feel as if there is nothing the matter?

Assuming you are deep in your trouble, (you are really not, so I shall rephrase and say, assuming you think you are in deep trouble), how can you feel as if nothing is the matter?

You are right, you cannot feel as if nothing is the matter because if you do, you are avoiding your challenge.

On the other hand, if you can feel that nothing is the matter long enough for an answer to pop up for you to act on thereafter, you are not avoiding your challenge. And so that is why you can disconnect, from your 'trouble'.

One way to aid you in disconnecting is to 'put yourself in a future place'. You (your future self) may look back to your current point in time. Does this open up a new perspective?

Would you go, "you should have..." or "you could have..."

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Face your challenge

First of all, remember that you have chosen for this test to appear at this time (to help you evolve). Now that it appears, why would you shirk from it?

Face it yes, but not let it get ahead of you. Remember that you are the one who made your choice, the test did not choose you (does that sound funny?). Then why do you act like it is the first cause, and not you? (You are the first cause in your world.)

Neither avoid, resist nor worry it.

If this brings you to not know what to do, take a pause, (take a deep breath if it helps) ask yourself what to do and allow the answer to come.

Whether it is a test that requires an urgent response from you or not, you do always know what to do. If you feel otherwise, could you be avoiding the test (or its best solution as you know it)?

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You influence your environment

It is possible that you may find this post to be contradictory to the previous one, and perhaps it is.

When your heart has loving kindness, you feel at home wherever you are. Truly, it is a mixture of love and kindness; this should clarify for you the type of love that I mean. In short, you are experiencing god and the only way for you to know it is to feel it for yourself.

But what kind of events can trigger such a state of being? The initial months after giving birth, for example. Nonetheless, you can feel this way if you are concerned of someone because you love that person, the unselfish kind of loving (kind).

If this delicious state is the way your life is, good for you. It also means that you are living in the moment (present). If not, let this be your intention and start experimenting.

Do not be fooled that this has nothing to do with anything else. It is everything. (It is also true that love is everything.) If you have experienced it before, you know that this is a good feeling and you know joy.

Why do I say that you influence your environment? For instance, if you used to feel fear when you are at a certain place, you will be pleasantly surprise that you don't anymore. The place has not changed, only you have.

And if you are really living in this state of being, it is this way wherever you are. In short, you feel at home wherever you are, because you are at home with yourself.

Similarly with fear in your heart. If this is what you always feel in your heart, you will not really fit in wherever you are. If this is how you live your life, how can you may be seriously thwarted; how will your desires and your purpose be fulfilled?

Find out what is the cause of this fear. If you don't already know it, ask yourself and let the answer come. Then act so that this fear is removed.

Take back your power through your ability to respond (responsibility) - you choose the way you live. Life does not happen to you; you choose it and you do it all the time, whether you know it or not.

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Take a vacation

And I mean it, not just a pause, but a vacation, for as long as you can.

If you are stressed out staying where you are, it is more than just a good idea to take a vacation. You can literally take refuge in a remote location.

It has to be a place that feels different from the present place but it does not have to be exotic or be at a considerable monetary expense at all. It feels like a different world to you because it inherits a different kind of energy.

And you will be influenced by your surroundings. During this time, you can take stock and perhaps change course or you may come up with ideas to manage your affairs when you return.

As for how long, that depends on how long you have been stressed out (and therefore, how off course you are). For example, if you have been struggling for decades, a year or so of vacation may be ideal.

Or, the less focussed you are, the more time you need to find yourself.

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How do you deal with your challenges?

You must have heard of this phrase; the fight or flight response. In regard to the former, you may also have heard that 'what you resists persists'. The same applies to the flight response (you may be able to delay, but it will resurface sooner or later).

Do it this way - face it, but not alone.

Remember that (however hard it is), this is a test that you have chosen earlier to improve an aspect of yourself (which will in turn improve your whole self). What matters is the outcome (of the test). How it can be influenced lies in the way you respond - that is how you make a difference.

The above link opens up another post, in case you have not been reading this blog chronologically. If you have, you will understand what I mean by facing the challenge, but not alone.

So does John, author of the Power Pause. How does John deal with his challenges?

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So how can my problems be solved?

I assume you are reading this blog in chronological order. You are best served this way. (The links within these paragraphs go to the related posts within this blog. You do not have to visit the links if you are reading in chronological order.)

You have felt what it was like to have those problems. You have also felt what it was like to not have those problems. Did you notice the difference?

By shifting your feelings, you shift your point of attraction.

You then conclude with gratitude.

My dear readers, you certainly initiate the solving of your problems but you do not have to do it alone. The universe is more than what you can see and neither are your choices limited by what you can see. Help yourself to solve your problem(s) quicker and enjoy life sooner.

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The power of gratitude

Now that you know what it feels like if your problem(s) simply disappeared, you have indeed changed your point of attraction. (You would not want to keep attracting the same ole, same ole would you?)

Now all you have to do is to seal the deal with gratitude.

Gratitude is a feeling of thankfulness, not unlike sincerity and surrender. The point is, you have to feel it to know it. It does not matter whether you verbalise it or put it into writing, just feel it.

Let it fill you so much that tears well up in your eyes. At this point, there is no question in your sincerity and surrender. Even your enemies will love you.

Go Gratitude. It is a great attitude.

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How do you respond?

View it as a challenge. You simply cannot grow without some sort of chaos and yours may be just a little chaos, not enough to warrant a transformation. Nevertheless, a little chaos at a time will transform you gradually.

The trick to survive this chaos lies in the way you respond. And that is just what responsibility means.

It does not matter that you do not remember having chosen this challenge for yourself. It is now here and it is here for a purpose - to help you grow. No point in fighting against it, instead, use your energy to respond to it.

Before you feel like a knight facing your enemies, about to go into a battle, do this:

How would I feel if that problem no longer exists?

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I don't feel good

Your problems are separate from your feelings. You may not have distinguished them from each other simply because you own both of them.

And that is a good thing. It means that you can choose how you feel and not the other way round since your feelings do not own you - you own your feelings!

Similarly, your problems do not own you - you own your problems!

So how do you choose the way you feel? By not having the problems in the first place? But even those were chosen by you.

You know, the tiny you (your conscious self) may view this or that as a problem, but not your larger self. You have chosen this in order to evolve, to move a little beyond your comfort zone so that you can have even more than what you already have.

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But I can't, I've got all these problems.

It has to do with the way you feel. Don't think so? When you become so overwhelmed by the problems that you face and you can't make them go away, all you want is (at least) for the feeling to go away.

(Did you know that some people are so good at feeling bad that they can do so with no apparent problem? This is normally known as depression.)

Still not fully convinced that feelings play a role? Try this:

Use a note pad or your computer to jot down three things:

1) The most serious problem you have right now, whether it's money, health or relationships or a combination of any two or all.

2) Then write one word to describe how you feel when you think of the problem. It could be any word such as anxious, miserable, fearful, helpless, hopeless, etc.

3) Now write one more word to describe how you'd feel if that problem no longer exists. You can use words like happy, peaceful, relaxed or any word of your choosing.

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What do I do now?

It is so easy to get lost in the course of one's life. I am pretty sure you would not mind it if only you were enjoying yourself. You will however, start questioning yourself when things are not rolling on smoothly.

That is fine too, since now we are presented with an opportunity for something even better than what we already have. Indeed, what we commonly view as a problem is an opportunity.

If you have heard of this before, perhaps you may think that this is all fine and dandy, but how do I survive at the moment? We know that a glorious future awaits us but just now, how are we going to go through this? In short, what do I do now?

If you are like me, you only want to be free of this somehow. You wish that someone else takes your place. Better yet, you wish that you were never under such circumstances as you are. I only hope that you do not go so far as to wish that you didn't exist in the first place!

Well, I am not sure if you want to hear this, but the above thinking is simply 'not aligned' with the universal laws. Nevertheless, regardless of your way of thinking, the same laws apply even with such thinking, the only thing is that, what you are manifesting is not what you intend. Yes, you still manifest your thoughts, only that you will find that they are not what you intended.

Rather than going into more complexities, lets just put it this way, when you don't know what to do, all you have to do is take a pause, let your mind be still. The quieter you are, the better to allow the answer(s) to come.

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