Program your mind for the best.
Learn how to program your mind and you will have the key to
your life.
Many of the ideas about what it is to be happy, satisfied, wealthy, or whatever are totally
erroneous.
In fact, most of our beliefs have never been tested in the real
world.
Yet, we live our whole life based on the premise that they are in fact real.
Over the years, through our perception, we have been gathering
information about the way life is.
The problem we face is that the information we have been gathering wasn't
always the truth, but our version of the truth.
What we see and hear is always filtered through our belief
system.
We tell ourselves what we think we are seeing or hearing and
this is recorded as our version of reality.
Consciously we know the difference between what is happening and what
we imagine is happening, but our subconscious doesn't distinguish
between whether we are imagining something or we are actually
experiencing it.
The point here is that while consciously we know the
difference, subconsciously we only believe what the conscious mind accepts
as real.
If this is true and we have built our opinions, beliefs and
expectation levels on vivid imagined experiences, it stands to reason
we can make changes in our behavior through the same process.
All the information we have received is stored on a subconscious
level.
That information becomes our opinion or our belief, which then
becomes part of our self-image.
It is the truth, as best as we know it at the time and that becomes our current dominant
image of reality.
It's necessary to continually check our beliefs to see if they are
workable or unworkable.
In other words, are they supporting us in where
we want to go?
And do they contribute or take away from our happiness
and satisfaction?
If they are not workable, we need to reprogram a new set of
beliefs that our subconscious can work with.
It is important for us to take the time to do the necessary reprogramming.
We have no choice about whether we are going to be programmed, because
we are always being programmed.
The choice is this - who is going to do the programming?
Are we going to do it, or are we going to let someone else do if for us?
The fact of the matter is, there is no one else in the world who
wants for you what you want for you.
It is of the utmost importance that you do not allow others, no matter how well
meaning, to do that programming for you.
Your subconscious will achieve anything you believe to be true
for you.
All religions arebased on belief.
Belief is the cornerstone of all the great achievements since the
beginning of time.
We need to remind ourselves that belief is the master
and we become the slaves in that the belief dictates the actions we take.
But we can change our beliefs, and the exciting thing about this is that if
we change our belief, which is the cause, we also change our
experience, which is the effect or end result.
We always have a choice about what we want to believe.
We are never permanently stuck with old, unworkable beliefs.
It can reasonably be said that belief is the most powerful force in
the world.
Belief is what allowed Helen Keller to overcome the incredible
obstacles of being both blind and deaf.
Belief enabled Einstein to carry on until he discovered the theory of relativity.
But belief also allows people to live a life of crime or commit suicide
because they think that there is no reasonb to live.
So belief is a force that can help us or destroy us.
What we want to do is to reprogram ourselves and set up an environment in which
our beliefs facilitate us in getting what we want.
The tools we use to do this are affirmations and visualizations.
The purpose of an affirmations is simply to surround ourselves
mentally with thoughts that support a specific action or an experience.
Affirmations have no relevance to the way things actually are right now.
They are based on the way we want things to be.
Visualization or imagery refers to the ability of the mind to see
things in pictures.
Essentially, it is a thought that we hold long enough to
get a conscious mental and emotional picture.
Visualization is also referred to as "applied imagination."
It is one of the most significant tools we can use for change.
We learned earlier that our thoughts become reality if we believe
those thoughts to be true.
We think thousands of thoughts every day, but the ones that influence us are the ones
that are tied to emotion.
Visualization is the process of taking a thought and keeping it long
enough so that the mental picture evokes an emotional response.
Emotion causes conviction, and conviction creates reality.
This is not a new idea, it has been taught in many ways.
But to sum it up, thought plus emotion creates conviction.
And conviction creates reality.
I stongly urge you to memorize this.
Here it is again: thought plus emotion creates conviction.
And conviction creates reality.
Affirmations are quality ideas and quality thoughts.
The quality of our thoughts reflects the quality of our life.
Hence, if we were to raise the quality of our thoughts, we would automatically
improve the quality of our life.
Affirmations are induced auto-suggestions.
At the turn of the century, Emile Coue used autosuggestion
very successfully at his clinic in France.
He taught his patients to repeat the Affirmation; "Every day, in every way, I am getting better
and better."
And it worked because conditioning does work.
Affirmations work on the theory of displacement.
If you have a glass of dirty water and you put it
under the faucet and start running clean water into the glass, eventually
the dirty water will be displaced by the clean water.
When you replace unworkable thoughts with positive, workable thoughts, the same
phenomenon occurs.
It is not necessary to get rid of limiting beliefs we
hold in our subconscious.
More important is to ensure that the dominant thoughts we hold
in our mind support us in getting what we want becuase our mind works on our dominant
thoughts.
In computer language there is a term called GIGO.
It stands for "garbage in - garbage out."
What it really means is that if you feed a computer
all the wrong data and then ask it a question, all you will get is the
wrong answer.
Now what is the weakest link in any computer?
The computer programmer, of course.
If the programmer's perception of reality is incorrect, then his or
her input will be incorrect.
The data fed into computer will be incorrect and then the feedback from
the computer, when called upon to solve a problem, will be incorrect.
Likewise, if your personal programmer, which is your conscious mind,
incorrectly feeds the wrong data, which is illogical or erroneous, then
the translation of that data will be incorrect.
Opposing thoughts are mutually exclusive.
This means you cannot hold two opposing thoughts at the same
time.
You cannot think "I can" and "I can't" at the same time about
the same thing.
So it is important to look at and program your dominant
thoughts.
Emerson said, "We become what we think about all day
long," and that's very true.
You and I are walking, talking evidence of our beliefs.
As we've discussed, affirmations are one of the most effective
tools in programming your subconscious for success.
Affirmation literally means to validate or confirm.
So when we think a thought over and over again, we are
validating or confirming it as the truth.
What we are doing is firming up our belief by making a recording in the neuron
structure of our brain,
which is processed through our subconscious aspect of mind.
Once our subconscious mind has accepted a belief, it
is an idea whose time has come.
Using affirmations on a daily basis is one of the easiest things
we can do to change our lives.
Most of the people I know that have trouble with affirmtaions spend too
much time judging weather or not they are doing their affirmations correctly.
To achieve the best possible results, it is necessary to combine
our self-talk and affirmations with imagery.
It can be said that every thought we think is a picture within the mind.
If I mention a dog, you see a dog in your mind's eye.
If I mention an abstract word such as courage, you must mull it around in your mind until
you are able to reduce the abstraction to a mental picture of what courage
means to you.
You've probably made the statement "I'm unable to get the
picture" when communicating with someone.
If you are confused and don't understand what someone is trying to
tell you, you are unable to get the picture.
Imagery or visualization is a process of holding a
thought in your mind until it creates a mental picture or image.
The mental picture or image allows you to be there,
to experience it in your mind.
This is known as applied imagination.
The difference between affirmation and imagery is that affirmations
are conscious thoughts you choose to think about.
Imagery goes a step further.
It takes those thoughts and dwells upon them until they generate
emotion and belief.
Imagery or visualization is not daydreaming.
Imagery is a conscious process that has predetermined attitudes
and beliefs that are used to support achieving a certain end result
or goal.
The purpose of visualization is to build the necessary confidence
to take action.
Daydreams are generally a diversion from reality and are not
predetermined conscious thoughts that support attitudes or beliefs.
The reason imagery works is that the human brain
and nervous system, working in tandem, form a stimulus response
mechanism, which reacts automatically to problems and challenges.
Visualization records memory and develops beliefs and attitudes without
the actual event even taking place.
It allows us to record in our subconscious mind the data we wish
to have as our version of reality.
Remember, what we believe to be true is true for us.
This is possible because our subconscious mind cannot
distinguish the difference between an actual experience and
one that is vividly imagined.
If we imagine something with vivid intensity through the
direction of imagery, our subconscious accepts it as though it were
actually happening.
Once our subconscious accepts what we are imaging, everything we experience after that
will relate to the newly formed belief or image.
The key to successful imagery is to put as much emotion into the
picture as possible.
Arouse a deep inner desire, be enthusiastic and
keep running the picture over and over again.
Your present beliefs were formed by thought plus feeling.
So, if you put enough emotion into your new thoughts, they will automatically cancel
out the old thoughts through dominance.
New thoughts programmed with repetition and imagery become dominant thoughts.
Dominant thoughts and beliefs are the onse control our behavior.
Each one of us has proven that this works.
When you worry about something, you picture the negative
future outcome vividly in your imagination.
You play it over and over
again.
You are not using any effort or willpower; you just keep talking
about and picturing the end result.
Whatever you are picturing has not happened yet, but you keep forming the picture
and the imagery of it happening.
The fact that you have accepted that the negative outcome
is possible and have constantly been replaying the picture and thinking
of it as an already established fact makes the image appear more and
more real.
After a period of time, you automatically generate the
emotions that conform to the image; you begin to experience fear,
anxiety, discouragement, tension and depression.
All of this turmoil was created out of an imagined experience!
Whatever you expect to happen is determined by the thoughts
you dwell upon, plus the intensity of the emotion behind those thoughts.
It is worth repeating that our subconscious does not questions the validity of
the data we present to it.
It merely processes it, and attracts to us what we believe to be true.
If we are using imagery to change habit patterns, we must see
ourselves acting and reacting the way we want to be in the future.
It doesn't matter how we acted today or yesterday.
Once our subconscious gets hold of our new thought,
our brain-mind functioning together through our central nervous system
will take over and we will automatically assume the new behavior patterns.
The key is to be able to picture or imagine the end result so vividly
that it appears real.
We have learned that our subconscious mind functions in terms
of goals or end results.
Once the subconscious has accepted an idea, you can absolutely depend upon it to take
you to that goal.
If we will supply the end result, our subconscious will
supply the "how to."
It will show us how to reach that end result.
Think of the end result in terms of present possibilities.
They must be seen so clearly that it seems real to your
brain and nervous system.
The ultimate aim of affirmation and visualization
is to evoke the feeling that the goal has already been achieved.
Feel as though it has already been achieved and your imagery
will pull you toward the end result that you desire.
Imagine it in as much detail as possible.
Keep using the imaging process over and over again
for the same goal.
In the beginning, don't worry about whether you are
putting in enough detail.
Every time you visualize you will automatically incorporate more and more detail.
Always put yourself in the picture.
See yourself involved in the activities of your goal.
If you do not put yourself in the picture, you may
not be in the end result.
Suppose you want a new car - let's say a new BMW.
You visualize the car and faithfully infuse your
imagery with emotion, detail and repetition.
And then, all of a sudden, a new BMW comes into your life.
You look out the window of your house and your neighbor is driving a new BMW!
You now have new BMW in your life, but you are not in it!
So, make sure you identify yourself with your goal!
All successful individuals have started with a picture held in their
mind.
They visualized and affirmed what they wanted to be, to do and to
have.
And then they instructed their subconscious with clarity and
repetition.
Once we change the picture, it becomes the job of the creative
subconscious to get the picture to match our reality.
The job of the subconscious, in order to preserve sanity,
is to make me act like the person I see myself to be.
I cannot consistently act otherwise.
The challenge is to change the way I see myself
to be.
Our past mistake was in trying hard to be different from our
picture.
It is that very trying that will cause us anxiety and to avoid
change.
Our self-image controls our performance and we automatically
and effortlessly act the way we see ourselves to be.
If we try to force ourselves not to smoke, to lose weight, or to become a better person,
without first changing the picture, we have to push ourselves to make the change.
As long as we consciously focus on the change we desire, we do alright.
But the moment we forget to exert conscious effort, we go
back to our old habits - because we are always going to act like we
see ourselves.
When we force ourselves to change, we place tremendous stress
and tension on our nervous system because we are forcing ourselves to
be different than our subconscious picture.
The moment we let go we return to our dominant picture or controlling
mechanism.
Using affirmations and visualizations reprograms
our picture.
If we do this, we no longer need to force change.
It is also important that while you are visualizing yourself like the
new person, you just go on behaving like you always behave.
Don't force yourself to be like the new person.
Don't try hard to be like what you are affirming or picturing.
Just be like you.
Remember, we are altering the subconscious automatic guidance
system.
We are not
concerned about our current behavior or performance.
If we change the picture, the change in our behavior and performance
follows automatically.
Just go on acting daily like your old self.
If you are using affirmations and imagery, the new you is changing
little by little.
Pretty soon you will automatically be like the person
you wish to be.
It is worth mentioning again: Do not try to change your
performance or behavior.
Change the picture first.
The biggest mistake that most people make is
that they try to outrun their picture.
Some people have difficulty getting a clear picture in their mind.
There are people who hear more or feel more than they actually
visualize so they don't get a good clear picture.
These people are the "nonvisionaries."
If you are a non-visionary, you will probably have a
heightened subjective sense of feeling.
If this is true for you, just concentrate on the feeling.
Sometimes we don't get a good clear picture because we are not
relaxed enough.
What you are doing with affirmations and visualizations is preparing yourself
for the appropriate person you choose to be.
It helps to take a look at the areas of your life that you are
avoiding or having difficulty with.
Then visualize yourself in the situation you are avoiding or having difficulty with,
acting in a way that would be more appropriate for you to be.
Visualize the skill level, the characteristics, and the qualities you want
to express.
Soon you will act and behave like your picture.
Once it takes hold in your subconscious, you don't need to affirm it or visualize it
any more.
Just go out and be you.
What you have done is to control and consciously decide what the
new "you" would be like.
For example, if you choose to be a non-smoker, picture yourself
in a situation where you would normally have a cigarette.
See yourself with nothing in your hand.
If your image is clear enough, it will be as
though you didn't have a cigarette that one time.
Record it subconsciously and feel the satisfaction of
the accomplishment.
This will make an impression in your subconscious mind.
As far as your subconscious is concerned, for that one time
you were a non-smoker.
You actually did not smoke.
Once you've repeated this image over and over you will make a change from a smoker
to a non-smoker easily and without effort.
In the meantime, if you want to have a cigarette, go ahead
and have one.
If you don't wan to have one, throw the cigarette away.
Once the picture changes, you will give it up without stress
or effort.
If you feel you are shy, picture yourself with your best friends.
Now project yourself into a new, unfamiliar situation, perhaps in a
crowded room or at a party.
See yourself just as confident and relaxed.
Feel the sense of accomplishment.
Repeat that kind of scene over and over again and
your subconscious will think you have done it like that many times.
When you actually get in that situation, you will act like yourself.
What is yourself?
The way you have been picturing yourself to be.
Not just any kind of imagery changes the subconscious image of
reality.
If that were so, all you would have to do is watch TV and your
subconscious picture would change.
The only kind of imagery that will alter the subconscious image of reality is
experiential imagery.
We must clearly identify with the imagery.
If I observe somebody else do something, I say to myself.
"That's the way they do it.
I'm not doing it, they are doing it."
I must personally experience it in my mind.
I must see myself, not someone else, accomplishing the end result.
If you can't see yourself being, doing or having it, you won't get there.
All permanent and lasting change comes from the inside out.
Any other change is temporary.
You have been using affirmations and imagery all of your life.
What you want to do from now on is to learn how
to control them so they will work for you instead of against you.
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