Friday, August 3, 2007

Important principle #3 and #4

Important principle #3:
Significant negative emotional experiences create beliefs that are not resourceful and cause us to focus on what we do not want. Since the mind takes whatever you focus on as an instruction to create something, this is not resourceful. To get what you want, you must focus on what you want and have beliefs that tell the mind to create that result.
People who have had significant, negative emotional experiences often focus on what they don't want (i.e., a repetition of the significant emotional experience, or anything that reminds them of it). Consciously or unconsciously, they have a belief: "I must avoid "x" at all costs!"
When you notice yourself focusing on what you do not want, immediately change your focus to what you do want. Your mind doesn't know when you focus on something that you do not want it. It always takes whatever you focus on as an instruction to go get something and bring it to you. For this reason, it is crucial that you immediately replace thoughts of what you do not want (for instance, beliefs that create negative outcomes) with thoughts of what you do want.
Important principle #4:
Since everything is true to the person who believes it, evaluating beliefs based on whether they are "true" or "false" is not helpful. Doing so is indulging in circular, fallacious logic. Conscious, happy people evaluate beliefs based on whether of not they
are resourceful--in other words, on whether or not they create the desired results and experience of life.
Beliefs have consequences, and the best way to evaluate a belief is by what consequences it creates. Since all beliefs seem to be true to the believer, believing something "because it's true" is useless, at best, and often dangerous.

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