Thursday, August 29, 2013

The Power Of A Thought 2

What is capability? What can you do? What is can?

You say, "I wish I could do that. But I can't." Sometimes the thing you desire seems most evasive and elusive to you. You may seem to think that you need money or something else that is external to you for you to be able to achieve your desire. And because this external thing is away from you and you don't have it, you think that you are doomed because even that seems elusive. So you are stuck in a vicious circle. You accept that, you fear it.

But before you accept something that has absolutely no value to you, take another look. Fear is a thing we are conditioned to accept without question, yet it has absolutely no value. Next time you accept fear, ask yourself what value it really has for you. Escape is not a value. There is nowhere to run. Eventually, you will be found and you will have to face yourself. Running away from a problem is an idea that stems from the illusion that there is a you with a problem, and a you that can escape the you with the problem. Insane? Yep! The first step to getting out of a problem is knowing and accepting that you are the problem, and then you become the solution. Nothing outside changes, but as you change, a new outside replaces the old. The law of attraction and the law of cause and effect work this way.

For now, let us define capability. What is can?

Everyone has things that they can do now that they could not do before. You can now walk while as a child you could not. The ground never changed, but you did. You can now read while you once could not. The English language never changed, but you did. At one time, Bill Gates could not write software, now he can. The world did not change, Bill did. At one time, Jesus could not perform miracles, then he did. Miracles did not change, Jesus did. At one time the Buddha was not enlightened, then he was. The ways of the universe did not change, the Buddha did.


He goes on to use an example from the movie business.

In the movie Matrix where actor Keanu Reeves plays the character Neo we witness how he changes his idea of himself. From being a sceptic about his own capabilities and what is possible for him to do to truly believe he can do the unthinkable.
Within each of us there is a "believing Neo" - a super force beyond your wildest dream.
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ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE as long as you believe and truly engage yourself with your thoughts, mind and being.

We all have the capability to think in a positive matter if we really want to, but way too often we resort to negative thinking and ideas that we are not able to do this or that. Unfortunately many people grow up hearing that they can't do a certain task or that they can't pursue a certain profession. They are put down by people close to them saying things: "who do you think you are trying to accomplish that".


This type of "mind limiting talk" will unfortunately end up being part of you. We are formed by statements and sayings from our parents, kids in school, friends, society etc. And for most people it creates a limiting belief system which enters into our mind and being. It might be a belief that we are no good in math or that we are a person nobody likes or that we can't succeed in the business world or that we can't succeed in sports or that we can't succeed in relationships and so on.

The way you perceive and interpret yourself is a result of the belief system you adopted while growing up.

Back in 1960 Maxwell Maltz wrote the book Psycho-Cybernetics where he talks about the self-image we form growing up: We all carry with us a mental blueprint or picture of ourselves. It has been built up from our own beliefs about ourselves. But most of these beliefs about ourselves have unconsciously been formed from our past experience, our successes and failures, our humiliations, our triumphs, and the way other people have related to us, especially in early childhood. From all these we mentally construct a "self" (or a picture of a self). Once an idea or a belief about ourselves goes into this picture it becomes "true" as far as we personally are concerned. We do not question its validity, but proceed to act upon it just as if it were true.


Maltz goes on to say that all our actions, feelings, behavior - even our abilities - are always consistent with this self-image.

Hence it becomes very important to change your self-image if that image is one of a limiting character of some sort.

You can change your self-image with the power of thought using affirmations and subliminal messages.

In his book The Answer John Assaraf also talks about how powerful our built in beliefs are. He explains that they are powerful in the sense that they dictate our ability to reach our goals, but in fact they are nothing more than specific neural patterns in your brain - they are thoughts that are so ingrained they have become automatic. They are not there because they are "the truth", they have simply been handed down from generation to generation. They are there because someone put them there.

He goes on to say that this is not a about faith or religion - it is about your beliefs- your habits of thought, opinion and attitude about the world around you, and especially your beliefs about you, about your life and your prospects for financial fulfillment.

By the time you are seventeen years old, you have heard "No, you can't" an average of 150,000 times. You've heard "Yes, you can" about 5,000 times. That is thirty nos for every yes. That makes a POWERFUL belief of "I can't".


These beliefs are thousands of times stronger than desires. So if you desire something like a new house or getting a new job it will not happen if your beliefs are "I can't". The beliefs win every time.

Why?
Assaraf explains it like this:

It is your habit of thought ( your beliefs), not your desires that run your actions.

This is one of the greatest discoveries of the past decade of neurological research: 96-98 percent of all your behaviors are automatic. This is why we set goals, but don't reach them. Setting them is a function of the conscious mind. Reaching them is a function of the non-conscious mind

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