You cannot escape
your own attitudes, for they will form the nature of what you see. Quite
literally you see what you want to see; and you see your own thoughts and
emotional attitudes materialized in physical form. If changes are to occur,
they must be mental and psychic changes. These will be reflected in your
environment. Negative, distrustful, fearful, or degrading attitudes toward
anyone work against the self.
Telepathy operates
constantly. If you continually expect an individual to behave in a particular
manner, then you are constantly sending him telepathic suggestions that he will
do so. Each individual reacts to suggestion. According to the specific conditions
existing at the time, such an individual will to some extent or another act
according to the mass suggestions he receives.
These mass
suggestions include not only those given to him by others, both verbally and
telepathically, but also those he has given to himself, both in the waking and
dream states. If an individual is in a state of despondency, this is because he
has already become prey to negative suggestions of his own and others...
There are obviously
ways in which you mold your own conditions, protect yourself from your own
negative suggestions and those of others. You must learn to erase a negative
thought or picture by replacing it with its opposite.
What you see in
others is the materialization-the projection of what you think you are-not
necessarily, however, of what you are. For example, if others seem deceitful to
you, it is because you deceive yourself, and then project this outward upon
others.
...If an individual
sees only evil and desolation in the physical world, it is because he is
obsessed with evil and desolation and projects them outward, and closes his
eyes to all else. If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask
yourself what you think of others, and you will find your answer.
...and all of this
without his realizing his basic concept of himself, and without recognizing
that he projects his feared weaknesses outward unto others.
True self-knowledge
is indispensable for health or vitality. The recognition of the truth about the
self simply means that you must first discover what you think about yourself,
subconsciously. If it is a good image, build upon it. If it is a poor one, recognize
it as only the opinion you have held of yourself and not as an absolute state.
...remember to
recognize resentment when he feels it, and then to realize that resentment can
be dismissed. The initial recognition must be made, however. Then have him
imagine plucking out the resentment by the roots and replacing it with a
positive feeling. But he must imagine the plucking-out process.
This is the
difference between repression and positive action. In repression the resentment
is shoved beneath and ignored. With our method it is recognized, imaginatively
plucked out as being undesirable, and replaced by the thought of peace and
constructive energy.
If desire for health
leads instead to an emphasis upon symptoms to be overcome, you would be better
off to avoid all thoughts of health or illness and concentrate in other
directions, such as work. Such an emphasis can lead to a focus upon obstacles
that stand in the way, and this reinforces the negative condition.
People react to
negative suggestions only when their own frame of mind is negative. Then we
close ourselves off from the constructive energies we need.
You are a
multidimensional personality, and within you lies all the knowledge about
yourself, your challenges and problems, that you will ever need to know. Others
can help you in their own way... But my mission is to remind you of the
incredible power within your own being, and to encourage you to recognize and
use it.
...Ideas have an
electromagnetic reality. Beliefs are strong ideas about the nature of reality.
(later: Your
thoughts have a very definite vital reality. Beliefs are thoughts reinforced by
imagination and emotion concerning the nature of your reality.)
Ideas generate
emotion. Like attracts like, so similar ideas group about each other and you
accept those that fit in with your particular "system" of ideas.
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Ideas represent your
psychic intent. They generate emotion and imagination. These activate the
interior patterns. They are the motive force of action, the means by which all
interior events are exteriorized. They are energy formed and directed,
formulations of interior and exterior patterns of reality. They are a part of
the creative force from which all realities spring. ... Imagination and emotion
are the most concentrated forms of energy that you possess as physical
creatures. Any strong emotion carries within far more energy than, say, that
required to send a rocket to the moon.
You are a sender and
a receiver. Because ideas have an electromagnetic reality, beliefs, because of
their intensity (see above) radiate strongly. Due to the organizing nature of
your own psychological nature, similar beliefs congregate, and you will readily
accept those with which you already agree...
Limiting ideas
therefore predispose you to accept others of a similar nature. Exuberant ideas
of freedom, spontaneity and joy automatically collect others of their kind
also. There is a constant interplay between yourself and others in the exchange
of ideas, both telepathically and on a conscious level.
This interchange
follows, again, your conscious beliefs... You react only to those telepathic
messages that fit in with your conscious ideas about yourself and your reality.
... the conscious
mind is itself spontaneous. It enjoys playing with its own contents, so I am
not here recommending a type of stern mental discipline in which you examine
yourself at every moment.
Telepathic
communication is constant. This is usually at an unconscious level merely
because your conscious mind is in a state of becoming... As an example, if your
conscious ideas are relatively positive you will react to telepathically
received information of a similar nature, even if you do so on an unconscious
level. ....A family... can constantly reinforce its joy, gaiety, and
spontaneity by concentrating on ideas of vitality, strength and creativity; or
it can let half of its energy slip away by reinforcing resentments, angers and
thoughts of doubt and failure.
You make your own
reality.
You get what you
concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.
You will also
react... to inner information at an unconscious level that is ...
"collected" under the organization of your quite conscious concepts
concerning existence in general, and your own in particular. So you are locked
into physical situations that are corroborated by the great evidence of sense
data...
Core beliefs ...
strong ideas about your own existence. Many other subsidiary beliefs, that
earlier seemed separate from each other, should now appear quite clearly as
being offshoots of core beliefs. Once the core belief is understood to be a
false one, the others will fall away
It is the core
belief which is strong enough to so focus your perception that you perceive
from the physical world only those events that correlate with it. It is also
the strength of the core belief that draws up from the vast bank of inner
knowledge only those events that seem to fit within its organization.
I did not want to
imply that you make a list of specifically negative ideas, however. IT IS OF
SUPREME IMPORTANCE THAT YOU RECOGNIZE THE EXISTENCE OF JOYFUL BELIEFS, AND TAKE
INTO CONSIDERATION THOSE ELEMENTS OF YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE WITH WHICH YOU HAVE HAD
SUCCESS.
I WANT YOU TO
CAPTURE (compare p. 88) THAT FEELING OF ACCOMPLISHMENT, AND TO TRANSLATE OR
TRANSFER IT, TO AREAS IN WHICH YOU HAVE HAD DIFFICULTY. BUT YOU MUST REMEMBER
THAT THE IDEAS EXIST FIRST AND THE EXPERIENCE PHYSICALLY FOLLOWS.
...here you become
involved with one of the most meaningful aspects of the nature of personal
reality, as you test your thoughts against what seems to be. There may be a
time before you learn how to change your thoughts effectively, but you are
engaged in a basic meaningful endeavor.
The truth is then
that you form your reality directly. You react consciously and unconsciously to
your beliefs. You collect from the physical universe, and the interior one,
data that seems to correlate with your beliefs.
Believe, then, that
you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you
can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.
Core beliefs are
those about which you build your life. You are consciously aware of these...
Data that seems
unrelated to this core belief is then not assimilated but thrown into the
corners of your mind, unused, and you are denied the value of the information.
... inactive material. This information will not be a part of the organized
structure of your usual thoughts.
A core belief is
invisible only when you think of it as a fact of life, and not as a belief
about life...
... you must become
aware of your own structures. Build them up or tear them down, but do not allow
yourself to become blind to the furniture of your own mind... it will help you,
in fact, if you think of your own beliefs as furniture that can be rearranged,
changed, renewed, completely discarded or replaced. Your ideas are yours. They
should not control you... Imagine yourself then rearranging this furniture.
Images of particular pieces will come clearly to you. Ask yourself what ideas
these pieces represent. See how well the tables fit together. Open up the
drawers inside.
You must understand
that these are not simply dead ideas, like debris, within your mind. They are
psychic matter. In a sense then they are alive. They group themselves like
cells, protecting their own validity and identity.
You feed them,
figuratively speaking, with like ideas.
Information does not
exist by itself. Connected with it is the consciousness of all those who
understand it, perceive it or originate it. ... the consciousness that held, or
holds, or will hold the information attracts it like a magnet... The
information itself wants to move toward consciousness. It is not dead or inert.
It is not something you grab for, it is also something that wants to be
grabbed, and so it gravitates to those who seek it.
Your consciousness
attracts the consciousness that is already connected with the material.
... the emergence of
the inner self, through art, into the physical universe.
Imagination is one
of the motivating agencies that helps transform your beliefs into physical
experience. It is vital therefore that you understand the interrelationship
between ideas and imagination. In order to dislodge unsuitable beliefs and
establish new ones, you must learn to use your imagination to move concepts in
and out of your mind. The proper use of imagination can then propel ideas in
the directions you desire.
Largely, but not
completely, your imagination follows your beliefs, as do your emotions. One of
the most hampering beliefs of all is the idea that the clues to current
behavior are buried and usually inaccessible. This belief itself closes to you
the contents of your own conscious mind and prevents you from looking there for
the answers that are available.
[to Rob:] Now at
various times you made those conscious choices. They escaped your notice but
they existed as conscious points of awareness and choice.
You should
...become... aware, and consciously and alertly aware, of the beneficial ideas
and their importance in your lives.
IT IS VITAL THAT YOU
REALIZE YOU ARE WORKING WITH BELIEFS IN YOUR MIND - THAT THE REAL WORK IS DONE
THERE IN THE MIND - AND NOT LOOK FOR IMMEDIATE PHYSICAL RESULTS.
THEY WILL FOLLOW AS
SURELY AND CERTAINLY AS THE "BAD" RESULTS FOLLOWED, AND THIS MUST BE
A BELIEF: THAT THE GOOD RESULTS WILL COME. BUT THE REAL WORK IS DONE IN THE
MIND. IF YOU DO THE WORK THEN YOU CAN REST ASSURED OF THE RESULTS, BUT YOU MUST
NOT CHECK CONSTANTLY FOR THEM.
Your emotions and
your imagination both follow your belief. When the belief vanishes then the
same emotional context is no longer entertained, and your imagination turns in
other directions.
Quite deliberately
you use your conscious mind playfully,....game... in which
for a time you completely ignore what seems to be in physical terms and
"pretend" that what you really want is real.
If you are poor, you
purposely pretend that you have all you need financially. Imagine how you will
spend your money. If you are ill, imagine playfully that you are cured. See
yourself doing what you would do. If you cannot communicate with others, imagine
yourself doing so easily.
...As it took a
while for the unsatisfactory beliefs to become materialized, so it may be a
time before you see physical results; but the new ideas will take growth and
change your experience as certainly as the old ones did. The process of
imagining will also bring you face to face with other subsidiary ideas that may
momentarily bring you up short. you may see where you held two quite
conflicting ideas simultaneously, and with equal vigor. In such a case, you
stalemated yourself... so you will try to be healthy and not healthy at the
same time, or successful and not successful...
Feeling and
conscious thought... actually go together but your conscious thinking largely
determines your emotions, and not the other way round. Your beliefs generate
the appropriate emotion that is implied. A long period of inner depression does
not just come upon you. Your emotions do not betray you. Instead, over a period
of time you have been consciously entertaining negative beliefs that then
generated the strong feelings of despondency. As you think so you feel, and not
the other way around.
... The belief in
illness itself depends upon a belief in human unworthiness, guilt and
imperfection, for example.
The mind does not
just hold active beliefs. It contains many others in a passive state. They lie
latent, ready to be focused upon and used; any of them can be brought to the
fore when a conscious thought acts as a stimulus (this is why you should do the
suggestions thing).
If you are focusing
upon ideas of..., illness or lack,..., your conscious mind also holds latently
concepts of health, vigor and abundance. If you divert your thoughts from the
negative ideas to the positive ones, then your concentration will begin to alter
the balance. The vast reservoir of energy and potential within you is called
into action under the leadership of your conscious mind.
...your
consciousness expands as you use it. You become "more" conscious as
you exercise these (reasoning) faculties.
Conscious mind is a
vehicle for the imagination in many ways. The greater its knowledge the further
the reach of imagination...
The conscious mind
is a vehicle for the expression of the soul in corporeal terms. It is your
method of assessing temporal experience according to the beliefs that it holds
about the nature of reality. It automatically causes the body to react in
certain ways. I cannot say this often enough: Your beliefs follow your reality,
your body and its condition, your personal relationships, your environment, and
en masse your civilization and world... The conscious mind gives its orders and
the inner self carries them out.
All of the powers of
your inner self are set into activation as a result of your conscious beliefs.
You have lost a sense of responsibility for your conscious thoughts because you
have been taught that it is not what forms your life. You have been taught that
regardless of your beliefs your are terrorized by unconscious conditioning. And
as long as you hold that conscious belief you will experience it as reality.
Some of your beliefs
originated in your childhood, but you are not at their mercy unless you believe
that you are.
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