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LAWS OF SUCCESSTHE
LAW OF CHANGE Change
is inevitable, so learn to live with it, rather than against it. THE
LAW OF CHOICE You
are always free to choose the content of your conscious mind, but in so doing,
you are choosing every other part of your life. THE
LAW OF OPTIMISM A
positive mental attitude goes hand-in-hand with success and happiness in
virtually every dimension of life. THE
LAW OF SUBCONSCIOUS ACTIVITY Whatever
thought or idea mixed with emotions you hold in your conscious mind will be
accepted as a command by your subconscious mind. (Given the proper commands,
your subconscious mind also controls your body language and your tone of voice.) THE
LAW OF ATTRACTION As
a living magnet, you inevitably attract people, events and circumstances into
your life that harmonize with your dominant thoughts. THE
LAW OF HABIT Virtually
everything you do is automatic. Good habits are hard to form but easy to live
with. Bad habits are easy to form, but hard to live with. THE
LAW OF CONCENTRATION Whatever
you concentrate on and think about repeatedly tends to become a part of your
inner and outer life. THE
LAW OF EXPECTATIONS Whatever
you expect with confidence will have a tendency to materialize in your life. THE
LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT We
live in an orderly universe in which everything happens for a reason. There are
no accidents. THE
LAW OF MIND Thoughts
objectify themselves. In other words, you become what you think about every day. THE
LAW OF MENTAL EQUIVALENCY Create
in your mind an accurate mental equivalent of exactly what it is you desire. THE
LAW OF CORRESPONDENCE As
within, so without. Your outer life will tend to be a mirror image of your inner
life. Whatever your attitude is, people will reflect it back to you. Your
relationships will mirror your attitude and your personality. Your health will
be reflective of your attitude. Your external world or material accomplishment
will exactly correspond to your internal world of preparation. THE MIND Our
mind is made up of three parts: 1.
The Conscious Mind (The Perceiver) The
conscious mind is known as the objective mind. It is the base of perception,
association, evaluation and the decision making area. We think with this part of
our mind. 2.
The Subconscious Mind (The Recorder) Our
subconscious mind, on the other hand, has been labeled the subjective mind. It
is the storage compartment of the mind. Like the memory bank of a computer, all
information is recorded and retrieved here. This is where we store and process
events, feelings, beliefs, opinions, truths and expectations. The process of our
circulatory, digestive, and breathing are controlled automatically by the
subconscious. Beliefs
operate our subconscious mind. According to Dr. Joseph Murphy, "Your
subconscious mind perceives by intuition. It is the seat of your emotion and the
storehouse of memory. It will accept any suggestion and will respond according
to the nature of that suggestion." Once our subconscious mind accepts an
idea, it begins to put it into action. To the subconscious mind, our thoughts
are realities. It is like an automatic pilot device that has been given a coded
message about how to navigate a ship over the years. 3.
The Creative Subconscious Mind (The Generator of Direction) Our
creative subconscious maintains our pictures of the way things are, keeps order,
problem solves and is an energy generator (fight or flight). It is the creative
rationale for our life. When you have a negative past experience in your data
bank, it influences what you feel you can do in the future. BELIEF
TRIAD
You
can change your beliefs!
OUR THOUGHTS Anything
you believe to be true will be your reality.
The quality and quantity
of your life is based upon the quality and quantity of your thoughts. Since our
subconscious mind takes orders based on what our conscious mind believes to be
true, we need to control our thoughts and our beliefs to assure they are
constructive and self-directed. Your subconscious cannot tell the difference
between an actual event and thinking something over and over in your mind.
Therefore, worrying is actually negative goal setting. According to Dr. Murphy,
"Every thought is a cause, and every condition is an effect." All our
experiences, actions and conditions are a result of our reactions to our
thoughts. The
way you think is the way you perform! High performing people
have a high opinion of themselves. Low performing people have a low opinion of
themselves. How you feel about yourself is called self-esteem. When you feel
good about yourself, or have a high self-esteem, you are not threatened by
others and it is easy for you to overcome challenges. People with low self-esteem are likely
to be highly influenced by their environment. If their environment is perceived
as favorable, their level of esteem rises. If their immediate environment is
perceived as unfavorable, self-esteem is deflated. People with high self-esteem feel they
can master their environment and stabilize their self-esteem, even when they
receive negative feedback. It is possible to have high self-esteem
in one area and low self-esteem in another area. How we see ourselves is
influenced by our conditioning, a process of developing assumptions and beliefs
about the world. Our beliefs control the way we live our lives and how we
understand the world. SYMPTOMS OF LOW SELF-ESTEEM
PARADIGMS
A
paradigm (from the Greek word, "paradeigma", meaning model or
pattern) is a system of thinking that forms the basis for what we see and
experience in life. Paradigms determine how we perceive our world. They form the
basis for our reality. Paradigms:
MOTIVATION Motivation
is the ability to stimulate to action. It is positive when it is based on
positive incentives, and negative when it is based on fear and negative
consequences. Positively
motivated people are motivated by:
Negatively
motivated people are motivated by:
MAKING CHANGES We
can make changes in our self-image
by replacing negative beliefs, anxieties and fears with positive opinions and
beliefs. In order for us to change our beliefs, we must evaluate them. We may
hold negative, self-limiting beliefs that are holding us back. After a series of
unsuccessful experiences, we can develop what is known as a negative
spiral of self-defeating behavior, a dysfunctional core of belief
causing a lack of motivation and sense of depression. Our belief of what is truth can cause a
block for us in making changes. Based on the way we see the truth, we can get
used to anything. We can get used to poor living conditions and low economic
standards. Our beliefs can cause us to lock out information that could help us.
These cognitive blind spots are called scotomas. To
make significant changes, you must:
1.
Confront your present belief system, conditioning and attitudes. 2.
Recognize the limitation of your present frame of reference or mind set. 3. Be
motivated from within. 4. Develop
new skills that provide the foundation for the change. 5.
Visualize new results and scenarios to affect your change. DECISION
MAKING
What
goes into a good decision? 1. Facts and Feelings When making a decision, it is important
to consider both facts and feelings. Emotions can give the drive that gets us
off the ground. However, do not let your emotions get in the way of facts and
logic. When emotions become bias, clear thinking can go astray. 2. Courage to be Oneself Be true to yourself! 3. Openness to Growth No one but you can know what you are
capable of, nor will you know until you have tried! 4. Imagination Don't settle in comfortable mental
habits. Let your thoughts flow freely. 5. Flexibility Is there any other way to express the
problem? What random ideas come to mind when I relax and think about it? Can I
turn the problem upside down? Can I shift the emphasis from one part of the
problem to another? 6. Willingness to Fail Failure is part of the learning
process. Since we learn by doing, we succeed only by having at some time failed.
Expect to fail sometimes. Build with the rocks you stumble over. 7. Hard Work Thinking isn't easy. Making decisions
takes work!
8. Survey of Limitations A
realistic look at any situation includes questions like: What are the
restrictions put on me by time? energy? age? education? position? knowledge?
ability? Facing these can help you decide more effectively. 9.
Responsibility Consider
not only your own interests, but also those of others.
STEPS FOR EFFECTIVE DECISIONS 1.
Select the Goal The most serious
mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers, but rather from asking
the wrong questions. 2. Explore Courses of Action Push back the boundaries! Discover new
territory. 3. Deepen Your Knowledge Decision making is a solitary business,
but all of the preparatory steps must be shared to the widest extent that time
and circumstance permit. Talk to people involved in that particular area or who
have had experience with it. 4. Weigh the Possibilities Evaluate the choices open to you.
Visualize the outcome of each. List their advantages and disadvantages. Check
your motives for favoring a particular option. 5. Let Your Decision Brew Decision making is a creative function.
Sometimes after a period of studying, checking, and weighing, the next move is
to put it aside. "Sleep on it." 6. Choose Living is a risk. Every undertaking has
its uncertainties. Face the fact that the decision you make may turn out badly
and that you will have to live with the results. Or you may be able to revoke a
wrong decision and try again. You can control the process, but not the outcome
or the result of your decision. USEFUL
TRANSFORMATIONAL TOOLS
AFFIRMATIONS AFFIRMATIONS
are nothing more than positive statements of fact as you intend
them to be. Because they are statements of fact they must be in the present
tense because the subconscious can only operate on the present, never the
future. They are persistently
repeated over and over until they become your
reality. Write them down! Post them
everywhere! Read them often! If
you doubt the power of this process, ask yourself how many times you have
successfully employed negative affirmations. When was the last time you heard or
maybe even said, "this will never work". Then when it didn't work, you
heard or said "See, I told you." The point had become fact. Hate and
prejudice are great examples of negative affirmation. Why
are elephants tied with a light weight chain which they could easily break? Its
simple. As a baby, they had a very heavy chain on their foot from which they
could not break loose. As they grew older, they did not forget. What were we
taught as children with repeated exposure? What do we teach our children? A
barracuda in a water tank was separated from minnows by clear plastic. The
barracuda initially kept crashing into the clear plastic. Scientists learned,
however, that after repeated failures the clear plastic could be removed and the
barracuda kept swimming in its own area. It had limitations implanted to the
point of ignoring its basic nature. What limits do we put on ourselves or allow
others to do for us? How
many times do you have to repeat an affirmation? Whatever it takes to get the
job done. If it takes 10 billion times, what difference does it make if it's
important. And if it is not important enough, why are you considering it? VISUALIZATION VISUALIZATION
is seeing the object of your desire with your mind's eye. But its more
than that if you want it to be. The more detailed and focused you can imagine
your object, the faster the transformation will occur. What color is it? How
does it feel to the touch or within yourself when you are in possession. Can you
smell it, can you taste it, can you hear it? Involve
as many senses as possible and do it with fervor. Imagine every detail and
possibility. The more the detail, the greater the focus, the more fervent you
are, the more often you apply visualization... these will determine how fast it
will occur. There is a second benefit to this process. By detailed imaging you can often foresee a flaw to be corrected or a way to plan for a short coming that you may well have never seen until it was too late. This simple benefit can pay perhaps the biggest dividend of all.
These Law of Success are a compilation from a wide variety of New Thought source materials. |
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