How many times have you declared something lost (like your keys), scoured the whole house and then found what you were looking for directly in front of you? It happens regularly, and is almost invariably associated with the words: "It's lost, I can't find it".
Why couldn't you see what you were looking for? It was right in front of you. Or perhaps something you knew was in your pocket, and even though you've emptied your pockets, you still can't find it, and then you find it in your pocket.
The main reason is your belief and expectation. This is what forms your life experience, and in a very similar way to losing and finding your keys; you can only see things that you believe are possible. These beliefs have been formed gradually over a long period of time, as have your expectations.
If, rather than saying, "I've lost my keys", you could distract yourself for ten minutes and forget that you'd lost them, they would probably show up. This is easier said than done, but it does work. If you continue to think and believe that your keys are lost, or that you are always losing your keys, then they will continue to elude you, because as far as you believe, they are lost.
Many would accept the 'keys' example as having some truth, but find it harder to make the jump to bigger and more important things in life; the three main subjects of interests of money, health, and love. If you hold beliefs that you are poor, downtrodden, discriminated against, sick, ugly or unloved, then the world will back up all of these beliefs with evidence. You will also miss the plentiful good opportunities that life throws at you because you literally cannot see them, even though to your friend they are blatantly obvious.
If you think that as you get older, your body is going to age and wrinkle and deteriorate until you are in hospital with plastic tubes up your nose, this will probably be your experience. It needn't be this way, however. If, because of a string of bad relationship, you are always left by your lover for someone else, your belief will attract men who help you to reinforce this belief. Admittedly some of our beliefs are formed by the lives that we live, but we can can change them with a little effort. What kind of beliefs do you hold on the subjects that are important to you? Do you believe that to become rich you have to put others down, that you must work long and hard at a job that you dislike? Do you like these beliefs and where they're leading you?
You really do get to choose. Life is a blank slate. Decide what you want and give it your full attention. Not where you're standing, but where you want to go. All men are born equal; they have equal access to the abundance of life. Some are trained into believing that they are not free, and in the same way that the small elephant tied to the post when young never breaks away even when an adult, people remain imprisoned by their own limiting beliefs. No-one can hold you against your will. Great business leaders understand the formula for success. Focus, determination and very little regard for what anyone else thinks. The formula is dynamite. No-one can stand in your way.
When we apply this logic to the population as a whole, it is easy to see how things such as recessions occur. Although we can believe what we want to, and live what we want to, the majority take their objects of focus from 'what is going on' as presented by the media. They keep us informed, feed our beliefs, and generally prolong the status quo, whatever that may be. If people had the ability to focus on where hey wanted to go, the human race would evolve at a much faster pace.
But it is true that if you can conceive it, and focus on it enough that you start to believe it, that the world will give you endless evidence to back up your beliefs. As your beliefs grow stronger, you will start to know, and then you will start to live them. Make your thoughts and beliefs deliberate, and watch how the universe changes to accommodate you. I didn't say it was easy, but it does work.
The reason that optimism and a forward looking mentality is so important in an economic wobble, is that if you look where you are going, you'll get there. If you look at where you are, you'll stay there. You can come up with all sorts of excuses why you can't do something, but the evidence will have been attracted to confirm your belief on the subject. Think outside the box, and start to attract evidence which shows you that anything is possible, and live that instead.
If we are convinced, as a population, to think down similar lines, although in effect we are only creating what happens in our own lives, when many are together, thinking similarly, the effect is much greater. This is the herd mentality, and the reason behind the boom bust economic cycle. It's not that there is no money there, but that individuals shut themselves off from the wealth because their beliefs means that they cannot identify the opportunities when they come. They would not be able to spot a fortune, even if it was right under their noses.
Why couldn't you see what you were looking for? It was right in front of you. Or perhaps something you knew was in your pocket, and even though you've emptied your pockets, you still can't find it, and then you find it in your pocket.
The main reason is your belief and expectation. This is what forms your life experience, and in a very similar way to losing and finding your keys; you can only see things that you believe are possible. These beliefs have been formed gradually over a long period of time, as have your expectations.
If, rather than saying, "I've lost my keys", you could distract yourself for ten minutes and forget that you'd lost them, they would probably show up. This is easier said than done, but it does work. If you continue to think and believe that your keys are lost, or that you are always losing your keys, then they will continue to elude you, because as far as you believe, they are lost.
Many would accept the 'keys' example as having some truth, but find it harder to make the jump to bigger and more important things in life; the three main subjects of interests of money, health, and love. If you hold beliefs that you are poor, downtrodden, discriminated against, sick, ugly or unloved, then the world will back up all of these beliefs with evidence. You will also miss the plentiful good opportunities that life throws at you because you literally cannot see them, even though to your friend they are blatantly obvious.
If you think that as you get older, your body is going to age and wrinkle and deteriorate until you are in hospital with plastic tubes up your nose, this will probably be your experience. It needn't be this way, however. If, because of a string of bad relationship, you are always left by your lover for someone else, your belief will attract men who help you to reinforce this belief. Admittedly some of our beliefs are formed by the lives that we live, but we can can change them with a little effort. What kind of beliefs do you hold on the subjects that are important to you? Do you believe that to become rich you have to put others down, that you must work long and hard at a job that you dislike? Do you like these beliefs and where they're leading you?
You really do get to choose. Life is a blank slate. Decide what you want and give it your full attention. Not where you're standing, but where you want to go. All men are born equal; they have equal access to the abundance of life. Some are trained into believing that they are not free, and in the same way that the small elephant tied to the post when young never breaks away even when an adult, people remain imprisoned by their own limiting beliefs. No-one can hold you against your will. Great business leaders understand the formula for success. Focus, determination and very little regard for what anyone else thinks. The formula is dynamite. No-one can stand in your way.
When we apply this logic to the population as a whole, it is easy to see how things such as recessions occur. Although we can believe what we want to, and live what we want to, the majority take their objects of focus from 'what is going on' as presented by the media. They keep us informed, feed our beliefs, and generally prolong the status quo, whatever that may be. If people had the ability to focus on where hey wanted to go, the human race would evolve at a much faster pace.
But it is true that if you can conceive it, and focus on it enough that you start to believe it, that the world will give you endless evidence to back up your beliefs. As your beliefs grow stronger, you will start to know, and then you will start to live them. Make your thoughts and beliefs deliberate, and watch how the universe changes to accommodate you. I didn't say it was easy, but it does work.
The reason that optimism and a forward looking mentality is so important in an economic wobble, is that if you look where you are going, you'll get there. If you look at where you are, you'll stay there. You can come up with all sorts of excuses why you can't do something, but the evidence will have been attracted to confirm your belief on the subject. Think outside the box, and start to attract evidence which shows you that anything is possible, and live that instead.
If we are convinced, as a population, to think down similar lines, although in effect we are only creating what happens in our own lives, when many are together, thinking similarly, the effect is much greater. This is the herd mentality, and the reason behind the boom bust economic cycle. It's not that there is no money there, but that individuals shut themselves off from the wealth because their beliefs means that they cannot identify the opportunities when they come. They would not be able to spot a fortune, even if it was right under their noses.
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Andrew Goodman is a freelance mechanical engineer with an interest in the lighter side of life. If you enjoyed this article, visit Happyhappyhappynews.com for more uplifting news articles, and subscribe to the blog for regular updates.
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