Friend - why bother?

November 18th, 2005 at 1:17 am
Dear Friend Welcome to another issue of Emotional Times. You are receiving this message because you signed up for the Emotional Healing Quick Start Guide. If you'd like to unsubscribe from future mailings, simply click on the link at the bottom of the page. Here's an article I just wrote on why it's important to consider learning the principles of reality creation: What Exactly Does Reality Creation Mean? And why should I care? I've got kids to feed and a job to go to. I'm too busy living my life to worry about reality creation. I've got too many problems to think about some airy-fairy concept that probably doesn't make any difference anyway. Let me deal with this depression, this anxiety; let me deal with my stress - then I'll worry about reality creation. But what if you're using your depression to create your reality? What if you're building a life based upon the anxiety you feel? Then what? And another question to ask yourself - How are you going to get rid of your problems - once and for all - if you DON'T use the principles and practices of reality creation? I'm sure you already know - whatever you focus on expands. You only have to look at your life to know that's true. Focus mostly on your depressing problems and you'll surely end up with more depressing problems. We get what we think about the most. Of course there's much more to reality creation than to just 'think and grow rich', but it's a good place to start. Yet so often we get into a rut by thinking the same thoughts over and over. Likewise, by feeling the same feelings over and over. In addition to thoughts and feelings, beliefs stand as a third raw material we use to create what happens to us. While our own thoughts and feelings can put us in a rut, beliefs can absolutely cement us to the floor. Or so it seems. We treat our beliefs like they're made of concrete; immutable laws of the universe, written in stone. Stern. Rigid. Unyielding. Unquestionable. While our thoughts and feelings can lock us in the county jail - our beliefs can sentence us to a lifetime in Alcatraz prison. With no possible means of escape. No wonder we have so many depressing problems! Beliefs, along with patterns of thoughts and feelings, usually become 'set in stone' by the age of five or six. From that point on, many live out their lives from the perspective of a child. Life often seems terrifying to a small child. Beliefs can be heavy and limiting. Patterns of thoughts and feelings can be painful and despairing. And it's the easiest thing in the world to keep those childhood beliefs and patterns intact for the rest of your life. Rather than consciously replacing those beliefs and patterns, we usually just add to them. As we change, and as the world changes around us, we adapt our childhood perspective to fit in as grown-ups. Not by replacing the old stuff, but by simply making minor adjustments to it. As a way to make sense of a grown-up world. Underneath it all lies a foundation of childhood beliefs along with childhood patterns of thoughts and feelings. So that no matter how much we sing and dance - it's all done upon the stage of a frightened little child. That's why it's so important to learn the techniques of reality creation. Building more structures on top of a shaky foundation does not produce a better life. Replacing the child's stage with the foundation of an adult does. Once you're on solid ground, it's much easier to build the life you want. *** http://www.emotional-times.com/blog.html (For a list of emotions.) http://www.forgive-yourself.com (To forgive yourself.) http://www.join-the-fun.com/bookletter.html (How To Create Your Own Reality.) all the best, Mark brought to you by Mark Ivar Myhre The Emotional Healing Wizard fiercely slaying your emotional dragons!