self-deception (self misunderstanding) in choosing service

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I think it's especially important to add for the kinds of people who frequent this website, that it is very interesting and curious how one's outer relationship with reality changes in profound ways once one begins focusing on simply changing their perceptions, beliefs, and emotional responses to situations. The timing of external events, or if you prefer, one's sense of luck, changes very quickly at times once a new change has occurred within the self. Such internal changes are obvious to note because they are accompanied by very strong emotions and "aha" moments of realization.

The very act of TRYING to change the world outside yourself, is akin to goin within yourself in meditation and forcing yourself to enjoy an imagined scenario that you have no desire for. You will be met with very backwards results from what you intended or hoped for.