(10-18-2012, 02:08 PM)Karl Wrote: [ -> ]Any ideas? Suggestions? This is mostly theory of mine. I've pulled some stuff off but my mind has so many unchecked negating beliefs I can't at the moment consciously experiment with it.
Interesting topic, Karl.
One thing I would like you to consider is that the subconscious mind is not an alter ego that is separate from you, or necessarily at odds with your conscious thoughts. People often conceptualize it as such, and this is not so, in my opinion. Rather, from my perspective, it is more akin to an amalgamation of processes in consciousness that you have practiced so much and for so long that they stopped requiring the main focus of your conscious attention. They have become
automated in a certain sense. You've become very efficient at these processes and, over the course of time, have disassociated your conscious attention from them. This is a natural part of the learning process.
Now, a lot of these automated patterns were not
deliberately created. In fact, for most people, very few of them are deliberately created. This is why they often seem at odds with what you consciously want. It often seems as if our thoughts spring out of nowhere, and in some sense, they sort of do. At least to the extent that you don't know where they come from. Your thoughts have a kind of "mental momentum" to them, and the more your consciousness travels a given "highway" of thought (lets call them "thought-ways"), the more efficient, and easier, and natural, it becomes to travel down these thought-ways. And also, the less you travel down a given thought-way, the more difficult it is to think those thoughts. For example, maybe you aren't very good at calculus, because you never practiced it. It would be natural for somebody to have some resistance to learning something they have never done before.
Consciousness creates reality.
Where you place your attention equals where and what manifestation you are "feeding". A thought is simply a focus of consciousness. You might even think of it as a statement about reality. An affirmation is also a statement about reality. A belief is also a statement about reality. A belief is just a thought you keep thinking. Or, in other words, it is a focus you have returned to so many times that you have become very very good at offering it. So much so, that you sort of offer it by default whenever the given subject is broached. You might even say its "unconscious", though there is consciousness involved, just not the variety we commonly accept as our consciousness.
So, in a sense, you are making "affirmations" all the time. You are always thinking thoughts. These thoughts equal your vibrational attraction, or manifestation. Many people are experiencing things they don't want to experience. They are creating their own realities. However, they don't realize it though, so we can't really blame them for it. Very, very, very, few people have complete conscious control of their thoughts. It takes a LOT of practice. And that's even after you understand that thought creates reality.
Have you ever gotten so used to something in your environment that you effectively stopped seeing it? You sort of just filtered it out? Occasionally, you are even looking for this
very thing, and it's right in front of your face, but for some reason, you have filtered it out (for many people, its their car keys
). Well, this is a lot like creating your reality unconsciously by default. You are thinking a lot of thoughts, a lot of affirmations, without even realizing it. You are doing it on auto-pilot. Now, this doesn't mean you can't stop, it just means that you have a certain amount of mental momentum built up. You may experience some "resistance" to thinking the new statements about reality. It's only natural, after all. You have to flow your consciousness in new directions, so to speak.
Also, another thing about affirmations is that the words really don't matter that much. I know, surprising right? If you are saying something like "I am extremely wealthy" but you are thinking "man I'm so broke" then your affirmation is doing you little good. It's all about where your attention, where your thoughts, are directed. That equals your point of attraction. It's all about the vibration -- the reverberating pattern in consciousness that you create by your consistent pattern of focus.
Anything you place your attention on is an activation of vibration, which sets in motion the manifestation process. However, there is a certain "threshold" of focus, or continuity, before the signal becomes strong enough to actually coalesce the desired manifestation. This is a factor of the
purity of the signal, which is a factor of the absence or presence of
resistance. Resistance is created by a contradictory focus to your desire. For example, you want to be skinny, but you believe you have a slow metabolism. This is an example of resistance, that would slow or even completely negate the desired manifestation. You have to train your vibration towards a focus that supports your desire, rather than negates it.
The fact that any attention equals an activation of a vibration is the reason why people came to the conclusion the subconscious doesn't "like" negative statements. Its not that it doesn't like negative statements, it just that if you say, or think an affirmation/thought that goes like, "I am not poor" you are activating the subject of "poor". That's what your focus is, so you begin to resonate with that vibration. You are emitting a vibration of lack, rather than one of abundance.
To deactivate a vibration, you have to activate a different vibration. Withdraw your attention from it, in other words. Easier said than done. It's like trying not to think of a pink elephant.
Did you think of a pink elephant?
Well stop it
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