Habits
You are creating your life experience every single day.
Your life is formed from what you think about all day long.
The beliefs and attitudes that are so habitual that you don’t
even notice them shaping your experiences. Instead of
responding to situations from an awareness of All
Potentials, you react to stimuli from outdated concepts. By
re-acting, acting out an attitude over and over, you remain
unconscious of what you’re doing, and that you’re probably
sabotaging whatever it is that you want.
Have you ever opened a bag of potato chips and
unconsciously nibbled on them while watching a movie?
Maybe you’d like to lose weight, but all of a sudden the bag
is empty. Oops! You probably weren’t even hungry, but
you ate them out of habit.
Wanting a specific thing to happen in your life, you’re
actually filling your mental screen with its opposite. The
very thing you want to eliminate from your life clutters it
up, chattering, “I can’t have,” “I don’t have,” “I don’t
deserve.” You believe that what the mental chatter says is
truth, maybe because someone you trusted told you it was
so. Or you believe in them because they’re happening in
your life. You believe life is difficult. Just look at all the
problems you have right now. But you don’t have problems
because life is difficult; you have problems because you
“believe” that life is difficult. You have a mental fog of
illusion, delusion, confusion, and this fog permeates every
idea and concept you have.
You’re not alone. We all have this fog to some degree. But
you can shine a light on your attitudes to burn away the
mental fog. Begin by examining the old standards by which
you judge yourself. Are they appropriate for you now, or
were they only appropriate for you sometime in your past?
For instance, at the beginning of the century, a woman
whose legs showed from beneath her dress was criticized.
Within twenty years, that opinion was outdated. Are you
holding onto ideas that belonged to another generation, but
that don’t serve you now? Your life is your life and no one
else’s. You have a right to live your life by the standards
you create for yourself. So assess the rules you live your
life by, and decide what you want to keep, and what you
want to release. It’s your right.