Liberate Yourself From Self-Limiting Thoughts and Feelings
2. The more discouraged we feel, the more certain we are that we have no other choice but to feel that way.
3. The more convinced we are that we have no choice, the less choice we have.
4. The act of identifying with this dark inner dialogue actually produces the dead end we fear!
We end up being able to go no farther with our wish for broader personal horizons because, unbeknownst to ourselves, we now believe that there’s no way to get past where we now perceive ourselves to be limited or tied down. The key idea in this part of our investigation lies within the word perceive, because – for the purposes of this exercise – the word perceive rhymes with deceive. And that’s precisely what this faulty perception is: a self-deception. Here’s proof.
There are no dead ends in real life. You must prove this bright fact to yourself, and here’s a good place to start: in any given moment, there is always something higher you can do with your life than sit there and suffer over what you think you can’t have, or do, or be. Why wallow when a small amount of interior work will act to change your reality?
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Thank you. Thank you. This is a column full of energy and life-changing thoughts. And we need them more than ever today, especially when so many people are dealing with the loss of jobs, or homes, or both. There are plenty of gloomy voices all around us in the world; we don't need extra ones inside.
As a (trying to reform) self-admitted control freak, dropping self-defeating demands will be my biggest challenge. Understanding that it can be done seems easy; doing it seems hard. I hope you'll be writing more in the future. And thank you again.