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Polarity

5/25/2015

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When I found the Principle of Polarity, it helped me understand why I would get bored and how to turn boredom from a negative to a positive. Do I need to ask you if you ever get bored?

Let me share some ideas about the negative feeling called boredom. 

First … It may shock you to know that boredom is a borrowed emotion. We learn boredom from our parents, and they learned it from their parents. So, when you are immersed in the feeling of boredom, I want you to try something that works like a charm for me.

Say to yourself, "I am feeling bored. This is one of those feelings I borrowed from those around me before I had the smarts to tell them to keep it to themselves." (I'm being nice!) You'll find that this simple exercise gives you the space you need to think about the feeling rather than becoming at one with it. In other words, you start to think about boredom rather than being bored.

Second …The Principle of Polarity can be used to break the hold that boredom has on you. You use this principle to overcome boredom by creating a challenge for yourself. Let's think about this. The distance between where you are and the goal you set for yourself creates polarity. That's why when you go to a prosperity seminar, they stress setting goals that stretch and challenge you. The greater the challenge, the greater the polarity, and the less space for boredom to set in. If your life is too predictable, this is what causes the onset of boredom.

Several years ago, my dentist, who had been practicing for 19 years, said the strangest and scariest thing to me. He said, "I am so bored that sometimes I think that if I have to look at another tooth, I'll throw up!" Now I think you'll agree, this is certainly a strange thing for a dentist to say. But why was it scary? Well, guess whose tooth he was working on? J  At least he didn't throw up on me!

Later I discovered that he broke the spell boredom had on him by engaging the Principle of Polarity. How did he do this? He created the magnetic force associated with polarity by challenging himself. He went back to school to learn the technical skills necessary to incorporate advanced cosmetic dentistry into his practice.

I've touched briefly on the complex idea of the Principle of Polarity. If you want to look into the concept in more detail, our 5 CD audio book, "It's Your Move!" greatly expands this idea.


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Chase The Dark Away

5/11/2015

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Do you have days when you think the world is out to get you? Days when you feel that you're not quite smart enough or pretty enough to run with the champions? Days when you feel fat because your clothes just don't hang right? Days when you feel like giving up?

It hurts, doesn't it? I mean, you really suffer emotional pain on days like those. Of course, I can tell you that a lot of your suffering is caused by vanity, pride, fear, anger – all those 900 lb gorillas that hang around  waiting to leap into action. The more subtle ways you suffer is by constantly struggling to fit in physically, intellectually, financially, and socially.

What would you say if I told you that in order to enjoy your life that you're going to have to sacrifice your suffering? That's right! You're going to have to give it up. If you keep holding onto these ridiculous attitudes toward yourself, your life will always be miserable.

There are many ways to sacrifice your suffering. It doesn't happen overnight. You have to do the work. You always have to do the work. Unfortunately, no one else is going to do it for you. No one else could do it for you even if they wanted to!

This is the planet of free choice. You get to decide if you want to entertain all these negative attitudes or not. When you catch yourself going down that path, STOP and choose to think better thoughts about yourself and your world. Like I said, it won’t happen overnight, but like any attempt to do something different, consistency will cause it to eventually shift into a habit.

Once you learn how to turn the spotlight on your suffering ONLY to glean the greatest benefit from the experience, you will always be able to let go of your negative attitudes. The light will chase the dark away.


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The Value of Resistance

5/6/2015

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I feel  that a person’s life is a great personal and unique experiment.  The experiment is this: how many of the harmful ideas I have accumulated can I eliminate, and how many of the greater ideas can I remember and use?    

The greatest difficulty in accomplishing this is accepting that life on earth is a place to learn the value of resistance, not just a place to whine about it.   

I’ve never liked  the idea of resistance anymore than anyone else does. I have to admit, however, that most of the improvements in my life have come because I finally saw resistance not as a wall, but as a door. It gives us the opportunity to embrace the power we have to choose what we experience.

Accepting the truth of what I just said was not easy or fast. So, don’t expect overnight change to occur in your life. Chip away at the resistance whenever you can. All of us are robotic most of the time, doing the same things over and over with little investment of thought, but it is in those moments of awareness that we can make inroads. It takes time and dedication to increase our awareness, and the greatest power we have is to not give up.


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