One can transcend limiting beliefs with affirmations. If you can’t liberate yourself from the past – perhaps you can override it by instilling new convictions. Positive thinking, affirmations, gratitude, confidence, visualisations – all these fancy tools put you in a more likely place to do yourself good. The precise explanation of their workings …
Tag: Psychology
Growth is Inextricably Linked With Insecurity
So called “growth” is inextricably linked with insecurity. Any conception of a “better” version of you invariably creates a worse version of you. Version which you are insecure about. Growth is, in fact, identical with insecurity. Only pure, unprompted change is free of insecurity.
Reactions as Your Guide to Subconscious
Your subconscious runs you. It’s a fact. You think you know what you’re doing but you’re only scratching the surface. The program is in the subconscious and unless you become aware of it – you’re NOT in control. How does one become aware of one’s subconscious? SELF-INQUIRY. What’s one simple way? Study your reactions. …
The Real Problems Are The Inner Problems
The real problems are the inner problems. Outside success can never bring about the ultimate bliss – which is when the inner problems are not. Inner problems are not solved through hard work or determination. Inner problems are solved by bringing consciousness to them. There is nothing more to be done with your …
The Great Irony of Insecurity
The great irony with insecurity is that improving one’s life or status doesn’t really end it – whereas increasing one’s self-worth, self-esteem, confidence, will all tremendously benefit one’s life. The elementary condition of having low self-esteem cannot be solved through the external — for the problem is in it’s nature internal, rooted in our …
The Grand Theory of Opportunity, Momentum and Freedom
You are here. You are influenced. You get conditioned. You can only be influenced to the extent to which you are empty. (You can only be sensitive to the extent to which you are empty.) When you have became conditioned – you cease being pliable. When you’re full (of knowledge, beliefs, conclusions, thoughts), …
Your Surprise Betrays Your Expectations
You are surprised when something unexpected happens. For something to be unexpected – there must first be expectation, yes? Therefore – your surprise betrays your expectations. One invariably makes predictions. One tests those predictions against the data. One feels surprised upon models and results conflicting. The feeling perhaps facilitates the learning, facilitates curiosity. …
Consolation Only Aggravates The Problem
Consolation only aggravates the problem. It doesn’t relieve it. It escapes it. Consolation is but a distraction. It distracts you from the problem by bringing your attention to something else. In the same time – it is inseparable with the problem. You can only receive it having paid for it with suffering. Thus, in fact, …
Repeating Reason Is An Excuse
Delusion breeds inertia. Inertia breeds delusion. Psychologically, if you want to do something, but don’t do it for some reason – that reason is probably an excuse. If it repeats itself – then it’s certainly an excuse. You think your motivations and actions and pursuits can be reduced to a finite, logical plan. …
Beyond Like and Dislike
What is dislike? Is dislike the opposite of like? Isn’t like and dislike just labels? Isn’t like and dislike a spectrum? You like eating sandwiches but you prefer pizza. You don’t like eating tomatoes but you don’t like starving either. It’s all relative. “Like” and “dislike” serve your description of the reality. …