| Do you have challenges around thinking good | | | | How to Heal the Old Thoughts |
| thoughts about yourself? "I'm not so good. I | | | | The main way to heal these habits of mind is to |
| always fail. I'll never get the job I want. I'll never | | | | remember the basic truth: that deep within you, |
| make the money I want. I don't think people will | | | | underneath all the problems of life, underneath the |
| love me the way I'd like them to. I'm not very | | | | anger, illness, grief or feelings of unworthiness, is a |
| likeable. I don't like my body. I'm not so smart. I | | | | great essence of healing, illumination, and love. It's |
| wish I looked better." And on and on! If this were | | | | the basic core of who you are, and it exists as |
| different, maybe there would be no international | | | | the essence of your very being. |
| or even environmental problems. It all begins | | | | How Can You Remember This? |
| inside. Find out why these problem thoughts exist | | | | Experiencing your essence often involves going |
| and how you can heal them as you read on. | | | | within, through meditation, hypnosis or other ways |
| Why These Mind Problems Exist | | | | to focus inward. You can also experience your |
| One of the reasons for these self-defeating | | | | essence in motion, at a time when your mind |
| thoughts is the patterns or habits of mind or | | | | stops chattering for an ecstatic moment and you |
| thought forms that you carry within you your | | | | feel uplifted, in a kind of flow. Maybe you're |
| entire life and perhaps in all of your lifetimes. Many | | | | playing a musical instrument or running or loving - |
| people believe that you bring these patterns of | | | | and you feel lifted up beyond ordinary reality. |
| thought with you from other lifetimes. In this | | | | When you experience this, you know that your |
| case, babies are not the innocents that we think | | | | thoughts of insufficiency are not real. This |
| they are. You carry scripts inside of thought | | | | experience of your essence can heal fears, anger, |
| forms and habits of mind that will determine what | | | | grief and all other challenges that come from your |
| kinds of thoughts you'll think. If you have a strong | | | | mind and thoughts. |
| critic inside, it will do its critical dance. If you have | | | | You Can Shift Your Reality |
| a strong self-defeated voice inside, it will show up | | | | First have compassion for yourself and be kind in |
| as self defeat. The possibilities are endless. | | | | how you speak to yourself. Then see how |
| Another Reason for These Habits of Mind | | | | everything in your life has been an opportunity to |
| Your patterns can also come from wounds, | | | | grow and expand. You can alter the way you |
| whether old or recent -of seeming failures and old | | | | perceive your childhood, your relationships, and |
| hurts. Maybe someone influential in your life had | | | | your work. You can shift your consciousness level |
| these old hurts as well. Some people have hurts in | | | | to be able to go beyond your old views of what's |
| love, some around money; others have them | | | | real, to know that you have true worth, that you |
| around feeling healthy. So you keep on recreating | | | | are the essence, and you merit everything good - |
| the old patterns because your being is seeking to | | | | great love, success, enlightenment, and joy. |
| heal them. | | | | |