Are You a Pre-Mature Positive
Thinker?
by Hu Dalconzo
Pre-mature Positive Thinking is a dis-ease that is created
when we only see the so-called positive aspects of people, events,
and experiences and we deny, consciously or unconsciously, the
so-called negative aspects of our experiences.
A pre-mature positive thinker believes that, "If I just ignore
it and think positive thoughts, it will go away on its own!" This
is a new age thought pattern erected upon the chants of the positive
mental attitude (PMA) Gurus..."Think positive, think positive,
think only positive thoughts!" Psychologists call pre-mature positive
thinking "magical thinking."
When I first read about pre-mature positive thinking, I rejected
the whole concept because I was a pre-mature positive thinker.
I was taught to never, never, never think about anything that
wasn't positive. By doing what I was told, my mind was denying
what my heart knew to be true... nothing changes until it becomes
what it is!
I first learned about the power of affirmations and visualization
techniques over 20 years ago. The affirmation process is based
on the following concept: thoughts create feelings, feelings create
actions, actions create habits, habits create beliefs, belief
systems create human identities, and your human identities create
your reality.
I embraced this concept and spent a great deal of time, effort,
and money studying everything I could on this subject in an attempt
to create the reality I wanted. The majority of the self-improvement
courses, books, and tapes taught me various methods of how to
visualize and affirm what I wanted to create.
I meditated and visualized hundreds of positive affirmations daily.
I listened to hours upon hours of my own voice affirming what
I wanted on an endless loop tape. I did mirror affirmations three
times a day. I told myself that saying or thinking something negative
was worse than saying a four-letter word. I really thought that
AFFIRMATIONS SHOULD WORK, but they weren't working for me. I felt
disappointed because I did not understand why affirmations weren't
working for me. It became painfully evident that affirmations,
alone, were disappointedly ineffective at creating the reality
I wanted.
The affirmation, alone, concept assumes that you have had a life
with functional role models, and that your past was devoid of
physical, sexual, or verbal abuse. It assumes that your mind is
a clean slate... free of past pain, loss, and dysfunctional experiences.
According to this theory you can "PILE ON" positive affirmations
over a dysfunctional past and still create the reality you want.
As I discovered, the "PILE IT ON" theory, alone, just doesn't
work!
In fact, the more affirmations you say that do not create the
reality you want, the dirtier the slate of your mind becomes!
The average person's mind is cluttered with contradictory information.
This inhibits the input of positive new affirmations because of
the Law of the Universe that states: "Nothing changes until IT
becomes what it is!" This means that you need to see the whole
truth, as it is, without judgment, regret, or shame before affirmations
will work for you! You will not create permanent positive change
in your life until you learn how to clean the slate of your mind!
Doing affirmations without cleaning your mind... is like putting
on a clean white shirt before taking a shower!
"Tabula Rasa" is a Latin term that originated in ancient
Greece and translates as "Clean Slate." In the 4th century
BC, Aristotle stated, "The mind is a clean tablet upon which experience
writes." Every negative experience of your life is inscribed on
the slate of your mind. Unless the slate of your mind is periodically
cleaned, it eventually becomes so layered with contradictory programming
(negative & positive) that it triggers the Law of Physics that
states: "No two things can occupy the same space at the same
time!"
When two cars attempt to occupy the same parking space at the
same time, you end up with a car accident. If you desire love,
but your mind is filled with failed relationship experiences,
these contradictory thoughts produce anxiety, fear, and confusion.
These contradictory thoughts nullify the positive thoughts that
you are affirming in an attempt to create a loving relationship.
If you want to create the reality you desire... first clean the
slate of your mind. Psychologists have proven that you produce
between 50,000 and 75,000 thoughts a day and that eighty percent
of your thoughts are negative. Therefore, by age forty you have
had 730,000,000 million thoughts. If eighty percent of your thoughts
were negative, then the slate of your MIND is layered with 584,000,000
(a half billion) negative thoughts. That means even if you were
to do 500 positive affirmations a day trying to reprogram your
MIND to the positive, your mind would be sub-vocalizing 40,000
negative thoughts to the contrary. That is like trying to bail
out a sinking boat with a thimble!
AFFIRMATIONS, ALONE, SIMPLY DON'T WORK! You must clean the slate
of your mind and stop creating your old negative beliefs before
your affirmations will create the reality you desire! If you do
not learn how to dis-create your negative beliefs, you will only
be thinking thoughts that are pre-maturely positive!
Until you can honestly and courageously view what really happened
to you, with a non-judgmental attitude, you won't be able to see
the truth about your dharmic predicament. One of the main reasons
people repress their childhood feelings is because they love and
respect their parents, and at an unconscious level they see them
as perfect. Remembering how you truly felt as a child, and learning
how to feel and process your feelings using your adult powers,
is the major healing intention of these Self-mastery Processes.
Once you learn how to surface and express your true feelings,
you'll free your Self from the past! You'll no longer be carrying
unfinished emotional business from the past into the present.
Your past will no longer contaminate your present. This will free
up huge amounts of your life force energy, which you can then
use to empower your Self and others.
Facing the truth of your past allows you to heal and forgive yourself
as well as others. Frozen emotions form deep resentments that
keep you attached to your past hurts. Unless you release these
negative emotions, they will cause you to recycle the same painful
feelings and situations over and over again causing you to ask
the question, "Why is this happening to me...AGAIN?"
Namaste, my soul friends..... Hu Dalconzo
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