- BELIEFS lead to THOUGHTS
- THOUGHTS lead to EMOTIONS
- EMOTIONS lead to ATTITUDES
- ATTITUDES lead to ACTIONS
- ACTIONS lead to PREFERRED REALITY
BELIEFS lead to THOUGHTS
We create
our personal reality through our conscious beliefs about ourselves, others, and
the world. Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself
and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that
you create your experiences through your expectations.
You form
the fabric of your experience through your own beliefs and expectations. These
personal ideas about yourself and the nature of reality will affect your
thoughts and emotions. You take your beliefs about reality as truth, and often
do not question them. They seem self-explanatory. They appear in your mind as
statements of fact, far too obvious for examination.
Your
environment is the physical picture of your thoughts, emotions and beliefs made
visible.Once you believe something, you begin to formulate thoughts and
imagination in line with those beliefs.
THOUGHTS lead to EMOTIONS
The
conscious mind directs unconscious activity and has at its command all of the
powers of the inner self. These are activated according to our ideas about
reality. Experience is the product of the mind, the spirit, conscious thoughts
and feelings, and unconscious thoughts and feelings. These together form the
reality that you know. You are hardly at the mercy of a reality, therefore,
that exists apart from yourself, or is thrust upon you. You are so intimately
connected with the physical events composing your life experience that often
you cannot distinguish between the seemingly material occurrences and the
thoughts, expectations and desires that gave them birth.
What
exists physically exists first in thought and then feeling or emotion. If you
do not like your experience, then you must change the nature of your conscious
thoughts and expectations. You must alter the kind of messages that you are
sending through your thoughts to your own body, to friends and associates. Each
thought has a result, in your terms. The same kind of thought, habitually
repeated, will seem to have a more or less permanent effect. If you like the effect,
then you seldom examine the thought.
Your thoughts
directly affect your emotions or how you feel. If you are constantly thinking
negative thoughts, you automatically start feeling negative. When you change
your thoughts to positive, the emotion also changes.
EMOTIONS lead to ATTITUDES
All
consciousness creates the world, rising out of feeling-tone or emotions. It is
a natural product of what your consciousness is. Feelings and emotions emerge
into reality in certain specific ways. You form the fabric of your experience
through your own beliefs and expectations. These personal ideas about yourself
and the nature of reality will affect your thoughts and emotions. You take your
beliefs about reality as truth, and often do not question them. They seem
self-explanatory. They appear in your mind as statements of fact, far too
obvious for examination.
Understand
that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all
experience. There are no exceptions. Once you understand this you have only to
learn to examine the nature of your beliefs, for these will automatically cause
you to feel and think in certain fashions. Your emotions follow your beliefs.
It is not the other way around.
Your
emotions and your imagination both follow your belief. When the belief vanishes
then the same emotional context is no longer entertained, and your imagination
turns in other directions. Beliefs automatically mobilize your emotional and
imaginative powers. Few beliefs are intellectual alone. When you are examining
the contents of your conscious mind, you must learn, or recognize, the
emotional and imaginative connotations that are connected with a given idea.
ATTITUDES lead to ACTIONS
You change even the most
permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes
you have toward them. There is nothing in your exterior experience that did not
originate within you.
In this case also your
reality colors your beliefs, and your experience is a direct result of your
conscious attitudes. By such attitudes you put clamps upon your inner self,
purposely hamper your experience, and reinforce beliefs in the negative aspects
of your being.
It is impossible to
separate your daily experience in any of its aspects from your beliefs and
those judgments that you place upon them. The beliefs boil down to your ideas
of right and wrong, and they involve all of your attitudes concerning illness
and health, wealth and poverty, the relationships of the races, religious
conflicts, and more important, your intimate day-by-day psychological reality.
Your own attitude about
these issues will tell you much about yourself and influence your own personal
reality.
ACTIONS lead to PREFERRED REALITY
Each person chooses
for himself the individual patterns within which he will create this personal
reality. But inside these bounds are infinite varieties of actions and
unlimited resources.
The ultimate expression of
creation is physical action. Action is the moving mechanism of your reality.
The beliefs, emotions and thoughts are
the foundation that affects your actions and these actions create your reality.
Your actions are a spiritual expression and do not deny yourself material
existence and action to obtain your reality. Everything in creation is equal,
spirituality is not better that materiality. In order to create a reality, you
must perform an action. It is all well and good to have your head ‘in the
clouds’, but it only becomes practical and usable to keep your feet on the
ground. In this case, grounding is what can you do in any given moment from
what is available.
Your actions ultimately create
your reality. You must use your actions to tell and trace back to yourself what
you are believing, thinking and feeling. If you believe that you deserve
everything that you can create, then you act that way. If, however, you believe
that you do not deserve, you act like a person who does not deserve. Remember,
you contain both beliefs – that you deserve and that you don’t deserve. The
belief that you always expressing instead of the other is the one that you
experience the reality of. That expression takes the form of action. You are
either acting like a person who deserves of you are acting like a person who
does not deserve.
