YOU REPEAT THE PAST OR YOU GENERATE A NEW FUTURE
STEPS IN CREATING THE NEW FUTURE IN LIFE
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If we want a better future, we must generate it by creating what that future will look like and then actually doing what it takes to implement that future in reality.
Otherwise, one would just repeat what one "knows" already: what is stored in the brain - obviously from the past. The past will repeat itself as it is what is available in the mind. The brain is mechanistic and just a place of storage of old memories to access to see patterns that might be relevant to the future. Those patterns will mechanically be activated when something that is associated with it has the brain cough the patterns back up for use.
If we think our old stored patterns are valid, for whatever reason, and we fail to examine them, then we will, mechanically, believe them and use them.
Everything is put into organized bits of data that are "tied together" somehow with other data (such as from a new situation that we are looking for a match for in order to know what to do. If we do not introduce anything new, the old pattern will govern.
If we note that a belief (thought pattern) does not or rationally will not produce a desired result and/or that it has not worked in the past, of course we need to substitute a belief or thought that is valid and workable.
So far, this is a bit of a "duh!", as it is obvious, but it seems too few people operate from this "obviousity", this truth. The Good Fairy or some mystical source will not come up with the right answers - we need to do that on our own through our only available means: using our higher brain to "learn and discern" what is true and workable.
Remove the old pattern that doesn't work by replacing it with what will work. How do you know when to remove a pattern? Simply by observing that it doesn't work (or sometimes by just reasoning it out as to whether it would be workable). Of course, we need to be "scientific" about it and not get stuck in our "leaps of assumption" or generalizations. Some people will think that "x practice" must be workable because it seems to have worked sometimes in the past. For example, "I just think about calling a person and the person calls me" and, therefore, they think that they are causing the result by "just thinking", perhaps by ESP. That is just plain nonsense thinking (or "not thinking").
In many places on the site, I recommend that you do the replacement of what is not true with what is true and/or establishing what the truth is. There is an exercise where I suggest that you "declare" that a particular thing is not true, toward the end of not believing that non-truth anymore. It is best to declare what is true, and to replace the old non-truth with what the truth is. It is best also to understand why something is not true and why the substitute truth is true, for then one will have "finished" off any idea that the old non-true belief is true.
To create a new, better future we always must first create it in our minds and most likely also on paper (so it does not escape into nothingness, lost in fragmented bits of data that we will not recall to use for thinking about the future). Part of the process necessary to create a "new" future is to eliminate what has us stuck in believing that old thinking will work.
To become clear about what will not work, it is extremely useful to identify any problems that have occurred and/or are occuring now in the present. In that process, we "map" out what the process was - delineating each "step" and thought occurring in the order it occurs and has led to the undesired result. We know that there is some wrong step in the process since if all the steps were correct in the process we would have achieved the desired result (the "product" produced by the manufacturing process with all of its actions and pieces). (You must understand Cause And Effect and how that is a "law of the universe" - everything occurs that way, instead of through magic!)
I express intent through declaring that I will do "x" in the futre or I will do whatever is necessary to create the desired, fully described future. (This means that you will complete the blueprint of the steps needed and a conceptual picture of the new futre that you will "build.") This declaration must be a commitment rather than a general declaration of intent - i.e. it must not be like a New Year's resolution that has failed over and over, after an average of 17 days....
You must question yourself and ask what else is needed to handle the future as it comes up, such that you will be able to stay on track. Since this is actually a "change" (or bunch of changes) that must be implemented in order to gain the desired future, you must follow the process for change - which essentially is a plan for implementing the building of the future and anticipating all of the obstacles that might occur and figuring out, ahead of time, how you will handle them.
Commitment is based on not only what you say but on making a promise and then keeping it. If one has integrity, then one keeps his promises, for keeping promises is what is aligned with getting the desired result - it is in alignment with "the whole", each part consistent with the other parts and the end result that is desired. Keeping a commitment is a skill and a developed ability that one learns as one learns to not let the primitive mind dissuade one from doing what is right and workable.
Humans use language to describe the bits of data. If you cannot describe something, you cannot picture the necessary detail to actually create the new desired result (such as a new future). What we say must be precise and consistent or we get mixed messages that screw up our thinking or we are too vague to be able to "picture" what is necessary. If an individual changes his language, such as in trying to please different people, then there will be a dilution of the clarity and consistency necessary to move forward in the best manner.
If you don't describe it in sufficient detail, then you will not create it virtually inevitably.
If the future involves others, then the description (the languaging) must be such that they can understand it, first. And it must be clear and sufficiently detailed! Then they must choose to either go along with it and/or do it - i.e. it is essential that they commit to it or at least not to do anything to get in the way of it.
Once we determine a future to "live into", it is necessary to build the bridge from where we are to where we want to be. That is, simply, a detailed enough plan of the steps it takes to get there. Without that, humans are caught up in vagueness, lack of specicity, no real road to follow - and thus they are not likely to get to the valued future that we want.
This whole site is really about reinventing your future, i.e. creating what you want your future and way of being to be and then charting the steps necessary to do that. The "plan" (the steps to get to sufficient understanding) includes the reading sequence that is called herein The Only Sure Path To The Greatest Life.
We alter the way you look at yourself by inserting what is true and what is in reality and then we build in what is true, by at least replacing the old untrue beliefs. Sometimes those are called affirmations or sometimes, "declarations of what is true and/or what is not true".
Declarations
Commitments
Stands
