Are You Being Affected by this Epidemic and Don’t Even Know It?
by: Melissa Quiter
One of the most ignored and yet devastating epidemics of our time is affecting millions and millions of people every day and you may be one of them. The symptoms of this epidemic are also its horrible lasting effects. This epidemic is keeping people stuck in poverty, ill health, frustration, loneliness and unemployment. No one is safe from it because it doesn’t play favorites. And, it is driven by the most powerful force in the world.
The epidemic I am talking about is negative self-talk and the most powerful force in the world driving it is your mind.
The reason this epidemic is so invasive is because negative thinking lives on the other side of the coin, so to speak. It all comes down to which side of the coin you have programmed yourself to focus on. As Buddha so eloquently describes, “What we think, we become.” “All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”
So, no matter what you believe to be true about you or your circumstances, you are right. You are the creator of your experiences and if you are plagued by automatic, negative thoughts that skew your perspective, you end up creating a world and a life filled with everything you don’t want instead of what you do want.
The long-lasting effects of the negative thinking epidemic are a life filled with struggle, sadness and hopelessness. But the most devastating fact is that this is one epidemic that can be treated right now, today, with a 100% success rate, and yet very few people are aware of how to do it.
The Law of Attraction, based on the science of Quantum Physics, says, “That which you focus on is what you attract back into your life.” The universe doesn’t assess good versus bad. It simply reads what you are focusing your energy and attention on and gives you more of that.
So, it makes perfect sense that if you are programmed with automatic, negative thoughts that constantly berate you, you have a very good chance of attracting more negative experiences into your life. If you constantly focus on what you don’t want to happen, the universe only knows what you are focused on, and gives you more of it. Meaning, if you are focused on not going bankrupt, or not getting a speeding ticket or not screwing up that huge deal at work, the universe sees the focus being on bankruptcy, a speeding ticket and screwing up the big deal. You create that which you most want to avoid. And all because you have never been taught how to powerfully direct your amazing and brilliant mind.
One of the main catalysts for negative thinking is fear. It is the fear that something is not going to go well or the way you expect it to go that creates a lot of the negative talk that pops up in your mind.
No one in the world is free of fear. Fear is a natural emotion that all humans experience. It is actually a great thing for keeping you safe in the world. At the same time, fear that takes over the mind is the first stage of the negative thinking epidemic.
When the same negative messages pop into your head over and over and over again, you begin to really believe they are true. And suddenly, every action you take in your life reinforces these messages. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If you are like most people, you know you are being affected by negative thoughts, but you also believe you have tried everything that is out there to battle this epidemic. You’ve tried positive affirmations for 28 days straight. You’ve sent your negative voice “on vacation.” You’ve even had internal arguments with those negative thoughts, but nothing changed. I know you’ve tried, because I tried too and ran into the same frustrations and lack of results.
The first thing you have to do is give yourself credit for what you have done and for what you are doing right now. You are reading this article and that says, somewhere deep inside of you, you know there is something you haven’t tried. Where there is hope there is possibility.
You are right. There is something you haven’t tried. And, the reason you most likely haven’t tried what I am going to share with you is because you have been simply doing what you have been taught. You were taught that when something isn’t working, isolate it and fix it. Since you live in a society that is driven by quick fixes, it is very easy to get caught up in focusing on the symptoms of an issue rather than the source. The symptoms are much easier to spot and they do give the illusion that they are running the show. Symptoms are what millions of books are written about every year. Symptoms are what the conscious mind can easily grab a hold of. However, the subconscious mind is where the actual source of your negative thoughts is found.
The subconscious mind is the 88% if the mind that keeps you alive and houses all of your beliefs and behaviors that assist you in living your life. Even if consciously you may think something isn’t working, subconsciously, you are creating exactly what you -- or at least a part of you -- “wants.” The key is learning how to align what you consciously want with what you are subconsciously creating. And the only way to do that is by going to the source.
When a person is sick, there are many symptoms that can show up indicating that something is not right. Now, as you know, treating the symptom is not going to get rid of the actual problem. For example, if you break your right arm, the symptoms of that break will show up quickly. You may have stabbing pain on the whole right side of your body. You may feel dizzy and sick to your stomach from trying to deal with the pain. Your breathing may become shallow because your body is doing everything it can to survive. You are aware of all of these feelings consciously. However, you don’t actually feel the broken bone. You feel the consequences of the break. Your body, though, knows your bone is broken and therefore it is happily creating all these other symptoms in an effort to begin healing you while also giving you important messages regarding the problem. Now, if all you do is focus on the symptoms and take a massive dose of pain medication to numb your symptoms, you will still h!
ave a broken bone in your arm. Without going to the source, which in this case is your broken bone, you cannot take care of the real problem. No matter how often you take your pain medication, the effects of the temporary fix wear off and you feel the pain again.
This works in the exact same way with negative thinking. You may have financial struggles, terrible relationships and poor health as a result of how you are thinking and perceiving your life, but fixing the symptoms of the problem will not fix the problem. The problem lives in your subconscious mind. The part of you that is creating negative experiences is doing so for very specific reasons that are actually with your best intention in mind.
Yes, I said with your best intention in mind. Although the outcome of what you are creating is not consciously what you want, subconsciously there is something else going on. There is a deeper reason why you have chosen to attract what you are attracting into your life.
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Are You Being Affected by this Epidemic and Don’t Even Know It?
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About The Author
Melissa Jean Quiter authors the 4-phase, life and business-changing program for taking full control now. “Being Spiritual Doesn’t Mean Being Poor! How to remove what blocks you from making money & creating happiness,” is a timeless program based on the Law of Attraction, universal laws, deliberate creation, NLP and environmental design. To get started, visit: http://www.ProvocativeCommunications.com/lawofattraction.html or e-mail: Quiter@Texas.net for more articles.
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