Real help for New's Year Resolutions

George Lewis Real Help for New Year's Resolutions "The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The sub-conscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear, just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage or faith." Napoleon Hill When we are blocked, positive thinking works against us. It becomes a powerful form of denial sentencing us to insignificance and disgrace. Tell this to someone who does not have these obstacles and they will hand you more shame, guilt, and fault. They usually do so with innuendos easily denied when confronted. Negative peer pressure multiplies the weight of our troubles. Here is a small example of the existing problem. Creating affirmations with imagination and belief is not enough. It is only the first half of what is necessary. We must enliven our goals with feeling. These feelings live in our heart and subconscious mind. Without the power of these hidden emotions, the affirmation is nothing more than thought debris. Our sub-conscious has become an enormous trash bin jammed with old ideas and beliefs in serious conflict one with the other. Whether we like it or not, we took on an amazing number of these old beliefs when we were children. You have heard it said, ‘Our personality is formed by the time we are six.’ That means a four or five year old is probably running your life. These old beliefs continue to rob us of any real power. The problem is that we often do not know what our heartfelt desires are and never what is going on in our subconscious. The reason for this is that our sub-conscious cannot tell the difference between fear and genuine desire. It interprets these with equal importance. It gets worse. Additionally, the challenge presented by the subconscious is that it is truly unconscious and seemingly unavailable. It does its work twenty-four hours a day seven days a week. This goes on without the need for conscious choices on our part. It is the same for those where everything appears to work so perfectly. They simply do not have the barriers the rest of us have. Therefore, unless we enjoy pain, and this is possible without our awareness, it is time to stop feeling guilty and ashamed. Knowing this does not make extricating ourselves from this mess automatic. Unfortunately, we must expend some effort. We must take action. The best part of this is that we can do something about these blocks to our personal prosperity. We can take some very positive actions, which nullify the negative effects we have been experiencing.