I have made tremendous improvement in the way I feel and the general experience of life recently and I tried to tell a few people verbally about how I made this change and after telling some of the basics of what is was about realized that though they seemed interested it would take more than a few minutes to tell and I didn't want to impose on their politeness so I just told them I would write it out and put it on my website and they could read it at their liesure or not.

I will begin by telling the basic concepts and write more soon about the details. I hope there will be enough here to interest those who are ready as I was to make changes to come back and read the rest. I really want to hear some feedback.

This first successful attempt at making positive changes after many earlier failures started one day when I was watching Dr. Wayne Dyer's "Excuses Be Gone" on PBS. He begins by saying he had gotten to the point that he was sure he knew what to think but the question was how to change. At that point I had not known those were two different questions but I was reminded of how poisoned my thinking was and how much it was hurting me. This I had known since I was in my early teens. At that point I'm thinking if I'm ever going to commit to making changes then now is the time to do it. Then he keeps insisting you can change these negative thoughts that he calls excuses into positive beliefs and saying how that's going to make anything possible. I'm still thinking I've tried this before and it won't work for me or I won't know how to make it work. It's too difficult. I will take too much time.

Towards the end he starts in on his last point which is how to reinforce these positive beliefs so that they will in fact replace the excuses. He says, "You reinforce them, you affirm it..." and then he pauses to exhale and his face changes and his whole manner becomes more relaxed as he points out Louise Hay in the audience, one of the "great teachers in my life" Something about how his attitude towards the subject changed when he introduced her told me that this was where I had to look for the answer. Somehow at that moment I understood that there were tools that would enable me to develope that habit of positive thoughts and feelings.

I got a copy of the audio book by Louise Hay that Dr. Dyer had mentioned called "You Can Heal Your Life". I listened to it constantly while I worked in my woodshop for weeks. I wanted to absorb every bit of it. I started using the affirmations that she recommended and started developing my own ways of reinforcing these positive thoughts. I started getting some positive results almost immediately. I will write more here later but for now I will give a short summary of what I have discovered and have come to believe. I will give this in the form of advice but know I'm speaking to myself.

1. Even on the most logical level we choose our beliefs.
2. Thinking of positive beliefs can immediately provide a hint of a better experience.
3. Changing habitual thoughts and feelings is simply a matter of repetition.

You can think of this as tapping into the nature of the universal Source or you can think of it as simply reprograming your subconcious mind. It's up to you. The application is the same. First you choose positive beliefs regardless of what you think may be evidence to the contrary. I will write more here later on why this makes sense. You simply try to think of the happiest possible thing that could happen. Imagine that happening and how it would feel. To start with choose something that doesn't depend so much on the hard physical world. We'll learn to change that later. Make it more to do with your emotions and interactions with the world of people and money and other dynamic things. Make it extreme though because here's the most important thing I've learned: The more extremely positive your belief, the bigger kick you get out of it and what you think about grows.

I was going to give some examples of positive beliefs but without the explanation of how to generate them they won't sound like anything. I'll write more about this later but I create the happiest thought possible and then go through a process of logic that convinces me that it can happen and must happen. It's like you create a belief so big that it makes you happy even without the results and then later you see the results. You can start small and use this technique to just have less worries and anxiety but I really feel there is no limit to what can be achieved.

All of the techniques that I use including making positive affirmations to myself depend on repetition. With repetition these things cannot fail. My coming to believe this is an example of a positive belief that I developed until there was no doubt left. When the doubt was gone a lot of pressure was gone. Forming these new habits is just like exercising muscles or anything else. It may not always feel comfortable at first but you just stay with it and it keeps getting bigger and stronger.

I suggest getting "You Can Heal Your Life" and absorbing it. Repeat throughout the day some of the affirmations in that book. Get some of Louise Hay's affirmations CDs to listen to daily. Also write down the beliefs you have about things that bother you. Try developing some alternate beliefs that you might be able to go with that could give you a boost and create a little magic fantasy. Don't worry about the results yet. I will write more here later but send me an email if you have any comments.

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