Acceptance
I feel one of the keys of self improvement is the acceptance of being someone greater than you are. The acceptance of the great potential within you can help you to accomplish all that you wish to accomplish. It is within your reach, ready to help you on your way.
It’s not easy sometimes to separate ourselves from the events and circumstances of our lives. Do this, go there, be this and so on it goes. Often, we go for days, weeks and months without focusing on who we truly are, we get down, negativity seems to abound. It need not be that way, doesn’t have to be that way and you can be different now. You can be happy now no matter what seems to be tearing you away from that inner peace that feeds your soul. At a minimum, you can be happier. It may all seem larger than life to you but, still, while it’s going on, whatever it is, you can be happy now. There is so much promise within you, it doesn’t matter who you think yourself to be or where you are in your life. It’s there just let it out.
The Success Instinct
You have the ability to achieve. You were born with the tools, everyone who has a healthy mind was. Consider this:
Animals are provided with a “success” instinct. They know to gather food and store it for the winter months when food is, at best, scarce even if they were born the spring before!
Birds know which direction to fly for the winter months without aid of the “Weather Channel”or a compass, having never done it before. They just “know” what to do and where to go. These are survival type instincts. These animals are “programmed” for successfully navigating their environment.
We, too, have the same instincts. Human beings have been programmed with their own success instincts that a) goes beyond basic survival and b) helps us to navigate our environment. Our ability to choose gives us the power to move in different directions, more advanced than any other animal on the planet. We can create a plan (goals) and move in that direction, any direction we choose. This is how we are wired, it’s 100% natural! We are goal seeking beings.
The Bible says that God made man in his own image, a little lower than the Angels and gave him dominion over “the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”* So what did that leave out?
God did not give us dominion over everything here then say “but you won’t succeed in the process just so you know!” Doesn’t this description also imply that we’d have dominion over ourselves as well? God, or whatever you call the all that is, the creator, created us in it’s own image, doesn’t that make us creators, too? Yes it does. To pull it off, we were blessed with a creative imagination. Funny, no other animal on the planet has this mental faculty. I don’t mean to be flippant but what else is needed for you to feel blessed and worthy of achievement?
The Facts
Your life, RIGHT NOW, is a result of the images that your creative imagination passed along to that side of your mind that runs the show, your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind operates all of your bodily functions. Your conscious mind (the operator) feeds the subconscious mind (the computer) and it responds unemotionally and without regard to the results. Whatever the conscious mind accepts is passed along to the subconscious mind; whatever is rejected is not. The subconscious doesn’t know if the pictures it is fed are really happening or are just imagined. It can’t know, it just responds to what your conscious mind is habitually turning over to it.
“Ask and ye shall receive” could this have had multiple meanings? What if the “father” also means that whatever you ask of your subconscious mind and believe you will have is created by your actions? What if it’s not all just fate or luck? What if there is no favoritism from the creator and it’s ALL UP TO YOU AND WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT YOURSELF? What else would a father do in his love for his children but give them, on a golden plate, the ability to become all that they ever wanted to become? Would any father knowingly set his children up for automatic failure, for any reason? Does this make sense? Not to me.
This information is nothing new but perhaps you’re reading it for the first time. Study, study, study. Whatever you accept and believe becomes your outside circumstance. Go inside, find out what’s there and change it. Accept this and you can make lasting and permanent changes in your life.
*Genesis 1:26, KJV
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