Space for Rent - FREE!
2004 Boaz Rauchwerger
A California subscriber to this newsletter, who is also a brave cancer survivor and a member of AA, shared a profound thought in an e-mail the other day. It was: Dont let people rent FREE SPACE in your head. Surely you will go broke.
Lets pretend your mind is housed in a one-story building. Upon entering the front door, we see a sign that reads: Welcome to your Conscious Mind.There are a number of television sets around the lobby. Each set represents a different aspect of your experiences sight, sound, smell, touch, etc. These are the things that you are consciously aware of in your daily activities.
Leading into a hallway there is another sign with an arrow. This one reads, To your Subconscious Mind.We follow the arrow as it leads to a door at the end of the hall. We open the door and there is a stairway. It leads us to a huge basement. The area down there is gigantic and it is filled with hundreds and hundreds of file cabinets.
Your subconscious mind, in the form of the basement, houses files on everything youve ever experienced, everything youve ever seen, felt, heard, smelled and touched. Notice that, even though important files are stored in the basement, there was no guard at the door of your subconscious mind.
Thats because no judgments are made when experiences are stored away. Whether an experience is good or bad for you, it doesnt matter. Its simply filed away in the basement.
Then, when you have a similar moment in the future, a file dealing with that issue is instantly retrieved from the basement. If your last similar experience was positive, your conscious mind will expect the new experience to be positive. If it was negative, it will direct you to feel negatively about the upcoming moment.
Since just thinking negatively about something can create a negative file in the basement, most peoples subconscious minds contain an overabundance of negative files.
Having no guard at the door of your subconscious mind is like offering all kinds of thoughts, good or bad, free rent in your files. If you owned a building, intending to make money from the rent the tenants would pay, how long would you stay in business if you offered free rent? You would go broke quickly.
Thats exactly what happens to many people. They allow negative people and negative thoughts to have free rent in their subconscious minds and theyre going broke emotionally. Instead of taking charge of their lives, and achieving their potential, many people allow negative, harmful files to take up space in their minds.
If Ive come too close to home with these thoughts, maybe its time for you to post a guard at the doorway of your mind. Negative thoughts and negative people will be turned away. Positive thoughts and positive people will be welcomed graciously.
When you download a file onto a computer, and then attempt to download the same file a second time, doesnt the computer ask if you wish to replace the other file? It does. The same process can happen in your subconscious mind. Negative files in your subconscious mind can be replaced by positive files.
The process takes place through positive affirmations. Your subconscious mind cannot tell the difference between something real and something imagined. It takes it as being real. Thats why people shouldnt joke about important things. Someone who says, Nothing ever works out for me,is actually programming his or her subconscious mind to make sure that things dont work out.
Even if one were to pretend for a while, saying the following affirmation will help replace that negative file in the basement: Things usually work out for me.
It takes 21 days to change a habit. Reading that positive affirmation for 21 days, the first thing in the morning and the last thing each night, will overwrite the negative file. Sometimes in the second week of reading such a positive affirmation, the conscious mind will begin to give the idea a measure of possibility. Continuing to read this positive affirmation for 21 days or more will get the subconscious mind to believe it as being real.
Since actions follow beliefs, the person above will actually begin to operate with a more open mind and look for things that work out in life.
Most everyone is an expert at affirmations. However, most people are stating negative ones over and over. More negative files are being stored and more are being retrieved. The results are predictable.
Maybe its time to post a sign outside the building I described. Suggested wording: No More Free Rent!
An Affirmation of Positive Thoughts
I am the guard at the doorway of my mind. Only positive thoughts are allowed in.
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