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In this series you will create a new self-image through the process of using a series of carefully designed mental images. The process isn’t complex, but it will take some time on your part. The rewards, however, are well worth the effort you put in. Before we start presenting the process itself (which we will do over several days) we should first spend a few moments discussing how using the process will benefit you in your personal life.
We have said that the self-image often works to sabotage the efforts you make to change your life in any positive way, be this financially, physically, emotionally or spiritually. This is because your current self-image was programmed during childhood in an almost slip-shod manner, based on the input of parents, peers, educators, leaders and other influential people.
The process we provide in this series enables you to go back beyond this ‘accidental’ self-image and start creating a new one from scratch. This new self-image will be deliberately created by you to help you achieve your goals and desires faster than you ever thought possible.
Although this series of articles is presented in modern language, the act of redesigning the self-image is not new. In many ancient scriptures, people were encouraged to be ‘born again’ and to ‘cast off the clothes of the old man, and put on the clothes of the new man’. Both of these terms, and many others like them, were simply ways of saying, ‘Forget your past programming and re-create your self image. Doing this will change your entire life, from the way you perceive the world to the results you get from your involvement with the world.’
As anyone who goes through this process properly will testify, when you re-create your self-image, you are in fact re-creating your entire life. And it all starts in the very next part of this series…
Creative visualization is one of the most popular metaphysical techniques in the world. If you have been reading the articles here at Create Good Things for a while you will certainly be familiar with the concept: If you want to manifest something or some quality in your life, you should sit down on a regular basis and visualize yourself as already having that thing or quality.
Unfortunately, some people find that they can’t seem to make visualization work for them. It doesn’t matter how hard they try, the results just don’t come. It’s as if something is actually preventing the manifestation from taking place.
In most cases, something really is preventing the process, and that ‘something’ is the self-image of the individual.
Your self-image is the mental representation of who you truly believe you are. In most cases it consists of one or a series of mental images which represent, as far as your subconscious mind is concerned, the ‘real you’.
Now here is the vital point: Your subconscious mind will never allow you to experience anything in life which is in conflict with your self-image. No matter how hard you work, visualize, affirm or meditate, your self-image will always dictate what can and what cannot be manifested in your life.
Since this is the case, you should now be able to understand why visualization and other similar metaphysical techniques don’t work for some people. In almost all such instances, the self-image of the individual over-rides all metaphysical efforts in an effort to preserve the ‘status quo’. Let us give you an example of how this often takes place.
Jane, a young lady in her mid-twenties, had learned about creative visualization and decided to begin using it to increase her level of career and financial success. Every day for several months, Jane sat down and visualized the things she wanted in her life – a fine home, a smart automobile, a rewarding career and financial independence.
Now during the course of this visualization programme, several opportunities arose which could have enabled Jane to realise her ambitions. Yet when she came to take advantage of these various opportunities, every one of them vanished. Job offers were withdrawn for no reason, help which she had been offered from friends and acquaintances was not forthcoming and so on.
After several months of such let-downs, Jane lost her faith in visualization altogether. ‘It just doesn’t work,’ she would tell her friends. ‘I’ve tried as hard as I can, but even when things start looking up, something happens to take me right back to square one.’
The problem in this case wasn’t creative visualization at all. As many thousands of people can testify, visualization is one of the most effective metaphysical techniques there is.
So what was the problem?
The problem was that Jane’s self-image was in direct opposition to the things she was visualizing. Far from seeing herself as a person worthy of success, Jane always felt inferior. She viewed successful people as though they were automatically better and more deserving than she was.
In other words, Jane’s visualization efforts failed simply because she was trying to achieve something which would actually jeopardize her own self-image, and because of this her subconscious mind set to work – acting to prevent her visualized goals from ever becoming a reality.
Now the idea of one aspect of an individual working against another aspect of the same individual may sound strange, but in fact it happens all the time.
Consider a person who wants to quit smoking. He tries once, twice, three times, but he always ends up lighting another cigarette.
Or consider the person who wants to succeed financially. He tries once, twice, three times, but he always seems to end up right back where he started.
In both of these situations – and in a very many others – all that is happening is that the subconscious mind works to ensure that the individual fails. Why? Because the man who smokes has a self-image of himself as a smoker, and the man who wants to succeed financially actually has a self-image of failure and poverty. In both cases, the subconscious mind simply must ensure that they do not reach their goals, because if they did their respective self-images would be shattered.
In the world of metaphysics, the self-image can be likened to the ‘homing device’ on a powerful missile. The homing device is pre-programmed with a definite destination. When the missile is launched it always looks to its homing device for directions. Of course, the wind may blow the missile off track on occasion, but in these cases it simply refers once again to its homing device and corrects its own path so that it finally reaches the destination that has been pre-programmed.
If you are not progressing as quickly as you think you ought to be, in whatever area of life, then the chances are that your self-image is pulling you in a different direction.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that you can deliberately re-programme your subconscious mind with a brand new set of instructions which are automatically geared towards helping you to manifest prosperity, happiness and success in all areas of life, and this is where creating a new self-image comes into play.
The third and final Step Out of Body exercise (and the one that brings this series to a conclusion) is called The Gateway, and it is based on the observation that the universe is much more than the physical world. There are other planes of existence which can only be explored when you separate your consciousness from your physical body. Exploring these planes is something which almost always leads to a state of higher awareness about the universe and your place in it, but be aware that such exploration is never complete. Once you begin to achieve higher states of awareness about the universe and yourself the learning curve goes on for infinity, so be prepared to spend a lifetime exploring and enjoying the process.
The Gateway exercise will help you explore the universe and your place in it, and can be summarised as follows:
Go to a place where you will not be disturbed for at least half an hour. Darken the room and sit comfortably in a chair or on the floor with your back straight.
Now close your eyes and still your mind by simply watching your breathing for a minute or two.
When you are completely relaxed and your mind is still, remind yourself that the real you is not your physical body. Rather, your physical body is a mere shell which you can step out of at will.
With that fact in mind, mentally ‘step out’ of your body by imagining yourself standing up and taking one step in front of your physical body.
Now imagine a swirling gateway of energy in front of you. This gateway is the route to other planes of existence which you are free to explore and enjoy. What you will find on the other side is something you must discover for yourself.
When you are ready to begin your journey of exploration, step into the gateway and pay attention to what you perceive.
Where are you? Is there anyone else here? If so, who? Can you communicate with these entities? If so, introduce yourself. Ask questions. Receive answers. Explore and enjoy.
To bring your consciousness back into your body, simply think of your physical fingers and move them. This will bring you back to full consciousness in your physical body.
The benefits of travelling through The Gateway can only be experienced, not described. On the other side of The Gateway lie the answers to all of life’s questions, for it leads to a place where you can finally discover who you really are, and why. The answers won’t necessarily come immediately, but once you have gone through The Gateway you will learn a little more about yourself and the universe, and because of this you will want to go back – often.
This technique is one which we consider to be invaluable, but you will only know its true value by acting on what you are reading. So decide right now to enter The Gateway as soon as you feel ready, and prepare yourself for the journey of a lifetime.
The second Step Out of Body exercise is called the Mind Probe and it allows you to project your consciousness out of your body and to temporarily ‘step into’ the mind of someone else so that you can see circumstances and topics of conversation from their point of view. Please note that how you use this particular skill is your responsibility. We strongly advise that you use it only to help you understand other people and their perspectives, and not to gather information for any other purpose. That said, here is the Mind Probe technique for you to practice…
Still your mind completely and relax your physical body.
Step out of your physical body and ‘stand’ in front of the person you wish to perceive from for the purpose of this exercise.
Now gently ‘walk into’ that person and familiarise yourself with being inside their physical body. How does it feel? What emotions are you experiencing? What thoughts come to mind?
Try and perceive the world or a specific situation or problem from this person’s point of view. How does it look? How does it make you feel? How could it be better? What would you like to change? What do you really want?
When you have explored this perception as fully as you want to, step out of that body and back into your own. The Mind Probe is complete.
The benefits of this technique are truly amazing, for it can enable you to help yourself by helping other people get what you want. Let us explain with a couple of examples:
Consider a woman who is married to a man who seems to have lost any sense of passion he once had. Instead of getting frustrated or resentful, she could perform a quick Mind Probe and see the situation from his point of view. Doing so, she might see that she herself is not helping the relationship – that she doesn’t take as much care over her appearance as she used to, or that she isn’t as enthusiastic and playful as she used to be. Armed with this information, the woman can then adjust her own behaviour to please her husband and spark off the renewal of passion that she had wanted in the first place.
Or consider a salesman who is meeting a prospective client. By performing a quick Mind Probe the salesman can find out quite effectively what the prospective client is looking for. This will enable him to find the product which would ideally suit the needs of the prospect, thus helping to both close a profitable sale and help the client at the same time.
Obviously there are many more uses to which the Mind Probe can be legitimately put to use, but once again we must stress that any use of such a technique should benefit the person being probed as well as yourself. Using the Mind Probe technique in order to manipulate other people goes entirely against the philosophy of using the Law of Attraction to Create Good Things and is therefore not to be recommended.
We have previously presented a series on the topic of Astral Projection, but this new series entitled Step Out of Body takes a look at the subject from a slightly different angle that some readers might find easier to work with. Enjoy!
“Your consciousness does not live in your body.
You merely believe it does, and so it complies with your belief.”
Where is your consciousness – the thinker of your thoughts, the experiencer of your experiences, the maker of your decisions?
This is a question which few people ever even think to ask themselves. Those who ask it lightly often respond that their consciousness sits a few inches behind their eyes because this appears to be where all their thinking and perceiving is done. But thinking and perception are not activities of the consciousness, they are activities of the human brain.
Consciousness only resides ‘in’ the physical body because you believe it does. It only seems to sit in your head because that is where the biological computer [brain] processes the information it gathers.
Your consciousness is beyond space and also beyond time. It is eternal in nature, infinite in its boundaries and flexible in the way it can be used.
So far it is highly probable that you have spent most of your life with the idea that your consciousness is limited to your physical body. But in this series you will learn that your consciousness can be placed anywhere just by willing it so.
Think of your last vacation. Remember where you went. Where did you stay? Who were you with? What did you do? What was the weather like? What did your environment look like? How did you feel when on vacation? Imagine your last vacation in as much detail as possible.
Now come back and realise that you just sent your consciousness to another place. You sent it back through time to your last vacation, and as you did so your perception of your current surroundings took a back seat.
Of course, your consciousness drew information from your memories to re-locate itself, but the fact of the matter is that temporarily it left your current space-time environment and journeyed somewhere else.
Let’s now try another exercise.
With your eyes either closed or open, try to perceive what is behind you. Imagine that you can turn your consciousness around inside your body and take a look out through the back of your head. What do you see? How does this new perspective feel?
The first couple of times you try this you may perceive little. As you practice it, however, you will find that it becomes easier and easier to perceive what is behind you without actually having to look through your physical eyes. Part of the perception will be drawn from your memory of what is behind you, but gradually a part of the perception will be genuine. As your practice continues, so the genuine part of the perception will increase, with less and less of it being drawn from remembered perceptions.
People who have been trained in something called Remote Viewing are able to project their consciousness at will to any place they desire. This allows them to accurately perceive things which would be impossible to perceive physically. In fact perceptions gained through remote viewing can be so accurate that many governments [including the US] have used teams of specially trained remote viewers [or “RV’s”] to assist them in matters of national interest.
Now some people may wonder what practical use the ability to project consciousness has in daily life. Well, there are many more than you might imagine. Here are just a few of them:
Projecting your consciousness allows you to detach yourself from any situation or environment and view it from a more objective point of view. This enables you to respond less emotionally to life and tackle problems and difficult situations much more effectively.
Projecting your consciousness allows you to perceive what other people are perceiving, thus enabling you to execute an accurate ‘Mind Probe’ and discover their true feelings. This ability is not to be misused, but can help you to see situations from other points of view and, if necessary, change the way you communicate with others.
Projecting your consciousness allows you to explore the concept of the universe and your life from a purely non-physical perspective. This almost always leads to a state of higher awareness and the development of what can only be described as increased spiritual knowledge and capabilities.
Obviously, the ability to ‘step out of yourself’ and perceive things from a vantage point other than from within your physical body is extremely beneficial. We will therefore present you with three separate techniques which, if practised regularly, will enable you to develop this ability to the full and experience the benefits personally. The first such exercise will be presented in the next part of this series…
In this final part of our Developing Willpower we present the fourth Developing Willpower exercise. This exercise is a little different, because the task involved will vary from reader to reader. The instructions you need to adhere to are as follows:
Developing Willpower Exercise #4
Every day for the next seven days, choose at least one important thing that you have been putting off doing and finally get it done.
On a purely physical level, the vast majority of people fail in life because they simply never learn to take action on things that they know they ought to do. This week, you will do at least seven things that you have been ‘meaning to do’ for a while but haven’t actually got around to doing. It could be obtaining a gym membership, exercising, making a certain phone call, writing a certain letter, clearing out the garage or any number of other tasks that you have been postponing for a considerable amount of time.
By taking action on the things which you specifically tend to procrastinate about, you will develop a greater ability to trust yourself. You will establish the habit of recognising a task that needs attending to and then following through to get it done. As a result, your self-esteem, self-confidence and sense of inner strength will all increase quite markedly.
Most people know what they need to do in order to change their lives, but they have never developed the will power required to put their knowledge to good use. By the time you successfully complete this exercise, you will join the ranks of the relative few who not only know what to do, but actually do what they know, and thereby consciously create the lives they desire.
You should note that you have considerable freedom to choose what you will do with this exercise. Choose only to do very easy things and your willpower will grow much less than if you were to choose to do quite demanding things. The more you challenge yourself this week, the stronger your willpower will become.
With the first two Developing Willpower exercises you have developed your willpower by focusing on fundamental aspects of human life, namely your sleeping and communication habits. In this third Developing Willpower exercise you will focus on a third area of life which could well challenge you even more than the previous two. Your instructions for this week are as follows:
Developing Willpower Exercise #3
For the next seven days, you shall only eat and drink products which are genuinely wholesome and nutritious. Specifically, your diet should be rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and as far as possible – free of processed foods or those with added sugar. You should also avoid all forms of alcohol and animal products.
Now, it may strike you that this kind of diet is rather more severe than that of most people, and we would agree. However, it is an extremely healthy way of eating which everyone should experience at least once in their lives, and adhering to it for seven days is a very good way of developing your willpower.
Most people have no idea how much they allow their base cravings for sugars, fats, animal products and alcohol to control them. This week you will experience your own cravings very clearly. Do not become disheartened by this, but welcome the opportunity to overcome your base urges for such things. You are not required to eat this way forever, but only for seven days.
The benefits of succeeding with this exercise are considerable. As well as strengthening your willpower even further, you will experience a dramatic increase in the amount of physical energy you have. This is because a wholesome diet which is free of sugars, fats, animal products and alcohol is a lot kinder to the human body. Your body will not have to expend nearly as much energy to digest this diet, and so you will feel a lot more alive and vital as a result.
Many people who have somewhat reluctantly developed their willpower by adhering to this strict diet have been surprised to find that they wanted to continue eating more naturally in the future. Few have embraced the diet as a way of life, but almost everyone has chosen to eat with more awareness in the future.
