You can
compare repetitious habits with the groves on a phonograph record that
have recorded your habits with the needle of your subconscious mind
playing them over and over. You can change your bad habits or get rid
of them because they are your own thoughts being repeated by you. You
brought them into existence and you can destroy them and smash them to
smithereens with your will power.
In our fast paced society, the
"I want it now or my money back" attitude has obsessed the consumer.
Humanity nowadays reads no more than ten pages of a book mostly because
they do not want to go through the necessary steps required to improve.
That is plain laziness in our high speed society.
Habits shape
your future success. When you make a habit you are burning a groove
like on a recordable CD in the computer of your subconscious mind. Your
conscious mind believes a repetitive thought is a habit that it cannot
remove or get away from. If you keep repeating the same action over and
over it gives power to that new habit and it will burn a habit groove
in your subconscious mind. The computer of the mind will play those
CD'S of habits time after time just like if you are pressing the repeat
button on a CD player. And your own body acts in response to those
habits with obsession and compulsion without your permission. "Habit
enemies" can force you against your will to act against your right
behavior.
Habits can be formed like dough in a mold. When the
dough is wet and soft it is pliable like your mind. When the dough is
heated in the mold, it is set and becomes solid so as with your habits
being firmly set with the repetitions of your thoughts. Refuse to feed
bad habits by starving them the nourishment of additional wrong actions
and with the help of visualization and repeating new good habits over
and over, it will add fuel to your willpower, hence your success is
assured in the amount of your new found strength.
Remember
environment is stronger than willpower but your will power ought to be
stronger to succeed in any endeavor. If you think you lack willpower,
the way to develop it is by determination. "I won't do this" or "I will
do this." Focus your will power on these simple but powerful thoughts
daily. Now, I will explain to you the degrees and how willpower works
and why it is so important to know how to use it properly to develop
good habits. The principle of polarity explains that the difference
between things seemingly diametrically opposed to each other is merely
a matter of degrees of vibration; a matter of degrees of mental
manifestation; two opposite poles of one thing. Let's take willpower as
an example. Concentrate your attention upon the vibration of your will
power. Is it your willpower always weak or is it strong? A weak
willpower is a robotic willpower. A strong willpower is a dynamic
willpower. We are born with physiological willpower, which is automatic.
This
automatic willpower is attached to all five senses and it can become
semi-paralyzed by wrong behaviors, wrong decisions, and wrong
activities. Automatic will power is the lesser degree of vibration; the
lesser degree of thinking; the opposite pole of dynamic will power. But
when your thinking is guided by discrimination; it revolves around a
definite purpose and your purpose is worthwhile. When your actions
bring about good, your will is guided by wisdom. Dynamic will power is
the highest degree of vibration; the highest degree of thinking; the
opposite pole of automatic will power.
Bad habits are like chunks
of glass that look like precious stones, but will give disillusionment
and dissatisfaction. Achievement is quickened or prolonged by your
habits. I am talking about your daily mental habits that have sphere of
influence over your daily life. These habits are like glue that
attaches everything to it in your person, bad or good. Good habits
attract advantages and bad habits attract disadvantages. When you
arrive at work, for example, instead of getting down to business you
say to yourself, "I need a cup of coffee before I get started and I
also have a really important phone call I should make." Habits like
these are nothing but distractions. You are just wasting time that
could have been well spent and you are robbing yourself from making
significant sales which results in a smaller pay check and commission.
It is better to get into the habit of having your coffee before work or
at lunch time, and make your phone calls at lunch time. Refuse a bad
habit by rejecting everything that arouses it. One bad habit I see
happen continuously is leaving work early to go home when business is
slow, but it could get busy the moment you leave! If this practice
becomes a bad habit, just think how many sales you could lose by doing
this over and over.
Keep striving until your hard work is met
with success. You can be successful or not. It all depends on the
quality and intensity of your thoughts and the degree of your will
power. If you apply positive thinking together with dynamic will power,
you will succeed. Let's say that you do your visualizing in the morning
and as soon as you finish you say to yourself, "I have probably just
wasted my time seeing myself making all this money and I am pretty sure
this technique is useless." Or, "I just do not have the patience to do
all of this; 'patience is a virtue of the dead.'"
Negative
thinking is the same as worrying. When you worry you are slowly killing
yourself and it's your funeral all arranged by yourself. Why die and
suffer daily from worry? What ever you are experiencing in life,
sorrow, ill health, poverty, someone else on this planet is suffering a
thousand times more than you. Just give your worries to God and do not
think yourself so ill-fated that you destroy yourself and block out the
great light of God that is always trying to help you! Which shall it be
victory or defeat? Therefore, if you adhere to a positive thought it
will become real in form.
Good habits are the treasure troves
that will bring permanent happiness. Habits are essential but we abuse
their power. If you teach a parrot to talk and sing, it will duplicate
what it hears over and over. If you teach it to use bad language, it
will repeat profanities again and again upsetting you and others. Weak
minded people can descend into bad habits effortlessly, accordingly
tough- minded people can be taught to make good habits at will.
Habits
can be made at will by concentration. Repetitive good habits together
with positive daily affirmations can actually help you achieve wealth.
The technique for destroying habits is by concentrating on the brain
cells during meditation or when you are in silence. Concentrate at the
third eye or the point between the eyebrows and intensely affirm that
all the grooves of bad habits are being erased and destroyed. You
should also be more cautious of the kind of company you keep and who
you are living with. When you become more advanced spiritually you will
notice you are more sensitive, sharp and energetic.
Copyright 2006-Gary Zalben. For more information about the author and life skills go to howtoselladeadhorse.com
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