You get to be right. It has become my catch phrase, my touchstone, my “thing.” Because it’s always true. You have the ultimate say-so in everything having to do with how your life shows up for you. Say you’re sad - guess what? You’re sad. Say you’re poor - you will feel poor, no matter how much money you have at your disposal. I know you have just spun off on a search for ways to prove me wrong about this. Ways to show that in fact you are describing your reality, not creating it. I AM poor, you say, or I AM sad. The world IS unfair. Or the opposite of each of these.
Whatever you say, you get to be right. It’s just the way it works, my friend. Sorry. You can be cute. You can say “the world is flat” knowing that it isn’t. But you’re lying to prove a point, and I wasn’t talking about lies. If, however, you are telling the truth about it - as far as you know - then the world IS flat. As it was for milennia. People stayed away from the edge of the world, because they would fall off. In every way that mattered, it was flat. Until it wasn’t. Until someone was willing to QUESTION the belief. The way you fully, whole-heartedly believe it is, is the way it IS for you. Period.
What’s interesting here is the “for you” part. That’s why this always works. Science has shown us that what there is to perceive vastly exceeds our ability to perceive it. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy Shakespeare."
Whatever you believe, your amazingly capable brain goes out and finds proof. Your brain files memory by belief and feeling. So if you believe you are sad, PRESTO! All the sad memories, experiences, beliefs will be immediately at hand, and NOTHING ELSE will be available. You believe you are helpless? Feel helpless and your brain will provide the proof. Feel ugly? Ditto!
Of course, I hope you are seeing the light at the other side of this. The power, the possibility, the MAGIC. This is not positive thinking, it’s neuro-science. You can’t fake it. If you believe you are sad, pretending to be happy won’t change it. Not immediately, at least. Your brain is your servant, providing you with sad. You can challenge it however. With questions and logic. You can acknowledge the power your brain has, and the brilliance with which it operates behind the scenes. You can celebrate the fact that it is proving that you get to be right. And at the same time, you can begn to question the truth of the belief. And you can search out something different to be right about.
So what about this? Nothing, really except an experiment. A game, perhaps. Just try it today. Choose what will be true for you, knowing that you get to be right.
Try it?
Roberta Raye, http://www.robertaraye.com
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