When you first hear about the Law of the Universe, the Law of Attraction, and the mirror principle, you recognize them and feel they make perfect sense. Yet, you still hold rooted doubt. If you just said, "No, I don't," then you do. If you didn’t have doubt rooted subconsciously, there would be nothing to resist against by denying it.
What actually happens is that you acknowledge past events and experiences in your life that were wonderful, and you remember your attitude was wonderful at the time. For any past achievement, you can always verify that you eliminated any doubt associated with achieving that goal. You believed you could not fail, and, of course, with persistence, you succeeded. But that’s all you know.
The deeply rooted doubt that exists is what basically prevents you from entertaining the thought that you can always use the Laws of the Universe in your everyday life. You may understand it as truth, but your perception of your life is that you are far from living your dream life. Maybe you’ve had moments of success, then downturns, and the pattern has repeated over the months or years. You likely were in a good energy at times of success, but you were not actively managing the deeply rooted ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts) in your brain. As a result, you could not remain in that higher energy. Your life reflects that you kept swinging back and forth internally, never really experiencing exponential growth.
Think about your life. Yeah, you’re surviving, but is that really the main goal—just to survive? Should it even be a goal? No. Survival is automatic. If that is your goal, it will always be the goal, and you will always be just surviving. With survival accepted as a given, and the nagging voices in your head that second-guess you silenced, why not focus and thrive in abundance?
Repivot. Start with the simple things. I’ve discovered that these ANTs extend down to the most basic activities in your life.
When you pick up a knife to cut some fruit, your mind says, “Be careful, don’t cut yourself.” I actually noticed this one day, and I wondered, “What is this, the world police in my head? Do I really need this? I don’t think so.” When you understand that you get what you think about most of the time, you might even cut yourself one day. In fact, it’s probable. Did the thought of “don’t cut yourself” prevent you from getting cut, or did it attract it?
So, I simply decided: “I am competent. In fact, I am highly coordinated, and I trust myself.” I labeled that ANT as not necessary and stopped it. Doing this allowed me to feel confidence in myself and enhanced trust while cutting fruit. I was still attentive and calculated with the knife, but when I needed to move my finger a bit more before cutting, a negative thought was not attached. In other words, I didn’t think, “I have to move my finger, I don’t want to get cut.” My thought was simply, “Move my finger like this, and… slice.”
I know if my finger is in the way it will get cut, but I don’t allow that to be the motivation to move my finger. I just focus on the process of symmetrically cutting the fruit. To cut the fruit properly and safely, my fingers must be out of the way. I am confident in my ability and have no doubt. In fact, I can’t and don’t even imagine the possibility of something negative happening. I focus on how I’m the best at cutting fruit.
But take an adult who sees a knife on the counter and immediately connects danger with it. If there are children in the house, this makes sense to a degree. But don’t picture the worst that could happen and link fear to the knife. The knife itself is not dangerous—only if you believe it is. Just as knives can be used to take lives, scalpels are knives that save lives. Knives make it convenient for you to eat fruit and cook. Associate with the positive. Be grateful for the knife, the convenience, and the utility it provides. Focus on the beauty of the fruit and how wonderful it is going to taste, rather than using the moment to imagine fear or a lack of capability. As a result, you’re actually creating the desired experience internally first, and you will tend to enjoy the fruit even more when it is eaten.
You may laugh, and it may seem absurdly simple. But I think of it like this: when you were a toddler, someone taught you, and maybe they said, “Don’t forget to tie your shoecords.” Now, imagine you kept saying that every day of your life up to your current age. Every day your mind says to you, “Don’t forget to tie your shoes,” and you tie your shoes. Do you really need that? No. You already know you can tie your shoelaces, and the process doesn’t need micromanagement. You allow yourself to feel confident in the knowing, and you tie your shoes automatically without fear of forgetting, and without fear of doing it wrong. This small distinction is profound in your life, mainly when you begin eliminating this internal micromanagement that always highlights negative outcomes.
Imagine there is ice outside. Does your inner voice nag you like, “Don’t fall, it’s slippery”? Maybe you partially slip and reactively say, “Woah, it’s slippery,” without it even registering in your brain first. Keep saying that it’s slippery and watch your confidence evaporate and your struggle increase. Now, it’s a struggle to get up the sidewalk because you’re so afraid of falling on the ice, expressing doubt in your ability. Maybe your thought process is, “If I fall, I’ll hurt myself, and I can’t afford to miss work.”
What mindset is that? Who are you being? You’re assuming you can’t make mistakes, and if you do, bad things will happen as a result. You’re assuming that you’re going to get hurt if you fall, and you’re not expressing confidence in your ability. You’re God’s most advanced creation, yet your internal self is convincing you to believe you’re so fragile that you can break easily. You’re being a person whose life circumstances are determined by fear and doubt. The person who says, “I always slip and fall on the ice,” will do so more times than not when given the opportunity. The person who has not even a tiny speck of fear or doubt—the one who is confident in their ability without leaving room for fear or doubt—has the most success.
Close your eyes for a moment until you feel the light hum or electrical resonance that is your mind. This is the eternal now. Are you running out of time in the eternal now? Of course not. As long as your spirit animates your body, you can be in the now, and while you are being in the now, it is infinite.
The very concept of time is lack itself. It is a human construct that only embeds lack and limitation. Be responsible and keep your appointments; we obviously need time for society to work properly. But using your imagination and training it to hound you about not having enough time, or feeling rushed or impatient due to time, is a misuse of your imagination. You are creating worry, anxiety, and all the lower energies. That’s not what your imagination is for; you’re using it wrong. Your imagination isn’t here to create worries, fears, lack, and limitation. It’s not here for you to build an internal system that constantly monitors, identifies threats, and nags you about running out of time, not having time, or things taking too long.
Essentially, all the energy that your many micro-thoughts drain keeps limited energy available for important decisions and higher energies to grow within you. When you eliminate three or four simple automatic negative thoughts from your daily life, your internal trust grows and your confidence is reinforced on a subconscious level. When you reach this milestone, you will know. You will automatically be looking and scanning for other ANTs to remove, because you have finally experienced the difference in how your life feels.
