~Speaking of Seth~

Thank you for the suggestion but I know what pronged means.

Below is what I said elsewhere. If you're a visual yourself - self affirmations will also appear as visuals to you as you state them. If you are a kinesthetic then you will feel it in your body. If you are more emotion centered you'll feel the emotion.

As a matter of fact when you begin, the less comfortable you are telling yourself those things then the more you need to do it.

You neglected to offer your own suggestion.

The following works for everybody. True if you're visual, sure, then actively create images that say the same positive currently true message, Etc. But correct form naturally occurs for each type individual. Just doing it works. Give it a serious try for 3 months and see how you change.

Also does Seth say to State it as though it were currently true. To avoid any form of phrasiology that implies that it is not currently true now. Or, To watch your thoughts and counteract counterproductive ones as often as possible? To write them out daily on a regular basis to actively do this?

And you failed to offer your own suggestion.

And I am not Seth: never expect me to be Seth: I will make statements that vary from Seth because I got them from another source. Seth often backed up and explained things or corrected people's understanding of what he said. Seth was not perfect. Neither am I.

Now that you've read what I have to say in completeness, (I assume that you have) then seriously, please, answer the following: am I saying "Lie To Yourself".

In case you didn't look it up, or to save others from having to do it, here's what I said elsewhere.

Quote from: Mik on October 24, 2023, 12:48:05 PMIn the 1980s, from two sources, I was exposed to the idea of awareness filters and how to program them.

What are awareness filters? Our awareness filters are what we have pre-programmed ourselves to pay attention to (and not pay attention to).

Example: if you were to drive down the road and you paid attention to the leaves fluttering on the trees, the toys in the neighbor's yard, the birds flying in the air, the neighbors opened front door - in other words if you paid attention to everything, then, you couldn't drive the car a half-block before you wrecked your car.

You have programmed yourself to pay attention to the important things: Kids running toward the street, signs, balls rolling, Cars moving in driveways, etc..

If we did not have awareness filters we would suffer extreme information overload. (I know a young person with Autism that appears to have information overload.)

If you have programmed your awareness filters with the belief that people think badly of you - your awareness filters will let that information come through and block the information where people say nice things about you, when people honor you, etc.. A self-fulfilling perspective that is skewed to your disadvantage.

If you're an entrepreneur and you've programmed your awareness filters such that 'you see opportunities everywhere', then you will. And people will be amazed at your brilliance. But they could program that same belief into their own awareness filters and they would see opportunities everywhere.

If you have programmed your awareness filters such that you live in a terrible world - you will. And if you have programmed your filters so that you have wonderful things happening in your life - you will.

There are very specific techniques to appropriately and most effectively program your awareness filters. It begins with your self-talk and with specific statements to program your filters - self affirmations.

I'll explain techniques later.

(Joy and) Happiness,
     Mik

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Programming awareness filters with self-affirmations
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Self-affirmations can be used to change your awareness filters, beliefs, your behavior, your view of what the world is around you, the actual world around you, your level of happiness and feelings of safety. Because our beliefs, especially our awareness filters, define Who We Are, and, the world around us - this is where you begin to do it.

It's important to know how to formulate appropriate effective self-affimations.
    A. They must be in the present tense as though they were already true and currently true.
    B. Avoid any verbiage in the negative or that implies that you don't already have this ability or quality.
    C. Never use any phraseology about "What You Won't Do" or "can't do" or "will not do". Such as: 'I don't cheat on my diet'. Your brain does not hear the negative "don't". So you've just programmed in "I cheat on my diet"

An example: I'm going to ask you to do something mentally and I'm going to ask you to follow through as best you can:

 'Do not think of a pink elephant.

How well did you do? The imagery created by "Pink elephant" overrides the idea of "do not". Thus, you can not successfully program using that type of approach.

Instead phrase the same affirmation: ' I eat a healthy diet.' (Stated as currently true and in the positive).

'My world is safe.'
'I am kind.'
'Good things constantly happen to me.'
'I am a non-smoker.'
'All people are kind to me.'
'My body is healthy and fit.'
'Daily I increase my psychic abilities.' (This one is a little tricky - by using the word 'increase' it is assumed the skill is already there based on the wording. )

Here's the wrong way to say the same thing.
   'I will become psychic.'
The 'I will' says that it's not currently true - and that violates the 'currently true' requirement. Following is the very best way to say it.

'I am actively psychic.'

The shorter the affirmation the better.

'I am' is a powerful precursor to the state of being you desire to be.

Sometimes it's best to approach things from more than one direction with multiple self affirmations. For example:

'I am healthy and fit.'
'I exercise daily and eat a good diet.'
'I believe in myself.'

Select 6 to 10 of your most important affirmations. Write your currently most important affirmations down everyday multiple times. Do so until it sinks in, or for 30 days max, and then move on to an adjusted set of affirmations. Use 'correctly formed affirmations' in the part B, that is below.

That was part A.

Part B:

The next has to do with self-talk. Everyone says things to themselves all day long. Every time you catch yourself saying something negative about yourself, your world, or your life, then override it with three to five positively formed affirmations that directly counteract it.

'I am lazy.' When you catch yourself saying that - then follow with:
 'I am energetic and productive.'
 'I am energetic and productive.'
 'I am energetic and productive.'
 'I accomplish my highest payoff task.'
 ''I accomplish my highest payoff task."
 
And if you have time then do a few more. The more the better.

The more diligent you are at counteracting negative thought the faster your life will change in the direction your self-affirmations are driving it.

Add these techniques with the knowledge that 'You create the "reality" around you' - together they are extremely powerful.

Since I've learned these techniques I have lived something of a Charmed Life: the process helped me figure out how to go back to, and pay for, college (4.0); start successful businesses; raise wonderful children; improve my effectiveness; improved resilience; enjoy excess finances; help many people in a wide variety of ways; abandon all concerns of what people thought of me; etc..

You can too.

(Joy and) Happiness,
      Mik.

P.S. Yes, ' (Joy and) Happiness '  - is a positive affirmation for me, and hopefully a gift to you; so you will think of that in the present and current tense (an affirmation for you). When I type that I often think "I am", "I have", or "for you". I put that on every personal email and letter, and, a few business documents. For 34 years I have experienced happiness for some portion of every day - thanks to self-affirmations . . .   "J&H,".

(J &) H,
  Mik.

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Look up "pronged"

Read about programming your awareness filters. It works, you can do it while you're awake, it is extremely effective. I've trained many people how to do it; for both employees and people that I'm mentoring. And it has changed lives. I've done it often. It works.

Where does Seth say how to CHANGE what you believe?

What techniques do you recommend to actually change what you believe?


As always . . .
  (Joy and) Happiness,
           Mik.
   

Your "to believe it IS true NOW, already." tells me enough about how you see this. No need to search for explanation, as I disagree.

In my understanding, Seth says that you shouldn't lie to yourself.

What prevents your wish fulfilling are your doubt and fear that your wish won't happen. They are caused by your beliefs.

Quote from: inavalan on April 01, 2023, 10:53:04 PM«

In desiring, you may not realise that you are projecting into your life the experience of wanting, needing, wishing, trying and hoping, and that such an experience reveals 'in time'' the exact opposite of what you are desiring or expecting.»

--- Elio d'Anna's "The School for Gods"

I have not read the book, but, I do know if you tell yourself you want something, or you desire something: then you are telling yourself you do not have it now in this moment. One way is to change your belief structure (and encourage these things to come into your life), while awake, so that you can change your world, your reality, - is:  to believe it IS true NOW, already.

The way to do that, is to 'program your awareness filters'.  --- Do a search on "awareness filters" in here: you will find my fairly thorough explanation.

There has also been much writing on 'programming awareness filters' by various motivational speakers.

(Joy and) Happiness,
         Mik.

I like your three sets of quotes here. From my perspective they're all accurate and very helpful in the area of helping people. Thank you. 

"Do not concentrate on symptoms, but on feelings of health... Do not get caught up in sympathy... abilities won't be as effective."
--- TES9 #454

"You help others whether or not you realize that you do, whether or not others realize that you do, whether or not you plan to help. You help others even when your intentions are precisely the opposite.

Many who would seem to set a very poor example for others help others for exactly that reason. Quite simply they are examples of what not to be precisely for this reason. In their avarice and hatred they serve a purpose.

This does not mean that they will not have to progress, that they will not have to learn, but it does mean that they will not be allowed to pass through without helping others regardless of their own intent. In some cases such a situation may be set up by a portion of the personality itself, though this is not usual.

Some automatically soak up the hatred of others like a sponge. They have quite hateful characteristics. In some cases they have chosen these roles, attracting aggressions that others cannot handle. There is so little that you do know that many situations appear meaningless or chaotic."
--- TES9 #491

"If you are joyful, you will help other people simply by being what you are. If you try to help others and you are despondent, you do not help them."

—TPS 2, May 3, 1972

"Fear is all that holds you back. You will most probably work out a physical, technological way of making this possible, before you realize that you could have done it all along."
--- TES2 Session 55 May 20, 1964