ThE WORLD ACCORDING TO YOU - PART 3

Now let's look at your life. What kind of feedback is it giving you?

The world around you every day IS the feedback that tells you if your choices are working. If you love your home, your job, your marriage, your friends, then you have chosen all things well with respect to these things. If any of these is troublesome or unpleasant, then you can examine your choices and make new ones - different ones.

The attitude we have is the tool that focuses our attention into the world around us. If we only see the wrong, the bad or the ugly, then we are tuned to the wrong station. You can tune yourself to good just by changing focus, by adjusting your attitude.

Ah, but there's a problem. In most of these areas, you weren't aware of making any choices. You just somehow got where you are, wherever that is, without being conscious of the decisions you made. In fact, often it may be the decisions you didn't make that caused the things that bother you now.

Our unconscious choices are far more numerous and more problematic than our conscious ones. Unconscious choices lead to drift, to unguided movement, and often to undesired effects.

Unconscious thinking is prone to all kinds of spurious programming that we learned as children. If is full of things that we heard as toddlers, when we lacked the discrimination to judge each thing rightly, or righteously, as the Bible tells us.

Unconscious thinking is also filled with things that come not from clear-headed thought, but from emotion - from fears and hurts and misguided desires that we have not examined or cleared from our minds.

Remember what a radio sounds like when it's tuned off the station? It's full of hiss crackle and whistling noise. Imagine your life like that. That's what you get when you are reacting daily to bad news, noticing everything that's wrong, as if nothing was right.

Learning to do conscious programming of your mind is the most important thing you can do. As you begin the process of conscious re-programming, it will eventually over-write all that mistuning that you unconsciously do.