There is a secret that lies in plain sight, for all to see. Yet it remains
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The Greatest Secret Summary Rhonda Byrne
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particular. You should feel an immediate sense of relief and relaxation since you’re no longer expending energy to maintain directed focus. By practicing staying as Awareness, your mind will continue to become quieter and quieter. Difficult tasks will feel easier, more effortless. You’ll feel calmer and become much better at weathering storms of negative emotion. After all, nothing can disturb Awareness. At the moment, however, your mind is probably still running the show. Its power rests in your continuing belief that negativity comes from somewhere outside of you. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t. Did you know that you have a computer program inside of your head? Yep, that’s right! It’s called your mind, and you probably still give it far more authority over your life than it deserves. Your conscious mind – your thinking mind – accepts everything it sees. All of that material ultimately gets stored in your subconscious, which acts like a container for all of your experiences. The subconscious recycles that material and turns it into beliefs, which may be true or untrue. Those beliefs then get converted into thoughts, which are just programs that run in your head on a loop. And far too often, these thoughts are limiting thoughts – things like I don’t have enough money or That person doesn’t approve of me. Most people operate under the false assumption that negative situations exist somewhere “out there” in the world. But, in actuality, all negativity comes from your thoughts about those situations. As Shakespeare once wrote: “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” This process is a vicious cycle. If you have a negative feeling, it will be translated into a negative thought about that feeling. Your negative thoughts will cause you to have even more negative feelings. Soon enough, you’ll be looking at your entire life through a veil of sadness that blinds you to reality. Not only that, but your negative thoughts will also manifest negative situations in your life. The more negative thoughts you have, the more you’ll attract negativity in general. If you let your mind continue to tell you that you lack money, time, or love, then you will come to lack those things. Like thoughts, negative feelings limit you unnecessarily. And you have a lot of them, saved up from the time you were a child, when you first learned how to suppress your feelings rather than express them immediately. As an adult, all of the bad feelings you’ve experienced are still within you. They’re trapped within the subconscious, where their negative energy can wreak havoc on your health. If you don’t feel happy right now, it means there’s some negative feeling preventing you from experiencing the happiness that is your true nature. Fortunately, you can overcome all negativity – forever! – just by using the power of Awareness. When you feel good, it seems like you’re on top of the world. Your energy is limitless, and yet, miraculously, you’re also relaxed! This good feeling is your true nature because Awareness is your true nature, and positivity flows from Awareness. Negative feelings, on the other hand, stem from resistance to a situation or event. When something happens and you react negatively with the word “No! I don’t want this!” – it creates tension and resistance in your body and mind. This causes the negative feelings to stick around even longer. Positive feelings are effortless, while negative feelings require lots of energy to maintain. The good news is, there are a few ways of dropping this resistance and no longer wasting your energy on negativity. Next time you experience a negative feeling, be very aware of it. Let it flow through you; don’t resist it. You’ll find that when you stop resisting your negative feelings, they simply drop away and disappear. You can also try the practice of welcoming, which can be a powerful way to rid yourself of negative feelings both past and present. To do it, just open your attention to your negative emotions. You can even physically open your arms out to the sides, as if you’re about to embrace a loved one. You’ll feel your heart start to open, and the tension in your body will begin to melt away. The author once used welcoming to overcome the painful emotions connected to a childhood memory. Amazingly, she now no longer remembers what that childhood experience was! By releasing the negative energy associated with the memory, she was able to banish the memory entirely. So that’s how to take care of negative feelings. But what about the negative thoughts that often cause negative feelings in the first place? You can get rid of those, too, simply by becoming aware of your thoughts. This will cause you to stop believing in them automatically. Observe your thoughts carefully. Acknowledge that they’re coming from your mind; they’re not really you. From this detached perspective, you’ll be able to make a choice – to either believe each thought or not. Instead of letting your thoughts run the show, be the Awareness that is aware of your thoughts. Just through this one simple practice, your mind will begin to manifest positivity in your life. Beliefs are very similar to thoughts. Actually, beliefs are just thoughts that you’ve had so often that you now consider them facts. Consider the thought: The only way to make more money is by working longer hours. The first time you hear this sentence, it comes from someone else. Then, you start repeating it yourself. Before long, you’ve accepted it as fact. And then you start seeing evidence of it everywhere. But this belief is not objectively true. It is simply creating the experience you’re having. Your belief actually prevents you from having experiences that contradict it! In this example, your belief has made it impossible for you to receive cash windfalls from any other sources. We’ve simply got to eliminate limiting and disempowering beliefs like this one. The process starts with becoming deeply aware of all the beliefs that you hold. To dissolve your beliefs, you need to become consciously aware of them. Now, it’s not always immediately obvious which of your beliefs are beliefs. So give your subconscious mind an instruction. Tell it: “Show me all of my beliefs, one by one, so I can become aware of them.” Then, stay very aware as your beliefs are revealed to you. Be on the lookout for statements beginning with “I think,” “I don’t think,” “I believe,” or “I don’t believe.” What follows is usually one of your beliefs. Another way to spot your beliefs is by becoming aware of your reactions. Reactions are just beliefs in a different form. For instance, let’s say that you’ve just received your monthly electric bill. It’s a lot higher than you expected, so you react negatively – perhaps with anger or sadness. That reaction might stem directly from the belief that you were overcharged, or that you don’t have enough money. When you spot a belief or notice a certain reaction of yours, just become aware of it. By doing so, you’ll completely take the power out of it. Once you accept that each of your beliefs is just a story you’ve told yourself, they’ll all dissolve – along with the thousands of limiting thoughts that your subconscious mind has attached to them. As you use your Awareness to dissolve your beliefs, you will actually feel your body becoming lighter and less burdened. Whatever you want, you’ll have – no more limits. The world is often a turbulent, violent place. Wars rage, people go hungry, and poverty causes desperation. Yet mystics and sages proclaim that all is well. How can they possibly think that when there’s so much bad? It’s because they know a truth that’s difficult for most people to grasp: everything is an illusion. Sure, it seems like everything exists in definite, concrete forms. But the key word is seems. In fact, science tells us that the world is really quite different from how we perceive it. When we hear sounds, we’re really just hearing vibrations converted into sounds by our brains. And quantum physics tells us that when we leave the room we’re sitting in, everything in it returns to a mere wave of probability. Science can cut through much of this illusion, giving us a better understanding of objective reality. But it relies on the world being material and separate from us – which means it will never be able to answer two big questions: “What is the universe made of?” and “Where does consciousness come from?” Scientists might not know the answers to these questions. But the sages do. To them, it’s quite simple. The universe is finite – we know this because it began with a big bang, and it will end at some point in the future. However, since the universe is finite, that means it must have come from something infinite. And that infinite substance, according to the sages, is Consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come from anywhere. It simply is. It’s both within us and all around us. And guess what? You yourself are this infinite Consciousness of which the universe is made! Your life is just like a movie, with everything you see projected onto the vast screen of Consciousness. Imagine looking up at the seemingly endless expanse of stars on a clear night. It sure seems like it’s outside of you. But the image you see is a result of light Download 372.03 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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