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Following are two excerpts from the new book Don’t think of an elephant!: Identities: our alter egos and How to realise your dreams.

Some fundamental questions
Who am I? This is a question often pondered, but the infinitely more important question, What am I? is seldom asked. The answer to the latter is that you are a unit of human energy, the significance of which lies within the realms of science, particularly magnetism and electronics. Energy—including human energy—is indestructible, and therefore so are you, and if you are indestructible, you are also immortal. So the answer to the question What am I? is simply: You are an indestructible, immortal unit of energy with infinite potential.

But what about the question of Who am I? The answer to this is that you are a composite, the real you, plus all the parts you play in life, all your numerous alter egos. The real You belongs in the high aesthetic zone where happiness, integrity, enthusiasm, serenity and a sense of well being are inherently normal. Operating here a person enjoys the good things in life and their dreams always materialise.
Any aspect of life other than these natural attributes stem from negative identities, which are best likened to masks, the masks that hide the real you, the masks you unknowingly wear while acting on the stage of life.

How to realise your dreams
Before discussing the purpose for the writing of this chapter, I want to digress into a more mundane or down to earth aspect of being successful in order to give a more balanced view.

Probably everyone knows someone or at least knows of someone who always seems to get whatever he or she put their mind to. What ever they aim for seems to materialise. Sometimes they do not even appear to have had to work very hard to achieve it. A good example is of people who start a business that just seems to flourish.

The other side of the coin is the case of others starting the same type of business but finding themselves in bankruptcy, or at best, just walking away from their endeavour to look for employment.

There are of course such things as natural business acumen, and that is extremely important, but the words themselves are a big generality. Large prosperous organisations are operating in the field of how to be successful in business and many books have been written on the subject, so I will only discuss what is probably the basis of “Business Acumen.”

Any business, be it a large international conglomerate or the smallest one–man show, operates in three basic areas, Selling, Producing and Administration. They must be financed and operated in that order. No matter how many branches and subdivisions are created in large organisations, they all come under the umbrella of one of the above three categories.

The most important of these is selling, followed by Producing, with Administration a poor third. You are heading for disaster if you invest heavily in Administration before you produce anything, never mind having sold anything. The biggest and showiest office with new furniture and equipment is the last thing you start with. As for production you should only produce enough to demonstrate your abilities. The primary requirement is customers, which entails selling.

The great majority of new businesses that fail, and most small businesses do fail, do so because they break this fundamental and natural law.

Dick Smith the Australian businessman is a classic example of applying this natural law. On his web page, he almost offhandedly describes how he started out his food enterprise. It follows the above criteria to the letter. He was already a wealthy man and could have started out with a grand office complete with all the trimmings, but he did not, he did the opposite and before even that he obviously did his research. It is no stroke of luck that he is a wealthy and successful businessman. A second hand desk is just as serviceable as a new one!

The nature of success
I mention the above to let it be known that I am aware of the practical side of success, but although it is important, there is more to becoming successful than acumen, for the word acumen does not always provide all the answers, nor does luck. In my opinion there is no such thing as good luck. So–called “Good luck” is being at the right place, at the right time, meeting the right people and making the right decisions. All of this depends entirely upon you.

Acumen and so called good luck, is only a part of the scenario and is not what I started out to discuss, but it had to be discussed to obviate it being raised as an argument against what I am about to put forward. I will therefore get back on track. Spiritual beings are omnipotent, all–powerful. That great mathematician and scientist, Einstein, is credited with stating that as a general rule, we only use 10% of our abilities. Well I disagree, for we use all our abilities and energy, but most of it is used to shoot ourselves in the foot!

On the battlefield, a company of ten men, lead by an intrepid and powerful leader will be heading for disaster if they attack a powerful and well–prepared army group of ten thousand enemies. This may seem a ridiculous example, but it is not, for this is the equivalent degree of opposition which most mortals experience every day and why there are more poor people than rich people. What is very important about the opposition is that it invariably resides within us. We are our own worst enemies.

Affirmations
Anything a being decides to do or to have will materialise unless there is overwhelming opposition. In the book Don’t Think of an Elephant! there is reference to Affirmations, which are used to turn some negative aspect of life into a positive aspect. For example, if a person is unhappy they have to keep affirming that they are happy. What this indicates is that buried in the person’s psyche is this unknown source of the unhappiness, which the affirmation is attempting to over–ride.

This universe and each and every one of us are a complex mixture of positives and negatives. Electricity is a classic example of the existence of both positive and negative terminals, in fact it is this factor, which is used to generate and utilise electricity. It is the existence of the negatives within us that cause so many of our dreams to not materialise. When we wish for something, we are saying, “I would like that.” Rather than saying, “I am going to have that!” A vast difference in attitude is indicated by those two sayings and the underlying negatives and their various strengths creates the difference.

I want to introduce a concept here and it is this: Real strength and success comes from certainty but weakness and failure comes from uncertainty. Uncertainty is usually followed by effort and that is a sure sign that there is a prior negative or counter intention in existence. It goes like this; Dream—decision—counter decision triggered—effort—effort—effort… Once effort has been introduced the chances of the dream materialising is problematical. The natural state of things for a powerful spiritual being is, Dream—decision—dream materialising as reality.

The very fact that “effort” has to be used indicates with absolute certainty that a negative or counter intention is already in place. It is very subtle, but as soon as a person makes a positive decision, negative decisions gets triggered if they exist. The negative decision must have been in place before the positive decision was made, if efforting takes place.

Decisions that are made with absolute certainty will materialise, but the trick is for them to be made with absolute certainty—without a counter decision being introduced.

The supremely optimistic individual is the one whose wishes materialise, but so too do the negative thoughts of the pessimist. Pessimism and optimism can be fleeting or permanent states of mind and their effects are felt accordingly. What has become obvious is that the earlier decision, the first decision, is the one that takes precedent, so this has to be located and dis–created. Positive or pro survival decisions are normal and natural, so it is only the negative decisions, which need searching out.

Two personal examples
Here are two examples from my own life, but I could relate many more.

Quite some years ago I applied for a position, which I really wanted and I had a lot of attention on my application being successful – I was efforting. At the same time I developed a body complaint, which had me really worried and pessimistic about my long–term health. The doctor I visited organised a battery of tests, after which, with a smile on his face he informed me that I had absolutely nothing to worry about in the long term. There was nothing physically wrong.

This doctor was a fascinating guy, unfortunately now dead, for after telling me that there was no physical reason for my bodily pains, he told me to lie down on his table. He then proceeded to use a kind of “laying on of the hands” which I now realise is very reminiscent of the Chinese healing art of GI–gong. What he did was to put my attention on various areas of my body, which as a result of his method saw their associated negative energy ridges dissipate. I would love to be able to tell him of my own work in this area, but apart from that, very quickly two things happened; firstly there was a gradual lessening of bodily discomfort, but secondly and importantly I found myself exterior to my body, enjoying the bliss often accompanied by this state. Then literally out of nowhere, I found myself thinking quite calmly and matter–of–factly, “I am going to get that job.”

Next day the phone rang and a company director making the call apologised for the delay in responding to me after my interview and offered me the position. Before any reader starts thinking it, it was not a coincidence. I do not believe in coincidences.

Please do not read into this that the practice of Gi–Gong will cause a person to be exterior from their body—I make no such claim. What happened to me was a combination of various circumstances, which is not the import of what I relate and being out of my body is not an unusual circumstance for me. So much for positive decisions!

Desire for knowledge
Years before that happy event I was going through what can only be described as a personal domestic crisis. I wanted to expand my skills as a counsellor, so enrolled on a course to do so, but among other things, the money and time involved only exacerbated the personal issues. In a moment of utter despair, in a vain attempt to resolve my problems I gave in and ceased my training. The issues did not resolve so I started a new life, but even so, two years later, my desire for more knowledge by way of more training had not materialised. Something always seemed to get in the road to stop me; I needed a holiday! I will start after Xmas! There was always a good reason to justify my attitude. I even got around to starting once, but did not continue! There was even a good reason of course as to why I did not continue!

To perhaps put my attitude into proper perspective and explain why my procrastination was so foreign to me, I should add here that the pursuit of knowledge has been of paramount importance to me all my life. As for procrastination, my present wife says, “You always want it yesterday!” Then something remarkable happened. I met a supervisor from my original course who after expressing surprise at my failure to continue said, “When you said you had decided not to continue I thought it was only a temporary thing. I did not dream it was meant permanently.”

I looked at her in amazement and then I was overcome with grief as the circumstances of my ill–fated decision came back to me. I recalled saying to a confidant in a moment of utter despair; “ I will not train any more!” That decision had been buried in my psyche where it had been completely forgotten since making it, but it had been sitting there like a hypnotic command, which I was powerless to overcome.

Having exposed the negative decision I was now free of it and I have never stopped expanding my skills and researching since that moment, but cannot help but wonder what direction my life would have taken had it not been for that chance meeting. I certainly would not be writing this, nor would I have written my book, but then again, I do not believe in coincidences!

When I said, “I will not train anymore” it was said from despair and apathy with no thought as to the possibility of circumstances changing. In other words, nothing was even considered to qualify the decision, let alone counter it.

The same applies to the incident about the position I got; while in my doctor friend’s rooms, there was not the slightest hint of doubt about me getting it. Negative thoughts were conspicuous by their absence.

Negative identities
What these two incidents have told me, in as equally as strong terms as many other similar but positive incidents have done, is that there are two circumstances when decisions will always eventuate. They will eventuate if made when a person is very down or when a person is very high. The trouble is when a person is down, the decisions are always negative, non–survival, although exactly the opposite when the person is high.

To be realistic about this data it needs to be accepted that the above two states are the exception rather than the rule, but do serve to explain the mechanics of success or failure in life, and the struggle or ease with which we achieve our goals.

The only thing impeding a person’s dreams and aspirations are negative identities. The less negatives that a person has buried away, the greater their chance of success and happiness in life—the greater their chance of living their dreams.

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