The Truth About Action
We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Human beings always act and feel and perform in accordance, as in a dance, with what they imagine to be true about themselves and their environment.
You cannot long escape or outperform that picture.
My default view is the box is in the corner of two walls and a floor. I have to relax enough to see the box has a smaller box removed from the top, bottom left corner.
You will always act and perform and experience appropriate results in accordance with what you imagine to be true about yourself and your environment.
Your nervous system cannot distinguish between an imagined experience and a “real” one. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you think, believe, or suspect to be true.
People are literally hypnotized by their self-imagining.
People virtually “sleepwalk” through their entire lives under unrecognized hypnotic suggestions.
It is good that we feel and act according to what we believe or imagine to be true. This does not mean the system itself is “bad”; it only requires learning to use the “system better.”
The brain and nervous system that react automatically to the environment are the same brains and nervous systems that tell us what the environment is. [Please remember is, because, and I are superstitions, myths.]
The terms thought, believed, and imagined are synonymous. In affecting your entire system, they are the same. We spend a lifetime building one or more terministic screens we can neither see nor know for the most part but determine what thought, belief, or imagining is available or even possible.
You act and feel not according to what things are really like, but according to your mind’s image of what they are like. You have specific mental pictures or thoughts of yourself, your world, and the people around you, and you behave as though these images or thoughts were the truth, the reality, rather than the things they represent. The map of reality we use keeps us lost or disabled if we fail to see where we are. The directions to Chicago are worthless if you are in Cleveland, but imagine you are in Miami.
If our ideas and mental images concerning ourselves are distorted or unrealistic, our reaction to our environment will likewise be inappropriate. [To the observers, not to us!] Besides, there is no such thing as unrealistic, nor is inappropriate anything but an ego talking.
How does one person rise out of such a background to become a highly successful entrepreneur? Through books he’s exposed to, people she sees on television, the influence of a mentor, and life experiences, one way or another, challenges what he believes to be true, discovering it is based on illusion and replacing that “truth” with another ‘truth’ until Truth is finally exposed.
What is True?
