In order for us to consistently feel a certain way, we develop a characteristic pattern of thinking, focusing on the same images and ideas, asking ourselves the same questions.
The challenge is that most people want a new result, but continue to act in the same way. I once heard said that the definition of insanity is "doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result."
The resources you need to change anything in your life are within you right now. It's just that you have a set of neuro-associations that habituallly cause you to not fully utilize your capability. What you must do is reorganize your neural pathways so that they consistently guide you in the direction of your desires rather than your frustrations and fears.
To get new results in our lives, we can't just know what we want and get leverage on ourselves. We can be highly motivated to change, but if we keep doing the same things, running the same inappropriate patterns, our lives are not going to change, and all we'll experience is more and more pain and frustration.
Have you ever seen a fly that's trapped in a room? It immediately searches for the light, so it heads for the window, smacking itself against the glass again and again, sometimes for hours. Have you ever noticed people do this? They're highly motivated to change, they have intense leverage. But all the motivation in the world won't help if you try to get outside through a closed window. You've got to change your approach. The fly stands a chance only if it backs off and looks around for another exit.
If you try and run the same old pattern, we're going to get the same old results. Just interrupting someone's limiting pattern of behaviour or emotion can completely change their life because sometimes it also creates leverage, and with these two steps alone, you can change virtually anything....
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