The
Law of Perception Reveals Why most Self Help Courses are a Complete
Waste of Time...
Best
Selling Oregon author breaks the self help code
and explains
why happiness is way easier to attain than the "gurus" will ever lead
you to believe.
Lowell, Oregon: Ed
Osworth has had it with folks that tell you the secret to happiness is
a long drawn out complicated process. He used to believe that
himself. Not anymore.
What happened to make Ed change his mind? A little over 10 years ago Ed
experienced a series of personal failures ( business failure,
bankruptcy and divorce) followed by the deepest depression he had ever
seen. He gained a ton of weight. He became bitter and
resentful. And towards the end he became suicidal.
All this in spite of decades of reading books on positive philosophy,
empowerment, positive thinking,
and spending thousands of dollars on
self help courses and seminars.
Ed tried his best to decipher these esoteric and complicated courses
and make them work to create the goal he was really seeking.
That goal was personal happiness.
Unfortunately Ed found that
it would come in spurts but never really become the basic attitude that
he approached his life with.
At the absolute rock-bottom of his depression through an unexpected
source Ed was revealed a method of obtaining personal happiness that
was quick, straightforward and easy to understand.
In a period of a few short months and went from bitter and depressed to
joy and ecstasy using these simple methods. Amazed at their
effectiveness Ed begin teaching others the secrets of Unstoppable Joy!!
After years of teaching and refining this method Ed took all
of the basics and put them into his new book Unstoppable joy! A Happier You in
12 Simple Steps.
Ed decided that he desired to put the foundation of Unstoppable Joy! up
on the Internet so that everyone could see the root of this amazing
concept.
Ed's opinion is that until you master the concept of the Law
of Perception most of the rest of the effort you spend trying to
manifest wonderful things in your life is wasted.
To disseminate this information far and wide is the purpose of this
domain and without any further delay below you will find chapter 6 of
Unstoppable Joy! at happier you in 12 simple steps.
This chapter is called The Law Of Perception and is the basis
for the steps in Unstoppable Joy!
CHAPTER.
6 of Unstoppable Joy! A Happier You in 12 Simple Steps!
THE LAW OF
PERCEPTION
"We don`t
live in a world of reality, we live in a world of
perceptions." Gerald J. Simmons
By Ed Osworth - The Joy Professor
These days there's a lot of talk about the Law of Attraction. But the
most effective way to get what you want in your life has more to do
with the Law of Perception.
The Law of Perception is quite simple and is the basis for turning your
perspective around. It is also the basis my "Joy Technique," an
advanced training program to jump start folks into a life of complete
joy.
Here it is.
"Your
internal dialogs dictate what you will see and experience in your
outside reality"
Although the law itself is simple, its implications are staggering.
Out of all the thousands of things they teach you in school they don't
teach you very much about the voices that are going on in your mind and
how they are affecting everything you perceive.
Yet those voices are one of the most noticeable things in our lives.
Constantly jabbering away and commenting on and in
most cases criticizing—almost everything we see around us.
And I say voices because there's more than one. There is usually a loud
and critical voice in the foreground but there is also a gentler more
loving voice in the background.
Since time immemorial great writers have written about the conflict
between those two voices.
This battle is so much a part of being human that it is often
humorously depicted as an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the
other. Which isn't to say this is a question of religion but rather a
contrast between the original consciousness of you and the person you
became after years of programming
.
In the book Unstoppable Joy! you are going to learn how to identify
each of those voices and use that knowledge to your advantage.
Because once you can control those internal dialogs you will have far
more control over what you see and experience in your world.
Those voices both have significantly more power then you ever imagined.
By learning to control them you can mold your life into a new
shape if that is your desire.
Applying the truth of the Law of Perception and controlling those
internal dialogs can change the entire world you are seeing.
You have way more control over what you perceive then you realize.
The Law of Perception may seem so totally alien to your "reality" that
you are snickering right now
It certainly did to mine. Until I proved it works.
The Law of Perception is based on timeless truths that have been taught
by for thousands of years by wise men and women and enlightened Avatars.
It is also based on the latest scientific discoveries in quantum
physics.
Basically, what keeps us locked in a world of stress, strife, disease,
problems and confusion is our thinking patterns.
We have taught ourselves to believe everything we
see is "reality," and therefore is fixed and unchangeable.
If reality is fixed and unchangeable you can feel pretty hopeless. This
would mean your entire existence is just like a ping-pong ball being
bounced around by random events.
That sort of worldview can put you in a state of mind where you feel a
victim. And it's the way the vast majority of people see their life.
Thank goodness it really isn't the truth at all.
The reasons we have been programmed into this worldview are quite
complex. In a nutshell, we have been taught things are a certain way so
we can be controlled and manipulated.
But I hear you saying, "Science proves that reality is fixed and
unchangeable, right?"
Nope, actually many respected names in science believe just the
opposite. Our own individual reality is based more on what we
"perceive" is out there, rather than what is actually there.
Testing with PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scans and Functional
MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scans clearly demonstrate that the
same part of your brain lights up whether you're looking at something,
imagining something, or just remembering it.
This means that your thoughts have a huge influence on your perception
of the world.
So, as far as perception goes, we are not victims at all: just the
opposite.
We control what we perceive. The external influences do not control
what we perceive.
Consider this: at any one moment in time you are surrounded by
approximately four million sensory inputs that you can choose to focus
on. Yep, believe it or not, that is what science has measured.
Seem like an exaggeration?
Look around. You can choose from every 1/10 inch of your
desk, every pencil, every piece of shag on your carpet. Pull out a
magnifier and you can multiply the choices even farther. Thousands of
sights, smells, sounds, and sensations that can be interpreted as warm,
cold, soft, sharp, bright, dull, near, far, and the list goes on and
on.. .ad infinitum.
Here is the kicker. We got 4,000,000 to choose from but, surprise,
science has shown the brain can only experience 2,000 at a time!
So what about the other 3,998,000?
Well, we choose not to let those in through our filters.
And what are those filters? They are your belief systems!
See where I am going here?
We filter out the vast majority of the sensory data that surrounds us.
And because each of us filters out different stuff, it stands to reason
that each individual person's reality is not exactly the same.
So the secret to existing in joy has a whole lot to do with deciding
which of those filters you are going to use to sort out the vast
amounts of sensory data around you.
Simple example. You are driving down the highway. There is a car up
ahead on the right, pulled over by a police officer. On the left, there
is a gorgeous sunset over a beautiful pond full of geese.
Which do you choose as you drive by? Where do you look: the beauty or
the stress? It is always your choice. The guy who is pulled over has no
more or less to do with your life than the beautiful sight.
Another simple example...
You are in line in a store. There are some magazines in the rack in
front of you and you scan the headlines. At the front of the line are
an extremely slow checker and a customer who has forgotten her
checkbook. Do you relax and pick up a magazine; or do you get irritated
and impatient with
the situation?
It is always your choice.
Your day is full of literally thousands of small decisions that are
equivalent to those examples.
Thousands of times you can choose the beauty of the moment or the
stress you create by wishing things were different.
A big part of grounding oneself in joy is realizing this simple,
obvious fact and using it to your advantage by training your mind to
choose the beauty.
I don't want you to take my word for it. No, not at all.
You will learn the one of the greatest lessons possible by proving it
yourself —not through another's second hand experience.
That lesson is basically this: The images and internal dialogs in your
mind are major controlling factors in your perception of reality.
All of our lives we have been told that what you can see with your own
eyes is reality.
What I didn't get to discover until I was nearly 50 was that we get to
control what we see.
Once we master how to control what we see (in other words what we let
through our filtration system) we can literally change the world around
us (our reality) and exist in a state of joy.
Those images and internal dialogs are literally creating the reality
you are experiencing this very moment. Change those dialogs and you
will change your world.
You will learn this empowering truth by tasting the delicious fruits of
joy for yourself.
Your own experience will show you how unbelievably important and
powerful those images and internal dialogs are. Then you will know how
powerful your mind is.
Once you discover this, you will realize how much of your mind's power
you were inadvertently using to shoot yourself in the foot. You will
recognize thoughts that do not serve your best interests when they start
You will learn how to control what your mind sees, says and
does in such a way as to be able to use your mind to consistently
receive what you really desire.
Soon each day will reflect a continuous feedback loop of joyful
existence.
And why? Because you simply made the decision to take charge of your
point of view by using the Law of Perception.
That is how simple the Unstoppable Joy! way is. Fast. Easy. Fun.
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