Ask For What You Want – A Positive Mind Set For Positive Results
Its surprising how much people ask for what they dont want rather than what they do want. Its seems counterintuitive, but its the way we are. Most of us dont even realize that were doing it.
To explain what I mean, consider the way your mind works. When you see or hear something, your mind deals with images, pictures in your mind. You are able to think about something even if you dont know the word for it (You know, the little round things on the bottom of fishing poles.) Your mind thinks in images.
Even when we read something, we dont think of the written words in our mind. We translate those words into images.
Words like no and not dont change the images theyre associated with. Telling someone else (or yourself) to not do something creates the image of what you dont want in your mind as well as theirs. How could it be otherwise?
This point is important because we tend to move toward what we think about. We hear about athletes who clearly imagine a perfect performance to help them achieve it. The same applies to everyday life. We may not actively choose our thoughts, but...