Personal Development – Lesson Five

 Our perceptions of reality are in equal proportion to our perceptual acuity

This week’s lesson builds upon lessons one and three. It also seeks to impress just how important it is to more fully realize that thoughts are not only at the center of our creative universe but that the quality of our thoughts literally determines every aspect of our lives.

In lessons one and three, we are learning to build clearer mental images and mental videos that help us define what the best version of us looks like. Since we are beginning to understand our mind is truly at the center of our personal creative universe this means we can build and control virtually every automated self-supportive behavior and the automated responses we want in our lives. This leads us to self-empowerment and self-regulation.

It’s one thing to be self-empowered. However, self-empowerment with self-regulation leads us to expansion and elevation of consciousness and enlightenment. This is a state of being where we agree to be fully accountable and responsible for our thoughts, words, actions and subconscious automated behaviors.

Paraphrased in the previous lesson “If we do not learn to control ourselves, create our own desired future behaviors and responses based on more accurate perceptions of reality, we will be controlled by others to the degree we automate their beliefs, ideologies and associated behavioral responses as our own.”

A child that is raised to honor and revere ideological warfare as something adults do because it lacks the mental capacity to comprehend the reasons why it’s necessary, will most likely automate the behaviors experienced and observed in various forms as an adult. There is a high probability the child will grow up mimicking and modeling this ideology and associated behaviors and responses not fully understanding why it feels compelled to do so.

This means that mankind has genetic subconscious vulnerabilities that can be accessed and manipulated by others through repetitious exposure to high levels of emotional influence. The rampant abuse of these subconscious vulnerabilities by elite minded individuals and groups has led to every conflict and war humanity has experienced. Look at local, national and world news over the past year. How many instances can you count where high levels of negative emotions were used for weeks, months, or years in order to sway people to support one issue or another. Political and religious ideologies exploit these vulnerabilities constantly to influence its citizens and members. Businesses and organizations exploit these vulnerabilities to promote products, services, and various causes through what appears to be never-ending commercial advertisements and news outlets in TV, movies, radio, internet, and printed media.

Everyone, including you, is vulnerable to having your subconscious mind unknowingly and unfairly programmed by those repetitiously expressing high levels of emotions who want you to accept their message and act upon it. Their motive is to express, expand, and perpetuate the same controlling beliefs and ideology they were programmed to express and model. However, for the child, consistent exposure to high emotional levels of propaganda from the parents, community, and social leaders of the ideology bypasses what little reasoning and logic it has. This causes the child’s mind to adopt and create similar justifications for dysfunctional ideological behaviors necessary in order to protect, expand, and perpetuate it.

Over time and enough exposure, the child, now an adult joins the ranks of the ideology. The adult is encouraged to marry within its ideological social structure to have children where it can begin exposing them to similar consistent justifications for dysfunctional ideological behaviors using high levels of emotions.

This means until we make the desired changes to create the best possible version of us we are still subject and submissive to the remaining dysfunctional automated responses we acquired from our past. In fact, it’s worse than that. The truth is we are temporarily bound by the generational subconscious programming of others before us who unwittingly influenced everyone we are connected to back to the first human subconscious that automated the specific behaviors we share today. Whether it was in this life or thousands of years ago. The dysfunctional programmed behaviors were just as controlling, manipulative, self-limiting, sabotaging, and self-destructive then as they are now. However, the great news is they only exist as long as we allow them to.

Please read these paragraphs again and allow it to sink in. At this moment in time humanity is developing to the state it can recognize the interconnected chain of events from its past. Mankind is more than capable of evolving beyond the controlling generational dysfunctional subconscious programming that has clouded its reasoning and judgment related to the social adversarial model it has been enveloped by. It’s time to realize we now have a choice of whether or not to perpetuate this burden of darkness on future generations.

This lesson has one exercise. Spend 30 minutes to an hour a day for 5 days listening, watching, or reading current news events on radio, TV, Internet or print media.

You will need a notebook and a pen or pencil for this exercise.

The first objective is to count and list all news media events that use high levels of negative emotions (anger, bullying, fear, embarrassment, humiliation, intimidation, etc…) to express their message? Then place an X by those that caused you to feel a negative emotional response.

The next objective is to count and list all products and services commercials that use high levels of negative emotions (anger, bullying, fear, embarrassment, humiliation, intimidation, etc…) to express their message? Then place an X by those that caused you to feel a negative emotional response.

Total the amounts of each category viewed over 5 days. Times this by the number of hours you are exposed to negative media influence per day. Now times that number by 52 weeks a year. Finally, times that number by 10 years. 

You will discover you are being bombarded with so many negative emotions messages, agendas, beliefs, ideologies, and dysfunctional influences that its part of what is preventing you from being able to focus your attention on visualizing a better version of you in your mind. When you see the options of not allowing all those negative influences to impact your life you will begin to filter the majority of it out by turning it off. Change the channel to something inspiring and uplifting. Take up a new hobby, learn some new useful skills, get with family and friends and play friendly games, or participate more in your community and share your positive attitude and outlook with others who probably need that influence in their lives.

Mental clarity begins in quiet spaces. This is where meditation and uplifting visualizations can be an important and healthy part of your daily routine.

This course is a stepping stone for those who are ready to evolve past the social adversarial trappings of pettiness, selfishness, and greed that has led to every form of human poverty throughout history. Human evolution begins with the thoughts of what’s possible and achievable. Then when consistent and persistent daily action is applied to incrementally reach the goals we set, we soon realize we have surpassed our initial goals and set new ones.