The Real You

It is generally accepted that 95% of the human population incline towards negative thoughts and attitudes. This correlates with statistics that show only 5% of the population ever become successful and financially independent. But why?

I am convinced beyond doubt we are all, as part of our birthright, infinitely more positive than negative. But for many of us, the “real you” is much like a house built from bricks that has been painted over with black or gloomy gray paint. In volume, there are hundreds of thousands of times more brick than paint, yet the paint entirely covers and obscures the bricks, which could just as easily have been bright and cheerful.

Why do the vast majority of us live our lives focusing on doom and gloom? Why do so many of us find it easier to deny our birthright to a life filled with everything we could possibly wish for and focus instead on building a lifetime of mediocrity, misery and failure?

The answer, probably, is because most of us seem to be irresistibly drawn towards negative thoughts of hardship and lack, with the same deadly fascination a flame has for a moth. We know negative thoughts are not good for us, but we allow ourselves to brood over them because that seems to be much easier than making the conscious effort to pull our thoughts away from them.

Can you remember any time as a kid, when you may have lost a tooth? You still had a mouthful of good teeth, yet your tongue kept finding the gap – continually worrying over the one spot in your mouth that was empty.

Here is a little experiment for you to try.
Take a clean sheet of white paper one Meter Square. Using a black pen draw a tiny black square, one millimeter square, right in the center of the sheet.

Now step back and stare at the sheet trying not to look at the black spot. It’s fascinating. In spite of the fact that the white area of the sheet is 1,000,000 times larger than the black area, your eye will be constantly drawn back to the black spot.

Even if you focus elsewhere on the sheet, as soon as you forget and relax your concentration, your eye will be pulled back to the black spot. You will keep seeing it out of the corner of your eye. It requires a huge conscious effort of will to pull your eye away from that negative space and keep it focused exclusively on the white area.

However, if you will take a one millimeter square of white paper and place it over the black square, replacing the dark center with a light center, suddenly your eye will again be able to focus on the entire sheet of whiteness with no effort at all.

All it took was to examine and analyze the dark square in the center and replace it with its exact opposite.
It’s awesome.

What keeps you awake at night? What are your worst-case scenarios? Your “dark squares in the center” of your soul that you are continuously focusing and fixating on?

If you will examine them and replace them with their exact opposites, transforming thoughts of what you dread most into thoughts of what you would cherish as your most ideal, magical, desirable best-case scenarios, so your entire world can change.

You can choose to limit or liberate the Real You. To be either negative or positive. To obsess on the dark or replace it with the light.

The former leads you to gloom, sleeplessness, poor health and disappointment. The latter to health, tranquility, wealth and happiness.
Which one do you choose?