One benefit of thinking from the perspective of infinite possibilities is the ability to apply the power of consciousness in the face of adversity and problems. From the power of consciousness adversity is a vehicle for my personal use.

I start by recognizing adversity and problems as being among the possibilities of expression. In other words, when I see a situation that seems adversarial I am seeing one expression of that situation. From this perspective I realize adversity could be expressed in infinite variations – and the form I see is just one of many. Adversity is expressed through concepts. By examining the concept being expressed, I found I could discover the negative programming and negative beliefs that activated and supported it. Each time I became conscious of any particular set of negative programming and corresponding beliefs, I neutralized its power over my thoughts and feelings and I did not fall into a lower state. Individuals and groups express the concepts that represent adversity. Using the term adversity to represent a broad range of interpersonal conflicts, I am giving the example of criticism or efforts to discredit another to illustrate the power of consciousness. Before I reached my current level of understanding the power of consciousness, I had a hard time with criticism or being discredited. In those instances, I entered the survival mode and tried to protect my reputation or position with counterattack or was dismissive of the person I considered offensive. Yes, considered my critics as being offensive. After conditioning my thinking from the perspective of infinite possibilities, I found it very easy to give each person unconditional positive regard because I realized he or she was giving expression to concepts according to the way he/she had programmed his/her thinking. I began to view the world, humanity and myself as being subject to our programming. I used myself as my primary subject and examined the programming governing my thinking. I saw I was programmed from my earliest stages of being, and recognized I had bought into it in order to survive within the society, starting with the family unit I entered at infancy. Looking at methods used for my programming, I saw the role of parental discipline into the traditions and values of the family, the roles of the schools and churches as well as the government – all acting with the intent to program me into what they wanted me to be – even to program me into “my place”. I found that in any settings or institutions that carry out themes of superiority and inferiority especially, persons take it upon themselves to go to great lengths to program me into what they think I should be, what I should think and feel, even whose thinking I should regard as valuable. This comes off as criticism, belittling, vilification and ridicule. Remember I am my own subject and I am letting you know what I found. You might well find something different. With this said, I used the power of consciousness to reprogram my thinking, primarily to “no limits”. Simply this means wherever I see limits of any sort I program my thinking to go beyond those limits. Now this part is not new: from a young child I constantly took every opportunity to go beyond the limits. I gave expression to the possibilities of going beyond the limits, any limits. Facing criticism, I recognize the person as giving expression to the possibility of limitation. In such situation, I find it reasonable to believe the criticism represents the person’s programming and whatever I had expressed that triggered the criticism had posed a threat to certain comforts. The criticism is merely that person’s means for preserving his/her integrity and personal values. So I am not inclined to criticize the person for criticizing me. Nor would I try to get the person to take interest in what I do or say. This is how I programmed myself to respond.