In the first installment of my story, “Persistent Practice Produces Prolific Programming”, I said the world is okay, saying, nothing is wrong with the world. The world is perfect. I realize all the things we call problems regardless of category, even tragedies, deny the perfection – these so-called imperfections are based on perceptions of limitation. An instance of “free-will”: I am free to perceive anything as I choose. Simply, the world appears, as I perceive it to be.
Looking at my perceptions I noticed differences according my filter. My filter is my beliefs, and I formed beliefs through programming, from infancy. In recent years I realized I programmed my thinking – although I thought social institutions such as family, educational, political, religious, and governmental, etc., were my programmers. I bought into the ideas and beliefs they presented and made these my beliefs and attitudes. I used the human perspective to program my thinking, believing limits measured by the senses and analyzed with the intellect. For so many years, the human perspective guided my sense of reality.
I accept responsibility for programming my thinking. When I first became aware of being programmed to believe in certain ways I looked at institutions and people around me as the culprits. This includes being programmed to believe we live in an unsafe world. Yet, realizing the many programs I live by, I looked very closely at things I believed, even things since a small child, it is clear – I bought into so many beliefs and used them to program my thinking. I accept responsibility for programming my thinking and reclaim my power. I programmed my thinking, so only I can deprogram and reprogram my thinking and its outcomes.
I recall from my childhood my refusal to buy into numerous ideas; and no matter what the adults who exercised authority over me said or did I maintained my perspective. The consequences did not matter – I stuck with my belief. Some things I kept in the back of my mind and did not act on them until much later. Some adults and authorities called me a “rebel” and for a period I was an activist. However, I formed so much of my self-programming in the human perspective – using the senses and intellect to generate my beliefs – even in protest. Simply I programmed my mind in lower consciousness – the realm of limitation and negativity.
That I was willing to “go against” the status quo since a young child makes it clear that I wired my brain to go off in directions different from the crowd. So being willing now to reprogram my thinking in as many concepts from higher consciousness is just part of my trek. I am willing to use elevated emotions to create my atmosphere. This makes me open to seeing persons, places and things in brighter and brighter light. I am glad I made this decision – it makes this ongoing work easier and easier to carry out. And it is ever ongoing.
So I use sensational news reports about negative situations and hearing hundreds, even thousands talk about how awful things are as an automatic trigger alerting me to examine my beliefs about the world. I look for programming that had supported each belief I examined. I asked, “What ideas did I hear repeatedly? What ideas did I practice day in and day out until they were firmly entrenched in my attitudes and reactions to the world around me?” Through these questions I saw images I used to identify ideas and beliefs to counterbalance the earlier influences.
In years prior to doing this work of deprogramming and reprogramming I became familiar with the Hawkins strata on offsetting energy. I converted his concepts to energy, shaped energy into a lens of elevated emotion to offset the impact of negative programming. No longer viewing the world through negativity and limitations, I see perfection in the world.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. The world around us is filled with programming. It is easy, almost lazy, to let ourselves be programmed and then go along with the program for the rest of our lives. I recall being a rebel in my teens, unwilling to join high school cliques and stayed uncommitted to church and other influences bent on programming me. I enjoyed learning and was open to new things without prejudging them.
When I became paralyzed, I noticed that the programmed people were the first to abandon me because I didn't fit their ideal of what I should be anymore. It was a good lesson that I learned well. I remain optimistic even while there are serious problems that we, particularly the programmed consumers, are causing our world by unconscious behavior. Most of the great fears about danger everywhere is ridiculously overplayed and not true.
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