http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:55:47 -0800 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:56:02 -0800 iBlog 1.4.6 Daily Lesson This blog has a collection of daily lessons, which hopefully shape our life in better ways Daily Lesson Arts & Entertainment http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070307080139/index.html Just what are beliefs? They are the conscious and unconscious information that we have accepted as true which fill out structure and form the basis for our behavior patterns and ethics. Our beliefs imprison us and deny us access to what is real. A filter of misconceptions prohibits truth's passage and we see only what we want, and reject everything else.

Truth can never be revealed to the so-called "firm believer." You know the type: always quoting "facts." He does not want to recognize anything outside of his beliefs and see everything with which he disagrees as a threat. He goes through life labeling all that is new, different, and enlightening as "evil" or, at least "unacceptable," and all that is old, traditional and suppressing as "good." He cannot understand that Truth - no matter how painful - is always, by its very nature, "good," and that a lie - regardless of how much we are in love with it - is always, by its very nature, "bad."

To protect his beliefs, he builds a wall around his world. Some "firm believers" have a big wall and some a small one but, regardless of the size of the structure, it can only serve to shut out more of the Truth than it can hold.

The person who is a "firm believer" has no option to change his mind. This makes him ignorant. He can only recognize what lies within the walls he has built around himself and is prevented from exploring the limitless Truth that lies outside the wall. What he fails to realize is that Truth is always greater than any structure built to contain it.

Belief and faith are not the same thing and should not be confused. Unlike belief, faith is not totally limiting. It recognizes there is much to discover and know, and that one must always seek to unfold more and more of the Truth. WIth faith, all things are possible. The "firm believer" always things the knows the answer. The person with faith, aware that he knows very little, constantly seeks enlightenment. ]]> Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:01:39 -0800 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070307080139/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070226185328/index.html Every person has been hypnotized to some degree either by ideas he has acepted from others or ideas he has convinced himself are true. These ideas have exactly the same effect upon his behavior as those implanted into the mind of a hypnotic subject by a professional hypnotist. In my lecture work, I have hypnotized hundreds of people to demonstrate the power of suggestion and imagination. To best illustrate my point, let me explain what happens when a person is hypnotized.

Under hypnosis, I tell a normal, healthy woman who weighs 120 pounds that she cannot lift a pencil which is placed on a table. And, surprisingly, she finds herself unable to perform this simple act. It is not a question of her not trying to lift the pencil. She'll struggle and strain, much to the audience's amusement, but she simply cannot lift the pencil. On the one hand, she is trying to perform the action through voluntary effort and the use of her body muscles but, on the other, the suggestion that "you cannot lift the pencil" causes her mind to believe that it is impossible. Here we find a physical force being neutralized by a mental force. It is a case of willpower versus imagination. When this happens, imagination always wins out.

Many people think they can change their lives through sheer willpower. This is not true. Negative ideas in the imagination cause such persons to defeat themselves. Regardless of how hard they try, it's no use. They have accepted a false belief as if it were a fact. All their ability, good intentions, effort and willpower are of no avail against the powerful false belief they have accepted as truth.

In the same manner, I quickly prove that there is no limit to what a person can or cannot do when he or she is hypnotized because the power of imagination is limitless. To observers, I appear to have magical power to make her able and willing to do things she could not or would not ordinarily do. The truth is, of course, that the power is inherent in the subject. Without realizing it, my subject hypnotized herself into believing that she could or could not do these things. No one can be involuntarily hypnotized as each person collaborates in the hypnotizing process. The professional hypnotist is only a guide who helps the subject accelerate the phenomenon.

I have introduced this simple demonstration of hypnosis to illustrate a psychological principle, which can be of great value to you. This same principle is becoming increasingly evident in the modern educational process where the student, in effect, actually educates himself with the skilled assistance of the teacher. And, even more dramatically, in the healing arts where the patient heals his own body under the professional guidance of a qualified physician or practitioner.

Once a person believes that something is true, whether or not it is, he then acts as if it were. He will instinctively seek to collect facts to support the belief no matter how false it may be. No one will be able to convince him otherwise unless, through personal experience or study, he is ready to change. Hence, it is easy to see that, if one accepts something which is not true, all subsequent actions and reactions will be based upon a false belief.

This is not a new idea. Since the beginning of time, both men and women have been in a kind of hypnotic sleep of which they were unaware but which has been recognized by great teachers and thinkers throughout the centuries. These people have perceived that humankind limits itself through its "mistaken certainties" and have sought to awaken us to our potential for greatness, which goes far beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

It is, therefore, of utmost importance that you not assume you are awake to the truth yourself. Said another way, you must not assume that what you now hold as truth is, in fact, really the Truth. Instead, you must proceed with the idea that you are presently hypnotized by false beliefs, concepts and values that are keeping you from being totally self-confident. It may be astutely observed at this point that you and I are primarily the result of what we have been told and taught; what we have been sold and bought.

The average person never comes near reaching his unlimited potential because he is living under the false assumption that he already knows the truth. He believe what his parents have told him, what his teachers have taught him, what he has read, and what his religion preaches WITHOUT ACTUALLY PROVING ANYTHING FOR HIMSELF. Millions upon millions of people have blindly followed the rhetoric of so-called "knowledgeable people" without making sure that the principles these "experts" expound stand up to the realities of life. They further limit themselves by holding onto these concepts, values and beliefs even after they have actually evolved beyond them. Fortunately, something or someone has triggered interest in higher horizons which includes the discovery and development of a totally self-confident personality.

Your first job is to awaken from the hypnotic condition that is presently keeping you from being the person you want to be. Read the following statement and MARK IT WELL.

The degree to which you awaken will be in direct proportion to the amount of truth you can accept about yourself.

Now read it again! This is the key which determines how much you will be able to change your life. In the words of the Master Teacher, "Know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free."

Many of the concepts presented in this book will be in direct opposition to what you now hold as the Truth. Some may even seem "way out" or illogical. These will so challenge your view points that you will either read them and say, "This is worth experimenting with, " or you will flatly refuse to accept them. This brings us back to what we said earlier: your life will be transformed in direct relation to the amount of truth you can accept about yourself. No better advice was ever given us than, "With all thy getting, get understanding."

If you are sincere about changing your life for the better, you must have an open mind. You must learn to understand what is being said without the necessity of believing it. I neither want nor expect you to accept as true anything you read in this book, just because I say it's true. If you do, you will gain little from the material. You must try out the principles for yourself. The inner conviction and security, which comes from having proved to your own satisfaction that what is presented as the Truth is indeed really the Truth, is the foundation upon which to begin building a dynamic self-confident personality.

In order to construct a new "functional" building on a site where one that is "inefficient" exists, you first have to raze the old structure. This must be done by shattering those "mistaken certainties" which have held you back from expressing the unlimited, abundant, wholesome life you desire. This is primarily what this book is about.

]]> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:53:28 -0800 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070226185328/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070226185307/index.html You are about to start on an adventure which will reward you for the rest of your life. You are going to learn new ways to break the bonds of limitation that have been holding you back.

If you find yourself in a situation where you seem to be going nowhere, feel inadequate and unable to face life with enthusiasm and confidence, this book is for you. If you are disgusted with mediocrity, disappointed by past results and not content to just drift through life, these pages offer you an alternative. If you can make yourself open and receptive to new concepts, values and beliefs, you will discover why you should and how you can systematically reorganize your thought processes to awaken THE NEW YOU. Once you master these principles, you will have more happiness, more love, more freedom, more money and more self-confidence than you ever thought possible. Nothing is more rewarding in life than releasing your unlimited potential and leading a creative, purposeful life. It makes no difference who you are, what you do, or what your life situation is, YOU can achieve total self-confidence. And the approach is not nearly as complicated as you might think! ]]> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:53:07 -0800 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070226185307/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070226185241/index.html One of the principal requisites for change, and a self-confident personality is that you must satisfy your own needs first. It is not your job to please others first no matter who may have told you that. On the surface this may appear selfish, but let's remind ourselves of St. Luke's comment that only when we have done our best to make the most of ourselves can we be of greatest service to our families, friends, churches, communities, etc.

Many people use the philosophy of service to others first as an escape from taking responsibility for changing their lives. They say ]]> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:52:40 -0800 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070226185241/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070226185220/index.html Shakespeare said, "We know what we are, but not what we may be."

Does this describe you? Do you concentrate on your limitations, your failures, your blundering way of doing things, seldom stopping to think of what you might be? The problem is that you have been conditioned since childhood by false concepts, values and beliefs which have prevented you from realizing how truly capable and unique you are.

By virtue of your role as co-creator of your life, you have the power to change any of its aspects. Every great teacher has come to the same conclusion: You cannot look to someone outside yourself to solve your problems. As the Master Teacher reminded us so often, "The Kingdom of Heave is within you." It's not in some distant land, and it's not up in the sky. Budha came to the same realization when he said, "Be a lamp unto your own feet and do not seek outside yourself." Self-healing powers are within. Health, happiness, abundance, and peace of mind are natural states of being once you break the bonds of negative thinking.

Unless you perceive your own true worth as a person, you cannot come close to achieving total self-confidence. Only to the degree that you can truly acknowledge your own unique importance will you be able to free yourself from self-imposed limitations. Yes, I said self-imposed! Your parents, your family, your boss or society didn't do it to you. You did it to yourself by allowing others to control your life.
If you can't get rid of your guilt feelings and cease belittling yourself for your imagined inadequacies, you will be one of those who continue the fruitless struggle to attain total self-confidence and personal freedom. In order to be truly free, compassionate, warm and loving, you must first start by understanding and loving yourself. To follow Luke's admonition, "To love thy neighbor as thyself," without beginning with a full appreciation of who and what you are, defrauds both you and your neighbor! ]]> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:52:20 -0800 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070226185220/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070226185143/index.html To think that your life is controlled in any way by another individual, group, or society imposes a condition of mental slavery, which makes you a prisoner by your own decree. Your thoughts become the blueprints which attract from your subconscious mind all the elements that go into fulfilling your concepts, whether they be positive or negative. What you have in your life right now is the outward manifestation of what has been going on in your mind. You have literally attracted everything that has come into your life, good or bad, happy or sad, success or failure. And this includes all facets of experience be it business, marriage, health, or personal affairs.

Think of it! Your surroundings, your environment, your world all outwardly picture what you think about inwardly. By discovering why you are the way you are, you also find the key to be what you want to be. ]]> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:51:43 -0800 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070226185143/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070226185110/index.html A lesson which has taken us far too long to learn is that the opposite of bravery is not cowardliness but conformity. You may have spent valuable, irreplaceable years trying to fit into the parade only to learn, too late, that the people you have been following have been following you! This is particularly evident in the timing of our lives' major events.

What makes us follow each other like sheep? Why should one marry, for instance, or graduate, or settle down, or do anything else when one's friend do? Perhaps these events don't belong in our lives until much later. Perhaps they even belonged earlier. Perhaps they don't belong at all.

Let's get out of this sheep of mind and refuse to punish ourselves because we are different from our neighbors or associates. Much suffering would be eliminated if we could assert our Divine right as individuals and refuse to let the sacredness and beauty of life be marred by conformity or standardization. ]]> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:51:10 -0800 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070226185110/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070226185039/index.html As you look around at your fellow human beings, you will find it hard to ignore the fact that very few people are happy, fulfilled and leading purposeful lives. Most of them seem unable to cope with their problems and the circumstances of daily living. The majority, settling for the average, have resigned themselves to "just getting by." Resignation to mediocrity has become a way of life. As a result, feelings of inadequacy cause them, quite humanly, to blame society, people, circumstances. The idea that people and things control their lives is so thoroughly ingrained in their thinking that they normally will not respond to logical arguments which prove otherwise.

William James, the eminent philosopher and psychologist, once observed that the greatest discovery of our age has been that we, by changing the inner aspects of our thinking, can change the outer aspects of our lives. Wrapped up in the brief statement is the dynamic truth that we are not victims but co-creators in the building of our lives and the world around us. Or, as another sage puts it, we aren't what we think we are, but what we think, we are. ]]> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:50:38 -0800 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1178828978/E20070226185039/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1045095842/E20070202163420/index.html 　経験には、「いい結果」、「悪い結果」がある。それを積んで選択肢が増えている分だけ、怖いとか、不安だとか、そういう気持ちも増してきている。考える材料が増えれば増えるほど「これと似たようなことを前にやって失敗してしまった」というマイナス面も大きく膨らんで自分の思考を縛ることになる。
　そういうマイナス面に打ち勝てる理性、自分自身をコントロールする力を同時に成長させていかないと、経験を活かしきるのは難しくなってしまう。 ]]> Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:34:20 -0800 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1045095842/E20070202163420/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1960203530/E20060818003421/index.html Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:34:21 -0700 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1960203530/E20060818003421/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060503090045/index.html "The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers."

 

- Brian Tracy

]]> Wed, 03 May 2006 09:00:45 -0700 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060503090045/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060425084429/index.html "Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."

 

- Dale Carnegie

]]> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:44:29 -0700 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060425084429/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060421111022/index.html "When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it."

 

- Mark Victor Hansen

]]> Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:10:22 -0700 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060421111022/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060418131615/index.html "It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."

 

- Dale Carnegie

]]> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:16:15 -0700 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060418131615/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060404080133/index.html "A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."

 

- Denis Waitley

]]> Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:01:33 -0700 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060404080133/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060331085414/index.html "Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice."

 

- Stuart Wilde

]]> Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:54:14 -0800 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060331085414/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060329100138/index.html "Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.""

 

- Brian Tracy

]]> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:01:38 -0800 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060329100138/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060324092524/index.html "If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search."

 

- Sir John Templeton

]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:25:24 -0800 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060324092524/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060317093033/index.html "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

 

- Dale Carnegie

]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:30:33 -0800 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060317093033/index.html http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060310103117/index.html "The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers."

 

- Deepak Chopra

]]> Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:31:17 -0800 http://www.sushicafe.com/blog/notes/C1111689203/E20060310103117/index.html