Our Conscious Mind is a fabulous drama queen. Seriously, it could win an Academy Award for it’s performances most days! What do I mean? Just listen to the thoughts you think and what you say out loud in a day and notice how exaggerated many statements are.
For example, you may find yourself saying things like, “I never have any money.” “I just look at food and I get fat.” “There are NO good men (or women) available!” “Life is always so hard.” Can you think of a few statements that you regularly say that are actually gross exaggerations of the truth? I bet you have at least a couple that you use frequently.
Is there any harm in saying things like this? There actually is. Let me explain.
When you make a statement such as: “I never have any money”, energetically you put yourself in a very low vibration of hopelessness and despair. There is no easy answer or quick resolution to NEVER having any money. You feel very much disempowered and a victim of either the economy, the government, your clients or your boss. None of these vibrations are conducive to creating an amazing life for yourself.
Besides it is simply untrue. If you have received so much as a penny, you have had money. It is a lie to say that you never have money, that you just look at food and get fat, that there are no good men or women in the world or that life is always hard.
Notice this with any of your “drama queen statements” throughout the day and see how much you are lying to yourself. It’s really a fascinating exercise!
So what do you do to stop the lies? A very effective way is to ask the question, Really, is that the truth? I put a lot of inflection on the word really so it literally stops my Conscious Mind in it’s tracks, so to speak. This may be the first time you are questioning the statements your Conscious Mind has been feeding you.
Your Conscious Mind has set itself up in the position of an overbearing, overly protective mother that is a control freak! What fun, hey? Now you understand better why you feel like you are constantly being nagged and stopped from moving ahead. So let’s stop the stories, the hyperboles and lies that your Conscious Mind is telling you.
The question is: REALLY? IS THAT THE TRUTH?
I suggest you do this out loud. So it might sound something like this: LIE: “I just look at food and get fat.” REBUTTAL: “Really, is that the truth? You look at a cow in the field and you gain weight?” ANSWER: Mmmm, no. QUESTION: “What is the truth?” TRUTH: “I eat 3 bowls of ice cream before bed.” CONFIRMATION: “So the truth is that you eat the wrong foods at the wrong times in the wrong quantities?” TRUTH: “Yes”. Now this dialogue could go on for a few minutes but it is fascinating when you get down to the actual truth of the matter and I guarantee you it will not be your first statement you told yourself or others.
How does this completely change your life from victimhood to amazing? You cannot deal with just looking at food and getting fat. Unless you are blind, you have an impossible to solve problem. However, you can deal with the three bowls of ice cream before bed.
You cannot deal with never having any money. You can resolve the situation of not earning enough money to pay the bills. Do you see the difference? One puts you in a place of hopelessness and victimhood. The second one gives you the actual problem and you are now empowered to resolve it.
Some people call it “mind frick”. The Buddhists call it “monkey mind”. What I have noticed is that since doing this exercise over the last few years, my Conscious Mind does not play the drama queen with me anymore. I don’t hear the lies, the stories and the gross exaggerations any longer. It’s amazingly peaceful in my head.
If you would like to have that same quiet and peace in your head, I highly recommend you try this the next time your Conscious Mind pulls it’s usual tactic to stop you, scare you or overwhelm you. It’s remarkable how effective it is and how empowered you can feel when you move into the truth and out of the stories and drama.
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