-The Secret to Changing Any Situation-

Well not really a secret, just something no one wants to hear out loud.

What is that secret? Stop blaming it on anyone else. Believe it or not, people who live in abusive situations learn that as soon as they take the responsibility for their part in attracting abuses in the past, they stop attracting abuses in the future.

Think about it, if there is an enemy causing a problem, to deny its existence is foolishness. If the enemy’s only power is to lie to the mind, then blaming the enemy for the situation I caused, by making a poor choice of listening to the lie in the first place, is just more foolishness.

“I came so that your life could be full of abundance; the enemy comes for the purpose of stealing that abundance.”

In other words I am to acknowledge the enemy’s existence and then tell it to get lost. We all have this authority and it is by the use of this authority that we are over-comers how? By telling the enemy and whatever it brought along with it to get lost and refuse to listen to the lies – including the one that there is no enemy.

All the worlds problems are her fault. I don't need to go in to again do I?

Acceptance of a situation is the first step to changing it. Blaming it on something or somebody else is keeping the situation cemented in place.

Firmly established behavioral psychology has demonstrated over and over that when we act as though we can overcome anything long enough, that act soon becomes our new reality.

There we have it …Jay’s lesson for today – short, sweet and POWERFUL!

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Jay suggested I do a bit of research on William James and what he believed. I understood the nudge immediately. William James is considered to be the father of behavioral psychology at least in the U.S. I was excited about what I might find and I was rewarded beyond my expectation:

Believe that God has a purpose for your life, and it''s true.

“The Will to Believe” is a lecture by William James, first published in 1896, which defends, in certain cases, the adoption of a belief without prior evidence of its truth. In particular, James is concerned in this lecture about defending the rationality of religious faith even lacking sufficient evidence of religious truth. James states in his introduction: “I have brought with me tonight an essay in justification of faith, a defense of our right to adopt a believing attitude in religious matters, in spite of the fact that our merely logical intellect may not have been coerced. ‘The Will to Believe,’ accordingly, is the title of my paper.”

James’ central argument in, “The Will to Believe,” hinges on the idea that access to the evidence for whether or not certain beliefs are true depends crucially upon first adopting those beliefs without evidence. As an example, James argues that it can be rational to have unsupported faith in one’s own ability to accomplish tasks that require confidence. Importantly, James points out that this is the case even for pursuing scientific inquiry. James then argues that like belief in one’s own ability to accomplish a difficult task, religious faith can also be rational even if one at the time lacks evidence for the truth of one’s religious belief.

The foregoing is merely an introduction I found that reading the entire lecture was delightfully enlightening. See it at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Will_to_Believe

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