The Science Behind the Law of Attraction Magazine Full Nov. 2019 Mag | Page 34

Let?s say your boss calls you into her office and reprimands you for something you did. You might feel fear, but since your boss cannot do you any physical harm, the fear is irrational. If you accept the fear and feel negative emotion, it means that you have projected this fear into the future and you have chosen a limited perspective. You might think she doesn?t like you. You might think you won?t get the next raise or bonus. You might even think you could get fired. However, these projections into the future are just stories you are fabricating and since they?re based on an irrational fear, they are completely and utterly false. Because you do not analyze the fear and realize it?s irrational, you try to coerce the conditions by behaving in a manner that your boss will approve of. You change yourself so that you fit into the persona that will cause your boss to appreciate your efforts so that you will not have to endure the negative emotion associated with her disapproval. Because you are now behaving differently, only due to your fear of her disapproval, which will cause you to feel negative emotion, you become an inauthentic version of yourself. You change who you are like a chameleon based on your perception of what others want from you. You do all of this because you fear negative emotion. It?s the negative emotion that causes you to be inauthentic. Actually, it?s not even the negative emotion itself, it is the fear of negative emotion that creates an inauthentic life. If you would like to live an authentic life, you will have to learn how to mitigate the fear of negative emotion. Joshua House - Newton, NC small by contrast or comparison. The action itself may cause you to cross the boundary of what society deems appropriate, or what your parents think is good, or what your friends might approve of, or what your spouse will tolerate. Since you believe yourself to be good, you convince yourself that the action you are inspired to take conflicts with your idea of good and bad, or right and wrong and so you allow your fear to stop you. You limit yourself due to irrational fear. Since you are a limitless being of pure positive love and acceptance, these limitations imposed by irrational fear cause you to be somewhat less than who you really are. That is called ?inauthentic.? In believing you are good, you judge others as good or bad, right or wrong, depending on who they are and what they are doing at the time. The problem with judging others is that you must also judge yourself by comparison. If you label another as wrong or bad, then in those times when you perceive yourself to be wrong or bad, you will assume that other people are judging you. You can never know what anyone else is ever thinking, but you perceive what they are thinking yourself. You place thoughts in their minds. You make up stories. You convince yourself that they are either thinking good thoughts about you or bad thoughts about you. Since you are living an inauthentic life, you try to control how they perceive you so that you can feel good. You react to the condition that presents itself in your reality and you feel either good or bad as a result. If the conditions are good, you feel good. If the conditions are bad, you feel bad. Therefore, you must constantly work to create good conditions and avoid all the bad ones. This is a conditional experience of life and it is the basis of an inauthentic life. An authentic life is one where you choose how you feel regardless of the conditions. You feel good regardless of what is happening around you. The reason you might react by feeling bad is because you perceive something as wrong and this causes you to feel fear. That?s approaching life from a conditional standpoint and succumbing to irrational fear. The authentic person finds a way to see things as good or to feel good despite something that might otherwise cause fear. If there is no fear involved, there can be no negative emotion. All negative emotion is based in fear. Fear causes you to take a perspective that is limiting. Since you cannot know how something will play out, the fear is irrational and the perspective chosen from a place of fear is false. If the fear is irrational, then it is false and so is the limited perspective. Page 34 Do you see how you change your behavior around different people? You are one person around your mate, another person around your parents, another person around your friends, children, coworkers, and those you perceive to be authority figures. You act differently around those who you perceive to have more status and those you perceive to have less status. You judge people and then you compare yourself to them. You do all of this without the benefit of information. These are snap judgments and they are never accurate. You simply do not have enough information. If you knew the purpose of physical reality, why you?re here, and what you intended to do during this life, you would live an authentic life and you would not judge anyone, least of all yourself. You would have a much higher perspective. You would simply see things differently. Living an authentic life is living in your power as you intended. It is not done to gain fame, fortune, appreciation, or recognition. An authentic life is simply lived because that?s what you intended and it represents who you really are. You are not here to control the conditions or other people. You are here to live your life freely and to allow the conditions and the other people to be as they are and to consider it all perfect. Certainly, you will define preferences and birth new desires, but you will do so in an authentic way based on who you really are. The benefit of living an authentic life is the creation of the life you prefer and the ability to discover that which you intended to explore. This approach to life will bring you everything you truly desire. In an authentic life, you allow your true desires to unfold. In an inauthentic life, you create desires based on your need to be loved, to be appreciated, to be right, and to be good. You create false desires in the hope that you can create conditions that will make you feel good or be seen as good by others. This is inauthentic and it violates the laws of the universe. The inauthentic approach to life can never work. Only by living an authentic life can you ever hope to create the life you prefer. Page 35