Yes Yourself to Riches

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We’re conditioned to ‘no’ our way through life. From the moment we’re born we cry as a way of saying ‘no.’ Any resistance we have to anything – no matter how potentially beneficial – our conscious and unconscious resistance is, in essence, an expression of ‘no.’ The fear that builds within us as we journey through life – fear of risking, fear of change, fear of growth, fear of loving – creates an immense “No Factor” in us.

Dorothy and company no longer assume the animated character – and more importantly, his ways, are boss!

However “no” didn’t start off limiting us, it simply and covertly developed into an imprisoning barrier constricting our fulfilment and self expression. “No” began as an instinctual means of protection – our survival instinct – we would, in effect, through our actions or non-actions say “no” to any perceived threat to our well being. This was and is good for basic survival but then, unconsciously and insidiously, we began to allow the mind to perceive anything outside of what’s familiar as a threat – no matter how promising the possibility. At this point “no” increasingly became in deference to the familiar over the unfamiliar.

In short, the mind’s process has become, “Am I familiar with the idea before me?” If the response is “Yes” then the experience is accepted. If the response is “No” regarding whether an idea is familiar or not, then unconsciously and often consciously, the possibility of an experience is rejected. “Do I want more love in my life?” perhaps may be a proposition you resoundly desire, yet the question, “Am I familiar with more love in my life?” is the question your subconscious is posing to itself. “Do I want more abundance in my life?” may seem like a no-brainer in response to the affirmative, however the question the subconscious asks of itself is, “But is more abundance what I am accustomed to?” Herein lies the root of your unconscious struggle. The subconscious does not deduce. In other words, the subconscious’ programmed mandate for accepting or rejecting an experience is not based on whether what’s proposed is beneficial or not – deducing value by what something would mean for you – (greater love, more abundance – what’s not to like about those possibilities?); but rather, its acceptance or rejection is based on whether a dynamic is familiar or not. This is the reason for little or incremental change in one’s life; the body-mind is constantly accepting or rejecting based on familiarity and little else.

By definition expansion of any good in your life is an unfamiliar reality so the mind has developed the “no” response in various forms. And the mind has countless ways of saying “no”; through procrastination, doubt, resistance, sabotage, conventional thinking, minimizing risk, self pity, anger, legitimized excuses, ignoring, etc. However the mind’s strongest ally in its “No Factor” arsenal is fear. Beyond a healthy fear that safeguards our basic survival all other fear is manufactured. It is the most potent ingredient in the No Factor. What’s more effective than adding an emotional component to the mental habit of “no”?

Here’s how it works: When you decide to take action that overrides the No Factor the No Factor calls in reinforcement by kicking in the emotional component of fear. By employing the emotional feeling of fear, it’s as if the No Factor is saying, “That’ll teach ya’ to go against our conditioning!” Ironically, by default, even the No Factor has a survival instinct! But fear not! (No pun intended) This predicament exist only because “no” has been programmed to be the resident program of your being.

And therein is the key to exiting the limitation of “no”; to appreciate that any programmed response can be reprogrammed! I am constantly extolling to clients a point that has become a familiar refrain, “You have a body, you’re not a body.” This means that the dynamics you witness that you assume comprise the “me” that you are (habits, automatic responses, perceptions, etc.) really is a superimposed profile that draws its power from the Real You that is animating it.

Read carefully, for what follows is the Holy Grail for true, successful change. This “You” that is enlivening the “me” you’ve become accustomed to assuming is “you” is akin to the Wizard in the “Wizard of Oz” who is manipulating the levers behind the curtain that cause the animation of the fire and brimstone “Wizard” everyone sees. As the story goes, those unaware that there’s an “operator” behind the scenes assume that the fire and brimstone, shouting character is actually the Wizard. This is true of the “You” behind the ‘you’ that expresses various traits. Your assumption that the “you” that’s comprised of the physical body, personality, and traits, is who you are is like Dorothy and her posse in “Oz” assuming that the fire and brimstone shouting wizard is actually the real thing. And just what happens when Toto pulls the curtain and the gig is up? Dorothy and company no longer assume the animated character – and more importantly, his ways, are boss!

You are not your programmed responses, thoughts and habits! “You” are the one “controlling the levers,” as it were, of the person who moves around as you! This is the reason you have the power to reprogram the No Factor into the “Yes Factor.” The Yes Factor creates openings for desires to be met and achieved.

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You’ve always had the Power to go back home.

So let’s get started! Here’s how you program the No Factor into the Yes Factor. It’s really quite simple. You begin saying to yourself, “yes” to everything. Every thought, feeling or fixed idea that reflects “no” in your mind you begin to replace with saying, “yes” as situations and thoughts occur. For example, if the idea of taking a vacation to an extravagant locale brings up the feeling of “no” (a feeling is the emotional translation of a thought) because of existing financial constraints, immediately replace that thought-feeling with a mental “yes.” If the prospect of finding true love brings up any negative thoughts such as despair or the like, again immediately replace the thought-feeling with a mental “yes.” If the thought-feeling of losing weight, having a healthier body, eating right, etc. brings up any negative or limiting feelings of any sort immediately say, “yes.” You can even make your “yes” replacements audible – under appropriate circumstances of course.

The important point of reprogramming is that this is not about the pro-active actions that presumably would follow whatever “yes” area or thought-feeling you are replacing. It is solely about the mental application of reprogramming the habitual No Factor thought process into the Yes Factor thought process. You will be amazed at how consistently and chronically, on both subtle and overt levels, your automatic No Factor is in operation. It is the reason lives stay fixed in certain emotional or circumstantial states.

As you sufficiently change your “Yes” quotient (in your mind) to be greater than your “No” quotient you will then find that you almost magically begin to produce the focus, commitment, ideas, motivation, circumstances or whatever is necessary to successfully engage the actions that fulfill the objects of your Yes Factor. In fact, the reason most goals, no matter how enthusiastically begun, quickly or eventually are not realized is because the silent No Factor – if not reprogrammed – undermines the best of intentions.

The most important thing to remember in reprogramming “no” to “yes” is that your focus is solely on reprogramming the mental habit – not on the results. Results take care of themselves as sufficient reprogramming of this single aim is employed. You find increasingly that you begin to take actions reflective of “permission granted” thoughts.

As Glenda the Good Witch said, “You’ve always had the Power to go back home.” Home is your true birthright of abundance, love, purpose, vitality and ever greater expression. Saying “yes” consistently to every good thing that is beneficial to your well being is the equivalent of Dot clicking her heels in “The Wizard.”

There’s no place like home.

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Isaiah McGee

Hypnotherapist and Empowerment Coach Isaiah McGee is director of A Conscious Life Enterprises. Through his practice, Isaiah employs effective modalities and techniques such as therapeutic hypnosis to get the subconscious on board with the conscious intentions of one’s heart and soul. “My work is transforming not because of how good I am, but because I know how good YOU are.”

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