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How to Change Your Mind
   

Abraham-Hicks, the coauthors of the fabulous tome on The Law of Attraction called, "Ask and It Is Given" counsel on a technique they call "Pivoting", which amounts literally to changing our minds from one thought to its polar opposite. In illustrating this concept, the authors describe a stick on the ground, reminding readers that one cannot pick that stick up off the ground without picking up both ends.

Likewise we can all remember hearing (or saying) at some point in our lives that there are two sides to every coin. To hold a coin is to hold both sides at once. But which side pointed up, visible the eye? That is the question we must ask ourselves when pondering any issue with our minds.

No end of the stick is more right than the other. Nor is either side of the coin. It's all preference, and innate in every human being is the power of discernment that gives us our preferences. Changing your mind is truly as simply as deciding you prefer one thought to another (such as its opposite). It's as easy as flipping over the coin.

The difficulty isn't in changing your mind, it's in releasing the resistance you have to doing so. We grow attached to our beliefs. The more we believe something, the more attached we get. The more we believe something, as we know from our understanding of The Law of Attraction, the more our experiences justify that belief. The more justification we have for a belief, the more we come to think of it as "right" and its opposite as "wrong".

But that isn't the Truth. It's just the result of a natural phenomenon that affects everyone. It would have worked just the same if we had held the opposite belief as long. We'd experience more and more justifications of its validity and, as such, we would come to think of its opposite as invalid.

We have then to let go of a burden of judgment, guilt, and shame whenever we change our mind, because we have invested so much of ourselves in our beliefs. To change our beliefs, we think, means that we were wrong all along to believe what we did. Suddenly the power to change our mind becomes a threat to our ego and our sense of self-worth. Suddenly, changing our mind becomes something we fear and avoid.

Here is a technique also borrowed from Abraham-Hicks for practicing changing your mind. Take out a sheet of paper and write down on the top of it any belief you hold that you'd like to change. As you read what you've just written, notice how it feels.

Now, below that write another belief, whatever the one you just wrote makes you think of. Next to that, write in parenthesis whether this second belief feels Better, Worse, or the Same as the first one.

From there, continue writing down whatever beliefs come to mind next, indicating beside it whether it feels Better, Worse, or the Same as the one above it. What you will find is that, eventually, as you continue the exercise, you will eventually start writing Better feeling beliefs more consistently with increasingly fewer backslides into beliefs that feel Worse.

This is but one method of many. Every method of changing your mind, however, is built on the same fundamental principle: that you have the power (and right) to change your mind in any and every moment.

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