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# Soul mirrors/desires

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- Subject: Soul mirrors/desires
- From: "Martin" <martincosgrove@...>
- Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 12:36:29 -0000
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    Dear all,

    I have (very) recently been working on my negative soul mirror which
    (combined with a reply from Rawn) got me thinking that I really need
    to try to change some of my more influential negative traits in
    order to even be able to commit to my IIH studies at all.

    I have basically taken a two-pronged approach to this.

    Firstly, I came across a book by a well-known British hypnotherapist
    called Paul McKenna. The book in (typical) pop therapy fashion is
    called 'How to change your life in 7 days'. Now I am always
    skeptical of claims such as those made by that title, but as I
    flicked through the book I saw more than one exercise and technique
    which I thought would be useful to me. The book also comes with a CD
    which contains a 'mind programming session'. I am only halfway
    through the book, but I have found many of the exercises relating to
    perspective and being in control of one's emotions, as well as how
    to 'frame' things in our minds positively and how to associate and
    disassociate from memories, very useful. He also introduces a finger
    posturing technique which helps to link positive feeling to a
    specific finger movement, which sounds to me a little like what
    Bardon introduces in 'Key to the True Kabbalah' (I am only basing
    this on posts by other people as I haven't yet read that book, so
    anything others would like to contribute to that point would be
    appreciated).

    The other approach I have been taking is that of simply meditating
    on negative traits and trying to ask my subconscious mind in a
    *positive* way how I can overcome these problems (I also have come
    to realize that we often 'speak' to ourselves in a negative way
    e.g. 'why can't I do this?', 'why do I always mess up?', instead of
    framing the question positively - 'how can I most easily overcome
    this?' etc.)

    One of the things I have been thinking about over the last couple of
    days is that we humans seem to be programmed with many many desires
    (some more positive than others, but all desires none-the-less). We
    seem to be by nature inherently selfish. Could it be this
    selfishness which helps to keep us locked into the physical senses
    and the material world? Now, if our desires are all selfish, that
    made me wonder whether the goal should be to eliminate these desires
    or to transmute them instead. Should we not attempt to eradicate
    what is a natural part of us (which could lead to an internal
    battle), and instead turn these desires upwards, towards God, The
    One, The Creator, (or whichever term you prefer)? Then we can offer
    to use our desires (which do contain a lot of power) in a positive
    way to serve Divine Providence, the Universe and Humankind.

    Is this the right line of thinking, or should I be looking more at
    trying to just stamp out negative desires altogether?

    Thank you,

    Martin

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