Part 1: http://veronicaloa.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=7738

Here is what trips all of you up, without exception: The belief in secondary causes.

We already explored in the first part that you are God and the only creative power in this universe. There is nothing else that creates, so there cannot be any other cause besides your consciousness. But we turn things into causes all the time without realizing it.

I gained weight because I ate too much.
I am tired because I didn't sleep enough.
I acted that way because of what they said.
I think it will happen that way because that's how it was in the past.
I have to get a degree because that's what I need to get the job I want.
I have to work because I need money.
I need money because I have to buy food.
I have to buy food because they won't give it to me for free.
They won't give it to me for free, because they rarely did that in the past.
I feel better because I took that pill.

Makes all sense, right? Because you and I and all of us are trained in finding and believing in secondary causes. More accurately, it would look like this:

I gained weight because I imagined that eating too much would make me gain weight. I ate too much, so what I imagined came to pass.
I imagined that I need a certain amount of sleeping hours to feel good. I didn't get that amount, so what I imagined came to pass.
What they said led me to imagining meaning into what they said and that let me act.
I imagine that it will always happen this way, so it will happen this way again.
I imagine that they won't hire me without a degree, so I use the degree as an excuse to be able to believe that they will hire me.
I imagine that in order to buy food I need money and therefore that's how it is in my life.
I imagine that nobody will give me my food for free, so I use money as a tool to be able to believe that I can have food.
I imagine that they won't give it to me for free, so that's my experience.
I imagined that this pill would help me, so it did.

You got the point. It's all made up by us. Everything that happens in our lives is rooted in our belief system. There is not one outside cause. It's all within. Every time you give credit to something other than your imagination, you give power away. I see that all the time here. People blame how bad it was in the end, what they said, the new girlfriend, their character as causes that they aren't back yet or won't come back ever. All that are outside causes. But the truth is that what creates your experience is what you imagine "how bad it ended" means, what you imagine "what they said" means, what you imagine "them having another girl" means, what you imagine about how he would act in a certain situation. The power is within you and only within you. It's that simple.

Short exercise:
Notice that all my examples of secondary causes contain the word "because". Observe how you use the word because and what you give credit for what happens. Realize every time you catch yourself that what you blame to be the cause isn't the cause, because you are the cause.

Key points:

- there is only one cause: your consciousness
- every time you accept something outside as a cause, you give your power away

Last edited by Sanshi (1/10/2018 12:51 pm)