By Susanna Mittermaier
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What is it for you? Whatever makes you smile or laugh, makes your body relax, or makes your world lighten up, is a hint for you to know what is true for you. Once you realize that there is some value in maintaining your problems, you can look at them with no point of view and no judgments. What if there is nothing wrong with finding out that maintaining your problems has value to you! And maybe you can start laughing about the fact that you made all that more valuable than being you. Aren’t we funny?
Consciousness is very pragmatic. It gives you the information you require to create what you truly desire. ” ~ Gary M. Douglas Pragmatic Psychology is about asking questions to find out what is, instead of what the mind thinks is going on. It is about finding out who you are, what you are capable of, and what is truly possible for you. Consciousness unlocks the trauma and drama of life. Is now the time for you to go from dramatic to pragmatic? Are you up for the adventure? Chapter Three Change Can Be Easy and Fast— Not Only for Americans As we grow up we learn that change takes time and hard work.
By the way. Do you know what “weird” means? ) People who think they have problems put themselves in the passenger seat of their lives. Demanding change makes you take action to create what you truly desire. The sentence I shared above is designed to send away everything that tells you that you are a victim, that you do not have choice, and that your place is in the passenger seat, not in control of your life. Try it out, what do you have to lose? Do it now! Use that sentence and say it to everything that whispers in your ear that you are weak, don’t have a chance, that you will never be able to get what you truly desire, and that saying this sentence will not help.