The
Nature, Source of Our Attitudes
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Attitudes in
Our Human Makeup
A simple
analysis of our fundamental human makeup reveals a wide-spectrum of
being, ranging from a most unconscious material substance to a most
conscious subtle substance. Our being ranges from the material body to
the vital sensations and emotions, to mental thought processing,
beliefs, values, and pure thought, to the spiritual parts of mind, and
on to the realm of the pure spirit itself.
Our
attitudes fit in between our emotions and feelings of our vital being,
and the thought processing and understanding of our minds.
Attitudes of Our Emotions
Our (mental)
views of different people and things are organized into ideals, values,
opinions, beliefs and sentiments. Our emotions are organized into
feelings, attitudes and motives. (MSS)
The Source of
Attitudes is the Mental Part of the Vital Plane
We consist of there planes of consciousness; the physical, the
vital/emotional, and the mental. There is the spiritual beyond
these. Within each plane there are Subplanes that actually
reflect the other essential three planes, for a total of nine
planes, excluding spirit.
Our attitudes
are formulated in the mental part of the vital/emotional plane;
which we designate as plane 4 of 9. This is plane of human
consciousness where emotions (of the next level) are processed into
emotional thought, the emotions' perception of knowledge. It is thus
where our attitudes, life intelligence,
and higher emotions lie. It is the center of our vital
skills. At this plane the mental element emerges strongly in the
vital consciousness and gives a higher direction and organization to
the expression of the vital energies. One way that expresses is
though our emotions.
Life reflects on the outside the
inner attitudes you have on the on the inside. Life for you is
in essence a reflection of your inner perceptions of the world.
We can surely see the causality between such negative attitudes
and the world around us. If we dislike our boss, there will be
tension and friction as a result. This is a direct cause and
effect relationship that is logical to our minds. What is not so
logical however is the sudden, magical ways life responds
to such changes in attitudes. We call this phenomenon where life
positively, suddenly, abundantly, and miraculously responds to
our inner change of heart and emotion, "Life Response."
Attitudes from Opinions
An attitude is born when an opinion is endorsed by the
emotions.
(MSS)
Subjective Opinions as Root
Cause of Negative Attitudes
Non-objective, subjective conclusions and
beliefs about facts of information are our opinions about those
facts. An opinion is not based on objective truth, but on a subjective judgment that may or may not be true.
-Our opinions are the root cause of our negative
attitudes. When these opinions are reinforced by our feelings and
emotions, our attitudes are born.
-A negative attitude takes shape when our subjective, non-fully
rational and logical opinions are endorsed by our vital emotions and
feelings. In a positive attitude, the opinions are "less-opinionated,"
as our perceptions are more in touch with the inherent truth of things.
Reversing a Negative Attitude
The process of
reversing a negative attitude would
occur by shedding our subjective, false opinion about an object,
and replacing it with the objectives truth of things. As this
broader and more accurate knowledge takes shape in our minds, our
negative attitudes would be obliged to change. When our vital emotions
and feelings withdraw their support for the old opinions, and begin to
support this new, objective view of things, the negative attitude would
be fully cancelled.
Ego-reversal
and Right Attitudes
When
we move from an ego-supported conscious to non-ego, our negative
opinions, false beliefs, etc. tend to break down, we perceive
become more open to the truer truth of things,
which in effect causes our negative attitudes to dissolve, which under
the right conditions can suddenly elicit a powerful positive response
from life.
Analysis
of an Attitude
- Attitude is one of opinion and vital urge.
- Opinion is a mental experience based on what the mind knows.
- Vital urge is the energy based on vital habits.
- Vital energy is physical passion sublimated.
- The physical IS at No. 9. [see
this]
- It is touched by the vital at No. 8.
- It acquires skill at No. 7.
- The skill becomes passionate or the man develops passion for
that skill at No. 6
- At no. 5, the passion giving up its physicality becomes pure
vital energy.
- That vital energy is directed by No. 4, the vital mind.
- That direction is endorsed by the opinion of the mind. (Opinion
must be similarly analysed)
- Both together are attitude. (MSS)
Acquisition of Attitudes
We acquire our attitudes through
our parents as we are raised, in our interaction with others and
the environment, through the genes we inherit from pervious
generations, and through the challenges and difficulties of
life.
Three Types
of Attitudes
-We have
identified three major categories of attitudes -- those that express our
essential state of being; those that express our relationship with
others; and those that reflect our relationship with life outside
ourselves.
-Each
one of us has our own unique blend of positive and negative personality
traits, including helpful and harmful personal attitudes.
To see
a list of Human Attitudes expresses positively
and negatively, click
here.
Article on
the Power of Personal Attitudes
Attitudes and Accomplishment
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Attitudes and Accomplishment
Attitudes have a significant positive or negative effect on one's
ability to accomplish in life.
On Attitudes in Life
Perhaps our greatest
stumbling blocks are in our attitudes. In our attitudes lies our greatest
barrier to success in life. We can trace our positive and negative
attitudes towards others, towards, things, towards ourselves, and towards
life. Each person can make the effort to overcome their own predominant
negative attitudes. This will lead to becoming a better person, and enable
greater accomplishment and joy in life. When a person changes a negative
attitude, often we witness an instantaneous positive response from life.
The Right and
Wrong in Attitude and Acts
The right or wrong does not lie in the ACT, it dwells in one's
attitude. (MSS)
Right and Wrong Attitudes for
Accomplishment
For the purposes of accomplish, there
are no right and wrong attitudes. There are only attitudes that assist
accomplishment and those that prevent or retard it. A negative attitude,
no matter how justified by events, prevents the free and unrestricted
flow of energies required for accomplishment the way a red traffic
signal stops the flow of cars at an intersection and prevents its free,
uninterrupted movement down the street. Positive attitudes are like a
string of green lights that enable you to travel at a steady speed for
block after block without slowing or stopping. Open-mindedness, positive
thinking, expansiveness, and willingness to change are green lights for
accomplishment. Doubts, suspicions, fears, pessimism which is passed off
as "realistic thinking", shrinking from what is new or challenging are
red lights, which no matter how justified by past experience or current
circumstance, prevent the conversion of energy into force for higher
accomplishment.
(MSS)
Attitudes and Life Response
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Life Responds to the Quality of Our Attitudes
Life responds to a taking to the quality of our attitudes. If we
reverse ourselves from a negative attitude to a neutral or positive one,
life tends to respond with sudden good fortune. Likewise, f we take a
positive view of a situation, life tends to respond quickly in our
favor.
Life Response and Attitudes
Beneath the surface of our outer
perceptions of life, there is a deeper awareness, where we experience
that everything in life is related, connected, and one. That is the case
because we are born of the same spirit and substance. In that state of
deeper awareness we come to see that there are powers, forces,
vibrations, and energies that move in the world. When we have negative
feelings towards another, we attract corresponding and related negative
forces and energies, which come to us as negative fortune and
circumstances. When we give them up our negative propensities, such as
bad will toward another, the reverse occurs, and we experience sudden,
seemingly miraculous good fortune. These positive response to our change
seem to come from out of nowhere; but they are in fact directly
related to our own inner change. Such results seem to defy all of our
normal perceptions of logic, our commonly held notions of cause and
effect, and space and time.
Attitudes and Inner-Outer
Correspondence
Life reflects on the outside the inner
attitudes you have on the on the inside. Life for you is in essence a
reflection of your inner perceptions of the world. We can surely see the
causality between such negative attitudes and the world around us. If we
dislike our boss, there will be tension and friction as a result. This
is a direct cause and effect relationship that is logical to our minds.
What is not so logical however is the sudden, magical ways life
responds to such changes in attitudes. We call this phenomenon where
life positively, suddenly, abundantly, and miraculously responds to our
inner change of heart and emotion, "Life Response."
Relationship Between Vital Part of Our Being and Vital
Plane of Life; and Life Response
"- Just as there is movement, interaction,
association, and mutual interchange among the life forms in the universe
-- its "animus of life" -- so we too express this vitality of being
through our own movements, urges, needs wants, desires, emotions,
feeling, and, yes, attitudes.
-There
seems to be a correspondence between movements of our vital being and
the vital aspect of life. Thus, if I make a decided change in my
attitudes, those vital feeling appear to send out some sort of signal
resonates with corresponding vital movements, interaction, association,
and mutual interchange of elements and life forms in the field of life.
-Life
expresses in the vital plane through forms of association and
interchange such as through trade, sales, money, and other formations.
Thus, when I change my attitude at the vital plane of my being,
something goes out and touches one or more of these expressions from the
vital plane of life. It may touch and attract a business transaction, it
may attract more work, it may attract more money, or any other aspect
that expresses the vital dimension of life itself.
-Because
our attitudes are vital, and much of life is vital, shifts on our
attitudes find a wide field of possibility from life. Thus, it has a
great tendency to attract responses from life. This gives attitudes an
extraordinary power.
Reversing Wanting Attitudes
Reverse Your Wanting
Attitudes to Make Life Respond
The majority of the problems we encounter in life originate in our
wanting attitudes. However, if we reverse ourselves and make them
positive, life can suddenly and abundantly respond. For example, one
woman gave up her ill will toward her co-workers, and suddenly attracted
a full-time job position -- her first in nearly a decade of trying. Action Plan: Consider the negative attitudes you have towards other,
and towards life itself. (Examples are dishonesty, ill will, disrespect,
callousness, arrogance, intolerance, suspicion, obsequiousness,
indifference, reluctance, low self-esteem, pessimism, impracticality,
irresponsibility, pridefulness, laziness, and procrastination.) Then
make a concerted effort to overcome one or two of the most problematic
ones. When you do so, the infinite potentials of life will rush to your
doorstep!
Change an Attitude to Make Life
Instantly Respond
We are filled with
the attitudes that we acquire
from our family, friends, and the environment. They are also in the very
fiber of our being, inherited through our genes. Many of
our
attitudes are fine, while others
are less than
stellar. However, if we can
identify a bad attitude, and make an effort to
change it, we will find
that
life will suddenly respond to our efforts, and bring us good fortune.
A salesperson was
intimidated about meeting a very large customer. He felt that the effort was a waste of time
since the company was too large and could never be penetrated. As it turned out
he didn't get the sale. However, a number of months later he changed his attitude about approaching
such
larger-type customers. The very day that he changed his attitude, the very same customer, who turned him down, gave him a huge order!
As we can see, the
power of a positive or a changed attitude has an
amazing way of attracting positive responses from life. We call this
phenomenon "life response." Whenever we change our inner
attitudes and consciousness, life has
a most astounding and miraculous way of responding positively and
instantaneously in kind. Life
brings success, fortune, and joy to those who make this psychological
adjustment.
The Power
of Changing Our Attitudes
Since changes in attitude have a
particularly powerful tendency to invoke
sudden good fortune, it would be well worth
knowing what our own wanting attitudes are,
and then make the concerted effort to
overcome them.
Generally speaking, we can identify three
types of wanting attitudes -- those
concerning work and life, those involving
others, and those relating to our own
selves.
Examples of negative attitude about work and
life include an unwillingness to be fully
engaged in the work at hand,
procrastinating, not caring about the
quality of our efforts, being lazy, and
being cynical. Examples of negative
attitudes towards others is being hostile
and harboring ill-will to another, and being
jealous. Examples of negative attitudes
about ourselves is having low
self-esteem and self-confidence.
The good news is that if you can identify
two or three negative attitudes in your
life, and overcome them, life will suddenly
move towards you with overwhelming good
fortune.
-One woman who was working as a temporary
employee for years overcame her negative
attitude toward a co-worker, which suddenly
attracted a full time position, her first
after ten years of trying.
-Another individual overcame his reluctance
to work weekends, which attracted the
biggest sale and commission of his life,
catapulting him into a life long career in
that field.
-A third individual overcame his reluctance
to do an unflattering but necessary task,
which attracted a new position that enabled
him to change the course of financial
history.
Life does have this extraordinary capacity
to respond to our changes in consciousness
within -- particularly our wanting
attitudes. This magic-like response is what
I call a "Life
Response."
So why not pick out one or two wanting
attitudes that you have been expressing, and
make the effort overcome them. Like the
individuals above, you will be astounded by
the results -- amazed when life suddenly
begins to cooperate from all quarters!
The 1000% Solution
Ever since I purchased my new computer with Windows Vista a year
ago, I have been very pleased with its performance. There has
been one little quirk however. Every time I start up the
computer, it creates a new version of the printer driver through
a series of dialogue boxes that I have to click my way through.
It was not only an annoyance that occurred every time the system
loaded, but it would cause me to have to pick the right driver
before I printed any document from the computer.
It turns out that I purchased this printer several months before I
purchased my new Vista-based computer. Since Vista generally
works best with new hardware and software built for it, the fact
that I had these quirks with the pre-Vista printer was not
surprising. Still I managed to muddle my way through over the
past year. Recently however I decided that it was time to
eliminate these minor but annoying quirks by purchasing a new
printer that would be fully compatible with Vista.
At the same time there was another situation going on. It turns out
that I refer potential project management software clients to a
local technology company in my area. They are a fine
organization with great expertise and goodwill, but are
generally lax in making their payments. It is not that they are
unwilling to pay, but they seem to be unable to keep their
records up to date. Plus, they seem to have problems
communicating necessary information to the right person. In any
case, it is always up to me to remind them of the money they owe
me. This even after we recently had a lunch meeting where they
told me about a new system they were implementing to tackle this
very problem! Well it turns out that they owed me a relatively
small sum of around $350-$400.
Now back to the printer situation. Recently I made the decision to
purchase the new Vista-compatible printer from Amazon, and
unload my older printer. I expected the new printer to arrive in
about a week to 10 days, but instead it arrived sooner. In fact,
when I came home from some chores last night, I was surprised to
see the printer delivered at my doorstep. And so that night,
though late, I decided to install the printer. After unpacking
the box and setting up the hardware, I had serious trouble
installing the software. When I ran it from my CD-player, it
made a terrible whirring sound, and then five minutes into the
installation, it came up with a fatal error message. I restarted
and tried again, and it failed once more. That meant that I had
to call technical support late into the evening to resolve the
problem.
When I spoke with the woman there, it did not seem very promising,
as she seemed to be merely following a script. As I was tired, I
thought to myself: “Oh the HP printers just don’t work right
with Vista, as do many other things.” In anguish I even said
this to her at one point. Fortunately, she did not react to my
cry in the dark, and calmly continued with her work. Skeptical
and anguished, I decided at one point to give up all my negative
attitudes about the matter, and surrender to her capacity to
resolve the problem. She then had me download the software over
the Web and install it. Though it took a while, it worked
flawlessly. Not too long after, the printer also worked
perfectly. Plus, I now had none of those irritating dialogue
boxes at startup that plagued me for the past year, nor any of
the printing issues related to having multiple drivers. I
clearly saw how my reversal from the negative to a right
attitude had attracted these positive conditions.
The next morning I got up and then checked my email. It was a
message from the company I make referrals to; the one I
described above. It was a note from the president, who told me
that everyone there had been busy and only now had they gotten
around to paying the bill they owed me. That was encouraging.
However, when I examined the amount more closely, I saw that it
was not for $350-$400, but it was for $3540! I.e. 10 times the
original amount! I wondered what was could have caused this, and
then saw that the work I had referred them for one of the
largest companies in the US had unexpectedly increased
tremendously in the last several months!
Instantly I understood the real cause of this extraordinary response. I
saw that the vast increase in the amount was directly related to
my change of attitude the night before; when I calmed myself,
shed my angst and cynicism, and surrendered to the capacity of
the technical support person. By shifting from doubt to faith,
life responded not only by easily resolving my printer problem,
but by attracting a payment the next morning that was 10 times
the amount I expected. Life not only fulfilled my aspiration for
payment, but exceeded it by 1000%!
Change Here, Fulfill (or Super Fulfill) There
When we shift our consciousness to the positive in one area, we often
move life in another area, whether it turns an aspiration unfulfilled
into its fulfillment, or an expected fulfillment into its
super-fulfillment.
Overcome Negative Feeling
Toward Another
If you give up a negative
attitude toward someone or some situation, you will see a tremendously
positive life response; e.g. you might get a promotion, develop never
before demonstrated capacities, be surrounded by nicer people, etc.
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Life reflects on the outside the inner attitudes you have on the on
the inside. Life for you is in essence a reflection of your inner
perceptions of the world. We can surely see the causality between such
negative attitudes and the world around us. If we dislike our boss,
there will be tension and friction as a result. This is a direct cause
and effect relationship that is logical to our minds. What is not so
logical however is the sudden, magical ways life responds to such
changes in attitudes. We call this phenomenon where life positively,
suddenly, abundantly, and miraculously responds to our inner change of
heart and emotion, "Life Response."
Overcoming Our Negative Attitudes
-If we can identify our own unique
individual negative attitudes, and make the concerted effort to overcome
them, not only can we create the right conditions for greater
achievement and joy in life, but also under the right conditions we can
invoke continuous sudden and abundant response from life.
-If our
negative attitudes are acquired through the acquisition of subjective
mental opinions, supported by our vital energies, then the process of
reversing our negative attitudes would occur in an opposite movement
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i.e. by shedding our subjective opinions and replacing them with
objectives truths.
Ego-reversal
and Right Attitudes
When
we move from an ego-supported conscious to non-ego, our negative
opinions, false beliefs, etc. tend to break down, we perceive
become more open to the truer truth of things,
which in effect causes our negative attitudes to dissolve, which under
the right conditions can suddenly elicit a powerful positive response
from life.
Two Inner
Approaches that Will Catapult You to a Whole New Level
of Success
Man
complains that he is not as successful as he would like, yet
does not understand that his inner condition is what directly
blocks further accomplishment in life. There are at least two
major approaches to resolving this problem. One is to look at
negative circumstances occurring outside one's self, and make
the necessary corresponding inner adjustment; the other is to do
an inner evaluation of one's condition in life, find what is
wanting, and make the necessary change. Either will attract
instantaneous good fortune from the world around us.
In the first
approach, I identify a negative circumstance that is happening
in my life, and I relate it to a wanting attitude or behavior
within. I then change that negative, and as a result, life will
suddenly respond with good fortune. This is the principle
of "inner-outer correspondence" in action; that if you change
the inner, life will suddenly respond outside ourselves. For
example, one woman who saw that her ill-will towards another had
precipitated negative circumstances in a completely different
area of her life, decided to change her feelings towards this
woman. She actually came up and congratulated him on winning a
big company prize. As a result, not only did she create good
will with this person, but the organization in which they all
worked suddenly from out of nowhere bestowed a very expensive
gift on every employee, including the woman who changed
her attitude! This is one approach to accomplishing vastly,
beyond one's current limitations.
The other
approach is to "take inventory" of one's self, identify several
wanting qualities, and make the persevering effort to overcome
them. For example, I evaluate myself in such areas as; level of
cleanliness and orderliness, necessary skills, negative attitude
or harmful assumptions, bad habits, whether or not I am
psychologically strong, whether the work I am doing is really
what I want, whether I am fully accepting what life demands of
me, whether I have a clear direction in life, whether I am
emotionally balanced, and so forth. I thus conclude that my
living and work space are completely disorganized, that I have
no focus in my life (I am scattered in my intentions), that I
procrastinate, and that I tend to be unpunctual. I then develop
a comprehensive plan to overcome these and carry it out with a
passionate and determined effort. Life then suddenly responds
miraculous-like with instances of good fortune.
It should
also be pointed out that if we open to the spiritual Force at
each point, we can literally move to the top of our field in
extremely short order; e.g. in months instead of years or even
decades. Thus, in these ways, life becomes a never-ending series
of instances of "instantaneous miraculousness." I call this
phenomenon "Life Response." A great secret is currently being
revealed to the world.
