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The 5 vs. 1 Principle
By paul | August 11, 2008
If you are like most people, you probably focus most of your attention on the external or physical aspects of the goal achievement process.
The problem with looking at externals is that they change like the weather. Putting too much emphasis on conditions that are constantly changing is placing your energy into less than advantageous places.
This is precisely where a personal life coach can help you…
Setting and achieving your personal goals is not nearly as difficult as you might think.
The operative word here is ‘think’. Why? Because most people don’t think of the fact, that there are natural creative forces constantly working on their behalf. These forces work to bring about the realization, the manifestation, of their goals. Just thinking about and believing in a ‘greater power’ being with you, helping you achieve your goals, makes all the difference!
The 5 to 1 Principle
There is a phenomenon that is constantly operating on you. The 5 vs. 1 principle.
Because you are human, you have a tendency to judge by appearances. You do this by employing your five senses. Sight, sound, touch, taste and smell tend to create reactions within you that make you tend to believe what you can physically see, hear or feel. Most of the time, especially when you just begin to start working toward a new goal or dream, what “appears” to be real isn’t. All outer appearances may signal that you are nowhere near that which you seek to attain. This causes you to adjust your opinions, expectations and beliefs accordingly, usually in a negative way. When you do this you fail to realize that you are making decisions on “bad data”. When you focus on externals only, you make judgments and decisions on incorrect premises that hamper results and inhibit your natural goal achievement process. In fact, can even limit your ability of being fully alive, if you let it.
Most people judge by appearances. Appearances are quite often, very deceiving. Due to the natural tendency of human beings to let fear, doubt and worry creep into their mind, whenever things turn out to match those negative emotions the appearance is perceived to be real. And, when you perceive that the circumstance is real then your perception becomes your reality. At this point you impose limitations on yourself that are faulty, but your deeper mind doesn’t know the difference because it can’t choose. It only carries out the wishes (choices) of your conscious mind’s thinking and reasoning!
One of the best examples I can give involves finances. If someone looks in their checking
account and sees a balance of $25.00, they tend to think; “I only have $25.00 and I can’t afford this or that”. Thus the direction that is given to your ‘deeper’ mind is; I believe this condition is real and thus your energy pool to draw from is limited. In other words, your mind will come up with ways to make sure that the limitation you’ve imposed on yourself is carried out with to the letter of your belief!
It’s the old “tip of the iceberg phenomena”. There is always much more going on deep below the surface. When we judge and believe only by what we see, we’re setting a trap for ourselves called ‘limitation’.
It’s as if you needed ice and had all the ice you wanted in the form of an iceberg that you owned. Then when someone wanted to buy an entire iceberg of ice from you, but, you could only see the tip of the iceberg (believing that this was all you had in your “inventory’) so you didn’t fill their order! The part of the iceberg under the water is the limitless potential of your sixth sense.
The five senses are in direct contrast to this inner ‘sixth sense’. Your sixth sense is where your drive, imagination, intuition, etc… come from. This is your spiritual side. It is constantly giving you cues as to what to do to make life better.
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