The Four Tools

Loving Intentions

     There will be times when your reversals are so strong it will be a challenge to lovingly smile through the reversed experiences your reversals create. In times like these you can empower yourself by using your inner conscious (sometimes referred to as your subconscious) to help you. Learning to use your inner conscious gives you another powerful tool.

     There are two major parts of your mind, which we are concerned with here: your conscious and your inner conscious. Your conscious mind is that part of your mind you can control through your intentions and decisions to act. Your conscious mind enables you to focus on anything you wish through the use of any or all of your senses

     Your inner conscious will feed you a line of information, a dialogue on the object of your focus.

     Here is an example:

     If you focus your attention on this black dot . you will find that your inner conscious gives you information that you know to be true, such as, the dot is black; it represents a period, or a dot; it is surrounded by different colors; there are letters all around the dot; it is very small in relation to some things; it is very large in relation to other things. If you concentrate on the dot long enough, you will exhaust the inner conscious of information and you will eventually experience a state of silence, commonly known as spacing out. Of course as soon as you notice you are spacing out, your focus of attention is on spacing out, and your inner conscious starts giving you information on spacing out until you change your focus again.

     Your inner conscious will also feed you information about the dot, such as, the dot has a particular feel, smell, or taste, and a myriad of emotional feelings. Actually, you might not have many emotional feelings about this dot, but if you were focusing upon a beautiful waterfall, or a friend, or life, you could see how this would apply. As soon as you change your point of focus, your inner conscious changes the information dialogue to what you are focusing on. You can focus on anything around you, within you, in your past, present, future, any idea, concept, emotion, feeling. In this way, you move through life learning to make sense of your reality, or your thoughts, or fantasies, through what is commonly known as thinking. Your inner conscious works this way continuously while you are awake. Most of your thinking is analyzing your reality, your feelings, your past, present, future, your fantasies; asking yourself question after question about where you are, what you should do, how you should act and when, to what extent, and so on.

     Presuppositions

     Most of the time when you are thinking, you have what is called a presupposition within your line of thoughts. A presupposition is an attitude if you will, a strong feeling, a belief, about your line of thoughts. The presence of a presupposition moves you to pre-suppose, or to believe, that your life or your situation is going to progress in a certain way. Here is an example: You think, "I just got paid yesterday, yet I do not have any money to spend. This happened last week and this situation is starting to drive me crazy!" The presupposition behind your line of thoughts, the feelings, the attitude is, "I do not have enough money to spend." or "God, why does this keep happening to me?" or "I just cannot make enough money!" When you are thinking these thoughts, your inner conscious is creating the dialog according to your presuppositions, your beliefs about the thoughts.

     Your inner conscious is also creating the feelings this dialog produces. This is another function of the inner conscious, to create your feelings into what you pre-suppose or believe they should be. In this example, your inner conscious is creating the feelings of frustration and dread. If you became aware of your physiology (how you looked) while you were thinking the thoughts, "I just got paid yesterday", you would look and feel frustrated or depressed because your inner conscious would be creating the presuppositions, frustration and dread ("This is driving me crazy!")

     You will find that you have presuppositions about almost everything that you think about, moment by moment. If you learn to become aware of your presuppositions, you will learn a great deal about what you believe about life, and you will put yourself in a position to change the direction of your life, your present experience and your future.

     The easiest way to become aware of your presuppositions is to simply look for them periodically throughout the day whenever you find yourself thinking about different subjects. You will do this naturally if you have the intention to lovingly smile all the time because the intention to lovingly smile makes you aware of your state of mind. What is your attitude when you are working, about money, success, health, eating, relating to your parents, your mate, your children, your friends, God? Are your presuppositions loving or not? What are you pre-supposing to be true?

     Remember that your inner conscious is manifesting your presuppositions into your feelings and your physiology is part of that manifestation. If you watch how your physiology is revealing your attitude, your presuppositions, and your beliefs, it will help you discover the nature of your presuppositions. Are you sitting proudly or are you depressed? Are you smiling or frowning? Are you standing strongly or are you feeling afraid?

     Your inner conscious will always manifest the presupposition that is behind the line of thoughts you are thinking, the reality that you are pre-supposing to be true, until you change the presupposition. Here is how you can use this knowledge of your inner conscious to your advantage, to change the direction of your life. You can change your presuppositions by changing the way you analyze your situations, by changing the questions that you ask yourself. If you ask yourself loving questions about your line of thought or experience, the questions will instantly change your presupposition and thereby change your physiology, the way you feel, how you perceive your situation and, your outcome.

     Here is an example:

     You think these thoughts, "I just got paid yesterday, yet I do not have any money to spend. This happened last week. "How can I learn from this situation?" The presupposition, the feelings and dialog behind this line of thought is "There is something for me to learn here." or "What options do I have?" Simply by changing your analysis, by making your thoughts and questions positive, you change your presuppositions and you pre-suppose there is something to be learned here, which will open you up to the infinite possibilities that are before you. You have not yet received an answer, but the inner conscious immediately starts creating different feelings and a different physiology. You look open, you feel inquisitive, peaceful, maybe even a little excited, and you have the feeling of hope.

     Now, let's take it to the next level. "I just got paid yesterday yet I do not have any money left to spend. This happened last week. How can I learn from this situation and how can I really enjoy the process?" Now the presupposition dialog would be, "There is something exciting to learn about here and figuring this out is going to be fun!" The inner conscious immediately starts creating happy, enthusiastic feelings and a physiology to match. You may also feel excitement and wonder. It is still the same situation as before, but because you decided to ask yourself different questions, loving questions, your whole outlook is very different.

     Now go back over the last three examples and act and speak the examples out loud. You can experience for yourself how changing the questions makes you feel different. Doing this gives you the experience of how you can use your inner conscious to help you in challenging situations.

     In the second and third examples above, you still have not received an answer to your question, but asking the questions opens you to the possibility that it can be different and it can be fun. If you ponder the situation with your new presupposition for a while, you will get answers to your questions, and you will be able to change your line of thinking and your situation. You will be able to make different choices.

     This technique of asking loving questions is powerful because your inner conscious does some of the work for you. It changes the way you feel and starts creating positive feelings that equate to a better experience. Since your inner conscious is creating your feelings, it is nice to know you can use it to help you keep your heart open so you can feel love. There will be times when you fall into habits that produce challenges -- anger, hatred, depression -- reversed emotional experiences that are so strong that it will be a challenge to will yourself out of them. In these moments think positively and ask loving questions, and your inner conscious can help you keep your heart open.

     Here is another example: Suppose you have a reversal of getting angry at people who come to an appointment late. You had an important date planned and your friend arrives thirty minutes late. At five minutes late you can feel yourself starting to become angry. You are presupposing that you should be angry if your friend is late, so your inner conscious dialogue is saying, "I cannot stand it when my friend is late. How can he be so rude!"

     If you want to stay in a loving space, change your presuppositions. Interrupt your inner conscious dialogue by asking positive, loving questions and thinking positive thoughts. "How can I stay in a loving state? Is there something else I could have done to insure that we meet at the right time? This friend has a habit of being late. I have done what I could by giving him careful directions and a schedule. He knows how important this is to me. I do not have control over his actions. Instead of falling into anger, I am going to concentrate on feeling peace and love. I will smile and enjoy this time I have with life."

     If you follow this line of questioning and thinking, it becomes clear that asking and thinking lovingly comes from your intentions. If your intention is to stay in a loving state all the time, you will find it easier to ask loving questions and think positively because your heart is aligned with love. In the example above, if you were to let your mind follow its habitual pattern, by the time your friend arrived, you would probably have been ready to drop a water balloon on his head. You would have been furious, hurt, and disappointed, and your heart would be closed. This would not feel good. But since your intentions were to stay in a loving state, by the time your friend arrived, you would have spent 25 minutes in a loving state. This would empower you to be able to keep your heart open and make a loving decision as to what to do next: carry on with the date and be late, cancel the date, or find something else to do. Your loving state would empower you to make the best decision.

     There are a few generalities that may help you in your questioning and thought processes. Generally, if you are asking yourself "why" questions in your analysis, you may be creating negative presupposition dialogues such as "Why does this keep happening to me, why can't I be successful, why can't I ever win?" and so on. Questions that start with "why" tend to help you feel sorry for yourself and perpetuate fear and dread. Teach yourself to ask questions that start with how and what or just try to make sure your questions are on a positive note.

     Here are some examples of some helpful questions:

     "How can I have fun learning through this situation? What can I learn from this experience? What is funny about this situation?" Humor works very well to control and reverse the feeling of anger.

     “What am I grateful for in this situation?" Being grateful for what you have works very well for sadness, depression, greed, or jealousy.

     "What can I do to help someone?" Putting yourself in a giving mode cures boredom and laziness, and helps move your attention away from pain.

     "Do I really dread this experience, hate this person, hate this job, or is there something I can learn here?" Try to see love, joy and humor in each of your experiences.

     Programming and changing your presuppositions by asking loving thoughtful questions and thinking positive thoughts, is an effective and powerful way to change challenges into learning experiences and to empower yourself to live in love. The ease with which you learn to use this tool depends completely on your intentions in each moment.

     Loving intentions are the key!

     Try to concentrate on being aware of your presuppositions. Is your attitude positive or negative? Are you presenting a strong loving physiology? Is your inner dialogue coming from fear or love? Whatever your presuppositions or your beliefs, your inner conscious will create your feelings accordingly.

     Empower yourself to live in love. Harness your inner conscious by moving your life through loving intentions!

Your life feels the way you believe it should, moment by moment!

Jai-ma

So much love and blessings to you,
Keith Braselton

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