{"id":14,"date":"2009-08-31T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyptalk.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2012-10-12T02:19:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T06:19:19","slug":"why-you-may-be-getting-the-opposite-of-what-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyptalk.com\/blog\/why-you-may-be-getting-the-opposite-of-what-you-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you may be getting the opposite of what you want!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a question a client recently asked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>i have tried to do what you said and ran into something that seems to always happen and that is that when i do my best to think positive for some reason the negative always seems to happen and when i think the negative the positive happens. i have no explanation for this do you. let me give you an example when i go to work on a job and evaluate it i say to myself well this won&#8217;t take long and always it takes twice as long as i thought and when i think that a job will take some time it seems to not take as long as i thought. i am at a loss as to what to think. so confused<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem is in your communication.<\/p>\n<p>Most people really have no idea how to program their minds to do what they want.<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, we learn at a very young age to speak about and think about and therefore feel the negative.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a perfect example that:<\/p>\n<p>First off, you&#8217;re validating that it &#8220;ALWAYS HAPPENS&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The more you keep saying that, the more true it becomes for you.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Secondly, the &#8220;take long&#8221; is the key IDEA in that sentence &#8230; The subconscious mind doesn&#8217;t know words like WONT, DON&#8217;T, NOT, NO, NEVER &#8230;, so yes, you ARE creating the exact opposite of what you want by the mere mention of what you say you DON&#8217;T WANT. You need to say what you DO want.<\/p>\n<p>For example: &#8220;This will only take a short time&#8221; &#8230; like when you said &#8220;some&#8221; time &#8230; it&#8217;s vague &#8230; but I think it&#8217;s pretty congruent that &#8220;Some time&#8221; is probably considerably less than a &#8220;Long Time&#8221; Wouldn&#8217;t you agree?<\/p>\n<p>You are giving yourself direct suggestions and your mind is acting exactly in accordance WITH those suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I even had to catch myself today &#8230; I was having a couple little temporary moment of frustration and said &#8220;The universe is really holding me back today&#8221; I&#8217;m pretty quick at catching myself though and immediately caught it and changed it to &#8230; &#8220;The universe is doing everything in it&#8217;s power to support me today.&#8221; And what a difference it has made in my day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a question a client recently asked: i have tried to do what you said and ran into something that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[167,170,77,85],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success","tag-communication","tag-negative","tag-positive-thinking-2","tag-subconscious-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyptalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyptalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyptalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyptalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyptalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyptalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyptalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyptalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyptalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyptalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyptalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}