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The web content discusses the concept of breaking free from self-destructive patterns by changing one's mindset and self-talk, emphasizing personal responsibility in creating a fulfilling life.

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The article titled "Are You Living the Definition of Insanity, Getting Nowhere Fast?" delves into the detrimental cycle of repeating the same negative behaviors and thought patterns while expecting different results, a cycle that drains joy and perpetuates dissatisfaction. It highlights the importance of recognizing and altering these patterns through positive self-talk and affirmations to facilitate spiritual growth and receive the fullness of life's gifts. The author uses a personal anecdote about a friend who is stuck in a cycle of negativity to illustrate the broader human tendency to reinforce what we don't want and to remain passive in our own transformation. The piece encourages readers to take decisive action to shift their perspective and create space for positive change, suggesting that hope alone is insufficient and that grace is something that must be earned through proactive effort.

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  • The author believes that hope is not enough to effect change; action and a shift in perspective are required.
  • There is a strong opinion that individuals are responsible for their own life circumstances, as they are the creators of their reality in a cause-and-effect universe.
  • Negative self-talk and affirmations of what one does not want are seen as reinforcing cycles of negativity and preventing the creation of a better life.
  • The author suggests that people may unconsciously derive a payoff from negative behaviors, which can become addictive and self-perpetuating.
  • Spiritual growth is linked to the recognition and alteration of negative behavior patterns.
  • The article implies that personal transformation is not a passive process; it requires active engagement and a willingness to "shift" one's consciousness.
  • The author posits that life offers abundant gifts, but one must be proactive in creating the space to receive them.

Are You Living the Definition of Insanity, Getting Nowhere Fast?

Understand Why and What to do to Break Free of the Awful Cycle.

Wake up! Are you mad?—doing the same things over and over again hoping for different results?

It’s an exhausting way to live and it drains the joy right out of your life. You’re spinning your wheels and you’re getting nowhere fast.

In fact, you’re reaffirming more of the same of what you say you do not want. You reinforce the cycle and keep on creating it.

And when you continue to affirm “what is,” what you see, you just keep holding it in place.

You leave no room to create anything fresh and new.

We can all identify in many ways with my friend.

I reconnected with a friend last night on the phone, but on her end the talk was a downer.

She gave me the same old tedious litany of everything that’s wrong in her life. I heard just one solitary positive statement.

No wonder I don’t want to hear from her very much.

We all waste a lot of time, maybe even years like my friend, doing two things:

  1. reaffirming what we don’t want and
  2. sitting on our butts doing nothing to change it.

We put it off and we hope. Hope doesn’t cut it. It’s a nice emotion and it’s certainly better than having no hope. And hope can lead us higher up the scale of emotion to more productive ones, but…

Hope isn’t a change maker.

So how do we think anything’s going to change? Is a magical fairy going to sprinkle fairy dust on us? I think that’s what my friend is waiting for.

Sometimes you can receive a kind of magical fairy dust. People call it grace but really and ultimately, all grace is earned. We merit it.

It means that in this cause-and-effect universe you always have to cause the effect.

Reinforcing what you don’t want with constant negative self-talk does two things:

  1. it holds the unwanted in place and
  2. it takes you even further down the negative spiral.

It’s like we wear earmuffs to keep us from hearing the truth about ourselves.

My friend doesn’t hear herself. Many people have pointed out to her many times what we all can so easily see.

She hears to a degree but then chooses to stay in the comfortable trap of only seeing “what is.” She creates no room for any sort of positive aspiration to arise. She just wishes and hopes.

And so her body continues to self-destruct. She gets lonely (people get tired of listening to her) and she’s creating almost nothing to brighten her life.

Why ever would anyone choose the trap of such tunnel vision, of not allowing ourselves to see beyond and far?

My friend does because she gets a payoff for every negative statement and every difficult pain she feels in her body.

And we all do this all the time.

It’s like an addiction. We keep a negative behavior pattern going that leads us to a payoff or climax. It’s a very temporary sort of psychological soothing. It might be a kind of sick reward but we get the climax just the same. And then we’re on to the next climax.

And this repetitive behavior manufactures chemicals in our brains that flood into our bodies giving them another sort of sick reassuring soothing. It becomes a vicious cycle.

It’s part of being human to have behavior patterns all our lives. I’m sure you’ve noticed them in yours. These are the patterns you wish you didn’t live out because they usually come to no good end.

Get with it. Jump in. Don’t dabble. SHIFT!

The point is to recognize them and then do something to shift yourself out of as many as you can. That’s called spiritual growth.

My friend is a great listener, I’ll give her that. She’s the best listener I’ve ever known. But does she hear?

So I took the opportunity to sprinkle some good ideas into our talk. I don’t do that very often because I don’t want to dishonor the journey another person has chosen.

So now it’s up to her to follow through or not so we’ll see.

Get with it. Jump in. Don’t dabble. SHIFT!

It’s absolutely what you’re here to do.

Follow through. That’s the key. And it often takes really shoving ourselves off our comfortable (though unwanted) perches. No one else can do it for you.

Life is waiting for you. It wants to give you every good thing. But you must create the space to receive its gifts.

How do you know if you need to get with it, jump in and shift?

Well, everybody does but also, simply look at your life. The outpicturing of your life will tell you all you need to know.

So if you see a life that’s not the one you feel in the belly of your soul, start by talking to yourself in a whole new way. If you want to understand how, read this post:

Or check out this one:

You really can do it. I wouldn’t say so if I hadn’t done it myself.

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Purusha Radha Starseed, time traveler, wayshower, writer Site: https://bio.site/stargatetrekking Subscribe at my site for bi-weekly spiritual insights. Email me My Conscious Time Travel Book

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