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Outprogramming
Your Past Self
By Peter Nguyen - Apr 28, 2008
The key to success lies in developing the capacity to mentally outprogram the past self that is no longer you.
Meditation is often very powerful in deprogramming oneself in order to become a new, better person.
That's because meditation, when done properly for 10-20 minutes per day, empties the mind of thoughts. You can actually count the number of thoughts you have per second (or TPS, for Thoughts Per Second).
As you reduce your TPS through practiced meditation, you'll be able to be FREE to create a new you, a new future, a new life.
I call it "deprogramming" and many authors refer to the same process, although they use different words. Anthony Robbins, in his book Awaken the Giant Within, for instance talks about one's life experiences, values, habitual questions and states. When you change these, you are on the path of self-transformation because they often act as hidden, yet powerful, levers and drivers of thoughts, speech and behavior.
Most people act in a certain way, or think in a certain way, because that is how they (subconsciously or consciously) programmed themselves to be.
But it is possible to deprogram oneself, or "change one's mind."
Frederick de Klerk did this, by saying yes whereas he was saying no before, and helped to end Apartheid in Africa. Gorbatchev did something similar and helped to bring down the Berlin Wall.
Do you HAVE to change your mind or deprogram yourself?
It all depends on the extent to which you are currently living the life you WANT to live. If you're not getting what you want out of life, it may be a good time to examine your mental programming (your beliefs, values, identity, habitual questions, etc.).
If you ARE living the life of your dream, maybe you should write a best-seller and become insanely rich! :-)
My point is, personal transformation requires brutal honesty. And this is hard to achieve.
But once you've decided to change and create a better life for yourself, then examining critically the content of your mind (and indeed your mental "programming" from your parents, culture, education, media, etc.) in order to keep the good ideas, thoughts, and beliefs -- and rejecting the rest -- may be the most important thing you do to ensure your wealth, success and happiness in this life.
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