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One of the obstacles to improving our thought patterns is the emotional and spiritual “baggage” that we drag around with us. Should you observe a man carrying around a heavy stone for forty years, you would think him quite mad. And yet we carry many heavy stones within us that we took on in our childhood years. Things that are carried that long, are not easily released. We cling to them out of habit, even though we curse their weight. We are told to let go, and yet we fear that as much as we fear jumping off a cliff.

Most of us are familiar with the idea of “positive reinforcement”. The opposite of that is “negative reinforcement”. In some fashion, we are getting “paybacks” from clinging to old wounds, fears and shame. However, living in those negative spaces is what keeps us from evolving to a higher consciousness.

It is not an easy process to rid ourselves of these things, but we can do it, one step at a time. Spend some time monitoring your thought patterns and your reactions to things.

Observe what old behaviors you are reverting back to. Then find some positive replacements for those things. If you spend each day, eliminating negative thought and “old pattern reaction” you have set out on the road to a higher self.  

Enjoy the journey.

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