The first law that I discovered was the Law of Control. This law says that, “You feel happy to the degree to which you feel you are in control of your own life. You feel unhappy to the degree to which you feel you are not in control of your own life.”
Modern psychology calls this “Locus of Control Theory.” Psychologists
differentiate between an internal locus of control and an external locus of control. Your locus of control is where you feel the control exists in each area of your life. This location determines your happiness or unhappiness more than any other
factor.
For example, if you feel that you are the primary creative force in your own life, that you make your own decisions, and that everything that happens to you is a result of yourself and your own behaviors, you have a solid internal locus of control. As a result, you will feel strong, confident and happy. You will think with greater clarity and perform at higher levels than the average person.
The next law I discovered was the Law of Belief. This is the basic principle that underlies most religion, psychology, philosophy and metaphysics. The Law of Belief says that, “Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.”
In the New Testament it says, “According to your faith, it is done unto you.” In the Old Testament, it says, “As a man thinketh, in his heart (his beliefs), so is he.” William James of Harvard wrote, “Belief creates the actual fact.”
The fact is that, “You do not believe what you see, but rather, you see what you already believe.” Your deeply held beliefs form a screen of prejudices that distort your external reality and cause you to see things not the way they are, but the way you are
The next law that I discovered is the Law of Expectations. This law says that,
“Whatever you expect, with confidence, becomes your own self-fulfilling
prophecy.” In other words, you do not necessarily get what you want, but rather
what you expect.
If you confidently expect something to happen, this expectation has a powerful
effect on your attitude and your personality. The more confident your expectations,
the more likely it is that you will do and say the things that are consistent with what you expect to happen. As a result, you will dramatically increase the
probabilities that you will achieve exactly what you are hoping for.
One of the wonderful things about expectations is that you can manufacture your
own. You can get up each morning and say; “I believe something wonderful is
going to happen to me today.” As you go through the day, you create a force field
of expectations that surrounds you and effects the people with whom you come in
contact. And in some remarkable way, a series of wonderful things, both large and
small, will happen to you throughout the day.
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