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Personal Growth and Science?

One of the questions that a lot of people have is - how can you use "science" in the same sentence with personal growth, manifesting your dreams or spirituality? It would seem that "hard" science has nothing to do with "soft and squishy" human issues.

For those of you who know me only as a newsletter writer, you should know that I have an engineering degree and spent many years in high technology and science. I have a real need, myself, for scientific grounding in everything I do. So let's look at this question.

First, let's agree that science has nothing to say about beliefs and other subjective experience, whether they are true or not. They cannot be measured. However, science can measure the effects of those beliefs in your life. And that's what I want to talk about - the effects in your life.

What is science? Well, the essence of science, for our purposes, consists of measurement and repeatability. Every new scientific discovery is tested by other scientists who conduct the same experiment and see if they get the same results. If not, the results and theory are not accepted.

Can we apply this idea to success and personal growth? Yes, not only can we, but we absolutely must do that is we want predictable results. In his book, "Science of Getting Rich", Wallace Wattles says, "It is a natural law that the same causes always produce the same effects." So if it's not repeatable, it's not science.

So how would we put this to work in our lives? Let me use a simple analogy - baking an apple pie. Any cook will tell you that there are three things you need to be successful - the right recipe, the right ingredients, and the right process. Every cook tinkers with this formula a little bit to make it their own, but you have to stick reasonably close to the formula or you don't get a decent apple pie. You can see that this is a "scientific process" because it has a repeatable formula.

So let's apply this to our own lives and ask how we can "bake" the life we want. It seems that we will need a recipe, the right ingredients, and a process. There's a lot of people running around with recipes and most leave out what I think are vital ingredients so it's no surprise that people are confused.

Here's what I've found, after 10 years of study. There are six ingredients - a powerful, exciting life purpose, a clear and distinct vision of what living that purpose looks like, strong and complete belief that you can and will have it, continuous gratitude for every part of your life, expelling the limiting beliefs and attitudes that do not support you, and courageous, effective action.

Notice that money, talent, location, connections, being old enough, being young enough, being smart enough, etc, etc are not on the list. If you think those are necessary, that's a limiting belief that you need to clear. If you think you need to know how to do it all to get started, that's a BIG limiting belief that you need to discard. It's not on the list of ingredients!

Discarding limiting beliefs is like purifying the ingredients in the apple pie. You wash the apples and cut out any spoiled spots so you have clean crisp apples to work with. Limiting beliefs contaminate the success recipe, and the number one limiting belief is that there's not enough. Not enough time, talent, money, customers, good employees, etc. There is always enough, and more.

Here's the process that goes with the recipe. You must start with the purpose, then create the vision that expresses it. Many people start with goals,and the pie is a failure. Start with purpose.

You must get so excited and confident about what you're doing that you totally expect it. When you put the pie in the oven, do you wish and hope and pray that a pie will come out? Heck, no! You KNOW it will. And that's the kind of expectation that you need.

Season with gratitude. Gratitude for everything, even the challenges and setbacks. Be grateful for the learning experiences, the people, the events, for all of it. As Wattles says, "Gratitude keeps you connected to the Source of all your good." Gratitude makes your heart sing, and attracts more good things.

When you have these 5 things in operation, then apply effective action. That means putting your purpose, vision and faith into everything you do. You supercharge your activities with purpose. You'll also need to act with courage because you'll be changing and growing. You'll be outside your comfort zone, but you'll realize that everything you really want is always just outside your comfort zone. You become comfortable with being uncomfortable.

An important part of effective action is trusting your inner knowing, your intuition, to guide you in what to do. You don't have to know how, when you start, because your purpose, vision and faith program your mind and the Universe to guide you a step at a time.

But you may need to train yourself to immediately follow your intuitive leadings. Joe Vitale likes to say, "The Universe loves speed." The more sensitive you are and the faster you act, the better your results.

I'm writing this article because I was thinking about science and spirituality while I was cooking breakfast about an hour ago and the article started to form in my mind. I really felt inside that this was important so I put my other projects on hold and sat down to write. Follow your intuition to develop effective action.

Now here's the science conclusion. Follow this recipe with these ingredients and process, and your success will come out of the oven like a delicious apple pie. It's repeatable. As Wattles says, "There IS a science to getting rich." Rich in body, mind and spirit.

Can I guarantee your results for you? No, because I don't know how good a cook you are or how pure your ingredients are. But just like the people who publish cookbooks, I know the recipe works.

Need any cooking lessons? Got the ingredients? You can get the help you need to bake the pie you want here.

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posted by Wes Hopper @ 9:32 AM