Note: This was something a friend of mine shared with my by email some time ago. He's big into Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and how to use it. I think you may find this essay interesting and hopefully useful!

Moloch, the short of it is: Negatives don't exist!

There's no such thing as "No __(Something)__" in the reality. It's only a construct of the human mind. You won't be able to find ideas like "No respect", "No trust", "No luck" anywhere but in someone's own mind. You won't be able to actually observe the lack of any beingness, doingness, or havingness around you. There are all kinds of things one can observe in the world. Not one of them is a negative.

Our world is full of things that're there - but ideas about what ought to be there, and yet isn't, relate to people's mental & emotional responses to what IS there. Think about that for a moment.

Negation is ONLY a mental construct and one that only seems to make any sense for the conscious portion of the person. The sub-conscious ignores negation. Allow me to repeat that once again: THE SUB-CONSCIOUS PART OF OUR MIND IGNORES NEGATION!

If you try hard NOT to think of an purple elephant you probably aren't very successful. The only way of understanding it is to start out by thinking of an elephant and then think "That's what I won't think about". But you already did of course. It's an elephant regardless of whether you are saying yes or no to it. If you concentrate on what you don't want, you're feeding it energy. Does not matter if you desire or fear something, you'll start attracting it just the same. If you focus on anything with emotional intensity, you will magnetize it towards you! That is a given.

This is often very puzzling for my clients to understand. Very often they will come and ask me to help them get rid of something such as they want "No Anger" or "No Failure" or something like that. That doesn't work! Why? Because opposing their existing behavior will just make it worse!

They'll need to accept what they already have, and only then can they transform. Trying to negate it will just energize it further. I cannot oppose anything the client is or does because this only polarizes them further and that obviously will not help.

I'm trying to help him/her to get beyond the polarization. for example, FEAR is feeds off what one does not want. Being afraid of X has about the same effect as saying "I really want X". The difference is only mental gymnastics because our sub-conscious minds do not care. It's all the same to it.

So what can you do? Convert negatives to positives when you can. If the you don't want something, what do you want instead? If you think you have a no-something there, find out what you actually perceive there that causes you to label it that way.

In a similar vein, there is no such thing as a lack in the real world. Any perception of lack is generated in the person's mind. Whatever is there IS there! A "lack" is not something that can be there. Which makes it a sticky issue. It's difficult to grasp something that isn't there.

People tend to get in trouble with things that are not there. When people operate out of symbols in their minds, and when they think that the symbols are real, then all kinds of complexities can ensue!

For example, one puts labels on phenomena one encounters, and then one forgets the actual phenomena and thinks that the label is what happened. Transformational processing is intended to clear up misunderstandings like that. We sort out the relationships between what's actually there and what one represents in one's mind. We thus need to clear up the semantic responses.

If I look at my wallet and I have the idea that there are supposed to be some green pieces of paper with numbers in it, and there aren't, then I might put the label on the situation: "No Money". That is not what is there, however. "No money" is not a thing, there is no existence to it. What is there in my hand is a wallet. Maybe the idea of "No Money" will motivate me to go and do something productive. Then, this labeling is probably a useful thing to do. But it might also make me depressed and make me put some more limiting labels on myself. I am a "loser" because I have "no money" in my pocket, and therefore "I won't be successful with anything".

Whereas if I would have started from a more positive angle I would've gone in a different direction. "There's my wallet. Hmmmm, let me see, what should I put in that? Some money, maybe? Let me find somewhere to get money ..."

Negation is one of the key things for the individual to resolve to get on with materializing what it is they truly desire in life.

I hope this helps.

Rudy

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