THE SMALL CHILD

Let's look at a couple of examples that demonstrate this. Say you have a small child, say four to five years old, who leaves their room in a mess, you want them to learn to tidy up the room. Most people would say to the child "Don't leave that room in a mess." Now let's look at what the translator has to translate into a picture, feeling or emotion so the subconscious can understand it. Don't is not translatable, where as "leave that room in a mess", makes a nice picture instruction.

So the child obediently carries out the instruction and leaves the room in a mess. Now he can't understand why you are so upset. Your own subconscious mind is like this child, it has a limited understanding of speech. Yes it will be conditioned to eventually understand that "don't", means think twice about this statement or you could get a good smack on the bum. But it is much better to understand how to communicate clearly what you want. This can prevent a lot of unnecessary suffering and the learning curve will be faster. For instance, with the child you say what you want, "Leave the room tidy". This creates a nice clear picture of what you want doesn't it?

Negative statements like don't, won't, can't and not are not making clear pictures of what you want. Say Jim wants to stop smoking, so he goes around saying "I am not going to smoke". Now his consious mind knows what he means, but this statement creates a clear picture of smoking in the subconscious.

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