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A
person who has the snakes or spiders as pets associates feeling
good with them, while another person might feel fear. These
people both can picture a spider or snake in their mind, the
difference is the emotion they associate with thought. The
emotion is what energizes the thought and motivates you into
action. The type of emotion you associate with the thought
determines the type of action or response.
If you were visiting one of these
people who had a snake for a pet and they were encouraging
you to have a look at it or touch it. You could respond with
fear or interest, your actions could be to do everything you
could to avoid any contact or to be keen to feel and touch
it.
The
response you have to the snake has probably been determined
by your childhood experiences. Through simple conditioning,
your subconscious mind has been taught to associate particular
emotions with a thought. You have the ability to change that
conditioned response, like the woman who had the nightmares
of the giant spider chasing her.
Uncontrolled emotional responses
can waste enormous amounts of your personal energy resources.
One of the secrets of Positive Thinking is to learn to use
your energy wisely and efficiently by learning to have control
and focus your emotional energy onto what you want.
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