Affirmations are always stated in the first person, present tense as though they are already a reality.

This sets up the system to expect the goal and allows the antenna to search for the "how."

It's a form of conditioning our current thoughts so they find a way to become our new reality.

When we have truly installed new consistent thoughts, our systems naturally and normally (no will power) bring our thoughts and our reality into alignment.

Now when I use EFT to relieve a persons Pain, phobia, addiction, ect...the affirmation used is very different from using EFT to clear the negativity from the walls of your "safe room"

The EFT treatment for pain affirmations tend to have a negative slant because they purposely point toward the *problem* (headache, fear, guilt, trauma, etc.).

This is because attunement to the problem is necessary for EFT to give its relief.

By contrast, affirmations under the Palace of Possibilities are very positive in nature because they point to a desired new reality.

They serve to pull us into more abundant and fulfilling tomorrows.

Differently stated, the EFT affirmations point toward the negative because their purpose is to erase the negative writing on our walls.

The Palace affirmations point toward the positive because their purpose is to install positive writing on our walls.

Our beliefs (consistent thoughts) dominate our self talk and show up in our ordinary conversation.

They roll right out of our faces with great regularity and, if we are attuned to them, we can use EFT to start erasing them from our walls

A woman named Mary wrote this letter to Gary Craig regarding a conflict she had about the affirmations

In that while installing new affirmations she discovered that she hadn't covered all her bases.

Dear Gary: I finally remembered what's been getting in my way re: the Palace of Possibilities.

Twenty years ago, when I first came to California from Europe, I was broke.

I had been studying spiritual/psychological/body-mind practices in London and decided to visualize receiving some income.

I imagined that I had a certain amount of money in my checking account by a particular date and another, larger amount in my savings at a later date.

I visualized this a lot for a while and gradually slacked off until I only occasionally remembered to work on my goal.

On the date I visualized for having a certain amount of money in my checking account, I received a check for that amount of money.

It was a settlement check from the insurance company for my car which had been totaled in a bad accident the previous week.

On the date I had visualized having a certain amount of money in my savings account, I deposited a check for the amount I had visualized.

It was the settlement check for the medical expenses I had incurred as a result of the same accident.

I believe I know what you are thinking....unconscious tail-enders got in my way and attracted the accident as well as the money.

You are probably right. The end result, however, was that this scared me... my power to attract so strongly something I wanted,

accomplished by something that hurt me, has steadily interfered with my ability and willingness to visualize what I want -

 and, in some cases, I believe, with my ability to consciously know what I want.

Even when I am almost ready to learn from my mistakes and try again, I find that the fear of "doing it wrong"

and attracting more catastrophe keeps me in the frying pan.

How can I know that my visualization will not result in tragedy? I was not aware of how I attracted it the first time around.

I am hopeful that remembering and sharing this will help me move on.

All the best, Mary

 Thank you, Mary, for expressing your concerns about what you may be creating with your thoughts/affirmations.

Let me suggest, however, that everything we create is a reflection of our thoughts.

Affirming exact amounts of money is nice. However, it is unlikely that money affirmations and auto accidents go together.

I, for example, have affirmed money goals many times and not once has an accident come about coincident with the creation of money.

If auto accidents and more money go hand in hand then I should be dead or maimed by now.

Your auto accident, to me, is an opportunity, not a problem.

It is evidence of tail enders regarding your rights to having money.

There's no way for me to know that for sure, of course, because I don't dwell within your psyche.

It wouldn't surprise me, however, to find some writing on your walls about not deserving money.

Perhaps something like, "those with money deserve to be punished because____________."

That's a guess, of course, and is only designed to set you, and others, on a search for EFT'able tail enders.

Perhaps you have been given a big message. Say to yourself, "I may have deserved that accident because__________"

and see what comes up. Then address those tail enders with EFT to clear the way to financial abundance.

As long as you have writing on your walls that says, "more money means more accidents," you are not likely to live on Moolah Mountain.

Accidents don't have to happen. Neither do things like poverty, overweight, loneliness, etc. These things are all realities born out of consistent thoughts.

You're right! This kind of thing can be scary until, of course, we understand what is going on.

When we recognize the true power of our thoughts, it behooves us to learn how to harness and direct them.

That's what the Palace of Possibilities is all about. Allowing our thoughts to unfold at random puts us at the mercy of our thoughts rather than vice versa.

We have powers that go well beyond our three dimensional world.

We need only harness and direct them in order to create personal realities that transcend our current beliefs.

To me, this is an absolute truth that comes from my own subjective experience. It's not even debatable.

To some folks, however, this is woo woo stuff that does not lend itself well to three dimensional scientific scrutiny.

I don't care. It's true anyway. The true power of our thoughts is immense. We have glorious potential that is contained only by the "limits" written on our walls.

This subject gets my motor running and motivates me to tell you a personal story.

As most of you know, I have no formal training in psychotherapy. Nor do I have licensing of any kind.

I do have extensive training, however, most of which is self taught and highly practical.

It has given me many insights and has allowed me to be a director of my own destiny. My training started at age 13 and I have intensely pursued it for over 45 years.

At age 13, my world revolved around baseball.

I didn't know anything about affirmations at the time but I did receive many lessons regarding the power of daydreams.

I daydreamed constantly about baseball. In my mind I threw pitches, fielded grounders, made spectacular catches in the outfield,

 hit home runs, stole bases and received endless awards & applause for my performance as a baseball player.

My daydreams were specific. I imagined hitting Dick Farley's fast ball and Wayne Tennell's curve ball over the fence.

I imagined exactly where the pitches would be. High & outside in one case and at the knees in the other.

These things happened --exactly as imagined. Coincidence?

The uninitiated might think so, but that is their limitation.

The imagery in the dream and the creation in reality were identical. To me, coincidence had nothing to do with it.

At age 16, I was playing first base for the Riverside, California Colt League All Stars.

We were about to play the final game in the West Coast All Star Tournament, the winner of which would go on to the world series in Chicago.

The game was played at night so we had the whole day to wander about and, in my case, get nervous.

I remember watching the Little League World Series on television that afternoon. In the middle of that game,

a ground ball was hit to the shortstop who fielded it and threw the ball errantly to the right of the first baseman.

The first baseman acrobatically hit the ground with one toe on the base and stretched as far as he could in an effort to catch the ball.

It hit his glove and rolled about two feet from his nose.

He alertly grabbed the ball with his bare right hand and held it up to show the umpire just in time for the runner to be called out.

I was impressed and rehearsed (daydreamed) that scenario many times in my mind just in case that circumstance ever came about while I was playing.

At the end of the game, the last batter hit a ground ball to that same first baseman.

The first baseman fielded it, ran toward first base, jumped high in the air and landed triumphantly on the base

with both feet as a way to emphasize his team's victory. This, too, impressed me. What a glorious way to end a game, I thought. More daydreams.

That night, as our game progressed,

both events occurred PRECISELY AS I HAD SEEN THEM ON TELEVISION AND PRECISELY AS I HAD DAYDREAMED THEM.

In the middle of the game, Carl Chapman, our shortstop, threw the ball to me in the same errant way as occurred on television--low and to the right.

I hit the deck and stretched for the ball. It hit my glove and rolled about two feet from my nose.

I picked it up with my bare hand and showed it to the umpire who called the runner out just in the nick of time.

Anyone who wants to call this coincidence is welcome to do so. Pshaw! What happened was the

IDENTICAL creation in the real world of a vividly imagined daydream. The odds of that being a coincidence is a trillion or so to one.

At the end of the game the supposed last batter hit a ground ball to me just as occurred in the previous Little League game.

It was even in the same place on the field. I got so excited that I muffed the catch and created the only error I had made all season.

The runner was safe on first base, much to my embarrassment.

The next batter, however, hit an IDENTICAL ground ball to me. This was astonishing.

It was as though my daydream was being given a second chance. This time I fielded the ball, ran toward first base,

leaped high in the air and landed triumphantly with both feet on first base. To call that coincidence would require a complete rewrite of our statistics textbooks.

The replay of both those instances was a mirror image of my previously detailed daydreams.

It was as though I choreographed the whole thing and commanded it to happen with my thoughts.

Is this REALLY what happened? It sure seemed that way, but who knows?

I do know, however, that many people experience this sort of thing (including many reading this) and tend to dismiss it because it doesn't happen regularly.

That's a mistake.

What we really need to do is study these vivid occurrences and learn what happened.

The fact that we can do it in such a detailed way now and then should be heralded, not dismissed.

If we learned how we do these things, we could do them consistently and create our realities with even more specificity.

From this early beginning I saw the link between my thoughts and my reality.

It wasn't until later that I came up with the phrase, "our consistent thoughts become our reality."

As a youngster and beyond, I kept noticing how I could take myself in thrilling directions by the consistent application of focused thought.

 I also noticed how my negative thoughts took me in directions, too.

Until I was about 20 years old, for example, I didn't think I was very attractive.

Why? Because I laid on my back a lot as a baby and my soft skull became flat in back.

Kids called me "flathead" and I took it to be a personal defect. I thought the girls wouldn't like me and saw plenty of evidence for that.

In retrospect, however, there was also plenty of evidence that I was attractive.

But I just didn't see it (remind me someday, and I'll tell you about Sherry B.--a lost opportunity--oh sob!).

My belief was that I wasn't attractive and so that became my reality.

When I finally managed to land a girl friend I was so happy that I clung to her with desperation.

I guess I was always waiting for her to discover my flat head. Eventually, however, my head rounded out a bit and I gave up that unattractive self talk.

In either event, whether I thought I was attractive or unattractive, my consistent thoughts became my reality.

And they are still becoming my reality. What I think today is giving shape to my tomorrow's.

My tomorrow's can be my choice. So can yours.

 We can establish any direction we choose OR we can continue to allow our existing thoughts to take us in our existing directions.

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So what do you think Gary was trying to tell Mary?

To not let FEAR limit your daydreams.

Consider the consequences, yes, but any move you make in your life is going to include an element of risk

Some things are worth the risk, and some aren't, but you need to make sure that the reason they may not be acceptable risks

isn't ruled by negative malarky written on your walls!!