This whole series can be reduced to one sentence....

"My consistent thoughts become my reality."

It all boils down to that.

This is not new, of course. It is perhaps the most fundamental rule in all of psychotherapy.

To emphasize this, I list below a few quotes from established literature. Ladies will note (and hopefully excuse) that the male gender is used in these quotes.

That is because they came from men who, at the time, didn't know any better (smile).

• From the Bible: "As a man thinketh, in his heart so is he."
• From Ralph Waldo Emerson: "As a man thinketh, so he becomes."
• From A Course In Miracles: "The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. But though it is no more than that, it is not less. Therefore, to you it is important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive."

Although we don't often hear it stated this way,

the main goal of psychotherapy has always been to have clients change their consistent thoughts so that the quality of their lives (their reality) will shift for the better.

The primary goal has been to get clients to think differently about their traumas, fears, guilt, grief, etc.

in hopes that they will put these things "in perspective" and go about their lives more positively.

Their consistent thoughts, once changed, become their new reality.

Many clients are unaware of The Palace of Possibilities in which they live because

they dwell in their own personal dungeons amidst their thoughts of past abuses, war memories, fear, guilt and the like.

Their consistent thoughts have become their reality and, when they walk into your office, they bring their dungeons with them.

The writing on their walls provides graphic evidence of their personal guilt, shame, etc. and IT IS WRITTEN THERE IN CAPITAL LETTERS, SHOUTING AT THEM.

There is other writing, of course--even some writing of a more positive nature.

However, it is overwhelmed by those capital letters.

Those capital letters become the focus of their thinking--the centerpiece of their existence.

They have become lifetime "limits" and will continue to do so until that writing is erased and replaced.

This reminds me of "Ned," 

 Ned is the ultimate pessimist and is quite proud of it. His conversation consistently turns to the problems in his life, the world, etc.

 and, as you might expect, he has managed to manifest many problems in his reality.

By contrast, I am quite optimistic. In the eyes of some (especially Ned), I would give major competition to Pollyanna.

I am forever looking for opportunity and, interestingly enough, I seem to find it.

Ned also seems to find what he is looking for (problems). He rarely finds opportunity.

We see the world quite differently, yet we are both looking at the same world.

Even if we wentto a movie that was identical for both of us--exactly the same words, pictures, music, etc.-- we had diametrically opposed reactions.

How could this be? The only difference, of course, was what we brought to the movie.

It was our filter (our consistent thoughts) through which we perceived the events and gave them meaning (our reality).

That movie, like life, was the outer projection of an inner state.

Our experience of it was strictly an "inside job." We see life as a projection/reflection of our mind set.

Our consistent thoughts become our reality.

"Yesterday's thoughts have created your present. Today's thoughts are creating your future."

This is yet another way to say, "my consistent thoughts become my reality."

So is, "A happy face does not come by chance, it comes by happy thoughts."

See--the idea is everywhere. Think what you have always thought and you will get what you have always gotten.

We are constantly consulting the writing on our walls.

We do it all day long and the most prominently written words on our walls become our consistent thoughts (and thus our reality).

We would, of course, all like to have a better reality.

We would prefer to have more emotional freedom--to be more spiritually evolved--

to live in the more expansive annexes of our personal Palace of Possibilities.

It follows then, that the way to achieve a better reality is to change our consistent thoughts

because changing our consistent thoughts automatically changes our reality.

I am aware that this is a cognitive sort of approach and, as such, some of it is old (but powerful) stuff.

What takes us to new levels here is the combination of these tools with EFT and the energy approaches.

The tapping technologies clear away (erase) the heavy emotional stuff far more efficiently than do the cognitive approaches.

This relief, together with the creative use of cognitive type tools, allows us to more easily rewrite (replace) the words on our walls.

Once we erase the limiting words from our walls, we can replace them with whatever we want.

Erase and replace. Erase and replace. Our aim here is to approach limitlessness. Oh my!