Mistakes, Difficult People, Difficult Situations

“Let me ask you, have you ever made a mistake? Little ones, big ones,
maybe made the same mistake more than once? Sure you have. You have, I have,
haven’t we all? Show me a person who hasn’t made a mistake and I’ll show you a
complete idiot. But when we make mistakes we kick ourselves don’t we? How
could I have been so stupid to make such a dumb mistake, you’ve said to
yourself. But mistakes aren’t stumbling blocks, they’re building blocks.
Building a smarter you, a more compassionate you, a more knowledgeable you.”
As children we learn that mistakes are bad and we get punished for them. It
makes perfect sense that we continue that programming into adult life. This is
a great way to be self-defeating, and I think we are all guilty of it. When
people have made huge mistakes, been abused, or their life is in the toilet, I
generally relay the following to them. It’s very important to put their life
into perspective. The following patter has a huge impact on that subconscious
computer.

“Have you ever had to deal with difficult people? They’re out there aren’t
they… but again they are there for a reason and that reason is for you to learn
and grow from them. What about difficult situations, have you ever gone through
one of those? Put it to you like this… Imagine you were born into a family of
great wealth. I’m not talking about millions of dollars, I’m talking about
billions of dollars and you got everything you ever wanted handed to you on a
silver platter. When you learned how to ride a bike you received one hundred of
the best bicycles ever made. When you learned how to drive you had your pick of
any car in the world! You never make mistakes, your parents never made any
mistakes either, no one is ever difficult to deal with and you have never gone
through a difficult situation in your life. Everyone who is the opposite sex
falls in love with you and everyone else wants to be your best friend. Now tell
me… When you are very old looking back over this imaginary life do you honestly
think that you would have learned a lot of life’s lessons living a life like
this? (No) No, I didn’t think so and that’s why you make mistakes. That’s why
you’ve dealt with difficult people and difficult situations so you can learn and
grow, and you have learned, you have grown. Now you’re beginning to understand
what life is really all about. It’s not about money and having everything
always working out. Put it to you this way, I’ve never seen a hearse pulling
into a cemetery with a suitcase strapped on top of it, meaning you can only take
with you what you learn, and you have learned, you have grown. Mistakes,
difficult people, and difficult situations are all one thing and that one thing
is - a lesson. We learn and grow by going through these lessons.”

“Now I want you to imagine that you are in heaven and haven’t come down
here to live your life yet. It doesn’t matter what your belief system is just
play along with me on this one. Imagine that there is a level system. We’ll
say level one through six (I got this idea from the LBL book). The level ones
and twos are newbie’s, it’s not that they are dumb but they haven’t learned a
lot of lessons yet. On the other hand the level sixes are very advanced. They
have learned many lessons and are much wiser. Okay, you’re in heaven and let’s
say you’re a level four. The higher ups come to you and ask, “How would you
like to advance and become a level five?” Wow! You get all excited, a level
five, heck yea! What do I have to do, tell me! They say, “Calm down, calm
down, it’s not that easy. You’ll have to go down to the school called earth and
live a life. When that life is over, after going through many lessons you will
return here and will then be a level five. You get all excited, okay I’m in.
I’ll do it! Here’s the thing, (and I loudly get out a notebook and a pen and
start listing out my clients problems as I checkmark them off on the page).
You’re mother will beat you, your father will leave the family when you are five
years of age, you will be raped when you are ten, you will become a drug user,
you will…”

Author Tim Bartley

Excerpt from the book Holy Moly it's Hypnosis by Tim Bartley

http://ThoughtBecomesReality.com