If we could ever grasp the fact that all experience is self-created and part of our learning process, then terms like 'negative' and 'positive' would have very little meaning. But it we are unhappy and suffering, then the word 'negative' begins to take on meaning.

From the Soul's, or greater Self's, point of view, there is nothing wrong with the negative belief that we are helpless victims of disease, old age and death, for we will eventually learn our power over these thought-forms. Meanwhile our ignorance of reality causes a great deal of unnecessary suffering.

If you have a deep inner conviction, a root belief, that 'Man is inherently evil' of 'Life wasn't meant to be easy, suffering is normal,' your belief will cause to spring up about it events that only serve to reinforce that belief. From all the physical data of radio, television, the newspapers, and private communications, you will concentrate the focus of your mind only on those issues that 'prove, your belief. Your belief will enter into the most personal aspects of your life until no evidence to the contrary to the contrary will be able to disapprove your belief. You will end up fearing life and avoiding experience. By avoiding experience you hope to avoid being hurt. Some belief!

Here is a list of some crippling root-beliefs: "Love has passed my by." "War is unavoidable." "To become a neutral country is to invite attack." "God will punish me." "Death is permanent." "Money is the root of all evil." "I am a born failure." "People in power are corrupt."

You make your own reality. Your beliefs and attitudes exist first and the event follows. "Nothing of itself is evil, but if you believe a thing to be evil, that thing becomes evil." Jesus of Nazareth.

It is of greatest importance that you acknowledge the existence of joyful experiences and recollect those aspects of your own experience with which you have had success. Capture that feeling of accomplishment and transfer it to any areas of your experience where you have had difficulties.

The vitality and strength of your beliefs, whether liberating or limiting, will be quite real and will bring you physical results. Nevertheless, your ideas are still only beliefs about reality. They are not reality itself.

Be very careful of invisible root-beliefs. A root-belief is only invisible when you think of it as a FACT OF LIFE, and not as a belief about life. For example, "I am dying of an incurable disease!" If you identify with that belief utterly and completely, you automatically focus your perceiving along that specific line and you CREATE that 'reality'.

Keep on reminding yourself that your beliefs can work for your advantage. Its up to you. "Physician, heal thyself!". That's addressed to you, man.