The Jude Thaddeus Program - Chapter 5

To Fear is Not to Fear

When you look at the charts in the preceding chapter you get a glimpse of your problems. You know you have certain thoughts and emotions that bring you pain as well as those that bring happiness. In order to attain a quality of life that is better than the one you have now a process of replacement must occur.

What is most important to understand is that every person has an infinite capacity for positive thought (those thoughts that are in accordance with the Laws), but a limited brain and emotional capacity for those items in the negative column. You never hear someone complain, “It felt too good.”

These negative patterns in life are like roots that grow deep in a person’s spirit, never allowing the person to grow past the hurt, anger, and frustration caused by their negativity. This is a process of stagnation. This unwillingness to change causes people to remain immature and prevents growing into a fully matured adult. Unhappiness and depression are the fruits of these unchanging thought patterns and actions.

The basic cause of all negative emotion and thought is fear. Fears cause a rash of self-centered behavior that reinforces the need for more negative, faithless thinking. This pattern eventually devours the part of the spirit reserved for positive emotion and thought. Fear creates more fear and a person lives in crisis, reacting daily to each result of his or her fear-based decisions.

You are not damaged goods or defective in any way; you simply need to make better choices. This is what people who are successful in life do every day. They have just as much potential for misery, yet they view their circumstances with positive faith that things will get better, and then they act accordingly. The hard work necessary to change one’s life is what you avoided while getting drunk or high. Don’t continue this pattern now that you have gained sobriety.

Learning to change all the things in your life that bring unhappiness is what this book is about.

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