From the film What the Bleep Do We Know!?

“I wake up in the morning and I consciously create my day the way I want it to happen. Now sometimes, because my mind is examining all the things that I need to get done, it takes me a little bit to settle down and get to the point of where I’m actually intentionally creating my day. But here’s the thing: When I create my day and out of nowhere little things happen that are so unexplainable, I know that they are the process or the result of my creation. And the more I do that, the more I build a neural net in my brain that I accept that that’s possible. (This) gives me the power and the incentive to do it the next day.

“So if we’re consciously designing our destiny, and if we’re consciously from a spiritual standpoint throwing in with the idea that our thoughts can affect our reality or affect our life — because reality equals life — then I have this little pact that I have when I create my day. I say, ‘I’m taking this time to create my day and I’m infecting the quantum field. Now if (it) is in fact the observer’s watching me the whole time that I’m doing this and there is a spiritual aspect to myself, then show me a sign today that you paid attention to any one of these things that I created, and bring them in a way that I won’t expect, so I’m as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things. And make it so that I have no doubt that it’s come from you,’ and so I live my life, in a sense, all day long thinking about being a genius or thinking about being the glory and the power of God or thinking about being unconditional love.

“I’ll use living as a genius, for example. And as I do that during parts of the day, I’ll have thoughts that are so amazing, that cause a chill in my physical body, that have come from nowhere. But then I remember that that thought has an associated energy that’s produced an effect in my physical body. Now that’s a subjective experience, but the truth is is that I don’t think that unless I was creating my day to have unlimited thought, that that thought would come.”

(Dr. Joe Dispenza in What the Bleep Do We Know!?)

Clink! The shaving gel hits porcelain. I pick it up, turn ‘round and … Dink! Wide-tooth comb at 1:00, knocked down off its perch. I laugh, “I’m such a spazz!”

Pause, review, remove.

Because … What was that? Did I hear a label being tossed around? I hate the word “hate” but I apologize in advance, I really must use it here:

I hate labels.

They don’t feel good. Plus when you get right down to it, they’re verbal post-it notes. They never stick.

Think about it:

Guy’s supposed to come fix your cable. Doesn’t show. What a jerk! “Jerk?” Maybe.

Or maybe he’s a cable guy. A cable guy who didn’t come.

Same guy brings home a puppy to his daughter. Sweet! Sweet guy. He now has two post-it’s stuck to his forehead:

Sweet.

Jerk.

What a sweet jerk!

And about a million other things.

Y’see, with labels it’s all or nothin’. Either we acknowledge that he’s everything from dark to light … or we remove his dark label and talk about the action, not the person.  I prefer label removal. Observe:

“I’m such a spazz.”

Or

“I knocked the over the shaving gel. I knocked over the comb.”

Hmm. Feels better already.

Here’s the technique:

Pause: “Hang on a sec, I notice I just labeled somebody.” (Self or other, same rules apply). Not to worry, happens all the time with us humans.

Review: Rewind and look back. What was your misperception? Or what was your over-generalization? What did you think or say that was only a half-truth? Labels usually involve one of these.

Remove: Get real and super-truthful. Talk about the exact action instead of the exaggerated name or adjective.

“I’m an idiot” becomes “I forgot my keys.”

“He’s a player” becomes “He dates lots of girls.”

“She’s a snob” becomes “She didn’t say hi to me.”

It may take a bit of practice but label-removal is both freeing and simple. Like pullin’ off a bandaid, but without the sting. It only hurts if you leave it *ON*.

Look at the action, don’t label the person. Try a week of this and see how you feel. And don’t worry if you come home one day to find yourself covered with post-it’s … We’re all human. It happens. Just go back to the simple instructions:

Pause, review, remove.

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Down here is where I usually “give credit where credit is due” but guess what? Label removal is my own idea so if you tell your peeps, this time YOU’re gonna have to give ME credit, how ’bout that? :: The image you see is a card from the Power Thought Card Deck by Louse Hay :: Visit We Are THAT Family for more Works-For-Me-Wednesday ideas! :: Share on Facebook

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