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重要的是，你们要明白你们在处理的是心中的信念——真正的功夫是在内心完成的——而不是寻求立竿见影的实效。 事情肯定无疑会照着你对信念所下的功夫而发展。就像以前“坏”的结果来自坏的信念，你也必须相信，当你改变信念后，好的结果一定会随之而来。再说一遍，真正的功夫是在内心完成的。只要你下了功夫，你便可安心等待结果，但你切不可时常查看结果来了没有。你明白其中的不同吗？ …… 你的信念总会多少有所改变。作为一个成年人，你会做很多你小时侯相信你办不到的事。例如：也许你在三岁时相信过马路是件危险的事。到了三十岁，运气好的话，你已经摆脱了这样一个信念，纵然你儿时这信念是很合适而又必要的。但是如果你母亲透过心电感应及言辞，传达给你一个过马路时有潜在危险的可怕画面，由此强化了这个信念，那么你内心也会带着这种情绪上的恐惧，也许还会想象可能发生的意外。 你的情绪和想象都跟着你的信念走。当某个信念消失了，那么你就不会再怀有同样的情绪，而你的想象也转向其他的方向。信念会自动调动你的情感和想象。 很少有纯理性的信念。当你检查意识心的内容时，你务必要知道或认出，那些与某一特定想法有关的情感或想象的种种内涵。要改变信念，可用相反的信念取而代之，这里面有各种各样的方法。其中一个特别的法子是“三管齐下”。 你要产生一种相反的情绪——与你想改变的信念所引起的情绪相反。 你还要把想象转到相反的方向上——与该信念所支配的想象相反。 同时，你要有意识地向自己保证，那个不令人满意的信念只是对于现实的一个想法，而非现实本身的一个面向。 你要明白，想法并非静止不动的。情绪与想象把想法推向一个或另一个方向，强化或否定它们。  你要以一种游戏的态度有意“玩”自己的意识心，就像孩子玩游戏一样，在其中你有一阵子完全忽略所谓的现实，而“假装”你真心想要的才是真的。 如果你很穷，你便故意假装在经济上已经拥有了你所需要的一切。想象一下你要怎样用你的钱。如果你有病在身，好玩地想象你已无病一身轻，看见你在做你想做的事。如果你不善与人沟通，想象你自己能轻轻松松地那样做。如果你觉得日子灰暗又无意义，那么就想象自己过得既充实又愉快。 这听起来可能很不实际，但是在你的日常生活里，你经常让你的想象力和情绪为远远不值得的信念服务；而其后果十分显而易见——让我再加上一句——又很不幸的“实际”得很。 就如那些不令人满意的信念要花上一段时间才会显化在你的生活中，所以你可能要过一段时间才能看见实际的结果；但是新想法必然会像旧想法一样发展壮大，并改变你的体验。同时，这想象的过程也会使你与其他附带的想法面对面，而可能令你一时间怔住了。你可能看出你在哪方面同时抱持着两个相当矛盾的观点，并且还以同等的气力抱着它们。在这种情况下，你是在将你自己的军。 你可能相信你有权拥有健康，但又同样强烈地相信人类境况天生就被污染了。因此你便会同时设法获得健康又不想要健康，或既想要成功又不想要成功，完全看你个人的信念系统如何——因为在本书稍后，我会点出你们的信念是如何常常落入一个互相关联的概念系统里的。 翻译 | 王季庆 王育盛 编校 | 宇婷 碧砂   您的每一份爱，都是我们前行的动力！ 感谢支持和赞赏！  · ENGLISH VERSION·  It is vital that you realize you are working with beliefs in your mind — that the real work is done there in the mind — and not look for immediate physical results. They will follow as surely and certainly as the 'bad' results followed, and this must be a belief: that the good results will come. But the real work is done in the mind. If you do the work then you can rest assured lit the results, but you must not check constantly for them. Do you see the difference? … Your beliefs always change to some extent. As an adult you perform many activities that you believed you could not as a child. For instance: You may at [the age of] three have believed it was dangerous to cross a street. By thirty, hopefully, you have dismissed such a belief, though it fit in very well and was necessary to you in your child-hood. If your mother reinforced this belief telepathically and verbally through dire pictures of the potential danger involved in street crossing, however, then you would also carry within you that emotional fear, and perhaps entertain imaginative considerations of possible accident. Your emotions and your imagination both follow your belief. When the belief vanishes then the same emotional context is no longer entertained, and your imagination turns in other directions. Beliefs automatically mobilize your emotional and imaginative powers. Few beliefs are intellectual alone. When you are examining the contents of your conscious mind, you must learn, or recognize, the emotional and imaginative connotations that are connected with a given idea. There are various ways of altering the belief by substituting its opposite. One particular method is three-pronged. You generate the emotion opposite the one that arises from the belief you want to change, and you turn your imagination in the opposite direction from the one dictated by the belief. At the same time you consciously assure yourself that the unsatisfactory belief is an idea about reality and not an aspect of reality itself. You realize that ideas are not stationary. Emotions and imagination move them in one direction or the other, reinforce them or negate them. Quite deliberately you use your conscious mind playfully, creating a game as children do, in which for a time you completely ignore what seems to be in physical terms and 'pretend' that what you really want is real. If you are poor, you purposely pretend that you have all you need financially. Imagine how you will spend your money. If you are ill, imagine playfully that you are cured. See yourself doing what you would do. If you cannot communicate with others, imagine yourself doing so easily. If you feel your days dark and pointless, then imagine them filled and joyful. Now this may sound impractical, yet in your daily life you use your imagination and your emotions often at the service of far less worthy beliefs; and the results are quite clear — and let me add, unfortunately practical. As it took a while for the unsatisfactory beliefs to become materialized, so it may be a time before you see physical results; but the new ideas will take growth and change your experience as certainly as the old ones did. The process of imagining will also bring you face to face with other subsidiary ideas that may momentarily bring you up short. You may see where you held two quite conflicting ideas simultaneously, and with equal vigor. In such a case, you stalemated yourself. You may believe that you have a right to health, and yet with equal intensity believe that the human condition is by nature tainted. So you will try to be healthy and not healthy at the same time, or successful and not successful, according to your individual system of beliefs — for later in the book you will see how your beliefs will generally fall into a system of related ideas. ——The Nature of Personal Reality ﹀ ﹀  |
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