installed circuits, the neurological and chemical changes that have been
produced by those thoughts and emotions, have altered you in such a way
that there is physical evidence in the brain and body that shows those
changes.
At that point, you’ve moved into a state of being. You’re no longer just
practicing happiness or gratitude or whatever; you are being grateful or
happy. You can produce that state of mind and body every day; you can
continually reexperience an event and produce the emotional response to
that experience of how you would feel if you were that new, ideal self.
If you can get up from your meditative session and be in that new state of
being—altered neurologically, biologically, chemically, and genetically—
you have activated those changes ahead of any experience, and you will be
more prone to acting and thinking in ways equal to who you are being. You
have broken the habit of being yourself!
Figure 6D. You can go from thinking to being without having to do
anything. If you are mentally rehearsing a new mind, there will come a
moment that the thought you are thinking about will become the
experience. When this occurs, the end product of that inward experience is
an emotion or feeling. Once you can feel what it would feel like to be that
person, your body (as the unconscious mind) begins to believe it is in that