the end product is called a “state of being.” We could also say that the
process of continuously thinking and feeling and feeling and thinking
creates a state of being, which produces effects on our reality.
A state of being means we have become familiar with a mental-emotional
state, a way of thinking and a way of feeling, which has become an integral
part of our self-identity. And so we describe who we are by how we are
thinking (and thus feeling) or being in the present moment. I am angry; I
am suffering; I am inspired; I am insecure; I am negative....
But years of thinking certain thoughts, and then feeling the same way,
and then thinking equal to those feelings (the hamster in the wheel) creates
a memorized state of being in which we can emphatically declare our I am
statement as an absolute. That means we’re now at the point when we
define ourselves as this state of being. Our thoughts and feelings have
merged.
For example, we say: I have always been lazy; I am an anxious person; I
am typically uncertain of myself; I have worthiness issues; I am short-
tempered and impatient; I am really not that smart; and so on. And those
particular memorized feelings contribute to all our personality traits.
Warning: when feelings become the means of thinking, or if we cannot
think greater than how we feel, we can never change. To change is to think
greater than how we feel. To change is to act greater than the familiar
feelings of the memorized self.
As a practical example, let’s say you’re driving to work this morning and
you begin to think about the heated encounter you had a few days ago with
a co-worker. As you think the thoughts associated with that person and that
particular experience, your brain starts releasing chemicals that circulate
through your body. Very quickly, you begin to feel exactly the way you
were thinking. You probably become angry.
Your body sends a message back to your brain, saying, Yup, I’m feeling
really ticked off. Of course, your brain, which constantly communicates
with the body and monitors its internal chemical order, is influenced by the
sudden change in the way you’re feeling. As a result, you begin to think
differently. (The moment you begin to feel the way you think, you begin to
think the way you feel.) You unconsciously reinforce the same feeling by
continuing to think angry and frustrated thoughts, which then make you feel
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