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THREE INGREDIENTS
TO EFFECTIVE CHANGE:
AWARENESS,
ACCEPTANCE,
AND ACTION
Change is inevitable. The question is, are you making the
changes you want, or does change happen to you? Learn to use
awareness, acceptance, and action so that changes are both fa-
vorable and the ones you choose. You will learn from the examples
of people who effectively used these ingredients.Structure of Your Mind
To put it simply, the mind is divided into two parts, the conscious
and the unconscious. The conscious mind contains the thoughts
you are aware of, and the unconscious mind contains those you are
not aware of.
Right now your conscious mind is focused on the words on this
page. But your unconscious mind is busy, too, taking the shapes of
the letters that you see and translating them into what they mean.
You programmed your unconscious mind to do this during the
process of learning to read. As you can see, the unconscious mind is
a great convenience. Without it, you would have to consciously think
about the definition of thousands of words all the time. But your un-
conscious mind makes it possible to just think about the definition
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