Day Twenty Nine

DAY TWENTY NINE
Chance

Today I want to discuss the concept of chance. What it is, what it’s not, and how you can better your life by thinking of chance in a different way from what you probably do. When you think of the word chance, it’s likely that you think of statistics, probability, luck, and things otherwise out of your control. What if I told you that the way in which we think of chance is incorrect? If we pre-believe that certain things will occur due to chance alone, guess what, they will. But it’s not chance that’s make them happen. Chance, in that respect is really an occurrence, but what is the cause of that occurrence? You are. When you choose not to act, you are still choosing, thus still acting. You are acting to not choose and to believe that chance is responsible for the outcome. Really what’s happening is you deciding not to ask, believe, receive and simply telling the universe to surprise you. So instead of the universe acting on behalf of your conscious mind, it aligns itself with your subconscious desires and thoughts. So, even according to chance you are still getting what you believe.

Now, let’s look at chance in the sense of probability to better understand this misconception. Do you know what the chances of winning the lottery are? For the big lotteries, according to the back of the ticket, the permutations of picking each number right, 6 times out of all the other numbers, it’s well over 1 in a million. So, we engrave that in our minds. We believe, by being told to do so, that according to chance alone, we will only win the lottery if we are the lucky 1 in however many million. And because of that—we never win. The people who do win the lottery know they are going to win. They align themselves with the proper frequency necessary to do so. The chances of winning the lottery are not 1 in several million—they are 50:50; you either will win or you won’t. That is how the belief must work in order for you to conquer the otherwise astronomical stats. Flip a coin. Do it 1,000 times. As you realize that your “chances” of either getting heads or tails is much greater than picking a random number, then you will begin to realize that flipping a coin and winning the lottery are the exact same thing. What if every time you flipped a coin it wasn’t simply heads or tails, it was, “am I going to win the lottery or not? Heads=yes; tails=no.” After you do that several times you begin to realize that you must change your belief-system in order to leverage the universe in your favor. For when you don’t, you still use the universe, but you use it to give you what you believe—that you are not lucky enough to be the 1 in several million. But are you lucky enough to be 1 in 2? Of course. This is powerful. Think about it.

I’m not attempting to tell you how to win the lottery; I’m just using that as an example. What I’m telling you is that chance is not what we believe it to be. It’s a limiting word we use, backed by math and science, to tell us where we fit. Even if you still can’t get over the 1 in a million concept, think of it this way—do you know what it takes for you to be here at all? At the moment you became a zygote, you were one in a million. So clearly, we all have the possibility as we’ve already accomplished it. Forget luck, forget chance—believe. This takes a lot of work because you have to retrain your mind from what you were taught, but it works in all arenas of life.

Today’s task: seriously, flip a coin, numerous times. But believe what you will see each time you reveal the coin. Strengthen your belief each time you flip it. Statistically, after many, many flips, say 1,000 or greater, you should see a 50:50 correlation between numbers of heads and tails that showed. But belief, well, it’s an amazing thing—believe what you will see. Take note. Then attempt to explain the disproportionate number of times you believed you’d see what you’d see and saw it. Try it this way: before you flip the coin, decide on heads or tails. This will be what you will believe you will see every time. Align yourself with your choice. After numerous flips, first assess how strong your belief was and how well you produced disproportionate results from what was expected. I’m sure you’ll be surprised. For this to work effectively, you have to believe, have faith, that what I’m telling you has these three possibilities. Before you start, eradicate the concept of chance from your beliefs. Now, one of three things will happen: after choosing heads or tails and aligning yourself with seeing your choice every time; you will either 1) see it every time (in which case, congratulations! You have mastered belief and have aligned yourself perfectly with attracting things into your life); 2) you will have more of what you believe than not, but your doubt will produce the opposite. So long as you produce significantly more of what you want than not, then you are progressing; 3) you will produce less of what you chose and more of what you didn’t. This means that you haven’t conquered your doubts. It’s not chance—it’s how the universe works.

Love.

excerpt from 1,000 Days of Happy
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