Larry LaFata
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Your Subconscious (Subby, for short) loves rituals, habits and ceremonies.
This effects all your behaviors, especially if you are attempting something new like a new career, new venture, or stopping a “bad” habit that holds you back.
Let’s take a look at the differences between rituals, habits and ceremonies.
A habit is a routine behavior that Subby programs in permanently, so it can repeat it automatically as needed.
Subby is designed, by nature, to create habits of all kinds. Habits, rituals, even obsessions and addictions are perfectly normal to Subby. Yes, addictions and obsessions are normal (but necessarily healthy). This human design helps Subby to store and repeat behaviors without us having to spend a lot of conscious mental energy to do so. Imagine having to relearn how to write, eat, walk or type anew each day!
A ritual is a repeated behavior pattern infused with emotion or meaning. Making the sign of the cross at church, jumping up and screaming when your team scores a touchdown, or even saying hello in the morning – they’re all rituals. You do them automatically, without thinking.
Subby especially loves rituals sequences called ceremonies.
Ceremonies are a series or sequence of rituals.
Smoking, weddings, church services, funerals, TV shows, movies, sports games, military exercises, superstitions …they are all social ceremonies. They all have a repeatable sequence.
Let’s take a sports example, baseball: Baseball is a very ritualized and ceremonialized process.
The National anthem is sung, first ball thrown out, batter up to plate, pitcher looks to catcher for signal, then winds up, then throws, then assumes defensive position. Batter gets a hit, team responds, points scored. The pitcher goes through a whole ritual for every pitch!
These rituals are repeated every game, and are loved by millions.
Church example: Music is played, hymns are sung, you kneel and pray, the priest recites a passage, you respond “amen”, you make the sign of the cross, you repeat a prayer as a group, bells are rang, wine is drunk, etc. These series of rituals make up the ceremony called a church service. Repeated every day, and are loved by billions.
TV show example: boy meets girl, girl has other boy, other boy does wrong, girl dates new boy, old boy tries to get her back, etc. You know what is going to happen! Yet you watch these rituals every week, loved by millions.
Funerals: procession to burial grounds, religious passage is read, all pray over casket as it is lowered, etc. these rituals and ceremonies give a feeling of “finality and closure”. Attended by millions of people every day.
Now that you understand how habits, rituals in ceremonies affect every part of your life, you can see why you become so addicted to things. Whether your spouse, your job or bad habits. Even though in some cases they may be painful to you, you stick with them. Even though they may harm you, you continue them. The power of continuing in a habit is hardwired into us. (Subby doesn’t judge if a habit is good or bad, it’s just is programmed to continue doing it.)
This is why almost all the world’s religions talk about a “devil” or being free from sin. They are talking about our natural inclination to become addicted, obsessed or enslaved by our own habits.
This is why in prison, religion is used to bring a felon back into society. The idea is that religion is a more powerful ceremony than drugs, theft, or whatever crime ceremony a felon might have repeatedly habitually been involved.
This is important if you want to change a bad habit, like thinking you are doomed to poverty, quitting smoking, or being depressed with these tough economic times that you will never amount to much. These are habits of thoughts. If you powerfully address these negative thoughts, program in positive thoughts, and apply them to your actions, you can change these habits of thought.
More on this next week.
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