The Third Commandment according to Louise Hay is Don’t Scare Yourself.  – Stop terrorizing yourself with your thoughts.  It’s a dreadful way to live.  Find a mental image that give you pleasure, and immediately switch your scary thought to a pleasure thought.

When I first read this, I said to myself, this is silly, I [...]]]> The Third Commandment according to Louise Hay is Don’t Scare Yourself.  – Stop terrorizing yourself with your thoughts.  It’s a dreadful way to live.  Find a mental image that give you pleasure, and immediately switch your scary thought to a pleasure thought.

When I first read this, I said to myself, this is silly, I don’t scare myself!  How could I possibly do that.  Then I realized that scaring myself has nothing to do with frightening things I say to myself but all the demeaning things I say to myself when things don’t go exactly the way I want them to go.  They are all the things said to me when I was a child that have turned into a script in my head.

Even a simple thing like, bad hair day can be a scary thought, because it brings up all sorts of things.  Instead change bad hair day into something positive, like, I am in wild mode and being free and rebellious.

Please be careful of the judgments and criticism you may have when you find that one of these scarey thoughts come up.  Please see  Commandment #1.  Instead, laugh at the scary thought and change it to a different image.

These scary thoughts are usually the kinds of thoughts that will be taken literally by your body.  Notice how often the scary thought “This is a pain in my neck” comes up for you.  Then notice if you are carrying pain in your neck.  Your subconscious mind has no idea that what you are saying is just an expression.  It takes it for reality.  So it will bring it to you in reality.  There are times when you say these expressions as a true expression of what you feel about the world around you.  If you feel an activity is a pain in your neck, change the expression and change the activity.  If it is an activity you absolutely must do and cannot pass off to someone else, you absolutely must change your expression.  You can use something like, I am being rewarded by this activity or person.

Remember these scary thoughts in whatever shape or form they come in are openings for disease and suffering to enter your body.  So Don’t Scare Yourself