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Woo-Woo Woes: Do Your Thoughts Serve You Well?
By Carl “J.C.” Pantejo, Copyright 2007
(Author of “My Friend Yu – The Prosperity Mentor,” Copyright 2007 Pantejo – Y.N. Vurce Publishing.)
Woo-Woo Person: “I’ve been doing all the visualizations, affirmations, and negativity purging; but
nothing is happening. I’m still broke!”
Prosperity Mentor: “Does your thinking lead to any ACTION?”
Woo-Woo Person: “Well…not much, yet. But isn’t the time and energy I spent on the other stuff
enough?”
Prosperity Mentor: “If your thinking doesn’t lead to action, how can you be prepared to jump on
opportunities that lead you to your dream life?
What can you give now to the person capable of giving you what you desire? Remember, that person
will expect something in return. And that something must be of equal or greater value.
Do you have it?”
Woo-Woo Person: “Hmm…?”
The Woo-Woo Person is at one end of the “Think – Do Spectrum”. The other extreme is the No-Think,
Purely Practical Person (but that’s a discussion for another article.)
The Woo-Woo Person believes that thought is all that’s needed to manifest his desires. But when Woo-
Woo People aren’t manifesting their desires, the big question is this: Are they really thinking in the
Certain Way? That is, are they thinking in a way that serves them best; a way that ensures prosperity, a
way that is congruent with their whole being? And most importantly, does their thinking lead to ACTION?
If not, life becomes a futile cycle of “one step forward, then two steps back.”
- FUEL FOR THE MAGICAL MANIFESTATION MACHINE -
In the grand scheme of things, ALL thoughts, beliefs, and speech contribute to the magical
manifestation machine called the Universe. Thought is the fuel that the machine needs to create
individual realities. Every positive AND negative thought is registered and acted upon. The Universe
doesn’t filter out so-called “good or bad” things. IT let’s you decide. This is called free-will. It is a
powerful gift; a gift that most people throw away by choosing to think by default (also called ‘the lemming
mentality”); instead of by design (conscious creation through controlled thought).
When negative thoughts are allowed to enter the mind through the front door (meaning: conscious, self-
defeating self-talk); or through the back door (i.e., subconscious thought resulting from past training,
conditioning, and experiences), even the best laid plans are doomed from the start.
Most of the time, positive and negative thoughts cancel each other out, leading to a “push-me, pull-you”
situation resulting in no progress made at all. If you continue doing this, you expend tremendous
amounts of precious time and life energy; only to end up where? Back to (or behind) square one!
- THE “MENTAL AVOIDER” LETS HIS GUARD DOWN -
It takes a constant “Security Thought Patrol,” stationed on the perimeter of the mind, to repel negative
thoughts. The Patrol should only allow positive thoughts to enter. Your Patrol should challenge all
questionable immigrants into your mind with the proverbial “Halt! Who goes there?”
Controlling your own thoughts is no small task. In fact, many people will engage in anything to keep
from having to think about their thoughts. For them, any distraction (activity or person) will suffice.
Life becomes an endless parade of half-hearted attempts at success and/or multiple shallow
relationships. Looking outside themselves, seeking the next tension-relieving activity, temporarily keeps
them from really thinking about themselves. And even worse, it prevents them from spending their time
on activities that bring them closer to achieving their ultimate life goals.
- THE VICTIM: “OH, WOE IS ME…” -
Unfortunately, even in this modern age of self-discovery and self-improvement, the victim mentality is
still alive and well. The fact is that playing the victim role is too tempting and too easy for most to resist.
In the victim mentality game, all participants are conveniently absolved from any real, personal
responsibility. Victims will blame everything and everybody else for their own personal plights.
The years pass. And a string of awful jobs, business failures, and broken relationships only bolster
their deep depression, anger, and hopelessness. Unless these people take full responsibility for their
own lives, they will continually spin their wheels, go nowhere, and struggle against all their imagined
oppressors. They don’t see that THEY ARE THE CAUSE.
Both the “mental avoider” and the “victim” are attempting something impossible. They are trying to hide
from themselves. Resembling ostriches, they figuratively stick their heads in the ground and semi-hope
for the best. They have mentally given up. Passion is non-existent and life is endured, not lived.
These people are truly insane; meaning: they believe things will change on their own accord WITHOUT
changing their current ways of thinking and doing. Sadly, they will continue waiting for something that
will never come.
It really can be different. It just takes proper planting and care. James Allen, in his classic book “As A
Man Thinketh,” tells us that the mind is like a garden. Neglect allows weeds to grow. Seeds for flowers
must be planted and constant care is needed to produce a beautiful garden (and mind). Negative
thoughts, like weeds, easily spring up when nothing else is planted.
- DON’T TRY TO ERASE IT. REPLACE IT! -
Individual conditioning (past and present) plants an overabundance of repeating, negative thought. This
is why so many people seem to never move forward in life.
But it’s not possible to NOT think about something! This is how Dostoyevsky used to terrorize his
brother by telling him NOT to think about a “big, ferocious, white Polar Bear with sharp teeth and killer
claws.”
Suggesting NOT to think about something brings about its exact image! The best way to get rid of a
repetitive, negative thought is to REPLACE IT.
When I was a young man in the military, I remember the first time I was ordered to perform my first free-
fall parachute evolution (mission). Even though my static line (automatic parachute deployment using
an “umbilical cord” attached to the airplane) jumps were somewhat easy and fun; the thought of free-
falling from a much higher altitude AND having to judge when to pull my ripcord was, to say the least,
unsettling.
My Jump Master (a salty Master Sergeant) successfully used the REPLACEMENT method to cure any
reticence about free-fall jumping. He would shout, “Son, Fear and Desire can not live in the same mind!
Repeat after me: I WANT OUT OF THIS AIRPLANE NOW! I NEED TO JUMP NOW! …I can’t hear you!
Say it again: I WANT OUT OF THIS AIRPLANE NOW! I NEED TO JUMP NOW! Go! Go! Go!
Needless to say, it worked. I exited the aircraft and immediately began flying through the air like
Superman. And as the delight of free-falling filled my whole body and soul, I screamed THANK-
YOOOOOO to that Big Master Sergeant above!
- DIGITAL MEDIA AND YOUR MIND -
Here’s another way of explaining the REPLACEMENT method (and why you should use it).
Think of your mind like any other form of digital storage media (i.e., internal and external hard drives,
USB memory sticks, I-Pods, .mp3 players, etc.). When you believe that you’re “erasing” something on it,
you really aren’t.
Any techie (or savvy computer person) will tell you that “deleting or erasing” something merely means
that you “gave permission for further information to overwrite whatever is in that particular space.” In
other words, until you overwrite the information, it’s still there! How do you think information recovery
systems work? They all operate on the fact that initial “deletions” are merely “gate openings,” allowing
information to be overwritten. Your mind operates the same way. Until you “overwrite” certain thoughts,
they will always remain.
Choose your replacement thoughts carefully. The more different the replacement thought is, the better.
In fact, if you can think of its opposite, use it! Replace fear with desire; replace hopelessness with
certainty; and most of all replace hate with love.
- YOUR THOUGHTS: SERVICE OR SABOTAGE? -
All Law of Attraction and Science of Getting Rich gurus agree on one thing: Your thoughts can definitely
serve you or sabotage you. Do your thoughts make you feel good? If they don’t, why continue to think
them? Do your thoughts overtly or covertly sabotage you? Not sure? Just look at the results of your
present thinking and doing. If your present results are not what you desire, why keep their underlying
causes (the thoughts that created them in the first place) alive?
Many people (myself included) believe that all suffering can be traced to an error in thought. This is
simply because we as powerfully thinking individuals have the ability to assign our own connotations of
“good or bad” to anything in life.
If any thought makes you feel bad or uncomfortable; either replace it, or find the seed of goodness in it.
I like to combine the slogans of Naploeon Hill (the author of the classic book “Think and Grow Rich”)
and Russell Conwell (founder of Temple University and acclaimed “Acres of Diamonds” lecturer) into
one phrase: “In every seemingly bad situation or apparent failure is the seed for its solution. And it is
this magic seed that will produce your own acres of diamonds.” There is ALWAYS something good.
You just have to find it. Think. Think hard!
After you realize that the above is true, it’s almost ridiculous to continue thinking thoughts that do not
serve you. Only a masochist would purposely subject themselves to this kind of perpetual mental
torture.
Why continue to think thoughts that make you feel bad? Do your feel like they are the only things that
make you unique? If so, you must realize that such a belief is a form of mental, emotional, and spiritual
suicide.
It is pure and utter nonsense to believe that your uniqueness is solely because of your negative
thoughts. You are special because you are special. ‘nuff said. No one else is now, or will ever be, you.
Accept this powerful thought. No one - and I mean no one - has the same abilities and desires that you
have.
Do you think your thoughts were meant to bring you unhappiness? Do you think that some deviant,
ironic, universal force planted them into your mind for the perverse pleasure of seeing your mental
turmoil? OF COURSE NOT! Your thoughts, especially thoughts about what you desire in life, are the
clues to your ultimate happiness. They are the little hints that can produce life-changing results. They
are whispers in the wind, co-created by you and the Universe.
I like to think of them (thoughts that serve us well) as the bread crumbs carefully placed in our life path,
leading us to our own personal utopia.
Rest assured that if you weren’t capable of achieving your desires, you wouldn’t have the thoughts about
them in the first place. In other words, every thought of a desire is backed by the power and possibility of
achieving it.
Now, back to the main topic of having your thoughts serve you…
I’ve spent most of my life living by simple checklists. It’s not silly to use them. Airplane pilots,
astronauts, and almost all successful people employ them. In fact, during my military career, following
checklists have saved my life many times.
So, here’s a checklist for you – the “Service Thought vs. Sabotage Thought” - checklist. It will help you
decide whether a certain thought serves you or sabotages you.
By no means is this checklist “all inclusive.” Use it as the point of departure in making your own “Service
Thought vs. Sabotage Thought” checklist. In all instances, if the answer is “no,” replace it or refine it
(find the good in it).
1. Does the thought make me feel good?
2. Does the thought inspire me?
3. Does the thought energize me?
4. Does the thought motivate me to ACT?
5. Is the resultant ACTION an effective action (i.e., action that brings me closer to my life goals)?
Remember, thoughts that serve you are always positive. They lead you to the good things in life. They
are exciting. They are related to your individual desires and personal passions. They point the way to
creativity, not competition. They sharpen you, instead of dull you. In short, they heal, instead of hurt.
And last, but not least, THEY LEAD TO ACTION.
How do your thoughts serve you, my friend?
Carl "J.C." Pantejo
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Woo-Woo Woes: Do Your Thoughts Serve You Well?
By Carl “J.C.” Pantejo, Copyright 2007
(Author of “My Friend Yu – The Prosperity Mentor,” Copyright 2007 Pantejo – Y.N. Vurce Publishing.)
Woo-Woo Person: “I’ve been doing all the visualizations, affirmations, and negativity purging; but
nothing is happening. I’m still broke!”
Prosperity Mentor: “Does your thinking lead to any ACTION?”
Woo-Woo Person: “Well…not much, yet. But isn’t the time and energy I spent on the other stuff
enough?”
Prosperity Mentor: “If your thinking doesn’t lead to action, how can you be prepared to jump on
opportunities that lead you to your dream life?
What can you give now to the person capable of giving you what you desire? Remember, that person
will expect something in return. And that something must be of equal or greater value.
Do you have it?”
Woo-Woo Person: “Hmm…?”
The Woo-Woo Person is at one end of the “Think – Do Spectrum”. The other extreme is the No-Think,
Purely Practical Person (but that’s a discussion for another article.)
The Woo-Woo Person believes that thought is all that’s needed to manifest his desires. But when Woo-
Woo People aren’t manifesting their desires, the big question is this: Are they really thinking in the
Certain Way? That is, are they thinking in a way that serves them best; a way that ensures prosperity, a
way that is congruent with their whole being? And most importantly, does their thinking lead to ACTION?
If not, life becomes a futile cycle of “one step forward, then two steps back.”
- FUEL FOR THE MAGICAL MANIFESTATION MACHINE -
In the grand scheme of things, ALL thoughts, beliefs, and speech contribute to the magical
manifestation machine called the Universe. Thought is the fuel that the machine needs to create
individual realities. Every positive AND negative thought is registered and acted upon. The Universe
doesn’t filter out so-called “good or bad” things. IT let’s you decide. This is called free-will. It is a
powerful gift; a gift that most people throw away by choosing to think by default (also called ‘the lemming
mentality”); instead of by design (conscious creation through controlled thought).
When negative thoughts are allowed to enter the mind through the front door (meaning: conscious, self-
defeating self-talk); or through the back door (i.e., subconscious thought resulting from past training,
conditioning, and experiences), even the best laid plans are doomed from the start.
Most of the time, positive and negative thoughts cancel each other out, leading to a “push-me, pull-you”
situation resulting in no progress made at all. If you continue doing this, you expend tremendous
amounts of precious time and life energy; only to end up where? Back to (or behind) square one!
- THE “MENTAL AVOIDER” LETS HIS GUARD DOWN -
It takes a constant “Security Thought Patrol,” stationed on the perimeter of the mind, to repel negative
thoughts. The Patrol should only allow positive thoughts to enter. Your Patrol should challenge all
questionable immigrants into your mind with the proverbial “Halt! Who goes there?”
Controlling your own thoughts is no small task. In fact, many people will engage in anything to keep
from having to think about their thoughts. For them, any distraction (activity or person) will suffice.
Life becomes an endless parade of half-hearted attempts at success and/or multiple shallow
relationships. Looking outside themselves, seeking the next tension-relieving activity, temporarily keeps
them from really thinking about themselves. And even worse, it prevents them from spending their time
on activities that bring them closer to achieving their ultimate life goals.
- THE VICTIM: “OH, WOE IS ME…” -
Unfortunately, even in this modern age of self-discovery and self-improvement, the victim mentality is
still alive and well. The fact is that playing the victim role is too tempting and too easy for most to resist.
In the victim mentality game, all participants are conveniently absolved from any real, personal
responsibility. Victims will blame everything and everybody else for their own personal plights.
The years pass. And a string of awful jobs, business failures, and broken relationships only bolster
their deep depression, anger, and hopelessness. Unless these people take full responsibility for their
own lives, they will continually spin their wheels, go nowhere, and struggle against all their imagined
oppressors. They don’t see that THEY ARE THE CAUSE.
Both the “mental avoider” and the “victim” are attempting something impossible. They are trying to hide
from themselves. Resembling ostriches, they figuratively stick their heads in the ground and semi-hope
for the best. They have mentally given up. Passion is non-existent and life is endured, not lived.
These people are truly insane; meaning: they believe things will change on their own accord WITHOUT
changing their current ways of thinking and doing. Sadly, they will continue waiting for something that
will never come.
It really can be different. It just takes proper planting and care. James Allen, in his classic book “As A
Man Thinketh,” tells us that the mind is like a garden. Neglect allows weeds to grow. Seeds for flowers
must be planted and constant care is needed to produce a beautiful garden (and mind). Negative
thoughts, like weeds, easily spring up when nothing else is planted.
- DON’T TRY TO ERASE IT. REPLACE IT! -
Individual conditioning (past and present) plants an overabundance of repeating, negative thought. This
is why so many people seem to never move forward in life.
But it’s not possible to NOT think about something! This is how Dostoyevsky used to terrorize his
brother by telling him NOT to think about a “big, ferocious, white Polar Bear with sharp teeth and killer
claws.”
Suggesting NOT to think about something brings about its exact image! The best way to get rid of a
repetitive, negative thought is to REPLACE IT.
When I was a young man in the military, I remember the first time I was ordered to perform my first free-
fall parachute evolution (mission). Even though my static line (automatic parachute deployment using
an “umbilical cord” attached to the airplane) jumps were somewhat easy and fun; the thought of free-
falling from a much higher altitude AND having to judge when to pull my ripcord was, to say the least,
unsettling.
My Jump Master (a salty Master Sergeant) successfully used the REPLACEMENT method to cure any
reticence about free-fall jumping. He would shout, “Son, Fear and Desire can not live in the same mind!
Repeat after me: I WANT OUT OF THIS AIRPLANE NOW! I NEED TO JUMP NOW! …I can’t hear you!
Say it again: I WANT OUT OF THIS AIRPLANE NOW! I NEED TO JUMP NOW! Go! Go! Go!
Needless to say, it worked. I exited the aircraft and immediately began flying through the air like
Superman. And as the delight of free-falling filled my whole body and soul, I screamed THANK-
YOOOOOO to that Big Master Sergeant above!
- DIGITAL MEDIA AND YOUR MIND -
Here’s another way of explaining the REPLACEMENT method (and why you should use it).
Think of your mind like any other form of digital storage media (i.e., internal and external hard drives,
USB memory sticks, I-Pods, .mp3 players, etc.). When you believe that you’re “erasing” something on it,
you really aren’t.
Any techie (or savvy computer person) will tell you that “deleting or erasing” something merely means
that you “gave permission for further information to overwrite whatever is in that particular space.” In
other words, until you overwrite the information, it’s still there! How do you think information recovery
systems work? They all operate on the fact that initial “deletions” are merely “gate openings,” allowing
information to be overwritten. Your mind operates the same way. Until you “overwrite” certain thoughts,
they will always remain.
Choose your replacement thoughts carefully. The more different the replacement thought is, the better.
In fact, if you can think of its opposite, use it! Replace fear with desire; replace hopelessness with
certainty; and most of all replace hate with love.
- YOUR THOUGHTS: SERVICE OR SABOTAGE? -
All Law of Attraction and Science of Getting Rich gurus agree on one thing: Your thoughts can definitely
serve you or sabotage you. Do your thoughts make you feel good? If they don’t, why continue to think
them? Do your thoughts overtly or covertly sabotage you? Not sure? Just look at the results of your
present thinking and doing. If your present results are not what you desire, why keep their underlying
causes (the thoughts that created them in the first place) alive?
Many people (myself included) believe that all suffering can be traced to an error in thought. This is
simply because we as powerfully thinking individuals have the ability to assign our own connotations of
“good or bad” to anything in life.
If any thought makes you feel bad or uncomfortable; either replace it, or find the seed of goodness in it.
I like to combine the slogans of Naploeon Hill (the author of the classic book “Think and Grow Rich”)
and Russell Conwell (founder of Temple University and acclaimed “Acres of Diamonds” lecturer) into
one phrase: “In every seemingly bad situation or apparent failure is the seed for its solution. And it is
this magic seed that will produce your own acres of diamonds.” There is ALWAYS something good.
You just have to find it. Think. Think hard!
After you realize that the above is true, it’s almost ridiculous to continue thinking thoughts that do not
serve you. Only a masochist would purposely subject themselves to this kind of perpetual mental
torture.
Why continue to think thoughts that make you feel bad? Do your feel like they are the only things that
make you unique? If so, you must realize that such a belief is a form of mental, emotional, and spiritual
suicide.
It is pure and utter nonsense to believe that your uniqueness is solely because of your negative
thoughts. You are special because you are special. ‘nuff said. No one else is now, or will ever be, you.
Accept this powerful thought. No one - and I mean no one - has the same abilities and desires that you
have.
Do you think your thoughts were meant to bring you unhappiness? Do you think that some deviant,
ironic, universal force planted them into your mind for the perverse pleasure of seeing your mental
turmoil? OF COURSE NOT! Your thoughts, especially thoughts about what you desire in life, are the
clues to your ultimate happiness. They are the little hints that can produce life-changing results. They
are whispers in the wind, co-created by you and the Universe.
I like to think of them (thoughts that serve us well) as the bread crumbs carefully placed in our life path,
leading us to our own personal utopia.
Rest assured that if you weren’t capable of achieving your desires, you wouldn’t have the thoughts about
them in the first place. In other words, every thought of a desire is backed by the power and possibility of
achieving it.
Now, back to the main topic of having your thoughts serve you…
I’ve spent most of my life living by simple checklists. It’s not silly to use them. Airplane pilots,
astronauts, and almost all successful people employ them. In fact, during my military career, following
checklists have saved my life many times.
So, here’s a checklist for you – the “Service Thought vs. Sabotage Thought” - checklist. It will help you
decide whether a certain thought serves you or sabotages you.
By no means is this checklist “all inclusive.” Use it as the point of departure in making your own “Service
Thought vs. Sabotage Thought” checklist. In all instances, if the answer is “no,” replace it or refine it
(find the good in it).
1. Does the thought make me feel good?
2. Does the thought inspire me?
3. Does the thought energize me?
4. Does the thought motivate me to ACT?
5. Is the resultant ACTION an effective action (i.e., action that brings me closer to my life goals)?
Remember, thoughts that serve you are always positive. They lead you to the good things in life. They
are exciting. They are related to your individual desires and personal passions. They point the way to
creativity, not competition. They sharpen you, instead of dull you. In short, they heal, instead of hurt.
And last, but not least, THEY LEAD TO ACTION.
How do your thoughts serve you, my friend?
Carl "J.C." Pantejo
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