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How to Dissolve Challenges
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What About Error Already Influencing Us NOW ? Here again our inner senses provide the clue.
Error triggers impressions that things (projects, partnerships, work, life etc.) do not work out. They set off feelings of misfortune, of not being accepted, of loneliness, of being worthless or of life being pointless.
These emotions are warning signs. We feel unhappy because flawed convictions frustrate all natural growth within us.
Yet the emotions are not the cause, but just the mechanism that shows us that we have a problem, - as pain identifies that part of our body that needs attention. These feelings mean to prompt us to examine our life for primary forms of error.
If we detect any of the following emotions or attitudes within us (or within others), primary forms of error are at work:
• The firm conviction that only We are right
This is the firm conviction that only our own ideas are correct and everyone else is wrong, - even if reality shows an entirely different picture.
Example: The idea that life got generated by the mixing of material substances in the surf of the oceans is totally unproven. Yet this model is so widely believed in that it seems almost blasphemous to point out that it is just a vague, unfounded suggestion.
Just look at the reaction this triggers - either within those confronted with this statement, or within you: - A brusque rebuff that this idea is absolutely right and that whoever contests it must be totally out of his mind. Discussing the underlying facts is categorically denied -
