The more completely you understand something, the more likely you are not to make it a reality in your life.

This is the dichotomy which explains why so many people who seem to understand the process of life, are never able to implement it in their lives.

It works like this:

The more you are able to rationalize something, the greater the experience your mind has with it. Your mind cannot tell the difference between inner or outer reality. It perceives as real, whatever you focus your attention on. The more you focus your attention, the more real that thing becomes to the mind.

It’s possible to fool the mind into believing that it has already experienced the physical reality of what it has only come to believe is real.

Have you ever heard the old saying: Tell a lie often enough and you will come to believe it.? This refers to the phenomenon of repetition and the subsequent rationalization process the mind goes through to justify the repetition. The more you focus on something, real or not, the more the mind will begin to react in a manner which will rationalize what it focuses on as real .

This is why you have so many people who can make themselves feel good thinking a certain way, without ever making how they feel become a part of their day-to-day reality. It also explains the person who can pontificate with great detail and authority, while the reality of their life never reflects what they think they know.

The mind can trick itself into believing something is real, even if it has never experienced it.

There is a disconnect between many people who claim to understand “how things work” and the chaos of their day-to-day lives. They are operating only from the intellectualization of the information. Not the realization of the information which would make it a part of their consciousness. Thus it exists only as information, rationalized and catagorized by their mind.

Not as a part of their knowingness which is reflected by their day-to-day reality.

-Bob Baran