Accepting our Rejected Thoughts
Sometimes we are in a position to look into the lives of other
people. It could be through a book, or a movie, or a story we
hear, or occasionally it could be someone that we meet.
Sometimes when this happens, we see qualities that we truly
admire, and we think that we would like to have those qualities.
Perhaps we just look at the person and think that we would like
to be like them. Maybe we hear what they have said and think
that we would like to be able to say things like that. It could
be that we would like to have what they have, or do what they
do.
When this happens, what we are thinking about are our own
rejected thoughts. Sometime in the past we have rejected a
thought or thoughts, that the person we are admiring has
accepted.
When, perhaps when we were very young, we rejected the thought
that we could have what we have just been admiring in someone
else, we accepted a lesser thought, and allowed that lesser
thought to become part of our self image, and therefore part of
our definition of ourselves.
Our self image lives in our sub-conscious mind. Because of the
way the sub-conscious mind works, we can only have one self
image with regard to any particular quality. If we really want
to have the qualities we are admiring, and there is no reason
why we can