#49: How to Transform an Obstacle Into an Ally I The Dr. Zwig Show

A painful problem isn’t set in stone. To the contrary, it's the negative manifestation of something in your psyche, which, when made conscious, transforms into a positive expression. This is due to the fact that every human process manifests either positively or negatively, in other words, consciously or unconsciously.
For example, you can use your strength to stand up for your feelings. But you could also use it to abuse someone. So, strength in itself is neither good nor bad-it’s neutral. It all depends on how you use it, meaning, how conscious you are of it in yourself.
You can be emotional to share your true feelings but you could also oppress someone with your emotions. You can be rational to figure out the correct answer to something but you could also be rational as a way to avoid your feelings. You can be intelligent to do good in the world or to do bad in the world. Or say you’re a cautious person; this can protect you from a lot of problems but it could also cut you off from fully experiencing life.
The attribute itself doesn’t determine how it manifests-YOU do. Your problem is the negative expression of a meaningful, positive process, and your job is to hunt for the core quality behind the unconscious, negative expression, and integrate it in a conscious, positive way. Today’s exercise shows you how to do this. You can apply it to depression, anxiety, attention deficit, trauma, and many other problems. This will help move you toward healing, growth, inner strength, and wisdom.
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Our environment influences our conscience, our state of consciousness influences our habits, and the cycle repeats itself

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Inside the mind are two sensations of that negative and positive. When we understand that it is only the negative sensations that move us towards the specific positives then we will begin to understand navigation in the mind. However if we get stuck on emotions and thoughts we will always be let astray. The negative sensations are clogged with particular thoughts and feelings but we must go to the depths of the mind in order to see them. The same is true when it comes to the positive sensations in the mind these are nothing more than solutions answers that neutralize the negative sensations these are also clogged with particular thoughts and feelings. But again we must go beyond thoughts and feelings down into the negative sensations into the mind in order for us to navigate through and to see where all human behaviour comes from in addition to everything that has been created in our matrix.

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