Chapter 10

Replacement

It is learning the fundamentals that take a tremendous amount of up-front investment. Once you know intuitively how to live each of the principles of selfless successful living, it is almost impossible not to live them, as they have become a working part of your daily emotions and thought processes.

The following are brief quotes regarding the stages of replacement (diagrams in text) as described in this chapter:

Stage One is your old life, filled with strife, lost resources, tiresome negative habits, and a tremendous effort to force the world and its inhabitants to behave as you want them to behave for your selfish ends.

Stage Two is equally difficult, but productive rather than counterproductive. The spring of life is built to move in a positive, "law-centered" direction. In the initial stages of personal progress, such as writing the life stories and making amends, the spring pushes you away from your negative life. You feel the progress and the positive direction in which your life is moving. Working with the spring's power, progress is rapid.

Stage Two A The farther you stretch the spring to the right, the more difficult it is to push backwards against the spring in the opposing direction. Is it easy to forget how to ride a bike? Spiritual living, once learned and firmly established, is nearly impossible to forget and even more difficult to abandon. The laws will continue to make your life more and more prosperous every day.

Stage Three is the best stage of all. This is the stage where the hard work of learning and training spiritual principles pays off. This stage usually occurs after the narratives and the amends are thoroughly completed. You are able to handle difficult situations with ease. Happiness is a daily companion. You intuitively know you must maximize the positive potential of every day, because to do so brings even more happiness. You realize that the world is there for your pleasure and that benefiting others benefits you.

After the entire day is charted, review what you wrote. Ask yourself if your day reflects your definition of a successful life. Are you satisfied that you are a changed person? Remember, you are what you think. What are you?

If you find that your thought patterns are just as self-centered as when you began, you need to start from the beginning and try again. This can be very difficult to accept, but remember, happiness is usually hard won. Anything that is easy to get usually has very little value. Lasting happiness has infinite value, but takes hard work to attain.

If you have been thorough up to this point, you should find that the thoughts and emotions you carry with you today consist primarily of positive service to others, attaining new goals, and faithful God-centered ideas and aspirations. If this is the case, you can completely let go of your past. Tear out the pages of the life story and burn it or shred it. It is time to move on to the new life that awaits you.

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