CHANGE YOUR THINKING CHANGE YOUR LIFE
lead to corresponding images, emotions, and actions that affect
your life and relationships. Your attitudes, in turn, are based on
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your previous experiences and your basic premises about how
things are supposed to be.
Your actions trigger the emotions and attitudes that go with
them. By the Law of Reversibility, you can actually act your way
into feeling in a manner consistent with the action. By acting as if
you were already happy, positive, and confident, you soon begin to
feel that way on the inside. And your actions are under your direct
control, whereas your emotions are not.
In and of themselves, the outer aspects of your life are neutral.
It is only the meaning that you give to them that determines your