Excuses Begone With Dr Wayne Dyer
How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits
Jun 22, 2009
Dubbed "the father of motivation" by his many fans, Dr Wayne Dyer is an internationally renowned author of more than 30 self development books.
In the first part of this exclusive interview, on the 22nd of June 2009, Dr Wayne Dyer talked to Amanda Woods about his newly released book, Excuses Begone! and shares the secrets of breaking self defeating habits.
What is the difference between a valid reason for something and an excuse?
Most of us think our genetic makeup as well as our family and cultural conditioning are valid reasons for why we are experiencing unhappiness, poor health, and lack of success in our lives. We may feel these have fixed or programmed us to think and behave in a certain way that we often find ourselves saying, ‘It’s in my genes’ or ‘That’s how I am. I’ve always been this way’.
But all of these are the laments of those who opt to use excuses to explain their lives away. These so called ‘valid reasons’ only put you in a place of powerlessness; it keeps you stuck in an excuse-driven life.
Every self-limiting thought that you employ to explain why you’re not living life to the absolute fullest—so you’re feeling purposeful, content, and fully alive—is something you can challenge and reverse, regardless of how long you’ve held that belief and no matter how rooted in tradition, science, or life experience it may be.
Even if it seems like an insurmountable obstacle, you can overcome these thoughts, and you can begin by noticing how they’ve been working to hold you back. Then you can embark on a de-programming effort that allows you to live an excuse-free life, one day at a time, one miracle at a time, one new belief at a time!
What are some of the more common excuses that hold people back?
There are basically two big excuses we all utilise. The first is the idea that our genetic makeup is the culprit—I can’t really help the way I am; after all, people can’t change their DNA. Studies in new biology, however, say that there’s an energy field surrounding, and contained within, all of your cells, and this field is influenced by your beliefs.
Moreover, it is out of this field that all particles are created —it’s the sole governing entity of the body. Something like 95 per cent of us do not have genetic reasons for illness, depression, fear, or any other condition.
Here in the 21st century, science invites you to stop believing that you’re a victim of your genetic makeup, because a large body of evidence demonstrates empirically that your beliefs can change your genes.
I encourage you to examine this mind-bending idea at greater depth than I’m able to offer here. There’s an invisible part of you that you can call intelligence, higher function, Tao, thought, belief, Spirit, God . . . you choose.
The second big excuse is rooted in your early history and family conditioning. It impacts you in so many ways that you probably feel it’s an impossible-to-be-free-of aspect of your life. Kiss this one good-bye as well. Just because you’ve been infected with repetitive beliefs and attitudes that feel like second nature, doesn’t mean you’re unable to disinfect yourself and reprogram your inner world.
The truth, as I see it, is that everything you think, say, and do is a choice—and you don’t need to think, speak, or act as you’ve done for your entire life. When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.
Wayne Dyer continues to share his insights, including how people can retrain their brains to let go of excuses in part two of this exclusive interview.
Excuses Begone! How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer is published by Hay House and available at all leading retailers.
ISBN: 9781401922948; ISBN 978-1-4019-2173-6
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