Introduction

“A New You, A New Life” is a guidebook to greater happiness through self-awareness, self-empowerment and self-actualization through a new way of living.

We must admit that at times our concepts of life change, even if outer situations remain much the same.  Once we have found what seems to be the right answers to our deepest questions of life and have lived by them for some time, we begin to have a series of small shifts within our basic belief system. The shift reveals an error in some of our former answers and verifies for us some of our more current beliefs. This is known as a paradigm shift. 

A paradigm is simply a cluster of beliefs held about a specific thing, so a paradigm shift is simply a change in what you believe about something.  If you should find that the majority, or even all, of your beliefs about life have been in error, the old ideas give way to new, producing a fresh clarity of mind.  This is known as a major paradigm shift-a whole new belief system or sense of reality about nearly everything.  But even a major paradigm shift is merely like the turning of a kaleidoscope in the mind.  The old ideas do not dissolve or become deleted from your subconscious. They merely become filed in the back of your mind, behind the new ideas, until stimulated by experiences that trigger them to confuse you with incompatible thoughts or feelings, making decisions difficult.

So what can we do about that?  We can literally eliminate those old files which are simply our outdated methods of thinking and responding. Rather than burying them in the back of the mind, we intentionally discard them and replace them with methods that are more acceptable to us, leaving the ashes of the former habits behind.  This book is about how to identify and eliminate your obsolete subconscious programming and strengthen your preferred program, based on personal choices and your individual ideal.

This process of purifying the consciousness, and restarting your life, offers a number of benefits that will improve your life dramatically.  Among the countless benefits you will experience are improvements in mental, emotional and physical health-along with a new surge of passion for living.  These benefits are assured if you practice, rather than simply read, the exercises presented in this book.