In Japan, you paint one eye on a daruma doll when you make a wish and the second when it comes true. Through Neville Goddard's Law of Assumption, a year of looking at a one-eyed face is a year of rehearsing "not yet." Here's how to paint the second eye first, so your wishes actually come true.
願いを込めて片目を入れ、叶ったらもう片目を入れる。だるまの目入れは、日本でもっとも身近な願掛けのひとつです。けれど想定の法則から見ると、片目のまま一年を過ごすことは、毎日「まだ叶っていない」を確かめることでもあります。達磨大師の由来、目入れの順番、七転び八起きの本当の意味から、ネヴィル・ゴダードの教えと今日から使える実践までを解説します。
激流の滝を登りきった鯉は、竜になって天へ昇る。中国の故事に由来する『鯉の滝登り』は、努力と根性の象徴として語られてきました。けれど物語を読み直すと、鯉は登ったから竜になったのではなく、すでに竜として登っていたことが見えてきます。登竜門と点額、及ばぬ鯉の滝登り、鯉のぼりの由来から、ネヴィル・ゴダードの想定の法則、そして今日から使える実践までを解説します。
お釈迦さまが地獄へ垂らした一本の蜘蛛の糸。カンダタは途中まで登りながら、下から続く罪人たちに「下りろ」と叫んだ瞬間に落ちていきました。糸が切れたのは、カンダタがぶら下がっていたその場所でした。芥川龍之介『蜘蛛の糸』のあらすじと従来の教訓から、ネヴィル・ゴダードの想定の法則、そして欠乏の思い込みを手放す実践までを解説します。
一本のわらが、やがて屋敷と田に変わる。『わらしべ長者』は交換上手な若者の出世話として語られてきましたが、物語を読み直すと、若者は何かを手に入れる前に、すでに結末を受け取っていたことがわかります。平安時代の『今昔物語集』に残る原型から、ネヴィル・ゴダードの想定の法則、そして今日から使える実践までを解説します。
Metti una rana nell'acqua bollente e salterà fuori. Mettila nell'acqua fredda e scaldala piano, e resterà lì fino alla fine. In Italia la storia gira spesso firmata Noam Chomsky, ma non è sua, e le rane vere saltano. Eppure la lezione resta: ci si abitua a tutto, anche a una vita più piccol
Secondo le leggi dell'aerodinamica il calabrone non potrebbe volare, ma lui non lo sa e vola lo stesso.» Gira ovunque in Italia, quasi sempre attribuita a Einstein. Il mito è falso, ma la lezione che nasconde è più vera di quanto sembri.
Un elefantino viene legato a un piccolo paletto. Tira finché si arrende. Da adulto potrebbe sradicare un albero, eppure non tira mai più. Questa celebre storia, resa famosa da Jorge Bucay, nasconde una verità precisa: alcuni limiti non scompaiono. Li superi, ma continui a crederci.
It Works is only a few dozen pages long, yet it has been in print for nearly a century. Its promise is simple: if you know what you want, you can have it. Here is a close reading of its three rules, the tradition it came from, and the one thing it never explains.
For years, the four-minute mile seemed out of reach. Then on May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister ran it, and 46 days later John Landy did too. The story is more complicated than the legend, but its lesson is real: when one person proves a limit wrong, it changes what everyone else believes is possible.
Put one crab in a bucket and it climbs out. Put a dozen in and none escape, because every time one reaches the rim, the others pull it back. Crab mentality is the pattern of people holding each other down, and it is the one lid other people help hold in place.
Most people don't know what their limiting beliefs are. They just know where their life stops. Here are 50 of the most common, grouped by money, love, self-worth, time, background, career, ability, and change, with where each one usually starts and what to believe instead.
