Many of us are familiar with truth that our reality is nothing more than words. Our thoughts and beliefs define our experience of reality. Therefore, if we change words, we change world. We can, in fact, change our lives in an instant, simply by choosing to create more elegant and supportive thoughts. We can release any negative belief, eliminate any destructive pattern, and instantly experience levels of joy, love and prosperity that are our birthright.

The challenge is that ego does not understand this. And, more to point, ego has a vested interest in making sure that we do not change our thoughts, beliefs, patterns or behaviors. Moreover, whenever we do set an intention to change our thoughts, our egos interfere in subtle and insidious ways to insure that we continue to think, believe, and behave exactly as we have in past.

And why does ego do this? The ego does this in order to protect us. One could even go so far as to say ego does this because it loves us. Granted, it's definitely a "Mommy Dearest" "No-More-Wire-Hangers" kind of love, but even so, when ego encourages us to cling to our painful, negative beliefs, it does so because it truly believes that it's acting in our best interest.

Remember, ego is a part of third dimension; we are not. What ego believes is in our best interest is not always actually in our best interest.

The ego believes that it is protecting us from being destroyed. (In point of fact, ego is actually protecting itself from being destroyed. The ego _can_ be destroyed. _We,_ on other hand, cannot, because we are eternal, multi-dimensional beings, and individualized aspects of All That Is.) The ego believes that even our most painful, limiting beliefs are essential, because small amount of pain that we experience actually protects us from a much bigger pain: death.

When we choose to change our thinking, we must be careful not to trigger our egos. One of most powerful ways to approach changing our thoughts and beliefs is to consider this radical thought:

Every belief that we currently hold, no matter how negative, painful, limiting, and even wrong it may be, actually serves us. Because we are whole, complete and perfect exactly as we are, it follows that each and every one of our beliefs is also perfect.

This may seem a strange approach to changing our thinking, but consider it more deeply. The root of every negative, limiting belief is belief that there is something wrong with us. This belief, in turn, can only exist when we buy into illusion that we are separate, and forget truth that we are completely and eternally connected to all of creation; that since we are individualized aspects of All That Is, we are, by our very nature, perfect.

Often, when we believe that there is something wrong with our beliefs, we trigger ego. As a result, we beat ourselves up for having created negative belief in first place. This, of course, only reinforces root of all of our negative beliefs: that there is something wrong with us. When we accept ourselves and our current beliefs as perfect, we avoid triggering ego. This is most effective way of actually changing our beliefs.

Once we've convinced our ego that there's nothing wrong with beliefs that we currently hold, we can introduce a new thought. While all of our beliefs are currently working just fine, it may be possible to upgrade our beliefs, and make more elegant choices.

Consider this: most of our most limiting and painful beliefs were formed while we were children. We created these beliefs using resources and skills available to us at time, in order to protect us from very specific circumstances and situations. Even though these beliefs worked beautifully when we were children, we've never actually updated them. Our circumstances have changed. We've developed significantly greater skills, and have infinitely more choices and resources at our disposal as adults than we did as children. It may just be possible that we can create a new belief that does an even better job of protecting us than old one did.

Or, to put it another way, when we formed most of our painful and negative beliefs, we only had 8-color box of crayons to use. Now, as adults, we have access to big, 128-color box. The 8-color beliefs still serve us, but when we're ready, we can also choose to upgrade and create more elegant, skillful, and above all, more colorful beliefs. **In Part 2, we will explore steps that we must take in order to truly heal.**

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1. Mental state. You will want to achieve at least a delta brainwave state and synchronize your hemispheric patterns to highest level possible. Deep meditation or brainwave bio-feedback are indicated practices.

2. Time. You need to take an adequate amount of time to accomplish your task. Some of these techniques may require hours of focused concentration to carry out in a short period. Don’t think that it’s good enough to throw off a few minutes here and there if you want to be effective. It’s not.

3. Conceptual thinking. Your psychic abilities, at least actual working component of them, exist in deeper levels of your mind. This means to access them you need to think on a level that your subconscious mind can understand easily. To do this think in concepts, in ideas, that are devoid of words or pictures. This is a skill that takes time and practice to master.

4. Understand what active systems are. Psychokinetic effects are most strongly felt in systems that have energy in them. Living things, machines with moving parts and weather are all good examples. It is by and large a waste of resources to try and influence stable systems. Learning to easily identify what systems you can effect will greatly increase your level of success.

5. Sensing fields of information. This is a natural ability we all have. You have to learn to sense world around you in a direct manner, if you wish to interact with it well. Certain meditations can help hone skills you already have. This is a skill that you will need if you are going to effect world around you in a powerful way. Sensing fields of information will allow you to understand your target in a meaningful way as well as help you to make corrections to any field you are influencing.

When you understand these skills and can perform them in a consistent and effective manner, you will be ready to move on to practice of more complicated techniques.

Regardless of whether you plan on ever using Psychic Combat techniques or are just interested in more peaceful, and in my opinion more useful, psychic methods, I highly recommend that you learn above skills and information. Just gaining improvement in any one of these areas will increase your over all psychic ability.

Next installment, “Psychic Combat: Part Two-Ghost in Machine” will address sabotage of equipment and vehicles.

Dale Power is a psychic healer, researcher and educator that has been focusing on ways to improve psychic functioning in humans for the last twenty years. Go to: http://healing.worldispnetwork.com to find out more about the work being done.