Imagine that can step inside your head for a moment. You are there to watch what is happening in your mind. You can see what is happening as your body experiences what you see, hear and touch things around you.

You hear a siren outside somewhere and feel empathy and sympathy for the people in need of the emergency services. You get a tense feeling, and perhaps feel grateful that whatever is happening because your family is here safe with you.

Stepping into this image is like being an observer to your own thought processes. As you see, hear, touch and feel everything around you see the thoughts going through your mind and you see your reaction, your verbal interpretation and the emotions and feelings.

Electrically Charged

What is actually happening in our brains are electrical impulses that represent what you have seen, touched or heard over your lifetime. Our memories are no more real than the photo saved on our digital camera. The picture we see is just that, a contrast of light and dark. We could never walk into the stored image of a house in any more than the one in our camera.

That is the stuff of our memories. Images stored along with words and sounds and feelings and the emotions attached. The emotions and feelings and interpretations are something we have added in our minds. They are our reaction to the events around us.

Many things happened to us as children. If our parents did not praise us when were behaved  but only punished us when we misbehaved, we may conclude that nothing we do is worth doing. Or, we may go around always seeking to prove that we are more worthy of praise, by telling tall tales about our selves, or by always seeking to be the center of attention.

As children we depended on our parents for everything. We trusted them to know what we needed and how we should be treated. As children it was hard to see or feel that we were separate people from our parents. We felt like extensions of our parents.

How our parents treated us and what they taught us formed our first beliefs about our selves and the world around us. Their reaction to what was happening we observed, interpreted and changed to fit our limited understanding as children.

Beliefs are what we assume to be true about ourselves and the world.

Beliefs are things we are constantly trying to prove to our selves. And, so we limit our focus to those things that prove our beliefs. Beliefs are somewhat like self fulfilling interpretations.

Observing Space

Stepping into the incredible space in your mind allows you to get a view of yourself that is totally different. It can teach you that you have full control of your mind. That you can make different interpretations and decisions and choices about events occurring around you.

It is the tool that enables you to review all your beliefs. It is a position that many do not realize they can take, the objective observer. At least, as objective as we can make anything in our minds.

What you will be doing from this viewpoint is connecting the events as they happen with the basic beliefs that you have about yourself and the world.

Taking A Clear Picture

Nothing in our minds is real.  Our minds only contain reference materials. You look at a table and compare the object to the reference in your mind to identify it.

Your feelings, emotions and interpretations distort your references. The image you store is made brighter and bigger if you find it pleasant. If you are saddened or the image is not pleasant it may be stored as large, dull, black and white and out of focus to represent the emotions.

Your emotional state at the time also affects the degree of your immediate reactions. If you are feeling happy and something that would normally anger you occurs you may not be as angry. If something happens that you find pleasant and you are feeling very happy, you may get more pleasure from the event than usual.

Still acting as the observer and keeping our brain image in mind, let's examine some of the things that accumulate in your mind. Things that most of us take to be real. Memories that have formed our beliefs, attitudes and habits.

Believing Happiness

First of all you need to define happiness and success for yourself.

Your happiness depends on what you believe. Your success depends on what you believe. If you believe you can find happiness and success then you will find both. If you believe you do not deserve happiness or success then you that will also be your truth.

My definition of happiness is pleasure that happens in any and every moment. Happiness is being able to breathe. Happiness is having friends to share life with. Happiness is reaching a goal you set for yourself. Happiness is acquiring a history of  happy or pleasant moments. 

Success is also reaching a goal you set for your self. Success is the reward you give yourself by being happy and by being confident in your ability to reach a goal.

 Everything Is Possible

Do you see that it is within the capabilities of your mind to imagine anything and to create without hesitation or fear. Nothing in your mind is real. But, it is within your abilities to make everything real.