シャドーイング練習: Your Circumstances Reflect Your Thoughts | As a Man Thinketh — Chapter 2 - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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There is a moment in life when we begin to notice something uncomfortable.

Some things keep happening to us.

The same kind of conflict.

The same kind of disappointment.

The same kind of failure.

The same kind of relationship.

The same kind of struggle.

And eventually, we begin to ask Why does this keep happening to me?

We look outward for an answer.

We blame the people around us.

Our circumstances.

Our childhood.

Our luck.

The economy.

The timing.

The world.

Sometimes those things really do matter.

Life is not equally kind to everyone.

Some people begin with advantages.

Others begin with burdens they never chose.

James Allen does not deny this.

But he asks us to look somewhere deeper.

Not only at what happens to us, but at how we meet what happens to us.

And that brings us to the question of this chapter.

How do I meet life?

Because life will meet you first.

It will bring uncertainty.

Loss.

Opportunity.

rejection, success, failure, people you understand, and people you don't.

You cannot choose every event.

But Alan asks us to consider something more difficult.

What part of my life is being shaped by the way I think?

We often imagine circumstances as if they are separate from us.

Something outside.

Something fixed.

something that simply happens.

But our inner world is constantly interacting with the outer world.

A thought becomes an attitude.

An attitude influences a decision.

A decision creates an action.

An action produces a result.

And the result becomes part of the circumstances of our lives.

This process is usually so gradual that we don't see the connection.

A person thinks they are unlucky, so they become hesitant.

Because they are hesitant, they avoid opportunities.

Because they avoid opportunities, their world becomes smaller.

Then they look at that smaller world and say, see, nothing ever works for me.

The circumstance appears to prove the belief.

But the belief helped create the behavior that created the circumstance.

This is one of Alan's most challenging ideas.

Not because it tells us that we control everything.

But because it asks us to stop pretending that we control nothing.

There is a difference.

You may not control what someone says to you.

But you influence how you respond.

You may not control losing an opportunity.

But you influence what you do afterward.

You may not control where you began.

But you influence the direction in which you continue.

And this is where responsibility begins.

Not as blame. As power.

Because blame says.

This happened because of them.

Responsibility asks.

What can I do with what happened?

Those are very different questions.

Imagine two people facing the same setback.

One becomes bitter.

The other becomes thoughtful.

One says.

Life is against me.

the other asks what is this teaching me the event is the same

but the inner response is different

and over time those different responses create different lives this does not mean

that positive thinking magically changes reality alan's philosophy is deeper than

that he is not simply saying think good thoughts and everything will become good he is pointing toward character

the quality of your thoughts influences the quality of your actions

and the quality of your actions influences the direction of your life if your mind is constantly filled with fear

you may hesitate when courage is required

if it is filled with resentment you may interpret neutral events as personal attacks

if it is filled with impatience you may destroy things

that required time if it is filled with discipline you may continue long after motivation disappears

the outer world does not simply respond to what we wish it responds in part to what we repeatedly do

and repeated action comes from repeated thought this is why circumstances

can sometimes become mirrors not perfect mirrors not explanations for everything

but mirrors showing us patterns we may not have noticed look at the situations that repeatedly frustrate you not to accuse yourself

not to decide that everything is your fault

but to investigate what do i repeatedly expect how do i

usually react what do i tolerate what do i avoid what

do i keep choosing what kind of people do i continually become involved with what happens

when things do not go according to plan?

These questions can be uncomfortable.

Because responsibility removes some of the comfort of helplessness.

If everything is someone else's fault, then there is nothing you can do.

But if your thoughts, attitudes, and choices influence your life, then you have something to work with.

And that can be frightening.

Because responsibility means participation it means you are not merely watching your life happen you are involved in its direction

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consider how a small thought can change an entire day you wake up expecting the day to go badly

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a small inconvenience appears you interpret it as confirmation your mood changes you become impatient with someone.

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They respond defensively.

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Now the interaction becomes tense.

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You leave the conversation thinking.

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People are impossible.

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But perhaps the day did not begin with the argument.

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Perhaps it began with an expectation.

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And that expectation shaped the way you interpreted what followed.

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This happens constantly.

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We don't experience reality in a completely neutral way.

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We experience it through the lens of our mind.

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Two people can enter the same room.

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Hear the same words.

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And leave with completely different experiences.

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One feels insulted.

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The other hears information.

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One sees rejection.

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The other sees redirection.

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One sees an ending.

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The other sees an opening.

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The event matters. But interpretation matters too.

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An interpretation influences response.

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This is why responsibility does not mean controlling life.

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It means becoming responsible for the part of life that belongs to you.

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Your attention.

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Your attitude.

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Your interpretation.

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Your choices.

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Your effort.

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Your response.

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That is where your power lives.

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And perhaps this is the deeper lesson behind Alan's philosophy of circumstances. Do not ask only.

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Why is my life like this?

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Ask.

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what in me is helping to shape the way I live this life?

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That question changes the direction of attention.

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From accusation, to examination, from helplessness,

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to responsibility, from waiting for life to change, to asking what you can change within yourself.

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But there is another important distinction.

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responsibility is not the same as guilt guilt looks backward

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and says i should have been different responsibility looks forward

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and says what will i do now

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that difference can transform a person you may have spent years thinking in ways that weakened you you may have reacted poorly

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You may have made choices you regret.

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You may have allowed fear to make decisions for you.

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But awareness creates a new possibility.

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You can begin again.

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Not by pretending the past did not happen.

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But by refusing to let the past make every future decision for you.

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This is where thought becomes practical when something goes wrong notice your first thought

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when someone criticizes you notice your first reaction when someone succeeds notice what happens inside you

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when an opportunity appears notice what fear says when failure arrives notice the story you tell yourself.

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These moments reveal the mind.

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And what they reveal can be changed.

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Slowly.

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Repeatedly.

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Deliberately.

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Because circumstances are not merely events.

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They are also opportunities to discover who we are.

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A difficult person can reveal impatience.

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A setback can reveal fear.

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Success can reveal pride.

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Failure can reveal resilience. Or resentment.

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Pressure can reveal what we have practiced in private.

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And perhaps this is why life can become a teacher.

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Not because every painful event has a hidden reason.

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But because every event gives us a chance to respond.

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And every response teaches us something about ourselves.

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So when life does not go according to your plans.

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Perhaps the question is not immediately how do i escape this

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perhaps it is how do i meet this with fear with anger with bitterness with denial

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or with clarity with patience with courage with discipline with With acceptance,

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the circumstance may be outside your control, but your meeting with it is partly yours.

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And that is responsibility, not the responsibility for everything that happens,

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the responsibility for how you participate in what happens.

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Because life will continue to present circumstances.

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Some beautiful.

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Some painful.

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Some deserved.

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Some completely unexpected.

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You will not always get to choose the situation.

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But you are continually practicing a way of meeting situations.

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And that practice becomes character.

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Which brings us back to where this series began.

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Thought becomes character.

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And character begins to influence action.

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influences direction and direction gradually becomes circumstance not perfectly not mechanically

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not overnight but through thousands of small interactions between what happens outside

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and what happens within so perhaps tonight

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when something goes wrong don't ask only who caused this ask how am i meeting this

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when disappointment arrives watch yourself when success arrives

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watch yourself when someone challenges you watch yourself and

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when life gives you something you never asked for watch yourself

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because somewhere in that response you may discover the person you are becoming

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and perhaps the deepest freedom is not the freedom to control every circumstance

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it is the freedom to choose your response and through

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that response to influence the direction of your life you cannot command the world to become exactly what you want

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but you can begin to govern the mind with

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which you meet it and once you understand

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that circumstances stop being only obstacles they become teachers they become mirrors they become opportunities to practice a different way of being.

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So the question is no longer simply, why is this happening to me?

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It becomes something quieter, and more powerful.

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What will I become because of how I meet it?

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That is responsibility, and that is where your part in the shaping of your life begins.

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And I'll love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.

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