Do You Have ANTs? (Automatic Negative Thoughts)

Do You Have ANTs? (Automatic Negative Thoughts)
By: Philippe Matthews -- Founder/Creator/Author of The SHOCKwealth System (www.SHOCKwealth.com)


Okay, you have just left a Bob Proctor Seminar; you read the latest book by Robert Kiyosaki; you went to Robert Allen's Real Estate Conference; you pull out of the parking lot after seeing your favorite minister present a riveting sermon about creating success.

Right before you left Proctor's seminar, put down Kiyosaki's book, thought about your first real estate deal, turned onto the street to drive home from church, you had an immediate thought that none of this stuff is possible.

You can't be successful; you or someone in your family is or was an alcoholic. You can't succeed and live your dreams because you or someone in your family is or was uneducated. You can't have the woman or man of your dreams because you or someone in your family has or have a horrible track record with relationships. You can't succeed at your career because you or someone you know or in your family has or will be downsized.

If any of these thoughts ring a bell, you've got ANTs! And a lot of them!

ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts) are the automatic thoughts that pop into our head whenever we contemplate taking an action that moves us closer to happiness, wealth and success. ANTs keep us locked into our lower natured DNA patterns of pain or the bad memories we have of ourselves.

WORMS (no acronym) represent subconscious, deep-seated, unknown beliefs, behaviors and responses to success and happiness. Worms condition and trigger the ANTs. If WORMS are subconscious, ANTs are pre-conscious, sitting on the boundary between are behaviors and our actions.

ANTs are repeated automated thoughts and beliefs that trigger when your DEITY self pushes your potential button and causes you to see a possibility in your life. The ANT is designed to automatically talk you out of the opportunity and success. When ANTs fail, the WORMS take over and cause you to sabotage and act not in your own best interest.

ANTs and WORMS are like reckless computer viruses that when identified and challenged by our DEITY ideals they move from one area of our life or conscious to another, reeking havoc wherever it goes. If you challenge an ANT or WORM in your financial life, they move to your relationships, career, health or spiritual life. They run, sneak and hide like bandits trying to steal away our happiness and peace of mind.

ANTs Have Big Buts!


An automatic negative thought always contains massive, contradictory buts.

Here are some examples:

I would like to become wealthy…but, I'm not sure I should be.
I would like to get in shape…but, I've always been fat so what's the point?
I would like to find the right relationship and fall in love…but, who would want to be with me?'

Behind every big but is an ANT, and behind every ANT is a WORM. I'm sure you have enough ANTs floating around inside of your consciousness right now---- helping you to remain the same, deny change and repeat your pain.

According to Dr. Stephen J. Kraus, Author of the Psychological Foundations of Success, “ANTs often have their ultimate origins in intense emotional experiences from childhood or adolescence, and although there is some value in reviewing the past to gain insight, it is important to realize that they have a life of their own, and that the path to resolving them lies primarily in the here an now.”

IDENTIFY YOUR UNCONSCIOUS FEARS

If you read The SHOCKwealth System™, (See p126: The SHOCKwealth System™ -- www.shockwealthsystem.com) you know that there are four distinct fears that stop our wealth, success and happiness dead in their tracks. Identify what you want; then, identify why you are afraid of it, or don't feel deserving of having it.

The fact that you don't have your goal means that there are hidden fears, [WORMS & ANTs] keeping your goal at bay. If you truly felt deserving of having the goal and not afraid of the happiness or responsibility of the goal, you would have the goal and there would be no need to attend this seminar, or read this book.

One of those fears is the fear of success itself. The Fear Of Success is the self-sabotaging fear.

Have you ever come close to actualizing a goal that you have put forth--- only to walk away from it or sabotage it when it appeared that victory was finally near?

The fear of success is what I refer to as ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts) and WORMS (Deep seated, unconscious beliefs and fears that act like computer viruses) in the Principles outlined in the SHOCKphilosophy™. You may fear spiritual enlightenment; successful relationships, success in finances, success in health and so on. Regardless of what kind of success you fear, it's an insidious fear virus that must be dealt with as pervasively as the fear itself.

DO YOU RECOGNIZE THESE ANTs?

Mo money, mo problems
I won't know how to manage all of that money
My parents or grandparents had money and they are miserable because of it
I don't have the education to be rich
God, my religion says that I should be poor and live below my means

I'm sure you can add to the list.

ACCOUNTABILITY/RESPONSIBILITY

When I was a Personal Trainer, I had a fellow trainer who used to tell me that he didn't want to become too successful or rich. In fact, he said, ‘I just want to be comfortable.' Whatever the hell that means. He continued to explain to me why he didn't want wealth and success in life. ‘I don't want to become too rich or successful because that is when people start coming after you.'

I thought about what he said and he is partially right. As Dr. John F. Demartini once said, “Life doesn't become easier, it only becomes more accountable.” You've heard the phrase, “To whom much is given, much is required?” That is a fact and this is why the SHOCKphilosophy & the SHOCKprocess™ is liberating so many lives. It gives you a tool or a weapon against the counter-thoughts/beliefs toward your desired level of success.

What if you had a process that could quickly identify the type of fear you have toward success and began the process of neutralizing that fear or finding how that fear serves your higher good and best interest?

With wealth, success, happiness and just being highly competent at anything, creates an accountability and responsibility to be the best that you can be at what you wish to be. Learning how to harness the power of the fear of success rather than run away from it requires a process, a SHOCKprocess. But, once you understand that fear is and always will be your best friend, you are no longer hindered by fear you are forever liberating from fear.

THE FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN

We fear success because we have never been successful at that which we wish to become successful, so there is an inherent fear of the unknown or the ‘What if.'

If I asked you to go into a darkened room where you could not see your hand before your face and you didn't know if there were ceilings or floors but you heard the sound of a growling tiger – what would you feel? What if I told you that in this room are billions of combinations that can make you instantly rich, improve your health, rekindle your current relationship or help you find the love of your life – what would you do? Would you go it this room and at least check it out?

Would you take the chance? Most people would not and this is the essence of the Fear Of Success. As I discuss in the SHOCKphilosophy™ most people have ANTs, or Automatic Negative Thoughts that automatically hinder them and talk them out of their greatness and potential for success, wealth and happiness.

By identifying what your individual, unconscious fear looks like, you will be able to transcend repeat failure and trends in your life.

THE FEAR OF PUBLIC SCRUTINY/RESENTMENT

Yes, it is true; poor-minded people hate rich-minded people. Notice I said, ‘poor-minded.' Not all poor people hate the rich and wealthy, but if you haven't been watching the news lately, you may have noticed that it is an all out war on those who have publicly announced their wealth.

If you are a Celebrity, a successful Entrepreneur, a noted Author on wealth, or have become so rich in business that it has garnered media attention, you will more than likely be put on public display to defend your so-called, ‘SHOCKwealth™.'

The message that the media sends out to the masses is, ‘Don't get too big or rich for your britches, or we will come after you and expose your innermost turmoil to the public.' This dynamic creates and breeds a WORM; that causes us to fear success at the public level. There was even a Rap Song made famous by P Diddy and Biggie Smalls called, ‘Mo Money, Mo Problems.'

ARE YOU GENETICALLY PROGRAMMED TO FAIL?

Have you ever entertained a positive thought only to shoot it down? Have you ever caught yourself yelling at your children and thinking you sound just like your parents? Have you ever seen a beautiful man or woman and wanted to approach them but talked yourself out of a possible romance? All of these are tangible examples of a genetic disposition to make happiness hard.

Someone once said that happiness is a choice and that is true but what happens when you choose not to choose? What do you do when you know better but don't do better? I call this self sabotaging phenomenon, the cycle of ANTs, WORMS & FEARS! Automatic Negative Thoughts; deep seated, unconscious beliefs that keep us spinning our wheels; False Evidence Appearing Real.

Our DNA programming houses all of our cognitions and beliefs which is why we literally fight to be wrong on our own behalf. This is why we do things to hurt ourselves and try to find a logical reason for the act. We use our God-power against ourselves to create turmoil, jealously, hatred, bitterness and every negative trait imaginable.

There is a balance and benefit to having these traits but most of us have no clue how to balance them so we tip the scale to one side and choose to beat ourselves up rather than lift ourselves up. You've heard the term many times before, ‘we are our own worst enemy.'

Happiness should not be hard. In fact, happiness is the natural state of our deity being. Happiness is the state of bliss which is the 8th step in the SHOCKprocess™ -- Let Go of the Outcome and Surround your SHOCKresult™ with Bliss. Within the state of bliss is where all understanding exists. Cause and effect collapse. Time stands still. Everything makes sense.

The goal in life is to create as many moments of bliss until it becomes the natural order of things in our life.

OUTTHINK YOURSELF

The problem is that we are too smart for our own britches!

The SHOCKprocess™ teaches us how to methodically outthink ourselves so that we get out of the way of our own success. We are so smart and powerful that we can literally make ourselves sick. We must begin challenging our DNA programming and genetic thoughts, traits and behaviors if we are going to live a blissful life and not pass the same anti-success traits on to our children.

Can you conceive of genetically changing the way you respond to success and happiness? Do you believe you have the power within you to alter your hereditary happiness? Are you willing to investigate the potential to reprogram your mental/emotional DNA to recognize success, accept success and propagate success?

If you want to learn more, engage in the SHOCKprocess™ and download your copy of the SHOCKphilosophy™ now. I would like to help you unlock the wealth that already sits on your shelves and resides within you right now.


Further Reading:
The SHOCKphilosophy™ -- www.shockphilosophy.com
The SHOCKwealth System™ Home Study Course – www.shockdestiny.com

Exercise:
Ask yourself this question: What FEAR is keeping you here?

To learn more about the 8 principles of The SHOCKphilosophy™ and The SHOCKwealth System™, go to your destiny by logging on to: www.SHOCKdestiny.com.

Blessings and bliss

Philippe Matthews

Philippe Matthews is the Founder/Creator of The SHOCKphilosophy™ and The SHOCKprocess™. He is the author of The SHOCKwealth System™ and How To Make Millions When Thousands Have Been Laid Off, host of The Philippe Matthews Show, Publisher of EmpowerMag.com, HowYouMakeMillions.com and SHOCKwealth.com.

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