Og Mandino’s second scroll really struck me. Combined with the ‘no opinion week’ makes for a powerful awakening. In fact, weeks five and six are jam-packed with learning. Getting laser focused in the sit. Reading the laws of the mind. Absorbing the law of compensation. Greeting each day with love. I know the work I need to do.

These exercises have shown me that I have been extremely opinionated. And cynical. And judgmental. I read somewhere, I can’t recall where, someone had coined these negative though patterns as ANTS (automatic negative thoughts). I like to think that I am quite intentional with my thoughts and actions, but really, when I pay attention, these ANTS are crawling around in my mind constantly, they have colonized there, they have tunneled pathways through my subconscious programming, and they are constantly running the show.

Couple this realization with week 5’s peptide eureka, and the thirty-thousand-foot view of my life gets pretty clear. I am infested with ANTS. I have been addicted to ANTS. The ANTS have been coding those peptides and feeding the addiction, and subby has just doing what it’s told. Throw some frustration or anger in there and you have some seriously potent programming. No More!!

The old me thinks that it’s time to kill the ANT Queen. But the Law of Substitution teaches us that we cannot just kill the ANTS, we need to drive them out and replace them. I need to be the observer, and when I observe these ANTS, I need to starve them out with substitution. I need to create new peptides, new addiction. I need to drive out the ANT colony. And how? What is more powerful than negative thoughts imprinted with feelings of anger and frustration?

I need to greet each day with love. No more ant sized thoughts. From now on they are elephants – love, acceptance and compassion, joy, excitement and gratitude. I need to make new peptides. I need to do it deliberately, I need to do it constantly, I need to do it religiously. I no longer accept the conditions for failure.

I no longer identify with the old program. I am making new peptides. I am rewriting my programs. I promise to greet this day with Love!

I always keep my promises.