This week the concept of NARC was introduced. Neurological Associative Reactive Conditioning.

The idea as I understand it is to take any thought, situation or obstacle that you might otherwise interpret as negative and attach to it a positive though and emotion. In other words, the Law of Substitution.

By effectively taking any frustration and re-framing it into an opportunity we can remain in a high vibration of positive attraction. What we think about grows. This is not new, in fact, it has been right in front of us our whole lives. It’s the ‘silver lining’, ‘cup half-full’ approach to turning ‘lemons to lemonade’.

It’s thematically omnipresent throughout all of our learning in the Master Key Experience, and the practice of creating the habit of a positive mental attitude in the face of adversity appears to be paramount to our successful achievement of our definiteness of purpose.

The proposed exercise this week was to throw our DMP into a trash can and really notice how it feels to abandon our dreams. To quit. To accept defeat. It’s really a potent reminder to double down and dig in. As Og Mandino states in scroll 3, I persist until I succeed. Part of this persistence, perhaps the biggest part, is to not accept defeat.

I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. – Og Mandino, Scroll 3.

While Og suggests in scroll 3 to ‘ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eyes on the goals above my head…”, I believe what NARC/Law of Substitution does is so much more than that. It trains us to take all situations and attach a positive outcome to it.

In that way we no longer experience obstacles but rather opportunities, and if we accept obstacles as challenges for growth, we ultimately train our subconscious habits to success.

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. Og Mandino, Scroll 3.