Posted by:
SusieQ#1
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Date: October 30, 2010 02:52PM
list of over 50 thinking scripts on how I got myself: Un-Mormonized! That was a list of automatic thinking scripts that were imprinted little by little on how I lived my life for several decades as a Mormon.
That process was about taking my power back and not allowing anyone else to instruct me in what to think about every little thing in my life from what I age, drank, how I dressed, used my time, what I read, what movies I saw, and on and on and on.
I adapted my life into the cultural traditions little by little.
For myself, it works best if I use my natural ability to see The Big Picture -- Mormonism as an American God Myth constructed like thousands of other ones that is a cultural, traditional, generational religion, again, like thousands of other ones throughout the history of humanity.
God Myths are based, predominately on supernatural claims, and/or have a strong leader-teacher, and construct a societal basis for a group of people that often lasts for hundreds to thousands of years.
Every human being that ever lived has lived in some kind of loose to strict religious/savior/deity/teacher, etc, traditional ritual based society.
Mormonism is no different.
Leaving the LDS Church was about making a personal choice. It was not about good or bad, right or wrong. It was about changing my thinking -- which took some time -- about everything in my life, which included keeping my relationships that were important to me.
It was about incorporating: gratitude tolerance, respect, and honoring other people and treating them the way I wanted to be treated.
My message? Take your power back, govern your own life, choose your beliefs and change your mind if you want to. Be honest, kind, and a decent honorable human being.
Understand where you have power to make changes and where you don't. Mostly, that's just within yourself. We can't change other people.
My goal is to live in happiness, joy, peace, and contentment no matter the circumstances and sometimes that's very difficult.
Life is short, and full of surprises.
It's all good! :-)