How do you perceive yourself and the world Around you?

This is a very important question because, for example, did you know each one of us is a slave to our subconscious mind. For example, did you know you can recondition your subconscious mind as well.

Understanding the principles that govern your existence in a human body on earth and how they are tied to how your subconscious mind has been conditioned by external and internal experiences all along might be helpful to know if you want to have a long life.

For example, at around age 22 I was in the college library at Palomar College in San Marcos (where the fire was recently near Carlsbad and San Diego). I picked up a copy of the magazine then around 1971 in the Fall of Psychology Today. My parents had not studied psychology and neither had I because my parents were basically creationists at that point even though my Dad thought a lot of Nicola Tesla who invented Alternating Current and the Fluorescent light bulb and many other things because Dad was an Electrcial Contractor. But, as I sat there reading about cause and effect in psychology today I could codify my behavior, my parents behavior, my relatives behavior and the behavior of everyone I knew or would meet. This was really great to finally get the causal cause and effect of everyone's effect on everyone else and why people were reacting and then acting and then reacting the way they were.
 

I stopped being a prisoner of my own conditioning then and there and realized I had to recondition myself to be whoever I wanted to be. Because the person I had been conditioned to be was about to commit suicide by age 25. So, I went to work changing my subconscious mind to be more useful to me so I wouldn't have to commit suicide. Obviously, I succeeded because I'm still alive here at age 66.

The very first step:

1. Stop blaming anyone else for your troubles. Because if you scapegoat others for your troubles you will still be doing this and demonstrating to everyone around you that you never grew up when you are 50 or 60 years old still.

2. Take responsibility for everything that happens from now on in your life. It isn't anyone's fault from this day forward. It doesn't matter what happened to your life before today. From now on no one gets to tell you what to do ever again. They lost that right when they ruined your life in the past.

3. You are the captain of your own ship and the master of your own destiny. You might have to do almost anything to survive in this world but under it all you still are the "Captain of your own ship and the master of your own destiny." If not, why are you alive?

4. Design your life like an architect. However, be realistic. The world is constantly changing so often so must your dreams  change as people change and so will you and the world every day.