Most of the headache-causing beliefs we should let go of fit into one of the following patterns.
1. They condemn, judge, criticize or attack someone else.
2. They are unforgiving.
3. They concern the past or future. They cause us to analyze the past and to feel guilt or resentment about something that has already happened. Or they may cause us to worry and become anxious about possible problems that lie in the future.
4. They provoke selfish instincts linked with the body that arise from fear of lack, and arc based on getting and receiving.
5. They cause us to expect a reward for everything we do, or to anticipate fame, wealth, prestige, recognition, praise and other ego-swelling strokes.
6. They cause us to see everything in materialistic terms and to become strongly attached to money and possessions.
7. They cause us to feel discontented and dissatisfied and to crave and want things that are not absolutely essential.
8. They cause us to see difficulties, problems and conflicts in everything.
9. They allow our lives to be run by negative feelings.
10. They confront us with choices when we are tense and emotionally upset. Decisions made when emotionally upset are usually regretted later.
11. They cause us to love a person only if that person meets our conditions.
12. They cause us to compare ourselves with others and to feel dissatisfied.
13. They cause us to compete with and to try to win out over others.
14. They cause us to be rigid and inflexible and to hold strong opinions.
15. They allow us to blame others for the way we are and for what happens to us, creating a convenient victim role for us to play.
16. They cause us to be always concerned with our* selves and to place our own needs ahead of everyone else’s.
17. They cause us to fear being alone or doing anything unless we are part of a group.
18. They anise us to magnify molehills into mountains.
19. They cause us to feel insecure, either financially or n relationships.
20. They cause us to feel helpless, hopeless and totally dependent for headache relief on drugs or on passive therapies administered by someone else.
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