Your present moment is shaped by past thoughts and actions, forming an invisible script that guides your behavior. Most people stay trapped in this frame, believing their actions will create change when they're actually reinforcing the same pattern. Real transformation requires stepping completely off the script with different thoughts and behaviors to create an entirely new future.
Chapters
18. The Script. So I am certain that most of you have asked at least a few times in your life, as I have many, many times in mine, why aren't things the way I want them to be? So as Jung states here, you don't fully realize the situation you find yourself in, So, this is so simplistic, yet so powerful at the same time. This is the idea that the current moment, your present moment, is really just a product of your past thoughts and actions. And that prior— those prior thoughts and actions are what created the frame that you are currently in right now. This is obviously your behaviors and what you focused your attention on. Were you immersed in your inner screen? Were you immersed in the outer screen? So, Iyengar says here, you do not know that you move according to the script because the illusion of action is so powerful. So you see these little characters moving along this script here, and if you're acting in a current frame, right, this current frame is simply there because of a repetitive thought or action from the past. You are acting in that current frame, so you will most likely think that that your action will therefore then create a different future reality, a different future frame. But you really need to step off that script entirely and do something very, very different than what you had been doing in the past frames. Otherwise, things will just continue to be the same. Now, I know this sounds incredibly simple to most of you because it's like, Of course, to, to create those future frames, I have to change my action. But the, the challenge for humans is we believe that the action in that current frame, even if it is in line with the script as a whole, will ultimately change things for the future, which it will not. So this is when you have to step out of the script entirely and change your behaviors and your thoughts. And your actions to create a different script that will lead to a different future frame. So again, you do not know that you move according to the script because the illusion of action is so powerful. So it is powerful. And the real benefit of this statement is that you can create your own reality via action, but you have to remove yourself off of the current script you are on to another script, and then continue to take action in a different direction with different behaviors and different thoughts to create a different future frame.
