Life Hackers Are Out To Get You
How To Stop Believing Lies
I was listening to an NPR show where a hacker described the process he goes through to hack into the Apple iPhone. I realized how similar it is to what happens in our lives.
The way to keep hackers out of computer code can also apply to our life code and anything that attempts to hack the joy in our lives.
A computer hacker scans code, looking for a mistake. It could be as small as not putting in a semicolon. That mistake becomes his door into the rest of the code. From there, depending on how skilled he is, he can do anything with the code and phone he wants to.
There are life hackers using this same method to hack our lives.
Actually, there is only one hacker who, after hacking a person and turning them into someone who does their bidding, uses them to move on to the next person. Yes, I know, this sounds like a horror flick or an alien invasion movie.
However, we can remove the hacker from our lives once we understand what is happening, unlike the victims in movies.
The first step is to know it is there.
When I say there is only one hacker, I mean there is only one lie and one liar. That lie is that there is a power other than good, and only one liar spreads that lie, which is sometimes called evil.
I think calling it a hacker keeps the emotion out of it, and that’s a good thing.
Here’s what life-code hacking looks like.
Having found a mistake in our code (a belief that allows it in), it suggests ideas to us about life and about ourselves.
I don’t know how hard it is to stop a computer code hacker, but I know it can be easy to stop a life code hacker.
First, we recognize that ideas and decisions that do not stem from the heart, from compassion, or from trust in the power of good are not our thoughts.
They are the lies of the one liar, the life hacker.
Once we recognize this, we can face and replace the lies.
And that is the second step in ridding ourselves of the one liar.
Instead of listening to and following its suggestions, we can dissolve it like the wicked witch in The Wizard of Oz.
But instead of water, we dissolve it with the absolute conviction that the only power it has is the one we give it by believing its lies.
When the one liar is in control of our lives, we all act differently.
Under the effect of the lie, some of us become depressed. Others become angry. Some withdraw from their lives and potential, while others pour everything into becoming successful at the expense of others.
You would think this was a different hacker or lie for each person. It’s not.
It’s just one with many faces. And that makes it easy to stop.
The Lord’s Prayer has a simple solution.
First, the decision, “Deliver us from evil.” Or another way of saying it clearly states our request: “Deliver us from the evil one.”*
We see hunger, greed, corruption, and fear, which are all the outcomes of a hacked life code.
All of this is an outcome of believing and acting as if it were true that there is a power other than good.
We want to be delivered from it.
The next phrase in the Lord’s prayer is the answer.
It can’t happen, it can’t remain, it must leave, it will dissolve, when we stand in the Truth that “Thine is the power, the glory, for ever and ever.”
Or “For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, all Truth, Love over all and All.”*
Finally, we find the break in our code and fix it.
We don’t stay and play with the claims of evil. We don’t open our doors to it. We close up beliefs in ourselves that we are not the children of the One Father Mother.
We declare with conviction that we are not children of humans and are susceptible to life-hacking.
We are the expression of Life. We are the action of Love.
This consistent awareness of the Truth of our Being will eliminate any way for the hacker, the one liar, to enter our thoughts and suggest what is not true. It’s our job.
Close the door. Clean up the code. We have a life to live and love to give.
*From Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy
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