The Green Platform Chapter One

CHAPTER ONE
The Green And
Red Platforms
EVERY morning and indeed many times throughout each day, you
and I, often totally unaware, make a decision to use either the Green
or Red Platforms.
You might well ask – what is the Green Platform? Or what is
the Red Platform? They are terms that can on one hand show how
imprisoned we are to our own limiting thoughts; on the other hand
they can show you how to change and utterly transform your life
for the better.
How do they work? First let’s look at the Red Platform, the
negative, self-sabotaging platform.
Every day over 50,000 thoughts go through your head. Most of
these – 40,000 or 80 per cent – are negative. It means that for every
one time we have a positive Green Platform thought, there are four
occasions when we land on the Red Platform in negative mode.
So why do we see Red and why do we get on the Red Platform?
Every time we decide to blame or complain or start telling a
victim story such as: “It always happens to me” – we are on the
Red Platform. That means most people spend 80 per cent of their
time on the Red Platform, thinking negative thoughts day after day.
Normally 95 per cent of the thoughts we have today are the same
as the thoughts we had yesterday.
The ABCs of the Red Platform
The ABCs of the Red Platform are Anger, Blame and Complain.
When we are in this state, we use words like “you” or “they” or “he”
or “she” to blame outside forces for our life circumstances.
Underneath this platform, there is a tank of fuel called fear. When
we are born we land on the Green Platform and all we have in our
Green Platform tank is love. As we grow up we gradually learn all
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