Originally Posted by
danielleinto 
... I've been told to fake it and go through the motions and it would eventually become real and it's true. I did get each time that a change in attitude is what I needed to grasp what I was figuring out in counselling. You can't put anything you learn into practice until you do it.
I think you "Get it". It is a direct result of action, not thinking. There is something about leading a principle driven life that changes thinking for us.
It works more or less like good Karma - only more so, if that makes any sense.