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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Is the Power of Thought Real?
Endowed With Omnipotence: The Power of Your Thoughts Illuminiated, written by Christina Bialas will be available in bookstores late Fall 2012.
The power of thought works flawlessly, but only appears to be a hit-or-miss power when the power is misunderstood. The power of thought works in exact correlation to your predominant thoughts and beliefs. Reality is the manifestations of your beliefs. Consequently, whatever you believe to be a true aspect about your life is experienced (such as I believe I am in financial despair, lonely, or ill). Beliefs are effective discriminators of information and will draw upon you evidence that supports the existing belief. The evidence perceived or reality produced, then serves to further validate the belief, of the effect the evidence seems real. We then become stuck in thought corkscrews which cause us to think, create an effect, and then believe the effect to be true. This process is cyclical unless it is interrupted.
The power of thought is real. We only come to doubt the power when we think we can send out a positively constructed thought or two in an attempt to overthrow our current belief system. The power of thought does not work that way. The power of thought manifests reality according to your predominant thoughts and beliefs, so any attempt to change an experience has to include a change to your beliefs. A handful of fresh new thoughts simply will not do.
Your strongest beliefs and reality are one. Reality only appears truthful because you have created both the illusion and validation of the illusion. This is similar to hanging a clock on your wall and claiming that clock on your wall is evidence that time exists. Financial disparity, health problems, and lack are all created and supported in much the same manner. The situation is created by your thoughts, and then the situation is pointed to as proof of existence of the condition. In order to change an experience in life, the pattern of think, create the effect, believe the effect must be exchanged for a more constructive pattern.
Every possible experience is available to you right now (prosperity, health, abundance, and happiness). In order to connect with certain experiences, you must focus on the attributes of that experience. For example, you cannot experience prosperity when lack is focused upon. Remember, what we believe, we perceive and what we perceive, we believe.
Think of the game, I Spy. Think of everything that exists in the game, such as a feather, a pink super ball, a steel nail, a yellow duck, and so forth. When playing I Spy, certain objects are immediately perceived, like the pink super ball, yet hours can be spent searching for the yellow duck. Our perception of reality is filtered in much the same way. We concentrate on certain aspects of reality to the exclusion of other aspects. The aspects that we focus on are our beliefs. Consequently, our beliefs blind us quite effectively to other aspects of reality. In a sense, we compress our focus so keenly on certain areas (life experiences) that we are blind to other experiences.
Experiences change when our focus (thoughts and beliefs) is withdrawn from one area and shifted to another. Compared to I Spy, one cannot find the yellow duck if one is not willing to shift focus. Consider what would happen if one by one objects were covered up. Eventually, the yellow duck would appear. Understand that the yellow duck was there all along. The duck only seems to be missing when focus is not directed towards it. Similarly, your perception of reality blocks an abundant life from migrating to you when abundance is kept out of focus and lack is concentrated on.
Reality is like a game of I Spy. The power of thought manifests our beliefs, without fail and without exception. If lack and abundance are I Spy pawns in the game of life, and lack is focused on, prosperity has not chance of emerging. To change an experience, your focus (thoughts) must be withdrawn from areas in which change is desired, and placed instead on an ideal outcome. This is the difference between concentrating on the pink super ball and specifically looking for the yellow duck.
Changing your focus is a four step process.
(1) Identify the ideal outcome in an area of your life that change is desired. State exactly what you want to occur. Be clear. Do not settle for comprises, hopeful outcomes or best case scenarios. Be courageous. Be bold. Think big. Know exactly what it is you want in life. Write it down.
(2) Don't restrict your ideals to daydreams. Grease your mind with thoughts so results can take shape. Picture yourself having that outcome, being abundant, or becoming well. Think big. Think often.
(3) Take action! Action cannot be taken out of the equation. Thoughts need action for validation. Recall at the beginning of this blog, I said that beliefs are effective discriminators of information. I also said that we experience our beliefs. The only way to change your beliefs is by taking action on new thoughts. Action builds the foundation of a new belief. Everything that exists does so because of action taken in follow up to your thoughts. The television sitting in your living room, your relationships, your house, or the car in your driveway exist because physical action was taken with your body. The conscious mind relies on the physical body to take action on the thoughts that are to be physically experienced. The body is your only instrument in the physical world. Leave the body out of the equation, and physical reality cannot be experienced. So to that effect, you must include the physical body in your plan to change outcomes. Being uncertain as to what action to take is normal. Do not overwhelm yourself with thoughts of uncertainty as to what action to take. Do anything. Read a book. Take a car for a test drive. Write the first paragraph of a book. Schedule an appointment. Once action begins, additional thoughts will occur which will propel you along.
(4) The final step in effectuating change requires banishing from your thoughts all forms of negativity, doubt, skepticism, and fear. Think again of our I Spy game. All forms of negative thinking compress thoughts on what already is, in the case of I Spy, our focus remains on the pink super ball. Essentially then we tell ourselves, the yellow duck does not exist because I cannot see the yellow duck. Your experience cannot expand if compression occurs.
The first step to success starts with the two words, I can!
The power of thought works flawlessly, but only appears to be a hit-or-miss power when the power is misunderstood. The power of thought works in exact correlation to your predominant thoughts and beliefs. Reality is the manifestations of your beliefs. Consequently, whatever you believe to be a true aspect about your life is experienced (such as I believe I am in financial despair, lonely, or ill). Beliefs are effective discriminators of information and will draw upon you evidence that supports the existing belief. The evidence perceived or reality produced, then serves to further validate the belief, of the effect the evidence seems real. We then become stuck in thought corkscrews which cause us to think, create an effect, and then believe the effect to be true. This process is cyclical unless it is interrupted.
The power of thought is real. We only come to doubt the power when we think we can send out a positively constructed thought or two in an attempt to overthrow our current belief system. The power of thought does not work that way. The power of thought manifests reality according to your predominant thoughts and beliefs, so any attempt to change an experience has to include a change to your beliefs. A handful of fresh new thoughts simply will not do.
Your strongest beliefs and reality are one. Reality only appears truthful because you have created both the illusion and validation of the illusion. This is similar to hanging a clock on your wall and claiming that clock on your wall is evidence that time exists. Financial disparity, health problems, and lack are all created and supported in much the same manner. The situation is created by your thoughts, and then the situation is pointed to as proof of existence of the condition. In order to change an experience in life, the pattern of think, create the effect, believe the effect must be exchanged for a more constructive pattern.
Every possible experience is available to you right now (prosperity, health, abundance, and happiness). In order to connect with certain experiences, you must focus on the attributes of that experience. For example, you cannot experience prosperity when lack is focused upon. Remember, what we believe, we perceive and what we perceive, we believe.
Think of the game, I Spy. Think of everything that exists in the game, such as a feather, a pink super ball, a steel nail, a yellow duck, and so forth. When playing I Spy, certain objects are immediately perceived, like the pink super ball, yet hours can be spent searching for the yellow duck. Our perception of reality is filtered in much the same way. We concentrate on certain aspects of reality to the exclusion of other aspects. The aspects that we focus on are our beliefs. Consequently, our beliefs blind us quite effectively to other aspects of reality. In a sense, we compress our focus so keenly on certain areas (life experiences) that we are blind to other experiences.
Experiences change when our focus (thoughts and beliefs) is withdrawn from one area and shifted to another. Compared to I Spy, one cannot find the yellow duck if one is not willing to shift focus. Consider what would happen if one by one objects were covered up. Eventually, the yellow duck would appear. Understand that the yellow duck was there all along. The duck only seems to be missing when focus is not directed towards it. Similarly, your perception of reality blocks an abundant life from migrating to you when abundance is kept out of focus and lack is concentrated on.
Reality is like a game of I Spy. The power of thought manifests our beliefs, without fail and without exception. If lack and abundance are I Spy pawns in the game of life, and lack is focused on, prosperity has not chance of emerging. To change an experience, your focus (thoughts) must be withdrawn from areas in which change is desired, and placed instead on an ideal outcome. This is the difference between concentrating on the pink super ball and specifically looking for the yellow duck.
Changing your focus is a four step process.
(1) Identify the ideal outcome in an area of your life that change is desired. State exactly what you want to occur. Be clear. Do not settle for comprises, hopeful outcomes or best case scenarios. Be courageous. Be bold. Think big. Know exactly what it is you want in life. Write it down.
(2) Don't restrict your ideals to daydreams. Grease your mind with thoughts so results can take shape. Picture yourself having that outcome, being abundant, or becoming well. Think big. Think often.
(3) Take action! Action cannot be taken out of the equation. Thoughts need action for validation. Recall at the beginning of this blog, I said that beliefs are effective discriminators of information. I also said that we experience our beliefs. The only way to change your beliefs is by taking action on new thoughts. Action builds the foundation of a new belief. Everything that exists does so because of action taken in follow up to your thoughts. The television sitting in your living room, your relationships, your house, or the car in your driveway exist because physical action was taken with your body. The conscious mind relies on the physical body to take action on the thoughts that are to be physically experienced. The body is your only instrument in the physical world. Leave the body out of the equation, and physical reality cannot be experienced. So to that effect, you must include the physical body in your plan to change outcomes. Being uncertain as to what action to take is normal. Do not overwhelm yourself with thoughts of uncertainty as to what action to take. Do anything. Read a book. Take a car for a test drive. Write the first paragraph of a book. Schedule an appointment. Once action begins, additional thoughts will occur which will propel you along.
(4) The final step in effectuating change requires banishing from your thoughts all forms of negativity, doubt, skepticism, and fear. Think again of our I Spy game. All forms of negative thinking compress thoughts on what already is, in the case of I Spy, our focus remains on the pink super ball. Essentially then we tell ourselves, the yellow duck does not exist because I cannot see the yellow duck. Your experience cannot expand if compression occurs.
The first step to success starts with the two words, I can!
Friday, August 31, 2012
LIVING THE DREAM LIFE
My book, Endowed with Omnipotence: The Power of Your Thoughts Illuminated is schedule for release late Fall 2012.
Everybody has aspirations of how their life should be. Most of us want super success in areas of wealth, relationships, health and happiness. Yet, continuously our life falls short of those expectations. Other people seem to draw fantastic results effortlessly. Attracting our ideal life is difficult. If thoughts have power, where is that power?
At one time, I doubted the authenticity of the power of thought to provide the results I was after. I thought often of what I wanted, yet what I wanted never materialized. Instead, what I didn't want kept showing up. More bills, more frustrations, and more problems. As I explored the power of thought over the years, I came to understand how the power functions. Thinking about what is wanted is not effective. Believing that you can actually have the product of your thoughts is where the real power resides. Most of us never achieve the belief, and so never achieve our ideal life. Most of us remain stuck in thoughts, wishes, and desires.
The difference between a few sprinkled thoughts and a belief is the difference between the few scattered leaves of fall and a hundred year old maple tree that drops all of its leaves as winter approaches. A few scattered leaves do nothing really to alter the landscape of your yard. Yet a maple that completely drops its leaves saturates the yard and alters the view of the landscape. When we give thought to our ideal life, the thought power lent to comprising the ideal is like a handful of scattered leaves. People who have achieved fantastic success approach their ideal with the thoughts (leaves) of a thousand maple trees.
Examine this tree. Think of each leave representing a thought. Consider how many thousand leaves combine to form this tree. This maple could not exist with only a handful of leaves. The leaves are just as an important to the tree as the tree itself. In fact, the leaves are one with the tree. Your ideal, if we think of it metaphorically, is similar to this tree in that your ideal needs a sturdy trunk (belief) to rise up, represented by thousands of leaves (thoughts) in which photosynthesis (attracted energy) can occur. Photosynthesis in a plant is the absorption of the sun's energy. Photosynthesis of your thoughts, again metaphorically speaking, is the absorption of Universal Energy. A couple of thoughts are not enough to capture the energy of the Universal Mind.
Growing a tree is not that easy, which is exactly why we feel stuck. If growing a tree were easy, forests would not have so much floor space. Trees compete with other trees and plants for sunlight and nutrients. Only the heartiest of trees survive. The beliefs that you have in place right now are mighty oaks. Right now, your beliefs tower over the sprouts of your ideals. Your ideals, then, stand very little chance of rising up. Ideal thoughts, depleted of nutrients, cannot thrive in a forest of deeply rooted beliefs.
Achieving your ideal life boils down to one requirement: You must tend to the thoughts of your ideal. Thinking, I want to be healthy or wealthy, is not enough. A thought must be turned into a belief, if the thought is to stand a chance of towering above deeply formed beliefs. How does one tend to ideal thoughts? By taking action. Action not only validates thinking, but also ensures your thoughts are focused on your ideal because as you act, you have no choice but to think about what you are acting on. Thus, as action occurs thought energy (nutrients, sunshine, energy) is taken from the existing belief and put directly on the ideal. As all of your energy is directed to your ideal, existing thoughts and beliefs wilt.
I will have more to say about action in a upcoming blog.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
HELP! I AM STRUGGLING RIGHT NOW. WHAT CAN I DO TO CHANGE MY SITUATION?
My book Endowed with Omnipotence: The Power of Your Thoughts
Illuminated is scheduled for publication late fall 2012. My book describes exactly how the power of thought works.
Regardless of your situation, you can change any experience simply by redirecting your thoughts to a more constructive purpose. Future outcomes can be redirected even if you are deathly ill, heartbroken, or in financial crisis. Changing your future requires an exchange of thoughts.
The requirement of any effective exchange is that something is forfeited that does not serve you in exchange for something that does. Both items or things are not kept. Consider having a pair of uncomfortable shoes that cause blisters on your feet. Off you go to the store to exchange the shoes for a better fitting pair. You do not keep both pair of shoes. Certainly, keeping both pair of shoes serves no purpose. If you continued to wear the uncomfortable shoes, your feet would suffer the consequence of blisters. Alternating between the comfortable and uncomfortable pair causes intervals of pain among episodes of temporary relief. Clearly, ridding yourself of the uncomfortable shoes makes sense.
An effective exchange in thoughts is necessary in order for your pain to go away. You cannot keep both negative and positive thoughts. Similar to occasionally wearing the uncomfortable pair of shoes, your destructive thoughts, metaphorically speaking, will cause mental blisters, of the effect you will continue to experience painful events. If you are trying to rid yourself of destruction, destructive thoughts must be exchanged for constructive thoughts. Think of the lasting effect of occasionally wearing the uncomfortable shoes. Blisters develop that last for days. A switch to the comfortable shoes offers temporary relief. Just as the blisters start to heal, we put the uncomfortable pair back on, and thus start the process of developing blisters all over again.
Thoughts ping-pong through our mind in exactly the same manner, which is why nothing seems to change. We think positively, then negatively. Back and forth thinking is called polarized thinking. The result of polarized thinking is a stalemate. Stalemates offer no change to reality.
Immediate, effective, lasting change requires an exchange in thoughts. All negative thoughts must be banished. The only thoughts permitted are constructive thoughts. Since most of us are unaware of our thoughts as we go about our day, we need to pay attention to our feelings. Feelings are navigators to thoughts. Feelings give us clues as to the health of the conscious mind. When we feel good, our thoughts are constructive. When we feel bad, our thoughts are destructive. Think of the difference between the sickening pit felt in your stomach when bad news is delivered and the radiant glow felt in your stomach when exceptionally good news is received.
Your stomach contains a bundle of nerves that produce the pit or the glow. The bundle of nerves is activated by thoughts. If too much negativity is permitted into the conscious mind, the pit develops. The pit is an urgent warning message to you. The message says, change your thoughts now or the results of destructive thinking will manifest! Conversely, the glow is also activated by extraordinarily positive thoughts. The glow is also a message. The radiant glow says, keep thinking these constructive thoughts. The challenge to us is recognizing feelings as built in thought navigators and heeding their advice.
Thinking constructively by following the radiant glow of your stomach will change your experience. You might have to temporarily endure a few episodes of negativity as your experience changes. Ultimately, enduring a few brief moments of negativity is better than enduring a lifetime of destruction. Experiences shift only when thinking shifts constructively and remains constructive. Just like those shoes that damage your feet, do not be tempted to return to thoughts that damage your experiences.
If you are experiencing dire circumstances, such as a traumatic illness or are in dire financial crisis, I have this to say. Your experience can and will shift if you are willing to take my advice and focus intently on an ideal outcome, not a best case scenario or a hopeful outcome, but an ideal outcome. Exactly what is the outcome that you desire? Lend all of your thought power to that outcome. Up until this point, all of your thought power has been given to the destructive experience you are now facing, which is exactly why the experience is occurring. Continuing to dwell on the experience perpetuates the experience. Problems are solved by focusing on the ideal solution. Problems are not solved by focusing on the aspects of the problem. Exchange your thoughts so that your thoughts focus on an ideal outcome and then do not let up firing those thoughts at the ideal outcome. Faith precedes the miracle.
See also my blog on WHY IS THE POWER OF THOUGHT DIFFICULT TO SUMMON?
Regardless of your situation, you can change any experience simply by redirecting your thoughts to a more constructive purpose. Future outcomes can be redirected even if you are deathly ill, heartbroken, or in financial crisis. Changing your future requires an exchange of thoughts.
The requirement of any effective exchange is that something is forfeited that does not serve you in exchange for something that does. Both items or things are not kept. Consider having a pair of uncomfortable shoes that cause blisters on your feet. Off you go to the store to exchange the shoes for a better fitting pair. You do not keep both pair of shoes. Certainly, keeping both pair of shoes serves no purpose. If you continued to wear the uncomfortable shoes, your feet would suffer the consequence of blisters. Alternating between the comfortable and uncomfortable pair causes intervals of pain among episodes of temporary relief. Clearly, ridding yourself of the uncomfortable shoes makes sense.
An effective exchange in thoughts is necessary in order for your pain to go away. You cannot keep both negative and positive thoughts. Similar to occasionally wearing the uncomfortable pair of shoes, your destructive thoughts, metaphorically speaking, will cause mental blisters, of the effect you will continue to experience painful events. If you are trying to rid yourself of destruction, destructive thoughts must be exchanged for constructive thoughts. Think of the lasting effect of occasionally wearing the uncomfortable shoes. Blisters develop that last for days. A switch to the comfortable shoes offers temporary relief. Just as the blisters start to heal, we put the uncomfortable pair back on, and thus start the process of developing blisters all over again.
Thoughts ping-pong through our mind in exactly the same manner, which is why nothing seems to change. We think positively, then negatively. Back and forth thinking is called polarized thinking. The result of polarized thinking is a stalemate. Stalemates offer no change to reality.
Immediate, effective, lasting change requires an exchange in thoughts. All negative thoughts must be banished. The only thoughts permitted are constructive thoughts. Since most of us are unaware of our thoughts as we go about our day, we need to pay attention to our feelings. Feelings are navigators to thoughts. Feelings give us clues as to the health of the conscious mind. When we feel good, our thoughts are constructive. When we feel bad, our thoughts are destructive. Think of the difference between the sickening pit felt in your stomach when bad news is delivered and the radiant glow felt in your stomach when exceptionally good news is received.
Your stomach contains a bundle of nerves that produce the pit or the glow. The bundle of nerves is activated by thoughts. If too much negativity is permitted into the conscious mind, the pit develops. The pit is an urgent warning message to you. The message says, change your thoughts now or the results of destructive thinking will manifest! Conversely, the glow is also activated by extraordinarily positive thoughts. The glow is also a message. The radiant glow says, keep thinking these constructive thoughts. The challenge to us is recognizing feelings as built in thought navigators and heeding their advice.
Thinking constructively by following the radiant glow of your stomach will change your experience. You might have to temporarily endure a few episodes of negativity as your experience changes. Ultimately, enduring a few brief moments of negativity is better than enduring a lifetime of destruction. Experiences shift only when thinking shifts constructively and remains constructive. Just like those shoes that damage your feet, do not be tempted to return to thoughts that damage your experiences.
If you are experiencing dire circumstances, such as a traumatic illness or are in dire financial crisis, I have this to say. Your experience can and will shift if you are willing to take my advice and focus intently on an ideal outcome, not a best case scenario or a hopeful outcome, but an ideal outcome. Exactly what is the outcome that you desire? Lend all of your thought power to that outcome. Up until this point, all of your thought power has been given to the destructive experience you are now facing, which is exactly why the experience is occurring. Continuing to dwell on the experience perpetuates the experience. Problems are solved by focusing on the ideal solution. Problems are not solved by focusing on the aspects of the problem. Exchange your thoughts so that your thoughts focus on an ideal outcome and then do not let up firing those thoughts at the ideal outcome. Faith precedes the miracle.
See also my blog on WHY IS THE POWER OF THOUGHT DIFFICULT TO SUMMON?
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
WHY IS THE POWER OF THOUGHT DIFFICULT TO SUMMON?
My book Endowed with Omnipotence: The Power of Your Thoughts Illuminated is scheduled for publication late fall 2012. My book tells you exactly how the power of thought works.
The power of thought works in direct correlation to your predominant thoughts and beliefs. For most of us, that means we get more of what is already in existence in our lives because the power of thought is the materialization of our strongest beliefs in physical reality. Nearly every thought we have today is a duplicate of the thought we had yesterday of the effect we get more of the same stuff. The time spent thinking about a potential new reality is extremely limited.
When you consider a new future, you do so by wishing away what currently is the reality you are experiencing or by daydreaming of what you really want. Wishing away what already is in existence (for example bills, a health problem, or excess weight) lends excessive thought power to what is. Whether you think negatively or positively about something, thinking about a particular something gives power to it. Think of a coin. Whether you think about the tail side or the head side, you are still thinking about the coin. The same is true of optimism and pessimism. Thinking positively optimistic about something, while nice, merely lends thought power to the brighter side of the experience. You then experience a great day, but nothing really changes. Consider a person with cancer. The person might be hopeful and positive about the outcome of their treatment, yet the focus remains on thoughts surrounding the belief, I have cancer, albeit they are hopeful of a positive outcome.
Typically, we do surround our beliefs with positive and negative thoughts which is why we experience runs of bad luck and a stroke of good fortune. However, positive thinking alone is not enough to uproot a current belief. Conversely, we should never engage in negative thinking.
Daydreaming about an ideal life does not work for two reasons. First, little thought is lent to the daydream compared to the redundancy of thoughts cycling through your mind. 95% of the thoughts you have today are exactly the same thoughts you had yesterday. You think of your life as it exists now, which only serves to reinforce what already is. A daydream does not have enough oomph power to eject you from your current experience. The second reason daydreams are ineffective is due to beliefs already in place. If you really believed you could be a rock star or find a cure for your cancer, you would have that experience because beliefs and reality are fused together.
Think about everything in your life now. Absolutely everything is a belief. You believe you have a yellow sofa, a wonderful spouse, are healthy or you believe you are overweight, unemployed or are in financial despair. Everything in your experience now is absolutely believable to you. Somewhere in your conscious mind, doubt is held when it comes to fulfilling your daydream. You doubt your ability, the likelihood of the outcome, and the immediacy in which the daydream can be fulfilled. Thus, the daydream is always held at bay.
The power of thought never makes mistakes. The power works every single time. When we misunderstand how the power of thought works, we mistake our failure to summon abundance and good fortune as a failure of this power. However, the power of thought works in conjunction with your strongest thoughts and beliefs. The power only appears to be misfiring because you are not bringing enough contrary thought power or the right kind of thought energy to the table. So essentially what is already built up by your thoughts and beliefs perpetuates effortlessly since not enough contrary thought power is being fired.
Consider a tree as a belief you want to rid yourself of. If you swing an ax at the tree, eventually that tree will topple and a treeless landscape will emerge. The same process is needed as you change your experiences in life. Metaphorically speaking, if you consider your beliefs as the tree and your ability to think differently as the ax, then as you sharpen your ax (clarify your thinking) and swing hard at the destructive belief, the belief will also fall and a fresh reality will appear.
Unfortunately, most of us approach the tree (belief) with a butter knife. And we hit that tree so irregular and with such little oomph power that the tree (belief) still stands nearly untouched. But, if we ramp up the force and duration of our thought power, meaning if we change our thoughts and think those thoughts often, we can shift our experiences almost immediately in direct correlation to the effort we put forth. In the process of doing so, we cannot tolerate negativity, doubt, fear, or skepticism, because these are the seeds of your old belief. If you let these destructive thoughts in, you will only plant more beliefs that will need to be chopped down.
The power of thought is not difficult to summon when you understand how it works. The right thoughts to think are always the thoughts that produce good feelings. What is the ideal version of you? Take aim with your thoughts. Think big! Think often!
Thursday, December 22, 2011
# 48 STRETCH YOUR THOUGHTS
When you feel you have good command at quieting your thoughts, you are ready to progress to the first step in thought direction: stretching your thoughts.
Remember the 60,000 thoughts a day you have? Motivational coaches hired by professional athletes or CEO’s of fortune 500 companies instruct their protégé’s to take one thought and hold it for as long as they possibly can. That is what I want you do. Take only one constructive thought and practice holding it. The only requirement is that it must be a neutral thought. Do not think of anything that you feel overly emotional about. Think of a shoelace, a leaf, or a fish.
Roll the thought over in your mind. What does your thought look like? Hold this picture for several minutes if you are able. Did you pick the shoelace? Is your shoelace long or short? New or old? Are the ends intact or frayed? Is the shoelace dirty? Set your alarm again and meditate with this same thought over the next several days. Do not alter the object from session to session. You want to become adept at holding very specific thoughts for periods of time. It is okay to view your shoelace or fish from different viewing angles. However, you want to pick only one item to contemplate. Stick with it for a few days before moving on. Then select another object to view in your mind such as the fish.
After finishing a few sessions contemplating just the shoelace (or fish or leaf), practice thinking of just the color green. Is your green winter green? Forest green? Light green? Lime green? See your green in a can of paint swirling as you stir it. Stretch your green so it is a large blob. Tighten it up to a super ball size and bounce it on the ground in your mind. Again, practice thinking about just the color green for several minutes.
As you become adept at holding your thoughts, bring a thought into your session that triggers emotion. Make it a happy emotion, never a negative emotion. Think about your child’s face, the trophy fish you reeled in, or your new car. Whatever your thought is it has to make you smile. Stretch your thought as long as you possibly can. Remember to smile while you meditate on the thought. After all, the requirement was to think of something that makes you smile.
After you have completed stretching your happy thought, select a thought that calls forth your senses. Rattle sensory thoughts around in your mind. Go through each of your five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Your goal is to pick a thought from each of these categories and stretch it.
You can open your eyes for your sense of sight. Pick a boat in a magazine, your dream house, or a pan of brownies and examine the contents. Take in the scenery, the color, the texture, the shape and any other details visually that you perceive. Focus on your target for several minutes before moving on to another sense. Choose a musical instrument, a train whistle, or the wind for your sense of hearing. Close your eyes and listen to the sound within the confines of your mind. Hear its noise. Stretch this thought as long as possible. Move on to touch. Use the thought of your baby’s skin, the roughness of sandpaper, the smoothness of glass. Move on to taste. What does raw cinnamon taste like? What about the sweetness of sugar or the sourness of lemon? Draw these mental pictures. Consider what you smell. Think of a skunk’s odor, the funky animal smell at the zoo, your favorite perfume, or the smell of moth balls. Stretch each of these thoughts in your mind. Roll them over and see them. Hear them. Touch them. Taste them. Smell them all within your mind.
These exercises strengthen the conscious minds ability to visualize internally imprinting upon the Universal Mind. You are learning to clarify. When you construct your ideals, the pictures you need to submit must contain as much sensory data as possible. Thinking I want an orange. Seeing the perfectly rich orange color, feeling the waxy pitted peel, smelling the erupting juice squirt as you break it in two, and tasting the sweet flavor of the orange burst within the confines of your mouth is a more powerful image to imprint upon the Universal Mind that just thinking it would be nice to have an orange. It is with all of your sensory images that you paint the thoughts that produce the most effective outcomes.
I want you to practice thinking of in terms of mental sensory images. This is not something that should consume your thinking or something you should hang on every word. As opportunity presents itself throughout your day, take a moment or two to call forth very vivid mental pictures. If someone is telling a funny story, instead of purely listening externally to their yarn, play out its pictures in your mind as they tell it. Try to imagine the people they describe. Try seeing the situation. Hear the laughter erupt in your mind.
Go about your day looking for opportunities to imprint your senses mentally. If someone offers you a chocolate bar, take a moment to consider the smell and taste within your mind, not just what you see and smell physically. Practice, practice, practice thinking in terms of pictures. Draw forth as many of your senses as possible as you think. The value this will provide in just a short period of time will be immeasurable.
Nikola Tesla, a great inventor, always visualizes and manipulates within his mind first the perfect embodiment of his desire. “In this way,” he writes in the Electrical Experimenter, “I am enabled to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of, and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete (form), the product of my brain. Invariably my device works as I conceived it should; in twenty years there has not been a single exception.”
Practice thought imagery and stretching well after your practice sessions have ended. You need to become effective at this. The only way to master thought direction is by practice. As you continue, the alarm devices will not be necessary. However, set them if you feel it helps by all means. The more frequent attempts you make at these mental practices sessions, the quicker you will get your mind in shape to perform the enticing task of securing your ideals. Practice, practice, practice! Your experiences will be delivered in exaction proportion to your efforts. What goes in must come out. No efforts in equal no change without
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