We are not accustomed to thinking in terms of ideals since our erratic thinking has brought less then ideal circumstances. Consequently, we have not learned to think our way to our ideal and so falsely believe that we must settle for what is less than ideal. We often fall back upon our Ben Franklin lists of pros and cons whilst we try to imagine the best possible outcome or the worst possible scenario.
It is only because we are used to thinking in terms of best solutions or hopeful outcomes, that painting the ideal picture in our mind does not occur to us. We never imagine the ideal. It is excluded from our thoughts. Since we fail to properly construct our ideals within our mind, it never arrives. If you do not know where you are going then any thought will do.
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
For example, as your bills pile up, your car breaks down, and your house payment is past due, what do you focus on? These problems, right? They transfix you. You hope your car is not too expensive to fix. You think it might be the transmission, but hope it is something less. You mull over ways to get caught up on your bills by considering which bills to address first and which you can afford to be late on. You wonder how many days late you can be on your house payment before it adversely affects your credit. If your health is poor or your weight is tipping the scales, your thoughts cycle around poor health. You contemplate how your health can be fixed; exercise and diet…but that sounds so restrictive. These thoughts are typical of what we all do. It is called “in a rut thinking.”
By focusing on these problems, more problems are drawn to you. You will always encounter problems, obstacles, hurdles, and paths of uncertainty as you embark upon destructive thinking. Destructive thought attracts like experiences.
You must always start with the end in mind. What is it that you really want? Confusion and discontent are opportunities to idealize for the inner psyche your perfect state. Often we expect the worst and hope for the best. But that is far from ideal. In fact, that sort of thinking displays complete misunderstanding and misdirection of your personal power. It is also a blatant example of polar thinking when thoughts are excessively lent to both ends of the spectrum. A blending of your thoughts causes your strongest beliefs to emerge quite often ending in a stalemate. Again, this is not ideal.
Do not confuse your ideal outcome for the best case scenario either. They are NOT the same. We hold many belief barriers in our thinking that limit our choices to what we think is a possibility, disregarding everything that we feel is improbable. When you idealize, you clarify for yourself the exact outcome you intend. You do not toss improbabilities or what you deem are impossibilities on the scrap pile. Impossible feats are accomplished only when you believe in them. In 1886 traveling to the moon was a laughable impossibility. At the turn of the century, Henry Ford was told it was very, very improbable that people would want any other color car than black. And a computer in every home in America, not a very likely scenario in 1942!
The path to the ideal is through thoughts of the ideal. Always ask yourself when presented with situations, “If this were to end in the absolute ideal situation for me, what would that be?” The only way to get the optimal experience is to think of exactly what it is you want! Allow the thoughts to permeate the conscious mind.
If you are unsure what to do in the midst of turmoil, always start with your ideals. Starting with your ideal, clarifies with certainty the outcome you expect. Your ideals should not contain compromises! After all, this is your absolute ideal state. Think of it as your own personal utopia. You get to say what resides in your utopia.
Your life plan should contain ideals that do not sell short your dreams. Playing the guitar on weekends down at the corner bar is not an adequate substitute to being in a world famous band. Do you want to play guitar at the corner bar or at Angels Stadium? Both are choices available to you. What is your life’s vision? If it does not include financial despair, a boring job and thunder thighs, then what does it include? You must be willing to purify for yourself what your intentions are. If you do not, your life will be handed to you on the platter of random thought.
If you were not restricted what would you do? Answering this question causes you to think in turns of ideals. Most people have a rapid ready answer to this question. The restrictions that you think you have are self-created illusions that center round an apparent lack of something you think you do not have, but think you need in order to move forward. However, you are free to create the world you desire. The restrictions that you sense are really only thoughts blocking the path. There is nothing physical blocking you. After all, you can take immediate action towards your ideals right now without being physically obstructed. The block is mental and fortunately removable.
In certain areas you might allow your ideals to emerge like concentrating on the ideal mate. But you may have a harder time allowing ideals when considering your personal financial situation or job opportunities. For example, your beliefs may prevent you from idealizing financials goals because you believe it is unrealistic to think or to expect your bills to go away. So instead of thinking in terms of ideal outcome, you concentrate on best case scenario and work within the limited parameters of your beliefs. You experience outcomes in this case that are believable outcomes and deny those that seem unbelievable.
Understand that impossibilities exist nowhere but in the belief framework of your mind. If you free your thinking from restrictive barriers, all sorts of possibilities exist to wipe out bills. It is only because you have permitted so few solutions for relief to funnel through that you remain stationary with a pile of bills.
Once again it might be tempting to point to your pile of bills as proof of your financial position, but recall you created that position through thought and you hold it steady through your beliefs. However, you can recreate it too. Bills, excess weight, or unhappiness with current conditions will not go away when you do not believe in ideal outcomes. Optimism does not equal Idealism. The Universal Mind is not a wish granter. It is a reflector of your beliefs.
If you have been waiting for permission to idealize, then consider it granted. As you encounter problems, always start by asking yourself, what do I want to occur if virtually anything could? Once you have that answer focus on it intently. Validate the outcome in your mind so a belief can form that: Yes, this is possible for me.
Power is concentration. What you concentrate intensely on, is intense power. Use ideals to solve many of your daily dilemmas, just by asking what is ideal. Then allow your thoughts to flow freely around that ideal. They will mold and shape that unrestricted ideal into exactly what you have requested. You must believe!
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