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.

 

 

 

 

 

 



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?

 

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!