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?
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