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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!

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!





# 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

#47 Squeezing Out All Thoughts

Once you are able to feel the presence of your thoughts, the next step is to squeeze them out.  You will proceed as you did above setting an alarm device throughout the day followed up by periods of meditation.  At each alarm interval and mediation session, try to blank out your thoughts.  Think of nothing.  At first this will require much effort.  You will probably only be able to shut thoughts out for brief moments; several seconds to a few minutes.  Continue this practice for several days until you feel comfortable blanking out your mind.  Your goal is to squeeze out thoughts for at least one to several minutes at a time.

     Practice squeezing thoughts out of your conscious mind for several weeks.  Do this regardless of the thought, even if it is one that fulfills you.  Gaining the ability to shut thoughts out, any thoughts, will help you eliminate destructive thoughts.  As you develop the habit of going inside you, you will begin to notice both your feel good thoughts and your feel bad thoughts.  As you detect a destructive thought, your practiced ability will allow you to squeeze it out.  You must practice, however.  If you do not master squeezing thoughts out when destructive thoughts are noticed, it will be very difficult to get your mind off the thoughts.  The Law of Attraction will pepper you with them.  Subsequently, you must be versed at shutting thoughts out.

     These exercises:  Familiarizing yourself with your thoughts and shutting your thoughts out, assist in directing your thoughts.  You will not be able to direct your thoughts until you have mastered the connection within yourself and have developed the ability to squeeze out thoughts. After all, you cannot direct that which you have no control over.  The control must be gained first. 

     Directing your thoughts is done in steps.  Practice is required, much like teaching a child to tie shoes or ride a bike.  It is through instruction and practice that we learn.  If we do not practice we do not fully reap the benefits.  How many people do you know that simply cannot swim?  It is not because they are inept.  It is because they failed to practice.  Anyone can swim if they practice.  Consequently, anyone can learn to direct their thoughts through practice.    

     This is mental work but requires the same regimented rehearsal as any physical activity you would prepare for.  You practice until you learn and you will learn every time.  Every child learns to walk, tie shoes, ride a bike, and read.  Children are sponges of opportunity because we discipline them to practice until the task is accomplished.  We do not dare take the shoes away after a few unsuccessful tying attempts, nor do we stroller children for life who do not walk by the age of one.  We tell our children to keep trying until you learn.  That is why we all know how to ride a bike, tie our shoes and walk.   It is with this diligence that you learn to direct your thoughts. 

     It is important that you ease yourself into thought direction.  You would not teach a child to ride a bike by perching them on a motorcycle.  You would not select an expert course to start skiing.  Do not be tempted to go immediately to hard in thought direction.  Remember, you validate your experiences as proof of truth.  Any failures will be deemed by you as proof of some inability or proof that your thoughts are powerless.  So it is very important that small steps are taken and small successes are celebrated, thereby validating your work as accurate.  Small drips applied gradually increase your water bill tremendously.  It is the same with your thoughts.  Start small, build tall. 

#46 Exploring the Conscious Mind

     By now, your attention should be shifted inward as you notice what you are thinking. You are developing an awareness of at least some of your daily thought habits.  You are also meditating on a regular basis (several times week).  Up to this point, you have made no effort to change your habits or prevent your thoughts.  You have let them roll through your mind unhampered.

     I am going to give you an exercise designed to remind you to inspect inwardly.   Set your wrist watch or cell phone alarm to ring several times a day (resetting each time it goes off for an hour later).  When your reminder alarm sounds, stop!  Jot down exactly what thoughts are present when the alarm sounded.  Make no attempt to embellish the thought or think of something if you cannot recall.  If you do not know or cannot remember your thought, write down I drew a blank.  You will be surprised how quickly the thought leaps from your clutch.  Set your alarm for the next half hour or hour and do the same.  Keep this log for several days.  Your goal is to awaken to your thoughts.  As you progress, you will naturally begin inspecting your thoughts several times a day without the aid of the alarm.  The alarm helps you develop the habit of peeking inside your mind. 

     As you journal your thought log, set aside at least ten minutes to half an hour a day to meditate.  Meditation shuts out the physical world forcing your focus inward.  Meditating is not difficult.  In fact it is relatively easy and should leave you feeling refreshed.  Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed.  Quiet dimly lit rooms work nice.  Sit on a comfortable chair; lay on the floor, or on your bed.  This is mental work and dozing off is not allowed.  Save meditating for a time when you are alert, yet able to relax. 

     Find your comfortable spot.  Close your eyes and let your thoughts flow freely.  Permit them to trail.  Pay attention to the speed at which thoughts “pop” in for a visit.   They come.  They go.  Often thoughts are followed by similar thoughts and clear images.  Other times their randomness distracts from the picture.  Your goal is to familiarize yourself with you.  The only way to know you is to go inside you and feel your presence through your thoughts.  Mediate in this fashion for several days, again making no effort to control your thoughts.  Your goal at this point is self awareness.  Repeat this process of dropping in on your thoughts for several days until you feel connected to the inner you.

     You are not ready to move forward until the connection is felt.  You are a ships captain right now getting familiar with the crew and equipment.  You would make no attempt to sail your vessel without proper acclimation. 

     It is OK to feel overwhelmed by your thoughts; most people do, which is why they tuck them nicely away inside their head and spend time dazzling themselves with their physical acquisitions.  You will never try to control your thoughts sporadic nature.  You will only direct your thoughts towards your ideals as you currently define them.  Directing your thoughts requires that you (1) disarm destructive thoughts and (2) install constructive thoughts.  The rest of your imaginative, spontaneous, unprompted, unstructured thoughts should be left to prowl.

#46 Building a New Foundation

You now have an understanding of the power that resides inside you.  You know you have an insatiable creative purpose that is unleashed through thought.  Thoughts attract like energies binding into beliefs.  From your thoughts and beliefs springs your reality.  You have learned that your beliefs repel thoughts that are not on the same frequency denying access to the universal mind.  Therefore, you cannot create that which betrays your beliefs.  You cannot even fake it. 

     Emotions and Feelings allow you to gauge the relationship between your physical world and your thoughts simply by asking yourself:   How do I feel?   Am I joyful?  Grateful?  Appreciative?  Or am I mad, sad and frustrated?  Thoughts lay the groundwork for feelings.  You feel what you think.  Feelings provide a temperature check for what you are thinking right now.  Feelings steer you towards your ideals if you tune into them.   Your goal is to follow the thoughts that leave you feeling good and abandon the thoughts that leave you feeling bad.  Remember, thoughts that leave you feeling bad are bad leaders.  You do not want to be lead where they are taking you.  It is that simple.

     Ideals give you direction.  They are powerful blueprints.  After all, what would power be without a purpose?  Your purpose is to create the unrestricted vision you hold of yourself in a harmonious state with the Universal Mind.  You will feel fulfilled as you move towards your Ideal.  Your Ideal will always be a moving target.  As you accomplish, so you will endeavor to create more.  Once you understand how you work, all that is necessary is to define what your vision of you is.  

     Clarity is the painted pictures of your ideals.  It is absolutely necessary that you give brush strokes to these pictures.  Clarity combines thoughts and ideals in the same coordinate points within your mind.  The more often you can combine thoughts, beliefs, ideals, and expectancies the quicker your new experience emerges. 

     Expectations serve as check points in your thinking.  By asking yourself, what do I expect to occur this week, you can gage where your thinking has been.  If your ideals are not on that list, then your thinking is not where it needs to be. 

     Your imagination exercises your spontaneous thinking.  You do not need to get an imagination.  You already have one; a really great one!  Sometimes people will use phrases like, you have no imagination.  It is only through lack of use that we fail to rely on our imaginative ability.  Using it is like toning the muscles that lay ready for use under your skin.   Once employed, you will not be able to stop the popping of ideas.

     Finally, you have your misunderstood willpower which is your magnetic energy in motion.  It is the Law of Attraction at work.  Smokers, dieters, and alcoholics are all too familiar with this pull of energy.  It is the ever so powerful cyclical thoughts connecting mental to physical.  The power of your will to draw cannot be avoided. 

     Once you understand each of the working pieces that make up you, it becomes uncomplicated to navigate you.  Easier, make note, not easy.  However, understanding helps!  Before you were afraid to imagine, now you have permission.  Previously you settled, now you idealize.  Yesterday you allowed your thoughts to run amok amidst fret, anger and frustration.  Today, you command them towards abundance joy and harmony.  Where once doubt settled in confidence is restored.  You are in charge of you and always have been.  Creating your ideal vision of you begins right now with thought acquaintance.

     I had the opportunity to visit an annual art show in Grand Rapids, Michigan called Art Prize.  Artists around the world compete for the annual art prize of $1,000.  It was hard to find a piece of art at Art Prize that was not amazing in its creation.

     However, there was a piece that stood out in particular.  An artist by the name of Paul A. Baliker had carved a piece of driftwood into a large circle about fifteen feet in diameter.  The carving contained all sorts of intricate detail such as a carved giraffe, monkeys, and so forth.  He work was called A Matter of Time.  This particular artist was on hand to answer questions about his piece. 

     One of the members of the group admiring the work asked the artist as he stood off to the side, “How do you even begin to build something like this?  It seems so overwhelming to me.”  The artist responded, “I start from the bottom.  I always start from the bottom and I just keep working upwards.” 

#45 EXERCISING YOUR IMAGINIATION

     If you are unsure how to bring your imagination from passive to active, watch a child play.  Children have no trouble at all employing their active imagination.  Give them a ball of yarn and a pile of sticks and they will give you a fort.  “Here’s where the kitchen is,” they will say!  “Yeah, and over here is my room.  My bed is here.  And this big rock is my pillow.”  Children will spend hours setting up battlegrounds, tea parties, or hoeing a make believe garden.  How are they at entrepreneur skills?  There is no reluctance on their part selling crayon pictures, homemade bracelets or cookies that are falling apart.  Do kids dread going door to door to selling their goods?  No, they love going door to door with their cooked up inventions, crayon pictures and mud pies!  Kids believe in their abilities and actively employ their imagination. 

     The world’s most successful people transport their imagination from passive to active:  Movie makers, song writers, novelist, gaming creators, painters, inventors, scientist, entertainers, and magicians.  The top performers in any professional category are always those deemed to have the “wildest” imaginations.  You too, can be imaginative.  All it takes is practice.  What is available to any top performer is also available to you.  As you use your imagination, a dousing of fresh thought trickles in.   

     Shedding limiting beliefs allows your imagination to stretch.  When we shed the belief that man could not fly, we came up will all sorts of vehicles for man to fly in:  airplanes, hot air balloons, helicopter, space shuttle, parachute, and blimps.  It is the belief that bars the ideas entry.  When you clear the path, ideas will spring to mind, one after another, from the easily doable to the absurd.  Do not deny these thoughts their proper consideration. That is your mental power in action trying to bring your desired object close to you.  Denying these thoughts and opportunities is the same as denying your object. 

     Are you familiar with the children’s movies “Finding Nemo” or “Monster, Inc?”  Finding Nemo is about a young fish that is separated from his overprotective and rather paranoid father.  The father must venture out of the safety zone of his coral reef to find his young son.  The story tells the tale of father and sons adventure as they try to find each other.  Monster’s Inc. is a story about Monsters that live in a parallel universe to ours accessible through the closets of children.  The Monsters have to scare children to collect screams.  The screams of children power the Monsters electrical world.  A little girl accidentally enters the monster’s world and the adventure begins. 

     These stories could only be created through active imagination employed regularly.  When you are open to ideas, they come.  When you shut ideas out through your beliefs, they cannot come.  They are denied access by the beliefs.  The only reason you feel a lack of creativity is because you are not letting your thoughts springboard you into ideas like Finding Nemo or Monsters Inc.  You do not permit them.  You walk around oblivious to your thoughts with a big tag across your chest that reads, “Access denied.”

     Your thoughts are worthy of exploration.  If there is ever a time to listen to the knock, knock, knock of your thoughts…the time is now.  Often our brief interludes of constructive thought are followed up with the flickering of attracted thoughts responding.  But we miss the sparking of new thought.  We take no action.   

     Your imagination is tapped through active use.  Take your imagination into your meditation sessions.  Force its use by asking yourself questions out of the ordinary.  Ask yourself questions you would not normally or ever consider.  Examples such as:  What would my world be like if I lived on the leaf of a Sugar Maple Tree?  Would I learn how to access its sap?  What could I use the sap for besides a sweetener?  Ask of yourself, how could I have $10 without laboring for it?  What job do I think is the best job in the world?  In considering this job, what do I think is the most challenging aspect of this “best job?” 

     There are no rules to the questions you ask except that you must either feel good or neutral about the material.  Bring no unpleasantries into your session.  Your imagination will spring up through active frequent use.  If you do not use it, you lose it.  However, you can gain it back.  Your imagination does not pack up and leave you.  You have only suppressed it.  It did not go anywhere.  By suppressing it, imaginative thoughts do not occur to you.  When you use it often, thoughts leap seemingly out of nowhere.

     When you feel in command of your imagination, then you can initiate thoughts of your ideals.  Prematurely setting ideals causes you to aim low.  After all, if your imagination is harnessed like a beast, it will not occur to you that certain ideals are available.  You have likely heard people say, “I never would have thought of that” or “I wish I would have thought of that.”  What are they saying this about?  Just about every good idea that slaps them in the face from the Pet Rock to the Invisible leashed pet.  They said it about Colonel Sanders secret recipe, Martha Stewart’s Life Style entertainment, the slinky, Rubik’s cube, and on and on. 

     Ideals spring from the pursuit of an active imagination.  When you allow yourself to ponder without restriction the ideal life you desire, it too will begin to take shape.  Ideas that would have never occurred to you before will occur.  That is why it is important not to loiter in new found thought.  You should always keep idealizing since your ideal is always relative to where you are now.  It is a moving target.  As you carve your way towards your ideal, thoughts that have not occurred to you before will help you to set new ideals.  You are always moving towards a new set of ideals.  If you linger to long on a tier, beliefs will grip you in that tier.  While some may be beneficial, others will hold you to certain experiences.  That is why it is always important to remember what you believe holds no universal truth.  You do not want new beliefs to mesmerize you in the same regard your old ones do.

     Your imaginative ideas should be as unrealistic as possible for this reason:  What is real, is already believable by you and requires no reinforcement.  Thinking in terms of what is unrealistic and unobtainable stretches your mind.  It forces you to consider thoughts you normally would not.  Once these thoughts are brought into the active mind for inspection other like thoughts will follow including thoughts that make the unobtainable obtainable and the unrealistic real. 

     When Gary Dahl first thought of the Pet Rock, it was amongst friends who were at the time complaining about their pets.  The Pet Rock was a laughable substitute for a pet.  However, Dahl went home to consider the Pet Rock further.  He even went as far as creating a guide on caring for the fictitious Pet Rock.  The more he thought about this very unrealistic pet, the more real it became real.  Ultimately, he put together a marketing plan that successfully launched his pet rock to a welcoming market.  The rest is history.

     Your imagination works well when you use it well!  Creating your ideals through imagination serves as a guide for your thoughts.  Until now, you have allowed your thoughts to wander, snaking off when you perceive them as becoming too unrealistic within your belief system.  Time spent in concentrated effort imagining your ideals draws forth those experiences.  Like the water drip and the fall leaves, small daily doses build up monumental results quickly.   The degree to which you are willing to devote concentrating on your ideals, determines the speed at which your ideals are returned.    Small doses performed daily lead to large immediate results.

#44 Imagination and Will Power

Your will power, thoughts and imagination are bound together.  Will power NEVER goes against them.  Therefore, it behooves you to try to abandon through willpower the thoughts you have imagined.  You cannot do it.  

     You are always in a state of attracting.  What you attract depends upon what you think about and believe.  Your will power is your power of attracting as you will something to happen.  Your will is your thoughts materializing. 

     Understand that you cannot use your willpower as a weapon against your thoughts and imagination.  Your will draws reality towards you like an earth magnet.  It is unwavering, unbendable and unstoppable until you change your thoughts. 

     Diets fail, addiction treatment plans fail, marriages fail when you consume yourself with thoughts of donuts, drugs, or adulterous desires and then try to waive off the materialization of those events with some incredible will power.  Your will power is not some super hero inner strength that allows you to thwart off a donut, a drink or an affair.  It is exactly the opposite!  Your will power is your power to draw to you what you think about.  The only way to prevent the materializations of events is by stopping your thoughts.

     Thoughts attract similar thoughts; similar thoughts band together as ideas.  Mental pictures are painted. Soon you are visualizing.  It is the obsessive repetition of thought that draws forth unwanted behavior.  You have to be immediately willing to banish thoughts unworthy of you from the focus of your attention.  Your bad habits are conquerable when your thinking is consciously directed away from the habitually bad thoughts.  That is the only way.  Soon your physical world will turn about and seem to cure you.  But it is the steered thinking that altered your experience.

     Think of your will as self talk.  The repeated messages that you send yourself direct your experience.  For example, if self-talk includes commenting on the undesirable status of your weight, obsessing over what afflicts you, or a dread of exercising each of these conditions will magnetically be drawn to you.  As you fight for control, you further draw undesirable situations because you are magnifying your thoughts in these areas.  Your power resides in redirecting your thoughts not in trying to redirect the environment the thoughts produced. 

     What many of us attempt to do is diet by forgoing food or battling intense exercise regimes.  While physical exercise has its benefits and place, you are fat because of your thoughts.  You are consumed by thoughts of food and weight.  You try to diet by forcing food away.  However, you continue thinking about brownies, treats and the taste of bacon.  Repeatedly trying to shove the food away does not work.  Your thoughts, imagination and WILL POWER are strong attractants.  They will produce results whether you like it or not.  Directing your thoughts away from food and the scales will change your weight.  That is your only option.

     What do we say about a person who is on a diet and forgoes desert?  “Oh my, what astonishing will power!”  However, it is not the will power that banished the dessert.  The thoughts of the dessert were not allowed to spin out of control.  The person’s thoughts were on anything BUT the dessert.  You cannot think of dessert or its delicious offering and push it aside. Your thoughts are what are pushed aside first!  You reject the dessert by rejecting first the thoughts. 

     You might think that you have been thinking fat thoughts and so agree to think thin thoughts.  However, you “imagine snacks.” You think you are powerless to your own will.  However as I have stated, your will power followed your imagination. One million Americans are overweight.  Five million diet each year in futile attempts to shed pounds that only regain themselves over time.  Failed attempt after failed attempt leaves you feeling in the dumps.  All you think about is dieting plagued by these incredible urges to eat.  If you had listened to your feelings (feeling bad about your weight and failures) you would have known they were trying to tell you something about your thoughts.  You are attracting more reasons to feel bad, more weight, more down in the dump feelings.  Your attempts to thwart a reality that you created through thought are impossible.  You have to change your thinking.  When you think of yourself at your ideal weight, feel good about the person you are right now and push aside the thoughts of weight, you will experience change.   You have to love yourself the way you are, adore your body and feel good about the person you see in the mirror in order to be given more experiences of feeling good about who you are.  That is will power in action!  It is the attracting will power of specific constructive thoughts, I love who I am and the rejection of “I am fat” thought in action here.

     Remember we talked about the power the word I am contains.  Whatever follows I am are your beliefs.  Your beliefs dish out your reality.  So what you believe about I am (fill in the blank) is what you are going to get without fail every single time.

     Every person that is overweight is consumed by thoughts of food, right size portions, hunger, special diets, new diets, tight clothes, calories, carbs, protein, foregoing dessert, cellulite, dress size, and how nice fries would taste right now.  Overweight people are consumed with thoughts of food and their body size.  Right weight people give no more thought to food than they do a blade a grass.  In fact, food is so far from their thoughts they often forget it is time to eat. Their thoughts are not consumed with hunger or their clothing size.  Right weight people look in the mirror and think I like how I look today.

     Change your thinking.  Change your life.  Do not underestimate the power of your will.  Do not think for one moment that you can entertainment negative thoughts and reject their consequences.  The key is to lock the door on thoughts that destruct you.  You must with all effort imposed push them from you mind. 

     People who lose weight, have a drinking problem, or drug addiction have incredible difficulty overcoming their obstacles due to will power.  They put their problems constantly in the forefront of their thoughts and then try to reject the outcomes.  They are met with debacle every time.  You cannot reject physically what you have produced mentally.  You cannot WILL away the physical aspects of what your thoughts have produced.  Your will power follows your thoughts and imagination WITHOUT FAIL.  You cannot use your will power as a weapon against thoughts and imagination.  It is their ally.  We refer to our will power backwards so often.  We have deceived ourselves (built up this false belief) into thinking we have super strength to will away what we think about.   However, you get what you think about every single time.

     Often times we find some people get sick, get better, and get sick again.  Or they lose weight and then gain it right back.  Ultimately, the bad thoughts return surging them once again with a notion of weakness.  Why does this happen if thoughts are attracting powerful thoughts and positive beliefs are growing?  How does the bad habit return?  By the time you have lost the weight or have been won over to good health, shouldn’t you continue going in that direction?

     Two aspects of the power of thought occur when we yo-yo up and down in pants size or yo-yo up and down spectrum of health.  First, polarized thinking is ravaging the thought process.  Second, normal neutral keeps you grounded.  You can pivot in any direction away from normal neutral.  However, until you change your normal neutral pivoting point your polarized thoughts will return you to that normal neutral point of inspection.  People plagued with weight problems or illnesses never really change their thinking patterns.  For instance, they may constantly watch food in-take as they slim down.  They obsess over their weight.  They worry about gaining weight back.  If a person is ill, that person may worry about getting sick again.  The habitual thoughts never leave their mind.  They are still focused on the destructive thoughts.  However, they have temporarily moved to the positive aspects of the destructive thoughts.  For example, you can think about how good you feel about your body size or how bad you feel about your body size; but you are still noticing your body size.

     You take any bad habit and you will find that it is a bad habit of the mind.  Your thoughts are where the offenders lay.  When you try to make physical corrections, you lose every time.  You have to rid yourself of the offending thoughts first.  If you attack the outward physical condition but do nothing to correct destructive thoughts, your destructive thoughts will return your destructive physical condition.

     Smalls seeds of beliefs build allowing you temporary positive successes.  However, in the trenches lay the negative habitual thoughts that are very comfortable to you.  Eventually you allow them to creep back in without even an awareness that they are doing so.  Your bad habit thoughts whisper, “We’ve been good.  One piece of pie won’t hurt.”  Remember your thoughts have attracting power.  As soon as you allow a destructive thought in, others will follow.  Soon you have eaten three desserts; gained fifteen pounds back and feel bad about yourself!  The only way to rid the difficulty in your life is to rid all thoughts, positively constructed or negatively constructed, that center round the problem. 

     Remember feelings are navigators that indicate whether you are moving towards harmony, away from harmony or are at normal neutral.  If you do not feel really good about yourself or condition then you must take action to acquire that feeling.

     Whatever your perceived problem is, as it enters your mind, state your ideal you, and then dismiss that thought.  Excuse it.  Tell it you no longer need it.  Any thought about your weight (or problem) brings upon more reasons to obsess over.  Remember, your will power is not a weapon to be used against your vice. 

     Smokers encounter this same sort of failure when they attempt to quit smoking.  They throw the pack of cigarettes out and try to fight the urge not to smoke.  What is the“urge?” That urge is your will power in action bending you; physically pulling you as hard as it can towards materialization of your thoughts.  It is not the nicotine that draws the cigarette to you.  It is the thoughts of smoking spiraling out of control in your mind.  The urge to smoke is your thoughts; your will power drawing to you exactly what you are thinking about.  How do people quit smoking?  They quit by forcing thoughts of smoking from the mind.     

     Just think for one moment of that inescapable power as you succumb to any bad habit!  That is the law of attraction at its finest.  Do you recognize it?  We erroneously call the Law of Attraction an urge.  An urge is repeated cyclical thoughts over and over “I want a cigarette, I want a brownie,” “I want a beer,” set to replay that thrusts you with the force of gale winds towards the object that you choose to think about.  The Law of Attraction is connecting you without fail to your object. 

     You can chock it up to some chemical imbalance or powerful withdrawal effects of drugs.  Call it what you like.  But know this.  The second you redirect your thoughts, the sensation disappears.  Consider driving home from work with obsessive thoughts of I want a cigarette traversing your mind.  Someone calls your cell phone.  Your thoughts of wanting a cigarette are interrupted as you focus in on the conversation with the caller. The moment you hang up you allow the flood gates of destructive thought to usher in.  The urge to smoke that cigarette comes right back.  Your constant cyclical thinking propels you towards the object of your thoughts.  As long as you think that drug has the ability to start and stop your thoughts, you will misplace your ability to quit.  Your ability to quit resides with your ability to redirect your thoughts.  Your ability to lose weight resides with your ability to redirect your thoughts.  As I said before, any bad habit is a bad habit of the mind first!

     You can blame the drug’s effects or a chemical imbalance.  You can blame your thyroid or your genes.  Blame whatever you want.  Understand though that by placing blame you misplace the solution.  With any bad habit you have falsified the joy the habit brings.  You have developed a false belief.  You erroneously believe your bad habit brings you joy.  You think pleasurably of smoking or eating.  Some motivational authors will tell you that if you associate enough discomfort with bad habits, they will dissipate.  To some degree that is true because we generally avoid painful thoughts.  Additionally, painful thoughts are often the catalyst necessary to redirect thoughts.  We generally do not like thinking about painful thoughts so we listen to our feelings by redirecting our thoughts. 

     Ultimately, though it does not matter whether you focus on reasons for wanting something or not wanting something.  It is that microscopic attention that you are giving the habit that causes the problem to linger in your life.  Pain begins in your thoughts.  As you associate pain in your thoughts, you tend to stop thinking about painful thoughts.  For example, people do not like to think about past relationships gone sour, getting fired or in general any bad experiences endured.  It is because these experiences cause the feeling of pain that people steer from them.  The feeling is meant to direct you away from the painful thought.  Often we listen to these types of feelings and do redirect our thoughts.   

     However, experiences always start and stop with your thoughts.  It is better to thrust out all thought of the bad habit.  Any attention given to your habit is thought power.  Remember it is not what you do not want that you do not get.  It is what you avoid thinking about that you do not get.

     Imagine harnessing the urge of your will power in action.  We have all felt that will power before; whether it was for a cigarette, a drink or even for the affections of another person.  Imagine harnessing that power in any direction you wanted; that unbendable, undeniable, unyielding power to serve your thoughts.   Imagine unleashing that power towards your ideals!  It is that power directed and concentrated, like you employ now on all your bad habits, directed towards your ideals.  Guess what is going to come your way?  It cannot be stopped.  Your power to attract is unyielding.

     Our old thoughts continue because like a well worn shoe they fit comfortably.  There is no place like home.  You will keep replaying these thoughts until you break free from the pattern.  We can redirect our thoughts at any time with concentrated effort.  Some people equate effort with massive amounts of work.  Effort is energy.  Directed energy is power.  You do not have to sit in a darkened room sweat brimming from your brow forcing unwanted thoughts from your mind.  You just need to be aware that they exist and expel them the second they arise.  Replace your harmful thought with a new helpful thought.  Soon your new thoughts will feel like that old comfortable shoe. 

     As I was going through a divorce with my husband, I often had thoughts pop into my mind that made me feel angry towards him.  My feelings were an indication that I needed to change my thoughts ‘or else’ more reasons for being angry would be brought upon me.  However, I did not always listen to them.  Sometimes I let the thoughts brew allowing my angry thoughts to attract more angry thoughts.  As I did this without fail greater and greater reasons were brought into my awareness of why I should be angry with him.

     This is how both the Law of Attraction and your point of normal neutral work.  The Law of Attractions gives you more of the same thoughts to think about.  Your normal neutral position keeps you tethered to your current state of affairs. 

          All of the thoughts, emotions, attitudes and beliefs occur in the mind.  My anger was a product of my thoughts. My thoughts were not a product of my anger because I did not feel angry until that first thought occurred.  As I let it grow, the feeling grew.  Again, my feelings were trying to tell me that I was not in succinct with harmony.

     On the occasions that I allowed my thoughts the freedom to explore those angry thoughts, without fail days or sometimes a week later something would happen that would provoke more anger.  It may have been something related to my husband that refueled those thoughts or something entirely different such as finding something a trinket of mine that my kids broke. 

     The point is that by allowing those thoughts to brew, I was attracting more reasons to be angry into my experience.  I was manifesting it.  This is exactly what I mean when I tell you that you form your reality as you.  Most of us do it on the fly.  It then does not occur to us that our thoughts create it.  We think we are thinking those thoughts due to the circumstance.  We do not recall our angry thoughts of yesterday that have brought us incidents to be angry over today.  We do not make that connection.

     It is difficult to thrust out thoughts that are part of beliefs.  They do attract.  They will attract.  They will be brought to your awareness constantly.  Ridding me of my angry thoughts was not easy either.  I kept reminding myself that unless I wanted more of these same thoughts and physical experiences, then I needed to stop my thoughts.  I battled with pushing them out of my mind too.  I found it easier when I changed my focus; that is I thought about something entirely different, something that made me feel good…my ideals.  

     Your will power is unleashed upon your ideals only by developing thoughts and beliefs that give you that elated feeling.  How do you get that elated feeling?  You take action on them.  It is no different than any habit you have formed.  To this point, your ideals have not given you that elated pleasurable feeling because you have taken no action upon them.  As you act, your feel good feelings will surface.  Soon taking action upon your ideals will become an insatiable urge. 

     Think how good you feel when you act upon something constructive.  You get a project done that has been on your to do list.  You take that vacation you have dreamed about.  You go to your child’s school function.  You take a day off and go to the spa. 

     Actions fuels thoughts.  Thoughts return more of the same.  As these “feel good” thoughts occupy your mind, the destructive ones are automatically set aside.  You now have good thoughts being produced.  If you find yourself stuck in a cyclical thought pattern, take action!  Do something that you feel good about. 

     This is how I broke the pattern of returning to myself angry thoughts.  I worked on my book.  I organized my closets (something I felt good about doing).  I engaged in playful activity with my kids.  As I involved myself in physical action, my mental thoughts had to tend to those physical activities and feel good thoughts.  Thoughts precede form.  So, if I am doing something, I have to think about it first.  That left my angry thoughts untended to.  My angry thoughts could not occupy my mind and so they left. 

     To some degree action taken can give relief to your cyclical thoughts, whether your cyclical thoughts are of anger, smoking, weight issues, or problems with your health.  Ultimately, you need to deal with your underlying beliefs in order to pivot away from the problem altogether.  We will talk about how to do that in a later blog.