What Do Your Thoughts Add Up To?
How do your thoughts add up? Do they point towards what you want
or something else? Are they scattered or focused? Which thoughts
are winning?
What you are thinking all day long is guiding you into tomorrow
and your future. Is your future looking like you want it to?
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be
tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen
You have a choice about your thoughts, you can let them ramble
along as they will or you can take command of them.
Unfortunately letting them ramble on seems to default to the
negative.
Why is this so when the universe is basically good? It is
because of our free will. We can choose how to think and act.
In this regard life would be easier as a plant. Plants are
guided to do what they are programmed to do. They don't know any
better than to seek all they know. We humans on the other hand
have this ability to choose about much of our existence.
But then there comes that responsibility thing. We are
responsible for and subject to our thinking. Every thought is a
request, asking the universe for something, which responds in
like kind.
Years ago there was a descriptive concept related to this called
"The cosmic waitress" The analogy is that whatever you ask the
cosmic waitress, she brings. Each and every thought is your
order and the universe/God delivers what you ordered.
So, if you are not seeing what you really want in your life,
look to your thoughts. Develop the habit of noticing what you
are thinking and specifically how you are reacting. A huge
amount of your thoughts are wrapped up in habitual patterns that
come about automatically, but they don't need to be allowed to.
Learning to take command of your thinking is your right and
should be your desire if you want to grow and develop as you are
intended. Thought command starts with noticing and catching your
undesirable thoughts. Then analyzing them and deciding what
thoughts would be a better fit with your desires.
There is no way to achieve a desire when the largest portions of
your thoughts do not match the desire. Learn to switch this so
that most thoughts DO support your desires.
Add them up at the end of the day. You can even calculate the
time spent on each type of thoughts. It is really as simple as
basic addition.
Another way to look at it is to visualize a double balance
scale, the kind that has a pan on each side to place objects to
compare to each other. Like a seesaw. Imagine placing the
thoughts that are supportive to your cause on one side and the
non-supportive thoughts on the other. Which side has more weight
to it? Guess what you are getting. Even if it is even, you still
don't the clarity of thought needed for good results.
The desired and supportive thoughts must heavily outweigh the
other.
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for
empowers you. -- Wayne Dyer
You can do something about this; you can change the type and
quantity of thoughts you have throughout the day. It takes more
than thinking about it once in a while. You will have much
greater results with this or anything you are working on to
change when you do something interactively with yourself rather
than just occasionally thinking about it. Effecting change takes
clearly directed effort over a period of time
Look at your thoughts, analyze them, adjust them, and replace
them until you are supporting what you want with your thought,
attitude and behavior.
What to do -
1-At the end of the day, get quiet, think about the day, write
down your thoughts.
2-Ponder what you have noticed, compare against you deep
desires, think about what and how you could do differently
-write that down.
3-How did you react to things?
4-How did you treat other people?
5-Did you exhibit frustration?
6-Were you afraid?
7-Ask many questions of yourself.
8-Meditate or pray about them.
9-Decide what you could do differently to be the kind of person
that supports your desires. What would you think and do?
10-Continue this, day by day you will get more perceptive about
your thinking and behavior, eventually you will catch yourself
doing something and them change your habitual behavior to that
which you desire.
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul
becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in
such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible
at all, a right life is possible. Marcus Aurelius
You must be wholly the kind of person who fully supports your
desires. You must align yourself with the source of all and the
specific attributes you intend to be involved with. If you do a
lot of complaining or worrying, those are the attributes you are
choosing.
Take charge of your personal development, do this now. Think
carefully and choose right, it's all there for you.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make
a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of
thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. --Henry David Thoreau
Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest
idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own
opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior
awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and
subjective reactions in general. - - Abraham Maslow
There is a great idea that you will encounter again and again
on your quest: you are a living magnet, constantly drawing to
you the things, the people, and the circumstances which are in
accord with your thoughts. In other words, you are where you are
in experience, in relationships, even in financial conditions,
because of what you are (which is where you are in
consciousness). - - Eric Butterworth