Why would we want to control or influence our thoughts? Because they create our reality!
We think about seventy thousand thoughts a day, if we are not paying attention most of them will be negative, and even the same ones we had yesterday. Change is hard because we become addicted to the life we have, even if we don’t like or want some aspects of it.
We were wonderfully created to be able to observe these thoughts and choose to change them.
My first steps at changing were with Dr. Caroline Leaf. She has a program called the 21-day detox where you take time every day to think about the negative pattern you wish to change, then journal, and then you consciously choose to change the negative thoughts. It was a great way for me to start the change in my subconscious, by changing the thoughts in my mind.
Jay Sheety a popular podcaster, who was a monk for three years simplifies this process with three words Spot, Stop, and Swap. Focus on spotting the negative thought, choose to stop thinking about it, and then swap it with a positive one. A quick and easy process.
Robert Tennyson Stevens, author of the book Conscious Language, in this book he discusses how our words create our reality. He teaches us to speak only what we want to create. It can be challenging to change years of poor habits, but it is definitely worth the effort to create a life you love.
The Aroma Freedom Technique by Dr. Benjamin Perkus offers another way to dig deeper into our subconscious to make positive changes. AFT uses essential oils and a 12-step process to identify inner thoughts and feelings, then help to choose new thoughts. The constituents of the oils reinforce the new neural pathways to make lasting changes.
We can change our thoughts, which then changes our feelings and influences our actions, which changes our future.
Life is filled with experiences and when we have an experience that is filled with emotions it creates a deeper, stronger pathway in our physical brain. If we have an experience that does not affect us emotionally then the pathway is weaker and it may not last very long. We continually have new experiences and are constantly creating new pathways. This is why you can hear a good sermon that resonates with you but if you do not dwell on it or take notes a day later you don’t remember what it was about.
Emotionally charged experiences have a greater effect on our thoughts and our lives, like the time someone hurt your feelings, since the pathway starts out deep we have the tendency to dwell on it more, which creates an even deeper path, so if we have a thought that we recall often or rehearse in our conscious mind, the subconscious mind writes that thought deep into our program and it eventually it might become part of our personality.
That is how the depression snuck up on me, little by little each day I was thinking sad thoughts and rehearsing the experiences that had occurred, I did not realize I was reinforcing the depression with my thoughts. Now I know better so I do better!
Our thoughts originate from our parents, through our DNA, and the emotions and thoughts of our mother while she is pregnant. Later we are influenced by our upbringing, and our thoughts change based on our life experiences. We run many programs in our subconscious, and we have been created with the ability to rewrite these programs. We were created with the ability to choose what we think about, what we dwell on, what we reinforce in our minds, and the ability to rewrite our programs to change our lives!
What thoughts are not serving your vision?
