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?
In order to change our lives we have to change our thoughts, you may have heard the quote that our thoughts create our reality, or that thoughts are things or perception is reality; or another similar quote. Let's dig into what that means.
Our thoughts never stop, we can go days without food, hours without water and minutes without a breath but we cannot stop our thoughts. When you are sleeping you are dreaming, when you are awake you are thinking. We have anywhere from 60-80 thousand thoughts each day and many of them will be the same thoughts we had the day before. Many of us experience depression at some time in our lives, and what we do with that experience will make a difference in our future!
I am currently creating my dream life, and I want everyone to be able to live their dream life and I desire to help as many people as I can. I had what you would call a normal life; go to work, do your best, sleep, and repeat. Following the program without even realizing I could make a difference with my thoughts. Then about ten years ago I experienced a bout of depression. It began after my father had passed and everyone in the family was dealing with the situation as best as they could. Unfortunately, that left me isolated, and my sad thoughts took over, but today I am happy, healthy, and much wiser!
I had not thought about it until I started the healing process, but our minds and our brains are two different things. Our brain is an organ like our liver or stomach. Our brain simply does what our mind tells it to do and most of that direction comes from our subconscious mind which operates similarly to a computer program, it just runs, and we seldom think about how to breathe or digest our food it just happens.
We get our DNA from our parents, so our first programs are created without any input from us, but we are wonderfully created human beings who have the ability and power to change the programs, in fact, every day we are rewriting the programs with every new experience we have.
What thoughts do you have that are blocking you from your dream life?
