Successful Living Starts With Positive Thinking
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Mark Walters
I came across the law of attraction a few years ago and gaining an understanding of it has greatly improved my life. I created a website on it and included my own mind movies, which you can find here : http://www.free-mind-movies.info
Contributed Mark Walters. By Mark Walters
Published on 01/29/2010
Useful information and advice on being successful. Learn about the process of changing your thought patterns for the better.
We are all familiar with the saying that - 'What we think about we bring about'. And, at a broad, brush-strokes level, that is certainly true. However, if were as simple as that, we would all have everything we had ever desired in our life right here, right now, plus a bucket load more besides.
To more accurately understand this statement, I believe that we need to consider what we mean by the word 'think' in more detail. Basically, we can divide our thoughts into 2 main categories: our conscious thoughts and our subconscious thoughts.
A concious thought is one that we make an effort to bring about. The thoughts that we intentionally create, like: "I must remember to phone my mother this evening".
Research shows that around 20% of our daily thoughts are conscious ones. Subconscious thoughts therefore make up the remaining 80% or so of our total number of thoughts.
So, would you be surprised to know that if only about 20% of what you really desire is currently showing up in your life, you may need to spend more time consciously working on what you are 'inputting' every day to affect what is happening to the other 80%?
So, what is the recipe for change? As it isn't possible to control what is happening at a subconscious level, we assess and improve what is happening at a conscious level. To do that, there are some simple steps that we can follow:
- Processes such as meditation, positive affirmations, and keeping a daily performance journal, all feed powerful affirming thoughts into the conscious mind, which in turn will 'drip feed' into the subconscious mind.
- Whenever negative emotions rise, we need to put them straight out of our minds. The reason being that emotions are transitory. It is emotion plus thought that generates a permanent feeling at a subconscious level, not emotion alone. If we refuse to pay attention to that emotion, it will pass.
- The subconscious can't distinguish between 'real' and 'imaginary'. So, in relation to our feelings, our subconscious mind can't tell a 'real' past event from an 'imagined' one. By repeatedly consuming a daily diet of positive energy, over time, this will become our 'reality'.
By following these simple steps, we can gradually use the 20% of our thoughts that we have the power to control to bring about change to the 80% that just 'happen', thus improving the 80% of stuff that is showing up in our lives.
To more accurately understand this statement, I believe that we need to consider what we mean by the word 'think' in more detail. Basically, we can divide our thoughts into 2 main categories: our conscious thoughts and our subconscious thoughts.
A concious thought is one that we make an effort to bring about. The thoughts that we intentionally create, like: "I must remember to phone my mother this evening".
Research shows that around 20% of our daily thoughts are conscious ones. Subconscious thoughts therefore make up the remaining 80% or so of our total number of thoughts.
So, would you be surprised to know that if only about 20% of what you really desire is currently showing up in your life, you may need to spend more time consciously working on what you are 'inputting' every day to affect what is happening to the other 80%?
So, what is the recipe for change? As it isn't possible to control what is happening at a subconscious level, we assess and improve what is happening at a conscious level. To do that, there are some simple steps that we can follow:
- Processes such as meditation, positive affirmations, and keeping a daily performance journal, all feed powerful affirming thoughts into the conscious mind, which in turn will 'drip feed' into the subconscious mind.
- Whenever negative emotions rise, we need to put them straight out of our minds. The reason being that emotions are transitory. It is emotion plus thought that generates a permanent feeling at a subconscious level, not emotion alone. If we refuse to pay attention to that emotion, it will pass.
- The subconscious can't distinguish between 'real' and 'imaginary'. So, in relation to our feelings, our subconscious mind can't tell a 'real' past event from an 'imagined' one. By repeatedly consuming a daily diet of positive energy, over time, this will become our 'reality'.
By following these simple steps, we can gradually use the 20% of our thoughts that we have the power to control to bring about change to the 80% that just 'happen', thus improving the 80% of stuff that is showing up in our lives.