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Change your mind, change your world! Don't take the law of attraction for granted. Listen and read and learn to create success with your thoughts and imagination. Blessings, Laura
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So what does this all mean to you?
This:
As you keep thinking the same thoughts, producing the same emotions and performing the same actions, you continue to live by the same experiences.
As we repeatedly engage in the same thought patterns of think, feel, do, these patterns encode as a blueprint in our subconscious mind.
Your subconscious mind automates your life, which means (if you’re not aware of your thought patterns), you will continue to live by the same behavioral patterns—and thus, your current experiences. As per Carl Jung’s words: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
As we repeat thought patterns, they become subconscious behavioural patterns that drive our life.
So how do you change your reality?
You create new patterns that create a new reality.
You recondition yourself.
This isn’t something that you change overnight, this is a lifetime commitment to mindful reprogramming and growth. It’s what neuroscientists refer to as neuroplasticity—the idea that you can rewire your brain by creating new behavioural patterns where new cells fire together and wire together.
And in order for you to do this, you need to understand that you are not your thoughts, you are the thoughts you give power and attention to—you are the thinker.
Your thoughts are nothing more than an endless stream of ideas running through your mind.
They are powerless until you decide to cling onto one on them, which then trickle into a chain. This very act makes you the thinker of your thoughts.
In other words, imagine your mind to be a farm and your thoughts to be the seeds. You can plant either good seeds (roses) or bad seeds (poison ivy). Whichever seed you choose to focus on and plant, it will then grow and multiply. And the same happens in your mind—whichever thought you choose to focus on and plant, it will then grow and multiply.
You are the planter of the seeds.
You are the thinker of your thoughts.
Do you want your mind to flourish into a garden of roses or a farm of poison?
“You are not your thoughts, you are the thoughts you give power and attention to—you are the thinker.”
So how do you create new behavioural patterns?
You create new thought patterns.
And how do you create new thought patterns?
Here’s how:
Increase your awareness by observing your emotions and body reactions.
Be more conscious of what thoughts you give your attention to.
It’s what psychologists call metacognition—the idea of thinking about our thinking.
The next time you feel a strong emotion, bring your awareness to it by pausing and asking yourself:
“What’s going on in my mind right now? Why am I feeling this way?”
Why am I angry? Why am I upset? Why am I feeling so low?
This can help us figure out why we're feeling what we're feeling and drive us back to the root cause of these feelings: the thoughts we first gave our attention to.
As author and master trainer of Neurolinguistic Programming Michael Neill explains:
“It’s not the thoughts that pass through your head that impact your life; it’s the one you take possession of and think about all day long. Once we agree to give our attention to a thought, it becomes more and more real to us over time and has more and more power over out life.”
It triggers an emotion, which then triggers a body reaction and drives us to act in a certain way.
This thought pattern creates a mental circuit in our brain, and as we repeat it, it becomes a subconscious behavioural pattern that runs on automation.
This is how your thoughts shape your reality.
This is why you are what you think.
And this is why all the great minds and thinkers agree that:
We live in a world of thought.
Our thoughts create our experiences, and thus, we experience what we think.
The quality of our thoughts creates the quality of our life.
Save this article.
Reread it often.
Remind yourself of the power of the thoughts you give your attention to. They become your beliefs and they go on to define your life and how you experience it.
You are what you think.
