Thursday, February 26, 2004
Did you know you are not your thoughts? Did you know most thoughts are not even YOUR thoughts, but rather they come from a past reality and from your exposure to the thoughts of others? Did you know that your thoughts dictate your feelings and actions? If you feel fearful, powerless and hopeless, you can bet it is from something you are thinking, and probably something from the past is dictating that thinking. If you are acting in ways that are dysfunctional for the life you desire today, the action started with a thinking process. Don't try to change your feelings and actions until you know what you are really thinking and the origin of those thoughts. You can't just think happy thoughts and all will be perfect in your life. That would be to negate your present concept of reality, and that never works for permanent change. Changing thoughts is usually a process - not an event.
First you must be able to OBSERVE your thinking, feeling, wanting and your intentions. Thinking involves all of these functions. Observing allows distance so that you can be objective. When you know you are the observer of the thinking, you are NOT the thinking.
Today I am beginning a series of entries to teach you the process of changing your mind and changing your life. [more]
Posted by Victoria @ 01:26 PM CST [Link]
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