Your Thoughts Have Power!

It’s really exciting to know that you understand the concept of NOW vs. some time in the future as you write and speak your Gratitude statements! It is amazing to experience the power of one word…NOW…as we open ourselves to possibilities that are unleashed by speaking it! Just as words have power, the thoughts that precede words have immense power, too! You spend a lot of time thinking throughout a normal day. But if you were asked to write down what you have been thinking, you would be hard pressed to do so. This is because most of our thinking takes place in the unconscious area of our minds. It is like a program running on our computer. The computer is running the program without us really thinking about it or noticing it. It is just there…of course! But those unconcscious thoughts have the power to control what we say and what we do. And in turn what we say and do has the power to create the results we live with every day.

What we would want then is to learn how to have the thoughts that will get us where and what we want! In order to do this we must first learn what thoughts we have been having that we are unaware of. They run in cycles in our mind and don’t usually turn themselves off. One way to learn what thoughts are there is to begin writing them down. At first this is a difficult task. It requires some patience and persistence. Writing for 10 minutes each day will allow this process to begin. Writing without making judgments about the writing, the thoughts or yourself is really important, too. Let the words come to the page without punctuating, spelling or making definite paragraphs. Your high school English teacher will not be reading this! Honesty about your thoughts is perhaps the more difficult part. But it is important. I said to not make judgments about what you are writing. Perhaps you can write it as a news reporter would…just getting the thoughts and words down without having any emotion about them.

Of course what you will find is that there is emotion attached to your unconscious thoughts. And that is why the thoughts have been so strong in shaping your outer life! In this discovery writing emotions will be uncovered that you had forgotten. Allow them to be there but don’t let them take over. This discovery writing is designed to empty your mind of old thoughts and make room for the new thoughts that you choose.

It is important to not only focus on what the old thoughts are. Ten minutes a day is enough. You need to give equal time to the new thoughts and ideas that you are choosing, to create the life that you have dreamed of. The gratitude statements are a good start. But there are more exercises that will allow for more expansive thinking.

The exercises for Expansive Thinking are like the exercises that you do for muscle strength and flexibility. What you want to create are thoughts that you are aware of and have chosen. Most of the thoughts in your unconscious were put there as you were developing. Some have been there since childhood. Most of us don’t lay our thoughts out every once in awhile and say, “Now, do I really think or believe this?”

Beginning the Expansive thinking exercises will be like going through your closet and looking at all of the clothes there. What have you worn? What has been stuck back in a dark corner for years? Why are you keeping this? Are these the clothes that the person you are becoming would wear?

The Expansive Thinking exercises will help you do this with your thoughts! Are you becoming aware of thoughts and ideas that came from your family of origin perhaps? Are you discovering thoughts that might have once been important to keep you safe but are now restrictive? Are your thoughts about yourself accurate for the person you are becoming?

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