Tag: the power of thought

EVERYTHING WILL SHIFT ðŸ˜®

This is a great secret to overcoming life’s challenges. When you cease to have problems and start to have lessons, not only does your stress reduce, but your intelligence increases. This simple change in inner dialogue has a huge impact in your life. Changing the question you ask yourself may not seem like that radicle of a shift, but it is. The reason this is so, is because your brain will always come up with an answer. Look again at the two questions and consider what kind of answers could come from either.

Asking yourself the question, “Why does is this happening to me?” can lead to some disastrous results. You could start to assign blame and attach to things that it has no business being attached to. Like some kind of karma spin the bottle. You may start to compare it with the lives of others. “How come this never happens to Bob or Betty?” you might ask. The truth is that we never know what challenges Bob and Betty are facing. They have their challenges and we have ours. The bottom line is that the situation is happening to you. Those are the facts. To move ahead in life it is far greater to work with the facts than to wonder why they exist.

Asking yourself, “What is this trying to teach me?” or “What can I learn from this?” turns a challenge into an opportunity to come up stronger, smarter and maybe even a little happier in the end. Say you lose a job. That is a painful situation. It is also a good reminder that we should have multiple sources of income and always stay brushed up on our resume and skills. What if your car calls it quits? Perhaps it is reminding you to be better with preventative maintenance or to have savings set aside for such an occurrence.

The questions we ask ourselves will go a long way into determining the actions we take. Make sure the questions you ask yourself will lead to empowering actions that will improve your life. Start with changing the one above. Be patient with yourself. It takes time and practice to change thought patterns, but the returns will be well worth the effort.

EXPAND THE POSITIVE ðŸŒž

How many of us have had a medical issue, then look it up to self-diagnose only to discover we are terminal? We are so worried, we end up making our condition worse. What we have imagined to be the black death, turns out to be a sinus infection. I think we are all guilty of this is some fashion. It is not actually our fault. Through evolution, our brains are hardwired to think negative and imagine the worst case scenario. This is done as a form of protection to keep us safe. While this worked fairly well for our cave-dwelling ancestors, it really is a bummer for modern day humans.

Imagine if we fought against evolution and focused on the positive? How different would our life be? Is it possible to dwell on outcomes we desire, instead of ones we fear? Not only is it possible, it is a lot more enjoyable. Just like overcoming any learned, or even evolutionary behavior, this will take time. One great way to start, is to begin visualizing positive events in our life. Doing this when we are feeling good should be a lot easier than waiting until we are worried about something. The more we do this, the easier it should be when we are nervous.

Using our imagination will not only reduce the amount of pain in our lives, but will increase the amount of joy. It may also open our minds to see opportunities that may have passed us by if we were only focused on what could go wrong, or how terrible a situation may be. Do yourself a favor and expand the positive.