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Healthy thoughts are like health foods. Watch your diet!
I am amazed at how people stress the importance of healthy thoughts these days and I am appalled at the look of my own shocking thought diet that is being revealed.
One minute I feast on thinking I am strong, purpose full, brilliant and confident, I am fun to be with and everything is healthy, wonderful and possible.
The next (say 1000!) minutes I overdose on giving up, who cares, thinking I am insignificant, foolish and ineffective, I must be less fun to be with and everything is unhealthy, full of doom and gloom and impossible.
How come if I can chose a diet of good thoughts I go for the bad stuff?
Victoria Castle in her book ‘Trance of scarcity’ and Wallace D.Wattles ‘the Science of getting rich’ both talk about the importance of generating consistent thoughts of confidence and certainty as one of the keys to a great life.
Don’t even give failure, scarcity or what can go wrong a thought as these thoughts propel you away from certainty and confidence and into thoughts that are a certain way to nowhere grand.
But where do I find these unwavering certain and confident thoughts?
I am obviously stuck when I cannot access unwavering certainty about my own ability to consistently create abundance and prosperity.
It means I am unable to manifest and attract, have a charmed life AND be fun to be with.
I am doomed to become a lonely, cantankerous and unhealthy geriatric who had a crappy life.
Even worse my current life would be crappy, never mind my future as a geriatric.
As to rectify the lack in my diet I was encouraged to find an example of when I felt unwavering certainty.
And if you are like me and cannot find anything, you are in trouble and you need a prompt too.
So this is the prompt I was given.
Am I thinking when I wake up “Oh my, what if the sun won’t rise this morning?”
No, I actually never give it a thought.
Bingo!
That is exactly the place to go with bad things, never give them a thought.
I have to admit that I wasn’t totally getting this.
Of course the sun goes up every day and as I have never experienced it otherwise why would I ever develop any unwavering thoughts at all about the sun.
Unwavering certainty I did not feel, what I did feel was annoyance about a bad example!
Another prompt was in order.
“Am I worried that there will be no more apples when summer ends and the last apples disappear from the tree?”
NO! I go to the supermarket with certainty that there always be apples. I never give apples a thought.
Bingo! Great work to never even think apples are not available.
I still don’t get it, sun and apples are totally different things.
Money DOES run out if I don’t work. Nothing happens if I don’t do anything and nothing will work when I don’t get it right.
And here comes finally the Aha for me!
But I DO work, I DO do things and most of the times I do them to the best of my ability and things do work out one way or another.
And I have seen the universe contributing over and over again, just as I have seen the sun rise and apples appear and disappear.
So although I am not living in unwavering certainty yet, as I still feed on bad thoughts, I get a sense of how feelings of confidence can add to a manifesting life and that feasting on doom and gloom is an indulgence that recklessly fails to pay attention to its unhealthiness.
So, you can see why I want to think confidently and aim for a healthier thinking diet.
Help me out guys.
What confident thoughts of certainty do you feed on?
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Wilma, your timing is impeccable with this blog!!!
I am aware that I think of myself as healthy and ‘am healthy’. Because I think of myself as healthy I am not tempted by unhealthy food or not exercising. I can ’see this working here”
In fact when I look back over my life I am wondering if I have just forgotten those moments of doubt as I took on challenges and projects (which all turned out great by the way) or if indeed I simply believed I could, stayed positive and took the next step?
With my latest project ‘o’kaioceanikart pacific art gallery’ there was never a thought that it wouldn’t be successful, even when many people questioned its viability.
The question is ‘what can be done to stop the questions and doubts once they have started?’ I read that when Wayne Dwyer has a negative thought he just says ‘next please’ That must take a huge amount of control (discipline) of the mind. So back to the mantra “Ican be all I will to be’.
thanks for the blog
Hi Wilma, This blog has had me pondering a great deal and there is something in it all that is bothering me. I have been wanting to post a reply but really needing to think what is that I want to say.
Essentially I think there is something about the whole notion in the motivational and manifestation arena about good and bad that bothers me and the idea that something needs to be eliminated as this kind of goes against my holistic principles. I Am the thoughts that serve me and the thoughts that don’t serve me. If I get into thinking I have to get rid of the thoughts that don’t serve me, I get into thinking there is something wrong and inadequate about me. I also end up giving them more energy and they grow. If I try to get rid of them I drive them into the shadow lands of my being, where they cause more havoc. In these instances a lot of my power goes underground too and starts to work against me.
So what do I do. I keep my focus on where I am going and what I want to achieve. I accept all my thoughts. Those that support my higher ideals and aspirations and those that don’t. I honour them all for the purpose they have served in my life. Many come from family and social conditioning from my past and don’t tell me the truth about who I am and what I am capable of now. I proceed despite what my thoughts are doing as they cannot harm me or hijack me unless I believe them or fear them or focus on them.
Check it out Wilma, I have discovered I don’t have to live in unwavering certainty to keep manifesting the life I want but I do need to stay focused on what I want and not what my thoughts might tell me.
@ Bridget. Great comment.
Looking back and seeing things worked out helps me to ‘prove’ to myself I CAN do things and I know you have done amazing things too that makes me see you as a great brilliant person that you are.
I read once that we can only hold one thought at the time so even thinking about something very minor as what to have for dinner will chase annoying thoughts away.
It is like what we did with our little children when they were hurt or frghtened from a nightmare, we diverted their attention….I do that too now when I wake up feeling anxious..your mantra ‘I can be all I will to be’ is a great one to divert attention, will try that one too
@ Lorraine.
Wow, you have given me something to think about too with your comment.
I like the idea not to beat myself up because of my bad thoughts, it just adds to the stress.
I get from what you are saying, just accept them as a kind of back ground noise and get on with your days work to manifest what you want anyway. Just like flies, they are around, just ignore and accept them.
I am not making flies bad, do I?
Okay Lorraine, bad thoughts – accept them and then get on with your life. Will do.
I love your image Wilma of thoughts being like flies and although they can annoy and distract we basically get on with what we want. This is a great way of looking at it. If we decide to get the fly swat out and try to get rid of them we are then distracted from our task and all our focus goes into the flies. We all know what we focus on is what we get. The image that conjours up in my mind doesn’t bare thinking about.