I need to change my thoughts to truly change my life
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 08:43AM 
Discipline has always been an elusive quality in my life. Be it sticking to a regiment of mediation or a sticking to a budget, running up the mountain or not running up debt, listening only to inspired music or listening to clues given by the universe, the part of my path I’m most grateful for is the chance to try again today. Where I continue to slip off the beam is practicing discipline in my everyday thoughts. We all have an inner monologue and we indeed allow it to wander into darker corners of the mind. In these recesses where we wish ill upon others, send hatred where love is needed, and find impatience and frustration where calm is the remedy, resides a facet of the ego that grows precipitately into our strongest adversary. We battle it daily. The war effort is terribly underfunded. The defensive weapons required are paid for with discipline.
I’m a subscriber nowadays to the idea of expanding intentions. What we think is what expands in our world. Our thoughts are the origin of all that we manifest long before our actions. Our thoughts come from God. Considering that God creates everything, and everything is good, then it is reasonable to say that whatever we focus our attention on will expand from Him and it will then be good. As a practical example, I’ve not had a history of being “good with money”. I spend it freely, never save for a rainy day, and am sure I’ve owed someone something for pretty much ever. It’s a sack of bricks to carry and a toll on the soul, to say the least. My thoughts are, “Well, I’ve never been good with money.” This is how I perceive myself and what the universe hears me saying. I imagine myself surrounded by shortages and the universe continues to manifest that. There is no judgment attached to that which I receive. I just constantly think it and get more of it – no matter what. You know that person that never seems to have things go their way? They constantly attract strife, poor relationships, and financial woes, miss their flights, lose their cell phone, on and on. Ask them, just for fun one day, how they see themselves. I bet their description matches. “Nothing seems to go my way. I have the worst luck.”
Luck is when coincidence meets preparedness. Preparedness is cobbled up through meticulously calculated intention. I’m less surprised now when what I intend miraculously arrives, right on time. I’m working at cleansing my thoughts of the negative phrases and ideas in my daily mental chatter. I need to start living more from the end and seeing my life being pulled by an intention rather than pushed by circumstance. I have no one to blame for where I am, I needn’t compare myself to anyone else, and reminding myself of these ideas are part of a process whereby I can better shape my thoughts to mold a future more aligned with my greater purpose. Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change. This is a scientifically proven reality in the world of quantum physics. Having the discipline to recognize my negative thoughts, greet them briefly, and bid them adieu is part of changing my reality. The giving Mother of the Tao only knows what I place my attention on as my desire. She doesn’t interpret it as we do. It is all that she will give because the judgment placed on what I receive is my own. I need to change my thoughts to truly change my life.
Reader Comments (1)
Luck is when coincidence meets preparedness. I love it. Brilliant rant. I live my life according to the same ideals and yet I constantly have to remind myself of the same. Having faith can be a challenge even when there has been nothing but proof pointing to the fact that everything works out, one way or another.