Interesting what a month plus of daily meditation and yoga will do for the soul. Back in May I started this venture, to actively be mindful each day, to have focus over my thoughts verses my thoughts just racing as they like to do for all of us if we let them. The average person has 70,000 thoughts a day. Everything from what's for breakfast to what we're going to wear. 70,000!!! Most of which we allow to be on auto-pilot.
Nothing wrong with racing per say, sometimes racing can be good. The racing of positive thoughts builds an environment wherein a vibration is created that expands additional good feelings. As with all things in the Universe however, in all things of like attract like, racing with panicky, obsessive, stressful, or doubtful thoughts does the exact same thing. It creates a vibration that expands into additional bad feelings and eventually those bad feelings expand into a greater life experience of those negative emotions.
Those of us who leave up to fate what unfolds into our lives aren't getting it. Our thoughts and energies are what create our experience here. We are the ones behind the wheel driving the journey. Some people we meet along the road hitch a ride for a short distance. We pick them up into our lives and we drop them off. Others we sometimes grow so comfortable with as they ride along, we sometimes allow them to take over the drive. This can be a dicey decision in that very few others we'll meet will respect the direction and course we've set out upon enough to follow along the same path. In fact, the more positive a direction you're headed in, the more peaceful you become in your evolution of self, the more it will seem as if your companions on the ride (life) will question or attempt to inhibit your progress.
Why is that? Why is it that you can decide to be in a healthy and positive place yet someone you love and trust can assert that you're anything but? Why is it that the sky can be blue and sunny but someone out there will complain about what it isn't instead of giving gratitude to what it is? These character issues, they have nothing to do with you and your path. When you are in peace, happiness and gratitude living, fact is, some people just can't handle it. Others only see what they allow themselves to see. Perception is like that, you either see what you want or what you don't want. Either way, it's on course to meet you where you are. Either way, the problem is with them and not with you.
Here's an example of what I'm saying, if we act in life from what we don't want i.e. I worry about someone I love being homeless or making wrong choices for their life, because I don't want them to suffer, my intentions for them are coming from a place of the unwanted. The Universe doesn't know the difference, it doesn't know that I don't want the person to suffer. All it knows is that I'm thinking about the person suffering.
On the flip side, if I think about what I want for the person from a place of serenity and trust, if I learn to map it out in a way that's positive and that feels good, I in turn will feel good and by default attract that positiveness into my life. So, in the case of the person I fear suffering, I turn the fear off and feel love. Love that the person is alive, that the person is experiencing life and learning valuable lessons that will one day create a well rounded person who knows what they want in life. By doing this I feel good and am in control of the drive. See how that works?
So yes, thoughts do become people, places, opportunities and things. Good, bad or indifferent, it's just law. You're in the driver's seat of life and you get to decide each moment you're awake the environment you travel in and who's along for the ride. Take the scenic route and travel in good company when you can. Trust me, it makes for a more enjoyable journey.
Copyright ©2013 Nita Clewis All rights reserved. For personal use only. Commercial use without permission of the author is not allowed. Sharing with friends and family is warmly welcomed.
Nothing wrong with racing per say, sometimes racing can be good. The racing of positive thoughts builds an environment wherein a vibration is created that expands additional good feelings. As with all things in the Universe however, in all things of like attract like, racing with panicky, obsessive, stressful, or doubtful thoughts does the exact same thing. It creates a vibration that expands into additional bad feelings and eventually those bad feelings expand into a greater life experience of those negative emotions.
Those of us who leave up to fate what unfolds into our lives aren't getting it. Our thoughts and energies are what create our experience here. We are the ones behind the wheel driving the journey. Some people we meet along the road hitch a ride for a short distance. We pick them up into our lives and we drop them off. Others we sometimes grow so comfortable with as they ride along, we sometimes allow them to take over the drive. This can be a dicey decision in that very few others we'll meet will respect the direction and course we've set out upon enough to follow along the same path. In fact, the more positive a direction you're headed in, the more peaceful you become in your evolution of self, the more it will seem as if your companions on the ride (life) will question or attempt to inhibit your progress.
Why is that? Why is it that you can decide to be in a healthy and positive place yet someone you love and trust can assert that you're anything but? Why is it that the sky can be blue and sunny but someone out there will complain about what it isn't instead of giving gratitude to what it is? These character issues, they have nothing to do with you and your path. When you are in peace, happiness and gratitude living, fact is, some people just can't handle it. Others only see what they allow themselves to see. Perception is like that, you either see what you want or what you don't want. Either way, it's on course to meet you where you are. Either way, the problem is with them and not with you.
Here's an example of what I'm saying, if we act in life from what we don't want i.e. I worry about someone I love being homeless or making wrong choices for their life, because I don't want them to suffer, my intentions for them are coming from a place of the unwanted. The Universe doesn't know the difference, it doesn't know that I don't want the person to suffer. All it knows is that I'm thinking about the person suffering.
On the flip side, if I think about what I want for the person from a place of serenity and trust, if I learn to map it out in a way that's positive and that feels good, I in turn will feel good and by default attract that positiveness into my life. So, in the case of the person I fear suffering, I turn the fear off and feel love. Love that the person is alive, that the person is experiencing life and learning valuable lessons that will one day create a well rounded person who knows what they want in life. By doing this I feel good and am in control of the drive. See how that works?
So yes, thoughts do become people, places, opportunities and things. Good, bad or indifferent, it's just law. You're in the driver's seat of life and you get to decide each moment you're awake the environment you travel in and who's along for the ride. Take the scenic route and travel in good company when you can. Trust me, it makes for a more enjoyable journey.
Copyright ©2013 Nita Clewis All rights reserved. For personal use only. Commercial use without permission of the author is not allowed. Sharing with friends and family is warmly welcomed.
