The power of thoughts.

So what are thoughts and how do they influence our everyday behavior and social lives? Why is it that I react to things so rapidly and half of the time I’m not happy with the end result or worst yet, what if I am not aware of what I am doing wrong unintentionally? Why do I get upset easily? Why? Why? Why? We can keep going for days here!

So let look at this in a different perspective. The question you should be asking yourself is: am I in control of my thoughts or are my thoughts in control of me? Some of us are not aware of our thought process. Now being aware of your thoughts can make or break you believe it or not. It can make your personal life better or worst. Even get you or cost you that promotion you have been waiting for. In other words if you are in control of your thoughts you can make great changes in every aspect of your life.

So let’s see how the thought process works. We have a subconscious mind and a conscious mind. The subconscious mind can have thousands of thoughts at any one given time while the conscious mind can only handle one thought at a time. In my training seminars I refer to the subconscious mind as a lottery machine and the balls inside as all the thoughts bouncing around. If you have ever seen a lottery draw, you would notice that the balls (thoughts) are drawn one at a time. I then refer to this as a thought reaching the conscious level.

Now that we have a good idea on how the thought process works. Let’s take a look on how it affects our body. If you take a moment and think about something that you have experienced that wasn’t very pleasant at all to you and you continue to think about it, you will notice your breathing change, For instance taking deeper breaths or breathing faster. You can also notice your heart rate rising, feeling warm and blood pressure elevating too. All we are doing is thinking of something that is in the past and still it can make our body react to these thoughts in so many different ways.

Now let’s think about something positive. Watch a funny movie or even watch an old video of a memorable vacation we took with our family. Wow doesn’t it feel great to be happy? And it didn’t take a lot to get to that state. You have taken the first step in taking control of your thoughts. That is the power of thoughts.

The good news is that we can condition our minds and control our thoughts with practice. This can be very simple. All you need is a little effort and allow yourself to be aware of your thoughts. You will be amazed on how you will start looking at things in a more positive way.

But what about how I feel about my neighbors or that annoying co-worker

That I can’t stand? How do I deal with people? Well that’s the easy part. When you are in control of your thoughts, you are also in control of your emotions. This will send out positive body signals. Your posture is different. When you are always entertaining negative thoughts, your body posture is different than when you are entertaining positive thoughts. Negative: head down, tiered, shoulders down, minimal eye contact, seclusion and so on. Positive: straight body posture, more body movement, head and shoulder back, chin up and most importantly laughter.

When you laugh you send more oxygen to the brain. This will make you more alert, aware and give you more energy. Now people begin to notices the change in you and start asking you questions like, why are you always in such a great mood or I like being around you. Now you see why I say to deal with people is the easy part.

First we must look with in and control our thoughts and emotion. This will then make us a more positive and happier person. Now all of this energy will shoot out of your body and radiate all around us. Believe me, people will notice and change.

Steps that will help achieve thought control:

Do not think about a problem for 30 minutes. Focus on solutions instead.

Do not entertain negative thoughts for more than 2 minutes

Use a thought interruption to interrupt negative thought.

Begin a different and positive chain of thoughts to overcome the negative ones

Cancel any thought where its outcome would be negative

Remember that to become successful and happy, we need to be better problem solvers. The more successful you are the bigger the problems and the better you must get to solve them. So on that note, Control your thoughts and emotions, do not let them control you. I believe that we all learn something every day. I try to. All I hope for is to help at least one person with my blogs, so if you like it please pass it on. Thank you.

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