Most of us are familiar with the concept: ‘What we think about we bring about’. And, at a broad, brush-strokes level, that is certainly true. However, if were as simple as that, we would all have everything we had ever desired in our life right here, right now.
To more accurately understand this statement, I believe that we need to drill down a little deeper and to look at what exactly is meant by the word ‘think’. As you may or may not know, what we ‘think’ falls into 2 main categories – our conscious thoughts and our subconscious thoughts.
By conscious thoughts, I mean our conscious intentions. The thoughts which we intentionally create, like: “I must remember to buy some frozen peas for dinner tonight”.
Research shows that around 20% of our daily thoughts are conscious ones. The remaining 80% happen at the level of our subconscious.
So, would you be surprised to learn that if only about 20% of what you ultimately desire is currently showing up in your life, it may be that you need to spend more time consciously working on what you are ‘inputting’ on a daily basis to affect what is happening to the other 80%?
So, what is the recipe for change? As we can’t control what is currently happening at a subconscious level, we need to change our input at a conscious level. To do that, we need to do the following…
- Processes such as meditation, positive affirmations, and keeping a daily performance journal, all feed powerful affirming thoughts into the conscious mind, which in turn will ‘drip feed’ into the subconscious mind.
- Whenever negative emotions come up for us, e.g, emotions of anger, doubt or fear, we need to put them straight out of our minds. The reason being that emotions are transitory. It is emotion plus thought that generates a permanent feeling at a subconscious level, so by not thing about our negative emotions, then will quickly pass and will leave no mark on us.
- We need to surround ourselves with a community of like-minded individuals and consume a daily diet of positive thoughts, by reading motivational and inspirational books and quotes. In this way we generate positive thoughts and emotions, which if we choose to focus on, create new, positive feelings.
- The subconscious mind can’t differentiate between ‘real’ and ‘imaginary’. Therefore, at the level of our feelings, our subconscious mind can no longer tell a ‘real’ past event from an ‘imagined’ one. By consistently consuming a daily diet of positive energy, over time, perpetual positivity becomes our ‘reality’.
By following the above steps, we can gradually use the 20% of our thoughts that we have the power to control to bring about a positive change in the 80% which just ‘happen’, thus effecting the other 80% of stuff in our lives which feel out of our control.
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This article was edited and distributed by Mark Walters on behalf of Mandy Swift, who was the original author. Next : Success Strategies
