It has been proven that stress is a major cause of all fatigue and illness. The stress response is a reaction by you, based on perceptions created in your mind. It has been shown that we only use 10% of our mind and that 75% of all sickness and disease has it origin in the mind. That equates to 10% of the mind causing 75% of sickness. This illustrates the power that you hold deep within your mind and in your thoughts. By learning to use your thinking more effectively, you could begin to reduce illness and a live healthier, more productive life.
Studies have also shown that people with a positive outlook live longer and more fulfilled lives. This is because they have learned how to utilize the power of their mind in a positive way. The majority of people fail to get their mind working FOR them. Instead, it seems to work AGAINST them, creating outcomes they do not desire.
Beliefs start in the sub-conscious mind, sometimes with a just a single thought. Change the thoughts, and you can begin to change your beliefs. When you do that, you can begin to change your actions. Learning to work in harmony with both your conscious and subconscious mind takes time, but can be mastered with regular practice. By training your subconscious mind, you can develop the ability to influence your future.
If you want to create healthy changes in your life, you must first address the subconscious programming you have previously accepted. You do that by listening to your internal dialogue, the little voice that keeps a running conversation in your head. Your mind only knows what you tell it and it believes that to be true whether it is reality or not. If your mental dialogue is always interjecting negative thoughts, this is what your mind will work to make reality.
The brain is a complex computer. You use it to record and process information. Like a computer, the mind relies on other components to make it work. On a conscious level, you set goals based on the information you take in and know to be true. However, on a subconscious level, you have very strong but subtle programming that has been established through years of repetition and conditioning.
The brain will introduce thoughts into your mental dialogue based on your prior programming. Often it is this subtle detail that stands in the way of you starting or maintaining healthy habits that you know in your conscious mind are beneficial. These subconscious messages can sabotage your efforts.
Programming is what you have accepted from the outside world or fed to yourself. It sets up your beliefs, and a chain reaction begins from that. Whether this programming was right or wrong, true or false, the result of it is what you believe. What you believe about yourself affects every aspect of life, your chances of success, and your ability to create positive change.
When you get started on something new, you have abundant positive energy. Everything flows easily in the beginning. You start off with extraordinary zest and passion, but over time you grow tired. Your positive energy can become sparse and negative. This energy shift leads to situations you don't want.
At this point, your thoughts can begin to work against you. When you focus your awareness and attention on them, they can draw the very things you are trying to avoid to you. This begins when you lose focus of what you want and shift your thoughts and intentions away from your goals. Instead of being aware of your abundance and all of the “haves” in your life, you begin thinking of all of the “have-nots.” This will set off a negative spiral of events, and each negative thought can yield another.
You must start controlling your thoughts. Reinsert your positive messages and shift your focus back to what you want to create and away from what you hoped to avoid. When you think about what you are trying to stay away from, you feed power to that thing or behavior and make it even more desirable.
You must replace “avoidance thoughts” with “creation thoughts.” By using thought reframing you can help to create incredible personal opportunities, by dwelling on what you are working to create, not what you are working to avoid. Begin to frame thoughts that create the circumstances you want in your life. Since your thoughts shape your reality, you have the power to shape your reality. As Napoleon Hill stated, “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
"Wellness Matters"
By Lisa Schilling RN
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Mind Over Matter-Using the Power of Your Thoughts to Create What You Desire
The power of the mind is infinite. Your subconscious mind works on the information that you feed it. If that information is negative, then your thoughts will connect to experiences that will help to make that become a reality. Once your subconscious mind gets a message, it attempts to connect you with the people and events needed to create that situation. This is all based on the messages you are sending it.
What you think about in your subconscious mind will actually draw you to people and events that will help make those thoughts a reality. This part of your mind does not make value based judgments. It does not operate from a standpoint of a good or bad action. It only works to create your reality based on the messages you send it.
Your messages are not just your thoughts. Everything action you take, word you say or thought you believe is picked up by your subconscious mind. Just thinking you can do or achieve something does not mean that it will suddenly happen. It does not work that way. What it does do, is create a positive awareness that begins to show up in how you think, act and feel. This energy is sent out to those you encounter and they too, begin to see the possibilities.
The basic principle is that whatever your mind can imagine, it can bring into your awareness, ways to make that dream a reality. How does it do that? What your mind thinks, sees, believes, and feels is routed through your subconscious mind. It works to develop that reality based on the thoughts that began in your mind. To get the most out of your thinking, you need to use the right techniques to develop its full power.
Positive thought reframing is one technique. By looking at the positive, you allow your mind to shift its attention so that can see things differently. This sends a different energy and different message to your subconscious mind. This new message is picked up and attracts these kinds of situations to you.
You are now looking for them to happen. It is much like a self fulfilling prophesy. You expect to fail and it shows in your attitude and in your spirit. This does not evoke a feeling of confidence from you and others will sense it too. This projection effect helps to bring the action into reality. When you focus on success and achieving your goals, other people will begin to see the potential in you too. They are now looking for it, expecting it. You will begin to attract positive situations into your life.
Remember the last new vehicle you got? You probably never noticed how many were on the road before you got yours and now you see them everywhere. Has there been a rapid increase in your make of car, or have you just begun looking for and paying attention to what was already always in front of you?
This is a key point. By raising your awareness of the things or situations you want, you will begin to be drawn to them. It has to do with the minds selective awareness. The brain filters so much of what we take into our awareness. Often we miss things because we were never looking for them. Take a different path home, or walk on the opposite side of the street. What new things will you observe, simply because you are now looking for them?
Begin to look for success, positive people and achievement of your goals. Create awareness about what it takes to achieve your goals. Think about it regularly and begin acting on those thoughts. You will naturally begin pulling those kinds of things into your awareness. This can help to crowd out those old negative thinking patterns.
Which does your mind dwell on-the part of your glass that is full, or the part that is empty? Always thinking about what you don't have or aren't good at, will lower your productivity, efforts and enthusiasm. It will become thought encompassing. At all times, there are good and bad things happening. What are you looking for? The subconscious mind will help you find what your thoughts are “seeing” by looking for them.
You will begin to see the positive aspects in other people, when you first focus on your positive qualities. Turn your attention to what you've done, your strengths and blessings. This attitude of gratitude and thankfulness unleashes creative energy and empowers you to excel.
This technique allows you to release anger and unhappiness because it gets your mind to focus on the positive instead of the negative. This shifts the entire focus of your thinking and will create a more positive energy around you. This energy does attract people because you are now acting like someone who is confident and successful. In turn, people will have more confidence in you.
Creating this positive energy is vital to your success and happiness. Don't waste your energy living with a negative thought life. Negative thoughts equal a negative reality.
Allow yourself to be encouraging and positive to those you meet. Doing this gets your mind going in a positive direction, thus attracting more positive situations. When you back it up with action, you complete the positive cycle and begin to pay forward this same positive energy. Start today and begin creating a positive lifestyle so that you can enjoy the life you have created.
"Wellness Matters"
By Lisa Schilling
What you think about in your subconscious mind will actually draw you to people and events that will help make those thoughts a reality. This part of your mind does not make value based judgments. It does not operate from a standpoint of a good or bad action. It only works to create your reality based on the messages you send it.
Your messages are not just your thoughts. Everything action you take, word you say or thought you believe is picked up by your subconscious mind. Just thinking you can do or achieve something does not mean that it will suddenly happen. It does not work that way. What it does do, is create a positive awareness that begins to show up in how you think, act and feel. This energy is sent out to those you encounter and they too, begin to see the possibilities.
The basic principle is that whatever your mind can imagine, it can bring into your awareness, ways to make that dream a reality. How does it do that? What your mind thinks, sees, believes, and feels is routed through your subconscious mind. It works to develop that reality based on the thoughts that began in your mind. To get the most out of your thinking, you need to use the right techniques to develop its full power.
Positive thought reframing is one technique. By looking at the positive, you allow your mind to shift its attention so that can see things differently. This sends a different energy and different message to your subconscious mind. This new message is picked up and attracts these kinds of situations to you.
You are now looking for them to happen. It is much like a self fulfilling prophesy. You expect to fail and it shows in your attitude and in your spirit. This does not evoke a feeling of confidence from you and others will sense it too. This projection effect helps to bring the action into reality. When you focus on success and achieving your goals, other people will begin to see the potential in you too. They are now looking for it, expecting it. You will begin to attract positive situations into your life.
Remember the last new vehicle you got? You probably never noticed how many were on the road before you got yours and now you see them everywhere. Has there been a rapid increase in your make of car, or have you just begun looking for and paying attention to what was already always in front of you?
This is a key point. By raising your awareness of the things or situations you want, you will begin to be drawn to them. It has to do with the minds selective awareness. The brain filters so much of what we take into our awareness. Often we miss things because we were never looking for them. Take a different path home, or walk on the opposite side of the street. What new things will you observe, simply because you are now looking for them?
Begin to look for success, positive people and achievement of your goals. Create awareness about what it takes to achieve your goals. Think about it regularly and begin acting on those thoughts. You will naturally begin pulling those kinds of things into your awareness. This can help to crowd out those old negative thinking patterns.
Which does your mind dwell on-the part of your glass that is full, or the part that is empty? Always thinking about what you don't have or aren't good at, will lower your productivity, efforts and enthusiasm. It will become thought encompassing. At all times, there are good and bad things happening. What are you looking for? The subconscious mind will help you find what your thoughts are “seeing” by looking for them.
You will begin to see the positive aspects in other people, when you first focus on your positive qualities. Turn your attention to what you've done, your strengths and blessings. This attitude of gratitude and thankfulness unleashes creative energy and empowers you to excel.
This technique allows you to release anger and unhappiness because it gets your mind to focus on the positive instead of the negative. This shifts the entire focus of your thinking and will create a more positive energy around you. This energy does attract people because you are now acting like someone who is confident and successful. In turn, people will have more confidence in you.
Creating this positive energy is vital to your success and happiness. Don't waste your energy living with a negative thought life. Negative thoughts equal a negative reality.
Allow yourself to be encouraging and positive to those you meet. Doing this gets your mind going in a positive direction, thus attracting more positive situations. When you back it up with action, you complete the positive cycle and begin to pay forward this same positive energy. Start today and begin creating a positive lifestyle so that you can enjoy the life you have created.
"Wellness Matters"
By Lisa Schilling
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