Your thoughts come with an accompanying energy, so you might as well shift to those that empower you. When you move from a thought that’s a very low energy vibration to one of a higher frequency, you go from weak to strong. When your thought is on blaming others, you’re weakened. But when you shift to loving and trusting others, you become strong. Today we are going to investigate the thoughts that make us stronger.
Once you realize that what you think about is the source of your experience of reality, then you’ll begin to pay more attention to what you’re thinking in any given moment.
Many years ago, in a tremendously popular audio program called The Strangest Secret, Earl Nightingale taught many of us that we become what we think about all day long. Your thoughts determine whether you’re being empowered or weakened—whether you’re happy or sad, successful or not. Everything is a thought that you carry around with you. Happy thoughts create happy molecules. Your health is determined largely by the thoughts you have. Passionately think that you won’t get a cold, and your body will react to your thoughts. Refuse to entertain thoughts of fatigue, jet lag, or headaches, and your body responds to your thoughts.
Your mind tells your body to produce the drugs it needs to keep you healthy. Give someone a sugar pill and convince them that it’s an anti-arthritic drug, and that person’s body will react to the placebo with the increased production of anti-arthritic energies. The mind is a powerful tool in creating health. It also creates divine relationships, abundance, harmony in business—and even parking places! If your thoughts are focused on what you want to attract in your life, and you maintain that thought with the passion of an absolute intention, you’ll eventually act upon that intention, because the ancestor to every single action is a thought.
The greater your desire, the more thought horsepower you’ll apply to its fulfillment. The more intense your desirous thoughts, the greater the measure of love going into your asking and your labor will be—and coming in contact with love is the very essence of Spirit and inspiration. Weak thoughts will attract doubt and weakness, which will cause you to experience monotony and drudgery in your efforts. With monotony, you’ll give up, but with love, you’ll be available to abundant hope.
For example, I find it impossible to think in boring terms when it comes to my writing. My thoughts are so intense that I feel love for what I’m doing and joyful when I even pass by my writing space. I get a warm feeling throughout my body because my desire to convey these ideas and express what I’m learning each day is so intense that it matches up with the spiritual energy of the Source of All Creation. Obviously when I’m asking for guidance, my thoughts or queries go out to my spirit, which then matches up with the Divine Source.
I know that my thoughts are energy and that those harmonizing with Spirit will align to activate the creation process. I love watching all this flow so perfectly and being in harmony with the Force that’s responsible for all of creation. I know deep within me that I can participate in the activation of this Force to bring into reality the manifestation of my spiritually aligned desires.
If you make this an inner mantra: I intend to feel good, you can think of and picture yourself experiencing joy regardless of what’s going on around you. You can remind yourself that whatever you desire is on its way, in amounts greater than ever imagined. If you keep this thought uppermost in mind, then before long, the All-Creating Source will conspire to bring your thought into your physical life. Most important, you’ll begin to act on your thought and receive Divine guidance.
The most empowering thoughts you can have are those of peace, joy, love, acceptance, and willingness. These thoughts don’t create a counter-force. Powerful, joyful, loving thoughts stem from your willingness to allow the world to be as it is. Then you’re in a state of inner bliss where serenity replaces fighting, reverence for all of life substitutes for craving and anxiety, and understanding supplants scorn. You become an optimist. Rather than seeing the glass as half empty, it’s always half full.
All of this is nothing more than a conscious decision on your part to be in charge of your thinking. Be aware at any given moment in your life that you always have a choice about the thoughts you allow in your mind. No one else can put a thought there. Regardless of the circumstances you find yourself in, it is your choice. Choose to replace disempowering, weakening thoughts with thoughts of a higher spiritual frequency.
Don’t convince yourself that it can’t be done or it’s easier said than done. Your mind is yours to control. You are the creator and selector of your thoughts. You can change them at will. It is your God-given inheritance, your corner of freedom that no one can take away. No one can have control of your thoughts without your consent. So choose to avoid thoughts that weaken you, and you will know true wisdom. It is your choice!