Magic In Your Mind

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.

A conscious thought is one that we make an effort to bring about. The thoughts that we intentionally create and give our focus to each day, like: “I must remember to phone my mother this evening”.

Studies have shown that around 20% of our thoughts occur at a conscious level each day. Subconscious thoughts therefore make up the remaining 80% or so of our total number of thoughts.

So, would you be surprised to learn that if only around 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’ every day to affect what is happening to the other 80%?

So, how can you make such a change to your thought patterns? As it isn’t possible to control what is 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 positive affirmations, meditation, and keeping a daily performance journal, in which we record only the positive things we have achieved that day, will all feed powerful affirming thoughts into the conscious mind, which then permeate into the subconscious mind.

- Whenever negative emotions rise, e.g, emotions of anger, doubt or fear, we need to put them straight out of our minds. Why? Because emotions are transitory. It takes a combination of emotion and though to generate a permanent feeling at a subconscious level, not emotion alone. If we refuse to pay attention to that emotion, it will pass.

- We need to surround ourselves with 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 can’t distinguish between ‘real’ and ‘imaginary’. Therefore, in relation to our feelings, our subconscious can’t 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 change to the 80% that just ‘happen’, thus effecting the other 80% of stuff in our lives which feel out of our control.

This article was edited and distributed by Mark Walters on behalf of Mandy Swift, who was the original author. More : Secrets Of Success