You Can Learn to Control Your Thoughts.
Thoughts?
I never really thought about where our thoughts came from. I did notice that sometimes thoughts would just pop into my mind when I saw something that reminded me of something. Boom there that thought was. Then I started reading about thinking and books on that sort of thing.
I was inspired by the books that I read and decided to try and put some of the ideas into practice. And with practice they really did work. So, here we are.
I had some negative thoughts with negative emotions attached to them that would pop into my mind every so often and I wanted to get rid of them. The memories brought up emotions that bothered me and they were never good. I decided on an affirmation that I would replace the negative thoughts with. At first it didn’t work so well. The thought would pop into my head and the emotions that came with the thought would flood in. This was making it difficult to think about something else. And for that matter you have to remember that you are supposed to change your thought to the affirmation. I worked at this diligently for some time and little by little the thought came less and less. Now the thought never pops into my head unless I consciously try to think about it, but even then, it doesn’t have the same negative impact on my emotions.
I had confirmed to myself that you can truly change your thoughts, and they aren’t so random after all or that we don’t have control over them. So, with this new lesson that I had learned, I decided to start changing a lot of thoughts that pop into my head.
Let’s take an example. Someone who always complains about their job. This makes the whole day suck from the very beginning to the very end. They constantly think “man this job sucks!” and for them the job does suck. It puts them in a bad mood, creates problems where there aren’t any, reduces productivity, and generally makes for a bad day. Usually, these people take this same attitude from job to job always blaming their unhappiness on some part of the job or someone at their job. And it just their thoughts that are creating the situation.
But if you decide to replace “this job sucks!” to “I love my job!”. Even say it out loud to yourself, so you hear it. Your brain goes to work and starts making it to where you actually do love your job. You start believing that you do love your job and when that happens good things happen. You start enjoying the work, your productivity goes up, and generally you become happier. Not that you can’t make a job change that is better for you, but you don’t have to run around being unhappy. And your happiness should not come from your surroundings or what you are doing. Your happiness should come from inside you and that is another big lesson to learn.
