I've been thinking....... yeah I know....that was my first mistake, right?
Anyway have you ever wondered why we use such terms as: "The war on Poverty" Battle of the bulge" "The war on crime" The battle against cancer" "The war on drugs"---if you subscribe, as I do, to the idea that thoughts become things, then it's no wonder we are such a violent society! But here's the purpose of this post..........Back in the 60's the so-called Hippies, carried signs that read "Make Peace not War!" or "Make Love not War!"-- no one knew it then, but they had the right idea. As if you haven't got enough on your plate already, now I'm suggesting your monitor your thoughts? No--it's a worthy goal but sadly it's an unobtainable one. We have millions and millions of thoughts racing about our minds all day every day. Our subconscious mind is always working, always on. There just is no way to monitor all the things that we think. However, if just one thought a day were changed from a negative to a positive, then the door to change is flung open. When I was learning to be a certified clinical hypnotherapist, I had a life changing moment when I realized that my inner dialogue was what kept me from living as a thin person.
When we decide to go on a diet we almost always say I need to lose weight. Here's where it gets interesting.....the subconscious mind is the literal mind. It can not decipher between real and fake so everything you store in there was not properly filtered and so our brain sends signals that something is lost! If lost it MUST BE FOUND! So the reality of your efforts is that you may have shed 10 pounds but your hips found them again.....sound familiar? I also learned that the word NO is not in our subconscious minds dictionary. The result being: do not think of the color RED....you just did, right? Any mother will tell you that when you tell your child NOT to do something you just gave him or her permission to do it anyway. We all laugh and roll our eyes but that is the most extreme example of how our mind works. Changing that one word from a negative "Loss" to a positive "Shed" or even some other diet friendly word will make it much easier to get the weight off. I'd be lying if I told you I was successful at getting all the weight off. I did a great job and dropped nearly 200 lbs. Sadly I put nearly all of them plus some back on.
I digress....this war. I personally don't get the whole "fight the good fight" thing..what exactly IS a good fight and isn't that an oxymoron? While some people might believe that "War is good for the economy", the last 10 years beg to differ. Not only has depleted our resources, we've lost, unnecessarily, countless lives. In my opinion, we, as a nation, should worry more about our own "backyard" and let others tend the fires of war. That, my friends is what we really "grow" our economy. Science is telling us to think about the food we are about to put in our bodies, to eat clean. More and more studies show thinking about the food we eat actually stimulates our brains so that we eat less and enjoy our food more. And that, right there, is what we should be doing over all in everything we do. We are too mindless in what we do, what we eat, where we go. We all live life on auto pilot....truest form of a zombie! No, we cannot monitor all our thoughts but we can monitor one....or even too.... the point is being aware of what you send out into the universe to come back to you. I eluded in my last post how poorly I take care of myself. How hard it has been to say I love you Naomi and really feel it, to mean it. But all those bad thoughts, those hate filled thoughts, those mean words to my reflection over countless years have come home to roost in the form of poor health, bad knees, completely depleted immune system. I have much that I have lost because of my..let's call it what it really is..BULLYING. Now, when I need to be good to myself as a way to survive whatever is left of my life, I have nothing left in my reserve tanks, so if I can create a spark in just one person who stops just one second to think about the thought he/she is about to release then it's all been worth it.
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