Change your thoughts, Change your life.
I have been working a lot lately with my thoughts. Becoming aware of them. Watching the looping patterns they cycle. Taking note of when emotions are created because of them, or when they are created because of emotions. Digging a bit deeper to see if the thoughts progress or if its an isolated thought on repeat.
I have discovered some new things about the way I create my reality from these observations.
I have understood for a very long time that thoughts coupled with emotion are a recipe for creation. Neurons that fire together wire together. When we get our nervous system involved with our though process the brain takes more serious notice of whats going on. The brain doesn't sense the difference between imagination and reality. It just notices when there are more then one reaction in your body to a specific thought.
The greater the reaction to the thought the quicker the manifestation is of the imagined reality. The more one has the thought reactions the deeper the neural pathways are created. Thus is born the habit, the pattern or the repetitive cycle.
Learning to slow ones thoughts down was my hypnotherapist Guru's main teaching to me. I never really understood what he was speaking of until I went on the master Cleanse recently. The master cleanse helped show me where my energy is going. Cutting my calories from over three thousand a day down to a thousand, stripped my life back to bare necessities in order to survive the day. I had to conserve my energy, which made energy a high focus for those ten days. I was actually shocked at how much energy it took to create my thoughts, and how much energy I spent within the looping patterns of my thoughts.
At first my thoughts were of my favorite foods I was missing in my fast. After a couple days of not giving in to these cravings my thoughts changed to new cravings. With each day my food longings changed shape but not energy, they were still the fatty starches that I had allowed my body to become dependent on. It was only around the seventh day that my mind finally let go of the cravings and succumbed to my new trains of thought.
Action became the changing factor of the thought, not the thought itself. When I stop acting on the thought and began giving the thought less power as my cravings subsided did the thought then begin to shift. But it didnt shift away to veggies and fruit it first moved into other fatty foods..... being sneaky and taking on different forms thinking that maybe it had my desires wrong. The brain does not discrimate, it just aims to deliver our desires.
Because I did not desire veggies at that point it traveled all proven pathways until finally exhausted it gave up and left me alone. It was then that i began to create new pathways by thinking about the fabulous recipes I was going to create when my fast was done. I could have probably started to think about these recipes earlier in the fast but I just simply had no energy to and staying present in the moment was the key I needed in order to understand the progression of my addictive thoughts.
Now that I am off the fast and the old behaviors of unhealthy eating are starting to re-emerge I find I am having to dig a bit deeper into the patterns that are threatening to loop again. I have seen many years of healthy eating. I know I have created already in my recent past the neuron pathways to easily follow a diet that helps me to thrive, yet i am choosing pathways that are harming my health. Why is that?
I have read in many places the power of belief. I am coming to realize that changing our thoughts have many facets to the process. Beyond the tedious task of simply recognizing them, which is awareness is not always the easiest thing to assume. Past taking action and changing the behavior. Is the belief behind why the pathway was created in the first place.
It has been through meditation that I have been able to hone into my beliefs. Through mindful awareness and breathing exercises I have been able to slow my thoughts even more and connect into my higher self. I do this through yoga. Sitting still in silence is not my idea of a good time. But moving my body in yoga moves has a way of calming my mind and my spirit.
It is kinda odd really but random thoughts will pop in my head and one will tweak me in a way that makes me take notice. It is these thoughts that are communicated through my higher power. Again I only understand this through slowing my other repetitive thoughts down. Such brilliant excitement for me!
These higher self thoughts are the ones that shed light on my beliefs.
For me to eat healthy means increased energy and vitality. Which means an abundance of creativity will surface and the responsibility of taking action in my life towards my dreams will become front and center. In my previous blog I cycled the loops of success and destruction. To fail hurts. Better to stay lost in my misery then to move into my glory. Sad belief, I know and a pretty deep belief.
A simpler and more easily digested belief is one of being noticed by the opposite sex. Which I can not trust myself to make the right decisions where romance is concerned. Much better to stay on the heavier side of life then to experience another heart break.
As you can see these beliefs albeit strong within me, are ludicrous.
Affirmations made famous by 'The Secret' are something i have been working with through Louise Hays teachings for a couple decades now. It is only today that I understand fully why they never worked in their entirety in every single area of my life.
Uncovering the belief, followed by the action is what changes the thought. However the deeply programmed transmitters in your brain need to fire up properly as well. So just knowing without feeling is not gonna help you make the change. Attaching every sense you can to the thought will tell your brain there is something serious here to take notice of.
It is only after repetitive feeling affirmations can you then create something new in your world. Painting a vision and believing in it whole heartedly is the way you replace the now debunk belief that was holding you back. But first you need to let go of the old belief.
You are worth more then your weight in gold. Your brain wants to create your dreams. The only thing holding you back..... is your neural pathways.
Great article on rewiring your brain.... http://www.forbes.com/sites/vanessaloder/2015/03/18/how-to-rewire-your-brain-for-happiness/
My Hypnosis Guru.... http://www.innerbalancehypnotherapy.com/
My old blog of Crazy Maker!..... http://recoverpower.blogspot.ca/
Louis Hay.....http://www.hayhouse.com/
Below is a yoga Video I absolutely adore. Its pretty weird but it has been very effective in connecting with my mind and behaviors.