CHANGING YOUR FLOW OF THOUGHTSWritten by Tracy Brinkmann
While you are reading this I do not want you to think about your shoes (or your feet if your not wearing shoes). Through entire article never at any time are you to think of color, style or fit of your shoes nor temperature or feel of your feet.Why such a ridiculous way to start this article – well to prove a point. The first thing most of you did, of course, was think about your shoes or your feet. Even though you were specifically instructed not to, you did it for at least a moment. That is how human mind works. When you consciously attempt not to think of a specific thought, you’ll generally think of it between 6 and 15 times in a 5-minute period. This works in realm of negative thoughts as well. Focusing your power on trying not to think negative thoughts can and will prompt negative thinking. View thinking as a flowing stream of water, actually its more like a strong river. The current starts off as a trickle and builds into a rushing power that can erode very earth it winds though. You thoughts are much like this river in that you cannot stop them. You can however change flow to your advantage. Changing flow of your thoughts is possible, stopping them is not. Changing flow from negative to positive will keep that river of thought from eroding deep, dark, dismal ravines into your attitude, and into your life. You can think discouraging, disheartening and depressing things to yourself; or you can think inspiring, motivating and rousing things to yourself, but again you will not be able to stop thinking things to yourself all together. So instead of attempting to build a dam for your river of thoughts, channel and direct them in way you WANT them to go. How? That is a good question, and in it hides answer. You channel your thoughts in direction you desire with, questions. However, your questions have to be empowering questions. You will cause yourself more harm than good by asking, “Why do I always get projects nobody else wants?”
| | Intentions, Hard Work, and LuckWritten by Jerry Lopper
My son often says, "The harder I work, luckier I get." Since that phrase popped into my head early this morning, I took it as my inspiration for week and got to thinking about luck.What is luck? Is it good fortune that comes out of blue, totally unexpected? Or is it Universe sending what we’ve signaled we desire? I think latter. My son’s phrase doesn’t mean that just working intensely brings good fortune. It means that working intently, with passion, toward desired end results will bring those results to us. The key word is passion. It is depth of our emotion about our desires, and our ability to visualize result, that sends strongest signal to Universe--the signal most likely to trigger events some would call luck. But how do you create passion? Passion comes naturally and effortlessly when your intentions align with and complement who you really are. For example, if you are a creative, imaginative, and spontaneous person, it is not likely that you will generate passion around a job which is detail oriented and routine. If you happen to be in this job, and hold a goal of excelling at that job, you will likely find that luck avoids you no matter how hard you work. Oh, you may do OK at this work, but it is unlikely that you will see what some would call good luck in job. In fact, bad luck may seem to follow you, sabotaging your career at every turn. You see, Universe knows who you are at your core, and sends you what is right for you, even if it seems to oppose what you think you desire.
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