We become what we think about.
We often go through life not truly understanding how capable and how strong we really are. This leads to very self-limiting beliefs, some that may have not originated from our own minds, but beliefs that have been implanted into our subconscious by others and accepted by our ignorance. The one and only thing we have complete control over throughout the course of our lives is the use of our mind. This may be a skill many have yet to master, but the control over how you see things, what you allow, and what you accept into your reality is your responsibility alone. The one thing you need to be aware of is that it is up to you to take responsibility for your mind and your reality.
We constantly send and receive information into our reality that affects us at all times. Most of the information starts as a thought. Those thoughts create potential realities and those realities can either serve us positively or negatively. If we think negative thoughts we are likely to see negative realities in our daily life, likewise with positive thoughts. The importance of understanding this basic principle is key to creating a reality you want to experience.
Focus on what you can control.
External conditions that are outside of our control give us plenty of opportunities to practice control over our dominant thoughts. Since strength requires exercise and our brain is considered a muscle, you can exercise control over your thoughts by being aware of what external condition is creating a trigger in your reality. If there is someone in your life who is negative and gives you constant grief and you are observing them, then how you feel about them is dominantly negative because of this. You can change the way you feel about them from being negative to being positive if you stop letting what you observe be the basis of how you feel about them.
The way to practice this is by changing your perception of what you observe. If you are observing behavior then observe to understand, not to judge. If you are observing attitude and negative talk then learn to understand that how they feel has nothing to do with you. By choosing your dominant thoughts and practicing what you think about, you exercise control over your mind by choosing how you want to respond to things in your reality. The continued practice of deliberately choosing your dominant thoughts determines whether you become a person who chooses their reality or a person who responds to the loudest information and emotion in the room.
If you simply respond to information without exercising control over your thoughts about it, that is what is going to be dominant in your experience. Since we become what we think about, if our thoughts about our experiences are negative then we, by default, will become our own negative expressions of that experience. By default what is most present in your experience is most dominant in your thoughts, but you can change what is dominant in your thoughts. You could have nine bad experiences and one good experience; if you focus on the one good experience you can make it so dominant that the other nine by default would have to be weaker.
Lack of awareness and laziness of thought stops us from choosing how we respond to things. We also tend to believe that our “situation”, is the dominant experience in our lives, this isn’t true. What is dominant in our life is the control we have over the mind. When you know what you don’t want then usually on the other end there’s something that you do want. That can be represented in the form of a new reality, the way you want to feel, where you want to be, or what you want out of life.
Repetition solidifies change.
If you haven’t already noticed, most of what you’ve read has been the same principle repeated differently. Repetition of information allows your brain to retain the information and apply it easier. This is also how you practice control over the dominant thoughts in your reality, through repetition of what you want in your reality. The more you focus on what you want the more you get what you want, think of this as a law.
To find out if any of this is worthwhile for you imagine you could have anything you want in life. Instead of thinking about what you have to do to get it, think about who you could become in order to have it. If the idea “We become what we think about” is true then, by law it would apply towards getting what you want out of life. Since you have control over what you think about, what do you choose to think about? The only way to apply this change is to practice it until you notice this process applied across all areas of your life without you ever having realized it before.
