Beware About the Power of Your Thoughts

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Beware About the Power of Your Thoughts
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• Time and again, we come across an article on the
  subject matter of positive thinking and how it
  can impact our life, career, relationship, and
  well-being in a favorable way. And yet, how come
  a lot of people are still depressed,
  discontented, and unhealthy? It is because only a
  few really understand the power of thoughts, and
  especially the connection between their thoughts
  and their present realities.
• To use the power of our thoughts to our
  advantage, we have to understand how the human
  mind functions. For this article, we will rely
  mostly on the works of three authors James
  Allen, the pioneer of the self-help movement,
  particularly his essay As A Man Thinketh, that
  has been mass-produced since its publication in
  1903 Napoleon Hill, the author of Think and Grow
  Rich first published in 1937 and now on its
  71st edition and Earl Nightingale, the father of
  modern day personal development in his The
  Strangest Secret, originally produced in 1956 but
  has become the first spoken-word recording to
  attain the prestige of a Gold Record for having
  sold over a million copies.

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Warning No. 1 The human mind does not
distinguish good from bad

• Allen and Nightingale have both likened the human
  mind to a farmers land. The land will yield you
  an abundance of what you plant as long as you do
  your part as a farmer to care for the plant. But
  the land cannot choose and doesnt actually care
  what you plant. The choice is the farmers to
  make. If the farmer plants an edible and then a
  poisonous plant and takes care of both, the land
  will return an abundance of both. It doesnt care
  that the other is poisonous and could bring harm
  to the farmer.
• The human mind works the same way. It doesnt
  concern itself what we think, but must manifest
  dominant thoughts in our affairs. If we think
  happy thoughts, our happy genes will kick in to
  put us in contact with happy situations.
  Conversely, if we dwell in negative thoughts, our
  mind will give us the experiences corresponding
  to those thoughts. It can start with simply
  missing our morning alarm that can lead to a
  string of unfortunate events throughout the day
  we get caught up in traffic, arrive late for
  work, are told-off by our boss, etc.
• Like all the other laws of nature, the human mind
  is also inflexible. It does not analyze and
  concern itself that our thoughts will do us harm
  or good. Whatever we feed it, it must return.

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Warning No. 2 Our prevailing thoughts create our
life condition
Out of ignorance, we like to believe in
coincidences that whatever life we have right
now is a result of pure luck or lack of
it. Allen said every man is where he is by the
law of being the thoughts which he has built
have brought him there, and in the arrangement of
his life, there is no element of chance, but all
is the result of a law which cannot err.
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Warning No. 2 Our prevailing thoughts create our
life condition

• In Nightingales words every one of us is the
  sum total of our own thoughts. We are where we
  are because thats exactly where we really want
  or feel we deserve to be, whether we admit that
  or not. Each of us must live off the fruit of our
  thoughts in the future, because what you think
  today and tomorrow next month and next year
  will mold your life and determine your future.
• If you have a great marriage right now, I am sure
  it is because you and your spouse have thought it
  possible to have a fulfilling relationship and
  made efforts toward it. If your business is
  thriving, it is because you have goals you are
  consistently working on achieving. If you are
  steadily rising in your career, it is because you
  have continually upgraded your skills set
  technically and socially. There are no accidents.
  Everything is a result of an initial thought that
  you worked on and eventually achieved.

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Warning No. 3 Our mind needs constant direction

• What if I dont plant anything on my mind? A lot
  of people do that. Do you notice what happens to
  an unattended patch of land? It yields an
  abundance of weeds! It doesnt remain clean and
  empty just because nobody is planting anything.
• Imagine a ship that sets sail without a captain.
  It could float for days on end going where the
  wind blows. If it doesnt eventually capsize, it
  will surely end up elsewhere. But put a captain
  on it with clear directions and logistics for the
  voyage, and it will get to the destination as
  planned. It has to get there. That is the law.
• The mind works in the same fashion. If you dont
  plant on it anything, it will run wild in
  confusion and lack of direction. If you dont run
  your own mind, like the ship without a captain,
  others (the wind) will run it for you and those
  others are not particularly concerned about where
  you end up. We give our minds direction when we
  plant it with goals. Without a goal, a person
  will end up anywhere, and anywhere is not really
  a good destination.

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Warning No. 4 We become what we think about

• Napoleon Hill spent 25 years in research,
  analyzing more than 500 of the wealthiest men to
  find out how they become that way. He came up
  with the formula which is the subject of his
  book Think and Grow Rich. Riches, he said, begin
  with a state of mind, with definiteness of
  purpose, with little or no hard work. We become
  what we think about.
• What do we always think about? Are they thoughts
  supportive to the goals we are pursuing? We
  cannot want success yet fill our minds with
  worry, fear, panic and thoughts not aligned with
  success. Fredrickson (1998, 2001) in a field
  experiment revealed that happy individuals are
  more likely than their less happy peers to have
  fulfilling marriages and relationships, high
  incomes, superior work performance, community
  involvement, robust health, and a long life.
  Also, Lyubomirsky, King, Diener (2005) in a
  meta-analysis of about 300 findings published in
  the 2005 Psychological Bulletin concluded that
  positive emotions produce success and health as
  much as they reflect them.
• Now that we understand the power of our thoughts,
  that it can execute any order we direct it to do,
  we can use it to our advantage. By right
  application, we indeed can become masters of our
  destiny.

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References
Allen, James. As A Man Thinketh. Ebook available
at http//jamesallen.wwwhubs.com/think.htm Fredri
ckson, Cohn, Coffey, Pek, Finkel. Open Hearts
Build Lives Positive Emotions, Induced Through
Loving-Kindness Meditation, Build Consequential
Personal Resources. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, Vol 95(5), Nov 2008,
1045-1062. http//dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0013262 ht
tp//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3156028/
Hill, Napoleon. Think and Grow Rich.
71st Edition, published by www.ThinkAndGrowRichGif
ts.com.au Nightingale, Earl. The Strangest
Secret. Ebook available at http//www.k-state.edu/
band/downloads/handouts/TheStrangestSecretRI.pdf
Lyubomirsky, King, Diener. The Benefits of
Frequent Positive Affect Does Happiness Lead to
Success?Psychological Bulletin by the American
Psychological Association, Vol. 131, No. 6, 803
855 2005
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