More thinking about THINKING

Posted on December 10, 2007 
Filed Under Effective Thinking, Fear, Worry & Doubt, General

I wonder what happens when you think about something specific. I mean, what if I spend 10-minutes each day thinking about being healthy and happy? Do you think that would have an impact on my life? What if I wake up every morning and spend a few minutes thinking about how I want my day to unfold? That’s certainly what success coaches would recommend you do; and it sounds an awful lot like a recipe for a daily prayer routine. But why do it?

Imagine taking a few minutes before you went to bed to think about something you want – maybe you have a job interview in the morning and you’d really like to get the job. Some people would say this is called praying; but what is praying, anyway? What’s the difference between going to bed thinking about how you’d like the interview to go, and praying about how you’d want the interview to go? Most people are too busy worrying (thinking) about “life” to spend time thinking about THINKING, but maybe they should. The government, advertising agencies, pharmaceutical companies, and other groups certainly spend an awful lot of time and money to influence your behaviors and expenditures by influencing your thinking.

What if “As a man thinketh, so is he…” really means that what you think determines who and what you are? And, what if “As you believe in your heart, so it is done unto you…” means that what you believe is going to happen will really happen? What if Albert Einstein was right when he said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge;” basically restating the same ancient wisdom? And is it possible that Henry Ford, when he said, “If you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right!” was essentially saying the same thing? Ernest Holmes put this same principle in these words: “Thoughts are things.”

So, if what we think about is really done unto us, why would anyone spend time worrying about anything? Because they were taught to, that’s why. If what you think about is what you get, I wonder what proliferating nuclear weapons might create… maybe a threat of some terrorist group getting their hands on one of the hundreds of thousands available. I wonder what thinking about terrorism, hurricanes, bad weather, or crime, all day long will bring into my life. I mean, if spending a couple minutes on Sunday morning thinking, hoping, or praying that a certain person – in another place – gets over an illness, then what might spending my day spun-up over politics or religion, crime, violence, and illness, do for me? Besides creating illness, by creating stress, what do these thoughts do?

What does driving by a sign everyday that reads, “BE AFRAID!” or “Threat Level Yellow,” do to me? Well, besides stressing you out, it drives your unconscious thought patterns just like every other billboard you pass by. Why do you think people pay so much money for billboards and television commercials – just to spend a few second exposing you to a few carefully chosen words? They do it because the most successful people in the world have always known the Law of Attraction: “As a man thinketh, so it is done to him.” Your thoughts bring your experience of life to you one frame at a time. And without training, most people think only about what they see and hear; which is why tomorrow will look a lot like yesterday for most people, and why they will most likely buy the products they see advertised whether they need them or not. As long as they “think” they need a thing, Americans will spend money they don’t have in order to get it.

The next time you watch a television commercial for a pharmaceutical product, see if you remember the part about how this drug is going to kill a certain percentage (hopefully a small percentage, or they might have to put a warning on the label…) of the people who will take it, or if the wildflowers, smiling faces, and the small chance that your rash might disappear, made a bigger impression on you. Think about thinking; if you do not understand how your mind operates your body, then you are not really in control of your life. Someone else is.

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