In life, there are free-wills that are given to everyone, and one of them is the power of thought. However, how you use your thought and what you think are your absolute prerogatives. That is, even if you are given the right to thought, your thoughts are still dependent on your choices. What you have to understand is that your body typically empowers your mind to deliver what your most dominant thoughts are. How it does that is to simply model your actions towards what your most dominant thoughts are. If you keep thinking positively, you will see yourself acting it out. In the same way, if you think negatively, your actions will also be modelled after negativities. So beware of what your mind thinks.
Image from Pexels
There was a time, many years ago, I saw myself thinking negatively about life because of some experiences I had in the past. Before I knew it, I started acting out my negative thoughts and just as you would expect, the consequences came out negative and I also had many more reasons to keep thinking negatively. This happened for a while until I met with one of my mentors and talked with him. He gave me some very simple but potent pieces of advice, he said; "the energy with which you use to think negatively, channel it to positive thoughts."
Even though it was not as easy as my mentor had advised, but I tried to keep up with my positive thoughts irrespective of the prevailing situations. Shortly after I started, I discovered that my actions became more positive in line with my thoughts. Not just that, the effects also yielded positive results and I became happier with life. All these started from the positive thoughts, which were empowered by positive actions, and then yielding positive results. No matter how negative the situation around you is, you cannot fight and overcome it by introducing another negativity to it. But you can win it by staying positive; thinking and acting positively.
It is true that there may be times that things may not work as you may have had the intentions of, but it will still not solve the problem if you think negativities. In fact, focusing majorly on the problem at hand does not solve it, rather it amplifies it. You cannot win the war of negativities except with positivities. You have to understand that your mind has the ability to create and also to recreate. As a matter of fact, the mind functions in the same way as the soil does to the seeds. When you plant a seed in the soil, it grows and produces fruits. In the same way, when you create a thought in your mind and continue to brood over it, it will influence your actions and then produce effects.
Each time negative thoughts want to pass through your mind, you have the choice to either welcome it or ward it off. You may not be able to stop flashes of negative thoughts from hitting your mind, but you can choose to either make it your dominant thought or to knock it off. Just the same way you cannot stop a bird from flying far over your head, but you have the power to stop it from resting and making a nest on top of your hair. Similarly, you may not be able to stop the possibilities of negative thoughts, but you can stop the thoughts from lingering in your mind by resisting it with positive thoughts. When you introduce a positive thought, it will tilt you towards acting positively and then it will ultimately bring positive results into your life.
Image from Pexels
The outcome of your life is principally determined by what you allow into your life; thoughts basically. The mind is like the incubation room where actions, character, attitude and personality are birthed. This is the way it happens: When you think over a thing and make it your dominant thought, your actions will tilt towards that. Then when the action becomes dominant, it will form the basis for your attitude. Of course, attitude over time will become character, which is the building-block for personality. So you see, the root goes deep into the mind. How you want your life to be should determine the kind of thoughts you should allow in your mind.
Thanks for reading