THOUGHTS ARE THINGS....

When i look back at my life, and think about the point where true transformation began, it was when i started looking at my thoughts!

The first step was an AWARENESS to find out what was i thinking.
The next step was to change that thought, change the lens with which i viewed the world.

Like all CHANGE, this isn't easy. But with practice, I found I could slowly replace a negative, stressful thought, by a simple positive thought.

I CAN NEVER DO IT became I CAN DO IT.

I AM A VICTIM became I CAN CHANGE MY CIRCUMSTANCES


Did my problems disappear? NO!!
Did my challenges fade away? NO!!

I simply changed my thinking. And what i found was, that i felt better about myself. I found myself bouncing back from stressful situations quickly. My inner sense of peace and well being went up dramatically.

And yet, today I do go through situations, when my mind shouts I CAN'T DO IT ANYMORE or LIFE IS SO UNFAIR. But as i let that moment pass by, and remember, that it's just a thought. And a thought can be changed.

I am sharing this simple poem that i read, which is a wonderful reminder for all of us.

Hope you enjoy reading it.

THOUGHT ARE THINGS

I hold it true that thoughts are things;

They're endowed with bodies and breath and wings:

And that we send them forth to fill

The world with good results, or ill.

That which we call our secret thought

Speeds forth to earth's remotest spot,

Leaving its blessings or its woes

Like tracks behind it as it goes.


We build our future, thought by thought,

For good or ill, yet know it not.

Yet so the universe was wrought.

Thought is another name for fate;

Choose then thy destiny and wait,

For love brings love and hate brings hate.


By Henry Van Dyke