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DON'T
BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK
I had just finished receiving an amazing massage and
was paying for the service when my eyes fell upon a small sign. I scanned
the words and broke out laughing. It said,
"Don't believe everything you think."
I was laughing at all the times I had marched
righteously into my life having believed some thought that had drifted
through convincing me I had been done an injustice.
Or the times I've had thoughts that convinced me an
action I was going to take would have dire consequences and I would be
'safer' to stay put.
Or the uncountable other times I had convinced
myself what I was thinking was fact only to find out otherwise.
I've come to realize just because I think something,
doesn't mean it's true.
We can't control our thoughts. Thoughts are
electronic impulses moving through the brain. We can control where we
invest our energy. We can decide to wonder with curiosity about our
thinking.
Hmmm, is this true? How is the opposite true? What
else might be true?
We can't control our thoughts, yet we can control
where we invest our energy. Where do you want to focus?
If your thought triggers a negative reaction, wonder
about the thought. What are you telling yourself? Is that what you want to
believe? Is there another possibility?
What is that possibility? Notice how that question
triggers another thought. Do you like that thought better? If so, choose
to invest in a thought that opens you to creative possibilities.
This is true creative power. You might as well win
in your fantasies.
QUOTE
"We don't know how things are. We only know
how we observe them or how we interpret them to be. We live in a world of
interpretations. In this regard, we don't know what truth is. Nor does
anyone else.
We can know about the power of our
interpretations. What possibilities do our interpretations open or close
for us? Do our interpretations give us the capacity for action, for
transforming ourselves and our world?"
~Rafael Echeverria ~
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