If Thoughts Create
by Oliver Guttorm
August 2004
Before you read on I'm going to ask you to turn your attention away from this article and take a minute or two to study the environment you are in. The article is going nowhere and it'll be right here when you return.. It's ok! Go on!
Welcome back!
Now! This wasn't a trick exercise I was giving you, all I wanted to show you was that, depending on where you are reading this, the environment you are in is full of different objects. Objects that at one point were nothing but a thought in somebody's mind. Just think about it! The chair you are sitting on, the table you are sitting at or the carpet beneath your feet.they were all once just a thought. Just as the Eiffel tower was once a thought or the opera house in Sydney. Of course certain actions were taken to make these thoughts materialize but never the less they started out as a creative idea, which eventually became what we perceive as reality.
We all have thoughts and all thoughts are creative. The thoughts you have are creating the life that you are living right now. So if thoughts create, I might ask you, what are your thoughts most of the time? Do you have underlying thoughts, which tell you that you are smart, intelligent, attractive and deserving? And do you have brilliant ideas/thoughts that eventually with proper action could turn into something extraordinary? Or do you have the exact opposite thoughts? In either case you are being creative and you are creating your life accordingly.
In a way it is absolutely amazing that regardless of what your thoughts are, you are a master creator and you should be proud, very proud. It doesn't matter whether you are living a fulfilling life or not what you have is your creation.
I realize this idea is easier to accept if you have a wonderful relationship, kids that are A students and behaving heavenly, the career of your dreams and more than enough money in the bank to support your extravagant life style with trips to the Rivera. But if you are struggling or just walked in on your beloved in bed with your best friend, got fired instead of getting a pay raise and your phone has just been cut off then perhaps it's not so easy to accept. However! If you sit with it for a while maybe then you'll see that if you have created your own life according to the thoughts you are having and it's less than fulfilling, then with a new set of thoughts you can create something much more satisfying. You can create a life that is happy, joyful and full of wonderful experiences.
So what I am suggesting is that you start paying a little more attention to what you are thinking. You probably have plenty of dialogues going on with yourself whenever you are walking, sitting on the subway, driving or cleaning the house. The important thing is to be conscious of what it is your inner voice, or chatterbox as I like to call it, is saying. Often it is on autopilot and it gets to have its own way. But take control. If you in your head are yelling at your boyfriend for something he did two weeks ago, stop it right away. Or if you are telling your boss off stop that too. Maybe you are thinking, " I cannot wear that, I'm too fat", stop it! Or thinking, " I have no money", erase it immediately and replace it with something like" I choose not to spend money right now".
And coming back to the chair that you are sitting on! If the man, or woman, who designed and came up with the idea to the chair had an underlying thought that nobody was going to like the chair, or that he/she wasn't deserving of having the chair produced, or that the idea in the first place was just plain dumb, I bet A) you'd be sitting on a different chair right now or worse B) you'd be sitting on the floor.
See! It all creates and sooner or later we get to be right. So why not take a brilliant idea you might have, an idea you for the most part have put on the backburner because you felt it was too absurd or not the right time and give it some positive thinking. It could be anything from creating new mountain climbing gear to signing up for polish folk dance.
You never know! It might be your way to financial freedom or the place where you will meet the love of your life. Just change your thoughts. I dare you!
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