Thursday Thoughts Ed. 97 - Thoughts become habits. Take charge.

6:34 AM Remy Maguire - Manifest the Best 0 Comments

Happy Thursday -- I've been thinking a lot about thoughts lately, so here we go. Thanks, DH for helping me sort thought it all.

Thoughts

Become Habits.

What we think, our thoughts create feelings and beliefs. These in turn determine how we act (or don’t act in many ways. Our actions create results which impact our thoughts. So in the end, it's our thoughts that go around and around creating our reality of feelings, actions and results.

Repeating thoughts are habits in a sense, or actually beliefs, which drive us to repeat our behaviors over and over. Some habits are good; some, not so much. You know the difference and that’s why you try to change ‘em.

One way we try to change is by sticking a wedge someplace in the middle of this cycle, avoiding the thoughts that started the whole thing. Truth is, the first thought – the one that’s really stuck -is hard to nail down.

It’s understandable why we can't seem to identify what we’re really thinking in the first place. If your brain has been sending the same message (thought) for years and years, you likely think it's the truth and don’t question it. After years of enduring the cycles, it’s easy to feel powerless to change, that it’s "just they way it is".

Sure, thoughts are just thoughts but thoughts have power in them. Making poor food choices, eating too much junk, eating without thinking, time and time again, are actions spawned by thoughts and beliefs we haven't really looked at for years! We act the same and see the same results. Who would doubt the “truth” of it?

Taking a moment to consider what your big old brain is doing to you gives you the chance to choose which direction your thoughts actually take you. Pausing to recognize old thoughts (habits) is the first step; making a decision to notice them before moving is the next step. By recapturing that feeling that you’re in action to get new results, you can change the end of the story!

So, write a different story. Start now. Begin by being mindful of what you do. Yes, it takes work. Our brains are hard wired to pick the easiest path - the dominant neural connection, the cycle that has been engrained. Mindfulness of your thoughts will help you being making new ones (ones that you like better) which will in turn begin to weaken the old ways and forge bright, shiny new ones from which to grow. And don’t be surprised when these new thoughts create new feelings and different actions and finally the results you want!

There’s almost nothing to change except a few crazy ideas that you’ve let become your best friend and constant companion.