Thoughts are Things

Out of your mental world of thought are born the conditions and circumstances that populate your life.  Entry to the spiritual realm of harmonious living can only be attained through conscious control of your thoughts.  Until you realize that thoughts are things that you give life and you are the thinker and thus, can select the thoughts you allow to dwell in your mind and consequently direct the conditions and circumstances that appear in your life, you will live under the false idea that you are a victim of circumstance with very little control over what happens in your life.

To master your mental plane of existence is to gain control over the circumstances and conditions of your life.  In order to master your mind you have to realize three very important things.  First, you are the thinker before the thought, and thus, you are the gate keeper to the thoughts you allow to enter and dwell in your mind.  Second, you are a creative being and you are always creating something via the thoughts you allow to take root in your mind.  Third, you are never and have never been a victim of any circumstance or condition in your life.

You Are the Thinker

This is the first truth you must realize in your quest to control your mind.  Most people feel powerless as to the thoughts they entertain.  However, you are the thinker before the thought and you have the power to scan every thought and choose whether or not you will allow it into your mind.  Another way to look at it is, you are the gatekeeper to you mind and thus you choose which thoughts you let in and which thoughts you keep out.

This is not an easy task, but it is necessary if you want to change your life.  Not only are you the gatekeeper for the thoughts you allow in your mind, you have to examine your mind for the false ideas that have already taken root and are producing fruit in your life now.  Some of these false ideas you got from your parents, grandparent, and other loved ones who taught you the things about life that they have learned.  While well meaning, some of the things they taught you may now be causing some of your biggest limitations in life.  These ideas are hard to uproot because you have trusted and believed them to be true for so long

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If you are having any reoccurring problems or conditions you can’t seem to overcome it maybe that you have a deep rooted belief you are unconsciously aware of in your mental garden.  This belief was probably planted in your childhood by some well meaning people in your life, or could be a result of some deep hurt you experienced sometime in your life.  However, you must uproot this false idea if you are to change the condition.  For example, when I was a child my older brother was very out-going and I was completely the opposite.  Consequently, my brother got all the attention at my expense I thought, and I was deeply hurt.  As a result I learned to guard my heart and not to let people get very close to me.  This belief carried over into my relationships as an adult and I could never let anyone get really close to me no matter how hard I tried.  It wasn’t until I realized that unconsciously I was still carrying the same belief from my childhood that I could change my relationships.  I had to uproot that old belief before I could let people get close to me.

You also allow false ideas to unconsciously enter your mind through conversation with friends, things you read, and what you hear in the news.  You have to be vigilant of what you consciously allow to be planted in your mental garden for a thought will always produce fruit in the form of condition after its kind.

You are a Creative Being

You are always creating the circumstances and conditions of your life via your thoughts and beliefs.  What you believe to be true will always manifest in your life as a condition or circumstance.  Behind every condition and circumstance in your life is an underlying thought and belief.  If you want to know the sum total of your thoughts and beliefs, just look at the conditions and circumstances presently in your life.  This is very sobering but, must be accepted if you want to create the life that you desire.

As previously mentioned, thoughts are things and when you give a thought your attention you give it energy by allowing it to be planted in your mind.  The more attention you give the thought the more you nurture and energize it until it becomes a belief and blossoms into a condition in your life.  You are always thinking, and thus, always creating something and herein lies the problems and the solutions in your life.

Most people allow their minds to aimlessly wonder and thus, they allow random thoughts to be planted in their mental garden.  Some of these thoughts are constructive and they bloom into constructive conditions, while others are destructive and they blossom into undesirable conditions.  Consequently, most people believe the conditions and circumstances of their lives just randomly happen.  They get some things that they want and other things they don’t want.

Look at like this, you are the architect of your life and the thoughts you allow to take root in your mind is the blueprint by which your life is built.  If you don’t like the house you built you can remodel it or completely tear it down and build one you like but, you can only do this by changing your thoughts.

You Are Not a Victim of Circumstance

If you have read this far you should now realize that you are not and never have been a victim of circumstance.  No circumstance or condition can ever hold you powerless because you created the circumstance or condition through the thoughts you allowed to germinate in your mental garden. And, you can pluck out the condition causing thoughts from your mental garden just as you would pull weeds out of a physical garden.  Then, the condition or circumstance must change accordingly.

You have the inner power to create the life of your dreams.  The key to accessing this power is mastery of your mental activity.  Always remember you are the thinker before the thought and thus the gatekeeper of the thoughts you allow to be planted in your mental garden.