Attracting Positive Thoughts Towards You Today

The Law of Attraction, esoteric magic, quantum theory and studies of the mind accept that we create our reality based on our thoughts. So why is it that we can think the perfect reality in our minds, focus on our goals, positive intentions and what we want all day and night, and yet we STILL manifest a load of problems in our life? Why don’t we manifest what we want? Why do people treat us badly? If we’ve all been thinking such positive thoughts, why are so many struggling financially for years? Why do bad things happen even when you have been thinking good things?

 

 

One of the answers is that many of our thoughts are not consciously generated. As many as 95% of our thoughts are beyond our conscious awareness of them. It is impossible to become conscious of all our thoughts, so we need other ways of mastering them. #livingfromchoice

 

In addition to those unconscious thoughts we are bombarded with “thought-forms” from around us. Every thought we think is radiated out into the Universe. When you combine a strong thought with  high energy (emotion) it is called a “thought-form” aka "mental-intention". It is as if the thought has taken form – which often it does. It takes form in your mind, which effects your emotions and then takes form in your physical reality.  #7-UniversalLaws

 

This is fine if the thought is what you want. But what if it is a thought that you don’t want?

 

How can you remain immune to unwanted thought-forms or random intentions?

 

The power of a thought-form to penetrate your mind depends on several things: its energy, your energy (vibration), your thoughts and your emotions.

 

Everyone is sending out thought-forms all the time. Although many are sent out without the sender even being aware of what they are doing, they can be used consciously. You can increase the power of a thought form with certain energy techniques and they can be used to heal or to harm.

 

If your vibration is “higher” than the thoughts-form, it will bounce off you, but when your energy is “lower” than these thoughts, you can absorb it and start thinking it as if it were your own. You may never know where the thought came from.

 

DO'S & DON'TS FOR STAYING IMMUNE FROM HARMFUL THOUGHT FORMS:

• Do raise your energy/VIBRATION. Breathing is a great way to do this.
• Do meditate to increase your spiritual energy and mental clarity.
• Don’t accept the thoughts and beliefs of others. Any time you hear a belief or thought that you know will limit you in some way, make a conscious choice to dismiss it.
• Do become aware of your emotions. Keep an emotional journal if needed. Every time you feel an emotion, positive or negative detail the time; situation and what caused you to choose to feel that emotion. This will help you to track your internal thoughts and the external triggers for your emotional responses.
• Don’t blame others. Any time you blame others you weaken your energy. In fact you are giving your energy to them when you do this it increases their ability to send you thought-forms. This is true even for people you don’t know e.g. the government, or those in the financial services industry. Don’t feed them with your energy.
• Do take responsibility for your own thoughts and emotions. You have a CHOICE about every thought you think and emotion you feel. No-one else is in charge of your mind or feelings, you are.
• Don’t blame yourself. You current situation was created in the past. If you knew then what you know now you would not have created this, so blaming yourself is self-destructive. Blaming yourself for your past choices stops you taking action and making better choices. Also drains your energy and makes you vulnerable to further harmful thought patterns.
• Do start making better choices by increasing your awareness and self-awareness. Pay attention to your experiences, life and how you feel. Any time you feel an emotion ask yourself what caused you to choose to feel that way.
• Don’t deny the way you feel or suppress your emotions. If you feel a negative or painful thought allow yourself to feel it and learn to identify the source of your emotions.  Recognize the thought that is generating the emotion you are experiencing.

For more information on how you can master the effect of thought forms visit:  www.LivingFromChoice.com

Mindfulness Reduces Stress

Researchers can’t seem to get enough of mindfulness these days. Studies have linked it to heightened creativity, improved concentration, lower stress, better working memory, and increased compassion. Now, new research also shows that it helps us overcome biases we’re not even aware we have.
The study, published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, suggests that mindfulness meditation can reduce implicit bias—and the negative behaviors that it causes.

There are competing definitions of what mindfulness means, but it boils down to paying attention to what’s happening around you at any given moment, instead of operating on autopilot. By concentrating on the present, you’re more likely to act thoughtfully, and therefore less likely to succumb to automatic reactions based on previously established experiences.

Older studies have connected mindfulness with reduced automatic processing and less prejudicial behavior, but researchers Adam Lueke and Bryan Gibson found that mindfulness can also lessen implicit bias. Implicit attitudes are based on automatic associations, and they influence behavior more than we realize. Even as we assert egalitarian values or condemn discrimination, automatic processing often colors how we evaluate and treat others.

Lueke and Gibson explain that a group who listened to a 10-minute mindfulness exercise exhibited less bias on the race and age implicit association tests (IATs) than those who didn’t—without even focusing on the biases themselves.

The 72 participants were white college students who didn’t know what was being studied beforehand. The test group listened to a recording that made them aware of their heart rate and breathing. It told them to accept these sensations and thoughts “without restriction, resistance, or judgment.” The control group listened to a 10-minute recording about history. Then both groups completed the race and age IATs, which captured response times in pairing positive or negative words with black or white faces and then with old or young faces.

The mindful group showed less implicit racial and age bias than did the control group, and this was, in part, due to a reduction in the automatic activation of negative associations (i.e., black-bad, old-bad). This confirmed older research that mindfulness makes one less reliant on previously established associations. But the researchers were surprised to also find that the mindful group was less able to see differences between the faces than the control group, which seems to suggest that when you’re less likely to automatically associate black and old with “bad,” race and age are also less detectable.
The ability to curb implicit bias and weaken negative associations by simply being more mindful could help prevent all kinds of negative effects. Previous research has shown how implicit out-group bias can make someone more likely to shoot at a black suspect in a simulation or become more aggressive in a video game.

Implicit attitudes even predict some negative behaviors in the workplace better than explicit attitudes. For example, they are more predictive of discriminatory hiring decisions, lack of trust in out-group members, and hostile body language toward stereotyped group members. As Lueke explained, “People high in implicit bias will tend to maintain distance, not make as much eye contact, fidget, remain terse in their responses, and generally give non-verbal cues that are indicative of discomfort.” And this happens even if they consciously want to communicate in a non-biased way.

So how do you become more mindful? We often have other things on our mind regardless of whether we are at work or not; our to do lists, that date we went on the night before, mulling over that crazy episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ we saw, wondering what we are going to have for dinner tonight. Silencing and focusing these thoughts is a practice. But even if you’re busy, there are really basic steps you can take—anywhere, anytime—to make you more aware of the present.  Simply stop, bring your mind into the moment it is in, right here and you will feel yourself get present.  Like any muscle though, challenge is strengthening that ability through consistent use.

Past experiences have a way of influencing our decisions and immediate reactions in ways we don’t fully understand and may not even realize. It’s important to acknowledge this and find ways of making ourselves less reliant on them.  For more information on this visit:  www.LivingFromChoice.com