Change Your Thinking to Change Your Life

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Doing the same things over and over expecting different results is insanity. The only way to get different results is to change what we do. The process of change begins in our minds. Our thoughts help shape and create our circumstances in life. “As A Man Thinketh, So Is He.” When we change our thinking we change our lives.

What does it mean to change?

Change = to transform or convert

When we find ourselves stuck in a rut or not quite where we want to be in life, it is time for change. Old habits, old thoughts, and old ways of thinking must go. We literally have to cleanse our minds of negativity, scars, conditioning, and mental blocks.

Living life abundantly is a continuous process of training and transforming our minds to achieve optimal living. There are many ways to begin the process of changing the way we think. Here are two time tested and approved methods for changing your thinking to change your life:

1. Brain Food

2. Meditation

What we feed our minds affect how and what we think. When we bombard the mind with negative images, fears, bad news, violence, pain, and suffering etc…our mind responds by conjuring up matching thoughts. When we feed our minds with positive images, good news, peace, happiness, and prosperity …our mind responds accordingly.

Our mind will produce thoughts based on the information we provide it with. The thoughts that our mind produces set a wheel of events in motion. Thoughts are creative and whatever thoughts we find ourselves preoccupied with always manifest in our lives.

By now everyone has seen or heard of The Secret and the law of attraction. The mind is like a magnet, we attract into our lives what we think about. This is why it is important that we guard our thoughts and be careful of what we feed our brains.

meditating-woman.jpgmed·i·ta·tion

1. the act of meditating.
2. continued or extended thought; reflection; contemplation.
3. transcendental meditation.
4. devout religious contemplation or spiritual introspection.

med·i·tate

1. to engage in thought or contemplation; reflect.
2. to engage in transcendental meditation, devout religious contemplation, or quiescent spiritual introspection.

3. to consider as something to be done or effected; intend; purpose.

Meditation enables a clearing of the mind and has a wide range of benefits. According to studies and research meditation:

  • Improves mental abilities

  • Increases intelligence

  • Increases creativity

  • Improves learning ability

  • Improves memory

  • Increases levels of moral reasoning

  • Improves academic achievement

  • Increases self-actualization

  • Reduces stress and anxiety

  • Reduces incidence of disease

  • Reduces use of alcohol and drugs

  • Improves cardiovascular health

  • Reduces physical complaints

  • Increases longevity

  • Improves social behavior

  • Improves self-confidence

  • Improves family life

  • Improves relationships at home and work

  • Increases tolerance

  • Improves job performance

  • Increases job satisfaction

When we train and condition our minds with the right brain food and meditation we are taking proactive steps in changing our thinking. As our thinking changes so will our lives. We must feed our brains and meditate on things that are in agreement with our goals, hopes, and plans. We must make sure our thoughts are in alignment with peace, wellness, and happiness.

By changing our thinking we take control of our lives and stop living by defaultwe enter the realm of living life abundantly.

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things.”Philippians 4:8

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