Mindful Awareness of the Subconscious: A Path to Self-Discovery
It’s long been said that you are what you eat. Likewise, you are what you think all day long. Contrary to popular belief, thoughts are things. Beyond the lens of our senses lies a vast imaginative faculty to create a reality of our choosing with the power of thought. Be it good, bad, or indifferent, all thought is creative. Hence, everything happens to you as you believe, as like attracts like. Similar thoughts are drawn to you if you believe in lack, limitation, and all manner of disempowering thoughts.
Think of wealth and abundance, and all manner of uplifting high-frequency thoughts and more are increasingly drawn to you, empowering you to have, be, and do your heart desires. Should your predominant thoughts (the total of what you think all day long) disproportionately recycle more and more of what you adamantly don’t want to experience, the more likely you (energy) are to pummel into a downward spiral. This is akin to thinking one suboptimal (negative thought) thought, followed by another and another, until it seemingly feels that nothing good is going right.
In other words, the more you focus your energy on what’s going wrong, the more difficult it seems to be to observe everything working in your favor. Your consciousness represents the total of all you accept and believe as accurate. Whether true, false, wrong, or right, whatever you give your mental consent becomes a law that impresses your subconscious. Likewise, if you change your thoughts, you can literally and figuratively change your life.
Words and text are the physical manifestation of thought. Being that all thoughts are creative, every thought you think is instrumental in shaping your outer reality. Contrary to popular belief, the external world mirrors your predominant thought and not vice versa. Thoughts are the building blocks by which we mold and shape our inner and outer worlds. Meanwhile, beliefs are the total of the thoughts you repeatedly think. Contrary to popular belief, your beliefs are fluid in that if you change the nature and content of your thoughts, you can likewise change the course of your life.
What you fear most is amplified by the amount of attention (energy) you invest in contemplating what you don’t want to happen. Interestingly, many of us devote a disproportionate amount of time and energy reflecting the situations and circumstances we fear most, often mentally replaying scenarios we wish to avoid at all costs. This is further amplified by the adage that “what I feared the most is now upon me.” Reminiscent of your energy flows where your attention goes; the more you allow fear to garner your attention, the more you take your attention away from the energy of what you want, and the more you invite the object of your fears to manifest into your experience.
In other words, the more you use your imagination to rehearse experiencing what you don’t want, the deeper it makes an indelible impression on your subconscious, making it much easier to materialize into form. Despite your highest intent, the law of attraction does not operate on intent; it functions according to universal law. So the next time you notice yourself focusing more on your fears than your intention (what you desire to experience), pause and take a few deep breaths to regain control over your attention to begin again to redirect your attention back into using your imaginal faculties to contemplate what you do want.
The future is not a far-off event that is fixed and set in stone; it is the physical manifestation of the thoughts that repeatedly occur all day. So, if you desire to change your current reality, set the intention to notice how you are expending your time, energy, and attention on a moment-by-moment basis and redirect your attention back to your intention as often as needed. As you journey to take back your mind, remember to practice patience and be gracious with yourself, as longstanding beliefs were not developed in a day. Likewise, change is not likely to happen overnight, but one thought at the time.
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