Changing your thinking is the key to transforming your life. It is your thinking that creates your feelings which in turn determines your behavior, what you do in life. While it is true that you behave according to how you feel, it is your thoughts that cause you to feel a certain way, either positive or negative. Change your thinking and you will change your life. Listed below are five ways you can go about practicing this type of inner transformation.
The first way to go about changing your thinking is by reading. When you read spiritual or transformative books and think about the ideas you are reading you are in the process of altering your thoughts, if only for the moment when you are reading and thinking. If you continue to read and study the same ideas and concepts repeatedly they will begin to imprint on your mind, having in some cases a lasting, even permanent effect. Some people even belief that when you read something continously that you are what you are reading, that the language and words that you are contemplating is who you are at that moment.
The second way to change your thoughts has to do with Prayer. Praying is a way for you to practice an internal dialogue with yourself regardless of the religious connotations that it may have for you. Praying will alter your thinking especially if you do it repeatedly, say, every day. Again, when you pray, when you say what ever it is that you say in prayer, you are creating positive energy through your words and also, as suggested above, you are the words or language that you say or create. When your words are about getting connected to Spirit or Source it is at that moment that you are getting connected, even to the God of your understanding.
The third way of changing thought involves being in a conversation with others. Having conversations are either a way of reinforcing the beliefs and thoughts that you have already or a way of starting to create a new way of thinking. This is especially powerful when you are having a conversation about some topic that you are in the process of learning, say, something spiritual in nature or some conversation that has to do with your inner transformation. When you discuss these topics or ideas with another human being repeatedly you create the possibility of imprinting the new thoughts and beliefs from the conversation even more. Having conversations with others can be very powerful especially when the conversations are challenging to you.
The fourth way of changing your thinking is through the use of positive affirmations. Using positive affirmations is one of the most powerful ways to change your thinking. When you use positive affirmations daily you will begin to alter the very beliefs and thoughts you have about yourself, that which forms the context of who you think you are, of your self image and self esteem. When who you think you are alters or transforms then your entire life starts to shift in a very powerful and even positive way. When your self image starts to transform, what you have been sourcing into your life will then start to be different and more positive. Using positive affirmations daily can truly transform your life.
The fifth way of transforming your thinking is through the creation of a gratitude list. Having a gratitude list and repeating it daily, especially in the morning upon rising and when you retire at night, is a way of causing or generating more of what you want to have continue in your life. When you say what you are grateful for you are continuing to source those things and people into your life. Like the above mentioned four other ways to transform your thinking, having an attitude of gratitude will cause you to create positive language and words for you to live your life from.
Putting all five ways of transforming your thinking into your daily practice will have an extraordinary impact on your life. Practicing all five ways repeatedly as part of your daily practice will transform your life and let you begin to live the life that you say you want. More on this later.
Dr. Harry Henshaw
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