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As
a man thinketh, so is he. Once you realize that your world arises from
your thoughts and emotions, that your outer situations reflect your
inner state, you start to see a much larger pattern working in your
life. You start to understand how your financial, relationship and
health situations arise, why they are so, and how you can change them
without fail.
One of the patterns that you can now recognize as having
a massive effect on your life is your self-talk pattern. We all talk
to ourselves in our minds. We hold this mental conversation with ourselves
that never stops. It is on all day long, and it is about your world
and you, you, you.You maintain your world by your self-talk. Remember,
what you think about is what determines your next moments. The problem
with self-talk is that it is mostly negative, it is limited to your
limited ideas of what should be, and it is 90% repetitive. This is
what keeps your world as it is. When you finally stop the self-talk,
your world takes on a renewed magnificence, it goes back to the way
it naturally should be, optimistic and positive.
There are three kinds
of people. There are those that are not even aware that they are having
a mental conversation with themselves in their head all the time. They
don't know. If you ask them "What are you thinking about?" they
can't even remember what they were thinking about just a couple of
seconds ago.Then there are those who know they have mental self-talk,
but they are unable to control its direction and unable to turn it
off.Finally, there is a small fraction of the population that can turn
it off completely. These are the masters. They have managed this feat
simply by choosing to. They have chosen to quiet the mind and become
aware. Their mind is where the body is and not running of in a permanent
dreamland that is all about tomorrow and yesterday. But the only way
the mind can be where the body is is by being quite and simply observant
without comment, judgement or thought.As long as you keep your self-talk
on, you will be bound to repeat the same path, the same choices, the
same errors, over and over. There is nothing new and nothing fresh.
The reason is simply because you keep repeating the same self-talk.
90% of the 50,000 thoughts you have per day are repetitive.How would
life be without self-talk?
Imagine that life is a river called Life.
Life is always flowing, always fresh, always progressive
and powerful, always clear and clean. Now imagine that your self-talk
is a garbage truck parked by the side of that river. Now, as long as
you keep dumping trash into the river, the river will be covered in
flowing trash, because you are dumping
it in there all day long. The moment you stop dumping the trash, it
will take just a few moments for the river to clear and go back to
its natural reality.People think that their thinking is what helps
them. Thinking is like any other tool. The right amount of it at the
right time is useful, but too much is destructive and polluting. You
probably need to think about 10% of the time only, no more. Audit your
thoughts today. See what you are thinking about. Set an alarm on your
watch to go off every 10 minutes.
When it goes off, say 'wake up!' to yourself and ask yourself what
you were thinking of, whether it had any scenarios of things going
wrong, any negativity, and so on. You will be shocked to see how much
crap is probably going on in your head.
Become
aware of your self-talk and stop it. Look around. See the world as
it is, without commentary and judgement. Don't think. Wait. At the
right time, your spirit will give you the appropriate Thought. The
other mental noise is not real Thought. It is the ego
camouflaging its fears by creating all sorts of noise and calling it
'thinking'. Real thought is clear, powerful, decisive, and lovingly
without fear. It is a statement of pure knowing.When you stop your
self-talk, you create a vacuum. Have intent on what you
wish your life to be, and hold the essence of that intent always, but
don't obsess mentally about it. Have an intent that will not bend,
but don't obese mentally about it. Simply know that what you intend
will be so and leave it at that.
You can visualize your intent every
now and then. In fact, you should visualize your intent once in a while,
perhaps twice or thrice a day, for visualization is creative and highly
powerful. But that's it; no need to obsess. Create a vacuum. Let nature
fill it. Life is
a magnificent force. When you stop filling your cup with littleness,
it will fill it withgreatness. Life cannot show you what it truly is
if you keep telling it how it should be. When you drop your self-talk,
the most amazing accomplishments begin to
happen, because your self-talk, based on littleness, is what replenishes
and maintains a world of littleness instead of grandeur.
Article
written by David Cameron, author of Raising Humans and A Happy Pocket Full of
Money:
Your Quantum Leap into the Understanding, Having and Enjoying of Immense
Wealth and Happiness, and developer of the Prova LifeMap software.
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