responsibilities that come with caring for a child on your own, I never asked for help even though I knew I needed it. I had this belief that, if I were to ask for help, this would be a sign of weakness. This is why I had not allowed a partner to help me financially, emotionally or in any other way until now. It is only now, in letting go of that belief, and allowing support, that I can look at asking for help as a sign of strength, not as weakness. Change can happen in an instant, once we become aware of it and change our thinking. The first step is self-awareness
– paying attention to what you are focusing on throughout your day, each day. This will create awareness – work out whether your thoughts are positive or negative, motivating or sabotaging. Without self-awareness and without
being present or being conscious of our thoughts, we cannot possibly create the changes that are necessary to correct our outdated habits and beliefs, which are the foundation of our thoughts and feelings. These are the programs that run our lives. Whether these programs are serving us, or sabotaging us, they dominate areas in our lives such as our self-esteem, relationships, careers or health. Of course you cannot stop your
thoughts. In fact, sometimes the more you try to stop thinking certain thoughts, the more you think about them. For example, if I were to say to you, ‘Don’t think of a polar bear?’ you will naturally think of a polar bear. But rather than resist your thoughts, let them come. Observe them. Choose the ones that you are going to let pass through you (without paying attention to them) and let in the ones you want. Be conscious or present regularly, so as to build on the positive thoughts, to manifest them into reality.
THE FIRST STEP IS SELF-AWARENESS – PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU ARE FOCUSING ON THROUGHOUT YOUR DAY, EACH DAY.
The best way to understand this is to imagine a conveyer belt sitting above your head. It runs 24 hours, 7 days a week, and on that conveyor belt sits the thoughts (packages) that continuously pass through. Sometimes, one of those packages may fall off the conveyor belt and, depending on how this thought is making me feel, I place it right back on that conveyor belt to move it right along. Here’s an example: You are driving
in your car, looking at the picturesque scenery around you, with pleasant music playing in the background. Then all of a sudden you catch yourself thinking about something from your past, and the more you think about it, the more you get worked up about it. This is the exact moment where you have a choice to stop it. You have a 60-second window to put that thought right back on the conveyer belt before your feelings take over. Once you have completed that task, all you have to do is turn your focus on to something that makes you happy to shift that feeling away. Being the observer, and watching all of your thoughts (packages) go by will
take a little practice, just like anything that you do. You need to keep at it until it becomes a habit. Exactly the same process works
for happy thoughts that make us feel great! If for example, I am cooking, listening to one of my favourite CD’s ‘Le Fil’ by Camille and all of a sudden a thought pops into my mind of being in the South of France with my aunties making ‘soup a pistou’, this is a thought I want to hang on to. So I turn the music up and let my memories and my imagination take over. I know the longer I hang on to this thought, the more I fill up with heightened emotions of joy. And right there, I have made a conscious choice to take that thought (package) off the conveyor belt and give it more attention. And then, I can reflect upon it and see
how and why I might be able to manifest it into my reality. n
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