Yes, we are! The thoughts that pop up reflexively are out of control indeed. It is up to us to get control over them again. Our mind stores all our experiences (everything we heard, saw, felt) and creates its own truth from it. It stores each data in its own folders. Whatever happens in our lives the mind checks the folders and opens reflexively one that comes close to what we experience currently and sends a matching thought. So, it only speaks from a past we declared as a truth from our state of awareness. But that awareness changes and often we are confused when our thoughts don’t match that change accordingly.

What I think, I feel. What I feel, I radiate. What I radiate, I atract. What I atract, I see, and from there I create my experience. That experience gets stored again in my inner folders and creates thoughts based on what I believe is true. A thought that we think often becomes a pattern, and that pattern applied often becomes a belief. So, if we want to change our emotions and feelings we need to reprogam the system.

In the early process of breaking though my inner barriers I understood that my thoughts are the key. As long as I think destructive thoughts, I won’t find my way out of that maze. I started observing my thoughts, all of those thoughts that just reflexivley pop up. After about a week, I began to pick some specific ones and started to change them from destructive into constructive thoughts. I stuck only with one or two specific thoughts and kept exchanging them until (only a couple of weeks later) I noticed them becoming a new reflex. For example, when you look out of the window and it’s raining, instead of giving in to a reflex like “what a sh** weather”, you can change your thoughts to “regardless of the weather, I am feeling good. I am glad for nature to get hydrated, blossom, and bloom.” Keep repeating it every time when negative thoughts about rain come up. It won’t take two weeks and you noitce a change in your reflexive thoughts. The secret is to find reasons why something can be good. And there are always reasons.

It is an exciting new adventure to see that we are able to change our thoughts by choice. It needs practice, of course. Therefore, starting with small things makes us realize that we can make it. In the end, it doesen’t matter what thoughts we would like to change, we can change them all. It doesn’t make a difference anymore what kind of thoughts.

Sorry, that got a bit long, but it is important to understand that our thoughts create our experiences. When we change our thoughts, we change our experiences. This subject is the key to open our prison doors. A good book that helped me in the process is “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle. Maybe you want to check it out.

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