#thoughts 101

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Using doflamingo's tip to scroll on my phone except my screen is cracked and flaking to hell and back so it's really more akin to torture than anything else

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Thoughts 101

In this post, I will be sharing the nature of thoughts and the importance of having the right thoughts.

Thoughts and their Nature

We all have thoughts in the form of ideas, memories, pictures, songs, all the time.

“In 2005, the National Science Foundation published an article summarizing research on human thoughts per day. It was found that the average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those thousands of thoughts, 80% were negative, and 95% were exactly the same repetitive thoughts as the day before.” Source

Isn’t this insane?!

2 things stand out from this study, except for the huge amount of thoughts we have every day.

80% of our thoughts are negative. That is the default nature of our thoughts and the reason for that is our survival mechanism. We think of what hurts us (physically or emotionally) and what could hurt us because we don’t want that to happen in the future.

95% of our thoughts are repetitive. Generally, the more you repeat something, the better you become at it. In the context of thoughts, if you repeat thoughts long enough, they become beliefs. These beliefs can either act as our support (empower us) or resistance (limit us).

One basic principle that I practice in my everyday life is that 

our thoughts create our feelings which give us our actions.

Thoughts –> Feelings –> Actions

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

Everything starts with a thought. All that we are, all that the human race has ever created and will ever create – everything stems from our thoughts.

How we feel and act is also dictated by our thoughts.

An excerpt from “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind” by Joseph Murphy“

"Your mind is a garden. You are a gardener. You plant seeds (thoughts) in your subconscious mind all day, every day based on your habitual thinking. As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. Every thought is a cause and every condition is an effect. It is the world within that makes your world without."

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Another way to look at this is:

Consider yourself as a tree. Your thoughts are the roots and your results/environment/life-situation etc. are the fruits. Now, if you don’t like the fruits, you change or work on the roots. Similarly, if you want to change your actions, results, life-situation, etc. then start by working on your thoughts. These analogies help us understand why it’s important to “plant” the right thoughts. One must actively choose the right thoughts and repeat them to themselves until they become beliefs.

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There can be times when you’re overwhelmed by the number or nature of your thoughts and you’re not able to control them — for such times, we can use the above model in the reverse direction.

Action –> Feeling –> Thoughts

Taking “positive” action will make you feel better which in turn will help you create better thoughts.

For example, if you’re feeling low, you can watch a funny show/video (laugh), do some psychical activity (dance, exercise), listen to happy, pumped up music, etc; these will uplift your mood (your feelings) and alter your thoughts.

Also, You can apply the 6 Ways I Stay Present In The Moment — which is all about taking control of our minds.

Conclusion

Thoughts can be in the form of ideas, memories, pictures, songs.

By default, the nature of our thoughts is negative because of our survival mechanism.

Thoughts repeated often become part of our belief system and they either limit or uplift us.

Consciously choose thoughts which support you and repeat them to yourself until they become part of your belief system.

This is it for this post.

I will be covering how Thoughts are a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Thinking during Hardships, and Thinking Consciously in the posts to come.

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It’s funny how

The entire premise of every facet of the entertainment industry is :

Yeah that was a great performance /amazing album / hilarious stand-up set / amazing play or movie

... But can you do it again? But different? Butvthe same. But better, but how we want you to do it . No not like that that’s offensive!

Meanwhile the artist (an entire human) reading criticism like:

[invaderslim508]

The fact that the world literally says, 'Be yourself... no not like that!' to everyone let me know, you got to learn to love yourself and love yourself hard as early as possible.

Georges Garcon, Jr.

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It’s so damn beautiful, honestly. But it lowkey be making me wanna tear up

Seeing all these siblings who love each other unconditionally and got to see each other grow from children to full grown adults... it’s a blessing.

A lot of ppl didn’t have that luxury

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Been hella-distracted today

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There’s certain things you should make time for

And things you will definitely make time for

All about, juggling priorities & passion I guess