On a certain day, a lady went to sleep. In her sleep, she had a dream. She saw a hunk of a man, staring at her. Then he started coming closer—closer and closer. He was so close that she could even feel his breath. She trembled—not in fear. Then she asked, 'What will you do to me?' The man said, 'Well, lady, it’s your dream!'
“What’s happening in your head is your dream,” Sadhguru, a modern yogi, tells this story in his book ‘Inner Engineering.’ “At least your dream should happen the way you want it, shouldn’t it? Even if the world doesn’t happen the way you want it, at least your thoughts and emotions should happen the way you want them to.”
Thoughts are things.
Thought is as much a ‘thing’ as light, heat, electricity, or similar forms of manifestations. Your brain is like a light bulb throwing off light waves; or a stove throwing off heat; or a flower throwing off a strong perfume; or a boiling tea kettle throwing off steam.
Thoughts are to your mind as light is to the sun, heat is to a stove, or fragrance is to a flower. Each of these sources throws off vibrations. And in a sense, these emanations are very small particles of the thing that throws them off.
And so, like the lady in her dream, each of us interprets the world around us, however we want. We think, and that thinking shapes our experience. It attracts thoughts, people, and circumstances that correspond to our own thoughts.
“Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought,” stoic philosopher and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote, “for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.”
You gotta be careful and monitor your thoughts at all times. Regardless of what’s happening around, you can decide which thoughts you allow to remain in your mind and therefore influence your experience. It all starts within.
If you carry thoughts of a positive nature, you will attract the circumstances and conditions that will give you an opportunity to manifest these thoughts in action. If you carry negative thoughts, you may find yourself attracting unfavorable conditions.
Your mind is your tool. And you won’t always be able to choose what thoughts come to it, but you can choose which ones linger and stay. Choose higher and better thoughts. Choose thoughts that align with your vision and elevate your experiences. Choose the ones that shape the reality you desire.
Start now and witness the power that your mind has.
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