The Creative Power of a Thought

Humans are bestowed with the power to think.  No other creature on earth has that power.   

Most people are not aware that animals are incapable of thinking.

It is true that both humans and animals are born with instincts (sex drive, a spider's web, etc.), but humans  have the advantage of having thoughts, which no animal on earth has. (Sorry, but you dog doesn't think.)  

Thoughts are very powerful things.  It allows us to make decisions and have free will.   

A thought is composed of two things.  Images and words.   Within our minds,  we are constantly talking to ourselves, and making decisions based on those self-constructed conversations.   It is also creating pictures; imagining scenarios and events.  This two aspects of thinking is what gives thoughts their creative power.   

It is important to note, that it doesn't matter where a thought comes from.  What is important is if it is accepted and digested as true.  Thoughts can be created within our mind or picked up from outside sources. (If you are brain dead, let me just say that this happens when you read a book, a magazine article, watch a tv program, listen to someone talk,  etc.)  A thought will have the same creative power after accepting it as something true.  

Do you get it?

A thought becomes a tangible thing after being accepted inside our ahead as a real thing.   It doesn't matter, if the imagined scenario, conclusion or idea has basis on fact or real science,  what matters is if we are convinced that what we have just created and accepted from outside source is true.

We all heard phrases such as "what the mind can conceive it can achieve" and the famous quote by Abraham Lincoln "If you think you are right or wrong,  you are right."   This is exactly why when you belive that something can be achieved,  it can, and when you think it can't, it won't, no matter how hard you try.  Trying to achieve a goal believing that it can't be achieved is  a complete waste of time.  You have to believe it can, and if you do,  it will.   Let me give you an example.  

Two men set out to meet girls.  One of them imagines himself already with the girl he wants,  having fun, taking her places, doing things together,  going out,  having dinner with her, etc.  He has no real difficulty achieving his goal.  The other, sets out to meet his goal with a complete set of imagined scenarious and ideas.  He imagines himself having difficulty meeting girls.  He sees them inside his head laughing at him.  He is afraid of pleasing them because he imagines himself not knowing how to be intimate with them, he can't see himself having fun, but not knowing what to do.  He can't really create in his own mind the picture of the person he wants to meet because he doesn't think he has that power.  So he creates negatives images,  have very negative (unproductive) conversations with himself, etc, and those thoughts bear fruit,  he ends up lonely and depressed.  

You can imagine different scenarios with the same two individuals setting out different goals.  Imagine them going out for the first job interview.  Imagine one creating positive images and having productive conversations while the other is creating negative images and  having negative (unproductive) conversations.   Can you now see how creative thoughts are?  Are you examining your own thoughts now?  Good.  

There is a lot more to say about this topic.  I hope this is clear enough for now.  Until then, thanks for reading. 

Hans Gonzalez.

  

Multiplicity

As a photographer, I know that everything we see in nature can be seen from a multiplicity of angles.  Each angle can give the object observed a new perspective.  Sounds simple right?  Because it is.  

Every event that we experience we give it a meaning depending of where we are standing at that moment; We tend to believe that the meaning that we assign to the event is the only meaning there is.  At that moment,  it is very rare to stop and think and realize the many hundreds of choices we had at our disposal when we unconsciously made the decision to conclude that the event we just experienced could have only be experienced the way we did.   

Meaning is a very subjective experience, but we treat it as if it was the ultimate reality.  You just have to open your ears and listen not only to what you say, but what people say around you.  It is with our words that we create our lives.  

When we are describing how things are in our lives,  what we are essentially doing is giving it meaning and form.  We form our lives by the words that come out of our mouths.  Words are the finished product of feelings, and feelings are the finished product of thoughts, and those originate in our minds either by reflection of what we see around us,  or by will. 

When we feel what we speak,  we become like Gods,  bringing into our reality what we say.  How can a person that always declares that he will never  have a big house own one?  Or someone that is always heard saying that people are not trustworthy have really good friends?   If you don't like your reality,  realize that how you are describing it to you and your friends, no matter how real it feels to you,  is the reason it's part of your experience.  

There is a multiplicity of reasons why you are experiencing what you are experiencing right now, and many elements that are beyond the scope of this entry to talk about, including your ability to comprehend the fact that you are the only person responsible for everything that has happened in your life.  When you and I accept this,   we'll take the necessary steps that we need to make so that we live the live of joy, happiness and fulfilment we deserve.  

We have choices.  A girl that we care about rejects us, it is our choice to think "too bad,  I'll find another one, or 'oh my god,  I am ruined, I'll never find another like her every again'"  If you fall,  it is your choice to stand up and move, or stay on the ground."  You've heard of this, but have you heard of this:

When you feel you are the captain of your vessel,  of your soul, of your life, essentially, you are always responsible for everything that happens in your life.  You dont expect people to give you what you think you need, you ask for it, you make request.  Instead of getting mad for what a loved one said or did,  you communicate to that person how you feel  and asks him or her never to do it again.  Instead of waiting for opportunity to knock on your door,  you go out and find it.

One more thing,  before belittling other people or thinking you are someone superior to them,  just remember that it is only your opinion.   As it is your opinion the idea of not having choices, a good opportunity, or the posibility of achieving successs.  Change your mind,  change your life.  

Thanks for reading,

Hans.