Good Feelings Come From Good Thoughts…

The above title may appear intuitive and certainly not worthy of a blog. However, I would have to disagree in that there appears to be a dearth of people actually making the connection. People spend the day engaged in dark, negative thoughts and then report feeling depressed. Folks run all manner of fearful considerations through their thinker only to later express perpetual, consistent anxiety. Some feel their best days are behind them and as such find no benefit in investing in today. While others entertain cynicism and dissatisfaction as their primary modes then wonder why they live amidst sour, unpleasant, defeated thoughts. You tell me how a person feels most of the time and I can tell you what type of thoughts they are thinking. You see folks, there is an inseparable and ever connected link between how a person thinks and the subsequent emotions that follow. If you want to feel good then you have to think “good.” (Sorry the grammar didn’t work) Good feelings come from good thoughts.

Can you recognize the ability the Creator gave you by giving you the free will ability to think whatever it is you want to think? Surprising as this may seem in our present frenetic environment, you have the ability and yes, the right to control your own thinking. You get to decide which thoughts are allowed access and which thoughts are denied access. If you find yourself feeling a certain way, chances are you can track back a little bit and think about what you were thinking about. You have to resolve those negative thoughts or at minimum refuse to give them access. Mulling them over and trying to examine them from every angle results not in understanding, but rather more confusion. It’s a deception and when in “listening mode” you are the one being deceived. You are willingly or unwillingly a co-conspirator in your own ignorance. You are not solving problems, but rather incubating and growing larger problems. There is no criticism of course, as we have all been down these roads. Yet, there is an opportunity that shows up every single day offering you a fresh start and fresh decisions. You can literally decide how you are going to think today; what you will allow and what you must refuse. It sounds fanciful I know, but it is true. If you think well (proper grammar supplied), then you will feel well, guaranteed.

The biggest problem we face as humans thinking is habit. We are habit forming creatures. Habits have a purpose in helping us use our brain power for more important tasks, but those same habits form in how we choose to think. People that worry have to keep worrying to be okay. (How ironic) We learn a certain way to think and then it is difficult to change that way of thinking. Not impossible, but difficult. It’s like quitting smoking. You have to fight through the early days to get to the easier days and eventually extinction. The only right way to control your thinking is by doing it one day at a time. No matter what is going on, you can handle today. You can choose today. You can decide today. So which thoughts am I seeking to eliminate you ask sheepishly? Enter the real golden rule. Does it help you or hurt you? Is it for you or against you? Does it make you better or make you worse? Does it bring you peace or agitation? This is the only roadmap you actually need, generally speaking. To further elucidate you, all fear thoughts, all worry thoughts, all doubting thoughts are wrong, at all times, in every case. The big three are all closely related and refer more to stages of the same thing. Doubt, then worry, then fear. There is never a sound reason to choose these thoughts. They originate in a dark place from a dark source for a dark purpose. They are designed to capture your mind, your thinking, and hold you there until reinforcements arrive. Pretty soon you find yourself consumed with fear and sadly along the way to realizing those deeply held fear beliefs. You are acknowledging them, considering them, and slowly but surely accepting them. Lest this has wandered far too esoterically south, I’ll explain it another way. If something dangerous entered your house, your number one priority would be to get it out of your house. You would not learn to live with it or acquiesce to it in any way. Yet that is what people do in their minds. They learn to live with fear as normal not understanding it for what it really is, the systemization of error. Error in your system leading to error in your life. If you think well, you will feel well.

Finally, our minds do not operate in a vacuum. Your goal is not to clear your mind of all thoughts. Your goal is to control and manage the ones that are there. Once you recognize you are on the wrong path in your mind, change paths by putting different or opposing thoughts in your mind. Don’t wait for your mind to do something on its own. You, the thinker, must change what you are thinking. Some thoughts depending upon how long you have entertained them or what you were taught will be more difficult to extricate from yourself. But you have to start somewhere and you have to start now. Don’t worry about how you are going to manage tomorrow, tomorrow will take thought for the things of itself. Your only focus is today, right now, in the next thought. Choose a nicer next thought. Decide upon a kinder direction. Bring some love into the equation. Nothing eliminates fear like love does. Think happy, sunny thoughts and if it has gotten cloudy reintroduce the sunshine. Don’t spend any time waiting to feel good. Feel good by thinking “good.” (sorry)

It really doesn’t matter who you are or where you are on your own thought journey. What matters is if you will take this gift God has given you and steward it properly or will you neglect it and let it go downhill. Out of the heart come the issues of your life. If you have heretofore been getting bad results, chances are your thinking is bad. Welcome to being a human. Welcome to the great competition. Never blame your thoughts on circumstances or conditions. The circumstances and conditions came from your thinking, not the other way around. What does this mean? It means your life is a clue, a glimpse into what you have been thinking about the most. If things are great, amen brother and amen sister. But, if your life needs a little revision, a good place to start is in your thoughts. Change your thoughts and change your life. Good feelings come from good thoughts.

Just some good thoughts…