Take Control Of Your Life With One Thought
It’s actually quite astonishing to think about how many thoughts an average person has per day. The number is approximately 12,000 thoughts per day for the average person and much more for deeper thinkers. To me that sounds like our thoughts are out of control, and we just leap frog from one to the next without having a firm grasp on any single thought.
Consider the person that is in a state of depression. Their daily thoughts bounce from one to another, with the underlying hint of sadness. That’s 12,000 thoughts that will be mostly pessimistic and not conduciveness to happiness.
Most people share the same goal in common and that is to be happy. While the definition of happiness can vary from person to person, and the pursuit of happiness may not always be sought via the most effective method, it’s still on the forefront of all our minds.
We are responsible for choosing which thought we are going to invest our time and energy into thinking. It is completely in our power to choose thoughts that resonate with our happiness, or any other feeling that we wish to experience. We can make our 12,000 thoughts be about what we want.
The way i see it is that out of all the things I can be thinking about, there is no point wasting thought power on negativity. It’s great to reminesce and think about the past, or plan fun and adventureous futures. However, when it comes down to it, right now, this very moment, is all that we have. We can choose to keep our mind focused on this moment, and on the thought of happiness. That way we don’t need to obtain anything to be happy, we can be happy right now.
In this article I spoke of creating happiness by controlling your thoughts. In general, this article is meant to point your attention to the fact that you can experience whichever thought or state that you desire, just by concentrating your thoughts on it. In my case, I prefer to target my thoughts towards happiness, but it doesn’t have to be that way for you. There’s an endless possibility of things to think about, so choose wisely!
Posted by Alex Shalman in Personal Development, Thinking | December 3, 2007 | Digg | Del.icio.us | Stumble | Print | 7 comments
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Thank you for posting this article. I also try to seek how thoughts help as much as humanly possible and this article helps tremendously. My appreciation to you is in the highest sense.To show you my gratitude I would like to share with an article I found that also helps in understanding how beliefs and thoughts make reality (explained in a logical way): http://consciousflex.blogspot.com/2008/01/set-in-motion-desired-future.html I hope you find it as helpful as I do.Thank you indeed, please keep up the incredible work!
Hi Divine,
Thank you for stopping by and sharing the link. Once we make a distinction between who we are, and the voices in our head, it becomes much easier to make decisions with purpose.
I recommend the film “What the bleep do we know”, a documental very appropiate for this article.
The Bible points out that the thought precedes the action. If we want to control the action, then, we need to control the thought. Just as A=A, our thoughts ARE controllable and we are responsible for doing so.
That’s right, we can exert a tremendous amount of control over our lives if we will exert that same level of control over our thoughts.
As I said before.. If we have decided to be happy.. No one can change it!!