Manage your thought life

Your thought life plays a significant role in the manifestation of the success of your daily living.

Are you allowing all thoughts to have free range of your mind? The proverb says, "As a man thinketh, so is he." Your thought life determines your outcome. Thoughts harboured continuously in your mind that have become your predominant way of thinking manifests in your reality.

You can learn to manage your mind by managing your thoughts.

How do you manage your thought life?

Shift your thoughts. Whatever is pure, whatever is beautiful, whatever is lovely, think on those things. When I find myself in a situation that may cause me to move out of a place of love and peace, whether it's something one of the children did or something negative someone said, I shift my thinking.

Instead on dwelling on it and letting the negative feeling take root, I immediately look for the positive side of things. If you're looking for the positive, for the good in all situations, you'll find that you're able to deal with whatever you're up against in a more positive manner bringing positive energy into the atmosphere. What could have turned out to be explosive can be turned into a beautiful experience.

I recall an incident that occurred when my son, now 3, was much younger was having a crying session. He wasn't calming down and he was getting louder. I felt myself getting frustrated, then a thought came to me, instead of flowing into the energy he was now projecting, shift the energy and steer him into a calmer atmosphere. Instead of me getting louder than his crying in order to get his attention, I took on a much softer tone, releasing my energy of love to him. He began to calm down and I was able to soothe him.

When you shift your focus from whatever your external situation is, begin to look within and think about what you'd like the situation to become. As you do this, you become receptive to new ideas, therefore, encouraging this change to begin to manifest itself in your reality.

Momspiration: I protect my thought life and shift my thinking to all that is good so that good will always have an open channel to flow in and through me.

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Think I am going to make it

Getting my body back - Day 43

How you think about your success plays a vital part to you having success. Your thoughts can either push you to the finish line or cause you to stop and give up.

Whenever the journey gets tough, if you begin to entertain thoughts of giving up, you send a message to your body to respond to the idea of giving up.

My youngest child is 3 months old. She's just discovered that she has hands. She's observing them, yes, sucking on them, as well. Roxella's making the connection between her brain and hands as she is learning to coordinate the movements.

Research has shown that babies' brains are very active at this age. If you've ever observed a child, you'd notice how they'd look at a toy and immediately the body launches forward with a hand outstretched to get it. The child is using thought which sends the message from the brain to the body, with such precise speed, into action.

As adults, we've mastered the connection between movements and the brain, to the point that we do not have to even think about moving our bodies to complete a movement. We only need to think of getting up and immediately our bodies respond.

It is this obedience to the thoughts we engage in that allows us to continue moving forward on the path to success or give up. The starting point of thought leads to action and continuous action as we engage in continuous positive thought until we reach our goal.

Fuelling words: I think I am going to make it to my ideal weight.

Routine: Warm-ups, stretches, aerobics, toning and strength exercises, cool down.

Visualization - keeping focus on my goal; healthy, strong and my ideal body weight and shape.

Deep breathing - relaxes the muscles and sends oxygen to the muscles where exercising alone would not reach.

Changing Inside Out Now! Tending the garden of the heart - Day 13

What kind of harvest do you want?

Determining the kind of harvest you want let's you know what type of seeds you should sow and what type of garden you're going to grow.

If you want a vegetable garden, you're not going to sow flower seeds and expect to harvest vegetables. Now, if you want a combination of a flower garden and a vegetable garden, you sow the appropriate seeds to harvest your desired outcome.

Similarly, you want to sow seeds in the heart that will bring you a harvest of love, joy, peace, health, prosperity and wholeness - a well-rounded life.

The seeds you sow into your heart come in the form of your thoughts and your words which results in the actions you're taking on a daily basis.

What are you thinking about on a regular basis? What feelings are these thoughts producing? Are they making you feel joyful, at peace or angry and frustrated? Your thoughts, producing your feelings, causes you to act or react externally.

Whatever you are thinking, which is directly affecting your feelings, is the reason for your reaction. The key to turning this around is to stop the negative thought right in its tracks and replace it with a positive one. Find the positive side in every situation. There's always light, even if it's just a glimmer of hope, move towards it. Replace the negative with the positive glimmer of hope. Focus on it, just as you would the negative thought. Feel the emotion and before long you will act or react in a positive way, producing positive results.

Your words are as a direct result of what you've been thinking. I recall a scripture which says, (paraphrase) "It's not what goes into a man (person) that defiles him because it does not go into his heart but his stomach. But it's what comes out of a man (person) that defiles him (makes him unclean). Because what comes out of a man (person's words) comes out of his heart."

You tell what's going on in a person's heart from what they're constantly talking about, which is the fruit of their lips.

Begin today to change your seed thoughts and your words and actions will follow suit to produce the harvest you need.