Thoughts become things!
Has it ever happened to you that your thought became a reality?
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Many years ago, about 15, I think, I sat a bowl of freshly drained spaghetti on the edge of the kitchen sink, and my thought at that moment was: “I could put them in a safer place, because it would be possible for the bowl to tip over.” How long do you think it took to realize this thought? Just a few seconds, not even a minute. And YEEES all the spaghetti was on the floor around the kitchen. Of course at the time I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t angry, and how! Being caught up in the speed with which certain moments in my life were happening made it much easier to become agitated and nervous. But now, looking back, I realize that I was actually upset and angry at ME because it was my decision (where I chose to place the spaghetti). If I watched this scene in a movie on TV it would be funny and I would laugh, but when it happened to me it was like I didn’t see the comedy behind the situation. I’d like to think I’d be laughing now, it’s pretty funny after all. It took me quite a long time (several years even) to realize that when something happens in my life that takes me out of my comfort zone (nerves, agitation, upset, …) the first thing, beneficial for me, is to completely detach myself from that event. How? Like when you watch a movie on TV. It’s not that hard, but only if you want it you will succeed. First of all you stop whatever you are doing the moment you start to realize that your mood is going to change. You repeat in your mind: Breathe. (Here it depends from person to person: some count to 3, others say a short sentence to themselves, …., each chooses what they think will calm them down). Then you begin to gently, gently remove that situation from you. Like an image or a picture that at first is stuck to you and slowly, slowly you start moving that image / picture away by 5 cm, 10 cm, …. until it reaches the distance of 1 m, 5 m, 10 m, as far as possible. It works for me. Try it yourself. You will feel detached NOT involved. Another thought that became reality: it happened when I started thinking intensely about a person dear to me, whom I have not seen for a very long time, being on the street, and after a few minutes I actually met her . Then there was something WAW. And after another experience like this, or two, I don’t know exactly, I began to realize that the thought is something very powerful and transmitted in the UNIVERSE really becomes reality. I don’t know how many people are aware of this fact, but I believe with all my heart and soul that it is so. We have so many thoughts that pass us by, and besides the fact that we are not aware of them all (we have no way), we are also often not paying attention to them. This is also due to the fact that our life unfolds at a very high speed and we are, unfortunately, so little present in it. But, maybe with time, when we manage to realize that we don’t have what to run and we start to gently, gently apply a little brake today, a little brake tomorrow, maybe we will be able to be present in our own life and live it that way as we want, without letting ourselves be manipulated, more or less, consciously or unconsciously, by the people who are next to us. THOUGHT is a very powerful weapon that we humans have on us. Whether we learn how to use it is up to us. I said weapon because there is positive thinking and negative thinking, according to the nature of people, optimists and pessimists. IF YOU WANT EXERCISE YOUR THOUGHT. Start with small things. For example: I think I will find a parking space when I get home from work, OR I think that when I arrive at the station (bus, tram, …), the means of public transport will arrive in a few minutes, …
(the examples are suitable for Romania)
