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SELF-IMPROVEMENT


Power of Thought


You can make your life better, because you can change the following.

·   Your thoughts.

·   Your view of things.

·   Things about you like your feelings, actions, and body.

·   Things around you.


You can erase any past unhealthy thoughts. And you can make new healthy thoughts. You can make them into commands to yourself. Some people call these kinds of thoughts affirmations and self-suggestions. To keep things simple, we call them thought sets.


A thought set is like a computer program. And your brain is like a computer. Your body is like a machine run by this computer. Your brain has more power than any computer. And your body is more complex than any machine.


You have the power to choose the thoughts you have. Your thoughts send signals — through your brain — to every cell of your body. Your brain sends chemical signals through your veins. And it sends electric signals through your nerves. Science has proven that every part of your body is changed by your thoughts. Your feelings are also changed by your thoughts.


Mass media has power to change the thoughts of billions of people around the world. And by changing thoughts, it changes people’s feelings and actions. It does this in ways that feel very personal. It does this in homes around the world. It sends out thoughts through the following. TV. Radio. Movies. Newspapers. Magazines. Books. Internet. Video games. Recordings of music, talks, and books. And so on. Mass media has power to program your thoughts through these things. And this power is even stronger when you listen to things while you sleep. It’s almost funny that TV and radio shows are called programs.


When people have the same thought at the same time, they increase its power. They can do this for good or bad. The following are some examples. Some use loving thoughts of group prayer to help heal people. Some use angry thoughts of mob mentality to harm others. And corrupt leaders spread violent thoughts to make large groups do violent things. They do this through mass media. Millions of people watching violent shows — and playing violent games — make the world more violent.


Be careful in choosing things you watch, listen to, and read. And be careful in choosing video games you play. At times, you can simply stop accepting thoughts from others. And you can make and use your own thoughts. You can have thoughts that are most healthy for you.


 


Making Healthy Thoughts

 

You can make strong thought sets you enjoy reading. The following are some ways to do this.


Use words you say in your daily life. Try to keep things simple. And try to keep sentences shorter than about 14 words.


Use thoughts about things happening right now. So use thoughts that start with words like I am, I do, or I feel. And avoid thoughts about things happening later on. So avoid thoughts that start with words like I could, I look forward to, I might, I ought to, I should, I will, and I would.


Use thoughts that focus on good things you want. And avoid thoughts that focus on what you don’t want. So use words like avoid, free, reject, and stop as little as possible. You can do this by saying the same thing in a positive way. The following are some examples. I avoid fear becomes I am brave. I am free from weakness becomes I am strong. I reject confusion becomes I am clear. I stop a harmful habit becomes I am healthy and protected from harm.


Avoid thoughts about working to make things happen. Use thoughts about things happening right now. So avoid thoughts that start with words like I achieve, I acquire, I push away, I reject, and I seek. Instead, use thoughts that start with words like I am, I have, or I receive.


Avoid thoughts that sound unsure about things. So avoid thoughts that start with words like I could and I might.


Your mind usually overlooks small things that reverse the meaning of bigger things. So avoid using the following.

·   Words like no or not.

·   Words that begin with dis, non, or un.

·   Words that end in less, free, or out (e.g., without).


If you must use these things, make them easy to see and hear. Try using italic or capital letters.

Three examples of positive and concise thought sets are at the bottom of this webpage.


 


Using Healthy Thoughts

 

To get better using healthy thoughts, you must make new lasting electric paths in your brain. To make a new path, you must repeat a thought around 130 times. Try doing this in ways that keep your attention. You might try repeating the same thought using different words.


Making a lasting electric path in your brain is like making muscle memory. When you repeat a body motion enough times, you finally do it without thinking about it. When you want to walk, you don’t think about which muscles to use. But when you want to do new things, you must think and then repeat new movements many times. The same happens when you want to change what you think. You need to repeat healthy thoughts many times.


The fastest way to make a lasting electric path is the following. Send your thought energy through as many parts of your brain and body as you can. You can do this by reading, speaking, hearing, writing, and recalling thoughts. Doing these things with others can help even more. Try different ways to see which ones work best for you.


All things are made of an electric kind of energy. Every thing we now know — or can imagine — is made of this energy. The mass of solids, liquids, and gases is made of it. Thoughts are made of it. Even outer space is made of it. This is how radio waves travel between spacecraft and earth. They travel through the electric energy of outer space. They do this like water waves travel through the liquid mass energy of the ocean.


Please don’t use only thoughts instead of getting help from a doctor. There’s a time and a place for everything. Get help from a doctor if you think you need it. And get this help if others think you need it. It’s better to be safe than sorry.

 


Thought and Energy

 

Science has proven energy isn’t made or destroyed. It only changes form. The following are two examples. We store energy in a flashlight battery in the form of solid chemical energy. And it’s changed into light and heat energy. We store energy in a car’s fuel, in the form of liquid chemical energy. And it’s changed into motion, heat, and electric energy.


Thoughts are made of an energy that changes into electric energy. And this energy travels through billions of cells in your brain. Each thought becomes electric energy that moves between parts of your brain. These electric changes are called brainwaves. And they can be measured like all other energy waves. These brainwaves are changed into electric signals that travel through your body.


In some ways, you receive and send energy waves. You receive light energy waves through your eyes. And you receive sound energy waves through your ears. Your brain turns these waves into images and sounds. And you understand them in the form of thought energy waves. And you send out energy waves in the following ways. Your thought energy waves change into waves of electric signals. These signals make your body send out sound waves, with encoded things called spoken words. And your thought energy waves make your hands move in wave patterns. These patterns send out encoded things called written words.


Science has proven the following about thought and energy.

·   Thoughts, mass, and space are made of an electric kind of energy. Every thing is made of this energy. And this energy is always changing.

·   Every thing is connected in one energy field.

·   Every thing is always changing and always stays connected. And no one knows what any thing is made of. “Solid” things are made of atoms. And atoms are made of 99.999…% space and some type of unknown, vibrating bundles of energy strings. Things appear to break apart into ever smaller things. And they appear to join together into ever larger things. The smallest might be parts of an atom. The largest might be the expanding universe or other dimensions scientists are talking about. No one knows what the smallest or largest things are. And no one knows what they’re made of. Our knowledge of them keeps changing. So we can only imagine what we’ll know about them in the future. It’s as if today’s science fiction becomes tomorrow’s reality.

·   Our world is made of thoughts, actions, space, and other forms of energy. Every thing is part of one connected — and always changing — energy field. This includes your view of things. Your thoughts and body change this energy field. And this field changes your body and every thing around you. It is. And we're all part of It.


You are a form of energy that can view and change
other forms of energy (i.e., things). We know you view and change them in the here and now. But no one knows the exact point that you view them from. When you close your eyes and daydream, where do you view things from? Where’s the exact place of your viewpoint? No one knows.

Your energy to view and change other forms of energy may live on after your body dies. In support of this idea, we know that energy isn’t made or destroyed. It only changes form.


The above means you're not the following. Your material things (forms of energy that you’ve collected or believe you “own”). Your body. Your parents. Your children. Your partner. Your name. Your sex. Your race. Your age. Your national background. Your sexual orientation. Your job. Your education. Your degrees. Your achievements. Your religion. Your opinions. Your beliefs. Your thoughts or feelings — of the past, present, or future. None of these things define who you are. Defining yourself by them can limit your freedom to experience life and grow.


Many people find it most difficult to understand that they're not their thoughts and feelings. If you are these things, which ones are you? All those of the past, present, and future — including the ones you’ve changed and outgrown? Or are you only some of them? If you are your thoughts and feelings, will you disappear when you forget them? You experience thoughts and feelings in a temporary way. But you're not these things. You're not these forms of energy. So, you're not any of the things (action energy) that happened to you — and you're not trapped by memories (thought energy) of them. You live in the here and now. And you experience the thoughts you allow yourself to have in the here and now.


If you're not the things listed above, then what are you? As talked about earlier, you’re a form of energy having the power to view (experience, understand, and know) things and to change your view, thoughts, feelings, actions, and many things. The view and thoughts you have — and the things you change — are your choices.


To summarize your powers, you can do the following things. And you do them in the here and now, in one connected — and always changing — energy field.


Choose and change your view of thoughts and other things.

Choose and change your thoughts. By doing this, you choose and change things about you — and things around you.

Change things about you like your feelings, actions, and body.

Change many things around you.

Recall old thoughts from memory and from symbols (e.g., letters, figures) imprinted on things.

Receive new thoughts from imagination.

Receive new thoughts from inspiration.

Receive new thoughts from All That Is.

Exchange thoughts to change what others know, feel, and do.

Have no thought.



Your thoughts change your life and things around you. They do this in small and big ways. And they do this in slow and fast ways. The thought energy from you — and everyone who ever lived — has slowly changed our world in a big way. Over thousands of years, this collective thought energy has changed the energy of every thing around us. It’s made many of our thoughts. This thought energy shaped our past. Thoughts from imagination and inspiration shape our future.

 

 


A Few More Thoughts

 

If you’ve learned something new about thoughts, your view of things has changed.

 

What can you do to have a better life? Be careful about the thoughts you let into your life. Reject unhealthy thoughts that are spread through mass media in many places. At times, stay away from all forms of mass media for a couple weeks or more. Tune in to your own thoughts and feelings. Have healthy thoughts and feelings that you choose.


You can make your life better. And you can make our world better. These things start with your thoughts.





Examples of Thought Sets

 

I CONTROL MY THOUGHTS

I am aware of my thoughts, feelings, and actions. I control my thoughts, feelings, and actions. I control my thoughts to control my feelings and actions. I control my thoughts.

I make my thoughts better to make my life better. I make my thoughts better to make my feelings and actions better. I make my thoughts better to make my body better. I make my thoughts better. I make my life better. I make my feelings and actions better. I make my body better.

I choose the thoughts I have. I have healthy thoughts. I have healthy feelings and actions. I have a healthy body.

I am attracted to good thoughts. I allow good thoughts into my life. Good thoughts fill my life. I have good thoughts.

I make my life good by choosing good thoughts and a good view of all things.

I make my thoughts good by carefully choosing them.

  • I choose all my thoughts.

  • I choose each thought in my life.

  • I choose thoughts I have in the here and now.

  • I choose thoughts I have in memory.

  • I choose thoughts I move from memory into the here and now.

  • I choose thoughts I move from the here and now into memory.

  • I choose thoughts I erase from the here and now.

  • I choose thoughts I erase from memory.

I choose all my thoughts. I choose good thoughts. My thoughts are good.

I make my view good by carefully choosing it.

  • I choose my view of all things.

  • I choose my view of each thing.

  • I choose my view of past, present, and future things.

  • I choose my view of All That Is.

I choose my view of all things. I choose a good view of all things. My view of all things is good.

I control my view of all things. I decide how I view all things in my life. I view all things in healthy ways. I view all things as ways to grow. I direct my view. I can direct my view to the following.

  • I can direct my view to old thoughts I keep in memory and from symbols imprinted on things.

  • I can direct my view to thoughts I have in the here and now.

  • I can direct my view to letting in new thoughts when I learn, when I imagine, when I am inspired, and when I am open to All That Is.

I control my thoughts. And I make my thoughts better. I control my view of all things. I make my view of all things better. I control my thoughts.



I RESPOND IN HEALTHY WAYS

I am clear in my thinking and feeling. Because I am clear, I make wise choices and responses. I make wise choices and responses, regardless if extremes are around me. I respond to things in healthy ways.

I know which things I can change. I know which things I lack power to change. I know some problems can not be solved. I can be happy without solving every problem.

I have healthy concern about things I can change. I limit my concern to things I can change. I choose how much thought and energy I give things. I spend a healthy amount of concern, energy, and thought on things.

I can respond to things in many healthy ways. I control my responses. I respond to things in ways that are most healthy for others and me.

I choose to respond to things in any of the following ways.

  • I delay responding to things of concern.

  • I become free from things of concern.

  • I remain engaged with things of concern.

  • I think before I do things, when there’s time. I become calm and focused about making healthy responses. I slow down and become quiet. I make a plan of healthy responses by doing the following. I gather facts. I learn about things I want to change. I learn about things through the views of others. I learn about many sides of things. I learn about how I can change things. I exchange thoughts. I receive help from others. I reason. I imagine. I receive inspiration. I have new thoughts, new views, and new understandings. I use my plan of healthy responses. I change things in the here and now.

  • I quickly use my healthy instincts when there is little time to respond to great danger.

  • I stay calm by doing any of the following. I have healthy thoughts. I have thoughts about good things in life. I think about the good things I have, and I become thankful for them. I become busy doing healthy things. I do happy and fun things. I listen to happy music. I watch funny shows. I laugh. I do healthy activities. I exercise. I do slow deep breathing.

I control my thoughts, words, and actions. I am in charge of my thoughts, words, and actions. I control how I respond to things. I respond to things in healthy ways.



I LIVE IN THE HERE AND NOW

Living happens in the here and now. The here and now is for me to know and treasure. I make best use of the here and now. I do this because it is where and when I live. I live in the here and now.

I have rights to do the following because I am in the here and now. I have the right to be here now. I have the right to be happy. I have the right to live. And I have the right to grow.

I receive things needed to live and grow in the here and now.

I have healthy concern about things that may happen in the future. I do not guess too much about the future. I do not worry too much about the future.

I am as happy as I allow myself to be in the here and now. I remain happy even when I must do difficult things. I am happy in the here and now. I am happy in life. I am happy.

I am at peace with the here and now. I live in the here and now.