Do you ever stop and wonder who is in control of your own thoughts? Do you realize the impact of your thoughts and how they ultimately lead to your behaviors? Most times our beliefs and values are so deeply internalized that we rarely stop to reflect on how they shape our every moment.
Take a moment to stop and reflect now. Can you recall a time when maybe your own behavior alarmed even you? How could you have possibly behaved in such a way that seems so opposite to what you truly value? These are not easy questions but certainly important ones.
Dr. Ernest Holmes understood the power of our thoughts stating, “life externalizes at the level of our thought.” If we are not careful enough to pay attention to our thought patterns, it will never be easy for us to achieve our goals. It’s that simple.
Stop and reflect once more now. Are your thoughts healthy? Can you recognize a theme of what you believe to be true? Do you view life mostly through a positive, negative or neutral frame of view?
We are foolishly operating on autopilot unless we make looking inward part of our daily practice.
When we engage in silence, we recognize the Divine strength that is there to guide us to righteousness. But we must first stop to make the decision to become the drivers of our own destiny once more. We can continue on autopilot or we can take control of the wheel and be led to eternal bliss.
Jennifer Picinic, PhD
Certified Spiritual Counselor
As I awaken this morning, I am faced with outside stressors trying to make their way through to me. Things that, in many ways, I cannot control. While I feel the distress inside of me feeling as though it wants to make its way out, I recognize I have not worked this hard to react in a habitual way that I no longer desire. A way that doesn’t ultimately align with my higher self.
Slowly and steadily I have moved from such. Slowly and steadily I have worked at reacting differently.
As events unfold, I catch myself AS the observer. I notice how I am feeling all over and what I am choosing to do with it. Yup, I am in control.
This recognition may at times appear very subtle, but as I step away I recognize it is my decision how I wish to respond in this moment and every there after. And so slowly and steadily I continue to make more changes that feel right deep within. Changes that bring me back to a state of love. Mastering such a skill is the reward.
I’ve got this.
Jennifer Picinic, PhD
Certified Spiritual Counselor
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