Your Own Thoughts Hold You Captive
Your mind is active. With that active mind you either build a prison for yourself or set yourself free.
He thought to himself, “I’ll never get this built in time.” Ben was working on a fence to keep his goats corralled. They wandered off more than was tolerable.
He had set himself a deadline of the first of the month. He was just too rushed, he continued to think to himself. All the chores and watching against grizzlies and panthers. He would never get the enclosure done by the time he wanted. It always was that way with him.
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So, he did not finish in time and an important goat wandered too far and was taken by a panther, or so it looked. Ben knew the enclosure he was building would not guarantee that no bear or lion would get his goats. But he could better keep an eye on them if they were confined more often.
It occurred to Ben, then, that he was always setting deadlines for himself. But he always found other things to keep him from getting done what he wanted by the time he wanted.
He sat on a stump and pondered. Yes, this was unusual for him. He was not much of thinker. Wait a minute. He thought all the time, he realized. He looked up at his little homestead in the Alaskan “country side.”
He had a wife, Sally, and three small children: Ted, Ed, and Fred. Fred was really Fredericka but everyone called her Fred to keep the rhyme going. His family was Ben’s joy.
He had nothing to be extraordinarily concerned about in his life. But why was he never getting anything done as he wanted? He got it done but much later than he worked toward. He just had so much else to do.
Wait a minute, he thought. I am the one who puts thoughts in my own way. The chores are always there. I am the one who counts them too many. I throw road blocks up in my own path.
I will change my thoughts, he thought. I will make the time by saying I will finish when I want.
Now, this took some doing. Ben found that he could not simply say, “I’ll change my thoughts.” He discovered he had to work at it. He had to be vigilant against imprisoning ideas he came up with himself.
Over time, however, Ben did corral his own thoughts and made them serve him instead of him serving them. This did not keep the panthers and bears away. He simply had a better time of life because he ran his life. His thoughts no longer did.
The same for you dear reader (dear watcher). Are you a prison of your own thoughts? These thoughts can be about little things, large happenings or even tragic events. What are you telling yourself with your thoughts? Are these thoughts contributing to your happiness or misery?
Would you be free of your prison of thoughts? Release yourself by changing your thoughts. No, it not as easy as my saying it. You have to put in effort.
But just knowing that you can change your thoughts, allows you to give yourself the permission and the power to change your thoughts. Do not let yourself be incarcerated by your own brainwork.
What you think, you are. Think differently and you will be different and your world will be different. Begin now.
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An actual email from one of my readers asks the question: “Can thoughts become reality?” I immediately add, in my mind, “And what does this have to do with the meaning of life?” The two are definitely related.
These days there is so much hype about the Law of Attraction. The law of attraction is basically deciding to keep in your mind at all times, that which you want to happen. But not only keeping it in mind, but also working, doing things in the direction you wish to go. Have people cured themselves of disease through their thoughts? Yes, I have seen it happen. Have people overcome disabilities through the power of their thoughts? Yes, I have seen it happen. These folks decided to be other than they were.
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