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 and atom 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.

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 use violent thoughts to make people do violent things. They do this through mass media. Millions of people watching violent shows — and playing violent games — make the world more violent. Thoughts can be used for many things.

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.

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 to improve your life.

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 heat and light 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 energy that change 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. They have amplitude and frequency. These brainwaves are changed into electric signals that travel through your body.

This may sound funny. But 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. Every thing you do has the form of energy waves. The movement of every breath and step you take has a wave form.

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 it always stays connected. But 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 energy bundles. 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. All of these things happen all of the time.

Some think you’re a form of energy that can view and change other forms of energy (i.e., things). We know you can 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.

Many think your energy to view and change other forms of energy lives 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. You're none of them. So avoid defining yourself by them, because this can limit your freedom and power to experience life and grow.

Many people find it most difficult to understand they're not their thoughts and feelings. If you believe you're 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 they change or become forgotten? 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 bad 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 only 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, some think you’re a form of energy that has the power to view (experience, understand, and know) and change your thoughts and feelings — and many other things. And the view you have — and the things you change — are your choices. Some people describe this power as awareness, consciousness, and mindfulness — but these terms do not also include your power to change things.

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

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

·   Choose and change your view of thoughts and other things.

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

·   Have thoughts in the here and now.

·   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.

Many of these ideas are from very old religions and philosophies. Modern science has simply proven old ideas.

It’s clear that 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 even changed and made many of our thoughts. But this thought energy from the past hasn’t made every thing that remains for us to know. Imagination and inspiration form an unlimited event horizon. Through it, there’s no limit to all that will be.

Atoms of Thought

In some ways, thoughts are like atoms. They come in and out of view. They’re made of an electric kind of energy that’s always changing. They seem to be made of smaller and smaller parts. If their parts stop, they vanish from view. The energy of thoughts and atoms isn’t made or destroyed. It only changes form.

The way that parts of thought work together was described in the 1700s by Gottfried Leibniz. He knew about an idea called atomism. And he used it on thinking and thoughts. Atomism began in Greece around 500 B.C. It’s the idea that things seem to be made of smaller and smaller parts.

Leibniz tried to find the parts of thought and how they work together. While doing this, he invented a system of logic. And he invented a universal language of thought that used a new alphabet, with special letters and symbols. This language turned into a new kind of math called calculus. Today, scientists, engineers, and others use calculus around the world. And this system of logic is used to make almost every computer program. Gottfried Leibniz’s language of thought has become a world language.