In following your path to enlightenment, as well as in following your enlightened path, there are a number of pre-requisite skills to acquire. Without focus on developing these skills your journey will be made unnecessarily longer than you may wish it. At times we all unconsciously choose to take the long way round, but if you knew another way, why would you not choose it?
We know that you do not need to be a thing to speak about it, or teach it. Certainly I do not view myself as a Master of my Thought, although I know that it is necessary and essential to living my-self as a completely conscious expression. There have been times and moments in which I achieved this mastery, for a time. In the past these moments occurred far apart, and became more frequent, with practice and with choice. Now they are at their most frequent, and even though I know and realize the necessity of my mastery over my own thoughts, I have not yet achieved it totally all of the time, even though it’s a choice I make often.
I still allow some everyday things to distract me, I allow work situations and stresses to remove me from focusing on the thoughts I would rather be choosing. You might say, its only natural, you are human, it’s not possible to be in control of your thought all the time! I tell you, it is, and once you realize it, you will choose to be in control of your thoughts, your emotions, your body and all things that you affect, but for now I’m simply writing on thought.
The importance of thought control is inestimable; however, consider that by choosing your thoughts, you are seeding the beginning of creating the environment and reality that will allow you to achieve higher consciousness. By being in control of your thoughts, you can and will build fortresses in the mind that reject your past negativity, the negativity of others and the world, which attempt to affect and distract you daily.
The negativity that you own is built from past choices for which you have not forgiven yourself, relating to yourself or others. This is simple to release with true forgiveness and accepting responsibility. First, you must accept responsibility for this negativity before your forgiveness will be effective. This may be difficult for some of you, especially if have not accepted our oneness. If this is the case, you may have difficulty accepting responsibility for all thoughts, words and actions that have occurred “to you”. Yes, it’s easy to accept responsibility for something when you perceive yourself as the instigator of a situation.
Accepting responsibility for things that you see as having happened to you, may be a little more complex for some. You should accept that we are all one and part of God, the Divine, the Creator, or however you name Her/Him, then you will relate well to the concept of forgiveness. As part of God, you are ultimately forgiving yourself and taking responsibility for the actions of all. Do this consciously and repeatedly, and you will ultimately no longer see separateness between your-self and an-other.
If you are not able to relate to these last mentioned concepts yet sense the rightness about them, simply hold them in your thoughts, ponder them. You will know whether this is true to you.
After practicing and using forgiveness and acceptance of the past, your focus can be turned to your present. In the present, your attention changes, it is required to be more present, excuse my pun, but there is truth in it. You will require of yourself that you think the best thoughts, in each moment.
Since the practice may be new to you, the easiest way to start a journey is with a step, followed by another. Take a step - Simply in this moment now, choose to think only thoughts which serve your higher self. Think only thoughts which bring you closer to or allow you to envision your purpose. If you are not able to envision, why not ponder what it may be? Why are you here?
If you already know or have the idea of your purpose, imagine fulfilling it. Even if you do not, imagine fulfilling it and what that may feel like. Every thought you have, moves you closer to that.
Even if you feel you have no idea of your purpose and see no benefit to imagining an end point which you cannot yet relate to, focus then on your favorite affirmation, or positive quotation that has lifted you up before. Think on the highest image of yourself you can, what does your life look like? Think on your next step, is it your career? So be it. Is it wealth and abundance? So be it. The situation of a loved one? Think on that. Hold it in your mind.
Now, make a commitment with yourself, to choose your higher thought always, until it is realized.
In the beginning, you will forget, you will be distracted and you will allow that to happen. So what? You have been given the tools – accept responsibility for forgetting, then forgive yourself for forgetting, and choose that state of mind again. It is as simple as a choice. As you walk through your day, each moment that you are able, choose your highest thought.
The purpose to mastery of thought, is mastering the process of continually choosing right thought as we see it, as well as consciously choosing each thought to emanate from you. Many of us allow thought to happen to us, or to be dictated to us through our outside environment. Through mastering your thoughts, you may create an environment for fostering the highest thought you can, and allow you to move to the next steps of creation.
Remember, every thought you have, affects you, and everything else, just as the stone causing the pond to ripple. Why? We are all One, are We not?
Thank You,
Mikel
We know that you do not need to be a thing to speak about it, or teach it. Certainly I do not view myself as a Master of my Thought, although I know that it is necessary and essential to living my-self as a completely conscious expression. There have been times and moments in which I achieved this mastery, for a time. In the past these moments occurred far apart, and became more frequent, with practice and with choice. Now they are at their most frequent, and even though I know and realize the necessity of my mastery over my own thoughts, I have not yet achieved it totally all of the time, even though it’s a choice I make often.
I still allow some everyday things to distract me, I allow work situations and stresses to remove me from focusing on the thoughts I would rather be choosing. You might say, its only natural, you are human, it’s not possible to be in control of your thought all the time! I tell you, it is, and once you realize it, you will choose to be in control of your thoughts, your emotions, your body and all things that you affect, but for now I’m simply writing on thought.
The importance of thought control is inestimable; however, consider that by choosing your thoughts, you are seeding the beginning of creating the environment and reality that will allow you to achieve higher consciousness. By being in control of your thoughts, you can and will build fortresses in the mind that reject your past negativity, the negativity of others and the world, which attempt to affect and distract you daily.
The negativity that you own is built from past choices for which you have not forgiven yourself, relating to yourself or others. This is simple to release with true forgiveness and accepting responsibility. First, you must accept responsibility for this negativity before your forgiveness will be effective. This may be difficult for some of you, especially if have not accepted our oneness. If this is the case, you may have difficulty accepting responsibility for all thoughts, words and actions that have occurred “to you”. Yes, it’s easy to accept responsibility for something when you perceive yourself as the instigator of a situation.
Accepting responsibility for things that you see as having happened to you, may be a little more complex for some. You should accept that we are all one and part of God, the Divine, the Creator, or however you name Her/Him, then you will relate well to the concept of forgiveness. As part of God, you are ultimately forgiving yourself and taking responsibility for the actions of all. Do this consciously and repeatedly, and you will ultimately no longer see separateness between your-self and an-other.
If you are not able to relate to these last mentioned concepts yet sense the rightness about them, simply hold them in your thoughts, ponder them. You will know whether this is true to you.
After practicing and using forgiveness and acceptance of the past, your focus can be turned to your present. In the present, your attention changes, it is required to be more present, excuse my pun, but there is truth in it. You will require of yourself that you think the best thoughts, in each moment.
Since the practice may be new to you, the easiest way to start a journey is with a step, followed by another. Take a step - Simply in this moment now, choose to think only thoughts which serve your higher self. Think only thoughts which bring you closer to or allow you to envision your purpose. If you are not able to envision, why not ponder what it may be? Why are you here?
If you already know or have the idea of your purpose, imagine fulfilling it. Even if you do not, imagine fulfilling it and what that may feel like. Every thought you have, moves you closer to that.
Even if you feel you have no idea of your purpose and see no benefit to imagining an end point which you cannot yet relate to, focus then on your favorite affirmation, or positive quotation that has lifted you up before. Think on the highest image of yourself you can, what does your life look like? Think on your next step, is it your career? So be it. Is it wealth and abundance? So be it. The situation of a loved one? Think on that. Hold it in your mind.
Now, make a commitment with yourself, to choose your higher thought always, until it is realized.
In the beginning, you will forget, you will be distracted and you will allow that to happen. So what? You have been given the tools – accept responsibility for forgetting, then forgive yourself for forgetting, and choose that state of mind again. It is as simple as a choice. As you walk through your day, each moment that you are able, choose your highest thought.
The purpose to mastery of thought, is mastering the process of continually choosing right thought as we see it, as well as consciously choosing each thought to emanate from you. Many of us allow thought to happen to us, or to be dictated to us through our outside environment. Through mastering your thoughts, you may create an environment for fostering the highest thought you can, and allow you to move to the next steps of creation.
Remember, every thought you have, affects you, and everything else, just as the stone causing the pond to ripple. Why? We are all One, are We not?
Thank You,
Mikel
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