Overcoming the past

Science confirms that we engage over sixty thousand thoughts each day. If that?s true and if many, if not most of those thoughts are dealing with negative or hurtful events in our past lives, we should hardly be surprised that our present life lacks whatever good we may desire. Our thoughts manifest as things and circumstances in our lives whether our perception of our situation is either good or bad.

Fortunately, each thought, good or bad, doesn't produce its immediate equivalent; otherwise we would all be in trouble. Rather, it is the consistency, the constancy and the predominance of our thinking that produces whatever outcome we're experiencing. We tend to experience habits of thought that produce a consciousness either positive or negative. However, we are blessed with the ability to choose to change our thought patterns from negative to positive, or vice versa, thereby changing our consciousness.

If we seek to develop a positive consciousness and reap the attendant benefits we must become willing to change the way we think and the corresponding way we feel. Choosing to feel happy and enthusiastic is habit-forming and if we do so on a consistent basis, we will experience life in a more, prosperous, healthy and harmonious way. Change in consciousness doesn't occur over night, especially if we have spent many years putting garbage into our unconscious computer. Yet with understanding, commitment and determination we will experience the blessings of life that we seek to bring to pass.

Next time: Self-knowledge, the key to understanding others

Good day and good work,

Norman