I am excited to begin this adventure with you. My hope is that each blog post will give you something to think about and possibly help you to have a brighter, better day. And better days lead to better lives.
Today, I want you to think about just how many choices you make each day. Nutritionists tell us that we make over 200 food choices in an average day. And just walk into Publix and you are surrounded by thousands of choices.
Our thoughts and our minds are like a supermarket. A supermarket of old thoughts, old feelings, old ideas as well as the shining new ones. And we get to choose! Are we going to select the same old tired thoughts that may or may not have served you well in the past? We have to examine the thought and see if it is beneficial or if it is holding us hostage to some old way of life.
When we find ourselves pulling up a negative or less than positive thought, we can use our Unity tool of denials and say “this isn’t true for me anymore” or “this doesn’t have any power over me.” And then we can craft an affirmation to replace that old thought.
When I was a child I lived with my grandparents during first grade. Their house backed up to Fairfield Elementary School. They didn’t maintain the grass all the way to the school lot line. The first weeks I had to trudge through high grass, but soon I had worn a flat path and the walking was so much easier.
Every time we use an affirmation we are making new synapses in our brains – carving new neural pathways. As the pathways become more dominant, it is easier and easier to think these kinds of thoughts and the pathways that our old thoughts had made become overgrown and less easy to travel.
This week I invite you to make a choice of which thoughts you choose to entertain.