Our futures are comprised of our present thoughts. There's nothing random about what happens to us. We've been busily creating our futures as we go along by consciously and unconsciously imagining outcomes and scenarios to current situations. How do we improve our future? By clearing our minds.
How do we do that? By deliberately and consistently rethinking what we think, by not taking our thoughts seriously, by not assuming the worst, by imagining and envisioning a better self and a better world. By asking ourselves how our best and wisest self would maneuver through any situation in our path.
We imagine that our thoughts are "real". We imagine that there's nothing we can do about the thoughts we think, because they're "true". We're poor, or we're in trouble, or we have a lousy relationship. We ignore our ability to choose. To re frame what we see and what we've done in interesting, positive and productive new ways.
Our brain, and therefore the world, is an elastic machine. Everything we perceive with our 5 senses is filtered through it. We can't interact with our world without our sweet little brains, and they've been conditioned by our cultural underpinnings, our parents, or peer groups, and our own ideas about how to survive to think certain thoughts certain ways. We've been weaving our thoughts into patterns for most of our lives.
To mix a metaphor, our thoughts are like water eroding a hillside. The more they flow in a certain direction, the deeper the channel grows. Rethinking the same thoughts over and over is the method we've used to carve those brain grooves deeper and deeper, and the deeper our grooves get the harder it is to unlock ourselves from our current perceptions.
But we can do it!
Meditation, and even drugs at first, can be so helpful. They allow us to jump the tracks of our current perceptions, to escape from our usual way of perceiving the world and take us into unimaginable, often wonderfully freeing regions and realms.
Do you think anything takes place outside of yourself? No way. Everything you see and do is a product of your thoughts. Change your thoughts, and you change your world.
At least, that's what I think.
