It may be a challenge to always monitor your thoughts, but a good way to see how you are doing in the thinking department is to check out how you feel.
Since thoughts drive emotions (sorry Freud), just a quick check of how you are feeling will give you a good reflection of how your thoughts are flowing. And since emotional health can dictate your bodies physiology (eg. you get beet red when you’re mad) it’s pretty important to keep your unwanted emotions in check.
So if you are feeling really down or negative, you can guarantee that you are thinking negative thoughts, and recognizing that, you have a great chance at starting to change your thinking to jump start yourself back to feeling and being positive.
A big thing to remember about how you think and your thoughts, is that YOU are in control with what goes on in your own mind. How you react or respond to things in your life is up to you, not your environment, experiences or circumstances.
So checking how you feel can be a great bearing on how your thoughts are doing, and if you need to make a change to the positive…REMEMBER – it’s up to you and YOU can do it!!!
Yours in Control – Coach
What I get most out of this post is thinking about ‘Thoughts Drive Emotions’… so if you are feeling down and it is a health issue, then it seems logical your emotions will reflect what you are feeling. If you are ill, keep in mind it is not possible to appear your best and it is ludicrous to say Fantastic when asked how you are. Your friends will see it as a lame expression and a lie. Instead you could say, I’m not at my best, but still excited over the goodness life can bring! Thanks for asking.
Giovanna Westwood wrote:
Dr. Vik –
I just wanted to let you know that I’ve been reading your pearls of wisdom the whole time you’ve been sending them out to us, and I really appreciate them.
You know, thoughts are actual things. Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, we can achieve.
That’s the way I was able to come here to the state of Las Vegas on my own with no family out here. I wanted to be here when I lived in
California for at least 2 years before I moved. I would look at http://www.realtor.com, but I had no idea how I was going to make my way here – nor did I have the money. I just */knew/* that I was going to move.
Finally, a band that I was performing in California with called “The Drifters Review” as bass player and vocalist began to perform in
Mesquite, and I was able to start touring on the road with them. While I was with them at the Casablanca Hotel, a band called “Rhythm Nation” came to see me and offered me a job. I drove back to Vegas to audition with them when I finished my stint on the road with The Drifters Review, and they gave me the job. I packed up my stuff and moved her using mine and a friend’s car until my move was complete, and here I am now for 3 years+! And that’s just /*one*/ example.
Thanks for the wise words!
Sincerely,
Giovanna
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