"Whatever you focus on will become your reality" - Laura Bushnell
I saw this quote on another blog (Ophelia Blooming)and it stuck in my head. I had a chance to think about it some more this past week as I had this experience I'm about to share.
Last week I was thinking about adding some dresses to my wardrobe. As I scanned my magazines, I saw a sexy gray sheath which I thought would be a versatile addition to the closet...It could be worn all year round with a change in accessories and go day to night. I wrote it down on my list and said to myself, I want this gray dress. A few days later, windowshopping in the mall, yielded the said gray sheath in glen plaid (the exact pattern I was looking for), on sale. Was that a coincidence? Or did I manifest it in my reality? I could discount the power of the mind to mere chance if this only happened once in a blue moon. But as I looked back at the stuff crossed off my to-do list, quite a few of these victories were materialized without much struggle or effort, except clear intent and desire.
Have you ever noticed that when an angry thought appears in your mind, it gets bigger as another angry thought feeds into it and it picks up speed and more angry thoughts get added, and before long you forgot what you were initially angry about, but more importantly, the whole world to you now seems filled with poison and everyone is out to get you. Now step back a bit and take in the scenery - the world went on about it's business, doing what it does. The thing that changed was your perspective, due to those thoughts. Your thoughts changed your perception of reality. And at some point I'm sure you have followed through with an action, based on that new perception. That action became a brick in the construction of your world. See how you just created a reality? Just like magic!
So...first we need to figure out what kind of world we want to live in. Monitor our thoughts to make sure they help build that world - if they don't build, but help to destroy, throw them out. At first it will be hard as you sort the good from the bad bricks cemented together, keep adding more good bricks and soon you'll have your world. Look how quickly a subdivision goes up these days, and that requires physical labor and has to work around the weather. This construction I'm talking about is in your mind, ready to work when you are, and no bad weather to deal with - unless you make it so.
