By Remez Sasson
Most of the events of your life have been shaped by your thoughts, attitude and expectations. If your life doesn’t change and doesn’t improve, it means that you are not changing your thoughts, attitude and expectations. It is like playing the same movie in your mind, over and again, and enacting it in your real life, time and again.
There is no reason to cling to thoughts, beliefs, attitude and expectations. You can change them if you really want. If you change them, you will start seeing life in a different way, acting in a different way, and consequently, changing the events and situations in your life.
Even if circumstances do not change, or cannot be changed, your attitude would be different, and therefore, the impact of circumstances on you would be different, milder, or even non-existent.
If your thoughts have always been negative, and you keep repeating them, how do you expect to improve your life?
Don’t let the past shape your future.
Your past thoughts created your present, but there is no need to repeat these thoughts. You can think other thoughts. You can think of what you want, irrespective of your current situation.
If you start thinking about success, instead of thinking about failure, and keep this way of thinking, in time, these thoughts would affect your life. What you think in the present, would change your future.
Think about success and expect success, and you will be aware of opportunities, which you usually do not see now.
Learn to be peaceful inside you, and you won’t be troubled by external situations or circumstances, even if you cannot change them.
Have faith in yourself, and you will be in a better position to handle the affairs of your life. Think different thoughts, from those you are used to think. Those different, positive thoughts, about a better life, will sooner or later start affecting the present circumstances and situations of your life, and shape for you, a different, better future.
Live in the present moment, not in the past. The past is past. Don’t let it affect your present thoughts and feelings and the situations of your future. Make the effort of reminding you to think positive thoughts, and have faith in yourself that you can do so. This might seem difficult, especially if your thoughts have always been negative, and you always expected the problems of the past to continue into the present.
Live in the present moment, creating new thoughts, and new expectations, not only about money, work or relationships, but also about health, happiness, and spirituality. These new thoughts, which you think in the present, would mold your future.
Notice what thought you are thinking at this moment:
- Are they negative or positive?
- Are they new thoughts, or thoughts you usually think?
- Are they about problems and difficulties, or about a better future?
Thoughts often awake certain with feelings, and these feeling have a powerful impact on your subconscious mind, and on the way you behave and act. This means that it is not enough to change your thoughts, but it is also important to change the feelings associated with them. How you can do so, through affirmations, visualization, willpower and meditation.
The past has a great power on everyone, and is responsible for the present situations in one’s life. By being conscious of your present thoughts and feelings, you shape your future. By being more aware of your thoughts, and aware of the feelings associated with them, you can start rejecting the thoughts and feelings that have been shaping your life in a negative way. By choosing your thoughts and feelings, and by thinking and feeling in a more positive and constructive way, even if your past and present are unhappy or unsuccessful, you start creating a better future.
Don’t let the past shape your future.
Yes I full agree with the writer on this score. A close friend of mine had a bad childhood which damaged his self-esteem and confidence was forcibly married by his parents. But that did not change his attitude and he continued to live in his past. He cud neither be a good husband nor a father to his only son. He used to be a loner and very self-centered and was not motivated to grow or improve his life style and income for his family. He wasted his prime years and by the time he realised he had already wasted 30 years of his and his life-partner’s life. He did not have the wisdom to enjoy his life and be in the present and has left a past for his near and dear ones too.
Very nice article, and very clear articulation of concepts. I just recently (about 4 months ago) started a blog about positive thinking and the amazing effect just changing my focus had on my life in as little as 6 months. I have full faith in the power of positive and am now looking forward to my tomorrows instead of killing myself in my past.
This is a great article! Being mindful to live consciously in the moment is so important. I believe this art will help vitalize humanity in experiencing more positive lives. Cheers to the present!
The article is very nice and educative. It has brought a big change to me . In the past I used to feel that my relationship does’nt last, because the guy will never communicate, but because he himself was not aware, i will end up breaking communication with insults words and being vey angry. Now I have realised that mostly it was my thought. In present I just communicate the way I want and he will respond and he will see by himself that today it should be him to start the day and reationship now last.