One of the first things that people learn about the law of attraction is that thoughts create things and that by changing your thoughts you can change your world. I have known many people who go into panic mode when they realize this because they think they have to monitor every little thought. I’m here to tell you that isn’t necessarily true.
If you’re anything like me, you have found it easy in the past to beat yourself up about not being perfect at something, regardless of what it is, insert your ‘something’ here. We are trained to look for what is wrong and to fix it, so it is VERY easy to notice what you are doing wrong and beat yourself up over not doing it ‘right’.
You can stop beating yourself up start focusing on the great things you are doing to monitor your thoughts with these steps.
1. Reframe what ‘doing it right’ means. For many doing something right means being perfect at the new methodology; in this case thinking positive, empowering thoughts at ALL times that promote you staying in a high vibration. Guess what? Being positive 100% of the time is highly unlikely because it just isn’t part of the human experience. Part of the human experience is contrast and another part is feeling emotions – the full gambit of emotions, not just the happy ones. So what can you do instead? In monitoring and managing your thoughts, look at ‘doing it right’ as making progress daily and noticing an increase in the time you spend thinking high vibration thoughts.
2. When you become aware that you are thinking a lower vibration thought acknowledge it, feel the emotion associated with it and choose to move on from it. Realize that the thought could be there for many different reasons. Utilize the thought that is running through your mind as an opportunity to refocus and define what you do want o think about instead.
3. Choose the next better feeling thought. It isn’t always about changing a low vibration/negative thought to a high vibration/positive thought. What is more important is that you choose a better feeling thought – one that is higher in vibration yet not so high that you can’t connect with it. It is a higher vibration to be angry than to be depressed. It is a higher vibration to optimistic than to be hopeful.
4. Realize that it’s not EVERY little thought ha counts. We have hundreds of thousands of thoughts per day. It is impossible to monitor each and every one. What counts is your baseline…what vibration to predominantly hover at? Monitor that and strive to shift o a higher overall vibration.
5. Celebrate your shifts to a higher dominant vibration. Shifting your thoughts is not a one-time event, it is a daily practice of being aware and consciously choosing to reach for a better feeling thought. Celebrate each time that you notice you are choosing more and more high vibration thoughts. I still beat myself up occasionally. What I am much better at though is not beating myself up as much and shifting out of it much quicker.
The more you choose to become aware of the thoughts running through your mind, the more you will choose to change them to thoughts that serve you better. The more often you choose thoughts that serve you better, the more often you’ll have better feeling thoughts. The more often you have better feeling thoughts, the less often you’ll have lower vibration thoughts.
Soon you’ll stop thinking about making a thought better feeling and instead wonder “where did that thought come from?” when a lower vibration thought creeps in because your dominant vibration will include better feeling thoughts. You see, from here on out you’ll always monitor your thoughts. What will change is the way that you monitor them, and how you work with them.
I encourage you to spend this week celebrating whenever you choose a better feeling thought and focusing on how good celebrating yourself makes you feel. Feel free to celebrate here and share your comments about how your vibration is shifting up the scale.
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abraham…
The Universe doesn’ t say… “ Hey, I like what this one wants, lets give it to him because he deserves it.” It doesn’ t play favorites. If it did, we wouldn’ t have free will and without free will, thought would not exist, as we know it. It …
Interesting comment Abraham. I agree, the Universe doesn’t choose who deserves something and who does not. We are all deserving. Unfortunately, most people don’t feel they are deserving and that is where I see the blockage. The Universe ALWAYS delivers – we just have to be a vibrational match to recieve it/allow it in. And if we feel we are not deserving of something, we really aren’t a vibrational match to it – instead we see the things manifest that WE feel deserving of and are therefore a vibrational match to.