![]() ![]() ![]() The message: Changing our thoughts about our physical activity seems capable of changing our bodies. When something goes right? 'Luck!' he exclaims.ģ INTERESTING CASE STUDIES SHOWING JUST HOW POWERFUL OUR THOUGHTS ARE Someone that develops the belief that he is not capable of starting his own company will see every mistake as evidence that he is, indeed, not capable of starting his own company. Based on what we've just heard about confirmation bias, you look for evidence that supports your belief and discount anything that contradicts it. How does this apply to our thoughts becoming reality? Because our thoughts about ourselves become beliefs about ourselves, beliefs like “I could never start my own company, I'm not intelligent enough to apply for that job, I'm too X to meet the perfect person for me, I'm not patient enough to learn a new language”, insert your own beliefs here. This explains why prejudices are so hard to budge we don't perceive information objectively but rather we pick and choose that which confirms our prejudices. Any evidence, on the contrary, we conveniently don't see. Your friend is not, in fact, ignoring you at all.Ĭonfirmation bias suggests that once we have formed a view, we seek for evidence that backs it up. If you leave this belief unchecked, you will begin to act as if it was true. You've come to the conclusion that your friend is avoiding you. You tried to call your friend 3 times last week between Monday and Wednesday, you emailed him twice on Friday and even resorted to Facebook messenger by Saturday. Confirmation bias explains that we are prone to believe what we want to believe. Psychologists call this ' confirmation bias'. Even the least stubborn, like to be right too. To put it simply, our thoughts can become reality because as humans, we like to be right. Your thoughts can determine how much you achieve, what you attempt and what you don't, whether you reach success or not and science has the answer to 'how?' We are going to take a look at the science behind how your thoughts can become reality. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny', a well-known quote attributed to a 19th-century cowboy, Frank Jackson. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your words, they become your actions. And if something slips by, by all means, watch your words.You've heard it before, you may have even seen it attached by a magnet to your friend's sister's fridge: 'Watch your thoughts, they become words. At all times, in all circumstances, we have a choice about how to shape our destiny. To restate it simply: your life is about what you put your attention on. The origins of your destiny are found right here. You are not responsible for the thoughts that exist in your being you are responsible for what you do with them. Once you know this, there is no turning back. That is where the potential to do good or harm begins. Once you invest in it and then communicate about it, you’ve given it life - that is when is moves from a random stream flowing through you into the arena of creation. Your accountability starts when you make the decision to feed or starve a thought. You feed and nurture and give life to a thought by paying attention to it. THAT is where their potential to impact our lives begins. We can also choose which ones to pay attention to and invest in. At best, we can watch them, the way one would watch a ticker tape at the bottom of a television screen. Obviously, anyone who has ever tried to meditate knows that we cannot stop our thoughts. ![]() Given that we have millions of thoughts a day, the idea of becoming accountable for them is rather daunting, to say the least. ![]() Better to begin right now assuming that EVERYTHING we think has an impact - no exceptions - than to continue to randomly throw ideas and words around that may come back to bite us. The gap between those initial thoughts and a specific outcome can seem vast and unrelated, lulling us into a state of complacency and laziness, leaving us unprepared for what’s to come. The heart of the problem is making that connection between what we think and say and what eventually shows up in our lives. And yet, very few of us make ourselves accountable at the level of our thoughts and our words. You’d think given that realization, we might be a bit more mindful of what comes our of our mouths or spills onto the page. It simply and beautifully illuminates the power of our thoughts and our words to create our destiny. This little poem, attributed to various authors, has been floating around the internet for years. Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. ![]()
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