The thoughts that exist in in your mind the majority of the time have a propensity to draw similar situations into your life. This may possibly seem like a frank statement, but as you continue to reading this book, you will begin to accept it.
Bring to уоur memory thе thoughts that occupied your mind, prior to any ѕuссеѕѕ or failure you had in thе past. Yоu will discover that уоu repeated certain thoughts оvеr and аgаin in уоur mind. These thoughts led you to behave and act in a certain manner, and attracted certain corresponding events and circumstances into your life.
Thoughts, though invisible and subtle, саn create great changes, as in the following real story.
Sarah, a normal individual, had a decent and stable position for several years. However, she was not happy with what she was doing. Aѕ time passed by, she experienced a growing sense оf discontent, and thе conviction that she was wasting her time and energy doing something she did not like. She wished she had enough money to quit her job; ѕо she could devote аll of her time to the thingѕ she loved doing.
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These thoughts became a sort of a pastime fоr her. She was convinced that she could do bеttеr thingѕ thаn her present job, and wanted to be free to pursue thе subjects she loved.
When she had ѕоmе free time during thе dау, she enjoyed imagining herself telling her boss and colleagues that she was quitting her job. She repeatedly visualized offered a good monetary compensation fоr her early retirement. She also repetitively imagined the joy of being free at last, feeling confident that this was going to turn into
This chapter is composed of concepts that try to differentiate between reality and what is actually happening in your mind, and are we living in a matrix? The Vats and Demons idea creates a vivid
This frustration acted as a vehicle for her to gain a desire to be more
It is common for human beings, as a race, to fall into the comforts of routine – living each day similar to days before and days to come. Unfortunately, it is often too late before one even realizes that they have fallen into this mundane way of living in which each day is completed rather than lived, as explained by David Foster Wallace in “This Is Water”. This commencement speech warned graduating students of the dangers of submitting to our “default settings” of unconscious decisions and beliefs (Wallace 234). However, this dangerous way of living is no new disability of today’s human race. Socrates warned the people of his time: “A life unaware is a life not worth living” and who is to say he wasn’t completely right? A topic of long debate also includes the kind of influence that consciously-controlled thoughts can have on the physical body. A year after Wallace’s speech, neurobiologist Helen Pilcher, published “The New Witch Doctor: How Belief Can Kill”, which explains the influence of the mind and individual beliefs on the quality of one’s life. Together, both authors illustrate how detrimental a life lived unaware of one’s own thoughts and beliefs can be on the body and spirit. And though it is easy to live by
Louise found she felt the same way as Thelma, she wanted to improve her career situation; she discovered that she found her current situation very disappointing as she studied for years but ended up working in a job that she receives no pleasure from and works “hideous” hours. Louise was attracted to the idea of having more time just like Thelma and how she can be financially stable whilst looking for another career in the
Katherine’s ideal self was a woman who had a successful career and a family life; she wanted to have a husband, children, and a career. These attributes were different from her real self-concept. Her real self was without a husband, children, or a career. As a result of this incongruence between her real self and ideal self, Katherine lacked positive self-regard. She was bounded by the commands of her husband, who disapproved of and ridiculed her dreams to own a business. Her husband was insistent that she had to take care of him, which made her feel incompetent and made her dependent, and later divorced her. The seriousness of her neurosis is observed when she intentionally missed her 10th high school reunion due to the fear of being judged of her lack of success and accomplishments by her classmates. Due to the lack of positive self-regard, she was afraid that others would either make fun of or pity her. The incongruence between her perceived self and ideal self affected her condition of worth, she thought that if she was successful, she would have been accepted by others.
Without actions, thoughts are just seeds without water, destined to die. Even with water, a plant may never reach its fullest potential. A plant could become six inches instead of six feet, it all depends on the amount of water. The seed that gets all the water it deserves will blossom and may never die, while the same seed that gets no water might as well never exist. Using water, seeds are transformed into plants. Seeds have grown into democracy, equality, and all that is good and bad in the world. In the end, it is all about the water (actions) that transforms the seed (ideas) to the kind of plant (result) that it will grow into. The quote by John Ruskin, “What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence.
But, if we read carefully we find that she is described as a young woman, “with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength,” (236) and that there was “a dull stare in her eyes whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky” (236). We could surmise that she is instead looking to her future, in the midst of her grief, and that this is a completely acceptable, even understandable reaction for a young woman of strength and intelligence, who is realizing for the first time a sense of true
(p 73). Imagining one’s self in an event does not have a big impact compared
It has become aparent to me in the past few months that most people are not really thinkers. Most who read this essay will be lost, and will not comprehend many of the theories I adress. I cannot begin to understand why, but most people are not even the least bit curious about what in our lives is real.
Our thoughts create us into the people we are. Everyday hundreds, even thousands, of thoughts rush through our minds and help form us into the people we are intended to become. An example of this comes from my life. As I discussed earlier, this passed winter I was experiencing a serious amount of anxiety with nursing school. I would think constantly about how hard school was going to be and the fact that I would not be able to handle it. These thoughts created me into a person who wanted to quit nursing school. Readers can see another example of thoughts creating us into who we are in William Wordsworth’s poem “I Wander Lonely as a Cloud”. Wordsworth says, “For oft, when on my couch I lie/ and my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils” (19,23-24). These are two examples of the power our minds and thoughts can hold over us. Wordsworth thinks of daffodils and becomes happy. I would think of nursing school and become paralyzed with
There are many lessons I learned from reading “Darkness Visible”. One of these lessons, which is a lesson gained at my field placement as well; is that we are all human beings. We each have life experiences, some positive, some negative, but we each have emotions and feelings about these experiences. Many of these emotions are felt in a similar manner. Alth...
The narrator's sense of imagination through hearing had led to senseless fear, which had then led to his mind going into a protective state for both himself and his lrene. This same idea is also presented in a terrifing moment I have lived through once in my life.
Appalled at this final revelation it is apparent that the speaker has experienced similar thoughts and that sometimes despite great efforts your imagination can steer your thoughts
I stared hungrily into my future uncomprehending why the dreams were so vivid and real, so colorful; and of major concern, why I could actually smell and taste the blood, which caused my parched and dry throat to constrict with a painful thirst. In the middle of the unbearable thirst, was a powerful voice in my head, a dim illumination, as if connected by cameras, which provided no image?
As a teenager, I have always enjoyed the peacefulness of walking and running track. I was never the fastest sprinter; yet, I qualified in a few Cross-Country Canada races. Today, I still choose to walk to and from school, though I did stop running. What did running provide for myself? Why was this insufficient?