Change Your Thinking Change Your Life

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life!

"The quality of awareness or attention determines the nature of the consciousness that arises, and thus the action that takes place. The only willful choice one has is the quality of attention one gives to a thought at any moment...the strain of attention is the fundamental act of will."
- Dr. Jeffery Schwartz The mastery of life depends on the mastery of our thoughts. Although we cannot choose which thoughts come to our attention we can choose what to do about them once we become aware of them. This is the great challenge of recovery and change. It all starts and ends with our thoughts. Whatever thoughts we allow to take root will determine the actions that follow. Many who struggle with addictions describe addictive thoughts as hanging around them like a cloud. The power of mental force refers to your capacity to deal with unwanted thoughts. There is a great power within you that has the capacity to recognize unhealthy thoughts. This power within can then help you turn your focus onto more positive and healthy thoughts. Start each day this week on a positive note. Too often we wake up and turn on the television or the radio, have caffeine, and rush out the door. That's prescription for depression and anxiety. If you wake up in the morning and practice the meditation outlined in InnerGold Manual (chapter 5) you've begun your day with and entirely different mindset. By making small and simple changes you can begin changing your whole life. All of these changes begin in the mind.
"Once you realize that thought is cause and life experience is the effect, then you realize that the greatest way to change your life is to change your thinking." - Marianne Williamson A great article was just written by Rolf D. Koecher, Pornography as addicting as any drug.
Pornography and sexual addiction is an addiction that can be managed and controled but an addict must strengthen the pre-frontal cortex (the logical thinking part of the brain) to allow an addict to put their triggers in perspective.