Thoughts create our reality and can help or hurt us depending on their origin: love or fear. Realizing we have the ability to say no to painful thoughts empowers us. It strengthens our ability to focus on what’s healthy and healing. We don’t have to be slaves to our mind. It takes some mindfulness to notice when fear-based thoughts are arising, notice how it makes us feel, and either take it in or let it go. Where your mind goes energy flows. This is absolutely true and worth remembering. Sometimes we can feel that monitoring thoughts is like putting a leash on a dog. It means that the higher part of our being watches where the ego self is pulling us. We pause, re-direct, pause, re-direct. It is possible to train the mind, to replace negative, heavy thoughts with positive, joyful ones. Eventually it requires less effort and the animal of our mind naturally wanders off less.
