The Power of Thought

Written by Lovelyn on November 10, 2008 – 2:37 pm -

What you believe becomes your reality. This isn’t a new concept. You’ve probably heard it many times before. If you heard it so many times before why aren’t you applying it?


I have to admit that I didn’t start believing this until about 6 months ago. I’d been plagued with depression for in my youth. (Isn’t funny how “I said in my youth?”) Even after overcoming my depression, I still had more than my fair share of negative thoughts. Negative thinking is a hard habit to break.

Not so long along, I went through quite a difficult situation. Our international move didn’t go quite as planned. Times were tough. It was during those tough times that I realized that if I didn’t have a positive outlook, I would shrivel up and die. I needed something to look forward too. So I made something to look forward to. As I did that our situation started to get better.

Your thoughts seep deeply into your subconscious. Your subconscious mind controls many of your actions. Your actions determine you life. If you expect the worst, you behave in a way that causes the worst to occur.

It’s hard to change your thoughts. We have millions of thoughts everyday. How can you keep track of them all? You don’t have to keep track of them all. You just need to make sure you have more positive thoughts than negative thoughts at first. As you whittle down your negative thoughts it will be easier to weed them out. You need to concentrate on replacing those negative thoughts with positive thoughts. You may not believe them at first, but if you do it enough you will.

Once you change your thoughts, you’ll change you actions. Then your life will begin to change.

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5 Comments to “The Power of Thought”

  1. Tamar Chansky Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 12:47 am

    Hello, sometimes these tough situations offer us a unique opportunity (after things fall apart) to put ourselves and our lives together again better, smarter, happier.

    As a child psychologist specializing in anxiety and depression prevention, I want to suggest that while it may be a huge reach to find positive thoughts when you’re feeling down, research has found that the most important step is not so much changing your negative thoughts, but changing your *relationship* to those thoughts. Devalue their importance, realize that they are from an “overprotective” part of the brain which is counterproductively overstating the point. Remember, just like an annoying or negative friend, we don’t take their advice literally, in fact we think in our heads, “there she goes again,” well, actually that is a good way to respond to our thoughts– there goes that negative brain again. It helps you move on.

    I talk about these ideas in my new book, Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking: Powerful, Practical Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Resilience, Flexibility and Happiness. If you’d like to check out an excerpt, go to http://www.freeingyourchild.com.

  2. Evita Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 2:15 am

    Fantastic wisdom Lovelyn!

    Indeed why don’t more people follow through on your initial question, if they know it to be true?

    This question indeed plagues so many. My answer has been that it is just so much easier to stick out the comfortable negative then to move into the unknown positive. Many of us just don’t do so well with change. On top of that scientists have proven that we actually become biochemically addicted to our thoughts - hence as any other addiction, it is very difficult to break. One has to be very conscious to do that and hence change!

    I am thrilled to hear of your own inspiring story! I am glad things are better now and that you know you are capable of making it so!

    Here too comes the famous line…”change your thoughts, change your life!”

  3. Jennifer (Danifer) Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

    You are very right when you say that negative thoughts are hard to break. Sometimes you feel like all that is going in your life is negative and it’s hard to find the positives especially to make them out weigh the negative. I am going through very tough times now and even though my fiance and I are going through them together, he is our positive rock and he is helping me to be positive. It’s tough, but like you said, you have to try to replace every negative with a positive.

    Thanks for the reminder.

  4. Heather Says:
    November 11th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    Awesome article!! I really needed that today!

    Thanks :)

  5. Lovelyn Says:
    November 12th, 2008 at 11:00 am

    @ Tamar
    Giving your negative thoughts less weight like you would an overly critical friend is a great concept.

    @ Evita
    We can indeed become addicted to our thoughts and behaviors. That’s why so many people find it difficult to change.

    @ Jennifer
    Having family and friends to lean on in difficult times really helps. Your very fortunate to have you fiance in you life. When times are tough remember all the things your grateful for.

    @Heather
    Thanks. I’m glad you read this post when you did.

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