Just a Thought.

I just read a blog post sent to me from Martha Beck.  She was talking about the power of focus – how what we put our attention on grows, changes, manifests, etc.  She used two examples from conversations she’d had.  One with a hockey player who told her that his focus in a game is not on the goal tender but on the holes (spaces) around him.  Another from a white water rafter who similarly explained that he doesn’t look at the rocks he looks at the water when he’s maneuvering his craft.  Soon after, I experienced my own example.  While curling my hair, I was intensely trying not to burn myself and instantaneously after the thought, I burned myself with my curling iron!  This focus thing really works.  I had forgotten, obviously, the lesson that your brain (or whatever concentrating matter is involved) does not pick up the ‘not’ part of a sentence.  I have a lot of success with the negative focus.  I don’t want to gain weight.  So I do.  I don’t want to be grumpy, so I am.  I don’t want to be cheated; it happens routinely.

On the positive side, I have pretty much worked out being healthy.  I’m not sick very often. If I feel something coming on, I speak to it, and tell it no thank you.  That works for me.  I’ve been doing it for years.  Sometimes I have to repeat it often and for a while, but it consistently works.  I am slowly turning the ‘negative ship’ around in my thoughts.  First, by being aware of what my thoughts are.  Then, I run  them through my ‘truth-o-meter.’  I ask myself is what I’m thinking true?  Then, is there another, better thought that is just as true?  And more and more I am finding a truer, more positive thought and slowly things are beginning to move forward in my life.

Now I’m going to bandage my burn while I think about not winning the lottery.