If I don’t ask you to pay attention to it right now, will you conscious of the following?
- breathing air with your lungs
- blood circulating inside your body organs
- when you walk, certain parts of your body (legs, muscles & joints) have to work in tandem and in a correct sequence.
Your probably don’t because your attention are consumed by your thoughts in your mind, at that time.
Lucky for all of us, all the body functions are taken care automatically by our sub-sconscious mind, without our conscious input.
As to what we are thinking of, these are either on something that had happened to us in the past or something that we look forward to or fearful about in the future.
Unfortunately, the negative thoughts have a stronger hold of your attention, most of the time.
Our minds are in a continuous flux of thinking but not at present moment.
Eckhart Tolle, in his book, The Power Of NOW, writes that an individual should be aware of their “present moment” instead of losing themselves in worry and anxiety about the past or future.
According to the book, only the present moment is important.
The road is life.
Living life at the present moment.
“In the normal, mind-identified or unenlightened state of consciousness, the power and creative potential that lie concealed in the Now are completely obscured by psychological time. You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.”
He gives instruction on how to achieve the NOW moment and points a way out of suffering and into peace.
Unlike physical health, the parameters of mental health are rather ill-defined. Like physical health, mental health is not simply the absence of mental illness, but a state of positive psychological and social functioning.
How many of us can claim that we are consciously aware of the environment we are in, especially in public places?
If we are alone, and not doing anything in particular at that time, we are possibly deep in thoughts or played with our smartphones, to pass time. Our bodies may be in a certain place but our attention and awareness of the environment are nearly non existent.
As to what we are thinking of, these are either on something that had happened to us in the past or something that we look forward to or fearful about in the future.
Unfortunately, the negative thoughts have a stronger hold of your attention, most of the time.
Our minds are in a continuous flux of thinking but not at present moment.
If these negative thinking patterns continue for long period, it become a permanent part of the program we gave to our subconscious minds.
Because 75 percent or more of our early programming was of the negative kind, we automatically followed suit with our own self-talk – our own self programming of the same negative kind.
“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Recognised Father of the Indian independence movement.
“A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”
― James Allen, author of ” As a Man Thinketh”
So, the first step in self directed thought pattern is to know what we are thinking in this very present moment.
Ask the following:-
Is this thought inspires, motivates or guides me towards achieving my goals?
If not, replace it with another thought that can.
If you have thoughts of yourself as being in negative mood and loss in focus, you could do the following self-talk:
I am alert and aware. My senses are keen and sharp. My mind is clear. I am in touch with everything around me and in control of my life.
Conscious of the NOW moment.
Be proactive to take positive action to benefit of the power of NOW.
Bye from now.
Reuben H C Ong (a.k.a Reubeno)
Website: https://reubenointernet.com/
Email: reubeno@reubenointernet.com
Books by Eckhart Tolle, click below.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (Oprah’s Book Club, Selection 61)
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