Thought
Energy
“A
man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
Mahatma
Gandhi
I
feel as though I circle around this notion day after day. I seem to
keep coming back to it almost every time I sit down to write. Perhaps
that is because I want to drive it home to myself, and say it often
enough that you will take notice of how you are thinking at any given
moment of the day. It is not experience that drives our thoughts, it
is our thoughts that drive our experience.
Again,
our thinking brain is responsible. The human brain is made for
constant thinking. I watch the dogs in my keeping, and with the
exception of ideas like “squirrel,” and “cookie,” and being
quite accurate at keeping track of time, especially time related to
food, they don't seem to think about a whole lot. They observe, they
sleep, they play, but they don't worry. Only humans fret inside their
heads.
We are capable of imagining whole new worlds of which we have no
knowledge or experience. Think about writers like Tolkien, and J. K.
Rowling, who made up not only fantastic worlds, but, in the case of
Tolkien, entirely new languages. We have powers of imagination that
far outstrip our experience. So it's not surprising that we create
our world to fit our thinking.
The
problem comes when we don't appreciate the fact that our thoughts
drive our actions, and we assume that our reality is the only valid
one; our truth, the only acceptable truth. Then we are capable of
condemning entire swaths of people simply because they don't fit our
definition of how things should be. As a species, we have done, and
continue to do atrocious things in the name of “Truth.”
That
is why we need to go back to leaders like Gandhi, like Martin Luther
King, Jr., to relearn the lessons of thought and action. There is no
power on earth like that of the human mind. When it is filled with
compassion, acceptance, and an irrepressible will toward good,
there is no force that can stop it. When it is filled with fear,
suspicion and hatred, it wreaks immeasurable harm.
Let
this be a day of kind thoughts, of optimistic thoughts. Thoughts,
like everything else in the universe, are energetic in nature. They
go out from us to join the thought-energy of others. We can add to
the positive field, or we can add to the negative field of
thought-energy. How we think will determine our experience this day.
Will your thoughts be encouraging or pessimistic?
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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