Master Your Thoughts To Master Your Life

Ruth Kao Barr | 18 April 2019

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”- Buddha

Your Thoughts Are Powerful (but experience it for yourself)

I admit, the title is a hint obnoxious.  

It almost sounds like I have it all figured out. But that’s far from the truth. I, like all of us in this world, am learning and practicing this thing we call life every day. But what I can do is share what I’ve learned along the way so that others may glean from it what’s useful for themselves.

And what I have learned is that our thoughts are mega-powerful, and based on my own experience, one can definitely master her thoughts to master her life.

This is my truth, but you don’t have to take my word for it. 

Stay with me and you might experience it for yourself.

Your Thoughts Create Your Reality

The Stanford Mind and Body Lab have shown that through the power of our mind, we can think ourselves into:

• losing weight 

• living longer lives 

• feeling more satiated

• elevating our blood pressure 

• feeling less pain and shorter stays at the hospital after surgery

“Our minds aren’t passive observers, simply perceiving reality as it is. Our minds actually change reality,” said Alia Crum, a professor of psychology and director of the Stanford Mind and Body Lab. 

There are mini “miracles” that magically occur every day across the world just through the power of the mind. 

Do you want to experience one right now?

OK. I want you to imagine that you’re looking at a fruit basket in front of you. Pick out the biggest, juiciest-looking lemon from the basket. Next, reach for a cutting board and cut the lemon in wedges. As you do so, you see the lemon juice run out underneath the cutting board. You take one wedge of lemon and hold it up to your nose and smell the refreshing fragrant citrus oil scent. You then stick the fleshy part of the lemon into your mouth…then give the juicy pulp a nice squeeze with your mouth. As you’re imagining this, your mouth, if like mine, is producing saliva, the muscles around your face may be contracting, and perhaps you have even swallowed the imaginary juice.

Now, why did this happen? Your physical reality didn’t change one bit, but your physiology or your body responded like there was a new stimulus in your environment – the lemon.

The reason is the power of your mind.

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