The Thought Diet

Most people would not realize that at one point or another they moved into their current emotional state surrounding their subject to ultimately feel better. If you are, let’s say, angry about something, chances are you were at a lower emotion (at some point) before you moved into anger. Something like powerlessness or insecurity would cause one to reach to anger for relief as anger would be one step closer to taking one’s power back. The problem is most people, not knowing they did that to feel better, often don’t move beyond that emotion and it does not offer the same relief it once did. The progression to feel better stopped for one reason or another.

What usually happens is that people think it was the outside world that made them feel the way they do so they eventually take action to change the outside world but if they took action at a low level emotion, like anger, they were most likely returned with things that matched that level of energy. People and situations that matched or reflected something near that emotion would show up. Once these things started to come back as a result of the energy going out it can start to create a belief in the person that this is how the world works, thus making their emotional state more justified.

The more you see things from your actions that would upset you (taking action at something like anger would potentially return things to you that would anger you further) the more resistant you get. You feel worse and then get more negative results thus creating a stronger belief about how things work. This makes you even more upset and you take more action to change things and get similar results thus hammering in your perspective even more. You get the idea.

Taking action when you feel a low emotion, even if it was one that was better than an even lower one, would stop your progress from moving to a better and more powerful place and it would also create the illusion that life is that hard and perpetuate your beliefs surrounding that subject.

For example, if you felt discouraged about your body you very well might have gotten there from an even lower emotion like insecurity. If you took action to change your body while discouraged you will do two things. You will have energy that is a match to the energy you are putting out (to the universe as well as into your action) and that will be returned to you. The other thing that can happen is being in that discouraged state creates a negative chemical environment that will make any actions less effecient as the body will be in a negative chemical environment.

Taking the action to feel better first rewards you with better solutions and a better chemical environment, both leading more effecient action thus better and quicker results. Not to mention, by taking the time to feel better first, you get to feel better before you see results, which is why you wanted to take the action in the first place. Oh, and you won’t be wasting time and energy.

Most people think that it is the outside world that makes them feel the way they do. You often hear people say things like “he really makes me mad” or “that really upset me.” Both of these examples elude to the idea that something outside of them was responsible for their emotion. No one can MAKE you mad. No one has the abillity to create in anothers experience, much less force someone to feel an emotion that they didn’t choose to feel on their own.

Since most people were taught when growing up that they need to please others first – like their parents, teachers, etc. – they lost the sense of self guidance. In learning that they need to please others first they became dependant on outside feedback for acceptance and value. For example, if your parents were disappointed in how you behaved you learned that in order for them not to be disappointed you needed to change your actions. Their approval depended on your action. With that type of feedback happening all around it is not hard to see how someone would learn that their value is outside of them. It is also easy to see from this form of interaction how one would learn that the outside world is responsible for how they feel. For if you are responsible for how others feel then others must be responsible for how you feel. This also goes beyond just other people and includes situations as well.

It is from this perspective that people believe others are responsible for how they feel just as they beleive their bodies are what causes them to feel insecure. “If my body didn’t look this way I wouldn’t feel insecure” one might say. This is why people take massive action to change things outside of them. If you can control how things look or behave then you might feel better. It makes sense from the perspective that these things are causing you to feel bad. What other options do you have from this perspective? Change the outside so you can feel different inside.

The reality is that it is not the outside world that causes negative emotion. Negative emotion is simply an indicator that you have a limited point of view about a subject. Negative emotion is your broader self’s way of getting your attention to help you monitor your thoughts – those thoughts that are so powerful in creating your future. Thoughts are your point of attraction, your point of creativity, and your point of preference. Your emotions are there to help you understand and monitor how you are attracting and creating as well as helping you to determine your specific preference.

Understanding that your thoughts are the cause for your emotional state you can then start to take control of how you feel by tending to your thoughts. This is even more important when it comes to your body. If you have negative thoughts about your body not only are you limiting your creative ability to come up with a proper solution and attracting more negative things of the same into your experience but you are also creating a negative chemical environment in your body that will be working to potentially make your body worse.

If you feel negative emotion about something (like your body), first understand that it is your persective that has you feeling that way. Also understand that feeling this way has helped you to determine a preference of something new. From there start tending to the thoughts that are responsible for you feeling bad before you jump into action. Doing this before you take action will do two things. It will help you to get into a better place where you will have access to better ideas, thus better solutions, and you will also be in a better state, energetically and chemically, which will make your action (when you are ready for action) much more efficient.

One thing I deal with on a regular basis in my business is treating people for aches and pains by looking for the mechanical limitation in the areas surrounding the affected area as well as throughout the whole body. I look for imbalances and treat those neurologically inhibited muscles with a hands on technique. More often than not people feel significant results in a very short amount of times. But the interesting thing is a lot of those same people have the problem come back anywhere between a fews weeks to a few months. If not coming back with same symptoms, they will come back with something else. Witnessing this over the last 6 years has led me to ask better questions about the true source of their aches and pains.

I started to wonder how much of their physical pain had to do with emotional issues they had not dealt with. And almost every time I looked into this aspect of connection I found something significant.

What I realized was that even though people are equipped with an emotional system that was designed to help them regulate their thoughts, very few people seem to use it. Over time, since most people think the outside world is what makes them upset or sad, people seem to become desensitized to their emotional indicators and do nothing about what was really causing their emotional upset – that being their interpretation about the subject. Over time, if left unattended and ignored, the emotion system will eventually find another way of getting your attention.

What I find most often is how one feels about their injury – how it limits them, how it affects their life, what they are missing out on, etc. – is often the same feeling and thoughts they have about something else in their life. It cuold be something very prominent in their daily life or it could be something they hid under the rug long time ago but is still active in their life today (usually unconsciously lending to decisions they make now). Point is, how they feel about their injury is just a metaphor of how they feel about something else in their life that was left unattended. Their emotional system, at some point or another, was active and trying to signal, via negative emotion, that they had a perspective that was limiting something they now desired. Remember, from all problems comes a desire for a solution or improvement. If you left the problem as a problem you never moved toward the solution, thus leaving an unfulfilled desire right where it was created (in the negative situation). So every time you were reminded of this negative situation you were given an indicator of emotion to help you start moving, via your thoughts, toward what this situation helped you to prefer, desire, and determine. When you didn’t listen to the emotion indicator you eventually got bigger indicators. Like aches and pains.

The same could also be applied to your body in regard to weight. How you feel about your weight may very well be an indicator of how you feel about something else in your life. Take a moment to think about how you feel about your body. Once you have an emotional set point figured out, think if you can recognize if you have this same feeling toward anything else in your life. If you don’t find anything in our current situations think back to an earlier time you felt this same way. It may help to physically identify the physical sensation of the emotion. Where do you notice the physical sensation of emotion? In your stomach, chest, neck? Does it have a shape? Size? Color? Smell? What is the consistency of the physical sensation? Point is, if you can identify the specifics, you might be able to find the exact earlier moment you felt this same thing.

Once you find that connection, whether it be something from your past or something in your current life experience, try to find a way to sooth yourself about it. Find a way of looking at this with a slightly better persepctive. Once you change how you feel about this subject your indicator, the aches and pains or your physical weight, will start to change.

Remember, your physical body is an extension of your non-physical thinking and emoting self. What you see and experience on the outside is often a reflection of what you think and feel on the inside.

If you listen to most conversations people have (including yourself) it is complaining, or at least talking, about “what is” or “what was.” Every time you have a thought or talk about something it is like planning for the future. Your thoughts and words are what create your future experiences. As I have mentioned in my previous posts, all thoughts carry a frequency, which is just information, and that frequency is sent out into the universe. The universe picks up this information (frequency) and returns information of like frequency.

So, when you talk about “what is” and “what was” you are giving attention to those things and sending out a frequency about those things that the universe will respond to and return to you information that is a match.

So unless you lare excited about “what is” and “what was” don’t talk about those. That is, unless you are going to use that conversation to find a better way of looking at those things. I personally never finish a conversation on the same note I started if I feel the need to talk about the way something “is” or “was.”

The same goes for your body. If you think about and talk about all the problems about your body then you only bring about more of the same. It’s time to tell it like it is going to be, not how it is.

Most people think that life happens to them – that they are just the victims of life’s circumstances or the receiver of luck when things go well. Very few people understand that what they think about most they bring about most. As I mentioned in previous posts everything about you, when broken down into the smallest bits, is nothing more than energy. And everything in the universe is energy. Scientists will also agree that all energy attract things of like energy. It must also be noted that your thoughts, not being physical, are energy as well. When you think thoughts you send a signal that your entire body resonates with, thus making your entire body like an antanna sending out signals, which the universe receives and responds to.

Point is, you can’t have a thought without it sending out a signal to the universe. The more you think about it and the more emotional you are about it, the stronger the signal becomes. The stronger the signal the more you are a receiver of that information.

So if you are not liking your body, then you are sending out signals not only to the universe to reflect back to you where you are with your thoughts but you are sending signals to your body, which is responding exactly the way you are telling it to. You can’t look at your body in a negative way and expect positive things to happen. You also can’t feel bad about your body and have people show you something different. Situations and people will show up in your experience to reflect back to you exactly how you feel about yourself. That’s not to say that every now and again you get a positive person to disagree with what you are seeing for yourself. It’s just more likely that you will find people to justify where you have your point of focus. Don’t blame them as they are only doing what you are doing to yourself.

Change is an inside job. Change how you feel about yourself and your body and your interactions with other people will change as well.