Your Thoughts Create Your World

 To think is to be consciously aware, even if you are not aware of yourself or your surroundings. If you were waking up from a coma in a dark room where you had been completely immobilized from head to toe, and had no memory of your name, family, or station in life, you would be aware only that you exist. To be aware of your existence is to contemplate yourself as a distinct entity and to express that contemplation in the only form available to you: the form of thought. To think, you must be conscious. You cannot think when you are unconscious—your subconscious mind takes over and ruminates on what you thought when you were conscious.

   Since thinking is a conscious act, and everything that you will ever create comes from your thoughts, then raising or heightening your level of consciousness (awareness) should be your highest priority in life.

   The way to begin to do this is to discover who you are at your core. This means that you must look deep within yourself to discover your true identity. The barrier that stands in your path of self-discovery is your own self-image paradigm—that mental idea, picture, or conception of yourself that you did not create, but that you have been taught to rely on by those who came before you and defined who you are to yourself. 

   The truth is that you are not the conception you have of yourself, whether you view that conception as good, bad, or indifferent. It is a false idol, a non-entity. You exist, but your conception of yourself does not exist in reality. It is merely a placeholder that was given to you by those who came before you. It is now your responsibility to create who you are at your core from the inside out.

   At this point, the creative process requires that you see yourself from a God Mindset—i.e., from a spiritual perspective that is not limited by your past experiences, prejudices, beliefs, or negative states of consciousness induced by yourself or others. This perspective allows you to see yourself not as a blank canvas, but as one already prepared and primed by the Master’s Spiritual Gesso and ready for the Master’s Paint. From this spiritual perspective, you are empowered to assume that you are free from every influence that defined you previously by using your imagination to create that very feeling of being free from former influences.

   The next step is to decide who you desire to be so that you can create that person within yourself. Imagine what you desire your Ideal Self to be: the attributes, ways of being, character traits, world view. Then, because only you are the Master, paint that picture of your desired Ideal Self in your mind and claim it as yourself-in-being right now and not in the future. Keep that painting of yourself that you have created in your mind, despite the temptation to give up and abandon it by negative thoughts that will assail you. 

   Make a habit of returning often in the day to the portrait of your Ideal Self and claim to yourself that you are already that Ideal Self in childhood, who is growing up rapidly. Your thoughts about yourself transcend time and space. You are now what you think yourself and believe yourself to be. You are just growing and living into the Ideal Self that you have created for yourself. So be patient with yourself, as you would be toward any 9-month-old child attempting to take her first steps in life.