Experience the Speed of Thought

Energy Follows Thought is a Universal Law. Like all Universal Laws, it is neither good or bad, it merely is.

Universal laws can be used to help and empower you in a time of need, or they can be completely unknown and ignored. Whether you use them to your advantage or ignore them altogether does not change how they work.

This Universal Law is also a key to understanding the thoughtful premise behind Napoleon Hill’s famous book, “Think and Grow Rich”, and Norman Vicente Peals “The Power of Positive Thinking.” More recently, it is the core of the very popular book and movie “The Secret.”

Thought

A thought is an integral part of the creative aspect of life. Your thoughts spring forth to create. They move faster than the speed of light to create what you are thinking. This principle is not personal, but it is powerful.

Unfortunately, your thoughts do not wait for your conscious consideration before they begin their creative process. That makes your thoughts, your mind, more powerful than you realize. That means that your thoughts are critical to how you live your life, far more critical than you are aware.

As a human being, you are made in the image of your Creator. I believe your Creator created everything and most importantly created you to be a co-creator of life on this planet. This belief about creation unveils an awesome power and at the same time a tremendous responsibility.

This co-creation enables you to use the power of your mind to influence the events and circumstance that are available through this dynamic and powerful principle that “Energy Follows Thought.” Because your thoughts have the power to bring energy into manifestation, it becomes important to harness this principle for your benefit. Ponder on this!

In my experience, a thought begins the activation of its creative power at the moment of its inception. That is equally true of thoughts of what you want, what you worry about, and even thoughts of what you don’t want.

Think about the subtle difference of the thought “I don’t know” versus “I don’t recall at this time.” How many times a week do you say this and other limiting beliefs to yourself?

The principle that Energy Follows Thought is a dynamic of the subtle and yet pervasive way in which you create your life and your reality. It requires both conscious awareness and discipline to transcend, transform and transmute your fears and more negative emotions such as anger and limiting beliefs of pessimism.

The mind is a powerful muscle that has been proven in Science to be able to influence the outcome of an experiment just by the observer’s thought form of how they think the experiment should come out.

It is by learning to observe, yet not judge your thoughts, which can be filled with the self-criticisms of “should” and “ought’s” and perfectionistic expectations, that you can transform your life.

Fear

Thought does not discriminate between what you need vs what you are fearful of. That is uniquely your responsibility as the thinker, the creator of a specific thought. Therefore, you need to learn to utilize the power of your thoughts and the dynamic creative power of your mind to work for you; rather than against you.

Worry

Worrying is perhaps the easiest place you can see how the principle that Energy Follows Thought can work against you. I think without too much consideration if you examine the contents expressed in your worries you would conclude that is not what you want. Because the principle that Energy Follows Thought is impersonal and immediate, I have long referred to worrying as “praying for what you don’t want.”

Sadly, worrying can become enmeshed with your fears. Then you are wasting your creative power as a human being, a spark of Divine co-creator potential to bring into manifestation your nightmares instead of your dreams. That makes what you do with your thoughts important.

More importantly, you are using your creative power to manifest your dreams in the world to demonstrate what you fear and doubt most. Clearly, that is not what you would consciously choose. Unfortunately, for most people and perhaps for you, the content of your thought is unconscious, a “higgledy-piggledy” random flow from a wish to fear.

I have a 10-minute guided meditation that can help you learn to calm strong emotions and transmute fears and doubts that is called “I Am Feeling Free”.

Use Meditation

The mind can be such a powerful force in life that for thousands of years spiritual teachers and thought leaders have strived to instruct humanity to harness the dynamic power of their mind and its creative power to help you create the life of your dreams.

Mindfulness emphasizes the physical senses for experiencing the here and now, but there is an acknowledgment of the mind as a sixth sense.
– Douglas Russell, M.S.W.

Society has found that meditation, particularly mindfulness meditation techniques, strive to help you control your undisciplined and random mind-chatter from letting you create what you don’t want with your thought power. Check out this guest article by Doug Russell, M.S.W. on my website which talks about how mindfulness can make a difference in your life.

It does not matter how you meditate, meditation works to empower you to utilize the creative power of your mind and to calm the turmoil of your emotions and attune and align you with your Higher Self (your Soul.)
– Genevieve Gerard

As one who has meditated for over 50 years now in my life, I can say that every form and discipline of meditation I have tried has helped me gain greater control of my mind-chatter and therefore helped me focus clearer on what I want to accomplish in life.

Focus

By learning to use the creative power that thought contains in a way that will empower your life and help you create the life of your dreams, the life you deserve and desire, you must learn how to stop confusing the Universe with rambling conflicting thoughts that jumble your fears and your dreams. To experience the speed of thought requires the focus of your thoughts.

I have learned that even brief times of clearly focused thought has a dramatic life-changing impact. Your thoughts go out with the speed-of-thought, and when consciously directed and empowered with a positive will and attention can create an immediate change in your life.

Change your thoughts, and you change your world.
– Norman Vincent Peale

The power of thought can be used to create what you imagine. Science has proven that the mind does not know the difference between something that is vividly imagined versus something that is actually experienced. Use your mind to focus in and manifest what you want in life.

Affirmations

According to Wikipedia, affirmations in New Thought and New Age terminology refer primarily to the practice of positive thinking and self-empowerment—fostering a belief that “a positive mental attitude supported by affirmations will achieve success in anything.” More specifically, an affirmation is a carefully formatted statement that should be repeated to one’s self and written down frequently. For an affirmation to be effective, it needs to be present tense, positive, personal and specific.

When you identify with something, especially when you make an evocative thoughtful declaration, by an “I am” statement, you are guiding and directing things to what you desire. This becomes an important factor in your self-talk, and the thought forms you are creating. You then begin to think in a way that is congruent with that affirmation and feel in a way that is congruent with what you are affirming.

Using positive affirmations can help you achieve a specific state of mind or state of consciousness.

Empowerment Exercise

I have included a brief meditative and empowering exercise that I believe will help you use your thoughts in a way that will help in all situations.

Three Minutes to Empowerment Exercise

A brief technique you can use to empower and transform your life is to take 3 minutes each day to observe the content of your thoughts as the detached observer.

Sitting quietly and breathing naturally, review the content of your thoughts, realizing that through the creative principle “Energy Follows Thought” your thoughts are instructions you are sending out to the Universe.

During this 3 minutes of empowerment exercise, observe your thoughts, without self-criticism. When you find a thought that contains fear, any negative emotion, or limiting beliefs take that opportunity of observation to revise, re-frame, and correct that thought to bring your thinking into alignment with what you desire.

For those 3 moments of the day consciously request that your Soul is in control so that your creative efforts are aligned and empowered by your life purpose (even if you do not know what your life purpose is at that moment.)

Take a moment to consider your choice of words consciously and with care. Then restate the thought or desire as a positive thought. You can add a little will energy with that thought by making it an “I am” statement or an affirmation when appropriate.

The most important part of reframing a thought is to keep it positive and make sure you are not fueling your fears, your worries or limited beliefs during times of crisis.

Let this brief exercise of observation quiet your mind-chatter, calm your emotions, and open your awareness to new possibilities and new opportunities.

In this 3 minutes let your awareness come into the present, releasing your creativity from any contamination of the past.

Know that doing any meditative discipline 21 days in a row helps it become a habit. This is a habit that can empower your life, for the rest of your life. It works with the creative force of your creative energies to empower you.

I hope this post helps you focus and direct your thoughts into specific areas where you have determined you could use a little help and support in your process of growing and becoming. The concept discussed and the ideas and exercise given are simple to use and easy to do and they put immense power at your disposal to be all that you are meant to be if you just take a moment to experience the speed of thought.

I look forward to your enlightened awareness,

Genevieve Gerard

The Blessing of Love on all that you do!

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About the author:
Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened Soul awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of your soul.”