control your thoughts

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.”

Only You Can Control Your Mind

Genevieve Gerard

Only You Can Control Your Mind

A part of the human experience is the mind, your mind.

Your mind can be the most creative and influential tool that you possess, or it can be the source of mind wrenching and painful anxiety.

And, although especially when you are trapped in the throes of fear, worry, and stress it may seem to be a force that is greater than you, you and only you have the power to use your thoughts to empower you, or let anxiety, fear, and worry destroy you.

Recently, I read that anxiety is the most significant problem from which people suffer. Yet, anxiety is a problem of the mind and emotions. Anxiety is a problem that is entirely self-generated. Anxiety is a trap of your mind blended with a strong dose of fear.

If you suffer from anxiety, you may think it is something that just happens, but anxiety is a result of what you are thinking and feeling.

You may also believe that your thoughts and your feelings just happen, and are beyond your control, but that is simply not true. What you think is within your power to control.

Anxiety is produced by the content of your thoughts and then enhanced by your fears.
– Genevieve Gerard

For over five thousand years and throughout the ageless teachings on meditation, learning to calm, and control the content of your mind has been the goal of meditation.

In the teachings of the Buddha, as he engaged in his search for enlightenment, he is reported to have described the human mind as being like a bunch of drunken monkeys.

Ancient schools of meditation refer to the “chattering of the mind” as “Chitta.” Therefore, I believe, quieting and gaining mastery over your mind “Chitta” is the way to win mastery over any anxiety or fear you may have.

Consider if you will how the content of your thoughts impacts your anxiety. Thoughts of worry become laced with fear especially when you let your mind engage in “what if thoughts.” You can spin out thousands of “what if scenarios” that will fuel your anxiety. What if it doesn’t work out, what if they don’t like me, what if I never get over my fear of __________, what if I never do anything with my life? These “what if” thoughts can run in the background of your mind creating anxiety and negative thought-forms.

Take five minutes observation and let me guide you through the first steps to reduce your “what if” fears and anxiety with this simple exercise.

An Anti-Anxiety Exercise

Set a timer for five minutes.

Get a piece of paper out and for the next five minutes count and record how many times your mind starts a thought with the “what if” words.

Don’t worry about what the content of the what if thought is. Just count the number of times you lead into thought with “what if.” If you notice a particular “what if” thought is repetitive, and for most of us there will be several “what if” thoughts that repeat themselves during your five minutes, record the content of that thought.

At the end of the exercise stop and look at the number of times your “mind chatter” engaged in imagining what you fear could happen or might happen.

Once you have made that count, take the second step by noticing the content of your fears. Realizing that the “what ifs” are not something that is real or that has ever happened. They are only creations of your fears and imagination.

Noticing this makes it possible to begin to gain mastery over your mind, and by extension gain mastery over your life.

As the second step of this exercise, I suggest you continue to pay attention to the content of your thoughts for a few more minutes from a perspective of what I call the detached observer. When you notice a “what if” thought that contains circumstance of what you fear rather than what you want, pause, consider the thought and edit it, change it, revise it, and reframe it to what you do want.

Because your thoughts have power, it is crucial for your personal happiness that you free your mind from worries and fears. You are the creator of your reality because the Universe takes its creative power from your thoughts.

That makes your thoughts very important.

Gaining mastery over the content of your mind is the way to empower you to free yourself from anxiety and fear and more importantly, live your dreams and be happy. Paying attention to the content of your thoughts and imaginings is the way you can change and heal your life.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
– Norman Vincent Peal

Your thoughts contain your creative power, and they are available only to you. Nobody can do it for you, and nobody can do it to you. By understanding this, you claim your power to live your dreams and your deepest desires. Ponder on this. You are the director of your life.

Learning to quiet the negative input of your fears begins the empowering process of mind-mastery. You must begin by noticing the content of your mind chatter and then choose to take control of it.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
– Marcus Aurelius

You alone have the power to unlock your mind. Your mind is more powerful than you imagine. Your mind activates your creative power. What you choose to create with that power is a part of your free-will.

It is essential to understand this important fact because it is by using the power of your mind to create the life of your dreams and desires that you open yourself to the full potential of what it means to be a human being.

You are created to live your life in active co-creation with the Creator. Your happiness, your sorrow, your joys, and your challenges are all within your creative power through the power of your mind.

What you create through that power is your choice. This creative power is a part of the mystery of the miracle of creation when a spark of Divine Light (your Soul) joined with the creative process of fertilization that resulted in your birth. Yes, you are a physical being, but I also know you are a Spiritual being, a creator of life in harmony and cooperation with the creator of all of life.

Your thoughts have the power to bring energy into manifestation.
– Genevieve Gerard

That creative process occurs with thought. A thought, every thought, is a part of that creative process. Your life force and every thought-form is energy and energy is subject to the Universal Principle of Life. One of the Laws of the Universe is that “energy follows thought.”

The challenge with this law is that energy follows thought without judgment about the content of the thought. There is no safety mechanism to make the energy follow only positive thoughts that bring about what you want or desire. You and only you are that safety mechanism as you learn to control your mind and direct the content of your thoughts.

That is a great freedom and a great power. However, if you are spending that power on worrying, being fearful, anxiously projecting through “what if” this (bad thing) or “what if” that (bad thing) can happen, you are using that power against yourself.

If you don’t want to create your worst fears, then you need to learn to harness this fantastic creative power by learning to control your mind.

The simple exercise listed above is a tool you can use to start to help you gain control over the power of your mind. Don’t forget, to live the life you desire, the life of your dreams, living in the now and controlling the thoughts of your mind is essential.

Letting your Chitta and mind chatter float willy-nilly out into the Universe as an instruction manual for your life is wasting the power you were granted when the spark of Divine Light (your Soul) merged with the creation of your life.

Because there is always free will, and you always have the choice to create your fears or create your dreams I ask you to understand that only you can control your mind. From that understanding, I encourage you to harness that power and use it for you to transform your life.

Below I list some other articles and a guided meditation I have written to help cleanse and empower you. Remember, it is your life. This life is your adventure. You can claim this power.

Namaste,

Genevieve