Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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'Thinking' manifests.
What were you doing over the weekend? Miranda and I went to the Michelangelo Drawings exhibition at the British Museum on Saturday, queued for an hour but the last tickets for the day were sold to the people just in front. Ah well we thought, we'll go tomorrow. So we returned on Sunday, the last day of the exhibition, and found two hundred people in front of us at 9.00am. Again we queued for an hour, but got tickets for 12.20pm entry, giving us a couple of hours to relax, find a cafe, visit Covent Garden and sit in the quiet gardens of the 'Actor's Church'. Plenty of time to think and chat.
It was during this lovely enforced period of 'doing nothing' that my mind went to what it means 'to think'. Not your normal 'relaxation topic', but then according to my partner, I'm not completely normal anyway.....
I found myself musing on this theme, and the phrase 'what you think is what you get' came to mind. But I got a new realisation...I saw it from a slightly different perspective. I've written about this on a number of occasions before, so if you want to catch up, read Laws of attraction or 'Sensation'.
I've since been checking some dictionary definitions to see if they included my alternative definition, but to no avail.
"Critical thinking consists of a mental process of analyzing or evaluating information, particularly statements or propositions that people have offered as true. It forms a process of reflecting upon the meaning of statements, examining the offered evidence and reasoning, and forming judgments about the facts. ...the process of critical thinking involves acquiring information and evaluating it to reach a well-justified conclusion or answer." Wikipedia.
"To think. vb. To consider, judge, or believe. 2 To exercise the mind as in order to make a decision." Collins English Dictionary.
~So here is my alternative definition....."To think. To draw towards you that which you are 'thinking about' or something related to that which you are thinking." Hmmn. Not well phrased maybe, but you may get my drift. We attract what we think about....all the time.
We got home after the exhibition and were really glad we had made the effort. It was wonderful to see the 90 original 15th century original drawings of this great master. But we were tired and ready to sit and watch England win 1-0 over Ecuador in the second phase of the World Cup. Afterwards I returned to consider the meaning of 'thinking'. To be precise, I was trying to find something I could think about that definately could not draw towards me that which I thought about or something related to the topic.
It is often the case I find that whatever I've thought about, comes into existence, or something closely related to it. Not always good, I hasten to add! But are there any things that definately cannot be attracted in this way? If you can think of something, please tell me.
Let's look at some examples. Considering the 'meaning of thinking' gave me a deeper understanding and width of perspective. Thinking of a solution to a problem brings me nearer to solving it. And without getting morbid, thinking of my deceased mentor in the Alexander Technique, brings me closer to my memory of him, to almost sense his presence. When working, I often emulate his ways and approach. What else is there? If I think of problems and conflict in the world, I may gain a deeper understanding of events and maybe even donate to a cause. I am looking for unlikely situations where 'thinking' doesn't draw that which you think of, towards you....and I can't.
For most of the time, I suspect we think of our daily needs, situations, problems relating to family, work, leisure or future needs. All topics that I've long felt are influenced by how we think of them. 'What we think is what we get.' But try as I might, I haven't come across something that we could think about, that 'definitely' would not bring something towards us, if not the actual item or situation itself, something closely related to it.
I wanted to disprove my theory but have so far not been successful. Maybe I haven't actually wanted to disprove it adequately strongly, so that's why I have not drawn it towards me! Probably because I wanted to validate it.
The theme of my musings, is that we do not need to 'try and visualise' or 'try hard to think about something' for it to be manifested. It is the process of thinking itself that has this effect.
OK, maybe I've hit the rocks this Monday morning and gone off on some wild fanciful notion. Let me know if you think this is the case. But for now, I'm thinking...."Hey, this is some tool! This is some great thing we've all got going on here. Thinking manifests. Not just special thinking, or focused thinking, or visualising thinking or positive thinking, or just negative thinking, or selective thinking in any way. No, I'm talking about ALL thinking.
So whatever emotion you have at the time, about the object of your thoughts is what you are manifesting. I believe it comes down to the deepest emotional condition we have around the topic of our thoughts or considerations that will govern whether we get 'nice' and 'welcome' things, or 'not nice' and 'unwelcome' things. Worry negates and undermines positive thinking. So if we're 'wanting' something to transpire, but we have deep worries abouit it, they could well derail things so we don't get what we want. But we will get what we thought.
This is some tool! I'm going to be careful what and how I think of things today, to ensure I'm energising what I do want, and not otherwise!
'What you think is what you get.'
Have a great day.
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