Two of Edgar Cayce’s favorite sayings were, “mind is the builder” and “thoughts are things.” It took me quite a while to understand what he was talking about.
More recently I came across information about brain plasticity, a scientific term for the way the brain changes as we repeatedly think or act, that bears out Cayce’s statements. The more often we choose to be responsive instead of reactive, to be kind rather than defensive, to be loving instead of fearful, we establish good habits that make us feel good about who we are and bring us a sense of contentment and happiness. The same apparently is true when we meditate as it establishes pathways in the brain toward peace and joy.
Timothy D. Wilson, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, wrote in his book Strangers to Ourselves, Discovering the adaptive unconscious that [quote]
if we want to change some aspect of our adaptive unconscious, a good place to start is to deliberately begin acting like the person we want to be.
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We become that which we consistently think and do.
A year and a half into AYP and the rewiring is underway, no doubt about it. Great habits, great . If we are That, then our will is That too. For me I am learning to radiate will from the Solar Center. It is a work in progress this radiation and surrender.
Whoiz, great post. Yes thougts become things, so affermations and concious visualization, and or a visualization board. But the main problem for me is just getting rid of the Old House as it were. Tearing down and building anew is always easier, rennovations take so long and you have to clear all the old out firs before you put in the new. That is where Yoga, and for me at least, the Sedona method (which is specifically about letting go of emotional baggae
I think its a blend, watching our thoughts, catching out thoughts, choosing again. A strong Bhakti will guide us, past what we think we our with our limited mind, into the potential (at least that is what I am praying for()
God speed
K
agreed, i have done it many times but always seam to lose focus when things are going well. But you can for sure change Everything in your life just with the power of thought. Changing how we think, and what we think about will bring results. No matter how big or small they are. Just have to take a couple minutes out of the day to just sit and think.
What is, is. What is not, is not.
Change is the difference between what one remembers and what is present. There is innate fallibility in memory, especially when it is the mind which is itself the instrument of measurement.
Take a CD of recorded music. It cannot know if the music it holds is more or less beautiful from day to day.
It is impossible to measure something subjective. We can feel better or worse but that does not equate to an objective measurement and so it should be discarded as not having any pertinence to truth, or fact.
If a test or set of conditions can be developed which can provide precise measures of change then we can use it to establish something scientifically, but beyond that we must assume that we are randomly erring based on emotional responses and not hard evidence.
. If we are That, then our will is That too. For me I am learning to radiate will from the Solar Center. It is a work in progress this radiation and surrender.