Have you ever had the experience of feeling upset with someone over something they’ve done only to find they didn’t actualy do it? That whole, “Grrrr, I wish they didn’t do that,” that plays over in your mind like a scratched record from the sixties?
When you found out that person wasn’t guilty of whatever heinous crime you thought they’d committed, how did you feel? Deflated? A bit silly? Or powerful and excited?
Powerful and excited, right? In that moment, you realised the power that your thoughts have on your emotions and your personal reality. You realised that to a large extent, your thoughts create the ‘reality’ that you live. It was a stellar moment in your life because from that instant you took away with you a lesson so deep that you knew life would never be the same for you again.
No, didn’t think so. Me neither. But I think I know why. We’re so wrapped up in our little ‘realities’ and our egos that we don’t see this example for the life-changing powerhouse that it really is. If we really thought about this, we might indeed have a life-changing moment.
It’s actually exciting to find out you were wrong about something and to look back and realise that the emotions you were feeling from the thoughts you generated were all in your own mind. If your mind can erroneously believe something that is not truth, then perhaps you can train it to believe things that are true but which you don’t yet believe.
The potentially powerful moment in your life, which usually passes by without a whimper, is well worth exploring.