These days more than ever, you may be faced with numerous stresses directly and indirectly associated with job security, job loss or financial setbacks. It can affect you mentally, emotionally, and physically and create toxicity in relationships. If however you were to consider different perspectives, could it change how you feel?
For instance, what if suddenly you were facing the fight of your life? What if your life was being threatened by a serious illness or disease or you were told that you need a new organ to live? How would you feel? What would you be thinking?
In many such situations there is a lot that you have absolutely no control over. But what can you control? How can your thought process lessen a burden and possibly eliminate it rather than compound it. If you are dealing with a difficult situation, stop and think for a moment about what dominates your thoughts.

Many of you have heard or read about the power of the subconscious mind.
Very basically, what it means is, how you think and most importantly, what your subconscious mind believes influences and often creates your reality.
Forty years ago, a famous psychologist from France named Coue said, “When your desires and your imagination are in conflict your imagination invariably gains the day.”
In other words, can this possibly mean that, when what you think is in complete harmony with what you feel, your deepest desire is fulfilled? If so, how do you do that?

Try this. Look back on your life and choose one thing that you really wanted and were successful in getting. It could be anything at all. Buying a first car, landing a specific job, taking a trip, overcoming a relationship issue or even getting a pet for the first time.

Take bringing home your first pet as an example. Assuming that a new pet was what you really wanted, what dominated your mind in the days and months leading up to getting one?

How much did you really want one?
How did you feel thinking about it?
What did you believe?
How many pictures of pets did you look at?
How often did you visit a pet store or a shelter?
How many times a day did you think about it?
What did you think would be the drawbacks of having one?
How would you overcome those drawbacks?
What did you talk about to your family and friends regarding a pet?
How did you prepare for its homecoming?
What were you looking forward to doing with it when it was home with you?
What visual picture did you have in your mind on a regular basis?
Was there ever a doubt in your mind that you would one day have your pet?
If a doubt popped into your mind, what did you do with it?

You may be thinking, “The mental process behind getting a pet is very different from landing that special job or undergoing a successful organ transplant.”

How is it the same?

~Lesia S.