text: Home Slideshows How Do Thoughts Become Things?
  Dr Anadi Sahoo, Aug 22, 2015, 06:46 IST 32K
  The way to control your life is to control your choice of words and thoughts. No one thinks in your mind but you. Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words. Be careful of your words, for your words become your actions. Be careful of your actions, for your actions become your habits. Be careful of your habits, for your habits become your character. Be careful of your character, for your character becomes your destiny. The average person processes over 64'000 separate thoughts per day, of which 90% occur subconsciously. Automatic thoughts are produced by our subconscious mind and continue to execute without the involvement of our conscious mind. Think about how many things you just do, day in day out, without even consciously thinking about it. These automatic thoughts are like mini computer programs in our subconscious minds. They automatically come into action as a response to stimuli in our environment. While many automatic thoughts can create undesirable limitations in terms of your ability to evolve, progress and reach significant personal goals in your life – you could call them "success blockers". They simply prevent you from progressing in areas where you'd like to succeed. Automatic thoughts determine your attitudes and behaviors. The reactions you then observe from your environment validate your thoughts. Restless mind is big problem with too many thoughts it is not easy to subdue. Mind associates itself with whatever it finds amazing and interesting. It fails to understand the consequences of that association. It gets engrossed in the association that it does not realize the danger of the involvement.
  Thoughts become things when they are given substance with feelings in the Mind. Thoughts are the DNA of the Universe. They contain the information that gives form to our physical life experience. Without feeling or substance, we would not be able to perceive the thought-forms in our Mind. Thoughts and things are correlated. Every thought reminds you of a thing. Similarly, everything reminds of a thought. Always there is an action and reaction between things and thoughts. Things react to your thoughts, and thoughts react to things. Thoughts bring change into a thing, so does a thing bring change in the form of thoughts. According to the modern sciences of psychology, physiology and metaphysics, it has been proven that thoughts do transform, rearrange and set into motion and activity the material particles in our brains thereby creating a specific mental state. The mental state produces a similar effect on he minds of your cells, organs and physical body.
  Human thought is constantly generating forces into action, either for good or ill, sent forth in uncontrolled fashion by people who are unaware of what they are doing. These forces are processes that we as a race have forgotten how to master. We must now learn how to master these forces as our very existence depends upon our subjugation of this knowledge. The knowledge of the causal power of human thought is the basis of all real wisdom. The freedom of every individual should be protected without question. No single person or organization should be allowed to even attempt to tell a person what they must believe. Every human has the responsibility and the right to discover for themselves what the truth is. The truth should be presented for all to see and learn; it should not have to be disguised as a particular religion or belief system. Unfortunately for us, the truth is sill securely wrapped around religion, and those who are not of that religion are often still persecuted even today. Where there is fear, worry, anxiety, trouble, disappointment and suffering, there is both an ignorance of knowledge and a suppression of free will. There is indeed a way to harness and control the power of thought. It is easy to learn, but takes a lifetime to master. To mentally deny evil is not enough, it must be understood and risen above. our perceptions, the way we see what is happening around us. The change in feeling is a direct result in how we perceive something to be occurring, for example: (1)	We feel pleasant to different degrees when we slant our perceptions to believe that what is going on is good. (2)	We feel unpleasant when we slant our perceptions to believe what is going on is bad or no good. Depending on how much we choose to slant our perceptions in either direction determines if we have a really good or bad inner feeling or something in between. This is why the awareness to thoughts and their patterns that are taking place inside of our minds is the most important step in the process of making yourself feel better. One must stay consciously aware, but it's not just for a moment. We are to forever stay aware of the contents of the mind and the way it is making you feel in every instant. If you are not aware of your thoughts, they can run all over you. You become a slave to your own mind.
  Awareness is a quality of consciousness
  People live their lives at different degrees of awareness. All human beings are cognizant in the sense that they stop when they come to a red light. And they go when the light turns green. This type of awareness is built into everyone. If it weren't, we wouldn't know we exist. But what does it mean to be self-aware? Are you? Self-awareness means to be conscious of what is going on in your mind. It is the act of watching your thoughts. Without self-awareness, we are at the mercy of our minds because we are living the thoughts as they arise. With self-awareness, we have a choice about what we think about. Self-awareness is so important in the process of finding inner freedom and peace. Only when self-awareness is achieved can we start making a change in our inner lives. When we are aware of arising thoughts, we have the choice how or if we want to react to those contemplations. The more self-aware one becomes, the greater capacity to grow the inner being and expand one's consciousness. As self-awareness progresses, it becomes a burden to react to every little thought. Instead, thoughts pass uninterrupted by the individual. Eventually, the needless perceptions fade away. A thought's only power is the one you give it. If you entertain the thought, it will feed you. We are not our thoughts. They are only a part of us. Through practice and introspection, one can become the master of the mind instead of a slave to it. Wherever you are, be present there, and give it your full, undivided attention. Live in the state of being aware that you are. When a thought comes up to try to lead you astray, surrender it just as fast as it arises. The goal is to live in the present moment and be aware of all arising thoughts. The common and easily made mistake made by many people is simply treating all thoughts as truth. In reality, what you believe is but one of the many possible ways of looking at things. When what you believe begins to destroy the life you cherish, it's time to restrain or get rid of those beliefs. If you wish to maintain an active, cheerful, and tolerant spirit, you must be able to manage your fleeting thoughts well. Do not make light judgment or over-interpret what happens. Choose thoughts that are beneficial to you and others. Then gradually you will discover that your life will become more and more wonderful.
  What is the vocabulary of negative thought
  Thoughts can be your best friend or enemy. When perceptions have a negative slant to them, they are hurtful to you and restrict you from inner well-being. It is like you become the punching bag and the thoughts are the fists doing the punching. On the other hand, when they have a positive slant to them, they are beneficial to your well-being. But what happens in situations when we start thinking negative thoughts? This happens to all of us from time to time. You may be in a very stressful situation and find you are thinking the worst case scenario instead of thinking positively. While you are thinking negatively, you start getting a lot of emotions over those thoughts. You begin to panic. Your heart races. You start thinking of things imagined that could happen. You become irrational. What can you do in this situation? At this time you will need to stop yourself, remind yourself of the Law of Attraction, and get your thinking back on track. Life is experienced inside of us. Nothing in our lives has been experienced outside of ourselves. Have you ever undergone something outside of your inner experience? No. You see things outside of yourself, but the experience you have is still within. If we throw a piece of stone in a tank or a pool of water, it will produce a succession of concentric waves travelling all around from the affected place. The light of a candle will similarly give rise to waves of ethereal vibrations travelling in all directions from the candle. In the same manner, when a thought, whether good or evil, crosses the mind of a person, it gives rise to vibrations in the Manas or mental atmosphere, which travel far and wide in all directions. What is the possible medium through which thoughts can travel from one mind to another? The best possible explanation is that Manas or mind-substance fills all space like ether and it serves as the vehicle for thoughts, as Prana is the vehicle for feeling, as ether is the vehicle for heat, light and electricity and as air is the vehicle for sound. The most powerful forces in the universe are the invisible ones. These forces when understood can be directed and be used for good or bad depending on the intentions of the controller. Rather than list these great forces like gravity and sound, let us cut to the chase: Of all these forces, the most powerful of all is the power of human thought. A lot of the invisible forces have been mastered and great things have come from this mastery. Almost every home in the world has electricity, every nation has internal combustion engines, and in America it seems every person has a telephone or cell phone. What is deplorable is that hardly anybody has had training in the use of the mind, of those few that have had training, even fewer still have developed mastery the power of human thought. The knowledge that human thought has the power to create has been around since before our current calendar. However this knowledge was suppressed by various religions in an attempt to control the human race. The knowledge was so dangerous to some people that they persecuted and killed any whom they suspected might posses it. This knowledge is just now coming back to the light after a long hiatus.
  How Universe react to our thoughts
  You cannot become all God created you to be until you understand the five factors that influence your identity. The first two are chemistry (how you are made) and connections (your relationships). You are a product of the way God created you and of the relationships in your life. Your identity is also influenced by your circumstances and your consciousness. Circumstances are the things that happen to you and around you — none of which you control. You are a product of the trauma, troubles, suffering, shame, shock, pressures, and pain that have shaped your life. Perhaps even abuse has affected your identity. If you've ever had a series of failures or a catastrophe, it has left an indelible mark on who you are. Consciousness is how you talk to yourself. But you know what? If you talked to your friends the way you talk to yourself, you probably wouldn't be friends anymore, because our thoughts are filled with the lies we've heard from other people that we've let simmer and fester. When we repeat other people's thoughts in our head, they go deeper and deeper in our consciousness, and they begin to shape our identity. Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts. Your thoughts don't have to be true to hurt you; you just have to believe them. If you tell yourself your marriage won't last, then it won't. If you're afraid you can't do something, then you won't. Your thoughts run your life! Your circumstances may be out of your control, but God is in control of everything. Your thoughts shape who you are, but you can change the way you think. Your circumstances and consciousness have shaped who you are, but the way you respond to your circumstances and the thoughts you choose to believe will shape the rest of your life.
  Thought, feeling, Belief, Action, Talk, Habit & Result
  What we think often comes out of our mouth and into someone else's ears. Our words impact how we feel about ourselves and they can impact how others think and feel. Words are symbols that communicate what's going on inside our heads to ourselves and others. We share our fears, our sorrow, our joy, our love and our dreams with our words. Our words create action. Our words can create intimacy or separation. With our words we can motivate ourselves to do things we never thought we could do, and our words can also move others to step forward into their own personal power so they can be of service to their community. Words can calm us or excite us. Words can actually change the direction of a nation. So watch what you think and be aware of the words that come from your thoughts, and the actions that follow your words. A habit is an action we do regularly, often without thinking. It's just what we do. If we do an action and it feels good or we get the results we want, then we often repeat it over and over. Some habits are beneficial and some can be detrimental. If it's detrimental, it's usually called an addiction. If it's beneficial, it's called a good discipline. Our day is full of small little "habits" that we do unconsciously. Some of us are habitually tidy, or messy, or early, or late, or rude, or courteous, or happy, or angry. These are all habitual ways of being. So, our habits become who we are, or they become our character. Others know us by our character. It's our stamp of individuality. It's all of our distinctive qualities. When we describe someone, we are describing the person's character. Our character comes from the thoughts and actions we do habitually through time. The thoughts and actions we do habitually through time determines our destiny. If I think negative thoughts and if I am filled with judgments towards myself and others, my actions will follow my thoughts and I will get what I focus on. Most people will not want to be around me, because they don't like being judged and they don't like hearing me judge others. I will feel lonely and victimized, which will cycle around and around and in time my destiny will appear bleak. However, if I think positive thoughts and take positive actions toward my goals, my destiny can be one of joyful and uplifting, with moments of gleefulness. A great way to stop the process of thinking negatively, and get your thoughts back to where they should be when experiencing something traumatic in your life, would be to stop and think out the situation. You don't know what will happen. You only know what has happened. So why are you getting all crazy over something that hasn't even happened yet? Evaluate your present thoughts and think of what your next thought will be. You will find that your next thought will probably take you into a more level headed feeling instead of outright lunatic. By thinking of your next thought, you will find your mind going away from the bad thoughts and you will quickly snap out of that thought pattern you are in.
  Positive Affirmations can control our thoughts
  To mentally affirm good, is also insufficient, it must be entered into and comprehended. In the same measure that you control yourself, you control your mental forces instead of being controlled by them. There is nothing you cannot do once you put your mind to it. Our belief system or programming is what sets us apart from other people. Everyone on this planet has a belief system in place that guides their thinking, reasoning, and functions. Whether these people take part in sports, have a trade, or are lifetime students, the origin is the same. They got to where they are because they knew the power of the human mind and they utilized it to its fullest. You have the ability to have and do whatever you want if you satisfy all the conditions that will allow you to use your powerful mind to the greatest degree. You first have to be aware of what you want. The next step is to desire what you want. The next step involves your pre-processed programming – your beliefs. If your beliefs will allow the situation to occur, it will. But if your beliefs will not allow it to occur, you won't do it. Thought is a finer force. This is supplied to us by food. If you read Chhandogya Upanishad—the dialogue between Uddalaka and Svetaketu—you will understand this point well. If the food is pure, thought also becomes pure. He who has pure thoughts speaks very powerfully and produces deep impression on the minds of the hearers by his speech. He influences thousands of persons through his pure thoughts. A pure thought is sharper than the edge of a razor. Entertain always pure, sublime thoughts. Thought-culture is an exact science. Thoughts As Wireless Messages Those who harbor thoughts of hatred, jealousy, revenge and malice are verily very dangerous persons. They cause unrest and ill-will amongst men. Their thoughts and feelings are like wireless messages broadcast in ether, and are received by those whose minds respond to such vibrations. Thought moves with tremendous velocity. Those who entertain sublime and pious thoughts help others, who are in their vicinity and at a distance also. Thoughts Are Tremendous Powers Thought has got tremendous power. Thought can heal diseases. Thoughts can transform the mentality of persons. Thought can do anything. It can work wonders. The velocity of thought is unimaginable. Thought is a dynamic force. It is caused by the vibrations of psychic Prana or Sukshma Prana on the mental substance. It is a force like gravitation, cohesion or repulsion. Thought travels or moves. Thought-waves and Thought-transference.
  Laws of Attraction & Visualization
  If you believe in the Law of Attraction, you know that thoughts lead to feelings that lead to actions that lead to results. But you just don't think of a thought. You must visualize the thought as an image. thought that you send out is a vibration which never perishes. It goes on vibrating every particle of the universe and if your thoughts are noble, holy and forcible, they set in vibration every sympathetic mind. Unconsciously all people who are like you take the thought you have projected and in accordance with the capacity that they have, they send out similar thoughts. The result is that, without your knowledge of the consequences of your own work, you will be setting in motion great forces which will work together and put down the lowly and mean thoughts generated by the selfish and the wicked. It is easy to visualize. Believe it or not, we actually use visualization every day of our lives. When we daydream, we visualize. When we fantasize about something, we visualize. The thing about attraction is that we don't just visualize for one time, we practice it daily, maybe even two or three times a day, depending on how serious you want what you are visualizing about. The only reason we haven't gotten anything from our visions before was because we didn't have knowledge about the power of our visions. If you look at people who are constantly in trouble or having bad things happening it is because they are always visualizing trouble in their lives. They are so used to doing it they don't know better. But for those who have success in their lives, they focus on the good stuff and continue to do that. They only visualize the good things coming to them. Visualization is used in all aspects of life from schoolwork to business. It has been silent for years only because of the unknown reason for it. Now even scientists are realizing the power of visualization. The one good thing about visualization is it can be applied to any area of our lives and work every time. That is the power and flexibility of visualization. Therefore, if you use visualization in your thinking and use your feelings and emotions to center that image, and then apply action to it, you will eventually see the results. Just try to focus on an exact image and not be too vague as to what you want. There have been people who have done general visualizations before and it has worked for them. They just trusted God or the Universe to surprise them with the results.
  Can we commit a sin through a mere thought?
  The doctrine of karma states, while a mere thought of a meritorious action can invite merit, a sinful thought does not result in sin. For example, getting a thought to rob a bank wouldn't incur sin, whereas actually robbing it would. Here, unlike the earlier example of mental sin, a mere thought does not incur sin due to the absence of an unfavourable effect on others. However, a seeker incurs sin even through bad thoughts. In this case, since a seeker's aim is to develop Divine qualities and God graces the seeker with the required knowledge and energy for that, then bad thoughts amount to wasting God's resources too. An exception to this would be uncontrollable thoughts occurring in a seeker who is severely troubled or possessed by negative energies. Diversity of Thought-vibrations Every man has his own mental world, his own mode of thinking, his own ways of understanding things and his own ways of acting. Just as the face and voice of every man differ from those of another man, the mode of thinking and understanding also differs. That is the reason why misunderstanding easily occurs between friends. One is not able to understand rightly the views of another. Hence friction, rupture and quarrel occur within a minute even amongst fast friends. The friendship does not last long. One should be in tune with the mental vibrations or thought-vibrations of another. Then only can one easily understand another. Lustful thoughts, thoughts of hatred, jealousy and selfishness produce distorted images in the mind and cause clouding of understanding, perversion of intellect, loss of memory and confusion in the mind. Conservation of Thought-energy In physics you have the term 'power of orientation'. Though the mass of energy is there, the current will not flow. It must be connected to the magnet and then the electric current will flow through the power of orientation. Even so, the mental energy which is dissipated and misdirected in various worthless worldly thoughts should be well directed in proper spiritual channels. Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts. You will gain new mental strength as the dissipated mental rays are collected now. What is this world, after all? It is nothing but the materialization of the thought-forms of Hiranyagarbha or God. You have got waves of heat and light and electricity in science. There are also thought-waves in Yoga. Thought has tremendous power. Everybody is experiencing the power of thought unconsciously to a greater or lesser degree. Great Yogins like Jnanadev, Bhartrihari and Patanjali used to send and receive messages to and from distant persons through mind-telepathy (mental radio) and thought-transference. Telepathy was the first wireless telegraph and telephone service ever known to the world. Just as you take physical exercises, play games such as tennis and cricket in order to maintain physical health, you will have to maintain mental health by radiating the right thought-waves, by taking Sattvic food, mental recreation of an innocent and harmless nature, change of mood, relaxation of mind by entertaining good, ennobling and sublime thoughts and by cultivating the habit of cheerfulness.
  Creat positive environment conditions though self
  The influence of thoughts on objects of the world is as effective as on the mind of your cells which constitute your glands, nerves, bonds, skin, flesh etc. The psychic treatment can be given to the objects, conditions, circumstances, environment, etc. exactly in the same way as you give psychic treatment for physical conditions in your own body, or in the body of another person. When your thoughts become creative psychically they will bring results in your life which at first will appear to you just unbelievable, startling, miraculous and supernatural. But really there is nothing miraculous and supernatural in the results which come purely by the use of the higher forces of Nature, known as psychic powers. Every move of the process which transforms your thoughts into things is made in accordance with natural law and order of Nature. The psychic law is natural and it works 100% along natural lines. You must know that the psychic laws work for you only when you set them into operation and activity; otherwise nothing will happen to bring desired results in your life. People who have not mastered the process of psychic creation and whose thoughts are not creative, think that the things would have happened anyway in their lives. They are not able to understand that they happen due to the forces of the higher mind. The wrong belief that the thing would have happened anyway in their lives, makes people more and more negative and lazy, and they start to take things good and bad as they come to them and do not make any effort to improve their conditions in life by supplanting negative and harmful thought projections by positive and creative thoughts. As soon as you start replacing the negative and uncreative thoughts by the creative and well-defined one, immediately you find that the undesirable persons, objects, happenings, environment in your life start to disappear and instead, good objects, positive conditions and happenings, environment start to appear, and thus your whole life is changed in a short time. This change could never be achieved by physical efforts and the use of the conscious mind. When you can make your thoughts creative, you can do wonders in your life, because you can really create things for yourself.
  Thoughts and mental attraction
  When your thoughts become creative, they have drawing power behind them which can pull or push persons, objects or things to you or from you. The creative thoughts make the things to you or form you. The creative thoughts make the framework around and about which start to materialize conditions, events, things, environment and happenings, which you desire to become a reality in your life. Around and about the indwelling creative mind the crystallized substance crystallizes and forms a crystal. In the same way around and about your creative thoughts the phenomena is created as desired by you. When your thoughts become creative they set into operation and activity the higher forces and powers of the mind, and there goes into action the law of mental attraction drawing persons and objects to you. The law of mental attraction, once set into operation, proceeds like a big piece of machinery or like some powerful physical process and creates instantaneous results in your life. When thoughts become creative, their magnetic power starts to attract and draw, pull and push persons, objects or things to you or from you. The creative thoughts make the Framework around and about which start to materialize conditions, events, things, environment and happenings, which you desire to become a reality in your life. Around and about the indwelling creative mind the crystallized substance crystallizes and forms a crystal; in the same way around and about your creative thoughts the phenomena is created as desired by you. When your thoughts become creative thoughts the phenomena is created as desired by you. When your thoughts become creative they set into operation and activity the higher forces and powers of the mind, and there goes into action the law of mental attraction drawing persons and objects to you. The law of mental attraction, once set into operation, proceeds like a big piece of machinery or like some powerful physical process and creates instantaneous results in your life. When thoughts become creative, their magnetic power starts to attract and draw, pull and push in numerous ways the things, persons and conditions necessary to materialize your thoughts into a reality.
  Telepathy, thought transference, practical psychology, all are based on influencing the indwelling mind in animate and inanimate objects. The brain waves emanating from your mind and life in other persons and objects and thereby bring physical and material change. Your feelings, emotions and the state of your mind are reflected in your physical conditions. Your conditions of health and disease depends much upon your mental state. When you are in the company of good persons and cheerful surroundings, you will find that your body functions better. Depressing and negative thoughts force the glands to secrete poisons into the blood, which not only obstructs the normal functions of the body, but also can retard the functions of circulation, digestion, assimilation, elimination, etc. Mental impressions can create or remove functional diseases. Negative and depressing emotions generate in the system injurious and harmful components, which are extremely poisonous. Happy emotions make the glands secrete chemical components into the blood which have great nutritive value. Poisonous chemicals can neutralize all the nutritive elements in your blood circulation and can throw the balance of your body chemistry off. Positive emotions can create healthy secretions of tremendous nutritive value, and thereby neutralize the poisonous chemicals in your body and restore a healthy biochemical balance in your blood. By controlling the mental forces consciously you can speed p or slow down the functions of your body. When a person is nervous or emotionally upset, he naturally starts to breathe short, and sometimes finds it very difficult to breathe because the function of the respiratory organ is affected like any of the other organs by mental processes. Your mental state uses tremendous control for your nervous, vasomotor, circulatory and other systems of your body.
  Physical Diseases and Mental Process cont.
  Mental conditions have tremendous influence upon your nervous system and thereby they can cause functional derangement of liver and other vital organs. Similarly, they can restore the vital organs to their normal function. Mental patterns precede the physical conditions. By using your mental processes consciously, you can bring health and happiness to your body. The forces of the mind are like the happiness to your body. The forces of the mind are like the shifting rod of your car. When you shift it on the drive, the car goes forward; when you have it on the reverse, it goes backward. Similarly, when you keep your mental forces on the direction of your health, you acquire radiant health, but if these forces go on thereverse, sickness overtakes the body. The influence of mental patterns upon the physical condition is not a question of mind over matter, but it is a question of mind over mind. In influencing your physical condition you are able to influence the mind in those parts and organs of your body. It is your mental patterns, which control the activities of your involuntary organs and your autonomic nervous system through the sympathetic nervous system.
  Thoughts controlling our life
  Thoughts create our emotional state. They affect our health. Thoughts even influence what we do and say to people. No matter what the situation or circumstances, everything we do stems from thought. Then the thought turns into feelings, which turn into actions, to finally results. There are actually three classes of thoughts we experience each day of our lives. These thoughts include positive, action, and worry. Your thoughts, feelings and emotions are as real as the houses cars and buses. A wrong mental pattern can not only cause disease, but it can also cause actual death. We think each of these thoughts throughout the day. If we have gratitude for who we are and what we achieve, we have positive thoughts. If we dwell on a future event that hasn't even happened, we have worry thoughts. And, if we think about what we need to do for the day, like going to the store or shop for a certain object, we have action thoughts. Would you believe many of our thoughts are centered around worry? We aren't even aware of it at times but yet we do it. When we worry about something we have no control over, what we really have is fear turned inside. This is usually accompanied by some type of mental programming that tells us all the bad things that will happen before the event even started. Some people think that if they don't worry, they can't prevent what will happen from occurring. They state that they are looking at the worst case scenario. All types of worry are really just learned behavior that was acquired over time. And any thoughts that are learned can be unlearned very quickly. If you focus on positive thoughts instead of negative or worry thoughts, you would be surprised that your health would improve immensely. This is because positive thoughts create healing, and produce joy in our lives. Plus, positive thoughts reduce stress in our lives. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts; it is made up of our thoughts. Your personal philosophy determines how you respond to events that come into your life. It is completely responsible for your state of happiness and well being. The answers are never out there. All the answers are" in there, inside you, waiting to be discovered. You are like a railroad switch. Every time an event occurs you channel the activity onto the positive or negative track.