By Mike Johnson
Can you be rich and poor at the same time?
Can you be wise and stupid at the same time?
Can you love and hate at the same time?
Yes, you can.
At the same “time.”
But not within the same thought.
We live in “time.”
But we experience it one thought at a time.
We love our spouse in time.
But we hate our spouse when we think of that annoying flaw that drives us crazy.
“Drive us crazy” is easy to do.
Our inner world is spectacularly fragile.
Our moods change as our thoughts change.
Random stimulus easily changes thoughts.
We can stand before a safe full of money but if the locking mechanism is broken, we suddenly feel poor.
We can ingeniously map the intricate network of global tyranny but stupidly stub our toe on the way to writing it down.
We can love our cat but flare hate the moment we step barefoot into their vomit.
Stimulus.
Thought.
Feeling.
Action.
This is the progression that manifests our world.
Realizing this -- with full clarity – gives us full control at the level of individual thought.
You don’t suffer from depression.
No.
You suffer from fixation on sequential depressing thoughts.
Change the thought, change the feeling.
We can only live our life one thought at a time.
So it’s wise to hold a menu of thoughts in reserve that create good feelings.
When a thought that feels bad arises, you can now instantly replace it with a good feeling thought.
This becomes a new habit.
It instantly evicts a random painful thought (that was never "yours" in the first place).
Then replaces it with a pleasurable thought that you purposely selected yourself.
Now you no longer suffer from depression or poverty or anger.
You just occasionally encounter random thoughts that create those feelings.
So stop that sequence by instantly calling up a different thought that creates a better feeling.
You primarily live in “time.”
But you create your life one thought at a time.
Most people put their mind on auto-pilot.
They careen blindly from one thought to the next.
One bad feeling to the next.
The range of the human mind is enormous.
From rich to poor.
From wise to stupid.
From love to hate.
Why not stack the deck in your favor?
Reduce that range by building a floor of proactive, pleasant thoughts that prevents you falling to the darker levels.
Now random thoughts no longer walk all over you, you walk all over them.
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