Mental

Mental Health (Powerfully Thinking )- Powerful or positive thinking has been coined a lot and is often thought of as to just say positive things and everything will be alright. What’s missing, I say, is to first identify the thoughts that are going on that are disempowering or negative. I believe to truly be empowered, one must first see the thoughts which are “running” us and keeping us from creating empowering thoughts. Mostly we walk around unaware of these disempowering thoughts and just live our lives oblivious of them. We may get upset about things that seem trivial and often either experience being disconnected to ourselves and others (more about this phenomenon when I distinguish Emotional Health) Once we can Identify the disempowering thoughts, we can see them for what they are: just thoughts, not the truth, which is what they are before we distinguish them. We then have the capacity to create empowering thoughts, new ways we can be that empower us to live life in alignment with what we are committed to. It is not clear to me and I don’t know anyone who knows for sure the impact of our thinking on our health. What does seem clear is that if our thoughts are disempowering to our selves, it will necessarily be disempowering to others and thereby affect our relationships (To be discussed in more detail in Relational Health). Also it likely will be that we will, if not right away, eventually lose our motivation in the areas of life that are most important. If believe our disempowering thoughts about our selves and others, then resignation in likely to set in. Leaving us feeling dismayed, helpless, and altogether hopeless. Everything starts to look like and fit inside of our perspective. For example if we think that we or others are “bad”, then what we see are “bad” people. When, in reality, “bad” is a way of thinking about people, not something that is actually happening in reality. Noticing these thoughts provides us with access to seeing that we are “not our thoughts” and then gives us the opportunity to create. Without seeing, there can be no creating.