“Remember, nothing can hurt you as much as your own thoughts.  Nothing can heal you as much as your own thoughts,” via the innerguide2, awakened soul. Another simple and powerful reminder that we are capable of being the disease and the cure, that our minds are truly powerful enough to change reality.  We are responsible for the outcome in either case.  The ground we tend and the seeds we nurture, what we water, is what will grow.  Choose loving thoughts aligned with positive outcomes or choose negative, fear based thoughts and repeat the cycles of fear and failure.  What we care for and pay attention to gets that energy.  All of that work happens inside of our head and the brain truly can’t discern between something happening and something happening in our mind.  In that regard what we think is reality.  That means we can change reality at any given moment. 

We are our own best friend and worst enemy.  There is no one else on this planet that we will spend more time with than ourselves.  Our thoughts determine the quality of that time we spend.  External opinions, thoughts, ideas, expectations have very little to do with what goes on in our minds beyond the extent we let them.  Given the context that people behave and react out of their own perception and experience we have to truly understand that we also act on our own perception and experience.  With all of that being said, I understand how difficult it is to even understand that we hold ourselves back.  We don’t consider what we think is a choice because it happens so innately, our neurons wired to fire in that pattern repeatedly until we believe that it simply IS.  Developing a relationship with ourselves and learning to trust is multi-faceted and complex because there is such a breaking down of so many levels that we aren’t always aware even exist.  But there is an awakening when we learn that we have so much more freedom than we think we do.  We can simply stop buying into how things are, the expectations.  I’m not pretending that it’s easy because there are reasons we all stay where we are beyond simple familiarity.  I understand money, obligations, responsibility to others (family/friends) and that transition is hard.  At the end of the day the most important part is remembering that we have a say.

We simply start with questioning ourselves.  When we do things out of habit and familiarity, we can pause and ask ourselves why.  If there is no reason other than that’s what we know then maybe we can fill in different patterns.  Maybe we can simply try with one new routine.  One new step.  One new practice in believing in ourselves.  Through that we build confidence and soon we build new pathways in our brains that give us different options than we thought we had before.  Slowly our minds shift and we start seeing new possibilities.  We try new things and then we repeat.  This creates a space of expansion and growth and development. Allow the change toward belief and healing and the whole world shifts.  Try something new.  Try managing our thoughts in a new way and see what comes of it.