A Pathway

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. 

- Henry David Thoreau

 

The thoughts in my head tonight?  I'm going to die.  This stinkin' cough is going to actually kill me.  Followed quickly by, well, that would actually be nice because then I'd be put out of my misery.  My belly and ribs are very painfully from uncontrolled hacking.  I realize I should just take the Codeine cough syrup in the cupboard and go to sleep, but I hate the way it makes me feel, and I'm stubborn.  But you don't really want to hear about my cough......you can probably actually HEAR my cough and that is enough.

 

How powerful it is when we can control our own minds.  Really, our own thoughts are the one and only things in this life we can control with any certainty at all.  A sobering thought considering how difficult this task is for me.

 

What goes through my mind dozens of times every day (if not every hour)?  

I am afraid ____________.   

There is not enough __________.  

What if I lose ____________? (But that's just #1 again.) 

 

I can almost feel the power of those statements as I type them.  It's a spooky, goosebumps kind of feeling, because one of those very few Truths that I know beyond any reasonable doubt is this:  thoughts are powerful, thoughts create reality.  If I go around repeating #s 1-3 all day long, what will my life look like?  It will look exactly how it looks.....that's the whole point.

 

And as if by magic, when I manage to override the default settings -  when I hear my inner voice saying 

It's all ok.

There is enough __________.

It's all God.

the clouds part, the sun comes out (I'm not kidding - my thoughts have made the sun shine), I find my keys, and a 20 in my coat pocket, and some wonderful person calls or shows up to give me love and/or accept my love.

 

My task for tonight - change that default setting of "I'm dying" to "My body is healthy and whole."  That's the kind of thought (and reality) I want to dominate my life.  Thank you HDT.