6 Ways Your Thoughts Influence Your Life
Studies show us that we can have anywhere from 20,000 – 50,000 thoughts in the span of one day. Our thoughts have such a deep impact in our life, so its important that we pay attention to the affect they can have in our lives. If we don’t, we will end up with very toxic thought patterns that will hinder our health and keep us from walking in our fullest potential.
Do you know how the thoughts you have can affect your life? Whether or not you realize it, here are some things that thoughts are doing in your life on a daily, hourly and minute by minute basis.
1. With every thought, comes an emotion with it.
When you feel a thought, you are processing the emotion that is connected to that thought. Every thought that we have has an emotional attached to it. You would never feel a thought, nor would any thought mean anything to you if it did not produce an emotional response in your body.
When you have a thought, you are actually connecting to the feeling associated with it.
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You have glands within your body, (the amygdala especially) that process the emotional feelings associated with your thoughts. Humans are not responding to our thoughts, we are responding to the feelings associated with those thoughts. The more we allow certain thoughts to have our attention, the more our body’s chemistry will live in the emotional atmosphere that thought carries.
The more we allow certain thoughts to have our attention, the more our body’s chemistry will live…
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2. Thoughts form our habits.
The more a thought is stimulated in our mind, the more it becomes ingrained. Over time, the thought process becomes a habit. Whenever a situation presents itself, the thought process you have cultivated will become your default response. What we focus on and give our attention to will drive the habits we cultivate in our life. All our habits pay investments into who we are and where we are going.
All our habits pay investments into who we are and where we are going.
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3. Thoughts form our perceptions in life.
How we see God, ourselves and others becomes formed from the thoughts we give room to on a daily basis. Our perception is our view and lens on life? Every body carries a certain kind of filter. This is the perception we have developed, based on the thoughts we have accepted, giving us a view on life. When you watch the news, what filter do you read it with?
Our perceptions come out of the thoughts that have become trained within us. Some of our training was based on toxic thoughts, but they are our perception nonetheless. Many times we will not have breakthrough unless we adjust our perception from a bitter and hopeless one to a view that carries faith, hope and love.
Many times we will not have breakthrough unless we adjust our perception.
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4. Thoughts form our beliefs.
Your beliefs are the core thoughts that drive what you do and how you end up doing it. They drive the convictions by which we act in life. Your beliefs start becoming formed at the eariest of age, so its important that they are based on solid truth.
Many times our beliefs come out of hurts in our past, because the pain of those thoughts hit deeply in our lives. The emotions connected are very deep, because those hurts wedged into our hearts.
Your beliefs create a story over your life. Everyone has a story–a narrative they carry about how their past went, what their present offers and what the future holds. How we let that story plays out in our minds will determine whether or not we will live to our fulest potential.
We all carry a story over our life. What does your story say?
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5. Thoughts form who you are.
Proverbs 23:7 tells us “As a man thinks within his heart so is he.” Basically, you are the culimination of all the thoughts you have allowed to become the predominant ways of thinking in your life. They formed your perceptions and beliefs.
We have to understand that who you are is summed up by what you truly believe about God, yourself and others. The good news is that the toxic areas can be changed. If you want to see change in those areas, you will have to make a decision to cultivate a new thought life based on what God says about you.
Who you are is summed up by what you truly believe about God, yourself and others
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To be effective in this world, we need a strong identity. The only way to develop a strong identity is to develop on a daily basis, thoughts that reinforce the God-given identity we have been given. We must come into agreement with what is good and break agreement with what keeps sabotaging our identity.
We must come into agreement with what is good and break agreement with what keeps sabotaging our…
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6. Thoughts Feed Our Potential and Destiny
You will go as far as you are allowed to think and grow in your thoughts. This is something that no one else can do for you. What we think on is our own personal decision. your relationships are all affected by how you process your thinking.
You will go as far as you are allowed to think and grow in your thoughts.
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So today, we have to begin setting the compass of what we will think on. Those minute by minute investments pay dividends into who you are and where you are going. Determine today to develop a focus on thoughts that will breathe life into yourself and your world. Go get em!
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