Chain Current Negative Thoughts To Past Negative Memories and Emotions.
At times we are all inundated with negative thoughts- those nagging pestering ideas of worries and shortcomings that we have allowed fear to lead us to.
Will I make enough money?
Does that person really love me?
Why can’t I be rich?
Am I going to have an accident?
The negative thoughts need not even be questions we ask ourselves but simply images of something negative. We don’t know why they came to us, why we linger on them, why they persist, but we know we need to do something about it. If we choose to live the Secret then we also choose a natural path, a path that allows us to create our reality based on our intentions, our thoughts, and our decisions. Negative thoughts are then something that is directing the rudders of our ship and we choose not to experience that anymore!
The good thing about this lesson is that if you’ve come this far, far enough to have chosen to live a life that is consciously based on the idea of YOU creating your OWN reality (the essential message of The Secret), then you already have the experience to implement it.
We have lived through our share of negative moments, negative situations, negative people, and all of their ugly effects we’ve allowed it to create in our life. It may not be easy and pleasant, but we created those situations. We are responsible for them. Sure, it’s easy to write that, but to live it?
How can an innocent driver be responsible for being killed by a drunk driver? How can I be responsible when my spouse cheated on me? How can an innocent man thrown into prison be responsible for actions others have done to him?
Yes, it’s difficult for many to swallow. Either we take responsibility for all the situations we’ve created for ourselves or we don’t. It’s that simple. Taking responsibility for all that has occurred to us, in the past, both good and bad is the precursor to this particular lesson. You see, once we allow ourselves the realization that we have been creating our lives, for all of our life, albeit to this point possibly unconsciously, gives us the power to do the same, but consciously.
So what, some “bad” things happened to us. At least it’s in a past tense. If it’s still occurring then no one else is to blame but YOU. And Blame is a hard concept in itself- let’s say that when you are ready, and have learned the lesson the “bad” thing has been brought forth (by you) to learn, you’re ready to allow only good and positive things to happen in your life!
Turn those negative thoughts you’re having, the ones that are part of your reality, the ones you give attention (and energy) to, the ones that are clouding your immediate future environment, to something you’ve already experienced. Hook the current negative thoughts to a past negative emotion, a past situation that you’ve already experienced. Then allow that negativity to dissipate into the past.
An example from my own life:
A few times at home before I left for the 35 mile jaunt to work I stressed about the drive on I-95. For those who have never lived through an I-95 commute, consider yourselves lucky! Images of police lights in my rearview mirror, images of shattered glass of an accident on the road, these images stayed with me as I left my home. I don’t know why they came to me, I didn’t like them, and I chose not to experience them or give any more attention to them. So I took those thoughts and chained them to something that had happened a month before in my life.
I was stopped by the military police (MP) on Ft. Drum about a month before those above images crowded my mind. I was unfamiliar with the area, and passed several formations of troops marching along the street. I was going 15 MPH instead of 10. I saw the flashing blue and red lights of the MP in my rearview mirror and pulled off to the shoulder. I experienced the emotions of receiving a ticket, the idiocy of knowing I shouldn’t pass troop formations faster than they are marching, the dissatisfaction of what would happen because of this…. I’m thankful for the experience, because it’s vivid and not only do I remember those flashing lights, but the emotions attached to it.
So, when I had those images, in my daily life, of flashing lights behind me I chained them to my past experience and emotion of it so IT CANNOT INTRUDE ON MY FUTURE. After 14 months those thoughts of accidents and police thoughts are PAST thoughts and don’t invade my reality anymore!
See how that works?! I tell myself “I’ve already experienced that particular negative emotion” then I remind myself- “I’ve already seen those flashing lights… I’ve experienced that, I choose not to experience it again. I remember how it felt, and I remember that despite its occurrence, everything was o.k., everything worked out- and I’m still alive, free, and living; I choose not to experience it again.”
This is a trick, a shortcut lesson. All you are attempting to do is simply control where your energy and attention is going.
Why allow the negative thought to linger? If you do not resonate with its vibration then it will not resonate with yours. If you choose to allow it to resonate with you, then it will.
However, before you let it go, think about what motions/causes you set into effect to cause this experience, or you may draw it back to yourself and your experiences again.
Let me explain: I drew that MP to pull me over by speeding, yet before that I had been creating that very experience. I had random thoughts of getting pulled over before I was. At that time, I would always tell myself I’m a safe driver, I always get to where I’m going safely. Well, obviously, that thought and that emotion were the wrong counter-vibrations offered to the thought of getting pulled over. But getting pulled over has also provided me the opportunity to learn how to chain current negative thoughts to past, experienced ones. I haven’t been pulled over since! When I was, it was a “fresh” emotion, something that I could actually remember how it felt- the last time I was pulled over was so long ago I must have forgotten that feeling.
So what happens when you don’t have a “fresh” emotion to attach something to? You can still attach it to the emotion felt watching a movie, tv show, reading a book, or maybe even something that you saw happen to someone else. The experience does not matter so much as the emotion, the way you FEEL about it.
Remember the emotion, then remember that while that did “happen” you yourself are still ok and alive and free and healthy, then be thankful for all of that.
Doing so ensures that when you experience a negative emotion or thought, or something negative comes into your mind, and you counter it with a similar emotion that causes you to then become thankful and positive, you have not only negated that initial negative emotion but have also offered a higher vibration back to the universe.
You have a wealth of experience to draw upon. When you have a thought that you do not like, that does not feel right, then you are the only one that change it. Maybe others will help us remember that along the way. Maybe we are blessed to have people around us to remind us of that. Maybe it’s a lesson we have to practice over and over to truly learn.
Every time we put this lesson into practice we give ourselves more time with which to direct our attention to the positive, to thoughts that feel good. The more we do this, the more we allow positive energy to flow into our lives.
If you can do this, than Congratulations! You have truly mastered this lesson. You have taken something negative and transformed it into something positive. You have drawn medicine from poison, you have catalyzed the energy of the negative by turning it around to make it a positive in your life. Maybe there’s another part to this lesson that I’ve yet to realize, but I’m amazed that we do possess that power- that transformative power. We do create our own reality by our thoughts!
I would love to hear how you are using this advice in your own life.
Big Hugs,
J. Henry
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