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Category: The Mind

written by W.H. Lloyd
Thoughts, Words, and Your Life
If you have a dream, do you believe that you can shift your chances of achieving it based on your thoughts, words, and actions?

I see 3 types of behaviors in people:
1. People who only seem to think about the negative and all they talk about is problems and what they don’t have,
2. People who just deal with life as it comes, and they think and talk about whatever they are reacting to at the moment. So if something good happened, they are happy and they talk about it until something bad happens. Then they’re upset and that’s what they talk about until the situation changes again, and
3. People who think about their goals and dreams, and they talk about how they will get there. They talk about the steps they’re taking, what they’re learning along the way. When problems come, they think about how they are dealing with it and how they can learn from it as they press on their journey.
I’m sure there are other characteristics that define some of our behaviors but out of these, which are you most like? We all probably have some combination of these traits but we most likely lead with one more than the other.

When we’re trying to achieve our goals, do we hinder our own progress because of how we think and speak? Can our words influence our circumstances? The Bible says as a man thinks, that’s what he becomes (paraphrasing), and it also says your tongue holds the power of life and death. Can we talk so much about our goals and dreams that we actually open doors to our destiny? If we think about our dreams and work hard to educate ourselves about how to succeed, will we flourish more than if we were thinking about what we don’t have and how bad our lives are?

Share your thoughts now at the bottom of this webpage in the comments section, I’d love to read them.
Written by W.H. Lloyd, on 17 Apr 2019
written by W.H. Lloyd

Have You Lost Your Mind?

Do we control our minds or do our minds control us? How often do you lose sleep because you’re restless and you’re thinking too much? During those moments, if you could help it, would you have shut down your mind so you could rest? What about when something is bothering you, and you can’t get it off of your mind the entire day? Especially when something else needs your attention but you can’t shake what’s already on your mind and as a result, you give a little less towards the primary thing as you share your mental resources elsewhere.

Sometimes you hear a song or a commercial jingle and it replays itself all day in your head. You get to the point you know it’s there but it becomes background noise that goes along with you until something else captures that space. Whether it’s yesterday’s regrets, tomorrow’s worries, or today’s judgments, we always have plenty to hang our thoughts on but what about when you want to shut it off!

If you’ve ever heard of mindfulness, you may know about the idea that thinking can be a hindrance when it’s controlling you instead of you controlling it. Let me be clear, I’m not promoting this, I’m just sharing information…The practice of mindfulness says that when you control your thinking, and you’re able to stop whenever you choose, you have gained control, and you will experience quietness, peacefulness, and stillness, also referred to as “presence”. You can then focus on the present moment, the colors, sounds, and smells, and you will have a higher alertness to the moment. As I often reference the Bible, scripture speaks heavily on being still, waiting, entering the secret place, and in this state of mind, you can hear from God, you can get direction, and you gain clarity and peace of mind.

It is common though, that when a person tries to calm his/her thinking in order to experience this quietness, or to meditate or pray, that he can’t stop thinking. It’s like the mind will continue to wander and he can’t access that “quiet place” that he needed to get to. Multiply this by all of your adult years and you can see how this becomes the norm and we no longer look for peace and quiet. As a matter of fact most people say they don’t have time, and that answer is ok with them even if it remains this way forever.

I think it’s important that we have time for peace. That time when you don’t make a judgment about something around you, and you don’t worry about tomorrow, or about what you did or said yesterday. Just a moment of tranquility. Ideally, this would occur daily, and maybe more than once per day. It might sound like a lot to aim for, but what if we weren’t too busy to actually experience peace? Do you believe you can? Or does your mind and all of the external stimulation control you?

Written by W.H. Lloyd, on 14 Apr 2019
written by W.H. Lloyd

Affirmations – Intentional & Unintentional

We all have feelings right? We all have opinions right? We all go through different things in life, and we wish to express our feelings, emotions, and our opinions about what’s happening. When we chose to express these, whether we were saying them out loud to ourselves while driving home from a long day of work, or while talking to a friend, venting, some might consider your words to be “affirmations”. These affirmations could have the potential to be the steering wheel of your journey.

Some people believe that if they wake up every morning and they speak affirmations over their own lives, that the very words they are speaking will become engrained into their thinking and the words, emotions, and energy will stay in the atmosphere until they create the environment they were meant to create. This reminds me of a scripture in the Bible that says God‘s word will do exactly what it was sent to do and will not be returned to him void. In other words if our affirmations had a similar affect, then we could speak the things that we desire in our lives and the words will be sent on a mission and will not come back without accomplishing the mission first. This would be and intentional way of speaking affirmations and expecting to see results, not only in our thinking and our beliefs but to also change our circumstances. Now, what about if we speak negative things during our conversations with our friends while we are venting, or during our self-talk on the way home from the stressful day?

If we speak negatively about our lives, our circumstances, will we be creating the environment for more negative results to come our way? If affirmations work, does it work only when you do it on purpose? Or, is it already occurring on a daily basis whether you know it or not? Has it worked for you? Can it work for everybody? What do you believe about affirmations?

Written by W.H. Lloyd, on 9 Apr 2019
written by W.H. Lloyd

Do Your Expectations Create Your Stress?

I was listening to an audio book and the author made a comment similar to this title and I though hmm, so do we need to lower our expectations? Of course, I didn’t assume that’s really what he was trying to say, but I started to anticipate what the antidote would be if he’s saying that we are only stressed because we had unmet expectations.

Let’s put this into context. Most people I know enjoy hanging out with friends in some way or another. So, if you’re one of those individuals and you expect your friend to hang out with you say, at least once a month, but two months go by and for no apparent reason that you’re aware of, you and your friend haven’t hung out. It’s starting to bother you and when you bring it up they blow it off like you’re making a big deal out of nothing. NOW, you’re feeling the stress come along, right?

At this point, if you didn’t have any expectation to hang once a month, then you wouldn’t be worried about the fact that you haven’t hung out in months right? What if it’s you and your spouse? Maybe you expect to spend quality time together. At least once per week you would like to be alone and have a halfway meaningful conversation, or watch a show together, or exercise together; whatever it is you and your spouse do for fun. If this quality time never happens, would you begin to experience some stress and frustration? Is it because you shouldn’t have expected anything? Maybe it’s because your expectation wasn’t made known, you just wanted them to read your mind…How do we deal with our expectations in these situations to help us feel less disappointed or let down when our expectations aren’t met? Or maybe we shouldn’t set expectations at all and just flow with life as it comes. Tell me what you think in the comment block at the bottom of this page.

Written by W.H. Lloyd, on 3 Apr 2019

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We Are Intellect

Category: The Mind

written by W.H. Lloyd

Thoughts, Words, and Your Life

Written by W.H. Lloyd, on 17 Apr 2019

written by W.H. Lloyd

Have You Lost Your Mind?

Written by W.H. Lloyd, on 14 Apr 2019

written by W.H. Lloyd

Affirmations – Intentional & Unintentional

Written by W.H. Lloyd, on 9 Apr 2019

written by W.H. Lloyd

Do Your Expectations Create Your Stress?

Written by W.H. Lloyd, on 3 Apr 2019