There is a phrase that says, ‘Never say anything in jest’.
The view is that whatever you say, your mind is listening. And like a young child, will believe it to be true.
But, forget the words you say for a minute. What about the thoughts and beliefs you have? Do they have the same effect?
Can what you believe trick the mind?
The short and almost scary answer to that is…..100% YES!
In fact, often not only do we make our mind believe something, we actually predict the future with it.
Horror Scopes.
They say it’s all written in our stars.
That our horoscopes point the way to what our future will be like. Well, whether you are an Aries or a Virgo, or even a non-believer, it’s your mind that is the real prophet predicting how life will turn out.
We have many a conversation where we utter ‘throw away’ comments. We’ve all done it. Something along the lines of…
‘Oh, I’ll never have any money’, or
‘I’m always unlucky, things always go wrong for me’, and,
‘I’m so plain, I never seem to attract a partner’.
Recognise any of these? Or similar, like your own versions?
On the surface we consider them blaise statements. Not so. We are merely voicing our true beliefs that we will never have good finances, good luck, and a good looking husband or wife. Not because of some personal limitation, but due to our sheer belief that this will be how things turn out. We are writing the book of our life with our mind. And making it far from a heroic tale.
Forget your horoscopes, the scope of our life becomes a horror show because we directed our mind to make it that way.
We are less psychic and more prophetic in our head.
Predicted and Expected.
Take any one of those belief comments above.
You told it to a friend in the pub or a work colleague on a coffee break. And there you are magically 5 years later and it’s turned out precisely as you predicted…..and expected mentally.
Your inner view influenced your behaviour making you obey in how you acted.
You never had money because you kept playing small in a low paid job – ‘Well, why change when you won’t get far financially anyway?’
You never got the breaks in life so nothing much good happened – ‘Never believed in good luck for me so only focused on the usual rubbish I get’.
Still single on your own year after year – ‘Girls/guys just don’t see anything in me, so I left them alone and stopped bothering them’.
It’s typical self-fulfilling prophecy in living action. Driven and ruled by lesser beliefs, you acted them out for real and got, well, what you thought you would. Along the way there were umpteen opportunities for more wealth, chances to better yourself, and various potential partners who came your way. But, you passed them by because your personal prophecy told you to do so.
You could never got passed what you predicted and then expected. In short, you got what you convinced yourself you would get before you even started. Like a runner who never believed he could win a medal or a singer to write a popular song, you were beaten in your mind without ever having to do anything or go anywhere.
And that means one MASSIVE ground shaking truth for all of us.
Life is Self-fulfilling.
Life isn’t directed by the Gods. It’s designed by the mind.
What we allow ourselves to believe we allow ourselves to experience. Life 101.
The mind sets reality. If it believes life is great and full of opportunity we will bounce out of bed looking for it. On the other hand, if it believes it’s a dangerous and selfish world, we will stay closer to home and not look to connect much beyond those four walls.
And so it is that life becomes the self-fulfilling prophecy. What your mind thinks about yourself and what that will result in, is how you will live. So what has tended to appear in your world is invariably because your mind has placed you in such situations that it’s likely to occur. Scenarios that perfectly reflect your mentality. You got what you got because you thought that’s what you would get.
Whether it is the love of your life or loneliness through life.
Bundles of luck out of the blue all the time, or no luck at all time after time.
Financially comfortable or financially strapped.
Yes, life indeed is a mirror….a mirror of the mind.
Life is the story we tell ourselves.
We are the main character but the mind is the author who writes the story. So let me finish by asking you this to establish your prophecy. If your life was a story, book, or film, would it be a comedy, a tragedy, a get rich from nothing success, a romance or a broken dreams weepie?
You need to know because you want that pen back to start rewriting your future and forget your history.
And you can because you are a visionary, seer, and forecaster all in one. In one place that is.
Yes, the greatest prophet ever known to humanity, is our own minds.
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