Mindfulness.

All books on the law of attraction agree that one should keep in mind ones goal and to think positively about the outcome.
Some also recommend to ban all negative thoughts. They advice to keep a watch for this kind of thoughts. However, I never saw them explain how to do this. The closest to an explanation that I read was in ‘The secret’ where the author says that all the teachers of the book meditate daily and that, on a regular base during the day, one should check one feelings and thoughts.

On meditation.

Meditation is, like many other skills one that needs to be practiced regularly. Preferably every day. It is a way to focus the mind on whatever object or thought that we choose. I already said in my post on visualization that this was a meditation practice. This is true and I think that it is all the practice that is needed if it is done for a sufficient amount of time.
What is sufficient? This is a difficult question, but most sources advise to do sessions of 20 minutes, at least once a day.

This is already a long time. Believe me. To be able to keep up with the visualization for this long, without you getting caught up in a random train of thoughts, will take some practice. I’d say most people will not realize this goal in less than a few months.

But do not get discouraged. Any amount of time you stay on the visualization is time spent well. And you will see that the time you are ‘meditating’ will increase slowly but surely. You just need to keep at it.

On mindfulness.

This is a totally different practice, although in essence, it is meditation.
I say they are different since we do not set a time apart for it. No, we do it all day long. And that is the tricky part about it. We need to do it continuously.
We need to constantly monitor our thoughts. But how to do this?
For this, we first need to notice that we can act and do things without ‘thinking’. This is not easy to explain as it is something that needs to be experienced. But it is definitely possible. One way to experience this for yourself is by doing the following little exercise: from now on, watch, in a very concentrated matter for the next thought to arrive. Watch your mind carefully. Do it with a lot of anticipation. You will see that you can be on the lookout for a though without thinking. This is the state we need to be in all day.

But this is a very hard task. If you try to do this, you will quickly see that after a minute or two you will lose yourself in thoughts. Still, it is worth doing the effort, not only for reducing negative thought, but also because it gives you power. Power to consciously choose whether you act on an emotion or not. This is particularly handy when we get angry or scared. In this way we can look at the emotion with a distance and decide to not let ourselves get caught up and do stupid thins (as I did many many times).

How to stay mindful is the topic for a next post.

Be well. Be rich. Be great

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