Common Visualization Mistake 7 of 7: Thinking Constant Tiny Negative Thoughts
This common mistake happens almost without your awareness. You put aside time every day to visualize what you want to create and to focus on what you want to feel. You keep your thoughts on what you want, not what you don’t want. You spend time looking for evidence of the availability of your desire. You tell the story of what your life will be like when you have your desire, and why you want it.
You are doing so much right! But your creation still hasn’t arrived. What’s up with that?
If you could listen to a recording of all of your thoughts and comments during a day, you would be amazed.
Even though we intend to be positive and focus our attention, thoughts and feelings, it just isn’t that easy. Much of the time it is as if our thoughts think us, instead of the other way around.
Thoughts and feelings become habits, just like the order in which you put on your socks and shoes. They just show up, unbidden, and run a constant background commentary about your life.
And until you can change those habitual patterns, you’ll need to be extra vigilant.
Your thoughts need supervision and direction…and in some cases, full-on training! And they need that 100% of the time in the beginning, when you are trying to make changes.
Sure, those big events in our lives are the ones we remember best. The day you got married, graduated, got a raise, won the lottery. Or that horrible car accident, when you broke your leg, the fire at the office. And they certainly affect your life.
But it’s not those big events, or even the daily 15 minute positive visualization time, that have the biggest impact on your creations.
It’s the small, constant everyday thoughts, feelings and actions that have the biggest impact. Your habits. And chances are, you don’t even know you are doing them.
But when you become aware, and then make steady small changes to shift from negative and upsetting thoughts to more positive and hopeful ones, that’s when you will really see positive change in your life.