“We can Reprogram Our Minds To Be In A Happier State”

“We can Reprogram Our Minds To Be In A Happier State”

“What do you think about all day? Sometimes our minds get stuck

in a bad mode. Let me explain what mode I am talking about. We have

all been guilty of negative thinking at some time in our lives. It may be

when we are not feeling 100 percent healthy. Maybe it is our teeth that

hurt, like a bad cavity that needs to be drilled and crowned. Or it could

be our back that suddenly goes out again or goes out for the first time.

Just like the signals of pain that radiate from the defective tooth or bad

disk in the back, the brain is constantly producing signals of positive or

negative thoughts. These impulses affect the ultimate outcome of our

efforts. Good impulses result in good outcomes; bad impulses will give

you terrible outcomes.

We can control our lives by controlling the impulses our mind

sends out every split second. And it literally is every split second that

your subconscious mind is sending these thought impulses to your

conscious mind. Thus, our subconscious mind, which works always in

the background, is silently controlling our actions and our moods and,

more importantly, advertising to everyone all around us exactly how

we feel.

It has been estimated that the average human brain thinks of some

sixty thousand thoughts per day. Positive affirmations will keep some of

those negative thoughts that surround us under control.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts

… take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and

reasonable nature”.

—Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Roman emperor

“We may find ourselves in that mental rut. It could be the aches in

our body. It could be the fact that we have arrived at middle age, or

the lack of money in our pockets, or the fact that we are unemployed

and can’t locate another job. But here is an important point: Our

minds can be reprogrammed midstream. Even though we may be in

a negative subconscious-mode for days or weeks, we can at any given

point rewire those thought impulses into very positive impulses. And

those new impulses can last days, weeks, or months. Let’s look at this

fact more closely.

My back is aching, and my bad knee that was operated on for torn

cartilage is hurting with each step; both have been hurting for days.

Suddenly, my phone rings and my sister tells me that my only niece has

just announced she is engaged to be married a year from now. What is

my thought process at this very moment?

Or my mother suddenly calls and informs me that my younger

sister who was married three years earlier is now pregnant with her first

child and that I am going to be a first-time uncle. Oh, and yes, my

sister is going to ask my wife and me to be the baby’s godparents. What

impulses are suddenly being generated by that all-powerful part of my

mind, the subconscious? The euphoria I suddenly feel is overwhelming

and will last for a long time.

What if my brother suddenly called and informed me that he just

hit the Mega Millions Lottery for $25 million? And he also informed

the entire family that he would be paying off all of their outstanding

loans, including their mortgages—what is my mindset now?

Can we go from feeling troubled to feeling euphoric in just a

split second? On the other hand, can we shift and feel tremendously

depressed in that same split-second time frame? Of course we can. But

knowing how our minds respond to outside stimuli should convince

us that we are in many ways in full control of turning our attitudes

around. That sadness and depression can be turned around fairly rapidly

with some specific and pointed effort. We must, therefore, understand

more about this powerful mind that controls our bodies every second

we are alive.

We are in control. We are each capable of maintaining

long-term happiness and positive attitudes. But we must each make that

conscious, ongoing effort to learn, to practice motivating ourselves, and

to maintain that positive effort which can last our whole lifetime.

Remember: sixty thousand thoughts per day. We exercise the

muscles of our body, why not practice daily to exercise our mind with

personalized positive affirmations?”

C-John Paul Carinci – from his book An All-Consuming Desire To