Mind your thoughts

“Your entire belief system and confidence in your abilities to accomplish your goals and objectives first starts with your thought process.”

This was among the valuable pieces of advice that was offered up by the Founder of ‘When Black Women Speak, The Universe Listens,’ Dr. Arvat McClaine to the students who graduated from The University of the West Indies (U.W.I.), Open Campus ‘Preparing Today for Tomorrow’s Challenges’ Programme which was held recently at Divi Southwinds.

“Understand that your thoughts produce things. Everything that you see around you first started as a thought,” it was pointed out.

She stated that even in those circumstances where it seems as if your particular situation preceded your thoughts, such as being poor and then thinking you are poor, also starts with a thought and once you keep focusing on those thoughts, then that continues to remain your reality and this is why it is important for persons to take control of their thought process.

“Well, the thing is that the thought still came first in those situations. You have an underlying thought that caused those situations to you and those thoughts hold those situations in place. But here is the thing, what we think and what our belief systems are simply handed to us by our families, our churches, our communities and even the country that we live in. So we are often blind to the very thoughts that keep us from the lives that we would love to live. But the thought always comes first. Thoughts produce things. Things do not produce thoughts. You produce thoughts and the universe stands to the will of our thoughts. So it becomes very important that you learn to take control of your thoughts.”

However, it is natural for most persons to keep their thoughts on the negative. “For most of us, we keep our attention locked into all of the things that we don’t want. We look around us and see what is wrong and then we focus on everything that is wrong. We focus on lack like we are not smart enough, we are not rich enough, we are not pretty enough or we are too fat or too young or too old. But the more that you think about these things, the more you lock those things into place,” she explained.

Therefore, the best way that this can be rectified is by replacing all of those negative thoughts with positive ones and spend all of your time and energy focusing on these uplifting thoughts.

“So instead of focusing on your current reality or all of the things that you don’t want, you need to start outing your attention on the things that you do want. Whatever you put your attention on grows. So start thinking about what you do want in life… Spend time everyday giving all of those beautiful thoughts your time and attention,” she urged.