Wholesome thinking is important. Healthy, decent, nourishing thoughts are something we urgently need, in the same way that we require these qualities in food and environment.
Everything is connected.
Your thoughts become attitudes which manifest as words. Your words influence and often dictate your actions. These actions, ultimately add up to your character. When you look at thoughts in this manner, as the primary and foundational building blocks of who a person is, what one thinks suddenly becomes much more significant.
What you say is as important as what you do. It demonstrates who you are to people in the world around you. Energetically, the thoughts one has carry a great deal of power, they can pollute and contaminate the area surrounding a person. Recently, I have been spending a great deal of time thinking about what modern society has taught us we ought to be putting into our bodies and how it is synthesized and metabolized, into thought and, further downstream: ACTION. We have a steady diet of unhealthy themes and images in the media, we have unnourishing and even toxic food and dangerously polluted water. The equation is clear to anyone paying attention: garbage in, garbage out.
Transforming the unpleasant, unwholesome, unhealthy thoughts that result from such foods, images and themes can be difficult, but has much more to do with re-adjusting focus, maintenance and habit than any kind of deep irreparable damage. It has taken corporate powers years to corrupt you, but in a relatively short period of time you can take your thoughts back! It is work, it takes PRACTICE. What you consume gets incorporated into the thoughts you habitually think. Toxins and perversions of thinking are as dangerous as the poisons in food and water. What we ingest, we manifest. Clean, bright, positive thoughts, like healthy clear skin, is the result of consuming healthy, nurturing material on all levels.
The whole of our society seems to be promoting unwholesomeness on every level.
It is our obligation as free-thinking beings with free will to rebel when what we are being given is not adequate to our most basic needs. This is especially true when the resources for each and every one of us to have our needs met, exist and are being manipulated in ways that are repugnant to life and nature. The state of the world has become intolerable, it is the case now as much as any time in history when rebellion has become necessary for the progress of humankind. This revolt may be a more quiet and multi-faceted one, but it is one that each of us must none-the-less engage in for the well-being of future societies.
We need to cry our for healthy, organic non-GMO foods.
We must expect and fight for clean water for everyone, free of toxins and additives which make us stupid and sterile.
These create, at the most basic levels, the molecular components of our thoughts, and by proxy, our character as a society.
If these are contaminated, we cannot hope to have the intellectual wherewithal to move on to higher levels of decontamination.
We must insist upon some level of integrity from the media and seek out entertainment which is in accord with our values.
At the same time, we need to turn off our televisions and stop letting our thoughts be controlled by greedy and unethical corporate interests.
There are many other things that have to be be done to get things re-aligned, but personally, each of us must begin with our own bodies and minds, and those of our near and dear. Only when our own houses are in order, morally and spiritually, will be have what it takes to declare a proper war on greed and pollution. Until and unless each of us takes control of the most basic functions of our own bodies and minds, the corporate world (inclusive of but not limited to the military industrial complex, international banking, Big Pharma and Big Agra) will continue to do whatever they please, infecting our fellow citizens with myriad diseases, killing bees which will lead to an unimaginable and catastrophic food shortage, making plants from self-terminating seeds that are sterile and others with pesticides built into them which are poisonous, factory farming living animals in heinous conditions, destroying rain forests, dumping plastic into the ocean, prostituting children and making them slave for dollar store garbage, and spending all our tax dollars on technology that will ultimately destroy us.
We need to get clear-headed so that we can start taking on the injustice that threatens to crush us as a society.
Don't let this get to you, start fighting to have your thoughts back! Do something small every day. One little thing. Eventually we can tip the scales. We are many and we are mighty. We are not here to be enslaved by the greed that drives corporate power. It is our obligation as spiritual beings to do the best that we can, and as a society, we have not been doing this. It is time to reclaim our power and start making things right on this planet.
Nat, the power of positive thinking seems like such a silly and ridiculous notion. It is NO joke. The way I began to change my life started with a promise to myself to start to celebrate the joy of others. My negativity and depression would swamp me in a blackhole of unhappiness and self loathing. I couldn't pull myself out - I couldn't find a way to untrap myself from the path of destruction I was spiraling on. But I COULD try to be more positive. So, I resolved to find the joy in others and over the next few months I began to celebrate the joy in myself. I know it may sound so cheesy, but it's true. I found balance again. I lost a hundred pounds. I am a roller derby queen. My life isn't perfect, but I never dreamed I could be this happy. It gives me GREAT joy to see that you feel the same way <3 Tonya
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