Letting Go, the
First Step Towards Clarity
By Crystal Jonas
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Let go of negative
thoughts to release stress and bring more
energy into your life.
Before you focus on bringing more into
your life, you may be best served by first
letting go. Even if what you're focused
on achieving or acquiring it's good for you,
healthy, life affirming, and non-fattening.
There are only so many directions in which
we can focus our attention. While it's
true that given miraculous complexity of our
brains, our capacity for thought is virtually
limitless, it's also true that negative
thoughts consume valuable time and energy
that are better directed toward your goals.
Think for a moment about how much of your
time is diverted focusing on thoughts that
make you angry, sad, frustrated, fearful, or
hopeless. You may have never stopped to think
and calculate how much obsessive, negative
thoughts actually cost you just in terms of
minutes or hours of divergent thinking. You
could quite possibly be spending hours every
day obsessing over something that happened
years ago or perhaps you're worrying about
something that they never happen at all.
It's extremely hard to spend so much
mental effort replayed old tapes in your head
and later attempting to switch to positive
thoughts that the view towards your
objectives.
So how do you "let go?"
It's a lot easier to say it to do, of course
Be ready to replace your negative,
disempowering thoughts with vivid images of
some event that you really wants to happen
Without attaching emotions like guilt
regrets to the next exercise, spend a few
minutes dispassionately taking what it's
costing you to hold onto the old ideas that
fill your mind and divert your attention on a
regular basis.
A study on daydreaming revealed that we
are actually thinking about what we're doing
only about one-third of the time. The
rest of the time, we spend daydreaming.
This can be a fun, uplifting, creative, and
lucrative endeavor, if you are daydreaming
with a purpose.
Stop to think about that for a second, you
don't really ever plan to spend several
minutes, or even hours, in a day thinking
about someone or something that you don't
like, do you? That process just kind of
slips in, when you're not really paying
attention. Before you know it, you have
a head full of negativity, and an emotional,
and even physical change in response to your
mental energy.
The goal in "Feng Shui for the
Mind" is to become aware of these slips
in focus, to have more powerful
thoughts and goals to replace once you've let
your old tapes go, and to have more energy
and positive results flow into your life as a
result of the process.
Raise your awareness to become quickly
cognizant of when you're slipping into the
old pattern you'd like to replace. You'll
catch yourself more and more frequently when
you're in negative moments.
Mentally dissolve, fade, or swipe
away the image of the negative thought.
You can also change your body in order to
change your mind set rapidly. Try
lifting your eyes up, walking tall, with your
shoulders back, or putting a smile on your
face. These all have been
scientifically proven to change a person's
state of mind. You may feel awkward at
first, but the results are worth your effort.
Just as Feng Shui Principals call
for an uncluttered environment in order for
success to enter your life, Feng Shui for the
Mind advocates letting go of mind
clutter. Only once you have let go of
negative thoughts and the very real negative
energy that comes into your mind with them,
can you possibly hope to have the time and
energy to focus on what you really want to
happen.
©2006 Crystal Jonas
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