Sonya Triggs-Wharton

Your Mind Creates Your Reality - Scientific Experiment

Have you seen Morgan Freeman's Through the Wormhole Series? Well, recently he hosted a show about the mysteries of the subconscious. You can check out a short clip here: http://science.discovery.com/videos/through-the-wormhole-mysteries-of-the-subconscious/.

Basically, this clip shows us that our minds can be fooled into reacting to a simulated event. In other words, whatever our minds believe to be true IS true for us. You will see this poor guy flinching when a knife is placed near his simulated legs even though he's been told those are not actually his legs (they're from a mannequin).

So what does this mean for you? Whatever you choose to believe is true for you.  Don't believe me? Watch the clip a few times. And when you're done pondering on that, think about the fact that whatever you believe about your LIFE is true for you as well. A great deal of what we believe about life is completely subjective (what you choose to believe about it).  Is it enough to make you change the way you think today?

Think about it...

Controlling Your Thoughts

One thing we learn in counseling is the importance of not giving a judgment or value to everything that happens in your life.  An important facet of a therapy known as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is that while ‘good’ or ‘bad’ things may happen, the value you assign to those things is all your own.

What do I mean?

Say you have an unexpectedly busy day at work. You walk in and get hit with a last-minute project which takes the entire morning you had set aside to return phone calls and check your emails. You finally get around to your email that afternoon only to discover you missed an important meeting. You call to make your apologies, find out what was discussed and then return those phone calls you meant to make that morning.