Effect of thought on the physical reality

I have this little thoery that nothing that will ever happen to you didnt start in your very own head. The mind is a goal planning/obtaining machine, and a rather effective one at that. And in my thoery, ANYTHING you think of your mind sets out to find, and the more emotion with that thought, or the more its thought about the faster your mind will find it. the problem is your mind cant tell what it is you want and dont want so if your trying to avoid somthing then your thinking about it and thus making it harder to avoid. Try going a whole day watching your thoughts and try thinking positive ones. itll be hard at first but worth it. if you try you could trace every event of your waking like back to a simple thought. it like your mind is a garden, thoughts a seed and the fruit gathered is physical experiance, and bad thoughts make a sort of experiance "weeds". so its your job to take control over your garden and weed out the bad thoughts, your life will change just as quick as your mind does. critisism/comments/further insight is welcome. -Peace :cookiemonster:

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I have this little thoery that nothing that will ever happen to you didnt start in your very own head[/b]

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It's a good theory, although i don't understand it in relation to that line, everything written under that doesn't seem to relate?

The concept of the mind being a garden though i must admit, is really nice. Weeds and fruit, seperating negative and positive experiences in life.

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Try going a whole day watching your thoughts and try thinking positive ones. itll be hard at first but worth it. if you try you could trace every event of your waking like back to a simple thought. it like your mind is a garden, thoughts a seed and the fruit gathered is physical experiance, and bad thoughts make a sort of experiance \"weeds\". so its your job to take control over your garden and weed out the bad thoughts, your life will change just as quick as your mind does[/b]

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To keep with the theme of your theory, i can add a variable which might make it more true. Even if you follow this thought, to manipulate your day into one positive experience, ot still comes down to outside effects. You could call this the 'weather' for the garden. If it's bad weather, such as violence all around you, it will be hard for the garden to grow fruit, you'll find only weeds.

Im not critisizing, more like elaborating :P
Good idea but ey.

I agree that MOST of what we walk around thinking are external realities are self-created, and as we dwell on these negative "realities," we multiply them. Meditation kinda trains you to catch yourself in the act and liberate or redirect that momentum. Today at work, for instance, it was really busy, and it seemed like everytime one thing got squared away, there were three more things to do. At one point I was really stressing and I did a waking-life RC--like, "Is this situation real, or is my mind taking me for a ride?" Looking back from there, I could see that no external situation had created my unpleasant state of mind; it was my reactions, and my frenzied responses were sowing more chaos around me. I laughed the whole thing off, and the rest of my looooong day was easier because of it.

Hey man, cool. Taosaur, there's a lot of that in Buddhism. Or did you perhaps learn it frmo Taoism (hence your name)? They have a lot of common elements.

Hey Incubus, has this new attitude treated you well?

most certainly, after a while of training yourself to think positive thoughts they just come subconciously, it has also calmed my schitzofrenia a bit, maybe even someday be a psychological cure? But its highly doubted, i have a high concentraction of DMT in my blood stream, thats the cause, not just psychological problems. But yeah, positive thought has a bigger effect on ones life than you might expect.

And Xisdence, i like what you added about the outside weather, never really thought about that. good insight

Peace