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In one of our previous vlogs we spoke about the importance of becoming the observer of your thoughts, becoming aware of the stories they are telling you, in order to gain more control over your life.
Today’s blog will focus on how you can start to shift your thoughts once you become aware of them.
If you are unconsciously identified with the mind, meaning you don’t really pay attention to the thoughts you have, then you are a slave to your mind and it is using you. You have given up your power to the mind and at this time your decisions/behaviour is driven from an unconscious place.
Ekart Tolle refers to this as “It’s almost as if you’re possessed without knowing it and so you take the possessing entity to be yourself. The beginning to freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity. The moment you start watching the thinker a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.”
When you become the observer of your thoughts you enter a place of presence. When you are in presence, your judgmental voice disappears and you start seeing from a clear place. In this clear place, you may start to realize the things that truly matter- beauty, love, joy, inner peace etc. These realizations come from a higher consciousness and arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.
When Dave and I were in a darker place in our lives, we made the intention of wanting to become consciously aware of our thoughts. When we began observing and both realized that many of our thoughts were rooted in how unhappy we were with our current life.
We were slaves to our jobs. We identified who we were, with what we did, Nicole – a nurse practitioner and Dave an HVAC mechanic.
We identified that we felt so exhausted all of the time both physically and emotionally.
We were working 40+ hrs a week, pushing through week after week.
We had little space for ourselves and even less for each other.
Time just felt like this rare commodity, there was never enough of it, like we were in some kind of race.
Even though we were both working our “dream jobs” that we had put countless years of school in (Dave 4 + 5 year apprenticeship and Nicole 8). Our light inside felt dimmed. We were filled with defeat and a sense of hopelessness. We asked ourselves, is this what adulting is? Is this what life is supposed to be?
We noticed that we stopped daydreaming, feeling curious and full of wonder.
We were just not excited. And we are two passionate people- where did the passion go?
We were flat out miserable.
Have you ever had some of the same feelings?
Becoming aware of our thoughts and emotions was the first step.
Tapping in, becoming present and seeing how we truly felt. But let us tell you we were not happy with what we saw and this was so HARD to acknowledge! Because now what? Well, we either could choose to ignore how we truly felt or we could take responsibility to do something about it.
We thought to ourselves, life is beautiful and we want to experience its beauty. You have one friggin life, you might as well live it.
How to Shift
We started intention setting daily, cultivating those shifts that we wanted to see happen in our world. Your external world is a representation of your inner world. Before you can see changes around you, you have to turn inward and make those changes first, the external is just a bi-product.
We noticed at the time that a lot of our thoughts were rooted in fear, anxiety, worry and anger. Some of these thoughts include:
My life is hard
I am always tired and don’t have energy to do anything fun
I have so much anxiety, worry and feel irritated a lot of the time
I am constantly worrying about the future
There just never is enough time
Everyday feels like a struggle, a battle
It is impossible to escape the 9-5 rat race
This is what life is and I will just have to get used to it
We were trapped in cyclical negative thinking that kept us stuck within this vortex.
We consciously chose to shift these thought patterns. Part of how we did that was using daily intentions, some include.
My life is beautiful
I am and have the power to create the life of my dreams
I have all the answers within me
Life supports me in every way
I allow abundance into my life
I am unique and it is my greatest strength
My life is meant to be lived and enjoyed
I will foster a life where time is not traded for money
This process allowed us to identify the negative thoughts, consciously stop and re-route the thoughts. Through this we started to shift into a more present and positive space.
Although our circumstances had not changed our mentalities had. When you start to think from a conscious place you begin to take your power back.
What Comes Next?
Well, the law of attraction says it quite simply, thoughts become things. Where you spend your time daydreaming and the thoughts you are putting out there tend to become your reality. Again, your inner world is a representation of your outer world. As you start to cultivate more intentional thoughts, things will start to happen for you but you need to keep an open eye.
For us, shortly after our shift, something very interesting came into our reality. We came across a company that provides education for learning how to build an online business from scratch. We were never intending on building an online business but what caught our attention was they spoke to the idea of escaping the “rat race” and leveraging time. To say the least, we were intrigued because these were the intentions we were cultivating daily. We decided to check out the free 3 day video series (access here) and it was pretty clear that we deeply resonated with this company’s vision. We paid for some additional training and since then have learned so much! We also had no idea we would become part of this wonderful like minded and supportive community.
We had zero idea how to create an online business and what that would look like. We didn’t think we had anything to offer other than our professional skills. However, the company we are a part of does such a wonderful job in guiding and providing the education necessary.
We are here now growing this online business, not only starting to leverage our time but more importantly helping people like you, experiencing burnout, moving through the journey into a place of breakthrough. We want to help you reclaim back your power. We have been there, experienced burnout first hand. We feel passionate about sharing the tools so that you can be empowered to do the same for yourself.
A big take away from today is, continue to tap in, be the observer of your thoughts and listen to your internal world. Are your thoughts representative of the life you want to live? If not, recognize this and start to consciously shift your thoughts to the place you want to be.
As you continue to access the place of higher consciousness, you will begin to see with clarity and are much more likely to make decisions from a place of truth and alignment. This is when you really begin to live a life that is deeply fulfilling, whatever that looks like for you.
If you are interested in exploring the idea of building an online business check out the link below.