The mind is wireless transmitter. A saint with peace, harmony and spiritual thoughts sends these out to the world. These thoughts travel quickly into the world and produce similar thoughts of harmony and peace in others. A person who is full of jealously, revenge and hatred send these thoughts out into the world and affect thousands with similar thoughts. Thoughts have great power. They are like waves that affect minds that respond to the vibration that is transmitted.
We need to take our thoughts seriously and monitor them. Most of the thoughts we have are already in our mental body. Whatever we think or dwell upon continuously creates a thought groove in our mind into which the thoughts begin to run automatically. These groves or thought patterns belong to the ego and stays with us even after death. They create our tendencies or samskaras. The mind is not a blank sheet of paper. It contains the impressions of thoughts and actions of the previous births. Samskaras are the latent potentialities. We come to this world as individuals. Siblings are different even though they have the same parents, genes, and environment. We call it our individuality or tendencies.
All of our tendencies have a past, and all of our actions create a future. All action has a desire which prompted it and a thought which shaped it. Every though is a chain of cause and effect with three qualities: desire, thought and activity. A desire causes a thought, a thought causes an action, and an action cause destiny.
We may say that the physical body is a manifestation of thought. When the mind is depressed, so is the body. The body follows the mind. If the mind thinks of an accident, the body prepares itself immediately. If we look at someone, we can see expressions of their mind in the face. Anger, fear, grief, cheerfulness, love all show external signs in the face or eyes.
Similarly, all thoughts effect every cell in the body. Candace Pert the neuroscientist in 1980 validated what the yogis have been saying for centuries. Every cell has neurotransmitters and knows what the mind is thinking. Thoughts of worry and thoughts of fear poison our body and destroy our health and vitality. Thoughts of love, joy, and courage, heal. So let us be full of love and joy to have a healthy body.
Thought are also magnetic. Similar thoughts attract similar thoughts. People of similar thoughts are attracted towards each other. “Birds of the same feather flock together,” What we think flows from us in an infinity sign and attracts similar thoughts and returns to us. So, if we hate, hate will come back to us. If we love, love will come back to us. Whatever returns to us, intensifies our original thought. We become a magnet to similar thoughts. We experience this when we go with good intentions to a person who is depressed. If we are not able to move them out the depression, we also leave the situation drained and depressed.
A powerful suggestion from a doctor allows the patient to cure the disease through the treatment that is given. But a doctor may say “I cannot cure this patient, they do not have the will to live.” Every thought or emotion or word produces a strong vibration in every cell of the body. Strong passion, hatred, jealously begin to destroy the cells of the body and introduce diseases. Louise Hay introduced us to the idea that different thoughts can cure diseases in her work You can Heal Your Body. Yoga practitioners know that standing on you head is really not yoga, but doing the physical exercises prepares us for the purpose of yoga which is yoga chitta vritti nirodhaha, complete control of our mind waves.
The thoughts that we are aware of are either internal conversations like mental talk or mental images, or a combination of the two. These thoughts we can track through mindfulness. But what about subconscious thoughts? Once we are aware of the conscious thought, we begin to detect a subtle undercurrent, a sort of subterranean stirring. That is our subconscious mind! Therefore, becoming aware of subtle thoughts tell us what is stirring in the mind. Most of the time they manifest in our emotions. These are the thoughts that have created grooves in our mind, that we automatically fall into. These thoughts run without our mind being consciously engaged. They run in a circle and keep repeating over and over until willfully stopped. At times we ask someone what they are thinking when starring into space, usually their answer is “I do not know.”
Our thought not only have power over our physical body and emotions, but also create our life. Once our emotions match the thought, we create. Everything that is logged in our unconscious has been created with emotions, that is why those unattended thoughts need to be monitored so that they do not create deeper grooves in the mind that the mind automatically falls into.
There cannot be a change in our life, unless we begin to become aware of or thoughts. This is not so easy. We may wish to ask our mind what it is thinking. Then we need to evaluate if we wish to accept that thought or go “delete, delete.” Understanding how powerful our thoughts are inspires us to monitor them and direct the thoughts towards the change we wish to be. We are created in the image of the Divine. We are not the divine, but we have some of the powers to experiment with before we return to the source. We are powerful. They say that a saint who meditates in the Himalayas on world peace is more powerful than an atomic bomb.
