17/09/2021
Be Aware of your Thoughts.
All your power is in your awareness of that power, and through holding that power in your consciousness. Your mind can be like a runaway steam train if you let it. It can take you off to thoughts of the past, and then take you off to thoughts of the future by taking past bad events and projecting those into your future. Those out-of-control thoughts are creating too. When you are aware, you are in the present and you know what you are thinking. You have gained control of your thoughts, and that is where all your power is. So how do you become more aware? One way is to stop and ask yourself, "What am I thinking now? What am I feeling now?" The moment you ask you are aware, because you have brought your mind back to the present moment.
Whenever you think of it, bring yourself back to the awareness of now. Do it hundreds of times each day, because, remember, all of your power is in your awareness of your power. Michael Bernard Beckwith sums up the awareness of this power when he says, "Remember to remember!" Those words have become the theme song of my life. To help myself become more aware, so I would remember to remember, I asked the Universe to give me a gentle nudge to bring me back to the present whenever my mind has taken over and is "having a party" at my expense. That gentle nudge happens by me bumping myself or dropping something, a loud noise, or a siren or an alarm going off. All of these things are signals to me that my mind has taken off, and to come back to the present. When I receive these signals I stop immediately and ask myself, "What am I thinking? What am I feeling? Am I aware?" And of course in the moment I do that I am aware. The very moment you ask yourself if you aware, you are there. You are aware.
"The real secret of power is consciousness of power."
-Charles Haanel.
