{"id":22795,"date":"2021-03-17T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T08:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/?p=22795"},"modified":"2024-07-11T11:13:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T11:13:59","slug":"learning-your-abcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/?p=22795","title":{"rendered":"Learning your ABC’s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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If the saying \u201cyou are what you think\u201d was entirely true \u2013 can you imagine how much more chaotic (or colorful depending on your perspective) this world would be. Stop for a moment and try to recollect some of the thoughts you have had recently and consider if each once were true simply because you thought it. Your boss would in fact be a live green-eyed monster, your children would resemble gremlins who eat everything including the house itself and you might in actual fact be a lump of lard wobbling on the couch after stuffing your face with all of Easter\u2019s remaining chocolates because we only live once!<\/p>\n

Instead, thoughts are the pathway or the driver to what we manifest in our lives. Thoughts are our beliefs about a situation and how we make sense of it or create meaning to it. What we think influences our emotions and behaviour, and therefore our reality.<\/p>\n

Do we really stop to consider whether the thoughts we have are in fact true? Could they possibly just be intertwined echoes of the difficult experiences we have had in our lives, fears that create the most imaginative elaborative stories, and simply the tantrum of our inner child who hasn\u2019t received the holding he\/ she needed?<\/p>\n

Michel de Montaigne humorously (and truthfully)\u00a0said: “My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.”<\/p>\n

A life-changing perspective is that we are not our thoughts, but rather the observer or the awareness of our thoughts. I like to see my thoughts as a roommate (one that I have to live with forever) and therefore worthwhile to build a relationship with. If my roommate (thought) is negative this will likely cause a conflict and I\u2019m either going to avoid them or fight back which will create a hostile environment (mind-space). If instead I begin to understand what issue my roommate has and assess their view objectively and with fact, this may allow for broader perspective and the possibility of amicably resolving the conflict.<\/p>\n

The average person thinks 65000 \u2013 75000 thoughts a day \u2013 this in itself is motivation to cultivate a healthy relationship with your roommate!<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s begin learning your ABC\u2019s in this month\u2019s challenge to get you started.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Science on thoughts:<\/em><\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
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  • A study\u00a0of more than 30,000 people revealed that harping on negative life events can be the prime predictor of some of today’s most common mental health problems.<\/li>\n
  • Researchers at University College London found\u00a0that\u00a0repetitive negative thinking is linked to cognitive decline, a higher number of harmful protein deposits in the brain, and consequently a greater risk of dementia.<\/li>\n
  • A further\u00a0study looked into how many of our imagined calamities never materialize.\u00a085 percent of\u00a0what subjects worried about never happened.<\/li>\n
  • Additionally, in the same study the 15 percent\u00a0that did happen, 79 percent of subjects discovered either they could handle the difficulty better than expected, or the difficulty taught them a lesson worth learning. This means that 97 percent of what you worry over is not much more than a fearful mind punishing you with exaggerations and misperceptions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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    If the saying \u201cyou are what you think\u201d was entirely true \u2013 can you imagine how much more chaotic (or colorful depending on your perspective) this world would be. Stop for a moment and try to recollect some of the thoughts you have had recently and consider if each once were true simply because you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conscious-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22916,"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22795\/revisions\/22916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versionx.bronwynrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}