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What do you find your mind drawn to? What seems to be entertaining you? What do you think about in a more consistent manner? Are we compelled to be thinking in a certain way? Can we re-train our little brains to entertain another possibility? We seem to want to find someone else or a situation to point at and say (with shock), OMG! How could they do that? Look what they did! Look what they're wearing! I'm never going to be like .... _______________ fill in the blank here... (could be my mother, my father, my brother, my sister, like her, like him, like them....) And we wonder why we have conflict????? Let's try to look at the GO sign... not the STOP sign! If your focus seems to want to go where you're not getting positive benefit... you can re-train and consider an alternative. We cannot change our default thinking.... however, we can expand, add and choose a more beneficial focus.

A good friend advised me one day many years ago that "what you hold in your head is what you hold in your hand"... Bringing focus to something that we consciously want heightens our awareness and sensitivity to that object or desire. It then may seem easier to acquire or work on that which we want, as opposed to what we don't want. It allows us to see opportunity where we might otherwise not. Be aware of the excuses/justification that can creep into our minds when creating positive change... I always try to remember to ask myself, why am I making something I want hard to get???? Why not put it into my head that it will be easy. It only seems hard because I may not have done it before or that I may not know about it. Unfamiliarity can certainly breed fear which will create judgement and negative intention... and allow me to lose my focus and give up... even before starting. We are creatures that seem to need experience... proof if you will, before we believe something. Ev...