The more I thought about the previous post, the more my mind realised what a huge concept it really is, the mind is AWESOME!
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca
So much suffering is self created, it’s never happened, it may never happen, but that fear can stop you from doing something great. It can stop you from trying some crazy new food. It can stop you from taking the great job you could so so well in. It could stop you from living your dreams. It can stop you from living up to your true potential.
Your imagination can create your reality. I’ve been a self created victim of thinking negatively in the past, we probably all have. People have told me in the past I couldn’t do something, told me that I was not capable, and in a moment of fear I’d absorbed this bullshit, and held myself back. I HELD MYSELF BACK. Think about it. Nobody physically held me back from doing it, my imagination had created a negative situation and I’d scared myself into inaction. “We are more often frightened than hurt” (and the physical hurt would have been so much better for me, because I could have taken it as a learning experience)
Our minds are so powerful, but that power can be for good or evil.
“There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so” – Shakespeare
In other words, your thoughts on any situation can create suffering or joy.