Revised: Nov 23, 2023
Our feelings guide us along different paths, and our thoughts are the choices we make on these paths. By paying attention to our feelings and consciously choosing our thoughts, we can steer ourselves toward a better life.
Many of us desire a better life. All desires are rooted in the belief that fulfilling those desires will bring about better feelings. To create a better life, change the way we process thoughts. We can achieve a better life by changing the way we process thoughts in every moment of our lives.
Some will find it hard to believe that thoughts can come to us from ‘out of the blue’. Just because we don’t always perceive or understand the origin of something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. This idea is paralleled with the way we breathe, where we don’t see oxygen and carbon dioxide, yet we believe in their existence and function. How our bodies automatically process air and deliver oxygen and carbon dioxide illustrates this point.
So too with asking questions and receiving answers. We do not need to know all of the details of the process in order to believe the process occurs. (But feel free to ask those questions of God if you want answers for that.)
The surface area of my lungs, if spread out on the ground, would cover a complete tennis court. Breathe in. Do you feel the oxygen being taken out of the air by your lungs? Breathe out. Do you feel the carbon dioxide being placed in the air you breathe out? Do you tell your lungs to take the oxygen out of the air or place the carbon dioxide into the air? No! The body knows to do all that.
We often engage in the process of asking and receiving without realizing it. This is not a new skill to learn but rather a part of our natural abilities. The act of asking questions and receiving answers is a natural process that we’ve been doing all our lives. All answers from God are honest. Consider whether you want to keep asking people or turn to God for answers and truth.
Just as our body knows how to take a part of each breath you take and deliver that part of oxygen to a certain place in the body, so does the body know what to do with an answer that has been delivered to your brain. You already have lots of proof of this happening. Think about the times you tried to figure something out. What is the act of ‘figuring something out’ if not asking and receiving? Someone asks you a question. You place the question into your mind. You know the answer. What is this if not asking and receiving? By hearing the question, it is automatically placed into your mind. You may not immediately know the answer. There is more discussion. The answer comes to you. What is this if not ask and you shall receive?
This is not something new you need to learn to do. It is a part of you because you’ve been doing it all your life. Now that you’ve figured this out, you have free will to keep asking other people questions or you can change to asking the questions of God. Which do you think will better serve you moving forward? Which is more likely to give you the truth? Which do you think will feel better?
All that is in one’s mind is the result of what one has chosen to put there. Free will allows us to choose. No one can do that for us or to us. We are each response able to change our mind by what we choose to put into our minds. We are each responsible for what we have placed in our mind. Everything in my mind is there after having gone through my free will choosing before putting it there.
Become more aware of your feelings, thoughts, and choices, with the goal of improving your life through conscious decision-making.