Holding Empowering Thoughts – Do You Have Control Over Your Thoughts?

Most of us believe that thinking is a purely involuntary action like blinking or losing some amount of hair daily. No one ever mentions it as we grow up that there is a possibility that we have control over the thoughts that go through our brain. We learn to assume that we have no choice over the thoughts that go through our brain.

The truth is that we have all power to hold only the thoughts that we choose to go through our brain. To help us better understand that we can learn to control the thoughts we hold, let us have a quick look at how the thought process is managed.

What are thoughts? Thoughts are an energy interpreted by the brain and turned into another impulse as the thought requires. This is in as much the same way as light is an energy received by the eye and translated into a format that can be interpreted as the view requires.

Said in another way, it means that a thought has a life of its own quite outside the thinker. If the thinker does not give attention to a thought, it will continue along its path because it is an energy that will continue to live on.

The brain is a muscle in the same way that the muscles in your fingers or in your legs are. This piece of flesh that lies between our ears has a designated assignment that is innate by design; in the same way churning food is the role of the stomach by design. The work of the brain is to channel the thoughts that the owner, you, chooses to pass through it.

The brain can no more choose the thoughts it passes through than the blood vessels can choose what blood passes through them. The brain has no will to agree or to refuse. Whatsoever thought the brain holder thinks, the brain is there to pass it along. The act of being there for thoughts to pass through on the part of the brain as a muscle is purely mechanical.

Having understood that the brain has a purely mechanical function, does that give you power to control the thoughts you think?

Though we use the two words ‘brain’ and ‘mind’ interchangeably in speech, the two do not have the same meaning in reality.

The brain according to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary is ‘the ORGAN of the body…’ and wordweb.com adds ‘enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord’.

The mind on the other hand is ‘the ABILITY to be aware of things and to think and feel…’

There is an element of working with thought in both that allows us to use the two words interchangeably in speech, but one is an organ the other is an ability. Now only the being can have an ability, a strength, a power. In this case, only you can have an ability, a strength and a power to select that which the organ will transmit. Therefore, you have total control over the thoughts you allow to dwell and move about within you.