Powerful Thoughts 2:

In my previous article about powerful thoughts I wrote about how we can and are built to coach or analyse ourselves to get our problems solved. Since then I have taken a few different looks as to how and why we can and should have positive thoughts. Dr. Caroline Leaf is a cognitive neuroscience with a PhD in Communication Pathology and a BSc in Logopaedics and Audiology, specializing in meta-cognitive and cognitive neuropsychology who wrote books on her findings about the human brain and thought. She proved that our physical brain grows through what we think, whether positive or negative thoughts. I recently had the privilege of talking to Mr. Elias L. Kaweme the Auditor General from Kingdom Global Group and Mr. Nhlanhla Ndlovu from I Love Learning.

Mr. Nhlanhla Ndlovu told a story of how he realized the human being’s “super-power”. All the animals on our planet have some “skill” attached to their species that keeps them safe or helps them excel. E.g. A Lion is fast and built to hunt, even Meercats can stand on their hind legs to lookout for food or predators. My friend Kowie from Silver Pegasus Stables told me interesting facts about how horses are built to run very far, fast and for long periods. Horses have unique body features such as strong muscles, special rib cages and huge lungs that allows for taking in oxygen without necessarily having to use the full function of inhaling breath while running. Mr. Nhlanhla said that at first the human seems fragile- he asked, what do our species have to protect or enhance ourselves. We have brains with above and beyond understanding thought and emotional ability’s. We are an intelligent thinking and intellectual species. Our thoughts are our weapon and our advantage.

I even remember a childhood movie Matilda, in the famous story Matilda used the power of her mind to cause the movement of matter at a distance. I am fond of listening to the stories, even though that to me is an extreme example of how powerful our thoughts are, and I don’t really think we can control things physically with our thoughts, the idea it creates for me is true, we do process power in what we allow ourselves to think. I even feel like I can connect by using my thoughts to certain animals and people. E.g. I understand cats very well, I understand how they think, thus I am a bit of a cat person and cat whisperer.

Mr. Elias Kaweme gave me two biblical examples of where human thoughts in the bible where change catalysers or they showed extreme power. The first story was of the woman who struggled with bleeding problems. Matthew 9:20–22: And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” Immediately her bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’” But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”

The second story was about the tower of babel. The Tower of Babel in the Old Testament was a tower built by a united humanity to reach the heavens. Genesis 11:1-9: Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

I have a few friends and even my own relationships sometimes are with people from a different language group. My one friend made a joke about how his wife would default into her home language when she is angry and even though he cannot understand a word she is saying it is clear to him that she is upset. But because he does not understand what she is saying he does not get hurt by her words and could talk it out with her as soon as she has calmed down. I found in my own relationships that even if we understand each other due to the different cultures that comes with our language differences we can sometimes misunderstand each other or not like each other’s manners that comes with the language differences. I even found that language differences between me and my clients cause them to understand my concepts and lessons slower, thus the growth process is slower. Even in meeting with prospects with different language than me, I must schedule follow-ups to make sure that I understand the full extent of what they do, want and need. This requires more effort, but it is also an opportunity to show that I really care by really committing to understand them. So, this was in all aspects a gift not a punishment. It was God protecting us from ourselves. But the deep fact remains that we have a super power we are not fully aware of and that is how powerful our thinking really is.

Then lastly for any nay-sayers I have practical examples of where we use thoughts to be successful. When we apply for a job, the day before the interview, you run through possible questions in your mind, thus envisioning the interview. When we train for a competition in sports, the day before we run through our strategy’s and possible scenarios we need to prepare. When I go horse riding I envision how I am going to act, react and use the equipment to communicate effectively to the horse. Before I meet with clients I prepare what I need to teach them, and how I can make it the most effective for them to remember and apply. Thus, we envision what we do. Even when we keep a to do list for the work we need to complete or set up goals we are using our thoughts. Our thoughts turn into beliefs. If I think of myself as a master in what I do, it gives me momentum to continue to practice what I love doing, thus it becomes a belief and what I believe I am creating.

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The Ameliorate Team

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