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“Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.”
- J. Willard Marriott
Most successful people believe that everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it can serve us. This belief can help one overcome adversity. Those who cling to this belief feel that every adversity contains the seeds of an equivalent or greater benefit. Think about it in your life. There are many different ways you can react to adversity. The question isn’t whether adversity will come into all of our lives but what we choose to do about it when it does. When adversity comes your way, ask yourself the following question, “What can I learn from it and how can it make me a better person?”
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“Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future. There is nothing in your life that you cannot modify, change, or improve when you learn to regulate your thought.” – Christian Larson (1874-1954)
What you think about and do today, affects tomorrow. What has been your thoughts today? Is this who you want to be tomorrow and in the future?
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In the 1970′s the Soviets and East Germans were the first to formally use structured mental rehearsal, and at that time, they dominated in several Olympic sports. This was reported in great detail in Charles Garfields’s landmark book. “Peak Performance.” Today, virtually all elite athletes use visualization extensively, as we now know that the brain cannot differentiate between real practice and practice that is vividly imagined. This is why change and recovery begins in the mind. One must come to understand that all behavior begins in the mind. Paying attention to thoughts is the “only moral act.” Which thoughts we give our attention to will determine our lives. By practicing mindfulness and awareness you can begin to recognize your own thought patterns. Whereas the average person has between 2,000 and 3,000 thoughts per day, the elite athlete has around 1,200. They have learned to choose their thoughts wisely and attend only to those thoughts that will help them in their quest. It all begins in the mind! In recovery work one can learn to stop the addictive thought at the door.
Chapter 5 in the InnerGold Treatment System will teach you how to do this!
