you are what you think

Do you have thoughts that plague your brainwaves, or looming and recurring experiences that float around in your head for no legitimately valid reason, other than being emotionally hooked to them?

My youngest brother had an obsession with donuts in our early years, particularly the top frosted portion with sprinkles, and I remember my parents warning him that if he ate too many he would in fact turn into a donut himself. Similarly, our internal intangible obsessions manifest into our physical form. 

For example: stress. The seed is planted when we begin thinking things like what we "should" eat to look a certain way, thinking it is the way we "should" look, then thinking how annoyed we are at ourselves for eating a delicious cookie because that definitely means we backtracked on the path of eating and looking the way we think we need to eat and look.

Before we know it we've stressed ourselves out so much our bodies respond through dis-eases like high blood pressure, gut issues or hormone imbalances. Our bodies and minds are so powerfully connected that our thoughts become our reality in various ways, shapes and forms. 

And so, from the aforementioned example, we can become what we think: not good enough to be the way we think we should be in our mind, body and spirit.

Do you think I would be able to get myself into that handstand-backbend situation in the photo above if I kept thinking I couldn't do it? It may have taken years of practice, but we are only incapable if we think we are incapable.

A question I often ask myself in the midst of tricky thought-patterns: is it worth it in this lifetime to keep my thoughts stuck here and feel like continual crap about it? What is the point of telling myself and joking with others that I am a disaster when my actual desire in this life is to be happy, feel awesome, and spread the health?

Click here to read the full post, including tips to experiment with to help you tune in to the truth and step out of destructive thought-ruts.

What helps you think happy thoughts when your default complaints kick in? What is one thought you can start paying more attention to right now?

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*Photo by Renee Choi with Caroline Smith in Brooklyn, wearing Hyde organic apparel.