The Art of Thinking
How to Think
Everyone is under the impression that they know how to think, but really a lot of what they regard as thinking is really reacting to external events or internal ones. It might be something you see on the news on TV or a fear or anxiety within you. People often identify with helpful thoughts and ones that may feel uncomfortable, or alone , or unhappy. These are unhelpful thoughts. But although they seem real and their influence and effects certainly are, essentially they are not real, yet people identify with them, become 'glued ' to them. By starting to realise that you are not these kind of thoughts, you can begin to experience a more life- affirming type of thought, creative, inspirational, problem- solving thought energy. Yes, a thought is a form of energy, an impulse that leads to outcome or action. Thoughts rule our everyday more that we at first realise. The world is built on thoughts, whether they be helpful or unhelpful. By learning how to think, you can change the world you live in.
Thinking and Simplicity
Thinking when it is simple, is extremely powerful and uplifting for the thinker and others who receive the fruit of those thoughts. The simpler you can make your thinking, the more rewarding your inner mental world becomes and you can function with a greater state of mental clarity and balance. But what is simple thinking? It is a skill in which you can learn to let go of the clutter you don't need and allow your already existing thinking potentials to become more obvious. This can not only help you with your work, and your relationships with others, but also improve and increase your self-confidence and happiness and show you how to think effectively in solving problems that are of importance to you and your life.
Old Ways of Thinking
Our minds, our memories, our daily lives, our past and our future are filled with old ways of thinking, and often this does us no good at all. We have a lot of clutter and attachments to thoughts that just weigh us down and cause us to be less than we really are. Have you ever felt this, less than you really are, weighed down by the shadows of old thoughts. It can be tiring to carry all this around with you. If you get stuck in old ways of thinking , this can reduce your opportunities for a better life and happiness. You end up making your life smaller than it really needs to be.
Thoughts for Successful Living
To make a life that is successful on your own terms, you need to have the skills that enable you to think in such a way that empowers and assists you to think in the right way to create the success you want. Thoughts for successful living is a skill that shows you how you learn to use your thoughts to become more strategic, more aware and active, and generate the opportunities for the success that you want. However if you are not sure about what kind of success you want, or what success means to you, then this can really help you to find that out and learn how to create the kind of success you want.
Thoughts for Work and Money
In finding the right kind of job, career or work that fulfils you and brings you the money that you need or want requires you to have the skills about the right relationship to your thoughts. By defining how you think about work and money, you can create the right thinking patterns and skills that will place you where you feel you should be.
Thoughts in Relationships
Thoughts can have powerful and long- term influence in any kind of relationship. Whether it be career, romantic, friendship or marriage...what you think of them, what they think of you, the list goes on and on. But gaining skills in thinking with special focus in relationships of any kind help you to gain immediate skills that will create positive, constructive and hopefully mutually beneficial exchanges. In this section you can learn how your thinking patterns and projected thoughts influence other people for better or worse and what you can do to change that.
Individual Classes
If you would like to know more please contact me in the 'Consult with Christopher' section of my website, and you can find out about fees, appointments and various ways of having a session. You can have sessions with me with one, any combination, or all of the subjects in this section. Also many readers around the world of my book, 'The Tibetan Art of Positive Thinking' have asked if I could set up classes to help them explore techniques in this book. If you would like to do that, let me know.