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Everyone thinks, but how often do you think about the process of thinking?

Do you control your thoughts or are you at the whim of your own sub-conscious processing?

When we are thinking we are using our senses internally in order to analyse an imaginary experience. Thoughts are imagined experiences within us that we can explore with our senses, as if they were real.

We can focus our visual sense and see the key-players and read the expressions on their faces. We can listen to their words and hear their responses to imagined questions. We feel emotions attached to these images and sounds as if we were actually there. We can illicit a physical response to an imagined stimulus just as easily as to a real one; salivating at the description of a tasty meal or closing our eyes to better concentrate on the remembered scent of a beautiful flower. All of this happens at our own whim.

You are in control of your own thoughts; you can feel any way you want to feel.

If you find this concept difficult to grasp and have trouble controlling your urges or emotions try focusing on something completely different for a while. Endeavour to find somewhere comfortable where you can close your eyes for a few minutes and be free from interruptions. Think of something that you can explore with multiple senses such as a meal with friends or a scene with a scent you particularly enjoy. Use all your senses to bring details to the foreground. Embellish the experience with fantastic or impossible adornments (transfer the whole scene to an exotic location, have the people in the scene treat you like royalty - whatever works for you). Make sure that everything about this experience is positive and healthy for you.

How does it look? Are you in your own scene seeing it from your own point of view or are you viewing it from the outside? Change from one viewpoint to the other to see which you prefer. Is it in colour or black and white? Try making everything brighter and more colourful or perhaps darker and more intimate. Change the colours until they are the way you like them best. Follow this process using each of your senses in turn to build your internal scene, tweaking and exploring as you go to improve the experience for you and make it as wonderful as possible.

Open your eyes and take a deep breath. Do you notice how the positive emotions you just created with your mind are still with you as if you had really experienced your scene?

Thank yourself and the universe for the experience you have just had. Really feel the gratitude. Keep exploring how to use your imagination to help you feel the emotions you want to feel. Stick with it!

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