Be the Change You Want to See

Focus and Expand Like Yeast of the Mind

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When we focus on a particular thought, our minds immediately get to work to call up similar thoughts and circumstances. Look at what you were thinking as you read this. Whatever your reaction was on reading the above will instantly expand.

“I knew this already” expands to “Why read further? What’s the point?”

“This is common sense, but there could be more” expands to “There’s so much to learn from another perspective” and so on.

Positive and loving thoughts immediately bring into being similar thoughts and feelings that lift our spirits. When we think of negative and fearful situations or things, we usually get even more negative.

It would follow that our success in any venture often depends on our focus — negative or positive. How easy is it to become preoccupied with what we do not have so much so, we do not even think about what we do have?

Try a simple exercise. Clear your mind briefly and think of the color blue. No doubt images come…