Pathwalking 171
Bring your goal at the end of the path you walk into focus, and the path itself will gain clarity.
I have begun to explore redirecting my paths and creating better focus upon them. I concluded by stating I need to work on three steps: 1) Focus on only the things inside of my control. 2) Acknowledge my strengths. Recognize my achievements. 3) Mindfulness. Keep mindful of who I want to be. Be mindful of my focus for the goals I set at the end of the paths before me.
An unbelievably important aspect of this process is language. The first time I stated three steps to eradicate negativity much of the language I used still involved negativity. The Law of Attraction, the idea I am always sharing in the notion that Consciousness Creates Reality, in simplest terms means that what you think about and focus upon will be made manifest.
To intentionally manifest anything at all, big or small, it is important to have thought, feeling and action combined. One of the primary reasons for the creation of Pathwalking was to take control over my life and my destiny, and as such to really be in control of my own thoughts and feelings and actions.
Yet I still find I am often at the mercy of my subconscious. I let my subconscious thoughts wander, I let them take their own meandering trails, and then I wonder why I cannot create what I want to except when I am wholly and totally focused on that.
What does the subconscious have to do with Pathwalking? Everything. Taking control of my own thoughts and feelings and actions is not simply about what I do consciously, it also requires work on my subconscious. This introduces a layer of complexity that can seem rather daunting, except that the outcome is the entirety of what I created Pathwalking to do.
I’m going to get specific here, because this is really important. It is critical that I take control over what I am thinking, what I am feeling and how I am acting to walk the Path I most desire. As I examined last week, without focus it is difficult if not impossible to make things manifest. But the focus I am writing about is not simply that of the path I am choosing, but where I let my mind rest.
Let me illustrate what I mean. One of the paths I am on is to get into better health. I need to lose weight, I need to lose several inches from my waist, I need to eat smarter and to get my cholesterol dropped.
Right here I have shown several flaws in my focus. If consciousness creates reality, then if I am focused on losing weight and losing inches and dropping my cholesterol, don’t I create a vicious cycle? Simply put, yes I do. If my focus is on undoing something, my attention is on the problem, and as such I am exponentially creating more work and more complex matters along the path I want to take.
How do I change this? I need to alter my focus. Rather than focus on losing weight, I need to focus instead on achieving my goal body size. I need to focus on how I will look, how I will feel when I am at the ideal body I want for myself. I need to focus on being slim, being healthy, and maintaining my health.
Even deeper than this, though, I need to not be so critical of myself. This is a really subconscious aspect of focus that is easy to overlook. How do I think of myself? Do I think of myself as fat, slow, weak, overweight, old, broken and decaying? Or do I instead think of myself as healthy, dexterous, strong, buff, young, solid and building better? Where is my ultimate, subconscious focus?
How do I think of myself? Do I consider myself a success or a failure? Do I think of myself as capable or incapable? Do I tell myself I can do it, or I cannot do it? This is where I most need to adjust my focus, adjust my self-talk, so that I might be able to better achieve the manifestations I desire.
This right here is the crux of my difficulty in really, truly walking the paths I desire. For years I called myself a cynical or skeptical optimist. I believed in the positive outcome, but I was uncertain how it could be done or I needed to have it proven to me along the way that I was right all along. But now I recognize that my problem is not cynicism or skepticism…it is improper focus.
I need to stop and take stock of how I think of myself. Handsome or ugly? Thin or fat? Weak or strong? Foolish or wise? The focus I have on how I think of myself, positive or negative, will dictate whether I will manifest the end result of the path I desire to be upon, or if I will continue aimlessly upon it, always questioning why I can’t quite seem to complete what I have started.
This is harsh. This is me taking a really hard look at who I am, and how I have gotten here. I am walking my own paths, that I believe. But the reason I cannot manifest what I want all the time is because I have not focused on what I say about myself, and how I think about myself. I need to change the language of my self-talk. Adjusting what I am focused on therein is the key to not just walking the path, but walking the path confidently and with complete certainty.
I am writing out the subconscious thought process before me. I am asking myself what I think of myself, and giving the honest answers, so that I may adjust my focus. The sharpest image of the path I want to take will only be manifest if I make this adjustment. Thanks for staying with me as I work through this.
What do you think of yourself, and where is your subconscious focus?
This is the one-hundred seventy-first entry in my series. These weekly posts are specifically about walking along the path of life, and my personal desire to make a difference in this world along the way. Feel free to re-blog and share. Thank you for joining me.
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