You Are Everything You Think You Are

by Guillermo Vidal | Dec 7, 2020 | Becoming Your Best Self

We misunderstand the power of the mind to create our reality. This is apparent in the way people use affirmations as though they were desires someone out there can fulfill for them.

I think the use of affirmations is important, but I am certain you cannot get a million dollars or a date with Halle Berry by repeating them. Mind you, believing you can get these things is better than not, but just wishing it does not provide any guarantee. Creating the reality you want takes effort.

What we understand with certainty is that you are what you think. If you perceive you are a coward or that you fold under pressure, then that is who you are and what you do. If you consider yourself to be ugly, old, or untalented you will draw the Universe’s energy to support those beliefs. I have certainly held such thoughts about myself, so I understand how damaging they can be. Unaware of our mind’s power to create our reality, we misuse it with our negative thinking.

Where does negative thinking come from?

It is appropriate to assign a lot of the blame to our parents and mentors. This is because they ingrained in us the values and beliefs they inherited from the generations that came before. I do not mean this to be…