Training Your Thoughts

 TRAINING

 YOUR THOUGHTS 

Around the Year with Emmet Fox

 

December 27

 

Thought is the real causative force in life,

and there is no other.

You cannot have one kind of mind

and another kind of environment.

You cannot change your environment

while leaving your mind unchanged.

This is the real key to life;

if you change your mind,

your conditions must change too—

your body must change,

your activities must change;

your home must change;

the color-tone of your whole life must change.

 

... And be not conformed to this world:

but be ye transformed

by the renewing of your mind …

(Romans 12:2).

 

This may be called the Great Cosmic Law.

The practical difficulty in applying it

 arises from the fact

that our thoughts are so close to us

 that it is difficult,

without a little practice,

to stand back and look at them objectively.

Yet that is just what you must learn to do.

You must train yourself

to choose the subject of your thinking

at any given time,

and also, to choose the emotional tone.

If you are not determined to start in now

and carefully select all day

the kind of thoughts that you are going to think,

you may as well give up all hope of shaping your life

into the kind of thing that you want it to be.

The way to start on a seven-day mental diet

 is to begin now.