Everything Starts With A Thought
Anne McKeown
Author, Speaker & Coach who empowers others to step up, speak up and show up with confidence.
Are you aware that everything starts with a thought? And that our thoughts help or hinder our human experience?
Once you know these to be true, everything changes because you realise you have a choice!
We all have a choice about the morals, values and character we cultivate in our thoughts, by giving constructive thoughts and ideas preference over those that are destructive.
What you choose to focus on has an impact greater than your own experience. Neuroscientist David Rock calls this “attentional density” – the weight of attention we give to each thought that passes through our mind.
All our minds, making up the whole of society can go either way. We can access both the best and the worst of the human experience. It’s up to each one of us which direction we go in. We see this played out in everyday life. Thoughts become a reality, whether that’s people shouting at one another or showing compassion.
There is a neutral ground of thought, but most minds don’t stay there for long. The poet Rumi wrote “somewhere between right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.” We don’t often reach that garden. It’s easier to sway toward good or bad, right or wrong. Left to their own devices, our thoughts weave opinions and we believe those opinions to be true.
I’d like to imagine that, in a hundred years, a historian collating data will look back in time and come to the conclusion that what you and I are thinking and doing individually today did indeed foster a combined swell of positive change in society!
Wouldn’t that be a great legacy!
Transforming Teams Through Communication, Leadership and Culture | Speaker | Facilitator & MC | Performance Coach
4 年Very true Anne, everything does start with a thought. Thoughts are real forces and you get what you think about most of the time.