Active and Passive Thoughts

Active thoughts are those thoughts that are the direct result of an impulse needed at the time an effort is made. More simply, it takes a direct, conscious thought to cause an action to be performed. When something enters your mind and you put attention to it, it is an active thought.

Passive thoughts are those thoughts that come as a result of an active effort. These can be anything from subconscious thought, emotions that arise because of some event, active thoughts received from others along the same lines of suggestion, and instincts. Passive thoughts in the form of instinct are passed down through heredity from your ancestors, as well as the continuing vibrations being sent out by the Primal Cause – the Big Bang at the beginning of existence.

In order to develop a mastery over your will, you must learn to control your active thoughts, and to keep control of them when outside influences try to call up emotional passive thoughts to take over. This is especially true when you are faced with some fear that you have, or with a situation that would normally make you angry. As you learn to master your active thoughts and keep them in tune with the positive plane, your passive thoughts will learn to follow along. If a circumstance arises that normally would cause you worry or fear, brace up and face that worry with the courage that you can overcome it. Most of the fears and worries that we face in everyday life are not as great as we imagine them, and once they pass, we are left wondering what it was that we were so worried about anyway.

In order to help train both your active and passive thoughts, and to send out the proper thoughts to the formless, thinking stuff in order to gain what you desire, you can follow a few simple mind exercises throughout the day, some of which have been listed previously. It is more important, however, to concentrate a little harder on mastering your mind just prior to going to sleep. The fresher your active thoughts are just before falling asleep, the more influence they will have on your subconscious passive thought while you are sleeping.

Think for a moment about a problem that you have had in the past, that kept you worried up until you fell asleep. I am sure that many of you will remember an instance when you woke up and immediately had a solution to the problem, when you could not find one in your active thoughts no matter how hard you tried. This is the way that the Law of Attraction works, both in subconscious thought and in the physical world. You needed a solution to a problem, and the universe seemed to supply you with a solution during a time when you were more open to receive it, while you slept.

Here is an exercise that will help you gain a little more control of your active and passive thoughts. Think of some thing, or chore, that you dislike doing but that needs to be done anyway – for some this could be washing the dishes, vacuuming the house, dusting, reading a chapter in a book, doing homework – it doesn’t really matter what the thing is, just that it needs to be done. Instead of putting off doing this thing until the last moment, think to yourself that you enjoy doing this thing and go ahead and do it. While you are engaged in this task, keep repeating in your mind that you do not hate this thing, that you enjoy it. It is better if this is a daily thing, so that you can practice this everyday. The more that you can make yourself dislike this thing, the closer you will be to getting in touch with the positive plane of thought and learning to master your own thoughts. You may never grow to actually like doing this thing, but after a short time, you may be able to convince yourself that you do not hate doing this thing. Any progress is better than none at all.

This should be the last part of the theories, so things should get a little more interesting from here on out. We will start really concentrating on learning better ways to control our thoughts and emotions, and how to use the Law of Attraction to benefit us in the way that it was meant to do, both in our personal lives and our business lives.

More to come soon, so stay tuned.
Craig.