“As you and I learn to improve and enlarge our ideas or mental pictures, to improve and enlarge our thinking, our life falls in form with this just as if we’ve moved the camera and took a different picture.”  Mary Morrissey

What do you envision your life to be like in 5 years?  What about 10 years?  What are you doing to move toward those dreams?

And now, dear brothers and sisters, let me say one more thing as I close this letter. Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.  (Phil. 4:8; NLT)

Last time we were together, we were discussing the various levels of development of a person’s mind.  I made the point that the amount of knowledge that a person has really has very little to do with whether that person’s mind was highly developed or little developed, i.e., a small mind.  I went on to suggest that a person’s attitude was more important than knowledge when it comes to their level of development.  I concluded with the bold statement that a small mind need not stay that way and that indeed, there is a very clear path to raise the level of development of anyone’s mind.  That’s when we ran out of space.

Picking up from there, let me say that it is a universal law that no mind can be greater than its conceptions, or no greater than what it can conceive or create (imagine) with that mind.  Therefore, working with that law simply means that a person who has an attitude or desire to grow need only imagine a new reality as great as their imagination will allow them to go…and no further.  They don’t need to reach for the stars, if all they can imagine is reaching the moon.

Once there is a clear envisioning of that preferred future, that person need only to begin to think and act in alignment with that desired future.  So once we start to improve and enlarge our thinking, our life begins to fall into place in congruency with that raised level of thinking.  Remember the oft repeated Proverb 23:7a that says “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”  Hopefully  you can see that the effort is not in reaching for the new level, but rather in maintaining a continual and sustained focus on the reality of that new imagined future.

Do you begin to see the natural upward spiral that we’re pre-programmed to follow?  Contrast that with the good (?) advice offered by the world that says, “Stop daydreaming!  Get your head out of the clouds.”  Sounds like the advice of people who want you to stay down at the lower level with them.

So, let’s pause this for the weekend and check for any feedback or questions.  I encourage you to use the comment box below.  Are you resonating with any of what I’m saying, or is it like rubbing a cat from the back forward.  Make it an awesome weekend and we’ll continue this line of thinking next week.

Prayer Power
Father, we thank You for programming our minds with a built in path for improvement.  That’s a clear statement of Your unfathomable love for us.

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Raising Your Consciousness

Blessings on you as you choose to travel the upward spiral.