The POWER of your THOUGHTS: Understand how mental health is important!

When I did my research for this video, I was impressed to find on Google Trends that the words “mental health is important” were not really searched until 2020! As a consequence, the pandemics impacted people’s mental health, and some of them are still dealing with it… so today, I want to talk about what your mind can do and how this process happens!

Your conscious mind is the tiniest portion of your being, it represents only 12% of your total mind, and the thoughts that happen in there can cause huge damages! My goal for this post is to clarify how your thoughts impact you mind, your emotions, your wellbeing, and your physical and mental health.

Your Thoughts

I will share an interesting fact with you, you have thousands of thoughts per day and, according to some research, more than 90% of them are repetitive! So basically, your mind is like a broken record that keeps playing the same music!

And you learn through repetition, so every time a thought repeats itself, it reinforces and solidifies a neurological connection in your brain. You can see that clearly happening because of the pandemics, as people were fed with ideas that made them feel fear and anxiety for such a long time, some of them are still having difficulties to change this state of being.

The more you repeat something, the more that gets ingrained in you at the point of becoming part of your identity, and by the way, habits work exactly in the same way! So you can consider thoughts as if they were habits you have, if you don’t do anything to change them, they will keep playing in autopilot!

Your thoughts play a big role on pretty much every aspect of your life: your actions, emotions, perceptions about the world and people, the way you feel, your energies and your health on both levels, mental and physical. And the problem is, most of the time we are not even aware of the chaos that’s happening inside us!

I don’t know if you know, but you have 7 bodies and the physical is only one of them! Four of them you can become aware while you are still here, in human form, they are the mental, emotional, astral and physical bodies. The other 3 exist in much higher levels of consciousness, and they are pertinent to your soul and to the totality of “All That Is!”. All these bodies are connected, and what happens in one affects the other!

For you to understand the importance of your mental body, I will use a spiritual quote that describes the Creator and the creation:

“The Creator had a thought and the thought started to think!”

Your thoughts are responsible for the majority of your problems because all the creation starts there!

Your Emotions

Your thoughts create emotions!

If you don’t believe what I am saying, you can do a test, chose a situation that you regret in your life and talk to yourself in two different ways:

• On the first one, blame yourself for being naive, stupid, incapable of dealing with that and so on, and pay attention to the anger you will feel growing in your stomach.
•  On the second one, be gentle and say nice things to yourself like “you did your best, you learned from it, next time you will do better” and you will notice a pacifying feeling arising inside you.

I can assure you that most of your emotions come from your thoughts and the way you chose to perceive things! Yes, I said you chose because whatever happens in your life doesn’t come with a meaning, you have the choice to perceive it as positive or negative!

Look at the pandemics! Same situation, different reactions! Some people enjoyed the lockdown, while others struggled with it… Usually people don’t know they have a choice about how they perceive and react to things, or they don’t know how to control it, and the answer is quite simple, if you didn’t choose consciously, your subconscious did it for you! Either you learn how to control your mind, or it will control you!

A lot of people talk about mental illnesses as being genetic, and many of them are, but your thoughts will determine how they will affect you! I will share something personal with you to give you an example about everything that I’m talking today.

Without knowing what I was doing, I cultivated depression in my life when I was around 11 years old. I used to lock myself in my bedroom and listen to sad music, so I could sink into my sadness! I trained my brain to think negatively, and after a couple of years, that became part of my personality! Over the years, it only got worse, and I ended up developing many self-destructive behaviors as a consequence! It took me 15 years to reach a point in my life where I said to myself “enough, I cannot live like this anymore”!

That’s when I started to study spirituality so I could understand better my existence, the more I learned, more my thought patterns changed, which improved drastically my mental health and my state of being! And by the way, everything that I learned on this journey to heal myself, I’m sharing with you here!
Nowadays I sit with my pain and I identify which thoughts are hurting me. When they become clear, I work to defeat them because now I know that if I allow them to stay, they will solidify and become part of my identity! I don’t want that to happen, I’ve already did this mistake in the past, I’m not going to do it again!

So please, be careful about what’s happening inside your mind, look at it as garden! Choose wisely the seeds that you are planting there because they will grow, and if you don’t know what you are doing, you might end with a lot of weeds! And it’s hard to get rid of them later!

The Diseases

Getting back to the 4 bodies I mentioned before (mental, emotional, astral and physical), usually the sequence works like this: the way you think affects your emotions, which in turn impacts your energy or your astral body, and the physical body only reflects what’s going on in the other three!

This is just a map to help you to track the problem and locate the source! Of course I cannot affirm that all diseases follow exactly this sequence: mind, emotions, energy and body.

Some people go through a trauma when they are still very young and that gets stored in these bodies, and later in life, it becomes a disease! What happened to Louise Hay is a good example of it, she was sexually abused when she was a teenager, and she had cervical cancer when she was 50.

I just want to bring to your awareness how all these bodies are connected and affect each other. Even science has some research about how your state of being impacts your immune system, and about how your thoughts can create or heal diseases. I’m sure you already heard about the placebo and nocebo effect, and the psychosomatics diseases, all of them happen in the mind!

The same power you have to create a disease, you also have to heal it! I’m not saying that’s something easy to do, I’m just saying that is much easier to nip the evil in the bud than cutting down the whole tree afterwards!