One fleeting thought can shift 7 half-ton animals!
Years ago I had an epiphany! I was facilitating an activity with a team who were tasked with moving a horse around the perimeter of the round yard while they stood in a smaller inner circle. They could not leave their circle or touch the horse, and so they needed to work as a team to cause the horse to move without distress. I saw everything as energy – from thought waves to arm waves! Simply by thinking the same thought – ie. ‘the horse was going to move calmly, clockwise around the perimeter, and holding the belief that it was possible,’ the group was able to move the horse calmly, clockwise around the perimeter!
In another workshop a woman was admiring two horses standing peacefully nose to nose. She began to think of her husband and the argument they had earlier in the week. Instantly one horse bit the other one, who then took off and ran to a group of other horses that were blissfully relaxing, and scattered them. After a few moments, they all settled back into their bliss. What a great illustration of the power of our thoughts – one fleeting thought can shift 7 half-ton animals! Imagine what sustained thought might create?
What misfortune might we be creating for our loved ones when we worry about them? What belief is behind the thought? The world is dangerous? They are not capable of taking care of themselves? Does our well-intentioned, persistent worrying thoughts create the potential for calamity?
With every thought there is a quality of vibration. Angry thoughts pierce, loving thoughts pulsate, confusing thoughts scatter, depressing thoughts are heavy and sluggish. This quality of vibration brings forth an experience of equivalent vibration – otherwise known as the law of attraction. It can’t be any other way. A lower vibrational thought such as anger or fear, cannot produce a higher vibrational experience such as joy or peace.
5 steps to re-train our minds to focus only on higher thoughts
- Understand and fully accept that thoughts attract a similar vibration: we reap what we sow
- Become mindful: make it a priority to watch your thoughts and stop judging yourself as well as others
- Don’t beat yourself up if you catch yourself making judgments or having lower vibrational thoughts, otherwise you just generate more lower vibrational thoughts (simply treat yourself as you would a child who is trying to learn)
- Replace any lower thought with a higher one
- Over time, notice how lighter you are becoming and how your outer experiences are more easeful, pleasant, enjoyable…
We cannot attain a level of existence that is higher than our vibration
As our predominant thoughts become higher in vibration, we too lift our own physical vibration. We become lighter, more content, relaxed, secure, peaceful… and continue to attract experiences that match that vibration.