Thoughts become things. This simple statement is a powerful concept. It's based on the idea that anything that exists was first a thought in someone's mind. The chair you sit in, the meal you have for dinner, the clothing you're wearing, all was first a thought. But there may a scientific explanation for this concept. Physicists like Einstein and Bohr and other very bright quantum mechanics scholars tell us that all matter exists as both a wave and a particle. Think about that for a second; all matter is both a wave and a particle. Sounds very much like our thoughts (the waves) really can become things (formed by particles).
I know many people who act on this principle, that what they think and say will come into being. And so they do affirmations and positive thoughts to bring about a positive reality. And I think that's great. However I had seen these same people afraid of any negative idea, almost like one negative thought will poison all the positive. I saw a woman express a worry (and a worry, of course, is a prediction of a negative outcome) and she brought her hand to her mouth in fear and then quickly said "erase, erase, erase!". We shouldn't be afraid of our thoughts. Byron Katie points out that we don't really have any control about what we think. The thought appears faster than we can command ourselves not to think it.
If we go back to science we would say that if something is pushing in one direction and it meets a force pushing from the opposite direction with the same mass and energy then nothing will move. The two cancel each other out. But if one side pushes harder or has greater mass then it will win. That means if you stated something positive more often than you stated something negative then the positive would win. If I make the statement "everything will work out" more times then I say "this is not going to work out" then the thoughts, and eventually things, are starting to move in the right direction. On the other hand, if I believe the negative thought to be true and I feel the positive affirmation is a lie then the negative thought has much more weight and it will win.
The woman was trying to push back harder against the negative thought with her "erase, erase, erase" statement. The problem lies in that it's not just how many times you think a negative thought, it is how much "mass" and "energy" those thoughts have. And belief in a thought gives it lots of mass and energy. If you really firmly believe the negative thought then saying "erase" a hundred times won't have much weight.
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