Thoughts and the Inner Self 

As a professional healer I would say that the thought processes are just as important as the physical maintenance, because negativity comes in many forms and positivity affects our whole lives, on every level. Do you have a habit of thinking in a negative way?

What do you actively do to establish peace and harmony to your inner self? Not thought about it too much? Don’t you know it’s all-important for you health?

We all spend much of our lives within our own thoughts, but we are not always kindly in them. We accept from our own selves that which we would not from others, who if we called them ‘friend’ would sorely be offended by them.

At any time or place where strength is valued, (in the working life perhaps,) kindness may be seen as weakness, yet strength and kindness are not opposites, as indeed strength is not necessarily harshness.

Between the word and deed lies a land of sometimes-unfamiliar passage, varying from the brief to the unending; this is the world of thought.

Each of us knows the speed with which a thought of cruelty can be delivered; and we also know time’s opposite, a hope suspended in silent space, paused between it's long time enemies, fear and failure.

And yet we go to this place, of easily distorted time and deception, so frequently unarmed, unprepared, and sometimes feeling even unwelcome there, we go to this landscape of inner thinking, as travellers seeking familiar sign posts on our progression to a better place.

How can we prepare ourselves inside this timeless universe of the unfamiliar, to emerge in readiness with the strength and that old-fashioned word … ‘fortitude’?

By taking in there with us the basic tools and equipment we all have, but so seldom use.

By treating the self first with these gifts, we practice the abilities we seek so often in others.

By becoming proficient in those practices which arm us with an almost magical ‘force field’ of thought, we no longer need the armour of defence, because nothing can penetrate the power of thought, only that which we allow.

All else just bounces off.

So what are these practices that need no outward assistance, these tools and equiptments of which I speak? They have no physical content, no limiting boundaries. They are not given, but found.

Found within, and when memory is allowed to serve, it recalls these gifts inherited.

Gifts of knowledge brought from another place beyond conscious thought, a place where we were prepared for this journey, this progression, by higher, humble, loving, kindly thinkers, with eyes on more distant horizons that we can conceive.

What is this knowledge, hidden so often from the traveller in this earthly inner plane?

Why ... ...  go back to your former self, look at one who has no guile, no cynicism, seek out the innocent, the child who does not doubt, who cannot be anything except positive, encouraging, loving kind and honest.

You may find in deeper memory a forgotten time, beyond the physical if you allow the possibility of hope; for thoughts as this travel beyond the familiar world.

We might not recognise immediately these tools we all brought with us, and yet they are there, loving kindness, forgiveness, acceptance, confidence and all the positives that create and cannot destroy.

Yes, these are the tools we can use to work on ourselves, which false hope somehow expects to find outside. And these gifts, having worked their magic transform into a self-perpetuating holistic energy, and continue to expand like newly discovered universes exponentially, into the unknown.

So we follow a newly found thread of this energy, this knowledge, this inner confidence, and there within our thoughts a change has been wrought. A change of subtle awareness that here are all the wonders of perception, here inside our minds.

Our thoughts are our own, cleansed and purified time and time again by our own positive thinking, without any need for assistance, save that which is built into our deeper recesses, there for us to use those tools of generosity. This is freedom, this is release, this is what we are born to achieve.

We are carrying an eternal message programmed into this vessel, this temporary housing, which acts as a homing device centred on the beacon of eternity.

It flashes out with love.... “Welcome home!”

 ~ Stella Rodgers