| What we think about, dwell on and focus on will | | | | Want to try another? |
| always set the course for our lives, whether it is | | | | Picture a car at a racetrack going one-hundred |
| positive or negative, success or failure, victory or | | | | and fifty miles an hour and at the same time see |
| defeat. But amazingly, few people know and | | | | the car going twenty miles and hour. You cannot |
| understand this and even fewer believe it. Believe | | | | picture it because fast and slow are opposites. |
| it or don't believe it; the battle will always take | | | | You cannot hold two opposite thoughts in your |
| place in the mind. | | | | mind at the same time. One will simply overwrite |
| I like to think of thoughts as seeds. Seeds have a | | | | the other. That is how the Creator designed our |
| planting and germinating process. If they are | | | | brains to work. This is such a great advantage for |
| planted and nourished, they will produce. Someone | | | | us! |
| once said that you can't always help it if a | | | | The thoughts that you hold in your mind are the |
| negative thought comes into your mind, but you | | | | thoughts that you are planting and nourishing, and |
| can certainly keep it from incubating. | | | | they will grow. The question is, "What kind of crop |
| It's so true! Just because a thought comes into | | | | you want to harvest?" |
| your mind doesn't mean you need to harbor that | | | | Get busy planting and nourishing the seeds that |
| thought and entertain it. You can simply dismiss it. | | | | you want to harvest. If a farmer wants to |
| Or, you can keep it and let it settle. You cannot, | | | | harvest wheat and corn, does he just sit all day |
| however, entertain two thoughts that are | | | | and do nothing, and then hope that maybe |
| opposite to each other. | | | | someday he could harvest some wheat and |
| In the physical world, how do you get rid of | | | | corn? No. He plants seeds and nourishes them. |
| darkness? Simply by introducing light. Light and | | | | What kind of seeds does he plant? Wheat and |
| darkness are opposites. | | | | corn, of course! It's so simple and so very |
| The same is true with cold and heat. Hot and cold | | | | obvious in so many categories of life. And, it |
| are opposites, just as light and darkness are | | | | works just as accurately and precisely in our |
| opposites. One replaces or neutralizes the other. | | | | minds. |
| Now when it comes to our thinking and our | | | | You must decide what you truly desire, and then |
| thoughts, we just cannot think two opposite | | | | start planting and nourishing the seed. When those |
| thoughts at the same time. Have you ever tried? | | | | destructive, negative, defeating thoughts pop in, |
| If not, here's an experiment you can do right | | | | drive them out, by replacing them with what you |
| now. | | | | desire. |
| Picture a building in your mind. Make this building a | | | | Your thoughts will truly bring to you courage or |
| very, very tall building and, at the same time, | | | | discouragement; success or failure; confidence or |
| make this building a very short building. You can't | | | | fear. It is always in your own power to choose |
| do it! | | | | which thoughts you will hold in your mind. Changing |
| You cannot picture the same building as a very | | | | your thinking is absolutely required if you want to |
| tall building and a very short building at the same | | | | change your circumstances. |
| time. That's because tall and short are opposites. | | | | |