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What kind of thoughts do you habitually think? What kind of thoughts does your child habitullay think?

The Martial Arts Mind: What Are We Thinking?

This month’s lesson is important and practical for both parents and children.

We all think in pictures. Many times what we see in our mind’s eye translates to what we end up with in reality. Take a moment. Ask yourself: are you thinking of winning or losing at this very moment? Is your mind geared more toward thoughts of success or failure?

The great challenge of the mind lies in being able to control what kind of pictures we play in the theatre of our mind. So consider the following: cesses every life experience through the rubric of our own mental state. Therefore, thinking negatively about an event promotes negatively in life, conversely, a positive mental outlook contributes to positivism in our daily lives.

As a parent, your thoughts and how you share your perceptions of the world around you greatly influence the wort of developmental thought processes your child has. Although we like to believe our thoughts are based on elemental success, accomplishment, and a bright future, if we took an inventory of our thoughts on a daily basis, we would discover an audit that often dwells on past failures, present problems, and future anxieties far too much.

Why is this important? Well, for starters, many of the psychological breakthroughs of the last century illustrate a fundemental truth: that we become what we think about most of the time.

Our thoughts influence our actions.

The subconscious does not recognize the difference between a real event and one that is vividly imagined. So, our instant recall on any event may trigger either negativity or a positive remembrance based on nothing more than a thought pattern we have developed.

As such, we can all benefit from having a more firm mastery on developing a positive outlook in our daily thoughts. Therefore, the next time you catch yourself in thoughts of failure, remember to take a moment to assess and switch your thoughts toward reflections of success. Just being aware of the old adage “is the glass half empty or half full?” will have a huge impact on you and your family.

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The Cave You Fear to Enter Holds the Treasure that You Seek

Have you ever had a dream or goal that you wanted to attain? You are excited and ready to step out and make it happen... and then all of a sudden FEAR sets in? You get that uncomfortable feeling. You want to focus on your goal but you start talking yourself out of it.

The reason is your paradigm does not want you to change. Change may be doing something that is uncomfortable and the paradigm wants to keep you comfortable. In reality it is keeping you stuck.

You may have heard the saying “It’s better to be safe than sorry!” It is easy to embrace that saying and come up with a good reason not to go after your goal... What you need to remember is that your paradigm is simply a multitude of habits stored in your subconscious mind. And though it wants to keep you comfortable you can change your paradigm to serve you rather than suppress you.

In order to grow you need to push past the comfort zone to reach your goal/ dream. This is why your goal/dream needs you wanting it so much that it becomes a burning de- sire? It must cause you to take action, in addition to persistent effort. It needs to survive disappointment, discouragement and criticism. This is all part of the process. Stay committed, share your goals and dreams with only those people that support you, and remember once you face your fear you will start experiencing the growth you have been seeking.

Goals are not about what you get, goals are about helping you grow into the person that you want to become.

Michael Crawley lives in Amherstburg, he is a Peak Performance & Mindset Coach

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