Our thoughts make our reality. A quote.

I’ve been trying to make sense of all that I’ve learnt from our recent BodyBoffin interviews with Georgia Foster and Vanessa Shaw – and I came across this quote…

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.  Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.” 
by Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand short story author, 1888-1923).

How much time have you spent trying to change yourself physically?  Not only that, how much energy have you expended THINKING about changing?

I’m constantly searching for ways to change my body, the way I look.  I’ve spent 15 years working my butt off at the gym, training with a Triathlon club and even competing as a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.  Plus all the diets, body wraps and so on.  That’s a whole lot of time!  

And you know, throughout all my exercise and dieting absolutely none of it helped to change the way I see myself and the negativity I feel towards my body.

That’s where Katherine Mansfield’s quote comes in.  I’m beginning to understand that what our BodyBoffins are trying to drill into us is that we must firstly change the way we think – our thought habits and our perception.  In doing so, our reality will change and how we see ourselves.  In an essence, the way we think and what we believe shapes ‘our world’.

Our awareness of our thought patterns and the ability to control our thinking is crucial to our overall well being and happiness.

When you say it like that it all sounds so simple.  But we all know it’s not!