The Power of THOUGHT
By corilat
@corilat (180)
Australia
January 30, 2008 10:46pm CST
There's this idea that our thoughts can actually physically influence things.
We know that positive thoughts influence us positively - if you feel good about yourself, you will be a more confident, cheerful, healthy person.
And negative thoughts can have a negative effect on us. Even thinking about someone else that you may have known for a while, if for example you hear something negative about them, and you dwell on it, you will suddenly view that person a little differently.
But have you heard of water crystals forming different shapes based on the word shown or said to them - a word like "Love" or "Thank You" and they form nice beautifully shaped perfet crystals, but a negative or mundane word, they seem to have no structure at all. And there have been other experiments, with a lot of people thinking the same thing at the same time, and suddenly random-number-producing machines become synchronised -- all over the world!
Have you heard of this at all?
What are your thoughts? (no pun intended!)
3 responses
@jhl930 (3601)
• United States
31 Jan 08
I've heard about the first part of what you were talkign about the part about thinking good thoughts will help your life go right or something to that effect....I guess that it could be true that if you do think positive thoughts that your live will be more positive...guess it just hasn't really started working for me yet...I have actually tried that before going through the whole day thinking positive thoughts to see if it really works and trust me it didn't work for me but I guess it might could work for other people who knows!
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@corilat (180)
• Australia
31 Jan 08
If it didn't work after just one day, you've got to really persist with it. It's about changing the whole way you think about your world, how you relate to other people. You might not realise the effect straight away, but I'm telling you it definitely makes a difference!
@SukiSmiles (1991)
• United States
31 Jan 08
I have heard about the power of thought - just watch The Secret and you know what I am talking about. But as far as ice crystals forming in different ways, I am not too sure on that. That's science and based on the structure of the molucles. I just saw a special on tv about snowflakes and how they form. Maybe they breathed on them funny?
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@corilat (180)
• Australia
31 Jan 08
The Secret is exactly what I'm talking about - I haven't watched it but I heard about it at a lecture. What did you think about it? Did it impress you? Change the way you live your life?
There was another video I think it's called "What the Bleep do we know?" and that one mentioned the water crystals among other things. They've done a lot of tests with that - taping words to a water bottle or playing different kinds of music 'to' the water, and looking at the crystal structure formed.
It really says a lot about the power our thoughts and words have on the world around us...
@katkah (235)
• United States
31 Jan 08
I think the power of thought IS very effective, but it doesn't always work.
I've been telling myself that I'm the powerball-jackpot winner for over a year, and I'm still waiting...lmao
I know that thinking good thoughts makes you feel better, and that if you let the bad thoughts take over you'll just have a rotten time.
Here's an awesome example of mind over matter:
When my ex-boyfriend and I were together he used to get down on me all the time about the way I looked, because I allowed it by putting myself down. The things I said about myself turned into the things he saw.
I tested the theory and started to change my tune. I only spoke well of myself, and never asked him if this outfit looked alright, or I'm having a bad hair day...
I even went so far as to say things like "WOW, these jeans look great on me! Look at my butt, seriously, it looks hot!" ... it didn't take long before he started seeing me the way I was portraying myself in the new positive light.
We broke up for other reasons, which I won't get into here...lol
But my current boyfriend, and the man I intend to spend the rest of my life with I keep positive as much as possible when it comes to me. I've found that if I show weakness, he takes on that feeling as well, which isn't good. If he messes up, as everyone does, he says he's sorry and I say "It's ok honey, nobody is perfect, except maybe me." =P
to which he relpies "You ARE perfect!"... he is such a mushy romantic...lol
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