17 seconds

Did you know that you can begin to change the energy of your day/life in just 17 seconds?

You can. Really? I know some days that may seem more doable than others but you really do have the power to do it.

How I hear you asking?

Well it is like this. Last week I posted on morning intentions, and how they are a great way to start your day, and they are. However, there is a really good reason why, and this 17 seconds is it.

You see, when you have a thought and you think about that thought for about 17 seconds, it begins to attract a similar feeling thought. What does that mean?

Say for example you begin to think about going to the beach, that might feel like a nice thought to you and as you think about it you begin to like the idea. As you hold that thought you then begin to think that Julie may want to come with you, oh and you could invite Toni, we could even stop off and get some lunch on the way. Hey, we could make a weekend of it and stay the night. That would be fun, etc, etc. You get my point.

One thought leads to the next and the next. The energy around that thought begins to build and what you are thinking about begins to become more realistic to you.

In fact, if you have that thought for a consistent 17 seconds it has the same energy and effect as 2000 action hours. That is as much as you would spend at work in a year.

Now there is a problem with this.

At about the half way point, around 8 seconds, most of us begin to waver, we turn the direction of our thought into why we can't, won't, shouldn't or couldn't have, be, or do whatever it is we were thinking about.

For example, if we are thinking about the beach again, we may move to "oh, it might rain on the weekend" or "Ah, no-one will want to go anyway" even the old faithful "eh can't be bothered".

The minute these backward thoughts kick in, we need to start out 17 seconds all over again.

But there is good news

When we hold these good thoughts for 17 seconds and they attract more good thoughts and we hold them for the full 17 seconds, we add 10x the power to them. That's right at 34 seconds we have the same energy as 20 000 action hours. Pretty cool huh?

Now of course if you get all the way to 51 seconds, you now have 200 000 action hours at play.

And if you can hold this pure, focused, clean thought for just over 1 minute, 68 seconds, you will have the power of over 2 million action hours on your side.

Bet you didn't know you were that powerful.

Just by setting your intentions in the morning, by focusing on how you intend you day to go, by getting excited about it, by being in the flow and expecting good things to come your way, you begin a powerful and creative process that flows more and more good into your life.

Your thoughts really are that powerful.

Don't believe me? Or just not sure it is that powerful?

Try this experiment.
When you get up tomorrow morning, spend a moment or 17 thinking about yellow cars. That is it just think about them. Know they exist. Then when you go out into the world, count how many yellow cars you see.
I did this just the other week and in one day I saw 18 yellow cars. 18, that is a lot considering I did not go out of my way to find them and didn't do all that much driving. I even seen the last one on an ad on t.v.

When you start to focus on something, it starts to show up in your world.

It has to do with a really cool part of your brain called the reticular activator.

Oh, more about that next time.

Go play with some yellow cars and have fun playing with your 17 second morning intention.

I would love to hear how you go.

Be Blessed.