{"id":12616,"date":"2015-07-06T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/?p=12616"},"modified":"2015-07-05T23:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T03:00:14","slug":"the-cause-of-disease-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2015\/07\/the-cause-of-disease-part-i.html","title":{"rendered":"The Cause of Disease, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/85\/2014\/07\/thoughts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9815\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/85\/2014\/07\/thoughts.jpg\" alt=\"thoughts\" width=\"416\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #333399\">Everything in life is made of energy and has a spiritual component to it.\u00a0 We are Spiritual Beings having a human experience on earth.\u00a0 What we are, think and do have a spiritual element.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">Thoughts\/beliefs combine with our emotions\/feelings and are sent into our bodies and out to the universe by our energy and focused attention.\u00a0 The more powerful our emotion is for a specific thought or belief the more energy it has and the stronger or faster it manifests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">This works for thoughts whether they are positive or negative.\u00a0 People usually do not have problems with positive thoughts, feelings and results.\u00a0 We tend not to like or want to look at our negative outcomes, experiences, behaviors, actions, words and thoughts.\u00a0 <em>As a result, people resist the negative things in their lives, which keeps them locked in place to repeat over and over and over.<\/em>\u00a0 This is also known as a \u201c\u201cbad habit, compulsion or addiction.\u201d\u00a0 Some people are so afraid to look at their negative patterns and experiences they call them, \u201cPandora\u2019s Box\u201d or sweep them under the rug and pretend they never happened. \u00a0 This resistance to what is keeps the problems safely intact and sealed forever.\u00a0 We bury the key to our freedom and lock in place a lifetime of misery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">Negative thoughts and outcomes are fear based.\u00a0 Fear tends to scare or confuse people.\u00a0 Many people do whatever it takes to avoid their fears along with their emotions and consequences.\u00a0 This is a self-fulfilling prophecy.\u00a0 Until we acknowledge or tell the truth about something, we are not able to fully see or accept it \u2013 keeping the resistance and pattern locked in place.\u00a0 Since most people avoid life\u2019s unpleasant things, improvement or transformation cannot take place until a person is willing to simply observe (w\/o judgment) the negative thought\/emotion\/behavior\/outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\"><em>By allowing ourselves and life to be the way it is, opens the possibility for healthy growth and transformation of even the deepest and most challenging behaviors and patterns.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">A thought or belief, whether we are conscious of it or not, goes directly into the subconscious.\u00a0 The subconscious mind takes everything in like a camera.\u00a0 The subconscious doesn&#8217;t take a joke &#8211; it records everything.\u00a0 This is why it is important to surround yourself with positive people and to live and work in healthy, conscious, positive environments.\u00a0 Our self-talk is critical in developing a positive pattern, as we program our mind with everything we think, say and do.\u00a0 The subconscious mind is the storehouse of memory.\u00a0 Memory is tied to emotions, like when we re-experience any past event or go into the future to visualize something.\u00a0 <em>Emotion is energy in motion<\/em>.\u00a0 Thoughts and Emotions are real things and have great power!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">Negative thoughts, emotions, people, environments, etc. create stress, negative energy and eventually to dis-ease.\u00a0 Every person is unique and chooses their own pattern of thoughts, emotions and behaviors like picking a flavor at your local ice-cream shop.\u00a0 Many times we are just duplicating the patterns from our parents and families.\u00a0 The more often we choose the same thought, pattern, or behavior the stronger it becomes and the more powerful its manifestation.\u00a0 Eventually these patterns becomes our habitual way of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cFor as he thinketh in his heart, so is he\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nProverbs 23:7a<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">We learn by duplicating or <em>monkey see monkey do<\/em>.\u00a0 We have the power to create anything we want, so let\u2019s start taking responsibility for what we put in our minds, body and environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">smiles,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333399\"> \ud83d\ude42 Lee<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333399\"> <em>The MEGA Coach<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/files\/2015\/01\/what-we-think-we-become.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-11199\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/85\/2015\/01\/what-we-think-we-become-300x300.png\" alt=\"what-we-think-we-become\" width=\"247\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photos by Google<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything in life is made of energy and has a spiritual component to it.\u00a0 We are Spiritual Beings having a human experience on earth.\u00a0 What we are, think and do have a spiritual element. 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