Abundance is a state of mind. You create it with your thoughts. We do not say that by just sitting there and day dreaming any one can become successful or rich. To say so would be plain stupidity. But we believe that your reality is a projection of your thoughts that are in harmony with yourself and your actions. Our thoughts have a power of their own. If we can understand and utilize them properly, we can accomplish a lot more in our lives.

Our thoughts and our state of being go hand in hand and together they create the experience we call life. Positive thoughts create a positive life, bringing us its rich rewards. Negative thoughts do the same thing in a negative way. An idle life is a product of morbid thoughts. A mind fired by the power of imagination and the desire to achieve cannot produce idle life. If one knows the secrets of thought power and can harmonize ones being with them, corresponding effort would follow and bring in corresponding results. Having energized his thoughts with determination, clear thinking and purpose, it is difficult for any one to sit idle and day dream. His energized thoughts would drive him into action and make him work for his goals. It is very much true that we create our reality. No one else does it for us. Others can interfere with our lives in a limited way. In the first place they cannot do so without our permission and willingness. The healing thoughts that come to us from outside also can work upon us only with our permission, when we are in a state of receptivity, and are willingly seeking some help from someone or somewhere. Otherwise, we build our lives completely on our own, with our thoughts and ideas, our goals and desires, our feelings and emotions, our fears and expectations and our behavior and actions. Others come into this drama through our thoughts only.

If you know how to make your thoughts work for you, you will accomplish much more in your life than otherwise. So we say that when someone wants to pray to God, let him seek that awareness that would give him the power to fulfill his dreams. We say that one should pray for that state of mind in which one can consciously regulate the flow of ones thoughts and shape the nature of things to come.

What type of mind do you have? What type of thoughts come and go out of it ? What type of radio station is it and how much control can you exercise over it? Does it regulate you or you regulate it? Can you control its movements and protect yourselves from the impact of negative thoughts and flow of negative energy? If we are truly interested in finding lasting solutions to the problems of our existence, these are valid and relevant questions that we need to answer sincerely.

This article may not help you to deal with every situation in your life. But it will suggest you how you can change your life by changing your thoughts. A room that is full of roses is bound to emit the fragrance of the roses. Your mind is not much different from the rooms that you have in your house. Just as you keep those rooms clean and organized, you have to keep your mind clean and organized, with thoughts that build, that bring you fresh breeze of peace and harmony, not those gusts of wind that shake your life, cause you pain and suffering, disturb your mind or interfere with your progress.

The Chinese system of Feng Shui is based on appropriate balancing of things in a house that facilitate free flow of positive energy and create peace and harmony there. We need something like Feng Shui at the mental level for the organization of our minds and thoughts. You are aware that all the projects that we undertake in our lives begin first in our minds as thoughts. They come into existence only when we give our thoughts and actions enough energy through determination and perseverance. Otherwise they remain either as mere wishes or unfinished tasks. When we create something new, we actually transform our energies from one state to another or from one form into another.

The physical laws of energy are very much the same in the mental realm also. In accomplishing a task we convert our mental and physical energies or resources into the things we desire. In doing things and achieving things, we actually trade with our energies. Our success or failure depends upon the successful transformation or trading of these energies. Therefore, before we expect our undertakings to be successful, we must pour into them required energies and resources, not necessarily ours only, but of others as well. Through the magic of our thoughts we can seek the willing cooperation of others also. But we cannot do this by forcing others with our thoughts, but by making ourselves more amenable and acceptable so that we can influence them in a persuasive way for the common good of all. We may employ a thousand people, but we will not get the positive energy of their thoughts unless they are disposed towards us positively.

The synergy of a team effort is truly the synergy of the thoughts generated by the team collectively. With the power of our positive thoughts we can give a definite shape to our efforts and with the power of our sustained efforts we can bring our thoughts into surface reality. This is the underlying mechanism in any successful accomplishment. What we call the planning stage in any venture, is actually a mental exercise during which we give a mental shape to the project with our thought energies and prepare ourselves for the journey ahead. Our thoughts are therefore our true assets, the raw material with which we build our wealth, the source of all our possibilities and accomplishments.

To build something in the physical world, we need to build it successfully in the mental world. Any one who can think clearly and confidently on any project before he actually begins it, stands a better chance of succeeding in his life. In myriad ways, using his thoughts, he can set into motion what he truly desires. By empowering his thoughts, he can create the reality he genuinely wants to experience. The secret of your life is that your life is shaped by the combined power of your thoughts, your desires and your actions. If you aim for something in your life, which is within the realm of possibility, with determination, and sincerely work for it with perseverance, you will achieve it. If you aim to become something in you life, without any inner conflict, and believe that you can truly transform yourself into that situation with necessary sacrifices, you are going to be that. This is the reality.

WE ARE WHAT WE THINK AND BELIEVE TO BE. Our thoughts make things possible or impossible for us. Our failures and successes are products of our consciousness. Our efforts too depend upon it. That is why thinking is so important in our lives. On the surface of things an individual may believe that the world outside is doing or undoing things for him. But in reality it is his own mind or his consciousness which does it. So long as we lead normal lives as ordinary mortals, seeking things, which a monk or a nun would otherwise shun, we have to learn to live with our thoughts and keep them working for us. Even when we are asleep, we must let them shape our dreams. This is not impossible. We should only know how to fill our minds with appropriate thoughts and suggestions and keep them in a specific state of receptivity before we fall asleep.

People may think that they have no control on the world around them. True. The world around us is not under our control. We cannot change its ways nor control its progress. When it comes to the affairs of the world we can really do but little. We may create a little impact with our thoughts and actions, but that would not be sufficient enough to change the world. For that we need huge amounts of energies. It becomes possible only when we are joined in our efforts by others in a significant way to create huge circles of energies that can set in motion greater events to follow. Otherwise, as ordinary mortals, in our limited capacities, we have little chance of accomplishing such things. The world has been so for ages and will continue to be so. But this should not lead us to despair. We can still do many things and make a difference in this world.

As individuals and as ordinary human beings, we may not be able to change the world, but we can change ourselves! This the greatest gift we have and this is the greatest gift we can give to our children. As an individual, for example, you may not be able to change the environment in which you live, but you can always decide in which environment you want to live! You may not be able to reform the people around you, but you can always decide with whom you would like to interact mostly or spend your time. You can avoid people or situations depending upon what you want or do not want.

We agree, sometimes we may land our selves in negative situations that we may find difficult to change. We may come into contact with people whom we may find difficult to avoid, or with an environment we may not be able to change. However powerful our thoughts may be, sometimes we may not be able to avoid relationships that hurt us and cause us so much pain and suffering. But if we realize and understand that even these situations were created by us in the first place with our thought patterns and previous actions, and if we accept responsibility for whatever that is happening to us or happened to us in the past, we can overcome such situations also eventually.

By changing our thoughts, our actions and our reactions and by developing some qualities or states of mind, we all can deal with difficult situations in our lives with success and create conditions for necessary change. If you want to avoid much pain and suffering in your life, you have to remember this one truth always. You may not have everything you want, you may not be rich, but if you the ability to control yourself and your reactions you are sure to achieve a great many things in your life. Truly speaking we all are great survivors, not just those ones about whom you read in the books or the magazines or watch in the TV. We all have the innate power of adapting ourselves to the ever changing demands of the world and the gift of bringing to fruition what we set to achieve.

We all possess the natural ability to survive in varied and difficult environments. People have been doing that for ages. Plague or pestilence, famines or cruel wars, discrimination or persecutions, mankind has survived the vicissitudes of earthly life, because of their inherent capacity to adapt themselves to the ever changing demands of the world in which they live. We may not be able to change the course of the moon or the sun, but we can change the course of our lives. We may not be able to make the sun shine on us whenever we want to, but with positive thoughts and aspirations, we can pour light into our hearts and minds and bring sunshine into our lives. We may not be able to drive the clouds away from the sky above, but certainly the clouds that linger in our consciousness. We may not change another person, but we can learn to smile at him or send him thoughts of healing. Your thoughts awaken the energies necessary for you to accomplish things. Since your thoughts are but energies, you must know how to deal with them correctly. If you want to achieve positive results with your thoughts, you have to learn the techniques that would help you to harness your thought energies in the desired direction. Otherwise, like any other energy, they may create difficulties for you. If you do not know how to deal with your negative thoughts, they can put an end to your dreams. If you truly want to accomplish some goals in your life, you can follow this one good technique with necessary changes to suit your temperament.

Think of your goals repeatedly, visualize as clearly and as vividly as possible the end as well as the process of achieving it, prepare yourself mentally for the task ahead and start investing corresponding physical and mental energies in your plans to make them come true. Believe that you have the power of thoughts and, endowed with that belief, set upon yourself the task of accomplishing your goals. This is the most effective way of making things possible for you. There is no magic wand other than this, with which you can change things in your life. You may not have the wings of the angels, but with your belief you can give wings to your thoughts and let them work for you in a desired manner. Many people lead their entire lives on the surface of things, without using this innate power that is in all of us.

The truth is we all have this miraculous gift from God, but because of the illusory nature of the world we are either unaware of it or do not believe in it. In Truth there is no outside force that really helps us or interferes with our lives, without our permission. God having created the world, and Himself in it in myriad forms, leaves His Creation and His individual selves mostly to themselves. He is so detached that it is really difficult to draw Him into our affairs. But mysteriously when we pray to Him, He helps! He chooses to help us, not as some one you understand as God with a beard or multiple arms and faces, not as someone different from you or other than you with the dimensions of infinity, but from within you, acting as your true Self. He gives you the miraculous power of healing your life and your situations acting as your inner Self.

All that you think you are and you stand for is the key to your success in any venture. Your whole personality has to be in harmony with your goals and aspirations. If you want to be successful with your thoughts, you have to learn to be in harmony with yourself, and in that state of harmony you have to harness your thought energies in the desired direction. Without "YOU" in any venture, there is no success. And "YOU" means many things. Your thoughts, your subconscious, your feelings and emotions, your beliefs, your expectations, your goals, your ability to control and regulate your thoughts, your capacity to withstand adversity, your ability to learn from your failures, the strength of your purpose, the way you forge your relationships, your integrity, your inner balance, your sense of appreciation, your character, your love for the world in which you live, your ability to learn and your ability to get along and adjust yourself- these and much more constitute You. Together they help you to become what you want to in your life, connect yourself to the reality you cherish and take you to the world in which you want to live. There are people who seem to work less, but accomplish more and seem to enjoy life more. And there are those who toil day and night, but seem to remain unhappy and unfulfilled. Some have great riches, but do not know how to experience prosperity. Driven by insecurity, they stash away their riches, without putting to proper use the hidden power of wealth.

For some life is a rewarding experience. The mere sight of a flower or a serene sky fills them with such joy and wonder. When you interact with some, you feel energized, peaceful and spiritually uplifted. But when you meet some, you feel disturbed and depressed, as if some thing is taken away from you or drained out of your being. You may take hours or days to recover from the after effects of such contacts. These differences exist because of the different ways in which people harbor their thoughts and put them to use. It is for us to decide into which direction we should go and with whom we should get involved. Really if we learn to look at ourselves in terms of energies and accept our energies as our true assets, we also learn to use them intelligently and efficiently, just as the way we normally do with our wealth.