Our Thoughts

"A great many people think they are thinking when all they are doing is rearranging their prejudices." William James, Psychologist

Psychologists estimate that every one of us thinks about 60,000 thoughts a day.  The staggering thing about this research is that they also estimate that only about 1,000 of those thoughts are different from the ones you had yesterday and every other day.  That means that 98% of our thoughts are just repeats.  That is like being a hamster on an exercise wheel --- having thoughts that repeat, repeat, repeat.  If our lives are not the way we would like them to be, we can take a look at the content of our thoughts.  I once read that if we want to really know who/what our God is, catch what we are thinking in a random moment:  that content is our God, and too often that content is worry, fear, resentment, not feeling adequate, etc.  Buddhist teachings say we have a 'monkey mind' that we need to train.  Consider today monitoring your thoughts and choose to think thoughts that will bring health, prosperity and well being into your life.  We all benefit when any one of us gets healthier.