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Your thoughts do not create your reality. Stupid.

May 6, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 35 Comments

By Kara-Leah Grant Let's get one thing straight. You do not create your own reality. Your thoughts do not create your reality either. All the positive thinking and manifesting and vision boarding and dreaming is not going to get you what you want. What you do create is your experience of your reality. Your thoughts about your reality create your experience of that reality. This distinction is critical, and far too often it's glossed over, ignored or pushed aside in favour of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: action, beliefs, feelings, law of attraction, manifesting, reality, The Secret, thoughts

How do I Stop These Compulsive Thoughts Invading My Brain?

November 3, 2008 by Kara-Leah Grant 3 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant It happens all the time - people tell me they can't meditate because they think too much. They can't stop themselves from thinking... But none of us can stop ourselves from thinking, even when we've been meditating for a long time. Meditation is the process of being aware of the thoughts... The following dialogue was inspired by a couple of emails from readers, who wanted to know how to control their thoughts. How do we stop compulsive thoughts from invading and taking over … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meditation Practices Tagged With: anxiety, compulsive, mind, thoughts

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